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CIRCULATION Dally average net pala circulation for month ending May 31, 1925 6738 Averngo dally distribution 7073. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 135 CIVIL WAR DECLARED Commander Of Yunaneze Forces Announces War On Opponents ; Fight ing Is Imminent. "Washington, Juno 6. (A. P.) A buttle between General Hsu's Cantonese army, reported to be -within forty m ilea of Canton and Yuananeao forces entrenched in the eastern suburbs of Canton, te expected within 30 hours. Americans have been directed by orders of Ferdinand L. Mayer, charge of tho Peking legation, to leave the Canton suburbs wncv fighting is likely and many women and children already havo removed themselves to safer points. Canton, June 6 (A. P.) Civil war was declared here today. General Yang Hsi-mln, com mander In chief of the Yunneze first army, controlling all of the city of Canton, announced he would open hostilities against the Kuomintang (peoples party) troops quartered on the island of Honan. Fighting is Imminent. Teji thousand troops on the Kuomintang side under General LI Fook-Lum are reported ready for action. Strategic points on the river and all waterfronts are being fortified hastily against the com ing battle. The Yunanese are In complete control of all public service and havo seized all government of fices. Ueinforrements are con stantly arriving. . The cargo handlers have de clared a strike out of sympathy for the Kuomintang. The anti-foreign movement which started last week at Shang hai and which has been fostered here by student bodies sympa thetic to actions of tho Chinese students at the gateway city, has for the time been receded to (he background. Foreigners expect It to devetop again when the present military activities cea?e. Tho foreign settlement (Sha meen volunteers have been mobil ized for emergency duty and all Chinese boats In the vicinity of Shameen have been ordered to leave. E DEFENSE TESTS Acting In compliance with a radiogram received today from the commander of the Ninth corns area, United States army, at San Francisco, Governor Pierce ap pointed a general committee to shoulder the responsibility for de tense test day in Oregon. This will be on July 4, as in other tales. The Oregon national guard however, will not participate on that day because o the proximity to the annual encampment al Camp Jackson near Medford which ends late in June. Instead the na tional guard will stage its maneu vers on the Inst day of the Camp Jackson encampment, and will re ceive credit fur deiense test activ ity. The general commute appoint ed hy the governor Is made up of the leaders of all participating units. The members of the com mittee are: Brigadier Gentral George A. White, adjutant general ot Ore gon, chairman; Colonel F. T. Arn old, U. 8. A,. Tortland, represent ing citizens' military training corns; Colonel Gvurge W. Moses. U. S. A., Cor vail is, representing reserve officers training corps; Colonel Carle A brains, Salem, rep resenting officers reserve corps. Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Kanzlor, Portland, representing officers' re serve corps; Major A. W. Cleary. V. S. AM Portland. repres?ntine the Oregon national guard; J. L Crowe, Hllshoro, department com mander O. A. II.: George F. A. Walker. Portland, department commander Spanish War Veter ans: John W. Jones, Portland, de partment commander Veterans-of Foreign Wars; Ceorgft Griffith Balem, department commander American Legion I Loeb Phyj : iy Die 1 ins At it Fear Joliet, 111., June 6. Richard Loeb, the master mind who plot ted, with Nathan Leopold, the murder of Bobby Franks last year has suffered a mental breakdown and is in a state, that, according to his doctors, will improve or terminate fatally within 48 hours. "Dickie," suffering from an acute attack of measles that weak ened him mentally and physically, has tossed for two days and nights on his cot in the old prison hos pital here. Since Tuesday," when he became violent and hurled ob- (Contlnued on Page Nine) Berlin, June 6- (A. P.) Pres ident Schacht of -the relchsbank, commenting upon the allied dis armament note, today said: "Our nerves have Just about reached the cracking point and unless the allied and associated powers listen to reason and aban don their policy of political heck ling the German boiler may blow up." "What is needed is not more reason in Germany but downright common sense among the allies and associated powers., for the nation which fail? to understand the- econmic needs of Germany is politically and economically im mature,' Horr