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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1928)
1 fie Cannery Season Has Opened and the Vast Sums Dbtribuied'WJll From Noiv on Help All Lines of Business for a Long Season .Salem Today Welcomes the Lions, (immunity Boosters From AM. Live Oregon Cities; May Their Stay Be Filled With' Much Pleasure Weather forecast: Generally fair bat fog ,bn"ne coast and thunderstorms In the ' mountains of the weet portion; cool in the "-west portion; moderate west and north ""Weat: winds on the coast. Maximum tem rvperature yesterday 93, minimum 51, river rl.5, rainfall none, atmosphere part cloudy, . wind southwest. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR " SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 25. 1928 " ' ' " rxirv r, Si i. rt. BERRY CANNING SEASON OPENS LI First Soft Strawberries Put Up Yesterday; 30 Pound . Tins in Use 'f- GOOSEBERRIES STARTING Tunla People-. Haver. Bovght 50 V',';' Tosi of Strawberrieaf Still In Market for- Soft'Bevrics Caming 8tock 1 i'-fe1'''''""-' I Ts busy canning and packing fveaEbn in Salem is already under ;Var The Paulas Bros. Packing company 'put some Marshall and Strawberries into 30 .i tin. .o.ot anA will add 4, to the stock daily, shipping as t as car lots are ready, to east ern "customers, who hare already ordered them. The Paulus people wli be can m ning gooseberries this afternoon. Will begin preparing the berries this mornlng.JThey hare some con tracts of their own, and they haTe bought the contract supply of an other canner. They hare advanced orders for the canned berries. They hare lately sold about 5, 000 case of the last year's pack of gooseberries; ' berries that were held oyer by other canneries of thia section. A Lot of-'Mrawberrics The Paulus tjopie hare bought up to date, ofXthfe year's crop, about 650 onjfer ptrawberries counUngl6J1ft!VttreUng and can nier bemeyraeiN are still buy- InglslrawberriesfoT barreling; or ' - rather fer patting into, tins for shipping fat cold; pack; the; same as. sey are uf into- barrels. Tney ex- pect to put He IWK of Ubelr pack Vkf the soft berries into the SO Tpound tins. They will put the bal ance of these rarietiea into bar- i. rels. -;&f?'K They hdpa.to'.be in the market for more canning berries, - too. They plan- to can only what they can contract for -aale in advance. and they expect more drders. It will be remembered that the Paulus cannery used some vege tables last year. They will enlarge i on th!Je for the 1928 season. I They, ci pect to put up a cocsider- f able-tonnage of beets, carrots, par?$3a onions anc pumpkins. They are making advance con tracts tor their canning supplies of these vegetables. At the Other Canaeries The Starr cannery will open up , on gooseberries and strawberries ("f the middle of next week. y The Producers cooperative can nery will be on gooseberries and rTVawbrries next week. Also the West Salem cooperative (CuunM oa Pf 2 IN BISHOP BALLOT M. K. GENERAL CONFERENCE FAILS TO PICK MAN Drtrgates Unable to Select Third Of Three Church Officers At KasMS City KANSAS CITY, May 24 (AP) j?l In the same hall in which thjc i republican party will meet thre ri ' weeks hence to nominate its presi 4;antial ticket, .'.the . quadrennial r, -general conference of the Method- 1st .Episcopal church today was f deadlocked over selection ot a bishop. . . The deadlock; followed election -ftwo bishops yesterday. Pr, Ray mond J. waae or Chicago and Dr. grumes C Baker of. Urbaaa. 111. her -and ft sharp withdrawal of . support from other leading candi dates followed their election. Dr. Lewis O. Hartman of Bos ton 'and the Rev. J. M. M. Gray of Scranton, Pa., who yesterday were near election,' had lost more than 200 -votes each at the end of the eleventh ballot today. With B 3 5 votes heeded for election Gray had dropped to 53 and Hartman to 122 voUsf : 'X- ., ", .: : The withdrawn support' was go--rig-t "the Rev. Ralph S.: Cush man' of Rochester, N. Y. and the : .Jf2a:U. B.. Urmy . of Pittsburgh J f Consecration of - newp bishops - was set for Sunday with the final ?he conference HodayVag' pre- I ided over, for the first time in I church- history,-by a- negro. Bishop Asr'Joiert E. Jones of New Orleans 'tp& commended .for.hisr.cpm- "petii.-ana couriaous' cnairman- ahip la ft resolution which was ad opted. - - - A : . ' .;-"" SHIPPING BILL LOCAL BENEFIT JEFFERSON MYERS TELLS OF MERCHANT MARINE NEED Fruit Shipments to be Aided When Direct Boat Rotating , Made Possible An adequate merchant marine would mean $925 saving to Wil lamette valley fruit growers for every carload of fruit now shipped by rail to the Atlantic coast and then transferred to freight steam ers for'- shipment abroad if ail these shipments could be loaded direct into the ve,Neis on the Col umbia and shipped through the Panama Canal, members of the lo cal service club and realty board were told at the Joint luncheon Thursday noon at the Marion ho tel by Jefferson Myers, member of the United- States shipping board. The figure mentioned was credited by Mr. Myers to Herbert Hoover, secretary of . commerce, who also sent by Mr. Myers' a mes sage to Salem people that he is hoping to take a fishing trip on the Santiam river if circumstance permit him to visit Oregon In the next few years. Pacific coast shipments to for eign countries are growing rapid ly and are' comparatively close to the volume shipped from the At lantic coast now, Mr.. Myers said in his Introduction, to show the importance of a merchant marine to this section. At brr rent, little over a third of the United States' shipments of freight abroad are made in Amer- j Can BUipa, l lie ocu. tish ships carry 66 per cent. Over one-eighth of the value of produce exported is'paid in freight charges and insurance to other countries. Just before the WoHd war. only nine per cent of American exports were carried In American shipo, and the nation is still paying Its oKnrt ivMeriness. due to with drawal of foreign, carriers Jbrt time. .. .- ;ltl S V-f f til 191 a the shortage became aente and the shipping Jrd' was established. A vast fleet of non descript ships "was then built -at extravagant cost, and the federal government was later forced to dispose of these at a loss. The shipping board since then has been offering every induce ment at its command to encour age construction of more vessels, but the United State is still hope lessly outranked by other nations; by Britain 60 to one. by Germany 10 to one. and by several omer countries five to one. The United state is tenth in volume of ship building, being outranked even by inland Russia. There is an especial shortage of fast beats, Mr. Myers added. Higher cost of construction is h nrincioal handicap, he ex plained, but this is due to higher wages and living conditions nere and to lack of mass production. not to Inefficiency. Other govern ments are aiding ship buiiaers, and in view of the handicaps ex isting, the United States must fol low suit. It will cost only one-eighth of one per cent of the total trans oceanic freight charge, to encour age ship building under the terras of the Jones-White bUl. he ex plained. ' This bill, he briefly explained. nroTldes for the loaning of 75 per cent of the ship's constructioncost at the lowest possible rate of in terest, probably 2 per cent. The plans . must be approved by the C0RBETT SOON GOVERNOR Will Take Patiersoow Place For While Beglamiegv Jsuse 4 M Henry L. Corbett. president of the state senate, was in Salem Thursday conferring with Gover nor Patterson with, relation to the conduct of the executive depart ment during the absence ot the governor from the state. .The law provides that the presi dent of the state senate shall oc cupy the executive chair during the governor's absence from Ore-f g o n. Governor . Patterson is scheduled to leave-Salem June 4 for Chicago, where, on Jane 3 he will give ft radio , address. He then will go to Kansas City where he will attend the republican; na tlonal convention.: .The; governor will return to Salem fane 20. Senator : Corbett will ; serve as governor daring the' Interim, This will be the second lime that Sena tor Corbett has served as governor since Governor Patterson assumed office in anuaryri9t7 During the -last absence of Governor Pat; terson from the state Senator Cor-r bett confined ; hia exeCvtivi apUv ttles to the coastderatlon and Mia-1 poaal 6f routine birstness.