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LOST: RESCUE
LINER FAILS
Entire Crew of the Japanese
Freighter 'Raifuku Maru'
Go to Watery Graves When
Ship Founders in Storm Off
Nova Scotia 'Homeric'
. Stands By, But Relief Fails.
NEW YORK. April 21. Forty
eight men lout their HveH today when
the Japanese freighter Raifuku Maru
sank off Nova Scotia, a wireless from
the . steamship Homeric Informed
White Star officials this afternoon.
"Regret unable to save life;" was
the brief report of Captain John" Rob
erts of the Homeric to the line of-
ficlals:
Two steamships and two ' ocean
going tugs were speeding to the
rescue of the crew but the freighter
went down before any of thorn could
reach tho distressed vessel in time to
effect a rescue. .
For more than seven hours before
going down the Raifuku Muru strug
gled In mountainous seas which stove
in her lifeboats and cuused a danger
ous list by a shift of the cargo. The
freighter was listing thirty degrees
when her captain .sent his first ur
gent cull for assistance.
Although the Homeric put on full
speed in the direction of tho dis
tressed vessel she fulled to arrive in
time to save tho freighter's crew.
' Heavy seas marie- It Impossible for the
crew to survive in the water.
Captain Roberts reported that tho
Homeric proceeded on her voyago to
Now York at 12:30 o'clock.
The East Hampton station of the
Independent Wireless company early
today reported tho Raifuku Maru In
distress. An S. O. S. call said the
ship was listing thirty degrees and
that all lifeboats had been crushed in
a storm.
The captain of tho Raifuku Maru
asked for quirk assistance. The Ho
meric of the Whlto Htar line and the
King Alexander of tho National Greek
Navigation company answered the
call.
The disabled vessel was , loaded
with wheat and carried a crew of
about sixty men.
Tho Raifuku Maru leaving Phila
delphia on April 3. touched at Boston,
sailing for Hamburg on April 18.
The Raifuku was of 6807 gross tons
and was 385 feet long.
FOUND IN S. DIEGO
CHICAGO. April 21. T. A. New
man who was to have been subpoe
naed as a grand Jury witness in the
rase ot William D. Shepherd, charg
ed with the murder by typhoid inoc
ulation of his foster son, William N.
McClintock. has been located in San
Diego, Cat., Chief Justice Harry Ol
son of the municipal court said to
day. Newman, who Judge Olson Bald,
accompanied Shepherd when the lat
','rte visited the judge's brother Dr.
Oscar Olson, just before the doctor's
death,' Is SRid to have sold his Chi
cago property nntt to have estab
lished his home in San Diego.
Wall Street Report
NEW YORK, April 21. The clos
ing was weak. Commercial Solvents
"A" broke 9 points to 120 and Mack
Truck. Maxwell Motors "B", WJllys
Overland preferred and Frisco com
mon fell back 3 to 4 points.
Revival of selling pressure brought
about another sharp reaction in prices
In today's stock market. Temporary
suspension of bull operators in sev
eral Issues facilitated the decline.
Total sales approximated 1,300,000
shares.
GERM CASE WITNESS
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"SPIRIT OP GRANDMOTHER" SEIZED
BY'EQllCE AND LOCKED UP IN JAIL
LONG BEACH. Cal., April 21. Six! a scant staged by the defendants
alleged participants in the material-and helped to capture his "grand
ization of the spirit of Pierce A. mother's spirit," as soon as It ap-
Hodge's grandmother, were held to
answer in justice court here yester -
day on charges of conspiracy to de -
fraud. Hodge, it was brmtgnl out in
testimony, accompanied detectives to
Earl Sande Wins
First Race Since
Injury; On Sarazen
HAVRE DE GRACES. Md.,
April 21. Karl Sande. of Sa-
4 lem, Oregon, America's famous
fr jockey, today rode his first race 4
fr since ho was injured at Sara-
fr toga last summer and won with
Sarazen, Mrs. W. K. Vander-
bilfs great gelding. It was
fr Sarazen 'a first race of the year,
too.
Sarazen took the Newark
handicap, a six-furlong dash for
three year olds in the time of
1:11 flat, breaking tho track
record.
Two dollar mutucls on Sara-
zen paid (3.30; $2.70 and $2.30.
4 4
PIERCE WIRES
T TO
Oregon's Governor Sends a
Sensational Telegram to
President Coolidge De
mands A'n Investigation of
Chicago Board of Trade.
