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Newspaper Page TextSANTA BARBARA SHAKEN BY NEW QUAKE Capital JfeJoiir CIRCULATION FAIR TONIGHT And Wednesday, except cloudy or foggy along the coaat, M'ld temperature. Mod erate westerly winds. Dally average net pala circulation for month ending: May 31, 1925 nat 6738 Avernge dally distribution 7073. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Local: Max., 79; mln., 48; rain, none; river, -.2; at mas., clear; wind, northwest FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 155 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1925 TTWW TODOT PPNTH ON TRAINS AND NEWS rKllii!l Hltl.Cj.Lj UCiiNIO STANDS FIVE CBNT8 fa Ulffn H MS MMbS' TcOURfHOLDS UNJ LOOTERS BUSY --IN WRECKAGE NIGHT Thieves Pillage Ruins of Santa Barbara Before Patrol Strengthened ; Bodies Recovered Santa Barbara, Cal., June 30. Another slight tremblor struck this city at 5:54 a. m. Santa Barbara, Cal., June 30 (By A-sociatcd . Press) Looters plyed their nefarious trade among the earthquake ruins of Santa Bar bara (luring the night and numer ous reports of their depredations enme from officers, national guards men and naval reservists who throw a net work of patrols over the business district during the dark hours. Quadnlupe Catholic church was wild to have boon one of the prin cipal sufferers. Here the police report said, the 'altar vessels of gold and silver were stolen. Two supposed thieves were sur prised In the ruins of the Arling ton hotel, but they managed to evade arrest. Other minor canon of theft also Were reported, including pilfering from the shops along the water front. The night and early morning were marked by two severe temb lors which again rocked the city at 1:22 a. id 4:39 a. m. The first of these brought down one of the remaining chimneys of the Arling ton hotel and also completed the Wrecking of a couple of small brick building. which had been badly damped in the quake of Monday morning. As the hotel chimney came crashing down where wrecking crews were clear ing the debris, the squads of search era sought safety In flight, but re turned to their labor almost before the dust of the smash had cleared away. Before dawn thry had recovered two of the bod lea for which they wero RCfnchh.rf, thoe of Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, 83 year old millionaire widow of Burlington, Iowa, and Bertram B. Hancock, 21 (Continued on Page Tour) Bozoman, Mont., June 30 Southwestern Montana continued to keep its earthquake eye open today with the receipt of news late last night that shocks still were being felt near the scene of the lis turbances of Saturday night and Sunday. The Gallatin river valley stirred restlessly all day yesterday anil dl tlnct shucks were felt here at 10:30 and 11:35 o'clock last ntuht. Lost night's shocks drovepeople from their beds and many spent the remainder oT the night out of doors. Dozen? of shocks have been felt between Unzeman and Three Forks one of the three towiw which suf fered most, since Saturday night. A shock nt 3:30 o'clock Sunday toppled over the weakened wall of a school building at Manhattan, which was ' partially w rocked Sat urday nlfiht. The shifting of the firth's sur face yesterday wore felt at Ore? Kails, Helena. L,oK,m. Threo Forks nnd Manhattan, but no material damn ce was done. Seven hundred men are at work clearing mi!e. nf Ch'. Milwau kee and Sr. Paul r.iiir. ad uaS;.T Jn Sixteen Mi'e canyon n.ir Lom bard, which was buried by tival- tit's resulting from quake. Traf fic over the Milwaukee lines still is impossible through that sec tion, and it trains are brir,g re routed over Northern I H and Great Northern tracks. Although the physical Us at Manhattan, Three Forks and T IT'in still I estimated nt l-"0 ). ome of the partially Hic-VM building cm 1 Milvnm d it is siid. PEOPLE SLEEP IN OPEN AS MONTANA QUAKES CONTINUE TwoMillion Is Asked for Relief Work Santa Barbara, Cal., June 30. (A. P.) Santa Barbara today, through Its clearing house associa tion, Issued en appeal to the na tion for a $2,000,000 earthquake fund, and to bankers and clearing houses of the ocunty for a $20, 000,000 loan reconstruction fund. Acceptance of offers of uid from San Francisco aVd L.os Angeles was voted by a representative gathering of the cHy