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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1928)
viurunum juicum, uum ny l ears sigu uuajr, Became ine preserver oj me Union ana World s Greatest Exemplar of Democracy iur reopte mm uet nenina neroeri noover, zaiem ooy, oy urgamzing a Hoover Uub at the Court House on Wednesday Evenin rr Weather forecast: Fair; moderate tem perature; moderate northerly winds. Maxi mum temperature yesterday 52, minimum 36, river 3.4, rainfall .03, atmosphere clear, wind northwest. FIVE SECTIONS FORTY PAGES SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS INVISIBLE RAY SWEEPING SKY isTnins n v .r IIU I UUIIUU III! I Plans Can Be Viewed With Searchlight Without Pi lot's Knowledge PIERCES THROUGH DARK Object Shown on Screen Although Not Apparent Without Ap paratus; Goes Through Fog and Clouds NEW YORK. Feb. 11. (AP). The night sky above New York is soon to be swept by an invisible searchlight that tbews on a screen everything on which its rays fall. Arrangements are being made by Captain O. G. Hutchinson, managing director of the Baird Television Development company of London, for installation of the J&vitible ray apparatus on one of the ritva skvscraners. Tt vraa fantain Hutchinson who m .e.t " "- .r red trans-Atlantic television ny inuii8 of short wave radio and the Baird televisor. Images of a man and a woman were transported through the ether from a London laboratory to the home of K. M. Hart, a short wave radio operator in HatrsvlUe, a Westchester vil lage, just outside New York City. Demonstration Planned For the invisible ray demonstra tion Captain Hutchinson is arrang ing to have airplanes circle ove: the city to serve as targets for the eearchlight. First, an ordinary searchlight will be thrown on them, making them visible to watchers on the ground. Then, the invisible ray will bf substituted for the visible one and the planes will disappear In the darkness although they will con tinue to be shown on a screen at tached to the searchlight. The pilots will be unaware that they are uuder observation when they are in the line of the invisible searchlight. , P.alrd's invisible ray works on the following principle: A screen V viut in front of the ray of a reg-j V.iar searchlight which filters ou' all light waves but the lntra-red rays, these are the rays beyond the lower end of the spectrum and 1 are invisible to the human eye but not to a faster "electric eye." Fog, Cloud Pierced The filtered beam pierces fog and clouds and everything in its path Is recorded in the electrb eye of the Baird invention and then magnified on a screen for al' to see. .T. The Invisible ray was invented by John L. Baird in England more than a year ago and at that time wys hailed as an Invention which might revolutionize present meth ods of warfare because of its po tential use in anti-aircraft work. Shortly after the invention war announced all news about it stop ped and there were reports thai rontinued on pfe 5.) STEIWER SPEAKS ON EMANCIPATOR okegov senator addresses LINCOLN CLUB IN MAINE Paternalistic Tendency In Today's Government Flayed; Con stitution Lauded PORTLAND. Maine. Feb. 11. i ' i - -The belief that if Abraham Lincoln lived in this generation. his greatest value to his country would come from his fidelity to the organic law, "which, approx imately speaking, includes the con stitution and the principles an nounced in the declaration of in dependence," was expressed by Vn ted States Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon in an addressi tonight before the Lincoln club. 'Paternalism unknown to the revolutionary founders holds sway in almost every form of govern mental agency," the senator said. Governmental operation of util ities and of every kind of public service, and of some services which are not public in their na ture, are thought to be a cure for "The constant struggle every- where against the authority and restraints of the constitution sug gests the serious question whether the constitution will ultimately hold. Prudence would suggest and patriotism should command that the spirit of innovation upon the principles of the organic law e resisted by those who look to J declaration and to the constk 5!ation as the charter of our liber and who. accordingly, esteem a dc-pp reverence and respect for the time honored provisions. it Is not to be supposed that sny patriot would consent to the A violent destruction of cherished ' institutions, but it Is readily con ceived that the lack of vigilance ami understanding be result in countless innovations which mine from under and bore from within until they accomplish a destruc tion as complete as that caused by violent attack." LOUD BALLYHOO ABOUT LIBRARY rorxTY coritT considers RESCINDING ORDER Cost To Litigants Will lie Slight Ac-cording To Estimates Made A frenzied ballyhoo campaign which was begun immediately after plans to establish a county law library became generally known Thursday morning, has caused the Marion county court to