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MEPFORIl. OR FX! ON", FRIDAY. MAY 8, 1925
NO. 41
REAL WAR IS
EXPECTED 61
DRY ADMIRAL
Rear Admiral Billard Sees War
to Death With Rum Fleet-
Booze Ships Won't Strike
; Colors Without a Fight
Boatswain Is Shot From
Ambush.
WASHINGTON, Muy 8. (By the
Associated Press) Evidence is ac
cumulating at const guard headquar
ters here that rum row off New
York does not mean to strike its
colors without a fight.
Already there have been so many
Indications of a campaign of re
venge, that ' Rear Admiral Billard.
the coast guard commundunt, said
today that his forces undoubtedly
were facing a war to the death.
In the last three weeks a dozen
incidents havo been reported K coast
guard headquarters which would Kivo
unmistakenble evidence that it is the
Intention of rum runners and their
land conspirators to uso bullets on
guardsmen wherever they are found.
Boine of the guardsmen are throat-
enlng to resign because or toe naira
when they are absent on duty.
Confidential reports tell of the
kidnaping of one man at Atlantic jale yesterday by J. E. Gorninn, pres
City. the ambushing of a cutter 1'ing'ident of the Rot.k Island in a llllk
anonymous and threatening letters
by headquarters hero and by guards- ,
men at New Uindon, Conn., and nay
Shore and tne passing out of worn
that rum agents must "get" the
guardsmen stationed at Narragansett
Bay. ,
Along the Florida coast, too, guns
of the rum runners have been
' brpught iftto ; play from -unexpected
quarters whenever "a government pa
trol appears noar shore or travels
into one of the thousands of bayous
and Inlets along the gulf coast.
Put On Wrath Mst.
. Commander Yeandle, assistant to
Admiral Billard, said today that the
anonymous letters bud conveyed In
formation indicating that certain of-
fleers and men of the coast guard
are on a "death list" of the rum
runners and that other especially ef-
ficient guardsmen are to be incapacl-
tated- , , , ..
Boatswain Pearson of the Atlantic
City station was kidnaped May 3 ,
while on his way to Join a patrol)
boat at tho station. He was bound
and gagged, but- Inter released on
me ouinKinn ni me my
kidnapers found they had mistaken
him for another. The man believed
to be wanted by the rum runners,
had been ordered by tho comman
dant to take extraordinary precau
tions. Boatswain Is Killed.
Boatswain Gustafson was another
victim of the rum war. He was shot
and killed from ambush two weeks
ago off Block Island. New London. I
Threats previously had been made
against his life. Officials here be
r lleve the patrol of which he was In
charge was decoyed by a rum runner
on the fatal trip and led past an-
,.t other rum runner which opened up
a salvo of machine gunfire from
uniuuii.
Two othors of the crew received
serious wounds.
Several cases have been reported
to headquarters In which officers or
men returned to their homes to find
that mysterious visitors had terror
ised their families. This is said by
Mr. Yeandle to be particularly true
around New York.
Uso Carrier Pigeons.
The ships in rum row off New
York have turned to the use of car
rier pigeons to convey messages to
their shore agents. Three such mes-Uhe
sages have fallen Into the hands of
coast guard patrols and on one of
the three occasions the information (
gained resulted in seizure of a shoro
craft laden with liquor.
Admiral Billard reiterated today
his determination to establish a
blockade as nearly smuggling-proof i
as facilities permit. The situation
has grown so serious, however, that circle, returned Wednesday to Wise
more men and more boats are need- man, 140 miles north of Rampart, and
ed and congress will be asked at Its left Wiseman yesterday for Fairbanks,
next session to provide them. I his original point of departure.
0. S. BULLETIN SAYS CAT CROP
BANNER HORSE FEED OF THE WORLD
WASHINGTON. May 8. The de
partment of agriculture has prepared
a printed bulletin saying:
"The cat crop ranks third in Im
portance. Cats traditionally consti
tute the banner horse feed of tl?e
world and three per cent in used for
human consumption. Th cat crop
Is subject to several diseases chief of
which are loose and covered smuts,
stem rust nnd crown rust."
