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A; New Boat Will Be Ready -for the River Run Between Salem ajid Portland on July 15; It Will Draw Two Feet of Water A Campaign to Bring the Willamette University Endowment Funds Up to a Million and a Half Dollars Will Be Put on at Once Tgfccather forecast: Fair and mild; nor mal humidity; fresh northwest winds on the coast. Maximum temperature yester day 68, minimum 49, river .5. no fainfall, atmospHere cloudy, wind west. mm TWENTY PAGES SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, UNE 10, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS mm FOUR SELECTED TRUSTEES 0F1LL ITTE Mrs. J. H. Lauterman and Mrs. Frank Snedecor of Salem Are Named "GOOD YEAR" REPORTED Recognition by National Asaocia . tkn Fainted to as Achieve ment ; Resignation of Von m Escben Regretted Fwnr new trustees of Willam Uyfr university "were elected by the board of trusteesiat its annual meeting here Saturday. They are ut t tt i.niitRinan and Mrs. Traarncor t Salem, Bishop i us Lowe wno iuccwucu W. 07 Shepard in the Portland area, ana ukt. nuu. nastor of tne i-irsi .'i""'" church of Portland. A most encouraging Teport for the year was submitted by Presi dent Carl G. Doney. It commented particularly on-the absence of ser ious -problems which confront many other educational institu tion?, and states that "the life of the university has been so orderly and the achievements so congru ous that we have reasons for en couragement. There has been little of lost motion, little energy has been wasted in the heat of friction the consequence has been tIt is termed 'a good year.' Forward Steps Noted 'Freshman Week" is mentioned as one of the innovations of ack nowledged value, and the unqual ified recognition of the uniYfrsit by the Association of American V'niversities is also pointed to as an important step forward. Th president expresses regret at the departure of Profrssoi vinrti Vim Roi-hpn as head of the ' 4Jew-4Hry department, after a serr vi!CK20 years: The recoxnen;; "vwgon State college as his suc fVftssor was approved. Miss Helen MacHiroa was recommended to till the place vacated by the resig nation' of Miss Lucille Ross in the i.;usic department. Professor Cecil Monk I will be head of the biology department In the absence of Pro r, ssor Morton E. Peck. The her barium which Professor and Mrs. reck have collected, consisting of f 000 specimens, was officially Vslgnated by the trustees as the Peck- Sfrbariuni. Add Uw Professor Th president's recommenda tion -04 1 another full time profes sor be secured for the law school was approved. The name of the educator who will fill this place was not announced, as he has not accepted officially, j Needs of the . university men tioned in the report include more library space and more books, and enlarged quarters for the natural science and music departments. Increases in the salaries of a Vamber of the professors were ap proved, raising the total of salar . y,v th university from 1.900 to $97,900. of which $.6,- .i5 is for instruction. LAUNDRY OWNER GROUP TO COME CONVENTION' SECURED BY WINDISHAR AT BEND alem Fails to Got Fire Chief's Meeting, As Xo Represen tative Sent V' One more convention for Salem : -was landed yesterday for next year bv the chamber of commerce. This Is the annnal meeting of the Ore- -;: gon Laundry Owners association. 9i- which closed its session in Bend 5- Saturday. Thomas A. Windishar. owner of the Capital City Laundry company, lit A Broadway. -cooperated with rKimhr nf romnfrr. nrasent- kvlir and Iho urvica rluha or v v - -i:-wA telegram received by the St', chamber of commerce last night from Mri Windishar read : "Laad- ' el convention for Salem next j. year." ''.. V However, there was no such luck ? wnn the T. state meeting of fire 'v chiefs,.' - recently ,in session in M.'aTKield. As Harry Hutton, chief ' o -r Salem fire department was jvje to attend the Marsh field meeting, mere was ii u wuc jiies- ent to erge the claims of Salem, although nua,ber ot telegrams were 'read urging the chiefs to meet here in 1929. Directors of the chamber .of romrce are planning to organ ic aUtnvewtion committee, where- by Salem's claims for conventions may beC property presenter ine chamber will send a representa tive to Aberdeen in August, coop- i'club ia lts efforts' to secure the 1930 Northwest conference of KI wanis dobs next year. WIt will also send-a representa 'ilTe to Victoria with the Salem RMifr hau'd- ai tnia MdT is maK- J- ; Jng an-active campaign to secure Willamette Endowment Campaign to Be Rushed Action Toward Completing Million Dollar Fund Taken Board cf Trustees at Annual Meeting; New Pledges