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..WEATHER FOR SUNDAY ! OREGON: 'Generally cloudy along the cpa3t and Part One Pases I to 0 ii j fltwenty Pages Today; falr tn the interior with mild temperatare; low numiauy; moderate westerly winds. Max. Mtn. 47. River 3.7. 'falling,' Rainfall. None, mosphere, part cloudy. Wind. Northwestl, 71, At- SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR -i - SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 3,. 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS mm t WORLD RECORD -S SET BY PUIE United States Navy Ail Metal . Seaplane Reaches Highest - Park for Prolonged Sus tention ! , FLIGHT OF NEARLY 30 HOURS DURATION Capacity for Cross Pacific Hop Possessed by Ship, ; .'" ., Experts Say PHILADELPHIA, May 2. Making a new world's record for non-stop flights for aea planes, the metal PN-9 built tdTUy from California to Honolulu, dipped in to the Delaware river today after being in the air 28 hoursand 36 minutes. She came down only because she ran out of gasoline. " Pacific TTst Wanted The flight to test her capacity for the cross Pacific hop was pro nounced a success in every way "by naral officers. She took - the air bo easily at 10:22 a. m. Fri- ;xlay with; 1300 gallons of gasoline i that observers said she could loaa more fuel and stay in the air Ion g- FOR NON rap 7"er. I!er engines ran smoothly and i HI1IK 1 11X11 L HUB VSB pecial incident, the pilots said. Those aboard were Lieutenants C .H. ; Schildhauser and J. R. Kyle, Jr., who took turns in pilot ing the big plane, and Captain L. M. Woolson, a civilian aeron autical expert and chief machinists mate, Charles Sbauter who, also took their turns on watch. Distance i Sufficient -The PN-9 observers said, flew at an average speed sufficient to carry her farther than from San Diego to the Hawaiian Islands. At the end of the 25th hour, it was announced she had flown just far enough to equal the dis tance between San Diego and Hon olulu. It was pointed by experts that In a stiaighaway , flight . fly ing conditions would be somewhat easier and that the plane could go much faster in the same num ber of hours than she did in the test. ; ..- - ' The PN-9 followed a course of about 40 miles in length up and down the Delaware from the navy yard to Fort Delaware. When she had almost exhausted her gas oline, the pilots changed their ffturnA and flaw serosa tha river -y from the Pennsylavanla to the W in- Vattr IdNav iiMa i - t 4 1 a n V 4 werfe drained. When this occur- craft into the wind and easily set tled on the river surface at 2:68 p. m., as thousands on the shores cheered. Pilots Are Wearied Lieutenant Schildhauser was the first to step out after the seaplane was towed to the navy yard dock. His face was drawn and tired as he put foot on earth. Cheers greeted him on all sides and cries ! went up: "You broke the record!" ''I thought the r thing never would run out of gasoline," he said.' 1 4 Behind Lieutenant, Schildhauser come Lieutenant Kyle. He peeled -of Jhis -leather- helmet and other fCoattna! a sags S)' KDITIOilSSl BETTER FOR FARM J Pressure of Hard Times Re- : w T l o . n.. .taxing, nepuri oayo, uui- WASHI. QTOX, May 2.- In a review of the agricultural situa tion the department of agriculture today announced there is a ' some what better morale in the country than last spring." , , - ' "The pressure of . hard times, though still in force, has relaxed at least slightly and temporarily. It is an early spring with general conditions more tolerable than farmers have had since 1920." , Both in the United States and Europe, the department said, the outlook for spring crops is gener ally favorable. Crop work is well advanced in the main agricultural regions. Thi livestock Industry i was-reported 'in much better gen eral condition than last year. - "Sheen i are apparenthr at or near, the reak of a price cycle Hogs have doubled in price since last spring and i history repeats itself will be high for at least a . Year ta come. Beef cattle have an- Zi parently just recently turned np ward in their price cycle and if history. again repeats itself eight or ten years of rising prices5 are ahead." The southwest, however, was reported to be suffering from the effects of a prolonged drought and from New Jersey southward fruit has been damaged by frost. Pilot Meets Death on Same Day Medal for S a f e Flying : Is Given BOSTON. May 2. On the day chosen by the army and navy club of Boston; to award him. among others, honors for bis record of safe