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CapitaUs 1 CIRCULATION Dally average ' net paid circulation for month ending September 90 1921 FAIR TONIGHT And Saturday, moderate temperature, light easterly winds. yonraa 7077 Local: Max., 66; mln., 37: rain, none; river, -2.3; atmos., clear; wind, NV. Average dally distribution 7443. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YI - No. 247 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS K8AINTS! In tiY WEGv fit MURRAY COOU WITH DEATH FACING Hi Convict Shows No Emo tion As Jury Writes Cli max To Career of Crime In Murder Trial. (By Harry N. Crain.) Before a feathering that con trasted sharply with the crowds that have vied for admission to his trial for the murder of Uuard Johu Sweeney in the prison break -jl August 12 a jury of 12 Marlon couuty citizens three women and nine men last night wrote a dra matic climax to the five-year crime career cf Tom Murray, 22 year-old convict. There were scarcely a score cf people In the court room of de partment No. 2 of the Marloii county circuit court at 9:05 o'clock when Judge Percy R. Kel ly, who presided over the trial, re ccived the verdict which waB 10 condemn Murray to the gallows from the hands of the jury folu iuau. Murray eat In the chair he had occupied since the first duv of the trial besido his attorney Will It. King, displaying his ueua. indifference except that he kcp. his eyes on the table In front of him and rubbed his hands togeth er nervously. Scattered about the lnclosure within the railing, and visibly more affected than the de fendant, were the attorneys for the state, officials of the couil and four neweraper representa tives. Game Until Last. An oppressive silence spre.id over the room as the jury filed in to the box. As Judge Kelly re ceived the verdict and glanccl over its contents before passing li on to the clerk to be read his head jerked oharply erect in an lnvo'. untnry motion "Guilty as charged In the in dlctment," the clerk read. Murray sat silent, staring at his hands for a matter of seconds, then turned to his attorney and smiled. He made some remark not dis tinguished to others In the room. Judge Kelly dismissed the jur ied they filed from the room. As they left Deputy Warden Lllllc nd two guards advanced toward Murray with handcuffs. He rose, placed his prison cap upon his (Continued on Page Nine) BY COMEDIENNE F( Chicago, Oct. 16. (A. P.) Ina Claire, comedian, once the star In "Grounds for Divorce," wants to repeat the rolt. here, this time r. the circuit court. She has filed suit for divorco from James Whit taker, former Chicago newspaper man and music critic, charging de sertion and cruelty. They were married six years ago "a Janz marriage," the octrees told a dra matic critic. "f had always fancied myself parading to the altar in white satin and pear's," Miss Claire said then. "Instead, Jimmy and I mo tored to Wheaton, 111., and were married with the chauffeur an 1 a nu.n In bine overalls, recrultel from the street, as witnesses." They kept the marriage a secrc:. The actress' bill, filed throut,1! her attorneys since she and Mr Whittnkcr aro in New York, charged that ber hi'sband left Julv 4, 1923, while they were occupy ing a "honeymoon apnrtment" of three rooma. Mr. Whittaker "wlt'i great violence and force" eJccteJ her. sho charged. Two weeks before, the bill con- tinned, her husband struck her In the face while they were vnev tloning at Tomahawk lake, Wis. Anent the secrecy of the mar rlace. Miss Claire once eald: . 'My friends have said that Jim my should be called Mr. Claire. But he'e never called that In my presence nnd I'm never cal'ed Mn. Whittaker before him. We are the most publicly unmarried cou ple t know. "We have two professions, two names, two salaries, "but only on? home.' head, and extended his hands, saying: GOOD EVENING WORDS and MUSIC By Stoddard King HIGHER EDUCATION Of course we're aware that the colleges err In featuring football and crew. And In letting tlic papers create a big stir Over athletes and things that they do. We've rend what the members of faculties say Of tills great educational shame. And we know what the best uni versities pay To prepare their young; men for tho game. But we also take note that the proxies refrain From asking that coaches resign. And we've noticed professors act slightly Insane When the ball's on the 