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... V State xrfJfrgon Sells 157 Long Tons of- Spinning Tow fo Selfasfi Cleaning -Up All Its Old Flax Fiber Stock a fie aias on incinerator Are tteasonaoie, rroviaea tne money win tsuy an lnciner&ior i naz 7".f me mmM ' Weather Forecast : Fair, but with fog near coast; rising temperature in interior; moder ate northwest winds.'- Maximum temperature yesterday 63, minimum 50, river -minus 1.7, rainfall .43, atmosphere cloudy, wind south. Probably bolshevism would welcome war as a graceful means of saving its face in future .history. Kings have done the same thing.' Philadelphia Bulletin. ' ' JEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1927 PRICE "FIVE CENTS iiicinci "4, P w V OLD GLORY SENDS OUT S O S. GALL American Plane In Distress As It Starts Out Over Atlantic Waters POSITION NOT LOCATED tT. 8. Machine Tride of Detroit Makes Hop From Calcutta For Rangoon, Distance of Over Six Hundred Miles NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (AP) The Radio Corporation of Ameri ca at 4 o'clock Eastern Standard Time this morning announced re ceipt of a radio message from the steamer Carmania saying the res gel bad received an SOS call from the monoplane Old Glory. The steamer Lapland also re ported receiving an SOS from the monoplane, bound, from Old Or chard, Maine, to Rome the Radio corporation announced. The first " message from the steamers, the Radio corporation said, did not give their positions. RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 7. (AP) William S. Brock and Ed ward P. Schlee arrived here at 2:50 o'clock this afternoon from Calcutta, India, on their round-the-world flight. Old Glory s Log 2:54 p. m. Canadian freighter Empress reports to Independent wireless sighting Old Glory ten miles off Pigby N. S. i i 2:5p. m. St. John, N. B. wire k If 88 station picks up message from via y lory s raaio swung mauus flt miles an nour. aiLweu. 3:15 p.m. Old Glory passes over Harborville; N. S., flying low. 4:10 p. m. Believed sighted over Parrsboro, Cumberland county, NovaT'Scotia. Plane flying high. 6 p. ra. Old Glory seen passing over North Sidney Cape, Breton and South Bar. 6:30 p. m. Radio testing signals picked up 860 miles east of Am brose Light. 8:53 p. m. U. S. liner George Washington reports Old Glory pas sing over Newfoundland. 10:15 v. m.. Heard flying over Capo Race, N. P. 16:30 p. m. Sends message, "Newfoundland -all O. K. Making good time. , HALIFAX, N. S.. Sept. 6. (AP) Averaging slightly above 100 miles an bour the monoplane Old Glory wliich'left Old Orchard, Maine, at 12:23, E. S' T. ' today, passed over Nova Scotia for sev eral hoars this afternoon. ' First appearing near Dig by, on the Bay of Fundy coast, the plane left Nova Scotia headed f or.Newfound- ( Cod tinned oa pf S.) HEAPING IN HILL CASE THURSDAY EXTRADITION FROM WASH INGTON WILL BE FOUGHT Counsel For Illinois Youth to Ap pear Before Governor Hartley In Boy's Behalf SEATTLE, SEPT. 6. (AP) A hearing of extradition of Harry Hill. 22, wanted in Streator, 111. On a charge of murdering his mother, will be held before Gov ernor Roland H. Hartley In Olym pia. Thursday. . V Indications were given that the suspected matricide's attorneys might base their fight against ex tradition on the grounds that the youth held incommunicado in the city jail here since his arrest Sat tirday night Is not the mdeh sought Streator fugitive. Seattle ?olkre officials, however, declared dentification had been positively " established in a dozen ways. j Detailed plans in the young susVec'lV'lcfcal 'tight rjare 'being eld in abeyance pending arrival Of Dr. It.'C.'lMlJ wealthy Streator physician, who is speeding here to the aid of his son. The father, as well as 'police officers from II- linola, are expected here tomor row 1 : STREATOR. ILL.,, SEPT-(AP)-Authoriries here ; today were, .Checking the71 movements oX a young man giving, the -name nf i Robert L. Honeycutt who wai f 0petts4 ftp .) CROPS DAMAGED? OPINIONS DIFFER BUT PROMI9K OF BETTER WEATHER JUST IN TIME Some Authorities say Prunes Too Gree,n to Spoil, Others Disagree