SALI0M. Ore., April 21. Declaring
that millions of dollars have been
taken from innocent citizens by un
scrupulous speculators Governor
Plorce today sent a telegram to Presi
dent Cnolidge, dcmancling,--on behalf
of the people of Oregon, an investiga
tion into tho methods of the Chicago
board of trade in tho manipulation of
grain prices.
"Oregon demands immediate and
thorough investigation of Chicago
board of trade methods In . recent
manipulations of grain prices," says
the telegram.
"Unquestionably tho market has
been controlled and millions tnken
from innocent citizens by unprinci
pled speculators. During last war our
government prevented such specula
tion. Why not prevent it now?"
The governor loft for Portland he
fore the telegram was made public
and on whose advice he was acting
was not known at his office.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
' ABERDEEN, Wash., April 21. Des
pondent over 111 health, which In a
note sho said had also spoiled her
j children's health, Mrs. Maria Task-
lncn, 4U, a larm woman living about
six miles east of here, this morning
killed her two young daughters and
committed suicide by slashiug her own
throat. John Tasklnen, her husband,
found the three lying side by side In
the kitchen in a pool of blood when
he returned from Aberdeen about 10
, o'clock.
I In a note found by officers, Mrs.
iTaskinen said:
I cannot live any longer because
I my health is gone and I have spoiled
my children's health because I have
been weak. 1 want to go with my
children from this world. Do not
blame my loving husband."
The note was written In the Finnish
language.
A razor with which the woman
slashed the throats of her children
and then cut her own was found near
the bodies.
LOS ANGELES, April 21. Jose
Gabriel Ramirez, said to be wanted
in El Paso, Texas, for murder and the
shooting in May, 1923. of Policeman
Iver Fenley of that city, was arrested
here early this morning and held cn
a warrant issued by Texas authorities.
The man, clad in pajamas, was cap
tured after a long chase that I'd
through city streets and hills of Ely
sian park.
According to local police auhtorltlea.
Ramirez in 1922. while in the Lincoln
Heights jail here, sawed the bars of
his cell and led the way to escape
for 42 prisoners.
peared, whereupon the gate receipts
of the seance, about $200, were seized
and the defendants including the one
jjiob,ii)u ms tiauuiimiiin ...ir.
, SVre carried off to jail.
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STOP GAMBLING
IV P 0
SQUARE DEAL
Vice-President Continuing His
Camaign to Reform Senate,
Tells Associated Press That
Cloture Rule Deprives Peo
ple of Representative Govt.
Enthusiastic Greeting.
.NEW YORKC April 21. A plea
by Vice-President Charles G. Dawes
for reform in the United Stntes sen
ate rules was cheor.ed by one thous
and persons today at the annuul
ldncheon of tho Associated Press,
held In the grand ball room of tho
Waldorf Astoria.
An audience of publishers' and
their guests hoard this "radiant per
sonality," as he was Introduced by
Frank U. Noyos president of tho
Associated Press.
The vice-president started smoking
his plpo with tho first course and
kept puffing until time for his ad
dress. Meanwhile, he chatted anl-
matodly with others at the head of
tho table who included General Per
shing and Owen D. Young, with
whom tho vice-president was inti
mately associated in problems of war
and peaco.
Mr., Dawes prefaced his formal
speech nvith a few jocular remarks
that Btirred tho audience to frequent
laughter. Ho quoted General Per
shing as tolling hlnv "Say nytbjng
you want to a woman, but don't
put ft on paper." Mr. Dawos said he
had found the opposite to be true.
namely, "if you want to bo gate, put
It on paper." .
"J3ut." ho continued, "beforo I
pull this twclvo minute speech of
mine I want to say a- little about
thoso pioneers of tho A, P."
Then tho vice-president voiced a
brief tribute to his fellow Chlcagoan,
victor F. Lawson of tho Chicago
Daily News and Melville B. Stone,
counsellor of the Associated Press,
and a former Chlcagoan.
Then after . remarking "Sonator
Capper, (who was in the audience)
is for the change, so If I look at him
fiercely don't misinterpret it," Mr.
Dawes read his speech.
NEW YORK, April 21. Vice-
Prnvirtnnt f'hnplns n i.
ing todHy at the annual luncheon of
jinmM:mil.-U JTUHH, gaVO niS VieW
on reform of tho rules of the sen
ate, v
PrnnU Vnvo. nM.M.ni . i a-
sociated Press, Introduced Mr. Dawes
as a man with "a wonderful record
of achievement," "a radiant person
ality." and "one who has now cut
out for himself a man-sized job."
opcaKlng at the 25th anniversary
luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria, tho
vira-nrnRfrlin anltt fU... . V. .
ment for tho limitation of debate In
mo senate was non-partisan, non
sectior.lfl and patriotic.
