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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1925)
on-. g;in asiconuhM cn,lf:(jr MAY 27 J925 UfiB i By " CITY EDITION Dally avorAg not, pa: a circulation for month ending April 30, 1920 FAIR TONIGHT In the interior, cloudy near const tonight and Wednesday. Continued mild, gentle to moderate- northerly winds. . Local: Max., 75; mln., 45; rain, none, river, 3.1; atmos., clear;' wind, north west. ' - 6755 A vera pro dully distribution 7031. Member Au1lt Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 125 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS -wands inVb? cents' C apiMLBJoiir mal F 1'CIMIS APPOSNTEDTO C1RCU1TBENCH Former Justice of State Supreme Court Named By Coolidge To Vacancy On Federal Bench, Washington, May 20. (A. P.) Wallace McCamuut of Portland, Or., wae appointed today circuit Judge in the ninth judicial dis trict. Judge MeCamant fe a former on. undated justice of the Oregon su preme court, is a personal, friend of the president and has long been prominent in republican politics fn his state. In the l!)20 republican national convention, he upset tho plans of the party chiefs by plac ing Mr. Coolidge in nomination for the vice-presidency at a mo ment when the delegates were In a mood to disregard the advice of their leaders und throw an over whelming block of votes into the Coolidge column. The vacancy on the circuit court to which Judge McCamant was named rrvulted from the re tirement of Judge Krskiiie M. Hoss. SCHOOL SITE AT The hoard of ny.ents of the state normal scnools today selected a site for the new normal school fit Ashland, contingent on the city of AshUnd acquiring a portion of the site selected. Tile site comnrfscn IS. 75 acres, valued at $30,000, on the south side of and at the end of Ashtan I boulevard, one block from where the Pacific highway from the south turns Into tap nou I ovarii. Tf Is directly west of Indiana street. Of t lie 18.7.r ocres, a triangular portion c ntaining seven ncres is already owned ny the city. To acquire the remainder, which fs owned by various persons, it would be necessary for the city to call a bonding election. The board rerommonded that the next legis lature transfer to the city the old normal school site. At the next meeting of the hoard on June IS, John A. H.nne. architect, will submit plans for the new building. W. C. Knigh ton, another architect employed by the board, will submit plans for the new training school for the Monmouth normal, the training school to be located nt Independence. Woodmen Organize To Open Recreation Park on Willamette At a meeting last night of mi m berrf of the local lodge of Wood men of the World, pinna were def initely launched to purchase the 240 acre tract of land some six miles noiih of Salem, now belong ing to Captain A. J. Spong, and develop the tract into a huge rec reation park and summer resort. A constitution was drawn up last night, and election of officer; and directors will be made at a meeting Wednesday night. An option is now held on th tract, which extends along the river, chiefly in a northerly di rection from the spot now popu larly known as Spong's Landing, and called by old settler Spong's Ferry. The property is an oM do nation li.nd claim originally own ed by Alexander Spong, father (f the present owner. The price to be paid is $24,000. Loral Woodmen expect actually to take the piece over Jan w IP. The first wnr!i to be done will be the construction of a large br.l! park, which will he completed in time for a Woodmen's eeMira'ton on July Eventually co'.tr'c DIVORG 2)' life f w". MAE MURRAY Paris. May 26. (A. P.) A di vorce was granted today to Mae Murray, American motion picture actress, in almost record time, the grounds being desertion, cruelty ;ind failure to provide. The movie nctress' husband, Robert Z. Leonard, opposed the r ivorce decree, contending the ac tion was gioundless. 