Barbecue (o Open
Crescent City Road
To Traffic Sunday
GRANTS PASS, Ore., SIny 8.
The formal opening of the
4 first section of the new hlffh-
way up Smith river, a section if
the crescent City-Grunts Pass
route, will be celebrated with a
4 barbecue at Patrick's creek "on
Sunday. Hundreds of citizens
4 from all parts of Del 'Norte
4 county and from GrantB Pass
4 and other points in Oregon are
4 expected to participate. 4
4 The new highway opens to 4"
4 motor travel the heretofore in- 4
4 accessible canyon of Smith river. 4
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wire s. p.
President of C. R- I. and P.
Urges Consolidation With
Southern Pacific Presi
dent Sproule Denies S. P. in
Favor of Such Action.
CHICAGO, May 8. Consolidation
q( chU;ngo Rock lsIand ttnd Pa
circ railway and the Southern Pa-
cific was discussed as a possibility
More the annual meeting of share
holders here.
"There has been much talk of such
r0n.,Di1(I,.,l01, h ...,,. "and the
managements of both systems havo
contended for some time that iU
ivniilil ho nrrlfn RhniilH fhn mercer
come, the Hock Island would be a'
great beneficiary. I have tried for j
soma time to eirect a stronger ope
rating arrangement with the South
ern Pacific and I have hopes that
after June 1 when the jurisdiction of
such matters on that line is changed,
It may be done.
"At the present time we are giving
all our Pacific coast business to the
Southern Pacific because it Is logi
cal, due to the long haul we get
fhftr,, ,n w nlv the
nnpknnWll rmit ..trtn roa fr-
p oris ha hie freight requiring fast ser-
ice Qf other neavier merchandise
we pet mUei becaUBe tno southern
Pacific can get a longer haul for
Upolf by nandlinff it lhroUBn other
oonnectjons
4Ag tQ Rainess on tho Uock IaInnd
R ,H noither bfl( nor KOO(J at tno
present time. Gratn movement has
fallen sharply duo to the heavy
movement Inst fall and winter to
take advantage of high prices. The
outlook is good, alt hough entirely
dependent upon the crop situation."
SAN FRANCISCO. May 8. Wil
liam Sproule, president of the South
ern Pacific Railroad company last
night said he knew nothing about
Ilia nnoui Kll(,. nf n n.a..na.'hnlu'nan
th(j Cnictt(JOf nork lBand aml Pa
if railrnad wlth tho southern Pa-
cific system.
"This seems to me to be merely
the expression of Gorman's personnl
opinion' he said. "I have no in
formation one way or tho other on
tno mereer
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 8. (By
Associated Press.) An airplane
carrying three persons, which Wed
nesday made the farthest north flight
recorded, was today lost hotween Kara
part, 80 miles northwest of Fairbanks,
and Brooks, 50 miles east of Rampart
A storm was raging when the plane
came to grief on its way back here.
Noel Wein, pilot, who carried two
passengers 40 miles beyond the Arctic
Then follows a discourse on wild
cats, tame cats, broken cats and wilt
ed cats. The main varieties in the
United States are given as Swedish,
select, silver mines and white tn:ir.
The trouble was tha the linotyi-r
constantly hit the letter "C" instead
of the lefter "O" and had turned a
treatise on oh(m info one on rittn.
The bulletiiO.vill not be distributed.
ROCK
AN
MERGER
JAPAN FOR
U. S. BAN ON
POISON GAS
Nippon Delegate at Geneva
Conference Pledges Support
to Burton. Proposal Rights
of Small States May Prove
Obstacle Exportation of
Arms Discussed.
GENEVA, May 8. (By the Asso
elated Press) Japan went on record
today as favoring a strict interdiction
of the use of poison gas in war. D.
Matsuda, Japanese delegato to the
League of Nations international con
ference for the control of traffic in
arms and munitions, made thlB dec
laration in a speech ardently sup
porting tho proposal made yester
day bV Representative Theodore E.
