The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 17, 1928, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSlate Basketball Tournament Which Closes Today Is Only First of Many Events of State Wide Interest Coming Here This Year Hit Several Local Organizations Have Already Gone on Record for Continuing the Muncipal Camp Ground; Full Hearing Is Desirable "Weather forecast: Cloudy with rain near the coast;, moderate temperature; In creasingly southerly winds on the coast. Maximum temperature yesterday 82, mini mum 45, river 6.7, rainfall traces, atmos phere clear, wind southwest. A lot of "liberal" speakers on Washing ton's birthday declared that the first Pres ident was a radical. But we don't believe It. Who ever heardS of a radical voluntar ily retiring from office? SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS I t r . . 3 ""J .t If: LANDING FIELD THIS CITY Passenger Line Growing In Popularity; Expedites Business Trayel SALEM PARTY PLEASED Trip to Portland From Salem By Air Shorter in Time Than From Portland's Suburb When Service "Provided By Rodney Alden When six Salem men returned to this city yesterday afternoon after completing a round trip by airplane between Portland and Seattle, they brought with them the conviction that an airport for this city is a present neces sity. The first passenger air line to be established on the Pacific coast has been in operation for ten days, and already has x more business than it can handle with its two giant monoplanes. For liuslnewi lse It's business is not that of tour ists and sightseers, but of bus! ness men traveling from one place to another, and in a hurry to get there. And man after man, wo man after woman, will testify that once he has flown from one city to another he will never again make the trip on the train unless he has to. To go from Portland to Seattle by train is a long, tedious Jour ney. To go by airplane is a jaunt of an hour and 20 minutes. It takes less time to get to downtown Portland from Salem by airplane than it takes to get to downtown Portland from the outskirts of that metropolis. Airport Inevitable - All this leads inevitably to but conclusion: the airport must j& its place alongside the ga rage, figuratively speaking. Just an the garage took its place alongside the livery stable. It not only must do it and Is doing FOR Nhit it has done it. At Present most people wneri Five thought to the matter say that airports should be publicly owned, since private" Interests owning them would virtually own the air so far as airTtransporta uon was concerned In any f-vent, however, the only way Sa (Continued on pr 4.) MUSSOLINI WINS FURTHER POWER POPULAR ELECTION OF DEPU TIES ABOLISHED New Measure Makes Represents tives Responsible to II Duce, Not People ROME, March 16. (AP) The new fascist electoral law, which virtually makes Italy a one con stituency country, was adopted by the chamber of deputies almost unanimously this evening. There were two votes against It those of ViovannI Giolittl, former pre mifr and Mafcello Soleri, former minister of war and finance. The Vf Y two other members of the Glollt tl group, constituting , the only survival of opposition to Premier Mussolini, were absent Ex-Premier GiolittI is 86 yean old. He le the veteran of the chamber, and has not missed a sit ting during the 4C years since he first was elected. He has occu pied the same seat, which always is reserved for him, and he made his last stand .this evening as the scle leader opposing the fascist regime, like Horatio at the bridge The doughty warrior of the old liberal school was the only speak er to counter the government met sure, and he succeeded in having his voice heard despite noisy-In terruptions by the' majority mem bers. Like Premier Mussolini, 'Giolit tI is a knight of the supreme .or der of Annuniiata, which entitles im to the rank of cousin to the his usual calm, lm the veteran standing feet four inches, be can amidst a breathless sflenee.. 4.