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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932 : CapitalJournal Salem, Oregon Established Marco 1. IMS As Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except 8unday at US 8. Commercial Street Telephone 46SL Newa 4881 OEORGI PUTNAM, SUBSCRIPTION BATES By carrier 10 eenti a week; 43 cents a month; $5 00 a year In advance By mall In Marlon. Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month M cents; S month: $12S; months 82.25; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 60 cent a month; ( months $2.75; $5.00 a year In advance. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND TI1E UNITED PRESS The Associated press Is exclusively ot all news dispatches credited to It paper and also local news published "With or without offense to friends or foe$ I sketch your world exactly at it goes." Byron Oregon for France Oregon's vote in the national republican convention will be cast for Dr. Joseph I. France, former senator from Mary land, instead of for Herbert Hoover, for the reason that France's name was the only one on the ballot, the president either not thinking Oregon's vote was worth going after, or reluctant to make a contest lest it reveal his unpopularity. An effort was made to have republicans write in the name of Mr. Hoover, but only about a fourth of the voters did, which indicates the lack of a very strong sentiment for the president, so although France was entirely unknown in Oregon and made no campaign, and the voters did not know whether they were voting for a country or a man, they marked their crosses against the only name on the ballot for president. Oregon's votes, along with those of North Dakota, con stitute the only following France will have in the convention, Hoover having most of the balance, with sufficient already pledged to give him the nomination. . " It will be interesting to watch how the Oregon delega tion votes in the convention, for some of the delegates are personally for Hoover and they will have but one ballot be fore it is all over. The Dictator Slips The effort of Governor Meier to dictate the election of his personal candidate, Col. A. E. Clark as United States senator has met with rebuke at the polls, for it is apparent that his choice ran a poor third, despite the repeated en dorsement of the executive who paraded him across the con tinent to Washington to enhance his chances. This may indicate that the governor is losing his pop larity and prestige which were so overwhelming a year ago. It may indicate resentment against the executive for butting in to unseat a senator who meets party approval. At any rate it shows the difficulty of transferring personal popu larity to a henchman, even when a good campaign is waged in his behalf. Despite the fact that Colonel Clark is a fine lawyer and a man of capacity, he has proven that he is not a vote getter, for he lacks the appeal of a successful campaigner. Twice before has he met defeat in seeking the toga, not because of lack of qualifications but merely because he is not a back alapper, hand-shaker and wise-cracker. A Wise Choice r Salem is to be congratulated on the election of Douglas McKay as mayor, for the city is assured a business-like and efficient administration. In addition he has the poise and social charm that should grace the office. The Hollywood tail of a taxless regime will no longer wag the Salem dog and keep it chasing about in futile circles in pHrsuit of will-o-the-wisps. Citizens have evidently had their fill of scandal mongering and poison peddling as means to newer and willing to exchange destructive policies for constructive ones. If the courts sustain the $2,500,000 bond issue, we are assured at least that the money will be wisely spent and not wasted in $100,000 fees for those who engineered the deal. OPEN FORUM words In length and signed with not merlin theae specification published articles Is desired self be Inclosed. To the Editor: If you have been quoted correctly, I am curious to know the sources of the Information on which your editorial Is based. Evidently Ignorance of these Islands la more wldrpread than wa had thought possible. I refer you to tlie report of Scth W. Richardson, deputy attorney general of the United States, In which he ecu forth that his Investl Cations show that sex crimes In Ha waii are less frequent than In other parte of the United States, that members of the Hawaiian race are rot addicted to sex crimes of vio lence, and that the record for con victions In such cases as do exist compare favorably with that In oth er parts of the United States. Several of the races which you condemn have stricter standards of aex morality than the white race has aside from the fart that, with the exception of the Filipinos, most people in Hawaii who are descended from persona of other than white races are not only Americans by cl Uaenship but also conform In gen eral to the customs and standards prevalent In other parta of the Unit ed States. I might