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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST4, 1925
PRICE 'FIVE CENTS
II I CAUSE SAID FOUND FOR
IL I PECULIARWATER TASTE
DITCH FILLING PROBLEM
AGREEMENT IS REACHED
SPECIAL CITY ELECTION
SLATED FOR OCTOBER 20
WORK FOR PRISONERS
TEXTBOOK
AUTHORIZED BY LAW
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CHSTIUD
ALGAE DECLARED RESPON-
NEW PAPER COMPANY WILL
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THREE AMENDMENTS TO
CHARTER ARE PROPOSED
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BIBLE FOR RECENT FLAVOR
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Two Women and. Man Shot
to Death by Bandit; An-
other Is wounaea
Harmless . Vegetable Organism Is
Blamed by Water Company
Officials .
DOglS
With every precaution, taken and
every possible source of ,- the dif
FOLLOWING TRAIL
ficulty investigated, water cora-
rolk-e tTnabl to Find Definite1
- Clue; Demand for Money
Precedes Fatal Shots
i From Revolver
DENVER. Colo., Aug. 3. (By
Associated Press.) -Trailing of
the highwaymen who last night
shot and killed three members of
an automobile party and wounded
a fourth after an unproductive at-
I i ... v, ' - f
tempt to rob them on a road near
here, came to an abrupt stop late
tonight when bloodhounds lost the
scent of tha slayer, a mile and a
half from the scene of his crime.
When the dogs failed to pick up
the trail again, further pursuit
was abandoned until tomorrow.
Using the single visible clue
found by the police near the auto
mobile and the three victims, a
piece of tweed cloth, as a scent,
the dogs trailed the supposed path
of flight of the slayer over a fence
to the left of the automobile and
through a field of alfalfa to the
pany officials yesterday concluded
that algae, harmless and minute
vegetable organisms, were respon
sible for the peculiar taste that
was given to Salem water, for sev
eral days last week.' .While com
pany . of ficiali were not certain
that they had found the actual
cause, this reason was declared to
be the most plausible, as treat
ment of the water for this organ
ism had eliminated the disagree
able taste. .
The water for the past several
days has been practicaly free from
the peculiarity and yesterday It
was not discernable. ;: :. V
The j minute organism,! often
found In filter beds, was probably
drawn into the river intake dur
Mrs. Schwartz' Req u est
That Body Be Given to
Her Is Not Granted
RANCH HAND IS MISSING
.i
Itinerant Portuguese Has Disap-
pea red Since , Day of ex
plosion; Police Try
Identification !
Construction Expected to Begin
About August 15; Moch"
r. Routine Business
MARTINEZ, Ca., Aug. 3 (By
Associated Press. ) Police and
criminologists today brought! to
bear-all . their powers of experi
ence and science to trace out the
lettering Vnat will be carved on
the heuuone .which eventually
will rest! over the body that was
found in the laboratory of the Pa
cific Cellulose company at Walnut
ing a heavy drain on the 'supply j creek rlast Thursday after an ex
plosion. ! - " J i
Sheriff R. R. Veale today made
public the theory that the body
is not that of Charles ,! Henry
Schwartz, chemist, who was at
first supposed to have been killed
in an explosion that burned his
that increased the pressure at the
opening, it was explained. .The
result is not unusual and
lences similar to that .. of Salent
have been reported from other
cities, especially during th sum
mer.. , ; . : ' , j '
Employment of a professional
diver to go over every Inch of "he
intake pipe leading through the
Loretto Heights academy building river slough to make Certain that
and then to a graveyard in the
rear of the building. The trail
then branched back through a
corn field, to the road where the
tragedy was enacted, : the man
jumfing ah irrigation ditch while
f lee. ig over this route
there was no leak in it,-was one
c the precautions taken to make
qaick elimination of the difficulty.
it became known yesterday. Three
days was spent in the task. Whil
it' was being dona the water gate
was closed and. heavy pressure put
When the slayer reached the I in the pipe so that no defect could
road his trail continued until it escape detecting
passed through a corn field and I Absolute purity of the- water
reached Sheridan boulevard. . ! has been maintained consistently.
On the boulevard, he appeared. It was claimed by company offici-
accordfng to the actions of the als, backed by the reports of the
bloodhounds, to have walked back health officials who have made
and forth excitedly and rapidly frequent, tests of the waters and
for a few minutes and then to whosa reports show that the water
have left in some conveyance. J ie bacteriologically pure. !
