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Newspaper Page TextCaoita! CITY EDITION Dolly averag net paid circulation for montu ndiojj April so. J926 CLOUDY TONIGHT And Tuesday, probably fain fn northwest portion; mild temperature; moderate variable winds, Local: Max., Tl: mtn., S3; rnln trace river, 1.5, rising; atmos., part cloudy; wind, northeast. 6755 Average dally distribution TO I. Membtr Auilt Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 118 ON TRAINS AND NKW8 STAND8 FIVE CENTS SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, PRICE THREE CENTS fo) nn JU MAY 18, 1925 MS . Mm. m SALEWl QUOTA OF MILL FUND own Workers Underwrite Bal ance Needed To Assure $300,000, But Stock Is Yet To Be Sold. The campaign for fun da for the new linen mill came within $5000 of Salem's quota of $300,000 thia noon, with personal guarantees for tock sale) by Individual workers amounting to some $23,000. Actu al subscription to the fund amounted to a total of $273,275 at noon today. The effort to underwrite the re malnder of the fund wan made in order to get the campaign active ly started at Portland and other place. At Portland $175,000 was promised at a meeting of prom inent men of that city recently. Plana for the actual campaign to raise the subscription will be launched there immediately. Underwriters in most cases ex pect to sell the stock they have underwritten. Their agreement is to stand responsible for It. and either sell It to some purchaser or buy it themselves. Sale of the stock was under written merely to assure success of the campaign, it Is explained, and does not constitute on end of the drive fur funds in Salem. Report of progress will be made at a meeting at the chamber of commerce rooms Thursday after noon. It is hoped that by then the atock will actually be sold, bring ing the fund up to the full quota of $300,000 set for Salem. OF NATION Gil Washington, Mty 19. (A. P.) Combined resources of the na tional banks of the United States on April 6, the date of the last bank call, wero $23 832,273,000 or an Increase In the last 12 months of $1,703,675,000. Every phase of national bank ing operations showed important Increases. Loans and discounts of all the banks aggregated $12,- 4C8.838.000, an increase of more than half a billion In the year since the corresponding bank call of 1924. Total deposit liabilities amount ed to $19,382,947,000, an in crease of $1,784,251,000 over da posits of a year ago. BUM RUNNERS PRACTICE MULTITUDE OF RUSES Freeport, N. .. May 18. Ruses employed by "bottle fish ermen" in their attempt to keep their powerfully engined, liquor load d speed boat out of the hand of the coast guard were made known here today by Lieu tenant Commander Yeandlc, aide to the coast guard commandant. One of the runners favorite tricka Commander Yeandle aald. was to drop old fishing, nets In the path of pursuing government Twels In which their propellers would become entangled. Anoth r trick was the heaving over board of cases of liquor which if struck in darkness might cause the sinking of the rum cbaoer. The one pounders aboard coast guard boats don't scare us, one Freeport "bottle fisherman told a newspaper man. "We can catch those balls in our gloved hands. But when they began to whits their machine gun bullets In our direction we felt down right uncomfortable." FIVE INJURED WHEN - SPEEDER HITS TRAIN Aberdeen Waeh.. May 18. Fire men were seriously Injured, two prohahly family, when a motor peeder on which they were rid In it collided with a locomotive on a curve 25 miles north of Aber deen In the Wishkah valley It lesrned here last ni(tht. The tpeeder, haullnit two ear containing twenty men waa trav eling approximately 25 mllea an honr when a locomotive moving y' the same speed, loomed ahead. Both applied brakes but the Im pact crushed the speeds and th? mea were hurled down a bank. SCORES BRYAN 'w mjl SAYS BRYAR ISIGNORANT Unwillingness To Allow Study of Evolution Is Declared Indication of Narrowness. New York, May 18. Clarence Darrow, Chicago lawyer, who ie to oppose William Jennings Bry an in a Tennessee evolution trial, came out today with a few opin ions about the commoner. Nero and Bryan were linked by Darrow as men whose irrational opposi tion enhanced the spread of great doctrines. Offers of Darrow and Dudley Field Malone of New York to as sist In the defense ot J. T. Scopes. Davtou. Tenn., public school teacher, charged with violation oi lew forbidding the teacning 01 evolution, have been accepted. Mr. Bryan is to assist in the nrose cution. Mr. Darrow is here. "Nero." he said, "tried to Kill Christianity with persecution and law. Brvan would block enlight enment with law. Nero failed as will Bryan. Persons are studying evolution in Tennessee now more than before the law was passed just as Nero's acts mado chris tians. "Man may be sure of his Ideas but if he ie intelligent, he knows there is room for doubt and De bate and he welcomes both. Mr. nrvan would block both because of his views. He was brought up on certain beliefs which he has never