I- -4 - f RumpFof Atte WEATHER FORECAST: Unsettled with i rains; fresh and strong southwest, com ing northwest winds on.:the. .coast. Maxi mum yesterday, -52; s minimum, 39; river. ' 3.a;, .ralBfall,4 trace; atmosphere; cloudy. wind, southwest:' ,--4 - - ! . The action of Great Britain. In sending a cruiser to .Nlcaraguan waters to take off any British who. may; need hfelp Ja very ,dIa- turbine to those of onr internatlonallsta l who have been claiming' .that ,vwer didn't 4 have any business down there trying, to pro test American citizens. ,- v , -, ... ' I Cill l Ml Mb lit; j .C ? w&4 y I- I I w . . rn . ?i . 8. -,- . . v- SAl,EM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1927 : ? ' ' nnilfl"!i'kM .i-m . , A , - ; f t it r- : r- wr r - , , - . . . ; .. .... -. r More Safeguards for Inter national Settlement at Shanghai Ordered :' STRETCH BARBED WIRE I'nitcd States lestroyer Jfohn D. Ford Is Fired Vpon on Yan Btae, Returns Shot's; ComninnJain Spreads SHANGHAI, March 30. (AP) With another general strike in the offing and with Shanghai the center of a continued flight of foreigners from the interior, the defense authorities here today made further preparations to pro tect the international settlement. A barbed wire barrier is being constructed along - the entire length of the Avenue Edward VII between the French concession and the international settlement. The Suffolk regiment also was assigned to guard the offices of the cable "companies situated in the Avenue. -Strike .Date Not Set The date of the new general strike decided on by the general labor union will be fixed later. There are about 20,000 miscel laneous workers still out from the Jast strike. Meanwnne me Japanese naval authorities warned the Cantonese that the Japanese navy hereafter will take drastic steps in the event of unlawful actions by nationalist soldiers or in the event of firing on Japanese steamers without good cause. J ; .... i The; warning "'.was ""given by a . representative of the Japanese ad ljEnirai jrho had.received .the chief mander .ip chief. General Chang Kai-Shek, who came with the re grets ,of .General Chang .to the Japanese admiral for the Nanking disorders. The Japanese official told the Cantonese chief of staff that the (Continued on page 2.) SAYS BROWNLEE ADMITTED DEED Told officers of uhootixg AFTER ARREST, REPORT l'lanncd to "Full a Job and Jilt For Mexico, Veneta Wait ress Testified ' EUGENE, March 30. (AP.) Albert BrownleeV'on trial here for the murder of Eston Hooker, 22-year-old posseman, admitted shoot ing Hooker, In conversation with officers on his return to Eugene from Walla" Walla, Wash.,, where he was arrested after the ,crlme. according to' testimony of state's witnesses today. , . Hooker was ahoi;. March 1, two days after Brownlee and Dewey Kussell, co-defendant, are alleged ti hare" held tip a pool haU In Ve nt ta, shooting William Maddaugh, proprietor. ' . ' W. H. McClain, Investigator for the Southern .Pacific Railway com pany and a deputy sheriff, told ot talking with Brownlee the morn ing after' his return to ,:Eugepe. The defendant, he said, admitted hooting Hooker but .claimed he had aimed above his head and the hullet, struck him only because ol the fact that his pin was" faulty..' Ceorge',Canaday and .fctoy jcirer, puty'aherlffs. also testified that Brownlee; liad iinade :uch, state incnt." ':V -t.',: v' s.':1 McClain was the final witness for the sUte. Prior, to. his appear, a nee on the witness stand, several doer witnesses were called by the prosecution.. Among thes?;,was; Kratik Hooker, uncle of the ilain man who told of the rifle duel which ended In the fatal wounding f, the younger Hooker. - George Canaday, ,,the deputy riff, and .other. tnembers or toe ka aln .aHfiA tTva "Michaels. 