flying. Lieutenant Alexander V. MaAuley f the Massachusetts national guard was fatally Injured when! his plane plunged 8$ 0 feet to the mud flats of . Boston har bor, ille died this afternoon a few hours after the accident. . Private! Angus DJMacPhee of Chelsjpa, 4 passenger.' was severe ly nut ndt fatally injured. The airplane was wrecked. " MacAuley. a wo fid war pilot, made his home in Beverlj-, Mass. Apparently some difficulty was encountered and 800 feet up the machine s;lid into a spin, then div ed, nose down, into the ground, i; Still al ve, MacAuley and Mae-Paee-lwerp taken from the wreck age. I MacAuley, pinned between the motor and his seat, was suffer ing ffraciures of the skull, ijaw. leg, fcrm fand other injuries. Mac Phee; sustained a j broken ' leg. broken nse and other injuries; s Orj "Boston Common, where ex ercises were being held In connec tion with the presentation j pf awards to aviators of different A! U. S. COURT Trial of Gordon Campbell Concluded; Defendant Takes Witness Stand GREAT FALLS, Mont., May 2, Gordon Campbell, on trial in the -Great Falls federal court on the j charge that he made illegal use jot the mails in promoting an oil syndicate, concluded his own case this; afternoon,! with Ma own testimony, in which he threw the responsibility of the Gordon Campbell- Kevin syndicate number 2ion E. i. Dalley and C. F. Bloomhuff, promoters. Dailey and Bloomhuff were jointly indicted . with I Camn- bell, but will be tried separately and appeared yesterday as witness es for the government in the trial of Campbell. ' .. - ' 1 The trial came to an ; abrupt conclusion with Campbell's testi mony. , Arguments of counsel will be made before the Jury Monday beginning at 10 a. m.. and it is likely that the case will go to the jury late in the day. i , 4 , ; 1 1 Campbell denied ; that in or ganizing i the syndicate he con spired to defraud as was alleged in the indictment.1 He also denied that he had knowledge of the printed matter sent out by the two promoters, Bloomhuff and Dalley. i He threw the entire! re sponsibility for j the promotion, whjch s the government holds was fraudulent, on the; shoulders of thej promoters. He testified that he f was not experienced In adver tising or financial matters and that Bloomhuff had been employed fori that purpose. - j(UR' n STILL IFJ FIELD Efforts to Obtain! .Remaining rrrk 'r l t I I'll : . sjd,uuu Tor Linen ivim ; i win oonunue t . . About 40 energetic citizens, all members of the Salem , Chamber of Commerce, are going after; that linen mill. Theyr have devoted much of their time in securing Salem's greatest opportunity as an assured fact. Practically $75,000 remains to be secured to put Sa lem's quota across. -I The hardest fight, is yet to Come ini the opinion of the workers, who have been hard on the! job. Despite this fact, the busiest; men in: Salem are back of this proposi tion and working hard to get it across. t '':' They are a lot of tired fellows. thiSA workers, who have made many personal sacrifices to place the city in position to secure the proposed new linen mill. jThey state that many people here have not been seen, who are vitally In terested In subscribing to the lin en! mill, but are just waiting for soma one to call around to ex plain the proposition., ' Many Inquiries are coming in from the farmers in the Willam ette valley, and workers are mak ing special trips to meet them. I , i Oreaon Seed Loans I Now Total $383,461 I With checks issued Friday the state board of control has loaned a: total of 9383,461.19 to farmers for the purpose of buying; seed wheat to resow their land under the relief act of the 1925 legisla ture. This amount represents S41 applications that have, been 1 acted upon. A total of 530 applications have been received, representing requests for 1397,208.60. OIL CASE ENDS FORTY WORKERS branches of the service for their records of safe local flying un known to the hundreds of watch ers, an epic of the air service was enacted. jh1;:-,.: , i .j ' t :! ' Lieutenant WlUiam Miller, ser iously crippled In a wartime crash was chosen to present the trophy and read the list of awards. MUler and MacAuley had serv ed together in the war. They had been together last night. Word of! the accident, of which the crowd knew noting, came. MacAuley was hovering between life and death, perhaps dying. Miller was told. - "He was my best friend." he remarked quietly. And then the time for presentation came. To Lieutenant K. D. Thomas of the naval reserve force, he presented the trophy of