mention, though It Is un important, that your reference to negroes In Hawaii Is somewhat diffi cult to understand, since there are almoct none In the Islands. The In clusion of them in your Indictment merely tends to throw light upon the accuracy ot your Information In general. It la emphatically not true that In Hawaii "a woman alone is regarded a legitimate prey." It has never been true, except insofar aa Hawaii an and. other women have been preyed upon by certain elements ol military and naval personnel and by aallors In general, alno the first . white men landed In these islands. It is also untrue that "such a ver dict would be impossible on the mainland,'' though It la possible that on the mainland. In corresponding circumstances, Uie verdict might hare been guilty ot murder Instead of manslaughter. I attended ever; session of the tal, a a represents- Editor and Publisher entitled to the use for publication or not otherwise credited In tola herein. Contribution to I his eoluran must be plainly written en om sld of paper only, limited to 300 the name of the writer. Article will be rrjected. If retnrn of an -addressed, stamped envelope most tlve of the local and mainland press, and I can only aay that under the law and the evidence the defendant! were shown clearly to be guilty ot murder not only In the second, but In the first degree, and that the de fendanta are to be congratulated that they got off with a verdict ot manslaughter. Incidentally It Is worthy of note that the one juror who held out to the last for acquittal was one of the Hawaiian rare whom you so sweeplngly condemn. Had the naval men Involved been tried by naval court martial they would have had no chance for anything except con viction of murder. It Is untrue that "most of the white population in the Islands are descendants of missionaries and beachcombers. , and adventurers" and equally untrue that most of them have an admixture of Hawaii-1 an blood. The white residents of Hawaii are predominantly people born In other parta of the United States, mainly California, Washing ton and Oregon. Of the white mem ben of the Jury, nearly all were born elsewhere than in Hawaii. What the verdict proves. If any thing, la that Hawaii does not coun tenance murder, whether by white men or brown; that it upholds Uie laws and the constitution of the United States despite the efforts of those who are sworn to uphold those laws and that constitution to tram ple upon them; that the Introduc tion of lawlessness and violence Into Hawaii even by members of an arm of the government that is sworn to uphold the law, w ill not be tolerated. The attitude of the uniformed press, lnstigsted by naval officers who have only recently come out Into the open with a campaign against American Institutions In Hawaii which they have conducted underground for thirty years, has been to assume Uie guilt of Ui de fendants In the Ala Moana rape case a matter ot which there Is grave doubt. The effort of the au thorlUe lo obtain a conviction In that case hare been only hampered by the Injection Into the situation SALEM WOMEN IN PORTLAND PARADE mm ml Some af the active leaders In the state chapters ot 111: Women." Orranlxation for National Prohibition Reform are shown above before the parade in Portland Monday formally opening national repeal week in that ely. At the top, from left to riht Mr. James Gillban. Portland, chairman for the week; Mra. D. P. McCarthy, Independence, vice-chairman of the Polk county chapter: Mrs. J. C. Collins. Independence, chair man for the Polk county chapter: man lor urrfon; Mrs. Louts Lachmnnd, Salem, chairman for the Marion county chapter; Mrs. T. A. Lhresley, mra. .usance irtunpaeaer, assistant land; and Mrs. O. C. Locke. Salem,, membership chairman for Marion county. . Lower left. Mrs. Walter W. R. May. and lower right, Mra. Honey man, holding placards and banners. of lynch law and by the falsehoods that have been circulated In the mainland press, of which I have the somewhat doubtful honor to be i representative. Very truly yours CLIFFORD OESSLER, Telegraph editor Honolulu Star Bulletin, temporarily detached to cover the Fortescue-Massle murder trial and the Ala Moana rape case. Correspondent. Chicago-Tribune. Correspondent, Australian Press as sociation. Formerly with the Chica go OfiUy News In Chicago, also Chi cago American, Chicago Journal of Commerce, Milwaukee Sentinel, In dianapolis Star. Honolulu, May 2. To the Editor: Your editorial of May 2. which I have clipped from the Hilo Tri bune of May 3, seems to express In somewhat violent form the opinion of many Americans concerning conditions In Hawaii. (I assume that It Is quoted correctly.) I am not In the habit of writing letters to newspapers, but such silly slan der as you have printed can not go unanswered by a resident of Hawaii. It is unanimously admitted that the prosecution of the Ala Moana rape case waa badly bungled; this, however, Is far from meaning that Uie crime of rape is condoned by any respectable element of any of the aeveral