'liretty waitress 'of Veneta, told of conversation with ! Brownlee . in hich he was alleged tohave told that he was to "get some 'tdU; pull a Job and hit for Mex ico." . Kluivr Jens&n, who took Brown in M3 automobile Jo Wall, . alia, told ?of the trip? tie 'did knqw Brownlee, ho said, be-. he appeared it his home near Eugene and asked for Charles L -".i, , . , ' ' ' - - - SAPIRO BATTLES yyiTH JIM REED FORD'P ; TESTIMONY TO WAIT BECAUSE OFI INJURIES 4 California Tomato Growers . As .foetat Ion On Records Jake Up Court Time DETROIT, March 30. (AP) While, Henry Ford lay Injured in hia hospital today, trial of Aaron Sajiro's r1.00p,OQO s libel ult against him proceeded .without Lmention 4t his name. " The day was a. struggle between Sapiro . on .the witness stand and James A. Reed, United States sen ator for Missouri, ehief of the manufacturer's array of counsel. Sapiro in meeting the veteran inquisitor was left to his own de vices, his counsel, William Henry Gallagher, sitting idly so great a part of the time that once he re marked in an aside to newspaper, men that he had to rise to make an objection to get a chance to stretch his legs. Sapiro doffed his armor of im petuousness and sparkling tem perament and met the suave, in sinuating thrusts' of Reed with an urbane questioning. Senator Reed sped through a verification of Sapiro's statement of income and connection made on direct examination until he hit up on Sapiro's relations with the Cali fornia Tomato Growers. There he dwelt for the remainder of the day and the end was not in sight at adjournment. The news of Ford's injury be came known publicly too late for Sapiro's counsel to guage its pos sible effect should the defendant be kept abed for two weeks as in- (Continued on pags 2.) I PERMIT HEARING DUE Appraisal Xot Satisfactory to Cor- jporatlou Department Hearing on the suspension of the permit of the Talent Packing company of Astoria to sell $63,- OQP of bonds, seared, byyj)roo, erty of 'the corporation, will be held in the offices of the stale cor poration department hert today. The application for the per&tt was issued a month ago after a report had been filed with the cor poration commissioner that the replacement value of the property owned by the company was $182,000. The depreciation value was fixed at $159,000. Jt (later devejqied that the ap praisal was not satisfactory to the corporation department and the permit to sell the bonds wa3 sus pended pending a hearing. B A LLp J TITLE FINISHED Referendum Measure May Be ' Placed Before Voters of State Ballot title for the referendum measure which seeks to repeal a law enacted at the last session of the legislature closing Nestucca Bay and Its tributaries to com mercial fishing, has been com pleted by the attorney general. in even$ sufficient signatures are obtained to the petitions the referendum measure will go be fore the voters of the state at the next general election. , The referendum measure was sponsored by the Nestucca Local of the-Tillamook .County Fisher men's union. BONpS .GET, APPROVAL Squaw Creek Issue Held t'p Pend ing Investigation The state irrigation securities commission' yesterday certified bond .in the amount of 163,000 .for the Payette Slope .irrigation district in Malheur county. The bonds will be used for .refunding numoses. - The Sou aw Creek irrigation dls- H.v rna nested I "certification of bonds In the amount pf .$15,000, but the application was held in obeyance pending an inTcsngaiion . r iho nroiect ty ne siaie u- Kirfeor. The Squaw Creek distrRt i is in Descnutcs couniy. S i THT SOLDIERS SEEK BANDITS National Guardsmen failed Out to Assist Sheriff l"15 f.TTTLE ROCK. Ark., March .rj.r ? . .: .ri.b.n. 30;.( AP) A company .u 1 sas national gnara troops, jiuu Captain George F, McKinney, was ordered Ant from Jiarriun sist sheriff ot gearcy, Boone and Mwtn founties la an assault on ii,: i,tft i r nlace of three ban k bandits southtof iasperi dJuUat, rr ,ai-fl9nien. 6 or 65 in were armed with mach- ine guns. Genera bandits had been located at a point ifiiu is TO II Sill Automobile -Which Forced Millionaire Into Ditch Thought Identified SAY CAR FOLLOWED HIM Manufacturer Resting In "Own Hos pital; No Immediate Dan ger despite Slight Brain Concussion, Report DETROIT, Mich., March 30. (AP pHenry Ford tonight lay in his own hospital a victim of what sources, close to him said was a deliberate attempt to kill him by crashing a larger motor car into the little coupe of his own manu facture in which he was riding alone. Mr. Ford's coupe was knocked off the road just after it. had passed oyer the Michigan avenue bridge jOver the river Rouge last Sunday night. The