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Newspaper Page Text00 i CIRCULATION Dally average net paid circulation for month ending September 10, 121 FAIR WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, moderate tem perature, light northerly winds. Lie; 7077 Local: Max., 69; mln., 37; rain, none; river, -2.3; atmos., clear; wind, NW, Average dally distribution 7441. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 245 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1925 DDTpn rriTp-iPT? PTTMTQ ON TRAINS AND NEWS rtilKjilj lXltVjJ UHjlNlO STANDS FIVE CENTS ni (u arataLll mm mm I F ESPEE LINE Says Oregon Needs Rail roads And Oregon Trunk Should Build Into Klamath Country. Portland, Or., Oct. 14. (A. P.; Titi hearing on applications for railroad development in central and southern Oregon and northern CiiliUrnia, wnich has been in pro gress here since October 5, was concluded at 12:35 p. m. today when the state public service com mission completed Us case. De cern! cr 1 was Bet as the date when br eft; -must be in. Arguments will be heard at a time to bet set later by the interstate commerce com mit :on. Portland, Oct. 14 (AP) Full development of central and south ern Oregon should be the aim of the Interstate commerce commis sion in deciding what rail exten sions and. improvements are to be allowed In the Klamath Falls ter ritory, according to the testimony of Robert A. Booth at the rail hearing today. Booth Is head of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company with interests In Multnomah, Marion, Benton, Lane, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Crook and Wheel er counties. He gave his testimony before Charles Mahaffle, director of fin ance of the interstate commerce commission, who is gathering evi dence on which the commission will determine the rival claims of the Southern Pacific and Northern linos for rights in the Klamath Falls district. "I do not wish to be understood as a party In this rail dispute other than to uphold the entire In terests of the state," said Booth. "I am Intensely interested in the development of Oregon. At no oth er time In my life have the rail roads been as anxious to develop the state as now. State Kept Back 'Oregon has been kept back be cause of lack of transportation fa cilities. This has been natural be cause the Northern lines wished to develop their interests In the north ern part of the state while the Southern Pacific was naturally most Interested in the southern part. "In the enrly days neither sys tem had little beyond stub roads Into Oregon. People of Oregon know their state better now than ever before on account of our Im proved highways. Our people have visited various parts of the state In recent years and know tho In terests of each section as never be fore. "The railroads are now anxious to do what the people of Oregon have long wanted them to do, and I hope the railroads will be given the opportunity to carry out their plans. Two Roads Needed "It is very much easier to de velop Industries where there If more than one railroad. "I do not want to be considered as opposing tho Southern Pacific In any sense but I do think they are wrong in trying to keep tne Oregon Trunk out of the Klamath basin. "I feel very friendly toward the Southern Pacific and If I had to build my industry on any one rail road I would be as glad to have the Southern Tacific as any other I know. "It is contrary to the public good to have one railroad or a great in dustrial system dominate the state, "There is more timber In Lane county alone than In the whole territory the railroads are flghtln over. "Virtually all the fir in western Oregon Is under the influence of the Southern Pacific." Then he referred to the propos ed line across the state, called the CraneOdell route. He said that the Union Pacific would not be Justified In build ing this line unless allowed to go Into the Klamath basin. Booth paid a very high tribute to Hubert E. Strahorn and hit both Northern and Southern rail mA forces by saving: "If 8trahorn had been mistnlnrd In his original plan by the rail roads or by any other source none of this trouble would have arisen His plin was the most etatesmin llke and economical for the de velopment of central and southern Oregon that has bn ofrerp.1 t Continued Pte Sc.en. 00 HRAPS AHITUDE 0 FINAL GAME POSTPONED BY HEAVY HI