races In Hawaii, The sentences meted to the rapists Kal- kapu and Fcrnandet, you can not deny, were severe and speedily Im posed. I am a native of Kansas, who never lived outside the middle west before the age of 22. In my five years' residence In Hawaln. where I am a school teacher (Incidentally under a principal graduated from Oregon A. C, I have lived In every type of rural district In the Islands, as well as the cities of Honolulu and Hllo, and I have as sociated intimately with most of the nationalities found here. Among all theae nationalities rape la considered an abhorrent crime, as It Is among the Americana. In particular, Uie statement that among tin natives ... a woman found alone Is regarded as legiti mate prey" Is wholly false. The scattered white women In rural communities where there are con siderable numbers of Hawaiians as nearly "primitive" as you can find, know that they are perfectly safe. Among city hoodlums a woman Is not safe, but this Is a peculiarity of city haodlums anywhere, Including continental America; race has nothing to do with the fact. The code or sexual morality among tlie Oriental nationalities, according to my observations. Is ap proximately that ot the Americans; in some respects a little more lax. In other respects stricter. There Is nothing In It that condonea rape. That "most of Uie white popula tion of the bland are descendants of missionaries or beach combers. In which there la an admixture of Hawaiian blood and of adventurers who have gone native and lost their racial pride" la so naively wide of the truth that It seems In credible that a paper on trie Pa cific coast could print It. In Uie the country districts there art an extremely few men who may be said to have "gone native") far aa one can go native where the na tive are Americanised aa they are here; there art a good many 4;.TWTiL-3Srr: -Courleay Morning Oreo.i...ii Mrs, David T. Honerman. state chair vice-chairman for Marion coanly; director roc the meal week in Port who have married part-Hawallans, and a good many who, accepted so cially as whites, have some Ha waiian blood. But to apply to the considerable white population of Honolulu, that little Los Angeles, the Ideas one might get from seeing a South Seas movie, Is asinine. The white people of Honolulu for the most part have both their pure blood and their racial pride, and the of recent Immigration. To apply such a slur aa yours to Jurymen such as young Waterhouse, college educated son of a prominent busi ness man, and the German Beyer, a typical small tradesman such as you can find on any Salem street, shows colossal Ignorance of Hono lulu. We Hawaiian citizens !o not mind honest criticism based on In formation, such as the enclosed clipping quoted from the San Fran cisco Chronicle which In my own opinion about hit the mark but we resent biased, senseless slander such as you have printed. Very truly yours, JOHN REINECKE. Honakaa. Hawaii. May 3. visitino with parents Turner Mrs. Ensley and baby daughter Dorothy of Salem are vis iting this week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mm. H. M. Bar nett and with other Turner rela tive and friends. Next week Mrs. Ensley and baby plan to go to Cot tage Drove where they will be guests of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baker. Mrs. Mearl Ensley will be remembered by her many friends aa Miss Thelma Bar nett, a former Turner glrL Turner Miss Ann McKlnney. aged resident of the Crawford com munity, is still seriously 111 at Uie home of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Tracey. More than a week ago she suffered a stroke of paralysis and although rallying some, will probably be bedfast In definitely. She had not been In good health for several years, resulting In a stroke a week ago Monday morning. Big Reductions 1931 Studebaker Dictator 8 Sport Sedan 1931 Essex Touring Sedan Both new cars. Never run mil 1932 Hudson 8 Standard Sedan Demonstrator . 1932 Studebaker Dictator 6 ' Demonstrator 1932 Essex Standard Sedan Demonstrator SEE MR. LAMBETH at Ctato Motors Inc. S2S ChenwAeta BEARCATS AND BADGERS CLASH HERE MONDAY Wtth a trip to Walla Walla and a three game battle with Whitman college Missionaries as the prize at stake, baseball squads of Willamette Land Pacific will meet on dinger field next Monday afternoon at 1 :30 ocloclc In a double header. The game was originally ached uled for last Thursday afternoon but rain made tills impossible. If Willamette should win one or both of Uie games it will mean that the Bearcats will be forced to play five contests during the week be sides spending one day on the road to Walla Walla. Coach Keene's men have not lost a conference game to date while Pacific has been beaten twice, by Albany. Peterson and George Erlckson will be used on the mound against the Badgers and if Andy Is In anything like his usual form, one of the games should go In Uie bag easily. George Erlckson, too. Is coming along rap Idly and gaining confidence and It would surprise nobody If he set the