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I The Question of Establishing an Airport for Salem Is Now Up toithe People for the Approval of a Proposed $50,000 Bond Issue The Western Paper Converting Company, Proposing the Expansion of Its Business, Is One of the Remarkable Industries of Salem Weather forecast: Unsettled with occa sional rains west and probably local rains and snows east portions; frosts east of Cascade mountains; fresh south and south west winds on the coast. Maximum tem perature yesterday 52, minimum 37, river 14.7, rainfall .16, wind southeast. An American woman, according to the New York Times, is running one of the big French newspapers. This doesn't surprise us any. An American woman can and does run anything when she makes up her mind to. . SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1928 NEW AMENDMENT T McNARY BACKED WATSON ASSISTS STORM TOSSES VICE PRESIDENT -4 BEFORE COUNCIL IN FARM RELIEF VESSELS ABOUT COUNCIL-MANAGER IDEA PASS PETITIONS SENT OUT BY SENATOR "REVIEWS POLITI CAL HISTORY OF PROPOSAL INVOLVED, FALL SLX SHIPS AND LARGE POWER E ES TWO READINGS PORTLAND RESIDENT LAUNCH THREATENED Other Business Transacted by City BY CITY DADS A. O. Barry Launches Move In Charles McNary Leads In Fight During Stormy Session of Senate EXPLAINS NOTE Terrific Seas Make Life Uncertain; Landing Impossible as Gale Continues Dads at Regular Meeting . Here Last Night Support of Salem Man For G. O. P. Nomination I? Me " . " - PRTr'TT' vt.tt? rrx?'ro - ARGE FACTORY BOND i -i r ' PARTY LEADERS STORMS GROWING WITH RILL APPROVED SWEEP 101 1DEIKETS OF NO TIES T 4 ft r r i t 1 1 sv rtFinkhoH Prnriimtc nf Paner Mill Raw Materials for Converting BY-PRODUCTS ARE USED Local Concern Shows 75 Per Cen- torn Increase of Business This Year Over Last Year Same Period The Western Paper Converting company, with its factory at Front and D streets, is preparing to en large its , plant anticipates the construction of another building soon, and the Installing of more machinery, in order to keep up " with its rapidly increasing busi ness. The contemplated new building is to be 240 by 100 feet, providing w ,vvu square leei oi aaauionai floor space. That additional room and equip ment are necessary is well shown by the fact that the annual busi ness of the concern grew from $200,000 the first year of its op eration to 1350,000 last year, and a business of $600,000 is expected for 1928. So far this year, that is, for January, February and March, the business has shown an increase of 75 per cent over the same per iod of last year. The officers of the Western Pa per Converting company are C. F. Beyerl, president; Lloyd Riches vice president; Thomas A. Rob erts, treasurer; Joseph P r u d- homme, secretary, and in addition to the four officers named, the Other directors are L. L. Leadbet ier, W. E. Keyes and Homer H Smith; seven directors In all. m The last growing business of Sjhe Western Paper Converting company is rorcing the manage ment to expand; to plan addition al room and machinery and appll ances. Through Hawkins & Rob- (Continued on pare 3.) PETTY THIEVERY; WORK FOR POLICE FAILURE TO HAVE LIGHTS BRING ABOUT ARREST OP 2 eVvlce Station Broken Into; Taylor Changes Board . ,ing Places In spite of the cold and wet weather, local police were kept fairly busy over the week end. Po- ; ' Jice records show the following ar V?r"e8ts made: ff Clare Cottle, 476 North Cottage tteet, was arrested by Officers -.-ftnomason and Nickolson Sunday Mf night for failure of having a light J on the motorcycle he waa operat ing in the city. S. Hitchcock, Sublimity, Ore., reported that his ; automobile which was parked near the Chris tian church Sunday night had been stolen. Two valuable blan kets were in the machine. Thus far no trace of the missing car had been found. Herman Struts, Salem, reports that a blue slip-coat and tan lady's hat were stolen from hie ear I' r n-Mrh vu narked in front nf thn Bligh Capitol theater Sunday night. J , 1 Owners of the Triangle service station, located on the corner of Cottage and Fair Grounds road, reported that burglars had broken Into their station Sunday and re lieved them of a large quantity of jgarettes. The party gained en trance by breaking the front win- ,:4v,-w and reaching through the tboken pane to make their haul. Officer Thomason made an lnves-- tlgation. Fred Stewart, Stay