WEATHER
Fair today; mild with low
humidity. Northerly winds.
Max. temperature Friday 78;
mim. 42. RiTer 3.7. Wind
aorth. Clear. Xo rain.
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Delayed Reaction
May Be Fatal To
Blast Survivors
More Than 1 00 Victims of Hospital Tragedy
Await Unknown Fate with Lives Hanging
In Delicate Balance for Many Days
PRESIDENCY OF I Young GJlege Head Starts FARM AID BILL
STUDENT BODY ipmgh NURSED ALONG
IN BY 'REDS' U &, -fSM BY JOINT BODY
Sabotage
Hinted
h
Zep Case
Chicago Officials Gratified
at Skilful Maneuver by
. Philadelphians
End of Racketeers Reign in
Underworld is Foreseen
by Detectives
PHILADELPHIA, May 17.
CAP) "Scarface Al" Capone, na
tionally known Chicago gans'.er
and racketeer leader, is serving a
Jail term for the first time in his
life.
After pleading guilty to toting
a gun, Al and his body guard,
Frank Cline, also a Chicago gang
ster, were sentenced today to a
year in Moyamenslng prison. The
conviction was one of the swiftest
ever to , follow an arrest here.
Within "17 hours of their arrest
the two had been booked and as
signed cells in the prison. -
CHICAGO, May 17. ( AP) A
loud laugh of gratification came
from Chicago's law enforcement
circles today at the news of he
skilfully greased Philadelphia le
gal skip which landed boozedoni'e
"big shot," Alphonse Capone, be
hind the bars with a year's jail
sentence pinned to his lapel.
It was explained that a convic
tion for carrying concealed weap
ons such as obtained In Philadel
phia was difficult here because of
quirks In legal rulings.
Conviction Is First
Against Gangster
The conviction, the first of its
kind returned against "the oi?
fellow" in nearly a decade af ar-k!rr?7-in
racket land was gleefully
pointed to as the beginning of ti e
end of his power in the under
world here.
There was little comment on
"Scarface Als" short of having
effected a gangland truce at Atj
lantic City. Capone has sued for
peace but there is no peace in gun
man's land.
It was believed the champion
booze runner had "taken the rap"
smilingly, glad to evade for a
while rival gangsters who have
been threatening his life and es-j
cape the constant payment or
graft to which Capone is subject,
lie will have no need of expensive
bodyguards, either, in Philadel
phia's Jail.
"This is the beginning of the
end of Al Capone's career" opined
the veteran prosecutor, Frank J.
Loesch, who is president of Chi
cago's crime commission.
CLEVELAND, 0., May 17. (AP) More than 100 surviv
ing victims of the Cleveland clinic disaster were waiting
tonight for an unknown fate. For many of them, doctors
feared, death was close at hand.
The disaster death toll stood at 125, but the element of
what physicians called "delayed reaction" darkly, menaced
the other victims who still were living.
A few medical men said they believed the critical stage
of the poisoning had passed, but the-majority held that the
lives of remaining victims will
hang in delicate balance for
three or four days longer.
A typical example of "de
layed reaction" was given to
day when Ben Jones, a former
professional football player died
at his home in Grove City, Pa.
Jones told friends after he was
removed from the clinic following-
the explosion that he felt no ill
effects from the experience.
He drove 150 miles from Cleve
land to Grove City and again said
he felt "fine." A few hours later
he collapsed and died.
One of the plainest statements
of the possible delayed deaths
from the poison gas was made by
Harry L. Rockirood, city health
commissioner.
The insidious part about the
two gasses that many breathed in
the disaster, Rockwood said, "is
that their fatal action is often de
layed four to five hours and some
times five to six days. Even, then
if they don't kill, the lungs of vic
tims are so weakened they fall vic
tim to pneumonia."
