. The Hunt Cannery in Salem on Tuesday Packed 12,719 Cases of Fruit, or 305,256 Family Sized Cans; Record for Oregon to Date
yregons lawmaking Jfublic Will Have Plenty to Consider in the November Election: Seven Bills and One Constitutional Amendment-
Heather Forecast: Fair Friday; rising
temperature and lower humidity In the in
terior; gentle winds mostly northwesterly.
Maximum temperature yesterday 64, min
imum 65. river 1.3, rainfall .03 - atmos
phere cloudy, wind northwest.
SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1928
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PACK OF FRUIT
Hunt Cannery , Breaks Rec-
ord; 12,719 Cases Put Up
Within 24 Hours
WOULD FILL 15 CARS
Activities In 24 Hours Include
Potting Out 305,256 Family
Size Cans, as Well as Many
Barrels of Fruit
The Hunt cannery in Salem on
Tuesday and Tuesday night pack--ed
12,719 cases of fruit. This Is
the largest pack for one day ever
made by a single canning plant in
Oregon. The record of this same
' cannery up to Tuesday was above
V"lO,0O0 cases, or the equivalent of
over 240,000 family size cans, 24
to the case.-
If the reader will multiply 12,
719 cases by 24 cans, he will get
805,256 cans. That is, this can
nery packed on Tuesday last, in
cluding Tuesdaymight, the equiv
alent of. 305,256 family size cans
of fruit. Loganberries, red and
black raspberries, cherries of dif
ferent varieties, and strawberries.
This does not include the
strawberries and cherries barreled
for the cold pack and the mara
schino trades.
What It Means In Miles
The average car lot of canned
goods is around 8 50 eases. So the
canned pack of this Salem plant
for the one day would load about
15 cars. A fair sized train of
cars, or a considerable portion of
oneikf the long trains that pass
through or go out from Salem
daily.
Put it another way. The family
size is 4.62 inches high. Put the
305,256 cans end to end, and you
get about 116.690 feet. Or a
column over . 2 2 miles high. Or
put it another way. You get a
line of cans reaching almost from
Salem to Aurora or from Salem
to Albany.
If the reader desires other il
lustrations to satisfy his concep-
tion of the output in cans of thisi
Salem plan
it in one day, he has the'from the urn
figures, and may work them out
for himself.
Any way, this stands for the
record of Oregon up to date. It
may be exceeded this year, or next
year. But if it is, it will likely
be done by the Salem cannery of
Hunt Bros, company, on Front
t.fet.
There is a cannery in Portland,
the new one of Libby, McNeill &
Libby. that is as large in size and
equipment as this one in Salem.
3ut the writer believes it has not
the smooth working system (yet)
to enable it to come up to this
record. There is no other can
nery in Oregon as large in size
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HICKMAN LOSES
rAPPEAL IN COURT
X i.vnvii Tinva t'PnY'i iuu v
Los Angeles Kklnaper and Mur
derer May Appeal to Wash
ington As Last Resort
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.
(AP). WilMam Edward Hick
man, youthful kidnaper and mur
derer of 12 year old Marian Par
ker, of Los Angeles, must hang
for his crime, unless the United
II States supreme court should de
1 cide otherwise.
The new state insanity law un
der which Hickman was convicted
fj tlonal today by the state supreme
J court in an unanimous decision.
xne court neia mat unaer ine law
Hickman had received a fair trial
on his plea of "not guilty by rea
son of insanity."
Immediately after the decision
was made public Jerome Walsh,
icKman s youthful attorney from
..Kansas City, announced he would
H appeal the case to the nation's
Fna highest tribunal. The appeal
wouia ue niaue on tne grouna
that under the California law the
14th ' federal amendment to the
constitution had been violated In
that Hickman was not given "due
process of law."
In this connection today's deci
sion said specifically that the state
law violated no federal amend
ment. The supreme court sent the case
back to the trial court in Los An
Jtoles, where after 30 days, Hlck
" man must be resentenced. The
21 year old slayer is In the con
demned row at San Quentin pri-
- : He was told today that his een-,-tence
had been confirmed and re
ceived the news without com
ment. Warden J. B. Holohan of
u. Saa Queatin prison said.
