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Newspaper Page TextC aoitalJl Journal CIRCULATION Dally average net pa la circulation for month ending June 30, 1925 CLOUDY TONIGHT And Sunday In wes variable winds, temperature, gentle Ixca1: Max., 72; mln., 67; rein, none; river, -1.4; atmoa., -eloudy, wind south weat. 6729 Average daily distribution 7089. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 176 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925 HAHY PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS iui 9 1 a - I I I I -li r mm 1 SEEK AC TO GET RIVER CLEAR HER Hawley Says He Will Try To Get Work Rushed; Additional $10,000 To Be Requested. Influence will be brought to bear to Increase the speed with which the government project of clearing the "Willa.ni otto river channel ie progressing, It was stated thifl morning by Congressman W. C. Hawley, who made a trip down the river yesterday for the purpose of Inspecting the river channel. "We're going down to Portland next week to take the matter up with the federal department that has charge," Mr. Hawley stated, "I can't see any reason to believe we can't get the work speeded up." JU'uuost Another Dredge It is understood that the feder al appropriation for clearing the channel this summer amounts to 134,000. Hawley believes that if necessary an additional $10,000 emergency fund will be furnished. Hawley will ask that the Matalo-msf-Uiiited States government (Continued on rage Nine) Government regulation of liquor in urittsn Columbia is not satis factory to the citizens there in the opinion of William S. Lev ens, Oregon state prohibition commis sioner, who today returned from a convention .of Northwest associa tion of sheriffs and police at Victoria. "The same growing pains arc being experienced there that Ore gon experienced In state prohi bition days," said Levcns. "In those days. It will be recalled, each Individual was allowed to Import so much liquor per month. and this was abused because some persons who didn't drink would allow drinking friends to use their names and ship In more liquor by express than they were entitled to. The dry Canadian provinces are having their troubles just as Oregon bad them, and In the wet provinces the liquor stores are not giving satisfaction. I am more of the opinion, since attending the convention, that liquor cannot be regulated. It must be absolute prohibition or the old absolutely wet system The United States has the right system and we are going to win, for public sentiment Is growing in our favor. "However. I saw no open drink ing In British Columbia and men are arrested and fined there for drunkenness as they nre here " LEVENS ASSERTS LIQUOR SYSTEM IN B. C. FAILURE Salem Parking Plan Darned Nuisance, In Opinion "I'd call It a darn "nuisance," D. M. Culver, for the pnM 50 years a resident of Snnta Itnrbarn, told a reported at the Lone Star auto camp in the north end of Salem lnrt night, answering a question as to his opinion of the back-in park-' Ing system. Mr. Culver has been a. resident of Santa Barbara for 50 years, nnd wan present in the city, during the recent earthquake'there He arrived in Salem yesterday af ternoon on a trip north, and todny went on to Portland. He hng traveled over nearly alt of California, ho states, inrludine the larger cltls. nn-1 nr-ver saw a pjptem rr parking lil;e th'it in ex If'onco in S.i I mi until hp c.ime to Oregon. Ho did notice cam Impli ed to the curb In a fw towns along the way nftpr eroding the Oregon line. ( "But I'd nwr seen it thai way i Prohibitic Enforce ent Plan Cr j lged Washington. Jul 2 (A. P.) Inauguration of -i ' tew prohi bition enforcements' i not only has been postponed but several Im portant changes have been made In the proposed redisricting of the country for enforcement pur poses. Evidence that the reorganiza tion had been sidetracked only temporality however, was furn ished today by a letter sent by Secretary Andrews of the treasury notifying all field officers of the prohibition unit that the present appointment of unclassified serv ice employes will be terminated not lator than October 15. That will end their jobs unless they are reappointed. The (late of September 1 has tentatively been fixed for making (Continued on Page Nine) SEEK THIRD BODY wnnri k BiiwoTrnu UULL mIDILKI Bniwley, Cnl., July 25 (By As sociated Press) Search for a third body in a marsh near Jacumba, checking of the movements of a prominent busines woman of the town of Imperial, who Is believed to have known both men when they lived in Maryland, and the revelation that Henry Kirk had heen an expert pistol shot nnd an instructor nt the naval academy at