20-yard line. We've seen that a student Is seldom e.MR'lled For a goal he cleverly kicked, And tliat meetings of protest are nut often held When the visiting team has been licked. The system Is most unmistakably wrong. And clamors for Instant reform, But nil such discussion appears to belong To the months that are humid and warm. For when In the autumn the col leges SMI It To practice their tricky formations. No one on the sidelines has quite got the heart To object to athletic relations. The college yell of the diplomatic college, we suppose, Is a well-bred whisper, nnd lta favorite fraternity la Phi Phi. 35 IS E Little 11-year-old Jimmy Mol vln, runaway Portland boy, wlta 35 runaways to his admitted credit and a hankering to be enrolled in the reform school gnawing in hie breast, displayed the stoicism of an ancient yesterday when his fa tner arrived to take him back o hfa home in Portland. While the father sat besido the youngster and tho tears were roll ing down 'he paternal cheeks, as the father begged the boy to com? home willingly, the lad sat like a wax figure, unperturbed and un disturbed. "I don't want to go home. X want to go to the reform school, ' wae the only answer the lad ma le to his fa'. her 8 picas. The father took him, anyway, in another effort to straighten tho lad tip and relieve his mind of tils hard boiled attitude. Little Jimmy hae been making an earnest endeavor to get into the reform school for some time and boasted that he had endeavor ed to burglarize a store eo no could get there. The authorities, however, blocked his game by sending him to the Fraser home. M'NIDER ASSUMES OFFICE Washington, Oct. 16. (A. P.) Hanford S. MasNider of Iowa toot, the oath of office today as assist ant secretary of war in charge of industrial mobilization phases of the national defense. All But Two Bearcats Of Team of '95 Report For Game Tomorrow With a letter reeclved this morn ing from nt Qulss of the 1895 Wil lamette university football team, only two members of the team re main who apparently will not be on hand for the. alumni game and reunion Saturday, It was stated to day by Guy Rathbun, Willamette coach. "You can count on me," says Ciulss, writing from Woodburn "to be In on that last touchdown with the boys of 95." IU Oulss, whose first name Is pronounced "Art," played right end and was acknowledged to be the fastest man on the tram. The old players refuse, however, to appear In suite, even for a few minutes. "You will get me In no suit," says Chester Murphy, writ ing from Portland, where he has been an attorney for a number of years. "I have entirely too much respect for my insurancs com pany." I The two who will not be In Sat urday'! lineup, according to Rath-1 SEARCH FOR E GREW SHORT Survivors Say Captain of City of Rome Called In Life Boats After Search of 20 Minutes. Boston, Oct, 16 (A. P.) 'I don't give a damn for the ship but I am sorry for the boye," Captain John Diehl, commander of the CUy of Home, said to Michael Lira, the first of the three S-61 survivors to be taken aboard the steamer, the latter testified today before the naval board of inquiry when questioned concerning conversa tions with the Home officers. Lira said that the crew of the City of Home's lifeboat almost swamped the craft when they picked him out of the water after the submarine sank. The witness said that the lifeboat's search for survivors lasted only 20 minutes. Onlv Three Asleep. Only three of the 36 members of the crew of the S-61 who were asleep when she was rammed by the City of Rome got out before she sank, Dewey G. Kile, a sue vivor, testified. ' Kile, au engiueman first class, said he was asleep when the steam er struck the submarine. H; though the submarine had ground ed. He said he climbed to the bridge through the conning tower bat:h and was swept over the port side in 15 seconds. He was the Iml to leave tho submarine, he Bali, and only two others preceded him. He testified that, he was partly clothed and that he remained swimming and floating for H5 minutes before a lifeboat from tbv City of Home picked him up. Kn Searchlight. Used. While he was in the water, hs lighte playing from the steamer, be said, he saw no life preservers or searchlights playing from tho steamer. The submarine's lighu, he eald, wero burning when 1? left the battciy room to mount to the bridge. Two hours before, he tcstif ie