Hickman will .not be returned
: 'to Loa Angeles for resentencing
' ' as the law" permits the lower court
lii fefendant.
yrf Hickman Is also serving a life
the murder of C: Ivy Thorns, Los
Angeles druggist.
CROWDS GATHER
AT CHAUTAUQUA
OPE.VLN6 ATTRACTIONS FIX
FILL. PROMISE OF MERIT
"The Patsy," Popular Stage Play,
Cornea Tonight ; Junior
Work Opens
Chautauqua opened Thursday
flight on schedule with a large au
dience in attendance and an open
ing attraction of such outstanding
merit that the patrons were thor
oughly convinced of the truth in
the manager's promise that Chau
tauqua this year would be the
best in many years.
The artists were Jessie Ray
Taylor, famous characterise and
Lon Johnson, radio singer of sur
passing merit. Miss Taylor's in
troduction was strikingly origin
al. Few in the audience knew she
was in the habit of impersonating
male characters, and so few
"caught on" when it was an
nounced that as a special treat,
"Little Joe Brown," former Chau
tauqua singer, who happened to
be in Salem, would open the pro
grom. "Little Joe" appeared, and
after a short skit he removed his
wig and trousers and stood reveal
ed as Miss Taylor hereelf.
Later numbers by Miss Taylor
whlch stood out prominently in
eluded a bit from Irvln S. Cobb's
"Peep O Day," character immor-
tallzftd hv the famous short story
writer, and an impersonation of a ta,ls how the repro vision ing
querulous resident of the old peo-ias carried out.
pie's home. At the same time another Swe-
Johnson sang several of his dish airplane explored the east
own compositions, notably "Roses 'ern and southern coasts of North
Like You," and many of the num-jeat land in search of Captain
bers which are most popular on Roald Amundsen and hismtesing
the radio today. I companions. A report from Al-
Tnniirhfa attraction will be pml8ts who nave Jined the rescue
JOnlgniS aiiraciion "l gtlamnti oalH h horf
"The Patsy," most popular or
present day stage plays. least land to within seven miles of
Junior Chautauqua activities Cape LelgQ Smitn Its northeast
will open with a meeting thisern point without finding any
morning at 9 o'clock at the chau-itrace of Captain Alfredo Mariano,
tauqua tent, and a parade at 1:30 one of the itaiia'S pilots, who
p. m. in which the young people wlth tWQ companlons started out
will prepare and carry banners Jn an effort tQ reach ,and a few
advertising the Chautauqua. It daya after tne dirlglble cra8hed.
will pass mrougn iue uuuiuu
dtTeets.
GANG LEADER LAID AWAY
"We'll See 'era. Kid." Sinister
Warning to Slayers V
NEW YORK, July 5. (AP)-
The body of Frank Uale, known
in gangland as Frankie Yale, lay
tonight in its $15,000 silver casket
n a vault in a Brooklyn cemetery.
More than 5,000 persons, many
underworlds of Chicago.
Boston, Philadelphia ana JNew
York, paid final tribute to the
!eader at a funeral today, which
me said surpassed that of Dion
O'Banion, slain racketeer, in Chi
cago
The funeral came in the midst
of a new outbreak of gang shoot
ings and bombings in New York
Uale was shot down at the wheel
of his automobile in the residen
tial section of Brooklyn. Four Chi
cago gangsters, who, authorities
said, came here Saturday from
Miami; Fla., after a conference
with "Scarface" AI Capone, were
being sought today as his machine-
gun murderers,
A six foot square floral piece
carried what police believed to be
a grim warning to Uale's slayers
"We'll see them kid."
TEXTILE STRIKE GOES ON
30,0OO Workers Still Out Follow
ing Long Conference
NEW BEDFORD. Mass., July
5. (AP) No progress was re
ported tonight toward a settlement
of the strike involving 30,000 tex
tile mill workers after a long aft
ernoon of conferences with the
state board of conciliation and ar
bitration. Chairman Edward Fish
er of the textile council annonuced
that the board members will re
main in town and continue efforts
to effect a settlement. As the sit
uation stands the mills are sched
uled to open their gates and invite
workers to return under a ten per
cent cut in wages on Monday.
LIGHTNING FATAL TO 4
Quartet of Swimmers Killed Near
North Carolina Resort
HENDERSON VILLE, N. C.
