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First Steps in Developing School Athletic Field and Playground Advancing Rapidly; District Is Fortunate to Have Such a Tract Spread Between What Groiver Here Gets and Easterner Pays for Black Cherries too Large; Better Organization of Growers Needed Weather forecast: Generally fair bat with cloudiness in west portion; tempera .tares generally below normal with rising humidity; moderate winds. Maximum tein . peratare yesterday 80, minimum 51, river -2. rainfall none, atmosphere clear, wind northwest. TWO SECTIONS 2 FOURTEEN PAGES SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 20, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS SUSPECT SAYS INPOHDLOUP "Dutch Pete" Breaks Down After Being Subjected to Third Degree ACCOMPLICE IN OREGON Officers Throughout This State Warned to be on Lookout for William Herder; Road ster Found EUREKA. CaL, July 19. (AP) Pete Stroff, better known as "Dntch Pete" broke down after nearly 24 hours of Questioning here this afternoon and admitted complicity in the Willow Creek postofflea robbery- July 13 in which a' deputy sheriff and a ban dit lost their lives." Stroff said three men committed the crime and named William Herder, al leged Oregon criminal, as the missing man. , Stroff, without steep since early yesterday, told District Attorney S. E. Metzler, that he planned the robbery and that the threecame to Eureka from Portland to put his plan into effet. Denies Part ia Fight - He denied engaging in the gun battle with officers in which Dep uty Sheriff William Carpenter and John W. Bishop, one of the ban dits, were killed. He had a sawed- off shotgun lie said, and intended to fire but Bishop was in the way ana ne eouia noi use nis weapon without endangering his compan ion's life. Stroff told of emptying the stolen safe of about $500 and of the flight In the -small wire wheeled roadster. After the bat tle in which two were killed, Stroff leaped into the brush and wandered through galleys .and over mountain spurs until his cap ture yesterday.' ' r-y The roadster was-located today at Oregon City, 12 miles from Portland. Herder will be hunted in Oregon by police and sheriff's officers armed with a description furnished by Stroff. Has Ixn Record Stroff, or Dutch Pete, has serv ed three prison terms, or 28 years in all. He is 52 years old. He said tonight that he would seek to be prosecuted on the federal charge of robbing a United States post office as conviction in a coun ty court of a fourb crime would . mean imprisonment for life. The authorities quoted Stroff as raying he. Bishop and Herder .came here by automobile from Portland last week. On July 12 they stopped at A. Brizar's store and post office and made some purchases. Noticing the "layout" he said, they decided to return and (Continued on pace 4.) FIVE FROM HERE TO GREET BISHOP NEW HEAD OF PORTLAND AREA METHODISM DUE Committee of Ministers aad Prom Inent laymen Will Meet at Train Five prominent Methodists of Salem will go to Portland today to greet Bishop Titus Lowe, new leader of the Portland area of the Methodist Episcopal church. They include President Carl O. Doney of Willamette university. Dr. D. H. Leech, Dr. A. S. Hisey, Rev. Thomas Acheaon and Dr. B. L. S'eeves. A large number of ministers and prominent laymen will be on hand to meet the bishop's train, which arrives early this morning, andj win escort him to the BenGon hotel. Here ho will spend the day meeting Oregon conference offi cials with whom he will be asso ciated tor the next several years. The four district superinten dents of the Oregon conference Ul I I1C UiUU tUUlCICUtO will be in Portland to meet Bishop Lowe, and other out-of-town mem bers of the committee will consist of delegates to the general con ference of the church, held last Fpring in Kansas City. . . Mrs. Lowe and their daughter will come to Portland later, and aner tneir arrival a formal re ception of conference-wide propor tions will be held here. The ten tative date has been set for Au gust 14. Since the general eon- terence Bishop and Mrs. Lowe and their daughter have been visiting relatives in Waterloo. Ia. msnop Lowe formerly was ''bishop of Sinaanore and before mat was secretary of the board Of xoreign missions. - . Members of the committee other than those from Salem which will meet Bishop Lowe's train include Dr. A. L. Howarth, chairman. wr. i. l.. Eliot. Ernest W. Peter son. Dr. Wllbert Dowson. O.