- Salem Will Be Host to Many Guests ; Today, Wi th I O Q F Diamond Jubilee an& Drawing Visitors The Gorilla, the -Greatest Cause of Laughs, Tlirills and Suspense That Ever Overworked Your Funnyborie; at the Elsinore Today mww Weather forecast r Fair oyer east and cloudy over west portion; continued cold; ' gentle variable winds becoming moderate southerly Maximum temperature yester day 37. minimum SO, river 6.0. rainfall ,01, atmosphere clear, wind northwest. ,5x It is said that more than 5,000 sentences hare been remitted or reduced in Germany by President Hindenberg as a result of bis eightieth birthday policy of amnesty. Well this ought to assure him a nice - bloc of votes if he mas again. SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR is-.- SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS I 1 ; ' -. t. -.- -. - i ! lrnT onnuirnn I It COflfiTl frSMf TODAY SCOUT CAMPAIGN STARTS AT ONCE SOLICITATION OP FUXD9 : OPEN THIS MORXIXG TO Every Section of Willamette Valley To Be Represent ed At Meet NEARLY 200 ' EXPECTED Thirteenth Anifual Session of As sociation Opens at Chamber of Commerce Auditorium, ,. At 9: SO a. m. . ' 9 Close to 200 nut growers. eom- lac from all parts of the WlUam ettft Taller, as well as from dis tricts in Washing-ton and -Cali fornia, will he In Salem today for the 13th annual meeting of .the Western Nut' Growers association. All sessions will be held ta .the auditorium of the Salem chamber of commerce T'.v.'V More than . ti3aal . Interest is being manifested In the , conven tion this year, due to the fact that the officers in charge of arrang ing the program hare been espe cially careful In arranging a pro gram that will be really helpful to all members, not merely a discus sion of diseases and their treat ment. ".' Henry Crawford Welcomes., v The sessions. will, open wlthjan address of, welcome at 8:30 afm. by Henry Crawford, a successful orchardlst of the Salem" vicinity as well as an expert on all lines of agriculture. The response will be dellrered by Ira Powell, a grower of the Monmouth district, and M CL4ms of Salem, president of Flisoclation, will speak next on t!XJrogram. -: , - -f Other-addresses in the forenoon will be by Ames of 'Silverton. "Spraying for . Walnut ; Blight and . by S. Llndley of Lebanon. Top Graftlagtnd Nursery Graft ing of Black .Walnuts." - ; : : Committees to Be Named ' " At the afternoon -session Presi dent Adams . will 'announce ... the appointment of committees, and the following talks will be given: "Surrey of Market Conditions (Continued oa pag 4.) '" MARRIAGE VIEW OF LINDSEY HIT Program Here Handicapped; Field for Wider Service Seen by . . Council - The campaign to. raise funds for Boy Scout activities during 1928 will start with a big ,. bang this morning with business men on the street soliciting subscriptions. I Four thousand dollars for the moral an physical welfare ot Sa lem boys are being asked, i .'. : Chief of the solicitors Is George t-VIck who has divided the city Into 20 districts assigning at least two men to cover each dstrlct The campaign baa been held up for some' weeks until It was known definitely, that the " community chest plan would not be inaugur ated this year. , 'The chamber of commerce directors having, voted Monday night that the plan !w Impracticable, it was decided last night to kick-off the Boy; Ccout campaign immediately and carry it through to completion In short and snappy 'fashion. s sV '-yr The Boy Scout- program- has been severely handicapped during the past year by lack of funds, and Harold D. Ware," Scout executive, has been on- only part time serrice. - At the present time, there are 175 Boy Scouts in the city, as signed to eight different droops each supervised by a 'volunteer Scout master. With more funds it will : be . possible to' enroll much greater number. : V . ' The Cascade council was recent ly re-organized and Charles -Wiper elected president. ; - ; ; " 4 TAKE $200,0)0; JEWELS Robbery Effected Friday f Made Public Last Night . Bail DOWNTOWN SITE : OF PLANT ASKED HOLLYWOOD ' CLUB UNANI- 1IOUS IN OPPOSITION GHiGEBEHII Republicans Party Leaders Receive Official State ment At Capitol : After Tolerating CltyDump, Blem- ' ben Believe Should Be r . ' spared Now 'DRAFT' MT TOLERATED Business of Selecting CoaTcntion City for2. 