council, chamber of commerce and clearing house associations. Structural en gineers were asked for immediate- iy. The following telegram was sent to the chamber of commerce ot Los Angeles and San Francisco: "Accept your offer of assistance. Send us today three or five super ior structural engineers to act Jn advisory capacity to city govern ment in an immediate survey for reconstruction o Santa Barbara." Dr. Kcxwald Brown, president of the chamber of commerce, and Herbert Nunn, city manager, sign- continued on Page Seven) Rcchcck Shows 30 Injured And Property Damage of $20,000,000 To $25, 000,000, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Cal., June 30. (AP) A recheck today of the loraes due to yesterday's earth quake Indicated the death list ae nine, this number of bodies hav ing been found; the injured list at thirty, and property loss be tween $20,000,000 and $25,000, 000. E. A. MacDonough, secretary of the chamber of commerce, in es timating the property loee at the meeting today, stated that figure. Herrado Charls, Mexican, of Santa Barbara, died at the Cot tage hospital today, from injur ies received In the earthquake. This brought the known list of dead to nine. The total of bodice recovered this morning from the ruins stood at eight. They were: Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, Bur lington, Iowa; Bertram B. Han cock, Los Angeles; Dr. James C. Angle, Santa Barbara; William Proctor, Santa Barbara; Merced Leon, Santa Barbara; Fenthioa Storio, Santa Barbara; Marlnlna Mlenestide, Santa Barbara. Services for Mrs. Perkins will be held here today. The body will be sent to Roeedale cemetery, Los Angeles, where it will be cre mated. The eighth victim was added to the fatality list when the mis sion fathers reported the death of John Shea, gardener at St. An thony's college, adjoining the mlwion. He was crushed In the corridor of the college chap.?l yesterday, n0 was burled today. 9 LIVES LOS! 1 111 Experts Disagree On Cause of Earthquake Give Three Reasons New York, June 30. (A. P.) ; Experts wero divided today as io the cause of the Santa Barbara earthquake. Ocean leakage, nc cumul:ted si rain on the earth's cm', and extreme hot weather tV"r. : H-nir the comes assigned. Tiv-'-e w:i;i also (iisa ycin.nt an ;) whether the-ie was ;tny relation! between tho ti.:iin,ra in Mont.'.u-i' Mid thoj-'e which laid Santa Bar-1 ;M In ruin-. Home expert Raid : hat there vha w conncotin. wir.ie otic1;-- tii-.-uht that the Montana rliM-Ua puil-.d the trigir :h:;l ..aiid o 12-mi!c disturbance: f rock nru'a uv.df-r f-nta B.r. iuva and vicinity. Iu iier.nan , 1 ;i.r--hiM. j.ro.V-nr '-un htns of v.'n-- at tise (nivcr.-;ty of '. in- t -r t.NV.v York i, said that SEARCH AND SEIZURE IS L Arrest Need Not Precede Search of Law Violator Court Hules In Revers ing Previous Stand. The presence of Justice H. H. Belt on the Oregon supreme court bench resulted in the court today reversing its former opinion of Jan uary 2, written by former Justice M. L. Pipes, and upholding the lower court for Benton county in the conviction of F. A. McDaniel on a charge of possessing intoxi cating liquor. Vou Four to Three. The right of search and seizure prior to arrest, and to use evidence so obtained were mainly involved in the case. The opinion of Jus tice Belt, handed down today, af firms Judge O. F. Skipworth of the lower court. It, In effect, is in favor of the arresting officers. Former Justice Pipes held an op posite view in his opinion and had the support of Justices Bean, Rand and Brown, making a four to three opinion o the court. In the Belt opinion these three justices dissent, while Chief Justice Mc HKdo and Justices Burnett and Coshow concur, nicking a four to three opinion for the state. The state asked for a rehearing of he case when Justice Pipes retired from the bench and Belt succeeded him following the hitter's election last November. Justice Brown's diesont is, however, only in part, and he announced it in writing in a few words. "In the main," tac 3ays, "I am In accord with the Uw as laid down by Mr. 