ifiHiii WEATHERFaIr,:.rislng temperature and humidity low In the interior. Yesterday Maximum, 88; minimum, 47; river, -2.2; Tain, .none. Atmosphere, clear. ! Wind, northwest. - Brook hart is back in the O. O. P. fold. The way it" happened is they moved the fold. Dallas NeWS. ." r t -j.-:. -.rr ; f , ..;'.. . " The 'old songs are-best becaase nobody sings them any more. EI Paso Times. -. ;ENTY-5IXTP YEAR S ALEMOHEGOK, THURSD AY MORNING SEPTEMBER 9, 1026 PRICE FIVHXJENTS - i .... - . , . 1 . . . l ) . . . I I . II I I I m-m mm wi i . I - i - I , n m BOLDliOi TIFT STAGED .Half Million far Gems Taken ' as Bandits Tie Agents in v Drawing Room POLICE SPREAD ALARM Holdup Mei Overlook Wallet Con taining Jewels Valued at More Than lift) Thou wind Dollars lATTOOfOlll., Sept 8. (AP. Three fewelry salesmen en route . from Chicago to New Orleans were robbed of diamonds and other jew els valued at approximately half a mil Lion dollars Icnight'by three ,,pien who bound and gagged them on 'Illinois Central train No. 13 ac the train entered Champaign. The robbers then descended from the train and, hiring, an automo bile, escaped from the city. Po lice in cities in all directions are searching from the trio, who are armed. The three salesmen, Joseph 'rfis kin of New York city, William Ii&vidscn and Morris Minski, both of San Francisco, managed to free themselves as the train entered Matoon. They reported the rob bery to the? Matoon-Tpolice, who spread the alarm". J" The holdup men overlooked -i wallet containing. Jewels valued at more than $ 50,00 among the personal effects of Riskin. ' Davidson." Iwho hadt been ill tince Monday;; told Matoon", police he jonly decided to make 1 he trip tfcw Orleans after e'iearoed tfrsSlskln aivd Inskywere'go . infcron the same train." ' " The Jhree obtained a drawing room, and " wrftV Kitting talking when three puin forced their . way ... Into the, car with drawn guns. . commanded thesalesmen ;o stand In a corner. The robbers then searched each of their victims. fi "Frcm the manner in which they worked." Davidson - told po lice here 'the thieves were evi . dently working o"ri"a""ilxed sched- nie. They entered: our drawing room about ZO minutes before we entered Champaign and one" fel low kept looking at .his watch. -The robbery was discovered .when one of -the men xobJved had slipped hi bonds and made enough noi3e to attract fellow passengers to the state room. ' A railroad: de tective who had seen tbr?e men answering' the ' description given by the rohbod me'n leave the train at Champaign, traced Jhelr actions to learn they had left .Champaign It. a hired automobile. DEPOSITERS TAKE I-UNDS R.K CLOHES DOOHS AFTER BUSINESS SLUMP WHIT EFISH. Mont., Sept. 8. (AP) The Brotherhood " Labor bank here closed its doors yester day, officials announcing today that the action was taken because of a slump in business and with drawal of deposits. .The' Institu tion is in the hands of a bank ex aminer. The' bank's capital was $25,000 and its deposits totaled $67,000. The assets were not an nounced. The bank was a local Institution and not connected with any other Brotherhood bank. MOTORCYCLE KILLS MAN LOSS OF MUJMAUABD '-STOPS MACHINE, KILLS RIDKRi VANCOUVER, "Wash.v Sept. 8 ( A P ) Herbert Kobson, 28, of Fernle. B. C, was ' killed todaj when he -was thrown from a mo torcycle on ? which he was riding with Georgo Bell bf "this city. The accident resulted when a mod gHrd dropped, off, stopping the n-hlne suddenly. Robson was IWwn off. his head striking the pivVment. A widow and one child live at Fernie. Bell was not In jured. - . EASTERNERS TOUR WEST CAM PINO FACILITIES AND HIGHH AYS BETTER HERE , PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 8. AP) Forty-two people In twelve automobiles, all from points east of the Mississippi' River, arrived in Portland- today pn an aiitojno bile caravan tour of the .: west. Both bighways