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QaBGDKI Nad WEATHER Fair; normal temperature and low humidity In the Interior; gentle variable winds, except moderate; south and southwest on high mountain ranges, 7 .Yesterday Max., 86; Min., 4 9;. river -2.3; rain, none; atmos phere, partly cloudy. Wind, south. THREE SECTOWS, 22 PAGES OT!NTYSIXTH YEAR 5 SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS vt . n mm V St ) EillOGRATS ASK TAX REDUCTION J Republicans . Attempting to t Hold Off Cut Says Sen Sp ator Simmons 1 "" f HUGE FUND UNNEEDED Fund of $502,000,000 Will lie Available at Coming Session of Congress Claim Democratic lenders - WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. (A JjJ P) A half billion dollars tax re duction will be demanded by the Democrats at the next' session of congress.. Senator Simmon3,. North Carolina, ranking democrat on the l senate finance cooiwuice aenareu tonight in a statement issued . - in - . i a through the democratic national conventions. : J He charged the: republicans to I be deliberately attempting ia hold "7off antn.eP reduction until next yoar to further the ambitions of republicans presidential aspirants, and to provide political capital. A surplus of $562,000,000 will y be available ror reducing taxes at F the coming session ot congress, f .said Senator Simmons. It is the elar duty of congress he adfjed to distribute this "unneeded treas ury surplus, and to put a" stop to this unnecessary taxation as soon as possible. "If the over-burdened tax payer were entitled to a reduction at the last 'session of congress of their iestfqated -surplus 7 of only about $2jHY,000, why, with a surplus in iZe-treasury nearly twice as Rrfdt, are they not entitled to an- othpV reduction at the coming ss .i..ion ht congress?., asked the N.orth Carolina senator. This enormous surplus of ' J SI more tnan nair a wuion oouars regents taxes na id In excess fit ""l ordinary expenditures and nnneed J ed for the purpose for which col- this (Unnecessary exaction should he discontinued as speedily as legislatively practiable." WATCH THIEVES JAILED POMCK JUDGE GIVES MEN OO DAYS OX CHAttGE II. H. Adcock and Gordon Gril lis. arrested Thursday night for the theft of some watches and rings from the Municipal auto ) I camp here, pleaded guilty to lar 1 eny charges yesterday afternoon ml in the local police court and were sentenced to 30 days each in the county jail by MarkPoulsen, po lice judge. They were taken to tho jail 1m Jl mediately after sentence 'was X , passed, with an admonition to take the ilrst train out of town when they had served their time. ' The two men were picked up at the camp after one of them had been seen to enter a tent there. Three watcbes and several rings vre reported missing at the same ; tinie. After considerable grilling I the men confessed to having hid jL i tXgtjppne of the watches in a wer, ,t wftvre it -was found by police offi ce fa. The men are believed to hiffe destroyed the others. JtJoth Adcock and Gillis are transients, giving no permanent LEM SCHOOL PRAISED Cifri;REXCE IN FAVOR OF SUMMER SESSIONS , - ' WALLA WALLA, Sept. 11. IA.) The summer school of theology, conducted at Salem, was -tndorsed by the Columbia River ciTftference of the Methodist Epis copal church here . today and at tendance of undergraduates at the school, hereafter will be compuls ory, was voted by the committee. A. plea for more religion in . the ' m""1 was Presentfid by -Bishop A. vMl 7 'Leonard- of Buffalo, presiding Vtay, while Edward L. Mills, edi tor of the Pacific Christian Advo cate, San Francisco, told the con ffrnnce that; the lack, of centrali zation among e religious' publica tions is losing them national ad vertisers who are going to gene- , ral periodicals. of I great circula tions with the reeult that: gener ally church publications " are be ing forced to suspend. .