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Congressman Hawley Urges That a Complete Showing Be Made at the Hearing of the Engineers on River Improvements Feb. 1st v. u xsuusr.ariKies jrom. learner, lannea nere is Vegnn in Salem; This May Grow Into a Big Business Weather forecast: Cloudy and unsettled with rains In west and local snows In east portion; normal temperature; Increasing southerly winds on the coast. Maximum temperature yesterday 39r minimum 30, river 4.4. atmosphere cloudy, wind north west. According to New York dispatches Tam many objects to having the Democratic National convention in Detroit because the Michigan city is too wet. Well, if Tam many thinks it's too wet it must be. 'SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ik r COMPLETE DATA Jl Of RIB'S USE f 1ST BE GNU .Congressman Hawley Em phasizes Importance of Good Showing At Meet COLLECT INFORMATION Manager of Salem Chamber of Commerce Active in Preparing Farts and Inviting Coopera tion of Other Towns WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 23. To The Statesman, Salem, Ore gon Am advised that the United States engineers will hold hearing on February first at Chamber of Commerce rooms upon improve ment of the Willamette riv,er to rhalem. that t Salem. It is of great importance he engineers be furnished & with c complete information,, show that adequate improvement Is ified and necessary. Regret that I will not be able to be pres f-nt. W. C. HAWLEY. The above dispatch from Con fi-es.sman Hawley fortifies the urge that is behind the efforts of .Manager Wilson of the Salem Cliamber of Commerce to make the shewing before the engineers n the first of the month as com l le as possible. Is Hard at Work And Mr. Wilson is hard at work. He is asking all the concerns and individuals having tonnage for -iiipment between Portland and .;ilem to specify the volume of it. He is inviting the cooperation of i he rities and towns up and down Vtfe river, including Eugene, A1-. Sany, Corvallis, McMlnnville and Xewberg, and all the rest, and ask ing that delegations be sent to at tend the bearing. Written and Oral The engineers are anxious to have the information reduced to writing. But there will be oral testimony, too; and the Salem chamber of Commerce will have present a competent stenographer to take all of this down, in order 'hat engineers may have it in mak ni; up their record to forward to 'Continued on page 2) MARINE EMBLEM SAVES ONE LIFE I wo ARMY AUTOMATICS JAM DURING CONFLICT .Nicaraguan Machete Cleaves Me al Disc Worn by Sergeant Harold I. Crowe II MANAGUA, Nicaragua. Jan. 23 ( AP) The marine emblem on the hat of Sergeant Harold I. Crowell of the United States mar ine corps saved his life twice In a few minutes Sunday, it was learned today. Attacked by three Nicaraguan peons with machetes, the metal emblem warded off two blows up on his bead, saving him from serl- mi ininrv until a rnnmanlnn T. V VtAn n a w h!kf nh&rmirtil mate, could come to his rescue. The big, husky hospital corps man today was the recipient of a flood of congratulations from friends for his share of the credit in saving Crowell's life. The two Americans were out for a horseback ride on the outskirts r Granada when they came upon three peons killing a fourth. 'roweli leaped from his horse In futile effort to save the man at tacked. His pietol failed to fire and the three peons rushed .to Crowell. striking two vicious blows on his, forehead with thelt ma chetes. The force of the blows was broken by the marine emblem, which was nearly cut In two. It Is believed that if the emblem had not been on the hat Crowell's Aad would have been snlit. tJ.U3,VoweIl wac knocked down and J Newton Immediately got Into ac tion. The nary man Kiuea two 01 the peons with his pistol and then it jammed. He saw the third ar sailant leaning oyer Crowell with hismachete in a position to de capitate the fallen" marine. The huge hospital 'corps man seized a machete from One Of the I 'dead men, attacking the remaln r ing peon with it. and after, two or three hard blows killed him. The'original Victim or the three was found to be dead. Crowell's hand wa badly cut in endeavor ing to parry machete blows-- bat bis wounds are not considered serious. He was treated at a field I hospital in Granada and- then I brought to Manama. PURSUIT LEADS INTO 2 STORES 'STOP OR I'LL SHOOT." HKARD BY PATRONS L. L. Kays Breaks Away