Did You n That Sale Great Legume Crop Center and Leader in This Field ? Read the Article iiy Arthur J-ion in he Statesman I ..J..Tfrj vnwrcf'AST: Pair h I VV of This Mornina and Get a Vision - of the Future Salom I -loud iM-ar the coast; moderafV lempera-M I t lire -1 gentle westerly winds? 3aximnm t1 f teniirat"re yesterday. 69; minimum. 37; ! j rirr. 2"; atmosphere clear; wind, north- J west. t Nothing seems to quiet the riotous , situa- tion like a few hundred husky marines. f One of the most-touching things to occur lately was tho celebration by the internation- iallst Russians of a "nationalist" victory In China. ' -,. SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1927 (WEEKLY EDITION) mm H-n-a- - '" - -- 1 i! PEOPLE HURLED WITNESS AVERS Death Toll in Tornado at Rock Springs Now 62, and 170 Folk Injured RESCUE WORK IMPEDED Run .Intonio Man Sees Iju-ge ItaiUlitiK Blown Like Chaff; T-l 4ioiie Girl'! lieroUm Brings Help Early ROCK SPRINGS. Texas. April 13. API-Known dead in the tornado that leveled this isolated went Texas town of more than 800 population iast night was fixed at 5C tonight after casualty lists had been cheeked and reehecked. OKLAIIOjMA CITY, April 13.- ( AIM Thes death list in two weeks of Ktfrm in Oklahoma was raised to 21 today when a brake man wan kiUed on a freight train by floods ati Pawhuska. Continu ed heavy rajas on the eastern side of the state added to flood dam age. many ! small streams and some of the; rivers spreading over the lowlands. ROCK SPRINGS. Texas. April V.. (AIM-!-Death toll of the tor nado that iturned this western Texas platieau town into a shambles within a few minutes last night stood at 2 tonight with 170 Injured.! a score of whom were expected to die. Literally crushed by,tbe terrific wind. Rock Springs today had the appearance of a war ruined vil lage, as United States cavalrymen,, army surgeons and nurses and air men from Kelly Field. San Anto- Vaio, joined civilian relief workers -Id recovering the dead, evacuating (the - wounded and assisting the homeless. j Relief .Train Sent A special j relief train left to night for San Antonio bearing be tween S and 40 of the injured who. bad beet transported by am bulance 75 i lies, overland from Rofk Springsfo the railroad. A second itraln was en route from San Aisonio to Uvalde to bear away aiother load of ln- r Rescue worjk j peded by ,mtn nind their lort was seriously im- Uddy roads, which oous way over the 'CnDtiniled on aeo T. SET ENDURANCE FLIGHT RECORD AtOST. AND 4HAMBF.RLA1N', IVIIJAXM, STILI. IN AW lUat kellej-.McReady Irk, Plan to SurMis.H Fren hmen'ji I Vest Figure - MIXEOLA, ,N. 1.n April 14. (AIM - Having .broken the Amer ican record for an endurance flight, iwt AcoKta and Clarence I hainlerlain. civilian aviators, rwiwintjd aloft this jrorning eek to break the world's ; record. To do i his they hoped to continue lym till past 6: 42:3 a. ni. At :; a. ni. they had been aloft, more 'h:in 41 hours. ; M IN'KOLA, i N.-Y., pril H. (AIM Bert Aeosta and -Clarence t. Chamberlain, civiHan t pilots, set new American record tonight in their attempted 50 hour flight fur the world's endurance record At 9:: u o'clock tonight they. pass ed the previous American !me of 2S hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds. The fliers took off -on I their lEK grind In the clouds at 9:30 oV1h k yesterday morning in i Wright-BeiUnea plane. - Traveling at less than 80 miles an hour .they ' shuttled" steadily back nnd fort hetween Roosevelt and New York fify. determined to keep the Pace until they established. -a new world's endurance record.,for -America. 'I - ; f 1 fJ-.t'X-.v'-' The nrevktua Amprlcan rowird mde by Oakley Kelly ftnd W-jtim A.. MacReadv at Wilbur 'riht field, Dayton .Ohio, AbtII 16-17. 