C apital mJi
CIRCULATION
Dally average net pala circulation for
month ending July 31, 1925
CLOUDY ON COAST
Fair In the Interior tonight and Thursday
Moderate temperature, light southerly
winds.
rjurna
6722
Local: Max., 83; mln., 5-1; ruin, none;
river, -1.0; atmos., cloudy; wind, south
west. Average dally distribution 7090.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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PRICE THRETsHiv0
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR ' No. 191
SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925
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Crews Revokes License
Pending Probe; Firm
To Be Financed Once
Located In Salem.
Pending on investigation of the
alleged irregular municipal bond
issue at Orenco, Washington coun
ty, Slate Corporation Commission
er V. E. Crewe today cancelled
the bond broiicr'u permit held by
the John S. Shute company of
Portland.
Investigation by the state cor
poration department into the al
leged printing of bonds of the
town in excess of the amount of
bonds actually issued is mainly to
ascertain ;f any broker who had
knowk"';;e of the irregularity has
been attempting to 6ell the bonds.
Crews said today. Municipal
bonds do not ennu under the juris
diction of the c.tate corporation de
partment and no permit is re
quired under t!-e blue sliy act for
a municipality to sell lte bonds.
Brokers, however, who deal in
municipal or government bonds,
must -have a permit from the cor
poration department, and- from
that angle the state department is
Interested, according to Crews.
Once located Here.
Investigation of Orenco bond
issues by Diolr'ct Attorney Myers
of Multnomah county, involving
the Oregon Nursery company, is of
particular interest in Salem, as at
one time the Oregon Nursery com
pany was located here, and at the
time was ono of the largest indus
tries in tho city. The company
had its main offices on the east
end of the Willamette university
ground where the tennis court is
now located, with big packing
sheds and warehouses iiu the vi
cinity, and ats.) had large hold
ings cast of Salem, where nursery
stock was grown. The company
employed large forces of men, and
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10 BREAK GROUND
NEXT MONDAY FOR
Ground will bo broken next
Monday in preparation for con
struction work on the new $200,000
plant of the Western Paper Con
verting company, according to an
nouncement made today by E. A
O'Neill, who Is vice-president and
general manager of the new con
cern and construction of the plant
will be rushed to completion as
rapidly as possible. Mr. O'Neill
states that It Is expected about
days will be required to construct
the plant and actual operations will
start within 90 days.
It Is expected 100 men and wo
men will be employed at first, nl
though not more than 10 families
are expected to be brought In from
the outside In connection with the
operations. The balance of the
labor will be secured in Salem and
the employes educated to the work
here.
All paper specialties will be man
ofactured at the plant, the com
pany to secure Its main source of
paper supply from tho Oregon Pulp
ft Paper company.
Mr. O'Neill did not care to state
today just the nature of the spec
laities which the company con
templates manufacturing at the
outset of Its operations, as that Is
s matter still to a certain extent
under consideration.
Indications arc that the plant
will grow rapidly after getting un
der full head of steam as the de
mand fr products such as the
company contemplates m.mufactur
Ing Is widespread and In addition
the source of paper supply has
jen dwindling In many places
where such manufacturing has
been done which assures a con
stantly increasing demand here.
Mnrtial Law Declared.
Bitch p. rest, Rumania, Aug. 12
(A. P.) The cabinet has de
.Toed martial law In the region of
Focsanl. eastern Rumania, In or
der to put an end to anti-Semctic
agitation. M. Tatarcscu, one of
the cabinet under secretaries, de
clares the t ron hi, wns fomented y
SALES AGEN
the third Intcvnatlcncle.
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YOUNG HEIRESS
TO BE MARRIED
Newport, R. I., Aug. 12 (AP)
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, young
d a u gh t e r of M rs. W 1 1 1 i a m K
Vanderbilt II, will bo married In
New York next winter to Earl E
T. Smith, according to official an
nouncement made at .Sieachmound,
tho Vanderbilt summer residence
today.
