T ifc Circulation for the Oregon 1 Statesman tor mo month of March, LOOK YOUR iiLoT On Easter "SundayLet t. advertisements of thi3 j:r be your guide. 1924: Dally and Sunday Sunday Only . . . . ........ cacfl ........ C913 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAV MORNING, APRIL 15, 1924 SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR PRICE FIVE t. r t h t I 5 ft I ' 4 4 4a t T i t: ' I i CLE! LUG IS Til DP JEffflPLEIl Story of Enoch, Who Walked With God, Is Text Inspira tion of Address By Evan gelist Mrs. Demarest HYPOCRISY IS HIT Hi TALK LAST NIGHT Congregational Singing Adds to Merest Choir Pre - pares' for Week "And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." . Using this text from the fifth chapter of Genesis,' Mrs. Demarest '. Rave a wonderful sermon at the First Methodist church, last night. He was a brave man; ft takes bravery to walks with God. He was a clean man; one must be clean to .walk with God who will not tolerate unclean life. .He as a humble man; God will not walk with the proud. He was gener ous, and good, and loveable, and strong; for God makes friends only with those who have these godlike, friendly attributes. If it can be said of me that I have walked with God I shall care' for no other glory. God Not Changed "Goi will still walk with men; he has not changed it is only man who has changed. God would walk, with us, as our friend as he did with Enoch, if we but would. Bat we must be right with Him; we must choose between God and our alns.v. We' must be pure in heart; for God hates the bypo- ' . . "We need love more than we r 1 food to walk with God. Low, I . .3 i are an insulf tolove t t:an is not capable of pure, i love until it has gone I through the purifying flame of -1 '3 law and has burned out Its ."re-s. A man can not rightly love J .' s v, rife, his child, , without the I-ive cf God. Purely human love Is the desire for the returns we ret human, selfish love, lncap slle of being right until the love cf God has, first enlarged these tlay hearts of burs. I Obedience Necessary ' "Obedience we must have if we are to walk with God. There can be but one leader God; we must follow. Most of bur troubles come because there is so terrible a con flict between our masters; one day it may be God the next day the devil. Until we can' give an un- changing allegiance, it will go bad - with , us. "We must (have confidence. When my little girl Blossom was out with us', one dark stormy night when we were lost on the road, she put her hand in mine, and went to sleep; but when "X tried to with draw my hand, she cried, 'Mam ma, hold my hand!'? And holding my hand, she slept. - If e could only touch; God's hand and feel Ilia love around us, we too could walk with him and fear not. With him, you "can walk through belli. You can walk throngh filth with white robes 5 un soiled; through Tire, with no smell of the fire on ypur. garments. Men and women who have loved , God have done the maddest things, according to man's Judgment, " a.nd not one comes to harm. As long as Sam son walked with God, lie was in vincible; when he walked with Delilah, he fell. It is goodby to every man who walks with woman and not with God; goodbye, to the woman who klks 1th .man,, and leaves God out. The- woman "who walks with bridge is a bridge wo man and nothing more;- the man who walks with money Is like his money companion hard, cold, dead.' . Invitations Close Sermon' "One must keep pace with: what "one walks?' But sin always out walks the victim. Who tries run- (Continued on rage 2) THE WEATHER OREGON': Generally fair Tues day, moderate westerly winds. LOCAL WEATHER (Monday) Maximum temperature, 50. Minimum temperature, 36. River, 2.9; falling. Jivainiau, .3 8. Atmosphere, cloudy. Wind, southwest. III hi 11 ftd SHOT "OP, ROBBED BY TiffiE BAT ITS MOUNT VERNON, Wash., April 14. Three bandits shot up the i Citizens Bank of Anacortes, 17 miles west of here, this afternoon, felled Cashier Oblin and escaped with $23,000 in cash, scooped from the counters. The bandits drove from the town toward a drawbridge that connects Fidalgo island, on which Anacortes is situated, with the mainland. They were pursued by a group of citi zens rapidly assembled by Chief of Police Al Sellenthin and a sheriff's force started from here for the drawbridge. The bandits who came in a small automobile, entered the bank at about 2 o'clock. They fired many shots as they ad vanced. One of the robbers hit Mr. Oblin, who was alone in the place, on the head with the butt of a pistol. JEFFERSON IS EATA ALBANY, Ore- April : 14 Mr. and Mrs. Myron Baker and their small child, of Jefferson, Ore- sustained injuries that surgeons said would probably prove fatal in all I three cases, when their automobile hear here tonight, by an Oregon electric railroad train. ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY - : - - 'i , PLB fORGHZED Ben Hill of Walla Walla Chosen National Head of Organization WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 14. Organization of the Theodore Roosevelt highway association 'wis perfected here today by delegates from Washington, Oregon and Ida ho, the sew association taking the place and continuing the work of the old Roosevelt International as sociation which was disbanded be cause its plan 6f operation is said to have failed to work out satis factorily. Mayor Ben Hill of WTalla Walla wag chosen national president. The route of the new association will not dip "Into Canada, as did the old one. but will run from Port land, Me. to Portland, Or., ' via Minneapolis and St. Paul. An ex tension of the highway from Port land, Or., to Los Angeles was alp decided upon at the meeting. It will run west from Portland to Astoria, Or., thence south through Seaside and along the Pacific sea board oyer what is known as the Roosevelt road or Roosevelt high way through Oregon and Califor nia. , POMI'D P1DE GETS OEil IVffl County Purchasing Agent Fleming Quizzed By State Attorneys PORTLAND, April 14.-OffJcIa! probe of county affairs and related matters got under way today. , I chargewere state and county of ficials and one witness, Frank Fleming, county purchasing agent, was heard. Willis S. Moore, assistant attor ney general; Stanley Myers, dis trict attorney; John A. Collier, special counsel, named by Attor ney General Van Winkle, and George Mowry, 'deputy district at torney, are conducting the quiz. Witnesses are subpoenaed and sworn and a full transcript of 'the testimony is made by a court re porter. .. J . , . It was said the probe, before If ig ended, will go far afield, being directed at the bridge contract situation, Insurance matters, both county and any other Involved, surety bond transactions that baVo been mentioned in street talk, and whatever other matters may be di vulged by witnesses. DANE! IS DEAD SEATTLE, April 14. Truels P. Nielsen, 5 5, supreme president of the Danish Brotherhood'of Amer ica for nine years,' died here Sunday. A MV7. W B. FAMILY (TITTh mm was struck at a grade crossing I01N BEEMTS . ..... t : tr . ' , - ' ' if .'- V 'I - BALDWIN IB Confession to Police Fol lowed By Full Statement From Mrs. Willis LOS ANGELES. April 14. Mrs: Margaret B. Willis, formerly of Denver, went .with authorities -to her apartment today and calmly and unemotionally reenacted de tails of the killing of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin, which she confessed to police yesterday. The physician's alleged attempt ed attack upon her, how she shot him and then hid his body for two days, first in a closet and then in a-trunk,-was described, by the ad mitted ' slayer as she ' led officers about her dwelling quarters. Dr. Baldwin's body was found Sunday half " protruding " from, a trunk which Mrs. 1 Willis said she and her roomer,, Bert C. Webster, a forest ranger, had cast into a ravine near San Fernando, north of here, early Sunday morning. ';... ALlEfJIST SAYS Fact That He Slapped and Bit Rabbits Doesn't Show Anything Wrong r PHILADELPHIA, April 14. Harry K. Thaw was asserted to be sane and competent to manage his affairs today by Dr.' Charles K. Mills, veteran alienist, in testi mony in the opening of the. jury trial to determine whether Thaw has regained bis normal faculties. Thaw's 82-year-old mother, Mr3. Mary C. Thaw, who joined in the petition for the trial, was in the. court room when Dr. Mills made his assertion. ' The trial was marked by the In tervention of Russell William Thaw, 13-year-old on of Evelyn Nesblt. ' Thaw's divorced wife, which was permitted after Judge Monaghan : had appointed one of Miss Nesbit's counsel as guardian for the boy. Anticipatory interest In Thaw's estate was given as the basis for the intervention. ' . Counsel