Schacht said. Politic Blamed. Ills statement was made to newspapermen in a frnnk discus sion of the effects of the disarma ment note upon the German eco nomic situation. "Germany vil. still be a great economic and producing power." he said, "but our organization can not function if It Is constantly exposed to political pressure." Herr Schacht ported that he be lieved that the only danger threat ening tho Dnwc-s plan was politics and that he feared politics might ;n the end kill It. Demands Jlencnncen1 Berlin. June 6. (A. P.) All Berlin newspapers except the Uote Fa line, communist organ. de- nounced the demands of the allied disarmament note. They agree n declaring that the length of time required to draft the note show upon what weak foundations It rests. The Rote Fahne merely ob serves: "The Von Hlndenhurg govern ment will not lag behind the pre vious governments in submissive ness to the allies." The Dontsch Tages Zellun? says: "The final proof now is furnish ed that the allies will treat us a? people who have lost their sover eignty." The Boersen Zeltnng character izes the note as "an affront to German honor" and says: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a ridiculous mouse." Tho Deutsche Allgemalne Zel tung finds the allies charges "so laughable that the most naive military Ignoramus can see their absurdity. For the American citi zen who, with leans, pays for the armaments of France. Poland and other satellites of America, this note speaks an eloquent lan "jage." WOODEN ELECT NEW OFFICERS FOR LODGE The following officers for the local lodge of the Woodmen of the World were announced today, following election held In the W, 0. W. hall last night. Past consul commander, Carl Wolz: consul commander, M. J. Steward; advisor, O. L. Scott; banker, O. L. Adams: clerk. L. 8. Geer; escort. C. R. White; watch man. J. N. Herrin; sentry, L. A. Hawthorne; manager. C. D. Ross. G. T. Walker and C. B Shaw. Steward was elected to euc ceed himself. Twenty six new members were initiated Into the organization. Eighteen new applications for membership were acted upon fav orably. Mt Cumber Annotated. Wa thine :t in, June (A. P.) Porter C. Mcf'umber, former re publican senator from North I)a- 'iota, wu appointed to tho Inter national Joint commission today by President. Cmllrtge. SCHAGHT SAYS ALLIED TERMS ARE RUINOUS -1 nnn GRANGE GIVES APPROVAL 10 SCHOOLPRQBE Resolution Asking Inves tigation Of Duplicated Work ' At University And College Passed. Dallas, Or., June C. After a heated discussion the state grunge convention last night called upon Governor Pierce by resolution to appoint a committee of five to in vestigate the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural col lege with reference to duplication in their courses of study. The resolution is to the end that dupli cations may be done away with us far as possible for the benefit of the taxpayers- o? the state. The committee doubtless will be ap pointed by the governor at once, and It will after its investigations report back its findings and rec ommendations. Another resolution pertaining to taxation was an endorsement accorded senate bill No. 202, in troduced by Senator Tooze at the 1925 session of the legislature, providing for a readjustment of taxation and assessment to bring about an equalization ot the tax burden. The measure was defeat ed In the legislature. Strict enforcement of the pro hibition law and the law providing for the punishment of drunken drivers were endorsed by the con vention, while another resolution asks for a suppression of motion pictures that show drunkenoss and drinking. National legislation was asked by resolution to pr.Mbit the man ufacture and use of substitutes for dairy products. A similar meas ure was defeated in the Orogon legislature. The farm reller measure enact ed by the 1925 legislature, where by state loans were made available to farmers for reseeding purposes the state grange believes should be made permanent, and a resolu tion to that effect was adopted. The reforestation and fire pro tection program of the state was endorsed. Inasmuch as the main arterial highway.