consider seriously the matter of backing up and rescinding its ord er, it became known yesterday. That serious consideration is being given to the matter, despite former announcement to the con trary, was indicated late yesterday by J. C. Siegmund, county Judge During the past three days I strenuous campaign has been carried on to create the impression that the library is not wanted Even hypothetical and unnamed attorneys have been Indirectly quoted as saying they were not In favor of it. despite the fact that the Marlon County Bar associa tion, at a regular meeting, voted unanimously in favor of it. Strong statements have led gen erally to the belief. It was indi cated yesterday, that the library i will be a costly affair. U. G Boyer, Marion county cierx, was ... . . asked to estimate the cost to each individual litigant, and showed that the cost for each would be anywhere from 25 cents to one dollar for each party engaging In a suit or action, and from 50 cents to one dollar for estates probated Those advocating the library as an obvious necessity to court pro cedure declare that this cost is negligible and is worth many times its total as a means of adding to the efficiency and accuracy of litigation. Opposition comes, they assert, from two sources, one be lng those who do not as yet un derstand the actual situation and the other a certain reactionary element which always gathers to oppose any improvement and de velopment of whatever kind. . If the library Is rejected, how ever. It is declared that the local circuit court can get along as It has in the past. The only differ ence will be that costs will contin ue high and appeals frequent due to inaccessibility of legal author ities. ALBRIGHT OUT, ALSO IN Bond Still Up On One Charge, New Liquor Complaint Made L. E. Albright officially Is at liberty under $750 bail on a liquor charge filed sometime ago. But on the other hand, he Is, or was early this morning, incarcer ated in the city Jail, charged with possession of liquor. It seems that Albright left the garage at the rear of his home at 175 South 13th street last night with a gallon jug in his hands, at just the wrong time, for he ran plamp into State Prohibition Of ficer Oakes and Traffic Officer George Edwards of the city police force. Albright said that gallon was the last he had. and he'd had a premonition not to take it out, the officers reported. The prisoner asked that inas much as he bad ?750 bail money Already posted, he be allowed to 50 free. But the officers searched a dil apidated coupe they found on the premises and found three more gallons of something-or-other. so they weren't especially disposed to make any concessions, and at an early hour this morning Albright was still in durance vile. MA KENNEDY DUE TODAY Will Speak at Evangelistic Taber nacle This Morning "Ma" Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson of Los Angeles evangelistic fame, will appear at 10:40 this morning at the local tabernacle at 13th and Ferry streets, it was announced late yesterday. Mrs. Kennedy has been in Washington and British Colum bia on a revival campaign tour during the pa?t few weeks, and stopped in Salem last night on her way south. She will go on south to Los Angeles today im mediately aftr the services here are completed. FIND PREHISTORIC TOOTH Immense Molar Discovered Near Mrdford, Sent To Eugene MEDFORD, Feb. 11. (AP) Believed to have been originally then the Jaw bone of a prehistor ic creature, a tooth of Immense size was found yesterday after noon by Bernard Oswald on his father's ranch In the Antelope district. The tooth measures eight inches long and six Inches across. It will be sent to the University of Ore gon for classification. WATER COMPANY TOPIC Policies iuir History of Utility to Be Told Chamber The policies and history of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company, serving water to th city or Salem, will be outlined at Monday's luncheon of the Saler chamber of commerce. J. W. Helwlck, vice presider ind general manager, will outt' he company's policies; and J eebe, district manager, will f something of Us history. , Dili PASSES T BIRTHDAY IDEAS RELATED Famous American Inventor "Discusses Politics, Mor als, Religion BACKS HERBERT HOOVER Little Said Concerning Experi ments to Discover Substitute For Rubber to be Used In Time of War FORT MEYERS, Fla., Feb. 11. (AP). Thomas Edison cel ebrated his 81st birthday at his winter home here today by eating strawberries for luncheon, a deli- 11 NT- M TV-- ThwM A, Edisoa acy not often allowed him by his wife, participating for the first ime in a public observance of the Jjrand grajUlng-Wa .annual inter view to newspaper men. Religion, moral standards, Lind bergh and rubber came in for com ment from the inventor who wrote with a stubby pencil anewers to questions submitted to -him by the interviewers. Replying to a question whether he thought modern Americans were drifting away from religion, he said: "They are drifting away from superstition and bunk," adding