0. P. in 1928 Goes Forward; Frisco and De trolt Combine : t " RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE SAID RIFE IN RUMANL. I American Committee Tours Coun- . try to Carry on Extended i Inrestigatron ' SANCTITY OP i WEDLOCK STRESSED BY DEAN HEWITT Speaker at Yonng Men's Division Meetine Urges 8tndy of Sex V" - Uygiene - - ; . Companionate marriage, as ad vocated by Judge . Ben ' Lindsey, is not the best thing In the world to offer to the jroung people of today, is the firm belief of Dean Roy Hewitt of the law department of Willamette university, who ad dressed a ;, large assemblage - of yonng men at the YMCA last night, : . ;" v "There can be no such thing as a Ttrlal in marriage. said the dean. "Marriage Is too deep, too beautiful, too full of wonderful romance to be devoured, digested and labeled as good or bad in a alnrla ilit.'m wpV nr tMr ' "Marriage Is a continual nn - folding of the deeper and better aides of human nature and 'lasts until death. For. a yonng man or woman to go Into this most sac red of all relationships and pre . sume to pass Judgment on it Is to mark that ' person as a ; supreme egotist Marriage is the oldest institution known to the human race and it will survive, in all Its beauty, after those - who would now blot it out are dead and for- gotten.." l. : - z iean Hewitt's lecture , was en titled, "The Opposite Sex ' Friend , or EnemyT" His talk dealt almost ,,fTirely with a dlscuesion of the , m. - mi ; - fhe pura tone in which he "handl ed his subject lifted It above the level of rnlgarity to the realms of purity, holiness and better living. Tue words or - the speaker-were such as to burn irto the very souls of his ' hearers the Yital impor tance of respect for womanhood and the sanctity of theliome. "The yonng man who takes ad vantage of a pure girl who gives all because she loves and then de serts her. should be hunted like a polecat Into, a corner and trampl ed to death JIke rulture not fit for the company of decent men; Aid Dean Hewitt. C ;r rae speaker . urged upon his youthful hearers a study of eei tji'.Z2.e, sajinf - that; lsnorancs causes more unhaeplness than Is :-sraI!y reaped, LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6. :AP) Theft of Jewely valued at more than 4200,00 from Bernard Reh feir, a New York City consign ment jeweler In a downtown Ios Angeles . hotel, last Friday, was disclosed by' the police r here to night for the first time. - The authorities withheld pub licity of the theft Because they, be lieved . they '! had several clues which might 'result in the cap ture of the thief . Tonight, howev er, the police said that no arrests were " imminent. f: The Jewelry was. in two grips which had - been ; locked Inside a trunk. It consisted of 3,260 pieces of Jewelry, including 14 papers of loose diamonds ranging In size from a quarter to a full karat. five dozen small diamonds rings. 100 gold wrist watches, several diamond : and ; sapphire , bracelets and a quantity ot. other valuable pieces. j -Rebfelt told the officers he had left his room at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and returned two hours later and : discovered ' the " theft. The -thief : or, thieves - arel believed to have used a pass key to gain entrance to the room or to have climbed through a window from an adjoining room. Police ' declar ed It one of the most baffling cas es with which they have contended. Rehfelt : left here tonight for New York to discuss the loss with Insurance companies. il9 said he would return here soon. ' " WASHIKGTON, Dee. 6. (AP) President Coolidge informed the republican' jparty and country today that he regards himself ; as "eliminated" from the presidential campaign of 1S28. ; : T'; He declared' his decision would be respected and advised bis party to eet itself ' seriously to the task of f selecting another candidate." Tho announcement was made public in a speech delivered by the president to members of the e- publican national committee" who called on him at the White House The immediate effect was to elecj trify a meeting which bad been ex-j pected only to produce a polite ,ex-l change of generalities. :f Ur. Coolidge'a words fell with particular force upon those of his friends who have maintained that! despite his "I do not hoose - tol run" statement he had by l no