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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1928)
Some Obstacles Have Been Overcome andiOthers Are Still Pending, But the North High Street Bridge Contract Is to Be Let Soon The Noted Aviators and Their Hiige Planes Were Just Barely Seen in Distance When They Passed Salem; Speed Up the Airport Weather Forecast: Fair bat with foe on JJtJte coast at night; temperatures normal in The mayor of an Ohio town had a maa whipped for getting drank. It is onr opin ion that a hide full of bootleggers' liquor ought to be sufficient punishment for any man. west; moderate northwest and west winds tm the coast. Maximum temperature yes terday 82, minimum SO, rirer rain fall none, atmosphere clear, wind north west. . . SEV ENTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS Wkere'd Meteor Fall? TEXAS POLITICS BRITAIN ACCEPTS CALL FOR BIDS NOW IN TURMOIL PEACE PROPOSAL Why Rickreall, Surely REPUBLICANS BACK SMITH; BOURBONS OPPOSE HTM NOTE TO BR PRESENTED FOR MALLY ON WEDXESDAT Seen In All Its Glory Distinctly From Highway; Whole North Aeffro tote Coins to Tammany Home Secretary Criticized For Speech Indicating Doubt of U. 8. Sincerity west Claims It, Bat Paget Sound Folk Have Best Claim; Hear Load Boom and See Big Wares FIELD MONDAY STREETBRIDGE Hall Candidate, Leader De clares; Rally Held mm CROSS-OREGON RAILROAD HAS MANY BACKERS HOOVER UTS SOU HP WITH CQOLIDGF PLANES REACH PORTLAND AIR ON NORTH HIGH ST Si f IT 4 Commerce Commission to "Dohfloii Amnmftnte in Pnit land July 30 BUILDING DENIED ONCE Date of Public Service Group Shows Construction Would De crease Materially Transpor tation Costs Apparently there will be plenty of talking when the cross-state railroad hearing is called to order In Portland July 30. The Idaho publie utilities commission and practically every town andL city of importance In Oregon will have representatives to Intervene with the public service commission of A Oregon at the n earing. Th irinr will be conducted by representatives of the inter state commerce commission, and three weeks will be required to take the testimony. The original application for the construction of the cross-state railroad was filed with the Inter file year 1922 by the Oregon pub lic service commission. Requests for other railroad construction in central Oregon also were con tained In the application. A series of hearings followed with the result that the Interstate commerce commission ordered construction of virtually all of the lines requested in the petition with the exception jof the cross state road. Some of these lines are now completed while other roads are in progress of construc- ytion. v Follow in ar the order of the In- lSbJrWstate commerce commission the ' Oregon public service commission fil iled a new petition in which it rged immediate construction of the cross-state railroad. The inter state commerce commission later fixed the hearing on the applica tion for July 12, but this was later postponed until July 30. Engineers and rate experts for the public service commission have been at work for several months gathering data to be plac ed before the interstate commerce cc.$mission. This data deals with the estimated cost of construc tion, tonnage availaT:e under nor mal conditions, prospective pas senger patronage and costs of op eration. Data already in the hands of the public servloe commission indi cates that construction of the pro posed road would decrease mate rially the costs of transportation on shipments from western Ore- ja. -B--tu me ir eastern maraeis. (Continued on pf Jr. AUTOMATIC WIRE MACHINES IN USE OREGON CIRCUIT GETS BENE FIT OP NEW SERVICE Kleven Dally Newspapers In State Use Telegraph Printing Apparatus PORTLAND. July 1C (AP) Newspapers of Oregon, mem bers of the Associated Press and served by the state leased wire fcystem, today began receiving the news of the world, national and state events by automatic tele graph machines. In each of these newspaper of fices two machines have been in stalled to copy news distributed --trpm tho Portland bureau of Hie rfJjlociated Press. me roruana oureau recleves news on high speed printers ect from points of origin, In cluding New York. Washington, Chicago, Kansas City and San Francisco, and this news Is re layed to the Oregon newspapers from Portland on automatic tele type machines. State and Pacific coast news assembled in Portland also is handled. A sender typewrites the news in the Portland office and it Is in sUHSneously. copied by the ma chines In the offices of the state leased wire, circuit. Eight dailies of the state receive this service in the daytime for afternoon edi tions,, and three at night for morn- ting editions. - The . afternoon newspapers which will benefit from this, Im proved service are: Eugene Guard, Grants Pass Dally Courier, Klam- th Falls Evening Herald, La Jnnde Evening Observer, Med- inusa ea pf -l Meteor, Meteor ! Who's got the Meteor! Said meteor appeared shortly after midnight Sunday ap peared from out of