ENATOR ROBER
L'FOLLETTE
A8RICULIUA' COI I FfiF
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DEAD
CIRCULATION
Dally Average net pa la circulation for
month ending May. 31, 1925
6738
Average daily distribution 7073.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 145
FIGHTING BOB
IS II OF
Heart Failure Induced By
Bronchial Asthma Ends
Spectacular Career of
Wisconsin Senator.
Washington, June 18. (A.
P.) Senator Robert M. La
Follette, for many years a
Btormy petrel of American
politics, died here today.
Death resulted at 1 :21 p. m.
from heart failure induced by
a general breakdown and an
attack of bronchial asthma.
The Wisconsin senator and
later independent presidential
candidate, began failing in
health even before the 1924
campaign. Several weeks ago,
he contracted a severe cold
which developed into asthma.
His heart, which had been
unable to stand the strain,
gave way during the night and
he sank rapidly after daylight
today.
End Comes Quictlv
After all tho storms of Ills long
career, ho passed away very quiet
ly, surrounded by members of his
family. Ho was conscious almost
until death hut for several hours
had been ablo to speak only In
whispers to thoso about him.
Shortly beforo tho end ho mus.
tered all his waning strength In a
Train effort to murmur a last word
to thoso at the bedside. Then he
lapsed Into unconsciousness and
without any evidence of pain,
passed almost Immediately from
life.
Tentatlvo arrangements also
call for tho funeral services to be
held at Madison Instead of at
Washington. If theso are carried
through, tho funeral party will
leave hero tomorrow afternoon.
arriving at Madison Saturday.
Although they realized the seri
ousncsfl of Senator LaKollotte'6
enndlion. members of his family
had hoped until today that lie
would recover. Last night bis
physicians sa'd he was resting lint
nevertheless he took a quick and
decided turn :oi the worse In the
night hours and hope was aban
doned.
Hurl Suffered Lone.
Senator Latollette long was a
victim of angina pectoris, a heart
ailment and tlile, with hia asmmo
tic uttack caused him to gutter
rreatly from rhortness of brea.a
Violent coui;h ng spells accoia-
nanled his iilt.ess.
Almost to the last, however, he
Insisted on cheerful report boms
given out as to illness and It was
not until ycattiday that It was Ad
mitted that his condition was se.'l-
ous.
7n Last Sunday.
Senator Lat'clletle was 70 ycara
Aid lout Sunday and has bean
greatly weakened by a battle of
everal weeks rpalnst a cold whlCi
ran Into bromhlal influenza, aid
occasioned much difficulty In
breathing.
Ktrllcr In tha week he showel
r,me rIbiio (if Improvement ana nl
though he nealn developed alarm
ing symptoms yesterday, he wis
able during tile .y to get somi
rest and last night both his phyji
clans and of his family a
his bedside Mclf.rrd there wis
everv hone of recovery.
During th! morning, Senator
Larollette remained rnnsjimis. Iiu
he hn,l irre.it i.lr.i.ully ill six
ins. Ail tluniemli.'is of hia I in
mMlpte family were at the bcl
ide
Ills physicians na.I not noan
doned hope of a rally, a!t loj
ttiev mnnif-'sliv weirt c r v'n-
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BACK FROM POLE
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BY L'FOLLETTE
A cenernl Attack on Lite amcni
mcnt to the United States conati-
LitutIon proyrsed by llobert La Fat-
letto during i.ls presidential cam-
nnign, havia to do with limita
tion of the power of tho United
States sup r 2 court, was made
by Oliver Wayne Stewart, who
is In Salem in the iiu erects of law
enforcement, at the regular lunch
con of the iMorion-I'olk County
Realtors asD:iatlon this noon. He
made no meatlon of LaFollette by
name.
He ohjecter to me amendment
on the irrounds tnat tho sam
Sroup of men would he empowered
to Bit in Judfi ntnt of the law who
mnk-2 the lav. It would be, he
stated, "Hko I he name man belni;
on both the t-uying and Benin;
end of a deal.'
In defending the form of gov
ernment now in us by the United
.States the npoaker predicted thai
wthin the nexr 10 years most of
the governments of Kurope will
pattern the'r governments arfjr
:hat of this country.