means eliminated himself : and would be "drafted" in 1928. There! remained some mumblings of spec-l ulatlon . but for the most part rnenas ana ; opponents alike re-l ceved .. the pronouncement In silence. - , It took but a few words for the president, to dispose of his Inten- Unanimous opposition to reloca tion of the incinerator on the site of the Oregon Electrlo cravel pit in North Salem was expressed at a meeting of .the Hollywood com manitw dub lastHilght, attended by 'a large, representative group of North Salem citizens. - v The meeting was a special one, Called by Dr m.'A. C. Smith, pres ident, when It became known that the. council Incinerator committee had in mind the purchase of the gravel, pit on which to erect the garbage burner. , Kowfeuternese at . city officials was: expressed by any one present, and the sentiment of the "croup was that 1t would not go so- far as to . restrain' 4he. . city with, an . in junction . , , t , . . The leaders stated their belief that th6 proper location for the in cinerator was downtown along the river front nd not in a residence district -where wagons going- to and from the plant would be offensive-to the taxpayers.. "Iffthe-city.offlclalsrwish to put the incinerator, there contraryHto the unanimous wish, of the clti-. sens, lettthem. go ahead, buUafter these years-cf tolerating-the lty dump, it wilr be wholly unfair -for them to. eaddle us now Srith the Incinerator. The - logical site is along the river front downtown." said Dr. Smith. JEWS SUFFERING BY PERSECUTION fJIf JETEEN ATTEND CLASS Hib. School Held as Usual at New- port With New Principal, , '.Coai!nd On pa; 7.) VIPER KIWA MS LEADER Wins Election In Clone Race With s Byron Wright , By a margin of two rotes on the second ' ballot after the first' had resuUed in a" tie, Charles Wiper was '- elected president of the Salem Kiwanis clob yesterday to succeed Karl Becke, it Wiper's! opposing candidate 1 for the Job was Byron Wright.' The? final vote was 24 to 22. J . .1 1 - Othef officials .elected . were " E. E. Bragg. Tice-presldentj Fritz Slade, treasurer; Rhea Luper, dis trict trustee, and E. C; Albin,1Dr.! C. A. ; Downs, W. W. Chad wick, and Cooke v Pat ton, directors. The secretary will be named by the board ot directors. . ; RAIL' . RATES PROTESTED Charges on Burns Une, f3ald Cn : f lair svnd Discriminatory NEW YORK. Dec 6. CAP) A 'hIdeous campaign of inti midation" and, brutality" against Jews exists in Rumania, the Am erican' committee on the rights of religious unlnorities declared . to day in eT preliminary report on a survey.of thatxountry. . ThU persecution, the commit tee asserts, is not confined to Jews,', but extends in a lesser de gree to other religious minorities. Including the Baptists; Hungarian e peaking Lutherans and - Roman Catholics. - ' t The committee, which is com posed of tlfty citizens of the Uni ted fitates'. e'nt a deputation of a ve to make a -six ; weeks' tour of Rumania byjsutomoblle. The com- mittee has deferred definite ac tion on the deputations report un tULCts members, have been given. an opportunity to study the report inuii. : ; ' ; - ::-ry- y J be violence of which the Bap tists and other groups complain, says the report, is actual and 'Con stitutes a charge of religious persecution-andtherefore1 endangers the highest interests jof the state, church and the prestige of the na tion." " : - -; ' : t j- t ? : The commission in calling, the Rumanian government's attention to tbeHnsgarlan Speaking Luth eran churches urges that a legal status satisfy, ito them be estab lished and that a speedy and sat isfactory .settlement be made of the relations between the .govern ment! land - the Roman Catholic minorities.- 1 BUSINESS IDEAS Bcooiioi Both Branches ot Congress Receive Annual Message At Same Time . ASKS NATIONAL DEFENSE I O. (X F. JUBILEE :PRQGlMTOl4Y 73th AXXIVERSARY OP LOCAL. LODGE CELEBRATED . Frank Martin, Deputy Grand Sire, to be Principal Evening Speaker House of . Iteprceentatives Apr - plaids; Senate Remains Silent : As Clerks Read Official " Commnnications ' - : WASHINGTON, Dec; 6.(AP) -firmly reiteratin'g. the edminia tratlon's' policy " of economy - but suggesting ' a moderate- expansion of the national defense, the annual ' ;The Hansenand Wylle Timber company .and.