for the trustees of the Thaw estate. In questioning Dr Mills, revealed that records of the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, where Thaw has been confined since 1917, show that' Thaw kept a number of pet rabbits there, which he was re potted at various times to hava slapped," thrown around and even bitten until they squealed in pair. ' Dr. Mills said he did not thin such conduct unusual. t . "He treated pets as some people treat them," was the alienist's only turn i-j LY W TllVISffi ; comment. W0IP0TERS ilfJI'SHED BY 1. CO 0 LI D G E President Urged Daughters of Revolution to Exercise FranchiseNo Party Ap peal Hade FEMININE JUDGMENT IS HELD DEPENDABLE High Purpose of Govern- menus Beginning Is Held 1 to Forefront WASHINGTON, April 14. -An appeal to the women of America to exercise fully their newly gained right of suffrage in the November national elections was made by President Coolidge in an address tonight before the 3 3rd continen tal congress of the Daughters. of the American Revolution. The. president I combined with this appeal a warning against de parture, in "'this current troubled period' from the American system oi government providing for co ordinate legislative, executive and judicial authority and for govern ment by the majority. J He made no direct reference, i however, to the recent clashes between the ex ecutive ; and . legislative "depart ments, nor did he mention specifi cally recent, combinations of the democratic minority with Insur gent republican's to override the republican majority in congress. influence Held Beneficial. ; . The American people, the pres ident declared, may well be sum moned "to the preservation, the guardianship and the gradual per fection of this system," of govern ment, which assures to the people "equality against the tyranny of any ; despotic - executive and v the tyranny of any despotic - legisla ture." - Pointing out that American women this? year for the first time are able to know long In -advance of the national elections that they are to hava the right of the ballot, Mr. Coolidge asserted, that the country i wants not only the votes but the influence of its women y, in the ' coming elections. "Every voter1 ought not merely. o vote, but to vote under the In spiration of a high purpose "to serve the nation," he continued. "It I has been calculated that In most elections only about half of those entitled to vote actually ex ercise their franchise. What Is worse, a considerable part of those who neglect to vote do ft because of the curious assumption of superiority to this elementary duty of a citizenwhile others presume to be rather too good,; too exclusive, to soil their hands with the work of politics. . Such an at titude cannot too vigorously be condemned. 'Popular government is facing one of the difficult phases of the perpetual trial to which it always has been and always will be subjected. It needs the sup port 6f every element of patriot ism, intelligence and capacity that can be summoned. "I suppose even among the Daughters of the American Revo lution there are some women who sincerely feel, that it is unbecom ing of their sex to take an active part In politics. , It Is a little dif ficult to comprehend how such an attitude could be maintained by any woman eligible to such a So city as this, and sufficiently in terested in the society to partici pate In its work. ? v 'Voting First Obligation . Nevertheless -there are such and to them I want, especially to direct an appeal for a different at titude toward the obligations of the voter, I am inruch: less con cerned for what party, what poli cies and what candidates you Vote, than that you shall vote and that your . vote shall represent convic tion. When an enlightened elec torate acts, I have no fear Of the result. "Here in America we are living undsr, a form of democratic-republican institutions which I pro foundly ' believe to be : the best that has yet been thoroughly test ed. I 'say this because our system has gone so far . In the carefully separating of the different de partments of the government. History Is Recalled "In the early development of popular . Institutions .. the legisla tive and executive authorities were divided. But not' until the founders of our republic had made a further distribution Of differen tiation of convictions, which