the south with a brillancy and wonderful mixtures of colors which may well be hard to conceive. Rapid ly it traversed the sky spreading a glow of sunlight at mid night over the hills and valleys. Then it disappeared into well that's the question. Conflicting reports have landed this fiery messenger in Puget Sound, along the Columbia river, in Portland, in the SHE CAN'T HELP BE ENTERTAINING BESSIE LOVE, OF COURSE, POOR LITTLE WISTFUL STAR Movies Grabbed Her Before She Knew It, and Then Stage Did the Same By Ralph Curtis The girl that just can't keep from being entertaining ven If she tried, and she hasn't the heart to try that's Bessie Love. Poor girl, she has to play leads star roles these days, the while thinking wistfully of her first part, which was of course that of a maid. There was so much fun in it but let's get back to the beginning of the story. Bessie lived down near JJovie ville, but she'd thought only cas ually of the movies as an occupa tion. But she was just a little high school girl, and wanted to make some spending money in vacation time. Why not try doing "extra" in the movies? "D. W. Griffith is the man you want to see," some well informed but sarcastic friend told her; and not dreaming of the barriers that stood between D. W. Griffith and movie-mad little girls, Bessie trot ted down to his office. She cooled her heels in the waiting room, and and D. W. walked through. He noticed her at once sounds like "Movie Magazine" guff but it's gospel. And so when she walked up to the chief high potentate that guarded the sanctum and met the, cold rebuff that so many thous ands have experienced, D. W. told him to let her come on in and another name, soon after that, (Continued en pace 2.) MILK ORDINANCE PASSES Thompson Again Votes "No" Bat Is Alone In Opposition The milk inspection ordinance was passed at last night's council meeting with but one dissenting vote, that of Alderman George W. Thompson who had successfully blocked its passage two weeks ago with his single "no." Alderman Hal Patton question ed the regulation as to labelling "standardized milk." on behalf of dairymen who objected to this feature of the regulation, but con sented to vote for the bill on con sideration that it would be amend ed later if this clause continued to offend. "Standardized" refers to milk which has been reduced in but terfat content to approximately the minimum. 3.5 per cent. Jer sey and Guernsey milk usually runs about 7 per cent butterfaL C. D.HENRY WORSE AGAIN Father of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Not Expected to Live PLACER VI LLE. CaU. July 1. (AP). Dr. W. A. Rucker. local physician, attending C. D. Henry, father of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, announced tonight that bis pa tient was in a serious condition and that he "rather expected" the end might come during the night. Alan Hoover, grandson of Hen ry, arrived here tonight from Pa lo Alto and went to his bedside. Dr. Russell V. Lee of Palo Alto ha been keeping Mrs. Hoover ad vised of her father's condition. Henry suffered a stroke of par' airs is several weeks ago and. for a time rallied and was said to have shown improvement. . On Sunday his condition took a torn for the worse and since then he has become weaker hourly. - MR. JOSEPH HURTS SELF State Senator From Portland Sus tains Cat With Axe PORTLAND, July 16. (AP) George ; W. Joseph of. Portland, state senator, .was in a hospital today as" (he result of having cut his left foot with an axe while clearing brush on his farm at La tourelle yesterday. The third toe on the left foot was almost sev ered. -.--..- lara beds of the Cascade moan- tains and many other places; however td the writer, who was in the neighborhood of Corvallls, the fiery ball appeared to sink to rest In quick darkness in the neighborhood of RickrealL Short ly afterward the highways in that section were traversed and any thing resembling, what should be a meteor, failed to be discovered. So. just where did the meteor land? This much discussed meteor ap peared about as large as now there Is where the stories vary again well, say about ten feet In diameter. It was blueish-white must nave been real warm and there emanated from it a tail some 30 or more feet in length. A fiery tail gorgeous in appear ance and composed or rays of light while from its composition there appeared to come sparks the size of etars. How long was it visible? It came out of the south there was a sudden flash as it hit our at mosphere night became almost like day and then in a moment there was darkness again as it passed from the atmosphere sur rounding the earth fell into the Pacific ocean or burled iteelf deep Into the soil some place. AH In all It took probably two min utes for this to happen and so why worry about the time. The marvel of it the beauty of It a,! furnish enough for one to con- dominoed ob pat Z.) BURNED IN EXPLOSION Fred Kroeplin Injured While Cooking Over Oil Stove Fred Kroeplin of 1680 North Commercial street, is in the Sa lem general, hospital