A spokesman for Mrs. Vander
bilt said it was her intention to an
nounce the engagement at Beach
mound today where Miss Vander
bilt Is convalescing from a recent
operation for appendicitis.
New York, Aug. 12 (AP)
While It was reported late last
night that Consuelo Vanderbilt
would marry Earl E. T. Smith,
Yale university student, soon after
the Christmas holidays, Sydney J.
Smith, father of the young man.
said early today he "knew nothing
about It and neither did his son."
Miss '-Vanderbilt Is at Newport,
R. I., recovering from an opera
tion for appendicitis. She was
stricken ill on the eve of her sis
ter Muriel's wedding, July 25 to
Frederick Cameron Church, Jr., at
her mother's summer estate at New
port.
The parents of the reported
bridegroom to be were diorced in
1909. Mrs. Smith obtained the cus
tody of her son and later married
C. Whitney Carpenter, Jr.
Earl Smith Is a member of the
class of 1926 at Yale. It is report
ed thAt he will not return next
fall.
Portland, Or., Aug. 12. Fore
cast by E. L. Wells, local govern
ment observer or possible shower.?
offered a. prospect today of relief
from the protracted dry spell
which has kept Portland rainless
for 60 days. Rain was falling this
morning at North Head, Wash., at
tho mouth of the Columbia river,
and a heavy mist was reported In
the lower Columbia region.
The Oregon forest fire situation
was further Improved today by the
higher humidity end cloudy weath
er. Fires still burning were all
reported under control.
Booze Sleuth Finds
Bottle; Two Clams
Make It
Deputy Sheriff Roy Brcmmer,
county booze sleuth, who has an
unerring tcent for stills, moonshine
caches, bottles on the hip and div
ers and sundry illicit breeds find
brands of intoxicants, has discov
ered stilts In 40 foot wells, on
mountain side, In valleys, on Is
lands In the river. In gullies, brush
piles, underground and In trees.
But on his recent vacation trip
to the coast, he made his prise
haul, his no working to perfec
tion in the tang of the salt sea
breese.
Ho reached down into the bay
and trooped out a bottle which
evidently had been lying in the
briny since pre-Volstead days. No,
FORMS
Y
Candidates For Position
of Secretary of War
Prepare To Seek Job
If Incumbent Quits.
Washington, Aug. 12. (A. P.)
Renewed indications that Secre
tary Weeks will retire as head of
the war department were followed
today b preparations in several
quartere to lay before President
Coolidge tho qualifications of vari
ous potential candidates for the
vacancy.
It is likely that, a great number
of names will be submitted to the
president by Senators and party
leaders. Mr. Coolidge is expected
to look into the qualifications of
all these availables and others of
his own choice before he makes
his decision.
Mav Shift Cabinet.
The first question he will have
to decide Is whether to go outside
his cabinet in naming his new sec
retary of war. Among the cabinet
members aro two whoso names
have been held in mind in such
tentative consideration as he has
given to the matter. Secretary
Work, as head successively of the
postoffice and interior depart
ments, has made an administrative
record of which Mr. Coolidge
thinks highly, and has some
knowledge of urmy administration
through his service in the World
war. Postmaster General New, a
Spanish war veteran and a former
member of thi senate military
committee, llkewiee is regarded by
the chief executive as a man of
demonstrated fitness for the war
portfolio.
It is emphasized too, that neith
er the Interior secretary, nor the
postmaster general is seeking a
transfer.
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ELLISON CASE
ARE SUBMITTED
San Francisco, Aug. 12 (AP)
Opening statements were made by
prosecution and defense today In
the second trial of Dorothy Elllng-
son, "Jazz girl" charged with the
murder of her mother, Mrs. Anna
Eltlngson; Both statements were
brief and a plea of temporary in
sanity was Indicated as tho basis
of the defense.
Attorneys for the prosecution
declared they expected to finish
the case for the state by tomorrow
afternoon.
