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Newspaper Page TextGREEK GARRISON ATTACKED BY CIRCUI-ATION Dally average net paid circulation for month ending September 80, 1926 7077 Average dally distribution 7443. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations, FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 2E GREEK T GIVE BATTLE F Tense Situation Results From Assassination of Greek Citizen By Bul garians; 19 Hour Fight. London. Oct. 20. (A. P.) An Athens dispatch to the Exchange Telegrnph suvb fighting hag bjeu in progress tor the lust 19 hours on the Greco-Bulgarian Irutuiur jiear Deniirhissar. There le HO firmution of this report from c'.her sources. According to the dispatch, Bul P RONT ER garians attacked a Greek post near Demirhishnr, killing a Greek offi cial. When a Greek captuin went . out with a white flag he waB shot dead. A general engagement then de veloped. (Demirhiehar is in Mucedonia, some 45 miles northeast of Salon iki.) The situation along the Greco- Bulgarian border was reported tense early in August in conse quence of the assassination of a Greek citizen. Jacques Nicolaidee, at Stantmaka, .Bulgaria. Greece dispatched troops to her frontier and made a vigorous protest to the Sofia government. The latter denied that there was any cam paign on foot for prosecution of the Greeks in Bulgaria and at tributed M. Nicolaides' death to the act of a criminal. Dispatches at - the time said that between 5,000 and 6,000 Greeks remained In Bulgarian territory and that under an agree ment for exchange of minority populations they should leave Bul garia by October 15 after liquidat ing their property. HEIRS SEEK 10 Petition was filed in probate to day by Carrie M. Cutting and Magnus Jespnrsou of Multnomah county asking that C. M. Gram be removed as administrator of th estate of Ellen K, Jesperson and that all of liie orders be rescinds and declared null and void. The petitioners state they arc. children of the deceased and thci action against Gram Is based on allogcd lack of jurisdiction of th local probate court over the es tate. They declrre that in July, 1920, Gram induced the deceased to turn over to him all of her es tate valued nt about $10,000. They say that the deceased lived Multnomah county for years, with the exception of a few months liv ing In Salem before her death wit Christine Jesperson, and that be fore the death of the deceased they again removed to Multnomah county where ehe died. The petitioners charge that Gram, with Jeppe Jesperson ex parte, brought the estate to the Marion probate court, without no tice to the petitioners. ROBBERS FIRE YONGALLA STORE Roseburg, Oct. 20 The destruc tlon of the W. P. Rupprecht nen eral merchandise store at Yoncalla by fire yesterday morning followed a robbery In the store, In the optn Ion of Sheriff Starmer, who turned last night after a thorough Investigation. Evidence obtained from an inspection of the ruins, the sheriff says, indicates that the tore was robbed and was then set on fire. One fire was started near the rear door and another near the front of the building. The Yon eaKa fire department had a dlffl cul time -In chocking the blaze an preventing Us spread to adjoining structures. The building and goo tin were practically a total Iom and only a small amount of Insurance was carried. C apita GOOD EVENING WORDS and MUSIC By Stoddard King THE BEST YEA US OP YOUR LIFE" Wive n I was but a tiny youth, When, In a word, I'd barely BtlirUMl seek the founts of light and truth Where education Is imparted. Did school ditto bring to mc the joys With which our writers all Lave clothed them? No; like ttic other girls and boys, a loiiiiieu uicin. In high school It was not so bad, ior uioiigii i ieic quite ma To reach the school and find It burning. But whim u did I thrill to pass Tiirougli yean reputed gay and splendid wns most happy when a class Was ended. In college, too, I should have known That those were days of bright endeavor. And Umt the gifts which were my own Would seldom be surpassed, Ifj ever. Yet I despised such silly rot as lectures mid cxamlimt nns. And ben inert with pleasure when I got vacations. Now Hint my hnir Is I inning gray hi M ui-i i-s oi sciiooi nu col lege Are lovely, mid I often say: now nappy the pursuit of knowledge!" I think how pleasant it