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Cessation of All Work in Coa
Fields Seems Inevitable.
. -
Reported
fiO AGREEMENT REACHED
Gormunent Subsidy Ends; Own.
en Lockout Notices Go
Into Effectf Other .
1- ' Strikes' Feared '
' ' LONDON. May 1. (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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SAID ,
Salem Beauty Spot, Number 2
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homes, the City of Cherries, which
Wife Beater Bares Back
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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.'
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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
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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
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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.
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