Asked Toward $665,000 to be Raised by Friends Definite action was taken at board of trustees of Willamette to the closing up of the million dollar endowment that was un dertaken to be raised by the forward movement several years ago. The Rockefeller foundation offered $335,000 towards the million dollars. The trustees er and undertook to raise the offer that is, undertook to raise $665,000. Pledges to exceed that amount slightly were secured. The time limit was Octo 215 GET EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS COrXTV WELL REPRESENTED AT ANNUAL GRADUATION Nelson Advise Pupil to Enter Higher Schools With Receptive Miad Just 215 of the 535 Marion county eighth grade graduates as sembled at the high school yester day afternoon to enjoy a short musical program; to listen to and address in their honor; but above all ,to receive the state grade di ploma for which they have studied for eight long year. The audi torium was well-filled. The musical program was di rected by Lena Belle Tartar, direc tor of music at the Salem high ichool, and included: the gradu ates' march played by Barbara Barham to which the long line of pupils lead by County Superinten dent Kulkerson and Rural Super visor Fox filed to their section; audience singing of "America" lead by Miss Tartar; "Spanish Uance No. 4" Moszkowskl) violin olo by Vern Wilson; "At a Pan iomine" (Rogers) and encore song3 by Mildred Gardner, so prano. Rev. D. J. Howe of the FirsJ Christian church lead the invoca tion The address to the class wat given by Principal J. C. Nelson oi Umm Salem high school. sMr. Kel son spoke largely to the class it self, and often as the principal of the school which many of the puipls would attend next fall. The test of weather or not the students' first eight years of edu cation has been successful. Mr. Nelson said, might be found in the question: "Do we feel to day that there is anymore for us to know than what has already been learned?" If so. the mind is receptive to learn much that should be added to the little acquired up to the present point, he stated. Mr. Nelson encouraged the stu dent not to close his mind against a broad education, teminding him, however, that he had reached the point of change in his education which would henceforth be not as a "row of buckets placed under pumps to be filled by someone else," but rather somewhat an op tional process to help the student to decide his life work. The principal counselled the students to bear in mind that any educated person is not necessarily well informed, and that to strive for the latter is the uutmate in an education. The end of education, be said, is for the individual to know himself, and in this connec tion he declared the manner in which people spend their lei?urt hours reveals their whole selves. The diplomas were presented by County Superintendent Fulker on who recalled that the gradu ating class was the one whic started with her administration eisht years ago. Mrs. Kulkerson said the class, though smaller than last year's, had done better work than ever before. 8 CENTS CHERRY PRICE Crop Here Not Over 35 Per Cent of Normal, Survey Shows In view of the fact that Royal Anne cherries in California are selling at 8 'i cents a pound and that a seven cent offer has been refused at Yakima, - Wash., the Salem Cherry Growers' associa tion decided at its meeting here last night that 8 cents would be a fair price for Willamette valley cherries. A snrvey was conducted at. the meeting which disclosed that the crop here would not exceed 25 per cent of normal and would probab ly fall below thai figure. The local market has shown lit tle signs of activity, and the (row ers are looking to the east for their market. Thera . is a keen demand for barreled cherries, and a considerable proportion of the crop will be handled in this manner. BURNER TEST SUCCESS Incinerator Probably Will Be Ac cepted by Council Soon Official test of Salem's new in cinerator, was made Saturday, gar bage for that day and the supply saved up from Friday being burn ed. The test was satisfactory both from the standpoint of rapacity and absence of odor, and it is ex pected that the city council at its next meeting will take- action to accept the burner, erected by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines company. by the annual meeting of the university yesterday looking at that time accepted the off balance, to meet the Rockefeller ber first of this year. Tnere was also some indebtedness of the uni versity, that was Included "in the undertaking. Payments have been continuous ly made on the pledges., and they still continue. But it has been foreseen for some time that