STUDENTS PRESENT
SENIOR JMSS PLAY
High School Auditorium But
Half Filled at Annual
Production Here
Sitting In the audience which
paid tribute to the senior class
play "A Full House," In the sen
ior high school auditorium Friday
night one was moved to wonder if
the poor high school students
were all orphans. When the stud
ents are all in place in the audi
torium the assembly is just about
full. Now each one of those stud
ents, if they are fortunate, has
two parents, and with everybody
nresent you can think for your
self how much room there would
be to spare in the assembly room.
Last, night there was barely half
of the auditorium .filled.
Of course the good that stud
ents get from dramatic produc
tions is not so much the audience
that sees them put on the final
production. The work on such pro
ductions is what is invaluable to
them but it would seem that par
ents and friend3 might come and
offer their appreciation of the fine
a " ' "fa
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Sorority-Fraternity Party;
Shows More Strength
Than Previpusly
Second 0. S. C. Election Heidi
Under Strict Supervision
of School Profs
ARICA
HOW
BIG PIK PLANT
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STUDEWWiLL BE
FUDKHH
Log Rolling Contest to be
Filmed On River This
Morning
1 CLOSED
President Hoover Announces
Agreement Reached by 2
Latin Countries
TO OPERATE SOON
Paving with the city's larger
plant will begin early nest week,
probably Tuesday, reports Walter
Low, street commissioner. The
Great interest in the filming of
the log-rolling contest was eviden
ced by Willamette university stu
dents Friday. Plans were announ
ced for student singing under the
direction of the song queen, and
there was possibility of other or
ganized cheering. Townspeople
are welcome to attend the festiv
ities and add their bit to the gen-
plant has been overnauieu ann;eraldtn
was moved to the city barn Friday.! uke place
blocks of paving, mostly alley
and short sections of streets, have
CORVALLIS, Ore., May 17.
(AP) Ransom Meinke of Corval
iis was elected president of tb.3
Associated Student body of Ore
gon State college, and Carl Tot
ten, Days Creek, was elected edi
tor of the Daily Barometer in the
second student body election here
yesterday, made necessary by
throwing out the ballots in the
first vote because of irregulari
ties.
The vote again was extremely
close with victories split between
the two rival parties. The asso
ciated fraternity-sorority party,
however, won five more major rt
fices than it did 'in the first elec
tion, and lost one minor office.
Votes cast numbered 2,850.
Associated Faction
Strong In Classes
In the class elections the asso
ciated party won every office over
the independent red-fraternity
party. Chester Hubbard of Med-
ford won the senior presidency by
a single vote over Henry DeBoest
of Corvallis.
The result of the student body
elections, classified by parties, fol
lows: Associated Party: Carl Totten,
Dayr, Creek, editor Barometer;
Dorothy Crawford, Oregon City,
secretary; Harold Boone, Corval
lis, first vice president; Hester
Davis, Salem, second vice presi
dent; Ralph Buerke, Corvallis.
Paul Troeh and Elayne Searing.
Portland, members Greater Ore
gon State committee; Milton
Leishman, Baker; Heyman Lud
wig, Corvallis; William Bruce, La
Grande, and Joe Mulligan, Port
land, members of 'Co-Op board.
Corvallis Man To
Head Student liody
Independent-Red Party:
Ransom Meinke, Corvallis. pres
ident; Harold Ewalt,. Estacada.
May
Five Senators and Five Con
gressmen Comprise Group
to Study Measure
Long Argument Anticipated
on Vexing Issue of De
benture Clause
Director. Oesterle Advances
Belief Big Airship Was
Tampered With
"X,-' '
Robert Maynard Hatching, 80, the youngest university president in
the United States, arrives at Chicago with his wife to take office as
head of the University of Chicago, being greeted by Frederic Wood
ward, acting president, and Harold H. Swift, left, president 6f the
board of trustees of the school.
