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I THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 2. 1923 A? i 6- P f-I I he Oregon Statesman ImH Daily Ei-ep KmU; ly THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY SIS B-ith C-mmmM Straat, B.Ira. Oragas WL 3. Headrieka Xrl S. Mf Sherry Bslpk C. Cartia Bazvlla Baaea afaaagar - MaaarlBf Zditar - City E4itor Sowt Kb i tar Ralph H. Klatsiag, Uv4 E. Ktifflvr V. H. Hcnderaao, E. . RKoUa . V.'. C. Cobot AdTrtisiar Vacant Bapar-ataaaaat Circulation Maaaf " Livaatark M lor - Poultry Editcf KT.tnT.1t 0? TRE ASSOCIATED Tfca Aaaoeiat.a yrM i. xciiir ra titled l ajaara tiapatha croiwd laca aww. pablitaaa' aarata FSZSS i i t'-r pabUeaC? af U t r roc awaranaa crWui ia Uil tpr tad alaa . r I ay $ i rrrr business omras ractfie Coit RepreaUtira Dot; Smrit Bide.; Raa rraacisea. II Waatara Pacific B'.if Taataa CUrk Co., Near Yark CfcirafO. Maraartte B!d(. A Styp. 8Uia Bids Ioe.. Portland. ; ho Aacclai, 128 136 W. 31tt St, Offia tl r ill SoaMtj Ed; tar IM TEXKTHOVES Xrwa lrpt 23 ar 5" J ok Tprtirel . Circular ion Offi... i.jlTi at taa Past OViet in SaVm. Or.gaa. a --.' f'ax aaaltrr Juste 2, And as soon as He bad spoken ed from him. and be wu cleansed. ani forthwith sent him away: And nothing to any man; bat go thy way. offer for thy I02S immediately the leprosy depart And He straigbtly charged him. saith unto bim. See thou say .h,vw thrull to the Driest, ana . j" i . v. i .i,t.i. vaim commanded for at cleansing tause iuui9 . . testimony unto them. Mark 1:42-43-44. AS A FRUIT CENTER The opening for business of the plant of the Terminal Ice & Cold Storage company on North Front street gives Salem an added importance as a fruit center. This new plant has a capacity for making 25 tons of ice a day, and it provides room for the equivalent of 20,000 bar rels of berries in cold storage. This is a real asset in the handling of the berry crop here strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc., going into cold storage for eastern shipment. It will be remembered that at one time, last year, berries from Salem were sent as far as Astoria for cold storage facilities; during a period of high water that interfered with the operation of some of the plants in Portland. It is a matter of great convenience and economy to have ample cold storage facilities here. It may save our growers and packers many thousands of dollars some years. That is community money. Cold storage is necessary to the expansion of our straw berry industry, to say nothing of our other berries and fruits. There are prospects of possible great expansions in the out let for our strawberries in the SO and 15 pound tins, and in small waxed cartons, that are having their first big year now And it is predicted that this market outlet will allow our strawberry tonnage to be doubled in time. It was 12,000,000 pounds last year, and will probably run to that figure this year. The growers will quickly respond to the doubling of the tonnage, if they can be assured of markets at paying prices. The tonnage for the Salem district was 4,000,000 pounds in 1926 ; and that seemed a lot of berries. Oregon is the greatest strawberry packing state in the Un- a ..a 1 l 1 - 1 Ti. " ion. and the center ot tne industry is nere in csaiem. n is encouraging to think of doubling the tonnage. We have a strawberry cult. We grow the finest strawber ries known ; for canning and barreling. The barreling or cold n&ck Drocess Duts what amounts to fresh berries on the markets of the country at any time of the year. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO o - o Jane 2, 10O3 PORTLAND At the special election. Bracer Hermann, repub lican.' was elected a representa tive la congress from the first district to fill the unexpired va cancy of Thomas H. Tongue, de ceased. a a NORTH PLATTE. Neb. Pres ident Roosevelt left Cheyenne. Wyo.. today and made but one short stop between that place and this. This wis at Sidney. Neb., where be delivered an address. GAINESVILLE. Ga. Probably 100 persons were zuiea. me etij hall and .other large buildings up- roofed and the cotton mills de stroyed In a terrific cyclone" which struck the city. ' a .. The Salem Raglans, by Virtue of a 4 to 2 victory over the Albany nine at the CAAC park Sunday, added another count to its lead in the Willamette valley league Sa lem has won six and lost two; Roseburg is runner-up. a a "Planting is about done; the new bake oven and building for ume Is about completed; we will finish tearing down the old barns this week" says the monthly re port of Superintendent Calbreath of the state asylum. A good work "orse died in May, making it necessary to buy a span of mules at a cost of $300. Attractive Float in University of Oregon Canoe Fete o o Bit For Breakfast I v Some more showers- Good for early mown but the A CHANGE IN PEKIN The Associated Press dispatches of this morning