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Sir Auckland Geddes, the British am bassador, fceli that au recent . public reference to the American merchant marine and other mat ' tera referred to by Senator Wat-,.- eon of Indiana In hi tariff speech In the senate yesterday, was er roneously r described and - has shown to Secretary Hughes a sten- i ographle copy of his address in ':', Chicago- , - '-'-. jT-' n The state department possibly roar take some steps In the mat- j : .- Ambassador Quoted Figures The ambassador delivered his speech on March 12, giving some figures to show the extent of the . trade of the United States -with . Great Britain. - v i A ' He suggested that the resump tion of the foreign trade and the prosperity that comes from It "are 'largely dependent upon the capac ity of the British empire to buy your goods and to pay. for them with dollars in America." . , The reference to the merchant ' tiarine, according to the steno graphic report, was as follows: - ; . - tfoteii Are Bead 7'7" i 'Another ' large "part of .the British purchases In this country was paid for . through, credits es tablished on account of services 'rendered . by the British merdan- tlle marine, by British Insurance companies, by education In Brit ain, and In other . less Important ways. ' There is a great change. again as the result of : the vwar. - taking place in connection . with the' rendering of those services, i. Ton, In your own 'Interests are building, up a great merchant ma rine. ; it Is, of course your right to do so; but let us remember : that, when It comes to the ques tion of the balance of .trade be- : tween the countries, that means , that i there will be', diminished credits dollar credits - for the British to purchase your goods 'within this eoun try" " ' Published Ctopy Exhibited The ambassador spoke without notes' or a prepared address. Put "the .stenographic report of his re- marks was made and published In ""The Credit MbnthTy.w fpTftls ;"copy"hae .been f exhibited to Secretary i Hughes mm IT HOME HEBE C. C. KuneyMernNrf G. A. R. Passes Two weexs l '. After Son's Death , C. C. Kuney, .. member of the ,Q. A. died , at his home in . galem last nlinU Mr. Kuney had . lived In Salenv for nearly 0 years. He came to Oregon soon' after the 'close ot. the 'ClvUs war. In, which , ,ht.aerT.eI,witn the Wisconsin re-( . , glment. . " ,- , : A son, Karl. .Kupey, .died , less .. -than two weeks ago following a short, illness. J Beslies ,hJ. .widows - Mr.1. Kuney. Is - survived , by ? two r isons,, Ralph . Kuney. ot Astoria and . UU Kwvyot ,Spokne, and two -i daughters, ,Mlss ,Edith Kttney, a '"teacher In a. Tacoma"h'h echool, and, Mrs-to Ashley, who Ure In . ,$ortland- ' Mrs. lABhlejl he on ly pae of, the. family. besides Mrs. .Kuney who Is novr Jn Salem. . . . Funeral announcemenUwill be . inade later, . " - " TITT OOPERRED ! IONDON, June 6. (By the A ..ited "; PressiTbe dignity of i r thT ; United Kingdom With the heredity title of the Earl 1. YpresV has : ueen conwiru : King . George ' upon vFleld .Marshal irvrtch. ;The announce- ment-wastnade.todayjn the Offl- JOLLY GOOD ENJOYED AT BANfiPT TABLE There are about seventeen things that were the most prominent at the Kiwanis-Rotary club banquet at the Marion last night. Among them are: -The music. Fiddle and song, orchestra and quartette, jolly good fellows of the whole crowd ; Mary Schultz with her beloved old $10,000 Guarneri Cremona violin that 3ings like a lark or an angel, Misses Strevey and Cook with their bird songs of airy beauty, and a' that. It was a dream of a musi cal program. Practically Every Plant City Starts Monday V With Big Payroll in Practically every canning mach ine In the whole Salem canning Industry will open Monday, If the present fruit prospect holds out. .There will be need for, fully 1000 cannery hands to care for the strawberries ' and gooseber ries that are already beginning to pour into the market. . , News Good to Many This ' will be good . news to . a vast army ot workers who have been waiting eagerly, some piti fully, for the opening of the sum mer jobs. It's been a long, hard winter on many a home . whose occupants have been cold and hun gry and 111 and discouraged, wish ing for' the job that they knew summer : would , bring. Now it's here,' and, the paycheck promises to shine In many, a dispirited If not gloomy home. " y ' : It is not know just what num ber of employes will be needed for the first beginning, though U can hardly be up to the capacity of all the plants. .That would require close to .2000 people. Per haps ' from SO 0 to 1000 will be needed In the six canning plants. New Machines Rushed In . The Kings Products company will be ready by Monday, though it has taken some superhuman hustling to get the , big new plant In. shape for this first run. The cannery occupies the lower or basement floor of the plant. The next floor Is to be devoted to the dehydration processes, - that , will take longer . to fit up, and will not be , ready . for service before the first of July, the opening of the loganberry season: But an army of fruit handlers for ' the cannery: Is wanted Monday morn ing., . 