Burton of Ohio, head, of the Ameri
can delegation that ' all export of
poison gas for use in .war be pro
hiblted.
The American proposal was re
forred to two sub-committees, mill
tary and Juridical.
The polish amendment eondomn
ing the ue of disease bacteria In
warfare, was referred -to the same
committees, .
Mr. Matsuda said that Japan al
ready Is a party to tho polBon agree
ment made during the Washington
arms conference and declared that
in prohibiting the exportation of poi
son gas for war purposes, it also
should bo understood that such
methods of warfare are forbidden
by international law. Ho urged the
legal committee to take up this as
pect of the problem thoroughly.
The Turkish delegation heartily
supported the American proposal,
but agreed with the Hungarian dele
gation that the rights of states that
do not manufacture gas to employ
gas if they are so attacked should
be respected and -their opportunity
for defense should not be removed by
too rigid a ban on exportation.
The San . Salvador delegation of
fered an amendment providing that
arms may be exported to any govern
ment "that has been duly constituted
In accordance with the provisions of
the constitution in force in that
country." I
This, It was said, is intended to
prevent civil strife by restricting the
facilities for securing war supplies.
The Chinese and Rumanian dele
gates opposed tho amendment. The
Chinese said it afforded an oppor
tunity for discrimination because If
any manufacturing country did not
like a new government in any coun
try,, it could argue that it was un
constitutionally organized. The Chi
nese said this would bo dangerous
to International relations.
The Rumanians declared that the
league covenant recognized the right
of all countries to procure means of
defense. .
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TALE OF ROBBERY
CHICAGO, May 8. Mike Nary's
story that he once had been involved
fn a robbery of the Denver mint was
investigated by the police today after
he had been arrested while occupying
a (25 a day suite in a hotel where he
posed as Frankie Genaro, boxer.
Nary, alias Nason, was taken to the
bureau of identification, where the
police found that he had served a
sentence In the Ban Quentln prison In
California and had been paroled in
1023.
Nary told the police there were
threo other men and two women con
nected with the mint robbery.
The police later sa id the Denver
robbery occurred in 1922 and that
they believe Nary was In San Quentln
prison serving a sentence for robbory
at that time. When detectives con
fronted Nary with the statement that
he was In prison at the time of the
mint robbery he replied, "well; I was
in bo me kind of a robbory.
The "Daily"
Bank Robbery
PORTLAND, Ore.. May 8. Bate
burglars who early today broke Into
the Second and Flanders street branch
of the Portland Gas & Coke company,
escaped with nearly $800 in cash
taken from the strong box.
In their haste the burglars dropped
and left nearly $150 in nickels, dimes
and quarters in rolls.
The Janitor going to work found a
side window forced open, the safe
wrecked and the money gone.
Jockey Killed.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 8. Frank
Lux; Columbus jockey; was instantly
killed this afternoon In the first rate
at Beulah park, when his Viount, Mary
Bock, .stumbled and fell on him.
A dress'' Collection "of Jewels
Finest Owned by French Woman
4W"HV'
lllPp'l ' . g
IIP-'" Jiff
' An actress, Mile. RcRimc I lorv, now lias the costliest collec
tion ot jewels of any woman in trance, it is said. Mic liown
wearing' the priio item of her collection, a tiara that once belonged
to the Talleyrand family. The I'lory collection of gems was re
cently insured for 2,000,000 francs, the limit.
MRS. SHEPHERD PUIS UP BAIL
OPINES JUDGE OLSEN IS A
"CHTCAaO,'-M-4.-4jV- Associated
Press.) (Mrs. ' Julio Gruf Shepherd,
charged with aiding her husband,
William D. Shepherd, to kill their
ward, William Nelson McCHntock, or
phan miltionaire and his mother, Mrs.
Emma Nelson McCHntock. hat been
released on $5000 bond pending grand
jury action.
Although she had been given until
today to furnish band and had been
released on her own word, late yester
day she appeared before Judge Jacob
Hopkins, criminal court chief Justice
BE E
A CITY PARADE
DKS MOINKS, Iowa, May 8.