800 ASK RELEASE Portland, Ore., M;iy 20. An nouncement was made here today that petitions for a referendum on the bus bill parried by the legls 1 a t u re have bee u p re pa red rea d y for filing with the secretary of state containing more than 2!J,000 signatures, of which l!i,(J"0 have been certified. Attorney (ieneral Van Winkle had not today ruled on the ques tion whether names attached to petitions for referendum of the bus bill can be withdrawn by the persons signing them. He said this was not allowed In the state of Washington last year. The 200 requests received yesterday by Secretary of State Kozer that n a m es be with d ra w n had i n- crcased today to more than 800, but because of the large number of names signed to the petitions it is apparent that there would not be enough withdrawals to quash the petitions. The with drawals. It Is said, were Inspired by the association of county com missioners and judges, which is opposing the referendum. The petitions have not yet been filed with the secretary of state. To morrow Is the last day on which referendum petitions can be filed. DEMPSETfoWLE ELIMINATION WINNER Paris. May 26. (A. P.) Jack Dempsoy announced today that he will be ready to meet the survivor of the four-cornered competition between Weinert, Wills, Gibbons end Tunney. will be built on parts of the property and leased to summer tourists and others. The reort Is expected to be an attraction for parties passing through In auto mobiles. A bathing beach and a canoe house are among present plans of thoee who are behind the project. The river at Spong's landing Is said to he considerably more adaptable for boating than Is the river at Salem. From Spong's Landing a canoe can easily be paddled two miles up the river, or as faY as Klzer Biinl, and- half a mile down the river, without meeting swift water. Even at present the "pot Is used largely as a bathing resort, but Is unde veloped. Stork in the project will be sold among members of the lonl Woodmen s lodge. Corporation papers are being drawn up, and will be filed in the near future. The name of the corporation will be either the Capital Develop ment company or the Willamette Development company, members of the lodge have elated PROSECUTION OFVICERING CASES PENDS Principal Witness Stays In Seattle And Local Officers Know Not How To Get Her Back. . When and how will the "O'Brien girl" get back to Salem? That Is a question which haw been puzzling some of the officials who have been connected with the gathering of evidence against a number of local men under in dictment for contributing to the delinquency of minors In connec tion with alleged liquor parties In this vicinity. The "O'Brien girl," whose name has been mentioned scarcely above a whisper by the officers U still at Seattle where fho was located somo little time ago. Iler father was sent up to bring her back but she didn't come. At that time re ports were that at the police sta tion she frankly refused to obey her father's mnndate to come back to Salem and that she was so obdurate her father returned empty handed. Matron Confident At any rate, according' to re ports, she la still In Seattle. "We will get her back all right, was the cryptic remark of Mrs. Myra Shanks, police matron. "How?" she was asked. 'Never mind how." 11 she said. "Wc will get her back when the lime comes." And that was that. In fact thai was so much that It was all Mrs, Shanks would say about her ca.se. "Are you going to get the O'Hrien girl bark?" Chief of Police Minto was asked. "Dunno," was his cryptic res (Continued on Page Seven) E RATE PLEA JUST Washington, May 26 ( Ily Asso ciated Press) ICxUmihJvo revision of frelnht rates on rnln and Rrain products moving . from Korky mountain territory to the Mississip pi river and territory east wm recommended to the interstate commerce commission today by its examiners. After Investigating the complainl of rtah producers In which Oregon Idaho and Washington stntc Inter ests joined, the examiners held that Colorado producers held n ra'e ad vantage over producers In a cun- sldernhle part of Idaho, Oregon and I'tnh. The commission was ad vised that the general rates out of Colorado to the east should be maintained but the complaining producers in the other states should be given rates to consum ing territory measured by addi tions of from 10 to 20 cents per hundred pounds to the Colorado rates. At the name time the report '.ug gested that rales on grains other than wheat should be 90 per cent of the wheat rate and that the flour rates through the territory should be 110 per cent of the rate on