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umu '-i4ppnucr tu7riuuiiiiiroiiuri7Ti uuiuuuiuurfu i5i2u andXGpy Much Improves the Quality of the Fruit 21 fTJax Pulling nJnchinGs Aro4X!ow APJorlrfnaHh-tlie of the Sate ...... i i , .- . - r.,4- ' K7.. ..'.,. -. ... f... , . . fTT-i i ; I'A'iH mV.; WEATHER FORECAST: Fi1r but fogi Accord Ins: to tfid TTBW-Tore Times ium xner began this year on June- 22. one day late., Bnt a : lot of middle-western corn growers are convinced, that it was several days late. near the coast; normal temperature .and humidity. Maximum temperature yester day, r7;. minimum.; 49; river,, minus .4; atmosphere, clear; wind, west. , ffi: SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1927 PRICE FIVFJ CENTS i . . KEVIN O'HIGGINS SLAYER SOUGHT ?1T1GIS THREE MEN DIE FLAX MACHINES ALL BUSY NOW DESCHUTES 12TH AND STATE DANGER CORNER WOKS THIGH u; IN PLANE OlASH SlLLEff.CpP OF ALLFflUITS n - -. m PHOTOGRAPHERS IRISH FRKK STATE MOURNS DEATH OF MINISTER. MANITOBA 21 MECHANICAL HARVESTERS NOW IN FIELD THREE ACCIDENTS THERE ON MONDAY; ONE SUNDAY. FALL AT WINNIPEG. Grand Jury Returns Condemna tion of Art in Addition to Verdict. Watchers Startled to See 3 Men Hurtle Through Air; Plane . Follows. State Apparatus All Drawn Tractors; Will Pull Over 2000 Acres by One Auto Stalls, Hit by Train Bicyclist Struck, Will Not v Give 'Name. " IIMEGH1ES LIE DOUBLES SIZE! FRUIT Ml SUCCEEDS DUB Y ONCOMBiDN 3 ft HELD HEAVIER Royal Anns Reach Propor 4 tions of Bings and Lam berts. Discovered IMPORTANT TO REGION father Growers Planning; to Use Xlm;! Applicatioato Prune jilso to Be Tested; All Crops Beneirited. . $'U. V. llackett has a Royal Ann . . - i cnerry iree in ma iruui jru, v his farm !n the Waldo hills. In the Madeay .district. The tree has : been ' bearing for several years, producing a cherry of about the average size for that .type or va- rietyl The land around the tree haa'never had any cultivation. It Is growing in the grass In the i lawn. Four years ago, Mr. Hack ett put i some straw around the tree, mixed with 200 pounds of lime. Every, year since that time the cherries from that tree have . ,; been growing larger. Forty to Pound. This year the Royal Anns from that tree have been especially large and fine. Prof. W. I. Staley &Wed at The Statesman office yesterday 40 of these cherries, taken from a regular orchard run box, that weighed a pound. They will run about twice the average iLte of Royal Ann (Na poleon) type cherries grown in this section. They are about twice the size of the cherries grown on this tree before the lime was ap plied. This is certainly a fine illus tration of the benefits of the use . . . : n ,01 lime in tne growing 01 !and large sized cherries in this section. It has made the Royal (Una in Mr, Hackett's yard about the size-of BIhg and Lambert cherries grown here. Lime will no doubt do, the same thing, especially on worn out soil, for? our black variety of cherries. Will Lime All Cherries. Prof. Staley and Frank Mere dith have three acres or Royal Ann cherries on their farm next (Continued on pa 8.) RELIGION VALUE TOLD BY DONEY win mown ATTENDS FIRST OPEX AIR SERVICE. Intellectual Satisfaction Obtained Only Through Beliefs, Declared. 1 Stating that he bad recently re ceived ah invitation to beeome a member of the Society .for tlwH Promotion of Atheism. Dr. Carl G. Doney. speaker at the first of the series of Sunday afternoon park meetings, declared that peo ple today ought seriously to face the question or tne vaiue oi reus ton ia their personal Jes and in the communities in which they live. Over '5 00 people were present in Willsdn park, where the meeting was held.j A short sohg service opened the services, which were presided over by Paul B. Wallace. The fact that religion existed tnct the berlnnina of time in some torm or other.' Dr.- Doney said, speaks well for it, but if it is to continue to hold its place, it must hT0 some present value V As a personal necessity, relig ion satisfies man intelligently and morally. It gives a more satisfac tory answer to the questions of the mind than is possible through any other medium, aad it points out a way t living which leads to to Ufa of duty and responsibility. Satisfaction comes through obedi ence to tbs injunction enforced with Thus saith the Lord. Farther, he said, religion is a social necessity. Living in com xnunitlea as wa do, onr standards must fit that situation. The teach ings of brotherhood which relig ion brings to us is the only method by which men can live in peace with others. Humanitarian ism, the conservation of mankind, has : only developed with religion as lived and taught uy; Jesus Christ. ';: Because ' he' have the hope of eternity, which comes with relig ion, we shape cur lives along higher . levels, he . d eclared. In