- -7, ; BAMBINO HITS ANOTHER ! DETROIT, Sept. 11. (AP) Babe Ruth hit his 42nd homer In the ninth inning of the New York rPetroit game today, driving in two Salem Walnut Tree Crop Worth $250 This Season Mammoth, Three Feet Thick at Man's Height, Set More Than 70 Years Ago, and Grafted to Fran quettes Six Years Ago (The following news item was handed to The Statesman yesterday by a friend:) George F. Vick, director of the agricultural department of the Chamber of Commerce, is more than ever convinced that filbert growing will become one of the great industries of the Willamette valley. Yesterday Mr. Vick was showing samples of Du Chilly fil berts grown on the Theodore Herren tract, four miles east of Salem, on the Garden road. Mr Herren has two acres of j - - - - - hearing filberts that for the first precious . XEW YORK. In a retent con ference wita President Coolidge, Will H. Hsjrs. to whom it i the usual thing to refer a tba 'Movie Czar,' outlined a plan which providea for tbe preservation ia time, fire and shock proof vault t news films which picture his toric events. Mr. iiaya mentioned aa examples of the sort of thing 'which should be placed in the vault, the flight ef the first air plane, the signing of the Versailles Treaty a ad presi dential inangura . , .I-1 1 1 . . n"u. ... i nai s all very well, but wha's to judge what films snail be preserved for, a the say- ' io-g goes, posterity? If Congress is to b given .the power may a ' benevol ent lleareti protect posterity I WHO? WHO? I.OXDON. The other day, while London was nndergoing that sweet ii decorous exhilaration which follows a sensation ia the national pastime of rricket, a wandering American hap- ' pened - to ask a young inghshman. Who" Sethis Jack Houbs I hear go When the native much about!' had . revived, he took the penitent American off and told him that Jack llobb was the greatest cricketer ' in tha history of the ancient and honorable game and that, this very day, he had piled up some 360 runs, not out, and that this performance annexed a varie ty of records. '"Oh." said the Ameri can, "he's a sort of. Bab Both, isn't he!" "Who's Babe Ruth!" asked the Englishman ' X AIRY CAMPAIGN SALT LAKE CITY. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah has acquired a new nobby. lit an aviation enthus iast, - taking a plane wherever he Sossibly can. He as recently flown here from Los Angeles and ia now given over whole - heartedly to-the prospect of doing the bulk of his campaigning for renominatkin and re-election by airplane. While the present-day airplane lacks a few of the con veniences of the observation car, gartieolarly for aby-kissinr and Re.cj Smoot glad-handing pur poses, it .mast be admitted that it covers more territory in a far more speedy fashion. Perhaps the Gentle wian from Utah has solved his political problems. CANINE DISPUTES DRIVER . ,.j 7 " AUTOMOBILE VICTORIOUS AST) IKKJ I'LKES HOWLING When a dog decides to dispute the right of way with an auto mobile, he generally comes off sec ond bcst in the argument. That is what one ambitious dog found out at State and High street yesterday w hen he entered into an argument with a car driven by O. L. Kisslck, according to a report turned in at police headquarters here by KlHsick. According to the report, Kisslck ran oyer the dog, but doesn't know whether he killed It or not, because it immediately fled, howl ing at Ihe top of its voice. "The darn dog was left running loose on the "street and he dis puted the right of way of traffic," was the reason Kissick .gave? for the accident. BANK RO&BERS KILLED CASH, RO1i AND SECURITIES 4 4 TAKEN JULY 28 J... SEDALIA, Mo.r Sept. 11. (4P) Deputy Sheriff Cecil Jenkins of Bonneville today shot - and killed William Palmer and Elbert Bard well, sought in connection with robbery of -the Fleaiant' Green. Mo., bank 4 July 28? when $7,000 cash. liberty ' bonds and other se I ' " V ' -t i.j i i I kilo's I " . ( Aacic toes? ) . V- -v " i curities wer uteiea.' Out picking filled 2? large grain sacks. He estimates that his crop will bring him almost $1000 for the two acres of filberts. Mr. Herren also has a considerable planting of Barcelona filberts. Mr. Vick came on the board of directors of the Chamber of Com merce last January, and his first work was in putting on a filbert growing campaign throughout the county. This