'Justice Belt in the well-prepared inajori.y opinion, but I cannot concur 'n the holding that the defendant was lawfully arrested prior to the forcible search of his persons, or that such search and subsequent arrest were contemporaneous." Beau and Hand did not write their dissents. Officers Upheld. The court holds, through the Belt opinion, that the officers, from personal knowledge through the sense of sight and smell, had the right to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant had intoxicating liquor In his posses sion and that he was attempting to drive an automobile while In a drunken condition. Without doubt, it Is held, he was committing a crime in their presenoe, for which Mi ay had the legal right to make arrest without a warrant, and the right of search followed as an in cident thereto. "We give no sanction or ap proval," says the opinion, "to ar rests Jjased upon mere suspicion and hearsay, and exploratory searches cannot be made to obtain evidence upon which to base an arrest. The law requires the ar resting officers to exercise pru dence and good faith, and will not countenance Impudent and unwar ranted Interference with the con stitutional rights of citizens to be 'secure in their persons, houses, papers,' end effect!',' In the in. (Continued on Pair Seven) the Montana tremor traveling un derground might have touched off stored-up strains in southern Cali fornia. He said that the Montana tremor might also lead to further ihock s in the western mount. in r.t.'tte in the next few days. The view that the Montana aud California quckes were unrelated is held by William Bowie, chief of the division of geody of 'he cort and of the geodetic ruts y at Wa.'hlng'.nn. "The enrthqtifiko at Pant a fit bara is the same old etory, nn oce'in leakage," said Professor T. J. See, of the Mare Inland observa tory, at San Frnncieo. He expressed the belief that, the d'fitnrbanr in Montana had nu HELD LEGA (Continued qn Page Bight) EVOLUTION T Statute Based Upon Ten nessee Law To Be Init iated In Oregon, Calif ornia and Washington. A replica ot tlie Tennessee anti evolution bill wliicll has stirred tho country through the Scopes caso will bo initiated in Orefeon. Washington and California to be passed on by-tho electorate of these three states, according to Dr. E. A. Cantrell, who has been debating Dr. W. B. Klley In California, Ore gon and Washington on the ques tion of teaching evolution in the schools. Dr. Cantrell takes he sldo against the fundamentalists. He Is here arranging for debates in the near future with Dr. lllley at Salem and Eugene. Dr. Cantrell declares that the first big guu In tho battle to put over the antl-evolutlon bill in the (Continued on Page Seven) I A matrimonial emancipation proclamation, as ft were, iseujyd by Miss Joy Turner, well known Salem musician, previous to her marriage last Sunday to William Moses, was unearthed this morn ing among the official legal docu ments of Marion county. The documents, which iB in the form of a contract between hersclf-and her husband, was filed Thursday, June 25. The contract iteelf, whilo ad mitting that the two are to become him band and wife, distinctly, defi nitely and positively sets forth the statement that so far as her prop erty, real and personal, Is con cerned, he is to maintain a hands off policy. To this Mr. Mosea sol emnly agrees, ectting his seal, along with hers, to the contra-rt. The contract was entered into on December 13, 1924, some time previous to the time the engage ment was announced, showing tli it she had asserted her modern wom an's right before she ever let tin affair get too far. The document reads fn part as follows: "For and fn confederation of the said marriage and the sum of receipt of Which eum Is hereby ac knowledged by the said William Moses, he, the said William Moses, does hereby waive, release, bar gain and selt to Joy Turner any and all right, title and interest which he miiy have to acquiro in and to the property of the said Joy Turner by virtue of said mar riage." Plymouth, Vt., June 30 Mly Associated Press) President Cool Idge left here todny for Swamp scott, Mass., Afwured that his fath er virtually had recovered from an attnek of Illness. Traveling by motor, he was expected to reach his destination about 7 p. m. Accompanied by Mrs. Coolldne the president planned to make the entire trip by automobile. He left here st 11:17 a. m. Knstern stand ard time, and expected in sevrn hours to reach the summer White Houso whirh he left hurriedly flun tlny on receipt of