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SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR ' SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 192 LODGE OFFERS: WQRLD COURT PL10F1 Massachusetts Senator Would Convene Hague Conference to Create New International Tribunal, COOLIDGE AND HUGHES s FAVOR PRESENT COURT New Plan Complete in Every Detail Would Sever Connection to League WASHINGTON. May 8. Sena tor Henry Cabot Lodge today laid before the senate and the country a new world court plan kof his own. J ',- . ' It provides for the reconvening of The Hague conferences at the call of President Coolldge and . creation by It of a permanent court to which the nations could submit their disputes for final adjudication. The resolution of the foreign I relations committee chairman made no direct mention of the in ternational court already set up under the auspices of the league of Tinttnna nnd commended to the senate by Presidents Harding and Coolldge as an Institution worthy of American support. ' Instead it proposed to build a tribunal about framework reared at The Hague years ago with the Judges selected much after the manner of those In the court sponsored by the league, except that the league itself would have j no part in the procedure while the ; United States would act with ; Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan through a "special commit tee" having a veto power over elections. . : : 1 . - The immediate reaction of the White House-; and state depart- ' znent to the plan of the republican senate leaders was absolute si lence. If President Coolldge or Secretary Hughes have heard of the proposal before, It was brought forth on the senate floor, ' officials close to them gave no . sign or it. On the contrary there was a plain Indication that Mr. Coolldge remained steadfast in his recently repeated adherence to the , exist ing court of international justice . as the most practical tribune yet devised, and that Mr. Hughes had not lost hope that despite the attl- l tude of Senator Lodge, the for eign relations committee might report ont the adherence plan originally- drawn up by the ad ministration under President Harding. A subcommittee is in process of holding hearings on the Hard ing - Coolldge - Hughes ' proposal; Senator Swanson of Virginia, the ranking democrat on the commit tee, has pending a resolution . along somewhat similar lines; and Senator Lenroot, republican, Wis consin; Senator Pepper, republi can, Pennsylvania, and others have put In proposals either for adherence tn thn exlatlncr fnntt or some other means of codifying in ternational law. :Ji. For completeness of detail, however, there is no plan now be fore congress that approaches that presented by Senator Lodge. After prescribing 11a the ins and outs of the organization and procedure of .-the court, his resolution carries Its own reservations designed, like the Lodge reservations to the league of nations, to preserve the Monroe doctrine .to prevent any foreign trespass on American do mestic questions, including immi gration aid to preserve the tradi tions and Independence of the. na tion. It Is provided specifically In one of these reservations that no case to . which the United States is a party shall be submit ted to the court except the provis ions of a definite agreement set ting iorth the ixact scope 'of the questions 'to be 'decided an J the precise extent to which the court ' may go. ' , .. THE WEATHER OREGON: Generally fair FrL day; southwesterly winds. ' ' : LOCAL WEATHER Maximum temperature, 84. Minimum temperature, 45. River, 1; falling. Rainfall,' none. Atmosphere, clear. Wind, north. ' '. i ......... m , - v. . HQODBDRN'WOW' is fumm m sit INVOLVING BIfflCK Ida S. Moshberger Seeks to Recover on $1000 Loan Interest Paid, but No Principal Five Mortgages Brought to Salem Found to Be Spurious One of the first suits to be filed against Grant B. Dimick, Oregon City lawyer and financier whose peculations are said to have reached $100,000, was filed ni the Marion county circuit court Thursday by Ida S. Moshberger, of Woodburn, against C. W: Kent, Lula E. Kent, Grant B. Dimick, Frona Dimick, George Brockhart, Katie Swabauer, Fritz Grieson and the Aurora State bank. j I - ' : . As in "other Instances that have -i T Father, Admits at Coroner's 1 Inquest That Corpse is ' Not That of Son MEDFORD, Or., May 8. (By The Associated Press) At a cor oner's inquest held Wednesday evening, a verdict was returned by the jury that the body of the young man identified positively by his father Tuesday as