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Hurry; (ndatesMtrry ! Only four Day? Are l iti ifa mm i VENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1926 FIRST SECTION FOUR PAGES .1 4 PILOT BELIEVED LOST First Northbound Plane on New Elko-Pasco Route Is Not Heard From SHIP 6 HOURS OVERDUE Flier Is Seen Only at First Point on Line; .Storm Believed Sweeping rer Route of Flight BOISE. Idaho, April . (By Associated Press.) No word had been received .at 9 o'clock tonight from Franklin Rose, northbound air mail pilot, who has been miss ing since 3:30 o'clock this after noon. C. A. Sriyder, plant man ager of the Mountain States Tel ephone & Telegraph company, who is conducting a telephonic aearc for the missing aviator, declare. that so far ho had been unable t company's line which had seen t flier. He Is now trying to get in to.iv.ln with ranger stations on the Hun bold national forest on the chac that they -had seen .the macbii ELKO. Nev.,Aprl ,C By Associated Press,! T last trace of Franklin Rose, ;t mail pilot so far as the let .air mail field has been able tl. ara tonight was at Tuscorora, fl r 4 north of here. His pl ' apparently working smod tthat point. The distance Elko and Botee. Idaho i - miles." Ef-f-were iiade to trace hiriSpt that xiz " "Weather c " ns'at the time the plane I rt ' i were cloudy, and Leon I ck, who made the first ffl. i:jin Pasco passed through twa t is en route south the last ih 'Iu Valley, near the Indian r .rr. )n. Wordy fnta here tonight was that it waJMl-ifmy there when the machinewEiej&d over Tuscorora less Ufn' hour after he left Row Wis flying a swallow plane and carried . 50 gallons of gaso line as a reserve supply. The nisslng pilot has a long record o successful flying. He is 26 yearj age, and waa commis sioned 4 first lieutenant in the air service daring the world war. Fol lowing the war he entered com mercial aviation, He has a co missio in the army reserve corps. BOftSE, ' Idaho, April, 6. (By Assofated Fresa.) Franklin Rose pilot of the flrat northbound airp4ne on the Elko-Pasco, con trac. air mall route was lost to night somewhere ;in the" wilder ness of Idaho; ad NetadA. Rose. !wua "about 150 pounds of mail, (leff Elko at :20 Pacific time and was J due -nero -about o clock Mountain time. . So far as has ben learned here his plane had not been Big ved aner leaving Elko. PASCO. Wash.. Aprfl 6. (By Aksociated Press.) The Pacific northwest whieh has seen the ox te im supplant the Indian pony as a means of communication and C way to the stage edach which In turn bowed, to the coming of e railroad fcnd tie automobile. itnesaed a pew.chapter in trans portation history hero today. Epitomizing the transition which tie,.-transfer of a cargo of mail eirly today from ' the historic fffage coach driven here -from Slokane by Felix WTarren, veteran Btlge driver of the northwest, to thl, first of the airplanes to wing way southward to connect with V ' ' (Continued oa Pf 8 PRfCINCT MEN TO RUN 'linARIJ FROM 8AUE3I. TWO FRWoUTXYIXO DISTRICTS ) ' CJ Candidates filed with the count- clerk Tuesday tor me re publican nomination Of precinct coraiitteemen In Marion. our rof tfose filing are from the city of Siem, the others from outlying districts. v - Tie Salem candidates are: G. yt. Jyohnspn, 2268 North , Fifth atret, f : precinct 7; B. W. Macy. jl 1 Cray r.-iaE. tor precinct .. J ClTirrt. t precinct 8: Dr. E- T. Fir.iFrolt and Market streets, for r"reclflCtl4. , I ' G.l v MoVan of East GerralsJ And V ri-Datason of Prlngie aisq Ifled m- w j . . m . i re4 - v i Fightjf or Freedom of Press Recalled By Court Ruling There Is No Such Thine as a Ancient Slogan Paved Way for Supreme Court Decision Upholding There is TM J. i T,n nrh thino- as a livinff in fight fofreedom of the press, supre:te?court decision declaring oi vrtgpn witnm its ngms wjicu n- j i thp nrivileere of inspecting and exam- ining&th state and county records m the custody of state and ointy officials. . ... Tftat famous slogan was written years ago, in the editor- .YARD W. BROWNING Edward W. Browning, 51, wealthy New York realtor, has added a new romance to his career of "Cinderella-making." Hi3 latest love venture with a 16 year old girl, however, is threatened by action being brought to take the child from1 the custody of her mother. BROWNING LOVE AFFAIR THREATENED BY ACTION MAY REMOVE YOtXG GIRL. FROM CUSTODY OF MOTHER New York Court Takes Action; Woman Is Sakl Unfit to Retain Child NEW YORK. April 6. (By As- .v. Dt5 r r0itv tn rhil- a Ar.'a rnnrt to- day threatened the romance of