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OTVENTY-SIXTH YEAR
SALEM, ORE0Otf, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1926
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FIRES MENACE
Astoria to Honor Heroic
DRIVERS CRASH
TOIL FALLING
Help to "Initiate" New YMCA Swimmiug Tank
Efforts of Its Founders
Three Day Celebration Starts Tuesday, July 20; Magnificent
Monument Is to Be Dedicated in Honor of John
Jacob Astor, City's Founder
BIBLE IS i
HEARD BY JURY
HI
ER STAND
Flames Are Raging in All
Pacific Coast States;
Lightning Cause
HIGHWAYS ARE BLOCKED
Road Between Spokane and New
port Barred; Tourist Pressed
Into Service in Aiding
Fighters
PORTLAND, July 15. (By As
sociated Press). - Serious forest
fires were raging In all the Pa
cific coast states, Idaho and Brit
ish Columbia tonight with high
temperatures and low humidity
continuing. The blazes for the
most part have been started with
in the nast week htr liehtnlne.
Fresh winds which arose last
night swept a large fire in the
Kaniksu national forest north of
Spokane out of control. Road
traffic between Spokane and New
port was stopped and tourists
pressed into service in battling
tae flames. Smoke today pre
vented forestry officials from de
termining the extent of the
flames. The situation in the Col
vllle national forest, north central
.Washington, was serious, fifty
fires having been reported in that
area. High winds carried one
blaze across the Canadian border
in.t national preserve. One
tijjlovered between 1500 and
JjSicres.
uixiy Btate lire iignters rein
forced by fifty sailors from the
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advance of a fire near Port
(Orchard, Wash., which for a time
threatened the town.
Severe electrical storms started
SS fires in the Umpqua national
forest, Oregon. Six of them are
burning over areas of about 10
acres each and another, covering
60 0 acres, is still ont of control.
A blaze is out of control on Mon
ger creek in the Siskiyou moun
tains in southern Oregon. A
strong east wind Is preventing a
crew of 19 men from checking the
blaze.
Forty or-fifty spot fires were
reported along the Oregon, "Wash
ington Railway and Navigation
company's line in the Pendleton
district. Fighting a fire all last
night 200 orehardists succeeded
In saving their farms and a saw
mill near Parkdale in the npper
Hood River Valley.
One hundred and fifty men
controlled a blaze on property of
the Silver Falls Timber company
about 25 miles east of Silverton,
pre., today. The flames swept an
area burned over two years ago.
The Dooley mountain fire, near
Baker, was reported out v of con
trol today with hot rocks rolling
down the mountain side and men
acing motorists.
A blaze on Clear lake near
Bellingham, Wash., was burning
over a three mile front tonight
and threatening Sedro - Wooley's
water supply pipe lines. Holdings
of the Clear Lake Lumber com
pany and thousands of acres of
tlmberwere In danger. Five hun
dred men ! were called on to fight
the flames.
Missoula, Mont., reported a fire
in the Blackfoot forest covering
1.000 acres, bringing the total
area burned in Montana to 5,000
acres. Fires in the Coeur D'Alene
forest were under control after
sweeping 2.500 acres. Lightning
storms in northern California have
set more than 70 fires in the
Klamath and Trinity national for
ests. Five of them are out of
control. Three of the blazes are
In the Klamath forest, one sweep
ing along Bogus creek in the
Yreka region and the other two
in the Happy Camp district.
Thursday
In Washington
Representative Oldfleld blamed
President Cool id ge and Secretaries
Mellon and Jardine for defeat of
farm relief legislation.
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Financial institutions which had
refused to honor checks on Florida
baaks agreed to discontinue prac
tice, officials announced.
Foreign trade of 55 countries.
constituting nine tenths of the
world's . commerce. Increased in
118S in s Kflft flAo.nOo- eom
pierce aepaxunent ajinpuscei
ASTORIA,' Or., July 15. (Special.) In recognition of the
heroic events which entered about the mouth of the Columbia
river in the days when sovereignty of the Pacific West hung
in the balance between the United States and Great Britain,
in tribute to the giants who' at Astoria won the Oregon
country for America, the Astoria Founders celebration will
be held July 20 and 22 at the oldest American city west of the
Mississippi river.