that increase in scientific knowl edge was responsible for the fact that "11,344 churches In the Unit ed States reported no additions In 1927." Happy Age 2-18 The hanniest neriod of life, he continued, is between the ages of 2 and 18 years. Introducing hie (Continued on p?e 4) . mm I u in a , ill imtumn hi '... BETTER HOMES EXPOSITION OPES MONDAY, COOKING SHOW TUESDAY Tomorrow night at 7 o'clock the "Better-Homes" Exposi tion will be thrown open to the public and the thousands of peo ple who will throng the armory during the six days and nights will be treated to the most magnificently staged Indoor fair ever held in the Willamette valley. Brilliant lighting and scenic effects have been worked out by decorators and lighting experts and the culmination of several weeks work on the part of committees will have a fitting climax at the formal opening tomorrow night by Mayor T. A. Livesley. In all more than 50 elaborate exhibits of local firms will be a treat in themselves. Everything that goes into the modern home is displayed in the most attractive fashion. A mammoth stage done in a gorgeous Chinese setting is to be found in the west end of the auditorium. Hundreds of col ored lights are being festooned both inside, of the armory and on Ferry up Liberty to State street. Four high class professional vaudeyille acts and the "Cottage Garden" revue in which ten local girls take part will prove one of the big entertainment features. The revue is being produced and staged by Helen Rodolf of Sa lem. The French Shop will present, each night, a style show in which live models will display the last word in styles that women will wear this spring. Thomas Bros, orchestra will furnish the music during the entire week. A dance frolic is also one of the attractions and begins each night immediately following the vaudeville show. In connection with the "Better Homes" exposition a cook ing school and baking contest will be conducted beginning Tues day, sponsored by the Willamette Grocery company, the Vollmer Clearwater company, Ltd., the H. L. Stiff Furniture company and The Oregon Statesman. Mrs. H. M. Cummings, Portland authority on better cooking, and Miss Ethel Murdoch will be in charge. This attraction will be at the armory for four days, Tuesday to Friday inclusive, beginning each afternoon at 2 o'clock. LUNCHEON GIVEN TO HONOR LINDY NEED FOR AIR LINES TOLD HAVANA BUSINESS MEN Aviation to Play Important Part In Development of New World, Cubans Told HAVANA. Feb. 11. (AP). Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh having demonstrated to a series of distinguished passengers the won ders of the air, returned to earth today to speak again on the thing nearest to his heart aviation. Nowhere, he told 600 business men and diplomats who gathered at a luncheon given at the Casino club here given in his honor by the American chamber of com merce, is there greater need of air lines than in the West Indies and Central America, where travel is ordinarily so difficult. The world famous aviator who is soon to turn the Spirit of St. Louis toward the city for which it was named, gave delight to a score of persons when he flew a commercial plane for three hours today; Cuban officials, a party of young Cuban girls and the wives of several prominent Americans were his delighted passengers. In urging the luncheon guests to spend more time on the study of aviation as a commercial aid Colonel Lindbergh said "air lines and aviation will play an import ant part in the development of the United States, but an even greater part in the countries to the south where more difficult transports tion problems are encountered." Opening of regular air lines over parts of the route he has cov ered since leaving Washington fot Mexico City, would play an import ant part, be said, in the develop ment of western commerce. Hf cited the glorious history of hi? plane which after more than 40 000 miles in 465 hours in the air (Continued on Pt 5.) THE NEGLECTED HERITAGE HOPE STILL HELD FOR 40 MINERS DOZEN MEN BROUtJHT TO TOP OF SHAFT ALIVE Only Six of Underground Workers Cut Off in Canadian Plant Known to be Dead TIMMINS, Ont., Feb. 11. (AP) Almost two score miners were still trapped in the depths of the great Hollinger gold mine tonight, the second night since fire impris oned them, but hope ran high among their praying families at the shaft head, for during the day a dozen men were brought from the mine alive and only six were practically known to be dead, As the rescued men were brought up and their wives and children embraced them, hope was reborn in the hearts of the relatives of the other trapped men that they too might survive. The fire started yesterday at the 550 foot level in rubbish which had been accumulating for years. Smoke and fumes drifted down the ihafts as far a the 1.800 foot lev el and while most of the large day shift of miners succeeded in get ting to the surface, more than 50 were cut off from all escape. All efforts at rescue were futile until the arrival of a