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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 141
BESEIGERS
TAKE CANTON
SACKING CITY
JLicd By Bolshevik Officers
Attackers Defeat Yun
nanese Forces; Extreme
Cruelties Imposed.
Canton, June 13. (A. P.)
Following yesterday'B victory,
thousands of Cantonese troops are
pouring across the river In pur
suit of the fleeing Yunnanese.
Several hundred casualties re
sulted from yesterday's fighting.
- Canton, China, June 13. (A.
P.) The attacking Kwangtung
and Canton forces under botaheviU
officers after a fierce attack on
the defending Yunnanese army to
day forced them to surrender Can
ton and today imposed extreme
cruelties on soldiers and civilian
population as well.
The attacking forces lnnd;l
2000 soldiers at Tungshan and
from that point they attacked,
leaving the defending forces with
out river transportation facilities
and therefore unable to launch a
counter attack ,
After landing the Kwangtung
troops gave tho surrendering
forces no consideration although
the oefeatcd troops had voluntar
ily given up their arms.
The winning forces then began
looting the city. This was not
confined to stations of opposing
(Continued on Page Nino)
SHANGHAI LIKE
Shanghai. China, June 13. (A
P.) Shanghai tonight had set
tled into the condition of an arm
ed camp.
Br.yonetted troops patrolled the
principal thoroughfares. Foreign
marine contingents were on guard
at boundaries of the foreign settle
ments and the approaches to the
waterworks and power stations.
The appearance or Chang Hsie'i
Liang, son of the Mnnchurlan
war lord, Chang Tso-lin, at the
boundaries of the settlement with
two thousand troops, for the de
clared purpose or keeping order,
added to the military aspect of tho
situation. The British company
of the Shanghai volunteer corp.
tonight was Quartered In the
grounds of the Holy Trinity cathe
dral on Klangse road. The Kale
hotel bar, across tho street proved
conveniently near. The American
company, hy way of contract, wn
standing by the navy Y. M. (,
with no other bar than the Y, M.
C. A. soda fountain.
The weather threatened rain.
Conference between the Peking
envoys of the centrol .lovernmen?
and the authorities of the foreign
settlement continued today bu(
etlll without results.
Medford. Ore., June 13. Hun
dreds of Medford citizens gathered
at Camp Jackson today, cheered
tho troops of the Oregon national
guard as they marched In perfect
formation across tho parade
ground, headed by their bands,
and submitted to Inspection by
Brigadier General White, his staff
and tho regular army officers on
dutv at the camp.
This was the only military fea
ture for the day, and this after
noon most of the soldiers are to
attend the automobile races given
In their honor at tho local fair
grounds.
With settlement of the camp
over, the 2 500 officers and men
have settled down to the diMy
routine which thny will follow
tkvsely for the next two weeks.
8unday will he e unlet dy for
rest and rttv'n worship with Mnr
day marking the opening of In
tensive training.
OF CANTON CAPTURED AMD LOOTED
Caoital
INCOME TAX
CUT GAINING
MOMENTUM
Underwood Wants Pre
War Scale Smoot
Wants States To Let
Incomes Alone.
Washington, June 13 (By As
sociated Press) The subject of
federal tax revision is gaining in
creasing momentum, calculated to
lead to some action by the next
congress.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood,
who helped write the first income
tax Jaw, in an address in Mont
gomery, Ala., last night declared
for a flat two per cent Income tax,
and a maximum surtax of 13 per
cent the pre-war figures.
President Coolldge has formed
some Ideas on the subject and be
lieves a considerable reduction in
the tax load could be effected by
eliminating the federal levy on in
heritances. In this respect he
agrees with Senator Reed Smoot,
of Utah, chairman of the senate
finance committee who has pre
dicted that the next congress will
make an effort toward lowering
taxes.
Want Slates To Quit
The Utah senator's view that the
states should be called upon In
turn to quit the income tax fieUl
however, suggests in the president's
mind that such a slcp would pre
sent many difficulties. The reve
nue of some states, he feels, would
be seriously curtailed if they were
forced to nbolish their taxes on in
comes. The 13- per cent surtax maxi
mum advocated by Senator Under
woc 7 Is about half of that contem
plated in the Mellon plan and one
third of the present law which was
(Continued on Page Nine)
Sacramento, Col., June 13.
