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UlvttiOK CIRCULATION Dally average net pala circulation for month ending June SO, 1925 6729 Average dally distribution 7089. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 160 w ADVANCES IN RILECOUHCIL Action of Street Commit tee In Raising Some Salaries May Result In Open Split, Apparently not satisfied with bis part in the Fourth of July celebration just past, Alderman Hal D. PatUn proceeded, at tua city council meeting last night, to aot off a bui.ch or fireworks rela tive to a rise in salaries of city de partment heads that was recently granted by the street improvement committee A the council. As a result there is a possibility that the increases wil- be rescinded. Fiv Given Increases. Put ton's remarks revealed the fact that the street improvement committee about six weeks Hfeo quietly got together and increased the salaries cf City Engineer Hugh Holers, Street Commissioner W. 5. Low and City Attorney Chris Kowitz from $150 to $200 a month and In addition Increased the puv of J. H. Davis, assistant to the engineer, so that his total sala-y shall be $125 a month, and vote;! a salary of S50 a month to W. Jl. Schvienlng, a law student who is employed by the city attorney and who heretofoie has received no compensation from the city. Thee! Increases in pay pre all being made from the street improvement fund. Discrimination Charged. Because of a feeling among oili er members of the council that (Continued on Page Seven) UNAGE REM DATE SET FOR JULY 29 County Clerk Boyer today sign ed an order tnllmg for a meeting of the stockholders of the proposed now Salem drainage district for Wednesday, July 29, Rt 2 o'elo.'k in the afternoon. The meeting -will bo held in the Rich. non-1 chool building and is for the pur pose of electing three directors to Irganize the district. Altogether about 1500 land owners were represented ou tae petition for the drainage district, tout in light of the fact that many of these owners own two or more tracts in tho district, it is likely that there are a.iut 700 or SOU individual owners of land in the district. How many of these will be pres ent Is purely problematical, as many of them live out of the citv, others are away on vacations un.l Bome In th city n.ay not attend. A good crowd I:'. expected, how ever. The 'r.eeting must be adver tised for 10 days prior to the dat on which It is held. CITY PAYROLU Gasoline Station On Residential Corner Approved By Council Through permission voted by the city council Icet night, a gaso. llne filling station will immediate ly be established on tho ThieUen property at Court and Cupltjl streets, in the fashionable resi dential district, This is the prop erty formerly occupied by t'. Thiclsen home, but which was re moved to slve place to an apart ment house. Tfc-j apartment house project fell through. .The station will be operated Hy L. V, Jones of Ktigcne. and it is understood that the pioduct of tlie General Gasoline company will he sold. Fred D. ThU'lfrn appeared be fore the council, requesting th.'.t ho would like Immediate action on tho petition for tho reason th-i: the tourist eeason is now on. Ilr called attention tr the size of h" property, dtclareO that he navs high taes on it tnd that he find It impossibly to keep It clear of Capit REIGNS Swampscott, Masa., July 7. (A P.) Frank W. Mondell submitted his lesignat'.on to President Cool Idge today as a member of the war finance corporation. (MIDGE SAYS E Swampscott, Mans., July 7 (AP) President Coolidge today author ized a denial of a story published In a New York newspaper that he had Instructed Secretary Mellon to Increase the efforts of the coast guard to break up rum running In the vicinity of Swampscott. The statement was made at White Court that although Mr. Coolidge dislikes to deny or con firm newspaper stories, the one published with regard to rum run nlng whs without foundation. It was Indicated that tho presi dent Is not concerned over unoffl cial reports that rum runners are standing off the coast awaiting an opportunity to land liquor on the rocky shore near the summer White Mouse. His view of the sit uation confirmed the report of const guard officials that there in little, If any activity on the part of