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Picking Beg Today ins loaau at the Lwesleu Lake tsroolt tianciu the Heat KauwDea mod lara in All the wiae world aw Would Help Solve the Pressing Problem of s Weather Forecasts Fair, somewhat cooler in the west portion; rising humidity; maxi- mam temperatirre yesterday 80; minimum 49; rirer minus 2; atmosphere clear; wind west. ' mmmm Drivers of the new" presidential boom should remember not to try any speeding un til -they are thoroughly loosened np. In dianapolis Star. . , ' SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS Iflj) K Ax n 5 6 SOD PRESENT PUG FIELD f ' i Air Circus Provides Thrills for Vast Crowd at Le gion, Post Event TEX RANKIN WINS RACE Taken 40 Mile Event and "Dead Stick" Landing: 'Daredevil" Groves Performs Stunts on ' Wing 10OO Feet in Air Fully .6500 persons visited Sil verton's new field and attended the air cirucs, Sunday, when the field was officially opened by the Silverton American Legion post, it was estimated from the 5,000 paid admissons. Hundreds of children who accompanied their parents were not frfcluded in this count, nor were the "hundreds who lined the highway in the vicinity of the field. Nose dives, Immelman turns, tail spins, side slips, falling leaf, wing walking, parachute jumping, formation flying and airplane rac es engaged in by the lllairplanes on the field provided the crowds with thrills, and several persons were given free rides fnto the air. The fortunate few were those who won In the drawings from 'the stubs of the numbered admission checks. t 40 Mile Race Held Not the least thrilling was the 40 mile race between Tex Ran kin of Portland, his brother, Dick Rankin of Salem, and Harry Graui both of the Rankin-Graul flying school here, 'all 'of whom flew Waco planes: As the planes swooped low over the crowd in coming out , of the turn at the judges stand; babies cried,' and even the grown-ups watched with bated breath, least the flyers fail to clear the hundreds of parked automobiles about the field. Tex Rankin placed first in the 40 mile event, and in the "dead stick" landing, coming within six paces of the mark set in the latter event. Dick Rankin placed first In the 10 mile race. . "Dare Devil Groves," of Port land provided thrills when he walked about the wings of a plane a thousand feet in the air. One Slight Injury , Dick Rankin, who dropped 3000 feet with a parachute, was found to have strained an arm as he made his way around the lower wing of the plane before he drop- ( Continued on pafa 8.) COOLIDGE VIEWS PARK GRANDEURS PROGRAH "PRETTY MUCH ON THE HOOF" ARRANGED AH Important Places of Interest In Yellowstone on President's List YELLOWSTONE NATIO N A L PARK, Wyo., Aug. 22. (AP) With a week of sight-seeing and rest before them President and Mrs. Coolidge came-Into Yellow atone national park today to view its grandeurs on a program which might have been arranged for any less distinguished but ambitious tourists. It called for a steady gait through the cloud hooded moun tains and through valleys bub bling with geysers and hot,springs from now until Saturday a pro gram of "pretty much on the hoof" as the president himself views it. They had scarcely settled them selves for the first night's stop in the. spacious mountain residence of H W. Child, nresident of the Yel lowstone hotels corporation, when they sliODed on heavy overcoats for an automobile drive to camp Roosevelt to -visit the lower falls rerlon. . ' - Retnrnine ? this - evening, they rested in the Child home across from Mammoth hotel for the crowded week's itinerary before them. No one knows definitely Just where the president and Mrs. Coo lidge will go in the park or how innr thPT -will star in one place The formal itinerary I carefully framed to include most Of the im portant sights of interest hut it has hMin announced that the trip ta designed mo fcaages may - made to suit the president' cy, U. S. FAR BEHIND IN CARE OF AGED ABRAHAM EPSTEIN CALLS AT TENTION TO LACK National Secretary of Security As social ion Heard by Large Crowd Only China, India and the Unit ed States are at all without con structive provision for the worn out aged, but while in the former countries the aged are at least reverted and respected, we in this country lose our regard for the eld as soon as their income stops. These were some of the remarks made by Abraham Epstein, na tional secretary of the American Association for Old Age Security while speaking before an audience representative of a number of fraternal and labor organizations and churches of the city, number ing over a hundred persons, who met in the ball of representatives at the state capitol building last night. The meeting was presided over by Captain Allen Pitt, of the Sal vation Army, who is vice president of the Oregon Old Age Pension League. Frank E. Davis, of Port land, president