wheat. A second tentative report on grain rates was filed by examiners proposing that revisions of the schedules to Chicago from a con siderable number of Iowa shipping points should bo made. The re port said that the existing rates are preferential of Ht. Louis and in part of Kansas City and sug gested that a distance scale should be applied to equalize the charges. AMBASSADORS VIEW RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS Moscow, May 26. (A. P ) Foreign ministers and ambassa dors stationed here today saw the Huseian crown Jewels. In order to remove the belief abroad that the crown Jewels bad disappeared or been reduced in number the soviet governing t In vited all foreign diplomatn to vis it the state vault where thee'.' treasurers are stored. The dlsnlay was dazzling. Thr estimated value of the called ion wan given as thj equivalent o: $50,000,000, COUNSEL FOR SHEPHERD IS NO Inquiry Into All Cases Conducted By, Lawyers In Past Six Months Is Ordered. Chicago, May 2(3. Tho dis charge of a juror breaking the first panel obtained In the trial of William D. Scpherd, charged with murder, and jury tampering charges brought a double sensa tion in Judge Thomas J. Lynch's court In the criminal courts building today. "We huve information thai must be investigated and should bo Investigated beforo a jury Is sworn in in this case," former Judge Robert Crowe, state's attor ney, declared in answering Will ium Scott Stewart, chief defense counsel, who demanded that Judge Crowe be stopped from further in quiry as to possible jury tamper ing. Chicago, May 20. W. W. O'Hrien and W. S. Stewart, de fenders of William D. Shepherd, now on trial for the murder of William N. McClfntock, have been put under Investigation by State's Attorney Crowe in his efforts to determine if there have been at tempts to "fix" prospective jurors in tlte Shepherd case. An inquiry Into all cases con d u c ted by S h ep h crds I a wy e ra in the past six months was ordered by the prosecutor after receipt of a letter from Robert Uliile, miss ing witntss, which contained charges that he nad been forced by defense attorneys to make an affidavit In behalf of Shepherd. Witness Threatened. White, claimed also by the state. as an important witness, wrote from Philadelphia several days after his disappearance, dedaiing be had been forced to flee for his life. A detective was sant last night to return White here for the trial. The state's attorney said he would rati for questioning on the basis of Willie's letter, every man who has served during Hie past half year in any ease defended by Stewart and O'Brien. Mr. Crowe said he was particularly interested in one case In which Stewart ac cepted the last four jurors tender ed without questioning. The at torney made a similar offer in the Shepherd cose a few days ago. Members of the battleship Ore ;;on commission who returned to Salem yesterday from Bremerton navy yard, reported that tho Ore gon will reach. Portland hurbor June 8, being brought down the coast from Bremerton by thrre. government tugs. Only steam enough will be carried in the Ore gon's boilers to operate tho steer ing gear. The queen of the Roue Festival will be aboard when the dilp comes Into Portland. The commission has been unable to find any trace of the famous silver service that the people of Oregon presented the ship nfter the Spanish war nt a cost of $35, 000. OVERHOLT DISTILLERY IS SOLD FOR $15,000,000 New York, May 20. (A, P.) The Overholt distillery, founded in 1810 by Abraham Overholt, giandfather of Henry Clark Frick. has been sold to Park & Tflford. grocers of this city with 1,800, 000 gallons of whiskey for more than $15,000,000 for the 14 build. ings, twenty acres of land on the outskirts of Pittsburg and the complete sto?k of whinkey. This caused surprise as at the prevail ing retail medicinal price or 3 a pint, the whiskey alone would he worth $4.1,200,OnO. The sale is the largest legitimate liquor deil in the I'nlted States since prohlb' lion was enacted. Queen Mary 58 London. May 20. (A P vjiieen Mary today quietly rek brated her GHth. birthd-iy. Sh received counties congratulatl ;ul in eluding messages from tli !i inee of Wales, COLLEGES DOUBLE WORK 83 ' 83 83 2 Liberal Arts Schools "83 83 83 83 83 83 83 