"The issue," he said, "is this: Shall
the senate continue unchanged Its
existing rules which admittedly make
possible, at times, the exercise by a
mlnbrlty of even one senator, of
power to block the purpose of a
majority of the senntn nf loel.in-
ture?" . '
"It Is Important," he continued.
"that tha Rpnnto'n t.la ol...
senator a square deal but it Is im-
imrauve mat tney give tho American
peonlo a nnllnrA Hnnl
The extra-constitutional powers of
ot"olul" " mis connection, Mr.
Dawes said, were subversive of the
principles of representative constitu
tional government.
Answering several arguments
against a cloture rule, tho vice
president said:
"The purpose Is not to prevent
senators from fuiiv Hi.n...ai
question but to make impossible the
I'.uiuuxiiig oiaenate to prevent the
majority from settling nnMn
Mr' Dawes appealed to citizens to
.imno Known to tnelr Individual sen
ators their ideas on the question.
Mr. Dawes spoke as follows:
As vice president, elected, not by
the senate, or by a state, but by tho
people of the United States to preside
over the senate, I conceive myself
charged with the duty of calling atten
tion to methods of senate parliamen
tary procedure In their relation to the
national Interest. The fact that of
practically all deliberative and lecis
lillve aa.-MMlfs of the wrld. the
United Slates senate, almost alone.
choiMPW In MniliiM I. .
ifuniiiran unuer
rules which do not provide properly
i-nuta ciuiure, empnafilzes this galty
on my part. -
The issue presented in the move
ment for reform In the present rules
of the senate of the United States is
non-partisan, non-sectional and pat
riotic. An Improvement In these rulea
to expedite the conduct of huslnes is
(Continued oo Page B(?j
SAYS DAWES
Italian Queen of Spanish Stage
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An Italian born woman, Mimi AuRtifrlia, is now culiiajrcd the
foremost dramatic actress of Spain. She now is appearing in roles
formerly played by Dusc, whose course she is following In refusing
nil offers to appear in the films. -
JUDGE CALK NS PRIf
SUSTAINED IN i
E R. CASES
SALEM, Ore., April 21. Jonoph j
Jacob Berger, Portland architect, ,
falla to recover a judgment of $2382
from the Portland school board by ,
an opinion of the supreme court to- i
day In the case of Jacob Berger
against the school district appellant.
The opinion was written by Chief .
Justice McBrlde. It reverses Judge
George Rosnman of the lower court
for Multnomah county and remands
the case with Instructions" to inter
pose by the district.
Jacob ' Berger was employed ns
architect for the Rose City pnrk
school and claimed a fee covering the
north wing of tho building.
Other opinions by the court today
were:
In the matter of the determination
of water rights on Rogue river. Goo.
W. Lance, et al, respondents, vs. Ed
ward Bollng, et al, appellants, and
J. N. Matney, respondent, vs. Fred
Offenbacher, et al, appellants; appeal
from JackHon county; decrees of
Judge F. M. Calkins, affirmed by the
court becauso of failure of attorneys
to submit essential testimony.
Jn the matter of the estate of Ed
ward W. Dixon, deceased, Walter
Rime, appellant, vs. Frank Q. Streiblg
administrator of tho estate, et al; ap
peal from Multnomah county; appeal
from court order setting aside sale of
property; opinion of Justice Burnett.
Judge George Tazwell affirmed.
Ivy M. Ramsey, et al, appellants, vs.
the Wellington company; appeal from
Multnomah county; suit for specific
performance of an alleged agreement
to lease rear property. Opinion by
Justice Burnett. Judge T. K. J.
Duffy affirmed.
Alfred Jackson vs. Industrial acci
dent commission appellant, appeal
from Curry county; suit for compen
sation. Opinion ty Justice Brown.
Judge John C. Kendall reversed.
Elizabeth I. Spencer, appellant, vs.
City of Portland, appeal from Mult
nomah county; suit to enjoin city
from appropriating lands for the pur
pose of widening East Broadway and
East Larrlbee streets as approaches
to the Broadway bridge. Opinion by
Justice Brown. .Judge George Rosa
man affirmed!
Petition for rehearing denied in
Schuman vs. Bank of California.
The "Daily"
Bank Robbeijr
LOS ANGELES, April 21 Four
armed and masked men held up the
Lynwood branch of the Farmers' and
Merchants' National bank of Compton
today and escaped with $10,000, It was
reported to the sherirr n oltice.