the Cinderella girl, Frances Heenan, and her 51 year old prince charm ing, Edward W. Browning. A summons was issuea caning for Frances appearance in cnii dren's court Thursday, with her mother, Mrs. Katherine Heenan, to answer an action brought by the children's society to have Mrs Heenan removed as her daughter's guardian. Vincent T. Pisarra, superintendent, announced that he would present affidavits to snow that Mrs. Heenan. is not a fit guar dian for the 15-year old girl, who has declared her Intention of mar rying the wealthy real estate oper ator as soon as she has passed her 16th birthday. Browning's adoption of Mary Louise Spas ended in the courts last year when it was revealed the girl was not a child. At that time Browning declared he was "throueh with trying to adopt girls." TOURIST BUREAU URGED tniRTV jiuiirrioNAL A. A. A. MEMBERS ARE NEEDED As the result of the work of B. C. McIIenry, field Sfeent for the American Automobile association, working in connection with the chamber of commerce, there are now 170 members ef the associa tion in Salem. It is the hope of Mr. McIIenry that 30 more mem bers will be obtained before Sat urday night. In order to have an AAA station In Salem, there must be 200 mem bers here. The Motor Association is soon to Issue its maps, and Sa lem's report must be sent in this week in order to get this city on the association's maps. Officials of the local chamber of commerce declare that one of the greatest handicaps to attract ing tourist travel here has been that Salem has not been on the AAA maps. Members of the AAA. are directed through the towns which have association offices. HOTEL 19 BURNED WINNEPEG. Man , April 7. Fire early this morning destroyed two floors of the- Lindsay hotel. The - damage is estimated "" st .1 . 1 - - - - . V 1 . 'ijjj Private-Public Document," liend l-UDiiner Drivate-public document." the history of the age-long was recalled; in Tuesday's the legislature of the state that paper which has maintained its fame in American journalism, though printed under the very shadow of Manhattan's towers and subjected to the heaviest compe tition of New York city's aggres sive dailies. Then, as now in the case of the Bend Publishing company, a news paper corporation against J. II. (Continued, on pare 4.) PACKED CHURCH HEARS VOLSTEAD LAW DEBATED RISING VOTE SHOWS TWO FA VOR BEER AM) WIVES Guy Fitch Phelps and II. II. Stal larrt Draw Cheers With Arguments "Bring back light v,inos and beer and you must bring back the brewery. Bring back the brew ery and tho saloon will sooi fol low. We are told we have more booze now than ever before. tThen what are the wsts kicking a0ut? They are the ones who wan it." "We are going to save Ameri ca; give her some boozej Trt?t better than the stuff live havo now. A man's stomach is LIsc,vs stomach; he ought to av t:. right to pour into it wlJMfcvr L wants to!" , Thus the arguments -Jit against prohibition ".iad Wednesday night at the rt Evangelical church of this-ciy Jje summed up. Guy Fitch IIks, author, lecturer, ' and AS&rier clergyman, challenger, tirifld . ..... . - . M prohibition. i. i. staiiaru, on ager of the Oregon fFrjl.!iion Referendum corporatl a; uftield the return of light win c4eer Clearly and manifeji tieaud ience was hostile to t "'Mwt- ing with the present nixc .,tioti laws. Every seat in tSa c'urch was filled, and better than two score persons were sUnHIcs.'. At- ter the debate had drawn o, - close, a rising vote wad tcka on the subject. Two per us rY'rarl for modification. The freri voted for strict enforcement. Mr. Phelps opene tpe ;Ute, talking for 60 minutes- i-i'!"?! returned with a like - f time, and each man wa titfi a half hour rebuttal, l.-fAkiC. (Continued on pace J 'I' 1 r 1 1 ' '1 ' ' 'Vj VE CAN'T HELP BEING ALARMED ' ' : ty : it HEALTH CHIEF . CONFERS HERE Marion County Child Health Demonstration CourrcH Hears Reports RESULTS BRING PRAISE Courtenay Dinwiddie, Common wealth Fund Director, Ad dresses Representatives of County Centers Yesterday , At a meeting of the county council of the Marion County Child Health Demonstration, held Tuesday evening at the chamber of eomnieroey.most encouraging re ports were presented by delegates from the leading communities Lf the county. Aurora reported all committees working, with the first health clinic held last week. Hubbard delegates said that its first health clinic would be held next week. with deep iaterest in all the work of the demonstration. Woodburn delegates brought the report that the Woodburn community was well organized