MERGER
E
ANNOUNCED FRIDAY
Three Big Motor Transport
Companies Form Work
ing Combination
CHICAGO. May 17. (A P)
Consummation of a merger of
thre key motor transport com
panies controlling stage lines in
nearly every state and represent
ing a capitalization of $30,000,
000 was announced today.
The merger will bring together,
through an exchange of stock, the
SHERIDAN YOUTH IS
KILLEDBYnUTOlST
McMinnville Man Accident
ally Strikes Oscar Le
land Hostetler
been completed. The city has ap
proximately 100 blocks to pave
this year, of which eight blocks on
Front street, from Gaines to Co
lumbia,, is one of the principal
items.
Grading on this stretch has
been held up because of plans not
yet completed, for widening it four
feet on each side The roadway
is now only 30 feei wide. Grading
generally is well behind schedule,
because of the late wet weather.
Klamath Man Is
New Owner Of
Paper At Coast
MARSHFIELD. Ore., May 17.
(AP Edwin Rose, for one year
publisher of the Klamath News
at Klamath Falls, today announc
ed that he had acquired a con.
trolling interest in the Southwest
ern Oregon Daily News at Marsh
field from 1. D'. Gordon Gordon
is understood to be moving tp Seattle.
I near Spong's landing at the foot
of Chemeketa street at :dw. uon
Boardman, physical director at
the Y. M. C. A. will be timer for
the event, and Charles GiH and
Irvin Markuson will be life-guards
The women's tug of war, staged
by the women tumblers who per
formed with such agility in the
program of May dances, will take,
place at the Kay Mill on South
12th street at 11 o'clock. The
freshman-sophomore men's tug of
war will take place at 11:30 on
the same site.
The synchronized sound reels
will be used for filming all these
stunts, and the chance to see thiS
apparatus has enlivened Interest
In the event.
The Movietone truck contains
equipment worth 20,000, includ
ing a four-lenses camera worm
about $10,000. Webber Hall, for
14 years a news reel camera man,
and James Foreman, arrived with
the truck from New York Thurs
day. This is their first use of
the equipment in the Northwest.
They are accompanied by C. S. Pi
per, Fox cameraman, from Portland.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (AP)
Forty six years of international
wrangling over the South Ameri
can provinces of Tacna and Arica
were ended formally today by
President Hoover.
He announced the agreement
reached by direct negotiations be
tween the governments of Pern
and Chile to divide the territory
Chile to retain Arica and Peru
to receive Tacna. The terms of the
settlement will he incorporated in
a treaty subject to ratification by
both countries.
Peru will thu.s receive back the
province lort to Chile in the war
of the Pacific. The governments
agree to erect on the promontory
of Arica El Morro De Arica a
monument to the memory of those
who fell in the battle there.
While landbound Bolivia had
constantly pressed her demands
for a route to the sea through the
disputed territory during all of
the negotiations, that country was
not mentioned in the terms of the
settlement. Bolivia, which was an
ally of Peru in the war of the
Pacific, was completely cut off
from the sea after the Chilean
victory in that dispute.
ston, Birkenfeld; Ralph Bailey, i ?,r7ho"nd U?e op6r.at.tl by
Mediord, and Delmar Brown. . . . . T ,' v ,
tk,c c .a. t headquarters in Chicago; the Yel-
,j Tv L ..... , ; loway sjl em with offices on the
Pacific coast, and the Pickwick
aid Johnson, president Memorial I
The election was closely super- i stages, with general offices at Los
vised by faculty representatives . .. ,
and the strictest secret method! Paclfic coast . p",t"n8 '
new cumpauy win oe tuuuuntu uj
j Pacific transportation" securities
McMINNVILLE. Ore., May 17.
