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Jc Safem Indian Training Schdolls Falling Carlisle as the Leading and the Best School - s Herbert Hoover for Pre E. Kiddle at Head; SalemClub to OrgamStiqir Weather forecast: Unsettled with rains in west and occasional rains and snows in. east portion; normal temperature;, fresh southerly winds on the coast Maximum temperature yesterday 41, minimum 3 S, rirer 6.2, rainfall .29, atmosphere cloudy, -wind northeast. FOUR SECTIONS TWENTY-SIX PAGES SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS- ' COSGRAVE VISITS COLORED CAREER HICKMAN CASE WINTER STRIKES IN VALLEY FORGE CLOSED IN DEATH4 OPENS MONDAY COUNTRY AGAIN IIKAD OF IRELAND'S GOVERN MENT PAYS TRIBUTE LIFE OF IBANEZ FULL OF TUMULTOUS ACTIVITY LAWYERS BATTLE STARTS IN EARNEST TOMORROW HEAVY SNOWS SWEEP ALONG ATLANTIC SEABOARD American Heroes of Washington's Forty Tears of Maturity Crowded With righting of Every Kind la 31 any Lands Denial of Actual Guilt Countered Mercury Takes Sharp Drop Far Day Praised by Visitor Fresn New Free State With Statement From Dis trict Attorney's Office ther West; Several Fatalities la Chicago nnriniin nunT GREAT HONORS - - ,. TWO FACTIONS CLOSELY EYED FRED E. KIDDLE CAMPAIGN HE i mm MSB M a mm. m m m m m m rnnn r n t u Ul II all I I 111 I I W I I- YUI Many Local Offices To Be Filled At Election Four , Months Distant COUNCIL SEATS VACANT Sentiment Seems Strong For Re - turn .of Mayor IJveslejr With Opportunity to Finish Salem Program Politics is in the air, though the primaries are still four months distant, and those city officials who mast stand for election are commencing to speculate ae to their chances for holding' office another term. Interest in the election . this year is augmented by the fact that besides the offices of mayor, city recorded, and city treasurer, there are offices of eight council men to be filled, instead of the usual seven. George Thompson Is the eighth councilman to stand Jor election by reason of the fact that he succeeded Byron Brunk whose term would not ordinarily empire this year. As an appointee, Thompson must go before the peo ple of his 'ward for confirmation. Majority Needed A majority in the primary con stitutes election. Otherwise the two candidates with the greatest number of rotes.-vie agatn in. the general election in November. Councilmen t whose regular terms expire are, Carl Engstrom,, In the first wara, Hal D. Patton, in the second ward; W. H. Dancy. In the third ward; B. B. Rerrlck, " in the fourth ward; George J Wenderoth, in the fifth ward; Carl B. Armpriest, In the sixth ward; and E. B. Grabenhorst, in Jbe seventh, ward. " T -':' . "Keae ot the1 BwiilJaTe' an nounced their plans, but all. it is believed, will be receptive to a vote of approval on policies of Salem Improvement inaugurated under their term of office, which will carry with it re-election. Fight In North Salem A serious contest in the ccun- ' Continued on pf 6) GIVE ULTIMATUM FOR FARMER AID NORTH DAKOTA SENATOR IS SUES WARNING IN N. Y. West and South to Form Xe A ligament, Nye peclares In "AdQress Before Bankers NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (APF A warning of a aew political alignment between the west and south unless the east gets behind farm relief legislation was founded by Senator Nye. republican'. North Dakota, In a speech prepared for delivery tonight before the West chester county bankers 1 associa tion. ' "' ' Deelaring,that eastern repre sentatives" in congress make it impossible to, pass farm legisla tion "above the head of. the presi dent and power of veto," Senator Nye predicted that If the west and : south 'unite to form a new party ''the new alignment, created out of bitterness, wilt it successrui have little regard for the inter ests ot those institutions which have stood oppceed to them through recent years." The North Dakota senator did not specify any particular farm legislation, which he said the east has opposed, but he has1 been among the staunch supporters of the McNary-Haugen bill, vetoed last session by President Cool id ge Contiaae4 b p S) Farm arid Industrial Section of Sunday Oregon Statesman This will be a regular section of The Statesman, beginning t Sunday. It will start