1 .1 The peculiar taste to the water
last week aroused rumors that for
their number and prevelenco are
DENVER, Colo., Aug. 3. (By
j Associated Press.) A ' pack of
bloodhounds tonight was on thefa'most without parallel here. Sat
trail of a costless, collarlesa hold- urday newspaper offices were fair
up man who last night, shot and ly deluged with telephone call? of
killed three members of a picnic persons who wanted to know tie
' party of four when they responded truth of a dozen or more stories
to a demand for money with the that were current. Investigation
i announcement that; they were failed to reveal the truth'of any of
. ."broke.,t " -- ' " - them. "
Following a slender clew, cen-
laboratory last Thursday. !.
As the investigators worked,
Mrs. Schwartz donner her widow's
weeds and twice through her at
torney made ' formal demand i on
the district attorney that he de
liver; to her the body that she
might bury it as Charles Henry
Schwartz her late .husband who,
as a chemist of repute, had evolv
ed a formula that was expected to
revolutionize the silk industry
through the artificial . cutting of
silk fiber. j
Denied by law to inter the
corpse that she has confidently
maintained is that of the man
whose name she ..bore, she .ex
pressed willingness to have it de
capitated and the body given to
her so that she may hold over it
a funeral service, -i The head, she
proposed, be held until identifica-
The problem of filling the Di
vision street Mill-,creek ditch found
final settlement in the city coun
cil last night when a report of the
council special committee was
adopted and filling of the ditch
ordered, with the understanding
that the new Western Paper Con
verting company would pay $1500
for; the job and the local Chamber
of jCommerce would stand good
fori any expense that might vbe in
curred above that amount. The
motion ordering filling of the
ditch at once was passed without
discussion and by a unanimous
vote of the council.
Settlement of this question.., it
is ;understood, definitely assures
the location here of the new paper
converting plant, actual construc
tion of which is to start about
August 15. By order of the coun
cil: the special committee, com
posed of Aldermen Paton, Wen
deroth and Herrick, together with
the street improvement commit
tee, are authorized to draw up the
contract and proceed at once.
Further action of the council
last night accepted the bid of the
Loggers & Contractors' Machine
company for sale to the city of a
seven cubic-foot concrete mixer,
to be delivered within three days
The price was $1150, minus a cash
discount of $55 for payment with
in! 15 days after delivery. Action
was taken after the council had
adjourned for 10 minutes to give
the street improvement committee
time to consider the two bids en-
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HUGE APE DIES IN Z00
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SAM, 13 YEARS OLD, IS DEAD
JjHOM STOMACH ULCER
tered about an unidentified motor
ist and a patch of tweed cloth, po
lice authorities early tonight were
unsuccessful inv their ' efforts to
find the man who slew Miss Marie
WIDOWS BESEIGE OFFICE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3. (By
Associated Prenst. Sixt-r twn
McuormicK. Mrs. Juita steams, Widows swept into the district at
jier sisier, r reu r uiiuer ana
wounded Carl Perry, a fourth
member of the party. The blood
hounds were brought - from the
Quallian kennels at Colorado
Springs and taken to Littleton,
where,, under the direction of
Sheriff Haines of Arapahoe coun
ty, there were led to the fatal spot.
Sheriff Haines said he had dis
covered tracks evidently those of
the slayer, leading from the auto-
,( mobile, and hoped there to pick
up the trail. . '.
Details of- the tragedy were
pieced j tint by officers from the
. incoherent tale of Perry and mute
, evidence about the automobile
torney's office today and demand
ed! the protection of the law for
their oil speculations.
Attaches of the offices were be
wildered until' one of the women
exhibited . a' newspaper want ad
reading: "AH widows in the oil
syndicate please call at the. dis
trict attorney's office Monday."
Finally, the widow who Insert
ed the advertisement " introduced
herself and explained that "the
promoters of this syndicate have
sold us out and we want to know
what you are going to do about
It."