- Grant and Harney counties have sent a letter to the public service commlaslon'protest ing against the freight rates in ef fect: on-the lines ottahe MalhuT Railroad- company, which, opexaie between -Burns and Seneca. ; i. - It was charged that the rates are exces&ivemnjustt and ttiscrimina- iory.i Whether, the rates will be investigated by the public service commission had not been deter mined Tuesday. . THEATER BURNED DOWN $20,000 Loss Results - When Fire ' Started From Hot Stove i VERNONIA, Ore., Dec 6. ' (AP) Fire," breaking out at an early hour this morning, destroyed the building -of. the Majestic thea ter here, with a loss estimated at $20,000. The - fire -apparently started from an overheated stove. ; A valuable pipe organ in the building was destroyed. The mov ing picture equipment," in a 'fire proof room, was saved. ' - I DRY LEAGUED ORGANIZES Drive Against Liquor. Elements ' Continued by Group - , : WASIIINGTONT.Dec. 6 AYJ The 'Anti-Saloon league, on the eveef adoptthlsf. ajplan ot reorgan- lzauon, tonignt was ; jtold oy Dr. Ernest II. Cherrfngton of Wester- vUle, Ohio, that dissemination of truth and the creation, organiza Uon' and crystallization of public sentiment are the most important functions' of the organization movement against alcohdllsm. . Hfrasked that prohibition lead ers cease to be politicians. t . Prohibition' forces" of America must begin .the adxancemeat and organization of anti-alcohol senti ment In foreign countries because by so doing. Dr. .Cherrington ex-. plained, foreign" liquor manufaci turers would be kept so busy, de fending their situation . at home that they ,.wfll "' be .unable to , at tempt 1 to destroy prohibition "In this country.! " :"My appeal to - the temperance hosts of America is that they, cease to be mere politicians," be de clared. . . THE PARADE OP THE WOULDN'T SOLDIERS .NEWPORT. Ore., Dec AP) -With 18 students in attendance. classes were held as usual today at the high school, over which Mrs Daisy T? Halleck, principal, con tinued to preside in spite of a strike :t of 87 of her " students against her remaining in office. - It was stated that In addition to the It students at their desks to day there were several absent on account of . Illness, and that they would return when they had covered their health. ' The strikers, who ; were ? taken out of school yesterday by their parents because they object to Mrs. Kalleck as principal, reiter ated today that they would not re turn until a man principal is named to' succeed Mrs. Halleck. : The county school ' board; de clared .the incident dosed so far as the board was concerned. Harmony and -ouiet prevailed about the school today. TICKET OFFICE JROEOrtb Bandit Cover Face With Purple V Silk Bandana for Job PORTLAND, Dec . (AP) - His face hidden behind a purple silk bandana, t an armed ' bandit held up and robbed . Miss Grace Coomer and I Grover Handley "of about 1150 in the cashier's booth of the People's theater; here to tilshU After scooping up a money eack containing the cash, he raced to a e!Js street and escaped. j - - - 1 1 i - -'Mi'- . , ; 1 ill -4; VT 1 ill 'v "President Coolidge message if President Coolidge was received today by the new con gress,- - , " . 'v Transmitted to L capitol hill by special messenger, it was read si multaneously , in ; both . houses an d then .ordered printed as a public document..-" f..z,1.'-1-,'- '" t, In the house there was applause as William , Tyler Page, the chief clexkVj read the "concluding words. asserting that America .by "doing good," in 4 walkin g , humble, in sus talning its own, people' would work out. "Its own mighty des tiny." ' rv . In - the . senate , these phrases brought only silence. V . " f ! House. Applauds Dry Stand ,' There was applause at but; one other, time, and that also In. the house, .when the ; sentence . that urged the American people as well as the public officers "to observe the sanctions"; of the prohibition amendment was read. " ' ' The message, one of the longest Odd -Fellows of Chemeketa Lodge No. I. O. O. P., have completed preparations for the di amond jubilee celebration here to day, and are readythi anornlng to welcome the visiting members of the order who wiU come, from all parts ot "the northwest to at tend this commemoration of the ?5th; nniTersary t of the opening of tho first lodge -o f the order, west