word that his father's condition whs critical. Dr. Jan; F. Coupnl, lh presi dents phypk-ln n, remained hfi t attr-nd Colonel Coolidice i.ntil nil danyr- of a relapse par-d. He W the president, however, 'ha: ftthfr was m;U!n:; a it- ma:l..iilc re'n cry. In v'.vw f-f his iiKe and waken'-d heart, and thn! ther1 was llv'e likeli)ii-i.l rf n relapse LAW SOUGH IN 3 STATES noS Park Denies Meyers Gift of Fund To Build New Wings Conditional On Jab As Manager. Flat denial that Henry Meyers is demanding a life job as manager of tho Salem hospital as a salary of $250 a month In return for a gift of $60,000 with which to build two new wings to the hospital build Ine was made this morning by Charles A, Park, secretary of the hospital board, and E. T. Barnes, a member of tho executive com mittee, in statements explaining the proposed gift by Mr. Meyers. The statements are made in the absence of H. S. GHe, chairman of the board, who is now in the eaTt. According to the statement Mr. Meyers makes the gift outright with the stipulation that he and Mrs. Meyers are to receive an an nuity from the hospltnl of $400 a month during their lives. lie also suggested that If the board saw fit he would accept superin tendency of tho construction of tho new wings at a monthly salary of $250, but his employment as construction superintendent 1a left optional with the board. The stntement mnde by Mr. Park reads as follows: K in ploy i lien t Not Aked "Concerning tho article that ap peared In the Oregon Statesman this morning In regard to the Sa lem hospital, I wish to correct tho statement In said article that In Mr. Meyer's offer to contribute $00,000 for the building of the two wings .of the hospital building no provision was made that he was to be employed by tho hospital In any capacity, neither does nny mem ber of the hospltnl board feel that Mr. Meyers wLshes or would nc cept a position under tho hospital management. "What Mr. Meyers did say was that he would want to have charge of tho construction work when tho two wings are built, and that the board-could pay him a mall sal ary of not, Just as It pleased. Ills services in this regard would ter minate an soon as the two wings aro finished. "The board feels that Mr. Mey ers' offer to tho hospital Is a gen erous one nnd being in tho nature o: an annuity tho yearly payment of Inierest during the life of hfm- fCnntlnued on Page Seven) Portland, Or., June 30. A. M. Crawford, prominent local attor ney, and for twelve years attor ney general of Oregon died early today white on a fishing trip to Knstlake, south of fiend, accord ing to word received here from W. T. Sinter, one of Crawford 'n companions. No details wero re ceived. As Mr. Crawford appear ed to be in good health when ho left here his friends believe he may have died from a heart at tack. Mr. Crawford wan a member of the firm of Crawford ami Craw ford here. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Florence Crawford, nnd a on, James W. Criwford. The funeral will be In Portland. Mr. Crawford was born In Can nonsville, N. Y., January 23. 185.1, He moved to Portland fn 1880 and married Mi Kloi-'me Watson of Hoseburff In 1S85. lie wo receiver of tho Unite 1 KtntM land office here from 1 i 90 to 1S!I; n member of tho h-vme of representatives of Oregon in 1S97 and attorney general of .!)? state from 19o2 to 19H. Herman Gch Decision. ,J'r Trind, ()!., .hut- :t"- Tiny r"rnian, ex -A' it or la polii em.in. v, on a fen -round dee lp Ion ov.?r fjcfu ::q Lnms m. Omaha henvy- weipht, In the nmin event of ia it ni flit "i op.-n fiir ImxiifTf card trtcd by ihr. IVmaird KMti. Moth n- n MMred a knockdown, but. Her man vn th? cull by out Imxhi I.inmn. i QUAKE Prom the historic altar of the Mission Santa Barbara a priest with upraised hand exorted those assembled at early mass to resume prayer when the earthquake struck the church. The . congregation obeyed. By a providential turn the pew occupants were not injur ed. Instead they walked over ruins which fell from the exter ior of the building. Had they left In panic they would have been struck by material which fell out side the building. An earthquake fault described as "dead but definitely located" was responsible for the tremblor at San ta Barbara. The fault starts In the Pacific ocean off Point Con ception