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Newspaper Page Textf"N OA A AUV TT I GENERALLY FAIR I f 3 1 l kiz5aX I I . II I And cooler tonight; VeOnesday fairs I CIRCULATION Dally average net paid circulation for month ending July 31, 1925 Average dully distribution 7000. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. 6722 ii . 0 n ti vkii on wsm, rn nr"i w . : : "T""- : ; FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 190 1925 j SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS 2?AlKIJga WL Si) Mir U M M IMMMM . .. . . I -i i i : i i . I MMR Y Gamelj-ard APPnMPI IPFQ MATH M RA N PWPKv. I Mass Meeting Approves Tentative Plan and Au thorizes Naming Com mittee and Appraisers. Two Important steps toward the proposed purchase o! the Salem Water company's plant by the city of Snlora were taken at the mass meeting held last night at the chamber of commerce. The first of these was a vote that engineers be selected to make an appraisal of the plant, one to bo selected by tho city, one by the company and a third to be selected by tile other two. The second step was a vote that Mayor Giesy and President T, M. Hicks of the ch:im!;er of commerce appoint tn advisory committee .o consult with the city and chamber authorities from time to time. Vote. Iq Unanimous. Prior to the adoption of these two motions tlu approximately 90 persons present voted unanimous ly that the citv should take over tho system. T. 11. Kay came In after thy vote had been taken, and when his vote was demanded lie voted aaginst U, sianding atone. Indications were t hat the pro cess of appraisal and transfer, if tho lss'.io roaches tho point of H fllltjltn , will mi omiLuiii: fair and that tho city and the water company will meet at a halfway point. C. A. Park stated for the water company that the company Is willihg to sill If the city wants to buy. Mayor Giesy'a opening remarks were a sotting forth of the Kcn- (Continued on Page Four) L DEATH TRAP ON COAST ESCAPE Seaside, Or., Aug. 11. Three young girls who were caught by the tide In the "death trap" at the base of Tillamook head last night were rescued when a trag edy seemed certain. Ted Prier and Sir. and Mrs. Woolevcr, all of Portland, effected tho rescue, dragging the girls up the steep side of the mountain with ropes. Great difficulty was experienced by the Portlanders bo fore they succeeded In bringing up the last girl. Before the arrival of Prler and th Wooicvers, the mother of one of the girls hud discovered them In danger and ran to Seaside for Id. The men hurried with ropes to Tlllr.mook head, but the girls had been saved beforo their arrival. The endanpe-ed girls refuncd to givo their nnmen. ITER PLAN Mud and Wreckage Left In Tornado's Wake In Rockwood llockwood, Cal., Aug. 11 Mud, plinters and dead chickens were underfoot today as the half thous and inhabitants of this little Im perial valley town set themselves to the task of bringing order out of the chaos In the wake of the Sun day's tornado. The property daniagol estimat ed at between $125,000 and $1T "., 000 covered the destruction of a grain warehouse and cantnloupc hods, damage to a grocery store that wna whisked off its founda tion and planted In tho mud 200 tarda away, destruction or damage of a dozen homes, and tho havoc wrought In corn and cotton fields and nmonjt telephone and telegraph lines serving the village. Due to the destruction of tele phone and telegraph communica tion, it was not until yesterday that word of Rock wood 's plight reached the outetde world and aid aa sent from Brawler, El Centro and other rear by towns. When relief workers arrived they learned that two funnel shap Contrr ersy Suppressed Portland, Aug. 11 After debat ing from 3 until 9:30 p. m. last night, the state game commission decided to erase from the minutes of Its lost meeting the long succes sion of charges and defense state ments which surrounded the dis missal of Master Warden Bourgh- duff, Superintendent of Hatcheries Rykman and Educational Director Jones. The minutes were turned over to Chairman Clifford and Warden Averill with Instructions to cut out the evidences of a fight and credit the dismissals to the cause of har mony. !NG SEC J5an Francisco, Aug. 11 (AP) Dorothy Ellingson, 17 year old "Jazz girl" went on trial the sec ond time hero