July 5 (AP) Four persons
were killed and two seriously in
jured when lightning struck a
tree under which they had gath
ered after a swim today near
Camp Minnehaha, summer resort.
The dead: Perry Roeham. 45;
Alan Reed, 12; Leland Burglass,
13; Edward Kursheed. 15. The
names of the two boys who were
Injured were not learned here. All
were from New Orleans.
MEARS REACHES BERLIN
Now on Way Through Germany
On World Trip
COLOGNE. Germany, July '6. j
(AP) John H. Hears, who Is
trying to establish a new record
for fast travel around the world.
arrived at the . airdrome .here at
:45 Pi m. tonight. He will start
for Berlin at 4:00 a. m. tomorrow.
Mr. Mean and his pilot. Charles
O. D. Colyer. flew; here from Le
Bourget field, near Paris. They J
landed at Cherbourg this morning,
from the steamship Olympic, as
sembling and tuning up their
plane before taking to the air at
he French seaport. .!
AVIATORS
FOOD SUPPLIES
Meanwhile Rescue Efforts
Pushed Rapidly But With
out Success
COMMUNIQUE PUBLISHED
Reports Reaching Rome Indicate
.No Sign of Amundsen; Ice
Breaker Sustains Damage
to Propeller
ROME, July 5. (AP). An of
ficial communique' from the Citta
dl Milano says that Swedish flyers
today succeeded in dropping pro
visions, medical supplies and new
batteries to the marooned mem-
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land.
me communique gave no de-
i Explorations Made
Swedish and Norwegian air
planes were able also to explore
Outger Reps island, north of
Northeast land, and an island im
mediately south of it. They
made sure that there were no
men" on either.
Captain Sora, of the Italian Al
pine troops engaged in an at
tempt to reach the Foyn island
castaways, started out for that
point but was dissuaded from his
attempt by the Norwegian aviator
Lieutenant Luetzow Holm wno
found that weather conditions
were too bad for the attempt to
be made safely.
Propeller Damaged
MOSCOW, July 5. (AP).
Pack ice damaged the propeller of
the Russian ice breaker K.-.'ssin,
engaged in an effort to rescue the
Italia survivors marooned near
Foyn island and the ship was
halted today for repairs.
During the night the ship drift
ed nearly 300 feet with the ice
which continues heavy and al
most impenetrable.
The Krassin was reported today
at latitude 80 degrees 50 minutes
north and longitude 22 degrees
(Continued on page 6.)
MISS0URIAN HEADS NEA
Dr. Uel Lamkin Unanimous Choice
of Educators.' Group
MINNEAPOLIS. July 5. ( AP)
Dr. Uel W. Lamkin, president
of Northwest Missouri State
Teachers college at Marysville,
was elected president of the Na
tional Education association with
out opposition today. He will be
Installed at the closing business
session Friday. I
Equal educational opportunity
for every boy and girl in America
is his ambition. Dr. Lamkin said.
He has served as chief of the fed
eral division of rehabilitation, and
director of the federal board for
vocational education.
Elected without opposition wa?
H. L. Smith, dean of the Indiana
school of Education at Blooming
ton as treasurer.
FOG-PIERCING
T N IN
I - -t v - ' . 'Ill .
Foe that obscures rlsion is penetrated by a camera- developed
United State army air corps under, the supervision of CapL W. Stevens (inset). At the left is the
reproduction of a photorranh taken under foggy conditions with , aa ordinary nltra-riolet light
camera and at the right is a picture
MRS. ROSS GIVEN
BOURBON OFFICE
WOMAN TO BE MADE VICE
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE
Former- Governor of Wyoming
Slated For Berth on National
Democratic Body
NEW YORK, July 5. (AP)
The New York Herald Tribune to
morrow will say that It was indi
cated at Smith headquarters that
Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, former
governor of Wyoming, has been
chosen by the Smith campaign or
ganization for vice chairman of
the democratic national commit
tee. The choice of the New York
managers must be officially rati
fied by the members of the na
tional committee at their meeting
here Wednesday. But there is lit
tle doubt, however, that the com
mittee members will approve the
suggestions of the campaign direc
tors. ALBANY, N. Y. July 5.-AP)
Details of the formal hotifica-
tion of Governor Smith of his
nomination for the presidency by
the democratic national conven
tion will be discussed and possibly
determined at a conference here
Saturday between the governor
and Senator Key Pittman of Ne
vada, chairman of the notification
committee. The governor definite
ly announced the conference to
night upon his arrival from New
York.
