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Newspaper Page TextJiJL Po cl'rr.t CIRCULATION Dally average net pala circulation for month ending June SO, 1925 6729 Average dally distribution 7080. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 173 PORTLAND TO L HILL DRIVE Committee Appointed To Get Immediate Action In Collecting $135,000 Fund Pledged. PortWiml'3 sleeping share in the camiuugii for Oregon i.incu Mills, lncori)orateil, the proposed new linen mill Cur Salem, came to life yesterday morning ut a meeting of about 30 prominent Portland busi ness men in the offices of J. C. Aiubworth, president of tliu United States National bank of the me tropolis, with the result that a committee, was appointed under the admonition to get busy alii put over Portland's share of the proposition williin the next few days. Out of the $1:15,000 allotment given to Portland as it share ol the $1140,000 fund, $00,000 has been subscribed by big financiers of that city, and $80,000 remains to be subscribed. Meier Out. of Citv. Julius .Meier, chairman of the original Portland committee, has been out of the city for n consid erable time and as a result the movement lugged. The new com mittee is not to replace the old one but merely be of assistance, as the old committee included men of large affairs who found it diffi cult to give any great amount time or eoncentiaxd efforts to the drive, although they all were willing to subscribe liberally. At the meeting yesterday from Balem were T. H, nay, state treas urer; John It. McNary, prominent attorney, and Colonel V. U. Hnrl rum, who has been Interested deeply In the venture. Salem Onota Raised. Salem put over us share in the project several weeks ago by rais ing in excess of $300,000. Some $140,000 that has been talked of as being raised In eight of the Btnaller communities of tho valley was not raised, the campaign for that sum being postponed until the erection of the main mill here. That $140,000 was to be used for the erection of scutching mills in the towns raising the funds, but It Is believed there will he no dif ficulty In ' financing those mill' when the large mill is constructed and no a result efforts have been centralized now on securing the final $80,000 needed for the con traction ot the new mill. While no definite assurances were received from the new com mittee, it was agreed on all hands If the committee will get in with the same vigor that characterized the efforts of business men here, that the matter of raising the $80,000 In Portland Is one of n comparatively few days, In fact It Is believed with a concentrated drive In the right quarters the quota could be finished In Port land In a day. Men behind the movemnet are as optimistic as ever that the mill w'll be constructed and the ma chinery Installed In plonty of lime to handle next year's flax crop. ChUogo, July 22. (A. P.) Cigarettes may not nffect a wom an's morals, but they'll kill her beauty, advises Mrs. Huth Maure. president of the American Cosme ticians society. Owner of Baby Farm Sentenced To Serve Three and Half Years New York, July 22. Mrs. Helen OoiHen-Volk, proprietress of an East 86th street home for infants today was sentenced to 316 to 7 years in Auburn prison on a charge of baby sulxUltutlrn, to which she had pleaded guilty. A probation ofiicer's report submitted to thP court before sen tence wag pronounced, chnrnrjUr Izcd her as a "woman without conscience, '' who had strangled, frozen t death and otherwise dis posed of infants ic;t in hr nre. The" report said that inr. Feb ruary. 1 9 1 S, at Icat f3 infant? had died while in Mrs. Giv,n Volk's chnrce. It nlkptd Hint ir tr-a'ed children in any way if it meant financial benefit to h.e-,;lf that sbe destroy rn children for (moderation and ncn-payinir ba bies becauso they were Labilities Duel Theoiv Is Discarded For Murder Brawley, Cal., July 22. (A. P.) Indications that II. Kirk, for mer Honolulu photographer, was murdered with his hands tied, not shot in a duel and that rivalry over the affect ions of a woman may have prompted his slaying and the suicide of John Truden, whose body was found at Jacumba last Monday, were being scruti nized by police and sheriffs in vestigators today. A letter written by Truden be fore he killed himself told of a duel at twelve paces with .38 cali bre revolvers "purchased for the (Continued on Page Seven) WILBUR DENIES Mb POLICY CHANGE Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, during a tv-miuute stop here to day, requested the Associated Fresa to emphasize strongly the statement that no change is pend ing in the naval policy relative to the Pacific fleet. Although the Pacific fleet is now on route to Australia, that voyage, he made plain, does not indicate a change ot peltry. "If I gave the impression In Portland," he said, "that any change is pending, I am very sor ry. The 11 capital