- He re fused, to consider, applications for pardons or paroles. -i ; ' r f U . . Senator Corbett " indicated that he would be In Salem most, of the time daring the governor's alb-J gene. . Willi PARTY HELD CAPTIVE Inhuman Treatment at Hands of Tibetan Tribes Told in Message 9 AMERICANS ALL SAFE Expeditioa of Exptorarlow Aero ' Wild of Asia Halted. Forced ' to Live la Tent at 40 Below Zero NEW YORK, May 4 (AP) Held for five months without ade quate shelter or supplies in the pltllese ' cold of high reaches of Tibet, an American expedition has won its way through to civiliza tion and told of its safety in the first message received in more than a year. The Roerich Museum today re ceived a cablegram from the Himalayan region of India from Professor Nicholas Roerich, which said the expedition had arrived safely on May 16 and recited briefly the hardships of the party during Its long trek through cen tral Aeia. Although all of the nine white persons on the expedition were re ported safe, five of their Mongol ian, Buriat and Tibetan guides had died and 90 caravan animals perished , in the rigors of the Ti betan winter. - Start Made In 1924 .The Roerich expedition first set forth on its wanderings in .1924. It' has reported laconically from time to time Its position but since ApriT.1927 no word had reached the .museum, which. w Professor Qaxlch-foanded here. v ' It was. known that his wife and his son, George, an Orientalist and archaeologist who has studied at Harvard and Sorbonne, were in the party , but the museum does not know who the other members of the party are' since they were recruited abroad. The cablegram received said today that three women were in the band of ex plorers. Profeseor Roerich's cablegram read : Scleace Greatly Aided "Roerich American expedition after many hardships has reached Himalayas. Thus ended big cen tral Asiatic expedition. Many ar tistic and scientific results." (Professor Roerich has already sent back 250 paintings represent ing his panorama of Asia. Many observations concerning Buddh ism.) "Expedition started in 1924 from Sikkim (eastern Hindustan) through Punjab. Kashmir. Ladak (Border states). : Karakorum. (Continued on pse 5.) hi -:7 LIONS' CONVENTION PROGRAM FRIDAY 9 to 12 A. M Registration at Chamber of Commerce rooms. 12 to 1:30 P. M. Luncheon at: Marion Hotel; ladies too. Lion Ray L, Riley of Sacra mento. Calif.. Speaker, .. 1:30 to 4 P. M. -Golf tovfna-. ment at Illib.ee club grounds. Directions and cars arranged' at registration headquarter. 2:00 P. M. Business and or ganisation session at Cham ber of Commerce. ' - . 2:30 Ladies' Tea and Bridge Party, Elks' Club, f P.- M. Committee meeting - :. at places which , will be an-. --ifcouueed daring afternoon 'session, and President's and Secretaries' dinners.. 1t29 Stunt Night Program, . Salem Armory. 9:30 P. M. Informal Dance, Salem Armory. CONGRESS RIDES OVER 3 VETOES THAT NUMBER OF BILLS PASSED BT BOTH HOUSES Four Rushed . Through Senate Alone in Rapid Succession; Farm Measure Delayed WASHINGTON, May 24 (AP) Establishing what leaders be lieve to be a precedent, the senate today overrode four presidential vetoes in rapid succession and tae house then promptly duplicated that action on one of them. In addition the senate came within seven votes of defeating1 the chief executive on still a fifth measure. The one bill that was re-passed by both chambers over Mr. Cool ldge's objection was the Tyson Fitxgerald bill to provide retire ment pay for disabled, emergency army officers. It was passed by the house 245 to 10,1, within two hours after the senate had acted similarly, 61 to. 14 . The -three other pieces ot legis lation on which the senate and Mr. Coolidge parted eeooany- wereith Oddle" - roads measure 7 ntfjectlng eleven western states; the Sproul bill increasing pay for nigiit workers in the postal service and the Griest bill granting allowances for rent, fuel, light and equipment to fourth class postmasters. The -two postal bills previously had been re-passed by the house over the veto and now are law. In theUouse Speaker Longworth said the Oddie bill would be called up for another vote the first thing tomorrow. The measure on which the pres- Ident went to victory was the wirelessed her base ship the CItta Bingham bill to create the rankjdi Milano, that she was meeting a of bandmaster of the army. It was not until this measure was reached that a voice was raised in defense of the president and that was on the democratic Bide of the chamber. Senator Bruce, of Maryland, said that while he believed Mr. Coolidge had overstepped the bounds in some of his vetoes, he thought the senate would be do (Continued on pte 5.) If ?yy - 1 - - fife -1- (f ' - ; V...