- -"With this bill," he said, "the government recognizes that a great civilized country like Italy Mn with tone. ir?rtght six f I must have among the constltuUcn- ai organs of state a national ran- entation. but the method sug ? gested for the formation of the 7 new amoer it seems to me, can vrnot constitute a true and proper national representation." From various benches where the members of the majority sat began noisy interruptions, but I ' ' - GIRL RESERVES MEET SET SOON STATE CONFERENCE WILL OPEX HERE MARCH 30 Groups From All Section of Ore gon Coming; Program latr-rcsuug The annual state conference of Girl Reserve groups of Oregon and western Washington will be held in Salem March 30. 31 and April 1. Meetings will be in the Urst Methodist church. The conference program has been arranged by the conference executive committee, of which Miss Elizabeth Baker, secretary of the Salem YWCA, and Miss Eloise White, president of the local and state Girl Reserves are members, along with Norma Sims, Portland, Helen Johnston, Vancouver, Olive SpurgeoSAstoria, Gertrude Coo per, Vancouver, and Mrs. More head, CoquUle. "Pioneers." or trail blazing, will be" the theme of the conference, purpose of which is to correlate the year's work with the summer meetings at" Sea beck. . Approximately 175 Girl Re serves will attend from the fol lowing' cities: MeMinnvllle, Port land. Astoria, The Dalles. Hepp- ner, Eugene, Chemawa, Centralia, Longview, Rocheder, Vancouver, Camas, Washougal, Curby, Mosher and Tenano. The principal speaker for the meetings will be Ethel Cutler, national secretary of the YWCA Another national secretary. Mil dred Estgar, will also be here during the convention and will lead some of the discussion groups. Both are with the na tional headquarters in New York City. Mrs. Eric Butler, president of the board of directors of the Sa lem YWCA will be conference hostess. Mrs. E. T. Barnes and Roselyn Van Winxle will have charge of registration and Miss Van Winkle will also be confer ence musician. Mrs. Paul Wal lace is chairman of the commit tee to secure homes for the visit Ing delegates and Mrs. L. H. Lau- terman heads the committee ar ranging transportation., The acn ior high school Girl Reserves will have charge of ttecbratfng Tor- the banquet, and an exhibit arranged in the book room of the YW will be tended by Marlon Jenkins, Gertrude Cosper and Marjorie Danby. The conference registration will open at 4:30 Friday afternoon. when a special train run from Portland by the Southern Pacific is expected to bring a large share of the visitors. At 7:30 that even ing the opening session will be a pageant presented by the groups from Portland, Astoria, Centralia, Longview, Vancouver and Salem The pageant, directed by Mrs Sandow of Seattle, will depict the early history of Oregon, each city presenting an episode. Program for the rest of the meeting: Saturday, 9:30, open (Continued on Pt 1 JURY SETS TALENT FREE Federal Prohl. Officer Acquitted Upon Slaying Charge PORTLAND. Mar. 16. (AP)- Terry A. Talent. 22, federal prohi bition officer on duty in southern Oregon, was acquitted by a. jury In federal court today where he was on trial on a charge of In voluntary manslaughter. . Talent had been indicted by the Jackson county grand jury following the fatal shooting of Mansford Zlm merlee. alleged moonshiner on September 28 last. Zimmerlee was shot by Talent when he fled after his arrest. Talent was not in conrt when the jury reported this morning, but he arrived a few minutes later. He explained his tardiness by saying he had overslept. LIONS CONVENTION SET Will Be Held Here May 25 and 20, Announced at Luncheon The state convention of Lions clubs, which is to be held In Sa lem, has definitely been scheduled for May 25 and 26, ft was an nounced at . Friday's luncheon . of the Salem club. A joint meeting of the Salem and Corvallls dens Is to be held soon, the exact date not being set tled as yet. t r; B. FV Irrlne, editor of thet Ore gon Journal, will be a speaker at the local Lions den March 10, it was announced. FRY LEADS SMITH MOVE Local Man Selected ae Leader of - State Organization ' PORTLAND. Mar. If. AP) , Daa J. Fry of Salem, president of the First National bank, has ac cepted membership on the gen eral committee of the Oregon Smith for resident association. Alex J; BoUnd andA. L. MeElroyf, of Portland hare also been piaoea on the same committee. The