today for the mur der of her mother, Mrs. Anna Kl- lingson, last January. The first trial was halted by an Insanity hearing which resulted in a verdict of Insanity. Later the girl was pro nounced sane and her case reset for trial. No request for a continuance wnfl made by the defense attorneys. Dr. Jau Don Bait, psychiatrist who testified at the insanity hearing, accepted i subpoena late yesterday and will repeat on the witness stand the story of his first exam ination of the young matricide. He refused yesterday to make a new investigation, declaring it would serve "no public good." Miss Elllnjjson was ten pounds lighter In weight today than at the time of her first trial, due to an operation for appendicitis perform ed in tho meantime and to a stom ach ailment which has prevented her from taking solid food. Her hysterical behavior and a series of fainting spells featured her previ ous appearances In court. A plea of temporary Insanity, It was Indicated by the girl's attor neys, will be the basis of the de fense, Selection of a Jury began this morning. Ran Francisco, Cat., Aug. 11. Tho coast guard cutter G-262 early today captured the Jessie M., a 40-fool craft on the coast south of here wi'h a cargo of 300 cases of liquor aboard. The vessel was towed to San Francisco. As tho coast guard ves sel neared Mefgga wharf here with its prize the owner jumped over hoard. He was not apprehended nor was his namn learned. The capture wag made 20 miles from Pigeon point, which le 4i miles south of Pan Francisco. ed clouds had swooped down on Rockwood late Sunday, and that to tho terror stricken residents these two funnels eeemed to be racing pell n.ell toward a collision in tho midst cf tho town. Those wh , could, flung them selves Into nearby Irrigation ditches a fact which is believed to explain the small casualty list of five slightly Injured. ITail and tor rential rain bat upon the surviv ors as they cringed under the flail ing winds of tho storm and when they emerged from their Improvis ed storm cellars, they found the streets and outlying roads Into bogs of mud. Only two o the town's approvl matcly twent; buildings wore stand ing on their original foundations. One residence reposed In apparent comfort upon the Bite which a few minutes before belonged to the grocery store. And for today's breakfasts, they were cooked, by many families, on camp fire kindled where their kitchen stoves used to be, nuuuiiii l ulu ULniiiLiiuu iimn uiiluixu OF SGHvvARTZ I Search Started For Man And Woman Believed Confederates of Oak land Arch Slayer. Oakland, Cal., Aug. 11 Search for a man and woman believed to have been confederates of Charles Henry SwartR, nt least to the ex tent of visiting him between the time he killed G. W. Barbo, min isterial wayfarer, and hie eu icicle when arrest for hie crime was im minent last Sunday was engaging the attention of police todny. That the author of the "too per fect" plot to defraud Insurance companies of more than $100,000 by cashing in on the body of a man he had murdered, received food and medical nttention for an injured ankle, after ho had fled from the cellulose plant labora tory which he hnd fired to incin erate his victim'e corpse Is the statement of Inspector Waiman of the Oakland department. Wai man predicted that within the next 24 hours there will he startling developments In this case. Letter Discredited As the investigation continues the evidence being accumulated tends further and further to dis credit tile statements made by Schwartz in the farewell letter he penned to his wife regarding events leading up to the slaying and the character of the crime. Instead of having slain a to til stranger who attacked him, as Schwartz wroto Mrs. Sen warf.z, (Continued on Page Five) 15 E Framtngham, Mass., Aug. 11 (AP) Sixty of the seventy five men taken Into custody last night after a Ku Klux Klan meeting had been broken up In a shooting af fray In which five men were wound ed were realesed today. The other fifteen were held In $200 ball for appearance August 19 on charge of assault with dangerous weapons. Twenty four of them were ar raigned after the others had been dismissed without hearing. Nine others were dismissed for lack of evidence. One of those held was Perley W, Lib by, upon whose farm the klan meeting was