Rescue workers, delving into a
mass of fallen earth and rock In
the Baltic tunnel of the Alta Com
bination mine three miles west of
Grass Valley, Cal., this morning
had picked and shoveled away be
tween 45 and 50 feet of a cave
in which last Thursday imprisoned
Robert Hill, a miner, says a tele
phone dispatch from a staff corre
spondent of the Hucrameuto Bee.
Cheered by reports that early
last night sounds believed to have
been made by Hill tapping on thr
rock walls beyond the cave-in, the
delays or miners, working three at
a time In the lace of the tunnel
cave-in, renewed their efforts. It
was estimated today that the
cave-in had covered about 60 feet
of the long tunnel into the Sierra
Nevada mountains, although est!
mates vnrled.
Little Interest Shown
In School Election
Scheduled Monday
The final lap In the race be
between Frank Neer and Rev. J.
C. Ttbblts, candidates for the po
sition on the Salem school board
to be loft vacant by Curtis Cross,
retiring member of the board, was
made todiy.
Throughout the past week the
outstanding Issue continued to be
a redistribution of Insurance busi
ness of the public schools, ns rep
resented by Titibits on the one
hnnd, and a non-comrnittat policy
of depending on the Judgment of
members of the school hard. an
represented by Neer on tho other
hnnd.
Little Interest has ben shown
by the public In the quest Ion of
Asking the hinh school student
body to pay any part of the ath
letic conch's salary, a question
raised as an Issue by Tlbblts some
time ago. Tibbite' stand has ben
Federation of
Business Women
Clubs in Session
Thirty-five members of the Ore
gon State Federation of Business
and Professional Women's clubs,
from all parts of the tnte, had
registered by noon today for the
convention held here. Mrs. Chi jo
Maclleynolds of Ashville, North
Carolina, national secretary of tho
state federations of women's cluho,
will address tho convention this
afternoon. She has made the trip
from the east for the express pur
pose, of appearing before conven
tions of the Washington, Oregon
and Idaho federations. Yesterday
she spoke at Hoquiam, Washing
ton, to the state convention being;
held there.
Election of officers for the com
ing year will take place at a ban
quet to be held tonight. Mora
than 100 women are expected at
the banquet:
Decision has been made to pub
lish a state bulletin, setting forth
the activities of each business and
professional woman's club In the
state A committee will report at
this afternoon's meeting on meth
ods of financing the bulletin. The
committee, whic.j nas on it the
president or leader of each delega
tion present at tne convention,
consists of the following womeo:
Miss Martha Gasch, Portland,
chairman; Dr. Mary Puvvine, Sa
lem; Mrs. S. MacMurphy, Eugene;
Miss Ella May Davidson, Hoo.l
A
JftfiiUriliUI
Oregon Normal School, June 13,
Friday saw tho beginning of the
commencement exercises for tho
Oregon Normal schools graduating
a class whose June members alone
number close to 150 and whose
December and March graduates
rank it near 225.
Friday as the original Class
Day was "Last Chapel" for the
student hody.
To tho strains of the Class Song,
the graduating class took their
places. President Landers gave a
most inspiring talk to the class
stressing the point that "work,
especially thought, as the highest
form of work should be the aim
and duty of every person.'
There were responses in turn
from a representative from Fac
ulty, Senior Class and junior
Class and musical numbers. These
were rollowed by the CampuH
Exercises.
Saturday Is given for Alumni
day... Thero Is to be a picnic In
Helsmisk's grove where election
of officers will be held. In the
afternoon the faculty Is giving a
reception for the Alumni. In the
evening the Alumni banquet Is
followed by a program,
Sunday the Baccalaureate ad
dressa Is to be given by Rev. D.
