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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1925)
.Tm.or.nGou stated: ian, saix:j, g?ego:i u?m TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE SO, 1025 SALERATUS STUrBLlfiG :. ! BLOCK FOR SPELLERS PAUXES ASD LAW ABE lAsT TO FALI IS CONTEST Chamber of Commerce Ends punches for Summer; Vote for Head-on Parking i An old fashion spelling bee "was the feature of the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce before the summer vacation.! Saleratus proved to be the stumbling block for the band fulLof men who went down before the words from the blue spelling book used by Prof. W. I. Staley, pronouncer. T. M. Hicks, captain of one side was the first to be spelled down, Hicks fell : Tor Ms first word, athlete. - E." T. Barnes and L. L. Law on Hicks' team were the last to fall. The opposing team was lead by George Griffith., t The local Chamber of Com merce will be guests of the Dal las Commercial club at the Gale hotel Thursday evening at 6:30 All members of the Salem club , planning to attend should call the local office before Thursday noon. The head-in parking system re ceived a 32 to 19 vote over the present system, but according to discussion nothing can be done un til the suggestion becomes an ordinance. BLAZE DESTROYS CAMP FOREST FIRE SWEEPS TIMBER HOLDIXCia AT JIOQULIM RADIO SET IS UNLOCKED MYSTERY LOCK FALLS PRET TO KEY; SET NOT GIVEX complications have come up over the Mystery Key. which un locks the padlock that guards the tthree tube radio set to be given away byt the management of the Liberty theater. Last night J. Tt. Cates, 3 20' Di vision, came to the theater with a collection of keys and opened the lock, gave the lock to the girl at the .door, and loaded the radio in his car. . . .Before he left the management demanded the Mystery Key, which he used to open the Yale lock with. Cates claimed he bad riven the key and lock to tbe usher and after a heated argument left. In a few minutes he returned. His party searched their pockets and finally found the key. The key used by Cates, the man agement of the theater claims, is a Vale master and is not a dupli cate of the one held by the thea ter. Cates returned the radio and left after Insisting that the kjf used by him to open the lock was passed out at the ticket window. Shortly after Cates admitted to an officer, who demanded to see the key, that he had filed the key making a regular burglar pick from a key passed out. - NEWS BRIEFS Hero Js Drowned While attempting to save the life of Jerrine Smith, 12, daught er of I. R. Smith, of Salem, who was swimming In the river at ' Portland Sunday, Leslie Morton, former OAC student, lost his life. The accident occurred during a I picnic party at the river from 1 home of W. J. Patton. Morton is believed to have died from, heart ! failure rather than drowning. His 'jbody was recovered half an hour IIOQUIAM. Wastu, June 29. Fanned by an increasing wind this afternoon, fire in the Aloha. Tim ber company's holdings north of here which on Saturday destroyed one entire logging camp of the company, again got out of control today and was sweeping on a two mue iroot bo u to ward toward the town of Aloha. ; Jo apprehension is felt for, that city as yet, how ever., Several small fires are burning along the harbor line west of Hoqujam, and a spark from one of them is believed like ly to have been the cause of a fire which Sunday night destroyed a small hemlock sawmill owned by Peter Hunley, with a loss of about Sli,UOU. . ; . . , OLYMPIA, June 29. By The Associated Press). In . response to a call received late this after noon, emergency j of .the forest fire fighting equipment was rush ed to the logging operations of the Ltodstrom - Handforth ; Lumber company at Rainier it was report ed by ,T. S. . Goodyear, assistant supervisor of forestry. A slashing fire Jiad Kot beyond control and was spreading rapidly, the company reported, although no damage had been done at the time aid. was asked. , later, and no trace of, water was found in his lungs. He sank in four feet of water.1 but no one no ticed him as he handed the little girl to tljose on shore. , Jerrine is a proficient swimmer, but for some reason called for help. The drowned man served inl France during the World war. Speeder Is Fined Kollan Layton j of Dallas was fined ' 10 by Judge M. Poulsen for speeding. Layton was travel ing 42 miles an hour when ar rested. . t Drank Woman Fined Marie Smith of Portland con tributed $10 to the city coffers for being drunk. - The fine was paid by Miss Smith's j traveling com panion!; . . - - Two Xfen Reiraaed Fretl Veulger. arrested Sunday night for driving while intoxicated obtained his release from the city iailUast night by depositing $100 bail. Paul Lewis of Knoxville, Tenn.. arrested Sunday nieht unon complaint of the proprietor of the Little Lady's store, Center . auJ Twelfth, under the suspicion that he was a prowler, was also re- leased. I I Cbild Is Injured i Clifton Stauff. small son of.Mn and Mrs. O. B, Stauff, 1560 Sputh High, was struck by a couoe driven by Winifred ;Beech yester day'afternoon as he dodged front behind a car parked near the home of his parents. : The child was badly bruised about the bead but was not seriously injured. Witnesses claim the driver was not at fault. j Miss Nellie Schwab of the Ladd & Bush bank, accompanied by her mother, left' yesterday for Skag- way. From Skagway they will make an interior trio to Atlin. B. C. I - - . New Today . A Picture of Flaming; Action, Thrilling Color and Seething Intrigue r j : It: 2 i C K.,1 xx y V . J C0A5T TO COAST DEBATE fiOV 6 ETTIiiG PUBLICITY BOSTON KEWSPAPER TO DE VOTE WHOLE PAGE JCXE lO Contracts Are Received by Coach Horning; Date Will be Se- lected Later COJJCERrPROGRAll GIVEN EXCELLENT ELECTIONS ARK f OFFERED BY SALE3I RAXD Salem, Oregon, is receiving lots of publicity in - Salem,- Mass., re lative to the debate between re presentatives of the two high schools in May next year. A copy of the Boston American. for June . 10, has been received by Orlando Horning, debate coach. Under the caption of American Champion Debaters is a photo graph of. the debate team and Hawthorne's "House of Seven Gables,'?. both of .Salem. Mass.: and a photograph of the Oregon capitol. - In a half -column , write nn the old request that the eastern Sa lem change its name is revealed while speaking of Salem.. Ore., the writer ays: "it is located on the Willamette river 60 miles south of Portland, has several woolen and flour, mills, evaporat ing plants and canning factories." in eastern team, according to its schedule, has won all of 17 debates in the . last four years. Two of these were won this year and two In 1922. In 1922 eieht debates were won and five in 1924 Including a :i number , of high schools J rom the larger cities of the east the Boston team defeat ed representative of the Yale and JJarthmouth college freshmen elasses. Contracts for the debate have been received by Coach Horning and are regarded favorably by Su perintendent of Schools Hue. They have not yet been submitted to . Prinlcpal J. C. Nelson, but Coach Horning feels that he will be satisfied as several of the points he raised have been taken care of. The child labor amend ment is the .subject of the debate. to be held in May. 1926. the date to be arranged later. Each school will have three members on the, team, the affirmative teams to travel. . t- An exceptionally well balanced program has been prepared for tbe Cherrlan band concert this evening by O. A. Steelhammer, di rector. : Vocal solos will be of fered by O. B. Gingrich. " "This . Is ' the second concert of the season and it is expected to draw a large number of people. Tourists in particular enjoy the music and the fountain. ' The program for tonight fol lows: - March. "Port Arthur".... Settz Overture, "Jolly Robbers" .. Suppe Sunnyland waltzes Rosner Popular numbers. Vocal solo .... . . . . . . . Selected ! r O. B. Gingrich "Hungarian Fantasia" . . . :TobanI Humoresque, "The Magpie and the Parrot" . . ... . Bendix Selection, V"Babes fn Toyland" ........... Herbert "Pageant of Progress March" ; ., ........... Jewell "Star Spangled Banner" IRVINE REUNION DRAWS NEARLY 200 TO SALEM EVENT IS SUCCESS AND WILL BE HELD ANNUALLY PLAYGROUNDS OPENED FOR SUMMER SEASON YOUNGSTERS ENJOY FIRST O DAY OF SUPERVISION Age Limit Is Lower This Year Than Last; All Regulations Are Enforced ' 1-.-- Mrs. T. O. Blierh left todav for Canada. Before returning he ex-1 pects to stop at various places pop ular with American tourists. ir m Too. Late To Classify LOST AIREIALE PUP. RETURV TO FOR RENT 5ROOM MODERN COT- tase. beautiful place; 3-4 arre ground: only $30.00 per month. Jlorry up if you want this. Home Realty Co., ir.9 8. High. Tfclephotie 1718. 27jl MID-SEASON SALE OP DRESSES roats, aeaUIea, millinery, at the French hhop, Wafeonic Temple. 115 f. High. ( jao Opening of the two playgrounds yesterday attracted many young sters to the one at Lincoln school and the Fourteenth street ground. The ages of the children are lower than they ..were last-year and at neither place were there any who were more than 13 years. Swings r at . the Lincoln play ground were placed yesterday and men were busy putting up travel ing rings. Both places have bet ter equipment than last year and indications are that they will be as popular this year as last. Every precaution is beiner taken against accidents. Universal play ground regulations are being - ob- Two youngsters are for bidden to occupy the same swing together in the effort to "pump" and gain a longer swing. Young sters ;t the Fourteenth street grounds are pot permitted to go into the water until those in charge hare satisfied themselves that sufficient time has elapsed since eating. No accident marred the 