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(By Assocl toiedVPrew) Cessation of all work In the British coal mines, begin- ulns today, seemed 'Inevitable in the early hocrs ot this Saturday) raornlng.- Midnight, when the gor crament's subsidy ended and mine owners lockout notices' .were to ' go into effect, passed without an agreement reached between the parties to the dlsjut. - . Thus, unless contrary instruc w tions ; arft orthcQtalnc , from the "Vsmerlr federation, the men will rt away from their, work, to the country will be plung- TaeT?62IstrIier8Uch as paralysed the Industry in 1921 The -coal atrikemay.inYolTd general withdrawal of trade union labor throughput the country, with consequent serious interference with railroads, shipping and all In lustrles. t'Tfals position has not yet been reached, but the j conting ency is. being rlewed with grare fear, for the trade union leaders " are in strong sympathy with the stand the v miners hare taken, I Many of the leaders are beliered lo be prepared to take the extreme V step in calling a general strik in f Bupport of the colliery workers. - ;The conf ef ence ot trade ,union executives adjourned at 2:30 this rooming without adopting- any definite decision as to their future jaction, but the tone of the meet ing was showp by the speech of J. jr. Thomas," secretary of the Na tional Union of Hallway Men who declared that there nerer was, and he hoped there never again would be, suca s serious crisis as now faced the labor; movement and the country. Jt would be 'foolish to attempt to prophecy the outcome. Ho said that the government had shown "complete 2 Incapacity to deal with the grave situation, and o government has ever blunder ed worse." ' The Dally Herald, labor organ, fcays editorially today: - ;-) . iThe Issue no longer is between the coal mine owners and the min ers. .The struggle is not a section al, one; u nas oecqme something inuch bigger than a dispute be tween workers and employes in any particular Industry. t v; The opposing forces now rep resent on one side those who are resolved If they can, to,kee things as they are, and, on the other side, all who mrm Hntfrmi ned Ihat the v " yment on the present and altogeth er different from thepastv 4 , : A move to have the senate 1m tnedlately consider farm relief was pled. . , . FT ClPe Cod sea captains ln- S President Coolidge to Bpend "Vacation there.' senate tariff Investigating ee sought confirmation on Smoot's part In the sugar V - - i - 3 us decision by the sen- k t- tct Senator Britton ot New i.Tirn cioseu iuo unrnim eiectfnn r j position to the FrencVdeVt Vjrr , w' I.' . In WgHngtdn s belief thiit lonbf'td i - 1 r.peusion y'Tj" Td ctco.u! a ftjr'.r ... ... Seattle Move As Housing Offer Fails Announcement Comes as Surprise Following Protracted Ne ; gotiations Calling for Removal of School rof theology to Adjoining State . -: ' Kiihball Sehool of Theology tcAxiJcvt iium bu autnoniaxive source rnuay iuoiiiij5 . , .The contemplated move to Seattle, which had virtually been decided upon, has fallen through because the IJniversity church of that city will not be able to build the annex in which ft promised to house Kimball. ' J)r. E. C Hickman, president of Kimball, it is understood, may submit his resignation toj the Kimball board of trustees when they meet in Portland Tuesday afternoon. luwivicwra on me HOBO GATHERING OPENS; HIT ORGANIZED CHARITY IXTEIQfATIOJJAIj BROTHER- HOOD MEETS IX SOUTH 12, Hobo Delegates Present for .. . Western Conference; Dis cuss "Aged SACRAMENTO, CaL, April 30 ; (By Associated Press.) A smallish, group of toil marked and puttied jmen calling themselves hoboes met at Labor temple here tonight land opened the western conlflrerice of migratory casual and: .unemployed workers, widely heralded as the hobo's convention. Detwsen f 25 and 30 persons were oaf hand when Max Hlrsch berg, national president of the In- ternatlqfaal Brotherhood Wellare rassociafflon called Hhe tjorfrention to . order. These included repre sentatives of Sacramento labor unions, a Salvation Army chap lain, f rem newspapermen, and 12 hobo delegates. ' " Governor Richardson and Lieu tenant Governor C. C. Young had s 1 been inrviiea to attend but , both were absent, a fact which drew comment from some of the speak ers but apparently caused no as tonishment among the delegates ' (Continued on pff 2.) WATER SCARCITY FEARED EASTERK OREGON CROPS ARE I GOOD, BUT RAIN IS NEEDED A serious shortage of water for irrigation purposes : is feared , by the ranchers of Eastern and Cen tral Oregon, according to Rhea Luper. state engineer, i who re turned; here Friday from points east eft the Cascade mountains. Mr. Luper said there is prac tically ho snow in the mountains and W4 rivers and creek are low er that tor many years. The state engineer ' declared that the crops if Eastern and Central Ore- goo slt looking fine at the present time,f MJwever, as a result of the irequw nam j iaius uuriag me winter months. . In, event . of no hot wiads during the- month of June' 4e yield will be' heavy, he said.; n. Louis vol'fard FLORXL OFFERING DECLARED M.C$T BEAUTIFUL SEEN SlLfERTON; April 80.