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. i. the Editorial Article Sh Reformaiori fbFrYoungMen :and 'First m 'Offenders Snowers Do jGood;cBut Much, Uli uy wtu, xttut it.tt y f 'Weather forecast: Unsettled, prohably with local , showers In . northwest portion; moderate temperature; moderate variable winds mostly southerly. , Maximum tempera Three Sections 24 Pages First Section Pages 1 to 8 '0-1 (Vtture yesterday 6. minimum, CO, river "minua 4 1-8' rainfall .78, atmosphere cloudy, -wind J ;f northwest. - - -. - - ii 34 Jl;! Hill- SALEM; QgEG(yN10R 1 1 ll HI j KI A jPIUCE ,FIVE:: CENTS 5ETVEOTY-SEVENTH YEAR Note '"Sfa SOT FLIGHTS mm DESPITE1 RISKS Seven Expeditions in Pro- gress or Planned for V I Immediate Future' ' ALL ODDS ARE IGNORED KteatHly, Increasing Ad Terse, "Wea thrr (Conditions Fail to Halt Flyers on Many Hazardous ' Trips. J 1 V (By Th AMMcUUd PreM) Ignoring steadily increasing ad verse odds and recent heary , cas ualties in their -ranks, aviation pioneers' continued to drive for ward asv the week ended. ' Old Glory, the Fokker mono plane, was at Old Orchard, Main, today preparing for the long trail to, Rome. The two mile Btorm packed beach Is expected to give a long enough runway to avertfurther wait for the prop er wind to raise the great ship and load. . - 1 Captain Rene Fonck, after thor oughly testing his new Sikorsky biplane, has announced a program of ; long distance and . endurance flights, designed to shatter all ex isting records.. He proposes first a flight to Paris "wlthia a month." The Royal Windsor "plans to take-off Xrom Portland, Maine, to- Jtkr In continuation of the flight to Hndsor.t England, CaptalnCoortney In his Whale Is at CoruVnna Spain,; where he was forced i to land because of ad verse twladk delaying his passage to the Azores; bat there was no hint, that the project had been abandoned. - The Columbia Is at Cranwell, England, waiting only favorable weather for the hazardous-"westward' passage" to America. The Sir John. Carling Is. wind bound at Caribou, Maine, but only temporarily, s v : f:u,v ".: 'j '.. Schlee and ' Brock, world navi gators, are at Bunder Abbas, Per sia, tuning up for , an early start today for the next "hop in their long tour. .-"Whale, Lands In Spain CORUNNA.i Spain, Sept 3 (AP) The tlylngi boat "Whale" piloted by Captain F. T. Courtney, which set out from Plymouth ear ly this morning landed this after noon in a dangerous place on the Galiclaq coast near Corunna. Help was sent to the aviators and. Xbey were brought to a place of safety (Continued on ..) , CHIQAGOlVlOIE WARFARE ENDS COSfPROMISK REACHED BE TWEEN OPPOSING FACTIONS Agreement Made to Keep All Terms of . Final Arrange- ( . meats Secret CHICAGO, Sept. 3. (AP)-r-Chicago movies will move again to morrow after approximately 409 - - motion picture shows and vaude ville houses had been closed since last; Monday because one theater . waster to employ two operators and the union insisted that It em ploy four. - if . - . The strike and lockout was ended this evening in the offices ' t ; ; of Mayor Thompson.'- where - ex- hlbltors, machine operators and stage .hands representatives met , afteri the mayor had announced he represented t the ' public which wanted ! movies over Sunday and ' Iabor Day. ; v ; ' v ( " The terms of settlement were -H divulged, it being announced Jit both sides hadgreed to keep ;V, era secret. Mayor Thompson In a- statement, however, said that 1 "the- final compromise was a com promise, which showed a Bplendid spirit, of ? Americanism." The ' mayor's statement said that "All parties concerned leit nappy. The strike and lockout was esti mated to hate thrown 15.000 the ater employes' out of work ' for most of a week, to have tied up theatrical Investments' of upward of ,$75;O0O.OOO: closed 400 thea ters; resulted In lost receipts of more than $1,000,000, and forced about 1,000,00$ mov!efans- to iMk.torae. other form ot dlrerslon CRAZED WORKER SHOOTS 7" DEAD SOS'S W Three Grandchldren ahd Three Ihiughters AmotiR Those Fa S ' tally Hit ' 1 YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, SEPT. 5 (AP) Tony De Capua, 42, steel worker, apparently crazed by brooding over lack of work, to night" shot and killed his wife, wounded his son's wife, and kill ed six children of the two famil ies, including two infants. Police answering a call from neighbors found De Capua stand ing outside his home, and the man at once opened fire on them. Is an ensuing gun battle, De Capua, Pa trolman Leo Tyrell and an uniden tified pedestrians were wounded. The dead: Mrs. Mary De Capua, Tony's wife. 42. ' Junior, 14 months and May, 4 months, and Marie, 6 years, his grandchildren. Anna, 'six, Elizabeth. 11, and Catherine, 2 months, daughters of Tony De Capua. The Capua home is located in a district of foreigners. Policemen at the scene report ed to headquarters that they could find no one there who could speak English. ; Meager information gleaned by the police was that the shooting followed a violent quarrel be tween De Capua and his wife. Their children were drawn into the quarrel. Suddenly De Capua produced a revolver, according to the police, and began firing wildly from an adjoining room into a ; room In which Mrs. De Capua and the children were. LEGIONNAIRES TO PICNIC Posts from Five Counties to Send Delegates to Oceanside Legionnaires from Marion, Polk, Yamhill, Washington and Tilla mook counties will gather at Oceanside on Labor Day as guests of the Tillamook American Legion Post. x -Extensive preparations have been made for the entertainment of the visitors. There will be base ball games, an archery contest, various other sporfe and dancing. At noon a picnic dinner will be served. Immediately after the dinner the new Legion billet will be dedicated with an appropriate program. Irl S. McSherry, de partment vice-commander will give the address. The Salem Drum corps, the Sheridan band and the McMin ville "Hungry Seven" band will furnish music during the day. Reports from the Tillamook dis trict indicate the roads to be in fine condition and so a large crowd, is anticipated. PERFUMED FERTILIZER Delightful Odor Given Off by New Product for Farmers WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (AP) A perfumed fertilizer has been found for meticulous farmers. It Is made from the by-products of manufactured ' cocoa and choco late, and has the aromatic ex cellence of both parent, elements. ; Ordinarily the potency:: of. fer tillzer 'is judged by the desire it creates for -a gas mask, but the federal bureau of soils has dis covered the sweetly odiferous con tent' to possess a convenient and suitable plant food.1.. . A press-cake of cocoa meal, the department of j agriculture -, says, can be made containing about 4 pir cent of nitrogen, whjch lsthe equivalent of 4.9 per cent of am monia. : ' ' . : , TOWNS FLOOD? STRICKEN Floods ' Kn(er Cavern Where 30 Peasants ,Went for Refuge V ; bucharest Rumania! sept. 3. -AP)--Heavy rains .wiped oat entire ;town?in Bukovina, recent ly according to press dispatches which on account of interrupted communications were received .to day. ?ln the town - of i Carlibaba floods entered cavern in which 3 1 .peasa n ts " took ; re f u ge and 24 were drowned,, ? ' X-, : It Is lestlmateci that hundreds of persons wer -drowned Ja various Prts la rheBukovina""BriJ,gc and, roads werpdestroyed and the material' damage ' is' estimated at about-4 O.OOO.troo ; lei.-- The : dis aster Is said to be one of the worst la the hl3tory of the country. C OCEAN FLIGHTS ITE'FEilBli SAVS VETERAN Oakley G. Kelly, Who Made Hop Across U. S., Op-, ; poses Stunt Trips ' - LANDINGS HELD NEEDED Huge Barges only Solution to Irobl'tn; Eighteen Recent Deaths , Recalled by Experienced Army Flyer VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., Sept. 3 (AP) Four years ago Lieutenant Oakley G. Kelly, in company with Lieut, J. A. MacReady, both of the 'United States air corps, made a sensa tional non-stop air night - from New York to San Diego. .Their remarkable flight, surpassing all previous records by a wide mar gin, attracted world wide attention and may properly be called