resulted in a con siderable planting. Speaking of filbert growing Mr. Vick said: "The Willamette 'valley around Salem is a natural filbert grow ing country. It has been demon strated that the Barcelona filberts will produce a paying crop In three or four years, while the Du Chilly requires a year or two long er. "It is a crop that Is not troubled with rain. There is no drying and as yet no spraying.. All that is necessary is to keep the ground well cultivated." At a community dinner held at Hubbard last Friday evening, there was no display quantities of Barcelona filberts from trees only three years old. "Same Story by Reporter A Statesman reporter visited the Herren farm yesterday. It is near the Garden road, on Sa lem prairie. You follow the Garden road past the second short turn east of the Swegle school leading north, to the first house (to the left); about a quarter of a mile from the Garden road. You may be thankful for the direc tions ' For there are several wonderful things on the Herren farm par ticularly two, the filbert orchard and the big black walnut tree grafted to Franquette walnuts. Theodore Herren is a member of the pioneer family of that name, prominent in Oregon since the forties. His present farm of 86 acres is on the donation land claim of J. C. Herren, who came to Oregon In a covered wagon in 1845, and took Op this donation claim in 184 6,tv Theodore was born on this farm and lived there till he married, and ha was a resi dent after that for 20 years in Yamhill county. ? About 12 years (Continued on page S) IB JICGLIIS FASCIST, SAFE This Must End," Warns Mussolini, as Anti- French Hatred Grows DICTATOR EVADES BOMB Revival of Capital Punishment ami Action Against France Hinted in Speech Be fore 1O.OO0 ROME, Sept. 11. (AP) "Tell the Americans and the Italians of America that neither pistols, bombs nor other instruments of death can make me desist from my course," Premier Mussolini de clared tonight to the Associated Press correspondent, whom he re ceived in his private office in Chigi Palace. "This is the third attempt against me in the space of seven months, but like the others, this one has not disturbed me in the slightest. I consider myself a sol dier wbo has specific orders and who Is ready to confront any risk. My duties impose upon me the ta9k of working with all my ener- ( Continued on page 2.) INCREASE IN DISEASES EXPECTED THIS MONTH MARION COUNTY HEALTH UNIT ISSUES REPORT August Has Less Than Half a Many Contagious Cases As July Month A continued general decline in number of contagious diseases re ported in Salem and Marion coun ty is indicated in the monthly re port for August of the county health officer, presented at a meet ing of the Marion county health unit yesterday noon. The report was prepared by Dr. Walter H. Brown, health officer, and Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, deputy coun ty health officer. The total number of cases of contagious diseases In August was less than one-half the number re ported in July. With the return of people from their vacations, opening of schools, and closing of windows, an increase in the num ber of diseases is expected this month. The number of communicable (Oontianed ea page 9) THE LANDING FIELD PROPOSED FALLS CITY ROAD ARGUMENTS HEARD LUMBER COMPANIES OPPOSE PROJECT Residents of Siletz and Valsetz Regions Favor Shorter Route FALLS CITY, Sept. 11. (Spe cial:) The matter of the proposed Falls City-Sileti-Newport road district was taken under advise ment by the state highway com mission following a meeting of the commission at Falls City last night. Arguments for and against the proposed district and attempts to define its boundaries were made. The petition for the proposed district was read and arguments were given In favor of it by sev eral citiens of the district. Writ ten protests were filed by the Wil liam Mitchell company (Cobb- Mitchell Lumber company) and the Willamette Valley Lumber company, both of whom have large lumber holdings in the district and are said to be unwilling to, pay the big taxes that will be re quired. George T. Gerlinger, president