No arguments were advanced
cither for t-r cgainst prohibition
at this noon rddresa. Ms Stew
art fs expected m take up the
question of rrol:ibition and ita en
forcement nt a meeting at th.1
First Chrislian church tonight.
BUDGET ECONOMIES
FIXED AT$100)000)000
Chicago, June 18. Some Indi
cation was ylven today by Briga
dier General II. M. Lard, director
of the beifernl bud-ret, that tin
economy prr.gram for tho fle::.il
year.i ending June 30 next would
nxi:ecd SIOO.OC'I'.OOO.
ML DEATHS IN WRECK 44
New York. Jiwin IT. The toll
nf the Dekr.vj-ro, I.nckawnnna &
WVatJin railroad's wr-.k at It'ick-
nnrt rrvr. N, J., Tn-.-iuiiv, tll
;o M today mid 12 niln-r persorv
iro In n cr:f'al ron'ili Ion at va.'l
u hv'pt':i
Ti-o i wit .., -n bf sMppfd ro
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Klamath Falle, Or., June 13
Plane were completed here today
for the visit next Saturday to
Klamath county of high officiate
of the Hill and Northern linefl
who arc coming to gain flret
hand Information of the country
where the last great rail battle of
the wct will be staged with the
Southern Pacific interests for
domination of the Klamath coun
try and central Oregon,
Included tn the party will be
President Charles Donnelly of the
Northern Pacific; President
Ralph Dudrl of the Great North
ern, President W. P. Turner of
the Oregon Trunk and the New
York board of directors of the al
lied lines, as well aa eastern fi
nancier, general counsel and
others high In the councils of the
rati lines.
Of chief public interest will be
the reception given to the people
of Klamath county at the White
Pelican hotel Saturday night, at
which Presidents Donnelly ajid
Budd will outline the plans of the
roads for their entry to Klamath
county.
Mrs. 0. P. Coshow
Dead As Result of
Paralytic Stroke
Mrs. O. P. Coshow, wife of Jus
tice Coshow of the Oregon supreme
court, died suddenly at nrr home
here about 9:30 o'clock this morn
ing following a stroke of paralysis.
Mho was (9 years old.
Mrs. Coshow wax & dauqhter of
the tots Thomas Ksy and Ann
Kay, Oregon pioneers. She was n
sisfr of Stnte Tr ft surer Thmnn
H. Kay of H'llfm, Mrs. C, P. Hhhon
of S.'ilrm, Mrs. C. T. Roberts f
Hood Jtlvr and Mrs. Hrthn K.
Fisher of T'ortlnnd. She Is so.
vlved by throe dnutchters, Mi, K.
J. Plrkerw of .Salem, Mrs. Joli-i
MeCltnto"k of Lcltnnon and Mv.
Thonit"'n of Portland.
Mrs. Coshow was born at Kl ions-
alAJoiiraal
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1925
OF
GERM PLOT
University Head Tells of
Giving Baccilli To Shep
herd and Teaching Him
To Administer Them.
Chicago, .Tune 18. His sponsor
ship relinquished by the prosecu
tion, which icr many weeks has
him under close guard, as its pro
claimed chief witness, Charles C.
Fa i man was called as a court'a
witness today in the Shepherd
murder trial. He took the witness
stand for direct examination by
Judge Thomas J. Lynch at 11:08
a. m.
The step wan over the bitter pro
test of the defenac, which argued
that the move would prejudice the
jury and open up avenues of cro-w-
exatr.ination for the state which
otherwise would be denied.
Nervous on Stajtd.
Fa i man, a dapper little blonde
man, launched immediately into
his accusation of Shepherd after
Judge Lynch had asked him t
questions of identification.
Hs talked ia a barely audible
voice and Judge Lynch, seated lct-j
than six foot from the witnew
stand, strained forward to bear
what was said.
Fa i man glanced nervously from
the Judge to the jury to counsel
and shifted about In the witness
chair.
"Do you know Shepherd?" was
the court'o ibird question.
"Yes, sir,' was the reply.
"Did you have any dealings with
film?' asked Judge Lynch.
"Yes," again was the reply.