Attorney Alexander Mooslln, for
the defense, estimated that he
would bo able to close his case for
the young matrleldo by Friday af
ternoon. This would Indicate that
the second trial wilb le much speed
ier than the former one.
Harmon D. Rklllen, prosecutor
of Miss EHingson declared the
state would endeavor to provo first
degree murder. Ho held that the
killing was deliberate and premed
Itated.
Their Home
Reginald, get not exolted, the bot
tle was empty as far m any booze
was concerned, and even the smell
had been scoured out by the brine.
But two clams had grown up in
mUIo of tho bottle, evidently being
waah'ed through the neck of It
while babies, and resided there
comfortably, growing up to young
manhood and getting ready to pass
their old age there, as they had
outgrown any possibility of 'Slip
ping back through tho neck of the
bottle.
Around the outside of the bot
tle's neck, barnacles had construct
ed a thriving colony and war do
ing well In their new location.
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MAN
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FROM ICE IN
ARCTIC
SEA
Amundsen's Exploration
Ship, Held Fast Three
Years, Sets Sail For
Nome Is Report.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. 12. (A.
P.) Steamer Maude, exploration
ship of Captain Roald Amundsen
bound in the ice through last win
ter in the Arctic oceuu north cf
Siberia, has freed herself and set
out for Nome, Alaska.
This news of the Maude, which
steamed from Seattle, June 3,
1922, to drift over the North Pole,
was received to-lay by the Seattle
harbor radio in a message from
the steamship Odtuia of tho Alas
ka Steamship company in the Ber
ing sea.
The Oduna had received a mes
sage from the Maude, saying the
Maude was off East Cape, Siberia.
East Cape the eastern tip of
Asia, on tho west sldu of Bering
strait.
A message went to Nome last
January for the Maude from
Amundsen, directing her to aban
don her expedition and come south
to San Francisco to be sold. The
mcsago also said that a Russian
vessel would refuel her this sum
mer if the ice permitted. Whether
the Maudo received the message
was never loarned.
Left Three Years Ae-o.
Captain Koala Amundsen left
here on board the Maude, June 3,
1922, but transferred in the Arc
tic to the schooner C. S. Holmes of
Seattle and went to Wainnght on
the northwestern coast of Alaska
with an airplane. Amundsen win
tered there and after an unsuc
cessful attempt to fly over the P-'
returned to the slated in the fail
of 1923.
Last reports from the Maude In
November said ehe was frozen in
at 76.25 north lamudo and 143.2
east longitude. August 27, 1924
she passul Bear island, 800 miles
weet of tho latitude of Bering
strait and 250 miles north of Si
beria.
While at thwj location her mas
ter reported "nj possibility of pro
tecdlng Inside or outside and had
to go under Bear island.
As far as the outside world
knows the Maude has lain In this
position ever since. It was be
lieved the Maude ran out of fuel
ana was unaoie to worn ner wire
less.
Stravangcr, Norway, was the
only station able to communicate
with the Mfiudt last fall.
The Maude wp.s well provisioned
when she left here.
FIRE REPORTED
Bend, Or., Aug. 12. Improved
vlflibillty in central Oregon re
sulted In one forest fire being re
ported by Deschutes national for
est lookouts here today. Maiden
peak and Datchelor mountain
lookouts reported a new ft re at
11:30 a. m.t two miles southeast
of Charlton Lake.
During the past two days ow
ing to a thick smoke haze, auto
and horse fores! patrols number
ing 25 were maintained by the
national forest chiefs In their
protective fight againet the red
wolf.
Medford, Or., Aug. 12. The
forest fire situation took a turn
for the worse today In Jackson
county when the Byoee Spring
fire near Evans creek spread over
1000 acres and the Imnaha. fire
near Prospect exten-lcd to 200
acres. In annwer to a ren,ii"flt
from local timber owners, P. B.
Lowd. stato district fire warden
arrived at noon by airplane from
Eugene and will take charge of
the fire fighting on state land
While neither r the fires above
are under control nelt er of them
are regarded as serious as they
have not, aa yet, reached any
green or merchantable timber.
