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''Bavins: Gmen and- Mis ' Elying-iMdchin:9: by Rev.. Ernest ff.:Bhaj!c iiiii Societu?Editorial ; : Classified 4 Better Homes SECTION TWO Pages 1 to 8 CLEAN AND VIGO RO U S frVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER Id,' 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS Day by - B Semple McBMfsgn CukmM . .. t : V, ; 1 , .1.1 i i -" - - Birds Can Fly So Why Deathof Swimmers, by Drowning and Pneumonia, Medical Student's Love : " Ends in Tragic Romance Can't I", Spurs Study Search for Evangelist's Body, Tragic Markers Two During He Jumped From the Roof, Flapped His Wings, Fell Hard and People Laughed, but Others Took Up the Idea and Inventions Followed o By Ernest H Shanks.! "Birds can 'fly! So why can't I?" So Darius Green set about to solve the problem of flying a long time ago. Darius was a real prophet and no mistake. People laughed at him and called him a simpleton. So were the Wright brothers. So were Robert Fulton and a lot of otherswho live a long time ahead of their age. Now Rartus was a genius even if he was a bit queer, at least so I .suspect. At the risk of making up some of the story, I am going to tell it as I learned it when a boy. Darius' father was a carpenter and had a shop and all sorts of tools. nanus nicea to timcer wun tne toois ana maKe things, ne made many queer contraptions. There was an old "loft over the work shop where Darius used to make his things, One day Darius was lying under the old apple tree out in the orchard dreaming day dreams; and he dreamed one that was sure-to come true. He saw: a robin fly from tree to. tree. He watched the pretty Redbreast hop about and fly up and down and across. I-That made Darius think. After a bjt he said out loud, "Birds can fly. Why can't I ?" Well, of course birds had wings and Darius did not. ,f He was much larger than the birds, but larger wings could be built. Birds made their wings eo up and down when they were flying. He fcould make his arms go up and down, too. Some how or others the dream just stuck in Darius' head i and he thought it over, every day. Then one day he decided he would make a pair of wings for himself and fly just like a bird. So with some boards and straps he made a very ingen ious pairof wings and arranged to fasten them o n his arms. It took a long-time to get them made up right, ana Darius worked very hard every day m the od "loft over the carpen ter shoD. When at last they were completed, Darius asked one of his neighbor boys to come over and watch him fly. bo Jim Jones, let us call him that just so he will have a name, came nvpr to see the flvincr machine that Darius had built. Darius got out on the shed-roof beside the shop and fastened the wings on very careiuiiy ana stooa near tne eage oi tne rooi. . ' - . . - i m 11 A ' 1 ,MJ1.4. Jimwas aown oeiow, eageny waning Mor wie tnai lugnu Vhen all was ready, Darius said : jgfc ''Birds can fly! So why can't I?" Jim said: -f "Now you look Dri ! The shed is high, And you'll be an angel, by and by." Witb'"aT)iif3'nipriu3 sprang from the rooFahd flapped his wines. Of course he came down with an awful thump, and he was pretty badly hurt. Something went wrong and the flying machine-did not work as he had planned. People laughed at him and called him names, and his people had to say that he could never try that again. So his invention fell thmntrh : Rut the. dream lasted- Others dreamed it after him, and he' was really a true prophet. ' ; T nnre knew a bov who tried to make a bicycle. He did not rail it that: for he had never seen such a thing. But he had the idea. With two large wheels from an old hay rake which had broken down and was thrown aside, this boy made a most wonderful bicycle, a two-wheel machine which he could make (.Lon tinned on page o.i Jugoslavia Queen, Rich, Youngest Ruling Woman At Age of 25. Finds Herself Ruler of 16,000,000 Persons but : Is Separated From Them by Ignorance of .' Their Language i -: " Y BELGRADE. Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia, daughter of Queen Marie Of Roumania and youngest reigning woman sov ereign in the world, is a-timid and melancholy young woman. At the age of 25; she finds herself the ruler of 16,000,000 McPherson Chronology LOS ANGELES, ept. 17. (AP) Chronology of the Aimeeemple McPherson case follows : May 14: Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at Angelus Temple rents cottage at Carmel, Cal., 300 miles north of here. May 18: Aimee Semple McPherson disappears at sea shore, Ocean Park, near here,' her secretary announcing she was last seen in surf at 2 p. m. May 19 : Begoggled woman enters cottage at Carmel rented by Ormiston at 3 :00 a. m. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, evangelist's mother, declares she believes daughter drowned. Has search in surf started, May 20: Culver City police officer and wfe report having seen two women in machine, one resembling Mrs. McPherson, traveling towards Los Angeles two hours after time of dis appearance. May 18. May 22: Ormiston visits Los Angeles but departs before seeing District Attorney Keyes. May 24 : First of two tragic deaths occurs !n hunt for body in surf, Robert Browning, swimmer, seeking body, being drowned. May 30 : Mrs. Kennedy expressed belief that her daughter was in the "arms of Jesus." May 31 : Second death in sea search, Ed Harrison, father of two children and professional diver, dies of pneumonia con tracted while swimming in a search for the body. June 2: Police detectives begin investigation of several reports that the evangelist had been seen alive. June,3: City and county investigators express belief evan gelist is alive. June 23 : Evangelist appears tat Agua Preta, Mexico, across the line from Douglas, Arizona, telling that she had escaped from three kidnapers, walking 20 miles across the desert June 24: Chief of City Detectives Herman Cline and the deputy district attorney departed for Douglas, Arizona, to question the evangelist. June 26: The evangelist tr'umphantly returned to Los An- geles. June 28 : Deputy District Attorney Ryan declares kidnap ing story a myth and opens investigation of reports evange list had been seen at several coast towns with Ormiston. July 1 Emil Balaneseu, Six Years in America, Apparently "Inspired by a High and Holy Zeal to Administer Treat-; ments, Death Follows -' - CLEVELAND, O.-The enthusiasm of a young medical student for the science of medicinal treatments is believed to have brought about the death of the girl he loved. " r Miss Dorothy Kirk was a pretty young Cleveland sten ographer, 21. Emil Balaneseu,; six years in America after his education, medical and otherwise, in Paris, js -still study ing medicine in a Cleveland universitv. His father is em- ine evangelist ana ner motner return to JLrougias, ployed in a local drug store. Arizona, to hunt for shack i11 Mexican desert where she had been held prisoner. Fail to f'nd it. ' J'-- July 8: Investigation taken before county grand jury. July 15: Three witnesses testify before girand jury, they saw evangelist alive and in company with, two or three per sons at the time she asserted she was held prisoner in the Mexican desert. - July 20 : District attorney's investfgaUon develops tip that strange couple occupied Carmel cottage for 1.0 days imme diately after May 18 disappearance of the evangelist; July 25; Ryan and Cline visit Carmel cottage, find Bible and grocery order list which handwriting experts say Is chir- ography of evangelist. July 30 : Affidavit prepared by Ormiston in Chicago states occupant of cottage was not Mrs. McPherson but a "Miss X.M August 5 : Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaf f notifies author ities it was her sister who occupied Carmel cottage with-Or miston. j (Continued on p6 5.) Rufe's Ravings TOMORROW .u MAY BE ONLY MONDAY TO MOST FOLKS BUT, FOR SEVERAL thous- nad Salem school kids it's blue Monday. i ONE OF THE greatest pres- ent day curiosities is the can didate who has actually read his platform. ACCORDING to statistics there are only about a thous and women engaged in the mining industry-in this coun try What about the gold diggers ? Ode to a Landlady Last month's rent.' IN THESE DAYS of short skirts, rolled -hose, etc., it is much more difficult to conceal the family skeleton. . MANY A person who boasts of being open minded is also empty minded. - - A HOUSEWIFE'S cooking ability can generally be judg ed by the number of empty, tin cans in the garbage container. THE TENDENCY of present day voters to vote for the man rather than the party has tak en the "it" out of'vote it straight." THERE'S ONE thing about a radio announcer . . . when he says good night he means it. AND SPEAKIN' of "radios, its tough to be in a crowd of radio fans when you speak only En glish. , . IT SEEMS TO ME that folks lived just as long ln the days when they didn't know or care whether or not four out of five have it. "EUGENE MAN POURS IL LICIT LIQUOR IN SINK," says a headline. Possibly that accounts for this river pollu tion. TO SOME MEN, their wife's name in the society columns is no compensation for a late dinner, j. THERE'S ONE SUBSTI TUTE that has never fooled anyone; and thafs a bald man's w!g. AND bn second thought there is another . . . a dyed mous tache. JF-TOE-patennftediehleTan curealls lived up to their ad vertising - the undertakers would starve to death. 