Deputy District Attorney Ryan
where the three bodies were found Patiently explained to the widows
by occupants of a nearby house I"""- "- .'
who were roused hv the sole nr- apparently had lost a, leasing tilt
vivor '1 '"". ' ? I with one of .the big oil companies
Perrv said the Wnd it lea nod nldid not necessarily mean the syn
the running board of their autodicte promoter8 Were dishonest,
mobile as thev drove alone South b that the district attorney's
Federal boulevard and ; forced 1 offIce would dig Into the, matter
them, at the tioint nf ttni inland find out for sure. VMean
drive to a secluded lane. There
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TONIC DRINKER IS HELD
W'AREHAM BACK IN JAIL AF-
TER SHORT FREEDOM
while, he requested the widows to
go home and try to develop!; the
sang froid which every oil gam
bler needs. : . ' :
MAN IS SAID MURDERED
HEADLESS CORPSE IS FOUND
IN RIVER AT PORTLAND
i Twelve hours of liberty proved
too much for Dave I. Wareham,
self-styled champion
ST. LOUIS,' Aug. 3. -(By Asso
ciated Press). Sam, the huge 13
year old ourang ontang which had
entertained thousands of persons
with his antics at Forest Park too
the ast eight years, died today of
ulcer of the stomach. Sam be
came nationally known through
the movies in which he rode
velocipede, played the harmonica,
boxed with his trainer and was an
inveterate pipe smoker. "
Sam was one of the largest apes
in captivity.' He weighed about
80 pounds and could stretch to a
height of five feet six Inches. His
body will be mounted. ! 1
Purchase of fiW,000 Fire Depart
ment Equipment; Addi- .
tional Taxex Ixom
Three ordinances calling for
charter amendments to be submit
ted at a special election Tuesday.
October 20, were Introduced at
the city rounciI1ast night. The
ordinances call for tax levies to
repair streets and, alleys; to con
struct and maintain bridges and
for the purchase of $30,000 equip
ment for the fire department.
Under the proposed ordinance
a levy not to exceed one and one-
half mills on all taxable property
will be asked for the purpose of
repairing all streets, alleys, cul
verts and cross walks in addition
to the amount that may be levied
by the council under the six per
cent limitation act.
The proposed bridge tax is an
Jtnuurl tax not to exceed two mills
any one year. Funds derived from
ih'a source will be used to con
struct new bridges, repair and
maintain present bridges and ap
proaches.
The council seeks authority to
spend not to exceed $30,000 for
one l?00-gallon pumper, one 1000
gallon pumper and- 3500 feet of
two and one-half inch hose in the
third proposed charter amend
ment. ' City of Salem bonds will
Head-in Method Approved
by City Council With yote
of tight to hive
AMENDMENTS INCLUDED
Situation Held to Merit Serious
Attention of Council Police
i Committee
All-day Meeting - Fails', i.0
Clear Up state textoooK
Commission Muddle
Trucks' Must Back to Curbing in
the Business District; Some
Streets to Have Par
allel Parkins
Books May Not be Changed Until
November. 182, Attorney
. General Van Winkle
Declares
By a vote of 8 to 5, the city
council last night approved of the
ordinance changing the method of
parking automobiles from back-in
to head-on after a stormy session
in which Hal D. Patton attempted
to stay action on the bill by mov
ing that it first be laid on the
table and then later asking for its
indefinite postponement, both sug
gestions falling by the wayside.
The bill will be signed by the
mayor and go into effect as soon
as the necessary lines are painted
on the streets. j
The gist of the ordinance, with
amendments - included, provides
that all motor vehicles shall be
headed in toward the curb at an
i Employment of city Jail prison-:
era in street improvement work
was last night offered to the c" QPINI0N HANDED DOWN
creasing codts of maintaining the
muncipal Jail. Discussion fol
lowed the introduction of a bill
to trannler $250 : from the in
cidental to the Jail fund for the
maintenance of the lock-up for the
remainder of the year.
The suggestion m-as made by Al
derman Patton and supported by
several other councilmen. Discus
sion was halted when the body
was informed by the city attor
ney that a city charter amend
men tv and ordinance already au
thorized employment of prisoners
on public work and that all that
was needed to Bee u re operation of
the policy was enforcement of
present statutes. The matter was
Sthen dropped after Patton had de
clared that "the subject warrants
the very serious consideration ol
the police committee."
tered, and after the committee had
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QU0R OWNER IS FREED
bonds.
SNOW HITS NORTHWEST
SUPREME i COURT RELEASES
'DRIVER OF LIQUOR AUTO
5,!
OLYMPIA, Aug. 3. (By Asso
ciated Press). Conviction of G.
