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Times. ..
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portions; normal temperature; southeast
gales on, coast. Maximum yesterday, 58;
minimum 45; river, 5.3, falling;! rainfall,
,15; atmosphere, cloudy; wind, southeast.
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329 eggs in a year. Evidently she never
heard of the Ore-day week.
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'11 I LIIUUUUI 1 Wil l
Rely on Reason and Not on
Force President Declares
in Address
PEOPLE CONTROL FATE
Nations Should Trust One Another
Instead of .Rejoicing i" '"'
Tbry Fight
Each Oilier
TRENTON, N. J.. Doc. 29
(AD President Coolidge tonight
affirmed his faith in America as
being "strong enough and traye
enough" to take "independent ac
tion," to resist "another domina
tion of the world by the military
spirit."
Speaking at the Sesqui-Centen-nial
celebration of Washington's
crossing of the Delaware, the
president painted a word picture
of the hardships and privations
endured by the continental army
on that cold snowy night and said,
if necessary, the America of to
day must undergo similar sacri
fices. "Washington and the patriots
of his day wanted peace," he said.
"We want peace. They found it
necessary to make great sacrifices
in order to secure it. We cannot
escape the corresponding sacri
fices. "The world has been striving
to advance in this direction, to dis
card the old theory of relying en
tirely on force and to adopt the
method of relying more on reason
We -re in clanger of slipping back
ID
ie old formula. The habit
xrauiuou oi ages van us in
ifiHi direction:
"We cannot establish, the new
principle unless we are willing to
make some sacrifices, unless we
are willing to put some .courage
into our convictions.
While "moral disarmament" is
necessary to obtain definite and
'permanent peace in the world, the
president asserted that the at
(Continued on pas 3.)
I EUROPE FOftGETS
V AMERICA'S HELP
UNITED STATES PICTURED AS
ULCTTED WITH GOLD
Fate of Mankind Claimed Depen
dent Upon British and U.
H. Attitude
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. (AP)
Europe ha. forgotten ail that
America did during the World
war and sees the United States
glutted with gold and bent on
holding every country to ransom,
Prime Minister Brace of Aus
tralia told members 6f the Pil
grims Club tonight.
The prime minister, who ar
rived from England yesterday,
spent a busy first day in New
York. He was guest Of honor at
a. luncheon given hy Sir Hugh
Denison, high commissioner of
Australia, meeting, among other
financiers and leaders of indus-
' try, Thomas W. Lamont,' Otto H.
,4 Kahn. (Jeorge F. Bager, jr..
.1 George W. Wickersham, Dwlght
fjf . M Morrow. Pierre S. Dopont, Elbert
Mi. Gary. Marshal Field Gerard
Swope and Henry W. Taft.
From the luncheon, Prime Min
iHter Bruce was whisked to a re-
option given in honor of himself
and Mrs. Bruce by the English
Speaking Union, where he made
first speech of theMay.
In both addresses, the prime
minister stressed the importance
the attitudes of Great Britain
and America In international af
fairs, saying that on tbe policies
of these countries rests the fate
t mankind. - '
'Knowing America ai I do," he
K!li jP Pilsrims. "the misunder
)fg In Europe with regard
t?r nation is to me a matter
of deep regret.' That misunder
standing is in part due to Europe's
failure to appreciate America's
history, her traditional policy and
her democratic aspirations and
ideals. Europe still regards ber-
1, setf as the whole world. She for-
geis that American money ana
materials kept the war going until
victory was assured.
"Europe forgets too, the deci
sive effect of America's lnterren
tkin. She thinks only that Amer-
BORAH "APPROVES
OF U. S. EFFORT
CENTRAL AMERICAN SITUA
TIOX HKLD DELICATE
Forces Should Jje Withdrawn as
Roo n Americans Renon.
ably Safe
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29
(AP.) Warning that the United
States should" guard against being
tricked into Intervention in Nic
aragua was coupled today by
Chairman Borah, of the senate
foreign relations committee, with
a statement expressing his appar
ent conviction that American ef
forts in that country now were
bing confined to the protection
of American life and property.