and camping facil ities in the western states are bet ter, than thQso tpnjid.Ia.Jlhe. east, Salem Drinks Small Western Oregon Towns Tap Pure Mountain Water , x Supply for Profitable Use, While Capital City ' ' I u Dallies in Voting: Editor Statesman: sIt is apparent' from the reports published Jn the Salem newspapers that another long delay is to be experienced before any definite action is taken in the way of supplying Salem with a pure and adequate supply of water. This city has been using; a river seepage in a manner filtered for all these years, during which time One available source of pure mountain water supply after another has been allowed to slip away from it through private or corporation mmm . m m m . OWH&rshlp. AT LAST WASHINGTON. D. C. I ! his 42 years of shoeing horses Jeremiah Clifford, blacksmith, has never gotten kit k of any kind. And he's tackled every epeciea of horse. But at last he has been kicked. The kicker was a bantam rooster who resented Clifford's intrusion of the barn yard and show ed it by strikins home with his spurs in the blacksmith's leg. . . . Clifford is. hobbling on crutches now, but is philosophical about it. lie's gotten a kick out of life at last. . ZOUNDS, ALSO ODZOOKS CHICAOO. In the frensy of the Loop, on a corner in the financial -dis-tritt, stands . traffic cop. His name U Thomtg Heaphy. Outwardly he is tbe usual thing in traffic cops, but-: believe it or not -he's a glutton for Shakespear. lie quotes the Bard endlessly, hastening dull traffic with, "Hence, hone, yotj idle creatures, get yon seme." A sportster with its spot light on' wins from him the famous line, "Out. damned spot I" and A. D. T. boyn lounging on "his corner get the opening bit from Julius " Caesar. "Is this a. holiday?" His best recorded true of Hhakespesre has to do with a tired horse that stopped in traffic near him. Officer Heaphy took seme sugar from hi pocket and proffered the lamps ' to the horse with, "Eat. two Brute!" - AIB LINE TO BE LIGHTED 20 BEACONS PLANNED FOR PASCO ELKO ROUTE BOISE, Ida., Sept. 8. (AP.) One' hundred, miles of the Pasco Elko air maiF route south of Pasco are to be lighted. A. W. Smith, representative of the bureau of civil action.' department of com merce, announced here tonight. Arriving here from Pasco by air plane, Mr. Smith said that 20 four inch revolving beacons are to be installed at intervals of 10 miles for 100 miles south of Pasco. Emergency landing fields, to be lighted with boundary lamps, will be established every 30 miles. Mr. Smith declined to make any state ment on the proposed change of the southern terminus from Elko, Nevada, to Salt. Lake City. " LOS ANGELES GETS "RED" GRID STAR'S TEAM TO PLAY ; TWICE IN COLISEUM LOS ANGELES. Sept. 8. -(AP) The professional football- team headed by Harold "Red" Grange, will play one or more games in .heU Coliseum here ,In December, Phil ' Brltar, ! who staged the drange-Georgft Wilson clash here ast 'January, announced tonight followin g the receipt of a tele gram from C manager. C. Pyle, Grange's POLICE ARREST SLAYER . - - . , INSPECTORS LEAVE TO INES - ' v TIGATK MURDER McCLELAN,; Alberta, Sept. 8. (AP)- Joseph iTrottier told police here today that he slew Octave Lambert, a farmer, on the latter's property Friday. Trottier was ar rested and inspectors went out to investigate. v,t BRUNETTE BEAUTIES TJS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Sept. 8. XAP) The . chances are three to one that Miss America, 19 2G, will be a brunette, V board walk connoisseurs today having singled out Miss Denver. Miss New Or leans: Miss California,' and'! Miss Greater New" York for the covet- ' Poor Water, Cities Get Action Little towns like Cottage Grove with more forsight and enterprise ave through the Issuance of bonds gone into the adjacent hUIs and established water preserves and secured pure, cold water from streams fed by perpetual snow, and