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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1925)
CaoitalJi CITY EDITION Daily tvtnp net paJd circulation for m'ontti ending April 30, 1926 CLOUDY TONIGHT And Saturday, probably rain In west and extreme nor hi slightly wanutr ia NW; moderate variable wlr.ds, Local: Max., 0; min'ty- rua, none: river, 3-5; atinos., clewmdnorwest aooraai 6755 Average dully distribution toI. Member Aultt Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 110 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS ?S'U"S C2 11 mnflcr EATH OF BABIES SUBSUMED INFANT C iES INHOSiTAL Children Left In Care of Bahy Home Starved Say Nurses; Proprietor Is Held Unrler Bond. New York, May 8. (A. P.) A ten month old boy inmate ot a baby hospital, the proprietor of which, Mr. Helen Augusts Giee-en-Vo'.k-, is held in $35,000 bail for alleged baby substitution, died today after having been re- moved to another hospital. An autopsy was ordered by the city authorities, who Bald they had re ceived reports that numerous in fanta consigned to the woman's care had died of malnutrition. Agents of the society for the prevention of cruelty to children eald various nurses who had been employed in the place informed them that as many aB twelve in fants had died similarly in one month. Mrs. B-leen-Volk, who Is to be examined to.norrow, was arrest ed n comp'nitit of William An gerer of thf Bronx, who charged her with hi vlng substituted a four month old child for his ten months oh son, Stephen. The Angerer child wns placed In the woman's charge Inst February af ter Angerer's wife had suffered a nervous breakdown. Child welfare officials and at tahes of the district attorney- office who 'inspected the hospital sal! they found 13 infants and five older children there under the care of one nurse and a serv ant girl who eerved as coo!;. Al though a card index system list ed the names and other data of 15 children, the officials said it was Impossible to Identify any of the inmates, as no identification carda had been attached to them. For this reason, they said, the rhild who died today could not be Identified. They said they found that a number of the infant inmates were suffering from various ail ments and that' others displayed unmistakable signs of mal-nutri-lion. Assistant District Attorney Whit said the charge against the woman p-obably would be chang ed to homicide. , WEATHER HOLDING UP - AMUNDSEN'S FLIGHT New York, May 8. Unfavor able weather is believed to be holdln? the Amundsen polar aeria expendition to its base at King bay, Spttzbergen. A brief monpage received by liic meteorological observatory at O to. Norway, bet night, si Id th explorer and his party had post poned their stnrt which had been planned for tod a v. Journal Matinee at Grand to Be Banner Event For Children Two o'clock tomorrow afternoon Is the time st for the Capital Journal matt me at the Ornnd theater for all Snlemitea who have not parftd the 12 year mack. Ad THIS COUPON And 5 Cents in v.inin Any iniia 01 Special Showing of "DICK TURPIN" at the Grand Theater Saturday, May 9, 2 p. m. As a Gu' it of The Capitcl Journal Airplane and Pilots Lost in Far North Fairbanks, Alaska, May 8. (A. P.) An airplane carrying three persons which Wednesday mad the fort lies t north flight recorded, woe today lost between Rampart, 80 miles northwest of Fairbanks, t'.nd Brooks, 60 miles east of Ram part. A storm was raging when the plane came to grief on Its way back here. A party was out today hunting the airplane. LEVENS TO LAY ELKS' TEMPLE E William S. Levcns, state prohibi tion commissioner, has been select ed by the Salem Elks to deliver the main address on V.e occasion of the laying of the corner stone tf the new Elks temple here on Thursday evening. May 28. Levans was district deputy grand exalted . rulCD for Oregon and in that ca pacity dedicated the present Elks building when it was dedicated bout 30 years ago. Percy Voting of Albany, who is now district deputy grand exalted ruler for Or ego a south, will con duct the ritualistic work at the corner stone laying for the new temple, and Charles R. Archerd, as chairman of the building commit- tee, will preside over the program. The members of the lodge will a&iemble at the lodge rooms at ti :45 o'clock, and, leaving at 7 c'clock, will mavch to tho now ten. pie on State street with the band leading. If available at thit time ihe porch of the new building wHI he used by the officers und shak ers of tho lodge. If It Is not avail able a platform for the purpose will be built. Immediately alter the program he members will re turn to the old temple for the regu iar lodge session. Statistics and other literature that if. to be placed in the corner stone will be collected hy Harry J. Wiedmer, secretary of the lodge- IS. SHEPHERD Chlrago, May S. Mrs. Julie Graf Shepherd, charged with aid ing her husband, William D. Shepherd to kill their ward, Wil liam Nelson McClintock.