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Newspaper Page TextPIERCE-DUG TAX HOLE GROWING DEEPER AtKTtl. .... Ji CITY EDITION Dally average nst s:4 circulation for month ending March 31, 125. J CLOUDY TONIGHT In west. Fair and cooler In east portion tonijht. H4turtUy fair exceitt front in the Interior; moderate wctt winds, IJocrt: Max., SS: mln., 45; rain. .08, rive-, e.t; alm3s., part cloudy; . wind, southwest. 4 6719 Average dally distribution 7059. Member Audit Dureau of Ctrvulatlona. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS $?JStu,SlflgS M 0 llilffi STATE FACES - PBtCIOF ILLEGAL BEBT Referendum On Tobacco And Tithing Taxes Would Create Deficit Beyond Limit. Violation of the law, lkuoiih 4214 aud 4215. ot the Oregon rode, to be exact, by Governor Pierce and former Stale Treasurer Myers when they refused last ue- rem her to levy a state tax large enough to meet the state's needs as shown by the budget, will, to ward the cloao ot the present year nn,i the year following, make -It necessary that the con&titution be violated In the aomunt of the state debt or that a special session of ihe legislature be called to grapple with the financial snarl. This statement is on the ai sumption that the interests back ot the tobacco tax and tithing act referendums succeed in getting the referendum on the ballot. Debt limit $50,000. Article 2. section 7, of the state constitution provides that the debt of the jtate in excess ot its ahiliiy to pay shall not extecl J500.000. but with the tobacco tax held un by the referendum un til after the general election In November, 192C and it may u defeated then the state will The new road survey li Dos- ' chutes county from Bend to Lava Hutto v:i f.n'milly put on the state highway map. Denton coi:nty proceeded in get ting its long hoped for agreeinei, wilh the t-tte eomn ission regard Ing the improvement of Corvallis. Newport highway from Corvallia to Wren station, some 8.3 miles. '.The commission agreed to do the nrad'ng nn;l the county will sur face ;he ro.-..l. State Highway En gtneer Roy Kline estimates the etate's coats to be $9 ), 000. The new line will eliminate two gradj crow Ir.ga and build en overhca 1 at Wren utall.m. The deal calis for the baying cf right of way, grad ing, surfacing and bridging the aecti.m ot lond. Bentn county will put on a bond Issue election, calling perh.-ips for $60,000 this year. It was ug fcettcd by M.ilone ma. th- Itcn ton count .'our, also consider Oregon Jones Is Returned; Says He Escaped Posse at Jefferson On Raft of Ties Ore? , Jones, who with five ether i .era escaped from the Oregon :e penitentiary March 192 i,1 who waa recently caught Sacramento, Cai., was retume ' tho Oregon prison last night 1 , eputy Warden Ltllie. Jones ui an Oregon hoot on one ankle, chain hobble on both and waa manacled to his keeper. Jones was the only one of the six men who went over the wall here over a year ago who remain ed nt largo for any length of time. While away from the prison he claims to have traveled in many stfites, even aa far away as Maine, Florida and Cuba. In Cleveland, Ohio, he claims to have man-led Helen Hensby on August 7, 1924. Ho says ho worked as a truck driver in Cleveland. Auto Theft Undoing Upon returning to the coast Jones says that he and another cx convict named E-lwar s stole an automobile in California and drove as far north as Roseburg on April 2, this year. They returned to Sacramento and were attempting to sell somo of tiie accessories of the automobile when they were arrest ed. Jones received a 30-day sen tence in the city Jail and had serv ed about two weeks when he was identified. Jones related at the prison today how he made his escape from the rnsse near Jefferson on the night Murray, the bink robber with whom Jones was traveling, was caught. "Several shots were fired at us," said Jones, "and we ran. Murray was caught in a wire fence when ho tried to get through it. It was probably 9:30 at night. I ran on down the road and climbed