that of Hugh D'Autremont, wanted for the Sis kiyou tunnel murders and holdup, was that of an unknown man who had met death by drowning in Rogue river, with suicidal in tent, j '- Paul D'Autremont, the father, called as a witness, testified that when he first viewed the body he thought it was his son, Hugh, but had changed is mind. "If the body has brown eyes, as the coroner said. It Is not Hughle.. for he had .blue eyes. , I wish I knew the body was Hughie, but I am not sure. ' I am not posi tive." ': ' : - , P. B. Coy, who found the body while; on a fishing trip last Sun day testified to the finding of the "body, its position in the water, and how it was weighted down with rocks. : Ben Hillon, a farmer, testified that while oat riding for stock with his father he had passed on horseback within 300 yards of the spot where the body -was found, about two weeks ago, he . saw a man answering the general de scription of the dead man, seated on log. i i The identity of the deceased be ing unestabllshed, he will be laid to rest in the potters', field. LI S ASSETS II Creditors Present Claims Up to ; $125,000 Partial j List Announced OREGON CITY, Or., May 8. Preliminary steps to liquidate whatever assets remain of the property of Grant B. Dimick, missing Oregon City, banker for the benefit of his creditors, were taken here today by his ex-associates, members of the legal pro fession, gathered at the call of C. H.; Dye, president of the Clack amas bar association. ' Fred A. Miller, county clerk to whom Di mick had left a power of attorney and deed of his property, has al ready declined to accept the trus teeship of the property. Estimates of the total diversion of funds charged ly county, offi cials to Dimick rose today. Those who 'seemed to have the best knowledge of the tacts said when all returns are In the total may resell $125,000 or perhaps more, the official list to date follows: " Mrs. Jessie Cooke and daugh ter, $7,700; Laurence and Blanche Mautz, $3100; Jacob Miller $15. 000; Joseph Melndl, $2800; E. A. Porter, $5900; W. O. Neff $1, 500; Freda Spangle $2000; George H. Colter $700; J. D. Marshall $3000; Carl Henke $2, 000; Minnie A. Lent $4700; Wil liam Held $3050; "lady" $6000. ( I PAYMASTER MISSING SEATTLE, May 8. Announce ment was today that search had begun for Lieutenant Lester B. Karrelle, paymaster In 5 charge of commissary stores. It was stated i that he had been missing since BODY PROVED i HUGH Ml Ill QUITE 1 Tuesday. been revealed, the interest on ra $1000 note was met but payments on the principal deferred. According to the complaint on April 13. 1910, Dr. M. Giesy loan ed $1000 to C. W. and Lulu Kent, who gave him a mortgage to cover the loan. This was sold to the plaintiff, Ida Moshberger, on June 12, 1918. The complaint states further that on August 27, 1912, and on April 5, 1915, the Kents sold the premises described in the mortgage to Grant B. Dimick, a release being executed from the Hen by Dr. Giesy on April f 21, 1923. That the principal has not been paid but the interest has been met from the time of transfer to Grant Dimick, and ! the last pay ment of interest was made about April 29, 1924, as Interest to April 13 is also charged. There is now due on the note and mort gage $1000 with interest since April 13, according to the com plaint. At present the defendants claim some interest in the mortgage, but It so, it is subsequent in point of time and Inferior to the liens of the plaintiff, It is alleged. Judg ment lS 80Ught. ; ' In checking up on the activities of Grant Dimick, William Ham mond of Oregon City came to Sa lem with five mortgages given clients by Dimick for the purpose of checking up on their validity. When presented to the : county clerk they were declared not to be genuine. No effort was made to look them up- Hammond ex pressed his surprise. It was explained to him that the documents had been recorded as In "volumes 135, 131 and 145." As the current volume numbers are 122 and 123, there was no need to look up the filing of the documents, e DISABLED VETS Registration at Chamber of Commerce to Be Fol lowed By Auto Trip Nearly 100 delegates from Cor vallis and Portland are expected to be in Salem today for the an nual state convention of the dis abled war veterans and guests of Salem chapter No. 3. The visitors are expected to begin arriving In the city about 11 o'clock and should all arrive by 2 o'clock. Registration at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, which have been decorated, Is the first order of business. In the afternoon they will be taken