suffering from bad burns on his face, arms and one side of his chest. jtroeplin, who is about 32. has been working at the Walker hop yard between Brooks and Inde pendence, and as he was prepar ing his supper over an oil stove last evening the stove exploded. with the burns resulting. How or why the explosion occurred is a mystery. Attendants at the hospital re ported late last night he was in good condition, although the ser iousness of the burns could not yet be ascertained. Bert Gwin, manager of the hop yard, brought Kroeplin to the his- pital, arriving about 7:30 o'clock. EUROPE'S OLDEST WALLED CITY Wrt v 15 ... A m- -44 - wo s-'s urjr 'mjmmm -f trj rf 7 , Kill ' ' , . :-: The -walls of the ancient city of Carcassonne France, were reared as military defenses before the time of Christ. This summer the town Is'celabratlng the approximate two thousandth anniver sary of their building Above is is tha west rampart. Henry Dupuy-Maxuel (inset) is directing the Presidential Candidate Re turns to Wisconsin Hills After 15 Years CROWDS CHEER NOMINEE Republican Standard Bearer Re frains From Discussing Poll tics Until Acceptance Speech On August 11 SUPERIOR, Wis., July 16 (AP) Revisiting the northern hills of Wisconsin for the first time In 15 years, Herbert Hoover tonight was the guest of Presi dent Coolidge at Cedar Island lodge in the Brule river 50 miles from the city. The republican presidential standard bearer came here while en route to his old home in Cali fornia for his formal notification. in order to discuss with the chief executive the political situation in general. His acceptance speech to be delivered at Palo Alto, August 11 and his successor as secretary of commerce. He will remaia un til tomorrow when the westland journey will be resumed. Town Folk Cheer Arriving early in the day from Washington, Mr. Hoover was met by a cheering crowd of town folk and was applauded by thousands of others who lined the main thoroughfares over which his au tomobile moved to the open coun try for the long and somewhat dusty ride to the summer white house. At the lodge the nominee and Mrs. Hoover, who rode in an open car sent from the white house were greeted by the president and Mrs. CooHdge"nd-folmCoondgert who Is spending the summer here with his parents. They chatted awhile on the front piazza before the newspaper correspondents and photographers were invited within the grounds. Many Pictures Taken The photographers were served first, the President and Mrs. Cool idge, their guests and their son crossing the narrow bridge to the adjoining mainland lawn to pose. Mrs. Coolidge was dressed all in white, while the president more a double breasted blue serge coat with white flannel trousers and white shoes. Mr. Hoover had on a double breasted brown suit, and Mrs. Hoover wore a flowered dress. After the group photograph, the president and the man who as pires to succeed him posed togeth er seated in gayly painted wicker chairs. "Carry on a conversation, Mr. President" requested one of the . (Continued on pp 2.) a general view of the defenses as DALLAS, Texas, July 16. (AP). Two republican leaders of Texas today announced a bolt to the standard of Governor Al fred E. Smith of New York, while on the other side of the political fence democratic bolters gathered here for a conference tomorrow at which plans for a fight on the democratic presidential "nominee will be formulated. J. H. O'Hara. organization man ager of the state republican com mittee which backed an unin structed delegation to the repub lican national' convention, and W. M. (Gooseneck Bill) McDonald, negro republican leader, announc ed at Fort Worth that they would throw their support to Governor Smith. They declared they con trolled 250,000 votes in Texas. Meanwhile prominent democrats, who have announced they would not vote for the New York govern or because of his views on prohi bition and his Tammany connec tions, held a series of conferences here In preparation for tomor row's anti-Smith rally. As the sponsors of the rally an nounced their only fight is against Governor Smith for president and that they were not taking sides in the primary campaign for state offices, it was understood no state candidates would be permit ted to take part in the program. A proposal for an alliance be tween the anti-Smith democrats and the regular republican organ ization headed by R. B. Creager, republican national committee man. Is expected to be threshed out at the meeting. The republican faction led by Creager. whose Hoover-instructed delegation was seated at the na tional convention in Kansas City over the protest of a delegation backed by O'Hara. McDonald, C. C. Littleton of Fort Worth and Representative Harry M. Wurz bach, the state's only republican congressman, was reported today wot'td 1e 'In favor of putting a candidate In the field against the democratic nominee for governor On the other hand, the Little ton group was understood to be (Continued on pf 2.) HOOVER TALKS BY RADIO San Francisco Speech to be Broad