From Of ficer Thomanon; Cornered I In 5 and 10 "Stop or 1 11 shoot! Stop or I'll shoot!" ith these words Officer George Thomason of the Salem police force pursued L. L. Kayi from a point in the alley behind the Roth Grocery company estab lishment through the store and out into Liberty street. The whole story of how Kays came to be running away from Thomason, how he ducked into the local five and ten cent store but was eventually recaptured. Is a follows: Kays had previously made somewhat a name for himself with local authorities, largely through his habit of writing checks without having money enough in the bank to cover them. He had been found guilty on a former charge of this kind, ant was gradually paying off the re sulting indebtedness. He was taken into custody again yesterday, however, charged with having fallen into his old habits during the week end. After being kept in the city jail for a few hours he was taken to justice court and brought before Justice of the Peace Brazier Small. Judge Small granted him time in which to consult an attorney, and or dered that he be lodged in the county jail for safe keeping. It was while Thomason, In whose custody the prisoner had been placed, was on his way to the county court house and jail that the first mishap took place. The trip was being made in a small car, Thomason doing the driving. He found it necessary to stop for a moment on other mat ters, the stop taking place in the alley connecting Court with State streets, between High and Liberty. Suddenly Kays decided he didn't want to have any more to do with Thomason. He jumped out and dashed for the nearest door, which happened to lead into the grocery store. Emerging into Liberty street he turned south, going as fast as a pair of willing and anxious feet could carry him. It was of no use, however. Even a Woolworth crowd could not hide the culprit from the hands of the law. Kays was duly delivered at the county sheriff's office for Incar ceration in the county jail a few minutes after four o'clock. "It's lucky for that young fel low that Thomason did catch him again," was the only comment of fered at the sheriff's office. "It would have meant a matter of two or three years more to Kays." MOTHER VISITS HICKMAN Los Angeles Slayer Sees Parent for More Than Hour LOS ANGELES. Jan. 23. (AP)- For more than an hour to day William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnaper and slayer of little Marian Parker, calmly talked with his mother, Mrs. Eva Hickman, and his brother, Albert, who came here from Kansas city to be present at the sanity trial opening Wednesday. " There were no tears and no dis play of emotion in the meeting and at its close the young prison er joked, laughed and cursed dur ing an Interview with newspaper men. The meeting between the three was staked in the richly furnished offices of the jailer. BLAST 'SNUFFS OUT LIFE Olympla Man and Car Both Blown to Bits by Explosion OLYMPIA, Jan. 23. (AP) Blown to bits by an explosion hirh also demolished and scat tered parts of his automobile over a wide area, Augustus Waiun. a Montesano road contractor, was killed today on the highway near McCIeary, west of here. ' The tragedy was discovered ny John W. Betew. who reported tc notice that he noticed an odor of giant powder around the scene. It was believed that Wallin was transnortlnz some of the explo sives when it was accidentally de tonated. PRISON POPULATION 660 Doubling of Two Convict to the Cell Continues With seven new "guests" dres ad la' over the week-end, the Oregon state penitentiary Monday night reported a totai popuiauon of 660, tie highest number of convicts ever "assembled there, rvmblinr an 'of two conTictaln a single cell 1 continuing ms the presumed capacity or tne prison was" passed sometime ; ago, and convicts continue ' to come much faster than'thsj are released. BROADCASTING HERE II NOT BE PERMITTED Discriminatory Recommend ation Will Be Sent Com mission Learned NEEDS NOT CONSIDERED Representative Says Tendency Is to Reduce Number of Stations; Activity Here Would Not Interfere That Salem's development is in line to be hampered by a piece of 111 considered bureaucracy, was In dicated here Monday when a let ter was received from Harold A. Lafount, representative of the fed eral radio commission, that he will recommend to the commis sion that the application for a radio broadcasting station in Sa lem be denied. This