pop- (Continued on page 8) NEW BUILDING MAY BE BUILT FOR SERVICES In Lieu of Tabernacle Seating , Capacity of Armory May Be Increased By 500 At a meeting called last night following the evangelistic service, the ministers and some of the of ficial boards of the various union churches discussed the question of a special tabernacle for the rest of the services. The First Methodist church will have to be utilized for three more nights of this week, -af ter which the armory will be avail able. ' - It has been figured that by building bleacher seats around three sides of the armory, It can be made to seat 500 more people than it now does, bringing the total seating and standing capa city I close to 3000 people. It is estimated that more than that many came to the ' halj Sunday night, many of them being turned away for lack of room. After a thoughtful debate, the matter of a new tabernacle was left to be investigated by the build ing committee, who will prepare plans, cost estimates, location, and have ready to report by the last of this week. The matter will then be exactly where it was plan ned at the beginning, when it was arranged that the armory should be used for a while until the meet ings have shown about what more might' be needed. The plans as now under contem plation will call for a tabernacle about 120 by 150 feet, or contain ing at least 18,000 square feet floor space. Allowing 4 feet for each person, this will seat 4,000 people. Adding 500 to the present seating capacity of the ar mory will bring It up close to 3,- 000, which might be sufficient. The building committee will have the report ready, to submit by the last of this week. , When it was planned to bring the Sunday evangelistic party to Salem, .they insisted on a taber nacle that would seat not less than 7500. It Is believed that the 4. 000 capacity will be readily filled, and the, plans will.be made for approximately that if the armory will not handle all the crowds. DIMMER SHOT TO DEATH Suicide Indicated When Body of W. M. Denton Is Found at Ashland ASHLAND, Ore., April 14.- William M. Denton. 75, a banker formerly of Falston, S. D., who came here some time ago, for the benefit of his health, was found today, shot to death. A double barreled shotgun and a cane lay beside the body. The coroner, after an Investiga tion, said he believed Denton' had killed himself, usiAg the cane to pull the trigger of. the gun. A charge of buckshot had entered his breast. ' MONDAY IN WASHINGTON The supreme court held Nebras ka's minimum and maximum bread weight law Invalid. - The senate finance committee voted to 'give the bonus priority over tax reduction. .'.- Attorney General Stone accepted an Invitation to confer with the Daugherty investigating committee on questions before that body. Contending forces in the senate renewed their warfare over Secre tary' Mellon and the future of the congressional Investigation '- pro gram. A batch of ' hew witnesses, in cluding William Cooper Procter, arrived for the resumption tomor row, of the senate oil committee's inquiry. . . The senate Daugherty committee voted 'to cite M. S. Daugherty, brother of the. former attorney general to. the bar of the senate for contempt. '-,'''" The senate after the most spir ited debate . on ' foreign affairs In years rejected a committee amend ment to - the immigration bill which would have ratified and con tinued ' the ; "gentlemen's , agree ment" withJapant SEMITES FOfiJfHSE EXCLOSIM Letter of Japanese Ambas- saoor rroiesung rrovision ; Labeled "Veiled Threat" By Lodge IMMIGRATION DOMESTIC QUESTION, IS ATTITUDE Republican Leader Says mat He Will Vote tor Ex cluding Asiatics ' j WASHINGTON, April 14. The senate answered Ambassador Han ihara's protest against Japanese exclusion legislation today by vot ing, 76 to 2, against recognition of "the gentlemen's agreement' with Japan upon the Immigration question. This- action Is preliminary to adoption by the senate by an over whelming majority of the house Japanese exclusion provision. I Whatever the result would have been without the incident of the ambassador's letter, that commun icatlon served to change the votes of a number of administration leaders, including Senator Lodge of - Massachusetts, chairman of the foreign relations committee. Considered '"Threat" The republican leader informed the senate in