Climaxing the celebration will be the dedication of the
magnificent monument erected at
ABEB JA!
ADMOXTON, Canada. The Ger
man's it appear, take their '"penny
dreadfuls" seriously. A popular tier
man novelist has been making much of
wild and woolly Canada, siren hi ne par-
tieularly the great Bomber f wild bear
which infect the country. So, fiTe
German immigrants have arrived, full
of bear . stories, and eqoipped with
seven rifles and three barrel of am
munition . . .iThey expect to bag about
500 bruins a day.
LABOR LEADER
NEW YORK. Edward P. Layin
was once an im
migrant boy. The
other day he gave
the order whieh
sent the niotormen
of New York's
subway trains
away i from their
cab ion a atrike
whichi has affect
ed the daily lives
of the four rail
lion. Mr. Lavin
is head of the
newly organized
Consolidated Rail
way Workers Un
ion New York
and, as such,
wieldi tremendous
powet. It is part
of his policy that
there : shall be no
violence, no sabo
tage in connection with, the strike.
SUCH A PLEASURE
BROOKLYN. A recent ruling of
the Motor Vehicle Commissioner classes
the hearse as a pleasure vehicle. Hence
forth the dolorous vehicle is privileged
to speed the traffic lanes hiterto re
served for plutocratic limousines and
democratic you-know-whats ... A late
passenger in one of the better hearses,
when interviewed, said, '!'C ertainly I
consider this a pleasure vehicle. My
relatives are paying for the ride and
there's nobody talking to mi about
golf. Also, it's cool in here. Thank
yon." Fortunately, he did not add,
"for the buggy ride."
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MAN-MADE TREES
BERLIN. - German scientists are
heading for America with a new
chemical process by which the wood
rf living trees may and can be
stained any desired color. They claim
it is only neefssary to bore a hole near
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TO MATCH MY
the base
tree trnnk, inject the
dye,-and thea let the flow; of sap carry
tiie color od into the whale tree.
smuch as the process takes only a few
days, garden party hostesses may have
the trees in their gardens colored to
match their party frock.) . . . More"
salaams to science.
DEPARTMENT WILL MOVE
MOTOR VEHICLE CORPS TO
TAKE COLLEGE SPACE
The state motor vehicle depart
ment which has occupied the
house of representatives and state
senate chamber durinjg the past
two years, will be moved into the
building occupied by the Capital
Business college, according to an
riouncement made by J the secre
tary of state yesterday.
It was said that the j action was
necessary to provide quarters for
the state legislature which con
venes here next January. The sec
retary of state intimated that no
effort would be made to return
the motor vehiele department to
the state house until a new build
ing is constructed.
FLIES FROM CITY TODAY
STATE FORESTER TO TAKE
AIR ON BUSINESS TRIP
F. A. Elliott, state fcjrester, will
leave Salem today by airplane for
Klamath Falls where h will spend
a few days looking after official
business matters. He i will make
the flight in a forest fire patrol
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Astoria by Vincent Astor, great,
great grandson of the city's foun
der, and the Great Northern; Rail
way, which touches the Pacific at
Astoria.
Astoria will be the objective of
the Columbia River Historical Ex
pedition, and the dedication of the
monument will be the high spot
in the program of this notable ex
pedition. Keenly cognizant of the im
mortal and dramatic character of
the trinity of historic events which
the monument commemorates,
Astoria is as proud of her past as
of her present.
The monument and the Astoria
Founders Celebration, during
which It will be dedicated, pay
tribute to three epochal events in
American history
The discovery of the Columbia
river in 1792' by Captain Robert
Gray in the Boston ship Colum
bia;
The Lewis and Clark expedition
of 1805-06, which reached its
goal on the Pacific at Astoria;
And the founding of Astoria,
earliest American settlement on
the Pacific coast, by John Jacob
Astor's fur-trading party in 1811.
The monument itself is 125 feet
in height and stands in turn upon
Coxcomb Hill, an eminence 650
feet high, dominating the city of
Astoria. The shaft is designed
after the order of the Vendome
Column in Paris. It is of rein
forced concrete and is surmounted
with an observation platform. On
a spiral base relief winding up the
sides of the shaft are sculptured
200 figures, depicting the early
history of the country at the
mouth of the Columbia, the Great
River of the West.