and living up to all its opportunities. Fred Thielsen. reporting for Sa lem, said that all committees of Uio demonstration were working almost 100 per cent. Delegates from Silverton report ed all committees fully organized and a deep interest in the health work of theaemonstration. Mill City reported that all committees (Continued on pAte 3) 13 PAWN BROKERS VICTIM BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FOISTS GLASS ON EXPERTS DENVER, Colo., April 6. (By Associated Press.) Pawn brokers whose smiles instantly recall frigid temperature and whose cynicism is supposed to be judiciously aligned with a shrewd knowledge of costly gems are not necessarily judges of diamonds. As a result police are looking for an expensively gowned woman who today disposed of eight pieces of glass to as many Denver pawnbrokers at $100 each. "She was very beautiful," the eight told detective Serge ant Steiger who took up search for the gem-selling Lorelei. in it i GALL ANDREWS DRY DEBATE Field Marshal of Enforce ment Group Takes Stand in Senate Hearing MANY ANGLES DISGUSSED 'Crookedness" of Officials ami "Reclaiming" of Alcohol Furnish Much Material for Discussion WASHINGTON, April 6. (By Associated Presa. ) Crookedness among prohibition officers, the "splitting" of whiskey for tho boot leg and druggist trade, and the . . . j misnomer of "non-reflllable as annlied to whiskey bottles, were a few of the subjects touched upon today as the wets pressed their case at tho senate prohibition hearings. Others included the "unpleasant duty" of enforcement agents to drink part of the evidence they gather, the "reclaiming" of anti freeze, and even embalming fluid for the bootleg trade, alcohol di version and proposed legislation to tighten up enforcement. Assistant Secretary Andrews the field marshal of prohibition en forcement, again was the witness but stressed at times by James E. Jones, director of prohibition who was sworn in midst of the pro ceedings after General Andrews (Continued on pas 2) ATLAS STORE IS BOUGHT ROY S. NELSON I1UYS BUSI NESS FROM GUEFFROY . Roy S. Nelson Tuesday . after noon purchased the business of the Atlas Book & Stationery store from A. A. Gueffroy, of the Com mercial Book store, 163 North Commercial, and announced plans to add materially to stock and space in the immediate future. Mr. Nelson is not connected with Mr. Gueffroy as a partner, having purchased Tull ownership of the Atlas business. To provide room for expansion, a balcony and mezzanine floor will be added at once. Larger stocks will .be or dered, the store, under its new ownership specializing in commer cial stationery particularly. No definite announcement has been made concerning changes in the present personnel. Some two years go, Mr. Nelson became a partner of Mr. Gueffroy in the ownership of the two stores. One year later. Mr. Nelson sold out. Tuesday he purchased the business of the Atlas. What's Wrong With Modern Girl? . I "Silly Mothers," Is Woman's Answer The trouble with the modern girl is Silly mothers. The answer is supplied by Mrs. Florence Smith Vincent, noted author and authority on home problems. "What has become of the 'sDeak-when-shp'K-Rnolren-tn Swet Sixteen of grandmother's day? Mrs Vincent asks, then answers: "Vanished and leaving not a trice of false sentiment behind her! In her stead a strange little creature with personality as vivid as the rouge upon her lips, a changling, half child, half wo man, whom even its own parents do hot altogether understand. "And it certainly takes wisdom and keen sympathy for any adult to attempt to reveal to an apparently skeptical public that has been lifting a scandalized eyebrow over increasingly varied and venturous escapades, the real virtues existent apart from and in spite of the much mooted vices of the modern girl." That wisdom and keen sympathy Mrs. Vincent has. Turn to Page 3 now, and read the rest of what she has to say upon this interesting subject. It is the first of a series of articles especially addressed to women which she has prepared for publication in this newspaper. Thousands know Mrs. Vincent from her books,, which have gone into many editions, and countless others are acquainted with her as a result of her appearances on radio programs broadcast from New York. "Living and Loving," by Mrs. Vincent, will be a daily feature of The Statesman from now on. Turn to it every day. CANDIDATES, TO LEAD, fiflUST GET MORE VOTES CONTEST WILL CLOSE THIS SATURDAY AT MIDNIGHT Managers Acttise All to Secure Greatest Number of Votes Possible By