with at least eight pages; large size magazine pages. The reading matter will be five columns by 1 Inches. It will be full of constructive matter for. the In- I dustries on the land and In the city It will contain the mat ter of the Slogan campaigns, now fa their ninth year. 7) 'There:' will be;no';Weekly, Statesman- publlshed hereafter. The -Weekly list will be trans ferred to the Sunday list, and the subscription price will be $2 a, year. - PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28. (AP) On the snow clad hills where Washington and his army of continentals suffered through the terrible winter of ISO years ago, William T. Cosgrave, presi dent of the executive council of the Irish Free state, today paid tribute to their heroism. wnue tne wind swept across the snow-leaguered redoubts and drifted the snow high above the little huts on the hillside. Presi dent Cosgrave stood with Jbared head in Washington's headquar ters. Before him stood the desk where fhe father of his country, in that anxious winter, had sat writing his dispatches and on a peg in the wall nearby hang the long cloak and fhree-cornered hat which belonged to General Wash ing ton. "I come to thank the people of this land where freedom had Its birth." said the Irish executive, his eyes resting on the treasured relics of these days when the new republic trembled on the verge of disaster. "I come to thank America- for its friendship to our Irish nation, and to pay tribute to the heroic dead who consecrated this place o a new idea of freedom: No man could cross these snow-swent bills and fall to be impressed by the enduring valor of the men who made their winter quarters here In the war of the revolution. Their sufferings have consecrated this sod" and made it holy. The story of their endurance here surpasses anything in the world's history and it never will be forgotten as long as men are free." Aa he set out from Philadelphia for. Valley Forge amid the first heavy snowstorm of the winter, Mr. Cosgrave looked at the low banging clouds and whirling snow and commented on the coincidence. "What an appropriate day this is," Jievssid Vttfi8irValleyrSriS: where Washington and "his brave men bore the Vigors of a long win der for the cause of freedom!" AIRPLANE AGENCY HERE Buy 'Em Just Like Automobile, But Cash Necessary Want to buy an airplane? Anyone who does, need not write or telegraph to Detroit or in other manufacturing center, or the first airplane sales agency n Salem has been established. The Pacific Airplane Service, con lucted by J. E. Fitzgerald and I U. Eyerly. la agent for the Waco ilane-here, and they can be boi'gh: just as easily as an automobile xcept that so far, they can't be bought on tlme.'; Pacific Airplane Service has re -ently secured W. A. Hazelton. intll recently an instructor at Kelly Field. Texas, to instruct fly jrg here. AUTHOR HONEST, RULING Judge Hands Down Kdkt in Casej of Harry Ijeoa Wilson SALINAS. Cal.. Jan. 28. (AP) The honesty of Harry Leon Wil son, author and resident of the art colony at Carmel, In his finan cial settlement with his divorced wife was officially certified to here today. The certification came from Su perior Judge Fred A. Treat, who last September granted Mrs. Wil son a divorce. In affirming the de cree today. Judge Treat ruled that the S8C.000 Mrs. Wilson is to re ceive In the settlement Is approxi mately half the community prop erty as Wilson said it was. Mrs. Wilson contended she should have about twice that amount and that her novelist husband's earnings amounted to $100,000 a year. Judge Treat also ruled against Mrs. Wilson's contention that Wll- s6n was an unfit person to have custody of their two children. "" D0NEY BACK FROM EAST Willamette Complimented , on Scholastic Standing, Report Bearing messages of good will from eastern educators to Willam ette university students and sup porters. Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, president of 'the Institution, re turned to the campus yesterday. His principal objective in the east was attendance at the association ot American colleges', meeting In Atlantic City:' " " Everywhere in the east. Willam ette is spoken of in complimentary tones, said President Doney. Con gratulations at Willamette's ad- I mission to the approved list were I given in abundance. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Receives Gifts and Med als At Bogota DECORATED BY MILITARY Good Will Ambassador Rises Early This Morning to Set Oat for Venezuela In "Spirit of St. Louis" BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 28. (AP). When Colonel Charles A Lindbergh flies away tomorrow to Caracas. Venezuela, CSO miles dis tant, he will carry with him evi dences of the esteem tn whlch'he Is held by his hosts for a day. Colombians told him of their regard today in words and music and gave him parting gifts to send him on his winging way from the top of the world. By presidential decree the fly ing ambassador was awarded the Cross of Boyaca, the highest mill tary decoration of the govern ment. lie was also presented with a silver plaque by the city of Ma drid, 20 miles from Bogota, to commemorate his arrival at the landing field there yesterday. A momento from the American col ony of Bogota was a flag of Col ombia, made of feathers of native birds with a background of can vas. Women (jive Souvenir The feminine contingent of the American colony made the colonel custodian of a gift for his mother. a feather work pearl and gold locket, a souvenir play character istic of the country. VA marble tablet has been ce mented for all time Into the build' ing of the government military school to tell future generations that Lindbergh stopped there. ' The flying colonel, who finds no novelty in the bracing high alt! (Coa tinned on Baf ) CUTS OLD WOMAN'S HAIR Man Eaters South Dakota Farm Hc&e and Uses Shears new Underwood, s. d.. Jan. 28. (AP) Search was being made today for a man who entered the farm home of Mrs. Klem Korg- man, near here yesterday, bound the 74 year old woman to a chair, and shortened her hair and skirts with a pair of scissors. The man told her, Mrs. Korg- man said, that he was sent out by the government to "cut old lady's hair and shorten their skirts." i If III VJ WJ V WW.:- ;.T,z3sVA t! lift KEEP OUT.' 1 MllW Wll THIS MEANS I h Mm TUU! V If 1 K YrV K iiv vW i AY! f m cm1 J, MENTONE, France, Jan. 28.- (AP) Vicente Blasco Ibanez died here today, an involuntary exile, and will be buried Tuesday in the town cemetery in accordance with his last wishes. . The famous Spanish novelist, a victim of diabetes and bronchial pneumonia, raised himself In bed to express the wish to his family gathered about him, then rested in recent years made him apprec and expired at 3:30 a. m. The tumultous career of the writer, of which Anatole France said to him, "Your greatest work is the romance of your own life," in recent years made him aprpec iate peace so much that he was Inspired to make his home a ref uge for other authors with tele phone lines and other communi cation with the outside world eliminated as far as possible. Ibanez' forty years of maturity were crowded with both physical nd mental activity. Throughout his dramatic manhood he fought with both pen and sword. He saw nearly all countries of the world and through his books, lectures and movies he gathered gold from most of them. 1 His genius as a novelist was often said to have been equalled by his genius as a business man. He circled the globe twice and at 'east a score of his works could be termed complete successes, most of their financial returns, however, being due to their tre mendous popularity in the United States. Although he Is said to have been active in opposition to the Spanish government at the age of twenty, some say even mingling (Continued on pare 0.) CLUBS TO HOLD MEET Proposed Change la. Regular Meet- i ... , .....lag. Mk JDlacwssiedt A proposed change in the com munity club meetings in Marion county will be the chief item of discussion at the gathering of Marlon County Federation of Community clubs on Wednesday evening at Hayesvllle. The regular monthly meeting of the organization is scheduled to begin promptly at 7fS0 and a good program has been arranged in ad dition to the business meeting.1 Several speakers will be present. The proposed change in regard to the meetings calls for the di viding of Marion county into dis tricts and the clubs of each dis trict would hold their own, meet ings each month. Then probably once each quarter there would be a general county meeting such as is held now each month. It is thought -that this new system would create' greater interest in the respective districts and so in sure a much larger attendance. BACK TO NORMALCY LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.