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r UVJ UUNJ LTX iIXmI Jul ,1 - It IffiSUITSTQ: IDEPUBCHASED VCherrians Assessed Trt Dot- . ; lars Each -for Fund Thitf ?.. Ill-Fated Cherringa Failed 1; to Produce ; -; .fi ROSE FESTIVAL PRIZE 1 IS GOAL OF BOOSTERS it HI Excursion to Southern Ore- i. igon Slated for Conven fient July Date 11:- ni-vJl:M;-.ivi':. vij,: j Tb band boys are going to get Those, new Cberrian salts. Salem Is to be represented at numerous places this inmmer - by the- lire fclre Cberrian organization, and they will take the band with them. Attired In tine new white Cherrlan airorms. :;.', .y V--;1 i'O' :i The recent .., Ill-fated Cherrlan circus was Intended to raise mpn to provide those unlformsbut because the Salem public refused to come to the aid of ; Salent's knappy uniformed - organization tie handsome band f and expected from the; proceeds was reported Jut night in the form of a deficit! pad -no uniforms either. '.' ;!.-1':t :!j ,; f - Cherriana Are Blooded i f :: Bat the boys did not even Idis cu3s the circus, or the people (who wouldn't come to their .show. I They simply asked: W fi j -How much will it cost?" "Seven dollars per member," re pEed the king. ( . A;-'.' , l more tt Cherfjansbe ;aid HO ner member, to oaY the ebU. buy band-uniforms, and to revive our expiring treasury," 'chimed in a member. I The motion carried with a bang. Xaaaimous. . V'J-. : X- ."Next order of : business." an- cmnced the k;ing. j ' ' fThe "next" was consideration ci ha trln to the Rose festival, and the pilgrimage to southern Ore gon, vi"--. i-", V Going In Full Force The Cherrlans will go to. the use festival In full force. Cap- aLa Connel Dyer announced that nil would begin on May 28. and $o3d three nights a week, Mon day. I Wednesday and Friday frights, until the festival date. In Hew of an expensive float, the Cherrlans will j put up a very paappy drill, with a lot of .new ani attractive f atunts, George graves will , be there to lead fthe precession with hla Cherrlan car, newly painted in Cherrlan colors and decorations, and nickel trim mings. They are going after tne prize, and expect to win it. ' Ashland Sends Bid! The tripi to southern, Oregon is looming , large. .... ' The Ashland .Chamber of Commerce sent an in vltation for the Cherrlans to be .there on the Fourth and take part -la the celebration; but the date m o early, i so the. invitation was accepted for some time, in July Last night about 2d J signified their intention of making the trip, .nJ from the entire membership - tat least -WUwlll go, beside the Jaad of 20. and the women 7 ! The present lan is td Tisit eaeh town en route (a Ashland, drilling and givinjg concerts Ht .each stop, besides partaking of. jany entertainments that may be Vprevided for" the travelers." , At Ashland the caravan will disband, some going to Crater Lake and "KUmath Falls,' others to visit the cares near Grants Pais, while the i' especially busy ones T will straight home For the come latter T four .kind-the trip will require days. Will See Dempeey Fight A camnalgn la to be. made at tW a year each, - George Graves announced that (Continued on j?age 3),1 -THEWiEittHlffv .. ;i 1 .v vv.,..r-.; OREGON: Wednesday , prob ably! rain in west portions; cloudy. - ' ; LOCAL WEATHER (Thursday) ' ' Maximum temperature 86. Minimum temperature 48. , Klver 2.4. ' . Rainfall, none. Atmosphere partly, clo.adx . Wind, north. - j r RELA1MS MGlii-R MOSCOW, (May 8. (By The Associated Press) An cjh pliatic note from the British government handed to Maxim Lit vinof f, assistant foreign minister this afternoon, alleging propa ganda and other violation of the Anglo-Russian trade agree ment and demanding assurancesjof unconditional fulfillment of specified requirement wUhin,ten days., is' considered by Rus sian officials tonight as definitely intended to bring about a break in Anglo-Iiussian relations. . : PROSPERITY HOOVER TOPIC Secretary o f Commerce Holds Good Times Able to Be Made Permanent NEW YORK, j May S. The prosperity America is now enjoy ing can be made permanent ! if the businessmen of the nation ex ercise confidence and caution rather than timidity. Herbert Hoover, secretary of "commerce. said tonight- before the: chamber of commence dt . the United States, in annual convention. He