HEAT IS FATAL TO FISH
2O0O TROUT DIE WHEN WATER
TEMPERATURE RISES
FOREST GROVE, Ore., July 15.
(By Associated Press.) About
2,000 three-inch fish in the pools
of Gales creek hatchery died this
week because of the rise of tem
perature in the water. The high
est temperature reached here was
106 on July 10, but the fish con
tinued to die after that date until
a pronounced drop in temperature
came.
AND GLORY GUARDS
Today's Reasons for Driv
ing Cautiously" Cuts
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Accident List
TRAFFIC JAMS ANALYZED
Sudden Racking
Failure to Use
from Curb and
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Simple Hand
Signals Head List of
Collision
Causes
With the number of automobile
accidents in Salens falling to new
low levels daily,
tering into the
drivers are en-
safety campaign
launched recently)
by police offi
cials and this paper through the
medium of "today's reasons for
driving cautiously" which yester
day listed the feivest number of
crashes recorded
two weeks.
jduring the past
Former records
of from 10 to
18 accidents evefy day of the
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Satisfied,
Not?
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WILL CITY COL-
NCIL ACT AT
SESSION?
MONDAY'S
Fred A. Williams drunken
driver prosecution record, pre
sented in this aper, remains
brief and uncontradicted.
It can be summarized as fol
lows: Of 11 casies reviewed in
reports, one man' was acquitted
by jury decision one man was
turned ioose whejn the first jury
was "hung." three to three, one
man pleaded giiilty and took
the minimum sentence, one man
forfeited $500 bjiil.
Of the seven l eases remain
ing, disposition of two are not
shown on police! books, though
19 weeks have passed in one
instance, and seven weeks in
the other, since jthe arrest was
Made. Five others, arrested,
charged with drunken driving,
have paid fines but served no
jail sentence, despite the law
which fixes the tainimum pen
alty for . persons guilty of
drunken driving at $100 fine
and 60 days be hand bars.
Fred A. Williams has not de
nied these statements, despite
invitations to db so extended
by this paper, j
City council iheets on Mon
day. Is city council, to whom
Fred A. Williams is responsible,
satisfied with this record? Few
Salem residents! are.
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Hnndreds of Salem youths are visiting the newly opened tank here each day, while plans are
maturing whereby days will be set aside for women swimmers. Expert instruction will be offered.
In the picture above are some of those who attended the formal opening.
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DIVORCE COURT ENTERED
BY SEBASTIAN C. KRESGE
PROMINENT MILLIONAIRE
WOULD BREAK NUPITALS
Bill of Complaint Suppressed, Suit
Thought Rased on Recent
Action
DETROIT, July 15. (By As
sociated Press.) Sebastian S.
Kresge, who as a Tennessee tin
ware salesman invested $S000 in
a five and ten cent store business
that developed into a great nation
al chain and earned for him an
estimated fortune of $150,000,000
has come to the parting of the
ways with the second Mrs. Kresge.
He is suing the former Doris Mer
cer in circuit court here for di
vorce. His bill of complaint has
been suppressed, locked in the
vaults of the court; and his at
torney, Paul W. Voorheis, refuses
to say on what grounds Mr. Kresge
seeks the divorce.
Existence of the suit became
known today when a circuit court
order was issued for Mrs. Doris
Mercer Kresge, a non-resident, to
appear here in answer to the bill
of complaint within the next three
months. Mrs. Kresge has been
living in New York.
Mrs. Anna Harvey Kresge; to
whom the chain store operator
was married the same year that
he purchased his first store in
Tennessee divorced him in 192 3.
She has since been living here
with her four children. Only one
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BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD'
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WATER IS BED
Standard Size Pool, 60 by
20 Feet, Holds 55,000
Gallons
The new YMCA swimming
tank, which was formally opened
to the public Wednesday night,
has received high praise from
those who have seen it. It al
ready has proved popular for
throngs of boys visit it daily.