over ihe fence.. Ducked In Samluii. "All nUht I hid in the brush. About 9:30 o'clock tho next morn ing I started across the Santtam river on a raf: that I made of two ra ili-oid ties and an old gate that I found. About half way acro&P the raft broke in two and I had to swim the rest of the way. In ; Continued on Page Ten) BREAKER IF K Former Convict Who Es caped at Roseburg; Thot To Have Returned And Burglarized Store. (Continued on Page Nlnel OLDER BOYS OF 3 FOR CON Preparations were completed this afternoon for the conference ot older boys which Is to be held In Salem tonight, Saturday and Sunday. Reglotratlon of delegates was scheduled to begin at 5 p. m today. The conference will begin with a banquet at the First Methodift church tonight at 6:30. Cecil Fd wartls, president of the Si'em Hi-Y, will act as toastmaster. Rev. W. W. Long, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will ask the blea-'lng. after which welcome to Salem will be extend ed by Ivan While, former presi dent of the Salem HI-Y. O'-gnni-sation of the conference, includ ing election of officers, will be effected. ' The main address of the eve ning will be given by Frank Mo ran of Seattle, who has come to Salem especially for the confer ence. All delegates will gather at the ehurch at o'clock Saturday morning. Private . conference. discureion groups, and a brief talk by Mr. Moran will occupy the morning. At noon the Vivo will be tol;en to lunch Individual ly by buine- men of Sal-?ni. In th. afternoon att-ntfon w!l be turned toward athletics. The bnya will work out and swim la the YMCA (tvmiiiK'iiim and ,'ank. They will al-'O visit a base nail game on the Willamette diamond If one le played there. Frank Moran will make jno'h er speech in th evening. Roseburg. Or., Apr. 24. Lee Duncan, who escaped from the county jail on Tuesday after slug ging tho jailer, doubled back into Roseburg last night, while offi cers were searching for him in the southern part of the county and, according to officers, broke into the same machine ehop which he is thought to have rob bel earlier in the month, procur ed a hacksaw and then proceeded to the J. C. Penney store whore he procured two suitcases, filled them with clothing and made his escape. Officers found the cloth ing In which he had escaped from the county jail and which he had discarded at the Penney store which Sheriff Starmer eays com pletely proves the identity of the person committing the robbery. The robbery was performed In identically the same manner as the four robberies with which Duncan Is charged earlier In the month. The burglar lifted oft the skylight, sawed off the barred grate and dropped through to the floor of the store. He took three suits of clothes, a complete outfit of underwear, shirts, collars, ties, socks, caps and two pair ot shoes and apparently stowed tnese -r-tlcles In two suitcases He strip ped off his old clothes and put on a complete new outfit apparently. The clothing in which Duncan , nned from the jail, the over coat stolen from the Fisher ranch an ! a nalr of pliers belonging to V Ci Paul, near whose home n-i: an is alleged to have slept Wednesday night were found dis carded in the store. Prisoners in Albany Jail Try to Break Albany, Or., April 24. Sheriff Frank Richard was attacked last night by two prisoners when he went into the jail corridor to place the prisoners in their cages for the night. He was rescued by State Prohibition Officer Duck worth who rushed into the jail when he heard the disturbance. Harry P. Romsay, held on a burglary charge and another pris oner of whose identity the sheriff is not certain, jumped upon him and started to beat him, Richard reported. Duckworth struck Ram say and.rendevtd him unconscious. The other aeacilant immediately retreated. Sheriff Riciiard said he believed the attack wns part of a plot to effect a jail delivery. PAVING TRUST PROTEST VA' CHRISTIE ESTATE LEFT T HEILIG LEASES TO OPEN IN FALL A lease on the Grand theater was last night granted to