of the league wa.3 introduced, and spoke for a few minutes. Mr. Epstein was introduced by Seymour Jones, state marketing agent, who acted as the repre sentative of Governor Patterson, who was unable to be in the city yesterday. Mr. Epstein is now on a tour of the United States in order to arouse the nation to its utter reglect of the dependent aged and to the needs of some security in old age. The speaker pointed out that the problems facing the aged to day are entirely different from what they were a generation ago. The country is no longer predomi nantly agricultural with wide spaces of free and fertile land. People no longer work for themselves as they used to do but are paid employes of corpor ations. Even the corner grocer and cobbler are losing the owner ship of their stores and are now operating them for some chain company. Because of the Improved ex pectancy of life the number of aged are constantly increasing, there being now over 5,000,000 persons 65 years of age and over. At the same time the chances for employment in old age are con stantly diminishing in modern in dustry. Most corporations will not em ploy persons over 45 years of age (Continued on "page S) KEENE BUYS BUILDING Investment in Liberty Street Property Announced Announcement was made yes terday of the sale of the building occupied by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, on Liber ty street between State and Court, to A. A. Keene, of Pomeroy ana Keene, for a consideration oi about $40,000. o change in the occupants of the building is indicated by the saleMr. Keene said yesterday, the purchase having been made as an investment indicative or Mr. Keene's confidence in the future of business as in Salem. The tele phone company holds ten year tease on the building at present, with atjput eight years to run. The buildine which Mr. Keene purchased, was built by E. M. La- Fore in 1905, for the telephone company, which has occupied it ever since. The purchase was made from Mrs. E. M. LaFore, wife of the builder. Mr. Keene declared yesterday that he believed that Salem's busi ness district would in the near fu ture expand rapidly northward along Liberty and High streets. CYCLE RIDER INJURED Witnesses Think He's Dead, but Goes Home from nospiuu Witnesses of the accident in i,ik coward TTurst. motorcycle rider, was thrown through the air and landed IMad iirsi on me pr ment after striking an automobile driven by Jay Morris on South Commercial street Sunday, were certain that Hurst was killed in stantly, they ; related afterward. tint Tinrt 'after regaining con sciousness at the hospital went and -was annarently little the worse for. the accident; His mo torcycle i skidded into Morris machine, when he applied the brakes to avoid hitting another car, E TO PLEAD HABEAS GO GONE BY, Constitution Should Have Been Invoked at Time of Trjal, Stated FINISH ARGUMENT TODAY If Commitment Faulty, Defendant Within Rights in Attempting to Escape Attorney le clares in Court The time for attempting to free Ellsworth Kelley on the claim that he was committed to the state p e n i t e ntiary unconstitutionally from Josephine county, has gone by, District Attorney John 11. Carson declared in his argument of the habeas corpus proceeding in Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan's court Monday. The district attorney argued thnt inre the Afarinn eoiintv cir cuit court had complete jurisdic-i tion in the case, the application for a writ that would free Kelley from the penitentiary as far as his conviction and death sentence for first degree murder were concern ed, should be dismissed. Claims Law Valid Legal authorities were submit ted by the district attorney to show that the statute under which Kelley originally was sent to the penitentiary was constitutional. The state will conclude its ar gument this morning. "There is nothing in the rec ord," said District Attorney Car son, "to show that Kelley's coun sel made any claim at the trial that the statute under which he was sent to the state penitentiary from Josephine county was un constitutional. The attorney's now come into court and allege that Kelley was not a convict at the time of his conviction for first- de gree murder." Attacks Proposed Writ Allan Carson, deputy district attorney, contended that even though the statute under which Kelley was sentenced to the peni tentiary in Josephine county was (Continued on page 4) RPUS 1 LAST VIEW OF THE MISS DORAN AS ggocaftC U .i7ftVJIJn ,-.iVA w.. P -iftfyirfnnaTfr"- ' .. .... W(MrtAU.VW..'iV.. .... ... ' . ?M--7 - A ..M, . - JL IA if This remarkable and exclusive Central Press aarlal phbto'shows'the. last riew of: the Miss Dorali as she gained altitude after her second takeoff from the Oakland, Cal. municipal airport, j bound f0 Ha waii In aa endeavor fo Vin the Dole prize. .Following this takeoff, all trace was lost of