there will not be enough of these to meet the requirements of the Rockefeller trustees. So a con ference was held some months ago, by President Doney, with the Rockefeller trustees. An exten sion was granted, to October first, 1929. $250,000 in New Pledges It is estimated that it will be neceseary to secure new pledges to the extent of $250,000, in order to meet the full requirements of the Rockefeller offer. Not only this, but they will have to be paid in money, or in secured and ap proved notes. That will bring the total endow ment funds of the university to about a million and a half dol lars. It is now $1,169,399.52. The shortage in the total to meet the . Rockefeller offer has been caused by the failure to pay of part of the people who made pledges in the big forward move ment campaign. The Rockefeller trustees do not count pledges as endowment funds. They count only actual money or secured and approved notes. There is a committee .on en dowment, appointed at the mid year meeting -of the Willamette ( Continued en pgr 1.) STEAMER ADDED PGR RIVER RUN CAPTAIN G. M. WALKER PUR CHASES FEDERAL VESSEL - y- Now Being Rebuilt; Owner Wants ' Suggestion For Name; Starts Soon Salem is to have a new river steamer. Captain C. M. Walker at tended the meeting held at the Sa lem chamber of commerce several months ago. to give testimony to the United States engineers con cerning the need of a deeper chan nel in the Willamette. Soon after that time. Capt. Walker bought the government steamer Woodland. That boat had been built for a tender and not a carrier. So the new owner built a new hull and in other ways rebuilt the vessel for use on the run from Salem to Portland. It will be ready about the 15th of July. It Is 130 feet long, with a 28 foot beam (width), and four and a half foot depth of hold. The en gine has a 10 and a half inch bore and - four foot stroke. Its boiler capacity is 190 pounds. Captain (Continued on page o.) Picture-Map V." as v This view of the taction of Kansas City surrounding Convention Hall, where the republicans meet In national convention June 12, shows the ' landmarks that will figure In activities of delegates and visitors. No. 1 Is Convention JHalU. Hotels and dub buildings In which delegates will be J guests, and whero the national committee and candidates have headquarters, art near Convention Hall They Include: No. 2 Kansas City Club; No. S Kansas City Athletic Club; No. 4 Hotel Muehlebach; No. 6 Hotel Baltimore; No. 6 Robert E. Lm Hotel; No. 7 tat Hotel; No. 8 Aladdin Hotel; No. 10 Commonwealth" Hotel; No. "11 Hotel President. Although they have nothing to do with the convention, the Federal Reserve Bank Building No. and the Board of Trade No. 12 are places of interest. ST OF STATE TOLD Oregon's Governor Address es Vast Audience Over Chicago News Radio HISTORY OUTLINE GIVEN Scenic Beauty, Natural Resource and Advantages Broadcast In Connection With News paper Pictorial Account CHICAGO. June 9 (AP) Oregon, its natural lesources and scenic advantages, were stressed by Governor I. L. Patterson of that state, over the Chicago News radio station here tonight. -The talk was given in connection with a page of Oregon photographs to be published in the illustrated section of the paper. Following is the complete text of Governor Patterson's glowing message concerning Oregon: My father left Illinois in 1852 to seek a home in Oregon. Through the courtesy of the Chi cago Daily News I have come to Illinois to speak of Oregon In a section of our country from which came many of the earliest settlers of America's westerruost state. Eighty-five years ago the "Ore gon fever" was laying hold on frontiersmen in the middle west, and in the halls of congress the "Oregon question" was being bit terly debated to determine wheth er the United States should assert her right and defend her claim to the great Oregon territory from which the states of Oegon, Wash ington, Idaho, and parts of Mon tana and Wyoming have been carved. . That huge empire had .heehe, goal of expeditlonlng forcentur ies.. Sir Francis Drake touched it In 15 79 and called it New Albi on. Jonathon Caryer first applied the name Oregon to a fabled stream which he said no white man had seen. The actual dis covery of the great river of the west was made by Captain Robert Gray of Boston in 1792, when he sailed into the magnificent water way and gave it the name of his ship, "Columbia", thus laying the foundation for the claim and title of the United States to the whole region drained by the river, Thomas Jeffersosn dispatched Lewis and Clarke, who tracked across the mountains, followed the Columbia to the Oregon coast and established for