RJ Ethridge on a charge of unlaw
ful possession of intoxicating li
quor by the Thurston county court
was reversed today by the supreme
court."-'
Ethridge was arrested January
1924, while driving through the
Camp-Lewis military reservation
by military police as a possible
suspect in connection with a. day
light store robbery in the vicinity,
He was taken to Olympia by the
military authorities where the civil
authorities, on searching his car,
discovered 120 bottles of liquor,
Ethridge was convicted in both
the police court and the justice
court and fined $250 in each in
stance,, the superior court uphold
ing the fines! Possession of liquor
was not denied, records show.
Reversal was based on the
grounds of illegal search and on
the grounds that Ethridge was In
the custody of federal officers and
as such not within the jurisdiction
of the state.
ancle of 45 derreea and Darked
be sold in $500 denominations, rer Detween tWQ whIte iInes seven
uw,uu,e ,u cara nu ueunus feet apart. Trucks and delivery
six percent interest payable eeml- vehlcle9 mU8t be backed to the
annually. A sinking fund is also curb between tne lines and are
given zo minutes to load or nn
load in the business sestion with
in the following district
Commercial, between Trade and
Center; Liberty, between Ferry
and Center: High, between ;Ferrv
CROPS IN MANY STATES HIT and Center; Court, between Front
V" L-t,!. 1 VIUtT. tpiirii I
. liii.ininii urijtiimt land Phiirrh rhmpVti ritlsMn
Front and Church: State, between
CHICAGO, Aug. 3. (By Asso- Front and Cottaee excent a dis-
which, a month ago. sizzled with north half of gtate from the west
most of the west of the country In llne of tne 8tate house gr0Unds to
recora-oreaamg mgn lemperaiures the WMt 1Ine of Waverly. both
toaay naa a summer snowstorm. nro-ected south: th south half of
A five minute fall of snow over ronrt fro th- lln- th
an area of several square miles 8tate house grounds to the west
was reported irom Amoerg, line of Waverly, projected north
mues irom juanneue, wis. xne Under the new ordinance it is
freakish weather was followed by Unlawful to narlt lonrer than two
hall that did considerable damage hours between S -o'clock in the
tp crops. .., -- morning and 6 o'clock at pight in
July, which came in with rec- the dj3trict bounded by Commer
ord breaking temperatures that clal from the north side of Ferry
continued for 10 days, vanished to the B0Uth slde of ChemekeU;
with unseasonably cool weather Liberty. from the north side of
through most of the middlewest. state to the BOUth Blde of Court;
the cool weather extending into sute from the east 8ide 0 Com.
the opening of August. mercial to the west side of Hih:
Kam interierrea in me nrsi Court from the ea8t gIde of Com
day's play of the western ciay
court tennis championship at Dc
troit today.'
Hail storms were reported from
points in Kentucky. Indiana and
Michigan. Hall stones as large as
An all-day meeting of the stats
text book commission yesterday
rith J. A.' Churchill, state super
intendent of schools, failed to
clarify the - muddle which has
arisen, and the only defihlte re
sult of the meeting is an opinion
by the attorney general ruling
that neither Mr. Churchill nor the
text-book commission has author
ity under the law to change text-
books at this time, as one-third of
the books were changed last No
vember and the second third can-
A charter amendment passed by I not be changed until November;
the people last year, the council 1 1926, changes being made at tha
was ; Informed, which authorized I rate of one-third every two years
the raising of minimum penalties I covering a six-year period.
for convictions in the police court I In the face of the opinion th
also, authorized the court to im-1 commission passed a resolution
pose a penalty of service at hard! that the remaining two-thirds ot
labor. v "I the text-books not considered last
Transfer nf funn. to hP tail -. November should -be adopted In
ronnt . nocttrf w f., Pn competition, holding that tha
that the $250 appropriation made ?u T . "DTTf .
furnish the text-books only by
continuing the contracts at heavy
wait
APE LAW TO BE FOUGHT
by the council in the annual bud
get for maintenance of the jail Uir". " "
i,o .v,.,..... t-w increase in prices.
" . " " . I Action for the resolution
siderationat the next meeting of edition of the Oregon school law's.