was then, jrc my wild oats had been plow ed under Yet would I live those scars again? A HUIIIIIT, The headline writers nro ronftmi- ally disappointing their public. Lately the govornment forolgn ser vice school, which trains young men for the diplomatic school, graduated its first class, and not a single headline reported: "Diplo mas for-Diplomats." The state treasurer of wisennnin thinks it would bo verv nle if some philanthropist would start a iunu to enuow young married coup les with houses. And so It would; but the real cheerim? from thr young married section will come wnen tiiey are endowed with snap py sedjrtis. KEPT AS SLEUTH Philadelphia, Oct. 20 fAPV Mayor Kcndriuk announced today mat ne wourd make a formal re- quest of President Coolldge to ex tend General Smcdlcy D. Butler's leave of absence from the Marine Corps so that he may continue director of puhllc safety here. The announcement followed the receipt of advices from Washington that the matter depended largely upon tne mayor. General Butler, In an address last night, intimated that if It came to a show down" he would consider giving up his connection with the Marine Corps in order to remain here. While it would be an awful wrench," ho said, "I don't know but what If It came to a show down 1 would give up my connection with the federal government and go on my own to clean up Philadelphia." Mutt and Jeff In Role of Matchmakers, Engage Bud Fisher New York, Oct. 20. (A. P.) Mutt and Jeff now appear In the role of matchmakers. Their creator, "Bud" Fisher, Is going to get married next week and he says Mutt and Jeff are portly responsible. The future Mrs. Harry C, Fisher is not only wealthy, the winner ot a Paris beauty prize In 1922, but a countess. Fellow passengers on the Leviathan, which arrived yes terday, who say the cartoonist talking with the Countess Aedita de Beaumont, did not suspect that they were discussing matrimony and a honeymoon. On landing Fisher went to his apartment and the countess regis tered at a hotel with her seven year old son. Pierre de Beaumont. The bride-to-be says It all came about through her son's fondness for the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. "Naturally," she saya, "when my f UV7L COOLIDGE TO FAVOR ARMS E President Believes Pact To Reduce Armaments Should Follow Locarno Security Pact. Washington, Oct, 20 (AP) President Coolidge believed a limitation of arms conference In Europe- would be helpful and use ful and hopes the Locarno security pset will expedite the holding of such a conference. If It Is possible for Europe to roach nn agreement for the re duction of land armaments, it was said at the White House today, Mr. Coolidge would favor such a step. He believes the United States has little, If anything, to offer In the way of reduction of its ! land forces, but at the same time I holds that any question involving a further limitation of naval arma ments could be considered by a conference In this country with greater hopo of a successful agree ment. Mr. Coolidge recognizes that no step can be taken by the Wash ington govornment in the direction of a naval limitation conference until the Interested nations have boon sounded out. In the mean time it wns said at the White Housq, Jio is willing that the Wash lngtim government should do all in Its power, without jeopardizing the national Interests to help the Eu ropean situation presumably In effecting an agreement on the ques tion of land forces. The Locarno pact Is recognized by President Coolidge as an ex ceedingly gratifying convention. He has been informed by Secretary Kellogg that the state department expects wlthfn a few days to be gin a careful analysis of the docu ment. The fact that the security pact was drawn by statesmen who had political considerations to keep in mind and that they were able to reach the agreement Is held by the president to be of outstanding im portance. For that reason, he con tends, it Is a step In advance of the Dawes plan, which was arrived at by men who wore freed from po litical consideration and not com pelled to think of their own future as they worked. Mogadiscio, Italian Somalilm::! Africa, Oct. 20. (A. P.) Three Italian military columns have oc cupicd the lower Ncgal valley. The columns have thus completed the occupation of the sultanates o Mijertenses