Calvin Heilig, head of the Heillg circuit, to become effective next Septem ber, when the lease now held by George V. Guthre will expire. The lease was granted by the I. O. O. F. owners of th? building In which the theater is located. Heilig already has a chain of theaters operating in Seattle, Tu coma, Portland aud Eugene. A number o extensive altera tions will be effected at the thea ter, it ia announced. The regular Heilig road attractions will he of fered at the loca! house, aa well aa motion picture. Archie Hoit, well known In Sa lem, will tor manager of the thea ter. He has iie?n connected with several theate-s In Salem, and 1b at present mauager of the Pine Tree theater In Klamath Falls. At the time of the World war he served with company M, lC2nd ln 'antry, which waa recruited In jalom. IN TRAPPED IN MINE MAY BE RESCUED Highway Commission Lets Contract For As toria Job to Concrete Firm; Warren Objects. PoM!a:.d. April 24 ProtesU against the award by the state high way comni-slrfion today of a con tract for paving with concrete the Astoria-SV'inscn section of the low er Columbia river highway for 510,000 more than tho lowest bid tier offir-J to pava It with asphalt wero 1 g 1 1 o re d by the co in m I ssion , He preventatives of commercial and civic organisations of Astoria con gratulaud the commission for ac cepting the bid for the concrete pavement. Simonsen and Hefty of Portland received the ecntr.ict for 9251,402 hereas the bi.i of the Warren Construction company for asphalt was $251,991. Aiiuinryt Protest Jay Bowornian, former sovernor and John F. Igan, Portland at torney, proU-rlod naaln-rt the con crete auard. Loan said he object ed both as a taxpayer and as rep resentative of the Warren Con struction company. fcowvrman state i he appeared on be. ha If of the Latirjnde commer- cal club and that It members asked that all awards for this work on tho lower Columbia river high way b-j thrown ou., because there Is alreudy a good road th-re, and thiU tlie money be expended in pav irg the Old Oregon Trail from The L-olles east. The federal bureau of good roads which will pay 60 per ci nt of the Fdth teen Workers Caught By Fire In Shaft Are Believed To Have Fied To Distant Workings. Wallace, Idaho, April 24 Hope that th-a 14 men entrapped by fire in tho workings of the Heda silver-lead mine at liui'Kc, seven miles from here, were still alive, and would he rescued from their prison ou the lower levels, was ' expressed by a newspaper correspondent who returned from th mine shortly after 8 ocloc tbJrJ morning. He declared that the imprisoned men are believed to be in the van ous workings, two miles .from the Hccla main shaft. Arr compressors were working, it was declared, to clear the air of the various workings uf any gan and "smoke that might have pene trated to that part of the mine, and at 8 o'clock the fire pumps were started. Twenty helmet men of the Uni tod Status mine rescue forces were on ihe ground ready to go below as soon ue conditions permitted. If the men si ill in the mine re mained in tho workings, mine men declured they were confiden they were in no great danger. Thi bet iff was expressed that the fire would be confined to tho Hccla mine proper rnd that present measures would bring It under control shortly. The five started shortly before mldnighi in the pumping plant at the bns' of tho main shaft on the 2000 foot level. The pump man on duty left his station, it was stated, and when he returned about ten minutes later he found the plant afire. The Star work inss extend luterally from the cost of tho Atorla-Svent?n section pavement announced it favored the award n:a le. (Continued on Pago Nine) Portland, Or., ?ntire estate of April 24. The the late Arch- jishop Alexander Christie, valued at $19,000, is left to me uamouci archdiocese or uregon tuy, ovei which he prettied, under the will filed here for prjbi.te. Stipula tion Is made that approximately 170 acrp of land near Portland Included in tho bequest be used for