Charging inefficiency In the handling
of liquor cases by the .courts. Chief
of Police James Cavender today an
nounced plans for what ho termed a
"weekly parade of bootleggers."
The announcement followed the
parade through ' the streets of a
wrecked automobile containing a po
lice officer disguised to represent
"death." and holding aloft a bottle
labelled "hootch." Police claim tho
driver of the motor car was Intoxi
cated nt the time of the accident.
Chief of Police Cavender said today
he was making arrangements for tho
building of large stocks such as wore
used In Puritan days.
He announced that ft wns his plan
to place all "bootleggers arrested in
future police drives in stocks with ap
propriate placards and parade them
through the downtown business sec
tion as an example of what tho boot
legging business produces."
Police curs will also be equipped
with signs warning the public "of
the evil of illicit liquor," while carry
ing persons arrested on .liquor charges
to the police station he said.
"For some reason," Chief Cavender
declared, "liquor coses are not taken
seriously enough by the courts. Time
after time bootleggers whom tho po
lice arrest are brought Into court only
to be released on some technicality.
"As a result," he said, "the tendency
of the public is to 'wink the other
eye, and overlook the bootlegger, tor
the police there Is but one thing left
to do, to Inform the public of the
bootlegger's true standing in society."
To carry out this program, Mr.
Cavender said, trucks will be gath
ered before each "vice drive" to re
ceive police prisoners who will be
paraded through the downtown sec
tion In stocks.
Fortify Hawaii.
WASHINGTON. May 8. Chairman
Butler of the house naval committee
said today he would urge legislation
at thq next session of 'congress to
make the Hawaiian islands "the
strongest ' military outpost In the
world."
BOOTLEGGERS TO
XHIBITED
while Mr. Ctaiidtne M.'-'PetBT-sttnVtf
fiiond RCheduled $15,000 in real
estate for bonds.
Iter only expression during tho
brlcf court procedure was a reference
to Judge Harry Olson, . instigator of
the coroner's inquest Into the deaths
which resulted In the grand Jury in
dictment of Shepherd and recom
mendations that Mrs. Shepherd be
held. ' r
"I'm coming to believe the man's
mind la gone," sho said.' "He has an
obscossion."
BASEBALL SCORES
National.
" At Brooklyn R. H. E.
Cincinnati 2 7 0
Brooklyn 3 0 1
Rlxey and Wlngo; Khrlmrdt and
Taylor.
At New York . ' ' R. H. E.
St. Louis 2 7 0
New York 5 ' 9 2
- Dlckerman aud Gonzales; Scott and
Snyder.
At Philadelphia R. H. E.
Pittsburg - 7 13 4
Philadelphia - 15 17 1
Meadows, Kramer, Son per, Koupal
and Smith, Gooch; Carlson and Hon
line.
At Boston , R. H. K.
Chicago .'. 2 8 1
Boston 5 14 0
Alexander, Keen and Ilartnett;
Genewich and O'Neil. . ,
American,
At Chicago n. II.
Washington ,...3 13
Chicago 4 7
Batteries: Zarhnry, Mngridge nnd
Ruel; Thurston, Lyons and Schalk.
At Cleveland . It.
H. E.
Philadelphia , ..6 5
Cleveland .3 7
Gray . and Cochrane: Uhle and
Myntt.
At St. Louis R. II, E
New York 12 15 0
St. Louis 0 6 6
Shocker and' Schang; Bush, Vun
gildor and Dixon.
Chilly in Eugene.
EUGENE, Or., May 8. Eugeneans
shivered Inst night when the weather
man, had a change of heart and the
mercury dropped to 36 degrees The
minimum of nights previous had been
around the 46 degree mark.
The rain of the past two daya had
ended today and the sun came out to
chase away the chills.- The rainfall
during the brief stormy spell was
very light.
Winter When l Fore-cast
WASHINGTON, May 8. A fore
cast of 444.833,000 bushels of winter
wheat as this year's crop was made
today by the department of agrlcul
ture. A month ago 474,255.000 bush-
el were forecast.