5 The Oregon , Growers cannery on South .High street will open Mondar. The slant Is canning gooseberries now, though not iiere at the saiem. plant. Tney go to the Growers' cannery at Corval 11s. 'The association expects to have about 60 tons of the sour fruits ' from their own members along the valley. r ' Strawberries Rushed -The was a rush of Oregon strawberries Into-the .Portland market this week, causing a sud- den drop, almost a slump, in prices. . 'i ne oerries ripenea pua denly, and not .with their usual first-berry size or sweetness, .be cause ot the lack ot rain. A good rain, just now would mean many thousands of dolllars for the strawberry growers for the ber ries' yet to ripen. : The yield will be greatly curtailed If the rain doesn't come. H. L. Clark Announces Candidacy for Board The. list of candidates for the position on' the school board has narrowed rather than increased. E.'X. Rhoten, who has been men tioned for the position, said-last night that he would not be a can didate for the position and that be was heartily In faror of Mrs. J..W. Harbison for the position. : Mrs. Harbison, said ' last night that she had not yet made up her mind whether to run or not al though admitting ' that she was considering It,. ! Mark "McCalllster, another one who was mentioned, stated , last nirht that he had not decided what he , would do. Mrs, David A. Wright definitely announced yesterday ; that she would, not be a candidate. ' A new candidate la H. L. Clark, formerly a member of the school board. .Mr. Clark Is In the . tire supply business on. NorthCpm merclal street. Mr. Clark stated yesterday that he - would be a can dldate . i OFEH MDMOflY TIME BY CLUBS The eats. One could hare set those spring thickens and con somme and creamed peas and sal mon to an operatic score, and played 'em to an audience of a million people and every one but the dyspeptics or those with loose false teeth would have hollered '.'Encore!" Decorations Gorgeous The decorations. The main ban- ! quet hall of the Marlon was fes tooned with blue and white ban ners, the KIwanis colors;', the ta bles were heaped with roses, great creamy, luscious Caroline Tes touts, satiny white roses, pert lit tle roses that strutted like fox terriers in a flock of sheep and there were , enough roses to fill every eye, everywhere, . That's a lot, after the roses 'have been dead for seven months. , The good fellows. ; One couldn't tell which was which, a Rotarian or a KIwanis or a visitor. They all looked like good fellows Who would be safe to ask to, pilot an old blind man or a little child across ,the street In a crowded business hour. They -laughed genuine laughs; they didn't squeak when they laughed, like a rusty , hinge to a cobwebby cellar door. The laugh marks the dif ference .between man and the lower animals. It Is the Impassi ble gulf that no lower creature has ever bridged. . ' Crowd Is Democratic The crowd. It was a big crowd. ISO men, some of them double sise, too, Mercifully, there wasn't a single-arm suit in life lot; they were human beings and not fash ion plates When Lincoln said: God must have loved the com mon people, .because .he made so many of them." he Jiad .this Ro- tary-KIwanis .crowd in mind and he didn't give one of them a soup-and-fish waiter's suit to wear for the evening. A common crowd. a lovable crowd, a big, hungry, music-loving, .community-building crowd of plain Americans it was really a 'crowd worth seeing. Many Telegrams Come Roy Shields, president of the KIwanis club, was' chairman. If ajl the "telegrams" that he read were real, the western Union would be a rast booster for Joint banquets; for it could sit. In its office chair-and get rich without turning a hair. Some of the tele grams, however, " looked home made; like the one alleged to be from Senator Patterson that ?he was "recounting the primary vote at Eola," and so he couldn't be there on time. Clearly .lt was a forgery or a lampoon or a har poon, for he was right there at the next table all the time. Chair man Shields is a clever operator from the presiding officer's chair, and the crowd is for him. John McNary, president of the R0tary ciUD responded for his br- ganization with a beautiful senti ment from James Whitcomb Riley, "A Triendly Sort of Way," decor ated with local thoughts that made it a delightful event. The strength that there is in this sort of civic and social cooperation was emphasized especially the bright ening of social conditions so that the community and the individual pan have enough sunshine to cheer him on -In, bis daily Job. Hospital Cause Presented Henry W. Meyrs ' spoke at tome length on the Salem hospi tal, that Is just now at a stand still for lack of funds. He, char acterized it as one of the best of all the community Thermometers by which visitors would judge the city and Us people. He said that all that had been done had been the gifts ot 360 people, whereas every man, woman and child , in Salem ought to be vitally Inter ested in adequate hospital facili ties. Mr. Meyers read a late fin ancial report of the hospital funds giving the tall standing up to the present time.' -' Kay Make Appeal .. Thomas B. 