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The Weafti
er
Weather Year Ago
Maximum 102
Miliuum 51,
Prediction rrobablo ulimvers
tonlKlit untt Tuesday
Maximum yesterday 70.5
Minimum tcMlay SO
Daily Twentieth Tear.
WelT Fifty-third Year,
. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNK 1, 1!)2r
NO. 01
T. R.'s Daughter Sits
for Portrait . for
Beauty Cream Ad
KAY FLAYS
Harry Thaw's Mother Acts as He
Begins Another Broadway "Spree"
Repealed Income Tax
U ncollected to Get
No More Waivers
FINAL CALL
ML TM'BUNE
OREGON
': l : t : s- . ; . : i '
SCHOOL
B
HELD
HIGH COURT
KILLS KLAN
BACKED ACT
Supreme ; Court Rules State
Not to Compel Attendance
to "Exclusion of Private
Schools Nation-Wide ' In
terest in Decision.
pierce Not Surprised.
SALEM, Ore., Juno 1. "The
4 deciBton was no surprUe and
was not unexpected as far as 1
am concerned,'1, said Governor f
fr pierce today when Informed that !
4 the United States supreme court
4 had declared unconstitutional
the anti-parochial and private v
school bill. "The Nebraska' for- 4
eign language decision several
months ago really decided the H
issue. AVhat action will be
taken by the friends of the
4 measure I cannot say.. Nothing fr
4 is pending. Whatever is done,
will have to be In the nature of
an amendment to the federal
I constitution." '
WASHINGTON, Juno I.t (By As
sociated Press;) Oregon lost In tho
supreme court today Its fight to com
pel children to attend public schools.
Tho court hold' that the statics in
enforcing .cbmpulsopy -crtuctttlun laws,
cannot require the attendance of chil
dren in public schools, to. the exclu
sion of private or parochial, schools.
The Oregon compulsory 6ducation
law, .requiring children between the
ages of 8 and 16 to attend .public
schools, therefore was declared, in
valid. - -
Tho docision has been awaited with
unusual Interest becauso of the pecu
liar circumstances of the litigation,
and because many other states have
compulsory education laws. The
Oregon law was attacked by the
Society of tho Sisters of the Holy
Name of Jesus and Mary and the Hill
Military academy. Throughout the
controversy there were many charges
that the statute had been inspired by
the Ku Klux Klan. -
Justice McReynoldB, delivering tho
opinion for the court said the inevit
able practical result of enforcing the
Oregon act would ho destruction of
tho present narochlal schools nnd
other private primary schools, which
Anrp enirrirred hi n. kind of undertaking
not inherently harmful, but long re
garded as useful and meritorious.
PORTLAND, Oro., June 1. "I am
delighted with the decision," said
Joseph A. Hill, head of Hill Military
academy, one of the plaintiffs in the
suit attacking the Oregon school law,
who returned only a few weeks ogo
from Washington, D. C. whero he
appeared before the United States
supreme court while his attorney,
John C. Veatch, argued the appealed
case.
"We are naturally pleased that the
right of the parent to educate his
child hns been upheld. It .should end
for all time the argument over who
owns the child the parent or the
state. '
"Experiments In education are al
ways made by private enterprise
not by state schools. The" way Is left
open for such continued experiments,
of- which the state has the benefit
after the soundness of the theory has
been tested by private schools.
"Specifically the ' decision means
that Hill Military academy will lm-
mediately proceed with plans for a
new school on tho Rocky Butte site
to represent an Investment of $250,
000. Wo expect to get into the build
ing during the coming school year."
Judge J. P. Kavanaugh, attorney
for the Society of the Sisters of the
Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, one
fCnntlnnad on Pur ptehM
1. BRYAN MAKES A
CHICAGO, June 1. (By Associat
ed Press.) William Jennings Bryan,
an outstanding defender of Tennes
see's law forbidding the teaching of
evolution declared uncompromisingly
today "there is no such thing as evo
lution." The Bryan lips closed in a
k thin, firm line and the Bryan chin
described an implacable angle,
"A.-' milk." explained .Mr, Ilryan.
WASHINGTON, June 1.