i he was relieved from bis engine room watch and went to the bridge to smoke a cigarette before turn ing In. At that time, be said, ho noticed the submarine's stern light burning. He did not look at th? lights forward. NEGRO HWRECKED BY DYNAMITE BOMB Chicago, Oct. 16. (A. P.) The Bothosdn JJaplist church, Jarffo community center in the south side negro district, was wrecked in an explosion of a dynamit: bomb, which ratified damage esti mated at $100,000 early today. N.t injuries nor fire resulted. J h church, purchased by Its negr.) congregation after H was aban doned as a synagogue was bombed a year bt;o. At that time the po lice attri'nited the atlack to a ra cial prejudice. bun's statement, an, Walter Page, now at Frankfort, Kentucky, where he Is director of the Y. M. C. A., and Don Trultt, last heard from somewhere Is Alaska. A dinner will be held Saturday evening for all members of the alumni team of '96, the alumni team that actually plays Sattirdny nftornoon and the Varsity team, Hathbun has announced. He has Issued a call for everyone who has old pictures nnd newspaper clip pings of tho 95 tram to give thorn to him for the purpose of decora tion. The alumni team which will ac tually play the 'Varsity Is being gathered together by "Fat" Zeller, who played halfback on the tenm for four years, graduating Jn 1923. Zeller since graduation haa play ed for the Multnomah club of Port land. Others mentioned for the lineup are Patton, Ffntlley, Isham, Post, Harry and Russell Rarer, Caughlln, Irvine, Jackson, Wapato, Dlmlck, Bain, Carey and Warner. SUBMARIN SUN HANDSOFNEW COMMANDER General Sun Chuan-Fang At Head of Army of 10,000 Occupies City Without Firing Shot. Shanghai, Oct. 16. (A. P.) Shanghai, gateway port of China, foil into tho hands of a new mili tary ruler today, General Sun Chuan-Fang, the Chekiang coni' mander. Without firing a slnglo shot 10,000 of his troops took possession of the city-while 15,000 troops of Cieneral Chang Tsolln who have held the city for many months, withdrew toward central China. More than 80 Chinese sen tenced to death were turned over to foreign authorities by General Suing Shi-Hen, the retiring com munder, who was unable to exe cute the offenders after centences had been imposed by mixed courts. The change of military rulers in Shanghai waB not without dis order, however. A train on the Shanghai-Nanking railway on which Silas H. Strawn of Chicago, American delegate to the Chinese customs conference at Peking, was riding was seized by Chinese sol diers. Mr. Strawn, his daughter ft-?d Mahlon F. Perkins, techntcal expert of the state department wero forced to return to Shanghai before they were allowed to pro ceed on their journey. Authorities at tho International settlements here today started adopting precautionary measures. All defense units were ordered to stand by and barricades of barbed wire were erected about the set tlement boundaries. While Shanghai Is the center ' a maelstrom of militarist actiivtv, it appeared evident tonight tin', any real warfare would be fairly remote. Late messages tonight reporteJ that Kcngticncse troops (of Gen eral Cbn'g) were continuing their rolreat beyond Soochow, where the ra.hvay line meets the Grand canal. It apparently wa. their nurnose to establish a de fense Hnj no closer to Shangha than Wushl, 80 miles away. The retreating troops were re- nortrd blowing up bridges ami tearing un rails to Impede tin- following Chekiang forces. The rotreat also was said to be accom panied by considerable looting. Traffic between populated centers was wholly suspended, due to the troop movements. Mr. Strawn and his party ar rlvctl In Nanking safely and In tended to depart tor Peking to night, taking Ihe train at Pukow, across the river from the Klangsi capital. The foreign Bctllemenls her' were tranquil tonight. CHARGE IN POLK Dallas, Ore., Oct. 16. Entering a plea of guilty to the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Lcland Hoy was sen. fenced to one year In county Juil and given a fine of l,0oo by Judge Uagley of Tillamook and Washington counties, in Polk county circuit court here today. Simultaneously with pronounc ing tho sentence, Judge Uagley paroled Hoy from the Jail sen tence, and Indicated that he would be excused from paying some or all of tho tine. Ho would decide how much of tho fine he would be required to pay, Judge