MANY COURSES LAPPING j (By Harry N. Crain.) Under tho existing system of operating the University of Ore gon and the Oregon Agricultural college through duplicate boards and decentralized authority and responsibility the state Is support ing two complete and expensive schools of liberal arts where only one is necessary. By authority conferred upon H by the state board of higher cur- cula the u n i vors 1 1 y ;m a i n t a t n s it "College of Literature, Science and the Art ," aa graduates Its students with A. B. degrees. Twenty separate and distinct de partments comprise this unit of the university and 13 of these de partments are duplicated at the college, 12 of them In the "School of Basic Arts and Sciences," and PLEA OF GUILTY: Portland, Or., May 26. Eigh teen months in McNeils Inland penitentiary was the scnience im posed today by Federal Judge R. S. Bonn upon Horace Greeley Wil son, who last week pleaded guilty toan indictment charging viola tion of the federal Mann act. 'tlson was formerly Indian agent at the Klamath reservation, and his home rerently was nt Rose burg. "Judge, I take an oath before God I never married that woman ' if I did I was crazy," said Wil son in a statement to Judge Bean. A crowdeil courtroom, tense and silent, listened while Wilson pleaded. Wilson stood calmly be fore court and counsel and dra matically declared he was inno cent of a crime to which a few days ago in the same courtroom he pleaded guilty. "I do not remember a thing about what Mr. Stearns has said about marrying that woman, your honor," he continued, refer ring to Aletta V. C. Llndrtley of New York city, with wnom the government charged he went through a marriage ceremony. "If I did, there Is no question but that I wa crazy. But I am not crazy now." He paused a mo ment. The crowil leaned forward to get every word. Judg Bean moved restlessly in his .?liair. "There sits my wife and run and daughter they can tell you whether or not I hve been n good husband and father." Charles Bowman Ilutchfns, nat uralist and bird artiHt, will giv the second of three lecture to be riven in Salem, tonight at the First Methodist church. The sub ject will be "Music of the Wild." Mr llutchins gave a lecture be fore an audience of some 300 at the church last night. Bird songs and rails will be the feature of tonight's program and many pastel paintings uf the birds will be made before the audience. Helen Owen Hutch ins. harpist and soprano, will play and sing several solos. Programs wilt also be given Thursday and Friday evenings and Snturrtay afternoon. The programs then will be different from the on" prevented tonight. No admission Is charged and tit'1 general public is Invited to be present. A collection will be tak en U defray expenses of Mr. and Mrs. Hutchin. Tim program starts at 8 o'clock. WEEKS WILL UNDERGO OPERATION THURSDAY Rn-tnn, Mh May 20. (A. P i Secretary of War John W. Weli, wlto eamo to Boston last Saturday to commit physicians r-tca: dint tr.iil bladder trouble fiMiii v.'V';i hi In.i been suffering will in; - '-. mi opera t Inn nt I'll '::' . . Ms Aechmetts. :- ' ! v Tiiurday. 83 83 83 83 another In the school of commerce. To one now versed in the frills and fancies of modern higher edu cational theories it would appenr that the "School of Basic Arts and Sciences" at the college Is a de liberate attempt to evade the at tempts of the board o? curricula in eliminating duplications of courses in the two institutions. In fact, the university in its brief filed in the present controversy over duplication, chnrgce that the col lege is deliberately seeking to ln vr.do Its territory through the school. How expensive and how costly is the duplication of courses In these two units of the college and the university, may be estimated somewhat from the following sum. (Continued on Pago Seven) ELKS WILL LAY Salem Klks are all ready for the laying of the corner atone at the new Elks temple on Thursday eve ning of this week, May 28. Tin memliorfl of the lodge will meet nt the old club rooms nt 6:45 nod march to the new temple on State street, headed hy the Klks band, whh'h will furnish music for th occaslon. Percy Voting f Albany, district deputy grand exalted rul er for Oreiron south, will have charge, of the ceremonies and