Deciding Game of World Series Prevented By Downpour J o h n s o n And Aidridge to Pitch. Fnibes Field, Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 14. (A. P.) A downpour of rain washed out the seventh and deciding game of the world serie'j today between Washington an I Pittsburgh. Commissioner La n die called off the contest until tomor row nfter a steady downpour had drenched the field and a good share of the crowd. The post ponement was made at 2:30 p. oi. Fhes Field, Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 14. Under overcast and threatening skies the greatest rush of fans th at has yet attempted to ec the 1925 championship games eddied and swirled about Forbis fiell to gain their places in the background of the seventh and de ciding game between Washington and Pittsburgh. U ntarted to rain at trifle a 1:1'' o'clock with a slight breeie com'ng up to stir the clouds. Only a few scattering drops came down at ;"-rst, but It was enough to cast doul-r on whether the combatants would get through their game. Overnight it developed that the rival boards of strategy had pin ned iheir chief hopes on these two acrei despite the fact that John son had only two days of rest and Aidridge but one since ho pitched the Pirates to victory In the fifth game at Washington, Monday. E BUiLDI lly unanimous vote tho Salem Rotary club this noon went on record as favoring a program 01 un'fcim, permanent bridgo build ing in the city of Salem. The ac tio! 1.6 taken by tile Hotarians to day was similar to that taken by the Kiwanis club last week. ?- cert (hat the Hotnry club did nrt commit ila;lt In favor or a Donu Issue as the method of inancing the project. 'i he resolution na read oy rei Thlolsen, president ot the club. committed tho Kotarions In favor of a eyetem of bridges to he built .'n Ue reasonably near future. '"We purposely worded the reso lution that ray," said Tom Kay, who assisted In drawing the reso lut'i n. "Many of us were in fa- or of financing the bridge program bv cleans of a millagc tax. W. H. Dancy, member of the city council, spoke briefly in favor iif a millagc lax and against a bond issue. "On the interest or the lionds alone," be said, "there wf.iild be enough money to financ the program in a period of 10 years Some or the bridges auoui tho i.!ty, which have been built re cently, will last for that length o! time " Senator Ralston Dvine Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 14. (A. P.) United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston, suffering from heart and kidney trouble, lapsed Int - unconsciousness early today. Dr. John M. Cunningham, attend ing physician, announced. Election of Primate First in History of Church, Underway JTtw Orleans, La., Oct. 14. (a. P.) Election of a primate, tho first '.n the hiutory of the church, wa3 .he principal business here toJa? befnre the hoiiee of bishops of the Episcopal church in the Uult-d States, beginning the eighth day of soaelon of tho forty ei;;htn triennial general confer ence of the church. With eij;ht bishops nominated for the office which will be for an eIKive term ot six years, balloS ing was expected to be centerel Uj.on there nomine', although vo.inr; ift nut confined to those ntni'nnteil. Navy Minus Any Definite Air Policy. Declares Admiral I 9 f DIG UP TEMPLE OF It o ice, Oct. 14. Discoveries oi piinmry importance to archeology are tnnounced by the Cauau scholars who havo been excavat ing on the site of the ancient Greek colonial city of Uyreue, on the north African coast between the modern cities of Bengasi auJ Derua. The excavators say they have proved that the famous tent pie of Apollo the main temple ( Cyene, when it was among tb3 fa.rtat of Mediterranean cities in the iixth and tlflh centuries, B. C, was originally built by the Grajke about 600 li. C. This proof wae taken from eUttim of earth alongside the ruin.? of the temple's sub structure, iu which the excavators fou n.l works of art dating as tar back as 1000 13. C. and believed to be of Libyan origin. Many of these art piecee are said to b' priceless. Cyrcne was one ot the first and meat prosperous of the colonies founded around the Mediterranean in tho era of Greek colonial ex pan siou Its beginning Is placed a' about 650 B. C, and its founder, according to legend, was Battus. who ulaced the new colony accord ini5 to the dictates of the