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Section One Pages 1 to 8 Three Sections , Twenty irMurGsea, SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON; SUNDAY MORNING; JUNE 20, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS" Broken Homes, Youthful SEARCH MADE ! FOR SLUGGER A Monument to United Labor 'DRlfJK BEFORE Derelicts, End in Grief While Girls of 15 and. 16, and Boys of 17 and 18 Are Per mitted to Marry, We Can Hope for. Little," Declare Local Authorities ." lOTEFflpfflO NOBILITY SEE RICHES FADE . j -1 ... .'" i V ffS! Mark McCallister, William ' -j GanlSdOrf. and Dr. C. A. J n' OoIIa UOWnS un bailOl , I i 1 1 POLICIES NOT AT ISSUE Contest Free From Spite, as Res ident Go to Polls From 2 Till 7 O'clock a Mon "p day Evening 5 Two school directors, to serve a I jinnee year term, wui oe nameu mj held. between the hours of 2 and 7 o'clock 'Monday afternoon' and J evening, with polling booth 'in the quarters of the WCTU, adjoining! nounce the purchase of the prop The Statesman -office. I erty on the south side of Ferry Three names will amiear noon th hallot. those of Mark McCal- lister. William Gahlsdorf and Dr. C. A. Downs. Dr. Henry E. Mor- ris, prominently mentioned as a candidate, did not file his accept-1 ance In time for his name to ap- pear upon the official slip, but many voters plan to write in his name on Monday. No clash on school policies Is seen in the contest despite the fact that only two directors are to be elected. William Gahlsdorf, di- Tector for the past three years, and Dr. A. C. Downs, elected by the board to take the place of P. I yl. Gregory, recently removed from the city, come before the vot- ers having previously declared they had no intention of becoming I candidates at tomorrow's election. I During the Interval following ih declaration that neither. Mr. Gahlsdorf or Mr. Downs would again be candidates, friends of the present school administration I seugni to interest men ui euui tional standing and attainment in i running for ielecthm;' Without seeking office, and declining to consider the urging of frlemla throughout the city, Marie Mc Callister' was prevailed upon ' to place hi name upon the ; ballot i. i names of substantial residents, had been submitted In his. behalf (Castinned oa pK -) LABOR TO PICNIC TODAY CARPENTERS AND POSTAX MEN CELEBRATE SUNDAY Rev Aral fcnnHrort Mntr I their families and friends will gather on the banks of the Will- t c .1 .v 1 Jefferson for the annual nicnlc of Willamette Valley carpenters, to-1 day, delegations attending from Portland, Salem. CorvaUis. AJ- 4- . n.ll.- . . . . . 1 , T J I pendence and Silverton. . l Postal clerks and carrier, of further education work during the Willi..- i, w.Uummer months. The faculty of th Wiliimottn vllov will I their annual reihrHon at Teii I Fountain, near Monroe, in Benton 1 Mimiv .ion tnri.v Ttta Tif.ni 4. under the auspices of the postal J men of Eugene and Corvaflis, Saturday In Washington The house was in recess. Contract for 100 navy planes was awarded the Glenn -vi a run company of Cleveland. Naval stores were eliminated from the house cooperative mar - keting bill brthe senate. Action on the rivers and bar - bors bill was deferred by the sen - ate commerce committee. .; rresiaenc and Mrs. uoonage with a group of friends left for a week end cruise down the Po- tomac. -r. . - . The . senate campaign funds committee, in recess for the. day. decided to subpoena additional , witnesses from Pennsylvania, A treasure surnlus of more than $300,000,000 at the end of the fiscal rear June 30 was f oreewt on the basis of tax collections. - - Charges that to block action on . the rivers and harbors Mil a flli - ouster was neuiK : conducted against farm legislation was made In the senate. . Representatlve La Guardla, of New York, . in his ' office at the capitol, mixed malt extract and near bear, .getting what he de - scribed as "a legal drink with a Wcx of 5.8 i per cent - 'Make marriacre licenses tighten up on the divorce laws," county ana city oinciais in ineir euons xo cope wim te iJtlinquency problem, now regarded as probably the greatest with which the nation is confronted. ISo otiicial or concerted mnw ,, vp hpn maHp in this resrect although countv and Uitv atifVinv-itioa bflvo 'VTirpaav1 following a check-up on conditions in this state, as