"If at any time during the six
years covering the adoption of
text-books as herein provided,
publisher shall fail or be unabK
to furnish any adopted text-book
or his contract be rescinded. org
for any cause, if becomes neces
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 3.1 sary to adopt any text-book in
ohn Randolph Neal, of counsel I stead of or in addition to thos
for John T. Scopes, recently con- I required by the course of study la
victed of violating Tennessee's I force at the time of the regular
anti-evolution law, in a statement I adoption, the chairman . of : tha
given the .Chattanooga. Tiines to- f board of text-book commissioners.
night, declared that he will i file I or the governor, may call a ape-
in the United States district court I cUI esslon of said board, and it
here tomorrow a taxpayer's neti-1 all thereupon convene and adopt
SCOPES' COUNSEL SEEKS TO
. ENJOIN ENFORCEMENT
mercial to tire west side of High.
All motor vehicles parked or
left standing on the east side of
High between State and Ferry, the
west side of High between Ferry
and Mill, or upon either Bide pf
hen eggs'fell in three counties In p between Winter and Front
9 a j I 1 a . f C A I
Kentucky, destroying between 750
and 1,000 acres of tobacco and
caused a loss ot more than $100,
000 to the white burley tobacco
crop.
must be parked parallel to and
(Continued on pr 3.)
"I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN!"
PORTLAND, Aug. 3.- The body
bark root!0 a man, with the head severed
drinker of America and former I was found today floating -in 4he
pool hall nroprletor at Gates, who I Columbia river where the Willam
was back in the city lail last nirht I tte. river empties Into it. ! Policet
and will face Judge Foulsen on ajafter investigation, announced the
charge of driving while intoxi-1 maa'a head had been cut off with
cated ! and drunkenness, v A : col- ome sharp Instrument. They lex-i
lection ot new but potent tonic is Pressed the belief that the inan
being held for evidence. . had been murdered and his body
Wareham collided with and nart-1 thrown into the river.
Iy wrecked an automobile belong- T1 body was clothed In a pair
ing to Joe Meithot of route 6, ot overalls a brown work shirt
which was narked on Liberty near and heavy work shoes. The man
the PEP company office. The ac- apparently was about 35 yeara of
cident -was witnessed by Tome. - i
Armstrong. I -
Serreant Edwards started in W03LN DISAPPEARS
pursuit and soon struck the trail
which led across the river Into ) MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Aug.
Polk! county. Wareham ran his I3- Search was pressed through
car off the side of the road, nartly I the Pacific northwest today for
; wrecking the vehicle. Deputy j Mrs. Arthur Ireland, who disap-
Sherlff Imlah was called from bed I Ped ". Saturday from 'here home
and made the arrest. As the chase here today leaving notes stating:
originated in this city, the nrison-l I deceived my husband," and
! er was returned to the city jail. I wronged my neighbors. She left
Wareham was released Monday I two children under eight years ot
morning upon payment of a $10 age. Sisters of . hers are - Mrs,
fine for being drunk. He was ar-1 Bench, wife of a Seattle police-
rested Sunday night. 1 man, and Mrs. W. II. Dahl, Elma
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POLAR RADIO - IS HEARD
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CHICAGO IlXs CONVERSATION
WITH MAC MILLAN PARTY
tion to enjoin enforcement ot the
state law. Dr. Neal said that aft
er filing the petition he will leave
tomorrow for New York to Confer
with Dudley Field Malone, Arihur
Garfield Hayes and other attor
neys interested in the case.
Dr. Neal explained that the pe
tition that he will file here while
designed as a step toward getting
the anti-evolution statute tested
before United States supreme court
has only an indirect bearing on
the Scopes case. The Scopes case.
tne attorney said, will be contest
ed simultaneously through appeal
to the state supreme court with
CHICAGO. Aug. 3.(By Asso
ciated Press.) Chicago conversed
with the Arctic circle by radio to
night when newspapermen asked
and received answers to five ques-
j . i
tions put to tne MacMillan Arctic
navy expedition - through
Zenith Radio corporation
wave length of 140 meters.
the
on a
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug. 3
(By Associated i Press.) Ar
thur .Collins, 15-year-old amateur
radio operator-enthusiast, has
been in communication with the
Donald . B. MacMillan polar ex
pedition at Etah. Greenland. He
received his first message yester
day afternoon over 20 meter wave
length. Another message was re
ceived by the local amateur this
afternoon over- the . same wave
length. Part of yesterday's mes
sage was over 16 meters. Such
messages over the 20 meters are
said. to be. the first ever received
in ' the United States. Collins
pfekd up a message for the Na
tional Geographical society, which
is sponsoring MacMHIan's expedl
tion; and one for Mrs. Jack Rein
bartz, of South Manchester. Conn.,
wife of the radio operator aboard
the Bowdoin, one of the expedi
tion's ships.