for an automobile trip through the district, with a picnic sapper at Spong's landing at 5 o'clock. Should it rain the dinner will be served in the arm ory. - . . The convention will be In full swing Saturday, with addresses to be jgiven by Mayor John B. Giesy and Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, presi dent of r Willamette university. Election of officers and the regu lar business of the convention will complete the day.1 The veterans are also expected to pass certain resolutions. .1 . . Frank Durbln, Jr., is command er of Salem chapter No. 3, and Ed Clark, Salem man now attend ing OAC, state commander. BUTLER FOR WET PLANK NEW YORK, May 8. Declar ing that the republican party will lose eleven important states' in the coming presidential election If It does not make a declaration on the wet and dry question. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Co lumbia university today came out squarely for the adoption of an anti-prohibition plank in the re publican 1924 platform. . ASSEMBLE TODAY roil ood is ELOfilFIEOBY Lecture on Marriage and Motherhood Draws Audi ence of Women That Fills Tabernacle - POODLES IN LIEU OF BABIES SCORED Girls Urged Not to Enter Into Married State Without Thought ; With the tabernacle as fully packed as for any previous lecture, Mrs. Demarest yesterday afternoon spoke on "Marriage and Mother hood." Though the afternoon was warm and many improvised fans were in evidence at the open ing of the meeting, all were soon listening with marked Intentness to the straightforward words .of the talk that was continued from last week. ; .' . ' Reviewing briefly the founda tion points from last Friday's lec ture, Mrs. Demarest brought but once more how a girl's one Inesti mable gift is her womanhood; how in it she has marvelous powers for good or for evil; how her obliga tions are definite and - four-fold; and how true love is often con fused with its counterfeits.. "They say love is blind." she said, "but-It Isn't true. I think love U about the only thing that does have eyes eyes to see ahead to marriage, to Its cost, and to a preparation for It." "I tell you," Mrs.' Demarest said, 'when I considered marriage I did some thinking and some pray ing. The trouble with most mar riages Is that God never had any thing to do with them, , .whlchJ unfortunate, considering that xnan. riage is a divine institution." And it is the divinity of the institution that Mrs. Demarest emphasized tremendously well. She justified her premise by drawing a parallel between the marriage relationship in Christian versus non-Christian lands, speaking especially of child marriage, polygamy, and the "lit tle widows" of India. The purpose of marriage beiag for children, divorce becomes sin. Divorce deprives children of one parent when two parents are re qur'ed to complement and supple ment each other, each supplying what the other lacks, each intensi fying the other's powers.. "The home," Mrs. Demarest as serted, "is the oldest form of or ganized life and government In the world. You can see what dangers accompany its dissolution. The home is the foundation of the na tion and the nation the founda tion of civilization." I Mrs. Demarest, in naming the causes of divorce, made them three: First, entering in upon the married state too - precipitately; second, incompatibility; and third, no children. Of the first 'cause of divorce, she directed her words especially to the young girls of the audience, saying in no uncer tain terms. "If you are not willing to live With the man you choose until you die then you have no right to marry him." It is a step that should be considered more thoroughly than any other. Above it ail she pleaded, "Don't be a lit tle fool. Don't act as if you had no brains. Marriage is too impor tant. But a second thing that will break it down is being from the beginning unequally yoked. Mrs. Demarest made this purely a spiritual matter, for of course no man Is perfect, and the real wom an will realize it and, of course, she herself will have her faults. But an unequal spiritual mating Is different. t Mrs. Demarest told of what might have been In the case of her own grandmother who was engaged at 16 to marry a man whom she adored, who was rich and "had every opportunity for ad vancement. But the. girl one day realized that he wasn't with God as she herself was, and because she felt It right, she gave up the marriage, though with no little struggle, . ' ' . ' (" The absence of children in a home bas been often the source of divorce. Here Mrs., Demarest dwelt on the totally