open session that he regarded the Hanlhara letter as a "veiled threat ' and declared that in the face of that threat he could not support the Immigration com mittee's i proposal to recognize by law the 'gentlemen's agreement A number of other senators took the same view and only one voice. that of Senator Sterling, republi can," SoutbtDaicolITTwas ralsed,-In; defense of the ambassador's ac tion. Senator Colt, chairman of the Immigration committee joined Senator Sterling in the vote, but did not speak. Senators' generally threw off the usual restraints In dealing with in ternational questions. They were blunt and outspoken in their dec larations that In view of the grave consequences" Warning in the ambassador's letter there was nothing for them "to do but to make it clear once and for all that immigration is a domestic question in the handling of which no inde pendent power could have its sot- erelgnty puestioned. While the debate proceeded Sec retary Hughes, who transmitted Mr. Hanihara's ieter to the house and senate Immigration commit tees last" week, twice conferred with President Coolidge. . He de clined to say what the nature of the conversations bad been and no Information was forthcoming from the White House. After the vote which eliminated the language framed by the com mittee to legalize'the "gentlemen's agreement," Senator Reed, repub lican, Pennsylvania, who Is actual ly in charge of the Immigration bill gave notice that an exclusion amendment would be drafted over night in the same language as that employed in the bill which the house nassed last week by a majority of more than four to one. This Insures that whatever dif ference may arise on other points between the two nouses ; In com pleting the immigration , bill the Japanese exclusion provision "will go to the president. President Silent No indication has yet come from the White House as .to the course President Coolidge will fol low. Today's developments In the senate, , however," seemed to Indi cate ' that ; there would be suf f i cient votes In both houses to -re pass the bill over a veto , should the president take that course. Senate republican leaders were frank,. "however, In privately i ex pressing the opinion that the pres ident would sign the immigration measure, 'despite the "fact , that through Secretary Hughes, the ad ministration, had consistently re sisted Japanese exclusion ' legisla tion. r ',.... Senator Lodge moved unexpect edly for an executive session to consider that phase of the Immi gration bill. "A brief session be hind closed doors followed during which Senator Johnson, republi can, uamornia, maae nia long awaited address in favor of Japan ese exclusion. ' r At this point Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, objected to '(Continued On pa b 2) USC DEBATERS , WIN ARGUMENT : . FROM LOCALS Decision in Verbal Clash Over World Court Goes to Vis iting Team 2 to 1 ! The University .- of Southern California logicians triumphed over the Willamette university debaters here last - night by a two to one decisions. Cali fornia upheld t h e negative of the question, "Resolved That the United States should en ter the world court under the Harding, reservations." ; California offered one of the strongest arguments ever given on the local ' platform. . The force of their bbjections to the . court and the form with which their claims were presented far excelled " any other visiting team which has come here this year. The south ern orators based their opposition on the claim that the court was Inferior in operation to other ex Istlng means of peaceful adjudica tion, particularly the Hague arbl tration court. The Willamette debaters urged American participation in the world court on the grounds that the court is a vital and needed step toward peaceful adjudication of all international disputes. . Tne local institution was rep resented by Ward Southworth and Robert Notson. California had its case presented by B. C. Brennan and William Barber. Judges for the contest were , W. H, Ellison professor of history at O AC;. J. O McLaughlin, . superintendent of schools ; in Corvanis; and C. D. Thorpe of the University of Ore gon. - The contest last nigbt was, the last local appearance of the Wil lamette debaters. They will close their season next Monday night when Ralph Emmons and Warren Day meet the debaters, of the Col lege of Puget Sound at Tacoma. Plea of Guilty Entered . By Mrs. Myrtle Hayes NEW YORK, April 14. Mrs, Myrtle Bowman Hayes, business Woman of Boston and Brodkline Mass., unexpectedly ended her trial -lor- the . alleged 'forgery. 