tell of a sort of farewell party held by Chang Tso-lin at Pekin Evidently a gesture preceding his departure for his estates in Manchuria. This former bandit and present wealthiest man in all China has held forth at Pekin as dictator for several months. He had no program for anything but the ancient idea of the Chinese overlords of feathering their own nests. He had no platform except "squeeze," the term for graft in that country. Now the National armies, led by Chiang Kai-shek, the yoking man from Canton upon whose shoulders fell the mantle of Sun Yat Sen when he died, are to have charge at Pekin Together with the forces of Marshal Feng, the Chinese Christian general. These two leaders believe in the principles of a republican form of government, like the United States. . The forces of Feng believe in honesty and decency in gov ernment. They believe in peace. Feng is a great statesman. A great builder. He has a constructive mind. He is a sort of Oriental Herbert Hoover. There will be better times in China, if the leadership of the type of men like Feng lasts. Though it must be admitted that they have a vast ignorant mass to infuse with their ideals. And reforms go slowly in that country. Some one has said that "You cannot hustle the East." SEE AMERICA FIRST (Portland Telegram) According to an estimate of the National Ifome Study Council of Washington, Americans will have something like a billion dollars more to spend this year than last. That is approximately the rate of increase of the national income over that of 1927. In recent prosperous years, a lot of people have built new houses, a lot more have bought new cars and in general sup plied themselves with ordinary luxuries. These needs being met, it stands to reason that a large part of that extra bil lion will be spent this summer in travel. Much ot it will pour into the pocKfcJs of European hotel keepers. Much of it will be spent pottering about undersized. overadvertised Swiss mountains. us lime ior anoiner nation-wide campaign lor seeing America first, with this added advice, "Don't think you have seen America until you reach the Pacific Coast, for if you turn back anywhere east of the Rocky Mountains, you ain't seen nothin yet. everything hay. a The new cold storage plant has accommodations for the equiva lent of 20.000 ban-els of berries. That seems a lot. But there will have to be still more cold storage room in Salem, if the new tin and wax packages and cartons con taining strawberries go over as well as present indications war rant the hope that they may. "a , This means fresh strawberries from Salem any where in any sea son of the year, in convenient packages for the consumers, from one pound cartons of waxed pa per to 15 and 30 pound cans, and 4 50 pound barrels. "a S It is good to see Dr. Canse and Dr. Doney back at their desks as presidents respectively of Kim ball college and Willamette uni versity. The eastern fields were bidding for them, at the Metho dist general conference. Oregon wants them to stay here. Dr. Doney could have bad the position of editor of the Pitts burgh Methodist paper, the Ad vocate, similar to our Pacific Christian Advocate. S The stone that was rejected will become the head of the cor ner of Salem's prosperity and growth. This city is on the verge of becoming a great mining cen ter. See the Slogan pages of The Statesman of tomorrow. There is copper enough in the mountains up there to give Salem a new name, Copperopolis. And there is some gold along with it; about $5 a ton. And some silver and lead and zinc, and no one knows what other values. 1 is:.:W:;4 tl II 11 XW I J HUGE AIRPLANES WILL CONTINUE HOP SOUTH Chalcocite never lies. It never leads the mining engineer astray. It shows there is a copper mine, and a deep one, in the direction in which it leads, with increasing values. T mine ieing developed on the property of the Northwest Copper company's property on the Little Fork of the San has - the truth telling and unfailing chalcocite in increasing quant-, ities as greater depth is reached. Salem is certain to wake up one of these line mornings with a great mining district at her 'front door. See Slogan pages tomorrow. - - . - i (Contioned from pace 1.) ana conveyed through the press to all those great masses who in spirit were flying with those brave men through the night. Silence Ominous During that hour of terrible si lence came the thoughts of the fate that befc!l those other knights of the air. Captain Wil liam Erwin. and Arthur H. Eich waldt. who gave their lives last August in the effort that failed to save the Dole fliers from death in the broad Pacific. For Erwin and Eichwaldt. too. had gone forth with smiles and with cheering ra dioed greetings to those left be hind and had gone down for ever, with a last word that their plane had been seized in the mys terious grasp of the air, and was falling. And then the radio