Did You Know We Can HaVe Many nSdre Factories Using Milk as their Raw; Product if We Will Only Proc Cbvvc? Produce the IUI ilk WEATHER FORECAST: Unsettledjwith occasional rains west and light , local .rains and snows east portion; slightly .wanner east portion ; fresh west becoming south winds Maximum yesterday, 52; minimum, 36; river, 7.3; rainfall, .23 atmosphere,' clear; wind, southwest. , : 4.: 4 t v- V ft 4. The way those Chinese armies posh one another back and forth tor hear? gains and losses indicate that they are all In. need of first "class, football coaches . . : ' '. --1; . ; '" '-i'if ft , M ML (ft w SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR HOLDS JURY DECIK SINGLA1RGASE Oil Operator Declared in Contempt by Not Answer ing Senate Queries HITZ TO FIX SENTENCE Defendant Unquestionably Will Appeal, and Fight Through Highest Court, as in Civil Decision WASHINGTON. March 16. (AP.) Harry F. Sinclair, oil oper ator, was found guilty tonight of having been in contempt of the senate when, he refused to answer questions of the oil committee during the investigation of the Teapot Dome naval lease. ; Justice Hits will fix the sen t nee -not less than one nor more than 12 months in jail and a fine of not less than S 100 and not more than 11,000. Sinclair unquestionably will ap peal the case and will fight his way through the highest court in this case, as he has in the civil suit brought by the government for the recovery of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. The nTultl-mlllionaire oil oper ator was convicted of refusing to answer four questions propound ed by the senate public lands com mittee on March 22, 1924, upon Ms sixth appearance in the oil in vestigation which furnished the sensation of that time. Sinclair wasfound guilty on each of the four "counts in the" In dictment,, each count ; containing containing .one. of ""the , question's which he refused to answer before the senate oil committee. . ' , . Sinclair took the verdict calmly j . vl v. t- bond was continued. sentence probably will be imposed , next week and appeals will be taken through the District, of Columbia our of appeals. The jury was out . eight ' hours and 10 minutes, returning its ver dlc at 10:07 o'clock. It' had agreed nearly an hoar earlier, how ever; but could ribt report7 uhtil Justice Hitz could be summoned and reach the ceurt room. Sinclair is the second man to te convicted in theDiatricC of Co- . (Comtiaaad fa ft. 3. RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT AWARDED tXUBT OP HONOR PRESIDED OVER BY TWO JUDGES About 20O People Attend Meeting Whore Many Awards Are Made to Scouts Impressive ritualistic servftes conducted by the ' Portland area court of honor in the auditorium of the Oregon house of representa tives, accompanied the awarding Wednesday evening to Paul .Laf fwrty of troop 4 and" Ardery Ran kin of troop 6 of Salem the rank f eagle scout, the highest honor that the Boy' Scouts of America confer. Thp court of honor was presided over by Circuit Judges Walter H. Kvans and John H. Stevenson of Portland, and Allan Carson, pre i'linR ofricer or the Cascade area ("urt, sitting en banc. Scout Executive Oberteuffer of lle Portland area acted as herald, and Kicld Executive Shepherd as clerk of the court. The bugler, color hearers and color guard of the Portland court assisted In the ritualize work. Ahut 200 local people. Includ es the parents of many of the " who- received 'awards, wlt ness..,i tin; event. ' " ' ":"' Awards in addition' to the two lUfil" -"out ranks were: . f " Troop i: pred Edmuadson, first flass scout; Norris Kemp, merit I'adKes in fl.8t aid! wood carTlnjr. Troop L: Wesley Brewster. John jailer and Maynard McKinley, V -''"lul cia.S8 scout: merit badges. Arti,ur Fisher, first aid to an!