declared ; the r present ; ' business health was by no means an aug ury pi approaching hard tlmes. I His address was , made after ullua H. Barnes, president, had ctutllned . the chamber's nrogram fbr settling domestic and inter national , problems; .Paita Fuji yama, president of the National liederation of Chambers of Com merce of Japan, had predicted a future of friendly .and cooperative, amity between, this nation and tls own; and Representative Albert Johnson, of ; Washington, chair man of the house committee . on immigration' and naturalization, had forecast, the further restric tion of immigration by the next congress. j ; '..' HDuring the 1 last lew weeks there' has been a distinct note of caution at foun rapid industrial rej:overy.' Mr. Hoover said: WI natve snarea. in mis oui some nave gope so far as to fear that we are entering a period of inflation pri danger of collapse. Caution Safeguard "Cautlon is the great safeguard to! our continued prosperity, but caiition need ' not be ' timidity, or exjclsive of confidence and cour age. - j : I ! '. We have no need to go into a peiriod of Inflation. , Ve are unT dqubtedly in a plane of prosperity and we wish to hand on to pros perity. If am not one of those who believe that hard tmes have any special advantage in dlsclp lining our souis. A report of the immigration committee recommended the ad mittance of an additional 2 per cent of Immigrants on a selective basis over the r number provided in the (present 3 per cent' law, to meet the existing labor shortage. The additional per cent,' it was pointed out, would "add" 23,536 immigrants - to the total number now admissible. J , . Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, di rector of the Ignited States Veter ans bureau, in an address to the chamber, appealed for aid in em ploying, the 60.000 Incapacitated war veterans now undergoing vo cational training. mm- Two Automobiles Badly Damaged in Garage Fu-e Fire - which broke . out in the garage ! or i Kopert scnmuis, 119S Market street, ; about l.o 'clock last night badly burned .a Ford Sedan and almost complete ly j destroyed a Page , touring . car Standing in the garage. The" Ore wasr of unknown ori- 1d, although it is thought that it may , nave siariea irom wres in - . . a . m one of the cars. -The Page was Owned bilMr. Schmut while Wil liam Fitzpatrkk 1 of 2640 Lee Street was owner of the Ford Se dan. One thousand dollars worth of Insurance as ,carrled by : Mr.leling to and from jobs. The uny Schmuta on. his, car-. It is. notlTeratty; will let. thc CRUtrat, en-. 3 ; - . m ..I.. m . A . .ifk. known whether Mr; Fltzpatrtck carried anj iaggranotv -:y rr".LL BEITEEN Ml m As tne note la only now being distributed among the higher of ficials of the government none of them would predict the nature of the Russian reply, but the gen eral impression seemed to be tha Marquis Curzon, the- British for eign secretary was desirous of a, break. '' If a break In relatiohs comes, the Russian trade organizations now located in London probably will be removed to Berlin or one o.f the Scandinavian countries. . The note which is very lengthy, was handed the soviet govern ment today by Mr. Hodgeson. One of its most striking passages reads: . ; . "It' is time the soviet govern ment should be made aware thai It " cannot with , impunity behave toward British subjects andBrit? ishfihipping la this arbitrary and intolerable manner' ; . The note refers to two notes signed by Weinstein, in reply to Mr. i Hodgeson's protests against the execution of Monsignor Butch kavitch which the British agent returned J , because jt they were couched in : offensive language and which! the present note stig matizes as "unexampled - in ' the case c governments affecting to be on friendly, terms. ., In case the soviet does'not for ward a reply to the British gov ernment within ten days comply ing with, the specified demands, the note includes . "his majestie'8 government on their part, will, in view of the manifest infringement qf the trade ' agreement by the soviet government consider them selves immediately free from the obligations at the agreement." Copies , Available Today Upening ot Proposals Probable May 17 f , Contractors will have a- chance this morning to bid on the erec tion of the big