erection and maintenance of a .eminary for students in priest hood of the Human Cathrl.c hur h. Pernnal property Is Itst- d at $5000 cash. VANCOUVER ABANDONS CENTERNiAL PLANS V:in -mtver, V- uih., April t Tipj for boiling an exo..ion he-o this rummer In cwm -m.ira-fion of the hundredth nnlver,iy of the 'Ui'Cing of t'ort Va-:roii ver I'M' teen abandond. The linncil l-oard failed to obtain ufflrMtt financial bmpw t. saiJ J '. Miaw, president of the board MOTHERS' HAY WILL BE OBSERVED BY ARMY Washington. April 24. A na-ilun-wtde demonstration by th army to exr.ress its affection ami appreciation for the mothers of the soldiers of America has b?cn ordered by the war department on mother's day. May 10. Instruction to commanding geneauls of all corps areas and In dependent armv commands, order ing them to arrange suitable cere monies at post camps and other stations, were forwarded today bv Major General Robert Davis, ad lutant general cf the army. Wherever practicable the orders nay, a ceremony bv the personnel of the army In honor of attend ng and absent mothers should be held and tne (nave In post cere monies where soldiers' mothers arc r.t rest nhall be decorated. . The commanding generals were order- -d to Isaue Invitations to mother nf EOlrfirrs to attend the cere monies. TO DEATH CALMLY San 0intin, Ctl., April 24 Clarence (Taffy) Iteid, Los An gfles murderer was hingid at San Quentin rt itc prison her? today. Held went to the gvillmvit bravely. On January Jl, 1923. Held, then 18 years old, with Lawrence ,lc Mullrn, entered the rear rom of ihe Hpiin; street trunk factory uf CiiArle Weln: irten Ir. I,oi Angeles. They found Wringarien an i five otturs engaged in card gnm. Iteld drew a pHtil and covered the players while Mr.Mullen went thru thi'ir I M-ket. einn-n ten gi ap plod with Held, and tho ymtin thi drew nnothT pistol on. I shot .he merchant dead. (Continued on Tage Three) WATER PUMPED INTO SHAFT OF PROSECUTOR URGES JURY TO CONVICT Slatlery Warns Against Sympathy Verdict For Wheeler; Claims State's Case Established. Great Falls. Mont., Apr. 24. (By Associated Press) The trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler on charges of Illegally appearing be fore the interior department en tered the last lap here today when arguments to the Jury wero begun. District Attorney John L. Slat tery. Wheelers prosecutor, was the first to addre.-w the twelve men' who will render a verdict. The prosecutor warned the jury against "sympathy and preju dice" declaring them to be "eue mles ot justice." 'The mere fact that Senntor Wheeler holda a high office should not deter you for one mo ment from doing your full duty, he eald. 'No man howevei high. Is above the law. Even presidents may be impeached. In this land of ours there is no room for kings or tyranta. I "If you want to arrive at the conclusion that he Is not guilty, say so In your verdict," tho pros ecutor continued. But l submit to you that the government his been fair in this case and that It. has proved everything with which Wheeler ie charged." When Mr. Slatlery had finished, W. F. O'Leary of defense counsel begun his statement to the jury. "I am surprised that the district attorney di 1 not say to you that he was misled and that he woul.l refuse to prsecuto your senator by the testimony of a perjurer," said Mr. O'Leary. CENTER OF NEW BALKAN CRISIS J BULGARIAN 'SITUATION HELD GRAVE KING BORIS NTEREST KEEN N LINEN MILL Sp-rtnne, wash., April 24 Wat iva being pumped down the phaft of tho Hecla silver-lead mine at Burke, Idaho, at 11 a. ni. tud.iy and the haft itself apparently was not afire, it wtis declared In a tele phoned statement from the Hecla mining cotni any's office at Wal lace, seven miles from Purko. to tho Clu' ni(le here. Danger to fourteen miners Im- prione I In the working on the Star clitlnv two miles from the cit uato!i cf the fire In a pumping (:itim at the foot of the hatt, lay In the f'ict that the firo h.i 1 fill cd the lewd working of tha IleWa with gjs r.ml smoke. It w.is do claed IhrouKh which the men were unalfle to penetrate. The air rumprcKSor ww working full force i-.nd pumping a cor. - stint ft nr. in of air Into the tun nels whrre the men were suppl ed to tft I'lmhhng them with oxy gen or.d living to keep th g.