an- i nojneement van made today - STOCK lAIET SPECULATIONS Republican Chairman Dealt In Sinclair Stock, Testi mony Shows JAMES C0NNERY QUIZZED Senate Investigating Committee Hears of Relations Between' 2 Men As Told By Chi cago Coal Baron CHICAGO, Mar. 16. (AP) Speculations in Sinclair Consoli dated Oil company stock by Will II. Hays after he had used Sinclair Liberty bonds to wipe out the debt of the republican' national commit - tee in 1923 was testified to tonight before the senate Teapot Dome sub-committee by James P. Con nery, Chicago coal dealer. Connery who described himself as a friend and partner of the former chairman of the republican national committee declared that one time Hays "was about 1100.- 000 short" in his accounts which Connery said were handled by him in Chicago. Return of Fund Asked r Questioned by the senate In vestigators at his home where he Is ill, Connery testified that he had "pusned" Sinclair to return to Hays the 185,000 which the form er postmaster general had given to Sinclair to complete the return payment of 5160,000 which the lessee of Teapot Dome had given (Continued on page 4.) SLIDE KILLS 2 WOMEN Large Movement of Snow Fatal to Two In Colorado pTELLURIDE, Colov Mareirt: (AP). Two women were kill ed today by a snowallde that swept down a steep mountain at Pandora, two miles from here. The dead women are Mrs. C. C. Hicks, 0. wife of the superin tendent of the mill of the Smug gler-Union Mining company, and Mrs. Donald Glfford. 26. wife of an employe at the mill. Mrs. Gif ford's year old son had a miracul ous escape from death and was dug out of the snow alive. The slide wrecked the Gilford and. Hicks' homes and crushed a concrete retaining wall that had been erected to guard the houses against such an occurrence. Mrs. Hicks wa In the dining room of her home when the slide struck and she was killed instantly. Mrs. Glfford was in the kitchen of her uuiue niuumg me Daoy. i ne cry ing of the baby led rescuers to her dead body. The slide narrowly miesed the large Smuggler-Union mill. Hun dreds of tons of snow hurtled down the mountainside In the slide. Wallowa j Marshfield 27-22 Washington 37-16 Medford 32-20 j The DaHes 28-18 Marshfield Washington University Tillamook Medford MeLoaghlin The Dalles Astoria J Salem Salem - Wallowa 1 University J Tillamook MeLoughlin' Astoria ' "I The Dalles 1 Wallowa 31-25 Tillamook 37-20 Astoria Marshfield KEEP AUTO PARK FORUM VERDICT SPEAKERS CLAIM CENTRAL LOCATION BIG ASSET Only Opponent is Proprietor Camp . Ground In North End of City of That the municipal camp ground in Salem be retained in its present location was the general opinion expressed by speakers at the YMCA forum last night. The only opponent of this policy was C. A. Gies, proprietor of a private camp ground in the north part of the city. He declared that the city should not enter into com petition with its taxpayers In an activity of this kind. Henry Poisal, superintendent of the municipal camp ground, pre sented figures showing the regis tration from year to year, and the number of families that have lo cated here after spending a few days at the auto park because of its pleasant surroundings and con- ! veniences. The other speakers, Dr. Henry Morris. George Vick. C. J. Lisle and Mr. Patterson, all favored keeping the camp ground. They agreed that the municipal auto park is going out of date as a general principle, but pointed out that the city's camp ground is the only one centrally located, and for this reason should be retained. It was stated that a centrally located camp ground is the only one that will bring visitors in to the business district to do their trading, and the only one that will Interest them in staying here to make their homes. 