-n!a'-: Stanley King.5 firemanshlp, "v"-. rafts-wobd; Claude Cross. I'l-'manHhip. personal health; Mil ton Taylor, bugling, cycling, clv Jcs; Myron Butler, carpentry; Ver on l.uslinell. public health, fire manship, safety first. - .vsX Tr"op 4: Joe Darbtr first clasi worn; Hoffnell second class fcout; mfcrit badges. Ralph Ennor, tioneering, personal health," public calleo4 a sip .x BRIDGE INQUIRY COMES TO CLQSE WITNESSES ; FROM NORTH WE8T ARE HEARD Proposed Span Hearing to Meet Again at Longview; New Enemies Appear PORTLAND, March 16. (AP.) The two-day inquiry relative to the private toll bridge project across the Columbia river between Longview. Wash., and -Rainier, Or., was brought to a close here tonight and adjourned to meet to morrow at Longview. Witnesses from eastern and southern Ore gon, from Washington and Idaho were heard today by the govern ment officials conducting the in quiry. Reiterating their declarations of yesterday, Portland and eastern and southern Oregon points con tended today that the proposed bridge would -ork a hardship on the agricultural and industrial in terests of th s state in that It would prove a barrier to large ships en tering the harbor, due to insuf ficient vertical and horizontal clearance of spans and piers. Other delegates insisted with equal vigor that the plans at pres ent suggested for the bridge guar- aatee adequate clearance and. that even the largest carriers would not meet with difficulty in the river journey from the sea. Several representatives of Ore gon agricultural interests appear ed at the hearing, advancing the opinion that th bridge, as pro posed, would clash with sound eco nomic principles in that it would prevent the fullest use of low cost transportation and make necessary substitution in a degree of high cost transportation. Industrial interests from the rame districts declared the bridge would impose, by reason of ob structions and augmented hazards, Increased shipping costs ultimately borne by every producer and every consumer of the 5,uOC,00 tons o( commodities now flowing, to and from the Columbia river ports. Proponents of1 the Longview- Ralnier bridge discount all fears ct the span's opponents and de clare no alarm need be felt inso far as adequate clearance is pro vide dboth vertically arid horizon tally. Their 'declarations,, they point out, are supported by the leading bridge engineers of the country and concurred in by ship ping interests. PINED0 CROSSES BRAZIL Wilderness Untra versed by Plane Scene of Airman's Trip RIO JANIERO, March 16. (AP.) -Commander Francesco De Pinedo, Italy's famous flier, today accomplished what is considered here the most daring feat of his great four-continent flight, which is to touch Europe, Africa, South America and North America. Leaving Asuncion, Paraguay, at 6:57 o'clock this morning, he turned his plane northward across the stretches of Brazilian jungles over which no man ever before has flown. He passed over the great swamps of South America, inhab ited by alligators and snakes, and so muddy that landing was virtu ally but of the question. There wca ho jneans of communication except with the fierce, semi-savage Indians inhabiting the region. De Pinedo's plane carries no wireless. FLIER'S PLANE FOUND Ed Young, Missing Aviator, Be lieved Safe At Nearby Inn FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Mar. 16. (AP) The abandoned airplane of Ed. Young, missing Alaskan aviator, has been found by a gov ernment mall carrier at Kaltaga- mut; the Fairbanks News-Miner was advised tonight In a radio message from A. A. Bennett, avi ator who is heading the searching parties. The plane was virtually undam aged, Bennett said, arid the belief was expressed that Young had sought shelter at-a nearby inn. , Kaltasamut is on the lower Kuskokwim river, .50 miles from Bethel. Young left McGrath Sun dar noon for, Bethel and has 'riot since been seen. ' CANADA WILL SELL RUM Government To Opi-ii Store For Competing With Bootleggers VANCOUVER. B. C.'. Mar! 16. (AP) The k government . liquor control board has decided to open a" pight liquor; store here, la an effort to "compete with bootleg gers.' ' The .Vancouver Province says. ; ' ' - Theclosing time of the govern ment's stores is now 6 p. m. The night store will probably open at S . m and clot?? t ? m, TO PROHI LI Amendment Held Unconst tutional by Discovery of Musty Volume NEW YORKER PETITIONS Seeks to Have Act Ruled Out; Find Is Epistle From Gouv erneur Morris, Drafter of Constitution ALBANY, N. Y., March 16. (AP) Constitutionality of the prohibition amendment was as sailed by a petitioner in the legis lature today on