6f Charles M. Schwab's name to $25,000 note when she entered to day a plea of guilty to a charge of attempting third degree for gery. Mrs. Hayes'5 indictment last May was the result of her failure to meet the $25,000 note "Which bore the signature' of Schwab who repudiated the endorsement. . ni ENTERS i;,CE Farmer Living South of City $eeks County uommis- siorter Post George W. Palmer, who lives eight miles south of Salem, filed yesterday for the republican nom ination for county commissioned. He has lived on his farm for 40 years, and Is a fruit grower and stock raiser, besides a' farmer. He is one" of the biggest taxpayers among tne " farmers ; of Marlon county. He was deputy assessor for several years. Auto Stage Service to Replace Falls City Line PORTLAND, Ore., April 14.- Changes under which the present passenger train service - of the Southern Pacific company will be replaced by automobile stage serv ice on three Oregon. branche lines will be made effective Sunday, ac cording to the announcement made today by John M. Scott, assistant passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific. . . . - The lines affected are the Sa- em, Dallas, Fails city and Black Rock branch, which is 25 miles long; the Whiteson-Willimina branch, which Is 20 miles long, and the Woodburn, Mount Angel and Siiverton branch of 10 miles. ive Soldiers Killed ' Jn Honolulu Accident HONOLULU, April 14. (By Associated Press.) Five enlisted men ot the United States army detachment at Schofield barracks were killed and five others Injured this afternoon when an army truck carrying ', 15 men overturned " on the road , between Schofield and Haleiqua, , . . . BGE-PUEI nr n n n 9f III. EXT mm i Estes Sncdcccr cf'Pc.L' in ttain C dress, Sketches C. . tion's Crcwih district r:o. i se::ch 'ARuY C? DELHI V. C. Shelly IC.z plover's H:r SPOKANn, April 14. V." Rotarians cf the I.::ri : west were uest3 L.-.r t..' a banquet tendered then ' . Spokane r embers of the r zatlon. After the baniuct . program was put cn ty'r of visitls delegations tvc i i d'Alene, IJiho, Everett a: 1 tie, and Victoria. B. C. Between 1,000 and 1.EC3 gates were registered ,ia t'. from district No. 1, T.ztz:.- i national, which iuludel ' , . ton, Oregon, noithcia IZ British . Columbia. Snedecor Let Estes Saedecor of Tcrtl . : 1, president of Rotary iri::: delivering the main &C2i. .i : sketched, the grqwth otth? c -zation from its Iacc?t:ca 1 ; ago to the 'present 'diis, 1 the Rotary constitution 1 -translated into nine fcrtl- : uages. "Many influences to use Rotary for e::- - end, -but cur major vrcr t it has been since the be among crlprled chilire i . erlers.tcys i-g'.z':" I . cor said. W- C. Shelly of Xz.t C, speaking on "The r Responsibility to II13 H .: stressed the value cf thought to the Individual a-I thought to the organlzat!;:i." . Curiosity Held Ihc'.' I Mr. Shelly advocated : the card system and mere ct I iah. curiosity." "When you and I were h he said, "we delighted to r . 'I clocks to pieces and see V! -,t . them tick. Why not ta boyish curiosity as employe: V? us study and analyze man's : to see how they motivate. I. hunger, fear, all are perer.r.!"l . tives In every one of us." T0OI)T6Ef.SC v Ui LL..J Sportihs Goods St Brisk Business Wit: proach of-Dato -.With word that the 1S24 t fishing season opens, today. sands of sportive trout in t! merous small streams tl t r . cated' within easy r.:c,..: tance of Salem are tak: : : ; are hitting for the de :p I Sporting goods, stcr, i business exceptionally tri;' ii plications for fishing llcrrc::, though many niiaroda -hive ! prepared for the season fcr v. f there was the usual last nlr rush for tackle and a licensa. Bait and "spinners will ta i nearly exclusively at prt r;t, fly. fishing does not beJa a l: . satisfact6ry results until si, -3 ward the latter part of Hay. Important Columns 'cn ths iClzzziiizd Pro are the- "Real Estate" c .. They contain the t-ews cf lem's best values in city , farm property. Prospective home buyers find It profitable to read r columns. They will fin J t a guide to satisfactory 1 . selection. A HO Ore: n