(AP) Oscar Leland Hostetler,
12. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hos
tetler, of Sheridan, was instantly
killed last evening about 7 o'clock
when a car driven by O. L. Bow
man, of McMinnville, struck the
boy as he dashed across the high
way in front of .his home two
miles west of Sheridan. The boy
was found nearly 40 yards from
the spot where he had been struck
by the machine. His neck was
broken and he died instantly. Ac
cording to Sheriff George W. Man
ning a statement signed by the1
boy's father last night exonerated
WASHINGTON, May 17 (AP)
The farm relief bill was sent in
to a neutral xone between the sen
ate and house today for concilia
tion of the differences that have
arisen between the two branches
over the export debenture plan.
Temporarily laying aside
whether the senate had infringed
upon the rights of the house in
originating the proposal, a huge
majority of Republicans and a
handful of house Democrats voted
to lay the matter in the hands of
a conference committee for arbi
tration. The vote-was 249 to 119.
House Leaders Expect
To Eliminate Debenture
House leaders confidently ex
pected that their conferees would
be able to override the objections
of the senate members of the con
ference committee and eliminate
th debenture plan from the meas
ure. However, from the senate
there came predictions that the
conference beginning Monday
would be long drawn out.
The five hou?e conferees,
Chairman Haugen. and Represen
tatives Purnell of Indiana, and
Williams of Illinois, Republicans,
and Aswell of Louisiana, andH
Kincheloe of Kentucky, Democrat,
the ranking members of the house
agricultural committee, all op
posed the debenture plan at the
time it wa3 proposed to that group
while it was drafting the house
farm bill. None of the five has
changed his position.
Of the five senators who will
take part in the conference, "Chair
man 'McNary and Senator Capper,
of Kansas, Republicans, and Rans
dcll, of Louisiana, Democrat, op
posed the debenture plan in the
senate agriculture committee. The
other two. Senators Norris of Ne
braska, Republican, and Smith of
South Carolina, Democrat," fa-
fored the plan in committee.
k The senate conferees will be
bound by the vote, of that body to
support the bill as it was passed
there, however.
Consideration of the measure in
conference might be complicated
further by the house conferees be
ing offosed to certain other pro
visions of the senate bill.
'Dirty Work Somewhere" Is
Statement Made at Ves
sel's Home Port
FREIDRICHSHAFEN, Germany
May 18. (AP) (Saturday)
The theory of sabotage behind the
crippling of the motors of the
Graf Zeppelin was raised today by
Director Oesterle of the Dornier
Airplane works.
"Why should the same thing
happen to crankshafts?" he asked.
"I have been with the motors for
years and can't conceive of such
duplicate tragedies. No, there has
been dirty work somewhere."
This opinion was shared, in part
at least, by others at the home
port of the teppelin, and there
was great curiosity over what ex
amination of the motors might reveal.
I J y -arm on anI triA friri On t Tf a a at
PrISn? v t if ! Pacific transportation' securities j tributed to the boy crossing from
stti riiL'iBr!.i . 1 1 .k Inc., and will include lines in Ore-! a machine on opposite side of
2:C??, California formerly oper- highway without looking for traf-
v .a..vavu aa&i.ra c vujiiiiiiiiv r . . , . , . . , . ; fi -
HiXv- 7 , Tated by Yelloway, Pickwick stages "c. Young Hostetler was wear
discovered What it termed!!!:....,.' T, .;, I inJ n.ir nt HarV plncsec that
souiJiern .ramie .yioiui imuuti " - c..,
company, Oregon stages and Pa- may have hampered his vision.
had
"gross irregularities"
loting.
in the bal-
High School
Row is Kept
From Paper
cific stages, and lines from Los I
Angeles to El Paso and San Fran-'
Cisco to Salt Lake City. One third J
ownership will be held each by
the Motor Transit corporation of
Chicago, the Pickwick corporation
and the Southern Pacific company.