the basis of a 123 year old letter contained in a musty volume published 95 years ago. . If this volume, little known and apparently, never before discov ered by the opponents of prohibi tion, had been in the Hands ox the United States supreme court when that hody upheld the eighteenth amendment, the petitioner assert ed in effect, the court probably would have ruled against the amendment and prohibition would have died at birth. Acknowledging his own impo tence to take direct action in Washington toward reversal of the august federal body's decision, based though it might be on mis apprehension and lack of infor mation, the petitioner yet ex pressed hope that something inight-be, done by the state gov- ( Continued on page 3.) POST OFFICErHAS'; RUN Rumor of U. S. Being Bankrupt Causes Negro Excitement WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 16 (AP) Believing that the government was "going broke" more than 100 negroes lined up in front of the post office when it opened here today, and started an all day run on the postal savings department. Recent bank failures, wild ru mors which swept through the negro sections of the city last night and today caused others to flock to the post office and the run continued steadily until the closing hour. Police tonight took extra pre cautions to guard against any out break or lawlessness. Additional patrolmen were sent into the street on which negroes live. 5 justthouchti m you dont Wm$ml Vi Wk fz m come over J MEAN YA TmsJ on your porch fA ff imMVs 5 AND COOL ( fA IT ' yA'&JP Ywfo&i SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY :'v D ARROW DEBATES WHY OF MANKIND AGNOSTIC . ARGUES WITH PREACHER-COLLEGE HEAD Clifton D. Gray Crosses Forensic Lances With Renowned Evolutionist BOSTON, March 16. (AP.) A doubting lawyer, Clarence Dar row of Chicago, Agnostic, and a college preacher-president, Cllf-i ton D. Gray of Bates, founded by Free Baptists but without denom inational control, crossed forensic lances here tonight in the ancient tilting yard of "what and why is man?" Though they drove at one an other for two hours with logic, wit and evidence, neither was tfla horsed nor was decision rendered; Darrow traced, as he has be fore, the analogies between the functioning of the human organ ism, digestion, breathing and mus cular force, and the mechanical phenomena of transportation of power, combustion ana leverage. He did not attempt to hold the whole ground assigned to him. "I cannot prove to you that man. is a machine," he said. What I do contend is this: That the mani festation of the human machine and of living organism is very like unto what we know as a machine. and that if we could find it all ou4 we would probably find that every thing had a mechanistic origin." f The scientist has found enough, he declared, "to justify the con clusion that man more nearly re sembles a machine than he resem bles a ghost carrying around a body for a while." ' Dr. Gray held fairly well to his announced intent of abstention from polysyllables, but he leaped agilely from kinetics and thero- ; Continued on page 3.) GANG ROUNDUP IMMINENT "i Payroll Robberies In Pittsburgh , District Thought Solvodt-wrf PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 16 (AP) The roundup of a bandit gang held responsible for four sensational payroll robberies in the Pittsburgh district and the murder of two guards was believed imminent by authorities; tonight. Loot totalling 1182,000 was car ried away. Paul Jaworski, a suspect held in the investigation of the $104, 000 payroll robbery of the Pitts burgh Terminal Coal company at Coverdale last week, today named the members of the gang in a con fession. District Attorney Samuel H. Gardner said Jaworskl's confession implicated the gang not only in that robbery, which was accom plished by blowing up an armored car. but connected its members with Christmas payroll holdups in 1923 and 1925. HELEN MARIA! MDRNINMARCHIT, 1927 TERROR STALKS SHANGHAI NATIVES THROWN IN . FRIGHT BY MURDER SERIES Cantonese Agitators Said to Be Using Strong-Ann Method of Intimidation SHANGHAI, March 16. ( AP.) -Terror is stalking in the teem ing native city of Shanghai ts a result of a mysterfous series