-, of the state have been completed the conven tion went on record by resolution in favor of a definite policy for market road construction. The convention ground away until late last night on resolutions and other convention business and today the executive officers are In session. The convention ends to day. Business activity in Marion county fur May, 1925, was great er than any other May In the his tory of the county, according to the number of Instruments filed during the month, which In con sidered the barometer of business activity. Eight hundred four In struments were filed during the month. Of these 280 were deeds and 194 were mortgages. Records, which have been kept for the past 10 years, show that as a rule May is a little below par as a business month. May of this year was slightly behind April, during which month 8.11 Instru ments were filed. In May, 1924, the number stood at 611. One year, 1918, the number went down as low as 374. The figure Ibis year stands con siderably above that recorded in 1920, considered a banner year from a business standpoint, In 1920 there were only 701 Instru ments recorded. REWARDlFTEREDFOR . OUTLAW MORO LEADER. Manila. P. I., June . (A. P.) Governor General Wood today authorized Governor Johnpon of Lanao province t offer a prize of $2.10 for the capture of Sultan Ray a, Moro outlaw leader, who has been hiding In the mountains since he escaped from his fortress while It was umW fire from the Lanao constabulary. The gov ernor general hr-pes to avoid fur ther bloodshed by offering a prlz for the capture of the Moro leader. BUSINESS GOOD FILINGS REVEAL SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1925 IES ANNEX SHE AI pi Purchase of 160 Acres for Terminal Site Is An nounced; Strahorn Sur vey Started. Klamath Falls, Or., June 8. Acquisition by the Hill lines of approximately ItiO acres here for terminal sites became known to day when deeds were filed with tho county clerk. The property was purchased from Charles Wood Kberlein, Klamath Falls capital ist. Revenue stamps attached to the deeds indicated a purchase price of approximately $140,000. The land purchased by the Hill lines lies directly west oi (he pres ent Southern Pacific terminal, and makes available to the pro jected . railroad newcomer the plants of several of the larger mill operators now here, as well as the proposed sites of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company and the Shcvlln Hixon company. Esnee Negotiations Fail. The Southern Pacific for the past several weeks has been nego- (Continued on Page Ten) Oslo, Norway, June 6. (A. P.) i Captain Amundsen's auxiliary committee In New York has been: asked to take charge, In cooper-! atlon with Donald B. Mac.Uil lan's all American expedition, of the work of reconnoitering west Greenland for traces of the mem bers of Amundsen's polar flying party. This decision was reached at a meeting here of air chiefs and Arctic experts, Including Captain Itto Sverdruh, Major Gunnar Isachen and the Danish aval captain, Gottfried Hansen, who was Amundsen's mate when be sailed through the northwest passage and who laid depots for Amundsen at Cape Columbia n l other places in West Greenland. The French explorer Dr. Gene Charcot, will be asked to search the territory around East Green land while the Norwegian expe dition, aboard the steamer Inger tre will patrol around Spitsber gen, Amundsen's starting point. The Ingertre was due to leave the naval station at Horten some time today bearing two airplanes in charge of a naval flying corps. Two American Journatists and an American motion picture man are accompanying the party. The latest weather report say Spitz bergen Is enveloped In fog. Portland, Or., Juno 6. One man is dcud, and three persons in. jured as a result of a fire which destroyed the three-story Wau coma hotel in Linnton, a suburb, late yesterday. Joseph Jefferson, 38, tallyman, employed at the Clark & Wilson Lumber company. who was on the porch when the fire started, went Into the build ing to g!t effects from his room on the third floor but was trapped hy the fire. The bluze was reported to hav ntarted from a stove In a room In the basement. Scach of the ruins this morning failed to reveal any other victims. .Hwen Gustas, 23, also an em ploye of the mill, was bruised when he Jumped worn a window after finding escape by the Ion-' stairway cut of! by flames. Andrew Charles, an Indian, cut his hand painfully sliding down a rope from his second etory win dow. Mm. William Cook, 71, wan bruised when she was run Into by a boy on a scooter as she was run ning to the fire. 8he went to the Ornri flamar'tan hospital. Property damage t roufhly estimated today at $8000, AMERICANS ARE ASKED TO DIRECT AMUNDSEN HUNT 7 ft-.I:, '1.400.'' POLITICAL ISSUES TAKE Taxes And Financial Pol icies Taking Center Of Stage Already; Candi dates Getting Busy. Developments of the past ten days have pretty well crystalized the Issues upon which the prima ry and general elections cam paigns of next year are to be fought out In the opinion of po litical observers who have