rum smugglers at this point on the coast line. So far na the government's ef forts to curb rum smuggling are concerned the president believes it 1b a matter to be handled by the duly constituted officials and that the problem Is not one coming un der his personal direction. EDITORS TO VISIT CAVES Grants Pass, Or., July 7. A trip to tho Oregon Caves will be the feature of the annual gatie ing of the Oregon State Editorial asaoclatinn, which meets in this city on July 17 and 18. This trip will be made on Saturday, follow ing the business session of Friday. Cars are being i.rovided by the Grants Pass clamber of commerce for those who do not bring their own machines. After the trip through tho caves, the Oregon Caves Report company will provide dinner for the visitors. weedr, and otherwise In an attra live condition because of the ex penee and tho fact that he has nt returns from tho property. tl promised that tho new gasolln- station wilt be co attractive as to beautify the corner and that a stucco building will be erected on the property by the lessees. He said he had not sounded out th sentiment of r!l the residents in the district and did not know whether any protest would be mnfle, but lint the few he had li.llfd with l.al offered no obj? t-ion. Alderman Pnrvlno wanted ac Lion deferred '.mill a petition from the reuMon'o eauld he circulated us a test, bu: Mayor Gicy remind ed him that whil-. formerly a pet- lion was a Ii;cr1 heredity. It Is no innner requii ed sj.d that the qu:v tion was soMr"?' to tho comic;! ldnimn Daney and Paitnn tnged that the petition be giant ed. There was no opposition. Vte LillHllMl BOYS DEATH ACCIDENTAL SAY OFFICERS Frank Barrett Believed To Have Drowned In Attempt To Swim River To Save Long Walk. Sheriff oHoker and District At torney Helgerson of Polk county, with Sheriff Oscar Bower and Dep uty Sheriff Burkhart of Marion county, last nlgh,t conducted an in vestigation into the death by drowning of Frank A. Barrett, 18 years, whose body was found in a shallow riffle of the Willamette on July 4 after Barrett had been mys teriously missing since the evening of June 26. The Investigations were particularly carried on to ascer tain if there was any ground for the theory that Barrett may have met his death from foul play and been cast In the river by hie as sailants. One- Feature Xot Cl'nr From what has been ascertained so far indication point to the fact that Barrett met his death from accidental causes, although one feature of the discovery of Bar rett's body has not yet been ex plained away to the satisfaction of the officers. And that !s that Bar rett's body was found lying face downward In a few Inches o; water on a sandy stretch of river bot tom. As near as has been found (Continued on Page Six Portland, Or., July 7. Dr. Hu bert Work, secretary of the In terior, arrived here today on his tour of government aid reclama lion projects in the northwest. Governor Pierce of Oregon met the secretary here and attended a luncheon with him. From Port land, Secretary Work la to go to eastern Oregon to inspect projoetn there. Governor Pierce plans to accompany the party. Secretary Work is accompanied by Dr. El woe e Mead, commissioner of reclamation; Stephen T. Mather superintendent of national parks Dr. and Mr. Clarke, Judge John Carroll, genera 1 counsel of the Northwestern lines, in whose pri vate car th parry Is traveling. and Harry J. Brown, W. C. Cut ting and W. J. Donald, newspap-.T men. Plans for the day were sudden ly changed The proposed trip ct the party to Salem to confer with Governor Pierce, State Engineer Luper and S.ate Land Comlsslonor .lames Stewart was cancelled. The party established Itself in Hotel Portland anc telephoned to Gov ernor Pierc to come to Portland for the coherence. He arrived about 10:30 a. m. Discussion at this conference was relative to land settlement and other to-operative work by thc United States government mid Oregon. Late this nfternoon Secretary Work will leave his party and go to Salem to inspect the Salem In dian school, over which his de partment ha supervision. Rome, July 7 (AP) The police today returned to tho Vatican the precious objects stnlm Friday nlirht whfn thieves entered the treasury of St. Peter's. The stol en. artlclM were recovered after the arrest of Mariano Stella, for mer shoemaker and said to be res ponsible for the formation of the plot. The actual robbery was com mitted, the. poller a!d, by two pnintprs nho had worked In St. Peter'. The two p;iintrj are AntM'lgo Lardt and Hubiror.do Prima vera. Thrift men had hen working In St. ivtrr s end are under arrt. Htftlft 1 riP!Miel to hnv had tther urcnmfiilrf among the work men in the church. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1925 STAGE IS SET FOR TRIAL OF Bryan Scheduled To Reach Dayton Today To Aid In Prosecution of Evolution Case. Dayton, Tenn., July 7. (A. P.); William Jennings Bryan, con nected with the prosecution of John T. Scopes, charged with vio lating Tennessee's anti-evolution law, arrived here this afternoon. Mr. Bryaa was mot at the train by prosecution attorneys, defense attorneys, newspapermen and a host of Dayton citizens. He was escorted to the homo of IUcbur J Rogers, where ho will remain un til the conclusion of the evolution trial. As Mr. Bryan stepped from the train he was greeted by the click ing of cameras. A crowd rushed forward to greet hira and he was surrounded by his Dayton adrair- Dayton, Tenn., July 7. With tlie uncertainty removed ycater iay as to whether Dayton was to be the scene of the trial climax ing the evolution controversy, uayton looked forward to the ar rival today of William Jennings Bryan, who Ic one of the prosecu tion counsel In the Scopes trial to be held here Friday. Mr. uryan will be met bv other members of the prosecution who will attempt to prove John T. Scopes, Dayton teacher, guilty of violation of the state law prohibit ing thc teaching of theories of evo lution. Defense Move Fails. Counsel engaged for the defense of Scopes yesterday In CookeviHo. were denied their petition for a rederai restraining order to haU prosecution proceedings scheduled for Dayton. Federal Judge J. C. Gore held It his opinion that It was not within his jurisdiction to Interfere witn a case pending in a state court and expressed doubt that If it were jn his power it would grant the peti tion on the Btrength of the allega tions set forth. The constitution ality of the Tennessee statute. which Scopes Is alleged to have violated was not touched on by the judge. "Dnrrnw T)iia Wtdnivcdav Dr. John It. Noal, chief defense counsel, and John Thomas Scope; arrived early in the day fron cooKeviwe. No word came from them as to nny possible strategic move by the defense. Both np peared worn from their long drive over mounta'n roads and little was seen of them on the streets, From Chicago word came that Clarence Harrow would arrive in Dayton tomorrow. While attor neys for tli3 prosecution declined to dir.cuss whom they would plae on the witness stand to rebut tie testimony of the expert witnesses of tho defonee. reports gained credence that this move would 1, made Instead of a simple argument that such eviderte was not rel evant. BRAMWELI, SAYS Frank C. Bnimwcll, state su perintendent of banks, has file I hie bill of exceptions in circuit court to the judgment nRfssf;d against nlm bj Judge McMaban to pay a fine of 50 for contempt of court In connection with pri- ceedlngs brought by George Pul nam of Sabm to compel Urannvfll to retain headquarters of the stat banking department In Salem. ' In the bill of exception Hram- well alleges (ha the circuit cr.Ar had no Jurisdiction to require him to explain the grounds upon wine' he based his affidavit of preiudic directed agaimit Judge MeMabnn when he was endeavoring to h li the cause removed from Judge Mo Mahnn's court to that of uno'.Nrr Judge. He furtuer nUpgrq ti.if th court had no Jurisdiction v.tl t the filing of the affidavit li. pp.m on the question of whs:lic" ir not Bramwotl was guilty cf ont'.mpt o! ourL OHN SCOPES our Fleener Resigns; Fred Williams Is Likely Successor Damon Fleener last night resign ed as a member of the city coun cil from ward 6, and because of the possibility of a sharp contest over who his successor shall be the city council deferred for two weeks an election to fill the va cancy. Mr. Flcener's term began the first of tho present year. He gave as the reason for his resignation that his personal business demands ail of his time. Immediately upon the