questioned or aDoui wnicn he'has never sought to be enlight ened to the end that he might be wrong. That is lack ot inieui aj.ice. "Had Mr. Bryan's Ideas of what a man may do towards free think ina existed throughout history, he would still be banging and burning witches and punishing persons who thought the earth round." Mr. Darrow said he and Mr. Malone were willing to pay all the expenses of the Tennessee trial, "in order that day may tri umph over night." "Anv man of ordinary Intelli gi -e could topple Bryan In such a fight," he continued. "The Tennessee lawyers are good. They will not need help. Cnrh Bnlp-ai Armv London, May lt. It is learned in official circles that the British government, in agreement with the other allies doea not feel in clined to authorize retention be yon? May 31 of the excess troops LINEN MILL SUBSCRIPTION BLANK (Cot out, tign and mail) rhamber of. Commerce, Salem, Oregon: I hereby agree to subscribe for shares ot preferred stock of the par value of $100, and shares of common stock of the par value of $10.00 in a corporation to be organized for the purpose of manu facturing flax fibre products within the City of Salem ir its immediate vicinity and agree to pay for the same in four installments at the call of the Board of Directors it said company. Name - - Pate Address . OPEN TRIAL OF Selection of Jury Will Take From Three Days To Three Weeks, Say Attorneys. Chicago, May 18 William Dnrl- ing Shepherd went on trial alone today, .'charged with the murder of his millionaire foster son, Will iam N. (Billy) McCllntock. with the prosecution Indicating that It would ask the death penalty. Charles C. Fa i man, head of a school of sciences, who was Indict ed with Shepherd and confessed that he Instructed the latter In the administration of typhoid germs and supplied him with cultures. believing that Shepherd planned to kill young "Billy," was granted a separate trial on motion f State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe. Palman, who said Shepherd had promised him a reward of $100, 000 which Palman said he expect ed to receive If Shepherd obtained "Billy's" million dollar estate Is slated to be the star witness of the prosecution. Mrs. Julie Shepherd, the defend ant's wife, hurried forward and kissed her husband. She had in tended to sit beside him but In stead was given a seat across the a tele. Estimates of court attaches as to the time which would 1 j required to obtain the 12 Jurors ranged from three days to three weeks. Judge Thomas J. Lynch of the criminal court presided. BARE KNEES SEEN I DONEY ASSERTS Incidents of hfs trip east last summer, bis stay there during the winter, and his return to Sa lem recently, were related by Dr. Carl Gregg Doney. president of Willamette university, in a speech before the Salem chamber of commerce at its weekly luncheon this noon. Chief among Dr. -Do ners observations were that the eastern business man is character istically conservative. That the weather there Is more unusual than here, and that women's styles are more extreme in the west than in the east. "You have to come to Oregon to see bare knees," said Dr. Doney. "We think we have unusual weather here in Oregon." he stated, "but the weather changes more rapidly and more extremely In the east than in the west." He described his trip east by automobile, speaking of the over friendliness of the bears In Yel lowstone national park, the dan gers of Shortone Canyon, the size of the city of Chicago, and the swarms of honeymooners at Ni agara Falls. "The New England people are a peculiar people," he continued. "They want to be known as a pe culiar people. Their children, many of them are like other chil dren, and many of them are worse." From observations on the streets of Boston and other plac es, Including what he heard of their conversation, Dr. Doney drew the conclusion. "The New Englander gets a religious point of Tiew early In me- SHEPHERD FOR MURDER IN 1 DAYDROPS BULGARIAN DEAD AT HOI PORTLAND i Political And Industrial Leader Succumbs Sud denly; Father of State Compensation Act. Portland, Or., May 18. Funer al services for L N. Day. former state senator, and worker for state 'tax betterments and road improvements, who died sudden ly at his home here yesterday, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Portland, Or., May 18: I. N. Day, father of the workmen's com pensation movement in Oregon, leader in the planning of the state highway program and prominent citizen of Portland for more than 30 yeara, died suddenly yesterday morning at his home 771 Kearney street. Death was altogether unexpect ed. Mr. Day, 63 years old. had been in fair health and arose earlier than usual. He had been talking to his son, O. N. Day, and about 10:30 o clock went to room at the rear ot the house to do some painting. A short time later he was heard cons nine violently and a moment later he was found dead. Heart disease probably was the cause, according to Dr. Karl braith and Dr. Fred (Juliette, who were called. Mr. Day was Injured in an auto accident about eight months ago. Project On tstan dinar. Although for years he had con stantly been identified with indue tri..l and politico activities for the development of the state, thres of his projects were out a tan dime As a member of the state senate, to which he had been elected in 1913, for a four-year term, he fos tered the introduction of the workmen's compensation act. The measure was enacted, providing (Continued on Page Six) T Rome, May 18. (A. P.)