in quantities adequate for all city needs for years to come, through a comparatively Inexpen sive gravity system. Cottage Grove tapped the pure, cold waters of Laying creek fully 30 mUes east of. that city where a great reservoir was constructed by the building pf a small dam and many acres in the district con verted into a water preserve. A substantial pipe line carries the water to two large reservoirs near the city with an elevation of sev eral hundred feet above its streets, thereby supplying an ex cellent gravity system of pure cold water a second Bull Run, as it were. This municipal plant has long supplied Cottage Grove with no little monthly revenue over and above its up-keep, interest and retiring of bonds. Sheridian is another enterpris ing little city that has long since demonstrated its public spirit and foresight by providing an ample supply of pure, cold spring water supplied by gravity. We could name scores of other Oregon towns and cities with not one half the advantages and im portance of Salem," the state capi tal, that have acquired adequate water supplies that at once .he came valuabie-Wassets- to their municipalities, both from a finan cial and development standpoint. Salem's water 'supply has -long been a handicap jfl Its growth and development, In-'fact, an era of great growth and development hag now come in spite of this handi cap, but along with It has come a sentiment and demand for a bet ter and more adequate source of water supply, municipally owned. However, this ity. "has become notorious for lis dilly-dallying methods in all great enterprises and undertakings and true to form is procrastinating in bringing this important water question square ly up to the people for final ac tion. -There is no doubt but what a (CoBtiaoad ob mi 6.) MAN i r '''04!'" :v'v?liTueME:''r ; winiw THESE I VVUVuy . : hqv- --v-- - ' t" ' - - p . 0 NU Sil Sudden Deadlock Occurs on Eve of Germany's En trance in Council VOTE ENDS IN QUANDARY Hoik; F.icprced That Reich Dele gates Will 1 eel Way Slowly Bather Than Force the ' Issues Forward GENEVA, Sept. S. (AP.) A deadlock was reached suddenly to night on the problem of Ameri can adherence to the world court of justice, which now is in the hands of the special committee of 14 appointed by the world court conference. Another meetlnj of the commit tee will not " be held before' hext week, first, Decause of serious na ture of the difficulty encountered and, second, because the members will be occupied with the sessions of the committees of the assem ble The difficulty arh.es from the fact that neither the committee nor anybody else knows whether the council of the league of na tions, when aslr'nj ihe court for advisory opinions' must vote Ijy majority or unanimity. If the unanimity rule prevails, the United States reservations can be accept ed immediately, but if the major ity system obtains, then the situ ation is otherwise. Germany, with impressive unan imity, was re-elected &' member fCoBtiajsaai pin BOY SETS BARN ABLAZE JACK MAYFIELD WANTED TO SEE SOMETHING BURN MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 8. (AP) After having set his fath er's barn on fire in the Evans creek district yesterday to see it burn, 13-year-old Jack Mayfield was hurried to a nearby creek to help obtain water for the fire fighters. While en route, he also applied a match to a 75-ton stack of hay, destroying it completely. The entire loss is estimated at 81200, approximately the amount suffered last year when another barn on tbe same place was de stroyed by flames. After weak denials, the boy made a complete confession to his father, according to the local state fire warden. THE PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL - - - - TOO YEARS ASO fssr.