resigna tion being offered and accepted Alderman Hal D. Patton nominat ed Fred A. Williams, attorney and former member of the state pub lic service commission, to fill the vacancy. Tills brought Alderman Galloway to his feet. Mr. Galloway Is one of the two sixth ward alder men and declared that the people I Salinas, Cal July 7 A truck and, a passenger automobile, both equipped to carry liquor were found in a vacant lot today near the point at Moss Landing, where sbspected rum runners and a sheriff's posse engaged In a pistol battle last night, resulting In the death of N. H. Itader" a member of tho pofwo and the shooting of Sheriff W..A. Oyer and Harry Llv ingston, a state traffic officer. The sheriff's office also received word that an automobile fleeing from the scene of the shooting had been stopped in San Jose and three men arrested there. They were later released. The Presidio at Monterey denied reports that troops had been sent to the scene of the shooting. Sheriff Oyer was shot in the knee and Livingston through the leg. They are in a hoepital here. Tb finding of the empty truck and automobile Indicated that the ah ore crew of tho rum running out fit had been surprised before It was possible to land any liquor from a supposed big sailing boat off thc landing. There were no signs of any such craft today and it Is be lieved that It put to sea as soon as the shooting started. Posecmen were still on guard at the scene of the shooting today. Two of the euspeoted rum run ners were captured and brought here but only one name given out that of John May. HELD GENERAL New York July 7. (A. P.) Record breaking prosperity Is re vealed by bank statements Issued in answer tc a call of the cornp rtroller of the currency for the con dition of national banks us of Jim 30. Resources, deposits and undivid ed profits of tho inrge Now York institutions exceeded tho previous high totals of 1919 and 1920 'icon years. In Chicago, state and national barks showed combined Increaies in deposits of $127,000,000. The depoa!t of the National f'ltv brink, the largest In the co;n Iry exceed 1900,000,000 for thr first, time. The total in tho state submifeil in the comptroller In 0.903.915 a gain of more than $80,000,000 'liuoo April, 1NCE TO MARRY DANCER AND SCREEN ACTRESS Nfw Yoi'.i. Inly 7. J.ticlle M ilea, dancing and screen star an 1 daughter of tho Into Cliprl;n:i Castro. dict.iioi.H of Venezuela, h i been cait by Ralph W. Ince, mo tion piffture producer for Ihv rjle of his bt'lne. The girl's f.U pmoi hnr, Mw Joseph liiyce who lives h''re, ,m received word of the nnn.'MiiiC'j- nunt of the engagement In wr Angeles. Ince was dlvotced last wff-U In Los Angeles by a sister of Ani'.a Stewart. mai of that ward should bo heard be fore the council proceeds to elect a successor to Fleonor. "I have endeavored to Bound out the sentiment among the people In the ward," said Mr. Galloway, "but so many of them have been away from home that I haven't had much success. Howevor, I have found some who are opposed to Mr. Williams. While I have nothing against him myself, I be lieve the people should be given a chance to voice their opinion be fore the council elects." Because of Galloway's wishes in tho matter Patton withdrew the nomination of Williams, with the consent of Alderman Dancy, who had seconded It, with the under standing that he will again be nom Inated when the election conies up two weeks hence. CITY REFUSES TO ACCEPT OLD No obsolete cannon or other eo' called war trophies will be recelv ed from the government to be set up as monuments or ornaments in Salem eity parks. The city council last night adopted a report of the committee on public parks recom mending that the offer of tho gov ernmcnt to send some of those trophies to Salem be not accept ed. The council last night amended a report from the sewer commit tee by amending It to provide that the sewer projects for McCoy ave nue be extended a block farther south, which will extend It to Rrlxon street. In that form thc report was adopted. Ilemonstrancc IiCgal City Engineer Rogers reported that a remonstrance filed against the proposed Improvement of North Summer street from Mill to Market was sufficient to defeat the improvement. Remonstrances were received against tho