ton, was ar rested by Officer Olson Sunday. night charged with being drunk. He was lodged In the city jail overnight and appeared In police court yesterday morning where he was fined 110. Melvin Engle, 74 J Stewart street, was arrested last night charged. "with .riding; his' bicycle without a light, after -4arav- was ordered i to appear In police court at 4 o'clock today. , " ; , : JT SH " . -cTTiFJced with being drunav waa y, fined 1 10 In poli&e court today, p He resides In Salem,' f " 1 Fred Taylor, who had been making hi home at the city jail ior the past few months, ehanged ging places yesterday at ter- ocn. now making his home at the county. Jail. j': , ! r The council-manager plan of city government bill passed the first and second readings of the Salem cUy council at its meeting last night. At the next meeting of the council, April 16, the meas ure Is expected to come up for third reading and be passed. -Some question has been brought up as to the legality of the charter amendment it it is passed by the people at the election of May 18. The claim has been advanced that the 30 days allowed before elec tion is not enough, statute requir ing 60 days. i. case the amend ment should be passed and later ruled not legally enacted, officers elected, and appointed under It would be reduced to the status of de facto officials. The city council last night also took action to authorize the park board to expend all funds derived from the municipal auto park on the park Itself with the exception of 11240 that must be turned over each year for purchase of Engle- wood playground and park. A request from the city of West Salem asking that Salem allow its Polk county neighbor to use the Salem city- dump was referred to Alderman Dancy upon motion of Alderman Purvlne. Purvlne'f motion was unanimously carried unld hearty guffaws. A new ordinance was rushed 'hrough to passage under suspen sion of the rules which will per mit establishment of gasolin storage tanks under ground with capacity up to 15,000 gallons. Pas sage of the measure was expedited in order to allow the Southern Pacific company to go ahead with installation of a 12,000 gallon tank near its motor bus barns at the corner of Front and Chemek 3ta streets. Dr. John E. Blinkham was of ficially appointed assistant san itary inspector for the city of Sa lem. It was explained by Alder man Purvine that this appoint ment involves no expense for IhiF city, his expenses being paid bj the 'Marlon county" child health demonstration. Blinkham's particular Job wiP be to "straighten up the milk sit uation," it was announced. M0TT SEEKING OFFICE Candidates File For Race Issue Statements and James W. Mott of Astoria, who is to content with Representative W. C. Hawley for the republican nomination for congressional rep resentative for the first Oregon district, filed his statement yes terday with the secretary of state. Mott promises that he will give the congressional district the 3a me kind of representation that he has given in the state legisla ture for his county, that he will endeavor to secure for the district federal appropriations equal to the annual tax loss on public lands in the district, adequate im provement of rivers and harbors. reasonable federal aid for general road purposes, and completion of the Roosevelt highway at govern ment expense. E. H. Belknap of Monroe filed for the republican nomination in Khe legislature from Benton coun ty, and State Senator W. W. Banks of Portland filed as a can didate for relection as one of the Multnomah county members of the senate. LINDY DOES NEAT STUNT Landing at Santa Barbara First of Kind on That Field SANTA BAaBAIA, Cal.. Apr. 2. (API Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh landed here at 5:20 p. m. today. He took on rrom El Paso this morning for the Pacific coast. When Colonel Lindbergh land ed on Casa Loma field and made a direct landing he performed a feat never before done by an. aviator here. The field, a small clearing in the residential district is pri vately owned by Earle Ovington who will not permit it to be gen erally used because of the great dange rto pilots unfamiliar with it. Colonel Lindbergh and his com panions were taken by automobile by Mr. Ovington to the Monteclto home of Mrs. Harry F. KaUbt. MINE BLAST KILLS EIGHT Explosion Occurs in Plant of West Virginia Company KEYSTONE. W, Va., April 