and Ohhia and th autonomous territory of Nogal. boy was so interested It increased my own interest." The former Aedita Stuart ot Paris married the Count de Beau mont In 1917. Her father-in-law was reputed, before bis death, to be the wealthiest nobleman In France. The countess has lived In Paris since her husband's deatb and It was there that she met Fisher, three years ago. Fisher, who was married In 1912 to Pauline Welch, a vaude ville actress and divorced by her in 1917, returned six weeks ago from a trip to Parts "expecting a decision." The decision came by cable and be hurried back to Paris. Fisher says that he and bis bride expect to live on a steamer between New York and Paris. "You can nut ne down aa com muters from Paris to New York," he says. IE N lAJoiiiraal SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1925 DeWolf Hopper Weds Lillian Glaser As His Sixth Wife Hartford, Conn., Oet. 20 AP) DeWolf Hopper, well known comedian of Ute Am erican stage, came from Bos ton toaay and after securing a license, married . as bis sixth wife Lillian Glaser, singer, age 20, who gave tier borne address as Oakland, Oal. TO BE WITHDRAWN E IrfODdon pct 20 AP) The first practical result of the Locar no security pact will be the with drawal of the British troops from the Cologne bridgehead, It is stat ed in official quarters, and this should be accomplished within three months. This serves to corroborate i official expressions made In Paris yesterday, based on the Interview there between the British foreign secretary, Austen Chamberlain, and the French premier, M. Palnleve. The authorities in London ex pect that Germany, taking advan tage of the terms of the pact, will shortly hand to Great Britain report on the conditions In the Co logne area, after which it la an tlcipated the British government will order the removal ot Its 9000 occupational troops to other areas held by the allies along the Rhine. Great Britain will not withdraw from the Rhine, it Is stated, but will continue to be represented with the French and Belgians long as troops are kept on German soil. The British force of 9000 however, probably will reduced by half. The city of Astoria today wan the supreme court its man damus roceedingj against Clatsop county to compel the county court to levy a road tax, a part of which would be available for use by the city. 1 tie opinion, written by jus ticc Bean is a reversal of Judge A. Eakin of the lower court for Clatsop county. The opinion al?ows a writ of mandamus commanding the county court to levy for 192o and annual ly thereater, of uot less than on. mill nor more than 10 mills on all taxable property in the county, biuco the proceedings was com nienced the time for the levying ot' the taxes for 1923 and 1925 has passed, theefore It is not possible to make the writ apply to hos' years. The law involved in the case pro vides that 70 per cent of the lev shall be apportioned to the severu road districts, Including district con; posed of Incorporated cities and towns in such proportion af the amount of taxable property i each district, shall boar to th whole amount ot taxable property in the county, and the remainin 30 per cent shall be applied t roads in such locality as the coun ty court may direct. The county's brief alleged de fective title to the act, which con tention is not upheld by the au pre me court. The money accruing to the city under the law may be used for street building and maintennne YOUTH SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR KILLING FATHE! Allison. Iowa. 0:t. 20. f A. P Warren Vandervort, 17-yrar-oH son of Rev. P.. J, Vandervort Parkersburg. Iowa, must spend tli rest of hia life In stale prison fur th slaying of his father on Au gut 6, last. Sentence was pawd this after noon by Distrfct Judge C. H. Ket ley at the conclusion of a two-dav hearing In which the defenee pre sented extenuating evidence de signed to sain a minimum sen tence for the boy. Young Vander voort will be taken to Fort Mad -son prison tomorrow. YIN CABARETS OE E Thirty Night Resorts Are Visited By Sleuths Padlocks for 100 Sus pected Places Planned. New York, Oct. 20. (A, P.) Broadway cabarets and Buppor lubs were the objective today of the most sweeping prohibition drive yet waged nlottg the fattens thoroughfare. Thirty of the best known