Uagley stated, by looking up a similar cnao recently decided In Tillamook county. The rnurt stipulated that Hoy must pay all court costs. Hoy had originally entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned before Judgo Bagley of this coun ty. Hoy's attorney filed an affi davit of prejudice against Ramsey, with the result that Ilogley was brought from Tillamook to pre side over tho rase. Upon appeal f changed his plea to one of In before Dagley, Hoy lmmcdiate-gullty. ADS FOR HUBBY FERTILE ; S8 .SB 88 Replies Cover Nation 88 88 88 88 83 88 88 COMPLICATIONS ARISE When Miss Jordan, or Mrs. Jor dan, or whoever It was mailed an advertisement to The Capital Journal laet Tuesday asking for a husband, selects one of the many applicants clamoring for the place, just what will she be getting for the $400 which she otters for a spouse tor a period of three months? The question was raised by lo cal attorneys this morning, wh t express serious doubt as to wheth er there will be any legal way o separate the new bridegroom from tho brido at the end of the speci fied three months. What mlg!u be considered even more to the point, they see no way by whleu the bride can keen to herself the en'.'re estate which she declares in her advertisement ehe will acquire simultaneously with her husband-: "Marriage la Intended under the law to be a permanent proposi tion, they say. As a general principle, no agreement reachcl beforo hand to limit the marriage relationship In any way would be1 Bodies of Youth and Girl Found In Car; Murder And Suicide Theory Is Advanced. The Dalles, Or., Oct. 10. (A. P.) Harold Steel, 28, and Mi&s Cressa Crtnc 17, were found -mot lo death In an automobile cn a road In a remote district on Ben son hill, four mi lea south of T!.e Dalles today. Coroner C. M. Zeli who brought the bodies to this city, expressed the opinion thai Steel had shot the girl and killed himself. The bodies were found by Puil Lemke, wno drove past the nark ed car and saw the two soate.l side by aide. He went on, pay in;; no further attention at the Um but when he passed later on. his return and saw the young man and girl in Identically the nam. positions he Investigated and found them dead. JUeel had been employed at Tin Dalles by the Great Southern ra'l- way. Ho drew bis pay yeuterdiy, saying that he was going to be married. Miss Crone was a fltu'?ei:( nurse at Hamilton hospital at T!i'-' Dal lea. A note found In her pcliet, stating "please notify Ham'lt in hospital," caused authorities to believe that sho had been antict paling trouble of eome kind. The girl was shot In the tempto and the y-nith had a bullet In .n hcud. LABOR CONDEMNS Allnnllc City. N. J., Oct. 16 The American Federation of Inbor at it concluding onlon today, volc pd Its condemnation of the trans portation act nnd the railroad labor board. The board, aald a commit tee report, no longer has the re gar 1 or respect of any polltlcnl par ty and "Un abolishment would br but tho palnleM excision of a dead ind withered appendix. Tt wan voted to uiko union or ganization not to permit tho pr.s mnflnn of social leitlfilatlon to uuperflcde tho trade union's own purpose of fontering self reliance md self help. Tho federation voted to n.-k It executive council to continue or ganisation work In Porto Rico. A congressional Investigation of th Hell Telephone nysttm wn irert. "The company." said a re port, "ha a monopolistic grip on a Ital nubile servlcs and lun become year by year, mora arrogant, more irbltrary anj mora detrimental lo he prntrew and welfare of tht :uuntry." FIND 2 DEAD OREGON TAXES BY ROADSIDE ARE ANALYZED 88 88 88 88 leg.U." They express serious doubt ue to whether a contract such as was entered Into recently provtu Ing that neither party had an rights in the other a property, will stand In this state. Despite any previous agreement to the contrary, then, upon becom ing a brile Miss Jordan may find that her husband, In addition to the 400 which she promises him, may get a definite share of her eatuto. Upon the event of he: death, If no children are invoivoj, he will get' the entire estate. la case ehe makes a will leaving It to someone else the husband miy legally fib a statement with lite court eta-lug that he rejects the terms of the will, and prefers to have the property distributed un der the law. If there Is a child resulting from the marriage, the