(A. P.) Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, wife of the speaker-
designate of the house, has been
sitting for a portrait, it has been
learned, to be used in the ad-
vertlsing of a well- known beauty
cream.
The $5000 which Mrs. Long-
worth will receive under tho
4 contract for use of the portrait,
r will accrue, it is understood, to
the bank account of her (laugh- 4
4 tor, Paulina, who came into the
fr world some three months ago.
tf 4.
PLOT TO STEAL
E
Truck Drivers and Auto Sales
man Held Fix Ransom at
$200,000 Other Film
. Stars Prospective Victims
Shriner Colors Used to
Camouflage. '
LOS ANGELKS, June 1. With
throe purported confessions in their
hands and a trio of alleged plotters un
der lock and key, police Investigators
working on the Mary Pickford kid
napping case met today with represen
tatives of the district attorney's office
to discuss presentation of the so-called
$200,000 . kidnapping caso to the
grand Jury.
In the meantime an attorney retain
ed by the wife of A. J. Woods, one of
tho alleged conspirators, announced he
would seek his immediate release on a
writ of habeas corpus. Woods, who is
a truck driver, and his two associates,
C. A. Holcomb, also a truck driver, and
C. 55. Stevens, automobile salesman, all
have made signed confessions of their
part In the kidnapping plot, according
to police, and are being held on sus
picion of conspiracy to commit a fel
ony. In the purported confessions the
prisoners admit that, under the stimu
lus of such strong drink as was avail
able to them from time to time they
talked of "various ways of getting
easy money."
A project to kidnap tho grandchild
ren of E. L. Doheny, oil magnate, was
under consideration for a while, as
were plans to carry off and hold for
ransom Jackie Cooogan, Pala Negri
and the grandson of an unnamed re
tired businessman.
Finally, the confessions reveal. Mary
Pickford was picked as the most like
ly prospect for a really profitable kid
napping. Conferences were held at which It
was agreed Miss Pickford should bo
seized while en route from her Holly
wood studio to her home; that the kid
naping should be given an up-to-tho-mlnute
camouflage by bundling the ac
tress Into a car decked with Shrine
convention banners and bunting so as
to give the affair an air of innocent
merrymaying and that tho victim
should be held in a secluded house un
til her husband, Douglas Fairbanks.
paid the conspirators $200,000. It
was while the matter of selecting a
suitable house was still under discus
sion that police house the trio In the
city jail.
Stocks Not Kxcnipt.
WASHINGTON, June 1. (A. P.)
Slocks issued by the General Mo
tors company In its reorganization as
a Delaware corporation were sub-,
ject to a federal Income tax, the
supreme court ruled today In a case
brought by Walter L. Many a stock
holder. Oregon Weather
Unsettled, with probably occasional
I showers tonight and Tuesduy. Light
variable winds. '
NEAT COMPARISON
"Is the kind most resembling human
milk, but that does not prove that
man is descended from the ass. Nor
does the fact that men act like ani
mals prove that animals are their
ancestors. "
"Men have never succeeded In de
veloping one species from another.
Burba nk ? Ah. he merely produced
variety within a species; he n cr
ri'KHHCll tin- HMO Of KpCL'iCH,"
MARY CONFESSED
AID
on
AND
AIDES
Walter Too Smart for Legisla
ture, Treasurer Admits
'Pierce Republicans' Prove
Great Help Tax Muddle Is
Cause of Remarks Before
Salem C. of C.
SALEM, Ore., Juno 1. Governor
Pierce and thirteen slate senators
were flayed by State Treasurer Kay
todayvin an address before the Salem
chamber of commerce. He charged
them with plunging tho state into
the alleged financial morass in which
it is now said to be floundering. Nino
of the senators, ho said, were re
publicans who yielded to the influ
ence of the only four democrats In
the senate and among the nine ho
specially mentioned tho two Marion
county senators.
Kay went on record today as op
posed to th Dennis resolution, to bo
voted on in November, 192G, and
which would inhibit tho assessment
of Income or inheritance taxes in
Oregon for a period of fifteen years.
He explained that while he op
posed .the recent state income tax,
now repealed, he would favor an in
come tax under proper conditions.
One reason given for opposing tho
income tax act of, 1923 was that tho
federal - government assesses a very
heavy Income tax. -. .