bf the Rockies. The principal speaker will be Frank Martin, f. Idaho, -' deputy grand sire of the Independent Or der of- Odd Fellows,-'' who will arrive thitf' forenoon at 10:30 o'clock". Air. Martin wil) preside at tBe meeting of f r"fl officers and past grand officers ja 1:30." this afternoon at the lodge rooms in the new Fraternal ; Temple, ! re cently completed. : - - There will be a dinner at the temple at 6 p. m., followed by the regular lodge session. . - Tha -.diamond Jubilee program proper will be an open meeting at the Grand theater, immediately after the lodge session. In addition to the grand lodge officers, whose names were listed in a story of the event in Sunday's Statesman, the following grand encampment officers are expected to be present: - Jesse T. Jones, Portland, grand patriarch: James Shannon, Ore gon City, grand high priest; E. E, Sharon. Portland, grand scribe; A H. Knight, Canby. grand treasur er; O. Iu Haw, Portlands erand senior "warden; E. J. Pratt, Mc Minnville, grand Junior ' warden; J. E. Pickens, . Roseburg,' grand marshal; Soren S'orensonK Amity, grand sentinel; E. H. Shank, Hood nner, grana jpuisiae seniinei; k. G. Henderson, Chemawa, and IL E. Walker, Eugene, grand repre sentatives, ; .-. (0Btia4 a pax 3.) , WATKINS SERVES NOTICE Port lander ' Seeks Betarn of " fleers Salary Amounts . Of COURT LlSTEl'S TO ARGUMEEJT3 Ifl OFFICE Rehearing Held Yestercl-i On Question of New Building At Capitol LEGALITY ISSUE ARGUZi Change In Membership Since Decision Leads to Hope Tlvak -State May Be Snccessf ul in, - . Efforts secondcAndidateout Senator Willis of Ohio Announces Self for Presidency ' WASHINGTON, Dec 6. (AP) Senator Willis, of Ohio, 'tossed his hat into the presidential ring tonight Immediately- after Presi dent Cooldge told republican na tional committeemen that he had "eliminated" . himself from the 1928 presidential situation. . ; f Numerous friends in Ohio and some , ins other states, have .been good enough to mention my name In "connection-with the republican nomination for' the "presidency, Senator Willis said In a ' formal statement.- - "If the republicans of. Ohio feel that ,1 t can creditably represent them as their candidate , In the forthcoming national convention, ! shall feel it a great honor to do so." i This puts two avowed candi dates in the field, both members of the senate, the other being Sen ator Curtis, of Kansas, the repub lican floor leader. Arguments by attorneys in th. suit brought by the Eastern an Western Lumber company to re strain the. state board of contro. from borrowing 1600,000 froa". the state industrial accident coa mission for the construction el r state office building" in Salem were heard by the state supreme court late yesterday.. . Attorneys for the plaintiff cor poration argued that under th constitution the state is restrain ed from entering Into an obliga tion in excess of 350,000, unless the same has the approval of tit voters. It also was contended that the legislature has no control ovtt the . funds of the industrial actfr dent commission.. - ; Use Restricted, Claim These hinds, it was - argned, were contributed by employer and employes under a contract ar rangement, and cannot be used le gally for any purpose other than compensating injured workmen. Counsel for the state board oi control contended that it was sot a violation of the constitution t contract a debt in excess of SS0 000 in event the money involved in the obligation was necessary tor governmental business. The plea also Tras"" made that' the"legisla f ure. was within its rights when It " enacted a law , authorizing the state' board of control to "borrow thl Ttunds of the ; industrial acci dent commission for building pur poses.': .. - -. 