Invaders back on their heels. Monday's setup Is almost perfect for two hot contests since there Is a natural rivalry between the schools and fans who attend the contest expecting real batUes will not be disappointed. PORTLAND STARTS ' NIGHT BASEBALL Portland Beginning next Tues day the Portland ball club of the Pacific Coast league will inaugurate night games on Vaughn street grounds. Games will be played every night with Uie exception of Sunday when double headers will be staged beginning at 1:30 p. m. Sacramento will be the opposing club for the first of Uie night ser ies. Women will be admitted free Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with children 14 yeara of ace and under admitted free to the bleachers on Saturday night. Molalla-Silverton Contest Rained Out SHverton The last game ot the interscholastlc league for SHverton was not played beyond, the third Inning Friday afternoon on account of heavy rains. The local high school boys met Molalla at Molalla and were forced to quit. An Interesting fact, however, and one that will serve to put SHverton on her metal for the grand finale ot the series which has been set for next Thurs day, Is that at Uie dote of the third Inning, Molalla had scored one and SHverton no runs. The Molalla team Is a hard one to beat and SHverton knowa It. having gone down to them In her only defeat of the season. FREE AMBULANCE . SERVICE To Friend and Customer Within 30 Mile Radius Salem Deaconess Hospital Call 3321 MISSION REDS BEAT HOLLIES INTO 2ND PLACE (Bf the Associated Pre ill Fred Bofmann, new manager of the Mission Reds, had seven victor lea to his credit today in the nine game played since he took charge. The rejuvenated Missions now have it on the league-leading Hollywood Stars three out of four In the cur rent series, the latest win being by a ( to 3 score. The defeat shoved Hollywood into second place In Uie league standings, Los Angeles tak ing the lead although Idle. Grant Bowler, optioned right hander from the White ix. allowed the Stars only six hit in seven and two-thirds Innings last night, but go into difficulty in the eighth, and Charley Lteber went in and retired the side. Oakland got a strangle hold on the series with Portland by ham mering three pitchers for 11 hits to win 11 to 2. It was the Oak's fourth straight victory over Uie Ducks. The Seattle Indian fell on young Manuel Salvo of the Senators for three runs In the first Inning last night, and drove nun to cover In the second. Vinci took up the bur den, but with little success, and the visitors ended on the long side of a 7 to 4 score. Each team got 10 hit. Seattle is now ahead In the series, three games to one. San Francisco showers prevented the Angels-Seal encounter. PETROLLE LICKS BAT BATTALIND Chicago, May 21 m Bat Bat tallno ought to be about ready to admit that Billy Petrolic can lick him. The former world featherweight champion, fortified with rare cour age .stood In the Chicago stadium ring last night and traded slugs with the old Fargo express, and even knocked him down for a count of nine in the first round. But after It was all over, Pet rolle had earned a ten-round de cision. And except for tlie first and tenth round, Battalino took a decisive beating. In the middle of the first round a whistling left hook landed square ly on Petrolle's chin and he went down to remain a long as he daeed. They were avout even until toe sixth, but after that session. Pet rolic clearly was master. Seeking to wipe out a lS-round knockout verdict scored against him two months ago in New York by Petrolic, Battalino piled Into a withering two-handed fire that drew blood from his tender nose, puffed out hi Hps and ripped open a cut over one eye. The battle was not one-sided, however, and the disappointingly small crowd of about 11,000 got everything It paid for. Petrolle clearly earned a shot at Tony Canxonerl'a lightweight title. It the stadium 1 able to arrange the championship match. Fear Is being expressed In France that the new social Insurance hall will cause an Increase In living and production costs ranging, ac cording to different estimates, from five to 25 per cent. Ask yourself these tale H trT " . yn 1 1 aaWSS v Ihen-Ask for this Booklet . that answers them It gives yon clear-cut methods of protecting your family against the financial uncertainties of the future. It is written la the light of present day conditions, in plain layman's language. It should start yon thinking, and will suggest the need of prompt action. Ask us for a copy; ' 'is i i COUPON Pleasi scad as, for say personal ms ttoa, a copy of your new booklet, LADD & BUSH ' "" trust co. n:::::;::;:;: ' City Doris Blake Says:- Doris Advises Gloomy Gal to Brace Up and Stop Mopeing If I keep on living the way I am I halTprobably go stark mad. I am 23, have no special talent for anything, and as it look now I am heading straight for spinsterhood. "I simply do not take with boys at dances or parties. I am not one of those girls that attract at first sight, but feel 11 given Uie