- '"r"? SATURDAY ' f M. Trip Through Salem's Linen Mills. Trip Through Salem's Paper , Mills. . 10 A. M. Business session at . Chamber of Commerce. 2 P. M. Motor boat races and water regatta on Willamette River. Sight seeing trips Im mediately arter regatta. Cars . tDl be arranged at registra- ' Uon headquarters. 1:10' P. M. Banquet at Mar lon Hotel; Carl Crosan, of Seattle; Washington, prlnd-' . pal speaker. Hon. George Rosaman, justice of the Ore ' goa Supreme Court, toast master. P. M. Dancing at the Mar lon Hotel. ITALIAN - AIRSHIP HITS HEAVY GALE VESSEL ALSO HANDICAPPED C BY COATING OF ICE Trouble Experienced in Reaching Base at Kings Bay After Historic Flight KINGS BAY, Spltzbergen, May 24. (AP) Coated with much ice and fighting a strong southwest wind, the dirigible Italia today was slowly making her way hack to her base at Kings Bay after a brilliant flighv to tne north pole. General Umberto Nobile. suc cessful in his second dirigible flight to the top of the world, sent three historic messages from the pole, one to Pope Pius, telling the pontiff that he had dropped the oaken cross entrusted to him on the north pole from the Italia and the others to King Victor Em manuel and Premier Mussolini. J While over the pole the flags of Italy and Milan and various other souvenirs were dropped. ; LjThe cross which was about six 4Mtf&-Rs metal tas -bad 9. repository- 1ft which was placed a message written in Latin by Pope Pius. For two hours the dirigible cruised over, the pole, reaching the spot at twenty minutes after mid night, nineteen hours . and forty minutes after leaving Kings Bay. At 2:20 a. m. the return flight was begun, the dirigible following! the 24th meridian to the half way point about 350 miles from the pole and then, turned for King? Bay. At 10 o'clock tonight the Italia strong head wind and a dense fog and probably would not reach Kings Bay until tomorrow. General Nobile had planned to land several men at the pole tc make observation but the mes sages received at Kings Bay indi cated that this part of the plan bad not been carried out. The dirigible kept in touch with the Citta di Milano during much of her flight. ROARING LIONS INVADE SALEM THIS MUG Six Hundred Expected to At tend From Out of Town; Full Program GOLF TOURNEY ON TODAY Registration at CVuunber of Com merce in Forenoon, Luncheon at Noon with Ray L. Riley a Speaker . Lions by the trainload and auto mobile load will pour into Salem this forenoon for the annual con vention o the Oregon district, which will get under way with registration early today and con tinue with a busy program until tomorrow evening, when it close? with a banquet and dance. Si: hundred out of town people ate tl expected. i $ Following registration, which will be at the chamber of com merce, the activities will open with the regular weekly luncheon of the Salem Lions club, at the Mar ion hotel. At this luncheon Ray L. Riley, second vice president of the Lions International, will be the speaker. Will Be Kept Buy The local committee in charge has planned the program so that there will be more things to do than the delegates can really ac complish, so that there is sure to be something doing every minute. ; Principal interest today centers in the golf tournament, which will be held, at the Illahee club course, one of the most intriguing stretch es of difficult fairways in the northwest. ; Each el ah throughout the state has selected its champion so that the tournament will settle the Lion's golfing title for Oregon. Stoat Contest Tonight There will also be the stunt night program at the armory, at which