been scrutinizing the situation. Taxation and etnte financial policies are going to form the background for the battle, and there is little possibility of suc cess for the candidate who seeks to sidestep tbem. That much was pretty well settled when the per fected petitions invoking the ref erendum on the tobacco tax, the tithing tax and the bus and stage regulation law were filed last week. Grance Forces Issue The action of the grange in de claring war upon the Dennis res olution to Inhibit Income and in heritance taxes in Oregon for 15 years, and their authorization of an initiative drive to plnce an in come tax measure on the ballot in November, 1926, leaves no doubt as to what will and what will rot be pertinent to the cam paign ' And tho Income tnx and the Dennis resolution will be the pl votal points around which the rest of the fireworks will center. even If certain factions of the electorate did believe they had burled this issue when they re pealed the Income tax last fall. So far as Its Income tax features are concerned the Dennis resolu tion Is considerable of a Joke, for It could Inhibit the levying of such a tax only bo long as the peo ple chose not to enact one. Hut there is a more serious feature to the inheritance tax provision of the resolution. ' Not Entirely Joke If approved hy the voter the Dennis resolution would automat ically revoke the present inheri tance tax law and deprive the state of better than $300,000 a year in revenues now derived Trom this source. Considering the present status of state finances K is not likely that the entire pub lic will take kindly to a proposal to deplete the public purse to any such extent. Another development that in jects the taxation problem Into the field Is the growing certain ty that Governor Pierce will be a candidate to succeed himself, and his success for the nomina tion In the democratic primary is a foregone conclusion. Setting aside the various rumors of deals and agreements reported as hav ing been entered into by the gov ernor an t his friends in the legis lature as being too flimoy to be seriously considered, there Is no potential candidate in the dem ocratic ranks possessing sufficient strength to even make things in teresting for Pierce in the pri mary. Pierce to Set Pace. The presence ol Pierce in the running will be sufficient guar antee of what the issues will be. for the governor. It Is reported among his friends. prpfses to make capital or ne friction Be tween himself and the legislature and attempt to convinre the voters that his failure It: fulfill his pre election promises to cut the direct state tax levy in half has ben duo to political interference. He will, it in anticipated, also lead the fight upon the referondums. as it was he who sponsored the tithing bill and the tobacco tax. He has already lined hlmsalf up with th? Income tax forces. Whatever his opponents may way about the governor they will hnve to concede tl.nl he is an ener getic, tffeotivo nnd constant cam paigner, and that the Issues he raiseg cannot h.i ignored. Halt Patterson Vie- Who will ac-y the republican bannrr into the general election eainpnk'n against I'lercft not w definitely assured. Present Indi cations ure that the battle in th primary will bo warred bet ween Senator Charles Hall of Coos conn. ;y, who ran a strong second to Hp. a Olcott fti the primary thre years r-gi. end I L. Patterson of Eola. While neither of these has defi nite Iv arrtt-mnred hi? fandldy, (Crntlnuel on Page Nine) FORM EARLY Commencement at Willamette Opens At Church Sunday The annual commencement ex ercises at Willamette university, beginning with the baccalaureate service at the First Mcthodidt church tomorrow morning, with sermon by Dr. Carl Gregg Doney. president of the university, will continue until Wednesday, when the annual commencement address will be given by Judge Charles S. Cutting of Chicago, who attended Willamette university In 1870 and 71, and was given an A. B. degieo at Willamette in 191 G, on the same day that Dr. Doney was of ficially inaugurated as president. Judge Cutting has also been given an honorary degree of Li. D. by the University of Michigan. He came to Salem from the cost with his father, who was the first proprietor of the Chemeketa hotVl which opened here in 1871. At the close of his sophomore year at Willamee, Cutting's health was such tWt he was forced to KILLED By ONE New York, June 6. Shot by an extortioner whom he nt last de fied after giving him hgc sums of money, Thomas Lonsdale Lemm ing, 'manufacturer, banker ami ct vlo leader In lirooklin Is dead. Charles Sluller, w ho