FynloiriOn Tninrrc Pivs
Norfolk, V., Aug. 12. (A. P.)
Throe officer and two seamen
t the battleship Texas were blown
overboard and another officer and
a flremr.n burned severely yester
day In a gasoline explosion nhonrd
i launch from the ship In Norfolk
harbor.
Cinderella
Iff lr .Jfi
fi v7V viLw - tftN
While manv in New York stormed over the adoption by tidward
Browning, millionaire, of Mary Spas, Utile Cinderella played hostess
to four little friends she made In the
she wanted was hers for the asldng.
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A general attack on the present
tnxatlon system of the state of
Oregon, Including the methods of
expending public funds in tho state
was launched this noon by Con
gressman W. C. Hnwley, speaking
before -the Salem Itotnry club.
Mr. Hawlcy outlined briefly the
method of handling federal expen
ditures, mentioning that ho is a
member of the federal ways and
means .committee, describing the
workings of tho federal system.
and staled that a budget system
of a similar kind should bo In
augurated in Oregon. Hawley did
not mention Ploivo t.y name, out
commented on the methods of tax
ation In voruo since l'lerco nan
come into office.
'if a two per cent tax eventual
ly takes more money out of my
pocket than a four per cent tax,
then the two per cent tax Is hifiher
than the four per cent tax,'' he
declared.
'I think tho taxes In this state
are too high," ho stated. I tnins
we aro paying more taxes than our
business Justifies,"
Hawlov Indicated that present ex
pendltures should be cut down, and
that taxes should be adjusted so
that a certain proportion would be
raised by each of the methods used
Thft trouble with the income tax
the way this state had It," he said.
"It Just gave them that mucn more
money -to spend." He staled that
he would favor an Income tax un
der the right conditions.
Mr, Hawley Indicated tnat ne
111 probably favor the policy of
cutting down federal Income taxes.
He did not specifically mention
the Mellon plan.
Astoria. Aug. 12 After worklnp
throughout the night with two of
the big locomotive cranes of the
Port of Astoria, ft wrecKing crew
unni0,tA in clearing the main
line of tho Kpokane, Portland and
Seattle railway, which was block
ed late yesterday near the port
terminals by the derailment of the
two rear enrs of the evening limn
ed for Seaside.
a Biri whoso name was un
known, tt'iiw seriously hurt, and B.
R. Collins, HI Paso, Texnw, allht
ly Injured. More than flO per sons
w-prn hmifieri and shaken.
J. T. Hardy, general agent for
the railroad here, ascribed the ac
cident to a broken bolt In a switcn.
seizeIrcoticsTn raid
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 12.
Armed with sledp.e hammers, po
lice last night raided two places
In Chinatown hero and seized
more than $2500 worth of nar
cotlca. Three Chinese wore ar
rated on charts of violating the
stats narcotic law
At one place a large quantity
of nniurn waa discovered In an old
rubber boot, while at tho other
place opium win found In a hot
water bottle. Two dozen opium
pipes weio also confiscated.
Is Hostess
new home, where everything
GIRL'S LETTERS
10 REFUTE TALES
New Yon;, Aug. 12. (A. P.)
Edward V. I'.ruwning, wealthy
real estate operator, whose adop
tion of Mary Louise Spas was an
nulled yesterday afler she had
played tho role of Cinderulla lor
one week, today guvo mil what he
said wore photostatic copies of tw
letters written by the girl before
her alleged attempt to commit sui
cide last Sr.'urday.
Browninj;- gave the letters out
a movo to refute statement
made- by the girl in a published
series In which she accused
ilrowuing ol improper advance.-
iuriiiR the time be was his adopt
ed daughter.
Neither of the letters, whicli
were given out today bore the
girl's Rinature She was removed
from Browning's custody after the
supposed suicide attempt.
One of the letters addressed to
Mother, futher," says:
"Believe nothing that this cru
world says about niy new daddy.