held. It was In Lib by's house thnt the klansmen took shelter when they declared atones were thrown at them by watchers along the road. State troopers rounded up 45 men in tho Llbby house, 22 more in the barn and eight others In the bushes surround ing the buildings. Two of the wounded, Alonzo Fo ley and Thomas Sllncy, both of Saxonville are at the Framlngham hospital. Foley, shot through tho left temple with buckshot is In a serious condition. Sliney has two facial wounds. The others shot, wero able to go home after their wounds were dressed. The riots started last night when a crowd of hostile spectators gain ered outside a field on the farm of Pearly W. Llbby, where 100 klansmen Intended to hold their fifth meeting In as many weeks. A few taunts and rocks hurled nt the klansmen by the outsiders were answered by six charges of buck shot fired from tho darkness near a hen house beside the Llbby house As the five men fell the outsiders dispersed, pausing long enough to pick up the wounded and take them to a nearby doctor's office where their wounds were dressed and tho state police notified. TWO GOLFERS SHOOT HOLE IN ONE TODAY Seattle, Wash., Aug. 11 (AP) Rudie Wllhelm, Portland and Willie Black, Bcllingham, Wash , each shot a hole in ne on the links of the Rainier Oolf and Country club here today In the flrat round of the Pacific north west amateur professional championships ARE SOUGH LONG BAHLE FOR LIBERTY Former Cowboy and Dep uty Shriff Electrocuted For Murder; Declares Innocence In Chair. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11 Wal ter Kay Simmons, former Montana cowboy and deputy sheriff, was electrocuted at the state prison here today for the slaying of Frank Pahl, Spencer, Neb., garage man. The current was sent Into his bodywt 7:05 a. m. and turned off at 7:10 a. ni. The doctors pronounced Sim mons dead shortly after. Simmons, loft a last letter with his sister, Mrs. Emily Bat em an of Pompcy'a Pillar, Mont., addressed to his son, Walter Ray Simmons, Jr., saying ho was leaving $500 in currency to be used for his son's education. Eats Hearty Breakfast Simmons was up the regular time and had a breakfast of pine apple, oranges, coffee, bacon, toast, eggs and potatoes. At six a. m., the death warrant was read to tho condemned man by Warden Fenton of the prison. A final statement was made by Simmons to his attorney for the publication. It follows: "It is but a few moments; that there is a hereafter, and that If I were leaving tho world with a lie on my tongue I wouldn't have the chance 1 have If I tell the truth, and realizing that as I do and be lieving that to be truth, the only thing I can say Is that I am innocent. "I am dying without any pre judice against anyone all Is for given by me and I ask forgiveness In place of It as much as possible." Composed Until last A few minutes before the execu tion the former cowboy called re porters to his cell and thanked them for the courtesy he was shown. When asked how he felt, Simmons replied: "All right. I go without cracking.'' Simmons maintained his out ward calm to the last and sat with the utmost composure as he was being strapped into the death chair. In marked contrast to the long fight of Simmons and his attor neys, for life, the execution physician pronounced the slayer dead at 7:10 a. m. Simmons requested last night that he be burled In Omaha. He probably will be taken there today. ELLIOTT DENIES F. A. Elliott, state forester, takes exception to newspaper statements that tho present dry spelt is a rec ord breaker for length. In 1917. says Elliott, citing off! olal weather records, Portland was 0 days without rain, Tillamook 117 days, Roseburg 94 days, Med ford 119 iIhjb, Port Orford 166 days, Rend 130 days and Baker 102 days. In 1914 there was no rain in tho timberland districts from June 23 to September 6 total of 74 days. Timber fl e, says Elliott, have been held It. check this season and the loss of green timber Is small SUSPENSION OF New York, Aug. 11 AP) Mickey Walker, world's welter weight boxing champion, will be suspended within the Jurisdiction of the New York state Athletic com mlvdon st that body's meetinr? next Friday unless Jack K earns, his manager signs at th.it time an Ironclad Agreement to box Dave .Shade, California title challenger. Kearns did