the orator of the occasion will be Wilt lam S. Levcns, ft a to prubildlinn commissioner, wlo an district deputy grand exalted ruler at tin time tho old temple wan built on Liberty street dedicated that build ing. The committee arranging for the corner stone laying is Charln Knowland, chairman; Philip Hol mes and Brazier Small, Tho ceremony of laying the ror ner stone is sr-hcdulcd for 7 o'clock. After the ceremony the members, will march back to the old temple Hlic:o the rcgo In r Thursday evening bullae essiott will be held. Medford, May 26 OffMal In-, vest (gallon into tho causes of the death of Mrs. Kmioa Murphy, who lied last Friday, and whoe hus band, Omar W. Murphy, faces a manslaughter charge, In connec tion therewith, was launched lat nig . with the calling of a coron er's Jury. Doctors Tt. W. Clancy and F. O. Thayer, testified that they had cared for Mrs. Murphy in her last days, and both said the postmortem reveal e d "nothing organically wrong." Dr. Clancy testified that during her last lllnew", Mis. Murphy wan unable to tit up, nnd complained of aches and pains. Tho day be foro she died she wan placed In a wheel chair nt the hospital, be said, but bad nkcd to be returned to bed. Tho phynicians described bruises on the hip, nnd lower lum bar regions, and fa id that Murphy had (diked to him about his wife's UlncKvmd Insisted, "that ho had only spanked not whipped hi wife." DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY WORTH $150,000 STOLEN Chicago, May 20. (A. P.) Dinmjtiidft end Jewelry of an esti mated value of between $100,000 and $150,000 were taken by three robbers who held up three em ploys In the Adolph Gastm hi Loan bnnk in the heart of the downtown district today. The vaults haft neen opened and the employes were arranging tip- window ind showcase displays when the robbers entered, draw ing their revolvers. "March back thercy boys." one of the robbers commanded and ent the employes to- a rear ro-nu where they were hound. Then the robbers hetpid them el ve trt tlie diamonds und jewel ;v and escaned. pnDT PA I C ONFATHERTD SANCTIONUSE RETURN CHILD OF DIRIGIBLES Clyde Claggctt Ordered To Bring Son Back from California and Return Him To Guardian. By an order of tho supreme com' today, Clyde C. Claggett, np pcllant In the case of Louise Clag gett against Clyde C. Claggett, ap pealed from Marion county, is re quired to return to this state one of his minor children, Thomas Claggctt, the child to be returned to Harriet Miller, to who.so custody the child was awarded. If he failw to do eo the supreme court states that the decree of the lower court will be affirmed. On April 26, 1924. Louise Clag gett secured a decree of divorce from Clyde Claggett and nn order directing payment of attorneys' fees and certain sum a for the carp and maintenance of their minor children. It was further ordered that the child, Thomas Claggett, be given to Harriet Miller. Claggett ap pealed to tho supreme court. But It a p pea ix, says tho supreme court that ho has so conducted himself In respect to Mra. Cluggctt an to placc-her In fe.ur of her life and of bodily harm, and that since the appeal ho has striven In every way to barraHs ami annoy her, and haw taken tho child to California. AS FREE SPENDER New York. May 20, Two New Vork papers today say that Harry K. Thaw has appeared on Broad way again, lavishing tij in a enrabet. "Somewhere," says the New York Ameriian, "he had found champagne and had shared sev eral hot lies of It with a man com panion and v.ith pretty little Fawn Gray, a dat.ccr, who graced hi table." The New York World says the man companion was a former po liceman who now acts as Thaw's secretary, Texas Gulnan's new club in the Itoaring Forties Ig given as the scene of Thaw's appearance for the first tlni0 since the muishing of kidnaping Indictments removed an obstacle to his visiting New York. Recently ho has been a gentleman farmer at Winchester, Vu., having been released from an asylum In Pennsylvania after a cries of sensational legal battles that began when he killed Stanford White In Madison Square Garden 1 9 years nno. Kvery pretty woman received a costly corsage bouquet at the club late last Saturday night, the stor ies relate. A five hundred dollar lip went to the