America the claim founded by Gray. After Lewis and Clarke came the fur traders lured by vast profits to be had from the sale of pelts in China. In 1811 the expedition sent out by John Jacob Astor gave the name of its promotor to Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia. Then the Missionaries The arrival of the British Hud son's Bay Company brought the (Continued on pf 17.) GLOWING DRY BY PATTER ON OI Republican Convention City (D BOURBONS WILL HAVE MEET TOO NEARLY FORGOTTEN EVENT SLATED FOR HOUSTON Candidacy of Tammany Hail Man Promises to Crt'-ale Hearty Itow in Convention WASHINGTON, June 9 (AP) Temporarily froreu out of the political limelight by the republi cans and their convention next week, the democrats are going ahead without much fuss with plans for their own gathering a fortnight hence in Houston. Party leaders are hoping and trusting that there will be comforting evi dence of harmony, once the hosts of democracy get together, but out-croppings of factional bitter ness have been causing them some concern. All types of democrats remem ber with regret the battle center ing around the presidential candi dacies of JdcAdoo and Smith which wrecked the-Madison Square Gar den convention four years ago. It will not happen again if the har mony promoters in (he party can prevent, and they are bending their efforts to make the Houston convention a real love feast. But from the south, particular ly, came rumblings of discord over the candidacy of Governor Smith. He is out far ahead of any rivals in the number of delegates in structed, pledged or claimed for him. His opponents concede that he has garnered more than a ma jority of the 1100 delegates but a two-thirds vote, 733 1-3. is need ed for a nomination, and they point out that Smith is far from that total. Furthermore they insist that he never will reach that peak, not wiUistanding the predictions ot his supporters that he will gel the required votes in a jiffy and it will be over, with Smith and a good running mate the c hallengers of the republican nominees in th coming presidential election. For weeks the efforts of Smith's opponents have been directed to ward building up a block of dele gate votes sufficient in size to stop him. To hold their lines the must keep in the anti-Smith camp it least 367 votes. Managers of the New York gov ernor's campaign not only are trlving to put him over in a hur ry, but they are doing their ut nj,yst to avpid frictioa which -a they see if, would put the party's nominee at a disadvantage in the coming campaign. They look to Maryland. Ohio, Indiana. Kansas, and Nebraska, with "favorite son" candidates, to furnish the bulk of the second choice votes which Smith will need if he is to win. ONE HOOVER PRESIDENT Willamette Class of '23 Elects For Five Year Period Whether or not Herbert Hoover is next fall elected president of the United States may still be open to some question, but one Hoover was last night elected to one position of president. Miss Helen Hoover of Portland was unanimously chosen to head the class of 1923 of Willamette university at the five year reunion of the class held at the Shanghai cafe last night. She will remain in office for' five years. Mrs. Sheldon Sackett of Mc Minnville was chosen .secretary for the same length of time. This Election was also unanimous. The new officers will succeed Rodney Alden, president, and Luther Cook, secretary, both of Sa lem, who have held orrice for the past five years since the class graduated. SSSSStSS spgfe' "-s : ,2S f3f3V&2, fiiYgsi TO UNION I ZzircJt?'' station j - I TO LOST GREW OF OIG AIRSHIP Rescue Party Pushes For ward Through Ice Toward Disabled Italia v , PLANES TO BE UTILIZED Final Lap of Expedition to be Com pleted by Air; Messages Ver ify iocation of General Nobile and Men (Copyrighted 1928 by the A - elated Press) KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen. June'hoped as the huge tri-motored 9. (AP) Messages were ex- -raft fought its wav through changed in Italian today between norms fo? hours along the 7800 the Citta di Milano, base ship of mile path over the sea Ceueral Umberto Nobile's polar ex-j The night", from California to pedition. and the wireless operator; ?ydney was accomplished in less of the Italia, the dirigible whose han 10 days. There were halts of whereabouts had been a mystery! many hours in the Hawaiian island irom May unui yesieraay. ini30f Qahu where the Diane landed is the tirst communication botn ways since the whereabouts of the missing explorers became known. Any lingering doubts that the';Iane took off from the Harkins messages actually were coming! Sands course for the Kijis. Again