-w and ani'ike ftom that p'irl of the mine, the statement said. COOLIKE WILL KEEP HANDS OEF SHIP SCRAP Wnflhlnsnn, April SI PreaideM C'.ohiTge intends to pursue a hnniJa r.ff iohcy with report to the hc tlf.n of th hlpUng bonrl in sell ing to the ijotlar Inter! fivs of lt xr'r ijHTitd by the Pacific Mall on lh California Orl'ii'. line. TAX FILED TODAY Preliminary ppr (or ihe rf erendn:ii of th, tobacco tax, en acted ly the leKMilatiirn of 1925 were filed today with Secretary of Htate Koxer and requeet for ballm title ent to Attorney General Van Winkle. The referendum U being Invnk' ed by the- following: Uregon He- tall Cigar Dealer,' awioclatlon. by Oocar T. Ol'ien, eecretary and tiea-nnr, and Kdwnrd O. (larin prcaidejit: W. O. Keady, A. E. Me un. J. VI. Oilier and H. 8. Rich All are of I'ortlnnd. ATT NOT RELEASED Valley Towns Ask Speak ers To Tell of Plans; Silverton and Dallas Are Active. Tillamook, April 24 The body f'Sylvia Louise Dcazamp, aged 4. lus been taken to Forllund for hurlil following the inqucit late yesterday which resulted in n ver dict thtt her death waa caused by beating with n strap adniinliiter d by her grandmother. Airs. M. J. I'nion. Mrs. Cora M Descant p. the child's mother, took the body nn.l aiso tlio three your old son, Clar ence, Tho father. Peter C. Dos camp. fi(U-r leaving the oldest oii, LfcKoy, 10. with neichbovji In the Meda district, left for Portland with tho two year old son Frank. Mrs. I'aton remains in Jail here, aualilng action by the grjnd jury tomorrow. WtlnKMe nt the Iti- (Utst yeHierdav Included several neighbors who iO'd of reporti that .Mrs. P( ion had beaten thn Ihs oamp children. It developed that iKli;hbo:N hnd nvni n pettlloti i county officers ui ping ac'ton f he ah-ty of the children. FORMER OFFICER FOUND GUILTY OF BOOZE PLOT Dallas and Silverton are dis playing keen Interest In the pro posed linen mill and flux and an invitation ha Just been received by the chamber of commerce here for the men interested In flax to join with the Dallas chamber of commerce at Dallas Tuesday even ing. Tho invitation comes from the Dallas chamber. In addition tlio Dallas chamber has extended the invitation to nil Dallas and I'olk county people who are inter ested In the proposition. The meeting is to ho held In the clr cult court room at -the court house at Dallas. Colonel W. It. Uartram, Robert Crawford, head of the prison flax plant, end Charles K. A re. herd will address the Dallas meeting. W. W. Harcomhe, president of the Dallas chamber of commerce, will preside. On Monday afternoon silverton will again ho'.d the center of In' terest In the linen mill anovement when Theo ltoth and It. O. Siiell ing will meet with the special com mitteo of the Silverton chnmhei ;f commerce named to put ove the flux proposition there, (icon; W. Hubbs, hec.d of the specla committee, ha invited the local men to Ihe conference. Balkan States Preparing:. To Take Hand If Rebel Movement Not Crushed By Government. (By Associated Pret) Dispatches from Sofia continue to minimize the eerlonsness of the Bulgarian situation, but Indirect reports from other Balkan centers picture conditions as grave. Balkan etntes are said to be taking military precautions! against tjie spread of terrorism in Bulgaria, which flared to Its high mark with the recent attack on King Boris, assassination ot Gen eral Ghieghieff and bombing of the Svetl Krai cathedral, where 160 persons were killed. Roumanla is reported moving troops toward both her Huasian and Bulgarian frontiers. Jugo slavia Is guarding her border; in direct reports say Greece le mo bilising a part of her army -tint ' ill not intervene unless Greek frontiers are threatened. Greeks Alarmed Greece, according to three re ports will