t disgusting practice among many modern wo men bf adopting poodles. ' Mrs. Demarest closed as' she be gan, .with the words that after all marriage is for the child, and the Child must be thoughtof first and last. VA child Is capital," she said, "ia wealth untold, is a mine, and may become eitker a Nero or a John Wesley." AIRPLANE TO GO IN QUEST OF COMMANDER Little Hpe Held for Safety of Martin a n d- Harvey World Fliers Proceed SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. First Lieutenant Earl S. Tonkin, assistant Ninth Army corps area air officer, stationed at the corps headquarters here, will start at sunrise Saturday morning to fly to Seattle on the first leg of a trip into the north to conduct an air search, for Major Frederick L. Martin, missing commander of the army's round-the-world fliers. SEATTLE, Mfty 8. The latest advices gave ground to belief that three fliers of the army had taken the air from1 Atka Island In the Aleutians today on thefr way around the earth. That Major Martin and Ser geant Harvey would be found to have perished in the Bering sea was a fear expressed freqnently among men of the army; the navy and the Coast Guard in the Puget Sound district, many of them fa miliar by long experience with the severity of nature in the north. Full Week End of Festivities . PlannedKathleen I to m Be Crowned Queen . j Today's May Day ITogram i 8-12 . a. m. Campus clean up; entire student , body participating. I 10-12 a. m. Registration of visitors at Chresto ; c. .; cottage. , , . 12 noon Ringing of histor ic victory bell; stu f dent lunch on cam-r- : A - Pus. , L - - j -r 1 : 3 0 p. nr. Coronatlotr f es tivities; address by Dr. Carl G. Doney at Queen's court. 2:00 p., m. Coronation of Queen Kathleen . I, maids Phyllis and Irene attending. May day dances. , 3: 00" p. i m. Baseball, Wil 'lamette vs Idaho, Sweetland field., 8:00 p. m. Junior play, "Adam and Eva" at Grand theater. Visitors in large numbers from the high schools of Oregon are beginning to arrive for the 26 th annual May day and junior week end which opens at Willamette university today." A full day of fes tivities and sports Is planned. The coronation of the May queen at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and the junior class play, "Adam and Eva", at 8 '-o'clock tonight fea ture the opening day program. i Committees have been busy for several weks carefully laying plans ! for stunts, decorations and feature programs. Already the queen's court , and throne are un der construction and . will be tos iily arranged on the campus lawn in front of Waller hall. Other plans will be carried into effect this morning when crews of men will be busy putting the entire campus in order. Bleachers will be erected, grass trimmed, and grounds prepared with decorations for gala events. l -At noon the student body and campus visitors will gather for a lunch. 1 Queen's court festivities will start at 1:30 with the opening ad dress by Dr. Carl G. Doney. The coronation of Kathleen La i Rant as Kathleen I, will take place at 2 p. m. The queen will be at tended by maids Phyllis Palmer and Irene Walker. The women of the senior class, will follow In the royal ; procession bearing , baskets of f owers. An elaborate program of spring dances have been prac ticed by underclass women for the latter part of the program. S At 3 o'clock the . WHameite Bearcats wilt meet the University of Idaho in a baseball game. The Willamette team has shown mark ed Improvement' during the past week. A shift in the line-up will be made for the game which may make a strong combination against the vandals. Leland Chapln and Ruth Ross are to take the leads In the junior class play. "Adam and Eva," which will be played at the Grand theater at 8 o'ciocV. The house was sold out early this morning and students are still clamoring for gallery ' pirivleges which will permit them to see the - annual dramatic production, r , . W FESTIVAL STARTS TODAY HE ID BEER PROTESTED Bf Legalization of 2.75 Per Cent Beer Strenuously Opposed Before House Committee By Organizations LIBERAL PROHIBITION CALLED NULLIFICATION Harley of Liberal Alliance, Former Mayor of Astoria, Openly Scored WASHINGTON, May 8. Evils which they believe would attend the legalization-of -2. 