J Us views, made public after a
conference with Secretary Kel
logg, in which he went over re
ports from Rear Admiral Julian
atimer, in command of American
forces in Nicaragua, ran counter
to those ef Senator Wheeler,
democrat, Montana, who an
nounced he would introduce a
resolution in the senate calling for
the withdrawal from Nicaragua
of warships unless they were
brought away voluntarily. A
third senator to enter the lists.
Senator Ransdell, democrat,
Louisiana, asserted democratic
support would be given the admin
istration policy "in standing be
hind the Diaz government in Nic
aragua." Along with his own statement
In which he expressed the hope
that American forces would be
taken from the Central American
republic as soon as Americans
were ascertained to be safe. Sen
ator Borah gave out a telegram
from Alvaro Obregon, former pres
ident of Mexico. Obregon ap
proved the Borah stand on Latin
American subjects and spoke of
"violence inflicted against the
sovereignty and dignity of the
Latin-American countries with the
sole purpose of protecting, as has
(Coutfoued n pa 2.)
MEEKER HAS BIRTHDAY
Reminisences of Early Days Ex
changed by Old Timers
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. (APj-
Remlnisences of three quarters of
a century ago were exchanged to
day when Ezra Meeker, 96 year
old president of the Oregan Trail
Memorial association, met John R
Voorheis. 97. grand sachem of
Tammany Hall and commissioner
of the board of elections.
The occasion was a birthday
party given Meeker by friends and
members Of the Oregon Memorial
Trail association. Voorheis de
clined invitation to stay for the
luncheon because be said he had
not eaten lunch in 25 years. The
two men exchanged stories, Voor-
his telling Meeker he could recall
stories of 80 years ago "without
sticking to the facts because there
is nobody left to gainsay me."
Meeker, who has a flowing
beard and long white hair, chided
the "grand old man" of Tammany
on his clone cropped locks.
NAVAL SECRETS GUARDED
Secretary Wilbur Refuses Request
for Copy of Report
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (ny
AP.) Secretary Wilbur toaay
flatly turned down a request by
members of he house naval com
mittee for a copy, to be kept in
confidence, of the report on pos
sible dangers .in the Pacific ocean
area, made several years ago by
Admiral Cleaves, while m com
mand of the Asiatic fleet.
Representative McClintic of Ok
lahoma, a democratic member,
said Chairman Bntler, at his sug
gestion, made the request on the
day of acquittal of Albert B. Fall,
former Interior secretary, and Ed
ward L. Doheny, the millionaire
oil man, on a charge of conspiracy
In the leasing of naval oil lands,
with which was linked the con
struction of storage tanks in Pearl
Harbor, Hawaif.
NAVY GIG RAMS BOAT
Passengers Transferred to Battle,
ship as Cratt Hiuks
'
SAN PEDRO. Cal.. Dec. 29.
(AP) An .unidentified "hit and
run" navy gig rammed the water
taxi Whiz Bang in the harbor early
todav and necessitated the hurried
transfer of a dozen passengers to
the battleship Colorado. ,w. j.
Trniu-ott. Dilot of tho taxi, reported
to harbor officials, He said the
boat which rammed his craft near
the stern was .an officers ig but
that he did not have tlma.to iden
tity it as the taxi was nmag ana
the battleship was 100 yards dis
tant. The Whiz Bang was towed
In by another passenger carrier of
the earn company ut tert ahe was
awash., :. : , . .
YEAR PERMITS
FOR BUILDINGS
SHOKREM
544- Requests Allowed in
1926, Only 497 in 1925
and 44t in 1924
$2,904,104 TOTAL VALUE
December Report Shows 20 Per
mits Willi Total Valuation
of 9101,100; 21 Are
Listed n Homes
A total of 54 4 building permits
with a value of $2.M,104 were
issued in .1926 up to last night at
the city recorder's office, according
to unofficial data compiled from
city records.