the club for his 424 hours of safe flying. : i "It is! appropriate that It should be presented by one who has struck his plane and grounded," Miller .said, as he faced him. Then he read the list of winners and their, times. ''Lieutenant A. Vernon MacAuley 58 hours," Mil ler read. Readjusting bis crutch, he turned,: and went to his seat. KILLING BOY California Girl, 21, Slays Man Who She Declares, Jilted Het I OAKLAND, Cal., May Miss Consuelo Robles, 21, of Fresno, today 'confessed', according to po lice, to the murder of Phillip M dena, 33, of this city, because he jilted her for a 19-year-old Oak land girl. Mrs. Virginia Medena, the dead man's bride of less than a week, reported witnessing the killing of her husband by 'Miss Robles from a window of their home early today. Mrs. Medena j said Mis Robles aeeoated-Medena in ! front of their home and the two engaged in an altercation. She said she saw Miss Robles draw a pair of scissors from her handbag and stab Medena. " Miss Robles was arrested on a Stockton stage at Traty, south of here and brought back to Oakland. Police said she first denied the killing but later broke down and confessed. She had been going with Medena for three years, she said, and they had arranged ta be married some time ago when she told himj she was about to become a mother. FOUR TEACHERS I0TRET0! Majority of Those in Salem High Schools Sign 1925-6 Contracts Four Instructors of the Salem high school have failed to turn In theft- contracts, It was announced yesterday following the checking of the reports. The outstanding contracts belong to Lestle Sparks, q; W. Harra, Bee De Good and E. E. Bergman, the latter falling tn receivA his contract dne to a misunderstanding of arrange ments. ' At the Parrish junior high school Viril McKinney. Joanna Lord. Mvrtle. Pelker ana auc Thompson, failed to sign on the dotted line and Myrtle Martinsen of Yew Park school ha also failed to turn in a contract. It is thought that many; of tne teachers have failed to think about their contracts and as a re sult have not turned them in Nevertheless, it is expected that some of them will not return to the schools next rear. Even - if the contracts are signed up teacher are allowed to break them, if a six weeks notice given,- :' ' is OIOYIXG OF TOWX STARTED CASPER, May 2. .The wheels of industry will begin to grind up a community tomorrow the first building of the town of Lavoye, Wyo., will be moved away By lea eral court edict to make way for the Ohio Oil company which owns the townsite. VALLEY CROPS GOOD YAKIMA, May 2. Bnmper yields in all orchard crops were nredicted here tonight in an esti mate tor 1525 given out by W. 1. Closed district horticultural in specter for Yakima and Kittitas counties. He placed the total pro duction at-17,0 CO. cars. One year ago the estimate was 13,145 cars. CAUSE DFWAR DISCUSSED BY NOTED EXPERT ' i -i - ; " v . .. .- Race Question and Desire for Raw Materials Lead Says Dr. Lay ton Richards, English Pacifist; TWO METHODS POSSIBLE TO ABOLISH CONFLICTS Power of Public Opinion land Political Means Must be Brought Into Play Dr. Lay ton Richards, of Eng land, president of the Fellow-ship of Reconciliation, was wellj receiv ed on his talk on international re- lations and world peace 1" the first Methodist church las igit A main speach of about 45 (min utes was given after which! Dr. Richards led the discussion in an open forum in which the audience was allowed to question him re garding his stand on the Imatter. In opening his address Dr. Rich ards contended that war should be outlawed and that all good citizens desire to rid the world of armea conflict ahd showed that the point of disagreement is in the means of prevention. ! In explaining the cause pf worm conflict it was conteded that all wars were either caused I by! race questions or the desire for jraw ma terial and he contended that if the citizens of the world would not fight for these things there would be no cause for war. i Caa Abolish W ars I His second contention was that the problem of abolishing war must be divided into two principal means: the psychological! and po litical. ' ' : i ) Under the first he contended that if wet were to abolish war we must create a conviction against war. That the great power of pub lic opinion must be against war. In advancing this contention he pointed -out that prudence will re- jtolt iui-eace at any; price.