'The- main hiswo before the 1925
legislature, said Xay, was whether
the legislature would put the gov
ernor In a hole, or the governor
would put the legislature in a hole.
"I have to admit," he said, "that
tho governor succeeded, with the aid
of a group of senators who Btood by
him."
The governor did not stop with
putting tho legislature In a hole,
said Mr. Kay, but put the whole
state In a hole, and he declared that
the governor, with the aid of Jef
ferson Myers, then state treasurer.
violated the law in failing deliber
ately to levy a sufficient state tax,
and that they did it for no other
purpose than out of revenge for the
repeal of the state income tax. -r -He
pointed out that the income tax was
passed by the people by a majority
of only about 500 and was repoaled
by a majority of about 14,000.
"Prior to the enactment of the
income tax,", said Mr. Kay, "tho
state tax lovy was about 8.25 mills.
After tho repeal of the income tax
when tho tax commission made its
state lovy last December, It was its
duty to go back to the old levy in
order . to provide funds that would
not be forthcoming from the income
tax, but instead, by the vote of Gov
ernor Pierce and Mr. Myers, It levied
only about 1.85 mills, or about $1
225,000 less than was necessary.
PARIS, Juno 1. By the Asso
ciated Press.) Colonel James A.
Logan, whose resignation as Amer
ican observer with the reparations
commission was announced in Wash
ington today, said here that he
would , be associated with Dillon,
Bead & Co., New York bankers. Ho
will be in charge of all the com
pany's negotiations In Europe and
will bo always in harmony with the
foreign policy of the American
people, his statement said. Colonel
Logan will present his resignation to
the reparations commission Monday.
IS
TAKEN TO TASK
WARHINOTON, June 1. (A. P.)
The firm of Chase & Sanborn, opera
tors of coffee roasting plants In Bos
ton and Chicago, was ordered by the
federal trade commission tonight to
discontinue certain practices found
by the commission to be unfair meth
ods of competition.
The eiKht individual partners of
the Company nre required under the
order to refrain from entering Into
contracts or agreements with deal
ers specifying prices at which its
products arc to be resold.
QUITS
Hill T5lf
AS HP. LOnkTrvAT T1MF OF TCI ft)
Hov long will it be before he Is locked up apfain? - The ques
tion is Toeing buzzed along Broadway as Harry Thaw applies an
other coat of red paint to the Great White Way of which he once
was king. The slayer of' Stanford White, now gray-haired and
broken, has been lavishing money and champagne on women and
men Iriends since he made a sudden and dramatic rcappenrance in
New York. His mother, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, who has spent
more than $2,000,000 to keep him out of prison, is taking steps to
end the "spree." Meanwhile, Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's divorced wife,
is In Chicago, fearsome that Harry will injure her.
LAWYERS OFFER SPANISH PLANES
SERVICES GRATIS BOMB NEW SOWN
TO EOT. HART
OLYMPIA, Wash., Juno 1. Mau
rice Langhorne, Tucoma attorney,
will be chief defense counsel for for
mer Governor Louis F. Hart In his
trial on a charge Involving alleged
attempted fee splitting .In connection
with' the liquidation of the defunct
Scandinavian American bank of Tu
coma, it was announced here this
morning by I lance Cleland who htin
been handling preliminary details of
the affair for tho former governor.
In making the announcement Mr.
Cleland said that Mr, Hart had called
him by telephone from Tacoma where
ho Is in conference this morning with
his chief counsel. Mr. Langhorne
was one of our prominent attorneys
in the state who had tendered their
services gratis to Mr. Hart, following
the filing of tho affidavits, Mr. Cle
land said.
"Politics has gone by tho board In
tho affair," Mr. Cleland declared. "Of
the four attorneys who offered their
services to Mr. Hart, two ar republi
can und two are democruts."