1 This question is one which was brought up by the ways and means committee of the city council re cently", with a recommendation to abandon the camp ground as such and to convert the site into a chil dren's playground. The parks committee of the council has the question under consideration, and is expected to call a mass meeting for a general discussion of the is sue soon. FIND CALIFORNIA FLYERS One of Two Aviators Dead Other Badly Crippled and LOS ANGELES, March 1. (AP). Bert D. Haugh. passenger In a Southern California Edison company airplane which crashed on a mountain ridge 30 miiee north of here Tuesday, was found alive but with a broken leg be side the wrecked plane tonight. His pilot. C. W. English, was found dead. The two men were sent out by the company Tuesday morning to survey the damage of the St. Francis dam break and flood and never were heard of until this af ternoon. One of several search- ing planes, piloted by Lieutenant Trltt, of March field. Riverside, spotted and identified the wreck ed plane and rescue parties were sent in. Haugh was reported as con scious and able to talk, but was in a condition, of extreme exhaustion due to lack of food and water. SEnammipOimcEi SecSes Washington Medford 40 - 36-34 Tillamook 36-21 Astoria 28-27 Sat. 9:30 A. M. Salem NO HOPE HELD FOR 2 FLYERS WILD RUMOR OP PLANE IN MAINE CREATES NO STIR Monoplane Endeavour Believed Definitely Lost On Flight From Great Britain GREENVILLE. Maine. March IS. (AP)- Hope that an uniden tified plane heard and seen near here yesterday morning was the Hinchliffe monoplane. Endeavour, slowly faded tonight as reports of failure to find the craft trickled back here through a 50 mile net work of camp telephone lines, around the Moosehead lake re gion. ' Near the limit of its fuel sup ply, if it were the missing plane, j ii was ieau me emu uij naic come down in the forest wilder ness that stretches for nearly 100 miles northwest toward the city of Quebec. Persons could be lost for weeks In the territory, espec ially In winter. William H. Cole, postmaster at Kokadjo, 20 miles northeast of Greenville, reported seeing the plane at six o'clock yesterday morning. It was flying low, he said, and apparently going well. John Dyer and his wife, in the same vicinity, heard the plane's motor distinctly. NEW YORK, March 1. (AP) A faint hope revived today that the Honorable Elsie Mackay and Captain Walter Hinchliffe reach ed these shores for which they set out ni the plane Endeavour set out in the plane Endeavour The hope depended eolely on reports from several persons In the vicinity of Greenville, Me., that an unidentified plane had been heard and sighted at six o'clock yesterday morning flying in a northwesterly direction. If this were the British craft it was near the limit of its fuel sup ply and a forced landing , would have plunged it into a wilderness broken only by lumber camps and a .few very small settlements. De puty Sheriff Adalbert E. Rogers, failed, to find anyone who could TWenlffy the plane. The Canadian government was reported to be considering "ding a plane from Montreal idTS? In the vicinity and Washlngt, y fflclals were en deavoring to " "locate any army ( Continued on par 4.) BIRD HOUSES DISPLAYED Will be on View at U. S. National Bank Today, Announced The group of 116 bird houses made by th estudents of the Mc Klnley school and exhibited at the school Thursday and Friday, will be on display in the lobby of the First National bank building, cor ner of Commercial and State streets. Tha rmMlr la Invited n H rnn In and enjoy looking over the collec- tlon of bird homes, all of which were constructed by the students outside of school hours as part of a short study of bird customs and homes, through the suggestion pf W. A. Davenport, principal, and with the cooperation of the teach ers of the school. 46-22 Sat. 8:30 P. M. 11 Medford 21-20 27 - 9 Bat 7:30 P. 1L MUCH LOOTING NOW GOING ON IN FLOOD AREA Rigid Rules Put Into Force By Police As Marauders Become Active RUINED HOMES ROBBED Change Made in Pass System to Assist in Check Upon All Workers And Officials in . Stricken Valley LOS ANGELES, Mar. 16. (AP) Because of a steady in crease In looting among the ruin ed home of the St. Francis dam district, rigid rules today were ap plied to keep the unauthorized out of the stricken area. All old passes have been taken up and new ones issued. Even re lief workers and policeman work ing In the damaged section of San ta Paula are required to carry special passes admitting them to these districts. Police officers be lieve that most of the thievery is the work of persons who came in to the flooded