-' That it nations maoe war. so icrnoie that it would result in tha com plete destruction of the nations engaged there would be not war. He admitted, however, that war can not be abolished by psychologl cal means alone but that political means must be resorted to and pointed out that the statesmen of a nation would not declare war if their citizens did not desire war. In upholding the -stand of Den mark on disarmament he l stated that no nation would fight except in self defense and that o states men could convince their citizens that they must defend their coun try against a nation that! was dis armed. - - 1 j ; Must Demand Arbitration His final conclusion was that when the citizens of a nation de manded arbitration through the world court or the league of na tions then that nation would not engage in war. I i A$ the close of the lecture sev eral questions regarding 1 world peace were answered by Drl Rich ards and the audience as a whole displayed a great interest in the question. v Dr. Richards came here through the Willamette University YMCA. He will speak In Portland this morning and will continue his work there till next Tuesday. He sails for England May 23. RECORD CUSS TO FINISH I WE University ?of Oregon to Graduate 400; Leaves of Absence Given EUGENE, Or.. May 2-fSecial to The Statesman.) The Univers ity of Oregon board of regents, at its quarterly meeting today, sent greetings to President P. L. Campbell, who is ill at his home; authorized the purchase of ground adjoining the campus for :a stud ent union. . building, tor ; which. $286,500 has been subscribed, and granted leaves of absence to staff members and appointed two new assistant professors. j t Colin V. Dyment, dean of tho college ol literature, science and arts, and Dr. Harry 3. jTorrey, professor of zoology, were granted leaves of absence for a year for. study and travel. - t 1 ' David E. Fa ville, son of E. E. Faville. publisher of the Western Farmer, Portland, and an honor student at Stanford and Harvard, was appointed , to the school of business administration faculty, and Chilton R. Bush instructor In the University of Wisconsin. ; to the Oregon school of journalism 'faculty. . -, " -v ' ' ,t ... More than 40 0 students, a rec ord class, wilt be, graduated from the university In Jun.e,. tbja. hoard i was Informed. i i . ms RULING POWER DEPEW STATES nt.Ai.... II n-A... r!.rvi.r. uuauiiucj ui. ucjjcyv, rui iiicijj Senator Gives Address to Friends at Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting WINETY-FIRST BIRTHDAY IS CELEBRATED BY CLUB President Coolidge Sends Con gratulatory Message to Beloved Man NEW YORK. May 2. Democ racy rules the world and will con tinue to rule it, through the midp die classes. Chauncey M. Depew told his hosts at one. of his 91st birthday anniversary celebrations today. The occasion was the Sth annual dinner given In the aged former senator's honor by the Montauk club,' Brooklyn, an occas ion which brought the assertion from the club here, William H. English, that "no other man in this or any other country has had his birtday celebrated in a manner such as this." : Coolidge Sends Message ; There was a congratulatory let ter from President Coolidge, writ ten to Mr. English in which the chief executive wrote: " I hope It may-be the pleasant duty of myself and my successors ta go on sending congratulations for the continuing recurrence of this i occasion , for ft great' many years to come. The affection which his multitude of friends entertain for Senator Depew is a testimony that after all, republics are not invariably ungrateful. My best wishes to the senator which he is strictly enjoined to share equably with Mrs. Depew." ! ;" Reminiscences Related 'Speaking on "the world at 91, Mr. Depew- began- with a recital of the progress of the world since the inauguration of tha Montauk club I birtkday dinners since which vone year eeyona a - mira oi a ceaiai-y has !- passed." . . V 1 , i j Benjanxin Harrison was presi dent of the United States then, he reminded his bearers. He rehears ed briefly the histories of tho men who t followed Cleveland, the lovable McKlnley.' then "that bur man - dynamo, i Roeaevelt; Taft Woodrow Wilson, who when he went -broad during the world war "had mora power in world affairs than - any man ever possessed ; Harding; "prince of good fellows,' and now Coolidge-. whose; policies of thrift and of economy and of debt reduction' for lowering the burden of taxes must become, not the policies of any party; but the popular principles of; economic success." ; ' ' , In contrast he reviewed the happenings in the old world in the same period, tracing the