Annapolis, were today's high lights in the investigation in the deaths of Kirk nnd John Trudcn which oc curred ntomst a week ago. Truden's body was found last Monday, a pistol bullet through the temple and a note in the pocket In dicating that he had killed Kirk In a duel the previous Saturday, com mlttlng suicide himself later. The note Paid there had been bad blood between the two for six years David Kirk, brother of one of the dead men, and his father, ar rived here lost night from San Francisco. With their coming the first direct light was thrown on the death mystery which has baf fled Imorlal valley authorities for nearly a week. A slip of paper was located In Henry Kirk's handbag, nnd written on it were the words "John Tru dcn, Camp Holablrd, Maryland." Doth of the dead men had been In the military service during the war. Henry Kirk wan stationed at Citnip Mead, Maryland, his brother said. ' Kirk's father and brother de clared that Henry was an expert shot with pistol and that he had been a piatol Instructor at the na val academy at one time. Both expressed the belief that Henry Kirk had been murdered and Da vid Kirk said: "We will Investigate this cruel murder until the true facts of the case are revealed. 435 Drown at Seoul. Tokyo, Japan, July 25. (A. P.) An official report on the recent Korean flood, which centered aorund the capital city of Seoul said 436 persons were drowned and 215 are missing. TUe Tokyo munficpalily and the chamber of commerce are soliciting relief fund?. of Visitor before in my life," he declared. "It looked like a darn humbug to me. In addition to his travels In California, Mr. Culver has spent three months in Arizona. 'Just coming through town on my way out here to camp I had to stop once and give a fellow time to get straightened around while he was trying to hack Into a park' Ing pice. I saw sllfflit traffic con ge.tiinirt, that held things up for i minute or two, twice while I was passing thvoucrh the downtown dls trlct. I don't believe a nytem like ;hii would work in a large city .mywuy I nvr?nw it In one" California-like, Culver Is looking fnf it I rain hrup within a few lay-", nlthytieh Inforinrd that tlmre hns bffMt no rain for a month and a, half. He experts to return to i.-.nt i U r. !.ir.i within a few we'ks t declares. Sflff SAYS N HAS CRAZED H M Condemned Slayer Seeks To Escape Noose Thru Insanity Plea; Alienists Are Called. Chicago, July 25. (A. P.) Cell madness will be the plea ol Russell T. Scott in his effort to escape the gallows from which he has been saved twice within a few hours of the death march. Alienists who testified for Na than Leopold Jr., and Richard Lceb,- kidnaper-slayers of Robert Franks, will be called upon In the effort to prove Scott is suffering trom "prison shock.' The defense iheory will be that his mind has become affected by his fifteen months confinement and the har rowing experiences of two death watches in the shadow of the nooee. During the ten days allowed them before the sanity hearing set by Judge Joseph David for August 31, William ScotL Stewart, Scott's attorney will assemble psyehla- (Contlnucd on Page Nine) WIFE ACCUSES IANT New York, July 25. (A. P ) Hugh McQuillan, pitcher for the New York Giants was today made aeienuant in a separation action filed by his wife, Mrs. Nellie T McQuillan of Elmhurst. Mrs. Mc- Quilan named Miss Helen Goehbel Qulllan named Miss Helen Gocbbel a beauty contest, as "Miss Bronx'' as the other woman involved. Affidavits filed today state that Mrs. McQuillan would have brought a suit for absolute di vorce but from the fact that she Is prevented from doing so by her religion. She Is a Catholic. MrB. McQuillan declared that her husband's success in baseball was a factor In the disruption of their married life and that he had been transformed from a home- loving, considerate husband, to "a brute and habitual drunkard." They were married at Wor cester, Mass., April 27, 1917. "During the first five years of our married life," Mrs. McQull lan's affidavit says, "our marital relations were of the happiest na ture and my husband deported himself as a gentleman. In fnct his deportment was without blemish. "When ho was with tfie Boston baseball club bis salary was $4,500 a year for a five months season. He was always a gentle man and spent his time with me I truly believe that we were per fectly happy. Then he was sold to the New York baseball club, the Giants His salary as a pro fessional player began climbing until now for five months servicer he receives $9,000. In addition to this he receives his share for participation In the world series I have been Informed that his share of the proceeds of the series