-X '"MA , w a m , - i - iiisw' ivw e s r s PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACE STREET PAVING BURDEN TOTAL OF 95834 FOR IM PROVEMENTS TO BE MET Bonding Necessary, or Sum Most Be Paid in Fnrnre, Hug Be lieves A huge financial burden for street improvements has been laid on the school district this year, according to figures given out in a report issued yesterday by George Hug, city superintendent of schools. Assessments for pav ing streets adjoining school prop erty amount to 15,854, according to the report. This money will have to be rais ed by bonding the district. Mr Hug stated. The method in which this will be done is sched uled for discussion at the next meeting of the board. Either mbonds will be issued this year for the total amount, or it will be divided into 10 equal annual amounts, he believes. The largest proportion of these assessments is against the Rich mond school. It includes 81 44 6. 45 for Improvement of Richmond avenue and $1431.92 for impr6ve- ment of 24th street. i ne oiner assessments are 8849.22 against Grant school for improvement of Cottage street. 1867.59 against Highland school for the improvement of Highland avenue, 8352.52 against the same school for improvement of Broad way and $906.65 against Engle- wood school for improvement of North 1 9 th street, the whole amount totalling 85854.35. GRAND JURY SIFTS CASES U'REN CHARGES PROBABLY COME UP TODAY Investigation of the charges filed by "W. S. U'Ren. Portland at torney, that Frederick Steiwer, re publican nominee for United States senator, falsified his pri mary election expense accounts, probably will be taken up by the Marion county grand jury today. District Attorney Carson said the grand Jury would dispdse of all criminal cases now pending be fore delving into the U'Ren charg es. He indicated that two or three days would be required to com plete the Investigation. SAILOR LEAPS INTO SEA AUGUST MANJUS REFUSES AID OF LIFE RING MARSHFIELD. Ore., Sept. 8. (AP) Augut Manjus, a seaman of the schooner Frank B. Stout, ended his life by jumping into the ocean south of Cape Blanco while the ship was enroute here from San Francisco, shipmates reported on reaching here. Manjus refus ed to be saved when a life ring was thrown near him. SflLLOT GMT nirnnn nniirii NNinn riiuinn New Hampshire and Wiscon sin Nominate Anti-World Court. Senators LA1JGE LEADS CONTINUE Few lrecincts MIshIhs As Vote Totals Up In Four States M hich Held Primaries Tuesday MILWAUKIE, Wis., Sept. 8. (AP) Governor J. J. Blaine, re publican progressive carrying the endorsement of United States Sen ator Robert M. LaFollette yester day defeated Senator Irvine L. Lenroot for nomination for sena tor, but saw the defeat of his own candidate, Herman L. Ekern in the gubernatorial race. Fred R. Zimmerman, progressive republi can who headed an anti-LaFollette faction was victorious over Ekern by 50.000 plurality and Blaine saw the usual LaFollette plurality cut appreciably by Lenroot. Blaine was pledged to seek re- considerence to the world court, and amendment of the Volstead act. Frank J. Kelley, who made his platform "wef'in campaigning for the senate ran a poor third. PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 8. (AP) Arizona's political horse, Governor George W. P. Hunt, dem ocrat, late today virtually was as sured of re-nomination for a sixth term on the face of incomplete returns from 338 of the state's 484 precincts, in yesterday's pri mary. The vote stood Hunt 17,- 134; EllIngwood-10,771; Cox 7, 754. v MANCHESTER, N. H.. Sept. 8. (A P) Seator George H. Moses opponent of United States entry into the world court, presi dent pro tern' of the United States senate, was re-nominated by - the republicans of NewHamp shire by a two to one vote, re turns from yesterday's primary in dicated today. : 7 Returns from 269 tbwns and wards, with those from only 25 small towns missing gave Senator (Continue oa paf 4.) THOUSANDS PASS CRYPT OFFICERS KEEP SOUT5NIR HUNTERS FROM TOMB HOLLYWOOD. Cal., Sept. 8. (A P.) Five thousand