75 per cent beer, as proposed In a number of pending bills were described In testimony today by dry leaders at hearings before the house judi ciary committee. s A committee of five from the general conference of the Metho dist Episcopal church now meeting at Springfield, Mass; Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-saloon league and Mrs. Ella A. Boole, representing the Wo men's Christian temperance un ion, joined in an attack on the proposed bills to liberalize the prohibition laws. After presenting a statement from the Methodist conference In which it was declared to be. the belief of that body that they pro pose to nullify the constitutional amendment by legalizing the sale of wine and beer is an appeal from orderly legislation to "law de fiance' and anarchy," members of the delegation further presented their, personal views. , . , ' Before the dry advocates opened their attack on the proposed legis lation Francis T. Harley chairman of the . National Liberal Alliance concluded the argaaenl-for wod lficatlon. He told the committee he spoke for seven million people who had voted through a refer endum of his organization. Mr. Harley, who is a former mayor of Astoria, Or., later was target of an attack by Dr. Charles True Wilson, another of the Methodist . conference delegation who characterized Harley's regime at Astoria as "a combination of Sodom, Gomorrah and Perdition." Mr. Harley had left the room be fore Dr. Wilson" took the stand. BUSINESS OPPOSES BAN' CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 8. (By Associated Press.). The Chamber : of Commerce of the United States' in the final session of Its twelfth annual convention here today , pledged the whole hearted of organized , business to efforts to bring about through friendly negotiation "the most amicable understanding" with Ja pan on the question of immigra tion. THURSDAY IN WASHINGTON The senate approved a gift tax as a part of the revenue bill. . Hearings were begun by a sen ate committee on the Mayfield election case. The general legislative situa tion was considered at a breakfast conference at the White House. : Arguments on the removal of the Pullman surcharge were "be gun before the interstate com merce commission. -.' The senate oil committee heard practical details of oil production from H. Foster Bain, director of the bureau of mines. " - The senate debated the' Immi gration bill with republicans and democrats assailing the proposal to postpone Japanese exclusion. ' a. , ., v The - shipping board voted to withdraw its Certification of sec tion 28 of the merchant , marine act to . the interstate commerce commission. Production of winter wheat this year was estimated by the depart ment of agriculture at 553.033,000 bushels, 3.4 per cent less than last year. The senate Daugherty, commis sion devoted Its attention to con ditions surrounding the indict ment of Senator Wheeler, demo crat, Montana, and to . the activi-. ties of , Howard Manlngton, EMBARGO STAYS ON CALIFORNIA, BOARD DECIDES Oregon Livestock Council Re ports Against Admitting Fruits From South PORTLAND, Or., May 8. De cision not to raise the embargo on California fruits and vegetables from districts not affected by the foot and mouth epizootic was an nounced here today by tbe Ore gon state livestock board follow ing a session at which such a pro posal was considered. The report of the board was sent to Governor Walter M. Pierce at Salem tonigh.t The decision was contrary .to a recommendation . madeby mem bers of a committee appointed by the governor which recently In vestigated - conditions in Califor nia. These Investigators had re ported that "the ebargo against shipments into Oregon of fruits and vegetables from California districts not affected by foot and mouth disease can be lifted' with out danger, if such shipments bear certificates of -federal authori ties. '' ' y;' ;'; Favorable action on this recom mendation would probably , have been taken according to Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian, had It not been that . reports ' were re ceived today from 'California of an outbreak of the epizootic In a district not heretofore- affected. 19,612 mi Republicans in Oregon 233,. 023A Democrats 91,485, . Statement Shows The total registration of voters In Oregon "for the primary "election of May 16 is 339,612, according to official figures from the office of Secretary of State Sam A. Kozer, which were completed with, the final reports in from the counties yesterday. ' Tbe republican registration is 233,023; democratic. 91.485, pro hibition. 2276 j socialist. 