letter states that there is a tendency to decrease rather than increase the number of broadcast ing stations in the Pacific coast area. So far so good. Discrimination Seen But it leaves out of account the fact that Salem has no broadcast ing station, and that smaller cities all over the northwest have been permitted, under less strin gent rulee, to establish stations, and that all of the larger cities have a number of them. Now the federal radio commis sion is supervising all of these matters, and finding that the ether Is so crowded with broad casts that it is difficult for any of them to be heard properly, it pro pose to reduce the number of licensed stations. In doing so, however, it appears from Mr. Lafount's letter that lo- (Continued on pge 2) OPPOSES NARROW PAVING Surfacing Should Be SO Feet Wide, Commission Claims To curb the practice of Salem citizens in petitioning for narrow width pavement and having such petitions approved by the city council, the cfty planning and zon ing commission last night adopted a resolution asking the council to disapprove petitions calling for pavement of less than 30 feet in width. The council but recently has approved petitions for pavement of 24 feet in width, which the commission contends is not wide enough to accommodate traffic when cars are parked along the sides of the street. MRS. KNAPP OUT OF PUBLIC SIGHT SECLUSION SOUGHT BY WO- BUN CHARGED WITH FRAUD Attorney Declares Proceedings -Foolish and Futile" in In terview at Washington NEW YORK, Jan. 23. ( AP) Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp was somewhere in seclusion tonight awaiting the next development in the charges that Bhe used her of ficial position to defraud the peo pie of the state after they had honored her with the first state office ever accorded a woman. Her disappearance was sudden and complete, and close friends be lieved she had slipped away to se quester herself with relatives un til it is made plain just what the situation is with which she is faced. As secretary of state Mrs Knapp had charge of the 1925 state census. This morning the report to Governor Smith of Com missioner Leboeuf was made pub lic recommending criminal action against her for her conduct of the enumeration. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. (AP) Characterizing as "foolish and futile" the report of Randall J. Leboeuf recommending crim inal proceedings against Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, for her handling of the New York census fund -while secretary of state, Alexander Otis, her attorney, to day declared that Mrs. Knapp had not been allowed her constitution al privileges during the investiga tion. Otis, who is here on business, said that Leboeuf had attempted to try Mrs. Knapp "without giv ing her an opportunity to cross examine the witnesses against her, through counsel, or testify in her own behalf under the protec tion of her legal advisor." FRENCH NOTE PUBLISHED Obligation ta -pf t Nations Cited Jby European WASHINGTON. Janf l--AP) Secretary Kellogg made public today the latest French hbtein the exchange concerning a multi lateral treaty for the outlawing pt war, but refrained from making any comment. The communica tion declared France stood ready to negotiate a bilateral treaty but when confronted by the initiative of the United States in proposing a multipartite covenant, 'it had to take into consideration the rela tions existing among the various powers which would be called upon to participate. The note said "the American government cannot be unaware of the fact that the great majority of the powers of the world, and among them most of the principal powers, are making the organ'za tion and strengthening of peace the object of common efforts car ried on within the framework of the league of nations." AS STRONG AS ITS WEAKEST CHAMBERLIN OFF ON LECTURE TRIP AIRMAN ; AMAZES CROWD-BY HOPPING FROM STREET Tiny Craft Handled la City Traffic by Flyer, Who la to Speak Throughout U. S. CURTISS FIELD, N. Y.. Jan 23. (AP) In a tiny eight year old plane that he had recondi tioned with his own hands, Clar ence Chamberlin took off on an extensive lecture tour today after conducting his test flights in a motor-cluttered street. The plane is a Sperry mes senger, a dwarf type, with a three cylinder engine and a 20 foot wing spread formerly used by the army for short distance courier service. The Sperry company