the piano and its three occu nan ts Miss Mildred Doran. Michigan school teacher; ; JoJm Auggr Pedlar, pilot. and J Lieut., Vilas R. Knope. navigator, jor;a temporory ixau alter tae HOLDUP STAGED NORTH OF CITY KLETZIXG SURRENDERS SMALL AMOUNT; PISTOL USED Burglars Surprised When Service Station Proprietor Enters Building Service station burglars , last night held np and robbed Ralph H. Keltzinc. owner of the Gassup Service station at the crossroads of the Pacific and Silverton Cuemawa highways, when he en terod the station to check the books for the night, about 10:30 o'clock. The robbers secured only a small amount of change from Mr. Keltzing, who had previously re moved the receipts of the day to his home nearby. After forc ing him to walk down the road for a short distance, the two roughly dressed men jumped into a car and headed toward Salem. Kletzing, who is advertising manager for The Oregon States man. had returned from town some time after the service sta tion had closed, he said, last night, and went to the place Jo check over the business of the day, on the books. Unlocking the door and switch ing on the lights, he found him- se,f confronted with a revolver ! 'n the hands of a roughly dres sed individual, wnom ne des cribes as rather slight, with sandy ! hair and unshaven face, and was commanded to put up his hands. The bandit explained nervous ly that he had not expected, any one to enter. Kletzing gave j what change he had in his pockelj, but did not surrender a bill fold with some currency in it, which the (Continued on page 4) NOT TO AUGMENT REPORT s. P. Head Declines Tell Activi ties in Klamath District PORTLAND. AUG. 22. (AP) William Sprouie, president pi the Southern Pacific company, on a daylight inspection trip .which brought him to Portland today, declined to make any promises, or to offer any prophecies as to fur ther activities of his company in the Klamath Falls district, saying that he is satisfied to allow pres ent construction work and "offic ial record" of projected activities in south central Oregon and nor thern California "speak for them selves." east I km ! V ..MUjmv w -: " . . v"- vT"l . . a :-- Premataro firing of spark plugs iwiiaxj, v v . ; jA-:-'-.-.-. --A-'viC'' SAYS PRUNE MEN NEEDING RELIEF POOIS TO OBTAIN BEST PRIC ES DECLARED HELPFUL Ball ton Woman Makes Plea Cit ing Example of Douglas County Growers PORTLAND. AUG. 22. (AP) Prune growers should immedi ately form pools to obtain best price? for this year's crop, was the contention of Mrs. Effie Arnett, Hallston, who appeared at the chamber of commerce today with a plea for immediate relief for growers of western Oregon and southwestern Washington. Mrs. Arnett. eing the Douglas county growers who have obtain ed the best prices obtainable for this year's crop as an example of profitable cooperation, pointed out (hat immediate relief is needed by the growers if they are to carry through until next year. With otE"er prune growers, Mrs. I Arnett is looking forward to a meeting in Dallas, Polk county, Aug. 31,. when a grower-packer organization will be discussed. Paul V. Maris, director of exten sion of Oregon Agricultural col lege, Seymour Jones, state market agent and Robert H. Kipp, manag er of the marketing department of the chamber of commerce are among those who will participate. RETURNS VOLUNTARILY Fearing "Trouble," Patient Show? up at Institution Because he was 1 afraid the group would get into trouble and get' caught again, C. Kirtley, 17 year old youth who Saturday night escaped from the feeble minded institution with James Flurey, 14, and Tony Filosa, 17, returned voluntarily Sunday night to the school. Kirtley told, officials that he and the others had ' been forced to steal to eat, after their , escape, and that they had stolen some bicycles to speed their getaway. He returned because he feared the consequences if caught again. The other boys were left near Woodburn, he said, and vhe did not know which way they went. Flurey came to the institution in 1924 from the boys' training school where he had been sent fiom Jackson county. Folosa was committed to the institution in 19 24 from Multnomah county. SHE FLEW AWAY 7 4 4t ' ' -wesfi. -. - , . .v : ' v - J.AA ' vV ,a- " ' &:-s; ttad caused the pilot to come : , ;,: . n STUNT FLIGHTS Wflbur Agrees Recurrence of R a ce Disasters Should Be Prevented PLAtfE SEARCH STILL ON Chance to Find Plane Declared "One in Thousand;" Areas of Flight Thoroughly 'Cov ered to Xo Avail SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2Z. (AP) While many boats and planes searched under an extend ed "zero hour," Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, a San Francisco visitor, and officials In Washington, D. C, agreed today that some federal move must be made to prevent a recurrence of the disasters that have fallen the Dole race entrants, crews of