Bus operations of Pickwick and
Yelloway between Los1- Angeles
i and Chicago. Kansas City, Omaha,
land St. Louis will be managed by
the Pickwick-Greyhound corpora-
"Please Excuse This Vacancy." , tion, with ownership divided be
Such were the black-face words j tween the Pickwick corporation
that shot up at senior high school j and Motor Transit corporation,
HOPE WANES FOR
PORTLAND UH
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Terrific "Fighting" Takes
Place Between 2 Divisions
of Yankee Aviation Forces
PORTLAND,-Ore., May 17
(AP) While an airplane scared
overhead and a land party of more
than fifty men searched the banks
of the turbulent Deschutea river
near North Junction, Ore., today
for Lester W. Humphreys, prom
inent Portland attorney, thought
lost or drowned on a fishing trip,
his fishing creel and landing net
were found near a railroad bridge
where he was last seen.
Finding of the gear strengthens
the belief that Humphreys, a
former United States district at
torney here, lost his life in the
river Tuesday while fishing with
Walter J. 'Gearin, another attorney.
students from the middle of a six-!
inch two-column space when they I
opened the bi-weekly edition of
the Clarion Friday afternoon.
And in smaller type directly un
der it came this explanation: "We
had an editorial all 'set-up' and
were told by the authorities to re.
move it at the last moment thus
affording us no time to write an
other." Word as to the content of the
editorial was carefully kept from
the paper, of course, but it's no
secret at school that the editor
was taking a pot-shot at the jun
ior class for neglecting to arrange
a prom for the seniors. And par
ticularly, ft is said, was the editor
flabbergasted at this slight when it
was ruled the commencement pro
gram was to be held at the Elsi-
nore theater. For, alack, the jnn
iors were getting out of spending
anything for decorations for the
exercises.
Anyway, the editor may learn
just how thoroughly the students
read the Clarion editorials.
with headquarters at Kansas City.
SUSPECTED KILLERS
OE PREU
TH
POSH SLAIN
15
1M
WRIGHT FIELD. Dayton, O.,
May 17. (AP) Fierce fighting
deep in the territory of the Red
army occurred at Lockbourne and
Hebron, Ohio, this afternoon In
the mimic warfare between divid
ed sections of the United States
army air corp" and imaginary
ground troops.
Two parties of bombers, attack
planes and pursuit f ships were
sent out from this base of the bel
ligerent blue nation and crossed
the front line la an effort to de
moralize the Red ground troops.
Fifteen bombers proceeded to
Hebron In the lower extremity of
Licking county to blow up a Red
motor and arsenal depot that had
been spotted there by observation
hips. .
4t Lockburne, 30 miles to- the
southwest, in the southern corner cessful
of Franklin county and not far
from Norton Field, Columbus,
where the Red air forces is quar
tered, 25.000 Red troops were to
be detrained late in the afternoon.
Fearing the danger of an attack
upon these important centers Ma
jor Frank Reynolds. In charge of
the Red air force, despatched 41
fast pursuit ships to defend them,
about the same hour that the
blue planet took off from Wright
field.
They clashed in two engage
ments and both aides suffered big
losses according to the umpires.
The decisions of the umpires, who
judge the loss of planes and men
by the skill of the opposing pilots
In maneuvering on the offensive
and defensive, indicated that the
blue attack was only partly sue-
Lack Of Traffic
Control Signals
Causes Accident
ArTOlST KILLED
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. May 17.
(AP) Larry Callahan. 25, Los
Angeles, was instantly killed when
the car he was driving went sud
denly out of control and over
turned on the highway six miles
from here tonight.
While agitation against the in
stallation of traffic control lights
is reported to be stirring among
persons who wish to make it a
political Issue, Brazier C. Small,
Justice of the peace, is reported to"
be taking the 'opposite view.
Friday afternoon Mr. Small was
driving south on High street and
made the turn to go east on State.
An automobile that he didn't see
until just too late, entered the
intersection going north, and Mr.
Small's foot slipped off the brake.
Result, a crash which damaged
both machines badly. The driver
of the other car was Chester Pal.
ver.
This wts Just one of several
recent accidents which would not
have occurred if the traffic con
trol HgSts had been In use.