4 : Persennel Change Xoted The suit previously was argued in the supreme' court with the re sult thaf ajour of the seven Jus tices held for the plaintiff corpor ation. Three of the justices dis sented, y Since that time Justice Burnett, who voted adverse to the state, -has died and Justice Rosa man of Portland was appointed as his successor. j: - Under the plan adopted by the state board of control money bor rowed from the accident commis sion would be paid back out of"' rentals received from state depart ments and commissions'occupyiai space In the proposed new struo (Continaed oa page 4.) ANDERSON EOVllD PROSECUTE RINGLEADERS Elton Watkins, Portland attor ney, Tuesday . served .notice ; on Governor Patterson, Secretary of State Eozer and State Treasurer Kay that he proposed to file .a suit1 in the cburts to compel them to pay back to the state all com pensation they have received in an official capacity in excess o the salaries authorised by the consti tution. -:". The constitution fixes the sal aries of the secretary of state and governor at $1500 a year, and the state treasurer at 8 0 0 a year. The governor,- under legislative action,, receives $7500 a year. while the secretary of state and state . treasurer, receive iszoo a year. None of the officials has replied to Mr. Watkln's letter. GIRLS' LEAGUE ELECTS 6 Convicts Who Led Thanksgiving . Day Riot Held for Trial - ' Ladle Cvmmrngs Named Presi dent of New S. II. S. Group FOLSOM. Cat, Dee. .(AP). The six ringleaders of the Thanksgiving day mutiny at Fol som prison that resulted ' in 13 deaths, today were held to answer on a murder charge to the super ior court.. The order was made by justice of the Peace John Leon ard before whom the preliminary examination, which began yester day morning was held. - . tu six ringieaaers wno were charged with the murder of Guard Ray. Singleton, v- are Anthony Brown; James IL Gregg, James Gleason, A. M. Stewlirt, Walter E. Burke, and Koy E. Stokes. . - District Attorney. Neil McAHIs ler wno conaucted the - prosecu tion's case announced that murder informations against the Six would be filed in the superior court to morrow ana tnat they wonM h arraigned on the first open date Xuclle Cummings, a . senior prominent In1 musical affairs at the high school, was elected presi dent -of the. newly organized Girls' League at the balloting yes terday afternoon . Miss " Cum mings will he a delegate from Sa lem to the students' conference at, University of Oregon in -January. . , " ." -.:.ii-.--;"r-r;Vif Other officers chosen yesterday were Esther Wood, vice-president ; Lucile Harlond, secretary; ',-Faaye Henderson, treasurer; and Elolse L White, chairman of the constitu tion committee. ; . - .The candidates were nominated by a special nominating committee composed of Acnabelle Tooze, MyrUa UurrhyvEdith . Findley, and BlUie Cupper. CLUB TO MEET TONIGHT Southeast Salem Groan ta . Officers at Session Elect iiowva person; trithj a $1000 nome can mate it, appear much more valuable by Judicious plant ing of shrubbery and flowers will be told to members of the South east Salem improvement club at the regular meeting in the Knight Memorial church tonight, by Mrs William Everett Anderson. f Ura. Anderson win also describe flowers she saw on her recent trip to Alaska. . ' - " ; . unicers ior tne coming , year will be elected at the meeting to night, aril a resume of the past year given." OVER, BAIL A f '' A W Lw C. BALL niEXTTFIEa ILt;j SET IN COURT Much Interest Shown in Tt . Charge By Turner and ; "", . SUyton Folk ' ?Walford T. Anderson was rev ter day bound over to tbe Mar:ca county grand jury on a charge cl receiving stolen goods, followic a hearing in Justice court Defers J ustlce , of " the ' Peace . Bras: 3 Small, , . . - - .Anderson, : a Stayton rars- owner, is accused of having had 1 his possession some II radio t. : : that were stolen from the gart- of Ball Brothers of Turner. The small Justice court rc ri was filled, with nearly 30 persons present at the bearing, most, ci them having come from Stay . 1 and Turner. -. Anderson was represented t three attorneys, Guy O. Smith c Salem. Verle A. Goode of Stay t j and Clarence Butt of Newter;. Butt is state senator from Y . hill county. - At the hearing a radio set fc 1 In Anderson's possession was 1 ; -tified by-L. C. Ball of Turner i s being one stolen from the far. j operated by.hlmself and h!s trc ther at Turner. The theft ; . made last 'April it was state i. An unsuccessful attempt ' made .by defense courtel to 1 the amount f bail re T are L c lnally the amount of 1 ail vzn l at $3000 but later It ra' $4000, which was rut up !,r . -derson Mon-2ay .8ftern.oon. ', the result that he vrasi re! : 3 that. time. '- ,". Anderson's t!ster, vho r from .San Francisco I -:. I ; ;-. Reside h'.ra during th ! yesterday. IJh rl'a - lb. :" They tct'i x-v ::. -: I ti ," 1 tea with hl;i : - - r f - ' -