Collins declared that he cnld
not make public contents et the
message to the society, except to
say that It told ot landing an air
plane at Etah. and of the sailors
building a runway tor the plane
. The message for Mrs. Rein
harts said: "Love via twenty
i meters from Etah first time in his
tory of radio." -
Reinbartz also said he would
talk from Etah each day from
to 7 p. to-, over IS. meters.
Collins met Reinbartz in Bos
ton shortly before the MacMillan
i expedition tailed, ' L
such text-book In the same man
ner as in this act provided, and
the state superintendent shall, la
such case cause the proper circa-
lars and notices to be sent to the
publishers. (O. L. No. 5346.)"
An effort was made to bring
the controversy to a conclusion by
a motion direc'ing 'Mr. Churchill
to notify publishers that the com
mission would meet In Salem at
10 o'clock August 20, for the pur
pose of adopting text-books In the
subjects for which contracts hare
expired. Representatives of tha
publishing firms will be given a
definite amount of time before the)
commission and permitted to pre-
the United States supreme court i8ent such books as may be con
as the ultimate goal of the de-1 8ldered-
fense attorneys in both actions.
THEFT SAID ADMITTED
MAN: AND W OMAN ARRESTED,
t ll.AlU.K I.s BUIMJLAHV
George Bell and Irene Abbott
taken Into police custody yester
day are said by police to have ad
mitted the burglary recently of a
local apartment house when the
thief obtained a diamond rlnr and
$12 in currency. Last night the
pair were booked on charges of
burglary. The diamond ring has
been located in a Portland Jewelry
snop. It was said.
Bell and the woman are said
to have registered at a local hotel
as man and wife, although they
admit that they, have not been
married, according to police. The
arrest was made by Officer Ol
son,
Mr. Churchill declared after the
adjournment that he would .he
governed by the ruling of the at
torney general and would act ac
cordingly. This Isf in opposition!
to the desire of the commission
which may resort to mandamus
proceedings In order to get the
entire matter before the court, it
was intimated. The supreme
court is on -vacation at present
and will not be re-eeated until
September. Mr. Churchill is send
ing copies of the letter of the
fCoBtinaed oa par S.)
7-
WOOLEN MILL HAS. FIRE
DRYING ROOM IS DAMAGED TO
EXTENT OP $1000
2 DIE IN PLANE CRASH
MOTHER WATCHES YOUNG SON
PERLS n IN SEAPLANE
NORFOLK, Va.. Aug. 3. (By
Associated Press ) As his mother
watched from the shore. William
H. Long, 15. drowned in Hampton
Roads today after the seaplane in
which - he was a passenger had
dropped 600 feet to the water.
Lieutenant W. B. Gwin of Wash
ington, pilot of the plane, was
fatally Injured, dying in a hos
pital. ;
The accident occurred after the
plane had gone Into a tail spin
when about 1500 feet from the
water.
CASH, CHECKS STOLEN
SEATTLE, Aug. 3. (By Asso
ciated Press). While on his way
to the Canadian .Bank ot 'Com
merce here today, . W. II. Pember
ton, proprietor of a bakery, was
robbed by two men of approxi
mately $200 la cash and $1,000 In
checks.
Approximately $1000 damage
was done to the Thomas Kay
Woolen Mills by a fire that rtart-
I ed in the drying room of the plant
last night. The blaze wa con
fined to the shed at the rear , of
the main building and did not se
riously endanger the plant. All
damage is covered by insurance.
Work at the mill will not be halt
ed. Mr. Kay said.
The drying room which process
es the raw materials, is kept heat
ed to a high temperature and it Is
thought that some foreign matter
in the wool became Ignited. The
fire that destroyed the x mill 3 0
years ago started In the sa ue man.
ner.
Automatic eprinklera InsUHcl
in the room went Into action im
mediately and flooded the. place
immediately. The fire - depart
ment responding to an alarm turn
ed in by Officer Edwards pf tl.e
city police patrol, kept the Uzo
from spreading and was at .nil
times in control of the fire.
Damage was chiefly cocfir.r-l tr
the streams ef water, although nr. ?
of the dryers was burned. Repairs
will be staftil iniinr-dlatr. : : 1
although inconrc-n;cnf o vwll !
srffertJ, plant jiroJiuiin vi ill c;
jv decreased. 1
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