Delphic oracle. At its zenith Cyrcne believed to have bud 100,000 In habilants and Us temples wer? among the finest of the ancient world. Tho local Arabs now call thn place Grenna, a corruption of Cvrcnc and say that It takes six "c.r.nel hours" to go from one end to the other of its ruins. LARGE METEORITE IS SHIPPED FROM GREENLAND Aberde?n, Scotland, Oct. 14. (A f.) Tho third largest meteor ito In the world has Just arrive! here from Greenland aboard the Danish schooner Sokongcn. Ob tain Pedorson of the Sokongon eays It weights seven tons. Eskl mj said tli3 meteorite fell 'n 1916 and that they had been Brag ging It toward the coast on doe sledi.es since in 1923. The nominees are: Bishops Hre.it, Gailor, Murray, Parpou Brown, Mann, Perry and Burleson. Ai alignment oi voting strength was indicated to be centered on two nominees. Bishops Gnilor atjj BreiU. and a deadlock retiulli'i from refusal of members ot the house to chengo their yote mlRht obviate the popsibillty of either Blihoi Gnilor or Brent being clorled. Should iuch a deadlock occur, 't was believed that efforts will b mado to reach a compromise on another nominee, with Bishop Perry prominently mentioned n thlj regard. f A. VACCIT1 BOARD POLICY 10 REMAIN Quarantine To Be Enforc ed To Prevent Epidemic Mayor Giesy Says Vaccination a Joke. Fearing a serious epidemic of smallpox in the city, Salem school authorities today authorized the adoption of stringent methods of protection at Lincoln and McKin ley schools In the southern part of the city. Smallpox having been found to have broken out in both schools, a general vaccination nmong the puplhi took place today. The same general methods were used thot were used in senior high school Monday, all pupils being given an opportunity to communi cate with their parents, and In case of parental disapproval given the alternative of remaining at home for a period of three weeks. Pupils having been vaccinated within the lat 5 years, and those having actually had the disease, were excused from vaccination. More Cases Reported At Lincoln school It was discov ered that two boys who were In school last week, and were not feel ng well at the time, have sine1 broken out with smallpox. Mrs. La Moine Clarke, principal of McKlnley Junior high school, stated this morning that vaccina tion at that school Is being made because of the presence of a boy at the school on September 28, who was sent home from her .iffice with marks on his face, and did not re turn until he had his physician's permission. "We oon't really feel that we have been exposed at all,'' she said. In explaining the action that has been taken, Dr. W. B. Mott, city health officer, stated this morn ing that the effects of the vaccin ation, which is a protection hgalnst the disease, takes place in xrom three to 6 days. "The poriod of incubation for smallpox Is 12 to 14 dpys after exposure," he said. "Medical men generally agree thai If vaccination Is given a week or more before incubation la complet ed. It will prevent breaking out of the disense." School Board Firm Tho quostlon of whether or not a strict policy ot vaccination and quarantine will be enforced In Sa lem public schools during the pres ent threatened epidemic wna ap parently decided In the affirmative by the Salem school board at lt meeting Inst night. "When an epidemic of diphtheria broke out at Inglcwood school a year or more ago we were severe Continue! oti Pnge Eight) TELL OF KELSO Eiifcene, Or., Oct. 14. A. Kuri Tol l, former mayor of Kelso, wa:i n Eugene today making ar rangements for a mass meeting which he sal'! he proposed to hold here Thursday evening, at whim he intends to tell the people th1 fact about recent political event: at Kclno and the murder of Thcnae Dovery, newspaper editor. M. Todd declared that in hlh opinitn Dovery was not killed by robbers or thongs, but in further ance of a poliilcul plot. Mr. To:ld said that although he recently file I suit to contest the result of the recall election whereby he wat removed from the office of mayor of Kelso, the case was not belnf; prt'is. d. "I have no desire to oe nifl.ve;' aaln," he said. PREVENT DISMANTLING OF JACKSONVILLE ROAD M-Jfonl, Or., Oct. 14. Circuit Jud.jc Charles ' M. Tliou'.na this niiiiiung sustained tho dcimirre-v of the cities if Medford anil Jack sonvll!e against W. 8. Darnum an-1 the Medford Coast railroad, and