"This is the finest pool I have
ever seen, "said one citizen of
Salem who has inspected pools in
many places throughout the coun
try. "The pool is worth twice as
much as we paid for it," is the
statement made by one promin
ent Salem merchant who was a
heavy contributor of funds for
erecting the present YMCA build
ing and pool.
More than 500 boys and girls
were taught to swim in the old
YMCA pool in the last two or
three years, and the management
hopes to graduate a far greater
number with the new equipment.
As many as possible will be given
instruction daily. The classes for
boys will be in the afternoons,
while those for women and girls
will last all day every Wednesday.
The tank holds 55,000 gallons
of water, being 60 by 20 feet in
size. This is the national stand
ard size for swimming pools. It
has two first class filters of large
dimensions, so that all the water
can go through the tank four
times in 24 hours. The cost was
about $23,000.
The tank is lined with ceramic,
non-skid tile. The gutters and
water lines are made from Sparta
glazed tile.
WOULD REWARD HEROINE
WOMAN WHO SAVED AVIA
TOR'S LIFE TO GET MEDAL
PORTLAND, July 15. (By As
sociated Press.) Mrs. Ola Reick,
Portland matron who saved Lieut.
L William J. Knauf, reserve officer
of Newport, Or., from death yes
terday when the airplane in which
he was riding with Raymond P.
Parshal, crashed iato the Willam
ette river in flames, will be given
a Carnegie hero medal if plans
set on foot today materialize.
Harry Coffin, head of the local
public safety ' commission of th3
National Safety council, tomorrow
will write a letter to the Portland
chamber of commerce asking that
organization with the aid of other
civic clubs to sponsor a petition
to the. Carnegie hero medal com
mission to obtain for Mrs. Reick
the medal and the $1,000 which
accompanies it.
MXORMICK MADE DEAN
WILL BE ACTING HEAD OP
KIMBALL COLLEGE STAFF
Dr. J. D. McCormick who has
been an instructor at Kimball Col
lege of Theology here for several
years, has been promoted to dean,
and will succeed E. C. Hickman,
president of the institution, pend
ing the selection pf a permanent
head of the college. This was an
nounced here yesterday by Dr. G.
Louis Tufts, field secretary for the
school.
Dr. Keefer of Boston, an alum
nus of Willamette university, has
been added to the faculty of the
Kimball college. He will succeed
Pr Riddle who has resigned. -
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LIGHTNIN' WILL BE GIVEN
AT CHAUTAUQUA TONIGHT
LARGEST HOUSE OP SEASOX
GREETS ENTERTAINERS
Mason Jubilee Singers Delight
Audience in Series of
Song-Acats
TODAY AT CHAUTAUQUA
Forenoon
Junior Chautauqua
Afternoon
Rip Van 'Winkle," Famous
Stage Classic
Evening
"Lightnin" " with its record of
1291 performances on Broad
way and its lovable "Lightnln' "
Bill Jones.
The largest crowd that has
been present at any Chautauqua
so far this week attended the per
formance last night. The seats
were filled and several had to
stand in the rear. The afternoon
performance also drew a record
crowd, giving proof of the increas
ing popularity of such programs.
The Mason Jubilee singers, a
mixed colored quartet, appeared
in both afternoon and evening
entertainments. The program
they put on was varied, contain
ing the whole range of negro
music, humorous numbers, spiri
tual songs, lullabies,- plantation
songs, camp meeting shouts, and
grand opera.
This group of singers is con
sidered one of the foremost com
panies of negro musicians in the
country, and lived up to Its ad
vance, notices very well, judging
from the shouts of laughter and
loud applause with which it was
greeted repeatedly. An individual
number in which one of the sing
ers gave an imitation of an old
negro waking his small boy was
especially popular, together with
a 8lmilnr one in which the old
man caught the small boy stealing
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TITLE FIGHT POSTPONED
BERLENBACH - DELANEY GO
TO BE HELD TONIGHT
NEW YORK, July 15. (By
Associated Press.) Rain late to
day quenched for at least 24 hoars
the fires of enthuslsm that had
risen about Paul Berlenbach-J ack
Delaney light heavyweight cham
pionship contest, scheduled for
tonight.