2. (AP) An explosion in the Num ber two mine of the Keystone Coal and Coke company today took a toll of eight lives, the bodies of six victims being found huddled together tonight in the far re cesses of the workings, .Two bod ies previously ha dbeea recovered. Measure Now Goes Before People for Vote At Elec tion on May 18 NO OPPOSITION SHOWN Council Votes Unanimously to Put Issue ou Ballot; Legionnaires and Chamber of Commerce Pay Expense The question of purchase of a municipal airport will be put up to the people of Salem at the city election on May 18. This was decided last night when the city council unanimous ly passed the bill authorizing the matter of a 150,000 bond issue submitted to the voters. The bill was passed without opposition af ter a few changes In wording had been effected for the purpose of declaring ownership of the airport a public and municipal enterprise. Public money could not legally be voted for a private purpose. (Coatiaaed a PI B.) EDUCATORS MAKE TRIP Superintendent Hug Will Preside at Session Superintendent George "W. Hug left Sunday for Spokane where he will officiate Tuesday as president of the Northwest association of secondary and high schools, a branch of the Inland Empire edu cational association which will convene at that city the next day and which Mr. Hug will also at tend. MIss'June Phllpott. head of the icJehee-depanineBt'mt'tllesehlor hlghV will leave tonight for Spo kane, where she will present a committee report at the Northwest association. R. W. Tavenner, as sistant principal, will also give a committee report before that body, leaving here this morning. Mrs. Ellen A. Fisher, high school English teacher, will leave this morning also, to attend as a member of the English counci and a representative of the AAUW Three members of the healtl demonstration will also attend Dr. William DeKleine. director, and Dr. Estella Ford Wraner, chief of medical service to appear Thursday on the program of the home economics and deans' ses sions, respectively, of the Inland Empire meeting. Miss Anne Simpson; director health service.! will also be present, leaving today Dr. Warner left Monday and Dr DeKleine will go today. WARNING PORTLAND, April 2. (AP)- Petitions to place the name of Charles L. McNary, United States senator, on the primary ballot and have him Indorsed for the repub lican nomination for vice presi dent have been sent by A. O. Bar ry of Portland. Barry has associ ated with him as members of the committee in charge of the move ment prominent republicans from all sections of the state. John L. Day, chairman of the Multnomah republican committee who selected the McNary commit tee, said today it would be pre- sumptlous of the county commit tee or himself as chairman, to an dertake the placing of Senator McNary 's name before the voters In the May primaries, as McNary belongs to all Oregon. "I am however, proud to be in the vanguard of the movement," Day said, "and have taken the lib erty of naming a state wide com mittee so that republicans all over Oregon can share in the work of Instructing the Oregon convention delegates to support our senior senator for that high office." ANOTHER BANK CRASHES A. A. Schramm Placed In Charge of Portland Institution PORTLAND, April 2. (AP) The Ashley State Bank of Port land closed its doors today by vote of the directors and was placed in the hands of A. A. Schramm, state superintendent o: assistants. banks, and hie Deposits of the institution were $542,760 on February 28. Impairment of capital resources of the Institution was said to have made the suspension necessary; Just how the losses occurred was not divulged by Mr. Schramm. OX Xd" f W.f 0iPtaqShr 2 m . aa - i - it. I apniiB ana ie,ivo vi aarpiae acco ruing to its February returns to Hhe banking department. Loans and discounts at that time amounted to $363,469. Cash on hand and exchange was $67,932. SPOKANE PLANT BURNED Great Northern Railway Shop Visited by Severe Flames SPOKANE, April, 2. (AP). A epectacular fire destroyed a large paint and repairs building at the Great Northern railway shops in Hilyard tonight, with damage approximated roughly at $100,000. Apparatus from Spo kane was sent to Hilyard, which is a suburb, as flames menaced oth er buildings. The opinion was ex pressed that an ' acetylene explo sion might have started the blaze. ALL MOTORISTS SHOULD WASHINGTON. April 