- orphan millionaire, and hie mother, Mrs. Emma Nelson McCHntock, has been released on $5000 bond pending grand jury action. Although she had been glren until today to furnish bond and had been released on her own word late yesterday he appeared before Judge Jacob Hopkins, crim inal court justice while Mrs. Claudine M. Peterson, a friend scheduled $15,000 in real estate on the $5000 bond. mission prir-c J art five cents with the accompanying coupon. "Come earlv," is the advice that has bn given to all younirsters lContnued on Pane Kight) li. lears or Lnacr iu uic i PREJUDICE ALLEGED IN BANK CASE State Banking Superin tendent Alleges Mc Mahan Prejudiced; De murrer Is Also Filed. Frank C. Bramwell, state super intendent of banks, has filed an af fldavit of prejudice against Judge L. H. McMahan of the circuit court here, in the action brought against Bra m well by George Putnam, publisher of the Capital Journal, lo compel Hrnmwclt to return the offices of the banking department from Portland to Salem. Bram well contends that McMahan la prejudiced against him. Under the law the affidavit cannot be con tested and it will be naceseary for Judge Percy R. Kelly, presiding fudge of the court here, either to hear tha ease himself, or appoint v. Judge from anot'iar district to hear it. I. H. Van Winkle, attorney gen- oral, and Sidney J. Graham of Portland, attorneys for Bramwell, today filed a demurrer to the com plaint, declaring fais sufficient to constitute action are lacking. While Bramwell was to appear today and show cause why he oh on Id not re turn tho department to Sulfom, the filing of the demurrer will ob viato that procedure. OF DENVER ROBBER APPEARS FAULTY Chicago, May 8. Mike Nary's story that he once had been In volved in a robbery of the Denver mint was investigated by the po lice today after he had been ar rested while occupying a $26 a day suite in a hotel where ho loosed as Frankie Benaro, boxer. .Nary, alios Nelson, was taken to the bureau of identification, where the police found that he I ad served a sentence in the San Quentin prison in California and I ad been paroled In 1923. Nary told the police there were three other men and two women tonected wi'.h the mint robbery. Police later said the Denver robbery occurred In 1922 and that they belicv Nary waj in San Quentin penitentiary serving a .entence for robbery at that time. When detectives confronted Nary with the statement that he was in irison at the time of the mint roli :iery, he rep'iod: "Well I was In i',me kind of a robbery." FUBLrCURGEDTO T ll Portland, Or., May 8. Colonel J. H. Wigmort dean of North-v.-eiftem university law school Chicago, here today- to attend a meeting of the Oregon State Bar rpsociatlon, In an Interview raid Charles O. Diwes, vice-president, -hould have the support of all "good red blonded fight American in his battle to change senate rules.' "The United States senate In :ts exalted egctlrim and power Is the greatest obstruction to good federal legislation we have," said T'lone Wlgmore. He tVplorrl what he termed the growing habit of people ruh to congr-fT to try and have 'awn posted to force all the state to follow cer'.rin ideas that some -pun rf peorlr think Is just !h- Dclaring federal laws makr r bureau-racy, he said "what re should do Is to work towards V f'nt the stale voluntarily dopt unifrrm acts, putting the .nforrement in the hand of stai (f'rrra. One by one the stntw r now adopi'nr uniform tnv- rr thnt are helping to iMt our :-rohIem of too many laws." TALK MERGER OFESPEEA! ROCK ISLAND Consolidation Discussed Before Board of Rock Island; Sproule Denies Knowledge of Plan. Chicago, May 8 Consolidation of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway and the Southern Pacific was diums-sed as a possibil ity late yesterday by J. E. German, president of the Rock Island In a talk before the annual meeting of .share hi ldcrs here. "There has been much talk of such a consolidation," he said, 'and tho managements of both systems have contended for some t.me that it would bo logical. Should the merger come the Rock Island would be a great benefici ary. I have tried for some time to effect a stronger operating arrange ment with the Southern Pacific and I have hopes that after June 1 when the jurisdiction of such matters on that line is changed, It may be done. Divlt-ion ITncqunl . 