Statesman - Capitol
i
Children's Matinee
Saturday Morning
At Ten A. M.
To See the
Next Chapter of -TARZAN
THE
MIGHTY"
also
Feature Picture and Comedy
This conpon and five cents
will admit any child under
twelve to. Bligh's Capitol
Theatre. . . "Tartan" will
only be shown at the morn
ing matinee, on account of
the road show picture "Show
Boat."
WALLACE. Idaho. May 17.
(AP) Two men were held in Jail
today in connection with the fatal
beating of the Rev. Andrew La
Junen, Italian Finnish minister.
The preacher, who died last
week in Portland, Ore., Bald he
was attacked by four men after
havings preached a sermon in the
Finnish tongue at Mullan, near
here.
Walter Harris, Mullan laborer,
yesterday joined Matt Erickson in
jail as a suspect. Officers believe
they were two of the four who
fractured the skull of the preach
er. The Investigation has gone
forward slowly, because the min
ister made no complaint of the at
tack, but left town immediately
and little was known of the affair
until he died after having refused
to tell who the assailants were.
No one has yet revealed that por
tion of the sermon to which the
attackers took exception.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 17
(AP) The bruised body of H. J.
Strommy, middle aged postmaster
and storekeeper of Brownsville,
Kitsap county, was found in Puget
Sound here late tonight while pos
tal inspectors were investigating
a mysterious post card received
from him.
"The card mailed in Seattle yes
terday and received today by John
J. Kennety, Seattle attorney said:
"I'm held up by robbers. They
plan on the money order blanks in
Brownsville. Notify police and
post office inspectors. Please let
Mrs. Strommy know so I can get
help. Your friend H. J. Strommy."
Strommy disappeared yesterday
after making a $200 deposit in the
Paulsbo bank. His wife and offi
cers were unable to explain how
he got to SeattI eto mail the post
card, unless "taken for a ride," as
he supposedly carried no money
other than that which he deposit
ed. His wife collapsed when told he
had apparently been murdered.
HIEST TEXAS
1 SUM
Collett Defeated
After Fine Game
WICHITA FALLS, Tex., May 17
(AP) Reports to the Wichita
Falls Record's news tonight said
that four persons were injured
and property damage exceeding
$10,000 was caused by a high
wind, accompanied by heavy rain!
and hail, that struck six northwest
Texas towns late today.
Electra, Dundee, Clara, Petro
lia, Byers and Burkeburnett were
the towns hit.
At Dundee, three persons were
seriously hurt, William Sanders in
the collapse of his grocery store,
William Miller, by flying debris
and Mrs. C. H. McDaniel in the
collapse of the porch of her home.
Agnes Howard, 15, who at
tempted to flee the high school
building at Clara while the wind
was raging, was the other victim.
She was struck by a beam hurled
from the roof of a nearby ward
school building.
CUERS, France, May 17 (AP)
The dirigible Graf Zeppelin was
safe tonight in a hanger here
while the diminishing mistral with
which she had been in perilous
struggle all day howled on over
head. The crippled ship, only two of
her five motors working with oc
cnsional help from a third, was
drawn down to earth here, liter
ally at the edge of the Mediter
ranean sea and beside the only
landing maet in France. The 18
passengers and 4 0 members of the
crew set foot to the solid earth
above which they had tossed in
uncertainty throughout the day.
Dirigible In Air
Nearly 30 Honrs
The landing was at S:?.5 p m..
f2:35 p. m. E. P. T. ) . More than
3 8 and one half hours before the
dirigible had nosed into the air
from Freidrichshafen and set her
course for Lakehurst. N. J.. twelve
hours later, after an unusually
fine start. Dr. Hugo Eckener. con
fronted with the loss of two mo
tors, headed his ship back home
from the Spanish coast.