new Willamette university gymnasium. ij f " President Doney received word Tuesday) ajtternoon from Architect Doyle of Portland that the plans as finally approved are now ready for bidding. Copies of the plans and specifications will be avail able this morning at the univer sity for responsible bidders, and it is hoped that the contract can be awarded on May 17. IThe award will be made from Archi tect's office in Portland, follow ing the opening pf the bids at 10 ' o'cock on that day. The university authorities have made haste slowly in making out their plan", with the ideafof get ting the most possible conven ience and service .out ot their money.. -They have not set apart a definite sum for the structure,. They mrfht spend anywhere from $50,000 up to $70.0.0.0' for bulg ing and ifinlshing the building, depending on what they can get for the money. The demand has been strong tor a swimming poojl and the plans show a pool an nex at the south side of tbye build ing with a pool 26 50 feet that they may adopt if the ; other bids are low enough to warrant this added expense. I While the university has nqt expressed : any such condition, there are many of the Willamette students who would be . glad to have the contractor, whoever he may be, declare hl policy, of em ploying student .labor wherevier possible for the summer construc tion. The boys go outside and work on the highways. In the har vest fle.ias, in a nunarea imas employment. They would be. glad to have the chance to work in Salem, it Is said, and save time .and money In hunting and trav- ure, nnwever, wunou iuur y nUtions- M!ffifoBBIDS DECISION OF TO AGT War Department SaifJ to i Have SeriouslyJConsider i cd Sending Troops Ten sion Is Lessened CHINA PROMISES TO PAY BANDIT RANSOM Progressive Indemnity May k Be Demanded for Time i Captives Are Kept WASHINGTON. May - 8. The United States is dolpg eevrything possible to protect its nationals in China and to deal with the! condi tions there that have brought chaos. President Harding was understood to have told callers at the White House today concerning Capture of a number of American citizens and others " by Chinese bandits, between Shanghai and Peking Sunday morning. Reports received today- from Minister Jacob S. Schurman at Pe king and in press dispatches les sened the tension-here.) jThe re ports were welcomed by war de-i partinent officials who had con templated seriously the possibility of using American troops in China in cooperation with the Peking government , . , Minister. Schurman informed the state department late today that the Peking government had. prom ised to pay the ransom demanded by the bandits lor release of the prisoners.' ;The Chinese govern ment also prlomised to act as rap idly -as. possible, it was Bald.' ; ! The state- deaprtment issued this statement: - "'', ;! ";"!'".!!." Payment ; Promoted. "The department of state has received a telegram ' from the American minister at - Peking. Jacob Gould Schurman, to. the' ef fect that on May 7 the dean of the diplomatic corps at Peking, on behalf of the diplomatic corps, made to the prime minister," min ister! of communications and the acting minister for foreign affairs, vigorous ' representations' demand ing that all possible steps should be taken Immediately to seucre the release of the foreign captives and that the Chinese government should pay the necessary 'ransom afterwards, j j ' ''The dean of the diplomatic corps also .informed the Chinese Officials that strong military ac tion', must be taken to put down brigandage In Shantung and an of ficial inquiry must be held into the whple affair on which the dip lomatic corps must be represented. "Minister Schurman reports that that the prime minister, promised to pay the ransom and to act as rapidly as possible in fact agreed to all Che demands presented by (Continued on page 3) SUGAR SHIES IN , i SALEM REDUCED Result of Recent Mass Meet ing Is Large Cut Amount Used Here in , Although some Salem grocers were yesterday selling sugar at Joss than wholesale prices, pearly all of them said that sugar sales had been materially reduced with in the last few weeks. One grocer said that sugar sales had dropped 60 per cent during the last week, while another stat ed that thet folks who had been buying sugar