cast Next Friday PORTLAND. Ore., July 16. (AP). The voice of Herbert Hoover, republican nominee to the presidency, will be heard over the air Friday afternoon when Pacific coast broadcast stations will be linked with the National Broadcasting company. Oregon listeners will be served by KGW in Portland. The program will start shortly after 12:15 p. m. Friday during a reception to be tendered Hoover in San Francisco. It will be the first time western radio listeners have had a chance to hear Hoover since his nomination. CELEBRATES they look today. At the right fete. ... . National Caravan Flies Down Willamette Valley, Miss ing Salem VANGUARD ARRIVES 3:57 Reliability Tour Scheduled to go on to Seattle From Swan . Island this Morning; Fat Time Effected PORTLAND, Ore., July 16- (AP) Swooping in from the'nirate with other governments." south and roaring across the fin- ish line at the Swan Island air- port here, L. F. Schoenhair, pilot, brought his Lockheed monoplane to earth at 3:57 p. m. today, the firetlof the groun of planes in the National Reliability air tour to reach Portland. Schoenhair, with Eddie Cooper and Ray Acre as passengers, was the first to take off from Med ford on the leg of the Journey which brought them to Portland. Their elapsed time from the south ern Oregon city was 1 hour, 19 minutes. Stearnman Plane Second David P. Levy piloted his Stearn man biplane in second, arriving at the airport at 4:01:37. His elapsed time from Medford was 2 hours, 37 seconds. From 4 p. m. until 5 o'clock ships arrived every lew minutes. At 5 p. m. there were 18 planes on the line. Included in this group was the tri-motored array plane in which a group of east ern newspaper men are making the swing around the. country. Third place in today's hop went to the Bellanca monoplane piloted by George W. Haldeman. There was but one accident" to mar the day at the Swan Island airport. Jimmy Rlnenart, Port land college youth, broke up his plane but was uninjured. Long beore the first of the offi cial air tour planes arrived there was a large crowd at the airport. The planes will leave here Wed nesday morning for Seattle. .Martin Jensen, Becond place winner in the Dole flight to Hon-! olulu, will arrive here tomorrow at 4:30 p. m. flying his Breese monoplane "Aloha," the ship in which he made his flight across the Pacific. Jensen - has been making a junket by easy stages up the coast on the first leg of a tour which will take him to New York. In order to participate In the national (Continued on pf 2.) LAD DROWNED IN CANAL Nine Tear Old Boy Becomes Lodged In "Drop Box YAKIMA. Wash.. July 1. (AP) While bathing In the "drop box" of an irrigation canal near his home near Sunnyside, Frank Roark, nine years old, was drawn by the water into the twelve-inch outlet pipe that car ries the flow through a siphon across the valley. The lad's legs were drawn into the pipe up to his hips and the water, with tHe outlet thus dammed, quickly rose over his head as he struggled to free himself. A half, hour later a rancher came to the box to find why the water had been shut off, and found the dead boy's body. TUEL BACK IN PRISON Parole Violator Robs Bend Church es; Caught at Redmond John Tuel, convict who recently violated hia parole and then got into trouble again by robbing three Bend churches, was back in the penitentiary yesterday, brought from Salem .by Henry W. Meyers, superintendent of the prison. After looting the churches 'and other buildings in Bend, Tuel was caught while robbing the high school building at Redmond. He was not tried on the new charges. but brought back to serve out bis original sentence, which was on a burglary charge filed In Crook county. HIGHWAY INJURY FATAL Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Oolrille Maa Near Pendleto - PENDLETON, Ore.. July (AP)J pick Culupus. of Colville, died here yesterday from injuries he suffered when struck by a hit- and-run driver on the highway east of here. He had been drag ged some distance and received severe Internal injuries. An in vestigation of the accident Is be- ,1ns made. -. LONDON. July 1 5 ( AP ) The British Reply to Secretary Kel logg's outlawry of war pact pro posal probably- will be given the American charge d'affaires Wed nesday. Sir Austin Chamberlain, the foreign secretary, in response to a request irom a laDorite memoer that he explain why France and Germany were able to make up their minds on the proposed treaty ahead of Great Britain, said: "As a matter of fact His Majes ty's government has made up it mind, but it is necessary for us to communicate with the British dominions before we formulate and deliver our reply. France and Germany do not need to commu- Several Liberal newspapers to- day editorially criticised Sir Wil liam Joynson-Hicks. the home sec- retary. for a speech made over the weekend in wnich he saro: I "We desire to appeal to the great United States, when our sig nature Is placed alongside that of other nations, and say to them connect mese iwo tnorougnrareft. we are signing