Iat year G9O,037.00OltUMhelH were
wu vi'Mti l.
Rich Texan Held for
Trying to. Shoot a
Lady Who Slaps Him
NEW YORK, May 8. Walter
Blnyon, described by the police ag
a wealthy oil promoter of Fort
Worth, Toxna, was arraigned In
lwllco court today and held in
$fi000 ball for grand Jury action
on a charge of attempting to kill
Miss Kdythe Sterling, a yaude-
vllle actress, in tho Hollywood
hotel. He also was held In $1000
bail for trial In special sessions
for possessing firearms iu viola-
tlon of the Sullivan law.
Miss Sterling, who won notice
last year when she rode a horso
from Pine Ridge, S. U., to this
city, said her life was savod by
the fact that the safety cutch of
lllnyon's revolver was sot and the
gun failed to flro. Sho said the
attempt to kill her wns mado on
the iront stops of the hotel as she 4
wns leaving today. She asserted 4
that when Blnyon mado an insult-
Ing remark to her she struck him
4 across the faco with a silver 4
mesh bag.
4
LAWYERS PLAN
CHANGFS STATE
COURT TACTICS
Judicial Council Meets to Con-;tho
sider Simplifying Rules
HaV8 Judges Question Jury- vacated the building In orderly haste
when a burned cable put the whole -mon
Instead nf Pnnncel building in names shortly before noon
men insieaa ot counsel tortay . ThB flrgt warnlng tne Kirla
I l.,if. n,,i TniL It-
UnitOrm RUleS for Trials IS
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PORTLAND, Ore., May 8 lawyers
and jurists from nil parts of the state
assembled here today to discuss with
the Judicial council, named as the re -
suit of action by the last legislature,
various suggested changes in court
proceed ure.
Local courts were closed and
general legal business was sot asldo
today. Tho session will end with a
public address by Dean John H, Wig
more, of the Northwostern unlvorslty
law school tonight.
Early developments indicated that
the chief discussion would center
about .the proposal to adopt, for stato
courts, the practice, now used In fed
eral courts of having the Judge, In
stead of tho attorneys, question pros
pective members of the Jury.
The discussion was expected to
oover several other Important points
Including:
Formation of uniform tulos for nil
the seventeen circuit courts of the
state.
Whether appeals to the supremo
court should be prefneed by concise
statements showing the reason and
Justification for the appeal.
Whether stipulations for additional
time for hearing cases on appeal
should be limited to thirty days,
should be affirmed without lengthy
discussion on the part of supreme Jus
tices in cases where provloua decis
ions cover the same points.
The session opened by presentation
of a portrait of tho late Judge Henry
K. McGinn, given by Mrs. McGinn and
was presented by D. Bolls Cohen to
the Multnomah Bar association. J.
P. Kavanaugh made the spooch of
acceptance and Albert 13. Ridgwny,
president of the association, presided
during tho ceremony. The portrait
was painted by Kidney Boll.
Supremo Justice Thomas McBride
then took the chair. He and Associate
Justice John L. Band and Circuit
Judges Kred Wilson of The Dalles,
C. M. Thomas of Medford, nnd Walter
H. Kvuns of Portland, make up the
Judicial council.
Unearth Dralh Plot
LOS ANOKLKH, May 8. (Fly Asso
ciated Press.) Information received
by the robbery detail of the sheriff's
office horn today revealed intent of
members of a nation-wide robbery
and swindling gang to put out of the
way Bush Meadows, criminal attorney
and former football star arrested re
cently on charges of forging stolen
United Htates bonds.
RAILROAD PRESIDENT WH3 QUIT JOB
FOR RELIEF WORK FINDS HAPPINESS
COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 8. (By.
Associated Press.) Martin L. Hwlne-
hart, general secretary of the Lay -
men's Church league conference start
Ing here today, gave up a position as
president of a railroad to become a
foreign missionary at $1000 a year.