Tell Whole Story-
"Tell the Jviy about it," direct
ed the court, and the man who
was IndicteJ with Shepherd was
off on t.i'e story the state has said
it depends upon to convict Shsy
hcrd. Tnrice previously he had told a
story that hg gave Shepherd ty
phoid baccilli r.nd taught him how
to filay young Billy McCHntook
with them for a promise of vuuu,-
000 from the $1,000,000 estate
Uio youth hid willed to Shepherd
Falman, proprietor of the Na
tional University or Sciences, i
school housed In an old brick resi
dence, naid Shepherd sent him n
letter Inquiring about a course tn
bacteriology tnd that after he had
sent ft representative to see Shep
herd, the accuf.ed man came to h!(
institution.
Shepherd fald he wanted t
take a course In criminal bacteri d
(Contlnuoi on Page Nino)
dale, Polk county, but with her
brothers and sisters was rained nt
Brownsville, Linn county. After
her marriage to Judge Codiow she
lived ninny years at I lone burg
whTe she was prominent, in social
and fintcrmil rlrclns. Whf-n JudR;
(Jovhow was appointed to the au-j-r-.im
hnrh about two yoai f nif"
: 4 r vr :Hr pieff.o she crime with
! i ,i l-i X-ile.il.
i' 'r.:l:.: h:rt r.nnil Mrs. Co
. ' - i: !i f irly 1 his morn-
, 1 .-'hn v. i.! in fipji'irontiy
. - ' i li. fije had s.iffercl
"t i- c-i'ti'i-.i mftny tnnnth
' v - t tr tho 10 tno;.tti
n- :. . :t proving in hc ilth in
t u h"i pW'- '.o go atKiu'
i r. p'w -v. o:lcit;e.
SITUATION IN
CHINA GROWS
IRE TENSE
Negotiations Seeking Ad
justment of Disturb
ances Broken Off And
Strike Spreads.
Shanghai, June 18 (By Asso
ciated Press) Negotiations here
between representatives of the for
eign diplomatic corps at Peking
i.nd Chinese delegates seeking ad
just mcnt of recent disturbances.
were broken off today owing to di
fcTgepce of views.
Bi-itMi Consul Decs '
Shanghai, June IS (By Asso
ciated Press) A wireless message
from Chung-Klang says tho situa
tion there is critical. Tho British
consul was forced to lcavo consu
late and tako up residence in the
Lingmen temple. British nationals
have been stoned and assaulted in
the streets, tho messago snys.
StilUo Spreading
Shanghai, June 18 The shipping
strike became more serious today
when coolies and lightermen struck
at the Pootung wharf. It was fear
ed tugs and launches working In
connection with ocean-going steam
ors will soon becomo Involved.
Ninety former Chinese- munici
pal policemen led a huge proces
sion yesterday, breaking shop win
dows that contained British or
Japanese goods.
Late yesterday afternoon strlk
era Bet fire to a Japanese owned
cotton mill but police extinguished
the flames before much damage
was done.
The procession led by the former
police yesterday, was finally sub
dued by the Mnnchurian troops of
General Chang Hsueh-Liang, son
of General Chan Tso-Hn, the Man-
churlon war lord. These troops re
cently reached Shanghai from Nan
king.
Activities of extremists in Chln-
ose territory adjoining the Shang
hai foreign settlements, Increased
Agitators Aetlvo
Chinese students, harangued
crowds In the native city and tore
down advertisements of British
and Japanese goods.
Delegates from tho leaders of
yesterday's demonstration against
stores displaying wares of British
and Japanese make sent delegates
to ask General Chang ITsueh-llang
to throw In his lot with the gen
era I strike movement.
He replied counselling "prudence
find patience."
Dispatches from Kiukiang, where
the British and Japanese consul
ates recently wero attacked and
the British concession Invaded,
ported a gradual Improvement In
tho situation there.
Porters Urge Vloleneo
Peking, June 18 (By Assoclat
od Press) Thousands of posters
have appeared In Peking, depict
ing British policemen shooting and
bnyoncltlng students, women and
children, with bodies lying on the
ground.
Tho vernacular newspapers print
nrcounts differing materially from
the foreign versions of tho affairs
at shanghai, Hankow and else
where. Home of thflO stories as
sert that the Hankow trouble was
entirrly a flfcfht between factions
of Japanese, that tho foreign build
Ings In Kiu-klang burned from
spontaneous conijmtlnn nnd that
W. W. M-nrKenzie, tho British sub
left murdered at Shanghai, died of
(d''kiies.