persons passed through the Hollywood the body of Rudolph Valentino, to day for a glance at the tribute of flowers which fill the entire crypt A police officer was stationed at the mausoleum to prevent sou venir hunters from stealing the flowers which Included a blanket of roses containing 5,000 buds sent by Pola Negri; screen actress, who was to have married. Valen tino. Miss Negri returned to mo tion picture work today.' ROCK SLAB KILLS MINER ACCIDENT COMES AS MAN WORKS FIRST SHIFT WALLACE, Ida.. Sept. 8. (AP) W. J. Wade. 25, who came here less than a week ago from Galena, Kansas, was killed at the Melca mine today when struck by a large rock slab. His back was broken. Wade was working his first shift at the mine and the accident occurred within half an hour after he start ed work He leaves a widow In Galena. GIRL KILLED ON TRACK THREE YEAR OLD ASLEEP ON TRACK BEFORE TRAIN ' ARMSTRONG, B. C, Sep. 8. Falling asleep on a railroad track after? she' bad ..wandered from home, the three-year-old daugh ter of Fred Le Due was killed five miles north of here today by a passenger train, . "A private car carrying officials of the. Canadian National railway 'was attached to the train. - LLEI'lLINT CAPTURED CRANBROOK. B. C, Sept. 8. (AP) -Myrtle,' an escaped circus' elephant, which had been held at Bay a week on' a heavily timbered mountain-sida, five miles : south west of here, was captured today iA tw?ik?nf4'c2nI9' - Our Helen Doffs " " Visor to Smile. "As" Title Passes This most recent photo of Helen Wills, ah unusual one because she is without her famous eye shade. Shows her smiling'despite her in- Jlhilifv tr npfpnri hor nallnnal (an. IMF! 1 ni titio fnr hh Atio. Fii,.iuihiIK)uii(isl it was estimated at a Ryan and Mrs. Molla BJurstedt Mallory met. IMnilCTDICC IAII I DfinOT iiiwuginiLd iiilu uuudl POPULATION OF OREGON BRUCE DENNIS URGES ADOP. TION OF RESOLUTION No Income or Inheritance Tax Would be Collected Prior to 1940 Rv intrrwInHnc- hfsr inrliiBtriau into the State. Oregon can be De Pooucea m xmomnm u.8lritI. md to tak it. rfr.tf.,1 r.nvHs not known. The rhole crop alongside its neighbors, Califor- ni and Wa.hinrtnn Rta Sn. tor Bruce rtenni- of La Rr.ndJ told the Rotkrv dnh it ito paHt lunchfion vfiKtPrdav in th- Mrir. hotel. Th inrfuftrio. n t ionh her hv kdontion of thr, npnnl relation whirh watMa. fnr no inromA oi inh.rit.nop fc' OrPiron nntlf 1940. Mr. rWTii - . x - jl j;on," Mr. Dennis stated. . "Salem should hare 100,000 inhabitants and Portland, Eugene, Klamath Falls and other cities should havn a proportionate growth. This growth cannot be brought by agrl culture, however, ' for we must have industries here to give added inhabitants something to do "2 saw three things in the east that shocked me," continued Mr. Dennis "I went into one of the big -eastern .restaurants, one of a chainof 210 and found that thei .N - T . . serve no beer or any kind, mat s one of the reasons our cattle in dnstfy is 'sick.' "The 'women have also ceased wearing wool, so the Oregon si ecp raising industry is hard hit. "AJso, tho eastern manufactur ers have boen told that the forests are practically exhausted,'- so most of them are usine wood substitutes in place of wood in their manu-l11 fartures. That is one main reason hy the lumber industry is lew n opa in i nn ni li ur nr niui n y i no niv. pest building booms the country has ever known." ' BRITISH SEAMAN KILLED Ox CHINESE TROOPS FIRE ENGLISH GUNBOAT SHANGHAI, Sept. 8. (AP.) Three British naval officers and four seamen were killed and' two officers and 13' seamen wounded Monday by Chinese troops of Wu Pel Fa's national armies At Waa- sien, Szechwan province,' 1250 miles up the Yangtze. . The Brit- lsa gunboat Cockchafer returned I the fire, doing considerable dam-1 age to'Wanhsieh, a city of 150, 000 population: y A H DIE$ FROM STIG SCORPION OR HORNET BITES - RAILROAD EMPLOYE THE DALLES. Or., Sept. 8. Mike Joyce,- 56, railroad employe here, was stung on the wrist yes terday by a ' scorpion or hornet while at Work and died early to- day. Joyce had been afflicted with hfart "b,d f?r 8e ,Ume pr6" tiuus iu ids eiiug, pnystciaus re ported, f V .. . . .