That was fifteen years ago. lie gave
up also an engineering practice that
was bringing him in poMnlnhly fifteen
times that much and Journeyed to
Korea as manager of a Presbyterian
mission.
The reason he tells this way:
HELLO-GIRLS .
ESCAPE FK
IN SAFETY
15,000 Portland Telephones
Out of Commission Cable
Ignites, Causing $100,000
Damage Two Firemen
Hurt Blaze Occurs, Noon.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 8. Fire
which swept the main telephone ex
chango of the t'aelflc Telephone &
Telegraph company at noon today put
15,000 telephones out of commission
aud caused damage exceeding $100,000.
One hundred telephone girls by hasty
and orderly exit escaped the rapid
sweep of flames, which originated in
the basemenl) from a burned cable.
Two firemen were slightly Injured.
Company officials said the equipment
ot the building was worth 1600,000,
and they could not say definitely the
amount of the loss until a check was
made Fire department officers said
the damage would exceed (100,000.
One fireman slipped and fell down
and when brought out was nearly
overcome by smoke. Another waB cut
on the cheek.
In splto of the dense smoke fire
men went down as far as possible into
bft8emcnt and !oured in wat?r
PORTLAND, Ore., May 8. One hun
dred telephone operators nt the main
nxchnnce. Park and Alder streets.
naa was wnen gram volumes 01 smoKu
poUr0d from the basemont, followed
cioseiy uy iiuiues. '
The chief operator was one of the
nrm 10 sue wie uniuKt) uuu duo ioh&
the emergency fire alarm.
i ' The fire apparently Btarted in tho
basement and by the time the first
fire nuuuratus arrived the flames were
leaping from the basement and first
lntory windows, with the smoke pour-.;
, ing from the roof.
All Main telephone numbers were
put out of service Immediately.
The Janitor of the building said that
all the girls were out of it before the
fire department appeared on the
scene. .
Passing of the Early
Pioneer
KUGENI3, Ore., May 8. Hon. Rob
ert M. Voatch, "Uncle Bob," died at
the home of his son, H. H. Veatch,
at Cottage Grove yesterday, at the age
of 81 years. He was born in Illinois
and crossed the plains to California In
1K64, coming to Lane county in 1805.
Ho attendod public schodls at Cres
well, later attending Willamette uni
versity anil the Oregon Agricultural
college. He was admitted to tho bar,
but was never a practicing attorney.
He was a. staunch domocrat and
was elected to the lower house of the
Oregon state legislature In 1882, and
was re-elected In 1884. In 1886 ho
was sent to tho senate and was re
elected In 1890. He was appointed
tho first registrar of the Koseburg
land office and under President
Cleveland's second administration.
Ever since 1872, Mr. Veatch attend
ed the state conventions of his party
and In 1000 ho was a delegate to tho
national democratic convention held
in Kansas City.
He was a member of the first class
to graduate from the Oregon Agricul
tural college.
Mr. Veatch Is survived by thrco
children, II. H." Veatch of Cottage
Grove, Mrs. J. E. Young of Cottage
Grove and John C, Veatch, Portland
attorney.
Funeral services will he held Friday
afternoon at Cottage Grove.
I Uily King Acts. '
KOMBt; May 8. (By the Associ
ated press) It was officially an
nounced today that King Victor
Emanuel has asked tho rMlgnatn
of Minister of the Navy Thaon do
Hevel, and had entrusted the naval
portfolio to Premier Mussolini, who
will take the oath of office for the
poat bofore tho king tomorrow. ' '
"I am satisfied now when I go to
sleep at night, satisfied that I have
j accomplished somo good during tho
day.
"I wasn't before."
Mr. flwinohart built the Tennescat
Irrigation line in California In 1005,
bringing water fifty miles over the
mountains. He built the Ht. Joseph
railroad in Indiana. In west Texas
there is a Swlnehart dam and Swtne-
hart reservoir, named after th build-
T. HIT WH H !I I'HIUI'IIL 'II lilt: i rt-ua
Valley Southern railroad of Texas.