Coincident with the governor's
return "back home" came reports
that one of the first pieces of cam
paign work he will be called upon
to perform will be in the role
peace-maker. According to these
reports considerable dissension has
developed in the Smith camp be
tween the strictly Tammany ele
ment and the Proskauer-Van Na-
mee-Moskowitz group, so-called;
and the governor, it is said, prob
ably will have to step in and take
a hand.
Before the governor left his car
a telegram was handed to him an
nouncing the death in an automo
bile accident of Willam Raskob,
son of John J. Raskob, chairman
of the finance committee of Gen
eral Motors corporation, and meni
( Continued on page 5.)
PLANS APPROVED
FOR AUDITORIUM
SCHOOL BOARD AGAIN POST
PONES WEIGHTY MATTERS
Question of Need toe Educating
Students From Outside
County Raised
.UUUi uuaru uem au
aujuu.ueu meeting xasi nignt io
clear up a number of matters that;
uu oCCu iwugiug nre ior several
mcemga. ah immiuers were
iireseni. l
ai me ena oi a two ana a nair
uu. iu i, one ul me weigniy
matters naa oeen settled, use of
part of the 14th street grounds
had been granted to the Associate
eu iiariues xor a carnival wnicn
will occur next week, and other
matters were neia over until next
Tuesday's regular meeting or sub
mitted to committees for further
consideration.
The one important matter defi
nitely settled was approval of en-'.
larglng the present senior high
scnooi auditorium, to provide at
least an immediate 200 extra
seats to supplement the present
793. Plans for enlareine the and.'
itorium call for a total eanacltv'
of 1266 seats, however addition of
200 seats is about adeauate for
the coming year, with the remain-1
ine ones to be secured as needed.
Architect Lvle Bartholomew's ea-'
timate on the enlarging is $1,188.'
the largest single item being $500.
for labor.
The auditorium changes, in ad-
dition to conveniently accommo-
dating the students assemblies.)
mar. incidentally, accrue to the
benefit of the district funds, as'
the better stage and greater seat-
ine caoacity will make for an in-
creased demand, and hence in-
creased rentals, it was pointed out.
(Continued on page -I.)
CAMERA DEVELOPED BY ARMY
of the sam jew made with the
T IS
MAKE
LAND NG
UPON
LONELY COAST
Intrepid Aviators Bring Plane
Down on Shore North of
Rio Janiero
POOR VISIBILITY CAUSE
Machine Again Headed South Af.
ter Short Stop; Atlantic Span
ned In Longest Single
Flight On Record
RIO DE JANIERO, July 6
(Friday) (AP) At 55 minutes
after midnight this morning the
National Telegraph company's of
fice at Natal and Pernambuco had
received no further word of the
Italian fliers who hopped off from
Point, Genipuba last night for Rio
de Janiero after breaking the dis
tance flight record.
RIO JANIERO, Brazil, July 5.
(AP). Captain Arturo Ferrar
in and Major c. P. Del Prete, af
ter landing on the beach at Point
Genipabu 10 miles north of Natal,
resumed their flight from Rome
at 9:10 p. m., heading for this
city. They were at the beach an
hour and 20 minutes.
By their successful victory over
the Atlantic the Italian -airmen,
who previously had broken the
endurance flight record in the
same plane, bettered the long dis
tance mark of 3909 miles set by
Chamberlin and Levine in the
trans-Atlantic plane Columbia by
around 700 miles.
Stormy weather with heavy
clouds put the fliers in peril in
the last hours of their effort and
radio reports received here indi
cated that they had difficulty in
maintaining their bearings after
they reached the coast of Brazil.
They were sighted over Port Natal
at 4:05 p. m., and were then he
liered to bo heading for Pernam
ouco. But three hours and 45
minutes later they came down 10
miles north of Natal at Point
Genipabu. Poor visibility is be
lieved to have caused their dec!
sion.