ships now in Pacific waters will continue in the Pacific as they nave for eome years, and the bases will be San Pedro, San Diego, San Francisco and Puget Sound as they are now. "The midshipman sfjuadron, composed of the New York, Ar kansas and Utah, now at Astoria, will return to the Atlantic and immediately go to navy yards for modernization." E Chicago, July 22. Prompted by Lite death of William Nelson Mc Glintock, Miss Isabel Pope, his fi ancee and one cf the central fig ures in the bitter legal fight over lii million dollar estate, may at tempt to obtain a widow's share of the fortune. She is understood to be ready to file a suit gainst Mr. and Mrs. William Daiiinj Shepherd, his fos ter parents, charging they con spired to prevent her marriage witJi the youth. At the same time she would file another suit to ob tain a widow's portion of the es tate, which under McClintock's will, goes to Shepherd with an $8000 annuity for Miss Pope. , TEXTILE MILLS CUT WAGES Lawrence, Mass., July 22. Three mills iu the Lawrence dis trict anonunced wage reductions of 10 per cent following the ex ample of the American Woolen company an:l other plants which Tave notice of v;oge cuts in the last few days. The mills postln notices today employ approximate ly 1000 operatives. "She bad no maternal affec tions, at least with respect to the babies of other people," the report said. "To her they were puppies, articles of merchandise to be bar tered or exchanged." Mrs. Gel.sen-Volk was arrestee! Lpfii May when she attempted to i?ive a strange bnby to William n,TOier, c. steam fitter's assistant, in ple.ee of the seven -month s-oM son he bad placed In her care. Judr Mf-Lityre :;dud her In court U:?.v v:hp.t sh did with the nt i.-sinT baby and the r?ply was "It died and I left it In a hallway n a saic'-."!." "Why did you d'i th. t?" askt-1 the (mi ;e. "Hn .-e one of the Matlv?? t rhn Ipit'iv n-s!;'d me to," was the My. - ID.-. TAX RECORDS 111 1 OPEN SEPT Revenue Collectors Instructed To Public Income Returns Then. Are Make Levy Washington, July 22 (AP) Income tax records for tho last year will bo opened to public In spection by all inLernal revenue collectors, September 1. Announcement of the date was made today by the Internal reve nue bureau, after it was advised that the records would be complet ed before that lime. Under a recent Buprcme court decision, the tax figures made pub lic by the collectors can legally be published In newspapers. Local Kefords OikmumI The law provides that the sta tistics shall be made available by tho respective collectors at their offices at a time to be selected by tho internal revenue bureau. The bureau itself, however, will not make any of the returns available in Washington. The bureau's announcement sold no restriction would be placed around the record during any work ing day for 30 days after the books are thrown open September 1. At the end of the thirty dny period, the time In which the pub lie may examino tho records will bo rogulatid by each collector "with a view to preventing undue Interference with tho official work of his offieCi" OjR'ii 3 Days Kadi Week "Following this 30 day period," the statement said, "the lists must bo open for public examination at least three days a week and dur ing such days shall be available to the public at leaat three hours a day. The days and the hours will be selected by each collector of In ternal revenue, and due publicity to their regulations will be given by the Individual collectors. "Each collector will designate an employe to supervise the Inspec Hon of the lists by the public. It will be the duty of this employe to see that tho lists are not torn or mutilated, to prevent Any person from removing them from the col lector's office and to Bee that no one monopolizes the lists to the ex clusion of others." Louisville, Ky., July 22. (AP) Micky Shannon, Chicago light heavyweight, died In the arena before hundreds of boxing fane here last night at the end of the fourth round of his bout with Harry Fay of Louisville. When Fny drove him to the ropes and so weakened him with head and body blows he collapsed and fell through tl'e ropes, breaking his neck when his bead hit the floor. Fay immediately was arrested on a technical charge of man slaughter but was released on $1000 bonds. The Louisville box er was depressed over the acci dent but refused to comment ex cept (o express his regret over the outcome. Hy concidence last night's fa tality marked the second time that a Micky Shannon had been killed during a boxing bout. Ray McMillan, Krostburg, Md.