-rItaly Is entitled to have lenient treat ment In the settlement of her war debts, Tomasco Titonl, pr est. Ion ot the senate and ex-foreign min later declared yesterday in speech at Vlterbo. The occasion was the unveiling of a monumen tn men killed In the world war, The speech was made In the pres ence ot the king, several member ot the cabinet and senators and deputies. Slgnor Tlttonl pointed out thi Austria owes Italy heavy debts for war reparations and expenses of occupation but that Italy baa re ceived no payments whatever. He quoted statements ot some Eng lishmen and Americans to the ef fect that the cancellation of in ter-allied debts would be chiefly advantageous to England and America themselves because would accelerate Europe's pur chasing power and Increase Eng land's and Americas exports. He declared that Italy has r ery confidence In the feelings of justlco and equity which Inspired ber creditors. A message was ready from Premier Mussolini ex pressing agreement with Tittoni's views. ESTATE OF RECLUSE IS VALUED AT $120,000 Port Townsend, Wash., May 1 Ixren Smth, a leciuse who died here Saturday ntRht, left $100,000 in Unltsd Statea bonda and 120, 000 In cash besldea a valuabl farm, an Investigation has reveal ed. Smith had lived In a cabin net Port Townsend for more than 30 rears. He wan forcibly taken to hospital by Clallura county author Itlea. He had Imagined everyone war after hia money and when person approached hia cabin ba ordered them away with a gun. lie w About 70 yrars old ant ha rd rivva In Knglmd. , SITUATION AG Al N TENSE Soldiers and Police Are Kept Busy Repressing Disturbances; Plots Are Revealed. London, May 18. (A. P.) A dispatch to the Daily Express from Sofia dated Sunday says there were disquieting events during the last 24 hours in various partem of the country. On Saturday 1500 soldiers were engaged in repress ing armed bands east of Sofia. There were sharp encounters with brigands at Tartar Pojarik, Stnn timaka, Shipka, Lovetch and Schu men. A number ot arrests were made at Ihtiraan, where raiders seized quantities ot (pod. Revol vers and rifles were discovered In the house ot one ot the leaders. A plot to blow up bridges be tween Sofia and Philippopolis was discovered Jus in time to preven damage to the Orient express. The correspondent adds that the ministry ot war says it has ob tained evidence ot a plot for fur ther assassinations ot high gov ernment personages and that gov ernment offices and the minister's homes are being guarded. Plots Arc Renorteri. Stories of plot, bo me menacing the safety of the government mm is t era seem further to show -that the government's reprisals against the recent disturbance of the (Continued on Page Six) New York, May 18 Internal troubles are proving handicap to coast guardsmen blockading New lorks rum row. Six members of the const guard have been court mart fn led for smuggling liquor and .three for Intoxication. It was revealed today. Officers ruive refused to discuss the Affair, but It Is known tha nineteen men have been confined for varying periods In the county jail on Uta ten Island, awaiting court-mnrtal, for various offenses. Six convicted ot smuggling have been sentenced to six months Im prlsnnment and three got three months each for Intoxication. A far greater handicap Is the prospect of a stiortage ot men In the fleet. Fully 30 per cent. It Is said, will not re-enlist when their eervices terminates July 1. Condi tions en the coast guard ships call for unusunlly tinrd work and few and brief shore leaves. These are sufficient to Induce the guurdsmen to seek other occupations. The coast guard has found In the speedy rum running boat Cigarette, foe but which Is all but invinci ble. Uecause of Its vastly superior speed the Cigarette outdistances the fastest of the dry navy's fleet. It Is reported to have slipped through the lines several nights ago and to have headed for the sea. The present blockade Is continu ing effectively, however, and re ports Indicate that within a short time fewer than half a doxen shins III remain of the fifty odd ten days a xo. A four day cruise of the rum pjnnnjr area by newspapermen showed that a billion dollar group of rum smugglers was being com- bstted by a $30,000,000 coast guard organization. To block off J5 foreign whiskey ships of all as criptions whlfn have been noted as having been on the row at vari ous times, the prohibition nevy has 10 cutters, 20 dispatch boats, 202 patrol bouts and 103 picket boats. SCOUTS TIIOT MURDERED Manila P. I.. Mar I (A. P. American military authorities at ennip Soti'-nlnirn, hellers the thr?i Kllloino scuuts who have bet-n absent for mure than a week wen murdered hy nerrlto outlaw In the mountains near 8ttsenlor(t I he seou'.a were hunting- Hums In stead of disertlnu as was first re ported. It Is thounht the necrlto. . 