improve ment of North 14th from Marlon to D street, and North Fourth from Norway to Columbia. Tho following petitions wore re ceived: Improvement of E street from Capitol to tho Southern Pa ciflc tracks. Improvement of South 24th street from the south lino of lot 6 to block 11 In Hlch mond addition. For a street light on Summer street between Union and Mill streets. For a ewer In thc alleys running north and south betwepn Jefferson and Sooth streets and between Cottage and Winter. Iilcn Is Compromised A resolution was adopted for the construction of a sidewalk on the west side of North Fourth street between Pino and Grove streets. A report of the ways and means committee was adopted accepting $1000 from the Deaconess hospital to satisfy the city's tnx Hen against lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 In block 12, Unl vernlty addition. Resolutions of the street com in It too were adopted approving pinna and specif ieal Ions for the (Continued on Pago Five.) Work On Silverton Armory Will Start Soon; Funds Now In Armed with a warrant on the city uf Silverton for $10,000. Charles Reynolds, finance officer for tho Silverton post of tho Sil verton American Legion, a p pen red boforo tho county court today and secured a county warrant, nlo for $10,000, for the purposo of con struction of a new armory at Sil verton. Reynolds stated lh;it the $10,000 appropriated by the state l available at any lime and would bo secuied just as soon as tho county money was forthcoming. "Wo expect to const nut the nrm ory tliid summer and to advertise for bids to be opened on July 2". That Is tho reason why we wl.hcd In secure all of the money at Hilf time," stated IteynobK "Tho American Legion. In vari ous ways acquired $2100 with which to buy n site for tho nrnioiy and purchased the old Tim Ijaven port place on Water street In sil DDIf P rpTTrT?T? rT?-TV1 J. AtlJJi Uliiliu STANDS FIVJ3 CENT8 ATTORNEY I N ME CASE GETSBIG FEE Supreme Court Decides Judge Corliss Entitled ToFull $25,000 Asked For Services. By an opinion or the supreme court today, written by Justice Coshow, modifying the decree of Judge H. II. Belt In the lowor court for Multnomah county In the case of the heirs of thc lite B. Henry Wemnie against the ap pellant Christian Science churches of Portland and tho 13. Henry Wcmine endowment fund and the new trustees of the fund, Judge Guy C. II. Corliss, who defended the fuud in the original litigation is allowed thc full fee of $25,000 claimed by him from tho fund. This gives him S7500 In addition to $17,D00 paid him by tho orig inal trustees of the fund. This is a modification of tho Holt decree In the lower court, which had to do with attorneys' fees, and which denied a further allowance to Corliss from the fund and held that he must look to thc churches for It. Belt hold that the oriuignnl opinion of the supreme court in the litigation prevented him from allowing it from thc fund. Tho Coshow opinion affirms the Belt decree in refusing to allow the new trustees to repudiate tho sale of the so-called "Clackamas prop erty" to tho Sanation Army. "Tho cross-appellants ( wht.ih includes the m!W trustees) seek to ignore thc sale to the Salvathin Army," savs the opinion, "and treat the White Shield Home In Portland as though it was still the property of the K, Henry Wenmie endowment fund, and the clnok.i mas property us belonging to the six churches. "Tho Salvation Army Is not a party to this litlgullon. The cou't cannot diveot the title of the Sal vation Army to tho White Shi-Md Home without giving It an oppor tunity to he heard. Thc Salvation Army Is an indispensable party to any lltigatf'in which would divest it of the tt'le It now has In and to the White Shield Home. In an opinion by Justice Rani I he supremo court affirmed Judge J. W, Ilnmi!t n of tho lower court for Jackson county in the caso of Frank S. Miller, appellant, against the Medfonl National bank and others, a suit to enforce on allege:! gift. MAN KILLS WIFE AND CHILD Minneapolis. Minn., July 7 (AP) Attacking member of his family with a largo knife while they were sleeping, Finest Franzen killed his wife and one of his children today and sent four other children Into tho street In their night clothes, injured and screaming for help. He