the Golden Eagle, Miss Doran and the Dallas Spirit. Admiral Eberle, acting secre tary of the navy, said in Wash ington he predicted the enactment by congress of a law to prohibit long distance airplane "stunt frights", except under rigid condi tions, y At the same time Admiral Eb erle ordered 40'' naval vessels searching the Pacific for the miss ing fliers, to continue their ef forts until Thursday. The orig inal plans were that the hunt should officially terminate tomor row night. Extension was given following the disappearance of the Dallas Spirit, piloted by Captain Erwin of Dallas, Texas, and nav Ligated by A. H. Eichwaldt of Hay ward, CaL,- which apparently dove into the sea nearly 700 miles west of San Francisco Friday night after flashing an SOS call on Its radio. Secretary Wilbur was quoted by ' the Bulletin as agreeing that "some- step must be taken by the federal government to prevent fu ture loss of lives in long distance stunt flights." ; He declined to comment on Ad miral Eberle's prediction. The secretary said that the president had some power in this respect, but said he was "not sore" that this was sufficient to cover the situation. He declared It was inevitable that some action will be taken "to prevent needless loss of life." t That , navy men conducting the hunt for the missing men of the Dallas Spirit who failed to reach their Hawaiian objective, held lit tle hope for their rescue was re flected in a signed article pub lished by Lieutenant Commander Wm. C. Loose of the destroyer Hazelwood In the San Francisco Call today, 1 He Said : I "I do not think there Is one chance In a thousand that the Dal las Spirit will ever be found. The Hazelwood, in command of Com mander E. H. Connor, covered an area of 3200 square miles about a point where she gave us her last position attd in that space there was not a piece of flotsam not (Continued on page 8.) MAY HOP OFF FOR ROME Favorable Wind Today to See "Old Glory" on Ocean Trip CURTIS FIELD, N. Y. AUG. 22. AP) East winds held the Rome-bound monoplane Old Glory in its hangar today, but it was predicted the weather vane would reverse itself tonight, giv ing a favorable west wind for to morrow. ' James H. Kimball of the weath er bureau predicted westerly wind's will prevail all -along the New : York to Rome coarse to morrow and that there will.-be fair weather aif9 good risibility" from mid-ocean on SANTA MONICA,, CAW AUG. t J. (AP) The airplane Oklaho ma. Dole flight entrant, which, ar rived at Clover field here.yeer day on its way back to Oklahoma, will not take offon hi next hop until tomorrow. Thefliera.1 pi lot BBBy,'Tjrifiln. Narigator Al Henley and Miss Juanita Herod, passenger,' had planned to leave for, San Diego today but a low lying fog delaped the hop off. un til; so late that it was decided to wait until tomorrow. The Okla homa which took off At the atart Of, the Honolulu air race, was ; forced to pat hack. : :- - ' RADICALS MOB 1 GENEVA PALACE DEMONSTRATION IN PENX? SYLVANIA COSTS ONE LIFE 127 Parading Sacco-Vanzettl Syai pathizers in San FraacLico 11 Arrested G E N,E V A. SWITZERLAND, Aug. 22. (AP) Sacco-Van- zetti manifestants demolished the windows of the great hall of the library of the League f Na tions palace tonigTat. The. rioting followed a protest meeting organ izeggjjy socialists. The mob first marched on the American conslu ate, but the police beat them of. The manifestants then took ven geance by attacking the American agency of two particular theaters showing American films. In the struggle with a policeman, a shot was fired by some unknown hand, and killed a bystander. Fire hose playing streams of water on, the crowds eventually dispersed them. PITTSBURGH. fA., AUG. 22. (AP) A Saceo-Vanzetti dem onstration cost, the life of a Pennsylvania state trooper today. Private John P. Downey was slain at Acmetonia, in the heart of Allegheny county's coal mining region, after a detachment of state police had broken up a mass meeting of 2,009 sympathizers of Nicola Sacco and Bartolmeo Van zetti, Massachusetts radicals, con demned to die early tomorrow. SAN FRANCISCO, AUG. 22. (AP) One hundred and twenty seven Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, marching in a ; parade here to night, were arrested by police as they passed the hall of justice: BUENOS AIRES, AUG. 23. (AP) A-crowd gathered in. front of a newspaper office en the Aven ida de Mayo started a demonstra tion along the thoroughfare as soon as news of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was posted. It began stoaing United States com mercial houses. .The police made every effort to break up the dem onstration, but reinforcements had to be called out. 1 - LIGHT FLAME AT TOMB Surviving Americana in -French Army to Have Great Honor PARIS. AUG. 22 (AP)-The survivors of th little body of Am erican volunteers in the Trench army at the beginning' of the world war will be charged with the task of lighting the fla'me at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on August 24, the anniversary of the Incorporation of the first Am erican volunteers, 1 members of the American Legion ! were informed today. j Of the twenty American boys who went Into the French Foreign Legion at that time there remain alhre, so far as known, onlv four. Joseph W. Gansori. president of the Volunteers association, nnh. ert Soublran, James Bach and Jean Mouvet. Tiie" latter la brother of Maurice Monvet ih dancer who died inl Switzerland re cently. WILL ASK LIQUOR PROBE .. . . j .. 