-l-SlIver. slness houses closed their Is afternoon in memory of v. - wolf ard, prominent business man, whose death nesday shocked the city. ton Elks Lodge conducted era! services, with mpurn- rn, xuany valley cities p res- Sidney HalL of the hdllst 'church, conducted ' re- services. : Mrs.- S. E. RlAhaidson. accompanied by Mrs. Edfeon': Comstoek , sang oneJ solo, foliowld by another by O. B. Ging rih,: accompanied ; by Mr. Powell. Infterment In. t ' Sllverton cem ery..i -The floal display was declared- the meet beautiful : seen there. HTRAVy HAT; DAYS HERE iTTY . PORTLAND OPENS SEASON OFFICIALLY V ; t .... t PORTMND, ; AprH 3(7, (By Assoclatel Press.) With the aid f the cit fathers and a hot sun, the straw iat season "was officially tishered idto Portland today., A parade ed by a squadrott.ot.Etrws to the city Eat. to;oir with-the - . Abandoned will remain in Salem, it was matxer, ur. nictunan wouia neither confirm nor deny the state ment that the school is to remain here or that he is planning to re sign. "I have nd statement to give out at the- present time," Dr. Hickman. said. "The matter will be worked out and all conclusions made when the board meets Tues day." J. ' Officials of the University church some months ago ' offered persuasive pictures of a: roomy annex to house Kimball. Presi dent Hickman, and several others interested were heartily in favor of accepting, the offer, maintaining thatr the; larger city would give greater opportunities Meetings were held and,, with the added sanction of the move by the executive committee of the Methodist Episcopal board of edu cation, the understanding spread universally that the school, with out a doubt, was to move from Sa lem to Seattle la the fall of 1927. H-Such, -plans- a'rsr imw 'completely given up, it Is understood, failure of the Seattle church ! to provide the hecessary quarters being given as one of the principal reasons. Alumni of the' school met at Kimball Friday afternoon. Al though the session' was a closed ope and no statements were given out. It Is understood that they are heartily in favor of retaining the. school here, and that they will have a representative appear be fore the board Tuesday to request positive assurance that no move' will be made. Students attending the school at the present time are to hold a meeting, it is expected, in which similar action will be taken and a delegate - appointed to make a similar request of the trustees. Both alumni and students will also ' request that 'such studies" as are superficial shall not be made a requisite. The required study of Hebrew is said to be one ot the points subjected to criticism. . Such a schedule reduced from j ' ...v - .r . J: (Coatinned . on page 8.) ' ' TM V t ,.,- ... m r " " w ' f it.'' ' J.'--fc .. " 1 . :.- ;''" ' I ' TE GROUP, a.- OPPOSES PIN Proposed Settlement of ?War Debt Arouses Reed-Borah Opposition WANT "INVESTIGATION" Asked After Coolidge 1 Transmits Proposal To Senate WASHINGTON, April 30. :(By Associated Press.) The French war debt settlement was transmit ted to congress today by Presl Coolidge and it Immediately met with an outburst '61 opposition in the senate. ' Demands that the finance com mittee, make a thorough-going in vestigation oi an tne iacts upon which the American debt commis sion acted were made by Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri; Chair man Borah of the foreign relations committee, and Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi. Chairman Smoot. of the finance committee. who is a member or the dept com mision said he would have no ob jection to calling on the treasury for all documents and papers re lating to the settlement. "But will the senator co-operate (Continued on page S-) DOG FOUND IN WELL MISSING SEVERAL DAYS, IS FOUND IN 40-FOOT PIT Some time ago. Clyde Ken dall of the Valley Market, liv ing on East Hill, lost his dog. A week later, children told him they thought the dog was in a well on premises where Rev. Linsuth resides, also on East Hill. Going to the well, he heard the dog, tied a rope to a boy, and let the child down 40 feet to the bottom. The boy picked up the dog and both were pulled up. GOING AMILKING, SIR," SHE djwrH O u t s t anding oeauty of the :lty of Salem is typified In the Civic Center", almost in the 5 V. i -w 4' leart of the down town district, adding d i g n I ty ' nd charm - in keeping with Sa lem's importance as capital of a great northwest ern state. . Reflection- of the artistic care with which . this group of build ings has been laid out, is plain ly visible in the well kept . lawns and model homes comprising the residential sec . f-.