nerved a term In Sing Sing prison for robbery 1 in Jail and the police are Investi gating contradictory reasons be gave for the murder. Leeming was shot In the crowd-; d lfbby of a Williams street build! Ing In (he financial district, In which he maintained offices. j Waiting when Leeming entered,' MuHpf fired without taking the j gun from bin coat pocket. j Leeming lived long pnoush to' point a trembling finger at his as-! snilant and say; "That man Is an ex-convict. I befriended htm and he stmt me." ; "I am sorry my gun Jammed," replied Muller, "or I'd have given you the rest of It." Washington. June 6. President Cooiidge left Washington by special train shortly after 3 p. m. today for Minnesota to attend the Norse-American centennial cele bration. Washington, June 6, -( A. P.) President Cooiidge faced a buy morning disposing of a variety of details requiring his attention be fore his departure In mttl-after-noon today for Minnesota to de liver an address Monday at th" Norse-American centennial. He expects to be hack at his desk here Wednesday morning. Accompanied by Mi's. CooHdge-, Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg, whose home is In St. Paul and Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, the president will make the en tire Journey, his longest since en tering the white hoiife. In a spe cial section of a regular train. Although inclined to travel k he did on a trip last winter to Chicago on a regular train, shar ing accommodations with persons outside his immediate party, the president accepted the suggestion of railroad officials that H would be In the Interest of operat'ng safety and efficiency to use a (tpecinl section. WOMAN JUMPS FROM TRUCK; CRACKS HEAD Dallas. Or.. June H. iA. P.) Mr. A. F. Sloper of Oregon Ci'.v was seriously injured today when he Jump.'d from ft light trucK driven by her husband, when she Oared it would be hit by a freight train switehin- on a trrck which the truck was approaching. She struck her head and her skull wa" fractured and Mi suffered other injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Bloper have been here attending the an nual convention of the Oregon state grange. Local: river, 3.1 west. PRICE THREE CENTS leave school aud Salem, going back to Iowa where he later engaged in school teaching and took up, the study of law. Ho afterward moved- to Chicago where he practiced law, and waa elected to the hoard ot education., serving on that body for a period of 12 years. He was also elected a superior judge, having chargo of probata matters ot Cook county, Illinois, which in said to do more business than any other probate court In tho United States, The degree of bachelor of arts, conferred upon Judge Cutting In 1 915, was In recognition ot hit achievements nt Chicago. Reunion nd farewell services will be held at Waller hall ut 3 p. m. on Sunday. Alumni, stu dents, seniors nnd friends of the institution will get together at that time. The two Christian us- (Continuod on Pago Right PARTY GROSSES Bend, Or., June 6. Carrying a letter from Mayor Hobnett of Al bany, to Mayor II. If. Fox of Uend, a party of five Albany bus iness nmn arrived here late yes terday after having crossed the Cascades on the Kant! am road. The trip was made with the avow ed purpose of demonstrating the ad va u t a ge of the Sa n t i a m roa d using Hogg pane over the McKen zle rond. Albany men who made the trip with the cars Included C. C. Hall. supervisor of tho Santiam na tional forest, C. If. Murphy, au tomobile dealer, J. II. VanWlnkle. newspaperman, W. McCook nnd Joseph II, Uultiton. They arrived in fiend late In the evening and left early this morning on the return trip. 1 While the mid-Oregon posts of the American Legion failed to ef fect the opening of the McKcn ztc pass last Sunday, the bureau of public roads in working on the McKenzie pass this week with the steam shovel nnd local legion naires are confident that It wilt be open for travel before the state convention, June 25 at Prine vllle. The McKenzie pans over the mile high Cascades has been closed to traffic since the last week of October. The Santiam road was In bad condition, the Albany party re ported, Ifev. H. D. Chambers, pastor of tho Kpisrrrpnl church htrre, arrived in Salem on the special Al Kadcr train at 7:IiW this morning from tho national ShrinciV convention In Jxm Angeles. Kev. Mr. Cham bers has been away from Salem for three weeks, hiiviug attended a meeting of the chureb ay rind of the province of the Paiifle, held nt Berkeley, before going on to Los AngeUs for the convention. Kev. Mr, Chambers reports that rumors to the