well as in many of the other states. Broken homes automobiles unmarried mothers averag- ; ing 16 years of age this is the BLIGH PURCHASES PLOT TO BUILD GARAGE SOON TAKES PROPERTY ON FERRY BETWEEN HIGH, CHURCH i Meclern Stmotare to Adjoin Newly . o Amtn upvir . Frank Bligh. local theater man. and his mother, Anna Bligh, an street between High and Cchurch streets, on wnicn me uamseyer oarn is located The property was bought from Walter Stojz. It adjoins the auto service station grounds, also own ed by Frank Bligh. The auto ser vice grounds were purchased from Walter Stolz by Bligh. -Although no change will be made at present, in the near fu ture. Bligh is planning to build a modern, fireproof garage on the property. Tne erry street iront age is 80 feet, and the property is 149 feet deep When Bligh purchased the prop erty on the southwest corner of High and Ferry streets from Wal ter Stolz, a ramshackle frame building occupied the property. As soon as plans- and specifications could "be worked out, Bligh had tne old DuHdings torn aown ana the auto service building installed SUMMER SCHOOL OPEN MANY CLASSES OFFERED IN V GRADE STUDENT WORK Summer school session in the Salem crrade schools will com mence tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock. The summer school Is being held under the supervision of the Oregon state normal school The session will continue for six weeks. Marararet Cnsner. nrincinal of Garfield school, and Carlotta Crowley, supervisor of the elemen tary grades, will have charge of the session. There 'will be sb student teachers to assist in the . . . . . a 1 A It WOTK ana IV CrillC ieacuei. or tne stuaent teacners re ates of the normal scnooi, ana are clannine to teach in schools throughout the state next fall Monday will also mark the opening of the summer school ses- sion at Willamette university. The 1 I n n I n .eniuiUllV TlAnll- iar to teachers desiring to wn summer months. The faculty the summer school, "headed by Dean Frank M. Erickson, wui con- duct 11 aeparimenui, U"eu6 over 60 courses. APPROVE SCHOOL LEVY PORTLA N D VfMTERS AUTHOR. MXB SCHOOL BOND ISSUE PORTLAND, June 19. (By As sociated Press.) Early returns I tonight in" Portland's school elec- i uons inaicaiea iuul iae tuih had given their approval to a tax levy of $1,300,000 to finance the schools during 1927 and author 1 iZed the issue between now and 1 1932 of a $4,500,000 bond Issue I to finance the second five year 1 period of the school districts 15 1 TeaP building program I Frank U. Khull and Kov T. Bis- . I n on were In the lead over three i other candidates for school direct or- tw0 -,ere to he elected 4 Complete returns from 68 ' of the districts, 148: precincts gave fihnll 4915. Rifthnn 4361. fleoree Thomas 2124, Harry P. Coffin 1004, and George E. Sandy 8S9. PAVING PROBLEM BOOKED COUNCIL TO CONSIDER, ZONING COMJUWSiua iXlilUfi I" I ' Plans for speeding up paving of Salem streets will fce considered at l city council meeting on Monday, i wucu iua iumi tue planing commission. wlU be thrash- ed eat. 1 Despite tha fact that the pres- I ent ; commission had declared its I Intention of resigning in case the .3 mill tax levy to support its pro- 1 gram was refused, the commission may now continue on a curtailed I program. more difficult to obtain and is the -watchword adopted by thpir viws nn the matter. story told by Juvenile officers and officials of many institutions deal ing with the deliuquency of young women. 'Homes broken up with the children cast out to shift for themselves is without doubt the greatest contributing cause to de linquency," one Salem official said Saturday. "Nearly all the cases that have come from this district may ' be traced to this cause," it was said. "Nearly 80 per cent of the de linquent girls and .young women come from families that have been hroken up by divorce or sep aration," the speaker continued "The primary cause, however, is the laxity of marriage laws, which results in turn, to a patronage of the divorce courts. "While girls of 15 and 16 years of age. and boys 17 and 18 years old are permitted to marry, we can hope for little change In the situation. Persona of that age rarely remain together long. Mar riage is cheapened. It becomes a thing to toy with something that can be entered into laughing ly and can be tossed aside in