little motor car crashed down a-15 foot embankment and overturned against a huge elm tree six feet frpm the water's edge. The automobile manufacturer was ' rendered unconscious but s.oon reebvered, and unassisted, made his way to a gate keeper of his estate. Mrs. Ford was sum moned and he was .taken to the Ford home. DETROIT, March 30. (AP.) Sources close to Henry Ford to night revealed that an investiga tion is under way into circum- Continued job MC .) RESIGNATION TENDERED Wilt tt Aeeept Position With Bel Jingham .Paper Company c J. B. Wilt, for the past three years superintendent of, the sul phite mill for the Oregon Pulp and Paper company, tendered his resignation to the firm here in or der to accept a position as gen eral superintendent for the San Juanita Paper company at Bel lingham. Washington, it was an nounced yesterday. Mr. Wilt came to Salem from West Virginia where he was gen eral manager of the Parsons .Lum ber company. Largely through his efforts the sulphite mill here has been built up Into an efficient plant, and regret Is being ex pressed at his departure. I .1 V r t SZ Mi II v u w w me, rsf' - m b r r n itu im k. mm w . , mj I 1 m . - m z. , j m a . -r - mm. t iff mw t 1j mr r mm. mx. mm & 4 m wmm. mm MtLM wa mr : rm Brw.llkft m trnttr m m l m m m J mJ WV V 2Sr?- - A I. 'm,, : s . T III I'll "jr- I II I U 111 I V ' i"? : : 4i -a i 1 1 ii in 1 1 " 'in i ii i if mniiTTi !-- - ' 1 mii'i'i tTiii ii in i-T--r' MARINES RpADYl FOR CHINA" TRIP LEATHERNECKS 'MAKE WAR LIKE PREPARATION'S , Transport Henderson to Leai ' Sunday With' Sixth Regiment on Board SAN DIEGO, March 30. (AP) San Diego and Los Angeles mer chants were called upon . by the navy department today to. furnish a huge quantity of supplies, rang ing from razor blades to 7 tQns of candy and thousands of pounds of food stuffs to the United Stale? naval transport Henderson due here from Nicaragua Sunday to embark the Sixth regiment of nja rlnes for China. f The merchants were Instructed to furnish 30 days' rations for 1600 men. . At the same time the navy de partment ordered the destroyer Thompson, , now at. the Puget Sound navy yard, to race to San Diego at top speed with certain ammunition needed for the China bound leatherneck regiment. The Thompson is due to arrive at day break April 5, about 12 hours be fore the .Henderson is due to stfext for Shanghai. 4 Included in the list of items southern California firms, will supply to the Sixth regiment are 100,000 pounds of flour, 1440 pounds of chipped beef, 2,000 pounds of spinach. 6500 pounds of jam, two tons of macaroni, 50 bottles of sauce. 10,000 cigars, 4300 bags of tobacco. 1500 tubes of toothpaste, also officers whis tles, wrenches, picks, shovels, shoe laces, shoe blacking, gloves and handkerchiefs. The first troop trains with ma- (Qnn Limned on pae 2.) . . - 1 ONE DEAD IN .CAR FIRE Three Injured In' Leap After Side Door Pullman Gets Ablaze VANCOUVER, Wash., March 30. (AP)- One man was killed and three were injured when seven men trapped, in a blazing box car leaped from a speeding train near Woodland, Wash., ear ly today. . Authorities were unable to identify the dead man but believed .he whispered the name of Henry Freeman before he died at the Cowlit2 county hospital. R. J. Me Leod, 24, logger of Nova Scotia, was in the Cowlitz bounty, hospi tal with serious injuries. ' -McLeod said he boarded the train at Centralia and that the others . had come from Seattle. Dust from flour with which the car. had been loaded ignited when he lit a small fire in the car, Mc Leod was reported to have told the officers. 