not appear before the commission today and there was no Indication whether he would accede to the ultimatum to arrange for a Walker-Shade battle. FORES! FIRES T Nehalem and Youngs Riv er Blazes Are Subdued By Mists and Fog; Oth er Fires Controlled. Astoria, Or., Aug. 11. A light rain last night, mists and foggy weather have further checked the big forest fire aolug the Colum bia Nehalem river railway and the bluzd in the upper Youngs river valley near Saddle mountain. The first of these fires is euul to have burned over 16,000 acrea, an area seven miles long and sev eral miles wide It was on Kerry Timber compauv property.' This fire, though it burned to the Ne- lialtm and to llirkeufeld, has not advanced since Saturday, The Young's river valley fire is on Crown Willamette Paper com pany land. bouglas Fires Controlled Roseburg, Ore., Aug. 11. Fol lowing a night of low temperature and high humidity all forest fires in Douglas county were reported to be out this morning. Last night's temperature was unusual ly low for August, and with high humidity fire tighter.! were able to take advantage of .tho condition to extinguish the ten small fires burning yesterday. Smoke Clears Awav Eugene, Ore., Aug. 11 With smoke cleared away and skies threatening rain, there was every indication that the forest fire (Continued on Page Five.) PUBLIC PRINTER CHER RAPPED IL Kalamazoo, Mli.h., Aug. 11. (A. P.) A resolution introduced tody by Jacob Wagener, delegate from Washington. I). C, called upoo the International Typogra phical Union In convention here to protest formrlly against the re tention by the government of George H. Carter, public printer of the United Statee. The resolu tion wan referred to the committee on resolutions which will report Thursday. The resolutions said Carter was "holding office in violation of the law, which says the public printer 'muf !; a practical printer and versjil In the ort of book bind ing.' " Further cliargea contained In the resolution were that Carter had lowered tho term of experi ence for printers employed in the government printing office four to two year and had establlflhed a spy system by which he greatly Imnairfd the printing efficiency of the office and the morale of the employes Pensions totalling JS23.704 were paid to Incapacitated mem bers of the Intel national Typogra nhlcal Union during the fiscal year 1924-25, James W. Ilnys of Indianapolis, secretary, reported. Since tbe pension law was put in in effect In 19fl payments hnvi totalled 16,743.017 and there atlll is a eurnlra of 1948,000. Kcaretarv Hays' report showed that earnings In tho Inst fiscal year totalled $152,800,416, an in crease of JS, 502,686 over the pre vloim year. The Increase was ex plained as due t.) "Increased busl nests and liicron-ci wage acales." STECHlETls"TITLE IiS Amvlcs. t.'ai.. Aug. 11. IA p.) joe Htacher retains his clnim to tbe world's ticnvywoirlit wrewt ling rhainpionalilp. Kenato Uur dlnl, Italian chcllengor, scored one fall In their bout at the now Olym pic nudltrrluiu last night but fail ed to g.;t nis hands upon the title. Steelier' won the flifit fall with a body scissor In 27 minutes. Omr dint took the second In lift mln ntes with headlock and then Steelier ended the match hf tak ing the last f .ill In six minutes wtlh another body seizors. Stanislaus Zhyszko defeated An--lre Cantnns In a onc-fal match In 40 minutes, ALONG COAS Mystery Shrouds Motives and Past Life of Suicide The mystery of where Jim Sulli van came from to Salem, what his purpose was In staying at a hotel here, and the reason for his methodical and deliberate suicide on the bank of the Willamette riv er Inst week, continued to baffle local police today. Hurried Inquir ies, sent to San Diego, where the man purported to hall from, re mained unanswered up to an early hour this afternoon. No trace had been found of his Bon. which Sul livan had told nt least two persons he had, living with a family in San Francisco. The theory that Sullivan If such wero the man's name killed himself Friday evening has been abandoned by the police. Sulli van was seen, alive and well, Sat urday morning, pointing to the conclusion that the deed must have been committed sometime Saturday or late Saturday night. Residents SALES COMPAHY W. 15. Crews, state corporation coininUsioner, yesterday