1923. with 3.5 hours,' 4 'tnln tes. 34 seconds in tb air. , The Present world record ,tf 45 nou, H minutes and 59 seconds i"a de at Etampes-Chattrea Fraf ce J August, 125', by Droughla n4 Jndry. Acoata'and Chambertia nopf; to pass, this record at :42 lock tomorrow "rooming: ,: " M 1 0: A p.ni: the two Hers "ad broken the duration record of (Cntin4 n ytgt f NAME COMMITTEE ON NEW CHARTER Vlxs to incorporate coins'. IL MANAQRRIAL SYSTEM Several Form Studied ami Berk- eley Idea Meets With Favor for Salem IT. Scott Page, president of tho ITnited States National Bank, C. E. Albiu, ex-mayor, and Watson Townsend, member of the city council, last night were named by Dr. II. II. Olinfier as a special com mittee to draw up a tentative charter incorporating the council nianagcr system of ity govern ment pro posed, for Salem. The committee will , base its charter upon that now used in the city of Berkeley which is consid ered one of the ost perfect mod ern charters- in the United. States. The aU ion -was takfen laBt night at a meeting held .at the state library of tbo general committee .appointed by ,Mayor T. A. Lives- ley" recently to work out a new system-of gjvernment for the city to take the place of the council system now in use. Members of the committee went over several forms brought to their atteption by State Librarian Cornalia Marvin, among them two model charters developed by the National Municipal corporation, and finally decided to use the Berkeley plan as a basis for the contemplated one for Salem. Miss Marvin pointed out Jhat it probably would be difficult to se cure a competent manager at the salary of $5000 stipulated in the report adopted at the last meet ing. The difference in efficiency under a good manager would more than offset a greater salary paid, she said. J. M. Devers, assistant attorney general, who made a recent trip to Astoria, and who was to make a special report to the committee on the operation of the council manager plan at Astoria, was un- (Canthraa on pace 5.) Mnccc OFFERS TO HELP MUbLb UlTtna IU ntUT Meet Of Association To Be ,Ovlld To Consider jbeniaads Victor P. Moses, county judge of Benton county and chairman of the Oregon & California land grant association, has written Marion county officials -offering the assistance of the association in resisting any attempt on the part of the state to obtain a share of the tax refund to 18 Oregon counties. Judge Moses indicated that be would call a meeting of the as sociation in the near future when the demands of the state would be considered. All of the counties participating in the tax refund are members of the association. Marion county officials said that any case filed by the state would be carried to the highest court for final determination. Although the state has c,onfine,d its demand for a share of the tax refund to Marion county, the out come of the proceedings would af fect all counties that benifitted under the refund law. COLLECTION PLATES OUT Pastor From Seattle Resents Air of Charity That Accompanies SEATTLE, April 13. (AP) The First Modernist church of Se attle is going to throw away its collection plates. Rev. W. A. Wil son, Its founder and pastor, an nounced tonight. . "1 have resented the air of char ity which hangs over the collec tion plate,, he explained, "and I think .that adoption of the volun tary .subscription plan will do way with jnuch of the unpleas ant, .mooey-srabblng aid of re ligious, services." . Rev. .Wilson recently founded the Modernist ehurch when he re signed ; as a .Presbyterian pastor hewi after a controversy over f un demenUttsm. Popular music is a feature of the -services in the new cJurch;:";nr-'- : : SAVESjDROWNI HQ CHILD TJbrec rear Old.Infant Falls Into t u Rasenicnt Excavation Falling t into; an .open basement excatatlon jrhichiws partly filled wth water, Wil ma Water, three year old son of fr..n(f Mrs. C E. Water of 1740 ,North Church atreet. was; rescued, virtuaUy nnip-luf-ed. two minutes later by .Ar thur White,' city fireman, who was ohe -of several 1 neighbors ; sum moned "iiy the ; screams pt other children who had seen the .boy fan.