various times, ' and - places. men have bade farewell to relig (Contui4 u pf t S) DUBLIN Ireland, July 11. (AP). While the Irish Free State mourns the death of Kevin O'Higglns, the government is mak ing every effort to find and pun ish his assassins. Civic guards made nine arrests in Dublin today of men suspected of complicity or in the actual murder. They will be arraigned in the police court tomorrow. No new light, however, has been thrown on the motive for the crime. The republican leaders have publicly repudiated respon sibility for it. - On the other hand. fears that the assassination of the vice president of the council might have a serious aftermath in the way of disturbances have happily not been fulfilled in Dublin, and Ireland generally remains calm. On all sides expressions of hor ror at the crime and sorrow over the loss of a great statesman and lover of his country are heard. The jury investigating the case returned a verdict of wilful mur der and added a rider, condemn ing in the strongest term the cruel crime and trusting that the mur derers would be brought to jus tice. Before the body of the minister. clothed in the habit of Our Lady of Carmel, was removed from the home at Black Rock to the man sion house for the lying in state, there was a poignant scene. Tim othy Healy, governor general, came to pay his last respects. Bowing his head over the bier, the governor was met by the trem bling and weeping widow, whom be embraced and sought to con sole in her distress. Huge reverent crowds watched the transfer of the body to the mansion house, most of the wom en dressed in black and many weeping. All heads were bared as the cortege passed into the temporary death chamber. A civic guard of 100 men was stationed outside the building. WOMAN PARTY ARRIVES Equal Rights Rill to Re Discussed With President Coolidge CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 11. (AP) With their colors and "equal rights" banners flying, the caravan of the National Woman's party representatives enroute to confer with President Coolidge, arrived here today. They discussed their equal rights bill with Governor Frank C. Emerson, Miss Gail Laughlin, first vice chairman of the party, telling him that they were seeing him be cause Wyoming was first to give sufferage to women. CASUALTY LIST HEAVY Dead In Sasony Storm Number 'MO; Damage 70,400,000 Marks DRESDEN, Saxony, July 11. (AP) With a casualty list of dead numbering 200, every effort was being extended to alleviate the suffering &nd repair in some measure the vast damage wrought by the terrible storm of Saturday and the accompanying floods. The German minister of finance has placed 2,000,000 marks at the disposal of the minister of the in terior for temporary relief in the flooded area. The damage Is roughly estimated at more than TOrOOO.eOO marks. KILLED -BY LIGHTNING Saskatoon Man Loses Lire u mi Team of Horses in Storm SASKATOON, Sask., July 11. (AP) William Raitse, 31, of Es tevan. Sask., was killed by light ning with the team of i horses he was driving pear Watrous, Sask., Saturday night during the terrific storm which caused a hail loss es timated at 12,000,000 in Saskat chewan reports received here to day said. ' " CAR PLUNGES OVER BANK Pendletov Couple Killed on Ellens- bars Canyon Road. . YAKIMA. Wash.. July 11. (AP). Mr. and Mrs. George Fee bler of Pendleton, Ore., were killed late today when their auto mobile left the EHensburg can yon road tend plunged 100 feet down an - embankment into the Yakima river. Mrs. Peebler was killed instantly while1 her husband died fa the hospital here tonight. a Apple Production Appears to Be at Lowest Point in Twenty Years CROP OUTLOOK GLOOMY Conditions in West Superior to East; Volume Planted -Shows Reduction of Nearly 7,000,000 Acres WASHINGTON, D. C, July 11. (AP) Very short crops of most fruits were indicated by the department of agriculture in its July crop report given out today. Apples appear likely to be the smallest crop in 20 years, with the exception of 1921, and peaches at about two-thirds of last year's production. Short Corn Crop The shortest corn crop in 26 years was indicated in the report which forecast a production of 2,274,424.000 bushels. The figure is almost half a billion bushels be low the average production of the last five years. "Crop prospects as a whole are far from promising," was he com ment of the crop reporting board in its review of conditions, "while it is still too early to forecast ac curately the production of late sown crops, the present outlook is for a very short crop of fruits; for a material reduction in the production of tobacco; for about an average production of potatoes, wheat, sugar beets, flax seed, and (Continued on page 6) CENTER TO BE 'THROUGH' Zoning Commission Recommends Designation From