Passingof theEarly
Pioneer
ROSEHUKfi, Ore., June 1. Simon
R. Lane, son of General Joseph K.
Lane, the first territorial governor of
Oregon, died hero this morning at the
age of 93 years. Mr. Lane was born
In Indiana, February 29, 132, and
came to Oregon In 1853. following his
fathers first term in congress. Hoon
after, his arrival he entered the mer
cantile business being located In Win
chester, Hoseburg and Umatilla Land
ing successively between the years of
1S54 and 1864. In the latter year he
retired from business and took up the
pursuit of agriculture, operating the
old Lane ranch east of Roseburg until
1901. He waft alo Interested In min
ing and during the time of his busi
ness career and until 1KD6 was one of
those concerned In the development
of the Pioneer Black Sand Mine in
Vuuh county.
rmTTirowrcim t 'MaiitiL in"
LAN 0 OF RIFFS
MARSEILLES, Franco, Jund 1.
(By AHHOuiuted Press.) Military ob
servers ni'riving here from Morocco
say the Spanish are makiuK new ef
forts to subjugate tho Klfllan tribes
men by dropping bombs on the newly
sown land and upon tho ripening
crops of barley and wheat In the
vicinity of Albueeinas Hay. Every
day since May 25 air stpjudrons have
left Molilla for the AlhucemuH district
but the aviators report their efforts
HeernliiKly have had little effect as tho
Klfflans worked calmly in their fields
both before and after tho aerial at
tacks,
The opening of tho major Spanish
operation, tho landing on tho shores
of Alhuccmas Bay Is expected within
ten or fifteen days.
Weeks of aerial 'activities have pro
ceded the movement and all assis
tance possible will be given the army
to make tho campaign a HUcoesH,
A largo number of small warships
will partially blockade tl)o coaM line,
cluHely approaching the shorn line In
the bay. When tho moment for land
ing arrives these veMsels will spread a
curtain of fire under the cover of
which two groups of regular nutive
troops will land from rafts.
The "Daily"
Bank Robbery
CHICAGO, June 1, By Associat
ed Press.) I'lve robbers held up nnd
virtually cleaned the Baker Htate
bank In Cicero of available cash, esti
mated at $15,000 today. The robber
escaped in an automobile.
Thii'teen persons, including the em
ployes, were In tho bank when the
robbers entered and with drawn re
volvers, prevented opposition, herded
the employes and customers together,
while some of the holdup tnen entered
the tellers cnges and gathered up the
money.
Charles J. Raker, president of the
bank, said the robbers took practi
cally all the currency In the hnnk(
He said he did not know the amount
but supposed it would a mount to
tirarl? $1.1,000.
SALEM, Ore., June 1 The
! Htate tax commission today
4 voted that after June 4 no more 4
f waivers will be granted on pen-
alty and Interest on delinquent
J state taxes under the act of
4 12:i, now repealed. Under an
act of tho 1925 legislature pen-
4 alty and interest wero waived
4 up to and Including June 4.
It Is estimated that In dflin-
4 qucnt taxes, penalty, interest
4 and corporato dividends over
4 $500,000 remains yet to bo col-
4 lected. About $250,000 hns boen
f collected since tho first of tho
year, nnd tho total collected
under the 1923 act is now about 4
$2,020,000.
' Taxes on corporato dividends
4 are now being collected under 4
a supreme court docision hold-
4 ing that theso could not bo do-
4 ducted from tho taxed returns 4
4 of corporations.
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OF AUTO PARTY
Sedan Slips Off Ferry, and
Family Trapped Harry
Crosby Dives Into Car, and
r Saves Parents Mother Re
- turns for Baby v ;S V
TACOMA, Juno 1 .Unparalleled
heroism saved the lives of Mr, and
Mrs. A. V, McDonald and1' their six
months old daughter of Heattlo, yes
terday whop the McDonald automo
bile was pulled into tho sound from
tho dock of tho Alkl Point-Manchester
ferry. Tho accident occurred as
tho ferry, crowded with cars was
backing out of Its slip at Manchester
about 7:30 p. m.
The McDonald car at tho end of
tho ferry nearest to tho slip, in some
manner became entangled In the
chain that controlled' t he. movable
apron of tho slip. To tho horror of
the motorists on tho ferry, tho car, a
sedan, was dragged off the forry and
dropped into tho water as tho ferry
backed away.
Tho chain held the car suspended
in tho water with only tho corner of
one fender showing. Mr. and Mrs.
McDonald wore In tho front seat of
the car and their baby was in tho
lick . seat. AH tho windows wero
closed except that bealdo the driver.