-C. Bortzmeyer, Dr. J. C. Harrison. E Collins, Amedee M. Smith. . Dr W. Youngson. Dr. Paul E. Ed wards. Rev. C. B. Harrison. Rev. Hugh B. Fouke. Jr, John T. Col lier. J. J. Brauer, Earl Finn, E. L. Wells. Rev. S. J. Chaney, Eu gene; Rev. Sydney Hall, McMlnn Me; Dr. O. W. Gregg, Aahland SUSPECT STROFF ACTIVITIES HERE PLOT TO BLOW STATE TREA - URY VAULT RECALLED Dynamiting of Capitol Theater Safe Credited to Mam Arrest ed la Sooth Shortly after the Capitol thea ter safe was cracked last winter, Joe Murray, bookkeeper at the state penitentiary, took a look at the "remains." "Looks like 'Dutch Pete's' work." was his brief comment. Murray didn't hare to go into detail, because every officer up and down the coast knows "Dutch Pete" Stroff, generally conceded to be .the most expert and cun ning cracksman in the west. Yesterday Stroff was arrested for robbery of the postoffice at Willows. California, and immedi ately facts with respect to his sus pected visit here last winter came to light. Among other things, "Dutch Pete" was credited with having plotted to blow the vanlt la the state treasury department here. A few months ago Salem offi cers received word from federal officials in Portland that Stroff and a number of other ex-convicts had slated a number of robberies in the Willamette valley. . The state treasury "department was In cluded in the list. For more than a month federal and city officers guarded the state treasurers of fice but Stroff and his compan ions failed to make an appear ance. The Information from federal officers was received by the Sa lem police shortly after the safe in the Capitol theater had been dynamited and Tobbed. Stroff was said to have been tipped off to the federal officers by an ex convict who recognized the yegg man while on one of his periodi cal visits to Salem. A few days after the Capitol theater safe was robbed a strong box in the Newport postoffice was dynamited. Stroff's companions were not identified by the in former. Salem officers said that Henry Schmidt, former Oregon convict. probably was one of Stroff's com Dsnions. Schmidt was received at the state penitentiary here from Klamath county in 1910 to serve a term or iz years ror rosoery. He was paroled in 1917. - t ' ,2 TURTLE LIVES 70 YEARS Florid Animal Real Rival Horned Toad from Texas to BOSTON, July 19. (AP) The Texas horned toad that lived for thirty years in a cornerstone was outclassed today when work men said they found a seven-inch turtle alive in a block of wood, which was to be used In the re construction of the U. S. S. "Old Ironsides" at the Charlestown na vy yard. I - Workmen cutting a large block of wood on a plane saw a foreign substance on the plane. They in vestigated and found the turtle Imbedded in the wood. The plane had taken a slice off its nose. They hacked and carved the wood until the turtle was released and it was given to Lieutenant John Lord! who is in charge of the reconstruc tion of tire old battleship. The wood was recently brought here from Pensacola, Fla.. where It had lain under water for more than 70 years. ; WOOL MEN MAKE TOUR Eartern Oregon Cities to be Visit ed by Sheep Growers ?' ; PENDLETON, Ore., Joly 19. (AP) Nine Oregon cities promi nently identified with the wool in dustry, will be visited by leaders of the industry of Oregon in a tour to start on July 2s and to end on August 9. Members of the party will Include K. G. Warner of Pilot Rock, president of the Ore gon Wool Growers' association;' Walter A. Holt, Pendleton, secre tary; James Kershaw, wool-grading expert of the Pacific Cooper ative Wool Growers' association ; Dr. W. H. Lytel of Salem, state' veterinarian; Harry LindgrenJ Oregon State college .specialist;! Stanley Jewett. Portland, in survey; Fred fnuiips, .Baser, vice . . - i.i frur": " Vw. ir-r. The group will visit Enterprise, Baker, Vale, Canyon City, Lake view. Prineville. Shaniko. Fossil and Heppner. MEGAPHONES SERMONS Evangelist Gets Hearing Despite Anti-Speaking Ordinance , One Salem evangelist has found a method of