by the II package, were- now buying only 23 cents wnrt h at time. Among yie grocers reporting a material, drop in the volumes of sugar sales were Roth's, Skaggs', Pickens A' Haynes ",and People's Cash store, . , .' Mayor John B. Olesy of Salem yesterday sent a telegram to Pres ident Harding urging tbathe en deavor tcf have a federal legiala- tion euacieu prevent ,; ume sonable speculation In food pro ducts. The mayor was Instructed to send the telegram at a recent mass - meeting of Salem -- house wives and clnb leaders protesting the high price of sugar. Gil WS& LEEDS ANGERED AT fRESS REPORT Co-espoident in Stillmqn ptji vorce Case Denies She A tended Races in I Paris T- . k i j i h i i i ' NEW YORK,! May 8. Florence Leeds, the shor girl who figured as co-respondent in the Stillman cm-orce "case, arrived on the Heamship Majestic today ' from Europe where, she said, she, had gone ''broken mentally, physically and spiritualljr" In search of peace. . '!'', VI have nothing to worry about or hide," declared the young wo man who, '-witnesses testified, bore a child to James A. Still man, millionaire banker. ! "Nobody , knows what I have suffered. I ikept quiet to give some one else. a chance to talk. Finally I was compelled to speak for my child's sake. ; 'Many false j things have been said about md When a news paper printed a story that I was at the Paris race tracks In painted legs, I was in a hospital with my child,' ready; to go., under! the knife. I never did anything really wrong, and God knows that." She denied she was hurrying home to accept a theatrical Offer, declaring she was ''through with the stage," and intended to live quietly at the Parle avenue home with which Stillman provided her several years ago. : ''. : unt Is Distributed in Ac cordance to Number of ; Teachers J I The spdng . apportionment ' of the bi-yearly elementary fund was issued to teachers in the county school ' superintendent's office Monday. A total of 140,564.87 was issued,; based on the disburse ment of $132.64 per teacher. ' Under county . provisions each teacher receives about $300 from this fund during the year which Is used partly to pay her salary and partly to. he expended for sup plies. Inj addition 'to the' lemen tary fund there ' Is : a state and sometimes special fund, which in the! aggregate make up. the teach ers' salary.- f,. Those tq receive . the highest share of the elementary tax were Silverton, $2,652.79. with 20 teachers, Salem. $11,777.10 ; with 88.79 teachers, Mt. Angel $1,459. 04 with' ll teachers and Wood- burn $ 1 .3 7 1 . 4 9 with 1 0.3 4 teach-J ers. ' ' i - r . '; BlrYEARLY FUND SALEiitaWANMNS : WIN FIRSTPLACE OVER According to the report read by Secretary Henry Morris, K!i wants club of Salem leads the world for 10-weeks Kiwanis in ternational attendance contest - that closed on Tuesday.1 The nearest competitor, as reported by wirie frpm the national Tiead quarters at- Chicago, gave Salem the narrow margin but win ing by ia margin of .02 per cent last week. As the Salem attend ance "has been full 100 per cent for both of these meetings,, it could not possibly be that the "enemy' could teat that record. The perceiitage lead might be eliminated. ' ; t1 -Cards CaBed' For I The national headquarters has called for the signed attendance cards, (covering the whole tea weeks , iron test, and these are be ing, sent In by the Salem camp. The recdrd hasi been carefully booked i but the race is so close that the headquarters wants to have the proof of the event right In its hands.' It may take some days yet to declare positively the winner. The Wood lawn club of Chicago is the nearest ; com peti tory The Salem club has either the first or the, second place, and the Woodlawhers the other place. ! ftotarians Must Treat i The Salem KIwanians have won the dinner to be served by the Salem : Rptarr ctub as the losers of their jual attendance contest. Last : year It a the Kiwanlans that bit the, dust and t paid for the dinner. They, are to hold the: big feed at the Marlon Thursday night of this week. I n ; . i I : : l: : A- : ' ,!'"-" '".'