This Lh an increase of 11,109,-
169 over the permits issued in
1925, when 497 permits were
issued with a total value of $1,-
794.9.15. In 1924, 441 permits
were issued, with a total value of
$1,731,210.
The huge increase in 1926, com
pared with that of previous years.
gives an indication of Salem's
rapid growth, which has been
much greater than in several pre
vious years. Continued growth
and prosperity are predicted.
Building permits for December
of this year up to last night total
ed 29. with a value of $101,100
in December, 19 25, there were
only 16 permits with a total value
of 348,000, less than half the value
(Continued on pse 6.)
STEAMER CALLS FOR AID
BritUh Freighter, Report ed a.s Los
ing Rudder t Sea
NEW YORK. Dec. 2. (AP)
Receipt of an SOS call from the
British steamer Clearton, which
left Baltimore Dec. 26 for Queens
town. Ireland, was reported by the
Independent Wireless company at
10:30 o'clock tonight.
The steamer reported her. po
sition as 500 miles east of New
York, in latitude 38.05 minutes
north and longitude 61.30 minutes
west.
The Clearton is a freight steam
er of 3269 tons.
BOSTON. Dec. 29. SOS calls
from the British steamer Clearton
picked up at 10:35 tonight by the
communication office of Charles
town navy yard said the British
freighter had lost hr rudder.
BEEKEEPER$ ASK
CHANGES IN LAW
COUXTY REE INSPECTORS
TO
PASS EXAMINATION
WoHhT Appoint Expert 'at OAC to
SupoTvie and Educate
in Work
Better supervision of be inspec
tion along with an educational
campaign to finally eliminate most
of t,he caiisen making inspection
necessary will be requested of the
oncoming legislature by the- legfct
lative committee of the state bee-'
keepers association.
J. T. Whittig, chairman, and If.
M. Mead, both of Salem, are the
committeemen who will undertake
to put the findings of the meeting
into legal form. The present law
provides for a license fee designed
to give the county court funds to
pay an inspector.
The present law should be
amended, it was pointed out, so
that all county inspectors now ap
pointed by the county conrt should
first pass a civil service examina
tion to be framed by expert ento
mologists at the Oregon Agricul
tural college.
The present law also says that
the "eounty assessor shall require
. . . . a list or statement of the
number of colonies" .... The
assessor in Marion county has not
done this, it developed when bee
keepers questioned County Judge
J. T. Hunt on this point. The re
quest did not reach the assessor
in time last year, it was said. The
law, however, has been on the
statute books since 1923.
It is on the assessor's list that
inspectors depend to finally locate
(Continued on pg 4.)
FALL HAS GOOD NIGHT
t ondition of Former Serrearr
Cftittinufs SatfcfMctory
EL PASO. Texas, Dec. 29.-
(AP) Former Secretary of the
Interior A. B. Fall, ill with pneu
monia at his home here, was re
ported as slightly improved late
today by his doctor, H. T. Saf
ford. Mr. Fall spent a restful night
last night and his condition con
tinues to be satisfactory, the doc
tor announced, through Fall's sec
retary, H. G. Clunn today.
BRITISH STEAMER AFIRE
Vessel Anchors in Newport News
Channel to Battle Flames
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 29.
(AP) The British steamer Cran
tey at anchor in Newport News
channel, reported tonight by wire
less that a fire was raging in one
of her holds. The Norfolk fire
boat went to her assistance. The
steamer Is loaded with coal and is
bound for the United Kingdom.
ANOTHER SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE
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3 ( TOR. A UTT)
HUNDREDS FLEE
SURGING WATERS
CUMBERLAND RIVER SWEEPS
OVER WniK TERRITORY
Relief Agencies Swamped With
AppliraHotis For Food and
Clothing
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Dec. 29
(AP) The Cumberland river.
sweeping through Nashville in the
most devastating flood in the
city's history, spread over a wider
territory today, forcing additional
hundreds to join the several thou-
Kand homeless who had fled from
the surging waters.