getting a hearing downtown, despite the recently enacted ordinance prohibiting street speaking within the area bounded by Commercial. Ferry, High 'and Chemeketa streets,' i Alderman Paul V. Johnson, head of the police committee of the Council, heard distinctly a ser mon being preached downtown the other day. but he couldn't lo cate the source. . ' ; After gazing wildly op r and lown the street, he finally solved .he mystery. The broad end of a negaphone was protruding from :he open window of a downtown nls&lon which Is located on the econd floor of a building, and "rom it the words emanated.' The sermon could be heard clearly for a considerable area. , F AST HARDEST DIVORCE STUDY Half of Separations in Mar ion County Secured With in That Period STUDENTS MAKE SURVEY w Complaints Contested; 100 Children Affected; Cruelty Most Usual Cause; "Hus band Scotch, Says One 't . j 4 . 1 t m aaiiua i-uumy mere were 5T3 marriage licenses granted in the year 1927. During the same year there were 19 ( complaints for divorce filed and decrees granted In 128 cases. These figures are given in a survey made by Mrs. Mary Kells and Miss Pearl Craig of Willam ette university. The project was worked out in conenctlon with course in sociology under the di rection of Dr. S. B. Laughlin. Two-thirds In Xorthwest Of the 12S couples granted de crees. 47 were married in Oregon; 36 were married in Washington from which number 20 were mar ried in Vancouver. Thus. Oregon ana Washington marriages con tributed exactly two-thirds of the cases. California and Idaho each had five complaints and Montana had six. Marriages were broken which were performed as far away as Nebraskka, the Dakotas, Michigan, Wisconsin and even New York. In most cases these couples had been married longer than those farther weat; the av erage for these eastern marriages was close to 10 years. j"" Vancouver Cases Eyed Oregonians are inclined to look askance at the Vancouver, Wash lngton, weddings, and special In vestigation into these Cases was nude. Of the whole number of decrees granted, approximately JLt per cent were of the Vancouver variety. The Vancouver weddings had lasted an average of a little over five years; in two cases mar riage had continued for over 10 (Continued on pago 4.) TWO CHILDREN DROWNED Eleven Year Old Astoria Lad Lost Near Astoria ASTORIA. Ore., July 19. (AP). Death by drowning claim ed - its second child victim in as many days in this vicinity when Charles Henry Johnson. 11, was lost off a scow in the Columbia river near Knappton late today. The boy was playing on the scow when it capsized. He was taken from the water within a few min utes after he fell in, but resusci tation failed. Yesterday, Arne Hermanson. 5 years old, drowned wnen ne leu into the Columbia through a hole! in the platform of the Wilson I boatyard here. SCIENTISTS ill ' J Airplane propellers are to be studied exteaslrely in a big wind tunnel built at Washington b the national advisory committee for aeronautics, to determine 'more accurately how they may be lir proved. -Above is a view of the propeller research tunnel inside, the test' chamber with a plane i nosltlon. At ftie lower left Is a view along the exit: cone of the tunnel to a 1 S-foot propeller undc ,teatr.and at.the.right.il. the outlet G. O. P. TO SPEND THREE MILLION PLAN'S PERFECTED FOR FI XAXCING HOOVER DRIVE New Yorrk Banker Appointed Eastern Treaswrer of Cam paign Fnnds, Announced WASHINGTON, July 19 (AP) Preparations for financing the Hoover campaign moved forward here today, with the appointment of Jeremiah Milbank. New York banker, as eastern treasurer and an announcement by J. R. Nutt, treasurer of the republican na tional committee, that at least $3,000,000 probably will be util lxed in the party drive for the presidency. Milbank will open headquarters in the New York City at once, as a preliminary to solicitation of funds, he will appoint a contribu tors' committee chairman for New York state and other assistants to facilitate money raising through out the east. "There will be no. fixed limit, publicly or privately placed upon campaign subscriptions." said Nutt, adding that "all contribu tions and all expenses will be a matter of public record at all times. Mrs. Alvin Y. Hert. vice-chairman of the national committee, also arrived today to plan for the meeting of eastern committee women next Tuesday. She was assisted by Mrs. His A. Yost, West Virginia committeewoman, and Mrs. Mabel Walker WUIebrandt. assistant attorney general, who played a prominent part in the Kansas City convention. Nutt and Chairman Work, of the committee, conferred on the campaign budget, but no conclu ions were announced. It was said at. committee headquarters that Nutt would return to Cleve land at once to continue work on the budget; with a likelihood that another such conference, would be neia next weea. In estimating that between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 would be needed to advance the Hoover pause. Nutt remaraea mai me former amount had been, used in the Coolldge campaign of lour rears ago. "We have a harder tight on our hands this time," he added, expressing the opinion that $3,000,000 could not oe consiaer- er an excessive expenditure. "There will be two divisions tor Ooatio pc 4.) CITY BONDS HELD VALID Attorney General Gives Opinion On Salem's Bridge Issue Since they were adopted as amendments to the city charter, the sewer and bridge bond issues voted a year ago by the city of Salem are legal even though they did not receive a two-thirds ma jority as is required of bond is sues under an earlier provision of the charter, it was stated in an opinion Bent by Attorney General I. H. VanWinkle Thursday to State Treasurer T. B. Kay. It was understood that the opinion was asked for the reason that the state was considering bid ding' on the $100,000 block of bridge bonds which the city coun cil voted to issue, at Monday's meeting. The opinion also holds that it was not necessary to state in the measure what bridges were to be constructed. STUDY A IRPLANE 1 1 ot JJi.Unjiei . HiiiWttL HOOVER REFUSES KISSES FOR BABY cheap publicity stuff not TO BE INDULGED IN Republican Candidate Declares He Will Not Perform Stunt for Publication ABOARD HOOVER TRAIN ELKO, Nev., July 19. (AP) This Isn't going to be a baby-kissing campaign so far as Herbert Hoover, the republican presiden tial candidate, is concerned. He made this clear today dur ing a stop of his train at Montello, Nevada, when a fond mother held up her baby for a kiss. . "I will .kiss no baby for pub lication." ' Mr. Hoover said, and his friends explained afterwards that he regarded such tactics as beneath his dignity as a candidate for the highest office in the coun try. The mother then asked that be hold the baby while her son took a picture of them. With this request the candidate complied. ABOARD HOOVER TRAIN. ELKO. Nev.. July 1& (AP) Crossing the. Rockies and. the great desert in Utah and Nevada along the overland trail, Herbert Hoover today viewed again the scenes of many years of his la- bots as a mining engineer. Until i nation-wide mourning for Presi the World war broke out he spent-1 dent-Elect Alvaro Obregon, who years In this part of the country 1 was assassinated last Tuesday. developing mining property. As his special passed across Salti MEXICO CITY, July 19 (AP) Lake and entered the desert coun-j As the body of President-Elect try, the republican presidential j Alvaro Obrepon sped on a special nominee gazed from his private' funeral train to bis native state car wjtn interest upon tne nuts and plains where he spent many years of his life, and he was quick to point out this or that place of Interest to his associates and friends. This proved the first real day of rest the nominee has had since the Kansas City convention made him the party standard bearer Just t month ago today. He had no po litical conferences and calls for his appearance on the rear plat form were few in this sparsely set tled section of the country At Ogden, Utah, the first stop of the day. he told a large crpwd that greeted him how happy he was to be back again in the west and he gave a similar message to the folks at Montello, Nevada, the second stop. There the candidate shook hands with some of the crowd A brief stop was made at Wells, Nevada, were the com merce department is building a flying field with a view to build ine up a route between Butte, Montana, and Los Angeles. From over the rail of the back platform the commerce secretary conferred (Continued on pr 4. STORMS SWEEP ILLINOIS Fonr Killed and Large Amount of Damage Done, Report CHICAGO, July 19. (AP) Four persons .are dead and hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth of crops and property is ruined as the result of a wind and rain storm which swept north east Illinois today. The wind, which at times reach ed a velocity of 64 mes an hour, blew one man from a roof to his death and blew down a high ten sion electric wire on another, elec trocuting him. PROPELLERS 4 HIT 1 r I POLICE EFFECT 1 E R STS E Mexico City Again Tranquil After Intense Excitement For 2 Days QUIET FUNERAL PLANNED Censorship of News Dispatches Removed as Situation Becomes More Peaceful;. Church Element Suspected MEXICO CITY. July 19. (AP). The permanent commis sion of congress today ordered a special session of that body to convene July 30. presumably to act on the question of presiden tial succession. At the same time the commis sion ordered a nine-day period of of Sonora, further arrests were made today in connection with his assassination. Official announcement of the additional arrests was made, but the identity of those taken into custody and their total number were not revealed by Chief of Po lice Zertuche pending further in vestigation. Today the police continued ex animation or relatives and asso ciates of the 23 year old art stu dent. Joe de Leon Toran, the ac cused slayer. In an official state ment President Calles has said that Toran confessed that religious fanaticism motivated his crime.- Mexico City itself settled down today to. every outward appear anee of tranquility after two days of excitement never surpassed even In this city of exciting his tory. During the. day censorship which was imposed several hours after the assassination was re moved. Wishes Carried Out General Obregon's often-ex pressed desire and also the wishes of his widow are being followed in the quick sending of his body home for burial. Obregon had said that when he died he did not I want pomp and ceremony. ne wanted to be buried as soon and as simply as possible in his "dear Sonora home." His widow sim ilarly did not wish the body to re main any longer resting in state at the capital and asked it to be sent home without delay. Obregon's supporters are grat ified by President Calles' prompt action in temporarily turning ov- (Cantinuec on pace 4.) DUCE INVOKES GAG RULE Members of Italia Crew Xot lowed to Relate Story AI- ROME, July 19 (AP) Pre mier Mussolini today ordered all survivors of the Italia disaster to return to Italy and in the mean time to refrain from all messages, decorations and interviews. The premier's decision, brought about by misunderstandings which have arisen as the result of re ports from Spltzbergen, was wide ly approved by the press and pub lic. It is thought here that some ef "the interviews and statements given out by rescued members of the expedition, because of the nec essity of their being translated in to other languages, gave a false Impression of the events preceding and following the disaster to- the dirigible, . The rescued men will be taken to Narvik, Norway, by the base shin Citta Di Milano and from there will proceed directly to Italy, Later the Citta di Milano will re turn to King's bay to continue searches for the six men of the Italia's crew who are still missing. ITALIA MEN REACH BASE Vociferous Cheers Mark Arrival of .. . Rescued Explorers OSLO. Norway. July 19. (AP) The newspaper Tidens reports 'hat upon the arrival of the Rus sian ice breaker Krassin at Kings Bay the Italian survivors of the Italia's crew were Immediately j-ansferred to the Oitta Di Milano .midst wild cheering. "All were, well except. Captain Vlfredo Mariano, rescued member 'f ; the- Italia's "walking party," "hose leg was amputated. " last ; ednesday - aboard the Krassin ' -cording to the newspaper. AIL TO FIND AMUNDSEN Vport Indicates Ice Breaker Ma lignia Abandons Search BERLIN, July If (ApWjt . reported here tonight that the "' -vM,ker, Mallxin had been vnsttceeasfnl fa its search for the 'missing Amundsen 'party and benn its return royags dlrec' to ArchasgsL N PROHIBITIONISTS HAVE OWN GROUP AllyllTH BE FOUGHT .THROUGHOUT SOUTH V- Tammany Man Subject of Severe Criticism at Gathering of Democrats ASHKVILLE. N. C. July 19. (AP) An active campaign to win the south for Herbert Hoover, re publican nominee for the presi dency, will be carried on by the dry anti-Smith democrats, an or ganization of prohibitionists form ed here today at the concluding session of a two-day conference. Election of dry democratic con gressmen, state officials and coun ty officials also will be sought. The campaign will be carried on by an executive committee to be composed of a man and a wo man from each of the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Miss issippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis souri, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia. South Caroli na and North Carolina. Headquarters probably will be established at Richmond, Va., the Home of Bishop -James Cannon, Jr.. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who with Dr. J. A. Barton, of Atlanta. Baptist leader, called the meeting here. The organization at an execu tive session this morning adopted a lengthy statement of aims and principles. The statement attacked Governor Alfred E. Smith, demo cratic nominee, and national dem ocratic Chairman John J. Raskob, on lour points after exDlalnlnr that every member of the confer ence was a democrat and adding: While declaring our unswerv ing allegiance to the principles of true democracy and our determin ation to labor to preserve the spir it, ideals and unity of our south ern democracy we have deliber ately and finally decided that we cannot support Governor Alfred B. Smith, the nominee at the Houston convention, for president of the United States and we here by pledge ourselves as anti-Smith democrats, to use all proper and honorable means to secure his de feat. This decision is based on the following reasons: "First, Governor Smith's repu- aiaiion or the Houston platform on prohibition. "Second: Governor Smith's wet record. "Third: Governor Smith's selec tion of a wet republican as chair man of the democratic national committee. "Fourth: Governor Smith's re lation to Tammany Hall." CARRANZA GIVEN HONORS Every Possible Courtesy Paid to Memory iof Mexican ABOARD CARRANZA FUN-. ERAL TRAIN AT ST. LOUIS, July 19. (AP) Had Captain Emilio Carranza lived to make a good will tour of the United States in the plane whose twisted, battered remnants are traveling with his body toward his home would have found such a magnl- would have foun dsucn a magni ficent display of friendship a3 greets this funeral train at every point along the route. All branches of the American military service, civilian author ities, and plain, every day citizens, have met the tran at each stop. Artillery has roared' in salute; planes have drjnea overhead; troops have stood at "present arms" and bands have piryen their dolorous funeral music and the Mexican national anthem. When the train halted at Day ton, O., Colonel Samuel Rojad. military attache of the Mexican embassy at Washington, accepted the floral tribute of the United States army. Profoundly moved. he thanked the donors in the name or tne army of Mexico. One of the most impressive cere monies thus . far was at Indian apolis, where selected troops of the 11th regiment of infantry lin ed the station platform at present arms while the regimental band played Mexico's national anthem. As the train passed through Terre Haute, Ind.. shortly after noon, four planes swooped low and drop ped flowers. AMELIA VISITS CHICAGO High School Days Recalled When Avlatrix Comes Back CHICAGO, July 19. (AP) I ne young woman who left Chi cago at a sweet girl graduate came back, today as . a Trans-Atlantic neroine tne nrst of her sex to span the -ocean by air. For four days, Amelia Earhart will be Chicago's guest, risking again tne scenes or her school days ana renewing tne friendships that once were hers as Hyde Park, blah school's demure young senior. De spite a-strenuous program she was managed to reserve some time for herself, since one ot her main ob jects In coming: back to Chicago was to renew the acquaintances of her7 htgh'echool days, . - Accompanied br Wilmer Stultxf and Lou Gordon, her Trans-Atlan tic crew. Miss Earhart was "over whelmed" on her arrival from, the east today. Overwhelmed was her own adjective, and she must have meant It from. the way the city turned out to greet her, '- There wasn't a scant spot trom the railroad . station to tha . city hall as her welcoming caravan. sncorVjof value on exports. ENTIRE BRITISH EMPIRE WANTS TO ENTER PACT Answers to Kelloggts Notes Published In All National Capitals CANADA'S REPLY SHORT Communication from North Ai lean Dominion Held Mo Striking of Entire Group; Cordiality Expreiwed WASHINGTON. July 19 (AP) Replies of the London govern ment and of five other member of the British Commonwealth, ' Canada, Australia. Souh Africa, New Zealand and Iadia accepting the revised American dt of the war renunciation treaty were made public tonight by the. .Mafe department simultaneously with -their publication In London and Ottawa. The Canadian answer is In most striking of the group was transmitted direct from Otta wa bearing the signature of W. L. MacKenxie King, as secretary of state for external affairs, and states in 50 words that Canada "Cordially accepts the treaty as revised and is prepared to parti cipate in its signature." Interpretation Mad The British government's an swer equally accepts the revWf treaty but reiterates the Brltis understanding of the terms of the pact Insofar as they might affect obligations to the league of Uons or under the treatv Locarno and also with reaped to the rlgkt of self defense and automatic re lease from obligations to any sig natory nation breaking the pact. In addition Sir Austen Chamber lain. British foreign secretary, re Iterates his previous statement that Great Britain's acceptance of the new treaty rests "upon Om understanding that it does net prejudice" her freedom of art tea In unspecified regions "of which the welfare and Integrity consti tute a special and vital Interest for our peace and safety." The Australian reply was trane mitted through Chamberlain as were those of the union of South Africa, however, the British for eign secretary's communlntbii quotes textually the repry received " by him from General llertsoar. South African minister for exter nai affairs. British Doctrine Voted None of the replies from mem bers of the British Common wealth other than the London gov ernment itself touches upon Ike point made by the foreign secre tary in relation to what has come to be known as the British Men roe Doctrine stipulation. The re- plies of New Zealand and India (Continual on par 4.) SCHROCK CHOSEN BY POULTRYMEN MILWAUKEE MA.V ELFCTKI HKAD OF A880C1ATION Meeting at CorviUlis Largest Oner Kver Held Jn History of Oregon Group j CORVALLIS. Ore.. July 1 (AP) M. S. 8chrack of Mllwasv kie was today elected president of the Oregon Poultrymen's associa tion at the closing session of the largest convention the organisa tion has ever held. Registration of delegates reached 281. Other officers elected were:". Elmer W. Gribble, Canby. vW president; F. L. Knowlton, Corvaf 11s, secretary-treasurer; AmbTo-e-BrowneU, Milwaukee, and Mrs. W. H. Thompson of Oanby were elec ted members . of the i executive council. - ".-vT'f ' - -. A continued market, for strictly first-grade white eggs ".Is forseen by E. J. Dixon, manager, of the Pacific Cooperative, poultry pro ducers, who spoke on market pros pects. He warned, however, that nothing but a local market exist for colored or low-grade yg- -even eeconds. u ; : , . Dixon's report that the mar ket - demands not only a " large chalk white egg, but one wiln light-colored yolk, led to passage of a resolution requesting the Ore gon "experiment station to carry on feeding tests to determine hesf feeding, practice to produce th UghtTrolfcrr'.C I .-,- r . 4 Other resolutions parsed Indors ed the action of the baby chick association in asking state aid la ?B. Wi D." eradication and for an Increased tariff one- poultry product.-, , - - . ' . . v- -f An appropriation of. 1 5.0 0. It was said, would support half lh eosf of laboratory testing - fee. much less than mow accorded oth er lire-stock Industries. ..-Tariff on oriental eggs is ton low, the convention' voted, wha between. Iters and Canada there f wide discrepancy on the haly chick tariff, which is new tfiree cents, pound, - live, weight, for American . imports, and 20 cent J 'V