'Kay followed with a brief hut pointed appeal to everybody to get ; into the . game of hospital building ' He said that since the state had paid so lav ishly In wages and Improvements that come ' to Salem, the people owed it as a legal and moral debt pf , honor . , to . repay the , state in this and similar forma of public cervice. .He ...outlined., the ap- ; (Continued .'parage ' ) ASSAULT THAT CAUSED DEATH S DESCRIBED Mrs. Jean P. Day Tells Army Board of Inquiry of Attack Wade Upon Her by Lieu tenant Paul Beck. READING OF LETTERS CAUSE OF SURPRISE Relations of Dead Officer With Other Women Men tioned in -Missives OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., June C. Mrs. Jean P. Day, local so- Iciety woman, related today to a .nerlal armv hoard her storv of an alleged attack upon her by Lieu tenant Colonel Paul Ward Beck, commanding officer at Post Field. Okla.. which resulted In Beck's death at the hands of her hus band here early in April. ' : . The army officers composing the board went to the . Day home this afternoon to hear Mrs. Day,, Hearings Are Private 1 At a morning session of the board in the federal i building. John , P. Day . appeared with his attorney and submitted to the questioning. Both hearings were strictly private .and neither Mr. Day nor the board members would make any comment. Day answered all Inquiries with "I have been pledged to secrecy.". ' A surprise developed at the morning session, it was under stood, when Pruett, Day's attor introdnced several . letters con cerning alleged relations ot Beck with women at other army posts where he had been stationed. Before the hearing Day and his attorney assented to waiving the rule, of evidence bo that all ques tions might be answered. - Persons conversant with affairs pointed out tonight that the investigation might have no bearing, as Intimated, on whether civil authorities would be asked to prosecute Day. When an army officers dies, a board of army of ficers is named to determine If he met his death in line of duty, Jt was pointed out. A coroner'a Jury exonerated Day shortly after the slaying. Broccoli Damaged in Shipment, Says Expert Twenty-two. per cent of the hrnocoH croo that reached the eastern market was damaged, ac cording to R. R. Pailthorp, spec ialist In transportation and stor age investigations of the United States department of agriculture. in a recent communication to the Oregon Growers Cooperative as sociation. "Ont of ten cars selected for examination, a total of 1125 dam Rged crates were counted, most of which were on the bottom tier, said Mr.; Pail thorp. He said the crates used this year were too light for the new methods of Icing cars and would not hold together aftea they be came ..water soaked, causing con siderable damage to the . broccoli at the unloading .point. ,He urged all Bhlppers of broc coli to use stronger crates, recom mending stronger corner posts made of material one and one- quarter inch square rather than five-eighths inch, which is now iised, and in place of two nails, three should be used tor the ends of each slat. It is . reported that a consider ble additional acreage is being planted .to broccoli this year around Salem and to market this crop In prime condition will re quire that it be packed, according to Mr. Pailthorp's suggestions. Rev. J. C. Roseland Goes to Pennsylvania SILXERTON, Or., June 6. (Special to the Statesman) Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Roseland left today for Pennsylvania where Rev, Mr Roseland has received a call.' Their beautiful home on the Bast Hill is left in charge of Mrs. iloseland's mother. Rev. Mr. Roseland has been pastor of St. John's church ot SU verton for several years. LEMVE VERY ILL LONDON, June 6. Professor Felix Klemperer, noted German physician, who attended Nikolai Lenine, soviet premier, last April, has' been hurriedly summoned to Moscow, according to a Berlin dispatch 'to the Times. He will start from Berlin tomorrow. , END OF GREAT MURDER MYSTERY IS NEAR MRS. WALTER S WARD WiFEof 2 5 .WHO rAAY KNOW HOW KrYOUNQ BUS! NESS M AN - WALTER S WARD. MIULJONAl RE SON PETERS MET HS DEATH . REFUSES C BELIEVE HIM GUILTY. A "V- if i .