The battle to win passage up
the Rhone valley against the near
gale from the northwest failed and
Dr. Ekener decided on a landing
here. It was nearly dark when the
ship appeared. Lieutenant Sam
on, commander of the airdrome
had assembled soldiers, sailors and
civilians hours before. They drew
the ship down and within half an
hour the passengers, one by one,
descended to the ground from the
short ladders raised to the cabin
door.
SHIELDS HTS BftRK
IT STUDENT UH
Salem Man Is
Ambushed By 2
Portland Thugs
PORTLAND, Ore.. May 17.
(AP) B. G. Davidson, Salem,
Ore., told police today he was at
tacked by two men last night who
sprang from behind and smother
ed him with a handkerchief sat
urated with an anaesthetic.
Davidson said be regained con
sciousness about 6 o'clock yester
day afternoon to fihd himself in a
room in an obscure hotel and that
$6 in cash, a watch and a diamond
stick pin had been taken from
him.
B. G. Davidson is not listed
either in the city directory nor in
the telephone directory here.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May
17. (AP) Glenna Collett today
demonstrated to Great Britain
that there are two great women
golfers in the world. In the An
glo-American final of the British
women's championship, the Amer
ican was beaten three up and one
to play by Joyce Wethered, but
set a course record of 34 strokes
for the first nine holes at St. An
drews which is expected to hold
for years.
First Of Fast
Trains Speeds
On Way West
PORTLAND, May 17. (AP)
The Great Northern railroad's new
fast train, known as the "Empire
Builder," after James J. Hill,
roared westward today carrying
railroad and financial luminaries.
The special is making only those
stops called for in the new fast
schedule of 62 hours from Chica
go to Portland, slicing five hours
off the present running time.
That Extra Room
Do you have an extra room
in your house you would
like to get revenue from?
Insert a want-ad in the class
fied columns of The States
man and get it rented.
The cost is small; a few in
sertions of your ad will be
low in charge and big with
results.
We take phone ads from
anyone listed in the phone
book.
Call "Five Hundred"
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BUFFALO. N. Y., May 17.
(AP) Des -Moines university stu
dents were characterized as "vic
tims of misrepresentation" hi D.
T. Shields, trustee head of the
school, in referring to the student
body's telegram wired to the Bap
tist Bible Union convention here
today which stated no students
would return in -the fall if Dr.
Shields and Miss Edith Rebman,
secretary of the board, were al
lowed to retain their positions.
"I hoptMhey will come back, of
course," i-hg told the Associated
Press, "but if they do not. It Is up
to them. I do not blame them;
they do not know the trne facts
of the case."
He said the matter would be
taken up fully by a committee ap
pointed by the trustees to have
charge of all university affairs un
til the annual meeting June 11 in
Des Moines.
"The committee will hold meet
ings between now and Jane 11,
and any stndent is welcome to at
tend and state his case," he said.
"The trustees have not receded
one inch from their position."
Additional Drying Plants
Declared Needed to Take
Care of Huge Prune Crop
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Our prune crop may possibly
Lreach a hundred million pounds
this year; the tonnage for drying,
exclusive of the canned pack and
the comparatively few car lots
shipped green, and those used in
the green state for local consump
tion. This means the crops of the
Willamette and TJmpqua valleys
and the Clark county, Washington
prune districts.
If that tonnage shall be ready
for harvest this fall, with unfavor
able weather during picking time,
perhaps twenty million pounds of
prunes will go to waste, unless
more extensive drying facilities
are provided.
The above words are -written
upon the authority of one who
does not wish to be Quoted, es
pecially as an alarmist. But it
may be said that this section has
no higher or more reliable author
ity. In the hill sections, the pros
pects for a good crop of prunes is
good. It will not be as large in
those sections as It would hive
been with less neglect of the orchards,-
especially the old ones.
The prune men with orchards on
the bottom lands are complaining
of a less favorable outloek for a
good crop. They say the blossoms
did not set enough fruit to guar
antee a large crop. But tnostirees.
in every locality, will stand a good
deal of thinning, natural or artl-
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