orchestra. Ten-. twenties, fifties and even hun dreds went to waiters. The cost of bis evening Is esti mated ns at least $la00 and Invi tations to future entertainments are said to have been extended. He is said to have marveled at changes in tho style of chorus rai ment. Thaw danced every dance with Fawn Gray and once gave an ex hibition. The Velvet Hammer By Arthur c. r. gii.si: To look like Thomas KdNon or pound like Henrv Ford would !cem to some the nrme of distinction skimmed nnd seorod. To have the mayors offiie 1 to play In power nnd fame, hot It Is something eo Indeed to merely have the name, for C. F. Gie-e t-rtR requests from every sonreo nlive. from eiery bird wiio has a bee he feels that he must hive. Put while he doesn't rule the town by popnlnr request, C. F. Im proves It diillv ns nern.-dnn timv Miriest; for when he isn't fishing nnd tho Lfons urn engaged in any of the stunts by which prosperity Is paged, he opein up hi kevhonnl for n chord of booster stuff and al ways does bis level i.eit In harking Salem's bluff. Ho opera te-i t lie (iico- - I'nw rr b-mio fm nlshincs concern, with woodenvv.ire to sn a-h "r ton re If Ir.oiMo starts to burn, but whleh with soft udio1fduv and uit'-hen tool nt dasn. helps make life's sons serene nn.I b-ng, and notion-: ,-:m .up--i- i ut'ncrse will testify, th pleasure home can glvo when C. I , (Us iu out the uy you ought to live. COOLIDGE 10 Expedition. For Relief of Explorer And Party Being Organized; Hope Still Expressed. tBy The Associated Press) At 2:30 p.. m. New York daylight saving time no word had been received from the Amundsen - Ellsworth flying expedition to the north pole. The explorer hopped off in two flying boats from Spitz- ergen Thursday afternoon. Washington, May 2C. (A P.) Governmental relief for the Amundsen expedition to the north pole iti favored by President Cool idge but he is not certain that the a i UwU ion hits reached tho point where such nid would be justified The president has given no par ticular thought to proposals to send one of the big navy dirigibles on a relief expedition, lie con siders that a decision on any such project should He first with Secre tary Wilbur, who said today that the navy had given no official consideration to It. Will Wait tourer. Neither was any question of sending the I Am Angeles or Shen andoah to the rescue of the Amundsen party discussed at to day's cabinet meeting. Secretary Wilbur said that any such expedition could be author ized only alter the most thorough consideration and on the basis of a plan of procedure maiiif.-stly ound and practical In every wuy. It would bo nluuird. he said, to send our airships into the Arctic in a haphazard way to search for six men over thousands of sunn re miles of frozen waste. Alp-aison Make Readv, London, May 20. (A. P.) Grettir Algawnn, the young Ice lander who planned to race (Nip tain Koald Amundsen's expedition to the north pole, using a blimp or non-rigid airship, is quoted by tho Dally Express today as saying that the poler question had been en tirely changed ..y Amundsen's continued absence. "tIt was hot a question of who was to be the first to reach the pole hy air, but who would be the first to reach Amundsen," The competitors. In this race, he said, would be the American explorer. Commander Donald MacMillan and himself. He confirmed the report from Liverpool yesterday that his sup ply ship, the Ireland, might leave Liverpool for Spitzbergen without the blimp within two weeks, with the idea of reaching the archipel ago in time to ho of possible as sistance to Amundsen. When his i It-ship fn ready Algarson will fly from Liverpool to Spitzbergen, rvlng 10 days, Exnlorers Still Honrful New Vork, May 2i. (A P.) ' While tentative plans for relief xpeditions are discussed, experi enced Arctic explorers are stiil convinced In the ability of Cap tain Koald Amundsen and his five companions to return safely from their airplane flight to the north nolo. Amundsen, his American finan cial backer. Lincoln Kllsworlh, two pilots and two mechanics, left King's Hay. Spitzbergen, last Thursday nt 5:15 a. m., or 11:15 i. m.. Eastern standard time. Unequipped witn wireless np mvntus there is no possibility with their communicating with the civ ilized world. Brooks Baker
