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f The -Nation-WfllrFause Torno and Moving tribute totho heroic Doc J WlaHbn County Seflids 22 DetetjatesJto Pru ne . Marketing Conference, at Corvallis. Tuesday and'-.WbclnoQdov WEATHpn FORKCAST: Fa rising " ti,inpraiiirf: .humidity nearly normal; . J gentle to modorate northwest wind. Maxi- J mom tpmperamre yesipraay. m, uuui.uiui, ? 44; rirer, : rainfall. .04 lnchf; atmoa- J . i phere, part clondy; wind, west. . I L,. -. vUU'.U iiU' - v'Four Sections 24 pages ' SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2f, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS : 1 i!15 SHOW SUCCESS MORE PLANNED One Hundred of Finest Ani mals in Five Valley Coun ties Delayed - PICK GRAND CHAMPIONS 1m Creole's Select Itoliiey, owimhI ly lllokreaJl Man, aixl I.loi Farm's Howe Imij Win Honors Willi the annual Oregon Jrsoy t aulH -!ub show eonsldered a rom j let wun-ess by Everyone who ut-K-mled. plans -ar already . being ma.lt for a still gfc ater show next ar. About 1 Unimals were ntered in the contewt yCKterday. ifpret-onting the finest Jersey eat il. in five counties ot the Willam- ne valley. ; Judging of the bull classes oc upied the morning, and In the .ittrnoon the cows were given at tention. Prof. William Regan of the University of California se lected I-a Creole's Select Rodney, owned by S. II. Rohjnson of Rick 1 trail a.s the grand champion bull, iiml Lion Farm's Rosebay, owned l y ;. H. Danimeier, as senior and urand champion cow. Five Preliminaries The show was the culmination .. Jersey cattle judging which has l-een carried on during the past week in Marion, Po'k, Linn. Clack 1 mas and Yamhill counties. Pro fefsor Regan has been the judge n all these shows, selecting - the prize winners appearing in the vc id petition yesterday. The prise winners are as fol lows; f . , . : 'tJi!&$m'-r Aged bull First. La Creole's SaMt Rodney, owned by S. H. i3xjron of .Rlckreall, Polk coun JulAmd, Carry On Felix, owned l Y V Ootwold. Molalla, Claeka liias county: third, St. Mawes Dip lone Lad, owned by E. S. Bowers Sbdd. Linn county; fourth. Lit tle Pauline's Lad, owned by C. I Ai 11I key of MeMinnville, Yamhill county. -( .. .Three year old bulls First, Kdith's Oxford Rlnda St.'Mawes. -( ..wned 1 John Flck of Woodburn, Mayon county; second, The Ma ori's Reuben, owned by Tibbies & Rrown of Independence, Polk ounty. . Two year old bulls First, Kagle's' -Spotted .Hoy, owned by J. ' 'untiBBd on tare 8.) LAST OFFENSIVE OF FLOOD BEGUN RESIDENTS OF ATCHAFALAVA ItASlX IN iXISI.Vfi FIOHT Secretary Hoover Calls on Xortli to Aid WMVMMC Victim , In S(rlcken Area NEW ORLEANS. La., May 28. (API Two last-ditch levee lights were heing waged in the Atrh;ifalaya- basin tonight as the Jiood waters moved down both sides of the river in their final dtructive blow, at Louisiana be Tore sweeping Jattthe Gulf of .Mexico. Already more than 300 square n.ilfes on the east side of the Atch atalaya had been covered by tor rents flowing through a crevasse at McCrae - and many more square it iles had been4nnndated by back waters of. numerous lakes and bayous. The greater part ot five parish es on the west side of the river had been inundated by a slow mov i.np lake which .had upread more than 100 miles down the , west Afchafalaya basin : through the Evangeline country trom breaks In Layourde Glaises ramparU. Army oft leers believed that there was little hope that " the section could be saved from inundation. ' NEW . ORLEANS, May 28. Herbert Hoover tonight called up-o-tt the north to aid the south In ' ' Jiemendous task , of glvias ni of Him i errntest. sslsippi valley flool in-, history new Ftart In life. ' -The appeal of the commerce ,terretary, who has directed 'the great relief machine, of the flood; as broadcast by. 40 radio ta- ; tlotiit. He asked the nation -to con- tilbnlo ?2,000,000 rmor;to the Red Cross and the northern bank er and industries to subscribe EY CATTLE (Continued Vg 4.) ' PRUNE MEETING WORK ORGANIZED .initio oorxTY's 22 dki.k- ATKS GIT5X TASKS Mofct nepresontatire Conferrnee Jn ULstory of Imlustry In Xorthwest OREGON; AORICULTlTRAL COLLKOE, tJorvallLs, May 28. (Special.) Marion county's 22 delegates to the state prune con ference! here tay 31 and June 1 have been assigned committee po sition by those in cht;rg of or ganization work. Workof the convention will be conducted under the same system a.s carried out in the agricultural economic conferences. Five com mittee groups have been formed to consider questions separately xind report their findings to the) full conference of the final day. j F. W. (ieven of Scotts