Disappointment Felt
The failure of the two intrepid
Italians to wind up their flight at
ment to a huge crowd of specta
tors In this city. Word that the
flyers had gone beyond the Natal
field, flying to the south, coupled
wJtn absence of any report of
their landing near Pernambuco
spread rapidly through the cap!
ta an1 brought thronge to the
waterfront. All day there were
Vrnwrtu nhmit th hniwin hnrrf.
eagerly scanning every bit of in-
formation on the flight that came
from jsiand stations and steamers
en route,
HEAT WAVE TO CONTINUE
Section Near Kansas City
Still
Sweltering, Report
KANSAS CITY, July 5. (AP)
A heat wave In the southwest
continued today and temperatures
equanea or passed tne nign
marks of the summer recorded in
ine ast two days. P. Connor,
government observer here, prom
I360 no relief tomorrow, forecast-
inR anoiner not aay.
At Liberal and Pratt, Kansas.
ne temperature went to 104 de-
grees, tne nignest or the sum
mer- Dighton reported 103 and
Salina 102.
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla-
homa. reported 95 degrees. Fort
ortn 4, Dallas si and Houston
90
Tn temperature here was 95
degrees
by aerial photography by the
new infra-red light camera, r
i NIAGARA DEFIED
AGAIN NEXT YEAR
JEAN A. LUSSIER MAKES AN
NOUNCEMENT LAST NIGHT
Sensations Recounted of Passing
Over Famous Cataract of
Fourth of July
BUFFALO, N. Y.. July 5.
(AP). Successful in his first
challenge to the mighty Niagara,
Jean A. Lussier, Springfield,
Mass., who went over the Horse
shoe Falls Independence day in a
specially constructed rubber ball,
will defy the cataract again. He
announced tonight his intention
of employing an entirely differ
ent type of conveyance on the oc
casion of his second venture, ten
tatively set for Labor day, 1929.
He would not divulge details of
his plans.
Lussier suffered only minor
bruises. There was a small mark
on his right temple, another on
his left shoulder and a spot on his
left shoulder blade, all received,
he said, in the terrific bouncing
of the ball as it passed through
the rapids above the falls.
Concerning his sensations while
going over the precipice, Lussier
said:
"I didn't even think. It all
happened too fast."
Lussier is 36 years old.
The two other persons who
made passage over the brink of
Niagara Falls and lived to tell
their experiences were Annie Ed
son Taylor in 1901 and Bobby
Leach, 10 years later.
Mrs. Taylor never realized any
thing from her exploit and died
several years later in an infirmary
at the falls.
Leach went into vaudeville and
met death in New Zealand by slip
ping on an orange peel.
COMMUNIST 'RED'
DAY TO BE TODAY
DISORDERS ANTICIPATED
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
IN
City of Prague Bristles With 6,000
Special Police Armed
With Rifles
PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, July
5 (AP) Tomorrow is "Red
Day" for Czechoslovakia commun
1st and In anticipation of serious
disorders 6,000 gendarmes armed
with rifles and revolvers have
been stationed at strategic points
around the city. All public build
ings are under guard and the en
tire garrison of Prague is mobil
Ized for emergency.
The government has posted
placards giving warning that any
attempted disturbance of the
peace will be suppressed ruth
lessly.
The communists have ignored
these warnings and have placard
ed the city with appeals to their
partisans to join in great street
demonstrations.
In. several parts of the ,city to
day the reds tried to force their
way into military barracks to in
duce soldiers to embrace their
cause, but they were quickly dis
persed. Many of them were ar
rested.
In Brunn the police seized a
whole storage depot of communist
proclamations and documents
Similar confiscations of literature
were made at Nicolsburg, and
Mintelbach near the Austrian bor
der
A severe censorship has been
imposed on all communist news
papers and they appear today with
more blank spaces than printed
columns.
PRESSBURG. Austria, July 5
(AP) Senator Flala. a Checho
slovakian communist senator, was
arrested today while attempting
to smuggle revolutionary litera
ture from Vienna into Czechoslo
vakia.
BEAUTY SEEKS DIVORCE
Former Jessica Browne of Follies
Tired of Nobleman
LONDON, July 5. (AP) The
Daily Mail says that the Countess
of Northesk, formerly Jessica
Browne, Ziegfield Follies beauty.
has filed suit against the Earl of
Northesk for divorce. . The case
will be heard in Pittsburgh.
The difficulties of the titled
Englishman and his American
bride have been known for some
time and some months ago Lord
Northesk announced in New York
that they had separated. There
have been rumors that suit for di
vorce had been filed by. one of the ;
parties but up to the present they
were not confirmed.