ceased mak ing planes some years ago and the army "outlawed" the ones they had left after a series of accidents. Chamberlin found the old plane stowed away In a corner of the Fairchild factory at Garden City and bought it. With the aid of a mechanic and a volunteer news paper man he went over it from stem to stern, strengthening, shov ing in replacements, patching where corrosion bad done its work. Today the lilliput of the air. still wearing its eight year old tires, was! trundled into Stewart avenue. Garden City. The little sixty horsepower motor crackled into life as though it had not long since been! laid away to rut into nothing, and as a gap in the traf-, fic appeared, Chamberlin gave her the gun. Amazed spectators watched and then burst into applause as the stunted old ship roared along the pavement for less than 100 feet between rows of tall trees and then lifted easily into the air. After Chamberlin had repeated this program, landing in the street and rising a second time, he flew to Curtiss field and made his for mal departure from there. His first stop was at Allentown, Pa The plane has a speed of 70 miles an hour, and a cruising radius of not more than 250 miles. KILLS WIFE, THEN SELF Insane Jealousy Believed Cause ,K of Double Tragedy CASCADE LOCKS. Ore.. Jan 23. iAP)-i-In a fit of insane jealousy Elston-L. Barnes, 49, a section .foreman today shot and killed nhriIfe, Sevllla, and then turning" tbej weapon upon himself, fired a bullet through bis head. He died 15 minutes later. incessant quarreling was blamed by neighbors for the tragedy, they pointed out that Barnes was of a quarrelsome and jealous disposition. This morning a quarrel was re sumed from last night and Barnes refused to eat breakfast. His wife sat down to the breakfast table when he called her Into another room. Two shots were heard and when relatives reached the room they found Mrs. Barnes dead and her husband dying. LINK? KICKOFF GIVEN HOOVER BOOM FOR NEW YORK Prominent Men Will Manage Campaign For Presiden tial Nomination THREE NAMES SELECTED List Includes Former Congress man William Hill, Richard Lawrence and Meier Stein brink, Paper Says NEW YORK. Jan. 23 ( A P ) The New York World tomorrow will say Secretary Hoover bas se lected three republicans to man age a pre-conventlon campaign in New York state looking to the nomination of Hoover as republi can candidate for the presidency jin 1928. mer Congressman William H. Hill of Binghampton, N. Y., will have charge of mustering up state Hoover delegates to the na tional convention in June. Richard W. Lawrence will per form a similar duty in Manhattan and the Bronx, while Meier Stein brink of Brooklyn will have charge In that borough. Mr. Hill is credited with being one of the strongest political fac tors in southwestern New York, while Lawrence until recently was republican leader in the Bronx and Steinbrink is a lawyer who has been active in republican poli tics in Brooklyn. More Support Looms John D. Clarke, present repre sentative in congress from Hill's former district. Rep. Gale H. Stalker and Seymour Lowman, as sistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforce ment, also are expected to sup port Secretary Hoover, the World will say. No headquarters will be opened In New York for the present, at least, but attention will be cen tered upon obtaining as many state delegates to the national convention in June as possible pledged to support the Hoover candidacy. .-- . Selection of the three to carry; on the campaign in this state was made Friday at a conference with the commerce secretary in Wash Ington, the World will say. COLD WAVE TO CONTINUE City of Portland Sees Severe Weather; Little Let-up PORTLAND. Jan. 23. (AP) I Temperature near or a bit below freezing, with the possibility of light rains was forecast for Port land and vicinity for tomorrow, adding but little hope to those looking forward to balmier weath er. After the thaw yesterday the temperature dropped to freezing last night and changed but little today. Danger of rain freezing as it falls Is possible tomorrow. Edward Wells, government met eorologist, said. Icy pavement in the Columbia gorge continued to make automo bile traffic hazardous. One-way traffic regulation was being car ted out on the more dangerous stretches. Eleven inches of snow Inter fered today with driving over Sand Mountain on The Dalles-California highway. Five Inches of