V. Poling of First Presbyterian
church In Albany.
directly opposed by the present
board, through the encoura ce
ment of tho board the high school
student council yesterday voten to
pay $650 of Hollls Huntington's
salary, the sum paid last year. The
board pays only $450 of the salary.
Muh of the opposition among the
students to the present policy has
come from Kdgar Tlbblts, member
sf the council, and son of the
school board candidate.
Neer has adhered to the Inst to
his original non-committal plat
form, on the question of coach's
pfilary as well as on .every other
Issue raised.
The polls will be open Monday
from 2 to 8 p. m. at the offices of
tho Awoclated Oil company at
226-28 South Commercial street.
Marlon hotel. A special meeting
of the school board Is to be hld
Monday night following closing of
the polls,
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1925
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River; Miss Vera H. Mackay,
Marshfleld; Mrs. Glendora Thomp
son, Portland; Mrs. Elmer Cold
well, of the Women's Advertising
club of Portland; Miss Ethel h.
Webb, Roseburg, and Miss Cecilia
Beyler, Astoria.
The following other committees
were appointed this morning:
Registration committee Mrs.
Clara E. Pomeroy of Salem, Miss
Dorothy Povey of Portlund, Mrs
A. J. Lenon of Portland; nominat
ing committee M iss Margaret
Fleming of Portland, Mrs. Elmer
Coldwell of Portland, Miss Clara
Redheffer of Portland; lesolutlous
committee Mrs. Frank Nortihrup
of Portland, Miss Snowuen Heed
of Portland, Miss Grace Taylor of
Salem; program committee Miss
Cecilia Beyler of Astoria, Mrs. La
Rue Ross of Salem, Miss Laura
Hale of Salem; courtesy commit
tee Miss M. E. Brewer of Salem,
Misa Edith I. A. Dailey of Port
land, Miss Vera H. Mackay of
Marshfleld.
A gavel and block was presented
to the federation by Miss Ellen
Rudrae of Marshfleld in behalf
of Mrs. Alice Maloney of Marsh
field, president of the federation,
who was forced to be In Caliform'a
during the time of the convention.
During her absence Miss Margaret
Fleming of Portland has charge oi
of the convention here.
JAILED YOUTHS
Two boys who were arrested by
Officer Victor at the Southern Pa
cific depot Thursday night and
who gave their names as George
and Lester Grote, today admitted
at the city jail that they are Quin
lan and Heltze!, two .Salem boys
who disappeared from their home.
here about three weeks ago.
In possession of the boys when
arrested was a large quantity of
confections, and they were accused
of larceny. They denied the charge
and still declare thut they came In
to possession of the stuff lawfully.
The whereabouts of the boy
has been a mystery and the police
have not yet found out whethe
they have actually been away from
the city or whether they have been
in town all the time.
Qulnlan is the lad who several
months ago ran away with "Pee
wee" Sherman, a convict at th
stats prison, after leaving his
clothing on the banks nt the Wil
lamette river to make It appear
that he had drowned. He Is a son
of the engineer at the state prison
Hcltzcl is a son of J. C. Hellzel
Salem attorney.
Altoona, Pa., Juno 13. Tommy
Milton won tho 250-mile sprin-;
clanslc automobile race here to
day.
Speedway, Altoona, Pa., June
13. A flaring sun, tempered by n
cool wind today greeted several
thousand persons who gathered
hero for the 250-mile sprint
classic auto rac. Track official
announced that the disc whoe'.s
on all cars would be replaced b
wire wheels. They explained that
the high wind made the uao of
disc dangerous.
Hill set the pare at CO miles.
His average up to that mark wr.H
122 miles an hour. Earl Cooper
was In second place and Wade
Morton In third position.
Cooper, driving a steady race,
wni In fourth at 100 miles, his
average being 121 miles an hour.
Tommy Milton Jumped Into second
p!ao with Peter DaPaolo, winner
at the Indianapolis race third.
Cooper made his first atop for
a tire change at 179 miles. Mil
ton took the lead ftt this point and
continued to act the pace at the
200-mile mark; hit average was
119 mllea aa hour.
