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6 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALE1.I, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1924 SC1ID0LS TO DPB! i S Superintendent Hug Says Preliminary Work Is Well Under Way Preliminary work relating'.. tha, opening of the Salem schools has been completed and by the time September 2 a rows around, every detail will have been completed, according to George W, Hug, sup erintendent of schools. Based upon figures of the last five years, it is estimated that the school population this year will be be tween 4500 and 4600 pupils, a gain over last year, when 4399 were registered. , To teach the small city young sters, a corps of 150 teachers will Whizz-Bang "We have sold out our J t agency at 186 So. High ' 'St. and must sell our used, cars. .See these - - cars and, compare our prices, ip-- .-. 51923 Gardner, new tires, fine mechanical -condition, 5 bearing . .crank, shaft and every thing, $850. 1921 Dodge, fine me- . chanical condition, fine shape, $300. Light Overland, 1924 j modiil, run less than 1000 miles. if Many others to chose -from.';' - V-.- II Courtesy Treatment Burdett Albee " Motor Co. Gardner Distributors Phone 18?8 to -restful NEWPORT t . 0 Low Roundtrip Excursion Fares Ct nC 16 day return limit. Start Friday, Satur- day or Sunday. Q1? scason ticket, sold daily. Good until Oc tober 31st. Regular daily service leave Salem 11 :28 a. m., Albany 12:30 p. m. . ' For full information, call ,at ticket office, 184 No. - Liberty Street, Southern Pacific Station, or phone ' 80 or 41. - -' " '.! i - ,. 1 - , ; -. I - . - V ' : For Information D. L- Darling. Agent, Salem, or A. A. Mlckel. D. P. & P. A. 184 Liberty Street -SniEaStsinni fteS mam if Mew York A Rioto-Dramatization cf the WcridFamcus Play . ' " - i With DAROARA CASTLETOM and ; ' EDUARD EARLE TODAY BLIGl-l -THE be necessary, a! majority, of whom hare' been hired i for . the year. These teachers will be proportion ed to the. various; schools in Sa lem as follows; Salem high school, 45 r J- ' L. Farrish Junior high school 31; Mckinley Junior high school, 12; Garfield, 10; Grant, Lincoln and Park,' 9 each; High land and Richmond, 8 each; Englewood, . 7,: and Washington portable, 2. i ' . ' ' Enrollment in the Salem high school has a : higher percentage than in any of the 33 larger cit ies of the United ! States, accord ing to , Superintendent Hug, who Quotes figures prepared for a re cent Issue fo the 'Journal of the National Education Association. Salem had j a' percentage of 22.8, with Seattle leading the list with 15 per cent." Portland wa sixth with a percentage of 13.6. In these statements no recogni tion is taken of the, fact that the number of pupils registering in the first grade 3s la rgeV than the number registering 12 years ago. these pupils now being in the last pat' of their high, school "career. The figures," it is said, also tend to correct- statements that but few pupils entering the first grade complete the four-year high school course. T . j a According to statistics prepared by Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson. county school superintendent.' but 25 per cent of the boys and about 50 per cent of the j girls completed all work from the first grade through high school. - ; ' ' TRAINMEN N0T T0 FIX CHOICE OF CANDIDATES (Continued from page 1). undersigned has taken the position that our .; organization : should not indorse either Cooldige, Davis or La Follette for president of the United tales- Information fur nished this office by the Washing ton legislative bureau shows the labor record of I each of three above " mentioned (. candidates for president to be as nearly 1 00 per cent in each instance as could reasonably be; expected. We are advised the legislative boards in certain states were favorable to endorsing JohnW. Davis, in other states President Coolidge,, and Ii other states Senator La Follette. "State legislative boards have been advised that in our opinion they should confine their endorse ment to conditions for state of fices, inclnding candidates for the United States house and senate." Credentials? Puzzle League of Nations GENEVA. Aug. 20. (By The AP. Philip S. Henry, bearing