2. (AP) -Issue with President Coolidge and his cabinet was taken in the senate today by Senator Watson pt Indiana, a republican presiden tial candidate, in championing the controversial equalization fee pro vision of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. opening debate on the bill Seeking a solution of the long standing controversy over farm re- lief, Senator Watson declared the issue had resolved into the feasi bility of the equalization fee by which it la proposed to raise funds for marketing surplus crops. The Indiana senator, who Is op posing Secretary Hoover in his fate for presidential delegates. recalled that the republican plat form called for farm relief. Presl dent Coolidge vetoed the McNary Ha u gen bill a year ago because of the equalization fee among other reasons. "President Coolidge, Secretary Mellon and Secretary Jardine," Watson said, "all admit the pres euce of this problem and all have t!f?Ated a',?UO,i b COTeM has taken a different view and ar rived at a different conclusion. "However, It Is manifest that all persons are anxious to carry out the platform pledge and are willing to "go as far as possible toward reconciling their views to achieve the common purpose." Beyond that, the senator did nol go into the politics of the le - uuuiuus wuicu aum uif iucu uuiu parties in congress in the past and rtn whloh locn a ihin 4a rilvlainn In ... --" ' repuDiican presiaenuai ranas V n V i TaifHar nf 111 In nut Ann Senator Watson onnosina the no - , - - - (Ccntiaod aa pf 1.) FQUR FILE FOR CQUNCILSmot and Lenroot visited Fall "- J.Cjfciii -"a Aldermen, JeJME SOUgntI""" oecieirjr vAfter by Several V Four more candidates for elec tion to the city council filed tbeii declaration with the city recordei yesterday. Ralph Thompson, who for 6ix years served as a member of the! council under previous adminis trations, filed tssm the seventh ward to succeed E. B. Graben orst, who will not run for re lection. C. H. Hill, 2173 Broad way, seeks the two year term o city councilman from ward five W. E. Moses. 336 North Capitol street, will run for the four year term in ward one. Formal filing of his completed petitions for alderman from the fourth ward was made by Newell Williams, yesterday. This posi tion is now held by B. B. Herrick, who will not be a candidate foi reelection. HEED Smoot and Lenroot Enter Vigorous Denial of Part On McLean Letter SJCK AT TIME OF VISIT Office of Commissioner Who Took Testimony Broken Into; Pur pose of Visit to Fall Ex plained by Two EL PASO, Texas, Apr. 2. (AP) The three men a former cabinet member, who is now In Europe, a senator and a former senator hare been named by Al bert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, as the ones who ad vised him to write the famous McLean letter to the senate Tea pot Dome committee in 1923 in an effort to conceal a loan of $100,000 from Edward Doheny, oil magnate. declared that the party leaders urged him to cover up the loan from Doheny in the fear that pub lic knowledge of the transaction would result in charges that the republican administration had fa vored the oil man In its Mexican oil policy. He said the three men visited him while he was sick in bed in n: - hinrtoTl Former Senator Irvine Lenroot I v nial In Washington today that either he or Senator Smoot. repub- I.. . r I (Iran TTtah Y,oA nivaA Voll 1 ' . 7 ' " i conceal me uoneny loan. It was put into the record of the senate investigation' sometime ago that c.-l""Jia '" jut prior 0 me wroie ine uciean tetter. Lenroot said that no cabinet of ficer or former cabinet member was present when he and Smoot talked to Fall. He declared he had Insisted that Fall appear before the senate committee and disclose all the facts as to where he had obtained funds to enlarge his New Mexico ranch holdings. Fall then named Edward B. McLean, the Washington publisher, as the man (Continued on ptfe 8.) HOOVER, SMITH BACKED Michigan Completes Primary Eleo tion for Presidency DETROIT, April 2. (AP)- Herbert Hoover, republican. Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith of New York, democrat, were given en dorsement as presidential nomin res by Michigan voters in a prefer ential primary today. Unofficial reports indicated that the total vote for presidential preference was one of the lightest in the history of the state. Neither can didate was opposed. It was estim ated that fewer than one-tenth of Detroit's 4 83.915 registered voters went to the polls. While only the names of Smith and Hoover appeared on the bal lots, voters took advantage . of their privilege to scratch these en tries and substitute names of other preferred candidates. The name of Senator Thomas Walsh of Mon tana appeared frequently on the democratic ballots. N. Y. BOURBONS BACK AL None of Candidates for Delegate Opposes Smith ALBANY, N. Y., April 2. (AP) Every democratic candidate for election at tomorrow's presidential primary In New York state is Ir revocably committed to the nom ination of Governor Alfred E. Smith for president by the demo cratic national convention, at Houston. Texas. The plan of the republican lead ers Is for an unpledged state dele gation to the national convention of their party at Kansas City. Only five contests for district delegates confront" the voters of each party at the polls tomorrow. Three of these fights are in the republican ranks, - HUGE PINE STORE BURNS Large Stacks of- Lumber Consum- V ed Valued at f 175,000 NASHVILLE, Tenn., April S. (AP). -Fire, set by sparks from a passing engine, 'had destroyed four, million feet of white pine lumber on the four acre storage yard of the Norvell Wallace Lum ber company, conservatively esti mated as worth $175,009, and 3tlll was raging; despite a general alarm early this morning. PORTLAND. April 2. (AP) A battering, blinding gale cast a sullen curtain of obscurity over the north Pacific oceau laie today. Be hind that curtain, racked by the storm and pounded by mountain ous seas was being fought a ter rific battle of life and death. Six ships and a 36 foot power launch were caught in the 75 mile gale. Their fate had not been as certained tonight. The power boat was believed running northward from Heceta Head with five mem bers of the Siuslaw coast guard station aboard after being unable to enter the river because of ter rifle seas running over the bar. Somewhere north of Heceta Head was the Helen B. Sterling, a six masted schooner, in tow of the coast guard cutter Haida. In the absence of reports, shipping men presumed they were making prog ress northward. The Sterling lost half of her gear, had her canvas stripped away, and lost a rudder in the terrific storm last week To the north was the four masted schooner R. V. Kruse 114 days out of Adelaide. Australia, be lieved to be making a run for it with her provisions gone and her sails in tatters. Since Saturday morning she had been sought by the cutter Snohomish after she left the Columbia river, unable to cross the bar. An unidentified ship today reported a schooner five miles west of the Umatilla light ship. The tug, Oneonta, southbound with a barge which was leaking badly, reported today that she hove to near Cape Blanco with her tow So word had been received from iier for hours. Two miles south of Cape Blan co and 14 miles at sea, the coast wise sieamer jane wettleton was lying at anchor, attempting to ride out the storm after she bad lost a big deck load of piling. The oil tanker Kewanee was believed standing by to render possible aid tn case of disaster. At dusk the Jane Nettleton was said to be in no Immediate danger. ;' And beyond the breakers, some where off the coast, a 36 foot .oast guard launch was being pounded by the seas, her crew of ave in peril. It was to stand by the distressed Helen B. Sterling that Captain Lyle Stitt and his four coast guardsmen went out over the Siuslaw bar Saturday morning. When the HaUa took the schoou er in tow yesterday, the launch attempted to put back to 6hore. but the terrific seas prevented this. The surf was running so high over the bar that it was plainly visible in Flortn.ee, two miles dis tant. Aboasd the tiny craft with Cap tain Stitt were Joe Barnhardt, ma chinist mate, and Clyde Deal, El mer Peterson and Harold McCur dy, surfmen. The boat was without provisions and had Utile gasoline. M. C. Cooper, in charge of the coast guard station at Siuslaw Bar, expressed the belief that the guardsmen were running north for Yaquina Bay or the Columbia. (Continued on pg V.) GLASS DILATES ANYWAY Receiving Hospital Physician Gives Positive Testimony LOS ANGELES, April 2. (AP) The Glendale receiving hospital physician knew that Joe Cava naugh was intoxicated because both of Cavanaugh's eyes were di lated. So Dr. G. C. Whitman testified today