-. . " ' -' The -: Accident' .occurred about nnnn .Wednesday, on property .be longing to Fred Kayser at 1795KJ ilortli Cottage, it was repotteo. ;: CANTON LEADER FACES TROUBLE ON MANY SIDES Northerners Pressing Hard, and Factions Fight With in Own Ranks 100 KILLED IN RIOTING Separate Replies To Foreigner' Demands T lie Made. Ity Gen eral Chaing And Minis ters, Observers Say WASHINGTON, April 13. ( AP)rFurther evidence of the rift between moderates and radi cals in the Chinese natiuniylist party came in preliminary reports from China today that Eiigene Chen, foreign minister of tho Han kow regime. whiVh is dominated by the radical element, and Gener al Chiang Kai-Shek, military com mander and head of the moderate group, would pursue different courses in answering demands of the five powers in connection with the Nanking outrages. Official advices did not give any information as to when a reply to the demands might be expected from either wing. Many Killed, Wounded SHANGHAI. April 13. t.P) The Cantonese generalissimo. Gen eral Chiang Kai-Shek, on the eve of his projected inter-party meet ing at Nanking at which1' he hopes to destroy the power of the radi- (Continned on pee 2.) TRIAL OF D0BBS OPENS Defense Loses First Tilt When Evidence Ruled Admissible . SEATTLE. April 13. (AP) The defense In the murder case of Dr. C. C. Dobbs received its first setback -today when Superior Judge Charles P. Moriarity denied a motion of George II. Crandell. defense counsel, to suppress evi dence which Crandell contended the state obtained in visits to the Dobbs home and dental office without j search warrants. Prosecutor Ewing D." Colvin in his opening statement told the jury that the state will ask con viction of Dr. Dobbs on a charge of first degree murder. The dent ist is accused of slaying Letitia Whitehall, 14 year old school girl October 30. The girl's body was found in Bammamish slough near Kirkland, across Lake Washing ton from Seattle. - .. . . . THREE MEMBERS OF BODY NAMED WEATUERFOCD - OF ALBANY ONLY ONE REAPPOINTED Perrjdale Man Selected For Board Of Regents; One Judge On List Governdr Patterson yesterday announced the selection of J. K. Weatherford of Albany, Herbert J. Elliott of Perrydale, Polk coun ty, and Judge J. Fred Yates of Corvallis, as memners of the board of regents of the Oregon agricultural college. Mr. Elliott succeeds Sam II. Brown of Gervais, whose term ex pired February l.r, while Judge Yates will succeed Mrs. Mary Kin ney of Astoria. Mrs. Kinney's term also expired February 15. Mr. Weatherford wasfe-appointgd. Mr. Urown has served on the board of regents since 1924,rwh?n he was appointed to fill the un X pired term of C. L. Hawley of A c Coy who died. Mrs. Kinney wis appointed in the year 1325 to i c ceed M. S. Woodcock of Corvall s. Mr. Elliott is a member of t e state senate and is a graduate jof Oregon agricultural college. He is engaged in farming. Judge Yates is a native of Ren ton county and is an attorney. He also is a graduate of Oregon agri cultural college with an A. B degree. He operates a large ranch near Corvallis. Mr. Yates has been active in civic and political circles in Benton county. He served as county judge, city attorney, muni cipal judge and mayor of Corval lis. The terms of the appointees cover a period of nine years. MORE PUPILS ON STRIKE : " i Dismissal Of Teacher And Ad journing Of Hearing Reason SUPERIOR, Wis.. April 13. (AP) Approximately 600 pupils of Superior's junior high schools joined the ranks of 1300 striking senior high school students here tonight, following a meeting of the board of education late today. The .. additional-. strikers said they walked out in protest of, the action of the board of education, which adjourned a meeting called for hearing the charges that brought dismissal of Miss Lulu Dickinson, veteran english instruc tor. ISOLD WATCH REMOVED Pistol Taken Also; Officers Slak ing an Investigation Gaining entrance through the front door by means of a pass key. burglars last night got away with a ladies gold watch and a .38 caliber Smith .