( heavy weight, known in the ring as Micky Shannon, a few years ago. met the same fate while boxitic Al Huberts of New York. TIRE COMPANY AGAIN ORDERSJVIDEND OF $4 New York, July 22 (AP) Di rectors of tho fioodiich, company, tiro manufacturers today author ized a resumption of dividends on the common stock at the annual rate of $1 n share, through declar ations of a $1 quarterly payment. So dividends have ben paid on the issue since February 1021. when n distribution of $1.50 a share wan made. Increased net earnings which In the first h.ilf nf 111?: totaled $7, 100,615. ns complied with $2,755, 017 In the same period last year. enabled the eonipmy to report Its common stock to a dividend basis. SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1925 EVOLUTION IS ATTACKED IN WASHINGTON Effort Made To Prevent Payment of Teachers Who Taught Doctrines Contrary To Bible. Washington, July 22 (AP) Treasury officials were ordered by a local court today to show cause why the salaries of school officers hero should not be withheld be cause of the teaching of scientific doctrines alleged to -reflect on the bible. The defendants are Frank White treasurer of the United States; James It. Lusby, disbursing officer of the District of Columbia and Daniel J. Donovan, auditor of tiie District of Columbia. They were obtained by the District of Colum bla supreme court on the petition of Loren H. Wlttner, a taxpayer, to appear and show cause on July 28. Statute Is Cited The suit brought by Wittner was based on a provision In tho hist District of Columbia appropriation bill. In that bill, said Wlttner' petition, congress provided that no part of the money appropriated should be used to pay tho salary of "any superintendent who per mits tho teaching of .... or of any teacher who teaches ... . disrespect for the Holy Bible," Under that provision, It Is sought to stop the pay of Frank W. Unl lou, superintendent of schools In Washington and W. P. Hay, head of the department of biology and chemistry. A list of examples is given by Wlttner In his petition ns Instances In which Hoy taught and Ballou permitted him to teach things described as conflicting di rectly with statements made in the bible. (Continued from page one) FAILS TO STAND E Paris, July 22. (AP) The French government has begun consideration of the German se curity note, presented to the al lies on Monday and will get In touch with other countries in an effort to determine the policy to follow concerning negotiations with the German government for a security pact guaranteeing the western frontier of Germany. Should it appear necessary to call a conferee j for negotiations It could be useful in the French view only when an agreement had been reached on practically ull points. A favorable Impression made here by Foreign Minister Ilrl and'a summary of the German note was not maintained nfter a perusal of the text when It was made public. The Journal declares that In stead of diocuesion of security pact the German note opens a de bate on revision of the pence treaties. The Matin is of Jrio same opinion. PRAY FOR SALVATION OF CLARENCE DARROW Mandeville, Lb., July 22 (AP) Prayers for tho conversion to Christianity of Clarence Darrow, o defense attorney In tho John T. Scopes trial, which ended yesterday In Dayton, Tenn., was offered lost night at the state nssembly of the Baptist Toung People's Union here The prayer was given at the aupc gosilon of K. D. Solomon, state secretary of the organization nnd hope was exprewed that Darrow might be won ns St. Paul was won. At the conclusion of the prayer, n chorus of "nmens" rang out. INDICTED FOR BLACKMAIL Xow York, July 22. (A. P.)- Indictments alleging bin kn.'tll i'.nd extortion were returned t dfty agaln.n Philip Si''!-I, who It Is nll";;ed, dntundul 000 with thr;nu to hill Kdwi.nl W. Brown ing, a wealthy ral cr-tate bml.er. Hnnvnlnn recently advri'l-.-d pjr a girl eompani' n for h'.r, ad.ted djught?r, I) Tutby. Surrender and Confession Of Brother Now Only Hope Of Saving Condemned Man Chicago, July 22 (AP) Only tho surrender and confession of Robert Scott can save hla brother, Russell, from the noose, dangling ready for his execution on Friday morning. Unless Robert returns. Governor Small has Indicated there will be no further reprieve to snatch Rus sell from the gallows as he was saved last Friday. Russell In the county Jail, watches the clock mark the pass ing of his remaining hours of life, bases his only hope on his brother. The return of the brother also Is the objective of the frenzied ef forts of Scott's relatives nnd friends. Robert's whereabouts are unknown. He was Indicted with Russell for the murder of Joseph I la ure r, a drug clerk, In a holdup, but never apprehended. A message signed with his name, which reach ed Governor Small last Thursday caused the week's delay In the ex ecution, was thought to be a hoax. Radio appeals to Robert will be made by Scott's wife, nnd by his nged father. They will augment wive pleas sent by the fwnlly to President Coolidge urging tho exe cutive ak the governor for len iency. A natlon-wldo campaign to find the niffwlug brother Is planned by a Detroit newspaper which hns ask od that Russell bo