of murders and the corresponding spread of a story that groups of Cantonese agitators are carrying on strong-arm agitation in prepar ation for a general strike when the ntionalists become .ready to take over the Shanghai adminis tration. For days there has been an aver age of one murder daily in Shang hai, the victim usually being a laborer or a foreman who had shown opposition to strike calls. The outrages have occurred not only In the native quarters, but in the international' settlement as well, and the municipal authori ties are taking steps to deal dras tically with the situation. "Expert intimidators" is the nearest translation of the Chinese description of the 15 specially picked and trained agitators who have arrived in Shanghai from Hankow. Labor unrest in the city, under their direction, is increasing daily, terrorism being the weapon t'sed to create solidarity in the ranks of labor for a projected general strike. Particular efforts have been di rected by these men to disorgan ized traffic on the Shanghai- Nun king railway, the train control and telephone systems being tampered with. Yesterday the intimidatofs forced 30 engineers and firemen and the whole locomotive staff of the Shanghai South Station to de sert. The series of murders which have been reported and the fact (Continued on page 3.) SALM TROUBLES QUIETED Separation Suit to Be Settled Without. More Publicity NEW YORK, March 16 (AP) Count Ludwig Salm and his wife, the former Millicent Rogtrs, now in different sections of Eur ope, have agreed to settle their separation suit without any fur ther reading of love letters in a court of law, local newspapers re ported here today. Previous reports of out of court settlement and rumors of possible reconciliation with the "blessing" of the young wife's father, Colonel Henry H. Rogers, met curt denials from attorneys, but today It was learned that the case would be officially terminated before it Is scheduled to be resumed next Monday in the state supreme court. - . v h lv- i 1 :.i . . v . .u 1 : i ills Would Cause Discord and Confusion Among Nation?, Says Secretary VIEW GIVEN IN LETTER Cancellation Of European Conn tries' Loans Would ' Not Of Itself Put End To Dis like For America WASHINGTON, Mar. 16. (AP) A re-opening o foreign debt settlements, in Secretary Mel-lonV- opinion7"would "be a step baclrward "calculated to produce discord and confusion rather than contribute to the economic stabili ty and orderly betterment of world prosperity." His view was set forth in a letter to President Hibben of Princeton university, made public today at the treasury without com ment. It was n reply to the sugges tion of members of the Princeton and Columbia university faculties for a revision of the American deht settlements and was consid ered at the 'treasury as settling definitely the question of the ad ministration'fv attitude toward any deviation fro-m its debt funding policy. Asserting tliat a nation is hardi ly likely to deserve and maintain the respect off other nations by sacrificing its,-own just claims, Mr. Mellon declared that cancellation of debts owed the United States would not of 3tselt change the dis like with whtch,.the educators de clared Europeans look upon this country. ! With reference to unratified French debt settlement, the secre tary said that "It would not have been amiss forr you and your as sociates to have taken into con sideration that the Inevitable ef fect of such a pronouncement would be to encourage and strengthen the opposition In for eign countries to such ratifica tion." Sdch encouragement, he added, would !be entirely unwar ranted in view of the approval of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding accord by the American house of representatives, in which, debate "indicated that an overwhelming majority of the representatives were opposed to more lenient terms." Declaring that the advances to foreign countries were beyond dis pute loans and not contributions to allies, Mr. Mellon said that what the United States govern ment had done in effect during the war was to enable its associ ates to borrow money in the American investment market, with government endorsement, liberty bonds being sold