of the Willamete Valley Lumber company, Oscar Hayter, legal rep reaentative tor that company and for the Charles K. Spaulding lum ber company, and C. L. Star of Portland, representative of the Cobb-Mitchell company, were present to hear the arguments. Most of the protest against the proposed district came from resi dents of the Kings Valley region. who already have a road and do not wish to stand the added ex pense. Those most in favor of it were residents of the Siletz and Val setz regions. The only road out of Valsetz at the present time is impassable several months of the year and the only way from Siletz to the Willamete valley towns is around by way of Corvallls, mak ing a circuit of about 100 miles to reach Salem and Portland. The 'commission will make its report fixing the boundaries of the district! and resent it to Gover- f nor Walter Mf Pierce Tof :ct&si3P eration. The tentative outlines of the district embrace a larger area than most road districts of the state, taking in land in both Polk and Lincoln counties. The big gest amount is in Polk county. FIRE BURNS HOP HOUSt WEST WOODBURN BLAZE CAUSES $5,000 LOSS WOODBURN. Ore.. Sent. 11.- (Special) The McCormick Bros. hop house located at West Wood burn -'burned late this afternoon with an estimated loss of 5,000, partly covered by insurance. Fifty sacks of hops were saved from the blaze which consumed 14,000 pounds of hops. The fire is thought to have been caused by a defective flue. III BEATS WORLD'S TIE Speed of 180 Mites Per Hour Maintained by Lieuten ant Cuddihy RACE 120 MILES LONG Six of 14 Entries Ruled Out for Fouling or Cutting at Py lons; Last Ship to Start Finishes First PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11. (AP) Lieutenant C. T. Cuddihy of the navy today won the free for ajl military pursuit ship race, the feature event of the national air race meet held here this week. In winning the 120 miles race over a 12 mile triangular course. Lieutenant Cuddihy was an nounced as having, established a world's record for standard pur suit ships. His average time was 180,495 miles and hour. Lieutenant Cuddihy flew a Boe ing FB-3 plane equipped with a 600 horsepower Packard motor. Close behind him in second place was Lieutenant L. C. Elliott of the army, whose average speed was 178,609 miles an hour. Third place was captured by Ross Hoyt of the army with an average speed of 170.909 miles. Lieutenant C. C. Nutt also of the army was fourth, averaging 170.785 miles. The conditions of the contest called for the entries to be of the type, design! and specifications as to qualify for practical puhsuit ships and further restrictions pre vented the building of . a plane especially for the race. Six of the If entries In the event were ruled out Tor roetlBr6K:ttttin? at the pylons. The race was on elapsed time and although Lieutenant Cuddihy was the tenth to. start around the course, he pushed the Boeing fighter along until he had passed all the planes ahead of him ex cept the one flown by Lieutenant Elliott, who was in a Curtiss P-l, with a Curtiss motor. IDENTIFY TRAIN ROBBER ASLEEP AT TIME OF ROBBERY ASSERTS PRISONER CHICAGO, Sept. 11. (AP) Nick Kramer, henchman of the Saltis-McErlane gang of beer run ners, was identified late today as one of the two bandits who got $135,000 in the robbeTy of a mail car of a Grand Trunk train yester day. Kramer had been taken in to custody on the theory that the robbery was committed to obtain defense funds for "Polack Joe" Sal Us and Frank McErlane who faces trials for murder. John K. Kelly, one of the mail clerks rob bed, identified Kramer. Kramer asserted he was asleep at -the time of the robbery. FLU TAKES DEATH TOLL TRADING SCHOONER FINDS PITIFUL CONDITION VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 11. (AP.) Nearly 100 men and women of the Herschel Island re gion and 35 adults at Coronation Gulf, both on the North American coast of the Arctic ocean, had died in an influenza epidemic when the trading schooner Old Maid No. 2 visited there this summer. reported Capt. Carl Klengenburg upon his return here today. At another post 13 