1 1 1 1 the outs with howa and arrnwD fur the ourpgne of seeurln- ;:- r cine. Grocers Here See Selfish Angle in Combine Effort Concealed deeply ' behind the woodpile In a alack of chip aome where la there a little darkey biding In connection with the meeting of Independent grocers scheduled fcr the chamber of commerce tomorrow night for the purpose of opening up a gunfire on the chain stores? It there somewhere concealed the desire of some Portland whole sale grocer to invade the Salem territory and grab off the lions share of the business in this ter ritory? Some Salem grocers think so. and think so so strongly tbat the proposed organization of grocji'B as planned for tomorrow night is not going over so smoothly as it might look at first blush. In fact some of the grocers predict It ie not going over at all. Historv of the grocery warfare in Portland la pretty well known here and many of the independ ents have their own counsels as to how they plan to act In any organisation that is proposed. Definite Proposal Regard ing Settlement of War Debts Due Within 15 Days Is Report. Pails, May 18 (By Associated Press) The Teni said today It understnnus a definite proposal will he made within 16 dayt by the French government to the United States and Orent Britain for the settlement of war debts. Washington, May 18 (By As sociated Press) The Washington government Is awaiting with Inter est feome word of the reception ac corded In the nine European debtor nations to the news that this country desires to arrant; fund Ing settlements without undue tie lay. Meanwhile there ts speculn tion as to which will be the first to submit a proposal. Aunlt Trench Move France whose debt to the Unit ed States Is the largest of the lot, Is regarded as the hub ot the sit uation and it Is known that offi cials would welcome an opening move from that quarter. If the means of conveying this government's desires to the foreign capitals have been varied they have larked nothing In force and deflnltenewi. In every case the debtor nation has been given to un derstand tn an unmistakable way that Washington believes funding arrangements should not be fur ther delayed. In view of that fact the statement of the French for eign office that no "note" on the subject hns been received from Washington Is regarded here mere ly as the stock diplomatic denial, based on a technicality. 1'nrlM milv Arivl--, Both Ambassador lae"chner In Washington, and Ambassador Her- rick. In Paris, have b-n fully ad vised of (he desires of the Arnerl can K'vernmrnt snd both have ro- tilled fu v to the Paris foreign or fire. Whether Paris I disposed (Continued on Ihk. Four) Pottwville, Pa., May 18 Will lam Cavalier, 15-year-old elayr of his grandmother for the pur pose of robbery, today was ten lenced to die In the electric chair He stood awkwardly before the court twisting hia hat and look In at the floor while sentenr was pronounced by Judge Korh Otherwise he showed no emotion Cavalier's mothejr was not In lb court room. The Judge, visibly affected, tol the boy that he had been foun itullty of first degree murder wit a recommendation of mercy, bu there was no alternative provld hy law to permit the Imposition of any other sentence man own Counsel for the boy announce .in appeal would be taken for new trial. FRENCH WILL MAKE OFFER BOY SENTENCED TO DIE IN CHAIR Summarized the Portland situ ation has been about as follows, according to information held by a number of grocers here. Tits chain stores came In and subsidized a wholesale house, giv ing it their entire patronage, or as far as possible, and began making deep Inroads Into the In dependents. In defense, as well as retalia tion, a group ot SO or more stores on the east aide organized, mado similar arrangements with anoth er wholesale house, throwing their patronage In that direction. Then followed the organization of the independent grocers all over Portland, some 600 of them, with their patronage being swung to another wholesale bouse aa a unit. The result has been that a number ot old time, solid and re liable wholesole houses In Port land have been left virtually high and dry as far as Portland pat- (Continued on Page Four) Woman Acting For Movie Comedian's Brother Is Said To Have Sought $12,500 Settlement. Ih Angeles. Cnl.. May 18. Tho dlstrlt t attorney's office, here today warned Ite bands of any further Interest In nn Investiga tion or the arfatra of the film comedian-director. Rcvcne (Fat ty) Arbuckle, who started his erin d honeymoon Saturday night with a eo called blackmail plot for one of hie wedding gifts. The ex-comedian and at pres ent director, principally noted for hie avonlupoia and bis counec- lon with tho Virginia Rappe case n S;m Francisco In 1921-22, of fered the opinion today .that It wimn't blackmail" but ho failed to add any specific definition