Capitol Center street will be made a through street from Capitol east to the city limits, if a recommen dation made by the city zoning commission to the city council last night is accepted by that body. The frequent use of the street by ambulances makes that action desirable, members of the commission said last night. Due to the absence of most of the members of the commission, little business was conducted at the meeting. Those present dis cussed the advisability of extend ing the down town business zone farther north and east, but no ac tion was taken at the meeting. , "Si TO LIMIT 1i"T zgWAVAU ARM S 1 l -... r"- f - ' ' ' ; ' ... , . , - .r, WINNIPEG. Man.. July 11 (AP). Three Manitoba aerial photographers were killed near Fairford. Man., late today when they fell from their airplane from an . elevation of 1000 feet. Wit nesses were unable to explain the accident. Witnesses said the plane was lost to view for several minutes in a cloud bank and when it emerged followed an erratic course through fleeting mist. The watchers were startled to see three men come hurtling through the air and the machine followed In a nose dive to earth. ' The dead: Flight Officer W. C. Weaver Of Melfort, Sask., pilot in charge. A. T. ' Herdley, photographic mechanic of Loore, Man. ,: F. H. Wrong, surveyor of the topographical branch, Ottawa, Weaver's body was recovered in a mangled condition near the shores of lake Manitoba at Mill bro An unidentified body of one of the other occupants of the plane also was found. AIR PASSENGERS DRUNK Intoxication Caused Crash Over Lake, Coroner's Jury Holds SEATTLE. July 11. (AP). A coroner's jury today Tound that O. H. Johnson, pilot of the air plane which crashed in lake Wash ington July 5, and his three pas sengers, came to their death be cause of the drunken condition of the passengers. The verdict declared the evi dence showed the passengers were intoxicated and condemned the practice of allowing ascent of planes with passengers under the Influence of liquor. The jury found the pilot "sober and com petent," and recommended tBaT the state of Washington pass laws governing aeronautic navigation. WORKER'S NECK BROKEN Electric Lumber Truck Backs Man Off Dock to Death PORTLAND, July 11. (AP) Norman Johnson, 20, was killed today at the Multnomah Lumber & Box company plant when an electric lumber truck he was oper ating backed off the dock and pin ned him to the ground eight feet below. No one witnessed the ac cident. Johnson's skull was frac tured and his neck broken. His widow survives him. UNCLE SAM-SON All the flax pulling machines In Oregon, all of them being in the Salem district, are now busy in the fields. The 'last of the state machines go out today. There are 21 flax pulling ma chines in all. It is quite a task to get them in the right places at the right times, as the crop ripens; some of the flax being early sown and, some planted later, therefor being ready to pull at different dates. The owners of the flax fields pull swaths seven feet wide around each tract of flax; pull the swath by hand. This gives room for the machines to get to work without wasting the seven foot swath. All the state machines are be ing drawn by tractors. The state furnishes the man to go with the machine in each case. Some small fields will be pulled by hand. The bulk of the acre age, over 2000 acres, will be pulled by the machines. PLEDGE TO PALESTINE Move to Purchase Acreage in Holy Land Gains f 300,000. WINNIPEG, Man., July 11. (AP) The twenty-first conven tion of the Zionist in session here today pledged $300,000 toward a fund of 31,000,000 to purchase 11.000 acres of land in Palestine. The plan was told to the delegates by" Menahem Usslshkin, veteran Zionist leader, who declared it was necessary that Jewish people acquire land in Palestine. WILL FLY TO PARIS Colonel Rence, World War Ace, Plans Round Trip Flight NEW YORK, July 11. (AP) The Herald Tribune says that Col onel Rex Renee, former officer of the Lafayette Escadrille and World war ace, announced tonight that he would attempt a flight to Paris and return in twenty-four hours. The hop will be made in September, he said. GUNBOAT RECAPTURED (-Chinese Pirate Vessel Taken; Mu tineers to Be Executed CANTON. China, July 11. (AP) The Chinese gunboat Kongoo, which turned pirate and victimized several vessels, has been recaptured, . the mutineers have been sentenced to be executed. Robert W. Sawyer of Bend Appointed by Governor on Highway Board ACTIVE IN ROAD WORK Announcement Comes on Eve of Celebration of Completing Highway in Which He v Was Prime Mover. Appointment of Robert W. Sawyer of Bend, county judge of Deschutes county, as a member of the Oregon state highway com mission to succeed William F. Duby of Baker, was announced Monday afternoon by Governor