a signed and sealed, document from Cameron Morrison of North Caro lina, appointing Mr. Henry a spe cial commissioner; from North Car olina, arrived j in Geneva today. League of Nations officials are somewhat puzzled over how to re ceive him. ! j I---.. Mr. Henry has not yet placed his credentials,; but it was said to day the league officials were going to welcome him as a representa tive American; anxious to learn about the league. ' - ? A SOURCE OF MANY ILLS A great proportion of stomach trouble aside from cancer or ulcers is due to reflex irritation from the rectum or colon. Un aware to you, Piles or other rectal disorders may be the cause of your ill health. : j The success of my non-surgical treat ment over many years enables me to GUARANTEE o cure - any case of Piles or re- ?'- fund the patient's fee. Write today for my FREE CHmlciA DEAN.M.D. Inc 3TH AND MAI4-OPPOSITt COURT HO" Si V.v ; 19TUND.OReCON - MtNTlflN'1 f MU PPC WHIN WITe 97 TOMORROW ;sV7PQIk!l3 tresis CONFERENCE OF S German Methodist People to Have ConventionMis- r --. sionaries to Talk ? August 28 to 31 is the date or the Pacific German conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which will be held in Salem. Rev. G. S.'Roeder will have charge of the program, which will be of In terest to a number of Salem church people. Business sessions will be held from 9 o'clock nntil 11:30 o'clock each morning while the afternoons will be devoted to committee meetings. A number of ministers who will attend the conference are expected to arrive Saturday In order to be present at the Sunday service. Services will be conducted in the Ge-man language the Irst two nighVs. Bishop Johnson will offer a stereopticon lecture on "Africa" Friday night at the First Metho dist church. He recently returned from a number of years spent on that continent. It is also possible that Dr.' A. J. Buchers of Cincin nati. Ohio, may be present. .There will be a meeting of the confer ence on Saturday night. Miss Rath Fields, a retired mis sionary from Calcutta, India, will be the speaker at the Friday after noon meeting of the Women's For eign Missionary -society. She is a graduate of Willamette university and now home on t furlough. Dr. B. S. Tully of Buffalo, N. Y., will also speak Friday afternoon. . The annual conference love feast will be held at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning at the Center street church, to be followed by a sermon by Bishop Johnson at 10:30 o'clock. In the afternoon and again at night ministers from the east will be the principal speakers, t S SUPPORT COOLIDGE Senator Capper, Farm Bloc Leader, Makes a State-1 ment for Nominee CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Farmers and wage earners were appealed to in statements issued ; at na tional republican headquarters to night by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas( leader of the farm bloc and T. V. O'Connor of the Inter national Longshoremen's union, chairman of the United States shipping board. , Mr. O'Connor addressed a group of members of labor unions from various parts of the country gath ered for conference In the office of National Chairman 1 William M. Butler. ;. - '. " . j- "Our fanners believe In Cal, the hard boiled economizer," said Senator Capper. MThey be lieve in the Dawes plan for bring ing real peace to the world. Our farmers know and the working men in our industrial centers know, that this truly Insures .their prosperity," Senator Capper said. He added that "common sense and rigid economy appeal more to peo ple" than "government ownership of railroads, attacks upon the pro tective tariff system, or untried policies." , - n r Battling Siki Refuses To Continue Ring Battle LORAIN, Ohio, Aug. 20. The scheduled 10-round bout between Battling- Siki, who conquered Georges Carpentier, and Mike Con roy, Rochester, N. Y., came to a sudden ending tonight when Siki refused to go on after the eighth round. . When the gdng sounded for the ninth round Siki walked to" the middle of the ring and exclaimed: "I'm getting nothing for this; I quit." . ' It was the main bout of a show for the benefit of the Lorain re lief fund. Referee Tommy Mc-i Ginty of Cleveland awarded the contest to