- (AP) Jerome Walsh, chief coun sel for William Edward Hickman, declared late tonight that he had made no such statements as were circulated here today and attrib uted to him, to wit, that he had said the kidnaper and slayer of Marian Parker had repudiated his confession. jLOS ANGELES, Jan. 28. (AP) t-The week-end adjournment of the sanity trial of William Edward Hickman ; found his attorneys to day announcing new angles of their defense plans, declaring that the confessed slayer of little Mar ian Parker had repudiated his con fession; and also holding confer ences upon their trial battle strat egy. Defense Attorney Jerome Walsh asserted that late yesterday while being Interviewed by a defense ali enist, the! 19 year old kidnaper killer had! repudiated the confes sion he had made to the police. Walsh added to this his convic tion that the plea of "not guilty by reason of -insanity," did not imply an admission of guilt and that he intended to interpose an arrest of i judgment if the trial jury found his client to have been sane at the time of the crime. He said he would demand another trial under the plea that Hickman now is Insane. District; Attorney Asa Keyes chief prosecutor, answered the an nouncements with the assertion that Hickman not only had admit ted his guilt in written and oral forms, but that the plea was itself direct and legal admission of the facts of the crime. Keyes pointed out that under the new code cov ering such pleas Hickman had been asked by the court If he real lied that under such plea he ad mitted his guilt and he had re- (Cantioatd page C.) Index of Today's News ! Section Oae General News 1, 2, 6. 12 Theaters; 2, 3 Features 4, 5 Editorial 6 City News 7 Society 8, 11, 12 Woman's, Styles 9 Classified 10, 11 Section Two Automotive .1, 2, 3, 4 Better Homes 5, 6 Section Three SpOrtS mm - lt 2, 4 Radio 2, 3 .7 'Section Ftmr Comics ' i 1-4 Politicians Scrutinize Entire Section As Doubtful J Election Factor DAKOTAS DRAW INTEREST Strength of Frank iowden Un certain Element in G. O. P. Scramble; Bourbons Split Between Reed, Smith WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (AP) Friends of the leading candi dates for president are turning their eyes toward the northwest, since the war a doubtful element in all political speculations. Out in Norh and South Da kotajespec1ally, both the republi can and democratic camps see In teresting political events on the horizon, for these states took the lead in expressing their prefer ence to the national conventions in Kansas City and Houston. Although the state legislature has pushed up the South Dakota state convention or "proposal meeting" as it is called there from December to March 6, that state still is the first In the coun try to make a concrete more in the 1028 political campaign. North Dakota follows on March 20 with a primary election. Forces Gathering The Interests of the" republicans center about the strength Frank O. Lowden will develop in these northwestern farm states, and the question whether he will get by there without a contest with either Senator Norris of Nebraska, or any other republican candidate. ..The democrats foresee a fight between Governor Smith of New York and Senator Reed of Mis souri for the democratic delegates. Both Reed and Smith followers nave announced they will enter the contests in both South and North Dakota. The only other state to select delegates in March is New Hamp shire, which has its primary on March 13, the voters do not ex press a direct presidential prefer ence in that state but on the re publican side a slate of delegates (Continued on par S.) WANT CLOSER CONTACT Relationship Urged Between Two State Sapreme Courts PORTLAND, Jan. 28. (AP) A closer relationship between the supreme courts ot Oregon and Washington and between, .courts and lawyers of both states was the keynote of talks at a banquet here tonight, at 'Which seven members of the Washington