The native nTounls of the Mac
IvQhz.tj ineident say the British
cn'Anl ordered the doctor who at
tr-niterl htm tn mitt lints the hmlv
In sn effort to throw the blamo on
I the Chliw-c.
ITALY READY TO
NEGOTIATE FOR
DEBT PAYMENT
Rome, Juno 1 8 ( By Am
socUiKHl Pres-s) I' rentier
Mussolini todny officially no
tified the ViiUcri StntcB mid
Great llrltnin tliat Italy in
ready to open war debt ne
gotiations. Washington, June 18 (ny
Associated Press) In a for
mal Htntcmcnt today the state
department took nolo of
Premier Mussolini's offer to
negotiate for pettlcment of
tho Italian war debt nml an
nounced that 'the conversa
tions would begin Juno 25.
SHOT HALTS TUG
New York. Juno 18 (By Asso
ciated Press) Halted by a four
pound shell from a coast guard
cutter, a tug has been held for two
days. 75 miles off Sandy Hook to
clear away wreckage occasioned
by tho dymnamitlng of a steamship
In the making of a motion picture
thriller.
The Corvallls, a freighter that
cost Uncle Sam $800,000 to build,
was bought for $45,000, loaded
with seven tons of dynamite re
christened Mandalay, towed to the
Indian ocean" and blown up Just
after the heroine, Doris Kenyon,
has escaped.
Whon tho Mary A. Blcknell, tho
tug from which operations wore di
rected started back for New York
without obeying directions to ro
move debris, tho cutter Seneca
pursued. When a cl nimand to
stop was not heeded, a shell across
tha tug's bows halted her.
Edward P. Morse, Jr., president
of the National Drydock corpora
tion, which staged the shipwreck
for a film company, tho captain
and three photogrnphers, nil sea
sick were detained aboard the tug.
SALEM AD CLUB
IS
Organization of a Salem Ad
club was perfected at a meeting at
tho Gray-Hello tills noon of ten
local advertising specialists. E. A.
Brown was elected to the presi
dency, W, H. I'aulus named vice
president, and O. E. McAfee,
socrctary-treasurcr.
Defining Its purpose as the bet
tering of advertising In Salem
with tho aim of bringing It to a
high standard of useful Informa
tion, tho organization took most
of its session in tho perfection of
organization and in outlining
plans for the lutnre. A board uf
directors wai chosen consisting i,f
the three offers with S. B. Keith
ond J. J. King. The club will
mst for Its next eemlon Thurs
day noon.
Tho organization will follow th"
genei-nl movumrnt throughout the
country whrt) Ad clubs have beon
organized nni where they are be
ing distinctly helpful In their.
service to Mio lonununity.
REMAINlrFPETERTHE .
HERMIT ARE FOUND
Brussels, Jun IS (By Ansor-lated
PrewO The t) nes of Peter the
M"rniit, one of tho leading proarh
rrs of the firnt crusnde, nre re
ported to havo be n found nt Huy
whllo the ground covering tho an
cient cloister was being levelled.
Peter the Hermit, also called
Peter of Amiens, who was born
nbnut 10?0, died at Huy, Belgium,
on July 11, 1113. Hs led tho ad
vance of the first rrusndo as far
las Aslc-Mlnor in 1096.
PRICE THREE CENTS S?A3U,ADC,SSJS
Wif
EXPLORER
111 ARRIVE
SAFELY FROM NORTH
Meager Reports Give No Details of Flight To Pole
Or Return To Spitzbergen ; Success or Failure of
Daring Expedition Unknown Pending Further
Word. . .
New York, June 18, (A. i5.) The North American News
paper Alliance announced today that Roald Amundsen, the
explorer, has returned to Spitzbergen from his north pole
flight.
Bcrnon S. Prentice, brother-in-law of Lincoln Ellsworth,
co-leader of the expedition, said he had received' word that
all six members of the expedition had returned safely to
Spitzbergen.
Copenhagen, June 18. (A. P.) The reports of Captain
Roald Amundsen's return from his polar expedition were
received in Copenhagen this afternoon. They were notf
however, accompanied by any details.
Tho Amundsen Ellsworth air
plan o expedition of two .machines
hopped off from Kings Bay,
Spitzbergen, for Its attempted
flight to tho North pole on May
21.