night resorts were served with summons and complaint by members ot United States District Attorney Buckner'a stuff. Throughout last night and eany today, the federal prosecutor's men visited the "all night" places nd left papers requiring the own ers to appear In federal court to answer charges of selling liquor. Some of the places were off olio great white way, one being Civ Lido Venice, exclusive supper club n Bast 63rd street, near Fifth ave nuo. T. Pnrtloiik "Resorts The action against the SO places wus Mr Duckncr's first step n his renounced plan to padlock approximately 100 of the lending ManhatUn resorts, mostly along Broadway, suspected of selling liq uor. Included in today s list oi cabarets and supper clubs are ttu 131 Fey club, near Times Squaro; the Piping Rosk and the Gamecock estnurants, east of Firth avenue: he Piccadilly Hampton rendez vous, the Piccadilly supper emu, the Half Moon and the Hoty Tola.e n the Broadway district, and tne Golden Bugle i" Greenwich vil- age. Some of the places wore on wnai Mr. Buckncr termed his "encore list," their managements having been enjoined from ever again vio lating the prohibition law. In such places all waiters were summoned. Among thefio were tne iiuo Ven ice, the Del-Fey club and the Pip- g Hock. Thn waiters were ordered to ap pear before the federal grand jury today. Scene of Excitement. Scenes of ex-jltcinent prcvailei unnin at the reuorts unon the nnirv nf irnvrniment agents and policemen. In some cneB, the process serv RniinilH renorted. the crash J many liquor bottleH were hastily broken to destroy evidence, could ii heard before entrnuce wah pain fd Mr. Bucftner today made Known the iiiscoverv that the Del-Key club supplied its nations with liquor through a- pipe connecting witn another building. Scotch, gin r champagne could be obtained by tii mine: a certain faucet, me prosccutor said. FOR AUTO THEFT Bob Ellcr and Howard Colt.r. two youths am. sted a few d.iys ago on the I'acilic highway by State Traffic fifiecr lleinlmrt. and who had the litenee plates of a Blakc-MiKall automobile on their car, besides burglar tools and a stolen revolver In their posses sion, arp getting more deeply In volved with the law daily. Boi'i are in the city jail. An Investigation up to this tim discloses that they are paroled convicts from the OreKnn peniten tiary, that they have apparently stolen several automobiles an -1 they are suspecte.l of having bui-glarir-ed a etore at Halny recent ly. Among the cars they are al leged to have stolen ie a Moon sedan take recently at Kur.en-' ind the automobile belonging t Inmos B. Young of Salem. Bob KltMimmons Widow HI Chicago. Oct. 20 (AP) -Mrs. Philip R eider, widow of B"b Flta AlmmoDP, famous pugilist. Is In curably ill and penniles In a hos pital here. It was disclosed today. FstranyM from her husband, whom the married after the death of the champion, she has contracted l.eart rlli:i."i. she h-'iJi two children, Mar vin, 5, and Avalon, 4 years old. WAY Ml WW 140 Willing Swains Offer To Wed for Bride's $400 Prize The 101 letters received by Miss Jordan, the Salem mystery wo man, who advertised for a husband through the Capital Journal, mounted to 140 today when 39 more came In up to noon. It be came necessary for the Capital Journal publisher to appoint a speccial editor to handle the Jor dan correspondence. This specially appointed editor and the office boy who brings the mail from the postofflce are not the only ones enlisted perforce of circumstances in helping Miss Jordan to acquire a husband. Postmaster John F.arrar staggered IAL Washington, Oct. 20 (AP) A general court martial for trial of Colonel- William Mitchell, on charges of violating the ninety sixth article of war, was ordered today to convene in Washington October 28, The order for the court martial was issued at the war department by direction of President Coolldge and Major General Charles P. Summerall, commanding the second corps area, Governors Islond. New York, senior officer In the army lists, was appointed president of the court. , Five other mnjor generals, six brlgndler generals and one colonel were named aB members of the court martial which will consider the charges agnin.nt the former as sistant chief of the army air ser vice, growing out of his state ments that the Shenandoah loss was a