RADITCtf REFUSES PLACE
Peasant Leader Declines to Try to
Fonsf New Cabinet
BELGRADE. Jugoslavia. July
S. (AP) Stefan Radltch. the
Croat peasant leader, tonight de
clined because of illness King Al
exander's -request" that he form a
new ministry lo replace the Vulk
ivltch cabinet which resigned.
He assured the king, however,
that he would use all his influence
toward the - re-establishment of
harmony in the kingdom.
M. Radltch still Is in the hospit
al as the result of wounds received
during the recent disorders In par
liament .when his nephew. -Paul
Raditcfc, was killed, ;
SEVEN
1
E CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
GQ ON BALLOT IN NOVEMBER
DEACONS FACE TRIAL
HAMMOND. Ind., July 5.
(AP) Eleven men, all dea
cons, elders or officers of the
First Christian church of Ham
mond, arrested on charges of
conspiracy to commit felony,
will be tried in the Hammond
city court tomorrow morning.
The affidavits were sworn by
Mrs. Elizabeth White, the wife
of Fred White, who was se
verely injured last Sunday
morning when he was pushed
or fell down the church steps
as he left the church with
Judge Barnett, who was also
forcibly ejected, they claim.
White declares he is suffering
concussion of .the brain in con
sequence. AUTO SMASHES
SIGNAL TOWER
REAR KXD STRIKES; TANK
SPRINGS LEAK, CAR BURNS
Unique Accident at Woodburn Re
ported; Driver's Name
Not Learned
A rapid fire accident probably
never duplicated in the history of
the automobile was witnessed at
Woodburn yesterday by Rev. S.
Darlow Johnson, pastor of the
Leslie Methodist church in this
city.
The pavement , was wet. A
Washington tourist car going
north approached , the railroad
crossing, and at the same instant
another car entered the highway
from a side road paralleling the
tracks.
The Washington driver applied
his brakes and turned to avoid the
other machine. The car coming
down the highway skidded com
pletely around and the rear end
smashed into the railroad signal
tower, knocking it over.
The gasoline tank on the car
meanwhile sprung a leak and the
escaping gasoline instantly caught
fire, probably from the exhaust.
The passengers beat a hasty re
treat, and none of them was in
jured.
The car was completely gutted
by the flames although the gaso
line tank did not explode The
fire was put out by the Woodburn
fire department which answered
an alarm in quick time.
The tuorist party from Wash
ington took a bus for Portland,
and the name of the driver was
not learned. The car is in a gar
age at Wroodburn.
FOIL DELIVERY ATTEMPT
Additional Guards Thrown About
Notorious Rum King
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (AP)
-An emergency shot gun squad
of officers will accompany John
Henry Renaud back to Tacoma,
Wahington, where he is under in
dictment as a member of a gigan
tic rum running ring.
An underworld tip to the effect
that several assistants of Renaud
would attempt to overpower the
usual two night guards on the
train carrying the indicted sus
pect north tomorrow and escape in
the darkness, resulted In a decision
to employ four additional guards
for the trip.
United States Denutv Marshall
Vincent MangeVina, who arrested
Renaud. appointed Special Inves
tigator Roy Pettibone as head of
the enlarged squad of guards and
announced that he was ready to
"guarantee delivery."
nenaud was alleged to have
been the "right bower" of a Pa
cific coast rum ring accredited
with smuggling into this country
more than 100,000 cases of liquor.
MRS HOOVER WORRIES
Father of Commerce Secretary's
Wife Reported IU
WASHINGTON. Jnlr 5 f APil
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of ,
the republican presidential nom-! ine Oregon instigation was .
lnee. was in communication to- utnorI'r:(' Lv Cl&rke-Mt-night
over long distance telephone! Nary reforestation act , ,
with physicians at. a sanitarium in
Placerville, Cal., where her father.
C. D. Henry. ill.
It was announced that Mrs.
Hoover was assured that her fath
er was In no immediate danger
ana that his Improvement, follow
ing his transference from a high
to a lower altitude after a heart
attack had been rapid.