the starting point of the present non stop air flight craze. y Recalls 18 Deaths Toay this same skilled Lieu tenant Kelly, commandant of Pear son field, here, wiser by four years of experience and study, gave his opinion of the merits and the feas ibility of long distance non-stop flights, particularly trans-ocean hops. Lieutenant Kelly was think ing of the 18 men and women who have lost their lives recently in connection with trans-oceanic flights when he passed judgment. "Non-stop flights in commercial planes over the sea are not .prac tical and Tievr will be feasible, in my opinion," said Lieutenant Kelly. Chance too Great "With adverse weather condi tions that exist day in and out. Continued on Page 3.) 'SLOW CLUB' ABANDONED Olive Potter, 17, Chan Res Mind and Elopes With Man - CHICAGO, SEPT. 3. (AP) Miss Olive Potter, 17 years old, who a few months ago organized a "slow club' whose announced object was to promote sociability among young folks without: pet ting and drinking, pulled a fast one today. She telephoned her parents that she eloped to Crown Point, Iiid., and married William O'Donnell of Chicago. Her club ii, ' . "' i . . U ' I i inn i ir i .i ,ii ,. .f . j ; ,i nil i ., in n mi . . i. ' -"-" . - n BQNDS DECLARED LEGAL FOR CITY BRIDGE COMMITTEE WILL RECOMMEND ENGINEER Chairmen Await Approval of 'City Council Before Beginning Operations ' Doubt as to the legality of bond issues for Salem's improvement projects as removed yesterday morning' in a. letter from Teal, Winfree, McCulloch, and Shuler, Portland bond Attorneys, to City Attorney Fred A. Williams. When certain members of the city, council hesitated to vote for carrying out the sewer, bridge, and incinerator projects without absolute surety that the bond is sues would be legal, a transcript of all proceedings from initiation of the proposals to their approval by the council was sent to the bond attorneys. These proceedings were review ed carefully and the letter from the Portland firm removes every obstacle to procuring money for the improvements by the sale of bonds; The letter reads as follows: "We have examined the tran script ; of proceedings handed us by you covering the election of June 28, 1927, at which charter amendments were voted upon au thorizing bonds in the amounts of , , (Continued on Page 3.) EUGENE YOUTH KILLED Bookkeeper in Dental Office In hales Gas From Range EUGENE. Sept. 3. (AP) Maude C. Smith, 41, and single, committed suicide at her -home here today by breathing gas from the kitchen range. Her father, Jacob Smith, a merchant, found her in a chair with her face over the gaskets and aqnilt. over her bead. Despondency and ill health is thought to have been the cause of the suicide. She was employed h." bookkeeper at a dental office. NEWS INDEX Section One Main hews . . Theaters . . . editorial . . . City.; news . . Sports County news .Pages 1, 3, 7 ...... Page 2 ...... .Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 Section Two Feature ........ Pages 1, 6, 8 Society . .'. . Pages 2-3, 5 Comics Page 4 Churches ..Page 5 Classified Pages 6-7 Section Three Automotive , . .v .Pages 1-5, 7 Better Homes ..... .Pages 6, 8 BRINGING HOME THE BACON THUNDER ROARS IN FOREST FIRE TREMEXDOirs ' . EXPLOSIONS ciuSEI BY GASES. SMOKE V. F. Horton, Supervisor, i. Tells Experience; Is On Way to Tula City - P0RTIA.ND. SEPT. 3. (AP) Thunder claps heard when" the only cloud in the firmament was one of smoke, explosions caused by gases which had been pent up by other gases, cyclonic swirls of air which carried large logs high into the sky as if they were strewn and other phenomena were des cribed by men returning from the scene of the big fires in the Col umbia national forest, bordering the Columbia river i,n the state of Washington, F. V. Horton. supervisor of the forest, came from the Hemlock ranger station in the Wind river valley today, and Bruce Hoffman, logging engineer, arrived a day or two ago. Horton was enroute to Salem, where Mrs. Horton is 111 In a hospital. A large smoke cloud -which an aviator estimated was 15,000 feet