from the Italia were dissipated when Giusseppi Biogi ;i, radio man ou the dirigible communicated his individual identification number at the end of a message to the Citta di Mihino. De-tails .Still Unknown None of the reports that have come out of the ice wastes off Cape Leigh Smith, northeast land, has told how the Italia was dam aged or by what means her crew was saved, but the rescuers here are less concerned with that than with conditions which confront them in reaching the explorers. The Italia is 184 miles north of the eastern extremity of North east land and is about 15 miles from Foyn island, the nearest ( Conlinufd on page 18.) FEDERAL FOREST SUPPORT SOUGHT FORMKR SKNATOR STANFIKLD BACKING MOVE Drive 'to be launched at Kansas City Republican Convention This Week BY M. K. BARKER Associated Press Staff Writer BROKEN BOW. Nebr.. June 9. (AP) (With Oregon Republi can Delegation Knroute to Kansas City) A meeting of members of the resolutions committees from 11 western states, with the federal forest reserve lands committee will be sought by former United States Senator Robert N. Stanfield early next week at Kansas City, with the purpose of aligning their support for his proposal for reimbursing counties of those states for taxa tion lost on reserve lands. Stanfield said today he had not yet brought the matter personally to the attention of any of the western delegates. He expressed confidence however, that they would lend the proposal their sup port, and that the resolutions com-j ( Continued on pfe 18.) SOUTHERN CROSS REACHES SYDNEY ALL FOUR FLYERS TARE FIN AL LAP OF FLIGHT Wild Celebration Staged at Aus tralian City a.s Two Coun trymen Arrive SYDNEY. Australia. June 10. i 1 AI t .IliUUaj I 1 UC I O V V 1111 ITT flight of the monoplane Southern Cross across the Pacific ocean from Oakland. Cal., to Sydney, was completed when the plane and its crew of four arrived at 3:08 p. m. today. (9:08 p. m. Saturday, Pac ific Coast time.) The plane covered the last leg of its epochal air journey, 500 miles from Brisbane, Australia, on schedule time, landing at the local field after following the coast line of Australia for five hours and eight minutes. The arrival of the two Austral ian and two Americans, Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm. Harry W. Lyon and James farner was marked hv wild en- nhusia8m on the part of thousands lof nersons who had uatrh.t and from Oakland, another short delay n the island of Kauai, across the channel from Oahu. whence the t the island of Yiti Levu the J fliers were f forced to wait for an Pportunp moment to hon off from Vaselai beah for Brisbane, where hey landed yesterday. Then they ook to the air again at Brisbane :t 10 a. ni. today (4 p. ni. Satnr lay. raciric Coast Time) for the inal lap to Sydney. 3 GOVERNORS IN WEEK i'attcrson, Corbett and Carkin Hold Office In Succession "When there are three Sundays in a week" used to be a sarcastic way of saying "never," but Ore son will tomorrow have experi enced the phenomenon of three governors in a week. John Carkin of Medford. speak er of the house of representatives of the state legislature, will be come governor of Oregon when Henry L. Corbett of Portland, president of the state senate, crosses the state line early Mon day en route to England. Governor Patterson left Ore gon for Chicago last Tuesday, when Senator Corbett became governor. Governor Corbett has conducted the affairs of the ex ecutive department in Portland and has not visited the state house since the departure of Gov ernor Patterson. It was said that Representative Carkin would arrive in Salem Monday to eign a number of pa pers and transact other public business. SMITH LOSES KENTUCKY Get 10 H Out of 16 West Virginia Votes, Indication CHARLESTON, W. Va.. June 9 (AP). Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York will have 10 of West Virginia's 1G demo cratic votes pledged to him at the Houston convention, complete of- ficial returns from the May 29 primary today showed. The official count was neces sary to determine the fight be tween the group supporting the Smith faction which made the New York executive and the anti race under the banner of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. FLAX TOPIC ON MONDAY Col. Bartrain Will Tell of 'Automatic Scutcher Xew The operation of the new auto matic flax scutcher at the state flax plant, the only machine of its kind in the United States, will be one of th esuhjects discussed by Col. W. B. Bartram, superinten dent of the Industry at the prison, in his talk before the Salem cham ber of commerce at the Monday noon- luncheon. Southern Cross Landing Films Already Here The Paramount pictures of the landing of the Southern Crosa at Honolulu were being shewn at the Klsinore theater last night. That shows fast work. The landing was at noon, our time, of Friday, Jane 1. The photo graphs were sent by boat to Saa .Francisco or Los Angeles, them by.