'The flames .soon caught the paper lining of the car and the men were forced t .leap for their lives. GUESS ,WHO? IBS a v YMJ..fLJW-Jcr'-zr yy STUMP AGE SALE POLICY STANDS KOZER RECEIVES LETTER FROM JARDIXE ON FORESTS 'Large Sales Made at Irregular intervals as Opportunities Arise" Secretary of State Koaer receiv ed a letter yesterday from W. M. Jardine, secretary of agriculture in which, attention was called to the fact that the federal govern ment could not very well make changes in the policies concerning the sale of national forest stump age in Oregon. The letter received from Secre tary Jardine had to do with a sen ate joint memorial adopted during the last legislative session urging that sales of timber from govern ment, reserves in Oregon be con fined to cases of actual .need or where such sales were desired to promote needed common carrier railroad development. ' "The policy of this department which has been in effect. tor many years,", read Mr. Jardine's letter, "is not to crowd national forest timber on the market in Oregon or elsewhere, nor to sell at bargain prices, but to make sales at not less than fair, carefully appraised prices and after public advertise ment. "Also to enable established mills to continue in operation, thereby stabilizing the communi ties dependent on those mills for employment. "To prevent the depreciation in value of government timber which should be logged with pfivately owned intermingled timber that is being cut. "To aid in the development of regions or communities by the es tablishment of payrolls and trans portation facilities. "To harvest ripe or deteriorat ing timber before its value is lost to the owners, the. people pf the United States! "In all cases, the starting of a (Oon tinned on par 4.) PRUNES NEARLY GONE Stock pO Per Cent Sold; Surplus Lowest in' Years, Report VANCOUVER, Wash., March 30. (AP.) Only 10 per cent of the 1926 pack of dried prunes in the Pacific northwest remains un sold. W. H. Wood, manager if the Washington Growers and Packing corporation, said today. A small per cent remains in the hands of growers and sales continue, due to prevailing low prices. The surplus for this! time of the year is. the lowest in several years and the market will b6 bare be fore the 1927 crop is dried. Wood declared. Reports from growers indicate that strawberries will be one month later than last year, thus benefitting the dried fruit market. ALL: 'v.. Force of Explosion Felt 1 0 Miles Away; Escape Deem ed Miraculous MEN WALK TO OPENING Families of Miners Rush to Scene Without Hope for Men's Re covery, See Them March ing from Tomb EHRENFELD, Pa., March 30. (By . The Associated Press.) Three hundred coal miners of this region were safe in their homes tonight, survivors of one of the most terrific explosions in the his tory, of the central Pennsylvania coal fields. They walked to safe ty, unharmed by the terrifying blast, which took a toll of four lives. The explosion ripped through mine number 3 of the Pennsyl vania Coal and Coke company shortly after noon, when the en tire day shift. was at work. in the headings leading from the main drift The force of the blast was fqlt ten "miles away, rocking this minine villaKe of 200 houses as if it were the center of an earth quake. Believed All Dead Hundreds of miners and me)n- bers of the famines of the men In the workings rushed to the mine mouth. They held little hope for their' fellow workers ..and loved ones, believing that a blast of such force would surely claim the life of every man In the under ground tunnels. . As they watched rescuers try ing to push "their, way into the main, incline, they saw a miner, besmeared with coal dust, walk from the nearby entry which was not damaged. ' Then came an other close, behind, and still oth ers followed. The " 'watchers at last realized these were survivors, stepping from ,what was believed to have been their tomb. A great shout of joy went up as wives and children of the survivors pushed forward to grasp their husbands and fathers. Later, through two other en tries and air shafts, undamaged came other survivors. Mine offi- (Contiotiad on rge 3.) TYPHOID REACHES PEAK Montreai Officials See Hope for Reduction of Cases MONTREAL, March 30 (AP) The .typhoid epidemic which has beenraglng since' March 4 has reached Its peak, in the opinion of health officials. . They expressed the belief today that next week will see' the larger hospitals at least partly relieved of the Con gestion which has resulted from the disease. One : hundred and two cases were reported today, as compared with' 16? for the previous 24 hours period. The total number of cases since the epidemic began is 1540 but Health Director Bou cher said fully one-fourth of those attacked have recovered. DAVIS CHOSEN CASHIER Succeeds Fred Paulus ho Be comes Deputy State Treasurer ' Rex Davis, examiner for the state .Banking department, yester day : was employed as cashier of the state treasury department to succeed Fred' Paulus, who recently was prompted 'to-the office of 'dep uty ; state treasurer. Mr! Davis Will, assume hfs new duties with in the next few days. ." '' I Mr. Davis is a resident' or Al bany and has ' had considerable banking experience. - He was' highly-; recommended to the. state i treasurer. FERRYBOAT RUNS AMUCK Iassenjrers in , I'anic as Craft Crashes Into Slip at 8. F.t SAN .FRANCISCO, ? Mar?. SO. fAP) Three thousand passengers were made''1 pnaic striken, two wo men tainted and, bet Ween ;J3O,00j? and' $$6.'000 damage was" 3one tor i dayf whenf the' aewpKey: Route ferryboat Peralta became "unman- Th ferryboat, crashed with ter !c. force Into Jt San lYancUco ET 7bTOS paper: ; BREAK FLCiORING : , s . r; 1 ' TWO AUTOS DAMAGED WJHEN HEAVY JOISTS GIVE JAY Steam Pips Snapped; Hot Water and Stefcjn Scattered: Throughout Garage v v , Seventy tons - of bundled stock paper fell 16 feet upon two auto mobiles, stored in the Fire Proof Auto company, ' 262 S". 'Liberty street, late yesterday afternoon. Overloaded floor space rather than defective construction caused the collapse according to Paul Traglio, manager of the Farmers' Ware house, in which the vpape was stored. 4 v ' The space , directly above th storace room of the auto com pany, owned , by C. 5. Pratt, was used as a warehouse for stock of the Oregon Pulp & Paper com pany. Bundles weighing 85 pounds each, were piled in tiers of 14 over the section that gaveway One of the cars, a 1926 Hnpmo bile sedan. oned by J. P Stirnl- man, 220 Meyers street, alem. ah employe of Krik Co., was totally demolished, receiving the; brunt of the Impact. The ,ther, a 1925 Star ' touring car, owned by Thomas E. Brunk, routa 2, Salem, was umy esuguiijf- uuia(;u. The' main steam pipe leading' to Wieder's Salem Laundry was sev ered in the crash, filling the ga rage with steam and hot water was thrown In all directions. For tunately no one was oh that Im mediate section of the floor, thus saving loss of life or injury. Further investigation into the cause of the accident will be made by owners and leasees this morn ing, according to Mr. Pratt. TWO AIRPLAPS DOWNED Pilots Said td Have Been Aiuerl- cans; Conservatives RevQlt MEXICO CITY,.. March 30. (AP) Pedro Zepedaj r'epresenta live here of the liberal govern ment in Nicaragua, today said that he .had received reports that two conservative airplanes had been bronght down by liberals during recent combats and that the two pilots, believed ,to be Americans, were killed. Two other aviators were captured. He declared that 200 conserva tives near Leon revolted and .fired upon another conservative air plane and that the machine crash ed to the ground but it was not known whether the aviators were killed. ' i He denied that conservatives had captured Esteli and asserted that they had been defeated again at Roaco, Acoyapa and in the vi cinity of Granada which was ' not attacked because it is a neutral zone. TEXAS" GUINAN FREED Charges of Serving Liquor In Night Club Xot Proven ' NEW .YORK, Mar. 30. fAP) "Texas" Guinan, night club host ess, was freed today of charges of contempt of court for violating the federal, prohibition law. The case against the hostess and Herman Edson, was dismissed by Federal Judge Thacher ' in padlock court, after Miss Guinan had testified that she "certainly did not" order a waiter In her "300 club" to serve liquor -to a patron, after the club had been served ith a temporary injunction. Judge Thacher declared the gov ernment had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the two de fendants participated directly in sale of liquor. Truman Fowler, New York uni versity student when not working as a prohibition ageg.t, had test! fied he had taken a young, woman to the club, several times and had bought liquor there. Other agents had testified similarly v ; . EAKIN; RESIGNS "OFFICE HayeA Itcsioatlon Not Yet Here; Veatch Quit Two Weeks Ago " W. TTxEakin of Astoria, who re- cehtljT was requested 'by Governor Patterson' to ' resieri' ars 1 a member of the state fish commission, sub mitted, his resignation to the ex- ecutfre deparlment yesterday. f The resignation becomes effec tive at the pleasure of the gover nor. Governor Patterson said he had not yeUre:eiTed.Uc.Jxsiaatipnj of 3. S. Hayes of" Bay Qity, who also was assca to retire irom inc iisn commission. . 