has ben In the neighborhood of $13,000 for the past three seasons. " TWO YEAR OLD GIRL IS BURNED TO DEATH Portland, Or., July 25. (A. P.) A report today from Heppner, Or., Bays the two-year-old daugh ter of -Mrs. Lcroy Jones, who was visiting relatives nt Heppner, wa. burned to death In a fire whir); broke out In the room in which the child had been loft for a nap. The fire occurred Thursday of this week. Mrs. Jrn?s and her little daugh ter were on a visit from their home In Washington and were, spending the day at the home nf Mrs. Jones' sister, Mrs. J. O. Tur ner. The cause of tho fire was not 'l:finteiy known, but was supposed to have been due to the child play ing with matches. The first th mother knew of the fire was when )ic heard the cries of the child. PORTLAND TO RAISE QUOTA THIS MONTH Drive To Complete Linen Mill Fund of $80,000 To Be Launched Mon day Says Report. The drive to secure the $80,000 still needed to put over the $135, 000 quota of Portland in the pro poBcd new linen mill here, will start off with a bang at promptly 2 o'clock next Monday afternoon and will continue until the money is raised. That It will be raised wtihin a short time, Is the assur ance sent over the wire trom Port land. 1 -. Decision to start the drive Mon day was reached nt a meeting of the special drive committee (or Portland at the Portland chamber of commerce yesterday afternoon. The following members of the Portland committee were present: George W. Joseph, state sena tor. Emery Olmstead, president ol tho Northwestern National bank. W. L. Thompson, vice-president of the First. National bank. Nathan Strauss, of Fleishner, Mayer & company. Allen Lewis, of the Allen & Lewis wholesale grocers. Julius Meier, head of the Meier & Frank company. In addition to the members of the commute i there a number of other prominent Portland men were present who will assist In the drive. Determination was expressed by all of the members of the commit tee that the start of next Mon day's drive would be of short du ration and end in a quick success. Local men interested In the pro ject say there is little or nor doubt from the nature of the men on the special Portland committee that the drive will be a success and that It Is only a question of a little time before th fulfillment of the linen mill dream will unfold. Washington, July 25 AP) One of the largest paving contracts ever entered Into by the federal government was announced today with the V. R. Dennis Construc tion company of Sacramento, Cal., providing for laying of about 20 miles of aiphaltlc concrete paving In Yosemlto national park, cover ing El Portal road and roads on the floor of the Yofiomlte valley. It Is estimated this paving will cost between $550,000 and $fi00,000. Another paving contract, cover ing about 18 miles of ronds of the Crater Lake national park, Oregon, has been given to Warren Con struction company of Portland, at an estimated cost of $213, 4H0. Other contracts let Included: For work on the west side sec tion trans-mountain road, Glacier National park, 12 nillep. cost $&69, 145 to Williams and Douglas, Ta conia. Work on Two Medicine roads, Glacier park, seven or eight mile, most $fii5,000 lo Melrhert Con Ht ruction company, Lewistown, Mont. Oilier contracts for the Rocky Mountain National park, Colorado, and Mount Riilnler National park, Washington, soon will be let, A total of f 1 86,000 In being ex pended this senpon In surveys and Improvement of the road" In the Grand Canyon national park. Tho bureau of public road k Also making surveys of the road In the Hawaii national park. It (s expected that portions of tho hifchw.iy extending from the middle fork of tho entrnjice of St quola national park to the giant forest will be completed this sea son at a cost of approxlintel' $229,000. The highway will con nect famous big trees In the giant forest of the Bequola national park with the General Grant park to the north. In the Yellowstone nationul paik $130,000 la being expended on the reconstruction of roads. Newport In Gala Attire for Brilliant Society Wedding mm f gilt ;im-SitVi .Newport, R. I., July 25. (A. P.) Miss Muriel Vanderbilt and Frederick Cameron Church were married here this- afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Only the immediate members of the two families and a few intimate friends witnesses the TODD SIGNS SELF AS NEXI SEATTLE MAYOR ON POSTER Kelso, Waeh., July 25. (A. P.) Printed posters signed "A. Ruric Todd, next mayor of Seat tle,' this morning announced to the citizens of Kelso and Long view that the former Kelso mayor and present claimant to the of fice will speak on the street to night In Longview. Todd's topic, says the poster, will he the Port of Kelso. The poster reads: "Saturday. July 25, 8 p. m., free. Second nroadfire. Timber dollars are not necessarily wooden money. Ilctpfcog broadcasting nt livoadway and Commerce, Long view. Subject: Separate thin own territory from the Port of Kelso, or Longview and build tho vision port for there are many shekels at the poekets of thy founder. Speaker, A Ilurlc Todd, himself, next mayor of Seattle Come early. 