given a long re prieve while tho search Is made. (Continued on Page Seven) HELD, BROTHER Arthur Wheeler, Indian, was ar rested today by Deputies Sam Burk hart nnd Beit Smith on the Lai Hlng hop ranch north of the city. Wheeler was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. It being alleged he had stabbed bis brother Frank Wheeler with whom he had been living. The bitter's son Lau rence Wheeler, Is the complaining witness. The brother, however, denied to tho officers that his brother had slabbed him, pulling his shirt back from his rhest and showing cuts on his chest, but averred that the cuts were caused by his using Insuffi cient enre In crawling through a barbed wire fence. The warrant came about through a visit of five other Indians to the sheriff's office two days ago, when they alleged a bad Indian was inak Ing trouble, that he had stabbed his brother and also that he had krfoekcd one of the complaining Indians down with his fist. The Indians repaired to the of flee nf Justice of the Pence Hinall where the warrant was sworn out. Apparently, even If he was stab bed, the brother Intends to protect the man under nrrest by tho story that he received his Injurlen from crawling through a barbed wire fence. The five Indians who com plained It Is stated, were merely visitors passing through nnd their present whereabouts Is not known. What disposition will be made of the ease remains to be een. Preliminary heating has been set for July 21. Washington, July 22 f A P) A prediction that Tnele Ham wilt be presented by mother nnturo with a fair sized continent In the nild Paolfic wni uliied tnd iy to the pro ftiflen of dNrninn and conjecture Mint hns 1"! lowed recent seinnilc dhfurbniirc. Kfluin Fairfax Naulty, of New York who hifl Mudled eaith move ment fur many ye;rre, s:i!d he was com I need thnt tho ll;r.ailnn Is lands gi ain.i lly a ud oji '.!' were being pn-hed upward nnd within n f;ene.;t:i'n would ro'niirife a hiyb nod dry trnl'ory h hit-go as J.ip an. Onlv the niks of r. great t.iti'xe n-ir Ji.;e ahove the siirfiirp nf the r,( ;,t Maw.ill. he f.'iiil. hut a eon Ktiint fii rzim;'' prniTi at work In the hed df the liif;- ir.iy l,f pxprr-" ,j )0 pn.'h tli. e p'.'in con stantly upwai d. RUStT. SCOTT: HELEN BULLARD Millionaire Is Deluged With Offers New York, July 2'2. Leopold Schepp, millionaire philanthropist, received a convincing demonstra tion today ot the interest held by the public in the subject of phil anthropy. liy telegram, tcicnhonc, messen ger and mail, Mr, Schepp received replies to his request yesterday lor suggestions as to how he might best ditsribule the remainder ot his surplus. Mr. Schepp has made It a point to maintain personal supervision of his charitable activities, but h- announced today that he would leave for his country home in Con necticut. His augmented but still over-worked office force would like to do the seme. Washington, July 22 ( AP) SubHtantlal accord has been reach ed by the powers on a 'orniula to deal with tin whole Chinese prob lem. Formal acquiescence In some ele ments of the program still Is lack ing, but the Peking diplomats are expected to be in a position to sub mit the formula to the provisional govern men t of China at an early date. The settlement to bo proposed will Include the Washington con ference plan for revision of Chin ese customs ftittiefl nnd creation of a commission of Inquiry into ex tra territorial questions; nnd also tho British proposals for a Judi cial Inquiry Into the responsibility for loss of lives in the recent Sluing hnl rioting, ' Tho plan for dealing with the Shanghai Incident Is expected to be contingent upon participation by tho Peking government In tho ex tra territorial Inquiry nnd agree ment by that government to be bounrl by the findings of tho In vest igatlons. The diplomatic repr -ent.. liven of the power In Peking will pre sent the plan n a reply to Ihe last note from the Chinese forelen office, which MibmlUc.t demands hot h ns to tint Shiingh.il Incident and as to rx! i n terii'orial relin quishments In China by the pow ers, I "niler the Washington confer ence, plan, the Chhiesn government t! e.Mium hly v. nuid Kmc the for mal call fn-- the nieellnyf, both for the cii.'innm revision conference and the cnn.ml.""l''ii "f Inquiry into extra territorial matters. PRICE THREE CENTS S&nm,nvhu cbntS Washington, July 22. (A. P.) Federal prohibition officials pre pared to buckle down today to their most difficult problem in the sweeping re-organization selec tion of men to shoulder the re sponsibility iu the districts pro vided In the new plan of opera tion. Bulging files of thousands of letters of appl cation and recom mendation including a number from members of the senate and house awaited consideration at a conlerence called yesterday to meet today of the dry heads on the return to the capital of Assist ant Secretary Andrews of