result of almost treasonoble and criminal conduct of the war and navy departments. The other members of the court will be Major Generals Robert L. flowzce, commanding the fifth corps area at Columbia, Ohio; Fred W. Staden, superintendent of the West Point military ncademy; Douglas MacArthur, commanding the third corps area at Baltimore: William S. Graves, commanding the sixth corps area, Chicago; Benja mln A. Poore. commanding the seventh corps area at Omaha. Brigadier Generals Albert J. Do ley, commandant Fort Bragg, North Caroline: Edward L. King, commandant, general service schools. Fort Leavenworth, Kan Frank H. McCoy, commanding Third Infantry brigade, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Edwin B. Winans, Fort Clark, Texas; George L. II Irwin, commanding Fort Sill, Ok- janoma; Kwing E. Booth, com mandant Cavalry school port Itlley KnnHns; Colonel Blnnton Wlnshlp, Inw member of the couit, on duty with the First corps area head quarters, Boston. New York. Thirty-five wealthy bachelors In the Piping Hock :?el arc to give a hall nnd the de- iiilanten are deltphletf. Taxicab License Is Raised 100 Percent At Council Session The a.iniinl lireiise fees of taxi -1 fabs operating in Salem were in creased 100 per cent, or from .'!6 to $&0, by enactment of an ordi nance at the city council mee'.:a last night. Just before the state fair iht II cenns titm were increased from J 2 5 to $100 by ordinance, which has hern done every fall for ycrri! to keep outside taxiealm from the city during state fair week. Ev ery year Jut after the state fair it has been the cuiiom of the council to reduce the license again froth $100 to $25 a year, lint when thi bill came In this year the commit tee on license recommended that it pass with an amendment that the feed be made 1 50 Instead tf $25 a year. This wns done in committee of the whole and the BULGARS PRTPT? THRU1!? P'E'MTQ ON TRAINS AND NEW8 1 KlVJi lllnJLCi UHjiNlO STANDS FIVE CENTS - into the office yesterday with a bale of letters that he had de tected as part of the Jordan cor respondence. Mayor Glesy con tributed three that were mailed to him personally to be handed to the newspaper carrying the ad and Chief of Police Minto handed in two more. The latest letters are from New Haven, Conn.; Maryville, Mo.; Colorado Springs, Col.; Denver, Col.; Seattle, Wash.; Chehatls, Wash.; Waverly, Iowa; Milwau kee, Wis.; another from Colorado Springs; Chicago; Clarinda, Iowa; (Continued on Pago Seven) AT LOW LEVEL FOR THE SEASON With a drop of one tenth ,of an inch this morning, the level of the Willamette- river at Salem was to day at Its lowest point for this year, as registered on the official government gaugo, and was doclar- od by rlvermen to bo at a lower point than at any time for a num ber of years. At 7 . o'clock this morning the river stood at 3.4 feet below normal. At this time last year the river was 2.5 foot below normal. The condition Is accounted for by the fact that since the middle of June there has been no rain for any substalned period, only nn oc casional chower breaking the gen eral dry spell. The only serious effect of tho low water Is to make It difficult to tow logs, down the river, and seem Ingly Impossible to bring the river steamer Northwestern up the .stream from Portland to Salem. It was indicated today that another effort would be made soon to take tho Northwestern off the bar Just below Kclzcr, where she has been stuck for several weeks. The Math lorn a, United States government ilrcdge, has been at work clearing the channel. Tho conviction Is ex pressed by officials of the joat line that if the Northwestern can be brought through successfully with the water nt Its present level, the pcrmnncney of tho line will have become established. THOMAS A. M'GANN DEAD IN ARIZONA Bend, Ore., Oct. 20.