5,000 people expected. 'Life Is a strange problem and few got It ' live.' A. nurlc Todd." Numerous reports have been heard that Todd aspires to he governor of the state of Washing ton This Is the first Intimation that he hopes to he mayor of Seattle. Where to locate Port of Kelso wharfs and Improvements Is the main topic of conversation In Kelso and Longview these dnys and Interest Is heightening as the date of the election, August I, ap nroaehes At that election the voters will decide whether the development should he located nt the Oregon Wav site on the Columbia river, near longview, recommended by A. It. Roberts, or at the Carrolton ehnnnel site at the mouth of the Cowfltr river, which seems to be most favored In Nelson. Roberts Is an engineer brought here by Todd and the rhnmber of. commerce a vear annd a half ago to make a survey and recommendations for the port. Todd and the Kelso chamber have never approved of the recommendations be made for development at the Oregon Way site. JUDGE IS WITNESS IN OWN FEDERAL COURT San Francisco, f'nl., July 25. (A. P.) IVdcral Judge John S I'iirl' Uli:c v.-e.s sworn as a wltnes;: in his own court ye-tterdny by at- tornevs for n Volstead law offenRO, but the Jud'e sustained n objec tion to the teatlomny sought nn went back to the heneh. My tBklng the wltnem eland Judge Partridge established I nreeedent In hl court. John CI 1 1 1 In, who wrote the I mi re that he was now In the state hospital at Stockton "irom ortnn Ing Utile too much of my own stuff," nought In the letter to take the blame for the Volstead law violation of which a Jury con victed bis wife after the Judge re fund to read the letter Into the records. WHERE MURIE.L VANPEKBlLa'- PEgQMEBRlDEr ceremony, although many of the socially elect attended the recep tion held at Reachniound after wards. Newport, R I , July 25. New port, haven of America's socially Navy Officer Kids Wilbur Gets Rebuke San Francisco, Cal., July HQ. (A. 1.) The Examiner today says a young officer attached to the Twelfth naval district head quarters hero answered a tele phone call at the office during the recen t visit of Sccre t a ry W i 1 b u r iiiu the following conversation truuspired: 'Twelfth nuval district head quarters speaking." 'Thle is Secretary Wilbur talk ing. I would like to speak " 'Who tlid you say It was?" 'Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Connect me with " "Como again Napoleon. What It you want?" "This is Curtis D. Wilbur. Let me talk to " So thla is Wilbur la It? Well, I wouldn't brag about It If I were you." Whereupon the officer hung up the phone chuckling at the way he had answered the pnuedo secre tary. Fifteen minutes later he was called before a superior and re quested to explain why he had been Impudent to Secretary Wil bur, the KXhmlner says. Chicago, July 25. (A. P.) The government won today Its suit begau by the late Henry C. Wal lace, as secretary of agriculture when Ulfitrlci, Judge Cllffe grant !l a writ of mandamus dlrcctfn; some of the principal parking com panics. Swift & company, Wilson & company nnd Cuuahy & com pany lo open their hooks to the do partment of agriculture. EXCESS PROFIT E Philadelphia, Pa., July 2G. (A. P.) Complete denial of the gov eminent charges that it had re ceived an excess of upwards of $11,000,000 in war time ruiitntcM. was filed In tho federal ilislrlct court today by tho lietlibhen shipping corporation. DEMPSEY AGREES TO HARRY GREB FtCltl Kenton. H.nrbor, Mich., July 2G. Kloyd FltiHlmmons, Henton Har bor fight promoter, announced to day that he has obtained Jack DempMT'a oral ao-roemenit to a bout with Harry Oreb, middle weight flhamplon at Fltswimmons Michigan City, Intl., open air arena probably September 19. v Jl W . I f VIIIUIV Ml : i elect, was In gala attire today for the wedding at four o'clock this afternoon of Miss Muriel Vander bilt, daughter of one of the coun try's wealthiest men and Frederick C. Church, Boston Insurance man. (Continued on Page Nino) L New York, July 25. (A. P.) Gloria Gould Is going to run an ultra smart Broadway motion pic ture theater operated exclusively by women ushers, ticket eellera and musicians. She Is the young est daughter of the late George lay Gould, railroad magnate, nnd