to provide mon ey for the loans. The situation he contended, would have been no different had the foreign coun tries sold their own bonds in the (Continued on oaire 3.) NEVADA KILLS GAMBLING Senate Defeats Measure By 0 to 8 Vote. After Filibuster RENO, Nev., March 16. (AP) Licensed gambling was out-. Jawed by the Navada state senate today with a vote of 9 to 8 being registered against the approved assembly bill authorizing wide open conditions in gaming houses. The final defeat of the bill was as spectacular as the filibuster waged in the senate yesterday when opponents succeeded In sending the bill back to the house of origin . twice. Senators Scott and Henderson; leaders of the op ponents,' conducted an all-day fire on the bill yesterday, but to the surprise pt the proponents and their colleagues , today aided ma terially in bringing the issue to the final vote. EUGENE TO GET PLANT Zcllerbarh Paper Company Plans - to Found Branch House EUGENE. March, 16 tAP) The Zeflerbaeb. Paper company of San Francisco announced today that It will at once establish a branch houso, In Eugene. the sec ond one in Oregbn Property has been purchased and a concrete warehouse .firill he. erected." The branch will serve all of southern Oregon, Including 'Klamath .Falls, and territory as far north as Cor valllg, it was stated, BANK BUILDING READY TO OPEN I.IVESLEY URGES BEAUTY IN ALL ARCHITECTURE Entire Structure to Be Open for Inspection of Public on Saturday The First National bank build ing of Salem is now completed and awaits its formal opening, which will take place Saturda eenlng at 7 o'clock. , Discrediting the theory that all skyscrapers are ugly and detest able, this, the largest and most rr-odern office building in Oregon, outside of Portland, raises its beautiful pink sandstone exterior 11 stories above the sidewalk, as the first outstanding structure of the Salem business district. Its beauty represents the ideals and principles of its builder, Mayor T. A. Livesley, to whom Salem presents a wonderful op portunity for careful yet adequate investments. Mr. Livesley is firm in his advocacy of the beautiful in architecture, and with this ad monition in mind, the resulting plans were drawn by L. L. Dou- gan, Portland architect, and car ried" out by Hansen-Hammond, construction engineers. Among the outstanding features of the building are Its massive bronze door, the sweeping grace of the interior lobbies, the effec tive Italian renaissance artistry, its efficient utilization of floor space, eliminating the disadvant ages of ineffective lighting and ventilation, and perhaps most im portant of all, the solid snbstan tialness of the entire structure, Saturday evening, March 19, the banking quarters and the en tire building from the huge vaults in the basement to the observation platform on the roof will be open, that the public may inspect and familiarize itself with the building and its many advantages. -Officers, directors and employes of the bank will serve as guides for the -evenings-" -Music will be furnished by an orchestra until 10 o'clock. NEW DENATURANT FOUND "Aldehol" to Give Alcohol Smell of Overheated Motor Oil WASHINGTON, March 16. (AP.) -Denatured alcohol in the future will give forth an odor com parable to that of overheated auto mobile oil as a result of the new cVnaturant "aldehol" prepared by government chemists to prevent the alcohol's flow into bootleg channels. Compulsory use of the denatu- rant will commence April 1, Dr. J. H. Dorah, treasury chemist, an nounced today. The process will be used in the SO denaturing plants scattered over the country. Prohibition unit chemists de scribe aldehol as "non-poisonous' but nauseating." BANDIT SUSPECTS PLEAD Brownlee and .Russell Deny Guilt . of Robbery and Killing EUGENE, March 16v (AP) Albert Brownlee and Dewey Rus sell, today pleaded not guilty In circuit court to the charges of murder In the first degree and assault with intent to rob. Their trial wasa set for March 28. They are charged with the murder of Eston Hooker, member of a posse looking for them two days after the robbery of the Veneta pool hall and the shooting of Wll liam Maddaugb, the proprietor. TWO PRISONERS ARRIVE Five Federal Charges in Women's Department at Prison Eretta bill Ion and Doris Wat- kins, . federal prisoners, were re ceived at the Oregon state pent tentiary here yesterday to serve vs uia v a vu; jcai auu UHJr for . forging money - orders.. The women were- convicted in -the" United States district court in Se attle. ? There- are now 'five fed eral prisoners in the women's de partment of the Oregon peniten tiary. Three women also are serr ing .terms on state charges.. . author given; DIV0RC Woman Can't Write Because Hus band Grouches and Nags- LOS ANGELES, March 16.