natives were reduced to skin and bones and many were ill. These losses, all in pparsely rettled" districts, were considered severe. EXPLORER GETS OVATION MUSIC, CHEERS, SPEECHES, GREET COMMANDER WISCASSET, . Maine, Sept. 11 (AP) Commander Donald B. MacMillan, and his 1926 expedi tion to. .the far north received a tremendous greeting of speeches. cheers and band music today when the schooners Bowdoin and Sach em arrived here, the commander's home port. The schooners were escorted up the Sheepscot river by dozens of motor boats. SPAIN LEAVES LEAGUE GENEVA. Sept. 11, (AP) Spain has left the League of Na tions. An official communication announcing Spain'! withdrawal was received at Geneva' tonight. The communication declared that Spain had taken . this - step "In obedience- to imperative duty." Ogopogo Seen Again GIANT SEA SERPENT RAISES HEAD FROM LAKE VANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. 11 (AP.)- Ogopogo has been seen again. The giant sea serpent which a dozen citizens of British Co lumbia have reported seeing in Okanagan lake, was viewed cavorting in that body of water this time by. J. C. Stockwell and a friend from Moose Jaw, Sask.' "It was Ogopogo," Stockwell avered, "tearing madly along in circles about 200 feet in di ameter, and kicking up a tre mendous spray. We caught several glimpses of his head, which .was shaped like a seal, and his neck, which was Cov ered with scales, but could not venture anr' opinion of his lengthy owing to the violent contortions through which he was going." Stpckwell's experience was reported by the Daily Province here today. , . ' DRUNKEN DRIVER BAIL TOO HIGH, WILL FIGHT RITIE CALLS BAIL AND FIXE UNCONSTITUTIONAL Demurrer Second Protest to City Ordinance Filed on Same Grounds A demurrer was filed in police court yesterday by L. Rudie, ar rested recently on a charge, of driving while Intoxicated. He also filed a protest against the $500 bail demanded, claiming it was exorbitant and out of proportion to the offense. Rudie claims in his demurrer that the city ordinance calling for a minimum sentence of $100 fine and 60 days in jail for this of fense is void and unconstitutional, as it fixes an excessive bail and fine. This Is the second protest in the last few weeks against this ordi nance. A. R. Spaulding, arrested in August on the same charge, Pleaded not guilty and. wag sent enced by Police Judge Mark Pout sen to pay the $100 and serve 60 days, but appealed to the circuit court on the same grounds given by Rudie in his demurrer. The case is now up for hearing before the circuit court when It begins its fall session. Rudie was arrested by Officer G. W. Edwards last Saturday night after he had driven his car into one driven by Fred Carothers, smashing both cars badly. He was taken .to the police station, where a physician pronounced him drunk, and later released on $500 ball after he , had been given an opportunity to sober up in jaiL BANKS SHOW INCREASE 'i SALEM IXSTITTJTIONS CONTIN UE TO FORGE AHEAD Bank clearances for August in Salem show a continued increase in the last - four years, according to statistics issued by the cham ber of commerce. Clearings for August this year total $K,Z8.- 832; for August, 1925, $11,842. 374; for August, 1924. $7,716, 526. and for August, 1923, $7 204.273. According to Babson statistics on debit checks for July in cities about the size of Salem .through out the northwest, this city stands fourth with 413.553,000. It is headed by Boise, Idaho, with $14,- 832,000; - Yakima, Wash., with $14,660, and Everett with $14, 131,000. Figtures for other cities aire, Eugene, $8,131,000; Astoria, $4.- 002,000; Pocatello. $6,204,000, and Bellingham, $10,980,000. GIANT MUSHROOM r'OUND . 