the wifo of Henry A. Ulshop Jr., a broker. Dcsides mothering a Utile girl alto has heen dancing in a cabaret. conducting aesthetic duucliif: classes and vritlng for newspapers and mcfiaznicH, The theater will be one of tho smallest first-run houses with six hundred reserved seats at 2 Long run presentations will be emphasized. Miss Gould s appointment as lirector came as the result of a meeting with the theater manager at a dunce. She expressed various ideas on what motion pictures should he nnd he was so Impressed that he arranged at once to turn n theater over to her when com pleted. Mies Gould's mother, F.ditli Klngdon, a legitimate actress, left the atage to be married. "One of my greatest ambitions whloh I got from my mother Miss Gould said, "was to have a (.mall, Intimate, smart theater. RIFF1ANS FLEEING; LOSSES ARE HEAVY Fez, French Alororco, July 25 -(A. P.) An official comniunl iue anys the French have clnnred tho western part of the Oeurgim river valley of Abd-el-Krim n Kif flan Invnde-.s. The enemy tribes men are fleeing after heavy losses. Valuation Problem Is Greatest Obstacle To City Water Plant Some progress is being made In i negotiations between the city uixl the Salem Water company lowurlj the poHslhlo taking over of the walor system by the city, accord ing to Mayor Gicy today. A conference was recently held, attended by the mayor and sovcrul cuiincllmen, nlso by Paul Wallace and C. A. Park of the water com pany, at wiiitk the subject was discussed at some length. The main obstacle Is that of fixing a valuation on tho properly. The condemnation method Is not held feasibly for tho reuaon that tho question would havo to be decided in court by a jury ol 12 persons, none of whom would be oxports In work of that char acter. What Is believed to bo & DIRECTOR AND 7 (MM IN LIQUOR PLOT Grafts and Bribes Ex ceeding $500,000 Charg ed In Sacramental Wine Use Investigation. Chicago, July 25. Major Percy Owen, Hi inuia prohibition direct tor; ltalph Stone, former state di rector, and seven others were In dicted today by the federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. The following also were named: Albert lieuuett, former prohibi tion agent; Bernard Hump, for mer prohibition agent; Harry D. Sclau, owner of tho Chateau Bath & Sanitarium; Br. Louis Qui bar, head of the Uishisciglla Wine company; George Bruce, former state senator; Louis Abelson, al leged go-between for the alleged conspirators, and .Morris Zhubross, a wholesale wine coaler. Tho charges follow in the waka of the recent 8acramcnt.il wiue scandal which resulted in several indictments. A special Inquiry into sacra mental wine permits and with drawn! In Illinois, which began In March, 1024, led to today's indict- mcute. Grafts and bribes In excess nt $500,000 for the Improper use' of sacrninentnl wines were charged before the grand jury. Twelve porhibltlon agents, in cluding three state directors, have been Indicted In Ullnoie In con nection with this and similar in vestigation launched by special agents from Washington. The investigators now are gath ering evidence on beer runners and industrial alcohol leaks in the territory for presentation to an (Continued on Page Nino) T AT Eugene. July 25 Indications are that tho new Pacific highway bridge across the Willamette river, the only break In the highway In Oregon at the present time, will b open to travel about November 1, according to word from the fore man of the bridge crew today. The first steel for tho bridge will be placed about August t. Pourlnff of the concrete for the third pier above the water line was complet ed yesterday, and within a few days the piling for the last pier will have been sunk. After the piling I mink, a six-foot fill of ce ment will be dumped Into the bot tom of the pir, after which the ci)ffcri.im will be pumped so that the remainder of the below water fill can be made. The crew will bo split aa tha steel work atnrts, half working with the steel and the remainder putting In the sidewalk and rail ing for the 1700 foot trestle at the weetern approach. better method, and ono that It now under consideration, Is to al low the water company and me city earn to appoint nn apprais- able lu agree, to appoint a third engineer. Taking over the present system by the city is held to be the first logical step In the establishing of a better pyHtem, which ulti mately would mean the piping nt wnter from some mountain stream or lake. W. J. Roberts, a consulting en gtnecr who put in tho Mcdfnrd water system nnd Is now Install ing a system at Kverett, Wash. was hero recently and consulted with local Interested persona, but did not go Into the project In dt tall.