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Jm i5 1925
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GITYWIRING
Ordinance Introduced
Provides That Duties of
Plumbing Inspector Be
Enlarged.
Mainly as a result ot a recent
Inspection of the city of Salem by
the Oregon Insurance Hating bur
eau, in which numerous cases of
defective electrical wiring are
said to have been found, an ord
inance will be Introduced at the
city council meeting Monday night
providing that the duties of the
sanitary and plumbing inspector
shall be enlarged to include in
spection of electrical Installations.
The standards of the United
States bureau of standards will be
required in all electrical work,
relative to fire and personal in
Jury hazards. A schedule of fee
charges is provided In the bill.
Permit Necessnrv
The ordinance provides that
persons, beforo installing elec
trical wiring or devices, must ob
tain a permit from the city record
er. As soon as tho insinuation Is
complete the poison or firm In
stalling the work must notify the
electrical Inspector. If the in
spector finds that the work Is In
accordance with the require
ments of the United States bureau
of standards relating to fire and
personal injury hazards he shall
issue a certificate. If not he
shall withhold the certificate un
til the defects are remedied.
The inspector will be author
ized to disconnect any Installa
tions that have been connected be
foro the certificate of Inspection
or approval has been given. When
deemed necessary the Inspector
may grant a temporary emerg-
(Contlnuel on Page Nine)
500 FLEE FROM
Winnipeg, Man., June 13 (fly
Associated Press) Five hundred
persons fled their homes In the
township of Medlka, southeastern
Manitoba, when the White Month
and Birch rivers overflowed fol
lowing several days of rain early
this week. The water began re
ceding yesterday, but heavy rains
last night augmented the danger.
The flood waters wero thieo to
four feet deep, and children and
elderly persons wore carried to dry
land.
Eighty three Tluthenlon families
are being cared for In nearby lo
calities, and the provincial govern
ment Is supplying food and caring
for the livestock of the settlers,
who are going about on rafts.
Flood conditions of a lens seri
ous character prevail In several
other districts of the province.
INSPECTION
S PROPOSED
Forger Wanted Here
Located Serving Time
Monroe Reformatory
After consistent sea re Ik slncf
March 6 with feelers sent out all
over the northwest, Sheriff How
or's force has received advices that
Lawrence E. Kargot, badly want
ed h ere for mulcting m e rch a n t s
out of from $200 to $.10t on bad
checks, Is serving time in the Mon
roe reformatory, Wash., from Ta
coma, also on a bad chock charge.
Kargot li doing from two and one
half to seven years.
Forgot left Kalem on March 6,
dropping out of light after Issu
ing checks on a number of mer
chants. In this caso It was dif
ferent from the usual run, sh
Fargol waa not a stranger and
took advantage of an acquaintance
he had worked up whll employed
here as an expert electrician at
Radio Headquarters.
In hie capacity m expert elec
trician Fargot had trained an
quatntaaceahlp with ft large a una-
Ul 1 1
it., .
Shepherd's Letter
To Her Is Read
Estelle Gehllng, nurse. Shep
herd's "sunshine girl" to whom he
Intention to "close my office and
Intcntionto "close my office and
drift away from It nil."
LOSE CHANCE OF
Medford. June 13 Another Im
portant step In his policy of rid
ding Jackson county of liquor vio
lators, during the Oregon nation
al guard encampment, was taken
Inst night by ' District Attorney
Newlon C. Chancy, when, assisted
by Sheriff Jennings and the Med
ford police he nrrcRtcd I). J
Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. R. Dawson
and Mrs. Petty Hedges, all of
Klamath FoIIb, as they were en
gaged In dispensing moonshine to
the Hut enndy stnre situated on
the Crater Lake highway near
Camp Jackson.
The nr rents were the result of
a carefully conceived plan worked
out by the district attorney several
weeks ago when he lenrned there
would be a concerted attempt to
flood Camp Jncknun with liquor.
The Hut candy store and soft
drink establishment was establish
ed by him at a strategic point on
the highway and then naturo was
allowed to take Its course. The
proprietor of the store wns soon
approached by the moonshiners.
and Inst night was made as the
date for delivery.