Conroy, who had been master of the situation through out. - -- LEOPOLD, L0EB ARE DENOUNCED AS FRIENDS (Continued from pago 1) he had 'see the blows coming." "So he was struck from behind, four 'cowardly, dastardly blows, with a carefully taped cold chisel and then one or the other of these fiends dragged him into the back of the automobile and gouged out his life." Mr. Savage's description of the crime started with the theft by Leopold and Loeb of a portable tyewrlter from a University of Michigan fraternity house last fall. He inferred that this showed pre meditation of kidnaping and mur der i at even that early date, and then proceeded to sketch it. , He had' reached the hiding, of " the body in a culvert when adjourn ment time came. ! : After Mr. Savage concludes, which probably will be tomorrow, the, defense ..will start - its final summing up." Walter Bachrach is IB KEDIO CLARKSBURC WELCOMES JOHN W. DAVIS HOME FOR DEMOCRATS' FORMAL NOTIFICATION 1 V'l I 1 'l:';" $0i The Democratic nonilnee for the Presidency Is seen here proceed ing through Ms home town In an automobile. .With aim is L.VvJSHE dress paralleling Hkti Marshrs legal reasoning. He .will be fol lowed by his brother' Benjamin and these! arguments: are expected to consume the balance of athe week. Clarence S. -:Darrow and Robert E. Crowe state's attorney, will match eloquence In the last of the arguments. Edward Cookingham Has h Conference Wjth Officials ('Publication, of the report .of Oswald West and George. Black of Portland j relative to the alleged irregularities in the sale of stock 0f the King's Food Products com pany, and which assailed the Ladd & Tilton bank of Portland, brought j Edward ' Cookingham. president; of the bank, to Salem yesterday to confer with Gover nor Pierce and State Treasurer Myers. j .i- Mr. Cookingham vehemently denies the allegations' in the re port, but following the conference yesterday neither ho; nor the gov ernor wonld make any statement as to developments reached. PIEltCE TO SPEAK ; PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 20. Game problems of the west will be discussed, here tomorrow when the annual convention of the Western Association of Game wardens op ens its sessions to continue Fri day and ; Saturday. Governor Pierce will deliver' the address t welcome. ; REFORMER DIES CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Miss Lucy Page Gaston, nationally known re former and foe of cigarettes, died in a sanitarium here today. Her health failed several months ago after she was injured in a street car accident and a malignant growth In her throat developed Miss Gaston was conscious until 30 minutes before she died. SOLDIERS INJURE CIVILIANS i HONOLULU, Aug. 20. More than 100 soldiers attacked and injured a number of persons in the Kalihi district last night in revenge for an assault upon a sol dier by gangsters Gunday night. Both civilian and military police were called to quell the disturb ance. No arrests were made. USED i 1 1 1 1 1 f i Piano and r-r jsJrr?' Q Phonograph SAtE si 1 1 . iiiiinniiifimiiiii ' I f John C. Johnson, one of West vir-l glnla's! olde. Democrats, whorls I said to din been the iman who I BOYi fiRBESTEQ FOR : 1ITII LETTER Threat on Life of Franks Laid to 11 Year Old Boy ;ij Two are Held CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Earl Sniith, 11-year-old school boy, was arrestbd late today, charged with having sent a threatening letter to Jacob Franks, father of the murdered Robert Franks. ; a; ; The lad was said to have ad mitted his - 17-year-old ; brother. Fielding, - and other companions were confederates In demanding $S000 from Mr. Franks on the threat that his 'wife and daughter would be killed. : , ; Earl told the detectives - that Fielding had dictated the letter and tbld him to write. ' : Fielding told the officers, they said, that several days ago his brother showed him a letter ad dressed to Franks and demanding money. ' t ,"Tiat letter Is no good," the officers said Fielding told Earl. Her$ use this one." The older boy then dictated the letter Mr. Franks received, doing it in a spirit of fun, he insisted, i; Both boys were held for further investigation. j ji H j Murderer Identified. ; LOS - ANG ELES, Au g. 20. Fingerprints of a burglary suspect arrested here August 13 under the name; of Harry Trafole, alias JL TO .WEST VIRGINIA WiW Mr Txrr- "N.