I. L. Patterson. Mr. Duby's resignation was re ceived at the executive department Monday, and was to become ef fective automatically with the an nouncement of his successor. The resignation had not been request ed, it was mentioned in Mr. Duby's letter to the governor, the com missioner thanking the state ex ecutive for this consideration. Mr. Duby was a democrat and an ap pointee of Governor Walter Pierce. Knows Highway Work. Mr. Sawyer, who for the pant nine years has been judge of De s chutes county, has been actively in touch with the highway pro gram oi the state in his official capacity, and one of the leaders in promoting the completion of The Dalles-California highway, which has been consummated this spring. Appointment of Mr. Sawyer comes appropriately on the eve of a celebration of the completion of (Continued on pass 2.) D'AUTREMONTS PLEDGED Join Salvation Army's League for Prisoners at Service. Among a number of state pen itentiary inmates who became members of the Salvation Army's Brighter Day League for prison ers, at the Army's regular service, held at the Institution Sunday, were the three D'Autremont boys, each one having signed the league pledge card application . before hand. The three brothers stood up with the rest of the applicants in a crowd estimated at 300, while Ensign Pitt received the new mem bers with the usual word of coun sel and advice. The special feature of Sunday's service were the musical Benners, Including Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Benner and their two daughters, and the following who accompa nied the Benners and assisted with vocal selections: Miss Effie Arehart, Miss Elaine Steingybbe and Miss Luella Dumler. Warden James Lewis, Mrs. Gene Halley, prison matron, and several guards beard the program, which was greatly enjoyed. IMPORTED UQUOR LOW Less Than One Per Cent Declared Brought in From Abroad WASHINGTON, July 11 (AP) -Less than one per cent of the liquor consumed in the United States is brought into this coun try from abroad, treasury offi cials estimated today at a confer ence of prohibition administrators. The following angle of prohibi tion enforcement will be taken up tomorrow at the second session of a four . day meeting. N. Ansling er, chief of foreign control; Com mander " Charles j S. Root of; the coast guard, and E. J. Lewis, of the customs service, will lead the discussion. .'. t r BERLIN WAR ACE TO FLY -,(;: - . Trip to San Francisco Is Plaa of 7 German Otto Koennecke I f - BERLIN. July 1 1. (AP) Otto Koennecke, the- 3 5 year old war ace, who bagged 46 enemy planes, .caused a sensation today when he announced that he would he ready to take-off from Tempel hof airdrome on September 1- for San Francisco In a one motor bt plane Constructed at the Caspar airplane Vofka at Traremuade. He gave the public a further surprise when he stated that he would be accompanied- by- Count 43eorge Frederick : Solms-Laubaeh. the-1 8 year . old German sportsman who is Keenuecke'a financial hacker, v With a record of three accidents yesterday.' and another Sunday. ft he intersection at State and 12th streets ia fast gaining the reputa tion of being the most dangerous spot in the city. Sunday afternoon Beulah M. Mil ler. Rt. 1, Box 103. stalled her car in the Southern Pacifte tracks there, and was unable to get it started in time to prevent it from being struck by a train. She had gotten out, of the car to crank it, and abandoned it when she saw that she could not get it started in time. Two accidents within 10 mn utes of each other occurred at the same Intersection Monday after noon. The first was caused when H. M. Perry, Salem, gave a signal too late on taking a turn at the in tersection and was struck by a car driven by Gladys H. Zell, 1395 N. 14th street. The second occurred when a car owned by the Cobbs Mitchell Lum ber company collided with one driven by a woman driver who did not give her name. Neither ( Continued on psf S.) S. P. PROPOSAL FOUGHT Abandonment of Airlie Branch Opposed by Commission The Oregon public service, com mission will file a protest with the interstate commerce commis sion against the proposal of the Southern Pacific company to aban don its Airlie branch of approxi mately 28 miles in Polk county. This action was decided on to day following a visit to the com mission by a delegation of Mon mouth citizens who called atten tion to the fact that the proposed abandonment of the .Airlie line would leave that city entirely without train service of any kind. While a map filed with the Ore gon commission by the Southern Pacific together with its petition for abandonment shows Mon mouth to be on another branch than that proposed to abandon, this was found to be an error. HORSE ALMOST EXTINCT That Is, On Highways; Less Than One Per Cent of Travel Only 0.46 per