Chancy and Sheriff Jennings as
sembled seven men fully armed In
the building nnd as Hodges walk
ed In with the liquor, he was cov
ered nnd disarmed ond his car con
fiscated. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson
were given the same reception. A
third car was scheduled to arrive
but apparently the operator grew
suspicious and thus escaped.
In addition to tho automobile
and three automatic pistols, 300
gallons of moonshlno were secur
ed. The Dawson, Hodges and Mrs.
Hedgns will be bn given their pre
liminary hearing In Judge Taylor's
court this afternoon.
her of the nuwt prominent families
in the city for whom ho had In
stalled radio sets, and whoa lu
got ready to spring his checks the
going was easy. Ho was of pre
sentable appearance, likeable per
sonality and had gained quite a
circle of friends during his stay
herc.
He landed In tho Monroo re
formatory under the name of K
Lawrence. Just o extent of hi
check operations at Tacoma arc
not known, but It la considers;,
they must have been extensive to
draw tho sentence he did at the re
fonnatory as a first offender.
Kargot left hero March 6. He
was arrested in Tacoma, March
28 and sentenced on the same day
evidently pleading guilty. Wheth
er he will be brought back here
when hie time In the Washington
institution tip I roe ! not known
by local ouloera,
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FAIL TO BAR
OF
LOVEJLETTER
Shepherd's Defense Loses
Another Hard Fought
Battle When Court Ad
mits Note To Nurse.
Chicago, June 13 (By Associat
ed I'ress) Tho defense of William
Darling Shepherd, on trial for the
murder of, by administering ty
phoid germs, his millionaire fos-1
ter son, William Nelson McCHn
tock, lost another hard fought bat
tle today.
At the opening of court, William
Scott Stewart, chief of defense
counsel. Bought to have erased
fro mthe record the testimony yes
terday of Estelle Gehling, Shop-!
hold's "Aiinahino girl," and a quo
tation from a letter he had written1
hor admitting financial Insolvency I
nnd in Intention to "closo my of-'
ftco and drift away from it all.
Judgo Thomas J. Lynch agreed
with Itobert 13. Crowe, stntc's at
torney, that while the letter was
highly prejudicial against Shep
herd, It was pertinent In that it
confessed. In his own handwriting
that he was bankrupt and his out
look was hopeless one month be
fore on rig McCllntock died nnd
left him an ostato of more than a
million. It was agreed that only
a portion of the letter should be
permitted to go Into tho records.
and that the parts of tho letter
which identified It as a "lovo let
ter" should not be read.
Tho Jury then was brought In
and the prosecutor drove ahead,
building up Shepherd's alleged mo
tive, relegating establishing Its
corpus delicti to later sessions.
Louis Sbarbaro, Chlcngo civil
servic. employe, former restaurant
etir and uncle of John Sbarbaro, ns
Hlslnnt stale's nttorncy, testified
that nine or ten years ago Shep
herd frequently visited his place
and that he displayed an Interest
even then in learning the part of
an oyster that contained poison.
Hlmrbaro testified that Shepherd
frequently had him open oysters
for him, fasten them with n rub
ber band and that Shepherd then
would take them home.
Once Shepherd told him, Sbar
baro said, that he was the guard
ian for a "rich youth, gnt 17500 a
year for It," and added: "some day
II have a vnrrel of money."
Sbarbaro admitted that ho first
talked with Judge Harry Olson,
chief figure In the Investigation of
tho death of young McClintock,
about the Shepherd matter early
this year, nlthough his nephew, the
assistant state's attorney, then was
working on the caje.
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Cleveland, Ohio, June 1.1. Ar
rangements were being completed
today for tho funeral of Warren
Sun ford Stone, (ifi&, he id of the
I trot her hood of Locomotive Kngl -nerw
nnd ltn trust companies, co
operative banks, office huihUiu'i
and other holdings whoso re
sources approximate $150,000,000,
l'uneral services will bo held Mon
day. They will be conducted nti
their day Oberlln college was I
havo honied tho labor 'eader ami
financier by conferring upon bin;
the rscgrcp of master of arts.