Tho forry pilot, warned by tho
screams of horror, stopped tho craft
immediately dived from tho forry and
fought his way down to the suspend
ed car, whoro ho kicked In tho win
dow beside Mrs. McDonald.
Sho was dragged out by Crosby,
badly cut by .the Judged glass, and in
the meantime Mr. McDonald fought
his way froo from the car. Tho res
cuers did not know of tho baby's
presence In tho roar seat until Mrs,
McDonald tnro herself from the grasp
of those who woro helping her and
pulled herself back through the bro
ken window Into the car and emorgod
a moment later with tho baby In her
arms.
The baby wns revived by artificial
respiration although it had been
under water for nearly ten minutes.
Mrs. McDonald is suffering from
nervous prostration .and severo cuts
but will recover.
Niock Agreement.
CHICAGO, Juno J. A stipulation,
under which the grain marketing
company agreed to discontinue tho
sale of stock in tho company to Illi
nois farmers until July 28, unless
with tho consent of the Illinois com
merce commission wns signed today
by counsel fur tho company and the
Illinois Agricultural association
ERIO
RE
FROM 11
LATEST BATCH OF STATE BOARDS WILL
SALEM. Ore., June 1 Under the
acts of the 1925 legislature creating
the state boardof cosmetic therapy,
examiners and the state chiropodists
examining board, Governor Pierce!
today appointed the members of J
theso boards, each composed of two
fulolntive members with Dr. Fred -.
f crick Strieker of Portland, secretary,
nf the state board of. health, as ex-'
officio Die in ber v cuch. I
COMES FOR
Willi
War Time Vice-President and
Statesman Dies Suddenly
Today at Capital of Heart
Failure Reading Bible As
Death Angel Descends.
WASHINGTON, Juno 1. Thomas
H. Marshall, war time vlco president
of the United Slates died bore today.
He passed away at' the New Wlllard
hotel here, whore he had been 111 for
several days with a cold and a heart
affection.
Tho, end camo unexpectedly as tho
former vico president had shown
THOMAS R- MARSHALL
Home Improvement in tho work ho
had been confined to his hotel room
and plans had been made fur his re
turn to his home in Indianapolis soma
tlmo- this woek. i
Accompnnlcd by his wife, Mr. Mar
shall came here a week ago today.
Qn his arrival he wont to the hotel,
complaining of great exhaustion.
When physicians wero summoned it
was found ho had suffered from a
heart attack. Ho regained strong! h
gradually howovor, and soon wns In
such a condition that It was posHihto
sltlo to attend to various personal
for Mrs. Marshall to lcavo tho bod
errands. Death resulted from a recurrence
of the heart attack which ho suf
fered a woek ago. Tentative ' plans
were made for burial at Clarion, Ind.,
near his father nnd mother and a
foster child wh died rocently.
When tho end camo he was sitting
up in bed reading from the Bible to
which he had turned throughout Ilfo
for consolation nnd guidance and into
whoso passnKeH he often delved-In his
offico adjoining tho senate chamber
in moments when his presence was
not required as presiding officer,
Only a nurse was at tho bedside.
Mrs. Marshall was In an adjoining
room, Suddenly stumping down upon
the pillows, he passed uway without a
word and apparently without pain.
A Bparkllng sonse of humor, a
knack for plain speaking and a phil
osophy of life rooted In the old
fnshtoned virtues, made Thomas H.
Marshall ono of the most Interesting
f Inures of his tlmo in American pub
lic Ilfo.. His bubbling wit washed
out every suggestion of falso dig
nity and his -direct manner of ex
pression reached the understanding
of tho millions. He prided himself
somewhat that he was not a diplo
mat and that ho never outgrew tho
tenets of tho simple faith In Ood and
man to which ho was born. Some
times his blunt expressions of opln-
I fflnntlniied on Pae Eight
On the cosmetic board, Mrs. Inez
chiropodists board Dr. Karl. Lovon
of Portland and Dr. S. R Scott of
Salem are appointed, each to servo
until January 1, 1927.
The governor appointed Miss Grac
Phelps of Portland as ft member of
the state board of examination and
registration of graduate nurses for
three years to succeed Miss Jane V.
Dovle of Portland.