.'"' i C1M i .1 i : l: PAY MSfflS:0F i 1'EKING, May 0. (By the Associated Press) The Chinese goverii4ient early this morning! issued orders to the foreign com mission ;of Shantung Province to comply with all of. the demands of the Suchow train bandits, for ransom for the, prisoners they are holding, and otherwise. Diplomatic circles are not optimis tic as to the result of the order. r : - - Tlie foreign; ministers, who have studied theituation close ly bejievc that the cabinet is willing to pay the nsom demand ed' by the brigands for their prisoners, but-that militarists of the tountry will intervene and insist upon military operations being carried out against the bandits. , f ! Military -oijiprations against the kidnapers, it is believed, will only prolong the affair and endanger the captives. ISSENTENCED Dr. Krupp von Bohlen Gets Fifteen Year$-f Directors ! Are Also Sentenced WERDEN, Germany. Mayt8. (tiy the Associated Press.) Dr. Krupp von Bohlen, head of the Krupp works, and his three di rectors,; Bruhn, OesteHen and Hartwig, heard their sehtencesin the Werden jafl tonight.. The penalties totaled imprisonment aggregating 55 jears. the French court ; martial : having convicted thfmfor responsibility , for the conflicts betweenj the Krupp work men and a French squad of sot diers on "March jl last; which re sulted in the death of 14 work- ers- l -' i': ; w'yv' ' Fines totalling the amount of 85,000,000 marks also were im posed Upon the .accused.! who In clude others than the directors. There; was a large crowd pres ent in the court! room when Col. Peyronnel read $he sentences but no demonstrations occurred, the spectators apparently' being un aware' of what was' gong on,' only a few..; of them understanding French!.. . . . .vjf.',",. ' "'!', '" The j court martial deliberated two. hours before reaching its de cision. ; The head of the Krupp' works and, Directors Hartwig and pes terlen each were) sentenced to 15 years and Director Bruhn to 10 years;. : Sentence! of 20 years1 each by default weire imposed on Bauer, jSchaetferj and Kuntz," who also are in flight. ' ALL RIVA reduced, but it; could never be f. (Judge Thomas Crawford of La Grande poke briefly at the. din ner Tuesday., Ile is 75 years young, as attire and as light hearted as V boy, and he urges the whole Klwahls bunch to iden tify themselves twith the children In the state schools for the un fortunates, in the.- public schools and in the; homies. and help train the kids of: today Into the big men of tomorrow. , . ; Ir. Mlllerl Wins Prize. George Alexander of . Portland, former Unltedjj States marshal, spoke briefly on the importance of the dlnher iclubs in building up better community sentiment. The attendance prize was given by "BlU"j Keeqe. and was wonby pr. rl " Milleij the " music . for he day was furnished ! ty Harry Mills, son of J. Mills of Saiem. and the ' organist '. at the Blue Moue theater Jof - Portland. He played several' j piano - selections piano selection that made a hit with the' music "lovers of Riwanls. LS OFlRSiB . PRISONERS HELD pffoNCIP Prison Operates Logging In dustry City Of McMinn . ville 'Assisted By CHARLES J. LISL,?. Eighteen men are now at Work in opening up the new state log ging camp near Mehama where the- state!- prison authorities re cently bought a tract of 750,000 feet of vlcgin, original forest growth timber ' ; They started In' by building a good road about half a mile long over which the trucks can haul the logs. Then - they went to work; on a bridge . across Stout creek :' to reach the tract. ..The bridge J was defeigrifd, by R. E. Man tor, deputy warden, ' who was an engineer with ( the American army in France. ',. It is - built on an army design, and If it doesn't hold the traffic .there's nothing in signs. The four sills are each three feet in diameter at the butt; end1 of the logs, and the span is 6 0 feet In the clear. They ex pec to haul. ' loads of ,15,000 pouhds across this bridge with out central shoring-up. . Timber First Class ; This bridge was builff by the use of a donkey engine that 13 now . tQ be used In' yarding and loading the 6gs'. They have some wonderfully, fine" timber. ". There are logs six feet In diameter, clear of: branches for 60 to 70 feet, and some of the limber looks to be folly 100 feet In the clear. .The failing crew has already put down a large number of the splendid trees ready for bucking and load ing. ''-;!;:v" !'