and touches land nt Na ples, 15 miles north of Santa Bar bara and runs through tho city tor minuting in the hills to tho east. Movement of tho earthquake In Los Angeles yesterday morning caused downtown buildings to sway considerably, but tho movement was slow and even and there wuh no damage. Telegraph companies held large E OVER LAST JUNE A Y. M. C. A. building to cost $120,000 and a Catholic chure'i, school and parish houso to cost a total of $100,000 swelled the Sa lem building record for the month of June, which clos today. These, with a total of $107,!00 for new dwellings, $40,500 for a now apartment house, and various amounts for smaller buildings and for alterations and repairs brought the p;rand total for the month up to $385,700. This an advance of more than fi00 per cent over the record for Juno of last year, when the total for building In Salem was $5!), 1 0 5 . The actual estimated cost ot new construction for Juno Is $385,700, while repairs and alterations add $4100 mure. TO DEBATE HERE Dr. Kdward A. Cantrell, who has been conducting a scries o. debates on evolution on the const with W. B. Itiley and who has been In the ctly since Friday ns a guest of County Fruit Inspector Van Trump, has Just received a telgrnm from Uiley at Seattle stating that Itiley is willing to debate th0 subject In Salem in I liugcnn If nnt Isfactory dales can bo arranged. As a result a tenU tive bid has been taken on the armory, subject, to arrangement oi dates, which will be sometime ho foro July 8, according to present plans. The subject to !o dismissed, f tho debate is staged, will bo "Un solved, That Involution Is a Fal lacy nnd Should not Ho Tolerat.e:l in a Tax Supporting tho Pubti.: Schools." Dr. Cantrell takes the evolutlo-i side of the subjeet. Annual Bargain Day Expected To Bring Big Crowd Thursday The streets ot Salem will he lined with visitors on Thursday of this wepk, and the Ftm-os an 1 shop will he full of people con ing from near nnd far places. For that day rliursdny ,lu!v 2 Is sot npnrt for the elghUi an nual bargain day In Sab-m. Bargain day has grown ov try ear Irioniwe rial bargains nro .if fer?d. There Is no make-believe about it. More merchants are participat ing tills year than ever before. The crowds will come In greater n urn ben nnd from longer dlstanr-'S. tfach event has advertised the uet one, and the ways ot travel have BRIEFS extra forces In San Francisco and Los Angeles lost night to move thousands of messages which de luged in from eastern points to the Santa Barbara earthquake stricken region. The messages were principally Inquiries regard ing the safety of friends and rela tives. Many adobe houses, the lust ves tige of tho Spanish reglmo at San ta Barbara, wero destroyed by the tremblers. Included In these was 131 Patio, which figured promin ently In tho colorful days of Gov ernor Pio Pico. Of La Guerra. "with a history" equal to "Kl Pallo' "the Associated Press correspondent wrote: "The faded green shutters were broken and twisted in tho heap of gray clay once tho social gathering place of Spain's gay belles and caballeros." Kight miles of Southern Pacific railway track north of Santa Bar bara vfaB twisted by the tremblors. Attempts wero being mado toduy (Continue! on I'nge Eight) T Santa Barbara, Cal., June 30. (AP) From a flimsy shack, eight by fourteen feet "furnished" with five small empty packing cases and a make believe tabic of discarded boards to which an As sociated Presfl wire had been hastily hooked tho first direct news of Santa Barbara's disaster went out to the world shortly ifter noon yesterday. This emergency headquarters, mann.ed by staff writers and tele graph operators filed a steady stream of news on tho seaside temblor through the day and in to the night, checking nnd re checking lists of dead nnd injur ed, estimating and re-estlmating from the best nvailnblo data the material loss to tho community. From here the staTf men rang ed tl'e stricken area from the Ar lington hotel to tho waterfront In never ending expeditions to get the facts to tho outside world. When night foil a new prob lem faced them what about light? For tho wires' had to be kept going so that those who read tho morn ine papers comfortably between sips of coffee might know how a city of 31,000 nnd fared during nnd nfter one of the outntnnding cataclysms of the Pacific coast. The nljstacle of lack ot light, due to tho collapse of the electric power house, was surmounted by backing an automobile up to the "door" of the "Associated Press bureau" and stringing a wire with a t'"y attached from the machine's battery to the op erating table. Acrora the street the city fire men had established a lunch coun ter nnd between cups of steaming black coffee the sweat bathed be grimed staff men of tlie Atocl nted Press "pounded" out the story of Santa Barbura's (Hnter and her heroic plans for recuper et ion. improved from year to year, ov ncmiiiic Knluin'n trading territory No olio need think of Salem a burgain day event with any m .rUlng, for 1 1 genuine; our i.icr chnnts live up to their promls'.-a: they offer genuine bursa Ins. ond in many, many line, F.very merchant who h tiler- d tho bnicrtin-givltiff ewnt will havo han-lng in hit window tin .u:lhi,rital ivo cu d announcing that within Uw More nro bnrgal.ti, put one especially for this ciiy wldo event, nnd that nil who ;r' seeking flrnt. Quality inerelipudli'' at reduced price will find ,I'Ht (Continued on Page Four) GOVERNOR'S VETO VALID Bill To Refer Measures In September Declared To Be Simple Legislative Act In Verbal Opinion. Oregon will not have a special election In September. This was settled by tho supremo court today iu a verbal opinion in the cnse of L. L. Swan against Secretary ot State Kozer, an original proceed ing in mandamus to compel Kozer to call a special election notwith standing Governor Plorce'e veto ot the special election bill of the 1025 legislature. With possibly one exception the court was a unit in the opinion and a written decree will come down a week from today. Tho reason for a verba) opinion was to meet the necessity for quick action because of various state duties that would he immediately necessary should the election have been called, such a6 certificat'ons to county officers and the filing of arguments tor voters' pamphlet. Chief Justice McBride said there was a possi bility that cue justice would dis sent, hut that nil tho other six wero very decided in their opin ion that tho governor had a con stitutional right to veto the spa clal election bill. Inasmuch ns It was a simple legislative act with no legal status different from any other legislative act. The special election bill wt3 passed by the legislature, and pro vided that the election be called a event that referendum were In voked against any of the revenua producing acts of the legislature, in which event nil measures re ferred to the pcopie by tho legis lature itself also would bo voted on except the eastern Oregon nor mal school bill. Tho referendum was Invoked on tho tobacco tix (Continued on Pace Btght) Jackson, Wyo., June 30 Th north end of Chief mountain li creeping slowly down upon the Gross Ventre river valley nnd crumpling ns It goes. Moving down upon the river on a front of several miles at a rate of speed that Is almost percepti ble, ' forest rangers and rnncheri, deelare, it will create a great basin It It blocks the canyon, through which the river runs. They be lieve that the seetlon of tho great mountain was jarred loose by the eartbipjake shocks which were felt hi're Saturday, nnd that the result that wblrh occurred Inst Tuesday, will be nn avalanche greater than when a section of Sheep mountain, at a point below Chief mountain, fell into the river and caused it to form a lake. When tho expected avalanche occur rs It will ilntn the river to such an height that once the basin is filled tho stream will find a new outlet. Below the Sheep mountain dam tho river is dry and all irrigation operations are at a standstill. Tho liike formed by Inst week's nvnlnncho already covers 6000 acres, and tho piling np of bould ers nnd earth around the sides of this nowly formed basin has creat ed cliffs hundreds of feet high. The lake nt that point, which was 120 feet deep shortly nfte. (ho slide, now in 600 feet deep, i"i dents say. R E F R I G L R AT CnTFI R IV1S Chicago, June :i0. (A. P.) SixtvOti refrtgeir.tor monufnetur ftu? companies pleaded guilty 'n federal court today to tho Indict ments In the furniture cnes undei tho Sherman antl-tntit act ant wero sentenced to pay fines rans ing frotu $2000 to $5000 each.