'At the present time- we are giv ing ail our Pacific const business 'o the Southern Pacific because It 's logical, due to the long haul we pet thereby. In return we get only the perishable freight requiring fast service Of other heavier merchandise we get littlo because the Southern Pacific can get a long cr haul for Itself by handling it through other connections. ''As to business on the Rock Is land it Is neither bad nor good at the present time. Grain move ment has fallen sharply due to the heavy movement last fall and win ter to take advantage of high prices. The outlook is good, al though entirely dependent upon the crop situation." Sproule I'n informed San Francisco, May 8 William Pproule, preji'lem of the Southern Pacific railroad company last night Mid he knew nothing of the posrd. Ullty of amerger between the Chi rago Rock Lslruid and Pacific rail road with the Southern Pacific system. ThH seems to me to be merely the expression of German's per sonal opinion," he sa'd. "I hnve no Inform&Mon one way or the othei on the merger. E W Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, president tf W lllamette university, who has been on leive of absence in the cast since lost Angjst, will arrive In Sitem at 345 Saturday morn ing and b'.; met by the entlro Wil lamette student body. He will ar rive on the Orrffon Electric rail way. Dr. D. L. Pteeves, president of the board of trust res, will bo on hand and officiate In the welcome behalf of i ha bar-1. Dr. Doney has-beon at Cam tridgtf, M:iJi3nchusHts oil winter. Reason given for hi retirement for the pear was the condition of his health, which is now stated to be definitely improved. At a re cent meeting of tho executive com mittee of the board a letter was read from him declaring that he tad beome phys'ctlly able to car ry on his wirk as prcrldnt. A doctor's certificate was lnrloped with the letter. Dr. Doney will arrive In time to tike part In moM of Hnturd-ty' May day festivities. Tennis matches between O. A. C. and Wil lamette have been postponed some 20 minutes In order to begin after bis arrival. TWENTY PLOTTERSlRE SENTENCED TO DEUH Sofia, My 8. unitarian mill tary courts have passed twenty death sentences on conspirators (igainnt the sttto in the recent out rages. The entpncs have not yet been anp'oved by the king. ?nd it Is bcMeved they will bc t un mu ted to life imprisonment. TO BE PROBED Changes in State Court Procedure Conference's Aim Portland, Or., May 8. Lawyers and jurists from all parts of the state assembled here today to dis cuss with the judicial council, named as the result ot action by the last legislature, various sug gested changes In court procedure. Local courts were closed and general legal business was set aside today. Ths session will end with a public address by Dean John H.( Wigmore. of the North western university law ecnooi, to night. Early developments Indicated that the chief discussion would center about the proposal to adopt, for state courts, the practice, now used in federal courts, of having the judge, fnsteaa of the attor neys, question prospective mem bers of the jury. The discussion was expected to E PLAGE TIBBITS An opponent to Frank Neer for a position on the Salem school board appeared In the limelight today with the announcement that J. C. Tibblts Is to become a candi date for a position on the board. Petitions are being circulated wilh Tibblts' name on them, and will ba tiled In a few days. tDefintto decision to place Tib blts In the field was made at a meeting of the Salem Association of Fire Insurance Agents last night. "I'm not committed to any thing; I only hope to give every body a square deal," said TihbllK this afternoon when asked con cerning his stand on the question of allotlng Insurance among In surance men of the city. "I only state that if elected it will' be r, purpose to act In these matters to the best of my judgment." Loral Insurance men have beeii intending for some time to back someone In opposition to Neer, giving as their reason that Near refuses to take a stand In favor of redistribution of school Insur ance business. j Tibblts has lived In Salem seven and one-half years, three and one-half ot which have been spent in business here. He Is a I member of the Salem Association of Fire Insurance Agents. For four and one-half yeurs he was connected with the state high way commission. Stating that the eastern part of Salem has not been represented adequately on the hoard, Tibblts stated this afternoon, "If elected 1-shalI consider myself as repre senting the eastern section of the city. ' He has two children In Salem high school. Edgar Tibblts, his son, Is a senior, and was a mem ber ot the state championship de bating team a year ago. His daughter was a winner In the statewide essay contest staged thlr year. She Is a