husband will get, outright, one-half of every thing except land belonging to th-. estate. So far as the land Is con cerned, he la entitled to the urn1 (Continued on Pa.go Nino) Summary of Finances For Year Ending September 30, 1924, Announced By Federal Bureau. Washington, Oct. 16 (AP) The department of commerce haw announced a nummary of the fin ancial stntifltU'fl of the state of Ore gon for the flacal year ending Sep tember 30, 1924. The payments for maintenance nnd operation of the general de partments of Oregon for the fis cal year ending September 30, 1924, amounted to $9,198,381, or $11-06 per capita. This Includea $430,496, apportioned for educa tlon to the minor civil divisions of the stnte. In 1923 the compara tive per capita for maintenance and operation of goneral department wan $12 04, and In 1917, $5.90. The oxpenfiofl of public nervice enter prices amounted to $11,936; Inter est on debt $2,65,800, and outlays for permanent Improvements $7,- 631,690. The total payments, there fore, for expenses of general de partments nnd public service en terprises, Interest, and outlayn were $19,51 7,707. Of the governmental col re ported above. $8,472,104 waa for highway, $1,536,640 being for maintenance and $6,935,461 for construction, The totnl revenue receipts of Oregon for 1924 wero $20,211,152, or $24.30 per capita. This wan $8. 325.035 more than the total pay ments of the year, exclusive of the payments for permanent Improve ments, and $639,445 less than the total payments Including those for permanent improvements. Proper ty and ppeclal taxes represented 38 4 per cent of the totnl revenue for J 924, 45.3 per cent for 1923 and 64.7 per cent for 1917. The increase In the amount of property and epeclal taxes collected wan 177.8 per cent from 1917 to 1923. but there was a decrease of 2.1 per cent from 1923 to 1924. The per capita property and special taxes were $9.33 In 1924, $9.65 in 1923. nnd $3.79 In 1917. The net Indebtedness (funded debt lens sinking fund assets) of Oregon on September 30, 1924, was $-11,653,377, or $49 94 per capita. In 1923 the percapltn debt wan $49.83 and In 1917, $0.66. For 1924 tho assessed valuation of property In Oregon subject to ad valorem taxation wna $1,042, 410.619; tho amount of stnto laxen levied wns $7,460,170, nnd tho per capita $8.97. ANTHRACITE FAMINE IN NEW YORK ACUTE New V-jik. Oct. 11. (A. V ) Tho anthracite coal situation .n New Yor utate lias reached a p:int virtually pai-Rllel to thtt during th? most acute ppriol o( th local situation In the wlni u of HI22-2-3, rhe Rtntc coal commission announce 1 today, nfter ti conf' r ence of repii scutatives. POWERS S GN PROTOCOL AND PACTS France, Belgium and Ger many Enact Treaties Banning War; Britain And Italy Parties. Lacnrno, Switzerland, Oct. 16. (A. P.) The Becurity conference this afternoon adopted the arbitra tion treaties bearing on Germany'.; eastern frontiers. Recess was tai; en until 6:30 p in. when the dele gates will initiate the final pro tocol and the seven treaties and then adjourn. It was decided to publish the texts of the agreement iu all the Kuropean capitals next Tuesday morning. After tho Initialling of the Rhine pact and collateral treatlei the conferon'e adjourned short'' before 7:30 o'clock. Under the western security pact tho eignatories France, Germany and Belgium engage themselves not to attack or Invado tho other'ii territory and to abstain from wa". Standing In the background fa guarantor1 of fulfillment of the terras of the agreement will be Great Britain and Italy, ready tj ut?e their might against any of tho signers of tho trl-partfte agree ment which violates Us terms. Should disagreements arise, ar bitration between the diasastisfied statofl Is obligatory. The permi mcnt court oi! International jie tlco, bofivdB of conciliation and ihe council o. the league of na tlnna nil are possibilities for set tling disnutcs. There will bo collateral arbitra tion treaties between Germany and Franco and Germany and Bel gium which will interlock wflii tho Rhine pact Itself and also ar bitration trchtles between Ger many nnd Poland and CzcY Slovakia. Separate convention will he drawn up between France and hor pastern allies guarantee ing France tho right to aid them if they should meet with unpro voked or (In grant nttack. I Carey Thanks Prosecutor In Murray Trial "Where's John Carson?" asked