- Thomas A MeCann, vice-president of the Shevlin-IIIxon company of Bend and Its first general manager, died this morning near Yuma, Ariz., of acute dilation ot the heart, nccording to information received hero by relatives nnd mill officials. Death came suddenly, With Mrs. MeCann nnd a nurse, the Mlnnucapolls lumber man was on his way to Los Angeles for hi health. bill passed. Several members nf ibe council said they were tired of having the ordi nonce Introdu ed every year. Adlerman Pntlon made a for the taxicab men and wautvvl the measure tabled until thf y could have a hearing. Alderman William declare 1 they needed no protection and that it was no: right that an ordinance be pA5.'d every year to bar outside taxis from thn city, inasmuch as the fair is n state fair and not a city fair. An ordinance was passed grant ing the Western Paper Conver'-iU; company and tho Southern Par If i company a franchise to build i apur track on Front street. T.i measure whi; amended provMii (Continued on Page Four) FAIR WEATHER Moderate temperature tonight and Wed nesday. Light northeasterly winds. Local: Max.. 68; min., 42; rain, none; river, -2.4: atmos., clear; wind, north. Mm WITNESSES TELL TALE OF Dalrymple Says Murray a "Stool" Shooting of Holman Laid To Kel ley Guards Testify. . Tom Murray, convict sentenced to hang for the murder of Prison Guard James Sweeney, was just such an informer or "stool" as uy hiB testimony in his own trial feared might frame" on him and cause him to be confined in the bull pen, Warden A. M. Dalrymple toid the jury trying James Willos and Klleworth Kelley, indict el jointly with Murray for the mur der of Sweeney. Under direct examination of Dis- tiict Attorney John Careon the warden testified that two or tbrea months prior to the break of Au gust 12, Murray informed Depuy Wurdcn Lillle that a group of sev en or eight convicte were planning . to break, and named C. R. Moore us their leader. To Seine Warden "As the deputy warden reporlol it to me Murray told him that the convicts planned to make the break on a Sunday morning. Thov PRISON II were going to seize the warden tu .. the chapel a3 he went m for his egular Sunday morning interview with prisoners, put a knife to his . neck nnd under the threat of kill- n.g him force the chapel guards '.o' open tho doors ot the 'cage' lead- rig into the- turnkey's office. There they planned to take guns from the arsenal nnd force their way out of the prison. 'Kelley, Willos, Bert Oregon Jones and Frank Fallen were soma of the other convicts whom Mur ray told tho deputy warden were mplicated In tho plot." Warden Dalrymple was the prin cipal witness called by the state during the morning session of the trial. Ho told the same story he related on the ste.r.d in the trial of Murray, nnd croea examination by Will P.. King, for the defense, failed to shake his version of the escape. Claims Kellev Shot. Dalrymple said that Jones was tho first of the four convicts to go over the wall after they had shot their way through tower No. 1, and that Kelley, Willos and M-tv- ray dropped over the wall just north of tower No. 1 together. Piecing tn with the state's con tention that Kelley killed Gur.rl Jnir.es Milton Ho i man with a shot gun at this point was the warden's testimony that Kelley lingered in the niche formed by the projection of tower No. 1 nt its juncture with tho west wall after Murray and Willos hod broken from covar and ran 00 or 76 yards towari tlio state hospital. Most of the evidence so far pre sented by lihe state has been iden tical to that which was brought out In the Murray trial, for Will.M and Koll?y are being tried now afl . accomplices In the murder ot Sweeney and not on the seps'.r.u: indictment which charges them with the killing of Holman. GuariU Testify. Peter J. White, one of th guard who was In the turnkey'-n office nt the time Murray and Jones entered and demanded the keys to the arsenal, testified that when he escaped from the office he storied on the run for the front ;ato. There, he said, he met Guard Charlton, who wni trying to get in. Ho said that Charlton called his attention to Willoa and Kelley. who were then coming down tho rope from I ho roof and that he (White) rushed over tn the bottom nf the rope and commanded the wo convicts to s;and still and put up their hands. "Kelley put his hands tin al right," fifild Whito. "but Wllloi mid 'Who the hell are you? and started couth toward tower No. 7. "I told him I was Peter Whl'e, and just then Guard McKlnky ramp out of the barber shop and Willos stopped and put his Innde "PAiked If either Kelley or Wllt.n said anything while they were slimline there. White replied: "Ye. Kelley paid: Oee, Pete. 1 didn- think U would he bad rH till. " White Mid that the shootlnft wns mlntr nn then and that almost (C-ntinucd un Page Seven.)