1 - National Head Seeks Explanation or Flow Iatol Northwest WASHINGTON, Aug, - 22.- I a a (AP) Assistant S ecretarv Tw. map, in charge of prohibition en forcement, announced trutav Dim aa explanation of j"why so much liquor stui riows nto the , north west" would be detnanrfoH f nn C. Lyle, prohibition admin i or for Washington, Oregon and Aiasna. , L.yie wass summoned to Washington Saturday for a con ference with Lowman and Com missioner Doran. He will arrive September 1. , Another ubiect to hA lnVsn nn he said la-whether knm f :T- -w J r.ave passed between rum runners aua . Bnrorcement agents. Much of the liquor coniner intnl th4 kUtea under Lyle'si jurisdiction is wuggiea from vamcouTer, B. C. BRIDGE GUARD KILLED Train Decapitates TTatcher Against ltallcal Sjmpathizera THE DALLES. Aug. 22Y API Milton ' Baker, of Arllnrtnn. special guard at the John . Day rauroaa bridge against nonsihi sabotage by Sacco-Vaneetti sympa thizers was decapitated. last niht when struck by eastbound train number 12. The bodv was found by a second guard at one o'clock this morning, who at first believed murder had been committed and called Sheriff Chrisman from' The Dalles. Raker leaves three chil dren at Arlington. Mill World Known Radicals Pay Death Penalty Exacted ? By State for Murder jj SPEAK BRIEFLY WHILE IN CHAIR 'Long Live Anarchy Shouts Sacco as Seats Self VANZETTI CALM Walks to Chair Unassisted .Reiterating Innocence of Crime; Madeiros, Murderer, First to Be Electrocuted. CHARLESTON, State Prison, Boston, Mass., Aug. 22. AP) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van zetti, shortly after midnight this morning paid the penalty of death exacted by the state for murder. Clestina Madjelros preceded them to the electric chair by a few minutes, the world known radicals following as rapidly as the execution routine would per mit. . " Madeiros Dies First Madeiros died at 12:09 a. m. for the, murder of " a Wrentham bank, cashier. . Sacco and Van zetti were executed for the mur der ef.a paymaster and his guard at Bralntree more .than seven years ago. - Sacco was dead at 12:19 and Vanzetti at 12:26. Inside and outside the hlglr prison wall stood a small arm) of armed guards. Waiting alsa were the press wires to inform the world that the long fight te save the men was at an end. Tht fight in behalf of the men con tinued until the last minute. Both Sacco and Vanzetti made brief speeches in the death chamber before1 they took their seats in the chair, Vanzetti pro testing his innocence to the last. "Long Live Anarchy' Shouted Sacco, pale but steady, shouted in Italian: "Long live anarchy," as he sat down in the chair. Then in broken English he went on "Farewell my wife and child and all my friends." The straps were being adjust- , (Cirothrae a pan's.) LEGAL EFFORTS FOR MEN FAIL PLEAS TO SAVE RADICALS Id SORED BY GOVERNOR Supreme Court Justices Refuse to ' Grant Writs of Habeas Corpus ' AMSACC IE BOSTON, AUG. 22. (AP) The swiftest, succession of legal moves in the seven years fight ta save Sacco and Vanzetti mark ed the last hours before the tlmo set for their execution. The day had marked defeat for them at every step. With the ev ening they not .only appealed again to Governor " Fuller for "any kind of clemency" but tried one judge after another. A plea made td Jadge Anderson of the United States circuit court of appeals, who is at Williamstown. Called, the judge refusing to tako any action. Judge Lowell of the federal dis trict court refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus or stay of execu tion. Then the attorneys went to Beverly to appeal once more to Justice Holmes of the United States supreme court who twico Previously had declined to inter vene. One of their number talkel with the governor and then with Attorney General Reading. Indication that the defense committee was fast losing hope of a respite was given when Gardner Jackson, chairman, and AIdino Feliclani,; a committee member, called on the warden to ask about arrangements for receiving tbo bodies of Sacci and Vanzetti af ter the electrocution. , - Thompson's rislf to the jn was entirely unexpected and du?. he said, to the fact that he hn, been called T,t hi suiaiiiur lCibtiaiMl go $ift 8 . i i I i