! ' The state has. two options in the delivery' of these logs 'to the mill at the prison. One is to load them on the . Silverton . Lumber company track at Mehama, less than a mile from the' camp,' and the other is to haul them to Lyons two miles away, to load on the Mill City Southern Pacific line. The camp was recently moved" from, near Lyons where, they had another small log contract. "The state is going 'so deeply into In dustrialism at the penitentiary that a large supply .' of logs was necessary. ThereOs a 'sawmill at the prison that will handle all but the very largest logs " The lumber goes Into construction work for the prison an)1for the other state .Institutions, pmd into material for the cabinet and fur niture making department. ' No Runaways Yet ' Some Interesting things have come out during the development of this camp. There has" not been a runaway. The men have volun tarily worked, at a pace that would kill most civilian builders and woodworkers. . They got out Balm of Gilead logs from their first log camps-that were shipped down, to the ! prison mill, sawed ! up, planed and, made into shiplap and shipped back , up to Meharaa to" build the biink house a'pd ' cook bouse, each r 1 6- by 4 8 ? feet, at a cost of less than $8 , a thousand where Jbe state would have had to pay i 4 i 5 - for commercial lu m ber to do the building. : The state is $37. a thousand! ahead .of the deal on this construction lumber. They found that new sash for the camp windows- would cost $5 a pair; they bought some deserted buildings- from an old log camp and the windows cost them only S2 a i pair. :. The. men have done the work at practically no cost to (Continued on Paget) is. seatoo TotSei Grave Fears Are Felt - for 7 Safety of Many Americans -Tales of Hardships Aro Many - j . I TWO BRITISH BROKERS h MANAGE TO GETAWAY Robert Scripps, American j Publisher, Not Aboard Wrecked Train PEKING, Kay 8. Notwitli standingr' report :' that the Ca chow railway bandits rclsiss i aU of the women Dassesrrcra they kidnaped, the whereabouts of several are- still uncertain, Mrs. L. A. Ceaton and her niece, Miss Lillian Auld, of Manila, peiieved taken captive by tha brigands have not been locat ed. ' : .-. ' ' '.'": f ' " SHANGHAI, May 9. (By the Associated Press) Fred and Edward niias, British bro kers of Shanghai, have escaped from the Suchow train bandits, according , to a message receiv ed today by the officers cf th3 Shanghai. and Nanking railway company. It is not known def initely whether all of th3 wcv men prisoners taken by the kid nap ers have been released. ; Fates Vaknown. ;Mrs. A. Corralli. an Italian, re leased by the bandits, reported seeing a woman answering the de scription of Mrs. Seaton among th prisoners. L.ike r other victims of the tralj hold-up who gained their freedoc when dispatched with messages tf the pursuing government troop Corralli made her escape from. the bandit stronghold with a French man and two Chinese. She said that she, with the" others, ! was given a message to carry from the bandits to the pur suing soldiery, which had .prac tlealyl .surrounded the stronghold of desperadoes that the i troops, cease tiring on the robbers. - As the messengers approached the troops. Miss Corralli said, the soldiers ' subjected them to hpt rifle fire and they were forced to take cover in a rice field, where; they spent the night.' - " Miss Corralli and her compan ions reached Tientsin' sorely, be draggled, their scant garments, consisting only ot those which had been, contributed to them along route. She said the bandits per mitted little or no communication among' the prisoners-and she did not know the fate of the men cap tives. : ' . Mrs. Seaton, It is said, formerly; lived, at Eugene, Ore. . Grave Fears Felt. PEKING, May 8. (By the As sociated Press.) -Ominous lack of recent direct word from the bandit stronghold fn the hills back of inching, and various reports of captives wounded when nused by their guards as shields against the .'volleys or pursuing government (Continued on page 4) WANT TO SELL A TYPEVITER? Try a Statesman . Y?ui Ad -The -tesults Will Surprise ' ' Too,. -' - ' .' Below Is one of the Want Ads. appearing in today's Statesman , Classified. Columns. One a Day. Will it C2 Yours Tcaorro7? FOR 8AL7&i REMINGTOK STAV, dird typewriter. No. 10 Fhona 1257, Atk (or Onca Well. V: