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.
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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
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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
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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
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