state supreme court met with the entire mem bership of the Oregon state su preme court as guests ot the Mult nomah bar association. The keynote was sounded by John L. Rand, chief justice of the Oregon supreme court. All members of the Washington court except two were present. The two. Associate Justices Fullerton and Mitchell, were detained by business. DRINK SOLD AT FUNERAL Indiana Brothers Make Profit Out of Ceremony HAMMOND. Ind.. Jan. 28 (AP). The story of how two brothers profited by the funeral of another brother by selling li quor to the moruners and charg ing them $3 each to ride in the funeral cortege was told in court today in the suit of John Jasnow- ski, an undertaker, who filed suit to collect the funeral expenses. Frank Puskowskl. one of the brothers, said - Felix, the other brother, should pay the costs, since Felix made money by charg ing ther mourners to ride in. the cortege. But Felix said Frank made f 150 by selling them' liquor, so he should pay. The esse was continued. ALUMNI MEET, MEDF0RD University at Oregon Gratis Gather ".;;"Ves Jacksom Day. MEDFORD, Jam 2f(AP)- Southern Oregon.- alumni of the University of Oregon wn assem ble Monday, February 13, to at tend Inia body the annual Lincoln dey. banquet of tha Lincoln dab of Jack son county, at .which. Dr Arnold Bennet HalU president of tha University Ql Oregon will de lver the chief jgddress, . r' NEW YORK. Jan. 28. ( AP) King Winter resumed positive sway over a wide area of the United States today. To the swing of his sceptre, reg iments of snow clouds drilled over the eastern states and south be yond Washington, swathing city, village and country roads with the heaviest drifts of the season. Farther west, biting tempera tures marched before the advance In the eastern states it was the first real snowstorm of the year Earlier during this freakish winter snow has fallen in separate sec tions, but today for the first time the storm was general over many states. Beginning early In the day the snow fell steadily and the weather bureau predicted that it would continue throughout the night. Temperatures in the snow belt were not severe but farther west the mercury descended snarpiy. Several deaths were reported in Chicago. In New York City the snow was gentle and very fine and for hours succeeded in doing little more than making a slippery paste on streets and sidewalks. Generally throughout New Eng land there was light Bnowfall dur ing the day which was expected to pile up several inches before morning. Lancaster. Pa., reported 15 inhAa with trollev service im paired and scores oT;parked auto mobiles unable to move. In Washington the storm reached Its full strength, piling up it almost a foot of snow in me streets and recalling a tragedy of six vears ago today when a heavy rail of snow crushed in tne rooi of the Knickerbocker theater and caused the death of 98 persons. FIRE HITS ATLANTIC CITY Ponftlderable Damage Ione ly Blaze; Pot Under Control ATLANTIC CITY. Jan. 29.- (AP) Fanned by a forty mile an hour gale fire early todsy Taxed three of the resorts principal boat houses In the vicinity ot South Carolina avenue and the board walk, destroyed the homes of Wil Ham S. Cuthbert, director of pub lic safety, and Senator Emerson L. Richards on the boardwalk and for a time threatened several of th ritv'.o leadlnc hotels. The fire caused damage estimated at far more than a million dollars. At 2 a. m. the blaze was reported under control. The fire started a few minutes after midnight in the rear of the Atlantic Polo service on the board walk near South Carolina avenue and had eaten through the second and third stories of the frame andl . . ... . . . , " I brick aweuing oj me ime cugiue companies had battled through blizzard to reach it. The buildings destroyed Includ ed Cuthbert's baths. Smith's baths and Richard's baths. PRESS BUNCO CHARGES Rnnd Larceav Laid to Three Members of Portland Ring PORTLAND, Jan. 28. (AP)- State charges of grand larceny to day were placed against Ed. Crewe, George Francone and Charles Swanson, accused of be ing principals in the largest bun co ring to operate In Portland in many years. The alleged confidence syndi cate was disrupted yesterday when these men. with three others and