-..S t 5 5 -.-v. , . nrst lnaxruciea xar. - utvu in tn politics and policies of the DemoJ craUc party. . ' Arnett, have resulted in his Identi fication ae John Revinsky, escaped Memphis murderer and fugitive from justice since 1917, police an nounced tonight. BELGIANS ENDORSE ACTION BRUSSELS, Aug. 20.- (By the AP.) -After listening today to a detailed account of the recent rep arations conference in London, the Belgian cabinet unanimously en dorsed the conduct of -affairs by Premier Theunis and Foreign Min ister Hymans and congratulated them on the agreements reached. VIOLATE LAND LAW SEATTLE, Aug.8 20. Thomas Chapman of Kent, Wash.,; was charged la the superior court here today with violation of an alien land law prohibiting aliens owning or leasing lands, by aiding and: abetting an alien in holding property from January 1 to Aug ust 1 15, - by prosecuting Attorney Malcom ; Douglas- Chapman was said to have allowed T. Tomlnega to continue in possession of some property after Tomlnega's : lease had expired. GoH! -VMvvi; 4- it BACK in the 40s it took months for the thrilling news of California's gold . strike to cross the continent. ; Today, a few hours after so important a discovery, the entire story would be known to newspaper readers throughout the country. , f i In the early days, news spread by word of mouth. Today, the telegraph and telephone speed the message into the i newspaper office, it is rushed, into type, the paper is ! printed and shortly the news becomes public property. i There are two kinds of news in the paper. One consists of thOaffairs of other people; their sayings,, doings and vhat they're going to do; things that have happened, may happen and didn't happen. i The other kind of news is about your affairs. That's the part you'll find iii the advertisements. There's a lot of valuable news there about things you want or .will "want; things that have to do with your own personal comfort, convenience and every-day efficiency. . Every advertisement carries a personal message to some one. Many advertisements carry messages of vital inter est or value to you. r ' i! That's why. you can't afford to miss the advertisements. . Read them. The advertisements are j decidedly valuable to you. STORMS PLAY FREAK SOTS 1 EAST Two are Killed in : Dakota; Rain and Heat Strike at Other Points FARGO, N. D., Aug. 20. Two persons were killed during a se vere rain and electrical storm which visited the southern half of North Dakota late today. GALESBURG, 111., Aug. 20.; A heavy rain etartlng early yester day and lasting all night, caused a washout on the . main line of the Burlington near Altoona, early to day. All mainline traffic is tied up. - -' - j y -ii BENTON HARBOR, Mich , Aug. 20. Damage running into sev eral thousand dollars was caused here late yesterday by a wind storm which unroofed several small buildings. It is estimated jgmimarKiaH'imiMimaBniiiaaimmma I I iwiW:iBMIfliMiWiiaMiinii g i ? y i is We are contihuing our August Clearance sale making sub stantial reductions on all mer chandise in stock. It will payyou to purchase at this time for Fall and Winter wear. Our gar ments are the best in quality and smart ness of styles. '. ; " A small deposit will hold any Fur or ' Coat until a later time when you wish it deivered. : ; , Call and Inspect i Our Offerings, r - . t -V f ' 1 - - s . West Fur Company 190 N. Liberty We will be glad to help you in making over or re-styling. yoorold fur or coat GoUl that half of the pear;; peach and apple crop has been ruined. OMAHA, - Neb., Aug. 20. Bright sunshine and! hot winds, the kind of weather in which Ne braskans say . "they can hear the com grow." prevailed in eastern and southern Nebraska today, bringing maximum temperatures of 101 at Lincoln land 93 at Omaha. - i : Specials for ;Hop Piclsers A large selection ?f GIove Uats, Koveralls, fihirts. We sell S5 p cent cheaper tbaa the other stores. ' . Work Shoe special to hop pickers $1.83. CAPITAL EXGHL'IGE P. STEINBOClC, ,rrop. 343 N. Commercial ! PHONE 1308-W 1 B - 5 II ichgdjtfled . to . giy the .. first ad