above the earth apparently caused a thunder storm one day during the fire-fighting. Supervisor Hor ton told John D. Guthrie, assist ant district forester here. There were no other clouds in the sky. Lightning was not seen, but thun der was heard, and the foresters concluded that there must have been lightning. Similar phenomena-have occur red cover volcanoes, Vajor Guth rie said. It is assumed that dur ing the forest' fire an enormous amount of heated air rose from tha earth. -The rise caused cooler air to rush in below. This condi tion caused a thunder storm with out, precipitation."" ' . Several almost inexplicable ex plosions were, tojd of. In, some cases a curtain of fire, smoke aad set fire to tgreen stuff below; the flames near the ground then gen erated gasA which were pent up by the layer of . smoke, heat and flre'above." The foresters conjec- . , (Continued on Page S.) 4 YOUNG WOMEN DROWN Small Craft Overturns in Swollen Xew Jersey Stream CALDWELL, N. J.,. Sept. 3. (AP) Four girls, ranging from 16 to 20 years old, were drowned in the Passiac. river at Pine Brook near here late today, .when their boat capsized" in the stream, swol len by recent rains. The victims, who were, spending their, vaca tions at Bethany community, camp at Roseland, were; Kathrins'Az zarra, 20, Newark; Anna Lynch, 16, Newark; Jane Harak. Irving- 4 SIGMCil DF PROSPERITY Secretary Hoover Says Ev erything Points. Toward ; More Good Times PRESS GETS INTERVIEW Ehtinmtes Based on Railroad Freight Volumes, Production of Pig Iron and Other In? dustrial Conditions (Following Is the first of a ser ies of special articles for Sunday morning newspapers, in which the Associated Press will present In terviews with leading figures in finance, industry, agriculture and labor.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. (AP) Trends of trade in the field of American business during the first two thirds of the year 19 2 7, as de picted in commerce department re ports and indices, convince Secre tary, Hoover that the outlook In the next few months Is very fair. . For the Associated Press today, Mr. Hoover set down of the bases: ','This department doesnot en gage! in" any opinion, it. can mere ly makes a summary of the cur rents now in progress," the secre tary said. "The first seven months of 1927 have disclosed generally a higher state of busi ness activity than was expected after the peak year of 1926. 1 Iron Production High1 "Loadings . of railroad freight for the first seven months are but loading volumes experienced in 1 9 2 6. -, Pig Iron production in the country has been hut slightly less than 1926, but greater than 1925 There has, been, an unanticipated volume of construction kept up (Continued on paje 3 ) s LICENSE MARK EQUALLED Ten ' Couples Secure' Marriage Permits In one day here - The. high" mark of the year for marriage licenses - issued in the county clerk's office in a single day, established Saturday, July 2r was again, equalled, yesterday when ten couples secured licenses. The two-day holiday is believe4 to be the reason for the over-time work .of Dan Cupid. i Those securing licenses yester day were William A. -Dunigan and Helen L. Yarnell, both of Salem Lester W. Coiner, Cottage Grove and Mildred E.. Hayes, Salem; Quinn L. Jones and Gladys G, Wilson, both of Salem; Kenneth: V.i Maguren and Alta M. Chap man,ibqih of Salem; Benjamin D.North-of Salem and Mary Broker, Portland; yFred. Taylor Powers, 3 1, RW. 2, Independence and W. Lillian Richards, 16, Beu- n Vista; ,Byron . T. Kendall and Irene V. Koehn both of . Rt. .5, Salem ; William Albert Garrett, Corvalus, and Muriel A. Webb, SHverton; , Albert ,: S Pancoast, Mill City; and Emma P. Herren, Salem,, and Adolph G. Alrick and Martha Louise Peterson, both of SHverton, ' ,i" .