- feHERlFP CEjQRAE J.WPRNFR-, Vho is working on the4 HELP NEEDED FOR INJURED AUTO RACER Friends Rally to Assistance of Rhodes Statesman Will Receive Funds Subscription papers are being circulated about Salem and have been placed in some of the local places of business to procure fin ancial assistance for Harry (Dus ty) Rhodes, the Salem automobile racer who was injured in a col lision at Lone Oak track Satur day. About $300 has been raised so far, but. it is said that Rhodes is without funds, and at present he is in hospital because of the injuries received in the race Sat urday. It may be several months before Rhodes is able to work again, though he is steadily improving. Subscriptions received so far range from $1 to $25. Persons who have not had opportunity to sign one of the lists may, if they desire, send their money to the Statesman office and it will be turned over to the proper per sons. Strawberry Prices in Big Slump at Portland PORTLAND, Ore., June 6. Wholesale strawberry prices slumped here today, the best Cali fornia strawberries dropped from $2.50 and Z a crate prevailing yesterday to $1 a crate today. At the same time home grown berries were being offered any where from $1.75 to $2.25 a crate as against yesterday's quota tions of $3.50 to $5..r.0 a crate. Supplies are coming in from all sections of the state and the heavy offerings of local berries are largely responsible for the slump in the market. Commander Joe Minton Preparing for June 27 According to the figures. Capi tal post, American legion, of Sa lem is the second in point ot membership, in Oregon. Only the Portland post exceeds It in num bers. But Commander Joe Min ton isn't quite satisfied. "We ougfct to have at least 600 men." he said. , "The boys are here; the organization wants and needs them, for every kind of pa triotic activity. We're go'ng to run up our numbers at least to 500, within the next three weeks, and have that much strength to represent at the state encamp ment that Is to be held at The Dalles, July 27. The delegation to the state encampment is based on the membership, and we have this month to build up." The post has, an important regular meeting, 'tonight, at the armory, wliere tbo membership drive will be discussed. All mem bers are urged to be, there with the big plan and the pep to put U over. s - 4. " - - . ' v ft X f JrX r : V J vaTERY wckikal nWJKt Wm i S - J m mmm wHmm vsv- TV"' CLARENCE" TETERS, SLAIN BY WALTER S WARD RED CROSS IS HIGHLY LAUDED Vote of Confidence Extend ed by American Legion Post Last Night A vote of confidence in the American Red Cross and Willam ette chapter of the organization was voted last night by. members of Capital post No. 9, American legion. The action was taken when it was shown that the local unit of the Red Cross , is using much of its funds in aiding ex-service men and their families of Salem and vicinity. Frauds Perpet rated Transients, claiming to be ex- service men, have been imposing upon the Red Cross, borrowing sums of money and leaving town without repaying the loans. In order to protect home service funds the Red Cross has asked for an expression from the American legion as to the manner of pro cedure is canses where there is reason to suspect that frauds are perpetrated by systematic swindl ers or by persons who do not have actual service records. Post Will Assist In its action last night the le gion expressed a belief that the secretary of the Red Cross and members of the board of direc tors would act In the best inter ests of all and that when refusals are made circumstances warrant such procedure. The adjutant of the local post may be called upon when in the course of investiga tion of these cases information as to service and general records is needed. A special meeting will be called June 20 at which time , a social evening will be had in connection with the legion's - service and membership campaign to be launched on that date. Campaign Begun The service campaign will be Inaugurated with a view to get ting all possible aid for ex-service men in instances where such, men have sums due them, for back, pay, disability or other claims. This service Is available to all whether or not members of the legion. At the present time the local post Is defraying the coits of . a suit, which, if given a favorable decis ion by the supreme court, will mean much to the veteran who to (Continued on, page $) MR3.AARGRREX BLACK, I ' - a ' MR. AND MRS ELDREDOE PETERS. PrXRENTS OK CLARENCE "PETERS With Nearly All Precincts in, Candidate for.Congress Has Lead OverThorne DES MOINES. Ia., June 6. (By the Associated Press) Smith W. Brookhart of Washington, la.. was nominated as Republican cam didate for United States from Iowa at the primary Monday. Wtith returns received, from all except .246 of the 2,348 precincts in the state there is no question of his -victory. Of 289,084 votes cast in these precincts, Brookhart received 118,493, or 41 per cent Thirty-five per cent is necessary lor a nomination. The vote, in 2,102 precincts was: Brookhart 118,493; Clifford Thome 46,429; Charles E. Pickett 45,902; Leslie E. Francis 35,906: Burton E. Sweet, 30,689: Claud M. Stanley 