Mc Is honorable, truthful, every
thing that (od thinks beautiful.'
The other letter was addressed to
'Mine dear, dear daddy Browning
ind says In part: "I love you. You
arp the most t.onorabie man
arth. Oh: Why don t people see
the good In me? Why do they say
these terrible things? I didn't look
at the million. I only wanted to
educate myself In music.
PLEA FOR IfCRAY
IS
Washington, Aug. 12. One of
the mo:;t imposfnc campaigns eve.
undertaken to secure clemency
for a federal pr.soner was launch
od here today on behalf of Warren
T. McCray, former governor of In
diana, who has served about 10
months of a ten-year sentence in
the Atlanta penitentiary, Imposed
ifter his cinvletion on a charge
of using thc mail!, to defraud.
Coincident with the presenta
tion to Attorney General bargen
of a formnl application for par
don, the department of Justice was
given more than 200 IctterB sup
porting the .reuuest and bearing
tho signatures of fourteen gov
ernors and former governors oi
states, seven of the jurymen who
found McCray guilty, thirty of th
bankers who were Involved in tin
financial operations which result
ed In his conviction and severa
senators, representatives, business
men, ministers of the gospel
others.
LIGHTWEIGHTS TO BATTLE
Los Angeles, Cal.. Aug. U.
Tommy O'Brien, slow fooled and
hard hitting I.os Angeles light
weight, and Tommy Cello, San
Franciscan, will meet tonight In
the ten-round main event at th
Olympic auditorium, Los Angeles
new dress suit boxing bazaar.
Hivaling the ten-round finale I
interest to fnnn Is the alx-roun
semi-final match between Jackie
Fields, Olymple featherweight
champion ,nd John I-amar. This
also promise a eontest of speed
and slide punching ability.
YOUTH KILLS
MOIST 10 IN FAR NORTH
Boy Confesses He Shot
School Teacher, Hid
Body And Stole Auto
Following Crime.
SLAYER IDENTIFIED
Ciardcu City, Kan., Aug. 12
(Al) Everett Adams, sou
of Henry Adams, of the po
lice) department of Wilming
ton, Ohio, is the real Identi
ty of "Fred Jordan," who
confcHscd to (lie in order of
Eden It. Clawson of Lodi,
n. y.
Lamontc. Mo.. Aug. 12 (AP)
Positive Identification of tho body
6f Aden It. Clawson of Lodl, N. Y
to whoso murder "Kred Jordan"
has confessed nl Garden City, Kan.
was made today by Coroner W. Q.
Jones of Sedalla, shortly after
Clawson's body waa found on a
lonely road, four miles west of La
montc. Thc body was sound by road
workers In weeds- along a highway
four miles wee, of Lamontc. It
was taken to Lamonte and turned
over to the coroner.
Some papers, including travel
ers checks totalling $200 were
rotin.l on thc bony.
Tho body vcs Identified as thai
of Clnw;on, according to Deputy
Sheriff Calvert.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 12
(Ai1) Search was underway to
day along highways west of Cali
fornia, MiHsnurl, for tho body of
Adam Cliiwson, 43. of CedarhurHt,
N. Y.. a sehool teacher. Authori
ties nt Gunlen City. Kansas, are
holding a youth who calls hint-
He It "Kred Jordan," and who has
confe.sMPd he slew Clawson after
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B
Los Angeles. Cal., Aug. 12.
(A. P.) A bank Bcandal that will
rock West Virginia wuh predicted
here today by Joseph Ward, for
mer cashier of the Hank of Heu-
wood, who wa urresled here last
night on a charge of embezzlement
of 30d,0Q0 from that Institution.
While Los Angeles police were
in communication with West Vir
ginia authorities on thc matter ol
extradition. Ward, In tho city jail,
declared that ho "was not the only
one" connected with the alleged
embezzlement scheme. He said he
intended to make broad revela
tions. A check of hlB hank account
was begun when he said be had
but H7 left of the $300,000. He
declared he obtained but a part of
the sum, which was a widow's
trust fund.