chance I could be as interesting as most girls. I dress as well as my salary permits and keep well groomed, all to no avaiL I Just feel as If nobody knows whether I have on a black or white dress. "I want so much to go out and have good times like other girls do. but It is getting so I'm licked before I ever start anything, . so . I don't even attempt any more. The spirit's just knocked out of me. What would you suggest to fill In the long Saturday evenings and longer Sundays that stretch endlessly ahead? Cam." The first thing to do, "Cam" Is' to knock the spirits right back in again. Admit defeat and you're sunk. Admit there's a lot ot life and good times prospect In the girl yet and you're on your way to payer Saturday eves and Sundays. But let's 'go back a bit. You say "If given Uie chance" you could be as interesting as most girls. Whom are you expecting to give you Uie chance? What about doing that lit tle favor for yourself? It's what the other girls have done ind are do ing. Popular girls do not become popular sitting around waiting for some one to come and coach them in the game. They keep their eyes peeled fortlps all of the Ume. You have your half shut. You are too lazy minded or lazy hearted to put any vim lntp Uie adventure of living, and that 1 why you do not register. You do not need to be possessed ot rare talents. A talent for life and fun and enjoying what Uie day has to offer will see you through. This means, of course, that you should be profi cient enough in certain young in terests, such as dancing, bridge, sports, so that you will be welcom ed where young people gather. Also you should keep abreast of what's going on in the world so you can contribute something to conversa tion. You Just cant let yourself sag the way you admit. Ta'enty-three Is no npe old age, but It Is the age at which a young women should be getting out and around and seeing what this thing called life Is all about. This is an accomplishment you never acquire, however, sitting down in a corner in the dumps, ad mitting you are licked before you've even had a good start. Brace up Cam," and make yourself interest ing! It's your Job. Turner Miss Mildred Martin, stenographer for Leo N. Chllds, Sa lem realtors, accompanied her mo ther, Mrs. W. A. Martin of Turner, on a motor trip through Gladstone and out the Oregon City cutoff to the Mt. Hood road. Snow was en countered three and four feet deep in places along the highway. They crossed the Columbia at the Ro wena Lyle ferry to Vancouver, Wn, returning by way ot the Mt. Hood loop and Oregon City. I Who would always be ready to advise and counsel raj wife on financial matters? Ho Off' - OHM H aw . w - froe, J!r J Plan, l' US EUGENE, SALEM SLUGGERS CLASH 0L1NGER HELD An Indication of Uie comparative strength ot Salem and Eugene, two members of the recently organized State baseball league will be avail able late Sunday afternoon follow, ing a ball game between the squads at Ollnger field. The gam Is sched uled to start promptly at 2:30 o' clock. . If hard work and faithfulness In attending practice sessions count for anything, the Salem Senator should be off to a flying start this year. "Squeak" Wilson especially has been laboring long and diligently and apparently has reached the stage where he will be able to go a full nine Innings without much dif ficulty. The Eugene Townies will bring a bunch of sluggers with them and Wilson will need all his cunning to keep ahead of them. Cotter Gould, Van Dyne, Russell, Chuck Wirth and Llbby, the latter a catcher are all well known throughout Uie valley for their prowess at the bat. Sunday's lineup for the Senators will probably be Kitchen 2b, Scale If, Ashby ss. Rogers 3b, Adams lb, Bashor c, Colgan rf, Foreman II and Wilson pitcher. The game will have no bearing on Uie regular league season, it having been scheduled before the formation of the circuit, HUSKIES WIN, 5-1 OVER OSC SQUAD Seattle, May 21 (IB Allowing Oregon State college only three sin gles, Ed Putnam. University of Washington twlrler led his team to a 5 to 1 baseball victory on Graves field here yesterday. The Huskies clouted Lundberg ot O. S. C. for 11 hits scoring twice in tlie second and three times In Uie fourth. Willie Walts, right fielder and Red Hutchinson, thud sacker for Washington, stood out with their hitting. The teams play again today at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Bramwell Booth, widow of the late general of the Salvation Army, recently conducted at Hit chin, England, her first Salvation Army service since Uie difference over the organization. CHRIST IS THE SOLUTION OF YOUR PROBLEM Attend Sunday Services at the Church of the Nazarene 11:00 A. M. "EVERY CHRIS TIAN'S HEART DESIRE" .7:39 P. M. "FATHER AND HOME" Special music by a large chorus choir of SO voices. Oth er features. :4S A. M. A REVERENT STUDY OF THE "BOOK OF BOOKS" in a friendly atmosphere Church located at 12th and Center St. Rev. Fletcher Galloway Pastor Questions- . iAs wy uwcanP a.ugtkterM.- r "V son '! If I t4l)nA 1 1