- tions. With April permits calling for the construction of 54 new De called the City of Beautiful Homes. OIL FLAMES CONQUERED FURTHER DANGER IS PAST STEEL WALLS THROWN UP TO PREVENT OVERFLOW Red Hot Tank Containing 396,000 Gallons of Boiling Oil Is Isolated BAKERSFIELD, Cal., April 30 (By Associated Press.) An army of 1,000 men battling on lurid fire front won a decisive vic tory here today when it controlled a flaming' sea as it boiled over the red hot rim of a reservoir con taining 396,000 barrels of burning oil at the Standard Oil tank farm five miles northwest of Bakers- field. The inundation of fire was checked by steel walls thrown up by the blistered workers. Bol stered by earthen dykes the fire wall3 held thevhissing oil, though they turned red hot with the heat, By 3 o'clock this afternoon offi cials of the Standard Oil company here stated that further danger of the fire coming with the 11 other tanks, two of which were con- tinguous to the burning reservoir was past. Since 5:30 last night, when the reservoir was struck by a bolt of lightning and caught fire. Stand ard Oil company officials worked without cessation to control the fire to the one tank. Within a few hours 500 men were toiling on the fire line 'in the weirdest (Continued en paps 11 2) SAID , Salem Beauty Spot, Number 2 - ... -"-V . 1 - ' 1 homes, the City of Cherries, which Wife Beater Bares Back ; i On State Five Lashes on Bare Flesh From Stinging ,WhiptDecreed by Courts; Baltimore Sheriff . Only One m State to Use Pillory BALTIMORE, Md., April "Hey, sheriff, I'd let you lick voice addressed Sheriff John Baltimore city jail, who tucked the cat-o-ninfe-tails under his arm after administering five lashes to the bare back pf James H.; Kingsmore; convicted -mfe-beater; : ) -; " "Aw," rejoined the only sheriff called upon to wield the lash in five years." He retreated to the warden's office arid took the whip with him.1 Four women were among joyed the whipping," said thei? spokesman. "It was fine. There ought to be more of them." Stretched on the whipping post, wrists and legs manacled, Kings- more took his whipping without a murmur. He flinched only very slightly. Released from the post to his prison cell with red welts across his back, but his skin un broken." "You've licked an innocent man," he flung at the sheriff as he was led away. Later the jail phys ician reported Kingsmbre to be in a state of collapse from, nervous ness but to show no erfeets of the whipping. Kingsmore abandoned a plea to the Maryland court ot appeals, a week ago having spent nearly all of the six weeks since the sen tence was imposed by criminal court Judge Eugene O'Dunne in vain attempts to invoke court in terference. Yesterday he paced his cell unceasingly, but "today, as the hour or his chastisement ap proached, he apperaed to have mastered his nervousness. He stepped up on the whipping plat form jauntily, nodding to several acquaintances with witnesses and smiled as he peeled off his jacket bared his back; and stretched his arms along the cross pieces to be manacica. .. He flared Into anger once, .when twisting his head around, he caught sigbt of a battery ot cam eras trained on him. . "This Is supposed, to be a whip ping, not a circus," he snarled . Sheriff Pettee approached , al most apologetically after he had been trussed. Duty carried .- the whip. jNo more than 30 seconds were required: to draw it five times across the bare back and Jhe sher iff vanished, as unobtrusively as he had appeared. . . "I think I did ray duty," he said later, f 'The re was no use- cutting him to pieces.. The blows hurt him all right.' :JT LEGION DRUMMERS DINE FORTi' I EMBERS PRESENT AS :HH instouctob talks a., r. : Members o Capital Post No. 9, American Legion, -.drum ; corps met last night for their,, quarterly, ban quet. , 'About 4 0 men, Jncludfng members, and post - officers )yrere present. - Clifford WvUrown, past cor'"-1 n der,- presided -ahd a num ber i nnalrea were called on for !ks.: Rudy Schnlts, of Poi , ie tf :the most expert dru i the United. Statc3, is List r the 'local orsattiza- t IllklllllU MIIIUU, ; i : ,.;'J ?H:::ry?.VrX: ' I ii t-"it fi'i n n n'hi 1 n "; -: 1 m - ff v-, ,- I . a, II I I I I I II 111 II 1 I 1 I is also the City of Roses, may well Whipping Post in Five Years 30. (By Associated Press.) me like that anytime" the Pettee in the! corridor of the the official witnesses. 