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Newspaper Page TextC apital Jtloiu CIRCULATION FAIR TONIGHT And Thursday, cooler In east portion. Light Northwest winds. Dally average net pal a circulation for month ending May 81, 1925 6738 Local: Max., 85; min., 48; rain, none; river, .6; atmoa.. clear. Average dally distribution 7073. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 148 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1925 DPTPP THPTrTT PtrMTI! ON TKAItfS AND N10W8 rrtHjHi liiKtiiii LililNlo stands five cents ML V 4 FA1MAN TALE iPIPLEK IS ATTACKED f' ARE HELD FOR BY DEFENSE M FIGHTING BOB Testimony and Character of Star Witness For State In Shepherd Case Is Assailed. Chicago, June 23. (A. P.) The defense In the William Shep herd murder trial today further attacked the testimony and char acter of the state's star witness. Charles Faiman. Mrs. Lu-3lla II. Huhell, for two months buainees manager of Fai man'o school, the National Univer sity of Sciences, testified she would not helieve Faiman on oath; that she never saw a letter from Shepherd to r&imnn, although she kepi the files and that she never had seen Shepherd at Faiman's . school. Declared IncanRble. Faiman testified Shepherd wrote a letter inquiring about a course In criminal bacteriology, obtained typhoid gCi-ne and was instructed as Xjo how to use thein to slay Billy" M!Clintock, his million aire foster son, who had'mado a will In which Shepherd was named ehief beneficiary. Dr. John Fischer, head of the Fischer laboratories, was the next witness, qualifying as an expert bactf.rlologidt. In technhal language he testi fied Shepherd lacked the scientific knowledge to propagate and care for germs Faiman eaid he gave the accused man until the opportunity for slaying young McClintock ar rived. He t.ild Faiman's reputa tion for veracity was very bad. I New York, June 22. The Times today will publish what it terms the full record of fatalities, compiled alter Investigation by one of Its correspondents of the tetru ethyl lead plant of the E. I. Dupcnt De Nemours company at Deepwater, N. J. The report says 300 persons nova been afflicted with lead pois oning in 18 months and eight have died In delirium in the plant. The plant wa8 closed in April and a committee under Sergeon General Hugh S. Cummlng of the public health service is Investigat ing the product poisoning which i -belleved to have ueen the cause of five other deaths at the Bayway. N. J., plant of the Standard Oil company last year. New York. Jun Si. (A. P.) The theory that the mysterious deaths of workers in the United States Radium corporation's plant at Orange, N. J., were caused by meaothorlum, a Bubstance having radio activity twenty times as in tense as th.it of radium, was en dorsed Inst night by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statis tician of the Prudential Life In surance company. William J. A. Bailey, director of an Fast Orange radium laboratory, Issued a statement In which he aid that the deaths of five work ers could not be attributed to ra dium and in which he offered to 'personally lake In one dose nil the radlunt that Is used on all the watch dials produced at one plan? In a month." LIGHTNING SETS MANY FIRESjMNE SERIOUS Bend. Or., June 22. A number of forest fires caused by llghtnlRj havo been icported to the local forestry jfflco since Saturday None of thc3e are serious and most of ihem arj in the Crescent dis trict, according to forestry offi cials. One Is in the Sisters district and one In the Fort Rock district. The numler was placed at ten by officials this morning. A cool wind yesterday with cloudy sklefl mode the day seem less arm than previous although the temeprnture reached 92 or two degree higher than the previous season's re.ord. The night was cooler than In leveral days, the mercury dropping to 61. JUDGE GOPgETj" j John T. Scopes at Dayton, Tonn, presented a motion to quash the Indictment charging violation of the State anti-evolutlon-tcachtng law. The motion was based prin cipally upon constitutional guaran tees of freedom of religion and lpon v.iguo wording of tho law. UN BITTEN HOMES BY RATTLER IS SAFE Roseburg, June 22 Mrs. Jam en Martin was brought to the local hospital today suffering: from rat tlesnake bito. Mrs. Martin al though bitten three times on the leg will recover, physicians state, owing her life to her great pres ence of mind and courage In treat ing her own ca.se. Mrs. Martin's husband la a rail road brakeman working out of Roseburg, ami she has been re siding on their homestead, located about thirty miles west of Rone- burg in an Isolated district In the Tyee vicinity. While out after the cown yes terday she stepped on a lnrge rat tier, which wrapped Itself around her right leg and struck her three times before Bhe could kick the reptile off. In spite of her fright Mrs. Mar tin' retained sufficient presence of mind to twist a tornlrjuet above the wound, and then walked to the cabin some distance away and with a pen knife, the only imple ment available, she carefully cut an Incision to bleed the wound thoroughly. She then walked for a mllo to the home of a neighbor, fording the river on her way. A physician was called, reaching her about midnight, and she was brought out to tho hospital at once. Her leg la very badly Infected and swollen, and her entire body is bloated from the effects of the poison, but physicians reported this morning that sufficient Im provement is shown to assure her recovery. SOVIET SUCCESS Minneapolis, Minn., June 22. (A. P.) Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, praised the soviet govern ment of Russia, urged the reorgan ization or the present trades union into Industrial unions and criti cized the courts In an address at a socialist conferenco here last night. The speech concluded a two day convention of Minnesota socialists. 'Join the union of your craft,'' Mr. Debs said. "The Industrial and unions are the forerunners of Industrial democracy. You will never succeed In taking over the government until you are organ ized Industrially and you will never vote In the cooperative com monwealth without an industrial organization. " Later on In his address he re ferred to the achievement of the socialists tn European countries when he praised the Russian rev olution. Referring to the courts, he de clared "most of you think that the courts are courts of Justice," he eaid. "but let me say that they are not they are courts ot In justice." Thousands View Body of La Follette; Is Termed Prophet of New Democ racy By Haydon. Madison, "Wis., June 22 Services of extreme simplicity attended the burial today of Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Although from the moment his funeral train arrived here last Sat urday from Washington, the state had claimed his body for Its own, there was nothing of pomp or ceremony In these, the last honors that It might tender. That was as the senator him self had wished. To friends of a lifetime was giv en the sad task of conveying the body to sanctuary In hla native soil at a point overloolng a broad blue lake beside which he was born and came to man's estate. Many others with whom he had labored so long in the state and the nation were gathered from far and near to do homage at his bier. Thousands Pass liter The expansive rotunda of the massive state capitol where yes terday .his body lay In state was the place of the brief funeral ser vice. That service was arranged Ob follows: Hymn "Nearer My God to Thee," Mozart and Manne. Choir chorus. Funeral sermon Dr. A. E. liny don of Chicago. Hymn "Abide With Me," Mo zart and Manno choir chorus. "America" with the chorus lead ing the audience. Throughout the hours that the body lay In state, a steady Btream of people parsed In reverent serv ice. Even before the doors of the state house were opened at noon, long lines had formed at the cap- (Continued on Page Sir. T - Webt Salem, Or., June 22. Ac tivities believed to be carried on by persons In West Salem, result ing in the poisoning of several dogs here, and culminating in the death of two police dogs last Fri day, have resulted in one man be ing lodged In the county all at Dallas. The dogs were owned by George Brenner. The name of the man arretted Is Einfeldt, who claims that Brenner's dogs killed his thickens. Drenner sets the value of hlh dogs at (1000 for both dogs. Rumor circulating in West Sn lem indicate that poisoning of dogs by someone has been going on for some time. Brenner's ani mals wore the first to die as result of poisoning. Fish Commission Ousts Mitchell as Head of Hatchery State administration politics agiln 8ho-t.l its head in the fish commission Saturday, when, at a meeting io Portland, Hugh C. Mitchell was removed without cause from the office of superin tendent of hatcheries and R. E. Clanton was elected in his place. Clnnton formerly held the office, hut wan let out over a year ago when Mitchell was taken from a similar federal position that ho had held for 20 years and given the state position. Mitchell's removal followed im mediately ui.on me accession of State Senator A. G. Heals to a pla?e on tiie commlsnion and an opinion of tho attorney general holding that th( commission, when It employed Mitchell, had no au thority to enter Into a long-tpr-n contract with him. The attorney general held that the commission, Kelso Mayor Back; Defies Recall Edict Kelso, Wash., June 22. Fol lowing assassination of Thomas Dovery one of hla followers, A. Itu:ic Todd returned to this city today and announced that be still considered himself mayor, an of fice from which he was recalled June 3. Fred J Raweon, leader In the public welfare society which held the meeting Dovery had just at tended, declared today that the editor feared an unidentified en em. Rawson stated that the so ciety was following some clues. PIERCE DENIES ELKS' PLEA FOR 16 Governor Pierce today decided, notwithstanding an appeal from Elka organizations