Mills, j V. j. Neuns, H. II. Jones, X. 11. : Carpenter and Walter Stolz of Sa lem have been placed on the ad vertising and sales tervice com mittee. This committee will con sider the matter of a common brand, ways of financing an adver tising campaign, and means of in creasing consumption by other methods. C. J. Thomas of Scotts Mills, C. R. Taylor, CI. A. Radcliffe and R. C. Paulus of Salem are on the grades and sizes committee which will seek to standardize practices of packing and inspection service and to recommend legislation to this effect, if necessary. L. E. Smith. Scotts Mills; J. I). Fowle, Shaw; W. F. Campbell and F. D. Thielsen of Salem are to serve on the production commit tee which will study the problem of eliminating seasonal fluctua tions in yield and improve quality (Continued on Taste 5.) MARINE MOVE MYSTERY Reported to lie on Way to Tient sin from Philippines " -WASHINGTON? . May 't-SKSs--(AP) Reports from London in dicating an impending movement of American marines to Tientsin from Shanghai and the Philippines were unexplained here today on the basis of state department in formation. It was pointed out, however, that the marines now held at Olongapo in r the Philippines were sent there for possible use in pro tecting Americans at Tientsin should a concentration there be Necessary and that Admiral Wil liams commanding American forces in China and P.rigadier General Rntler, commander of the marines, would move I hem at their discretion. Previously arranged plans cal led for assembly of Americans in tipper China at Tientsin in the event the northern armies retreat ed precipitately before the ad vance of the southern nationalists but recent official dispatches to Washington have not pictured any such turn in the tide of battle. CHURCH BODIES MERGED -: J . t S ; 'on gregationa lists Take Important. Step at Omaha Meet OMAHA, Neb., May 2S. (AP) Hailed by laymen and clergy men a the biggest step ever taken in the Congregational church of the Unite! States, the merger of the seyen big incorporate bodies of the church was completed to day at the meeting of the national council. One hoard of directors, com posed of 3 6 persons, lay and clergy being represented, was unanimously elected by "each, of the groups involved in the con solidation. Each society will re tain its own financial status, and each will have Its . own - officers. These, however, will work under direct supervision of the officers and directors of the . homo board -the name of the incorporated branches. Those societies merged are the home missionary society, church building society, Sunday school extension society, American mis sionary society, -education society and the Congregational "publishing society. . : , , ' i KIPP SYSTEM ADOPTED Apple flriiwrrt "of ' North wst Or gniiiw at Vaklma Meeting YAKIMA, : Avash., Mayt 28.- ( Al)- More than 100 Pacffic orth,west apple growers organized here - today and adopted the so called , fKlpp" marketing plan which "was formulated at recent meetings, of grower and shippers. The organization, which will be known aar the Northwest Apple Growers -association 'will Include seven district bodies, - ALflli NTHV shis mm Northwest Company Owns 3 T Claims; Operating Two Lirge Tunnels - TRACES OF GOLD FOUND Woi-k IVoj;j-sKin!t Rapidly In Tun neln; Neiv Dwellings Contem plated; Timber, Wafer And Ore Plentiful lly 11 1 )S. MeSherry Nestling in the heart of the cas cade mountains beside the clear waters of the beautiful Little North Fork of the Santiam river is the settlemen; of the Northwest Copper Mining company. The property, whiulj is situated in the Lester Mining flistrict of Marion county, has an elevation of I ,fiflf feet at the camp while the adja cent mountains tower upwards to the height of r,.-W)fi feet. The cli mate in this region is ideal in as much as there are many, warm days, a fair amtount of snowfall during the winder months with rain in the fall ,-nd spring. Cool mountain breeze make' the sum mer months most;'enjoyable. Site Easily! Accessible , This ideal mining site is easily accessible, beiiic only ."0 miles from Salem, while the nearest railroad station is at Lyons a dis tance of 24 miis. Tlie trip to the mine may be fljade in an auto mobile and along the entire route many wonderful cenes unfold. ine paveq mgmvay exienus as j far as Mehama and the remaining (Continued m"pn 4.) ' SCENES WEAR NORTHWEST COEEERXOMPAN Y--S GAMP - ir j- r - - j- i i m in ii - J rwnw mmt'imm--im-w"m-.-.4vsr , , - - ' -t- Jgk V Himv Mof 1111 V iVv: '-if h . rJi H. V'-'" 4- 5 tX V 'V- I ! 