region as the waters began to recede. Thefts are increasing rapidly because the task of the policing the "flooded sections is almost im possible even with an augmented force of officers. Builders May Be Tried Geologists, engineers and tech nical experts headed by deputy district attorney E. J. Dennlson of Los Angeles county, today ar rived at the ruins of St. Francis dam to start a thorough investi gation under, instructions from District Attorney Asa Keyes. Orders from Keyes are to make as completa- a probe as possible-and to return a secret report to him covering all phases of the findings. Keyes ' has declared he will insti tute criminal proceedings if any person or persons are found re sponsible for the catastrophe. ' Dennlson will question surviv ing ranchers who lived below the dam in San Francisquito canyon and others in the Santa Clara riv er valley to determine the truth of falsity of reports that the dam (Continued on par .) HOTEL MEN WILL VISIT Tour Planned From Southwest Washington Through. Here Chambers of commerce and ho tel men of southwest Washington are planning a "friendship tour" the week of March 26 and will be in Salem the second day of the a ' journey, accoraing to word re ceived here. Representatives of local service clubs will attend a dinner given in honor of the visitors here that evening, according to plans an nounced yesterday. YOUTH ADMITS PLACING BLAST CANT QUITE REMEMBER OF TOUCHING IT OFF Police at Oregon City Grill 10 Year Old Earl Jones After Fauil Explosion OREGON CITY, March 16. (AP). Held in jail here in con nection with a dynamite blast that yesterday took the lives of his step mother and his 15 year old half brother Earl Jones, 19, to night volunteered to officers that be is subject to "lapses of mem ory" and that his mother who died at his birth, and four of her sisters had been confined at var ious times in asylums for the in sane. This statement was offered af ter Sheriff Mass of Clackamas county had questioned him at length Be to his reason for plac ing a charge of dynamite under the family house at Boring, Ore. The youth admitted he had planted the explosive, but denied he had applied the spark that brought a frightful death to two of the family and caused possibly fatal Injuries to a third. Robert B. Jones, Earl's father, is in a hospital in Portland where hie condition is declared to be crit ical. Mrs. Inez Jones and Harold Jones, 15, received fatal injuries in the explosion which tore the house to splinters. An attorney will be obtained for young Jones tomorrow, offi cials said. If the attorney insists upon the release of the prisoner or the placing of a charge against him, the charge of first degree murder will be placed. This an nouncement was made tonight by Livy Stipp, district attorney of Clackamas county. It was not he who applied the detonating spark Jones cried out to police. Then he added as an afterthought: "I don't remember about that if I do remember I'll tell you all about it." The blast occurred at dawn yes terday, totally demolishing the Jones' home at Boring, and trans forming it into a splintered sham blesA From the wreckage neigh bors dug the terribly broken body of the mother of the family. Near by was Earl Jones' 15 year old brother Harold, hie head crushed and his body torn. Robert B Jones, the father washadly hurt as was Ethel Jones, 13, and Gladys Rowe, 18, Mrs. Jones sis ter. Investigators found a large hole under the newly constructed house where the dynamite had been placed. Earl Jones and Rich ard, his brother, were the only ones of the family who were not In the house when it was torn tim ber from timber by the blast. He purchased the dynamite on March 7, young Jones admitted to dav to Sheriff- Maas. With his (Continued -on par ) WANT COOS BAY BRIDGE Marshfield to Petition State High way Engineer, Word MARSHFIELD. Mar. 1. (AP) one hundred representa' tive cltixens of Marshfield tonight decided that the Coos county court should petition the state .highway engineer to draw and approve plans for a bridge over Coos bay. The Park avenue site which was vntAd two vears aco would be used. It was asked that the plans be submitted ot the port of Coos Bay, subject to