then killed hlmeolf. I-'ranzen, evidently suddenly crazed, first attacked his wife. El len, 39. She was found dead In tho kit chen. In a bedroom on the second floor was found tho body of Mor ris, 9. their youngest child. When police arrived Franxcn lay dying In another bedroom with hl throat cut. verton, the place where Homer Davenport, America's great car toonist was brought up. "Tho armory will bo used for drill purposes for Co. I of Silverton and also will servo as a club room for tho American Legion post, iih well aw for headquaitors for the A merlea n Legion n ux I Ha ry. The O. A. It. in Silverton Is nlready provided with quarlors In the Knights of Pythias hnll," County Judge Hunt euggested to Hoy mill!, that Inasmuch as only half of Iho (axes have been paid It would be ensior for the county lo p iy but $Ti000 of tho $10,000 set :i.tldn at Ibis time and the balance a little later. But because of the de."ire to push early construction Reynolds umcd that It nil ho patd now If pnwdblc, and under tho con d It Ion the court agreed, atatlng (hat they would be able to manage iho finances In some manner. FAIR AND MILD In the Interior tonight and Wednesday. Cloudy on coaat. Continued mild. Gentle variable winds. ' Local: Max,, 76; min., 49; rnin, none; river, .-7; atmos., clear; wind, northwest ON TRAINS ANU NEWS u President Feels Proposed Revision of Levies On Earnings Should Be For Benefit of AH. Swampscott, Mass., July 7. (A, P.) President Coolidge lesls that tho noxt reduction in Uxev should be mauo on incomes all along the line. While leaving the actual prepa ration of the tax reduction bill la the hande of the house ways and. means commute and treasury of- cials, Mr. Coolidge hopes that it will provide for general relief anJ at the same time make possible the greatest amount oi returns in revo- nue. - To accomplish this end, Mr Coolidge thinks the maximum surtax should bo out at least to 25 per cent. If it is the opinion of experts, however, that a smaller maximum surtax late, even as low as 12 per cent would produce greater returns U the government and stimulate business, he would favor this rate.. Tho president also stands on hie previous pronouncement that the Inheritance lax should be greatly reduced If rot completely wiped. out. T tlMii.m,; nr.nflll o ilitrltifr fnna. 1925, were more active than dur- innr nnv nflt.ir .Illlin In Ultt hlfltnrV of the city, according to statistics based on the ni'mner or instru ments filed during the month. Tua number of Instruments filed te considered one of the best keys to business conditions known. Dur ing the past month there were 719. filort nt which 249 were deodfl and 172 were mortgages. The secouu nigncst June mars mado In tho city's history was mado In the banner yenr of 1920 during which ti boom condi tions were ai tlr height. In June. 1920. there wore 723 In tUruments fled. The figure for June 1024, wa 655, for June, 1923, 610. As usual, this year's June rtc ord fell below records for the months Immediately preceding. May's mark was 804; April's, 831. Contrary to usual custom, how ever, June's business this year was more active than business during any of tho firs.; throe months ot the year. Records for the first three months of 1925 aro Janunrr. 652; February, 668; March, 727. PIERCE EILLS SIX VACANCIES Governor Plovce today re appointed K. O. Hopson of Por land and W. II. Dennis of Carlton as member of tho state board of engineering examiners. As members of tho state chill welfare commission thc governof appointed Johnston Wilson ot Portland to succeed Alva Lei Stephens and Mary Bullock of Portland to succeed Julia A. Spen cer. Dr. n. T. Kims of Corvallta w;ii re-appotnte l a member of tho state livestock san'tary board. Mrs. John Van Zant of Portland was appointed t member of the nl'.Isory bn.ird tor tho state In dimtrial srhol for girls to succosd Mvs. F. 13. A Smith. VILLA-O'BRIEN BOUT OFF Tni'llnm!. Or., June 7. Ilohhf Hvnna, local f'Rlit promoter, diiy enllrcl vtt a propsed boi't hfr. next Friday nljrht hotwooii Pancha Villa and f onvny O'Hricn after r. eolvlnit a telegram from Villa. mnnaKcr In San Francisco ayln that VIIU had tlirco ulcerated toeth extracted ycaterday and WM too 111 to box. REDUCTION ON ALL JNGOiVIES IS ADVOCATED