at Cavanaugh's trial on (charges of driving while intoxi cated. "Both eyes?" cross examined the defense attorney. The doctor was certain that had been the case. "This one, for instance?" asked the attorney offering a glass eye which Cayanaugh deftly extracted and handed to his counsel. The doctor's answer was drown ed In courtroom guffaws. , Despite his glass eye alibi Car- anaugh was found guilty by the Jury. GALE DECLARED ABATING Storm Warnings Ordered Taker ; Down Along Sea Coast ' . ASTORIA. Ore., April 2. (AP) Southwest storm warnings were ordered lowered here at 7 p. m. tonight, the rough sea at. the river's mouth began moderating and the barometer rising. The ' coast: guard heat reported hound for the Columbia river will not get here until tomorrow morning in the opinion of Captain O. S. Wick- Iund of the Point Adams coast guard station. Captain Wlcklund expects to cruise as far south as Neahkannle mountain in the morn ing to search for the craft. , r Terrific Gale Hit's Willam ette Valley, Including City of Salem RAIN ACCOMPANIES WIND Intermittent Showers Fall All Day; Hail Makes Appearance, Whitening Street Here Sunday Afternoon Salem and its vicinity were yes terday swept by the strongest windstorm that ha occurred here In recent years. Such was the verdict of local residents who observed the storm and its strength. Old timers ran tell of more terrific gales, but net that took place recently. Sweeping out of the souin and southwest, the gale whipped through this city most of the day, rocking buildings, breaking bran ches from trees, impeding traffic and causing other damage, nose of It of a very serious nature. Electric lines supplying u fw outlying districts were put out of commission early last night but made again within a few hours, for the most part connecions were Intermittent shower accompan ied the gale. River at High Mark The Willamette river, which iad risen to a point 15 feet above normal late Sunday, receded slow ly yesterday and by 7 o'clock last night stood at 14.7 above normal. The wind that swept through Salem yesterday was not measur ed by the local weather observer due to lack of the necessar y -equipment, but the speed of the wind was estimated at 50 miles an hour many times duxing the day. Weather predictions for today gave no encouragement that the --torm would abate to any consid erable extent, although reports from points along the coast stated (Continued on pm ) DROP IN POSTAL RATES POSSIBLE DOWNWARD REVISION IXX)MS AS HOUSE PASSES DILI, Griest Measure Forwarded to Sen ate After Being Approved Unanimously WASHINGTON, Apr. 2. (AP) A downward revision of the postal rates, calling for a restora tion of the 1921 charsft3, was ap proved today by the house In unanimously passing the Griest bill. The measure now goes to the senate. A controversial question for several years, the passage of the measure marked- the first boase approval of a reduction of postal rates. The measure Is the sixth general postal rate revision in tk country's history. The bill would establish a one cent postcard, and wouia tower rates on second and third class mall matter, Including newspaper zone mailing charges and on par cel post matter. Newspaper publishers, however, when before the committee argued that 1921 basis was not sufficient and sought for a return to the 1920 rate level. The postofffce committee in a report oa the bill estimated that it would cause a loss In revenue to the postoffice department of $13, 585.000 during the fiscal year 1929. The measure, the commit tee said, had the support of the postoffice department and was de signed to stimulate the postal business by equalising the rates. POLING CRITICALLY ILL Evangelical Pantor Well Knows to Salem; Lived Her PORTLAND, April 2. (AP) Dr. C. C. Poling, superintendent of the Columbia river district or the Evangelical church, has been ill at his home here for the past two weeks and todar was pro nounced critical "by attending physicians. ;; ' Dr. Poling has been engaged in religious work In the northwest for the past? forty years and Is well known, particularly in. west ern Oregon cities. He is the fath er of Rev. Dan Poling, prominent New York pastor and president ef the Christian Endeavor union. Dr. C. C. Poling was for sev eral years pastor of the Evangel leal cbureh of 8alem, leaving here to take up the position of district superintend- "