continued the temporary Injunc tion against the dismantling ot tha railroad until after the public seirli-e commfclon hearings it th. e'.ty hall here tomorrow. The demurrer held that t'.e clrjvit court had no Juriedlct'nn In the case, the court sustnlnin : this contention, . Sims Says Navy Without Definite Aircraft Policy Washington, Oct. 14. (A. P.) Kcur Admiral William S. Sims. U. . N., retired, told the presi dency air board today that "It is well Known" that the navy has no "definite air policy," and thai naval air development Is hamper ed by a kind of conservatism 3o extraordinary it Is almost unbe lievable. Present dissatisfaction and un rest I11 I"6 uuvy, he said, is duo to a lack of confidence in naval leaders and he pointed to the Slieniindoah disaster as "a case in point," "It may be presumed,", he add ed, "that the commander ot the Shenandoah and hlB assistant were the best men the navy ha.l, by Portland, Ore., Oct. 14. C. T.! Haas, Portland attorney, who has just returned from a tour of Europe, reported today that while in V.Ai-saw he saw Grant B. Dlm iclc, .formerly financier and attor ney tit Oregon City, who is a fugitive from justice on a charge of forging mortgages. He said he saw Dimlck in the Cafe De L' Angelterre in Warsaw, and that when be approached Dimfck the latter seized his hat and dis appeared In the crowds outside. Haas asked the proprietor of the cafe regarding Dlmick and was told that he wan a wealthy Amer ican, and had frequented the place dally. Haas returned the next doy, but Dimlck failed to ap pear again. RED TAPE BINDS Chicago, Oct. 14. (A. P.) Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, declared that America' governmental machinery wac honelcfisly out of date. In an ad dress last night ot the University of Chicago. Tte government Is "moribund with l:ureaucraey, entneuhed help lessiy In Itfl own twining ot red tape, said ivtr. jjowden. ' Taxation j growing burden has been the only stimulus that has awakened our people Into the fearful knowledge that democratic government as America Is practlc ins it Is a failure at the moment. Small Boys Take Court Reporter For Murray's Wife Mlfls Blanche Barrett, court re porter for the circuit court, paid one of the penaitifs of pulchritude today when she drove up In front of the court house In her J'ord coupe and alighted. A group of small boys was stand Ing by, evidently awaiting the prec loua moment when Tom Murray, prison breaker and slayer, would be brought down by tbo guards from the prison for attendance on his trial. "Pipe the lady," Raid one of the boys In a whisper, which carried well over the courthouse yard "That lady Is Murrny'a wife." Miss Barrett blushed, whether becauso of the honor thus thrust upon her, or becnuno of the widue .jubllclty given by the itage wms per. "Perhaps he made a mistake In his choice of words an. Intended to say It nni Murray's mother,' was Miss Barrett's modrnt com mcnt on the Incident, Methodists Repudiate Report Washington, Oct. 14. (A. P.) The executive commlttco of the Methodist Episcopal Protestant church In a statement today dis avowed any responsibility of con iluslons set forth In the recent celebrated prohibition report of the rrnearelt depnrlment or th Foderfil Council of Churches. but It they were not It would have been a criminal act to put them there." The admiral believed that to at tempt to manage "an affair" Hko the Shenandoah trip from the navy department was an example of violation of the "age old prin ciple that Is destroying the navy's morale," and was "unreasonabl e, unscientific and unmilltary." "Why is It allowed to con tinue?" he asked and added: "It is because the American peo ple do not feel the pressure of war.' The navy speaks, he continued, of a "well balanced fleet," but that phrase has "no definite mean ing." and like all similar phrases, "it If dangerous." LF With apportionment of school funds to be made early In Nov ember as usual, regardless ot dive predictions made during the last campaign by Governor Pierce that shortage In the state fund would preclude such distribution, there are still 17 school district clerks in the county who have not filed their bonds with County Superin tendent Fulkcrson and under the law the respective districts from which such bonds have not been filed cannot receive their money until they are filed. , Apportionment