- ? . s.i: s 'A ? license' j was ; issued Friday evening .to Walter S. Lamkln. dep tr county; clerk.: and , Vlolette M. Peters, whose marriage was an event of last night,: Hfa'PYARD SERVICES HELD i ii, ' $. - "''' ' . - - -.. Salvation; Array to Hold Two Ses . ion Each Week at Yard ; , Local Salvation my forces vis ited the Horst brothers hopyards Friday night and , conducted, a cam pf ire meeting at .camp three, with , an .estimated, attendance of nearly 500. . Assisting the : local workers were Captain and Mrs. Guest, and son Verlon, of Oregon City, , ' Zj -v , - , Camp talent was utilized. In thg program -which consisted yt vocal and musical numbers. , :. t , - Ensign and Mrs. Pitt will con tinue the Army's serf Ices at Horst brothers as they, have been doing fort the past, three seasons, con ducting two, weekly, meetings and two Sunday school sessions at both camps; regularly. , There la ;.bm service that renders more satis faction ; than that of ,;. working ; among hop pickers, -whom we have always found to bo a respectful as well as enthusiastic audience,? i s&W'tt'?' Jocj erpj leider, "" j HARRY H. HILL TAKEN, SEATTLE ARREST MADE AFTER SEARCH THROUGHOUT COUNTRY Fugitive Wanted on Charge r of Murdering Own Mother in: Hlinols . SEATTLE, Sept. 3. (AP) Harry H Hill, wanted in connec tion with the murder of his moth er, in Streator, Ill.i was arrested here late, tonight; Hill denies the charges that he killed his mother. He admitted : his identity, police announced, but declared that he knew, nothing of the murder and left Streator because of "trouble" he had had there. .. , .Hill, sought throughout the United States for the last two weeks, was arrested in the lobby of a hotel Jwo blocks from police headquarters by a police detec tive. . , He told his captors that the day after his mother's body was found ir. Streator, he left that city "on account of. some difficulty" in which he had ; become involved. He declined to amplify that state ment or give the nature of the supposed difficulty. The sale of an automobile in' which Hill drove from Streator to Seattle led to his arrest. ) The car, which bore a Minne sota license, was sold here yester day to a : garage. . When the . sale was reported to the police pawn shop- detail, detectives recognized the engine number as that of the machine In which Hill was report ed, to have left Streator." fn Hill's hotel room, which was rented under the name of H. Jack son, the detectives found a suit case containing a set of . automor bile license plates bearing Illinois number 102-854. ; , N A detective 8a t do w.n in the lob- (Uon tinned on pc 3.) HCLfi FATHER'S SLAYER 20 Tear Old 'Bride Accused After 1 Confessing to Evangelist' REIDSVILLE, N. (f.; Sept. 3 ( AP) Arrested as," a,; result of a tip furnished police by an evange- llst.-Mrs. Alma Gatlin. 2J, a bride of two months, is in jail; here, charged with the murder of her father, J. Smith. Petty.. . . ; Petty has been missing ' more than a year. Today a body, was found burled in 'the basement of his former home ana declared Dy Sheriff G. F. Smith to be that of Petty. . - - ! Two weeks ago,, the Rew Thomas F. Pardue Informed the authorities that a young woman had come to him after one of his revival meetings and . confessed slaying her father - and - disposing of his body. The evangelist could give: no clue, however, as to the whereabouts of the body. ' The young bride,, whose hus band, Eugene S. Gatlin, is . chief of the Reidsville' fire department, appeared unworried by the charge against her. She said she believed her 'father had left home and was still alive. ' ' 61(3 CLASS ANTltlPATED : t. ' . i 1 State. University Prepares to Han idle 1O0O . New StodenU " t EUGENE, Sept. 3. (AP) Preparations to handle at j least 1.000, and possibIy?more, new stu dents at., the University of, Oregon have been completed, according to EarliM. Pallett, registrar. A toial of 87 have already been admitted to -the university for the first time and, this number is expected to be greatly Increased., between ,.'now and the time the Vresbman.week" opens Sept. .19, it was stated. Ap plications .arenow coming in. at a rapid ; rate. iald Mr. Pallett, and officials of the university are urg Ing all prospective students to file theit credentials as soon as possi ble in order to avoid 'a last min ute rush.t - ' :.'' NORTHERNERS IFJ ATTACK 3Ike Attempt Against National- , lata in Vicinity of Shanghai SHANGHAI. Sept. 3. (AP)- The northerners '.today made, two unsuccessful attacks 'against the nationalists tn i the yiclnity, of Shanghai. 