SIKI WILL BE DEPORTED
Washington, Aug, 12. (A. P.)
-Deportation proceedings against
Hattllng Slid, the Senegalese
fighter, have been ordered miles;
he leaves the country of his own
volition.
Elks Temple Nearly
Ready for Occupancy
Rich and Elaborate
With tho final touches being put
to tho new Salem F.Iks temple,
members of tho local lodge nro
loolilng forward to moving Into a
building ranking with tho best on
the Pacific coast. It is hoped to
open the templo for actunt use by
August 25. Date of dedication has
not been definitely announced as
yet.
Tho building Is of the Italian
type of architecture throughout.
and will cost between lyO.OOO and
$230,000.
Peoornt Ions Pitt Inctlvo
The decora Ing within the build
ing, elaborately worked out by
Henry Meyers, la now nearly com
BEAROORE
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HIM SAYS REPORT
Government Vessel Ori
Annual Arctic Cruise la
Endangered; Steamer
Rushes To Aid.
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 12 (AP)
A cablegram received here last
night from Unalaska, on Unalaska
Island in the Aleutian archipelago.
stated that the Onitcd States coast
guard cutter Hear, was ashore at
Capo Prince of Wales, at the west
ern end of Seward peninsula, in
Bering strait.
The message read: "Bear ashore
i Cape Prince of Wales village.
Frsh southeast wind."
Tho Bear was on her annual
cruise to the Arctic ocean. She
carried food to points along the
extreme northern coast of Alaska
and Canada.
The steamer Oduna of the Alas
ka Steamship company early today
was hastening to the cutter Hear,
veteran of the United States coast
guard, ashore in Hearing strait.
The Oduna, In a message re-
coived by the Seattle harbor radio.
said that she expected to reach
thc near at 4 o'clock this morn
ing. Tho Oduna left Nome. Alaska,
around on the south side of the
Seward peninsula from Cape
Prince of Wales, where the Hear
was caught nt nnon ye.sterday.
Cape Prince uf ';ilrfi Is 300 to 509
miles steaming distance through
the Poring .ca from Nome.
The Oduna reported that sho
learned of the Hoar's pllRht thru
a signal from tho cutter.
Washington, Aug. 12 (AP)
Tho coast guard cutter Algonf?uln
has gnno to the assistance of tho
cutter Hear, ashore on the Alaskan,
coast, the navy department was ad
vised today by tho commandant of
tho naval district nt San Francis
co. A wireless message from the
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COLORADO CITY
Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 124
(AP) Colorado Spring., Colo., waa
unanimously chosen today as the
city to entertain the International
Typographical Union convention In
1326, now In Its 70th annual con
vention here.
Hecnusc it has been the custom
of tho union to meet there every
ten years no other bids were made
for next year's meeting. The union
printers homo Is In Colorado
Springs. Itepresen tat Ives from
Chattanooga, Tenn., Indianapolis,
Ind., Cincinnati and Palm Heach,
Fin., extended invitations for the
1027 convention.
James M. Lynch of Syracuse, N".
Y., president of the union, will be
a candidate for re-election If he
will accept the nomination offered
him by the administration cam
paign committee, Fred N. Cornell
of New York announced today fol
lowing a meeting of the committee.
Selection of the international of
ficers will be made by referendum
next May. A majority of the ad
ministration candidates aro seek
Ing ro-elcctlon.
pleted, and has many distinctive
features never boforo seen In a Sa
lem building.
Standing on each side of the
main entrance to tho building, are
two pure white alabaster marble
statue, each mounted on a mar
bio base, and weighing 600 pound
apiece. Thi. one at tho left of the
staircase represents tho goddess ot
day, tho one nt the right tho god
dem of night. Kneh goddesa I
holding- above her head ft large
marble sphere which become
luminous when the elcctrla light
within Ik turned on. Kach statue
measures 4S Inches in height. They
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