the leading entertainers from each of the visiting clubs will show their wares. This event is scheduled for 7:30, and will be followed by an informal dance. The lower floor is reserved for Lions and their ladies, but the public is Invited to witness the stunts from the balcony. Saturday morning's events will open with excursions through the linen mills, paper mills and other industrial plants here. The prin cipal business session of the con vention will- be held at the cham ber ot commerce at 10 a. m., at which time the convention city for 1929 will be selected and district officers chosen. Bend, Coquille and Tillamook are contestants for the honor of entertaining next year's conven tion. Among candidates for offices have been mentioned Harry A. Swart of Portland for district gov ernor, and O. F. Tate of the same city for secretary. John H. Carkin (CMtina4 on pf 5.) FLAME OUT OF CONTROL Bull Run Now Threatened as Fire Spread Rapidly PORTLAND,. May 2 4 . (AP) Still out of control, a slashing fire on Sugar Loaf mountain, near San dy, was sweeping on toward green timber of the Bull Run reserve tonight, although battled by a. crew of 125 men. Eantpment of all kinds including pumpers and sup-: plies , for the fire fighters was rushed to the fire today. Fire fighting was made doubly difficult because of the relatively low hu midity 18 per cent' with 30 per cent normal. . , The blase, which has covered several hundred acres of slashings had today caused no appreciable damage, but forestry officials ex plained that should the nre as sume greater proportions 350 men engaged in constructing tbe Bear creek dam will be thrown into the battle with the flames. FLIGHT TO MEXICO CITY Aviator Taking Sister Ship of Lia . dy Famous Plane - SAN nXEOO ,rMay V-(AP) Captain Xmillo Carransa; flying a sister chip of Colonel Lindbergh's Spirit of St Loul. took off from Camp Kearney hear nere, on nonstop flight .'to-Mexico City ; at SwJBbJBte planned to-Oy over Mexlcaltand then steer, com passcourse torMexico CltyV I; ' His plane carried 420 gallons of gasoline. The flier took along ' a bag of sandwiches, a bottle of cof fee and a bottle of water and said ae expected to eat breakfast la Mexico City tomerrov - ' LIONLSM GROWS I RAPIDLY IN U. S. OFFICER OF INTERNATIONAL VISITS SALEM Declare Service Club is Natural Outgrowth of Change In Business Lions International is at the present time the fastest growing service organization among busi ness men In the United States, it was declared last night by Ray L. Riley of Sacramento, California. . .Wi 1 is AY I W, t . . . i i . n -3econo vice presiueni vi uiu iuici national, 'who is in Salem to at tend the Lion's district convention. He will be the speaker at the luncheon at noon today. The Lions in the past year have enjoyed greater expansion than at any time previous, Mr. Riley sta ted. In California, they outrank all of the other service organiza tions in membership, having 130 separate clubs. "Lionism is the natural devel opment resulting from changed conditions in business methods," Mr. Riley said. "The two words in the English language, which are most used are buslaesah! ,ad 'money.' It is not strange that out of the malestrom f business, along with the power of the material dollar, there should be a recognition of the responsi bility that business must accept.' Another prominent Lion who will attend the convention here Is Carl Crosan of Seattle, one of the international directors. FIVE ESCAPE AT 0STS Youths From Woodburn Institu tion Believed on Way Here Local police officers were in formed last night of the escape, ot five boys from the state training sehoo; Which is located near Woodburn. The quintet made their escape sometime last night. Police here have been keeping a close watch put for them all last night as it Is believed that they headed foT Salem. Those making the getaway were Arnald Stevenson, 17; Mike Mood- ey, 16; Glen Stringer, If, Lester Hersha, 16; and Gara Sorhand, 10. G. E. Shorey, Hollywood apart ments, was arrested by Officer Thomas last night charged with switching license plates. The plates on his Overland car belonged to an Essex coach. He Is employed by . a' wrecking com