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; First Talent Concert of Rural Community Clubs Will Be Held Tonight at the Elsinore Theater; Attractive and Novel Features tTke People of Salem Do Not Show Sufficient Interest in the Community Club Idea to Make the Adoption of It Practicable Here Weather forecast: Generally fair; frost over the east portlno at night; moderate west and northwest winds. Maximum temperature yesterday; 1, minimum 4t, rirer 5., rainfall .Ql, atmosphere cloudy, wind northwest. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES I SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR AIRPLANE HITS RAIN AND WIND Stiff Gale Reported In Path of Bremen As It Wings Its Way West DUE TO ARRIVE AT NOON TODAY No Word Heard from -Aviators Al( Night TEW YORK WAITS Preparations Made To Wei come German Flyers; Anxi ety Felt As Good Weather Gives Way To Storms NEW YORK. Friday, April 10. (API A chill pall of Bilence en veloped the fate of the Junker niane Bremen ana ner crew 01 r -three at the beginning of the sec . ond day since she took oft from .p Baldonnel field, Ireland. "No reoort from any sources ' ; y- was the only reply available for anxious Inquirers from shortly af- ter 2 o'clock eastern time yester day morning, when the silver hued ship flickered for a moment in the view of Irish civic guards i at Slynehead, most westerly point ' on Connaugbt. Nona of the 24 ships plowing ; the north Atlantic routes had re t ported sighting the Bremen, al- though radio stations up and down the coast' were on the alert I . throughout yesterday and last Vsight,,;; f y, . i it, . ., i. vf twith a rainy gale Mowing to ff H lavard Its path from the west, the Junkers monoplane Bremen which left Ireland early yesterday morn ing with a three-man German Irish crew was due to fly over the North American coast in the hours before dawn today. After waiting two weeks in Ireland- for favorable weather the Bremen took off at 12:38 o'clock Eastern Standard time yesterday morning and headed for New i York undaunted by the fate that has befallen every previous at I temnt to fly the north Atlantic from east to west in an airplane. Three other planes have made the attempt but none succeeded and (Continued on pl 3) BELIEVE PLANE NEARING COAST .COMPUTATIONS MADE OF BRE MEN'S PROGRESS German Machine May Reach New AyJiYork Between 2:30 and :SO Eastern Time : BALDONNEL,.Irish Free State. April 12. (AP) The Junkers monoplane Bremen, which hopped off 'from 'this 'field today for New York, wae supposedly 1,400 miles west of Ireland and only 500 miles pff Newfoundland at 10:30 o'clock p. m. lonight. This was according to a special summary iatade for the Associated Press by 'the Baldonnel -air-authorities. I: They figured thafCaptain Her rmann Koehl, German ace, and iColo'hel -James Kttamaurioe, Irish 'aviator, co-pilots of the Bremen, should see the lights of New foundland at 5:30 a. m., Irish 'time, or 12:30 a. m. eastern time, and they pictured .these two in the coekpitglvlng the news to Baron ;Gunther Von Huenefeld". promoter "of the flight, who sits behind them fn the cabin pumping on tor me motor. The fact that the plane naa noi been reported since it cleared the 1 w!t coast of Ireland two hours MXier the start causea hrf Baldonnel authorities Were ;much pleased with weather condi tions and were putting tneir laun In the powerful motor of the plane. ? They said that if all goes well the flyers should reach Mltchel field on Long Island at C:30 p. m.. New York tlma tomorrow. This allows four hour for errors in navigation ao the Bremen may land any time between 2:30 p. m., and :30 p. m. - The calculations were baaed on &n average. speed of, 95 mile an hour, Conditions-were reported 4i improving toward Newfound land" with the wind changing to luse northeast. ;rThis would be . most favorable to the adventurers as -it would- drlTe? them toward iNew-Tork. The sky : off New igoundland was reported as cloudy but visibility was good and there aa only occasional sleet or rain. Summing up. the Iriah authorl- Mestsald the entire sueeeas of the forts seemed to depend on the "f f engine and they were highly optl j mlfttlc WEATHER GETS CLEAR ON COAST STORMS SUBSIDE AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWrXJUNDLAND Gale Raging Out at Sea Already Passed at Place Where Flyers Due to Pass (By the Associated Press Fair weather was forecast for early today at the western end of the long route the German mono plane Bremen bound for "Mltchel Field or Heaven" traveled. If all went well with the big ship dur ing the night. Rain squalls and low hanging clouds off Newfoundland gave way late last niga.. A fog off Halifax had lifted and the plane, after bucking adverse winds on the last lap of her flight from Ireland, should pass New foundland in fairly favorable weather. Officials at Baldonnel field, where the Bremen took off at 5:38 a. m. Irish time on Wednes day, figured the ship should sight Newfoundland at 12:30 a. m., eastern time, narrvng mishaps. The fact that the Bremen had not been reported since it cleared the west coast of Ireland two hours after the take-off caused no anxiety at the Baldonnel field. II. Kimball of the United States bureau, aaid there had been no developments during the night to alter his earlier forecast that the plane would strike considerable wind resistance on the last few hundred miles of the trip. Off St. Johns. N. F., he said, there wj good visibility lasting but indie: tions were that rain would con before morning. A southeast wind veered to tl southwest and put over the Grate Banks northwest winds prevailed and the temperature around freez lng. If the Bremen maiptalned a true course, he said. It was prob able that he would strike etorms weeDlnc seaward, one starting in mid-ocean and the other blowing north from Nantucket. ST. JOHNS, N. F.. April 12. (Continued on nf 3) FLYER SENDS MESSAGE Aviator Express Long Standing , Ambition To, Cross Sea B ALDONNKL AIRDROME, Irish Free State, April 12. (AP) -Before Colonel James Flts- maurlce's fellow officers rushed him "off to bed for a few hours sleep last night, the aviator game the Associated Press a special mes sage regarding bis flight. "Tell them," he said, "that lor several years as chief of the Soar stat air corps It has been my am bition to make the east-west At lantic crossing in the interests of advancement of science and avia tion. "Here in the Irish Free State we have watched the progress of aviation in the United States with admiration. If it should fall to me to be able to contribute some thing to the fund of human know ledge and experience which will eventually conquer the air. I shall be very proud. "It is needless to mention how deeply I appreciate the generosity of Baron Huenefeld in inviting me to make the Atlantic flight with him and the honor I feel in acting as co-pilot with 'Captain Koehl. I believe the Bremen represents the best science can produce in a machine for Atlantic crossing. "I hare never been in America but I am looking forward to an; American welcome to a Saorstat air man Friday afternoon." ASTORIA CANNERY BURNS Nearly $100,000 Damage Done; Cause of Fire Not Known ASTORIA. April 12 (AP) Fire . of undetermined origin caused damage estimated at be tween $75,000 and $100,000. to the Burke Packing company can nery and cold storage plant here shortly after (.o'clock tonight. Of ficials said ;loss was covered by insurance. - Loss of the plant Is the more keenly felt because of the near ness of the operning of the com mercial fishing season. May 1. Many improvements had been made on the building, officials said, to care for the increase in business. An explosion of an ammonia tank which scattered, glass for a block around showered more than 300 persons watching the spec tacular blaze, injured two firemen and C. A. Murphy, chief of police. They were given first aid. Fifty members of the crew of the coast guard cutter Algonquin were detailed "to assist firemen when other .wooden . structures nearby were threatened. J, M. D0UGAN PASSES ON Prominent Portland Contractor Dies of Heart Attack PORTLAND, Apr. 12. (AP) J. M. Dougan. prominent building contractor, died today in hia auto mobile as be was being : driven from his home to his office. He died before his chauffeur could aid him. Death was due torn heart attack. Dougan was 85 years old. He formed the firm of Dougan and Chrlstman 20 years ago and that firm, with