careers of the now fallen bouses of Hapa- burg, Hohenzollern and off. Roman- "The whole world," he continu ed, "is now under the domination and control in one way or another of a democratic spirit. The only exception to the power of the peo ple, as we understand it in various countries is Russia. There are few men striving to build a, govern ment up on a class; they are lead er$ . wno nave grasped every source of. power and distrust even that : class atter they have exter mbxated by terror sm all other acta." There are part3 of the world, he said, are governed "not by people of inherited authority, bat by the business men and bankers of world." the West Salem Votes Bonds! i For Local Water System ... -!-. f 3 The West Salem water system won approval last week at a meet ing held In the West Salem church and 15,000 in bonds will be voted according to a statement issued when opposing forces j failed to make their appearance. The case of the water bondsiwas expressed by Mayor John Goiser. who called the meeting, J. k.i Ar nold and William Andrews, j The question i comes up .to :, vot on May 8. alter, being voted down nearly a month ago. : . j Southern Oregon Camp is i Ready for Troops. Jyne 12 Camp Jackson will o ready for 2500 Oregen troops hjr Jane 12, .declared General George A. White, yesterday after his return from an Inspection trip of south ern Oregon in company with i Col. E. A. Sirmyer, of San Francisco. . Particular attention la being paid to the water system- I the camp as well as mesa houses, drainag. system , and other I fea tures connected with tho. estab lishment of the. camp. f I ' An Inspection of tb national guard company; at Grants- Pass was. held, where it was found that too many married men , with . de pendents were enrolled j Prison Officials Almost ; Ready to Celebrate Half Year Escapeless Peripd ! Yes, If none of the several hun dreds of inmates of ;the Oregon state penitentiary are-seized wiU' I the wanderlust or yield to the call of spring and seek more verdant pastures beyond the far horizon today, one of tli the longest escape- less periods in the history of the institution will be celebrated Mon day. .... For the last few days officials have been holding their respective breaths lest some of their charges yield to the temptation and leave for parts unknown. For j several weeks the hope has been in the hearts of all (officials) that six months might elapse since a man failed to answer roll call Or show ed up missing at cell check. Six month periods Of this na ture are not unknown, but they do not occur with sufficient fre quency to make them familiar. There are only a few of them. Once a story was "written about a whole year that passed by; without French leave being taken, but this was . not verified. The last POLA NEGRI IS SAID VIOLATOR Film Actress Declared to Have Failed to Declare Jewels and Liquor NEW YORK. May 2. Pola Negri, motion picture actress who arrived here last night: on the Berengarla. will be detained short ly after disembarking bV customs officials on a charge of 'tailing to declare three pieces of jewelry valued at 300,000 francs, it was learned today. Miss Negri was also charged with 'attempting to smuggle 16 bottles of liquor into this country. After a brief questioning Miss Negri was allowed to go to her suite In the Hotel Ambassador. She assured the officials that she would appear at the customs house Monday and pay -whatever fine ls-nssessed.""-cnstCms nuTHorltIes are appraising the jewels. She will also 1 be asked , to ap pear before officials of the legal department in the customs house to explain why the Jewels were not declared. Miss Negri said tonight that on several former trips to and from Europe she had never been ques tioned about her; jewelry by the officials because she was an alien. However, her last return from Europe, before Friday, was two and one-half years ago,! and since then she has taken out first na turalization papers and established a permanent residence in Holly wood, Cal. Miss Negri said that she had not known that this had changed her I status, doing away with her duty exemptions. The jewelry consisted of a large diamond bracelet, a 12 karat em erald ring and an unset emerald of 96 karats, she said. She ex plained that she had exchanged several old pieces of Jewelry for the three pieces seized last night IS HID JOLT Portland Man 'Sentenced to . Pay $200 and Spend Next 60 Days in Jail Arrested on a charge of driving a car while intoxicated, Thomas Traaen, of Portland, entered a plea of guilty when he appeared before Braxier C.