pany here and had taken the plates off a wrecked machine. He was cited to appear in police court at 4 o'clock this afternoon. HOT WAVE GREETS LIONS Locals Fear Wrong Impression May be Given Visitor "This weather is very unusual here." Such was the explanation nec essary when the vanguard of visit ing Lions reached Salem yesterday afternoon preparatory to the state Lions convention which opens to day. The, same California style of alibi will have to be used today unlet the weather cools off con siderably. With a temperature of 93 reached in the afternoon, yester day was by two degrees the hot test day yet recorded this year. The previous high mark of 91 de grees was attained last Sunday. The weather bureau last night gave only scant hope that the tem perature would moderate soon. FUND GONE, ALSO HUBBY Just Married Her For her Money, ' Woman. Discovers , PORTLAND, May 24.- (AP) Charging that her husband, Ezra A,. Dillon, 60, had told her that he had married heT for her money and (hat he afterward left her penniless, Mr. Anna Louise Dil lon, 12, was granted, a divorce 1 circuit court here today. Dillon now is a prisoner in tho county here on a nonsupport charge. AUSTRIAN MOB RIOTS AGAINST ITALIAN OFFICE Consulate at Innsbruck in Tyrol Province Sustains Strong Attack GRAVE RESULTS FEARED Throngs Trample Banner 1' Foot; Soldiers Called Oat t Halt Disturbances: Stu dent Take Lead VIENNA. May 24. (AP ious rioting which continued until after dark when a heavy rain dis persed the mob. occurred at Inns bruck. Austrian Tyrol, today. It centered about an attack on the Italian consulate here. The flag Jof that country was torn down and trampled and restored to its staff after a vigorous protest by the Italian representatives. Uncensored telephone reports from Innsbruck indicate that the mob renewed its attack on I be consulate after a squad of repub lican soldiers had been forced to salute the Italian flag. Many women and chifdren were hurt and numerous men suffered cracked heads when police and soldiers beat back the first mob that stormed the consulate tore down the flag. Eight and ring leaders' were arrested. I Guard Placed on Duty When the flag bad been restored and saluted In accord with the Italian demands, a strong guard was posted about the building end the officials thought the disorder had ceased. - The Austrian governor, however, posted a bulletin at the city hall declaring the 'attack was "sense less and "futile." This inceac4 nationalistic students who had been In the van of tbe first dem-, onstration and they returned to the consulate and tried to rears the flag again, shouting "Down with our cowardly government. It is trying to kill our national pride." Mob Driven Away Only the bayonets of the gaaxd kept them at bay. Then the poiiee and soldiers charged and drove lb rioters down side streets where the lines were held until the rain came. The cabinet her takes th (Continued on pj 2.) FLORAL DISPLAY HERE BEST YET GARDEN CLUB'S ANNUAL EVENT PROVES SUCCESS Collect iona All Beeattful Many Uausnal; Wild Flowers Featnre Flowers of all descriptions were exhibited at the annual floral .dis play of the Salem Garden elab which was held in the chamber of commerce auditorium yesterday afternoon and evening. Varies prizes were awarded to the grow ers of the choicest blooms, Al though competition in each of tbe divisions was very keen. Thi display Is held each -year and la always much looked forward to by both professional and amateur florists. , Those to receive' blue ribbons on their display at the show were Mrs. H. C. Schultz, ' Mrs. Kittle Grayer, H. C. Bateham, Mrs. Dan J. Fry, Mrs. W. W. Rosebraugb. Mrs. M. N. Chapman, Doris M Calllater. George Putman, F. O. Deckebach, and Mr. E. M. Heff nell. - J , First and second prizes in the Iris collection went to Mrs. Hoff- nell .and Mrs. Rosebraugh respec tively, who competed In tbe club members division. The first prise award for the best collection of low growing flowers went to Mrs. Schultt, who was the only entrant in this division. In ' her display WELCOME, LIONS TO OREGON'S CAPITAL - - . 1 This U , your city. Make your- selves at home. -j-r4i t 4 i 1 i . i i X " I S'1 ' T. t."