ROGU
Snubs Alluring Film Offers
ICE
PACES SERIOUS
CRISIS, AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG, Bouth Africa,
April 21. Special dispatches from
Capetown, report the outbreak at
Bloemfontcin, where several ' natives
were killed and Injured by police
during a riot, as Indicating "an
alarming and Increasing restlessness
among tho South African natves,
Inflamed by Kaffir agitators and bol
shevlk and communist influences.
One featuro of the present unrest
Is said to be a movement to boy
cott tho Prince of Wales whon he
arrives. The Capetown corroBpon
dent of the Daily Express says thoun
ands of handbills have been dls
tributed among the natives, of Jo
hannesburg, urging them to boy'
eott tho prince as "the nativos of
India did," and adding:
"liritiHh Imperialism, whose rep
renentntivo is about to visit South
Africa, is largely responsible for
your exploitation."
(Bloomfonteln dispatches last
night said the trouble originated In
attempt by police to seize a quan
tlty of Kaffir boor).
Other dispatches say the riots are
a part of a wider movement fo
mented by nativo leaders bent on at
taining a higher status for tho
blacks.
It is known that meetings have
boen'held hero at which speeches of
an extremist naturo wero delivered
and enthusiastically received.
It is uncertain, however, whether
there is any communist Influence be
hind the agitation.
LL SORT
American
At Detroit. n. If. K.
Cleveland . 3 10 2
Detroit 4 9 0
Batteries: Hhaute and Myatt;
Whitehill, Uolloway and Uastilor.
At Philadelphia. , R, H. K.
Washington 6 8 0
Philadelphia 71
Batteries: Mogrldge and Kuel;
Groves, llaumgartner and Perkins.
At New York. R. H, IZ.
H'oston 16 0
New York v 5 13 0
flatteries: Kuhr, Kiilllo ai:d Plcln
feh; Jonos ryirl O'N'eil.
V. K. lo ApiKNt! Cum
WASHINGTON. April 21. Attor-'
ney General Kargeant announced to
day tho government would carry tho
Chemical Foundation case to the
supreme court, on appeal from the
circuit court of appeals at Philadel
phia which affirmed a lower court
ruling against the government's contentions.
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Money 'Appropriated
for Forest Fire Air
Service tin Oregon
WASHINGTON, April 21. T1IO
department of agriculture today
presented plans for using nir-
planes for foreBt tiro patrol In
tho - west. An appropriation of
$50,000 for tho work will be
available July 1.
Large forest reserves will be
patrolled after each electrical
storm. Five bases will bo estab-
llshed, two in California and ono
each in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. The planes probably will
be contributed by tho army air
4 service and tho pilots recruited
from the resoryo corps.
DEPUTY: FLEES
Ex-Convict Adopts Method
Popular in Jacksonville and
Knocks Out Sheriff With a
Tea Cup Posse in Pursuit
Capture Expected.
HOStiBUTlG, April 21. (By A. P.)
Tho sheriff's office nt 2 o'clock this
aftornoon received a tolophono mes
asgo from Glenburry, eight miles
tyguiluv.out of llusehurg, that a man
answering Duncan's description, had
been soon near tho school house there.
Tho man sighted was coatlcss and wet
and evidently had been running. A
posse of officers left at onco for the
scene. . A trail lads along a rldgo
from tho hil to which Duncan was
tracked a-lmost In a direct line to tho
place where ho was reported seen.
Following Duncan's escape from tho
county jail shortly after eight o'clock
this morning officers picked up his
trail along tho banks of Deer crook, a
tributary of tho South Umpqua rlvor,
the stream flowing east and west
about two blocks from tho jail where
Duncan wan confined.
They followed his trail as ho waded
In the water and pushed through tho
brush for almost a mile up tho stream
where ho crossed the county road,
went through tho cemetery east of
town and reached the brush covered
hill above tho burying grounds. A
woman who saw him crossing the cem
otary notified tho offlcors and they
immediately gave chase. There is lit
tle opportunity, however of capturing
him in the woods, it Is believed as the
hill where he is now hiding affords
complete cover and trails load back
far intp tho mountnins so that ho may
go for days without coming out Into
sight.
Officers have notified nil along, the
highway and It is bolloved ho will ly
apprehended when e h comes out for
food.