of he Incident. The alleged demand upon the portly ex-comedian is said by the Examiner to have been made by a Mre. J. H. Murphy of San Fran Cisco, who represented herself as acting In behalf of Arbuckle'tt brother, Arthur Arbitcklo. A total of 312,500 was demand ed and. according to an agree ment eltfned by Mre. Murphy in the presence of lloscoe Arburkle nd two district attorneys rep resentatives, who were present merely as Arbuckle's friends, the money wae to cover the loettea sus tained by Arthur Arbuckle during the trial and troubles of hie brother In San Francisco In 1921 and 1922. In addition to the agreement, written at the bottom, it also was agreed that "the name and char acter of Roscoe A r buckle ehall not he assaulted or attacked In any manner before any club or organ xb tion, newspaper or federation of women's clulw." Arburkle gave the woman I check for $lo0U as a first hiatal) ment, the Kxaminer says. Questioned at the district ai torney'a office following the transaction, the denied any at tempt at blackmail. She was not beld. Future action In connection with tho alleged plot waa left open pending the return of Dis trict Attorney Asa Keyea to the city tomorrow. Arburkle expressed conflden that hfs brother was not Involved In the case. SAY ARBUGKLE BLACKMALED The Velvet Hammer By Arthur Brooks Baker T. II. The money and the politic, of lilned. we ee anil find, ronaMernhl the con.luet of th. two ha sot a n,,m .-.!. chew, and on. would hecau. the work cut out for him Hinto treasurer, ne plots ami prnlilem wlino nlmpllclllcs are ,.t think which wy the money aoee. and "'";""" n'" voiced than nmnv tulnht suppose, for when the Orand liui party l completely unified, th. elephant may hesitate to recounts, his auld.. Hut more responsibility decolvea on T. B. Kay. Industrial pro motion Is tha oroer of his dr. lie open.t., a 'n,.m"1 ..T.I spindles huss and sip. applvlm; .nlerpvlelnKly what shifty sh.pher.Pj clip He's been the chief HoMri.in, which proves how well he stanaa. He's riant among our hlsh clasa hrada and most cticcUv. hantls. UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE STATE CASES State Board of Higher Curricula Opens Hear ing on Charges of Dup licated Work. Portland, Oct., May 18. The board of higher curricula, of which Dr. C. J. Smith ot Portland U chairman, today heard tha opening. statements In the con troverey between the University of Oregon and Oregon Agricultural college which waa precipitated by charges by the university that tha college had established certain courses assigned by the board to the university, resulting in dupli cation. Dr. H. D. Sheldon opened tha casa for the university after tha board had adjourned from Dr. Smith's office to the assembly hall in the school building ot Temple Beth Israel. The board at the outset, through. Dr. Smith, announced that one speaker would be allowed to pre sent the case for each aide, and that speakers following would be limited as to time. This inter fered In certain degree with plana of the university, which had ar ranged to havo the presentation of the case made by Dr. Sheldon, and the argument upon the merits of its brief made by John C. Veatch, an alumnus of the uni versity. " Briefs Considered. When the hoard of hi glut cur ricula went into session it had before It the brief of the Univer sity of. Oregon of 67 pages la which the temies were raised, and the brief of the Uregon Agricul tural college of 212 paces in which the college answered tha charges advanced by the univer sity. The college s argument against the attitude of the university was) that the latter aimed to reduce tha college "to the status of a trade school which no young man or woman of college calibre havln capacity for leadership would care to attend. The university's brief which waa filed with the board last week complained that the college had 1 us t i t u t ed eou rses beyon d Continued on Page Five) Rabat, French Morocco. May IS liy the Associated Prev) The French forces opposing Abd-el-Krlm's invading tribesmen were to day consolidating their opposition but were postponing the second nd what they hope will be the finnl offensive to rid their terri tory of the It If flans. The offensive has been poatpon ed to await the results of the mis sion to Madrid of Louis Malvy, for mer French minister of the Inter lor who Is at the Spanish capital to learn the attitude of Hpaln. should France find it necessary to pursue the Moroccan tribesmen from the French Into the Spanish, zone. Meanwhile the French are strengthening new positions aa well nn consolidating those tney captured from the Rtfflans In Wed nesday's fighting. Abd-el-Kiim continued to .bring up reinforcements and the French are afraid he will strike before the negotiations w,th Si"1'"- inking permission to fight Ahd-1-Krlm on Kpanlsh territory are successful. KAV thl- nnihltlmi. Ute, eomnrl.e eom- weiam. ana ...y ... ....... bite. If w. are rlitht. that mak. ,y that T. It. Kay I. fully occupied la lutm and doubly wiue. piarai now cm ...... - -. rarkliiuly compieiea. ""'"""