the approval of the war denartment. The county court creed that the plans should be rushed thr0ugh with all possible dispatch. POULTRY THIEVES BUSY Reports of Raids Come In From Widely Separated points A well-organized gang of poul try thieves is operating in Marion county, according to reports re-, celved at the sheriff's office dur ing the past few weeks. , The poultry pens of Joe Vasek. near Silverton,, were raided by the prowlers' Thursday night and more than ISO hens .were taken. Mr. Vasek did not discover bis loss until Friday morning. - . Two weeks- ago 75 chickens were reported to have been stolen from a' farm near Stayton. INVESTIGATION FAVORED Senators MeNarr-- mad Stetwer Back Telephone Probe Request " Senators ':. Cj I McNary ; and Frederick etelwer hare agreed to support the nUoa wide congres sional . Investigation ot telephone companies and their intercorpo rate relations,' according to tele grams' received, at the offices of the public service commission Frt- A resolution urging the Investi gation was introduced in congress recently. IDF TD STATE Beats Salem By Single Point In Fiercest Battle of Meet To Date WASHINGTON OPPONENT Salem Has Chance to Qualify for Consolation Cup; Deadly Aim at Basket Gives Southern y' Team Victory TODAY AT STATE TOURNAMENT 9:30 a. m., Salem vs. Astoria, consolation semi-finals. 7:30 p. m., Tillamook vs. Sa lem or Astoria, consolation finals. 8:30 p. m., Washington of Portland vs. Medford, state championship finals. Medford high school's fast and clever basketball team won the right to oppose Washington high of Portland, by defeating Salem high 21 to 20 In a nip and tnck game that was the fastest and. most thrilling of the state tourna ment to date. last night in the Willamette university gymnasium. Deadly, aim at the basket and superior "basketball sense" won for Medford against Salem's hard er fighting and speedier team. The Salem forwards worked their way in for many more shots, but were unable to convert them. Ball Won't Go la One throw by Beechler of Salm that sank six Inches into the bas ket and then whirled out amid the groans of two thousand odd Salem"' fans, would have decided the game the other way. As it was, the two teams each sank eight field goals, and one free throw decided the issue. Beechler of Salem was high point man with five field goals and one converted free throw.- Thriller Throughout ' The play was fast and furious, from the start, with Salem taking the lead. Salem was ahead 7 to I at the end of the first quarter. Both teams used a fast breaking style, so that the ball was in or ing at lightning speed toward one (Continued oa pas 4.) KIDNAPERS GET RICH DETROITER HOTEL OWNER HELD TPOR SI O.OOO RANSOM MONEY James E. Hall, 54, Second To Re Abducted In Michigan City I During Week DETROIT, Mar. 1. (AP) Jamea E. Hall, wealthy hotel and safe proprietor, was kidnaped from his home, In the exclusive Grosse Pointe village district here tonight, it was reported to police. The kidnapers demsnded f lO.ftQ ransom. The kidnaping which police be lieve to be a continuation of tbe activities of a gang of extortion ists who have mulcted local per sons of thousands; of dollars dur ing the last few months was the second to occur here this week.""" Harvey E. Watson, local labor leader kidnaped last -Monday, is being held for I2M00 ransom, According to Hali'e-wife.V men came to the - Hall horn night and forced her husbar accompany them at the point c pistol. . -: ; 'rM A short , time later two other men arrived at the Hall homr bearing a note signed by Mr.; Hal) relating that:, he had been kid naped I and requesting that she turn, $10,000 over to the extortion- lstS. '.'j V. - 7-. : t. Despite advice to th contrary by police. Mrs. Hall waa ma kiss preparations tonight to . pay - the ransom. ' ; .. Two Great Matinee: Features ? ' The green ticket holders will hare ; great treats ' this- after noon and Monday afternoon; at the: Elslndre. :'SS 1 ! The" Latest from' . Paris," this aft rnoonvis worth, while, as all who have seen it will tell The .l'Jungle Idea'of Fan chon it Marco,- Monday after noon, is headllner la '.that realm.' : -"--:,-'V-. i- - ? TOURNEY FINAL ICentlnoed i ; Pr .)