2454, and miscellaneous 10.374. '' Because a report of the male and female registration is not re quired by law, many county clerks did not report these fig ures, so the number of men and women voters In the state cannot be ascertained.' $57,000 Pledged By Savants and Employees Alumni Banquet Tonight EUGENE, Or., May. 8. -University of Oregon faculty and em ployees,; following in. the wake of the recent successful student cam paign over-subscribed their quota to the gift fund - by more than $7000, according to announcement at the university today. The sunt of $50,000 was allotted to the faculty and employes on the cam pus as their share of the five mil lion dollars to be raised for new buildings and equipment. University of Oregon alumni and students of Marlon . county will banquet tonight at the Marlon hotel as the first step toward or ganizing local forces for the en dowment and building campaign. Dr. James IL Gilbert, head of the economics department, will be the . principal ' speaker. - Frank Jue, Chinese tenor, will sing. Up wards of 100 people are expected to be present. Farm Relief Measure Promised By Leaders WASHINGTON, May 8. For mal assurance was given tonight in the senate by administration leaders that opportunity would be given for adequate consideration of "some farm relief measure" be fore congress adjourns. Senator Nor beck, republican. South Dakota, gave notice be would propose the McNary-Haug-en farm bill and Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska declared he would offer his farm relief meas ure as a substitute then td the McNary-IIaugen bill. FIEGOrJ FACULTY GOES QUOTA postpone: criticized SE1TEFL Heated Attacks D:!. Against Action cf t: feress in Deferring Ban Until f.:arch 1 MAINTAIN QUESTION U STRICTLY DOMESTIC C Johnson Confident Thr.t r port Will Be Accepted LI spite Opposition WASHINGTON, May 8. ' proval by senate and hous t ferees at the request of Prr ' Coolldge, of a new section t a immigration bill to defer t fective date of Japanese est; from July 1 to March 1 he;, t opportunity may be given f. r r lomatic negotiations to aire the gentlemen's agreement subjected to severe critlcSsii i two-hour debate In the sent a. - From both sides of . the ' ber disagreement with tts jj dent's position and complfa- c It voted by the confertaca v.: pressed. - Not only did the step cor a-move towards surrenderir : sovereign rijrht of the te states' to deal with "a strict mestic question," it was char, but it Indicated. an attemrt t aside the', expressed dec: " both houses of congress Ly i fuge. The conference reoort . w submitted to the senate t but was . presented to tha I by Chairman Johnson cf V migration committee wita t nouncement that it wo called up for act!sa tcr-' . Mr. ' Joh&soa and i leaders, for th n( ? pressed confidence that tLa ; would approve the re ; . : t. the other hand. iaeraLeis c . sympathy with the Jarastu y elusion provision said they v : seek to recommit the re ;t the conference ' and Dut ct f claim they would have the to do so. There were indications t! t attempt might be niada n : the exclusion substitute thr out on the point of order th t conferees exceeded their cut: fty In writing it into the i::'. publican leaders and some crats, opposed to the rro , : however, were of the orSnlc. : s such a point would be ovti. - Senator Robinson, At;.... the democratic leader, open : fight in the senate and coi.:. at length upon the "Quick c?. in the president's attituls Japanese exclusion before after the California primar . Senator Heed, republican, I sylvanla, chief of the senat t ferees reply, declamd action the conference should ie i preted as confirming the :. ; immigration as an exclusive mestic matter. It was intc. ' he said, to obtain the aire ol the gentleman's agrtc. which seemed to jeopardlia e a classification. Senator Reed's was cract':: : the only voice raised in def; the conferees. Even I Lodge, Massachusetts, chain of the foreign relations cor;::; tee, declared it would be "tir hypocrisy" for him to attecrt argue that a special treaty ca i migration was desirable. "I have always believe i." : added, "that the question cf i, should be admitted to the U: States was a natter to La C mined by the congress. Ia Judgment the; conferees and t entire legislative body iacl 1 1: the president must say to tha r of the world :.We alone tare i: power to say who shall come In the United . States as ir.it grants.' " The eugrestton that the c ferees reconsider their derL was advanced by Senator f - ridge, republican, Cai:r r: wnile Senator Johnson, rerul can, of the, same state, a that contemplated delay wc have the result of openln : nation's gates to a IK Asiatic Immigration. LOS ANOELK3, May 8. ' of the foot and mouth c'.L Los Angeles county waa t today to one new cann nt I near Huntington Vrrlt c herd of 57 dairy c : ,