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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 118
ON TRAINS AND NKW8
STAND8 FIVE CENTS
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY,
PRICE THREE CENTS
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MAY 18, 1925
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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.
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