requested Stanley Myers, district attorney for Multnomah county, to conduct a grand jury Investigation of F. VV. .Starr and C'horles ilaight, for merly of Portland, hut who are now believed to he out of the statu. TUey are said to have been salesmen connected with the Northwest Drilling syndicate and tho Northwest iiolel syndicate, neither of which concerns ia now xistaut. Considerable stock, It Is said. was sold In the two organizations, ;ind Crews' request for a grand jury investigation is based on complaints received from purchas ers. According to Crews the stock was sold In violation of the blue ky law and without a permit from tbe slate corporation department. Pi'.pers seized In connection with tho hotel syndicate reveal a sucker lict which contains names of prospective purchasers of stock together with personal pe culiarities of each. I Chicago. Aug. 11. (A. P.) The fight of Vice-President Dawes for revision of the senate rules will probably be carried next to the Pacific. Tentative plans have been made for speeches In Port land, Seattle, flan Francisco and TjO Angeles some time in Septem ber. Tanned and hardened by fish ing and broncho riding In Colo rado, the vice-president returned yepterday to hl'. desk in the Cen rnl Trust company. Skipworth to Hear Bramweirs Plea In Banking Case Here The courts will swing Into ac tion upon th0 mandamus proceed ing brought by Dlttri t Attorney John Carson on relation of George nt fin m nnhllfltiPr of t hfl f'nnlt.ll Journal, to compel Frank C. Brum well, utate superintendent of banks, to reestablish his main office In Salem, when Citruit Tn I if o fl V. Kkinunrth nt Fiifcn. sits hero August 19 to hear the demurrer riled by the derense. Th0 hearing will open at 10 o'clock In the morning. The iemurrer attacks the right nf Mr. 'Mitnam as a Drlvate citt- sen to Involve 'he state In a man damus action, And pleads me right of the hank superintendent to maintain hi principal offlco In Portland, to which city he moved It from Salem some three months ago. Citing th provision of the of the community, who reported hearing a shot at about 6 p. m. Friday, must have heard some noise other than the one made when Sullivan sent a .38 calibre bullet crashing through his brain. None, apparently, heard the shot when it did occur. The tragedy took place a short distance soi-th of the Marlon-Polk county bridge. Various rumors have been placed in circulation to the effect that the body was still limp when taken to tho headqunr tcrs of the county coroner, but the coroner's report, based upon an actual examination of tho body indicates that the corpse had been lying on the bank long enough to become stiff and for the first stages of decomposition to sot in. No money has been found In the man's room, and none was found on his person. Just what bearing. If any, this fact may have on the case has not yet been decided. I INTO WINE PARTY Alpena, Mich., Aug. 11. (A P.) Filly buses of liquor taken aboard the steamer Cristobal nl Panama in the spring of 1H21 turned a congressional Junket in to a gay drinking and gambling affair, Floron Dallaw, a Fili pino, testified by apposition tnl' at tho d i vorco 1. ea ring of Con gressman Frank t. Scott. Dal low, who was a waiter aboard the Cristobal, said that there was drinking all over the ship. "Fverywht'i'e y can find glass es and liquor," Dallaw said "When we cot to Norfolk we cleaned the Hhlp- and found lota of wine bottles In congressmen s rooms. We found some times, two, three, four bottles In each room They all were empty." "When (he Crrsfobal docked at Norfolk." Dallaw said, "the malning boxes of liquor were load ed into an army truck and taken awav. Dallaw cald He went to the house office building to ask Mr Scott to help him get a job. "I knock one, two, three timer on door.'' Dallaw deposed In brok en Engliri'n uicn was retained in the document. I wfclt ten, fir teen minutes 1 tried to peek through the keyhole, but I could not sci anything. "Finally Mr. Scott he open the door; he look very suspicious. He look nil murscd up. Mont nil time Mr. Scott he keep his clothes new and pressed, but he look very bad when he open the door. "Miss Kennedy she came out of another room, she look disar ranged. Her hair was all mussed." Heading of the deposition had not been completed