-1-( A P) Adele Rogers St. John. author, was awarded a divorce In superior court- here todav i from Ivan St Jqhn an editor, of- a motion picture Magazines whom she accused of being so' ''grouchy and saggy" that she was unable todo any writing, r - t ; PR1.CE FIVE CENTS.. Campaign Furthered by Re sults Obtained in Meet- ; ing of Growers Hi PROBLEM SERIOUS HERE Committee of Growers Associa tion Finds Bare Cost of Pro duction 8 H Cent Hope Seen Figures showing theheed o f a higher tariff on cherries Vjri order to protect the growers of the'- Pa cific coast in their efforts to sup-, ply the maraschino trade, were compiled at a meeting of the grow ers' committee of the Salem Cher ry Growers' association,' held Wednesday evening in the Cham ber of commerce rooms.. , j These data will be used - in a united effort on the part of coast growers, to secure the 50 per cent increase in the tariff which is now being asked, a campaign In which the Oregon senators and .repre sentatives at Washington are as sisting. Growers from all sectlbns of Marion and Polk counties," num bering about 40 in all, presented figures on their production costs, and these when averaged showed that the bare cost to the grower, computed even more con servatively than it should be; is 8 cents a pound. - . Find Cost High V - V This means, according to Max Gaylord who presented a Sum mary of the tariff situation, that - the final cost of the cherries, ' pitted and stemmed and allowing for the loss from shrinkage, Is 18.62 cents a pound. 1 .v ; . . - f The Italian growers, on . the other hand, due to the, "back . yard" nature of the industry there and the cheapness of labor, are able to sell their cherries at from SH to 9 cents a pound'ln coast- cities; and even though ' these cherries are of inferior qualify compared to those grown ' here, the differential is too great. ' ' The Importance of the mara schino cherry trade to growerf , here is evident from the fact that ( Continue par 4.) v jr , LETTER RELATES HEROIC RES&UE DESTROYER WOOD PICKS UP MEN FR03I LOST SCHOONER Crew of Ecuadorian Boat Drifts 28 Days in Small praft on - Pacific- V- i J SAN DlEGO, March 16. i(AP) An account of the drama tic rescue of three members of the crew , of ; the Ecuadorian Qhnnnnf A f Ko f mm a ff aw Kav ttaisf M'v.MWMua., sw wk)? atawa a,as aiva drifted 28 days In an onen boat in the south Pacific was contained in a letter received here today by Mrs. H. E. McCarroIl .. from her husband, a boatswain's inate aboard the destroyer Wood, from The successful search" ot the. Wood for the "ere -6t the Alba- tross" adds1 another brilliant 'chap-' ter to the peace time' exploits: of - McCarroli wrote that the, Wood, with the'destroyer KiddefY Sloat; Yarborough, Shirk and Lavallette, were ordered detached from the battle fleet', while engaged in. ma; : neuvers off Panama - and sent id search of th(j 4 ere' 6t ' th Alba- -tross. The" Albatross was en. route ; to" the Galapagos islands from Ecuador' and foundered' In a ; severe storm, . s ., ? . , v .; ' . . , the Albatross had gone to the1 boti. iuih, uu muet souin ot uuaya quil, Ecuador." Che lookout on the , destroyer Wood sighted a small boat. ;-, 'i " ,, ' . . In this 14-foot boat were three' sailors and a dead -one year old baby which the sailors aboard the San Diego destroyer later learned died four days after the small boat had shoved off . from tho) , sinking Albatross.. ' ' '- f1 'l On the tenth day after they had "been adrift the sailors from th A i Da tross auiea .and ate a, topt which had leaped Into their boat from the deck of the schooner. ' , The ailors at the time of their, ' rescua-were unconscious. Their