all over the state, not to proclaim a holiday on July 16, the date of the parade of the national Elks convention in Portia nd. The governor sent a letter to Ben S. Fisher of Marsh field, president of the state Elks association. "My first Inclination," says the governor, "was to grant your re quest, but my duty as governor demands that I must serve the best interests of the entire people of the state. The declaration of a legal holiday Is a serious matter to the business Interests of the state. It menns financial loss to many institutions. Mills and fac tories, If closed, suffer loss. Hanks closed for a clay mean Interrup tion of clearances and much an noyance to regular patrons. An extraordinary holiday such as this presents serious difficulties to the farming and stock interests of the state, In the care of stock, crops and fruit harvests. The closing down of the mills and factories alone for one extra holiday would result In a loss of rot less than a million dollars to their owners." SIX ESCAPE BY LADDER WHEN TRAPPED BY FIRE Portland, Or., June 22. Trap ped upstairs in a burning frame bunding, six persons escaped by u ladder thrown up by some men who had seen the blaze, when o rataurant operated by Joseph La- Salle and J. D. Gllmore at 575 Sherlock avenue, burned early to day. The LaSalle and Gllmore fami lies were asleep above stairs when IvaSalle went into the restaurant to start a fire. Some grease caught fire and the blaze Instant ly leaped up the stairway. CLOUDBURST FLOODS PILOT ROCK REGION Pendleton. Or., June 22. A cloudburst that struck near Pilot Rock accompanied by a violent thunder stoira and some hall, did considerable damage late yester day afternoon, according to ad vicri received here today. has right to remove Ha employe whenever It sees fit and that it cannot sign away the right by con tracts. However, a serious qucstimi arises as to whether the remova of Mitchell end the re-employment of Ci&nton ore legal, inasmuch ai there is doubt whether Heals iR legally a member of the commas sion. The legality of Heals' in pointmcnt hat been challenged be. cause of the state constitutional provision that a member ot the legislature cannot hold another re munerative state office or an offi cial In either the legislative, ex ecutive or judicial department of the state government hold office '.n either of the other departments Secretary of State Kozer has asked Attorney Oeneral Van Winkle for an opinion on the question and (Continued on Pace Two.) DEATH TAKES F . LTOLLETTE Senator Ladd, Active Member of Iusurgent Bloc, Is Victim of Kid ney Ailment, Baltimore, Md., June 22. (A. P.) S e n a lo r Edwin Fremont Ladd of North Dakota died here ut 10: U0 a. m. today. A. complication of kidney trou ble, which toll an acute turn for the worse during the night, caused death at a hospital. Those, at hiB bedside had given up hope. . His secretary, Douglas H. MeArthur, wo called Hurriedly from Wash ington, The senator was conscious and in ull command of hla faculties as; late as last night. I Conscious to Last. ! Senator Ladd passed away, re taining " consciousness almost to the last. Mrs. Ladd arrived from Washington an hour before the end came and was at the bedside witn Milton, one of the eons who is studying law at George Wash ington uuiveisity, and his daugh ter, Virginia, who is attending high school in Washington. Scnulor Ladd, while apparently realizing the end was near, aroused to greet them when they entered his room. Tho end came rapidly after their arrival. Doug las H. MeArthur, tne senator's sec retary, who entered tho room a few minutes after Mrs. Ladd and the children, tho senator failed to recognize. Coincidence Noted. Washington, June 2H. A. P.) With the passing of Senator Ladd, tho republican insurgent bloc in the senate suffers its sec ond overwhelming loss within four days. Bv coincidence the death of tho (Continued on Page Six) JUMPING SEEDS INSECTS. CLAIM Tho queer "Jumping mustard seeds' which have attracted such wide Interest since their display in the window of Fltts Market are a species of Insect, Is tho con clusion of s. H. van Trump, county fruit Inspector, who has made an Investigation of their activity and conduct. Their par ticular kind has not yet been determined. Van Trump made a trip to the Dltmar farm where the seed-like objects were found and discovered that theyo were a parasite on leaves of an oak tree. It oppcars, he says, that the larvae are de posited on the leaves where they eat through tho leaf and then fall to the ground. Their char. acterlstlc movement of Jumping up mil down periodically ho ascribes ns nrobahly being duo to 1110 at tempt of the developed insect to free Itself from the bard Bbell. Van Trump will continue his observations of their conduct and motion and as soon as they nrc full' developed will attempt lo classify them acrording to species. No further word has been received frotO' Oregon agricultural author ities 'who?o first attempts to Iden tify the