77r -;: . t'i, M ' ' X .C -r. n. ,fJrr:. , - " " " """Mi" .' iimJ.iiii i i . ii . ii iiiiii ni miummmumwih . iigg . - --v --":., 3m U:;, - ,. I) X HMsimmi- "T"" TVIP . w--" i l( i,'-1 2 ' f . "."'".' A j"",, ' " -ttfr-'-'. .-I " "i-n i ,; ; .v Topt General view; of ca tidu'- r; Lower: Gold Creek-iid-numeleading to power-plant. STARVING; FALLS BY RESTAURANT MAN CAME FROM PKXNSYL, VAXIA; FINDS NO WORK Sells Car in California; Came to Oregon; ' I-Ywwllcss Since Monday SILVERTOX, Ore., May 28. (Special) Perhaps the first time in the history of Silverton as a city did a starving man. a strang er, faint upon the. streets of Sil verton. Shortly before one o'clock a young man between 3." and 40 years fainted outside tlie Cozy restaurant. Passersby picked him up and took him into Porter's store where a doctor was called. When the doctor .arrived the stranfrer was able to say "I'm not sick. I'm hungry." lie looked at those standing around him and asked. "Can't any one give me a slice of bread." When food was brought he had to he restrained by forte for fear that he would (Continued on Vase 2.) 'WOODEN LEG DAY' PLAN Governor Receives Tetter Urging Xeed Re Supplied "WooAen Leg Day' is the latest to claim attention of the observing public. Coventor Patterson yes terday received a request from George K. Acdain, editor of the St. Thomas, Va.,' News, to give his moral support to the new ! movement. Audain, ( who takes credit for seeing this new idea first, explains that there must be in many communities people who are minus an arm or a leg and who are too poor to supply thevneees sary artificial limb. He suggests that as a part of the regular Fourth of July-program each yeara the people of such communities supply this need wherever it is found to exist. Center: Water fall ont Little W. U. GRADUATION PROGRAM GIVEN MARSHALL DANA TO GIE COMM FXCEM EXT ADDRESS Seniors To Undergo Oral Examina tions; tJraduatcs To Re Announced Marshall N. Dana, associate edi tor of the Oregon Journal, -will de liver the commencement address for Willamette university grad uates this year, it lias been., an nounced.. The exercises will be held Monday, dune 13, 10 a. m. 'Trustees, faculty members, and seniors will assemble at Eaton Hal). !): i.tnii so hi i no r 11 si and Methodist church in a body for the impressive proceedings. , Mr. Dana who was selected to give the main address is a gradu ate of Denison university, Gran ville. Ohio. He Is prominent in many Portland affairs, and was especially active during the World war. He is president of the Port land Federation of churches, and is a Baptist. He is considered a strong editorial writer and an ex cellent speaker. President Carl Gregg Doney will confer the degrees and announce the prizes and honors. Music will he furnished by students from the University school of music. Fol lowing the exercises there will be an alumni business meeting and in the evening the annual alumni banquet will be an important event. The exact number of seniors who will graduate this year has not yet been announced as many of the senior oral examinations are not completed. According to a ruling enforced for the first time last ar. no one may attain atde gree without first submitting to searf ! ins; '?iraI fl"iz over the field jo? the candidates major. The list of graduates will he, made known (Contimiod eu" paj;e 8.) N6rth4Fprk of Santiam - river. ; ' i ; ' BELGIUM'S K!i GIVES ILCOiE TO U. S. AIRMAN Lindbergh Knighted in Order of Leopold; Othr Honors Bestowed FRENCH PLANES ESCORT Thousands father to Greet At lan tin's Conqueror as He Alights; Royalty and Di plomacy Represented BRT'SSELS, May 2R iAP) A royal welcome here awaited Captain Charles Lindbergh who flew from Paris to Brussels to day. Within two hours after he brought the "Spirit of St. Louis" down upon Belgian soil. King A1--1 bert had received him at the pal ace, showered congratulations on him for his conquest of the Atlan tic and pinned on his coat the in signia of Knight of the Order of Leopold. A little later in the afternoon he was presented with the highly coveted gold medal of the Royal Aero Club, an honor that only five other airmen, all Belgian citizens, have received. These are Willy Coopens, Lieut. Thierry, Maurice Medaets. Jan Olieslager and Er nest De MuyteT. The Belgians say that Llnd burgh has "become a sixth member of this little fam ily arid thus is a sort of adopted son of Belgium." Only "Foreign Member. Today the Belgians showed they love hero ic "prowess and as the best proof of this they emphasized the fact that Captain Lindbergh Is the only foreigner thus far iid "mltteir to the family of Belgian heroes of the air, , The American airman - was