11.673. Three Re-elected Three of the four congressmen from Iowa who had had primary fights were nominated for re-elec tion. Gilbert N. Haugen In the fourth district,' Cyrenus Cole in the fifth district and L. J. Dick inson in the tenth district, have margins sufficiently large to in sure victory and only a political miracle could overturn the simi lar lead of W. P. Boies, congress man from the llth district. Boles leads W. P. Dawson more' than 1,500 votes with only tl-'.pr cincts remaining out. The vote: Boies, 16.736; Dawson 15,221, Reception to Hamble At Armory Hall Tonight A special reunion and reception by the Veterans of Foreign 'Wars is to, be held tonight, at their hall in the armory, in honor tof thte election of Bolton Hamble, of Sa lem, as statecommander of the organization. . Mr. Hamble is with the public service commission, and was championed by the local veterans as the test candidate that was of fered for the high honor of state commander. - He has appointed F. S. Seaver deputy staU treasurer, of Salem, as his departmnt adju tant for. the ensuing year. - The local organization .hopes, to see every man in the hall tonight, to honor a comrade who. has Just bee-signally' recognised 'by -the other warriors of the state. JEWELL FLAYS DECISIIIDE SSUE Decision Characterized by Union - Chief as Hastily Gotten up and Obviously Unfair Apology.' FACTS IN CASE ARE - DECLARED IGNORED Increasing Incomes of nu merous Large Roads Are Cited in Comment CINCINNATI. June Charac terising the shops crafts wage cut decision as ( hastily dressed up and obviously unfair apology" tor the $60,000,000 slash, B. M. Jewell, head ot the six shop crafts unions, declared today that, the evidence in the ease had been to tally Ignored and that the decis ion gave rise to the . belief that the board waa trying to "help the railroads carry, out their labor policy." The labor, union head, her for a conference ot union heads which today called for a strike vote f 1,200.000 railway workers, said the board's latest cat could be Justified by no ' stretch of the facts. , . -;,:, . . Facta Lost Sight Of "The board was ,t offered evi dence as to the amount necessary to secure the necessities 'of life for railroad families," Mr. Jewell said. "The rates In this decision are so far below those necessities that this evidence must have been ignored. - ; ; . "'The employes, cannot ' k? noticing the contrast between the losses and the Increasing profits of the railroads.? v ' "The payroll losses of the shop crafts since 1920 as the result fcf decisions and -layoffs amount to at least tSoO.000,000. Similarly the maintenance of war men are losing at the rate of. $30 0,0 00,0 00 annually., ;7 7 'A V'-'-' ? f , , Pocketlns; Charged "Such a reduction makes the 10 per cent reduction In railroad rates, totaling $400.0 0a0,0 0 0, look pretty small. .Someone is pocket ing the difference."': : a The shopmen's chief then point ed out. the' Increasing Income of numerous .Urge roads, declaring 64 carriers for whom returns had been published, showed a net re turn of $162,708,784 tor the first four months of this year. ' Impartlatllty Doubted The effect ' ottthis contrast Mr. Jewell said, would be ."con firmation ot the belief among railroad employes that the rail road labor board is not an Im partial court created to: dispense Justice, but created to help the railroads carry out weir jiaDor policy." , .' : ; Railroad wages under the new labor board orders for .seven of the larger groups of the country's rail workers, ; soon will , be at a level which does not measure up to , the American 'standard fit liv ing and which .will make -vigor-bus protest necessary, according to Mr. Jewell, in explaining the Quick , ftrike ,ivote actloa of the conference of railway union, heads today.- 77-l77:li:.::S Strike Vote Ordered. , , In less than two hours , heads ot 11 "railroad unions arrlyed at an understanding whereby each organisation" will take : a strike Tote immediately on Issuance of wage reduction orders from the labor board for : Its membership. The rotes will be returnable la 30 days and the strike rote for the shop crafts, sent out by Pres ident Jewell's orders today, win be in his office In Chicago by June 30. :; V ' ' The strike rotes decided on to day will affect about 1,200,000 of the country' ranway(einployes all except Jhe train service men whose wages are not In dispute before the board. j7 k yJ . OUiera .May Jol 'r' . ;!" Although wage cuts ;have not been announced for any, classes but the shop, crafts and. mainte nance ot war, pending1 decisions are expected to add five other classes of labor . to the general slafh. Union executives of the3e organlxations today decided . to print their ballots and nave them ready to send out to the member ships Immediately If the ! board, as anticipated, orders further re ductions. In. their pay. . THE WEATHER ! ; - Fair. I ;--"plal'Gatette.'. " -