nblects was futile. The display of them In the win dow of Fit!' Market has contin ued to nttrnct a largo number of Interested spectators. The objects ippenr like mustard seed and could bo easily tak n for them It not for their characteristic movement. FOREIGNERS FLEE New York, June 22-fBy Asso ciated. Pre) Foreigners are streaming out of Canton, which threat one to become a new danger spot In the Chinese anti-foreign movement. Steamers leaving for Hongkong and Macao are crowded with whites mostly missionaries, but Including also business men and their fa in 11 le ' .Direct Canton dispatches sy the situation la "estremely crave. OLLOWER OF POLICE ARREST TOURIST 88 88 88 88 86 88 98 Lack of Undies Cause 88 88 88 88 88 88 88 LAD GIVEN THIRD DEGREE When E. F. Wlllett, assistant sales manager for the Yakima Fruit Growers' association, drove Into Salem early lost night, at the end of a hard day's drive, he was wel comed by being "pinched" by a traffic officer becuuse he had a Washington license plate on hla car. Willett was accuihpunled bv his 10-year-old son. Ho wasn't speed ing. He wasn't on the wrong side of the street, or cutting a corner, or driving In a reckless manner. But he had the temerity to enter Salem with the license plate of an other Btato on his car, so Night Traffic Officer Edwards wheeled up alongside and told Wlllott to stop. He escorted the tourist to the police station. SALEM WAITING RETURN OF NOAH TO CHANGE PLAN Tito long sought reason why the City of Salem fulls to change its truffle ordin ance to provide n new sys tem of parking was given a novel answer thin morning by one of tho hum I police of ficers who liiul been forced to listen patiently to the on slaught of criticism of n visit injr tourist. - Stripped of his emphatic language, the visitor wanted tn know .who Invented tin Sale ni nyslem of parking nml why it had not been changed long go. "Huh," replied the officer, "Xonli Invented tho thing mid they've got to wait for Ittm to come back before they can change It." HELD BUNDERS Stanford University, Oil., June 22 Dr. Hay Lyman Wilbur, presi dent of Stanford university, ad dressed the graduating class today, at the forty-fourth annual com mencement, on "HUnders." He con tended that superstitions, folk lore and old wlve's tnles were blinders "put on' us, or by others for us, to keep us from seeing In all directions, to force us to see only a part and a chosen part of our surroundings." Ho said: "To put on such blind ers Is a favorite way the old have for bringing up tho young. It Is eisler to teach a prejudice than to urge fairness. It Is easier to beat a drum or srpilrt the blood of black cat killed In the dark of the moon on a sick man than It Is to use the microscope and the test tube In studying him with the re sult pcrhatw of changing tho wat er for his neighbors to keep them from tho same Illness, It Is easier to pull down tho shades to new and dViiiietlng light than to fare It unafraid. "Our eyes are directed back ward moro than forward In much of tho educational process which we tine to trnin men and women for the days ahead. "Our records are crowded with much humnn experience, and we know a great deal about ourselves and the world. It seems clear that man's body Is pretty mii'h thnt of many centuries ago. While wo live longer, have fewer epidemics and less days of Illness, no one would seriously claim that Nurml could run better than some of the mara thon runners of Greece, or that Jolun L, Sullivan or Jack Uemp s"y had finer bodies ,hnn Sampnon or Goliath or some ot the gladia tors of Home, There Is no evi dence that tho quality of man's mind has Improved in spile of cen turies of training. 8lomon, Solon. Hlpuocrates, Leonardo Da Vlnnl, Pascal, Hlmke.Hpeare, Lincoln, would be hnrd for us to match even In these days of hundreds of univer sities." Indians In NcshIoii Klamath Falls, Ore., June 22 Indians of the northwest were scheduled to start an eight day conference on the reservation, near Klamath Agency, today. The con ference whs opened with nn ad drexs by State Senator Jay Upton of Prlnevllle thin morning. Horse racing, dancing and boxing are ex peeted to be the chief features. At the station Willett was ques tioned closely by the night desk officer as to whether he had stolen tho car In which he and his son was driving. The officers let him know that he was under suspicion of having kidnapped the boy. One circumstance made things look very dark for the prisoner. He had only one suit of B". V. Da. In his eriD. The officers 'detected this the first uino thoy went through the bag and wanted to know abnut It. Willett had .some troble ex plaining why he carried only one suit of undies besides tho one he had on. Then the policemen quizzed Ba yard, the 10-year-old son. To do this they escorted him to a separ- (Contlnued on Pago Five) Lowiston, Idaho. June 22. An elect ricnl storm, accomiianicd by ua:i and cloudbursts, took a total of two lives ond wrecked damage lo crops and