will be made on the basis ot the last census which showed lf,C?3 pupils In the schools ot the county. While provision was made In the tuxes for $10 a pupil as the county fund tor distribution, the appor tionment Is not exactly on that basis. list spring an apportion ment of $4 a pupil was made out of tho $10. But before the bal ance of the per capita apportion ment can be made, a-matter of $100 a district is allotted out of the fund, each district receiving this amount no matter Its size. or no matter Its school population After this is segregated then the per capita basis Is used In segre gating the balance" of the fund In addition to the county fund of $10 a head the state school fund Is apportioned which will amount to approximately $1.50 a hend and also there will be an np portlonment of the balance of the 2-mlll elementary fund. "Districts should prod up their clerks who have not sent in their bonds," stnted Mrs. Fulkerson ''Under tho i ;.' we absolutely can make no apportionment for any district until the clerk's bond ha been filed and those districts whose clerks have not filed their bonds will go without until they do." TAX RECEIPTS With people writing In to Sheriff Bower asking tbout tax receipts, the sheriff aks taxpay ers to be patient for two or three weeks, as his force Is now busy working on a .vsnt accumulation of mail which piled up the Inst few days before October 5, time for payment of the last half to closo before Interest started to run. Receipt are being turned out as faHt as the office force can handle them and In addition the force was crippled today when Sani Butler, one of tho star depu ties, was called to eastern Oregon by the serious Illness of his father, "Wo will turn the receipts out as fast a possible,'' said the sheriff. "V'e expect tho bulk of them out In a week or 10 days, but it, may be two or nuuo weeks be fore wo ore a!) cleaned up. In event any receipt should go astray In the mall there are three or four ways of checking UP on it, so tax payers need not feel alarmed If thoy do not get returns back on their mailed checks Tor some time yet, " INCREASE IN NO SIGN Of PAY SOUGH! INSANITYSAYS BY TEACHERS DR. GRIFFITH Committee Waits On School Board Many Likely To Quit Budget Shows Gain. Another iudicoUon that there ma' be necessity in the near fu ture to raise the salaries of teach ers ". Salem public schools bee a in-. evident at lutit night's meeting oi the fcJulem school board, when a committee of teachers appeuivd btflurt) the board asking ltd sup port iu a cumpaign to increase salaries. The buard, together with, Superintendent Hug, expressed ap proval of tho touchers' point m view, and a committee was ap pointed by tho board to confer wi;,i the teachers' committee. 1 milieve that wu ate now ai. the climax of our teaching effi ciency in tiuleiu," sold Mr. 11 it if. Iu another year, with salurics they stand at present, we are like ly tc loBe a considerable pioporlij.i of our beat teachers. This year cacu individual instructor ic crowded more closely than lust year; last year It was closer tha'i the year before, und the Bume pro cess has been gradually going u'J for years. Schools Grow Ranidlv. Ta-j main obstacle as iueutioU'?d by members of the board Is tlmt statu law allows only a 6 per cent fncroase in appropriation for school purposes each year. Sal en sctnols growing more rapidly than the 6 per teut rate, each ye-ii" finds the district more poverty stricken than tho previous year. It was stated that the only rea: solution to the problem would hu a change iu the statute, allowing l i c J e a s e In appropriations throughout Oregon to be increased at a stater rate whenever nova- (Continued on Page Kiht) Riiho, Wush., Oct. 14. Vild.i Uuujell of Portland was htun't held incommunicado in the wom an's ward of the county jail here today under $3000 bond, as o ma terial wit Here In the case of the murder' of Thomas Uovcry, Kelaj editor who was slain June 19. Deputies in the absence of Sheriff Claike Stut'ebaker refused to state whal connection the woman had with the casa. Apparently no ef fort bad been made to raise n bond. The woman's name had not pre viously been mentioned in connec tion with the case, nnd was not In cluded in a list of 45 wltneHflcn In the joint Information charging John W. Smith and Frank T. Hart, itinerant prize fight promoters, with the murder of