'f-.i '1 ' John - V. Veatch - of Portland, third member;of the fish commis sion, Vestgned'two nreeks'ago.He was not -asked to resign bjr Gpver- i PRICE iFIVE CENTS si soiiiii mm OH DISCUSSION y .--' y Remarks onPrinking Among Higli lScKht Draw RespcMise - ' i . MANY, OPPOSING - yiEVVS , Meeting ot 9inl$ter.ial Assoclationi to Be Called Soon, Says rrcs . ident Law Enf orcemenjl t&. No statements of mere nplnlon t credited to a Salem citizen hav ever aroused so much attentipa and discussion as those reported to 'Save been' given oixt by Jj C.r Nelson, principal .of ; the-. Salens high sfe$pol, in the last two dy ; r'elativj:'V''the amount of drlnkiajr among high" school student- and . the status1 of prohibition, in "gen eral. , -.. . .- - .. . . . Just what impression, thescj statements were iatehded to cotf vey. remained something.of a pus ale to many -newspaper -reAders. Nelson has -not at any time. mad publie 'a claim that he hass been misquoted in either ot he' news papers, but he did, tell-a States? man : reporter.; . Tuesday jeveninc that the' headlines-in the Capital -Journal's first story, which start ed all the turore4ml6pIaced;tS emphasis of his remarks;, and that he is not opposed to" prohibition to the extent of favoring a return, to pre-prohibitlpa conditions ;' No Correction Asked! V " . ' - Since the publication ofcWed nesday .morning's Statesman,' liai son has not asked for a correction ; of the statements therein, Credited, to him. ; None ot the pppotionr which prevailed Wednesday : jra ; directed at the remarks published. .In the Statesman. . - , ' "' People In all walkSj.pl life hav expressed their feelings vWithj re spect to Nelson's criticism , of Xh habits of modern young', people- Most of them, but , not all, nav opposed Kelson's views. T t . Views of others have been. es pressed elsewhere, including f thai communication .columns . of Th Statesman. Those . quoted i below: are all ministers who, speak as thef . representatives of large groups. . The following - statement hM - . - (Contianed on pt " , MtllnMY'. BANbrii HOLDS UP -BANK MAN VITH FACEBAXDAGEBJ ' Tiirfesf JlovesH Queer Artlclca Found : ItkN IVoff Where Robber Hal lliddezf J for, Three Days V, ' 7 7 . . .' :?i 5--V3 i t LOS ANGELES, March j30.- ( AP. ) -.-Police detectives rr. today4 were baffled i in , their .attempts, to solve 'what they declared was on of the, most puzzling bank robber. . ies of recent years-in' this city'-. The, holdup man who brandished two revolvers and had completely masked his , face - with bandages and strips ot adhesive tape, drop-' " ped down from a left room to. con- - front six employes .and 'escape-iar an automobile with J8,000 in ca i from the Hootes street .branch". of the Merchants" National Trust and Savings bank. r '"" " The detectives ; termed ,the.'obi ber a. "nut", holdup man at ter.lhear.'" found scraps' of ; lunches, 'brass? -peels, peep holes 'drilled threught the loft" floor and a cut "and re-, wired burglar alarm in the loft which they said indicated "he had been in '.Hiding there ahout thred " dan and nlffhtm. r r ' '. .1" ."The' robber dropped frocf a lad ! der. leading to the loft just after the six employes entered the Link. Philip Simon, manager. , of tfc , bianch, said his appearance. struck;- , terror intothem all; he "appeared, ! exactly like a mummy."- - . The bank force was herded into.; a- rear room where the - robber locked the door upon them,: Jels uiely' scooped' up the cash im thei ' cages and departed in s car parked near, the bank.? -:-;,-iijf uii During - his 'residence in, ; ther loft the' robber had sawed, through; ; the burglar alarm wiring pipe ad re-wired fhe' alarmiIn?ucjG3!S oer that by the jerk of rcjs.tV could .cut off the.buildlns ttsrx other communication. , ! The telephone, wires als?. we re cut. ? A', glove stuffed with straw " and its fingers crooked arouni a. "pistoi" fashioned out of a c! - -: RAISES ca??, !s were fojed la t- .'f .a4i tiiiii