Threatening clouds hovered
over Ebbets field In Brooklyn,
scene of the conflict, throughout
the day but promoters had de
clared that only a cloudburst
could prevent the hostilities. Aft
er long hours of apprehension, the
"cloudburst" came just under the
shadows of evening, j In half an
hour the seats around the ring
were awash. ,
A few hundred intrepid fans
had moved into the arena before
the down-pour came rushing, for
the low priced seats. They were
notified . that ; their r ticket stubs
would be honored tomorrow night
In case of another postponement,
the fight will take place Saturday
night. lr ; v -
Berlenbach, the 1 champion,
weighed 174 & at the official testi
three hours before the postpone
ment. :'-..:
4 Delaney. the challenger,-tipped
the beam at 166 $4, six pounds un
der what had been predicted, ; ,
Mrs. McPherson Seen on Day
of Her Disappearance, i
Witnesses Say 'ii
TWO AFFIRM TESTIMONY
Evangelist Declared to Have Been
Seen In Automobile by Four ; .
Persons, Grand Jury
Is Informed '
LOS ANGELES, July 15. -(By
Associated Press.)- O. A, Vick of
Culver City and his wife confront
ed Almee Semple McPhersoh' be
fore the county grand Jury here
late this afternoon and positively
identified her as 41 woman they
saw In an automobile passing
through Culver City in the direc
tion of Los - Angeles from the
ocean beach at about 3 or 4 p.
m. on the day the evangelist dis
appeared while bathing at Santa
Monica.
The testimony of Mr. and Mrs.
Vick was similar to that of police
Captain M. O. Barnard and Mrs.
Barnard of Culver City who pre
viously told the jury of seeing
Mrs. McPherson driving through
Culver City. . '
As the grand jury adjourned It
was learned that District Attor
ney Asa L. Keyes had received a
telegram purporting to come from
Ormistonrin which the radio oper
ator saidt he. was sending to the
district attorney by air mall Im
portant documents on the Mc
Pherson case. The telegram was
sent from North Carolina where,
it was reported, Ormlston has
been heard from recently by his
friends here. The district attor
ney, however, refased to disclose
the contents of tie telegram. .
Milton Carlson, handwriting ex
pert, was said to have testified
during the half hour he was be.
fore the grand jury today that
the telegram . sent from Ookland
to Mrs. Minnie "Mother" Kennedy,
Mrs. McPherson's mother, three
days after the evangelist's disap
pearance, and telling her that her
daughter was safe, was undoubt
edly written by Ormlston.
He said that an attempt had
been made to disguise the hand
writing, but that the resemblance
was clear. "
The telegram figured also In
the testimony of Chief of Detec
tives Cllne, who denied that Mrs.
Kennedy had turned the telegram
over to the police at the time she
received it. This was in direct
contradiction to the Statements of
Mrs. Kennedy given to newspa
pers. The detective chief, also was
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Today8
Reasons
For -
Driving
Carefully
Charles Casto of Portland ; and
his nephew, 14 years old, were
injured Thursday night at Wood
burn when a motorcycle they were
riding was struck by an automo
bile. The boy received serious
Injuries, it is said, and Is now in
a hospital at Woodburn. Casto
received cuts and bruises but was
not seriously hurt. '
Joe Klllan of Salem was ar
rested by local police yesterday on '
a charge of driving with defective
brakes after his ear had bumped
Into the rear end of a car driven
by TV M. Bleason ot Yakima,.
Wash. Mary Bleason was slightly
Injured In the accident, according
to a report Bleason turned In to
the local police. :
Fred Head of , Portland was
fined $5 in police court yesterday
for speeding. - - . ,
M. Brown of . Portland paid a
fine; of Slu.lnvthe justice court
Thursday when he appeared in an
swer to a, citation for speeding.
He was arrested July, 13 by Cap t
Kenneth Bloom ot the state traf
fic department.
An unknown boy suffered cuts
on the head when he ran his bicy
cle into a car driven by J. W.
Edgar at Commercial and Center
streets, according to -. a report
turned In at police headquarters
by Edgar yesterday. :
Mrs. Vernal Pickens was bruis
ed yesterday when a car she was
driving was 'forced off the rosl
by, an unknown , truck driver and
turned over, according to a report
she turned -is at police headquar
ters." The amount of damage was
not eatioaed, .