-, air mail to Portland, and yesterday by stage to Salem. (They must have been devel oped on. ship board on the way front Honolui.il.) 3 -. The pictures chow the land ing at' Honolulu, and close-ups of Captain "Klngsford-Smith and the three other fliers, together with the great reception there, and their decoration . by . the governor of Hawaii, etc, etc: This picture will be shown at the Elsinore today and tomorrow. HOOVER GROWS MORE CERTAIN OFiflHTION Support Increases to Point Where Selection Almost Certainty FAILURE MAY BRING WAR Anything Might Happen If O nil ion Succeeds In Blocking ( onimc rce Secretary; Cool idgo iujules By URYOX PRIt r; AsMoriafexl Prows Staff Writer KANSAS CITY. June 9 AP) The delegated spokesmen or a divided and somewhat bewildered republican constituency are assem bling in Kansas City for aJ national convention that ina i,? serene and peaceful after all. or may urn up one of the oddest para doxes ill the historv nf Amoriran politics. As matters stand toniRhr. some tiO hours before Tuesday's open ing convention session. Hoover 5? u near to being nominated that the alliance against him is giving good imitation of a beleaguered hut desperately determined bat talion of stalwarts, trying to rally at the last ditch. Hut there is one element of the battle that makes definite predic tions untenable. That is the rid dle of Coolidgp. Support Still Strong Despite all he has said, a con siderable block of voirs will hr ;a6t for the president ou ihe first ballot unless in the meantime he or some trusted spokesman say something more. Furthermore, if a real prospect of his favor de velops, the Hoover managers will be the last to stand-in his way. Their whole strategic plan h rested on the primary understand ing that under no circumstances must Hoover be pitted agaiut Cool id ge. . Whether Mr. Coolidge will jpeak the word that can dipfl 'his puzzlement no one in Kansas City seems to know. Some of bis best friends believe he '!.!. flume- -think he will send the long await ad message to his secretary. Ev ?rett Saunders, who arrives Men day. Mellon Holds Whip Some believe he has already a;iven his final counsel to Secre tary Mellon who likewise is to reach Kansas City on the eve cf the convention with the unplcdr ed Pennsylvania delegation of 79 which can either give Hoover the boost his managers hope will put him over, or can swell the Cool idge movement to real propor iona. , There is no dispute anywhere that the delegation of the key stone state, the second largest In ' the convention, has become in fact the keystone of the nomination. The quiet, almost bashful treas ury secretary thus has become in but eight years of national poMt- (Contiaued on pif 3.) LAND SEEKERS COMING JULY 2 MIDIH.K WEST FARMERS AVIEK TOUR COUNTRY (auest of Chamber of Commerce Here at Noon; to Cover Wide Area Marion county will be host on July -2 to a group of 30 landseek- ers from the east and middle weet. brought to Oregon by the Great Northern railroad. The party will arrive in Port land July 1, comlnr west with the specific purpose of looking over the Willamette valley: they will view Portland that day. and the following morning will be met by a delegation of Aurora. Hubbard and Wood burn people at Portland and brought to this county. The forenoon will be scent In looking over the northern part of the county, and the visitors win be brought to Salem at noon, in time so that they may attend as guests the 'regular Monday noon luncheon of the Salem chamber of commerce. People from Silverton. Mt. An gel and Stayton will meet the sightseers here following the luncheon and take them over the eastern and southern part of the county, winding up with a dinner t Stayton at p. m. Then they will be brought back to Salem. Since they will have pnt in a strenuous day, no special entertainment will be planned for. the evading Jiere. They - will spend the night in- Salem and will be met the following morning by Albany . business men who will take them through Linn county. ' :: .The group, will be accompanied k W n iAt manarer. of. the state chamber of commerce., , The tour of Marion county ha been outlined with 'a view of showing" the visitors as' ranch of. the county as possible. They will traverse the prairie land along the , Pacific highway the f uH length of , the county, and will also- see: the foothill areas ion the trip . from Silverton to Stayton. -