special train from Toronto today with fire fighting equipment and oxygen respirators. A United States mine car was also on the way from Pittsburgh and was expected to arrive either tonight or in the morning. Hope of getting any of the Im prisoned miners vat alive had al most died when one bell was heard sounded weakly at shaftnumber 11. The cage was immediately lowered and at the bottom was found George Zolob, who had risked his life to crawl to the shaft .hrough dense fumes. He told the escuers where six of his comrades (Continued on pg 5.) P E Meeting of Salem People Backing Former Local Resident Announced 7:30 P. M., COURTHOUSE B. C. Miles, Boyhood Friend of Candidate, Will Be Temporary Chairman; Large Member ship Here Assured Salem's Hoover for President club will be organized at a meet ing Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the circuit court room Herbert C. Hoover for department No. 1, in the Mar ion county courthouse. Local supporters of Herbert Hoover, former Salem resident, for the republican presidential nomi nation have been talking for sev eral weeks of organizing such a lub, but they delayed definite ac tion awaiting the opening of state Hoover campaign headquarters in Portland. Kiddle Favors Plan In the past week Fred E. Kid dle, state manager of the Hoover campaign, has opened an office in Portland. Local republicans favor ing Hoover's nomination got in touch with him, and received his approval of the plan to organize a Salem Hoover club. B. C. Miles, boyhood friend of the former food administrator and present secretary of commerjee, will be temporary chairman ofthe organization meeting Wednesday night. Invite Attendance This will be merely a prelimin ary meeting to select officers for (Continued on page 4.) CEMETERY MATTER UP Laldlaw'g Idea to Be Presented; Opposition Develops A meetinr of the Citv Planning and Zoning commission will be held Monday night. Among the matters coming up for considera tion will be the proposal of W. A. Laldlaw, of San Diego, to estab lish a memorial park cemetery here. While the proposed site for the new cemetery is outside the city limits, it Is within a six mile radius, and consequently comes under jurisdiction of the com mission. W. S. Levans, representing the promoters, will be present to ex plain the nroiect to the commis sioners, and it is expected .that a number of citizens alsn will he present to protest location of Jhe cemetery near their properties ofli the contention that it will : I "" property values. ;y The proposed site is erf Liberty road about foutw south of Salem. It Includes-., acres, on which the promoters have an option. EDISON LIGHTS SYSTEM Belliagham. Wah.. Street Light lng Plant Touched Off BELLINOHAM. Wash.. Feb. 11. (AP) More than 4200 miles away, enjoying his 81st birthday in his winter home at Fort Myers. Fla., Thomas A. Edison tonight turned on a new S260.000 street lighting system in Bellingham. The new system, which electri cal experts say makes Bellingham one of the best lighted cities in the nation, consists of 247 poles covering 26 blocks. The poles, bearing two globes on a cross arm, are equipped with a transformer to !ake the lights come on gradually. r!faxjc ceremonies were conduc ted by MnTr iitx. A. Kellogg aft er which the crown Ctfcer the principal thoroughfare ami waited a few minutes for Edison to turn on the lights in a hookup connecting two of the dipM dis tant points in the United States. I LL ORGAN Z ONWEDHES W i O1 " v - CLAIM SANDINO SEEKING FLIGHT REBEL GENERAL DECLARED ON WAY TO HONDURAS Ammunition of Nacaraguan law! cr Practically Gone, Official Report Nays WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. fAP) An offirial communication from Nicaragua reporting San dino. the N'acaraguan enemy of the Marines, in flight'ro Honduras with his ammunition "practical ly" gone, was given to the senate Torelgn relatione committee toda by Secretary WliMir. On the basis of the communica tion andtho date .submitted by the navy secretary and a staff of naval and marine corps officer Chairman Borah of the committee declared afterward that "the out look is very good." Mr. Wilbur reported at the meeting of the committee behind closed doors that 12 Americans and 156 Xicaraguans had been killed In hostilities since the pres ent force of marines entered Nic aragua; that Sandlno is the only disturbing element in the toun try; and that a fair presidential election cau be held there next summer. Considerable interest was shown by tjie committee in charge in the message dated yesterday from the commander of the spec ial service squadron in Nicaragua reporting the flight of Sandino It read: "Indications are from latest re ports that Sandlno intends tc reach northern coast of Honduras. He was reported to be at La Purto in the mountains northeast of Jalapa on February 4. There is ample evidence that all the rifles that Sandino has were pro cured In Nicaragua from men wh failed to turn them in. Sandino'.' i ammunition ia practically gone In so far