& Wesson pistol from tbe residence at L. K. Sieg mund. 1099 High steet. Officers are investigating. THE TRUTH ABOLJT .CHINA JURORS JVIAY DIE FROM BOREDOM SAPIRO'H SIX YEAR OLD AD' DRESSES' READ FOR HOURS Rnt It's the Fault of One of the Twelve Wauled to Hear It AU DETROIT. April 13. (AD The six women and half a dozen men who struggled for places on the federal jury which will decide whether Henry Ford and his De a r b o r u Independent libeled Aaron Sapiro, got a sample today of the vast quality of routine, doc umentary evidence, which will be paraded before them before they get the case weeks hence. For four hours. two attorneys took urri8 reading the speeches Sapiro made at a meeting of bur ley tobacco growers in Louisville. Ky.. March 2.r.-2G. 1921. and print ed in tbe Louisville Courier Jour nal. May 9. 1921. One of the jurors was respon sible however, for the reading. Opposing counsel were on tbe verge of an agreement to read four paragraphs when Amor Du art arose in the jury box and sug gested that "the jury, at least this juror." wished to hear it all. With the trial nearing the end of its fourth week and yet in its preliminary stage, there remain: 2T.4 depositions, ranging from a dozen to thousands of pages to- be read. N'o estimate of the time the reading of them would require; was forthcoming, Fince it was reckoned that many additional hours would be required for ob-. jections and arguments over var-j : .. . .1 ....... n c ! THREE ACCIDENTS FATAL Portland Boy Drowns in Willam ette; Autos Cause 2 deaths PORTLAND, April 13. (AP) Three people were killed in ac cidents here today. Walter Camp bell, 10, drowned while swimming in the Willamette river; Jack Newman.15, was fatally injured when his bicycle was struck by an automobile and Mrs. Frank L. Wadswotth. 52, was killed when she was hit by an automobile aa she was crossing a street. The Campbell boy drowned while swimming with his 12 year old brother near the Oaks. He is believed to have suffered cramps. Efforts of harbor police to resus citate him failed. Mike Jerulii, driver of a light car and Harry C. McKenzie, truck driver, were arrested on charges of driving with defective brakes, as a result of the death of Jack Newman. The boy was killed when the Jwo drivers swerved in an attempt to avoid a collision, Jerulli's machine craslring into tbe lad's bicycle fund burling him. to the pavement. HOME TAX BILL UPHELD BV GOVERNOR Confidence Expressed in In telligence of Citizens in Tax Matters FAVORS EQUAL BURDEN People Urged To Investigate Care fully Plans For Stabilizing Finances Of The State Of Oregon "The income tax. as proposed by the measure which you will find on the ballot, will not impose an unjust burden upon any person within the state," declared Cover- tV - - - v L L. Paitenoa t nor I. L. Patterson in his address over the Oregonian radio ' K(iW last night. . A.reat share of the address was devoted to an explanation of the income tax measure as passed by the 34th legislature. The gov ernor carried the question to the people of tbe state and expressed his confidence in "the people when he said. "I have always held to tbe theory that a very large ma jority of the people in the state .will pass intelligently upon any governmental matter, when all of the facts nre fairly understood by the public." CSovernor's Addreos The address follows: "It has been my intention, since the close of the Thirty-fourth leg islative assembly, to review, to some extent, the activities of the session" with reference to revenue, measures; however the pressure of duties attendant upon estab lishing a new administration has prevented me "from carrying out my plan until this late data. "At this time I am particularly anxious, to. speak of the two tax ' (Contioard oa page 8.) CARROLL BREAKS DOWN Theatrical' Man Stricken on Way to A tin n ta Penitentiary , GREENVILLE. S. C April 13. (AP) Earl Carroll, Xew York theatrical producer, was declared to be in a serious condition tonight after having collapsed on the train which was taking him to Atlanta to serve a year and a day prison term for perjury in fconnectlon with his famous bath tub party. He fell into a coma at 10 o'clock this morning as his train was entering western South Car olina and had not emerged from it as evening came on. Atlanta specialists