junior. Election will take place June 15tb. GIRL AOCUSEHlRMER MINERS' UNION HEAD CJrard, Kan., May 8. Alexan der How at t, former president of the Kansas miners' union, was ar rested today on a statutory charge. Ihe complaining wittiest Is a 16-year-old glr who had hern Itvlhk at the homi of Howntt nnd hi. r:(fe. Howatt gave bond of f I 00' tor nppeaninc.) In court May th. TURNER PIONEER IS DEA3 Jin. J. J. I);irnett, rlonffr. who ceme to Orison in 177. died m her hom In Turner turtny. Hh1 hud hern resident of Turner ever Kinfift coming to tlifo utn. Hrr jinrents ccme rtronii tho plain. In 1143. At the tlmi of her 1-ath Mm Ra neit w wlow. Kunerul M-nrlee, will l.e held It 1:30 o'clock BiintU afternoon In the rirat Cliri.llan church of Turner. cover several other Important points includiug: Formation of uniform rules for all the seventeen circuit courts of the state. Whether appeals to the supreme court should be prefaced by con cise statements showing the rea son and justification tor the ap peal. Whether stipulations tor addi tional time fur hearing cases on appeal should be limited to 30 days. Whether decisions of lower courts should be affirmed without lengthy discussion on the part of supremo justices in cases where previous decisions cover the same points. The session opened by presenta tlon of n portrait ot the lute Judge (Continued on Page Soveii) REV. LONG GETS Word reached Salem today that Rev. Word Willis L-ng, pastor of i ho First Preshyterlnn church of thia city, has receive. I a call lo tho pastorntc of the First Presbjterlun church of Stockton, CafTfornia. When asked this morning concern ing the call Rev. Mr. Long admit ted that he hod received one, but mated that he would mnko the Stockton church no definite an swer until after Sunday. Stockton Is a city In northern California of about 60,000 popu lation, and is the homo of the Col lege of the Pacific, a Mcthodixt institution of about 600 students. A new First preshyterlnn church but hi in has r-.'fently been built (here at a cost of $25,000. The cJ'urch there has been with cut a regular pastor since the res ignation of Dr. J. M. Skinner near ly a year ago. The call for the alem p:istor was made by unonl mous vote Wednesday night, and forwarded to Salem Thursday. 'I won. It understood," said Re Mr. Long this morning, "that this call conies absluirty unsolicited by me. It was not asked for, and lias not been answered as yet." Rev. Long came to Salem four years ago. Since tnai time ine lo cal church has made rapid strides. Increasing Its membership from 25 to SOU and raising $76,000 in money and subscriptions for a new hurch bull-ling to be built on the corner of North Vinter and Che meketa streets A manse has been built oi Chemeketa street next the proposed church site. Philadelphia, Pa.. May 8. (A. I.) An InvcitlRatlon of the en tire aircraft altuation under the direction of Secretary Hoover, of the department of commerce, le uraed Ijv a committee of aernnnu tlra of the American KnKlneerinK council, headed by Profeinor .loneph Hoc. of New York unlver nity. The committee report la to be t icaented today to tho admlnlnlro- live board ot the council meeting here recommends that the enitt- n erlng nrofcaalon "in the Intereel r.f IndUHtry an1 national defence' make every effort to aesist tho ex act facta of the situation. M'CLINTOCK BELIEVED MOTHER WAS POISONED f Chimgo, May I (Hy Assoclited Pre; K letter hearing the sig nature of Mm. Mnrle Osborn of Mounton, Toms, and allfglng that William N. MrCIintork believed .hat his mother, Mr, ltinma Nel son VcClinlo:k hTd been poNon ed. Is In the pMsvnon of Chief Ji.At tea lsrn of t he municip il court. $20.000000 STATE BONUS FUNDS USED Loans Totaling: $15,183,900 And Cash Settlements of $4,721,763 Made Un der Act of 1921. The total number ot applica tions received by the ex-service ii:ena state aid commission since the creation of the bonus and loan fund by the legislature ot 1921 itt iM,112, according to a statement by Mujor W. P. Simpson, secretary of the commission. Of thia num ber 172 have been filed by Span- sh-Amcrican war vetorans who save elected to receive loans In the aggrogute of $430,000. Appli cation ot the benefits of the act to veterans of the Spanish war Is a new amendment which becomes effective Mar 28. Their initial ap plications, however, are now being examined. The statement by Mujor Simp- sun shows that a total of 21,809 rush bonuses havo bocu paid un der thetct. amounting to $4,721, 7G3.64, and 0174 loans made amounting to $15,188,000. Appli cations that have been rejected total 1 257. Repayment on roans amount to $1,802,322.38. Ot this amount $878,701.32 represents prfucfpnl and $983,(121.04 interest. Up to December 31, 