mirth. "From these marriages, chil dren are brought into the world and pass through their youth with no moral responsibility. Parents separate and the children are left to their own devices and to their own inclinations. And because they have never received educa tion of a character building na ture, their inclinations often lead them to disaster. Strict physical and mental ex aminations of both men and wom en who are"alout ' to enter Into marriage life is advocated. Steril ization of mental defectives is also urged as a remedy In coping with the problems of delinquency. Automobiles with predatory drivers is another cause listed by those well acquainted with delin quency, as one of the most' marked evils. "This," reads .an eastern dispatch from a Salvation Army official, "is blamed for an as tounding number of young un married mother cared for in the last two years at 15 Salvation Army maternity homes. They were Bchool girls or high or ele mentary grades, averaging 16 years of age." Local conditions show a strik ing correlation with conditions throughout the nation at large. If anything, the average age in cases referred to above would be low ered here to include girls not more than 14 years old. Mrs. Elizabeth Moorad, for many years associated with the , women's protective divisipn of the Tated Portland police, believes that no one cause can be assigned to the present condition. Laxness in tno home, she advises, is perhaps the chief reason. "A large percentage of the girls that come within our attention I think I would be safe in estimat ing 80 per cent come from brok en homes, which may be the re sult of divorces or of other rea sons. iv Plant Wizard Grows Foreign ST. .. ' i - . ii. H v 4 j ' ' i- - ; g Amons the foreign plants aad fruits which IL W.. Johnston has succeeded in growing in Florida soil are left, the "Monster Delicto" and, bines the flavors of strawberries, cgaslicr Tua eca Ja'lJsca. "ZZr, Voters of German Republic Ballot Today on Corifis-. cation Measure GRAVE CRISIS IS SEEN Opinion Prevails That Disposses sion Bill Will Not Meet With Favor; Position Believed in Great Peril BERLIN. June 19. (By Asso ciated Press.) Voters of the young German republic tomorrow will go to the polls to decide whether the property of their for mer rulers will be confiscated. With the opening of the polls. but a few hours ofT, government leaders are confident tonight that the measure will fail to obtain the necessary support of' 20,000,000 ayes in the 68,000 precincts throughout Germany. Basing be lief on this hope, they feel that the national and political crisis whicji wonld inevitably -follow the adoption of the socialist-communist proposal will be averted. That the issue is one of the gravest which has confronted the Vpung German republic is freely admitted in official circles. Al though displaying optimism, they admit that the campaign now com ing to its close has produced out breaks of republican and anti-republican sentiments unequalled in bitterness, even in the presiden tial election of 1925, which re turned President Von Hindenburg to the executive office. . If the con fiscation measure is approved at tomorrow's plebiscite, four kings, six grand dukes, five dukes, seven piinces and their respective dynas ties will be dispossessed ' of their landed properties which are be lieved to be worth 3,000,000,000 marks. Opponents of confiscation with out compensation have argued con sistently, that success of the ex propriation law would be an obvi ous precursor to a wave" of diluted bolshevism. They contend that the issue is one which is bound up solely with the sanctity of pri vate property. The closing hours of the cam paign, however, found the bour geoise parties seeking to influence their following by. the association that confiscation would be a de liberate blow to Germany's credit abroad, and wonld destroy her future prospects for foreign cred its. FIRE DESTROYS GARAGE LANDMARK ON SISKIYOU SUM MIT is TOTAL LOSS MEDFORD, Ore., June 19- (By Associated Press) A mes sage to the Mail Tribune says that fire this afternoon destroyed the Log Cabin garage and service sta tion at the summit of the Siski yous on the Pacific highway. Highway workers prevented the flames from spreading to a gas station near by. The cause of the blaze is unknown and the loss is estimated at 