'We eri TWO PLANES TO FIGHT f FIRES FROM CITY BASE LANDING FIELD T BE CREAT ED HERE Tjf ns SUMMER Definite Plans for Forest Patrol Service Await Arrival f t of Chief r 1 Two planes will be assigned, to Salem .In connection iwth the for est fire patrol, fpr which a Undo ing field will be created here, ac cording to statements . made by F. A, Elliott, stite" forester ? Fri day, in verifying reports originate ing in Portland.! ' r. t Location of th field will await arrival here of Lieut. Lloyd - Bar nett, in .charge of fire patrol for the states, of California, Oregon,; Washington, Idaho and oMotana, (Continued on pg 8.) 1- ALBANY ROUTE IS GOOD SANTIAM PASS J ROUTE ;OVER CASCADES. IN" FINE SHAPE BEND, April SO. (By Asso ciated - Press.) Except . for. a few minor drifts and a few windfalls. the Santiam Pass road over the Cascades from Albany to Bend is lh fine shape according to a party of five 'from Albany , who arrived in oena lonignc alter maxing tne trip. Kenneth Bloom, assistant state traffic officer, headed the party and. they were met : aV Bi? LAKe, across tne divide, by Earl Houston, central . Oregon traffic oxiicer wno gave inem me zirst in formation that the McKenzie Pass was open to travel. They left this evening foci Albany by way of the McKenxie highway.' ALL' BALLOOf S; jfl ; AiR ALf ENTRIES STILL CONTEND- 1XQ IN ANNUAL "RACE LITTLEROCK.' Ark.; Xprll 30. -(By Associated 'Press.) 'All balloons in the Litchfield J trophy and national; , elimination ' ; race started 'here - late yesterday were believed to be still In the air to night. Th pilot balloon Skylark landed la eastern Tennessee about noon today v .'? r;-A :t: A-W At last reports -t ef the bal loons were over ( traveling In an c westerly directlc ry them over 1 Blue" Hi. I .-3 ri Virgiixla, Vir-; V. Ifflll 1(1 Jfi I lin! ) v s. HiTHiiiuatyivd .it- ' . l 1.. ' ' ' m mm m m mm m mmmz mtar mm ssa 1 t Polar Expedition Leader and Pilot Return to Air Base l. From North ACCIDENTS - MAR : FLIGHT Continual Reverses Experienced; WUkln Arrives With Arm In Sling as Result of j' Injuries ; FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April SO. -(By Associated Press. JT-Capt. George H. WUkins,. leader, and Lieut. Carl B. Elelson, pilot, ot an Arctic ! air expedition who ' left 1 Fairbanks April 15 for Point Bar row, on the Arctic coast, in the Alaskan a single engine airplane, returned here . tonight at 7:40 o'clock.' . ". , The trip to Barrow was the third air voyage made -; there by the party.. jThe supplies pt the trans polar flight and land1 hunting ex peditions- into the Arctic by two airplanes of the undertaking were deposited . at the Barrow base on each trlb.' Two tbnsmostiy gaso line, were carried oil the last voy age. .The Detroiter, a three en gine plane, left Fairbanks to hunt for , Wilklns - when , he- was , unre ported for 10 days following the last , flight to Point Barrow. : En gine trouble forced the larger plane toi return .here after going 100 miles north. . Much anxietj was felt) here for the safety ot Wilklns and Elelson until a radio message received Thursday night brought first word of the aviator's arrival at the northern base. The Alaskan made a good land ing here. She took off from Bar row at 1:45 p. m., making the 520 mile journey in five hours and 46 minutes. '. : .' A propeller which was cracked on the last trip north was observ- (Contitiaod oa . pf;8.) WOULD HALT JONES flILL1 PROPOSE BRIDGE . 'OPPOSED I BV PORTLAND CUQVP PORTLAND. April S 0 ( By Associated ,: Press.) i The l.newly, created, port' development commit tee of the Portland chamber of commerce; today - held Its first meeting and adopted a resolution urging the Oregon' congressional delegations1 to v obtain, postpone ment of action on the Jones bill to enable private Interests to build, a. toll Jridge across the Columbia river at Longview,i. . ; 7 '-t'-i '" v The - resolution ', requested . the -postponement, vntil. the develop ment committee has . studied the situation and had time to arrange! Tdr. presentation v of their objec tions to a"' bridge that would pb- struct navigation on the Tiver. The 'development committee Is -composed of more than fifty busi ness and civic leaders of the city. ! BATTLE- THIEVES BUSY, - '"': : Xf'i OLD DATS AGAIN RE-LIVED ;.; ON OREGON RANGES f t tKliAMAH FALLS j - VAptil 30. (By Associated Press.) Peace - officers met here today to devise means of coping with a renewal lof cattle rustling in the f oothUls ot " Klamath and Lake counties which it is esti mated to ' have cost stockmen thousands of dollars within the past: three months. , H ; Ranges from . Bend in the central part ot the state, to Al- turas, across the Californiallne have been raided by organized bands,- engaged Jn .butchering the steck on the open range and disappearing for meat in some unknown markets. . k : v Ranchers In Lake -county with Bparsely Bettled. sections offcr- .lng little trouble to the rustic: 3 have Suffered the heaviest "da;.i age from depredations. - Ito 'definite action was f -T " at to dy's r-? ctlag. 1 ' H 1