Dovery. Buenos Aires. Heavy snow blocking railroad service acros tho Andes threatens to delay the return of the Prince of Wales from Chile. Thompson and Mills Purchasers of Stock Salem Linen Mills T. D. Kay, stun.. Ireamirur dill proaiiicnt ot the new Oregon I.lnen Milb, Inc., with It. O. SnelllnT, Hocrutary of the company, spent iin hour In Portland yesterday on u Ktoe-li rsnv.isn and Hold virtually $11000 worth ot Blo k. . j. Mills ami W. L. Thonm son, both Portland bankers, ca:'i took unconditional subscription of 4 k I ml end a third man mimed Thompson to.k $1000 more. "We had tlmo tor only v tui tin,; a few people but the firet thr'c we struck subscribed," said M.'. Kay. "There has been noconviui mado In Portland. I haven't n doubt that lth any sort of a can vass made p.t nil tho full quota 01' ins, 000 couM bo picked up with In a few days." W. L. Thonippon had made i 13000 subscription under the orig inal (iRreemeiit which made suo- Defense Raises Issue oi Insanity and Court Rules Permitting Evi dence on Subject, The state completed Its rebuttal testimony In the Murray murder case at 2 o'clock p. m. today and rested. Will R. King, counsel for the defense, requested time In which to prepare Instructions for the consideration ot the court and the privilege of arguing them prior to the main arguments by the res pective sides. This was granted without objection from the state. t le believed the special point to be stressed by King pertain to self defense and the law relative to manslaughter. Tom Murray, convict on trial for the kllllng of Guard John Sweeney In the prison break of August IS, was perfectly sane at the time he fired the shot which the state al leges rwultcd in Sweeney's death, in the opinion of Dr. t.. R. Grit-, flth, lnfluntty expert of the Oregon Mate hospital ir .the ln.'in who this morning toh i,ie witness stand as a rebuttal witness for the state. Replying to a hypothetical ques tion of tho prosecution as to tho mental status of a convict wh could have planned and executed n break sueh on Murray has ad milted Dr. Griffith said: "To carry such a complicated nnd perilous plan out succeRHfully would Indicate to my mind that tho convict was perfectly sane. I would say he was in full possesion of his facilities and entirely cap able of distinguishing between right nnd wrong." Longest of Questions The questions propounded to Dr. Griffith was one of the longest known to Oregon court history. It eoveted the entire testimony given in the trial by Murray nnd other witnesses to tho planning and execution of the break. A second hypothetical question as to Dr. Griffith's opinion of Murray's san ity at the time he dictated the fugitives' version of the escape to Chan. Newman, at the hitter's home In New Kra, brought the following reply after Dr. Griffith had read the statement as submitted in evl- idenre by tho state: "The statement shows no evi dence of Insanity. It would indi cate the convict was sane." Testifying as to the effects of meriawaunna, which he said wan the same as what In the medical profession is known as Canntbas lndlcn. a derivltlve ot the flower nnd leaves of the hemp plant, Dr. Griffith said that it was at one time used by the medical profes sion as a sedative drug, hut that It had fallen into disrepute because of Its uncertain effect upon the subject. He said that it might. If used lightly, servo as a stimulant for s short time, but that the real effects would be to numb the sonsl blltties and slow the physical ac tion of the uer. Replying to a di rect question ns to tho ability of a (Continued on lw;e Seven scviptioiiH conditioned on tho full quota of 135,ono being raised. but tuc subscription ho made ys terlav wafl unconditional. Vi:ile Mr. Kay was compelled to return to Salem from Portland, Mr SnelllnK remained over and Is checking up on subscriptions made. About 40,000 has now been subscribed In Portland. John II. McNnvy, who was ia Portii.nd, Monday, reports th't Mele; & Frr.nk are carrying In on of ilielr dieplny windows a fine flax exhibit which Is uttrnctlnj cons dernble attontlon, anil to be ing otnged In connection with tho M:'k subscription campaign tn la got'rn under way again In Port land The exhibit contains all of the material put on at tho state fnlr, us well as additional sample of rouipU'ted twine and olhw products which can bo manufac tured here from flax.