810,000. The prop erty belonged to F. R. Jones of Ashland. Two cars were destroy ed. The building has been a land mark for motorists for years. right, the -Jujaba." V'The lormer looas ike an ear or corn ana corn pineapples and bananas. ' The latter is an Arabian fruit which Arabs Jpliastoa fhown i U center adoto, - . - Seattle Police Reconstruct Fiendish Murder of 22 Year Old Girl OLD OFFENDER SOUGHT Officials Looking for Men Arrest ed Two Years Ago on At tack Charge; One Huspect Freed SEATTLE, June 19. (By As sociated Press.) Seattle police tonight had constructed a com plete version of the slaying of Sylvia Hoy.ard Gaines, Smith col lege graduate, beside Greenlake in this city, had fixed the time as very close to 9 o'clock Wednesday night and had narrowed their search for her assailant to a man arrested two years ago after an attack on a woman. One suspect arrested last night in Everett, 35 miles from here, because he has a large nose, was freed. The name of Bryant D. Brady, law student, was added to those of Odessa Gaskill and Dwight Kaulum, making a trio of young folks from the University of Wash ington, who at about 9 o'clock saw a man swinging a stone at the water's edge below an alder covered knoll, where Miss Gaines, 22 years old, was found dead Thursday. Groans and thumps were sounds heard by these ob servers. Search for the slugger, whose previous exploit was in the Wal lingford police precinct, where lie Green lake and the home of Wal lace Cloyes Gaines, father of the lead girl, had been started on a description given by Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Stokes; who perhaps 10 min utes before Miss Gaines passed Into eternity after an indescrib ible attack, saw a vlllanious look ing man skulking after her. In announcing the story of Brady, Detective Captain Tennant said hat vrvthing points clearly on the course already taken by the investigation. He added that an (Continued on page 8) M'MILLAN PARTY IS OFF EXPLORERS SAIL ON THREE MONTHS' EXPEDITION WISCASSET, Me., June 19. (By Associated Press.) The Mac Millan expedition sailed from here late today for a three months' cruise in the sub-Arctic. The ex pedition under command of Lieut. Commander Donald B. MacMillan. veteran Arctic explorer, is being made for the field museum of na tural history of Chicago, and is financed by Frederick H. Rawson, a Chicago banker. FORD PRICES ARE CUT SUBSTANTIAL SLICE IS AN NOUNCKD ON ALL MODELS Announcement will be made in Salem today of a price drop in all models of Ford cars. The reduc tion will be from $40 to 50 in each model Fruits in Florida ( X :;;:::;3 2 The Thomas BurgeBS Ford Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, of West Salem, which will be dedicated, today.! KIMBALL COLLEGE ASKS $2500 FOR '26 BUDGET TWO day; drive WILL OPEN IN CITY ON MONDAY Encouragement for Student with Ability and Small Means Is Feature Friends of Kimball School of Theology, which is to remain per manently in Salem, will Join to morrow in a two day drive to raise $2500 to meet expenses of the current budget, to which the Methodist church throughout the state has already contributed $16,000. Importance of Kimball College is seen in the opportunities pro vided by it for capable students, many of whom lack finances to attend schools in the east, and who receive here the best in edu cation, at the same time having an opportunity to earn much of the money required to put them through school. Of the 54 graduates . of the school, 50 are living. Of these, only nine came to the institution with a college degree though 26 now have completed their college work. Ability of the instructing staff to graduate students of ability and moral force is seen in the fact that at the ' last session of the Oregon conference Kimball stu dents 'were' given the best" charges in the state, save where pastors were . brought in for special con gregations. Of the many illustrations of students who have come with little or no education is the case of a youth who came without even a high school education. He was en couraged to complete the work of hte school, get his college degree and within- the past year has re ceived several calls from churches anxious for his services. In another instance, a young foreigner applied for admission He had no work in high school. He was assisted in his education