worked again. On through the moonlight night the plane and its crew were rushing along toward Hawaii, the goal that had lured other airmen to death, but which had been achieved by four other planes and their drivers. Message) Cheerful Steadily came the messages that told of progress; of cheerful con fidence of success; of predictions that task would b completed at 10 o'clock as time was reckoned on the Pacific coast. But again came the threat of disaster. Clouds that so often have deceived the mariner to false nope;' deceived the men of the Southern Cross. Urgent calls for "position" came from them; mes sages that told of fuel supply nearing exhaustion; of requests for naval warships to be ready trf dash to their aid. Th suspense lasted hours. Army and navy nlanes flew ward, searching eagerly to render assistance to courage in distress At last - when it seemed sas- conld be borne uo 1 ia?er the crest plane wtnrin Its way from the direction of the island of HolokaL straight over Hoaolula, passed the plane, es corted by numerous welcoming air machines, and hailed by the noisy welcome of n city acclaiming, cour trooms accomplishment, with 4- Inter-Island Steam Navigation company, said that in all his ex perience be never before had seen clouds so thick around the islands. These clouds made the fliers doabtfal of their position for a time, they said, but they climbed to an alUtude ot 5,09 feet and, saw Maunakea. the mountain of Hawaii Island, its summit of near ly 14,000 feet piercing the clouds. Bigger? Battery Planned From that time on it was easy sailing, the huge plane continuing to work perfectly as it had done through the journey. The radio battery, the cause of the dreadful silence after the air disturbance, will be replaced with a larger bat tery. The flight was ended with 130 gallons of gasoline in the tanks. said the tiers, enough to keep the plane In the air three hours long er. Thus they contradicted earlier repots that came though the air that thei fuel supply was nearing exhaustion as they sought to de termoine their position. Captain Kings ford -Smith and his companions enthusiastically praised the performance of tbe monoplane. They were confident! that they wou'd make the remain der of the flight with little trouble. but planned to carry 1500 gallons of rasolinp from th flight tn Sn- a pretty float designed by members of Alpha Delta Pi : .n i fi'ff!0 a!vf tt.M- P1" tt "'er than the voyage here from Cali- fornia on which they carried 1200 'Lohengrin," Bigaas Alpni fete at the University oi Oregoa this spring. THE MORNING ARGUMENT AUNT HET By Robert QmWea "I'd like to visit my girl Amy. but her husband is so polite I know he's tryin' to show ever'body he ain't aGhamed of me." POOR PA By Clande CalUa (Copyright. 1928. Pnbliktiara Syndicate.) "All of our family is strong an well, so Ma an' me have decided not to give much towards buildia the new parsonage." (Copyright, 1B2S. Pualiabara gyaaieata.) rens and with shouts of thousands. Landing Successful At Wheeler field, 24 miles from Honolulu, the monoplane came down. Its niers to receive the wel come of Hawaii's governor, Wal lace R. Farrington. of Army and Navy officers and of the citizenry of the islands. Soon they will be off again. said the fliers, to Suva, 3138 miles, thence to Brisbane. 1750 miles, finally to Sidney. 500 miles. The plane flew at varying alti tudes coming from Oakland, ranging from 1200 to 9.000 feet. The airmen suffered little from cold. i But clouds all the way obstruc ted their vision. Navigator Lyon.( gallons. OFFICIAL VOTE FIGURES GIVEN (Continaed fram pas l- tors nominated were John L. Day of Multnomah county, 97.616 votes: H. J. Warner, Umatilla county, 96,921 votes, and Mrs. county. 96,;l rotes. In th edemocratic contest for presidential electors Robert A. Miller of Multnomah county was high man with 21.936 votes.. Carl Dona ugh was second with 19,662 votes. E. E. Brackney. third, with 18.632 votes. Walter B. Gleason, fourth, with 16.758 votes, and Thomas H. Comte. fifth with 15. 324 votes. Unsuccessful democratic can didates for presidential electors were Nanny Wood Honeyman. Manche L. Langley and J. N. Mc Fadden. Both the democrats and repub licans nominated five presidential electors. Hal E. Hoss, republican for secretary of state, received 46.328 with .4 &K Tnt.l TkAmM Tt Hand ley received 36,115 votes. pieme court. George Rossman. re publican, was high man with 91. 159 votes. John L. Rand received 78.436 votes and L. H. McMahaa 49,141 votes. Two Justices of the supreme court were nominated. T. B. Kay, republican, who wae unopposed, received 104,662 votes for state treasurer. I. H. VanWinkle, republican, for attorney general, polled 107.446 votes. Mr. VanWinkle was un opposed at the primary election. who 11 years ago worked for the Charles E. Bunyon, Multnomah votes, with H. H. 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