offices in Seattle and Portland,, handled some of the most Imporvant construction Jobs In the Pacific northwest. -. IT S ITS APPROVAL ON FARM BILL UcNary-Haugen Measure Sent To House for Pas sage At Early Date EQUALIZATION FEE LEFT Feature Objected to by President I'ooJklge Not Removed as So- Ions Vote Favorably by S3 to 28 WASHINGTON, April 12. (AP). The McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, carrying features which caused President Coolidge to veto it a year ago, was passed tonight by the senate and sent to the house which also Is expected to approve It at an early date. The vote was S3 to 23, as com pared to the 47 to 39 vote at the last session. While this Is more than the two thirds majority which would be required to over ride a veto it was regarded as I nKtfni that with the full mem a two thirds ma obtained. UlUi .res .. .. . - u y the i K ,. ij propo to Ci ! Of th so 3 w . . 'n product' i' A direct sho sentiment on ti. was provided by au ate fee ent by Senator Sackett. repul,ica,n, Ken tucky, proposing elimination of that provision of the biU The proposal was rejected, 46 to 31, after two hours of vigorous debate dnring which Senator Mc Nary. : republican, Oregon, In charge of the bill made an elo quent plea for enactment of the bill in the form the representa tives of farmers' organizations re quested. Before coming to the final vote on the bill itself, the senate re jected. 4 to S, a substitute by Senator Brookhart, republican, Iowa, which could have provided for a direct government subsidy up to 1600,000,000 to meet losses incurred by farmers in marketing their surplus crops. Many Vote BUadly The five supporting this mea sure were Blaine. Borah, and Brookhart, republicans, and Bay ard and Blease, democrats. This vote came while a. number of sen ators were absent from the cham ber and as they came straggling in several voted for the Brookhart proposal only to change their vote later after they discovered their error. Since congressional action on the McNary-Haugen bill admitted ly is playing its part in the pre- (Continued on page 3) NEW MOTOR CAR BUILT German Anto Works on Same Principle as Rocket FRANKFdRT-ON-THE - MAIN. Germany, Apr. 12.-r-(AP) A mo tor car equipped with a gas tur bine operating 'on the principle of a rocket, was tried out on an au tomobile track near Russelsbelm today. After the teet. which de veloped a speed of 2 milea an hour, eight seconds from the start. the Frankfort-Opel motor company claimed that the car will easily break all automobile speed records. ! The machine was constructed on the plan evolved by Max Valler who originated the fantastic flyer from his Idea of shooting a rocket into space. The &ams generated from combustion of fuel oil and formed a fiery comet-like tall as the machine swept by. After four trials in an automo bile an attempt is to be made to build a railway car that will beat speed records. Ultimately the mo tor company plans a cosmos air ship that they believe will reach hitherto unattainable altitudes. HABERLY CALLED SANE Examination Made Yesterday ; i Actions Bald Hysteria W. J. Haberly. who made two apparent attempts to end his own life, when questioned by officers concerning tfe origin of a fire which destroyed his barn several weeks ago. and who finally admit ted setting the fire himself. Is not insane. This was the decision reached yesterday by-Dr. LJF. Grifnth of the state hospital staff following an examination or Haberly at the sal era general hosoltal where Haberly la being kept, The man has severe fits of hys teria, the doctor asserted, but Is perfectly sane. . The; assumption has been made that It was during these hysterical fits that Haberly fled from two officers and plunged Into the mlllrace on South Church street, end later In his hotel room slashed his wrists and throat He was rapidly improving last night. SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1928 FIND FOUR GIRLS ON" BATTLESHIPS SCANDAL DEVELOPS IN SOUTH ATLANTIC FLEET United States Naval Court Pro ceedings Loom When Stow a ways Are Discovered WASHINGTON, April 12. (AP). Courts of inquiry have been ordered as a result of the discovery yesterday of four girl stowaways on board vessels