1 rirJAKU A LAUi who re turned her new electric wash-i er to the dealer complaining that when she tried to get in the thing the paddles knocked her off her feet. The boy's zeal as a fledgling practitioner of the medical science and his consideration for the petty physical com plaints of Miss Kirk prompted him it is believed, to prescribe cures which, taken mdiscriminately and in too, great quanti ty, brought about the death of the girl. v-.";-.!::"; This is the only way that Coroner A. P. Hammond, City Chemist Harold J. Knapp and police, from information so far available, can explain the peculiar circumstances of the girl's illness and death. . - City chemists questioned Balaneseu and said they got admissions from him -that Miss Kirk had taken a number of medicines on his advice. ..; - . : y Balaneseu is a puzzle to all the investigators. The young medical student, according to Dr. Knappi apparently was "in spired by a high and holy zeal" to administer medicines. So far the investigators have no evidence that Miss Kirk was given any kind of active poison, f Balaneseu admitted, however, according to police, that he given her a number of medicines that, while not poisonous in themselves,' were active therapeutically and, if taken promiscuously, or in too large quantities would produce illness. 5 u. . The youth declares. he had no intention or idea of making Miss Kirk ill, much less causing her death. ' City chemists are working, to J analyze -and isolate the various medicines, of which traces', were found in tlie girl's stomach. It may be impossible", however, to determine just What medicine or drug, was the cause of death. Dr. Knapp said, and it mav be that death wili be attributed tn tha indis. criminate conglomeration of medicines. . i . Some of the pills Miss Kirk had taken were to allay a: fever,, many were laxatives or -tonies and some were for dys-, pepsia; All the medicines that the-chemists have identified' are known as proprietary medicines and can be purchased in drug stores by .anyone, but generally are purchased only on a physician's advice. - ! ; : Balaneseu s knowledge of -medicine, gamed "iir TOdy In v" Paris before coming to the United States with his family sev- . eral years 'ago, and since then through" study at a medical college and through work in several pharmacies, is believed by police to have heightened his curiosity. Police expect to detain him until naalysis of. the girls vital organs and the thirty or forty different varieties oi medicines found at his home is completed. - There is a growing tendency to believe there was no cnmV inal intent involved in the tragedy. SOME MEN have but one terest in life The kind their money brings them. J 22 Years of Make Believe Awaiting New Dramas A REAL MODEL husband is a working model. The Busy Reader's Newspaper Masks, Furniture, Costumes Stowed Away not to Be Used Again Till Some New Play Requiring Period Properties Is Found i VOLUME I. Published In. the Interest of those eking fall and accurate surrey of the week's local developments NUMBER 32 Monday, September 13 a z rtisvOT. j..u xi 1 1 . " uiuw was ueait. me recent anarrmenr nnnsA nnmmn handed down by Fred A. Williams, citv flttnmw whon Ufavni uuu f w?ojr; v vc iiieenug oi me ciiy pxannmg ana zoning KS' SeP-- them b7 her 7eetia?es iSWttlSS From the time she was 16, her mother trained her in all 7rr " j "If" "f "ie iesai Ve"n: , j i i ..u 4. t. v. 1 - j I. I ui utvcuixjif iu iiiciuueu apanmeni nouses, ana mat iiiuuciu uueeuiy uuuca, uui. biic tuum icatii iicr Uduxntci 1 1 , j - . . .. to overcome the characteristics which now appear to make l lol7ioLvncu ana zomng ss naa no author w ufli iorti,M . : lty to regulate them. With her husband,' King Alexander, son of old King Peter of Serbia, Mane occupies a $3,000,000 palace ra Belgrade. But she has extremely simple and democratic tastes, -and her friends say she would prefer to livein a small cottage in the country, where she could devote all her time to the care and rearing of her 3 year old son. Crown Prince Peter IL Marie finds the business of maintaining a court irksome and tedious, her friends say, and she therefore seldom enter tains or gives receptibnos.;' Her one and only interest in life,1 uoMiGf u uci uauj, Ji piiMowiiw, wynHWf BV.