-Small in the justice court yesterday, and was sentenced. Judge Small fined him $200, and sentenced him to a term of 60 days In the county jail, sus pended his drivers license for one year, and ordered the automobile held for a period of 60 days. The jail sentence will be served in the Multnomah county Jail. The ar rest was made by R. B. Reinhart, state traffic officer. - Harry Rich, of Salem, was fin ed $25 in the justice court for speeding, he also was arrested by Officer Relnhaxt. -, r , Robert PoddelL a minor, was brought Into the Justice court yesterday on a charge of larceny. Due to the fact that he is under age, he. waa certified to the juven ile court, He is alleged to have robbed mall boxes. r Attorneys; for the men convict ed in Judge Small's court of man ufacturing liquor in the huge still found near Mount Angel, filed notice of appeal to the circuit court. Joe Walker, i on whose place .the plant was found, was sentenced to one year In Jail and $3000 fine, byi Judge Smalt; while Henry Johnsen. John Andrews and Lester Dickogav were given a tin, of $500, and a jail sentence of six months in Jail. I It was un derstood at tha time Lot the trial that appeal would be made It the defense attorneys were not satis fied. . . ' time that an entire half-year elapsed with al) present or ac counted for was during the ward enship of Jira Lewis, now deputy sheriff under SherifT O. D. Bjwer. There are lots of trusties at work, according to Warden A. M. Dalrymple. Many are needed In routine work and affairs at the institution, while others are it the wood camp, where the' temptation to escape is always very strong. Part or the record fs due tof care in selecting trusties and thie re mainder is due to luck. : Wirtlen Dalrymple admits this.' j The last man to escape j from nhe prison was William Crosby, who stole an automobile parked near the prison abont dusk on No vember 4, 1924. The machine was found abandoned in South Sa lem after friends, it Is believed, furnished him with other trans portation. Crosby was received from Multnomah county Novem ber 29. 1921, to serve six years for assault ana robbery. .: SPELLERS VIE K EVENT Annual County Contest Brings Out 281 Contest : ants Here Saturday The Marion county public school spelling contest was held in. the Salem high school auditorium yes terday with 281 of the best' spell ers in the schools present, j Gokl and silver medals, were given to the winners n each grade from the third to the eighth, in clusive. Those taking first and second prizes are as follows: Eighth grade: Clair' Calavan. Talbot, and Lillian Peterson, Tur ner; seventh grade, Nellie Bark hurst, Silverton, and George Su gal, Keizer; sixth grade.f Fern Giger, Scott s Mills, and Elda Win termantle, Sidney; fifth grade. Gertrude Bartnik, Mt. Angel, and Walter Anderson, Liberty; j fourth grade, - Ralph Gilles, Mt. I Angel, and Sylvia Fa rmen. Mill City; third grade,' Shirley Homer, Mill City, and Bernadine . Wheeler, Brooks. "-"'!''"' There were 37 entrants!) in the eighth grade. Of these only four made a perfect score in the writ ten examination. In the seventh grade 45 entered, with seven mak ing 100 per cent in the tests. Ten of the 48 in the sixth grade made a perfect score, six of the 37 in the fifth, 14 of the 40 fin the fourth, and 12 of the 33 in the third grade. i f The high school auditorium was filled with teachers and paents of chidren, and seats were at; a pre mium for the interesting contest. Next Saturday the county decla matory contest will be held, with all the public schools in the coun- tv Darticinating. This event is looked . forward to as one'! of the most important of the whole year, and much interest Is. manifested as to Its outcome. . ,1 . f.J. Rill RATS BEAT SCOUT (IE 8-4 Junior Twilight League Offi cially Opened on.batur . .' day Afternoon The River Rats defeated the Scouts yesterday by a score of 8 to 4 in the first baseball game of the Junior Twilight series. Pieklea Lennon's team let out four runs ia the first inning to the I Scouts, but after that .the game was held close until tbe last inning. The pitching for both: teams was wild owing to the fact that this was the first game for either team. Both Lennon and i! French settled down for some good work. French struck out 10 men, while Lennon fanned eight during the game.. - J ! r 'Lineup of the teams, follow: . J River Rats Guy Jones, e; Len non, p; C. Shaefferk 1st; Duncan, cf; J. Schaffer, ss; Baker, 2nd; Hoffman, rf; Borne, If, and W. Hall 3rd. f Scout Troop No. 1 C. f French, pf F. Alley, e; H. Tompkins, If; T, Chllds, 1st; Belt, Schumaker, 2nd; Williams. 