The river, rising one-tenth of a
foot an hour, had reached 55 feet
pate today, within three-tenths of
fa foot of the record stage of 55.3
feet in 1882. A stage of between
55.5 and 56 feet has been forecast
by the weather bureau here, and
s expected to be reached Friday
pr Saturday.
Three hundred families were
moved from their homes today, J.
W. Smith, chief of police, said.
The police department estimated
that 25fr city blocks were affected
by the backwaters. Between 4000
and 5000 persons have been driv
en from their homes, principally
In north and east Nashville.
Because of hurried precautions
taken. Chief Smith said he did not
believe there would be any loss of
life.
Simultaneously with the remov
al of the flood sufferers from
their water sogged homes, relief
agencies began functioning. The
county charities commission,
swamped with applications for
food and clothing, today appealed
for $10,000 additional relief
fnnds.
Train service on the Tennessee
Central railroad out of here was
virtually at a standstill. The
fCootlnnsd on nut S.)
STRANGE FRUITS ARRIVE
Giant Strawberry Among Collec
tion Brought From Orient
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 29.
(AP) A giant strawberry, said
to have marvelous beauty giving
powers, was among a collection of
strange and exotic fruits, valued at
$150,000, which arrived here to
day on the Dollar liner President
Taft. in charge of Dr. Walter J.
Swigle of the United States de
partment of agriculture.
The strawberry is said by Dr.
Swlglo to have properties which
will reduce weight and clear the
complexion. It grows on a tree,
is hardy, defies frost and probably
could be grown in many parts of
the United States. The native
habitat is on the Chirfa coast,
south of the Yangtse river. It is
a flowering tree and produces half
a dozen crops a year.
WORLD
BOARD SELECTS
HOSPITAL SITE
AT THE DALLES
Act Authorizing Establish
ment Passed by People in
November Election
14 TOWNS SEEK HOME
All Proposed - Plans Visited by
Hoard of Control, Select ion Made
Yesterday ami Deed Coming
Soon
The slate board of control yes
terday selected The Dalles as the
location for the new state tuber
culosis hospital which was author
ized under an act approved by the
voters of Oregon at the last gen
eral election. The site accepted
by the board contains approxi
mately 50 acres and adjoins Sor
orls Park.
The action of the board of con
trol in selecting The Dalles as the
location for the proposed new
tuberculosis hospital was based on
a report prepared by Dr. C. C.
Bellinger, superintendent of the
state tuberculosis hospital near
Salem, and J. Marshall, institu
tional secretary of the National
Tuberculosis association with
headquarters in New York.
Although 14 towns and cities in
Eastern and Central Oregon hda
filed applicatioons for the new
hospital, the board today narrow
ed its considerations to a site lo
cated near Bend and the site sub
mitted by The Dalles. All other
sites offered for the hospital were
said to have been eliminated be-
(Continued on pe 2.
BODY FOUND IN BREWERY I
Neighbors Make Discovery When
Man Missing Three Days
ASTORIA, Dec. 29. (AP)
Lying stretched out on a few sacks
on the damp earthen floor of an
almost airtight "beer vault," the
body of Charles K. Mekula, 49,
of Hammond, a small community
near here, was discovered today
by neighbors who have been
searching for him for the past
three days.
Death in believed to have oc
curred from suffocation or from
gases arising from the oil burner
which was part of the equipment
of the vault. Coroner E. B
Hughes was called and announced
that death" had occurred several
days ago. Neighbors stated that
they had not seen Mekula since
Christmas eve.
The "beer vault" was a small
boxed pit, about 12 feet square,
and its only opening was a small
tight-fitting trap door level with
the surface of the ground and
concealed by tree branches.
TWO SMUGGLERS TAKEN
Officers Seize Set and Unset Jewels
Valued at 100,000
NEW YORK, Dec. 29. (AP.)
Seizing set and unset jewels val
ued at $100, 000, customs agents
and detectives arrested Geraftio
Manrique today in an elaborate
apartment in West 77th street,
and after questioning him, arrest
ed Pedro Mandero in an equally
luxurious apartment in West 65th
street, on charges of smuggling.