farm buildings to talling several hundred thousund dollars In Asotin county, Wash late yesterday advices received here indicated. The storm passed near tuts cry but caused Its heavi est damare to surrounding agri cultural territory. Two children, Dwuln and Loot a Morrow, were drowned while pic nicking on tho bank of Asotin creek at Clarkston, Wash., when a sudden vlood of water rushed down the i-trcam. Fifteen nuto mohiles verc left stranded by their ownerd on tho rivers when floods suddenly trapped them. All the inotorlstj, however, escaped. The Paclfi" Power & IlBht com pany reported the breaking of sev eral stretcher of its water supply facilities between Asotin, Wash., and Cinrk-don. Telephone com munication facilities were badly crippled by the storm. 3 Portland, Or., June 22. Throe Portland persons met death vio lently over Sunday, ono in an au tomobilo accident, another by drowning In Oswego lake, and the third a KU'Cido in a water hazard at Kastmnroland golf links. The dead: Mrs. Kate Oarlfnghouse, 43, fa tally Injured In an accident be tween a street car and an auto mobile In which she was riding. Adtrnr A'l.'tln, 22, accidentally drowned In Oswego lake. Mrs. Attn Wolfard, &1, a suicide in tho A a tor hazaru nfnr tho 11th groijn ot Kantmoreland. Ton others met violent death In the northwest over the week-end. Murderer Dying of Wounds Refuses to Undergo Operation Chicago, June 22. Bernard (.! runt, fonriiil of the hangtnanV nose, In spite of the efforts of thousands )t persons throughout the country who had signed peti tions urging clemency of Coventor len Small, m'uscd today to per mit physicians t perform nn opcr at'on in tho hope of saving hi life, and di'-d !u minutes later, lie was stahbed five times Satur day by Walter Krauscr, once sen tenced with Grant to hang, bit', late granted a new trlnl. Grant waa very weak from the wounds In hip, neck and chest and physicians tt the house of correc tion hoKplu; Insisted on a hluo.l trarufusion. "I'll hs d.T.d In m littU while if BOM UP INSHAMEEN BY CHINESE British and French Gun boats Take Positions In Defense of Colony; All Approaches Guarded. Cnnton, China, June 22. (A. P. Sliaineen, the artificial lMand. which is t.e Canton foreign settle ment tod:;y was in a state of siege. Two gunboats, one British and ono French, held commanding po stions in the creek separating Shameen from the city. All ap- prcacnes to cue island were forti fied, with piled up sandbags and quick firing guns testifying to the preparedness of the foreign forces for finergeacies. A!l Europeans hava been warn ed not to enter Canton itself. In Shnmeen, It is believed they will be gyfe. The placing of tho two gunboats Is supposed to make im possible any landing by Chinese on tho lelnnd. A fresh contingent of French sailors arrived this morning and took up quarters in Shameon. Feeling Runs Strone. Foreign residents in the Y. M. C. A. In Canton itself have lice a urged to leave for some safer lodg. ing. The strike Is continuing, undar the pressure brought to bear on workers by the Kuomintaiig (peo ple's party) the present ruling fac tion in Canton. Some Chinese nay thnt much of the anti-foreignisni being preached is the result ot Kuomlntang coercion. Foreign feeling Is especially strong naghir.t Japanese and Brit ish nationals and interests. The Americans are reported receiving better treatment. Protection nedp-ed-Ilonghong. June 23. (A. P.) The government here today Ismied a notification guaranteeing full protection to life and property during the sympathetic strike now being carried on here by Chlneso '(tudents and workers. The fami'y of any person killed whi'e engaged In carrying on hla (Continue 1 on Pago Six) New York, June 22. From five to fifteen years confinement In Auburn prison was tho sentence Imposed today upon Dorothy Per klnH, charged with killing Thomas Tcmploton, Jersey City war veter an au! her Miltnr. The girl appeared entirely com posed as Judge Mclntyre delivered the sentence and later walked steadily from the court room. "I feel very sorry for you," tho j ud ;re said, "1 don't want to add any moro anguish to what you have already suffered. But you did n heinous wrong; you have led a very bad life for one so very young." Although many letters have been receivcJ concerning the cose, hn tmid, not one of them suggest ed the girl should be let off with out punlshement you'll let me alone," said tho wo.mdcd prisoner, "so why pro long my lifo whtn It's going to bo taken from mo anyway." Or. Frank Jlrka pleaded but Grant's resistance did not weaken. A half hour later the prisoner died. Grant, who always Insisted he wan Innocent and that Krauscr alone was Rullty of killing the policeman, Halra Souders, la a holdup In 1922, probably would havo been i.ardoncd or his sen ten committed to life imprison ment had 'Crnnser escaped the gailows r tecond trial, which was set i for this week. The supremo .mil allowed Kraut- er a retr.. ; .nit donled a lecood hearing- for Urant.