of the south Atlantic fleet. Naval authorities have declared they were Informed that only four girls were found, but a report from Key West announced that four girls were landed there, and St. Petersburg, Fla., police said they had information that Alberta Pool, a 1 year old high school girl of St. Petersburg, had been put off the destroyer Billingsley at Mayport. Fla. The names of the four girls landed at Key West were given in the report from that place as Billy Lacer, Rose McGuire, Flossie Rice and Ramilda Avary. Navy author ities said the girls landed in Key West were from New Orleans. A telegram to Rear Admiral Frank K. Clark, commanding the scouting fleet, destroyer force, that a St. Petersburg girl was aboard the destroyer BUlingsley, led to a search of that ship. Miss Pool was, found, the Billingsley was ordered to pnt Into Mayport and the rest of the fleet was searched. Advices reaching the navy department were that a girl was found on each of three ships. the light cruiser Concord, the de stroyer Sands and the destroyer Repairship Dobbins. These ves (Continued on ,pag 8) SEEK ACCESS TO BOOKS Seaside Bank Depositors File Man damus Against Schramm G. M. Grimes and others, repre senting the stockholders and de positors of the defunct First State Ban of Seaside, filed mandamus proceedings Thursday in the su preme court to compel A. A. Sehramm, state superintendent of banks, to allow ny approved stockholder or depositor to ' ex amine the records, books asd flies at the institution. . ; - Plaintiffs allege that since the closing of the bank September 21. 192T, the state superintendent ef banks has refused to give out any definite or accurate Information regarding the condition of the In stitution. It was said that this secrecy on i the part or the superintendent of banks have resulted in a flood of rumors, suspicions and grave ac cusations. The writ, which was signed by Chief Justice Rand, was made returnable April 26. CULBERTS0N WEDS AGAIN Owner of New Salem Hotel Also Out for Election PORTLAND, Ore.. Apr. 12 -r- (AP) W. C. Culbertson, owner of four Oregon hotels, today an nounced his marriage on Easter Sunday to Miss Charlotte Bowen daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bowen of Bellingham. Vash. Following this announcement. Culbertson said he had decided to be a candidate for the nomination for the house of representatives from the third congressional dis trict on the Democratic ticket. Culbertson is owner of the Sew ard and Cornelius hotels here, one at Salem, and one at Corvallis. He also owns a newspaper at Canby. AIR LINE LINKS -H-r:-W':-..::.vi.-.s.Si-i. V Air mail service beginning . SMoa CAixtM ssv x'yv T- ' mr i and New Orleans will aave one to three daya on letters between Dixie and the npper Atlantic seaboard and will nave the way for a line clear to Mexico City. Above fts one of the planes to be need on the New York-Atlanta line by the company headed by H. E. Pitealrn (right). The map shows the route and the operating or project ed links. UN BOUND ROBBED OF $20 Home of Miss Theresa Am fold, 82, Entered At 8:30 Thursday Eve RUSE GAINS ADMITTANCE Large Sums Previously Kept In House, Related, But Recently Transferred to Bank; lie script ion Lacking uainmg admittance through a ruse, two unidentified thugs at tacked Miss Theresa Arnold. 82 in her home at 393 North Church street about 8:30 o'clock last night,' bound and gagged her and then completely ransacked theJ house, taking $20 which was the only money on the premises. Hearing a knock at the door, Miss Arnold, who lives alone, cau tiously asked, before opening the door, who was there. A man's voice answered, saying that he had a message from Father Buck, Catholic priest. Description Lacking Immediately upon opening the door she was seized by the two men, who threw her to the floor. tied her hands and feet tightly with a strong cord, and bound a towel over her mouth. This was tied so tightly that it cut into the woman s Hps, causing mem io bleed. The, towil alpo covered her eyes, so that sne as unaDie io give any deecriptlon of the roo- bees. After having her wen tiea. they demanded that she give them money, but she1 declared that all she had was 320 which she had re ceived in the afternoon for room rent. 