es corted all the-way from Paris by a flotilla of French airplanes and was !Tiiet at the border - by two squadrons 'of Belgian army planes. Thousands Greet. k Lindbergh landed through the the" center of a wide circle of es corting planes, coming to the earth as gently as a bird alighting. Thousands on thousands of Bel gians and others had watched his silver plane circling the city, and he was cheered by the vast throng as he came down. James C. Dunn, the American charge de'affaires and Henri Jas par. the Belgian premier, met him. Within the next two hours he had not only bees received by the king and' the royal family, but had shaken hands with most of the members of the cabinet and sev eral ambassadors. iHailed by Belgian Everywhere he w-eht" through the streets the populace of Brus sels hailed him; heartily. He met the members of I the American colony at his country's embassy and vislteJ the Tomb of the Un-1 Known seuiier ano; tne monument to the. Beglian airmen who had died in battle. At both places he deposited a wreath. Tonight he "was the guest Of honor at a dinner given by the American club. In the course ot the afternoon the flier made his first speech from a balcony, al though he had been called but upon many of them to the Euro pean crowds. - "A week ago thfs very mo ment, he said 'I vraa brer the (Continnpd oil fsi 8.) DWELLINGS HIT SLUMP Iirge Permit for Repairs Thwarts Decrease. Boring Week But for the $."i0,00n permit for repairs taken out at the city re corder's office Monday for repairs on the main building of, the Ore gon State hospital,, building per mit totals for the week would, have swffered a collapse. From the auspicious average of two houses per day, set in the first three weeks of May. the building ferer dropped until only four builders appeared for per mits this week, and one of those for repairs. j Thus, far during the month the total has reached $235, 825 which with a good day" May 31, should reach the quarter million mark. : . New. dwellings were registered by W. W. Ellis. 875 N. Liberty street $5000; G. Viola Brotherton, 1570 Davidson and . 9C5 Cross, both $3600 and C. A. Brown. 356 Bush street, '11 SO 0. II. R. Craw ford will repafr j n,s residence at 134 0 Court street . at a., cost of $1000. r . SEVEN INJURED IN TWO WEEKS J. H. MACK RECEIVES POS SIBLE SKULL FRACTURE Fite Automobiles Participate In ' Crashes ; 'One Badly Bam- ' aged Seven people, were Injured and five automobiles wrecked in two accidents on the Pacific highway a short distance north of Wood burn yesterday, John II." Mack, 71, of Woodburn, is in a- critical condition with a fractured shoulder and possible skull fracture and Dr.- Thomas Sims of Woodburn is suffering with -a fractured upper Jaw and severe lacerations about the head, the result of an effort to evade the skidding machine driven by Mrs. B. F. Bier, 440 Monroe street Corvallis. ' Mrs. Bier was driving north at 11 a. m., -according to her report, and in attempting to avoid an other car started a (long skid which put her own car out of con trol. Dr. Sims, driving , sctuth, headed for , the ditch to avoid a collision, but turned too sharply and skidded Into the rear o! the Bier car, turning over Into the ditch. - 'either Mrs. Bier nor three other occupants of her machine were injured, although their car was badly damaged. Mack was thrown head-long to the pavement iid received the full force of tie fall on his shoulder and head. The second accident occurred at 8 o'clock last evening and took a toll of five injuries and three wrecked automobiles, one almos totally demolished. :-i J. B. Warden and wife of Ore gon City, driving south in a heavy -(Continued on Page 5.) WOMAN INJURED; DIES Clar' King Received Injuries la lagging Train Wreck SILVERTON Or.. May 28. (SpeciaL) Clara King,' who -waa injured on the Silver Falls Timber company tracks near the lumber camps on May 20, in the accident in which Clifford La Mear lost'hts life, died at the Silverton hospital Friday night as the result of the accident, " combined with a rwo-J tured appendix. Miss King has. spent all her life in the Silverton hills. She was the daughter ck Mr. and Mrs. Charles King. : Besides her 1 par- ents she leaves three brothers, Karl, Edwin and Roy, and two sit ters, Mrs. LaVie' Larson and Mil dred King. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Jack & Ekman chapel with interment In the Silverton cemetery. Rev. J. A. Bennett will officiate. SEEK ALLEGED CON MAN Porilahders "Skinned" 'Out of Money and 'Automobiles, Claim'. ' PORTLAND, May 28. (AP) An apparently guileless classified advertisement In the columns ol Portland newspapers turned sev eral thousand dollars Into the packets of two alleged confidence men and left at least four Port land motorists without their .auto-1 mobiles. In return they received $1200 mortgages on ten-acre patches of - Washington t!m&er Iftnd. - : - ' : Portland police are looking for the pahv-one a" happy, bluff "fi nancier," who signed his name "James J. King, president of the King Lumber company, San Fran, cisco," and who also; on occasion, used the names 4J. G. Hart, "Martin." and VO. W. CurtisThe other, said to be a good business man hut not . so big and bluff, signed himself "W. G. Curtis,' "Mr. Scott," "Tracy," and "Sulll van.M .... - . ' .. .' With them wer two women also sought, who are said by'po Hce to have, been Mrs. L. TV Lope r and Miss Luella ' Prewitt, both of Seattle. SOVIET ENVOYS PACKING Britain Directs Its Final ConunsiLU - 'cation "to Consnlate . " LONDON, May 28. (AP) What will probably be the final official British communication -o the Soviet mission in London will be delivered at Chesham House early next week. It will be a list ot the names of those Russians who wlll be permitted to remain In London. ' ' -. Meanwhile hasty "packing and preparations for departure were the order of "the day at Cheshaca House and Soviet" House. . IfllilLM Parade Scheduled for After , noon Followed fcy Pro gram at Armory ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP Services To Bo Held At Cemeteries In Morning; To Pay Tribute To M islonaries; Wreaths ." To lkr Placed Cars Needed , Autos: are needed to carry members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Women's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. Ri and War Mothers fn the parade.'' Don't neglect them. Please re-: port ,to the "undersigned at Marion Square at 1:30 n. mT ' CARLE ABRAMS ' Grand "Marshal -Brerythlng .Is "-.In 'readings for olwervanCe ot Memorial "Day to morrow, Seryfces will start early In. the day and Continue through out the afternoon with all patriotic organizations In the city having promlwentlparts. Exercises at-the monuments and at the Citv View Cemetery under the direction of the Grand Army of the Republic the Women's Relief-Corps and the Spanish War Veterans will open the days program. Service To Honor Missionaries " At 11 o'clock,, special services will be conducted by representa- ttiM Af ih KlmKiill schrwil' tt theology at the Circuit Rider Mon-. Brnent,tn tha" past.' these services primarily to com tne morale mis sionaries, and circuit riders, have been held at the Jason Lee church: This Is .the first lime the Capitol grounds have been used. Dr. John Martin Cause, president of Kimball, will give a short address. Immediately afterward, the min isters wtir proceed to the Jason Lee cemetery for a song' and prayer service. W. T. Rigdon will re cite the names of old missionaries and ministers who . re burled there. , . Honor Sailors And Airmen At 1 o'clock, flowers will be scattered on the 'Willamette river at a service condncted for water and air soldiers by the Women's Relief Corps with President. Acker man in charge. . A benediction by Rev. F. B. Culver will close the Continued oa P 4.) FIRST BIRTHDAY SHOW EXCELLENT TJ. OF O. ORCII KSTRA JOIN'S -IX FIXH PnOfJRAJI Elsiuore Theater Complete! and ! " Oftenlng Xlght Held nit May 2H, 1IK5 The Elsinore theater celebrated Its first birthday last night" with the University ol Oregon orches tra, of, which . Rex Underwood i the director, present to assist with the anniversary program. ' The musical i numbers were augmented ' by the film. "The Whirlwind of Yonth," adapted from ; Hamilton Gibb's very fam ous novel, "Soundings." ; In spite of the Tact that thi is a holiday week-end reasonably large audiences were present for all the attractions last night. . Thp first " orchestra number. Kf etschmar's 'famous "Corona tion"; march received splendid treatment at the hands of such able musicians. The lilting meas ures of the Strauss waltz, "Vienna Life,'!", completed the opening group. - ' -'i Two brilliant Instrumental so loists: with t he orchestra, Doris Helen-Patterson.liarplBt, and N.'a Marnock. violinist, were wavctly received. - 5. - "The Rosary, played in a par ticularly pleasing manner, v:: Miss ! Patterson's first nur.. r. illss i Patterson, the I at; t, though 'only' 17 years old. las th ready' won" national laurels. It . : loterestinff to know that in A; -,l of this year she bad, the trr-r i appearing at the ICati.r l . " convention In Texaa nr.l s . - iBt In a 330-pIece orL .... - The aheer b-cnty ct bock's vlolia tenta la her tation of KrelMer's "Ti - l. . i. - r HQ is