effect that it rained during the convention arc not at all exagernU-d. '"A fine rain that would penetrate any umbrella, fell all day Wednesday," he suUL "They oil told us It was very un usual, and couldn't last more than, until 10 o'clock In the morning, but It kept up all day until 7:0 that night. "As soon as the rata was over they dressed up In every conceiv able kind of 'clothes, and paraded out Into the streets. Our bunch ilresxrd up In pajamas." During the day numerous tun!s were staged to commemorate the rain, according to Kev. Chambers. One Shrlner went to tho busiest corner In Los Angeles and fished In the street for four hours, pre venting tho traffic officer from functioning properly nnd tying up traffic generally for that length of time. Tho remarks about the rain, passed by the visiting nobles, in many cases "got under the skin" of Los Angeles people, Tier. Chambers stated. Some of thorn blamM Ran Francisco men for starting the agitation. CHAMBERS BACK FROM CONCLAVE CLOUDY TONIGHT and Sundny, moderato temperature,' mod eratp westerly winds. Max. 72; mln. 47; rnln, none; ; atmos-,, part cloudy-f wirrtl, ON TKA.INS AND NEWS STANDS KIVE CENTS AS HOT SPELL ISPI Today Marks Beginning Of Second Week Of Tor rid Temperatures I n Middle West. Chicago, June 6. (A. P ) Willi filtV-fiVB nilillfinn.,1 .1 i. roiiortea today from tho east and middle west thn mini .... sttlttng from the present hot spell , "" '"o general weather biireatt at Washington held out ' little urosnects of n i.-.,i, week in the heat wave that has blanketed most of the country cast of the ltocky mountains for the lasl .eight days. The death list, with 55 added, stood at 291 since me nut wave Dogan. Tho Chlc.'lirn iv , ri,. i Ottered no particular consolation to Chicago and vicinity, forecast ing a continuance of the heat to night and Strnrtntr f,,, and the lower Missouri valley wlllt coot weather In the northwest advancing only slowly. The east Buffered the great. t Friday In the matter of victims if the air "blockade," there being 69 east of Ohio and only 29 in the linekeye state and westward. There was one dentil from the heat at Montreal, uunada. Yesterday's denth list: New York city IB; Philadelphia 13; New Jersey 12; New Kngland 9; upstate New York 6; Kentucky 6; Pittsburgh H: Miclilc.n k". Ohio 5; iialtimore t; Huston 4; i.nicago 4; Indiana 4; Wisconsin 3; .Mtnnesuta f, St. Louis I. Now in Second Week. Chicago, June 6. (A. P.) Today marked the heirinnhi- .il tho second week of the mldillt west's heat w.i.e. which hi, caused more than 100 deaths from iieurasKa to Ohio since this area began to swelter on Memorial day. At least two moro days of torrid weather were In prospect, wltll probably even higher tempera tures In some places than have irecn recorded this year. roiwibly by Monday there will lie o break in the heat wave, tho weather bureau e.umatcd, but the forecasters v.ere not sure that even then the nlr blockade In the Atlantic which lias cause I he stag. nam condition over the eastern nnd middle western states, would oe pierced. 102 nt Karnuette. Marquette, Mich., with a (cm- pcraturo of 102 degrees was I ho hottest city in the central west yesterday. KncoTa temneraturrA of 101 were recorded In Ohio. while It wu 100 m Paducnh, Ky.t :ind 100 nt some Indiana points. North Dakota and Minnesota were hit last night by terrific wind storms nni! electrical storms tuich as have been frequent in the north central arei this week. The fur west grinniMl at the perspiring east. There was snow at Yellow stone Park nnd a temperature of IIS was registered at Tonnpah, Nevada. New York Oily, gasping for breath in a temperature of 9iT de- (ConMniioil nn Page Nlnel Tortland, Ore,, June 6. Frank Clark, about 26, wounded In both anna, wan being held, today by local polire for Seattle authorities In connection with the holdup and robbery of tho State Hank of Hot hell, ten miles north of Seat- ! tie. yesterday. Clark, police paid, 1 appeared at the polire station j early this morning asking medfral attention, lie said he arrived In ; Portland from Kugene. Oregon, and hnd been held up and shot In ithe Alblna railroad yards here, j Officers at Vancouver, Waih., near here, were today holding an other sujfect In conneetlon with the IlotheM bank robbery. City police at Vancouver lnt night picked him up In on automobile, which he was driving. He gave hie name as Oeorge Leonard", aged 22. Thero was blood on Re on a rd' a clothlnff, officers said. He wag turned over by the police to Sheriff William Thompson. wh planned to question him today. V TOLL MOUNTS lOffl SUSPECTED BANK ROBBER HELD