as Nicaragua is con cerned he is finished and is sim ply trying to escape." No action was taken today by the committee on pending resolu tions for investigations of th Nicaraguan situation and there was indications that none woulr be taken until Major General Johii A. Lejeune, commandant of thi marine corps, appears before th committee next week upon his re turn to Washington from Nica ragua. Rear Admiral Julian Latlniei former chlet of the American ex peditionary forces in Nicaragua, told the committee that he was convinced that the vast majority (Continued on paK 5.) ROADS TO BE IMPROVED Hearings For Projects Set For April 4 By County Court Action with a view to building and improving sections or live roads in Marion county was taken by the county court herejesterday. Hearings were ordered ror April 4. The roads under consideration are: Silverton-Hadley's Ranch, in Road District 4 5. Xnrth Howell-Lake Labish, in District 50. Livesley-HaUs Ferry, District 53. Pratum-Willard, District 44. Gervais-Simmons Church, Dis trict 51. It is planned to make the road in District 51 with a width of 60 feet. The other four are to be 60 feet wide. LINDBERGH FEARS KISS Flyer To Whom Flight Over Ocean Is Nothing. (juaUH HAVANA. Feb. 11. (AP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh who blazed a fearless trail above th? Atlantic, blushed and retreated to day before the advances of a young lady. He had accepted a Bouquet of Cuban roses when the young miss attempted to encircle his neck with her arms. Lindbergh dodged the embrace. The luncheon hall, where the incident occurred, re sounded with laughter until his admirer. Jaqueline Merendi. aged four, was drawn back by her moth er. TEACHER C0MIJ -'Aele Schc - .-rs Exten .icy T Franc wd ure., wnera an governor in pu to visit the state in the unio niol year. Miss Johnson sa" Dr. L. C. Johnson ley. Miss., promise $25,000 and a tr she successfully tour within a yeafSy gather information con various states while en, the undertaking QUARANTINE BATTLESHIP Fever Reported Aboard U. S. 8. Colorado at Sau Pedro SAN PEDRO. Feb. 11 (AP) An official announcement late to day from naval headquarters here tatedthat the U. S. S. Colorado vhich arrived this morning from . . merfon navy yard, was under rict'.ruarantlne owing to "mild ies of cerebro-spinal fever." .-'irst reports ashoro were that it ws tie batile'hip California which fcat Ken quarantined. BRIT11 By HEAVY GALE; I Known Deaths Already Total Nine In Wake of Ter rific Hurricane SWEEPS ON TO DENMARK Wind at Liverpool Reaches Veloc ity of 104 Miles lVr Hour; Communications Crippled ! Fierce Stonu LONDON, Feb. 11. (API The toll of the fierce gale whbh swept the British Iiea last nlrl I and today and which tonight w sweeping over Denmark, steadily mounted as delayed reports reach ed here. The loss of nine lives iwa attributed directly or Indirectly to to gate wnich ortn reached hur ricane force. Restoration of crippled com munications brought details of it havoc wrought. Three houses were blown dcfn In Manchester and hundreds tn other parts of th kingdom were damaged. The torrential rrr which accompanied the storm in- iTeased the flood distress in rh English valleys and from lrehfl came reports that the counties of ryrone and Donegal were exper iencing the worst inundation -T -0 years. Tanker Damaged The British oil tanker Lueigen, oound for New York, lost its ruti der 500 miles west of Queensrnv.-n ind other ships in the north Xfr lantic reported that they were buV feted by the howling blasts ar4 waves forty feet high. The velocity of th wind at Liv erpool, 10 4 miles an hour, wc said to be unprecedented there. A Birmingham man was kiDefl when a roof collapsed while a jaby in Glouchester was killed ry i chimney stack which crumbed through the roof. A workman it Lydegate, Lancashire, was cnisbra to death when bales Of hay were blown upon him while the -ap;an of a schooner was drowned in tb; Mersey at Liverpool when the pble sank a small boat. A woman ww killed at Carraore- in the Irish Free State, In London the ualQ today rea0) ?d 60 miles an hour, tearing tffj portions of homes, fining tre and chimneys and scattering rock ing in the streets. FULOPS OPENING DRAWS CROWD MANAGEM ENT PLEASED RECEPTION GIVEN A Local People Employ! In t- Store; Henry Friedlander Manager Fulops, Inc., Salem's n?wMI men's clothing store, threw orn its doors to the public for the trryi time yesterday morning. All day people thronged through the store, getting acquainted wfi"h the proprietors and viewing Mn large stock of newest styles ,1i spring wear. "We are very pleased at r'bt welcome Salem lias given i; ;torc. The number of visitors t ceeded our highest expectation, and it looks like people haw rec ognized the fact that this sver will be conducted only unde;- iltf most modern merchandising prin ciples," B. B. Gray, sales manayei for the Fulops organization yesterday. J. L. Sande. a Salem man. form 3rly connected with Rhodes. 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