and now is pastor to his own people in one of the finest churches in the northwest. Another youth, af ter taking his training here, went east to Boston, attended school ih-rk. finally received a rail to preach in one of the fine suburba: churches of that city. In the interest of this work. now being, carried on effectively by this school, the business and residential sections of the city will be canvassed Monday and Tue day, to raise the $2500 needed to complete the current budget. OLD TIMERS TO MEET PIONEERS' PICNIC TO BE HELD AT FAIRGROUNDS In case of rain today the Old Timers - picnic scheduled - for the state fairgrounds will be held in the stadium. W. H. Savage, well-known old timer of Salem has written . the committee - in charge that more than fifty old timers will come from " Cor vallis. They are coming also from Lebanon and from ev ery part of Marion county. , . Ther, will be a threeiour musi cal programs . consisting of . old time songs of pjoneer days ' and Including old time violin music. DR PINCKERT0N DIES ILLNESS FATAL s TO OREGON . SHORT LINE PHYSICIAN LOS ANGELES June 1 9 .r (By Associated : Press). Dr. H, S. Plnckerton, 69. chief surgeon forJ me uregon onorx una railway i with headquarters at Salt Lkel City, "died here today after an m- ness of several months. HAGEN WINS MATCH WEYBRIDGE, . England, - June 19. (By Associated Press) Re covering the lost holes in a typi cally sensational manner,. Walter Hagen, American professional, to day overcame ' ' four hole 1 lead over :Abe Mitchell, England,'" r ' WEST SALEM DEDICATES NEW MEMORIAL CHURCH CONGREGATION REJOICES AS YEARS OF LABOR END Erected by Labor of Those Who Worship in It; Monument ! to Unity The Thomas Burgess Ford Me morial Methodist Episcopal church of West Salem, was organized on February! 15. 1910, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hunt, their pastor being Rev R. H. Stone. Dur ing the year Rev. Stone served as pastor a parsonage was built. The next pastor was Rev. Maur ice L. Bullock who served from 1911 to 1914. Following Rev Bul lock wasj Rev. Thomas D. Yarnes who was pastor from 1913 to 1915. During his two years in West. Salem the debt on the par Bonage was paid off. Rev. William Warren was pas tor during the year 1917 and Rev. E. G. Ran ton from 1917 to 1919, with Rev. Allen following from 1919 to 1920. Following Rev. Allen was Rev. Alexander Hawthorne who served from 1920 to 1924. . During his ministry in West Salem, the Thom as B. Ford Memorial church was started. When he left the charge, the framework of the building was complete. ! The present pastor. Rev. Ft L. Cannell took charge of the work in the fall of 1924. He says: "II was a hard task." There was no money in the church treasury, no wealthy! people In the church or community while many of the men who hail ' donated work on the church had become pessimistic and were saying "it cannot be done." Rev. Cannell, realizing the al most Impossibility of finishing the church jwhich was just started. donned a pair of overalls and went lo work The men once more fell in line find together they labored month after month, here a little and there a little, and now they are rejoicing over the fact that today, June 20, they are going to dedicate the edifice. The people of West Salem are i-'rntefu to Rev. and Mrs. Cannell for the splendid work they have Uone in building the church and also for the way they have built up tne j congregation and Sundaj school, j Rev. Cannell in turn says that he is npt unmindful of the splen did cooperation of his congrega lion, in; the way they have labored andvsacrlflced and worked togeth er In oneness of purpose and unity of spirit. Quoting a verse from tne hook, or Ezra, ne says: "Wei have worked as, did Ezra and hia! people as one man." .Others who are .worthy of men tion are: R. A. Hunt, the late Dr E. E. ' Gilbert, who was district supervisor when the . church wa started Dr. D. H.'Leech, the'pres- ent district supervisor. ; ? , ' ARREST 350 MOTORISTS PORTLAND POLICE TRY TO RE- -f DUCE AUTO ACCIDENTS ; PORTLAND, June 19. (By As sociated Press.) The campaign of the Portland police department to reduce (reckless driving and auto mobile fatalities, started last Tues-" day and stilt continuing, has re suited in :. the arrest of approti- mately 350 motorists.; These drivers, have said $1568 into, the city's strong hojt In fines for various traffic law violations Several jail 4 sentences were : Im posed, a number of drivers licens es were revoked, and the number of traffic accidents for the week shows a considerable reduction T" -- t t SCHOOL PLANS DRAWN UP BOARD TO CONSIDER DESIGNS s T AT, TUESDAY MEETING Archltects sketches lor the new South -Salem school building will ba considered at the school board meeting on Tuesday, when designs offered by several experts will be presented. Action on the " propos als has been delayed pending . the outcome of Monday's school elec tion, Pierce, In Reply to .Pastor's Vice -Charge, Deplores " ! Crime Wave PEN LIST UP 42 PER CENT "General Break Down in Moral Fibre Undermining Amer ' . ; lean Institutions De- . clarea Executive "When neonla nnt rtrtnV Kafnro honor, liquor before the flar 'nar. sonal liberty before the law, when mere are flagrant violations of law, on every hand, it is hi rh time that people of our country are warned of the forces that are at work that strike at the very foundations of our government." This was one of tha outstanding statements in a letter prepared I here by Governor Pierce in renlr to complainu received from tho Revi Clement G. Clarke, Portland minister, in connection with al leged laxity of - orosecutlon f gambling cases and other offenses in Multnomah county. 4!ltt 'fit is a cause for alarm that we are reaching such a condition of lawlessness In America as to en- -danger, our free institutions of government, which have cost so much sacrifice on the part of our ratners," read the governor's let ter. . ?' "T v "Our Jails are fnll and tha num ber of inmates in our penltentiar. S ies is rapiaiy increasing. However, it cannot be successfully alleged mat tnis is tha result of the Eigh teenth amendment. We have a bet ter enforcement of all law, an especially of the nrohibltion Uv. in the state of Oregon' than any wnere else in the union. . . VI Twnllo the number of lnmatea in the Oregon state nenitantlarr '- has Increased .42 per cent since X ' nave, been' governor, the. number has doubled In many penltentiar- , les throughout the country In the same period of time, especially In states where there has been no de- termlned effort to enforce the pro hibition law. "This wave of lawlessness seems I ' .,:'' (0mthind prig 0.) SERVICES STARTTODAY EUCHARI8TIC CONGRESS CER i X3IONIES BRILLIANT ..a ! CHICAGO, June 19. (By As sociated Press.) With the tender to Pope Pius; XI of the "spiritual bouquet" of one million commun ions as an aim of the inaugural ceremonies, the twenty-eighth in ternational eucharistic congress win be formally opened tomorrow by the celebration of more than 2.000 masses In 3 ff7 churches of the Catholic archdiocese, of, Chi cago. Pilgrims from all the world ,. will join twelve cardinals, 400 bishops, upwards of 3,000 priests and '10,000 nuns in worship and adoration of ,the Holy .Eucharist. The ceremonies' i will continue, through Thursday. . , .Many of the visiting prlesU have been In the confessional al most continuously for two days, preparing the devout pilgrims tor the reception of the eucharlst. At the Cathedral of the Holy Name, fifty priests 'grouped .In? four shifts lor' night .and day services, began' hearing confessions in; a dozen languages today. ; .Sectional meeting for the var ious national groups,, which will v- be conducted in 2 2. languages will begin at J o'clock. The day will be closed with solemn pontifical benediction In the Holy hour serv ices. v;' ' CHAPLIN QUITS DERBY ft 'n't. . Jttijfl a- ' - . COMEDIAN TO PLAY ROLlJ OP NAPOLEOS BONAPAliTU k HOLLYWOOD, Cat, , June 19, (Br Associated Press.) Char ley Chaplin announced here tod y that, he was preparing a film story In which he -would abandon Ms inflated pants : fdr tight jwblte breeches ' and ' silk ' slocks, shave his t- film mustache and trade his undersized derby for the flar faced hat 'of the French empire to portray the J part of Napoleon Bonaparte. .'"":-'."'. :;y::i : , "The , comedian '.plunge, , In to screen drama will be made In cora pany with Raoul Meller, EpanU!i singer wBom " 'It was announced twodays ago' he had signed for a 'picture. She will appear oppo site.; him" as Josephine, .the wife whom . 4he " great Napoleon di vorced. vThe'workon the flTrr, will begin next January, ' ' r