when Judge Frank IX Kmcrlck adjourned tho inornlufT session. New York, Arp. 11. A. P. flcne Tunney, light heavyweight hnmp!'tn, todnv signed a contract for a match with Harry Wills. banking code revised by the lat legislature which specifies that the main office of tho banking department shall be located in Portland, hut that tho superin tendent may establish a branch office In Portland, the mandamus action calls upon Hramwell and Secretary of State Knurr, as cus todian of tho state buildings, to return tho orfico to this city. This Is the second nnndamu action to this end. Tho first brought under the old law, wont to the supremo court when the defendants filed an affidavit nf prejudice against Circuit Judgo L. H. McMahnn ot thia district Judge McMahan, calling: unsuc cessfully upon the defendants to Justify their allegations of preju dice, cited Iiramwell for con tempt of court and fined him $60, which bruvght about the ap peal. SIAIEINI OFFALSE1 VOIDS FACT Cinderella Incident Id Brought To Close By Court Order; Browning Freed of Liability. New York, Aug. 11 The adop tion of Mary Louise Spas by Ed ward Browning, millionaire real estate operator, was annulled today by Surrogate Noble of Queena county, on the ground the girl hnd misrepresented her age. Tho age issue was the only ont presented by District Attorney New combe, who entered the motion for revocation. Mary was present, ns was also her foster father, when tho sur rogate's decision was announced. Tho girl showed llttlo eni'l'iK Apparently abandoning her ef forts to cr.ter a convent, Alary re turned to hr homo in Astoria when she left the court house. A large crowd of curious ottpta waited in the little building. Mary und her parents agreed to the annuln.cnt, tho text of the agreement containing a provision that the girl wan tint to participate In any right ns heir to the fortune ot Mr. lint wnlng. Her relatives also hmiml tlieniHohen not to bring suits of any nature n gainst Mr. Hruwnlng or iiifi hi-irs. Seeks to Enter Convent. Newark. N. J., Aug. II. (A. P.) Tho Ncwa'k Star Eagle In a copyright story today will an nounce that Mary Louise Spas, tha 2 L-year-old Bohemian girl who unHUccocsfulIy trltd to become a modern Clmlcralln, spent tho night and this morning in Newark in a vain effort io enter a convent and become a nun. "If I can not become a nun.' nobbed the young woman, "I'm go ing to marry n poor boy and we'll work and have a nice home." At the convent of St. John tha Baptist, 17 Amity Place, the girl threw herself at the feet of the mother superior &nd begged to bt accepted tor the novitiato. "Tired of EvervthW." "Oh, I'm so tired of every thing," she sobbed. "Please take me, sister, everything Is ashes." A later appeal to the Dominican Father3 at 337 South Orange ave nue also failed. "I don't thin1: you are capable of making a judgment now," a fa ther of the order told her. "If you inslr.t you can go to the convent station near Summit or to tha houfie of the Coed Shepherd near here, bui I advise against It. Co home with your father and moth er; I give you ray blessing." Accompanied by her father and mother, the girl who for a day or two had been the adopted laughter of Kdwanl W. Browning, W5i:lthy real estate operator, ar rived here short. y after midnight. "Take nm to this place," she told James O'Neill, a taxi driver, as she pointed to a newspaper story telling hov Ceraldfne Itlcho, 19, New York girl sought asylum in the orphanage of St. John the Baplii.t. adjoining the convent at 17 Amity Place. Spend Nitrnt in Hotel When tho arly ornlng .t- tempt to arouse the Inmates ot the convent was unsuccessful, tha girl consulted with her parent and told the driver to tnke her to a cheap hotel and call for her this mominr. Thay upent the night at a hos telry near the tube station an break foHtFd in their room on a can of offee and sandwiches, af ter which the unsuccessful at tempt was resumed. Before 9 o'clock the trio left Newark, the girl announcing that Hhe must appear In court In Ja inalcn, h, I., nt 10 a. m. florIdatoget New York, Ann. 11. (A. P.) ClowlBton, Klor'dn. hnn ben Uefl nlti'ly selected as (ho Bite for tlia nntttmnl monument to the !at Wllllnm JenniiiK lirynn. An nouncement to this effect wa. mart,, toilny hi film DIoneMu Ury uu Jivaue, lila guii-duughtet.