Both prisoners were said by po
lice to be sons of wealthy citizens
of Ecuador! They arrived here
four days ago as students. Both
have been here about two years
and have made three trips during
that time between Ecuador . and
this -country. '
Police asserted the men realize
between 100 f and 200 - per cent
profit on sales of smuggled jewel
ry. , All of the seized stones' were
found ' In , Manrique's suite In a
dresser drawer.
COAST GALES PREDICTED
Storm Warnings Up From Cape
Mendocino to Cape Flattery
. SEATTLE, Wash., , Dee. 29.
(AP) A storm centering tonight
off tho California coast, . south
west of San Francisco, will strike
In the vicinity of Cape Mendocino,
northern California tomorrow-or
Thursday night with - gale force,
the United States weather bureau
predicted here tonight. Southeast
storm warnings were posted from
Cape Mendocino to Cape Flattery,
washt , - "
PRUNE GROWERS
PLAN MARKETING
SALKM MEN OX COMMITTEE
STUDYING PROJECT
California Two Unit Organization
Believed Best Method to
Follow
PORTLAND. Dee. 29. (API
Organization of the prune indus
try of the northwest on a basis
similar to that of the California
Growers and Packers may be ac
complished as the result of the
studies of a committee, the mem
bership of which was announced
today. The committee was creat
ed at recent conference of rep
resentatives of cooperative prune
growers of the northwest, prune
packers and business men at Sa
lem. The membership of the commit
tee will be: M. J. Newhouse, man
ager of the North Pacific Prune
Exchange; W. T. Jenks. Gile and
company, Salem: Louis Lach
mund, Drager Fruit company, Sa
lem; William Underwood, man
ager of the Clark County, Wash.,
Prune Growers association: and
R. H. Kipp, manager of the mar
keting department of the, Port
land Chamber of Commerce.
The California plan provides
for the organization of two units,
one among the growers and one
among the packers in which co
operative packing plants have
membership. The organization is
controlled by an electorate of
nine, composed of four members
of the packers, four members
from the growers and one from
the industry at large.
Another plan has been sug
gested by northwest growers, pro
viding for the development of
county units. The committee will
study the feasibility of both sys
tems and carry on a general cam
paign of education regarding the
benefits of a general cooperative
organization among the growers
and packers. B. H. Critchfield,
representative of the marketing
bureau of the United States de
partment of agriculture, who has
been studying the prune market
ing situation in the northwest, Is
now in Washington conferring
with his chiefs to determine what
aid the federal government can
give to the movement.
ITALIAN TREATY SIGNED
Disputes Arising With Germany
to Be Settled Peaceably
ROME, Dec. 29. (AP) Pre
mier Mussolini and Baron von
Neurath, the German ambassador
to Italy, today signed at the for
eign office a treaty of amity and
arbitration whereby Italy and
Germany agree to settle peaceably
disputes which may arise between
the two nations in the next de
cade. The treaty, which was drawn
up in the course of conversations
at Geneva contains 16 articles,
binding the two nations to sul
mit to conciliatory procedure any
controversies which cannot be
solved through ordinary diploma
tic channels. Dr. Gustav Stresse
mann, the foreign minister, and
Dr. Gaus represented Germany,
and Signor Scialoia and Signor
Grandi, under-secretary for for
eign affairs, were spokesmen for
Italy when the treaty was nego
tiated. POLICE SEEK STRANGlLER
Adrian Harris Suspected of Nam
erons Murders of Women
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 29. (By
AP.) Police still were searching
for clews tonight in the mysteri
ous death- by strangulation here of
two women and a baby in the last
three days.
A "pickup" order wag issued to
night for Adrian Harris, the man
suspected of numerous strangling
murders in Seattle, Portland and
Council. Bluffs, Iowa.