snow covered the Green Springs high- iway between Ashland and Klam ath Falls. The Willamette valley and lower Columbia highways were being travelled normally. Warm rains fell during the past few days in southern Oregon. SEARCH COMES TO STOP All Clues Ran Down In Tain Hunt For Missing; Co-ed ' NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 23. (AP) The inTestigstlon of the disappearance of Miss Frances St. John Smith, 18 year old Smith college freshman, came to an abrupt standstill tonight when the investigators reported they had exhausted every clue. ' During the day State Detective Joseph V. Daley and five state' policemen searched every Smith college building from basement to attic wlthoutinding anything of value to them. ' Even the ash piles and waste paper bins were exam ined In the search, the third which has been about the college since the student disappeared on Friday, the 13th of this month. . w Large posses of Boy Scouts and volunteers searched the surround ing countryside and patrolled the Connecticut rirer bat nothing was uncovered that could be used In clearing the mystery of the girl's fate --'v ' - A. reward of $10,000 has been offered; to the person who find -orth west daring most of yester Ithe missing girl. '.ay.- , COLUMBUS GETS BLAME FOR THIS DISCOVERY O F AMERICA ROBS EUROPE OF PEP Strange Facts About U. S. Gov. eminent Are lemcl From Exam Papers "The effect of the discovery of America on western Europe was that it took all the pep out of wes tern Europe." "Two responsibilities of citizens of the United States are Hawley and Corell." "The president's cabinet is where people get together to see who the president and vice presi dent is, and that's all I know about this." "Three departments of govern ment are the legislative, which makes the laws, the judicial, which enforces the laws, and the Inter junction, which interrupts the law9." "Four powers of congress are the secretary of state, the secre tary of the treasury, the postmas ter general and the secretary of the United States." "The Dredd Scott decision broke out in 1875." Such are the opinions of some of Marion county's school chil dren, it was revealed yesterday at the office of Mrs. Mary Fulkerson, county superintendent of schools Eighth grade examination papers written Thursday and Friday of last week, are being corrected at the superintendent's office. '.'Generally speaking, the pupils have answered the questions pretty well." Mrs. Fulkerson said yes terday. "but there are a few that are surprising, to say the least." The examinations were given pupils who were passed condition ally from the seventh to the eighth grade last spring, and also to chil dren who have recently come to this state from other states and whose, credentials were not quite acceptable. AWARD CLAIMED UNFAIR Machinery Company Claim lt. Offer Lowest and Bejt "Salem will be published among contractors in Portland as grossly unfair to bidders," a representa tive of the Loggers and Contract ors Machinery company declared to city officials yesterday. The firm recently offered a bid on a ditcher which was $900 low er than the bid offered by the Howard Cooper corporation. Tut council awarded the contract to the Cooper a corpor-' ion. on a recommendation Irom the sewer committee, of whlcb-8. H. Graben horst is clalrman. The Loggers people declared that their ma chine had not been inspected in spite of their requests that this he done hefore awarding the bid. rhalrman r.rabenhorSt declined dI th matter yesterday but City Engineer Rogers declared that the Loggers machine was too light and not adaptable to Salem's needs, hence, It was not pur chased. He declared also that the sewer committee bad seen the! Loggers produq in operation be fore making the decision. The Loggers and Contractors Machinery company is said to have criticized the city on previous oc casions, once when a contract on a mixer was awarded, a mixer on which the firm had offered a bid. NEW RATTLE IN OFFING lOOO More Marines More in Dur ing Lull In Fighting MANAGUA, Jan. 23 (AP) All was quiet in the battle area of Nueva Segovia today, but 1000 marine reinforcements were on the way nevertheless, to aid in the fight against the rebel. Gen eral Augustino Sandino. Marines are still trying to con firm reports that Sandino has been killed or wounded, but have been unable to get any definite information. It still is believed likely that he