Mf, Htone died late yesterday
from n general breakdown canned
hy Urlght's dl"ase. Death caun
in a hospital where less than threi
months ago Mr. Stone had written
an editorial for the May Issue of
the Brotherhood organ. In which
ho Indicated he had on intuition
that llfe'B end was near.
Ho recovered sufficiently to ro
turn to his duties, but wns takrtn
to the hospital again Tuesday aft
er collapsing In h'fl office nnd nov
er fully regain consciousness.
Monkcv Case Ud.
Dayton, Tenn., June 13. Mo
tion to quash th Indktmont In
the Scopee evolution cose waa fllsd
with the clerk of the R'toa county
circuit court today by Judge J. L
Uodsey of counsol for the defense.
READING
FAIR WEATHER
Tonight and Sunday; warmer In east
ern portion tonight; light northwest
winds.
Local: Max., 65; mln., 50; rain, none;
river, 1.6; atmos., clear;, wind, west.
Ml I nil
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3 KILLED IN
GUN FIGHT;2
NEAR DEATH
Gangsters and Police
Shoot It Out In Close
Range Revolver Fightj
Sergeant Victor.
Chicago, June 13. (A. 1 )
Gangsters and police shot it out
today at close quarters in a re
volver fight resulting In the
deaths of two police sergeants and
of Michael Genua, one of the at
tacking gang, and the wounding
of a third policeman and Gctinu'e
two companions. Gonna is be
lieved to have been a brother of
Angclo Gonna, gangster recently
assassinated, and the killings ar
believed to presage u bitter police
war against gunmen and beer
runners.
Superintendent of Police Mor
gan A. Collins declared tho polio
killers should be Indicted and
hanged before the day ended.
Two Qf the wounded men nitty
die. Shortly before noon t?ia
death Hfit stood at three: Police
Sergeant Charles Walsh, almost
Instantly killed; Sergeant H. Ol
son, died In u hospital; Michael
Gciiiie. gangster, died of wounds
The wounded:
Sergeant Michael Conwuy, shot
near the heart, may die.
John Scale, gangster.
Albert Anmaliw, gangster.
Tho first burst after a chase of
nearly a mllo and a half on West
ern avenue after I he police squad
of four sergeants from the det.es
tlvo bureau bqw a lurge automo
bile speeding south.
The police car turned and pur
sued. The gangotera Increased the
speed of their car and at Sixtieth
street, their driver lost .( irol
and tho car cashed into on iron
fciK.o. The detectlvo sergeant
squad came to a stop a few fot
a wav and the ga n gstors tu m hi ed
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Washington. June 13. (A. P.
The lengths tu which install
ment buying and selling are go
ing on in America we'e pointed
to us a bad sign today by Hodman
Gilder, editor of the Credit Month
ly, in addressing tho National A-
loclatlon of Credit Men roro.
'Did you know," he nskcl.
"that a man with only $12.00 in
cash can buy a new Ford in Mich
igan? This le a sign of the Unto
ind a bad dgn.
"Credit men realize that mors
than 90 per cent of all legithmue
business Is done on credit but at
tho pace we are now going uny
man with a dollar In cash will
soon he able to buy a house, any
woman with a quarter may got
posesslon of a vacuum cleaner and
any boy with a Jitney may buy ft
wedding ring."
Chicago. June 11 (Hy Associat
ed Press) Five persons wore kill-
il last night In tho middle west
ind southwest by wind and electri
cal storms. Two had been killed
by storms Thursday night In Min
nesota. Three children met death nnd IS
Inl.iro.l hfllf Hn,n
seriously when a bolt of llghtnln
jrnsncrt; aown mo uuo oi n whuui
louse two mites south of Hrocken
rldxe. Texas, at the close of a com
munity meeting.
An aged woman was erusnen
Iflnth near Chicago when a shod
toppled over on her.
A Chicago woman was Kinea an
her two eons were badly Injured
near LAke Zurich, 111., when thetf
auto struck a hole that had bee
washed out by Uie atorm.