two women, were arrested, in a raid on a room in a downtown hotel. H. E. Sellwood, real estate man. who told of having been drugged and robbed of $1300 by Francone and Crewe, supplied the police with the information leading to discovery of the alleged swindler's lair. WILLIS AFTER ELECTION Defend! position of U. 8. la Nica ragua la Address ' COLUMBUS. O.. Jan. 28 (AP) Defense of the Monroe doctrine and the United States position with relatlosv to Nicaragua were the dominant points made; Ay United States Senator Frsnk B. WUUs here, tonights In his first public address In behalf of his presidential' candidacy. "" -Speakng before the republican glee club at its celebration of Mc- Klsley day. Senator Willis .de clared "'there Is not now- and never Jias been say purpose on the part of the American govern ment: to interpose la 'any manner in Central of South: America ex Jeept to aid the people of those countries in : developing, prjree- 1 T government, -malntaialngj nee and advancing proiperlty, State Senator From Union County Accepts Manag-Tl ership In This State LUB TO ORGANIZE HERE Former Salem Resident's XansV' Will Be Placed on Ballot By Petition; Support In Stat?' Widespread With the announcement ithat State Senator Fred E. Kiddie ef Island fitv ta tn manv th XXml bert Hoover campaign in Oregon baieni supporters of the former Salem man are to proceed at once i with the organization ot the local ' 'Hoover for President" club whfoH they have been talklnr for,vV I erai aays. T. .t- Local Hoover enthusiasts wm get in touch with Kiddle early A tnts week, and it is possible that as soon as he opens headquarters in Portland, he may come here-'fe assist in launching the club here: Accepts Position PORTLAND, Jan. 2 (AP) -Fred E. Kiddle, of Island Citv. In eastern Oregon, a member of ' the state senate, haa hn nttTA and has ; accepted the respon-' bility of! managing the campaign, of Herbert Hoover in the Ores.cn presidential preferential nrt maries. Senator Kiddle annono ced today that he would open hie headquarters here within a few days With the selection of Senator . : Kiddie came the announcement that Hoover's name will be nlaoej on the ballot by petition. .. and submitted to the republican voters of the state. Hoover backers ex pressed the belief that sentiment . in his favor is so overwhelmlug that it Is believed be will have do difficulty In securing the endorse- ,' 'Continued aa pffa 9.1 ' - , CRITICS PREPARE TO WRITE REVIEy "PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN' OF TROY" COMING SOON" Picture Different In ManlVa; Plans Made For Writ lug Reviews J Get your trusty peas, iencils , I and typewriters ready, you a ma teur reviewers, for "The Private Life ot Helen of Troy" conies CD the Elslnore theater Tuesday and with it your chance to proveUaat' you can write as good, andtperl haps a better review of this iuas slve production of First National Pictures, Inc., as any professional scribe. For your advance Information we'll tell you that "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" is based on Professor John Erskine's beef selling book of the same title;' that lovely Maria Corda, a status esque Hungarian blonde play Helen, and that Lewis Stone, and Ricardo Cortes are other featured players. It is a picture different in every, way from any of Its predecessor?' : that gives you amateur scribe free rein In commenting on if. You won't be bound down by ary ; time-worn comparisons: Fof there never was another picture Y like it. It Is at once a gorgeous spectacle and the wittiest satiric) comedy ever brought to tr.e screen. - Remember, beginning Wednee; (CntlB4 pt -, 'Review 'Private Life of Helen of Troy Rules The contest Is open to every one. Irrespective of ace or sex. except employees of this "news-: psper, First National Pictures,: Inc. and the Elslnore theater, and -members of their families.' Reviews mpst be legibly written" -on-'one side of th paper-tnnst not. exceed 100 words In length, and must be addressed to the "Helen of Troy . Review Editor," States man. No review lean be re-3 turned. . ' -': -: .-. -1. : C For reviews ' selected for re-' production in -this psper 1 L0 each ' 111 . be psld. 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