were summoned hur riedly. Carroll was removed to the Greenville city hospital when his train arrived here. MEN MAY BE OUT VOTED Administration Favors Lower Franchise Age for Women LONDON, - April 13. (AP) The possibility that John Bull may be outvoted In the next gen eral election by the women of his household, was created' today by Premier Baldwin's announcement in the house of commons, that the government will introduce - a bill at the next session of parliament lowering the minimum voting age forewomen from thirty to twenty one years, 'f :- . - . ' v;v';s'. - It is estimated that fire million women will be enfranchised -under the; measure when ; the next ; gen eral 'election comes around nor mally late In 1929 there will be 13,900,000 British women. able to rote; compared with only about 1M0O.0QO meni. ; . , NORGE CAPTAIN TO SPEAK HERE IIOTIOX PICTURES SAJD TO BE MOST RESIARKARLE Lecture Sponsored by Salem Lions CI u b ; Speakers Go to Schools Close-ups of the North Pola, the first ever made, will be shown in connection with the lecture to be delivered by Capt, Roald Amund sen, the noted Arctic 'explorer, at the ELsinore theater on April Iff. 1 he title of Captain Amundsen's talk will be. "By Dirigible From Rome to Teller," and if will deal with the experiences and observa tions of the Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition on the flight from Sp'itz bergen to Alaska in May of last tar. The motion pictures to be shown by Captain Amundsen in connec tion with his talk are said to be among the most remarkable ever taken, and as thrilling as the most extravagant imaginings of fiction. They depict the cruise of the Norge from the moment it nosed its way out of its hangar at Kings Bay to its finals-landing amid a terrific storm at Teller. Alaska. One is first made a spectator, viewing the great dirigible and its personnel at close range; witnessing the take-off and seeing it disappear into the mysterious frozen north. From that point on, however, one becomes- a participant in the cruise, being transported with the rest of the personnel to tbe cabin of tbe ship; seeing the men at work and at play; witnessing the descent to the spot which scores upon scores of men have risked and lost their lives" in a vain ef fort to reach; taking geographic (Continued on page 4.) RESURRECTION ACCEPTED Analogous And Scriptural Beliefs Quoted By Dr. Cane Proofs that men of today can accept .the resurrection of Christ were offered to Salem Rotarians yesterday by Dr. John Martin Cause, president of Kimball School of Theology. Both analogous and scriptural beliefs were offered in support of resurrection's authenticity , with comparisons of their success to Jthat of the opposition represented by German rationalism and the French revolution of soul and body. German ideas, through a period of progression, came near disrupting the world in a struggle of fonr years, and French philoso phy has been, noted principally for its failure to satisfy the questions Of life. American agnosticism was char acterized as a shrivelling minori ty in the thought channels of the country, by the speaker, as com pared to the achievements made through belief in Christ and his principles. i RADIO CHAIRMAN HOME Retired -Rear Admiral Bui lard Studies Commission Work WASHINGTON. April 13. (AP.) Rear Admiral W. II. G. Bullard, retired, chairman of the federal radio commission, reached Washington today and immediate ly undertook a study of the work which that group already. has per formed. When appointed, Chairman Bul lard was touring China, but he immediately started home, author ising his four associates named by President Coolidge to act daring his absence. ' "My chief interest In the radio field lies with the listening public rather than with the broadcasting industry," Admiral Bullard said today. "I am going over the work done by the commission so far and expect to approve all of it, while t am catching up with the situa tion." i ' BUTLER FIRED, INFORMS Liquor Valued At $50,000 Found In Lawyer's Country Home NEWARK, N. J., April 13. (AP) A 'disgruntled butler who turned Informer a day, after hia dismissal brought, prohibition au thorities In a secret raid on the palatial home of J. Bayard Kirk patrick, lawyer and manufacturer West Caldwell, where liquor, wine and champagne valued at! 150,000 were seized, " j .