-y: - SCREEN v STAR MARRIED ELEANOR ROARDMAN WEDS KLNU VI DOR 'DIRECTOR " LOS ANGELES, Sept 8:KIng W. VidorVfilm director, and Elea-j nor Board man, screen star, were I married tonight at,' the Beverley I Hills home of Marion Davies, mo- J tlon pieture actress- , They- left! af ter - the Ceremony on a honey-1 moon teur, the destination not be-J RECORD PRUOE t V s Two State Estimate Is 70,- 000,000 Pounds in Ore gon, Washington 7 FEAR 50 PR CENT LOSS Northwest Dried Fruit Association Stresses Importance of Good . Weathers Many Pick ers Are Needed t ' -f Good weather continuing, the 4 prune crop in Oregon and Wash ington this season will reach a nnmltilA Rft AAA Ortft n in AAA Aha ' I meeting of the Northwest. Dried I Fruit association, comprising pack ers from Oregon, Washington and Mdaho, held yesterday in the Mar Hon hotel Twntvlr r.nriiitA- l r : tIv8 of prune Pckers in Oregon Walter Jenkar of this city Is presi dent of the organization. This estimated crop- Is an ' in crease of 20 to 25 per cent over the original estimate for the -dis trict. The belief 10 dajs ago was that the crop would not amdnht to more than 50,000,000 pounds. No estimate was made on local I Crops, SO Uie prooaoie amount M uas Wgte& and an estimate l ulaae Ou lOO voum uauuub An average loss of 50 per cent on prune crops of the whole terri tory comprised by the states was estimated.; In some of ;the dis- I tricts so many of the prunes were I Spoiiea WK ine crop will ron to only 13 per cent, while In oth- era It WlU be the full 100 pCT I.'-" V' Unntrhailm ' ma nn 'of th exPrt department of one of th (0atiad m c 4.) MAN FALLS FROM BANK CARPENTER HURT ON FIRST NATIONAL BUILDING Joseph McDonald, route 8, Port land, received a fractured wrist and serious head injuries y ester day when he fell from the fourth tory ot the new Fir8t National I Konlr Hii!1tinv Kaph T7 a waa nnh. bank building here. He was rush ed to a local hospital for medical treatment.' " ""i-?; ? Hospital attendants reported last night that McDonald wojld recover, as he apparently had no Internal injuries. They said he was rational again. - McDonald is a carpenter and I &ad been employed here for"sev weeks. Mrs. McDopald notl , I acciueni. arnvta i "wu w w w, ,? ujuu,j , School Superintendent v ,l Returns Alter vacation I SILVERTON. Sept. 8. (Spe cial) is. t. i ouei, wno.-wttn nis I "wife has been spending part of the summer here with his daughter; Mrs. H. M. Deal, left i Wednesday jT automobile for Fort Klamith where he Is superintendent '! of schools. - Mrs, Youel will remain here a few weeks to help care for her daughter" and little grand- daughter who was born on August 2(th. - ' ' ; v I Mr. Youel was at one time sa perintendent , of Sllverton schools for a number of years. VANCOUVER MILLS BURN .-. FIRE RAVAGES IN HEART OF BUSINESS SECTION t t. , VANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. (AP)FIre ' which started hertf tonight in a mill of the Defiance Shingle company destroyed It and the building of the Empire - Box company and quickly spread, .ito planta of the Standard Lumber company and the .Sitka Spruce Lumber company. The mills are in the .heart of Vancouver's Indus-- trial section.- New Parking Ordinance Passed ay City Council .'-"v- " ' ' -. . - . - SILVERTON, Ore., Sept. S. tSpeciaL) Amending an ordi nance . permitting motorists to turnaround in the middle of the street. was the sum ' total of thfj ' business cnactea. at the- regular September meeting of the Silver- ton city council, t Prior. , to 4 this parked motorist have been ner- mltted to back out and go in either direction from tei' ; place of W$ announced. - parking.