3 FREAK GROWTH BROUGHT TO PORTLAND BY HUNTER PORTLAND, Sept. 11. (AP.) A' mushroom large enough to smother 30. steaks, was uncovered two' miles north . of ' Clackamas Meadows' Friday by W. .K. Irvine, Gresham, hunter, who brought the freak growth to Portland today, v The 7 giant weighed 15 pounds and was fan-shaped, the top form ing an oval a foot wide and nearly two feet long. ; ' - , Irvine, found the unusual speci men whlio coming out of the. bills alter a hunting trip. It was In deep underbrush, but he uprooted It, and carried it two miles to the nearest road where h& packed It in a dampened blanket for the re maining ,70-mIle trip. ' S - '-7 EXPENSE REPORT FILED NEBRASKA ANTI-SALOON OR GANIZATION SPENDS $81H. .WASHINGTON,' Sept. .11, The Anti-Saloon i league ; of t Nebraska today reported to the clerk of the house: that It 7 had spent $890.80 in the ,' political campaign up to August 20. ; CIGf iiRIfl I'll HOUSETO RISE Forty-four Flats Included in U Shaped Plan, Work Starts at Once . COST SET AT $1 00,000 Will be Erected on North. S amine? Between Union and Marion ; Bank Alterations Are Announced , r. At new $100,000 .apartment house will rise on the east side of North Summer street between Union and Marlon, the building permit having been taken- out yes terday by J. C. Meyers 5 of Portland.-' Construction will begin im mediately, it was anribunced. . . The structure ? will have ' ; 44 apartments housed in a' building the shape of -a letter tl, with' the' top facing Summer street. The court formed by the sides of the U will be covered and filled with flowers and other decorative feat ures. This type' of building Is said to be one of the best for sn apart ment house, as It affords a maxi mum of light and privacy. - The building will be of brick veneer construction, three- stories high besides the basement, and will occupy an area of 89 by 165 feet, making one of the largest apartment houses in the city.' The estimated cost is $100,000. "The deal for purchase of the land on which it will stand was , made through the office of Becke ' A Hendricks, local real estate deal ers. - Mr. Meyers, the owner of the twllllitosll knowntia Port . land as an investor and hnlldAr. He drew the plans himself and will personally supervise the construe tion, giving the benefit of expert- . ence gained in many years of work at building apartment houses and similar structures. 7 r Mr. Meyers, who ban nfrtraa .in the center of Portland's business district,' has erected many of 1 the finest apartment houses built" re cently in Portland, It is said, and now owns several of them. . Either steam or hot water will be used for heating the building, and it will be equipped with an electric ice making machine, ac cording to tentative plans an nounced yesterday. A set of blueprints has been drawn up for the building itself, which are in the hands ot the city engineer now, but the final de tails as to heating, wiring, plumb ing and the like are still partly undecided. ?, ; No definite time has been an nounced for completion of the building, but it will be erected as rapidly as possible. Another important building an nouncement made yesterday ;was that of'remodellng to be done on the Salem Bank of - Commerce (Geathmea page S) HAWLEY SPEAKiTlOfi DA Y, CHAMBER "OV COMMERCE TO HEAR CONGRESSMAN 3 , . 7 Willard C.; llawley. United States congressman, will address the Salem chamber of commerce at : its first luncheon since June, Monday noon In the chamber audi torium. He will discuss "Mopping; Up After the War," giving a treat ment Of -tho reconstruction ' nmh. lems that faced congress. Mr. HawlfiT. vhnii ntiVi publican member of the powerful ways ana means committee of the house. Is. a native of Monroe, a xew miles south ot Cbrvallia. .He graduated from Willamette - uni versity and was president of Jt f ot 10 years. He baa been since 1907. .. -: ; Mr. Hawley will be Introduced by Ronald Glover ot this city, REGISTER NOW. fJS-PLEV COUNTY ' CLERK'S OFFICE OPEN UNTIL FIVE DAILY Many Marion , county residents will be unable t cast their ballot at the general election in Novem ber. County Clerk XT. n said yesterday, because they have ut resisierea. Gome families bare moved and bar fait . change : their registration while others do not know that the time for registering will The county clerk's office is open every nay until rive o'clock and Mr. Boyer. hopes that the nrrila of the county will avail themselves -of the 7 opportunity to rriat witbla the next few days. -.1 - " ' - -