The following is the result of three short interviews last eve ning over the phone by a States man reporter: W. F. Drager says there will be 50 per cent damage throughout the valley on prunes. Ripest ones are badly affected. H. S. Gile says there is practical ly no damage done to prunes. A few are showing cracks, he says, but these are Isolated cases. The Newberg plant reports no damage up to present time but if rain con tinues tomorrow, there will be great danger. H. R. Crawford says there Is no damage done. The prunes are not ripe enough. Hops Coming Down Well Henry Cornoyer, prominent grower and dealer, said last night that there, has so tar been little damage to the hop crop from the late rains. The Barly hops are all harvested and , in the bale. In every yard, the picking of the late hops is go ing on. One of the most favor able facts is that there are plenty of pickers more so than ever be fore in the history of the industry here. And the pickers are work ing well. The growers have pro tested them with every possible comfort fire wood, houses, tents, etc. The pickers are anxious to earn 'all they can, and they have been going out in weather that would have driven them in during any former hop harvest here. In the yards that have not been sprayed, or that have been poorly sprayed, there may be some dam age. There would be a good deal of damage, if the weather were not cool; or if hot, murky weather sfiould follow the present rains. But there is every hope that most of the. hop crop will ie har vested, and that the late crop as well as the early will be of good quality on the average. A Narrow Escape From all of the above, it looks like a narrow escape from a good deal of injury, for prunes, and for hops, too. But the weather man j predicts a fair day today, and if (Continued on pse 2.) FRESHMAN CLASS LARGE More Than KMX) New Student Al ready Applicants at Eugene EUGENE, Sept. 6. (AP) Applications for admittance of new students to the University of Oregon have already passed the 1,000 mark, and of these applic ations, 980 have been accepted, it was announced today by Earl M. Pallett, registrar. This indicates that a possible enrollment of 1200 new students may be expected, since "nearly three weeks remain before the start of classes Sep tember 26, he Said. Of the total applicants 624 will be freshmen from Oregon high schools, 153 from high schools outside of !the state, 82 students transferring from other higher educational institutions outside of the state, 11 graduate students and three special students. A total of 47 applicants have been rejected. Only 15 bt these were Oregon high school students, however PRAY AT STORE OPENING New Establishment Starts In City of : Eugene After Custom r. EUGENE, Sept. 6. (AP) The new 'department store of Mc Mdrran and Washburne -'here was opened for business 1 today With, priyer. I Dr. aJ H. Saunders, pastor of the Central Presbyterian church offered a short prayer and the sevices closed with the singi ing'of "America," led by the ctore" quartet. This cuBtom was inaug urated by this rirm when its old store was opened 15 years ago. PICK DRV CHIEF, DEC. 1 Z j.i'r .I.?' ' '"" tX:: t : ' : ' Surewwor to Wayne R. Wlu-eler ; WW JJe .CliOfsen This Yeair. . iS ATLANTA, OA . uj SEPT. J. AP) A fuccessor to Wayms b. Wheeler in Washington will be namtH hv5 the national executive TOmmtttaa-6f tho"Antt-SaToon L'e'a1- gUiB of America aft its nextTrieet iflg in Washington,' Dec. il orear- ersT'deem a . ppeclalrfleetflig' neees- Sary-for'-TarrDnrpose, Dr. A. J. Barton, Atlanta, chairman of the committee, iai4v today, FULL SEIS IN WHEN STORM HITS OREGON Blue Mountains Covered With Snow As Greeting To Visiting Tourists PENDLETON RAIN SWEPT One and Twelve Hundredths Indi es of Moisture. lrecipiLMted at lOugene In Twenty Four Hour Period PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (AP) Oregon in particular and the Pa cific northwest in general had all kinds of .weather today, most of it wet. It ranged from a deter mined snowfall in the Blue moun tains of eastern Oregon to an even more determined rainfall in the iDterior