R. W. Carey, elderly flower fancier of 146 Hnuth 14th Ptreet, aji he camo Into tho sheriffs office thin morning, both arms loaded down with enormous dahlia blooms. "I want lo put those fiowcra on his ricflk. I want him to know how much I think of him for what he did for the citizens and taxpayers of Marion county and tbe stale of Oregon when he secured a convic tion against that man Murray." Carson wna not present but the glKnntic bouquets were turned over to him by the sheriff when he ap peared to go Into tho courtroom. "7 Just wanted to tell him with flowers what I think of him." s:itd Carey as he left the al erlff'a of fice. "I wlh I could put them on his desk In tbe courtroom." Ptomaine Poisoning Only Myth, Claim of Medical Authority St. Pnul, Minn., Oct. 16. "rinmnino ploaun iB only a myth". XumcrouH authorities wore quoted to provo this contention by Dr. .Milton J. Hosi'iiiiu, professor of prevent Ivo medicine, Harvard University, yefUcrday before the InterHlnlo post (rraduate assembly of America, which closed its an nual session here today. 1'tomnlno was thought to bo a degenerate product of protein foods, but flvo years experimenta tion has proved protelna can not yield anything which gives the ptomaine symptoms, Dr. Rosennu stated. Thec are due, tie said, to In fected, not decayed food, but this Infection cannot bo deterred. The sickness takes the form of pain, vomiting and diarrhoea and Is seldom fatnl, more so now than In ths past when food was not so carefully handled, Dr. Roseanu WILLOS AND HBIET CASE IS Trial of Companions of Murray In Break Held Up When List of Qual ified Jurors Runs Out With 11 jurors passed lor cause in the murder trial of inn&worth Kelley and James Willos, who were participants in the state prison escape of August 12 last, and who with Tom Murray were indicted for murder in the first degree for the killing of ttuard John Sweeney, the panel was ex hausted just before noon today and court adjourned until tomor row. A special venire of 20 jurors was ordered by the court. The defense has five peremptory challenges remaining and the state three. By stipulation be tween attorneys for the state and the defense alt members of the jury that sat In the Murray trial were excused from the Kelley Witlos case because of the length of the previous trial. Mrs. W. H. Kelley. 1244 Kirby street, Portland, mother of Ells worth Kelley, was in the court room during the progress of the trial this morning. Tentative Jurv Jurnre now sitting tentatively are Dan J. Fry,. Jr., Rachel B. Reeder, Arch Jorman, Charles h. Parmcntcr, Louise M, Hager, Pearl Allen. John W. Gamble, Jesse W. Savage, L. W. Durant, Eva Cauthorn and Neliiu D. Simp son. One juror, Mrs. Emily C. Rowe, was excused by stipulation of the attorneys for tho reason that her religious convictions forbid her to work on Saturdays. Lawrence A. Byrd. J. J. Mc- (CoiltlnueJ on Page Nino) nifguAtcd at the Inrso number of boys and girls of high school age who either got Into the Murray trial or hung around tho fringes of tho crowd In the courthouse lobles, county officials today were threat ening to get in touch with Princi pal Nelson of tho high aehooi to warn him where seemingly a num ber of students wero spending their time and demanding If any are being excused for that purpose to dewlHt from It. Offlelala state that a heavy Hhare of curiosity seekers has been, ade un of boys and glrla In their teens nnd chances are they will be barred from attendance altogether on the further proceedings In con nection with Willos nnd Kelly, Murray's companion In the slay ing nt the fltate penltentnry. said. Diet, he considers, Is tile single in0.1t Important (actor iu health. Lord Dawson, personal physic Ian to Klug George, added to th list of Bbaltered medical myths, by prescribing for heart disease quiet day In bed, followed by an evening at tbe theater wltb aa easy round of golf on tho follow ing day. Heart muscles, accord ing to Lord Dawson, are better for exorcise as well as rest, especi ally In younger patients. To tho avcrago individual, Lord Dawson stated, "heart disease, moans, down in his subconscious ness sudden death." The heart, however, Lord Dawson pointed out, has a flexibility of safotr margin not of fifty per cent ot COO to 700 per cent. All that l necossary Lord Dawson said. ! care In the use ot tea and coffct; and In exercising. DELAYED