was wounded bat not killed. The marine reinforcements en route to Kuilali and other "points in Nueva Segovia left .'eon yes terday, equipped with mountain batteries, field pieces and other appurtenances of modern warfare,' to attempt to dislodge Sandino from his mountain stronghold. GALE STRIKES THIS CITY , - - - i Wind Blows Along Street Heavy Casts From South la Terrific gusts of wind, blowing up out of the south and south west, swept through Salem at about midnight last night, con tinuing Intermittently for some two hours and threatening to last until morning or '. later. ii : Window panes :1 rattled, some buildings rocked, and coaaider- abhtMinconTenience was reported by persons' on the street during the time the gale blew, The wind had. been from ' the HEADS OF TI NATIONS MEET IN WASHINGTON President of Ireland Greeted By President of U. S. At White House EXCHANGE GOOD WISHES Leader of Free State Chats Free ly and Amicably With Every body. Hut Veers Away From Touchy Issue WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 (AP) The greeting and good wishes of the people of the Irish Free State were conveyed to President Cool idge late today by. the president of the free state executive coun cil, William T. Cosgrave. Making an official call at the White House, Mr. Cosgrave ex pressed to the president tho ap preciation of his people for nbat the United States has done for Ireland in lending moral and ma terial support in her fight to freedom. He thanked Mr. Coolidge for the appointment of a minister from the I nited States to the free state. He congratulated him upon his choice of Frederick A. Ster ling and said that within a short time he had endeared himself to the people of the free state. .Mr. Cosgrave doc-Urea be was parti cularly pleased that as the first active head of tho free state he was able after a long period of years to return the visit paid to Ireland by Benjamin Franklin. Gratitude Expressed In reply President Coolidge thanked Mr. Cosgrave and ex pressed a deep Interest fn Irish affairs, asking many questions as to conditions there. He was pleased. Mr. Cosgrave said later, with the acknowledgement that America had assisted Ireland. President Cosgrave was wel comed to Washington today with all the honors due the head rf another government. Soon after his arrival from Chi cago he visited his own legation. Calls on President Coolidge, Vice President Dawes. Secretary Kel logg. Chief Justice Taft and Sneaker I.oneworth niimu prominent placos on the day VfT$"J? Rram. He was a luncheoai iar-t" of Colonel William J. DonotanT assistant to the attorney general (Continued on paga 9) SUBSTITUTE PUT UP FOR FARMERS NATIONAL GRANGE FAVORA EXPORT DEBENTURE BILL Measure to be Introduced In Cow. grew In Near Future, As nouncement Iast Night WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. (AP) Enactment of an export deben ture bill as a substitute for the McNary-IIaugen farm relief. pro posal Is favored by the national grange. Announcement that a debenture bill which will have the grange's support would be Introduced short ly in congress was made tonight hy L. J. Taber, master of that farm organization. He and other members of the executive commit, tee of the grange have been In conference here for 10 day, con sulting farm leaders from-varlous sections and members of congress who are helping to whip the de benture measure Into final form. Taber did not disclose who would sponsor the bill In house and ann ate. "The time Is now ripe to give the export debenture plan a fair hearing on Its merits," said Tator In a formal statement. Tor more than seven years the graac, along with other farm organiza tions, has been -seeking methods to bring equality for agriculture. During recent sessions of congress the . McNary-Haugen bill has bMI the ; center of the stage. The grange as an "organisation was not committed to this plan, and la fact, objected to some of its fea tures. But It was In sympathy with the purposes sought to be ac compUsned by the McNary-Hsagen bill and never opposed the ". sore. . . -.. -. ' Vv"';-v - However the failure of ia type of legislation to become law and recent statements from mem bers of th house and senate that they will not support legislation that does Pot hare some chapw executive approval, prompts ,th grange to -believe that, the - use -has come to bring forward th port debenture Idea as a sound ' - i ( Con Hub 2)