and coastal areas. ' Winter set in with a vengeance in the Blue mountains, according to reports from the forest rangers in the Umatilla national forest. Tourists coming over the Old Ore gon Trail from La Grande to Pen dleton told of heavy falls at Mea cham and Kameli-, with two inches already on the ground. Rain at Pendleton The lower Pendleton country got its precipitation in the form o a heavy rain. Medford got a touch of winter in the form of a cold wind and brisk rainfall, while Eugene had a few "hard showers. At Aberdeen, Wash., there was a heavy fall of rain to bring the ' .week's total up to more than 4 inches. Rain fell heavily in the Walla mH-i-rrneyr,wnTl6 fchow 'fell tn' the neighboring Blue mountains. The precipitation was expected to (Continued osga .3.). TWO AIRPLANES SISTERS Old Glory and St. Raphael Iden tical in Construction NEW YORK, Sept. 6. (AP) The monoplanes Old Glory which left Old Orchard, Maine, today for Rome, is a sister ship, identi cal in every detail, of the ill-fated St. Raphael, which disappeared while attempting the , westward with passage with Princess Low-enstein-Wertheim and her two pilot escorts. Not only are the two planes of the same Fokker model but the same model of Bris tol Jupiter 450 horsepower en gine was installed in each, SAY! ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY GOT sS. Jr SL ( , JAl THEM F&R lJfc35.-,-r j J J; - . v --.V t,;;V X' ' I -: M - W - d&jv' ucy-; W. U. FRESHMAN f APPLICANTS 175 SOME MAY BE DENIED ADMIT TANCE ON CREDENTIALS New Students to Register Early For Special Get-Acquainted Program Approximately 175 applications for admission to Willamette uni versity as freshmen have been received by Nat Beaver, regis trar. These are being checkd over to 'see if the requirements for registration are fulfilled. Many of them will be denied for scholastic reasons, but it is ex pec:ed that the freshman class this year will run in numbers around 160. " The new students will report at ike university Friday, Septem ber 16, for enrollment with the registrar. Sophomores, juniors, and .seniors will register on Wed nesday, ' September -21. " ' ; ! The plan of freshman week was adopted this year for -the purpose of giving the new students an op portunity to learn the purpose and procedure of the university, to receive guidance in outlining a program of studies, and to be come acquainted with the new en vironment, the members of the class, and with the faculty. All (Continued on pag 5.) BURGLARS ARE CLEANLY Two Men Take Rath. After Forc ing Way Into Portland House PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (AP) However far from Godliness they may have wandered, two Portland burglars consider cleanliness a prime requisite. The house of Charles Foss was entered by two men. When the family returned they found the bath tub had been filled, the bath soap dish had been broken and two towels stolen. The other loot included a salmon hued princess slip, pink under-. ar..and-aia.vder pillow slip. HOPS SOLD AT 20 CENTS Amounts SnuAl, Many Growers Refusing This Price Offer Following refusal of several growers to sell 1927 hops at 19 cents a week ago, 100 bales were ti'ken at 20 cents a pound in the Independence district yesterday, it was learned. Consignments at this price are said to be small, however, with many growers re fusing the offer. A few are turning off small quantities, it was said, indicating that the main crop will be held for higher prices. A shortage in this section, together with report ed decreased acreages in other large hop-growing sections of the world, are regarded by local grow ers as justification for holding. RAINS PARALYZE STREET RAILWAY LIGHTNING, FLOODS WREAK HAVOC IX PORTLAND Losses Near $IOO.OOO; 70 per Cent of Business Section in Darkness PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (AP) Downtown Portland was practical ly paralyzed today when torrential rains and lightning brought the worst breakdown of the Portland Electric Power tompany system in twenty years. Street cars in tne downtown district were tied up for two hours, theatres were darkened, elevators