cent of all traffic over the highways of Oregon is horsedrawn. according to a survey conducted by the state highway department.' Statistics compiled by Roy A. Klein, state highway engineer and based upon a survey conducted on June 15, show that of the traffic passing over highways In this state 66.61 were passenger cars bearing Oregon license plates; 21.45 per cent were passenger cars from other states; 1.34 (per cent were stages and busses; 9.75 per cent were trucks and 0.49 per cent were motorcycles. The heaviest traffic was re corded at Parkplace bridge -north of Oregon City, where 4.685 ve hicles of every description passed in the 16-hour period covered by the survey. STORM STRIKES EUROPE London and Paris Report Violent Lightning and Thunder . LONDON, July 11. (AP) Eclipse-like darkness descended on London, this afternoon when two .converging thunderstorms, one the southeast and the other from the southwest. Jointly burst over - the -city, accompanied by a terrific downpour like a cloud burst. Low lying parts of , the tHy were flooded. y, PARIS, July 11 CAP) Paris and its suburbs again' were visited tonight by a strom of terrific v3 lenee. Lightning' struck ? many places, doing considerable mater, lal damage, but no loss of life Is reported. t-h-:'; !: : v:,v: 011 COMPANYTO BUILD Rlcbileld Corporation 7 Rumored Win Enter Salem F$eld " ;..- The Richfield pit corporation plans to erect A modern, plant op posite the Valley Packing company on the Pacific highway outside the city UmltS; accot-ding to a, well es tablished rumor. - ; "The Ttlrnff aM mrnanttfln la nfm of the largest oil companies ffcfj uaiiiornja. no represent at irfes ox the firm In Salem could bo gotten In touch with last night,- Sewer Hunt Discloses Leg Segment Identified as Miss Brownell's SUSPECTED MAN HELD 1 . - Former Suitor of Slain Woman , Denies Complicity in Crime Despite Blood Stained . , J Axe Found in Cellar 3 i 7rV NEW YORK. July 11 (AP) A woman's thigh, believed .to be that of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Brownell, one of the victims of Brooklyn's axe murder, was found today in Grand Army Plaza, a few blocks from the house 'Where other parts of her body and that of Mrs. Selma ! Bennett's were found yesterday. Found in Sewer , The package containing the thigh was found while workmen directed by detectives were tear ing up the sewer - underv the Brownell house in search of miss ing portions of the bodies of the women. The report of Mrs. Mary De Martino that her daughter Evelyn had been missing since 'June 30 had last been seen going into Miss Brownell's house at 28 Prospect n ace, started aetecuvea to work on the theory that a third woman might have fallen victim to the Brooklyn slayer, t Has Own Identity ' The latest find in connection with the slaying in which portions of the victims bodies had been found at Battery Park and various points in Brooklyn, contained its own identification. . . , ..Tne Pa.cka?e with an outer wrapping of brown paper, con tained a woman's ! 'undergarment to which was attached a deoart- ment store sales slip made out to S. E. Brownell. Police Bald the initials stood for "Sarah Eliza beth," Miss Brownell's name. While workmen, under police direction searched the dark cellar of the Prospect - Place house, bringing to light now and then a fragment of the bodies of Miss Brownell and Mrs. Bennett, an employe of the Brooklyn-Manhat- ( Continued on page 2.) HOLY CITY FEELS EARTH TREMOR CASUALTY LIST PLACED AT 26 DEAD. 30 INJURED Falling JJonses Kill 5 Women at Birth Place of John ; the Baptist - - 1 - ' JERUSALEM, Palestine, July 11. (AP) An , earthauake ; of Widespread and' severe character has occurred In Palestine and Transjordania; official reports in dicate. . ., , ' : The unsubstantial character of the native buildings caused casual ties disproportionate to the ma terial 'damage, which was mostly slight. - .' . ; .- The casualty list, which is In complete, places the number of dead at 26 and the Injured 30, In the Jerusalem district, but In the city Itself only one person thus far has been reported killed and, 12 Injured. - Many houses in the city were damaged, including the postofflce. the Zionist executive building and the church missionary society's school. ; i The Interior of government house, the -official residence of the, .hlffh commissioner, - Lord Plumer, was seriously v damaged, and Russian servant employed by the commissioner was killed. The building is declared now to be unsafe. K -' : , --I-'The Hebrew university was con siderably damaged, the walls be- "Mr. Pirn" Comes Tonight . To Elsinore ?f. The Moroni Olson players, a already well known here, re ' turn tonight to the Elsinore .wjth their third and from an accounts their best produc tion ot the season, "Mr. Pirn Passes By..' - ' . j ,