192V there woro 134 veterans who re f mule I cash bonuses received In tho (Continued on Page Six) E PHONE GIRLS OUT Portland. Or.. May 8. One hundred telephone operators at the Main exchange. Park and Al der streets, vacated the building In orderly haste when a burned cable put the whole building In flumes shortly before noon today The first warning the girls had was when great volumes of em.tkr poured from the basement fol lowed closely by flamea. The chief operator was one of the first to see the smoke and h rang the emergency fire alarm. The fire apparently started In the basement and by the t'me the first fire apparatus arrived 'ht flamea were leaping from the base ment and first story windows with the smoke pouring from the roof. All Main telephone number were put out of service linmedi ately. The janitor of the building i:nl that all the girls were out of I. before the fire department sr. peared on the scene. Des Moines Parade Bootleggers Thru Streets of City Dee Muinea. Iowa, May 8. Charging Inefficiency In the handling of liquor cunm by the caurta. Chief of Police Jam Cavender today annuunced plane for what he termed a "weekly pa rade of bootlcKRore.'1 The announcement followed the parade through the eircetA .r a wrecked automobile containlnK a police officer dlKHolxcd to rcp reeent "denlh" and holding a loft a bottle labelled "hootch." Police claim the driver ot the motor car tn Intoxicated at the time of the accident. Chief of Police C.ivender eald today he wi making: arrange ment, for the building of large Mocka auch aa were ueed In puri tan daye. lie announced thai It wan hi plan to place all "bootleggem ar- ret"d in future police drive In etocka with appropriate plncarda downtown biwiD'-M aertlon aa an example of what the bootlegging bualnv produce. BOOZE FLEE! TO WAGE WAR E Smugglers Preparing To Resort To Arms In Ef fort To Break Block ade, Say Reports. Washington. May 8. (A, P.) Evidence is accumulating at coast Ruard headquaitere here that rum rjw off New York does not mean to strike Us colors without a fight Already there have been so many indications ot a campaign of re venge that fU'r Admiral Billard, the coast guard commandant, said today that hut forces undoubtedly were facing a war to the death. In the last three weeks a dosen Incidents have been reported to coast guard headquarters which would give unmistakable evidence that it la the intention ot rum tuiinera and their land con si pa tors to" use bullets on guardsmen. wherever they are found. Some of the guardsmen are threatening to resign because of the hazard faced by their families ou Bhore, when they are absent on duty. Confidential reports tell of the K'dnaplng ot one man at Atlantic City, the ambushing of a cutter lying oft Montauk Point, the re eipts ot anonymous and threaten ing letters by headquarters here and by guardsmen at New Lon don, Conn., and Bay 'Shore and Continued on Page Pour) ML Justice of the Peace Brazier C Small set a piecedent for local courts here tod:y when he refused to accept Frank T. Berry and John KcnetKCU ot Portland os bonds men for John Andrews, Lestei Dickson and Henry Johnson, whe are In jail hers on charges of pos !ceton of a si ill and nianufacturt . it liquor. Small's reason for not nccepting the Portland inti sp bondsmen was that as professional bond brokers they put up large rums In bonds and consequently their liabilities are too great. On the charge of possessing a still Andrews. Dickson and John son have been bound over to the nrand jury with ball fixed at ?3000 each. whle on the manu facturing charge their bail baa l.een fixed at $1000 carta. Th"y today appealrd on the latter charge from the justice to the clr- ult court. The three men were recently ar rested near Mt. Angel by deputy nhcriffa and federal prohibition agents, and their still, believed to le the largest ever taken in the wet. was confiscated. Police to Police cam will alao be equip ped with algiw warning the pub lic "of the evil ot Illicit liquor" while carrying pereone arreeled on liquor charge to the police atation he eald. "For aome reneon." Chief Cay ender declared, "liquor cn.en are not taken aerlouely enough by the courla. Time after time bootleg gem whom the police arreet are brouirhl Into court only-to be re lenflcd on aome technicality. "Aa a rcault." he eald, ,t!io tendeney of the public ! to wlnd the other eye' anil overlook th bootlegger. For the police there I but one thing left to do: to Inform the public of the bootleg ger'a true standing In snetety." To esrry out this program, Mr. Cavender said, truck will be gathered before each ,'vlce drive" to recleve police prienera who will be paraded through the down town section In stock. OF V I OLENG