'Continued on ptf 3) CHEST PLAN DELAYED Only Three Orga alia tions Respond To Meeting can ? Although Invitations had been sent by the chamber of commerce to six organizations that mignt ne micrcSACU 1 II IS, fJUJJUUl UU'ij vuvoisu iu-iviciudv i uiiui vv ivr avivu J nly three sent representatlTes torenicago ror the quotation eom- the meeting held last evening. Announcement had been made in the newspapers of the meeting stating that all who were Interest ed were invitefl to attend. Only the Y. M. C. A., the Associated Charities, and the Y. W. C. A. were epresented George F. Vlck. president of he Chamber of Commerce pre sided as chairman. As so few at tended, Mr. Vick announced that -io further calls would be made by he chamber to develop interest n the chest plan unless additional interest was shown However, as the chamber of commerce had promised last fall to assist in organizing the com munity chest movement should there be a proper Interest, the chamber will send to Detroit and Cleveland for Information and will hold Itself in readiness to call mother meeting if organizations nterested in a chest so express themselves. DIXIE AND EAST ' " , May 1 between New York, Atlanta " TALENT CONTEST JUDGES CHOSEN FIRST OF NOVEL ENTERTAIN MENTS, ELSINORE TONIGHT Community club throughout Coun ty Competing In Four Dis trict Events Judges for the first talent con test of Marion county community clubs, scheduled for this evening at the Elsinore theater, were an nounced yesterday as follows: Representing the Rotary club. C. E. Wilson; for the Kiwania club, Ed Schunke; for the Lions, W. W. Rosebraugb. This group of judges will select the two best talent offerings from among those presented tonight, these two to be repeated in the county finals May 11. The contest this evening will be between entertainers representing the Keizer, Hayesville, Parkers vllle. Middle Grove. North Howell. Waconda, Hasel Green and Labieh Center communities. ' Tonight's contests , will be the first of four, the clubs entered to night being included in district No. 1 of the county federation of community clubs. The program will be in charge of State Senator Lloyd T. Reynolds, who has prom ised that the talent presentations will follow promptly after the first showing of the motion picture pro gram. The clubs represented are com peting for cash prizes, and also are to receive a share of the pro ceeds, this money to be devoted to carrying on the boys' and girls' club work in the various commun ities. i Judges representing other local organizations than those repre sented tonight, will be selected for the later contests. CONSTRUCT NEW TICKER Speedier Apparatus Found Needed at Walt Street Mart N'EW YORK, Apr. 12. ( AP) A hew and speedier stock ticker capable of handling 7 million spare days on the stock market. is ready for the' test of actual service, the New York quotation company announced today The new Instrument which In laboratory tests developed a speed of 500 characters per minute as compared with the 300 per minute speed of the present machine has been demonstrated to the ex change board of governors and will now be scheduled to rigorous teste in service under the worst conditions. The machine was de veloped and made by the Mork- rum-Klelnsehmidt Corporation of pany, which as a subsidiary of the stock exchange operated the tick er service. ORATORS VIE AT ALBANY Ten Schools of Higher Education to be Represented ALBANY. Ore., April 12. (AP). Representatives of 10 Oregon colleges and universities will compete here tomorrow for four prizes In two divisions at the annual Oregon peace oratorical contest. Dr. C. W. Greene will preside. . Competing institutions will be the Oregon State college. Univer sity of Oregon, Pacific college, Pacific university, Linfield col lege, Willamette university, Ore gon Normal school, Eugene Bible university and the Southern Ore gon Normal school. Subjects of the orations will be "A Peace Conscience:" "The Truth, the Light and the Way "Peace by International Honor;" "Our Destiny;" "Stone Moun tain:" "The Guerdon of 'Peace;' "The Inevitable;" "The Footprint of Death;" and "Statues that Ob scure." In the extemporaneous division, rThe Influence of the Press" will be the subject. . 