--VWJi mtkman W C TTatW nAAnr.BA o.l " 1 i who has an English nurSe and American picture books and " e" ll i r winrawcr toys. EngUsh is the only language he knows.. . , i-ZtL: ""rTZJLZ."rZ "."i"- The nttpon invHtpH ho, mrrpannnrlpnt tn fpo of the Pa are P: c"cu '""" wuaiucsa, auu mis con- in IWr,a,l ,n,Ho J.'Wm'rfM.nnflff QKiif so anf i i prevail wim au.iuruwr iax reauciions aown to a a 'ZZl y. ' ' tu I pomt where the Jaw of diminishing returns begins to annlv Counting all equipment of colleges, academies, nublic scnoois ana iiDranes, saiem has the best educational nlant in the state. The city is not too large to have anv detrimental influences on the attending school population. The auestion arises, is the city, with an investment of around $3,000,000 in its educational plant, getting the best possible product irom tne present system ana the money expended on training ine younger generation r H - The present question facing the national government is shall we reduce taxes further in 1927, ' according to Con when the correspondent entered was anything but regal.. A dressmaker's papiermache form of a female figure, coveted with a white bodice, appeared in a corner, several trunks re mained opened, and personal clothing hung in disarray about the room. Her Majesty apologized for the appearance of the rfj'lace, saying she and the king had just returned from a long 'Trip into the interior, I v'-: i ' ,T ; ; ': ! r: - , r A colored handkerchief was worn' around -her head to conceal her bobbed hair, which she feels does not quite become a queen. , . ; ''-. ':.' The three year old Crown Prince played with a coal scuttle near the fire, and managed to make, himself look like a chimney sweep. , .4; - --y - "He won't even Jook at his regular toys," said the? queen, "but insists t)n playing with coal, mud;; paint,' and everything else he ought jiot to play with In that respect I suppose he's like any ordinary boy? - - ?r:-. When the correspondent suggested that American readers would like to know from her how it felt tojrbe queen. Her Majesty laughingly said: ; ? '-'. I !rf r ' -r, - "Well, I can tell you there isn't much fdn in it. y lts some times more difficult to be a good mother than a queen. 1 This Tuesday, September 14 The "flax prices to the growers will be the same for the 1927 crop as for this year's crop. The state is now readv to contract with farmers for the 1927 crop. Double the acreage grown this year will be taken on. The above facts were an nounced following a meeting of prominent flax growers-from the Willamette valley, at the state penitent'arv. - , The problem of how to take care of . the 30 or 40 hitrh school students who used the school car on the Oregon Elec- X ! At A it 1 . inc railway tnat was taxen on tne run recently, was referred to George Hug, school superintendent, at the school board meeting, and he was given authority to take the matter, un with the public service commission in an effort to solve it. jviandaraas proceedings .were filed in the state sunreme court here by, Robert N. Stanfield, independent candidate for United States; senator, to compel Sara A. Kozersecretary of state, to place after his name on the ballot the words "Freed om FromtDictatorshipv The 'writ was made returnable by the court on September 20.. , - a-1 ' .V-,...-", . . . .Wednesday, September 15 The tatg: highway. cgrnnussion refuse tq ; approve - the boundaries of the proposed Falls City-Siletz-Newport road improvement district. The purpose of the district was to construct a highway from Falls City -to Newport via Siletz ana vaisetz. ihe proposed road would shorten materially the distance between Northern Willamette valley points and the coast." I. L. Patterson has made public an open letter to Governor waiter m. .fierce, replying to a recent invitation that he enter a public discussion of election issues. The letter calls par ticular attention to Patterson's platform, and intimates that governor Jrierce had not read it. Thursday, September 16 With an expected registration of between 500 and 600 in the college of liberal arts, Willamette university will open for the tail season Monday morning. Registration will last three days Monday, Tuesday, and , Wednesday and classes will j begin Thursday. Court street between High and Commercial will be ilium-? mated for annual fall window display week until it looks like Broadway in NewTork, it was announced following a meeting of the Salem Ad club in the Hotel Marion. The PEP com pany is cooperating with lhe club m installing 16,600-watt lights along the two blocks. ' ; Lightning instantly killed Edith Pokorney, 15, and her aunt, steiia .FoKorney, as, of vvoodburn, at 2 :30 o clock in the NEW YORK. Aug. 28. The relics of 22f vears of maTce. believe lie in a large building in West Thirty-ninth street, awaiting the plays which will call them forth again as staire properties. The building, the largest of its kind, contains the nroner- ties from Shubert shows estimated to total between 600 and 800. There are rusted oinards and masks, dusty furniture and countless odd pieces mingled in orderly confusion. The furniture is unusually complete, comprising beds of all ; kinds and periods, antique and modern chairs and tables and " even half a do2en bath-tubs. The last named, however.-ran provide only an effect and not a bath, as they are made of ; wood. 1 The recent series of costume pieces and period plays also is evidenced by an abundance of gilded Louis XV chairs and consoles. Antedating these are much carved samples of the Renaisance period. - ' . ' ; . . . s .. No pretensions as to their genuineness is made. but the correctness is impeccable, most of the pieces having been made in the company's shops after originals; The top; floor contains innumerable odds and ends, from " dishes to spears and swords, and from flowered watering Dots to busts of famous persons, Hanging from the ceiling is a mouse's head large enough to fit a man's, which 18 years ago topped the make-up of De Wolf Hopper in "Mr. Pickwick." Many famous shows of by-gone days, together with soma " stars, are recalled in this assemblage. .;. , "La Belle Paree," which opened the Winter Garden a trifle over 15 years ago is there, as is "The Revue of Revues" which followed it. The objects of art which John Emerson, as auc afternoon aa ihev stonH hndpr n?frA in nn attpmnt tr trin shelter from a storm that suddenly swept' through the valley, tioneer, sold in 1 'The 'Blue Mouse," are- mingled with the Vt A .-Am Mm- m . mv 'I " v - . - " i " - " . - - lsie KnKornpv. I4wa.4 tflk-pn tn a lnral hnsnifai fliiffprintr i tutiua. from burns on both legs and from shock: i Antoinette Pokor- ney, 11, knocked unconscious, was burned on one leg. A dog; with the party was instantly killed; : Friday, September 17?, s Names of 31 veniremen for the October term, of Marion county circuit court were publicly drawn from the jury panel by u. U. Boyer, county clerk, and wereannounced by; O. U. Bower, sheriff, at the court house. . r i " . : t . Marshall Peters, 9, son of Mr. and MrsJ R.F. Peters, 1191 North! Capitalstreeti suffered a fractured skull and minor bruises when struck by. a car driven by C." A. Sharp of Port land. He was picked up by Sharp and rushed 1 to a local hos- lilanon county, will receive approximately ?I19,0Q0 under A" portion of , a locomotive and at least three yachts, more or less complete, also are thereV The locomotive was used in "The Honeymoon Express," in which Gabys Delys starred, in a scene where an automobile raced a train. This setting still r remains a sone of the outstanding achievements of stagecraft. . The vessels date from "The Merry Whirl, in the Winters Garden in 1914, from "Billy," and the "Iron Master," in which' Laurette Taylor made her New York debut. ' v --r. A large collection of German guns also Is kept intact, since . they were used in Taps,' a play translated from the German. v - "Old Heidelberg, on which "The Student Prince".musiMl show was based, is also recalled by the settings among which Mansfield walked when he played in the first production of - the pie&;-':'iity "-X-, v ) Sentiment plays a part m the preservation of memenfocs the terms of the Hayley-Sinnott bill whfch provides I for'the nW for The Relle f New YnrV" rptips, rn wt,,. return to 18 Oregon counties of federal funds cequal to the Ipiece, are kept especially aside. ; M ; ? - amount-tnaiL.wouia 4iave oeen xeauzea.ny.tneconuiies irop - The Winter Garden floor also contains several Rom taxes had not the Oregon and Calif orma Railroad land grants 1 chariots and nearby them is one of the few genuine pieces" reverted tQ the government,- ;. -. L I . ' . icwuwu u 4