4 - A northern - military airplane irlei tof demolish the important Kianghas . arsen&l, three - miles above Shanghai. on the Rwangpbu river." Four, bombs, fell;, in. the arsenal yard, injuring a workman. All Iwork iWaa auspendedt imme diatelyv' ' S : -' Four northern gunboatshellod the Woosung forts, 11 miles north cf Shanghai at the mouth of the Woosung river.. The fort returned Its f!r?. -'No dana" was (--"." RECOUfJTS HER PAST TROUBLE Mrs. Irving B. Priest Motors to Salem to Be Near Her Husband " SILENT AtiOUT TRAGEDY, Tells of Meeting Prlewt at I'oca ; tello; Chance Brught Them "to .Werllne Hop Yard; Dis-"- likes Oregon By Victor D. Carlson "If another, man ever starts to bother me.' IH ' - " Pretty Mrs. Irving B. Priest, who sat in the upstairs lobby of the Capitol hotel last- ilcht, re counting for the writer her exper iences with men, didnot finish the sentence. Her tone and man , uuwerer, were sucn as io in dicate a complete loss of faith in mom hora t t ri a nnnAeita r a v . The young woman motored in her own car from' Dallas Friday evening to be near her husband who'ls in the Marion county jail here charged with slayinfc'George M. .Werline, wealthy Independenca hop grower, 'during a quarrel ov er her affections. ; t s . . ! Mrs. Priest was reticent -about the hop yard tragedy , which sent one man to, his death and another into tha hands of the law. But it is her belief that Priest had plen ty ef reason to challenge Werline. "What would you think If s man hung around you all the time and bothered yoaj.phr queried. Priest had always been jealoui of her, she : said. .At one tin.i when they wre living In Pocate''" lo, Idaho, she wanted to enrol v a .business college to study shor4 hand and typing. Her husband " f (Coatinned on pa " SHOW ATTRACTS SPECIAL STAKES CAUSE. MAX TO PLAN FOR EXHIBIT Seven Sign for Six Horso HUchj Contest; Popularity Event Grows ''J , 'r-f With the,- purses made up, thel classification lists In the hands olj the printer and the judges selecU ed, fair officials are rushing finar preparations, for the; opening oil the night horse show, slated this year to be a six-night feature oC the annual state fair, ppening Sep tember .26... . Attracted - by three Special stakes of 3500 each, one provided by Aaron Frank of Portland for tbree-gaited horses, another by W F. Turner of Portland for hunters. aau me intra ior nve-gaated ani mals by an unnamed donor, en tries for the show promise to ex ceed In number and quality j of horses those of any previousyear. Inquiries and requests for classifi cation - lists have been received from owners in all parts of the Pacific coast. o - ' ' i Out of state entries already list ed are E. S. Munf ord, Stockton. California, Dr.; ' A.. E. Graham, Montague, California, J. E. Far rell, of Seattle, and others. -, The entry by Aaron Frank ; of his 335,900 team of imported Eng lish hackneys, now exhibiting ia the California shows jwlth - great success, is exciting - more than usual comment.- . . : jl Success of one of the most pop ular of the regular, horse show eventi, the competition for six horse hitches, is assured this year with seven entries already listed, according to J. M. Reynolds, ok Cprvallls, manager of the show. v-Two hitches -have been entered by Frank Burge.'" of Albany, and one each by the Damascus Cream ery; company, Portland; II. W. Merrltt,? Rosalia, Wash.; George Mlllsi; SU-Johns,; Wash.; Robert MeCroskey. Garfield, Wash.; and Andrew Schab, of Salem. ; ' ' Judging In the ring will be done this year by Matt Cohenof Eev- erley Hills, California and draft horses will . be Judged by Albert HunterV of Lat Grande. t f Included uiiiosR the older tn- t'Utors wboi are returning (Lis year are Oswald Wrest, Dr. J. n. Held, ?,Irs. C. E. Grelle, I crlian i Riding -Academy,.-. James ?, Mrs." Stanley Fniith, Aaron Vrari.. and TV. F. T"---r. ,;' rf t-.,,...