35 ROUND TRIPS DAILY Bus Lines Plan Augmented Sched- nle Beginning April 21 Under new operating schedules filed in the offices of the public service commission by the South ern Pacific Transport company and the Pacific Stages. Inc., stag es, will make 35 round trips daily between Portland and Hillsboro and Forest Grove. The Southern Pacific Trans port company schedule provides for 11 trips from Portland to For est Grove daily and 10 trips be tween Forest Grove and Port land. The new schedules. If approved by the public service commission, will become effective April 21. MRS. COOLIDGE RETURNS Third Visit Completed With Moth. er. Who Is Better NORTHAMPTON. Mass., Apr. 12. (AP) Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the president, left for Washington ' at 7:25 o'clock to night, ending the third visit she has made here since last January to see her aged 'mother, Mrs. Le mira Goodhue, who Is ill at the Dickinson hospital. A statement Issued by Lieuten ant-Commander Joel T. Boone of the White House medical staff said that Mrs. Goodhne's condition was such as to warrant Mrs. Coo-, lidge's return to Washington, for the present ELEVENTH HOUR STAY GIVEN WMOS, KELLEY CLEMENC YHOPE SEEN ApT 5?ze? and Betray Little Emotion When Word of Reprieve Brought; Govern or Patterson Grants Week's Delay in Tele gram from Marshfield; Watch Maintained SUPREME COURT MEMBERS WILL RECOMMEND COMMUTATION, WORD So Reports Bradle Ewers, Willos Attorney, In Wiring State Executive; Later Confirmed, But Chief Justice Empha sizes Opinion Will Be Given Only As Individuals; Respite Just Before Day of Execution Second of its Kind for Mn Convicted of Guards Murder In Connection with Spec tacular Prison Break THOMPSON GETS PRISON RELEASE kJli EMBEXZLER OF STATE FUNDS MUST LEAVE OREGON Conditional Pardon Granted After Serving Three and One Half Years Clarence Thompson Thursday received a conditional pardon from Governor Patterson after serving three and one-half years of a nine years sentence in the state penitentiary for the embez zlement of funds from the state treasury department. Under the terms of the condi tional pardon Thompson must re main outside of the state. The con ditional pardon was recommended by the state parole board. His min imum term, under the parole law, expired Wednesday. Thompson was employed as cashier in the state treasury de partment during the administra tions of the late O. P. Hoff and Jefferson Meyers. Officials alleged that he appropriated approximate ly 15000 of state funds. Following his original arrest he was sentenced to a term of seven years, and his previous parole was revoked. Prison officials said that Thomp son intended to locate In the state of Washington. He Bared several hundred dollars during his Incar ceration. Thompson's wife, who was a Sa lem girl, obtained a divorce from her husband a few months after he entered the prison. WOMEN ASK DRY PLANK Action Taken by Way of Reply to Stand of Wets CHICAGO. April 12. (AP) As a reprisal to the action of the national affairs committee of the national Republican club of New York yesterday in adopting a res olution calling for an anti-dry plank in the G. O. P. platform, the national Woman's Christian Tem perance union today issued a statement saying the republicans would lose the fall election if the party heeded the dictate of the resolution. "If the national Republican club sends Nicholas Murray But ler to Kansas City to present its views, that outstanding anti-prohl- bltionist will be flanked by sev eral million republican women who want the 18th amendment re tained and enforced," the state ment read. "If the republican party adopts a prohibition repeal plank it will lose the next elec tion along with several million women voters. LUMBER SAID PLENTIFUL Competitors of Industry Make False Statements, Claim ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Apr. 12. (AP) "There Is no scarcity of lumber." said Ben S. Woodhead, first vice president of the National American Wholesale Lumber asso ciation now in convention here, 'but there are plenty ot rumors to the contrary probably given birth by competitors in substitute building