regard an Increased Bulgarian army ae a menace to the Balkan status quo. Greek: agents arc reported en route to Belgrade to renew negotiations for a Greek-Slav alliance. Roumanian intervention "will follow any attempt to establish a communist republic in Bulgaria It Is declared in dispatches from Bucharest, where sensational ac counts ot tbe Bulgarian situation have been received. Belgrade dispatches to London aay a serious diplomatic connict between Roumania and Bulgaria appears possible unless Bulgaria abandons her suspicion of Jugo slavia complicity in the campaign of terrorism In Bulgaria. Jugo slavia offipinls deny that assist ance haa been given Bulgarian amnsslne. Sofia dispatches quotes Minu ter of the Interior Rousseff as de claring that not over 1500 per sons hnve been arrested through out Bulgaria during the cam paign against terrorism. He as serts that Moscow furnished anna, and money for the subversives. Premier Txankoff declared the statement attributed to the Brit ish labor party members recently in Sofia that many had It -en kill ed in Bulgarfa without trial la "sheer calumny." He declared the situation Is calm throughout the country. Other Indirect dispatches, how ever, continue to report that King Boris of Bulgaria la virtually a prisoner In the royal palace at Sofia under General Latareff, head of the military Junta. Tonic Grows Stumps Where Driver Sought Road; Car Demolished There are too many lumpa In Ihe middle nf the main county highway leading toward the moun tnlna a bit paet Stayton. Three Httimps are mo.it annoying to mo- torlt. ae vouched for by C. K.ijhould be. Portland, Or. April 24 Frank V.. Ive, cx-conHtttlile of Milwau kie. Or., churgr-d with coneplrary to violate the prohibition law, wue found gillty of '-onnpirucy and poa e.?elon of two hottlea of moon shine by a federal court Jury to Vy. He wai fotud not guilty on charge of ma v.ifHCturc, a aecond churge of poppoitlon of matcrinle. l,owc wet trlt'd once before, but the Jury fallej to agree. Ask Hr:ne Did, Portland. Or., April H The county commMion today decided today to start advertising for hld on the Hora Island bridge to mor row and to ope;l bids May 2. The cominlnslDnera expert thatecn nlructlon of the brldg, will Ink. nhoiit 1 ft months. Stewart of Portland. In a big new Naah car Htewnrl yce-tcrduy af ternoon endeavored to travel the road and mis the stumpe. He did nicely for awhile, ellpiiing around them with con, at high speed, ac cording to mute evidence of skid ding wheel track at varioue place. Itut the atunipa became too much for him. Mu approached one rapidly, decided It would be bet ter to take the ditch than to crack the atump and be took the ditch. All that happened to Htcw art waa a scratch on ula nose about aa large aa a pin point. What happened to the Nadh, to go Into details, couldn't be told on this page. It Just aimply lan't ta Nneh any more, that la all there Is too It. It la what is known an total wreck. The stump Neap ed damage entirely. When Dvpilty .Sheriff llrrt Knilth picked up Htewart, Stewart bt n)l la a very befuddled condition. Ha aleo was loudly blaming th county for maintaining atumpa in tha middle of a highly traveled public highway where no stump The deputy sheriff, after looki ng about a hit, discovered In th remain of the N'aeh, a partly used up bottle of a certain bark root tonic. Among other Ingiedl ents the tonic contained 25 pet cent alcohol, aa Indicated on th label. After somo questioning on th part of the deputy sheriff. Stew art admitted he had stopped In Stayton and had "a couple of drinks with a friend." The depu ty sheriff statea that Stewart' breath and gait were euch a to indicate that the "couple ot drinks" must hava been stiff one. Th slump In the road also had vanished when th deputy sheriff arrived. Over th fenc from where the accident happen ed waa a whole field of atiimp and Ihe deputy hriff la eonvtr.c ,d Stewart wa suffering from an opllral Illusion. At any rati H w.i still in Jail thia morning.