Auto Contest Editor Candidates should secure every possible promise of subscription votes. Too late to make up lost time after final count. No after noon naps for candidates and'their friends. Saturday is the last day of the Statesman's bfg Automobile Con test and candidates will wish they could stretch minutes into hours and hours into days. At the stroke of midnight Sat urday night the big prize contest ends. Each and every candidate may turn votes in up until mid night Saturday. See the closing rules of the contest in yesterday's Statesman. No matter how many votes you have, candidates, secure more. It will be far better to have too many votes when the judges take charge of the ballot box than not enough. If you poll a big fat bunch of votes Saturday you will be far more able to sleep comfort ably during the intervening time between now and when the final count is made. Remember, it will be far better to have too many votes when the final count of votes is made, than not enough. You will never cease regretting if you lost out on the prize of your choice by a small margin when you could just as easily have won it if you had ex erted yourself to the utmost dur ing the closing hours of the big Campaign. All together, candidates! It is now or never. Make it now. Warning Every active candidate in The Statesman's free gift distribution who does not win one of the grand prizes will be paid 10 per cent cash commission on the total amount of business turned in to The Statesman office. It must be remembered, how ever, that the candidates must re- nrain active if they desire to par ticipate in this commission feat-. ure, which is covered by the fol lowing rules: "There will be a cash commis sion of 10 per cent paid to all ac tive non-prize winners. An active candidate is one who turns in at least 25 in subscriptions during the life of the contest, but it is distinctly understood that in the event any candidate becomes in active by failing to make weekly cash reports of not less than $6 a week for the last three weeks of the contest, he or she will become disqualified and thereby forfeit (Con tinned on pass 7.) JAPANESE LEADER DIES HOZUMI, RENOWNED BARRIS TER, PNEUMONIA VICTIM . TOKYO, April 7. (By Associ ated Press.) Baron Nobushiee Hozumi, president of the prtvy council, died this (Wednesday) morning from pneumonia. Baron Hozumi, a barrister by profession, had been a member of the privy council since 1916 and was elected to the presidency las(j year after the death of Viscount Aj Hamae. Besides holding many ju-1 dicial poeitions In his own country he was a barrister of the middle temple, London, and was emeritus professor of the Imperial univers ity," Tokyo. He was also a judge of. the permanent court of arbi tration at Thfr Hague; was Japan ese delegate to the international Oriental, conference in Italy in 1902, and the international; con ference Df arts and sciences at St. LoTiiS.ln.l9d4 He was the author VAST WINE CACHE FOUND 100 FEET BELOW STREET BETWEEN 60,000 AND 100,000 GALLONS DISCOVERED Value of Well Aged Product Is Declared to lie Nearly $300,000 SAN FRANCISCO, April 6. (By Associated Press.) A sub terranean winery, containing be tween 60,000 and 100,000 gallons of well aged wine was discovered nearly 100 feet under the street level beneath a house here today by a squad of prohibition agents The house over the liquor store house was deserted and no arrests were made, but the agents assert ed evidence was obtained against a number of suspects. The wine was valued by officers at between 1180,000 and $300,000. The wine was stored in a net work of caverns and twisting secret passages, apparently, con structed years ago. Colonel Sam Johnson, in charge of the raiders expressed the opinion that the hiding place was one of a series of concealed warehouses main tained by an international wine smuggling ring which has been shipping California wines to east ern markets. i Colonel Johnson said the ring maintains a string of downtown offices and agents. lis activities have been traced by wine ship ments to the east in barrels marked with the stencil of a bonded warehouse in New York. ; Two other establishments raid ed by the same agents today yielded liquor and equipment val ued at $25,000 and resulted in four arrests. JUSTICES ASK ELECTION THREE FILE DECLARATIONS : OF CANDIDACY TUESDAY Justice Henry J. Bean, of Sa lem, whose term on the supreme bench expires January 3, 1927, Tuesday filed his declaration of candidacy for selection in the state department here. George M. Brown, of Roseburg