1924 season. U : Miss Danta Bobbins has charee fof the Lincoln playground with Lestle Sparks and Miss Grace Snook in charge of th Fourteenth street grounds. They are assisted by John Creech. -; , - - Irvine Oage of Independence Oldest Present; Officers i Are Elected Nearly 200 persons gathered at Marion square Sunday to attend the first reunion of . descendants of the Irvine family of - Oregon, Exchange of reminiscences, a pie- nic dinner and informal entertain ment occuDied the day. So great was the success of,-tbe event that it was unanimously ' decided to make the reunion an annual af fair. . I The original Irvine family. In cluding the grandmother and her five eons and three daughters, located in Marion county in the year 1852. The grandmother died later that year and was buried in Jaaon Lee cemetery. - A number of persons in attendance at the reunion visited the grave, which was decorated' with - flowers re ceived from ( different parts of Oregon. r Following: the death of Mrs. Irvine the five brothers and three daughters married and drifted to different sections of the state. The last of the brothers and slaters died a few years ago. Irvine Clagget of Independence. 84 years of age. was the' oldest member of the clan in attendance at the reunion. Despite his years he is as active as many men half his age. The ages of many other persons at the reunion range as high as 7S years. - Among prominent members of the Irvine clan In attendance at the. reunion were, United States Senator C. Lv McNary, John Mc- Nary. Salem attorney; Milton A. MUler of Portland and F rank Ir vine, editor of a Portland news paper. ' V- ' At ihe conclusion of the festiv ities organization wascomnleted and .Milton A. Miller was elected president. Miss Nina McNarv of Salem was chosen vice oresident and Mrs. Frank Chambers of Eu gene secretary. L1GHTXIXG CAUSES FIRES WALLA WALLA, Wash.l June 29 Seven forest ' fires f in the Blue mountains near here caused by lightning Sunday were re ported under control this after noon. All were on the south fork of theWalla Walla river in Uma tilla county, Oregon. PJEAD COLDS H a Melt in spoons inhale vmoors: B ppJy freely nn nostrils. - V VafoRuo London cheered it! NoeYorfc gqtspedl s THE love spectacle that herd two contistati iptllbound it now a motion picture sensation of beauty a aat3Sg. A thommJ exotic Rettvtim - CotmtUtt mmmorttbt ihrUUI By Oscar Asche and - ..Freoeiuc Norton Jf drresi&ihle .?,. 77 something. calU And how we envy it happy charm it cameo-like , fea tures its ruddy glow of radiant health. REUfilOM SET FOR JULY 4 DEsn:xnANw -of s. w. n. JONES TO MEET JULY 4 ; The first annual reunion of the descendants of S. W.. R. Jones, Oregon pioneer, will be held July 4 at the old home place near the Pioneer church, and known as the Nook farm, near Brooks. The program will begin at 11 o'clock in tho . morning and will include reading, of historical events per tainiag to the family and genera,! business of the reunion. A social time will, follow the picnic dinner. 1 GENERAL MARKETS I PORTLAND, June 29. Port land dairy exchange: Butter, ex tras -4 6e; standards 44c; prime firsts. 44c; firsts 42&c. Eggs, extras 36c; firsts 35c; pullets 33c; current receipts 31 c. PORTLAND, June 29 Hay, buying prices, valley timothy, $20 C$21; do eastern -Oregon, $21 24.50; alfalfa, $19: clover $17: oat hay, nominal; cheat $16; oat and vetch $1920; straw per ton. - Selling prices $2 a ton more. - PORTLAND. June 29. Grain futures: Wheat, hard white, blae stem, baart, June $1.5p,- July i.40; August $1.35: soft white. June $1.50; July $1.40; August $1.35; western white. June $1.50: July $1.40; August $1.35; . hard winter, July $1.40; August $1.35; northern spring. June. $1.50; July $1.38; August $1.34; western red, July $1.31; August. $1.30; BBB hard white, June $l.Si; July $1.40: August $1.35. Oats, No. - 2, 36-pound white feed. June $34.50; July uO: August $29.50; 'No.. 2, ad gray, June $34.50; July $32. August 1 $29.50 v : ; Corn, No. 2, EY shipment, Juntft. $43.50; July $43.50; August $43.50. t : , . NEW TODAY 3IATINEE -:- EVENING . AN A .iCT WW rnmoflv THB sensational new mTi 1 h tfae fighting HII role he was made for. TVewS V.'iih Jacqnillna Logan ( and prominent cast. ' IIII Today Wednesday iiir Thursday : The drama of a man who had to decide be tween starving to death or ruining -the family of the girl he loves. Based on "Jungle Law" by I. A. It. Wylie. GRAND Send For Free Beauty Book , every woman can benefit by A reading our new book, "The Way to(Buty," 43 pagea of helpful toilet hmu to women. FREE for a limited time only. Send naaoe. and ftddrcM today t Also - -"HIS HIGH HOBSE"' ; . with Lee Moran . NEWS COMEDY., IirOMAN may thank her stars, too, that YOUTH is not measured by the yard stick of years. It's the way she feels and looks that determine her activities and popularity. 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