stopped and commercial institu tions using direct current were made helpless by a short j circuit in the supply cables of the (under ground electrical system. The short circuit cut off seventy per cent of downtown ho ises from their supply of electri :ity. The two local, public service corporations suffered a loss of be tween $75,000 and 1100,000 as a result of the storm. The sewer systems were unable to carry off the unprecedented volume of sur face water which backed up until it flooded the underground steam mains which furnish heat for the business district The water produced superheat ed steam in such compressed bulk that the lead covered cables of the Portland, Electric Power com pany were reduced to a molten mass. In several buildings elevators loaded with passengers were stalled between floors and near panics resulted before emergency power enabled1 the release of the caged prisoners. Officials of the electric company said tonight it would require from sixty to ninety days to restor nor mal service. ' More than three miles of emergency cable had been laid on the street surface tonight. Weather bureau figures show ed that in 5 minutes .27 inches of rain fell. This was increased to 52 in 10 minutes, .60 in 15 minutes, 68 in half an hour and .86 in an hour. MEETS TERRIFIC STORM Steamer Hit by Terrific Gale; 20,. OOO Feet Lumber Lost ! SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. (AP) Battered by heavy seas on her voyage to this port from' Grays Harbor, "the team schponer Point Lorn a arrived here today without 20.000 fee tof lumber, comprising the major portion of her deck load. The schooner, which was fifteen hours late due to-battling a northwest gale, had trouble with her steering gear off Point Arena, one hundred miles north of here, and while trying to overcome this difficulty part of her cargo was washed overboard. OUT AND WALKED? STATE SUPPLY SPIillS TBI SOLD, IfiElPl Sending of Samples and Small, Shipments Fol lowed by. Large Orders LINE FIBER ALSO TAKEN Massachusetts Mills Secure All on Hand; But Further Supply Coming With Working of Present Crop The state of Oregon has just sold the last pound of its spin ning tow at the state flax plant at the penitentiary, to Belfast, Ire land. Four or five weeks ago, there was an order-for five tons of the tow from Belfast, after large sam ples has been submitted. This was followed by an order for 12 tons, and then an order for 40 tons. The present order is for 100 tons. Long tons. All the orders were for long tons of 2240 pounds. This last order wilf take all the old stock, accumulated from for mer years. Some Not Filled There is another order from Belfast for 40 long tons, which cannot be filled. The 157. tons shipped or to be shipped repre sents value of around 150,000. There -are prospective orders (Continued on page 8.) OFFICIALS WILL CONFER Oregon and Washington Land De ; pamnentt4rrangeAudit' Land department officials of Oregon, and Washington will hold a joint i session here today to ar range for j an audit of the books of Various sand and gravel con cerns which have operated on the Columbia river.' The audit will cover the operations of these sand and gravel concerns for a period of seven years. The auditt was ordered by the land boards of the two states to determine the amount of -sand taken from the Columbia river which was not reported to the land department officials. As soon as the audit is (completed the land department, officials will hold 'an other meeting ' and decide upon the amount of royalty to be charged. The royalty on gravel was fixed several, years ago at six cents- per cubic yard. Any. royalty that is received from the' sand and gravel com panles for sand . taken from the Columbia river during .the past seven years will be credited to the common school fund of the states. ALL PROPERTY ATTACHED PEP Given Judgment Against Wil lamette Valley Southern. A certificate 'of levy under an execution issued in the circuit -court for Clackamas county at taching all visible properties, per sonal and real, belonging to the Willamette Valley Southern rail road In Marion county, to satisfy judgment for $1,082,209.93 se cured by the Portland Electric Power company of Portland, was returned by sheriff O. D. Bower, to the clerk of "the circuit court here yesterday. , - - Judgment was 'secured In Claek amas county 'August 1. 