materials. It is also said that there is no good lumber to be had, whereas lumbermen can get all the best quality lumber that nature has ever produced. Such statements are vicious and malicious lies. They, the lumber men, can get the best if they want to pay for it" COOLIDGE SENDS WORD Expression of Sympathy Forward ed te Italian JUac WASHINGTON, Apr. 12 (AP) President Coolidge extended to the king of Italy today his sympa thy upon the loss of life at the Mi lan national fair, wbere-4 4 people were killed by' an explosion just prior to the King's visit He add ed that he wished to assure the king of his relief at his majesty's escape. ;t-;-i.,'i..s;-v.- PRICE FIVE CENTS Thoroughly, resigned to the fas which awaited them in less tfiaa Liurt Mam Willos and worth Kelley were appare.rfy dated for the moment and J- Y'ai- no mot,a 2ortly after 6.30 o clock last night when wr was brought to them in the death fhlV the 8t,te Penitentiary, that Governor I. L. Patterson fa grnHe, R rteDrfeve ot one week This order came in a telegram from Mr. Patterson at Marshfie'd and was taken to the prison hy Miss Beatrice Walton. actinK retary to the governor. Comments Brief After recovering from their hm wilderment at thte unexpected news, the two men who wr scheduled to hang at 8:30 thh uiornmg ror their part In the May ing of Milton Holman and John Sweeney, guards, during a prison" .v ?kJn AuUfll. 1925. declare that they were pleased, but had little more to say. For the prn ent. they will remain In the cell set apart for condemned men. and the death watch will be contin ued, prison officials announced. That this reprieve gives the men a definite hope for com mutation of their sentences to rife imprisonment, was Indicated here last night when it was reports that the order was issued after Governor Patterson had receive a" telegram from Bradley Ewers, at- torney for Willos, In which be rfs- ciarea that five members of the state supreme court would rerem mend as Individuals, if requested by the governor, that the death sentences be commuted to life Im prisonment. Reports received at the executive department also in dicated that Governor -Patterse had talked with Chief Justfc Rand of the state supreme court regarding the cases over the tele phone. Appeals to Justice In his telegram to Governor Patterson, Mr. Ewers said he ap peared before the supreme court Thursday requesting that they recommend commutation of Wlllss-? and Kelley's sentences. "There were present five Judg es, including the chief Justice." read Mr. Ewers' telegrsm. "After a discussion I was in formed that on account of the -preme court being the head of ens of the departments of our state government they did not desire te encroach upon the executive de partment But that if you. as governor, would request them fcr a recommendation they wowld recommend to you that the sen tences of the two men be ceiw muted to life Imprisonment In the state penitentiary. . (Continues on ptf 3 DAM BUILDERS HELD AT FAULT LOS ANGELES CORONER! JURY RETURNS VERDICT Error In Engineer's Judgment and Wrong Public Policy Cne of Catastrophe LOS ANGELES. April 12. (AP).- The coroner's Jury inves tigating the death of the St. Fran cis dam victims late today brought in a verdict stating that the vic tims came to their deaths from the breaking of the dam which was due to defective foundations. The Jury recommended that no crim inal action be taken. Two errors constituted the cause of the collapse of the reser voir arch, the verdict stated. One of these was an engineer's errer in Judgment in determining the character of the foundation aad In deciding upon the type of dass to be built there. J;The other, the Jurors decided wss sn error In re gard to fundamental policy con cerning public safety. Responsibility for the error i engineering judgment rests upon the Los Angeles bureau of water works and supply and the chlsf engineer thereof, the verdict stat ed. Responsibility for the error hs public policy was general, it con tinued. . The collapse of the dam was the logical result of conditions that the citizenship has allowed se develop and continue, the Jurere -declared in connection with the asserted error of policy relating to public safety. -