-- ColoaeHrali. Reeves, state pro hibition administrator in announc ing the confiscation today said the cellars of the 'mansion contained half a dozen barrels of old whisky five cases of gin, thirty six quarts of "champagne and an assortment of Burgandies and other wines, all or, cnoice vrintage as well as liquors. Fonr trucks were used in carting the stuff to the: Eagle warehouse fa this ty OREGON COURT' S SPECIil FETE OF HOilOR First Reford of Order Made By Supreme Court Judge On April 15, 1841 h BABC0GK FIRST JUDGE Ceremonies at Ctuunpoeg to J5 Under Direction of Albert To aler; First Judge Elected In February,. 1841 On Friday, April. 15, the mem bers of tbe Oregon supreme court will hold ceremonies to iittingly observe Dr. I. L. Babcock's elec tion as the first supreme court judge in the state. Dr. Babcock was elected to the office, when the settlers met at Champoeg on Feb ruary 18r 1841; but there Is no record of any action taken until. April 15, 1841. The ceremonies will be held .in the supreme court chambers In the morning, followed -by a pil grimage to Champoeg in the af ternoon. The principal address will be given by Thomas A. Mc Bride, senior member of the su preme court and a native of Ore gon. The ceremonies at Cham poeg will be under the direction, of Albert Tozler, one of Oregon's foremost historians. Dabcock Elected Records in the office of the su preme court show that on Febru ary IS, 1841, at a meeting of set-' tlers held at Champoeg. Dr. Bab cock was elected supreme judge , with probate powers, ' Davis Les lie acted as. chairman of the meet ing with Sidney Smith and Rev. Gustavus . Uines acting as secre taries. , . - The T selection "of a ' supreme judge was Inspired by. the death of Ewing Young, a native of Ten nessee and the first independent American settler in the Willam ette valley. He had lived on a ranch six miles west of Newberg, and upon his death left consid erable property. There was no -law at the time which could be ia- ( Continued on pc ) FOUR YEAR OLD SLAYS MOTHER REFUSAL. TO LET ID3I FLAT WITH MATCHES REASON , Infant Telia of Slipping ITp Be hind Parent and Firing Small Pistol " CnAMBERSBURO. - J?a April 13. (AP.) Four-year-old Tom my Ruby shot and killed his neth er, Mrs. Hull Ruby, because h had refused 'to allow him to play with matches. . :- w o f TT a tntr tiilt tl n ,1 so ih formed Coroner. Si. D. Shuli today during a ; brief ; examina tion at the home of an annt. where the boy la staying. Once during the questioning the lad took a long knife from the kitchen tahU and threatened to "cut up" the coroner. : Explaining that . the boV was given to making "wild" remarks, ms lather, Hull Ruby, told the coroner not Ho take such state ments Vserlou sly." - Tommy slipped up behind1 his mither whila e. her wax nlanf fn seeds in ; her garden and flred a nuiiet from a .22 caliber pistol through her neck. The bor 1 told Jhe .coroner he never, had had a toy pistol,' but knew the real one which he had found yesterday on a shelf 4n the kitchen, would "go off" if : he pulled the trigger. "Now I can get matches,' he said somewhat boastfully. r ; Coroner , Shull announced to night that he would not hold an inquest and no other local author ities have made any move in the case. . . - - - WYOMING STORM WORSE' Spring Snow Jilocks Highways and Int&mpta Air Mail 4:-.;.cr . i- . ?r- ;,' "CHEYENNE, Wyo., AprU 13. AP)rr:-''yomIag,s: spring snow storm," which began Sunday nijht, crlppiedtbe air mail service and blocked - highways, ut ; briogicg apparent Jenefit to stockmen and farmers, tonight increased In fury reaching blizzard propprtlons 2 TheA. temperature - well heIo'. freezing was dropping rapKily sr I itulfillmenC of the forecast of fair weather-- for tomorrow lc:' : doubtful.- ' m t ! r ' f St.