1927, to satisfy claims .chiefly for electric power, furnished, the" defendant railroad company, it was said. The Willamette -Valley Southern- In Marion county extends north from Mount Angel .to the Clackamas county .line. , t - HOP PICKER ARRESTED X Girl at Homer Ckmlet Ranch Held i' MOn' Xarcrny Charge' , ; Sarah Jackson, alias ; Mrs. George Fay," was arrested at the Homer Goulet hop ranch yester day " morning by' Marion -county authorities and held for Portland police- officers, who started -"with her late in the afternoon to Port land to ' face charges of larceny. She was said 'to have taken a suifeaa and some clothing : be longing 'tb 'another girt. Officers recovered, the artleles reported missing, among which were shoes, dresses a coat and other artleles. She had been .working In the hop yard . up to-the time of her arrest, it,w& eal, " - ;XRBAGE PLANT BfDS FOtJND LOW piSE IS 8,830 UNDER AMOUNT -ALLOWED IN VOTE Offers and foassible Sites Will Be Considered kx Meeting f Tonigfit . 1 That a sanitary garbage dispos al plant will" be secured for the city at a much mores reasonable; cost than first anticipated, was ! indicated at the city council meet-; ing last night when incinerator bids from three firms were op ened. The Mrs ranged from 931, 150 to $37,500. They are re ferred to the special incinerator committee pf, which Alderman Dancy is chairman. The Pittsburgh-Des Moines steel company quoted a price of $33, 475 for the United States standard incinerator, of the: type, which has been used: by the gOTernment for eight years. This incinerator has a capacity of 40 tons, every 24 hours and is odefless in operation, according to . the letter accom panying the bid. This firm also submitted another bid of $34,475 for an incinerator of still greater capacity. The Nyde Odorless crematory company of "Los Angeles submit ted a . bid. of $37,500, and J. T. Thorpe and Son, of Seattle and Portland, presented a bid of $31 150 on behalf of the Tyler En gineering and Construction com pany, an eastern firm. The bids were in accordance with specifi cations set by the city engineer. The bids' will . be considered at a special meeting of the incinerat or committee tonight. A possi ble site! for the plant wil also be taken up at that time. Provision tor an incinerator for Jr'aitni was male in a bond pro posal for $40,000 passed upon by the people in a recent election. An ordinance calling for the is suance and sale of ; these bonds was Introduced at the council meeting last, nigh t and,given. first reading. EXPECT LANDING FIELDS Survey Begins in Month for Stop ping Places for Flyers PORTLAND, Sept. 6.-MAP)r Assurance that a grouund .crew and airplanes needed will begin within a month to make surveys for . emergency landing fields to be maintained with an . attendant each at every 30. miles on the air lane between Portland and - San Francisco has been': given by the United States department of com merce to the Pacific Air. . Trans port, Inc., N. B. Evans, traffic manager of .the company said to day. The P. A. T. line operates air male and passenger air planes between Seattle and Los Angeles , The government will drain, lev el and mark the landing "fields Each will have a runway 2500 feet long in either direction, 'The P A. T. company .has given the gov ernment engineers maps of 'the landing field's it has found and used since beginning the service a year ago this month. ' - REDFERN HOPES RISING Belief Grows That Missing Flyer Reached Land In Safety BRUNSWICK, Ga.'. Sept. . (AP) Belief among backers of the BrunswIck-BrsEil flight that Paul Red fern, the youthful aviat or, Is safe some where'- on the South American 'continent had been strengthened by the elabora tion of the story that the mono plane was seen near the Venezue lan coast by the crew of a' Nor weglan" steamer.". : ' . ' .. Although there is a discrepancy of a day between the time officers of the Christian Krohsr 'said they saw the 'airplane and natives re ported seeing It flying across the Orinoco river 'delta, friends of Red fern believe the dates some how, have; been confused and that the planes were identical. 