and Thomas A. McBride, of. Deer Island, also declared their "candidacy for the supreme court. Justice Henry J. Bean was born in Bethel, Oxford county, Maine, on November 13, 1853. He came to Oregon in 1881, and was ad mitted to the practice of law in 1$82. He then lived in Pendle ton. He was city attorney there for four years, city recorder in 1885 and 1886, member of the legislature during 1889. and dis trict attorney from 1896 to 1900. lie was Umatilla county judge from 1904 to 1906. resigning to act as circuit judge of the Sixth Judicial district until 1910. At this time he was elected justice of the supreme court, an office since held. FOUR DROWN IN STORM TERRIFIC SEA GALE CAUSES VESSEL TO TURN j . a " " i SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 6. (By Associated Presa.) Four members of the crew of the mo torshlp Dispatch No. 5, hailing from San Pedro, are believed to have been drowned, and a fifth, Morris Binghami is in the Scripps Memorial hospital at La Jolla re covering from a terrific S 6 hour batle with : gale-lashed seas In which, the 40-ton craft laden with a cargo of .5000 boxes of toma tbes, turned, turtle 10 miles south west . of Ppnt ; Loma ; at about S o'clock -yesterday morning. Bing ham vwaaWashftdi ashore at the foot of , the.' cliffs , pear Torrey pines at1 daybreak' today, but it waa " four hdhra later when tkaggeredlnto the - Scrfppatiio WORLD CENTER HERE IM EST: "Europe a Graveyard; Why Bother About Its Trade?" Says Haney BRIGHT FUTURE IS TOLD 'If We Have Brains Enough to Take Something for Ourselves Our Future In Made," -1 He Declares "World commerce will center about the Paeiflc ocean: in the ; near future. Europe is a grave yard. It is dead. Its people are dead." declared Bert1 E. Haney, former member of the United States shipping board in an ad dress before Salem Klwanlans Tuesday noon. "They have heard of this coun try over in Europe and they all want to come here. "Instead of trading with people who can npt pay, why not trade with the Orient and with South America? Japan has developed re- , markably in the past 40 years. China can develop the same, way and will. Theirs is the trado that is worth while The resources of South America are unlimited, and they want to trade with us. "But we cannot develop this commerce unless we have . our own ships. If we rely on foreign bottoms, we will lose out, for even when we do put over-good con tracts, the foreign ship owners, who are in reality our commercial competitors, will raise their rates until our -profit -are completely . absorbed. We have fallen for just this thing before. It. Is our own fault If we fall again. "The Columbia river is coming to its own as tar as shipping Is concerned. We have the products left Other states haven't. Lumber won't move out of Seattle because, you can't move it intr-Seattle. "If we have braint take something for ot future is made. If , blame anyone but ourseii "The prosperity of the north west depends upon good prices for our wheat and lumber. Both products are to bulky to ship by' rail . any distance and still leave a profit. We must transport by ships. One thousand feet Fi ber produced here - can aown in xoK&noma, japa . . " same price that It can down in Salt Lake City, (Continued en par 7.) . EXECUTE CODY APRIL 16 INVITATIONS TO DEATH t OF SHERIFF SLAYER READY J Invitations for the el Archie Cody, slayer V" Goodman of Harney cou be sent out by Warden J. W. Lif- lie of the Oregon state penitenti ary early next week. Cody is scheduled to be hanged in the execution chamber of .the prison here on April 16. The ex ecution ha been settlor 8 o'clock in the morning. Invitations will be limited to prison officials. clergy, physicians, sheriffs anil newspapermen. Tuesday; ; In Washingtc The senate continued InHu -v.-hate of the Steck-Brookhart -sena torial contest. . Commissioner Dennis ! charged tbe tariff commission Is being gag ged by its, chairman. ' R. Stanley Dollar submitted a bid of $4,500,000 for five vessels of 'the Admiral-Oriental line. , Direct: diplomatic negotiations for solution ot the Tacna-Arica dispute began at the state depart ment. --, . . : j , . , ' ' . " , ; The house appointed nine man- j agers .to prosecute ' ta impeach ment case against. Federal Juie English in? the senate. . ,- . . ; , ..t - ""' "-'Twettieadera 'o tfbt to iBpP.or.T their . indictment 1 of prohpic through testiras-ay of Assu.tr Secretary5 Andrews. , -v -V f ' J r The Mexican amtaad:- C '- holered his government s repiy - j last Ameri-- of a ntmber cf r-olrs on !, If r