On the supposition that-ho will not
bo located Immedlatoly, Sheriff Starm
er this morning telegraphed the stato
penitentiary for photographs, finger
prints and full Information on Dun
can. ROSKIJURG, Ore., April 21. Loo
Duncan, an ex-convict held in the
county Jail charged with tho robbery
of four local stores, escaped this mor
ning after slugging Deputy Sheriff
George Sewell when fhe lattor en
tered the cngo whero Duncan was
confined to leave the man's break
fast. Duncan rolled up his bedding In
tho form of a dummy, to causo tho
officer to believe he was asloep on his
cot. He then hid near the entrance
and as Sewell entcrnd struck him
over the head with a heavy china tea
cup wrapped up in an old sock. The
officer was stunned, but grappled
with Duncan, and tho two fought for
several minutes before tho prisoner
finally broke loose and escaped. The
deputy tried to follow but was blinded
with blood from the cuts on his head
and was unnble to recapturo tho man.
Other officers wero Immediately
(Continued on Page three.)
STATE GAS TAX
WASHINGTON, April 21. Users of
motor vehicle fuiil upon which Btato
taxes are levied may deduct those
taxes In their federal Income tax re
turns, provided tht vehicle Is em
ployed for business purposes.'
Solicitor GreKK of the Internal re
venue bureau made the. ruling today
BURGLAR
A
I
Chamber Deputies Greet New
Finance Minister With Cries
of 'Bolo! BoloP Security
of France Placed First By
New Cabinet Budget Must
Bq Balanced.
PARIS, April 21. (By Associated
Press.) The ultimate Imposition of
drastic financial measures, mainten
ance of tho embassy at tho vntican
and pacification of Internal dispensa
tion but above nil, real security for
France wore the prime points ir tho
ministerial declaration of the Pain-leve-Caillaux-Briand
cabinet read bo
fore tho chamber of deputies and tho
senate this afternoon. A tumult in
tho chamber and absolute sllenco In
tho sonato greeted tho declaration
whon Its reading began.
In tho chamber thoro wero both
booing and cheering.' Finance Minis
ter Oaillaux was greeted with cries
of "Bolo! Bolo!" a reference to the
oxecuted war time traitor, Bolo Pasha
with whom Calllaux was nt one time
accused of association.
Franco has had a "bitter .disillu
sionment," tho statement said, "but
was determined to look tho facts in
tho face."
The- statement appealed to the
"national accord," with .-reference to
the finances, as well as to tho relig
ious questions. .
Regard the finances the statement
flnrlnrnrt?
"When wo have succoeded fin
ally and definitely in balancing i
"tho budget so It cannot bo ques
tioned we will take tho stato out
of the role of bnnker which it
has boon made to fill. Then we
-will be obliged to ask big sacri
fices of the nation. Wo shall ap
peal to all citizens in tho atmo
sphere of national concord." '
Tho statement Bald Franco would
maintain all her present treaties and
"pursuo the execution of the Dawes
plan nt. the same time as the settle
ment of tho lntor-allled war debtH."
Tho government pronounced In
fuvor of tho maintenance of a diplo
matic representative at tho Vatican,
calling ho official "a highly qualified
representative." instead of an ambas
sador. ,
The declaration makes the reduc
tion and re-organization of the army
contingent upon success of the nego
tiations for, the complete tranquiliza
tlon of Europe, and security for the
French frontiers.
The government said it would go
stowly and carefully in applying tho
French laws to Alsaco and Lorraine.
"This," it added, "cannot be pur
sued except with the best of counsel,
In full respoet for acquired rights and
the greatest caro for general under
standing and for national unity."
During the reading of the declara
tion In tho senate there was applauso
when Jules Htoeg, the minister of
Justice, voiced the passage regarding
tho security of Europe, Thoro was
ironical laughter at the phrase, "no
useless controversies."
After the reading the senate ad
journed until Thursday awaiting tho
chamber's decision on the new minis
try and Premier Painleve'a appear
ance In the upper chamber.
The declaration reaffirmed tho
Horrlot ministry's policy of security
and reassured Poland as to France's
position on this question.
"Faithful to all Its allies, just and
pacific towards all nations," says tho
statement, "France has tho profound
desire to give to tho world the repose
and stability of which It has such
great need, but the first conditions
of a stable peace Is that France her
self be secure." .
Calllaux Is Calm.
Calllaux, who was the storm center
of the tumult in the chamber of depu
ties, sat rigid,,, on the government
bench, never looking to the right nor
to the left and never acknowledging
(Continued on Paa 81x)
yOU CAN DEDUCT
E TAX
In an interpretation ot the sasolino
tax laws ot Maryland, Virginia and
the DlBtrict of Columbia.
The ruling applies to all states hav
ing such levies. .. -
The opinion also held that gasoline
dealers may deduct from their returns
all of the amounts received from con
sumers as state taxes. .
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PARIS HOUS