Venture Darintr One.
Tho venluro was ono at which
tho world held its breath, for the
plungo out over the Arctic wastes
was everywhere counted ono of
extrcnin hazard but thoso who
knew from experience conditions
In tho north and wero well ac
quainted with Amundsen 'r ability
to copo with them, wero almost to
a man confident that ho would
return safely.
With Amundsen, as observer in
tho second airplane, was Lincoln
Ellsworth, aviator, engineer,
athlete and explorer in many of
tho out of tho way parts of the
western hemisphere. Amundsen
and ho were tho navigators of the
expedition, charged wllh the
responsibility of heading It aright
on Us journey and coordinating
Its activities.
Tour Aides Taken
In addition to tho expedition
carried four men, two In each of
tho planes. They wero HJalmnr
HUscr-Larson, lieutenant In tho
Norwegian navy and expert air
man : Lief Dletrlchson, an alr
plann pilot, an ex.naval man of
Morten, Norway; Oskar Omdahl,
(Continued on Page Nine)
Court Hears Story
Of Former Dragon's
Attack Upon Woman
Kohlesville, Intl., June 18. Mlr.s
Madge Oborholtzer'a version of
an alleged ittuck mndo on her by
D. C. Sleplienron, aided by Earl
Kllnclc and Karl (lenlry, has been
i;lvcu to Judiio Fred K. Illnes of
the Hamilton circuit court for con
sideration In octerniinlng whether
tho three nu-n snail bo admltud
to ball pcndih their trial on a
charge of murdering her. 1'.
John K. Kingsbury nf Indlnnaiio
ils. Miss Oborhouier's iIihIcI:iu,
and Marstmll Oberholtzor, lui
brother, bit.i related to Judge
Hones yesterday the story she lul l
them of nilstnntment by Stephen-,
:JOIl.
Murrhnll CI erholl7.er repeat '1
his (.isler's :,l.wy of tiiklng polf.m
In n hotel 'it llunimond, lud., fol
lowing the tillered attack by
St :'phreon an I nls tld the young
woman's ver.iion of Stephenson a
actions when lie dlm-ovorcd smi
h.vl sought t' end her 11 To.
"What wm raid nliout ft hos
pital " ntke.l Kph Inninn, chief o
defi-nse counne..
' I do no. rc-'mber(" replijtl
FAIR TONIGHT
And Friday, except cloudy near coast;
mild temperature, low humidity In the
Interior, light northwest winds. -
Local; Max., 81; mln., SI; rain, bone;
river, .9; atmos,, clear; wind, norths
AND FIVE
T
ON TEAPOT 00,1
Cheyenne, Wyo., Juno 18.
Judge T. Blake Kennedy's decision
In tho government suit for annul
ment of tho Mammoth Oil com
pany's lease on the Teapot Dome
naval oil reserve, will be delivered
in federal court hero at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Judgo Kennedy notified coun
sel for the government and the
Mammoth and other Interested
Sinclair corporations that the dif
ficulty would be forthcoming at
that hour.
The suit was tried here last
March and was taken under ad
visement March 26. The govern
ment seeks annulment of the Tea
pot leaso on tho grounds that It
wan obtained through collusion
and fraud and that there was no
authority from congress to the
department of the Interior to make
tho lease.
Oborhnltter. "She said Stephon
son said sho must go to Crown
I'oint (county seat of lAko coun
ty, in which Hammond is located)
and get mnvritd. Ho stuck a re
volver to her heart when he said
it."
"What dlj ho say then?" In
man queried.
"She said 'what would I want to
marry you fei ?" and she said
Stephenson replied: 'You can usa
my mime.1 '
Dr. Kingsbury, who had preced
ed the brol'nc' as a witness, testi
fied that Mist Obcrholtzor was in
pi'ssfssion of ht-r mental faculties
whi:i the nil Ted dying statement
wad made. He gave practically
the same story of tho attack as
was given when ho tentlfled at A
comer's liKi'ieRt In Indianapolis,
following ill 3 young woman
death.
.Miss lloatricc Spratley, nur
who attendcl Miss Obei holtser.
testified to'iiT that thera war
several inventions on the youn!
woman's b.i-ly. One laceration
ipo.i the left breast was lntcctd,
4hs said.