1
The Winter
Relief Fund
Clothing and food continue
to be left at i the Salvation
Army headquarters and money
with the. relief editor of The
Statesman. All of the articles
and every cent of. money will
be used to v bring relief to
: needy and worthy people. Help
; someone today by making a
? contribution. ' -';
It you know of needy people
; send . in their names and the
case will be thoroughly Inves
tigated. All worthy people
will be supplied with food and
clothing, absolutely- free; : of
charge.
Don't Jtive' up 1 the charity
work Just because Christmas
has passed. -E.
J. Nunn,. . ... . . , . . .,.$5.00
EE URGES
CLAIMS KEYES
Testimony of Mrs Wiseman
Collapses on Eve of New
Grand Jury Probe
CASE IN MUDDLED STATE
Hope for Conviction Declared AI
most Impossible Against De.
fendants Involved In Mo
Pherson Episode
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (AP)
Dismissal of conspiracy charges
against Aimee Semple McPherson,
her former radio engineer, . Ken
neth G. Ormiston, nor. mother,
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy.- and Mrs.
Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff Is im
minent, Dhrtrict Attorney Asa
Keyes announced tonight on the
eve of a new grand jury Investi
gation Into the evangelist'j mys
terious disappearance.
Keyes declared the charges of
conspiring to obstruct justice and
suborn perjury probably would, ha
dropped ue to "the collapse; of
the testimony of the principal.
Mrs. Wiseman. This witness, who
has confessed perpetrating- a, Car
mel "Miss X" hoax in the case,
the district attorney tonight char
acterized as a "turn-coat" and
"perjurer," saying ttbe had told a
"different story every day, .
"The McPherson case Is now in.
such a muddled State that s con
viction is almost Impossible and
the charges probably will bo with
drawn." Keyes laid. - He was un
able to say when such a move
would be taken. Roland ' Rich
Woolley, formerly the personal at
torney of Mrs. McPherson. and
Mrs Wiseman will betaken "before
the county grand Jury tomorrow,
the prosecutor said.,
The object of tomorrow's grand
jury investigation which resulted
from new statements by Mrs.
Wiseman . that,- Woolley played a,
part in engaging her to manufac
ture false evidence in tho Me-1
Pherson case, was not announced
(Continued on page 8.)
OCHQCO PROJECT
DEEMED FEASIBLE
COMMITTEE SUGGESTS EIGHT
PLANS FOR BETTERMENT
Cooperation Needed on Part of All
Part leu Interested In
Water Rights
If the Ochoco irrigation nrolfte
is to -be saved somethine mast
done at once according to the re
commendation of the special com
mute appointed to investigate the
district by the state securities
commission. . This eommittea
composed of W. L. Powers, W. M.
McLaghiin and M. 11. Lapham,
made their report yesterday. -
It was brought out in the re-
port that the outstanding (bonded
indebtedness of the Ochoco pro
ject aggregated $1,292,500 and
certificates, of indebtedness $416.
502. Outstanding , construction
warrants and miscellaneous obli
gations bring the total indebted
ness to $2.0$8,07.71. The ap
praised value of lands for which
water Is available was placed at'
$1,251,715. "Prior to 1925,- the
reports reads, "defaults In tho
payment of district assessments
had occurred, and from J925 to
date such payments are almost
completely delinquent. No mater
ial payment on the principal has
been made by the Bettlers anrf the
interest has been paid almost en-'
tirely through tho issuance of
state certificates. Aa analysis of
land values through the country
shows that values have shrank' at
least one-third during . the past
few years. - Lands tn .default
should .ibe acquired through tax
sale and sold for the benefit of the
district.. . ?' ? ; , -
The best obtainable data Indi
cates an average annual storage ot
35.000 acre feet plus 2000 feet xtt
return seepage,- or a total avail
able water supply of 37.000 acre
feet, Because of water shortage,
aa economic duty is necessary and.
this is taken at two acre feet stor
age water . delivered on , on : . the.
land. Conveyance losses was es
timated at 30 per cent. Ths dam.
needs Tiprapplng on thaup stream
face and protection against the ac
tion of the elements on the down
stream faee. . The outlet tunnel
is cracked and shattered .In many
places, and should be closely ob
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