1 ' AWNINGS LEAK, CLAIMED City Engineer" Instructed to Urge Repair , f Blarquees ' ; - Some time this . week the city engineer will 'make a tour of es tablishments In the business dis trict and ask the proprietors to eliminate the leaks In the mar qpees. and awnings. f lie was In structed to do tiris by the city council last night, on a motion by Alderman Dancy. f : "In their present condition, many of tbem do not furnish much pro tection during a rain storm, it was poised out,,' ' CITY DADS FAIL! TO AGREE (IPO?! COWTRAGT M Delays Loom On All Projects Except Incinerator, Re- , suit of Meeting , j f BOND ISSUES APPROVED ' , T Difficulties See n in Way of Em ploying Expert Bridge Kngi- ., j jieer, Lonjr Term Agree ment Also Opposed - ; The project for the construction of the South Commercial street bridge.' and others provided foxlin. the recent bond issue, was furth er delayed, last night when city councilmen tailed to agree on the contract between R. A. Furrow, an Astoria engineer and the city, recommended by the bridge com mittee. , Neither were any plans for car rying out the sewer and, drainage relief proposals submitted to the council for approval as no meet ing of, sewer committee, with its full membership, has been held to formulate plans.. Councilmen Absent j With only eight councilmen present at the meeting, one ad verse vote would have defeated the bridge engineer contract. Ac cordingly, Mayor LIvesley asked that action be delayed until a spec ial meeting next Monday night, when Chairman Hawkins of the bridge, committee , could be pres ent and explain the needs of the project. -Alderman Hawkins Is now In . Portland. The ev. r committee ot which E. E. Crabt horst is chairman, was Instructed to prepare a report and submit It Monday night. Some advance In the improvement-program was made wben in cinerator bids were opened and referred to the commute,, and or dinances providing for the salo and issuance of 2 blocks of $100. 000 'each of bridge and sewrr bonds were given third reading and. passed.; The way Is clear now for action by the committee s. Contract Criticized The engineer's contract which , (Oootlnaaa on pc J.) - KOZER ENTITLED ) TO SERVE JERI.3 -;. " I CONSTITUTION MAKES EXCEPT TIOX, POINTED "OUT Appointment Pro Tetnporo Not ' 'Calculated Where Tenure , Limited j . Someone, has been making a mystery out of a very simple mat ter regarding the tenure of office of - Sam- A Koter, secretary of state, attorneys connected with the state government Indicated Tues day. t These attorneys said that Mr. Kozer has: a constitutional .right to serve out his present full term notwithstanding that he will then have served more than eight out ot a period of 12 years. -The constitution reads: ; "In all cases in which it is pro vided that an office shall not In filled by the same person more than a 'certain number of years continuously,-an appointment .pro tempore shall not be reckoned a part of that term." It was said that this provision of the constitution applies d I red ly to the' secretary of stato. Itohi tive to this' office 'the' constitution provides that one person shall not serve more than eight out ot any period of 12 years. t Recerds show that Ben W. Ol cptt , became governor by succes sion at the death .of Governor Withycombe early la 1D19. He continued. to hold both the oHl ces of governor and secretary of state until after the primary elt-c tion in May, 1320, when Mr. Koz er was appointed to the hitter of flee. ; . ' . ijKorer was elected secretary of state ; at -the ', general election i i November, 1320, and .was reef on - e4 four years later. Hence, at tl o expiration of his .'present term Kn xer . will hava served only ,. :,t years.-plus seven months bv ,-. r. pointment. VLAttornf js Katd Mr. Ko?.Pr won! I not violate- the t t:vt itntiori I t serving out hi prt-..;.t t!..-. ,