the treasury, creators of new enforce ment machine. With Hie first appointment yet lo be definitely decided on nnd ap plications mounting daily, some believe it will be nt least another month before the plan that ut first was proposed could be put in operation by August 1, can be fairly well completed. One factor supporting this prediction is the fact that several hundred em ployes at prohibition headquarters who are to los : their Jobs In the re-organi.atlon nave not yet re ceived Ihe required month's notice. Selection of tho federal fldmln iatrators apparently was Ihe one big tf.k confronting officials to day, for announcement was made Hint the revised regulations cover ing industrial alcohol had been completed. The department of lust Ice at the same time was working to determine the cx'i boundary lines bet ween federal il Istricts No Time for Debates With Anyone On Any Subject Says Bryan Da yum, Tenn., July 22 ( AP) William Jennings Bryan In a state meat lesued In-re early today an nounced that bo would not comid er a debate on any subject with any person. j 1 In made the announcement he mild, "In order to save mymif from answering mnmMou letters." "I have no time for such meet ings," tho statement continued. "I h.ive iiHiemlcd my lecturing ami I have literary work that demands attention." "Kerenlly several of my imlto t Ions ha vo inent titneil M r. niTow as my opponent," he 5.1 id, "I have had a number of Invit il d'tis ft on) ut heist ,t and ngno-it it s." "Tim nttliudu of the atheist 01 tho ngnotlc l.s so completely tin tagonLitlc to the nttftude of n bo- CLOUDY TONIGHT And Thursday. Moderate temperature. Gentle variable winds. Local: Max., 8l; min., 53; rnJn, none; river, -1.4; atmos., cloudy; wind, south. ' , BAY GITY MAN IS APPOINTED ASSUCCESSOR Tillamook Man Decides To Retain Senate Seat; Appointee To Succeed Garland Unnamed, Governor Pierce chalked up a new development in the stale fish. commission controversy that haa beeu stirring Oregon politics for the past several mouths this morn, ing when he announced the ap pointment of J. S. Hayes of Bay City to succeed Senator A. G. Beala of Tillamook, resigned. The governor's announcement was the first intimation of the ac tioii to be taken by Senator Beala in accordance with the opinlou handed down last week by Attor ney General Van Winkle that Bealg could not hold the offices of state senator and fish commis sioner at the same time. By reason of the same opinion the appointment of Senator Sum Uaiiund of Linn county to the commission is also void. Senator Garland has announced that ha will relinquish his scut on the commission,; but the name of his successor will not be given out until the governor and Garland have had an opportunity to cou er. Senators Ilcnls and Garland were appointed to tho fish com mission us the result of un agree ment between themselves and Sen ator Kddy of Douglas county, on, one hand, nnd the governor on the other during the Inst session of tha legislature, whercny the three senators wcro to select the ap pointees to the fish commission. At a post-seflHion conference here the senatorj were unablo to agree upon appointees outside their own number, and Garland and Beats agreed to accept the appointments themselves. Senator Garland has confirmed the events leading up to the ap pointments in explaining hlg ac ceptance of the appointment. FLAX EXPERT IS Lester J. Dewey, agriculturalist in the employ of the United States department of agriculture and considered the greatest flax expert in the united States, and Profes sor G. It. Hyslof, agronomist, member of tho faculty at O. A. C, were In Salem this morning. Arrangements have been made to have both Mr. Bewey and Pro fessor Hyslof npenk nt Aumsvllle tonight, a special public meeting being called for the purpose. The meeting begins nt 8 o'clock. Mr. Dewey has been sent to the Willamette valley under special Instructions from the federal de partment of agriculture to inspect the Willamette valley with a view to determining its possibilities along the line of flax production. Tonight both speakers will dis cuss proper methods of producing flax, and will denl with tho pos sibilities of the flax Industry la the Willamette valley. lievcr in the bible Christianity that wo are not likely to convert each other nnd vm likely to convert members of tho audience. More over, having heard Mr. Darrow, t am not at all disposed to Invite Christians to cmne to a meeting whero they would hear their rw llglon slurred (Mid sneered nt. We has freedom nf speech and can draw crowds of his own. "I shall leave him, therefore to arrange for his own meetings and I shall speak where ever I do speak for the presentation of our side to tho,e wh-i enro to listen. The re ligious nutation Is now so acute that I shall neither receive com pensation nor allow admission to be charged when 1 defend the Christian faith."