3rd; Cburcbfield, Tom Stevens and Wager, f I Doyle Corter was umpire and Bob Boardman in charge of the game; S I OCEAN TRIP POSTPONED s VICTORIA, B. C:,i May 2.- Driven back by heavy iweather which he encountered , shortly af ter leaving Victoria this afternoon on a trip to England in a 25 foot sloop. Commander - Eustace B. Maude. 77, returned to (Victoria tonight. He expects to start over agin when the weather moderates. I he said. 250H PEOPLE : ATTEND IEET; IOT1P0EG Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Founding of First Ameri can Government in Ore gon Celebrated . JUDGE PETER H. D'ARCY i PRESIDES AT GATHERING Reunion of Oregon's Pioneers .Featured by Stories of Early Life Under a clear sky, on the bank of the majestic Willamette upon the historic ground of old Cham poeg, 2500 Oregon pioneers and friends met Saturday to celebrate the founding of the first American government established on tha Pacific coast. Thus was mark.d tha eighty-second anniversary of this memorable events when it was decided by a 52 to 59 vote of her oic men of that pioneer period that the Oregon territory should accept the guardianship of the American instead of a foreign flag. Yesterday was also the t'wenty-flfthi time that this Found ers' day has been celebrated by the . early pioneers and their descend ents on this spot and date. The program of music, addresses and greetings was most enjoyable and instructive. ; Judge D'Arcy Presides The chairman of theT day was Judge Peter H. D'Arcy, of Salem, president of the Oregon Pioneer association. Rev. George H. Lee. of Newberg, gave the invocation and Mrs. Carrie B. Adams, Port land, led the singing of America and other popular songs of pioneer u-y. C. B. Moores. of Salem. In a brief address, spoke eloquently of the early . argonauts of Oregon history, who were "builders ; ot history, -churches and schools.: In this connection he emphasized tho life of Rev. A. J. Hunsaker, one of the state's early pioneers, i - F. V. Holman, president of the Oregon Historical society, briefly described the memorable event of the second of May, '18 4 8. C. T. A. Walker, of Newberg, pleased the audience with several violin selections and J. U. Smith, Hillsboro. spoke of the large and steady increase of interest in the observance of this day, and asked the chairman to read; Samuel Simpson's poem, "The" Beautiful Willamette," which bo did. The speaker also urged a registry for all visitors at Champoeg. Addresses- Are Made Prof. J. L. Carter of Portland spoke of Joseph SBuchtell's contri butions to the development of Portland, and Mrs. Mary Howard, 81 years old, danced one of the dances of-the early pioneers. B. F. Irvine, editor of the Ore gon Journal, eloquently portrayed the glory of the state and the part played in her development by the pioneers. S.-T. Walker sang an original song, "Oregon, My Ore gon," and J. D Lee, born in Ore gon in 1848, recited an original poem. Mrs. Edith Tozier Wethered, H. D.'.Wagnon, Dr. Owens Adair, 85 years "young," and others spoko ef pioneer life aad ideals. s- Several delightful songs includ ing Auld Lang Syne, and tbe bene diction closed this, most successful anniversary at historical Cham poeg. - - TAX REDUCTlOi HELD POSSIBLE Treasure Official States Fur ther Slicing May be Per- mitted Next Year . . . . WASHINGTON, May 2. Unof ficial statements by teasury offi cials indicate that a 12 per cent reduction in income taxes may be possible . as the next step in lift ing the - federal tax burden. This figure while calculated without intention to cimmit Sec retary Mellon : to any policy wad suggested today on tbe basis of an incomplete analysis of returns on income taxes, under the present law as shown In the March or? first quarterly Installment. It would bear, out previous attempts that another, two hundred million dollar total redaction ' could be made effective on taxes paid in, 1926. Present Indications are that tha treasury will avoid making a ay definito proposal to the next con gress, when It is expected the tajc question again will t3 alive. While Mr. Mellon has !' ' direct statement c i tte ? .tj:;t, . most of his advLoer3 favor keerin " the treasury out ot the f isht; they KXgr-13. tiat t3 treasury in form congrc. 3 cf the state of '.. finances and 10 in t out what i pcssltle. ,tlsu3 leaving the wtola question of rates for the coa-. gressional leaders to decide. !