HENRY WILL BUILD ROAD
Flivver King. Makes Agreement
. With Hungarian Government
BUDAPEST. July K.--f APf-
Henry- Ford has agreed to f con
struct a macadamized road 125
miles long from Budapest to Sxeg
edln. says, today financial Jour
nal. The condition is that the Hun
garian government allow his auto
mobiles importation into Hungary
duty free so that they may be sold
here at $400 each. The newspaper
says that Ford has a similar ar
rangement with Bulgaria. .
T T MEASURES
Consolidation Proposal Faifc
of Sufficient Signatures,
Announced
IMPORTANT ISSUES UF
Restrictions of Leirilture's Pot
ers Provided in Iropod
Amendment; License Rills
to be Voted Upon
Petitions containing sufficiea
signatures to put seven initiative
measures and one constitution
amendment on the ballot in 'th
November election, had been pr
sented to the secretary of state a"
midnight last night when his of
fice closed on the last day that
petitions could be filed for tht
purpose.
Although additional petition
sheets arrived late in the events
from Washinigton. Multnomah aa'
Clackamas counties, there wev
not sufficient signatures to put e
the ballot the proposed const It
tional amendment providing ft
consolidation of state function
I A - . . a .
iulu it-ii ueparuuenui unaer i -governor's
supervision, nor for th
accompanying initiative mear
which would make the. consolida
tion amendment operative.
The constitution amendment
for which petitions have been coi
pleted would restrict the power?
of the legislature.
Power Bills Filed
Of the seven initiative measurer
four would prohibit the appropria
tion of water from the DHrhita
North Umpqua. Rogue and Me
Kensie rivers for power and recla
mation development. Other initia
tive measures would reduce so
tor vehicle license fees in Oregor.
50 per cent, increase the gasoHa
iu ii om i ii i re 10 live crnis imt
gallon and provide a state income
tax. The measures providing for a
reduction of motor vehicle licenw
fees and increasing the gaso lis "
tax were sponsored by Senator
Dunne of Multnomah county. The
government consolidation amend
ment and accompanying initiative
measure, the status of which wert-
in doubt early tonight, were spon
sored by Hector McPherson .
Linn county.
Would Ret luce Lfern.se
The Dunne motor vehicle li
cense measure would reduce tb
general license fees on pleasur
cars approximately 50 per cent,
with solid tire trucks paying one
fourth additional. The measur
would abolish all operating fee
of motor carriers, and to quote th
ballot title, "all other fees as
taxes of every kind on motor ve-
... - . .. . . vr
nicies ana substituting a fee oi
15 for common carrier motor ve
hicles." For administration of themo
tor transportation act the public
service commission would be liss
lted to $45,000 annually. FuneV
received in excess of this amount
would be divided equally betwees.
the state highway fund and th -.
counties.
Increase Gas Tax
The gasoline tax measure spoa-'
sored by Senator Dunne would In
crease the gasoline tax from thre.
to five cents per, gallon. It was e
(Continnd on pat 4)
FOREST TAXES
SURVEY LOOMS
PROFESSOR FAIIU I1IM) WILL
DIRECT INVESTIGATION
Compilation Will 'u.w Iropr
tlonate lurl. 11 r.orne by
Woodland
Oregon, tax p: oblcrss on .force:
lands wilt be investigated, ' . com
mencing next -eek, tinder guid
ance of Pro.e-?sor Falrchild.
formerly of Yit. who has bees.4
working in fore -tci areas of th
country for the pajt two yearn
Professor f'airrbild will arriv
in Portland July 14, accompaa
led by a crew of eight tax ea-
perts. He later wi.i hold a confer
ence with official of the Pacifie
Northwest forest experiment sta
tion. United Stares Caret service -and
the state board of forestry. .
The investigation t-j be conduct- - -cd
by Professor Falrchild has t
do with original data on valuation .
methods for forest lands, as. use ' .
by county assessors. He also win
compue comparaurg intormaue
which' will how lb proportlosv
ate burden borne by "forest lanck v
In the taxation totaL ,; -,r.
No .-information . regarding, tk -
Oregon investigations will be re-
leased until the work is complete - -ed.
Ills data .will bo used in draft
ing . , a state i ret orsstratlon tax "
code. . . 'v-;-'v
- rroienor j r aire mm reccaixj .,
worked out a' practical tax plan
adopted, by the state of Wisco-
sin in ' connection . with Its cant ;
paign to encourage' reforestation-,
of denuded lands. " ' -V ;