the. pact at yourj It was reported by Mayor T. A. request, yet we understand you are Livesley that definite agreement increasing your navy. I believe 'Hh the Oregon Electric railway we are entitled to comment quite' about this bridge cannot be enter respectfully and in quite a friend-jed into until the first of August, ly way and -say to America and but that it had been settled oral to the whole world that deeds ly so that It was possible to pro speak stronger than words." ceed with the call for bids.") The Daily News ssys "that near- Agreement IM-king ly two months ago, after knock-l The matter of right of way to lng chunks off her naval program,' permit widening the street on the America postponed it altogether, south approach to the bridge is to give peace a chance" and that j still in abeyance, owners of tar the home secretary remarks in-' property still refusing td accept dicated his ignorance of this and any offer which the city of fitiaH could only stir up hostility The Daily Chronicle described the home secretary's statement as "Impertinent" and said that Bend ing out challenging messages was the sure way of hampering the efforts of the American govern ment to reduce American arma ments. ROBBER HEADING NORTH Officials on Look Ont For Stross, Former Prison Inmate Penitentiary officials here Mon day received a telegram from Eu reka, Calif., to be on the alert for Peter "Dutch Pete" Stross, who Is being sought in connection with the robbery of the Willow Creek postoffice and the slaying of a dep uty sheriff at Eureka, Calif. Wil low Creek is located within a few miles of Eureka. Stross has served two terms In the Oregon state penitentiary. He first was received at the Institu tion in 1909 for larceny on a train. Stross again was received at the prison May 26, 1921,, to serve a long term for robbing a bank a Gold Hill In Jackson couuty. The records show that he was released from the prison in 1924. Stross is well known to the offi cers in Salem and Portland. Eure ii officers telegraphed that Stross was enroute north and prob ably would pass through Oregon HOTEL MAN EYES SALEM W.M. Dean Visits at Patton Home; May Invest Locally W. M. Dean, prominent hotel m: of the San Francisco bay region. Mrs. Dean and their daugh ter are guests at ne home of Mr. and Mrs. Hal D. Patton in Salem. Mr. Dean Is the owner of a num ber of hotels In the bay cities, and he te contemplating taking an ac tive Interest in Salem property; beyond this Mr; Patton would make no present predictions as to possible developments. In the light of previous disclo sures, however. It Is understood that Mr. Dean is interested in the hotel project mentioned by Mr. Patton a number of weeks ago, which contemplated a S 200.000 hotel possibly on the site of Mr. Patton's home on Court street. CHAIN SITUATIONS VARY Questionnaire, Shows 15 States Permit Bancorporatlons ' , A. A. Schramm, state superin tendent of banks, has sent a ques tionnaire to state officials of a number of states in an effort to obtain data on branch banking. The questionnaire was sent ont In connection with the organisation of at least two bancorporatlons in Oregon. ... ,r ; . Of 41 states which responded to the questionnaire 15 permit branch banking and 26 do not.,-.. , Of the states that permit branch banking eight allow it on a state wide basis, four confine it to city limits, two to local and county limits and one leaves it to the?d!s- ere tlon of the state superintendent jof bank. - . Agreement Sufficiently De finite to Permit Letting of Contract ALLOW SALARY INCREASE Council Hesitate on Mileage Claim of Itridg Depart mn Workers; 0!wr City Em- ployen lluy Own Gasoline After a long series of delay over right of way problems, the city council -last night answered the question that has been fore most ,n th minds of residents miuiik m&n sireei ana uroaaway, by approving the plans and la structing the city recorder to all for bids on the bridge that will deem reasonable. The question of mileage for the bridge engineer's automobile and that of his assistant was not de cided, the resolution authorising payment of their claims beiag laid on the table; bat the council, on the mayor's recommendation, approved the salary increases for D. P. Thayer, the assistant bridge engineer, and C. A. Gardner, bridge Inspector. Others Turned ODown It was brought out that the city has always turned down any claim for mileage, and that even Batty Cooper, sanitary inspector, buys the gasoline for his car, which almost constantly jn use on city business. The bridge committee and the street improvement com mittee were instructed to look info this matter of mileage allowance. Alderman L. J. Sfmeral ex plained that he had not gone ont of his way to disallow these claiini, but had merely insisted that they be brought before the council. Several of the members objected to the ten cents a mile asked by the bridge engineers FORMER ITALIAN PREMIER PASSES VIOVAXNI GIOLTTTI DIES AF TER EXTENDED ILLNESS Recalled as Flgnre Who Domfawa. ed Country's Politic for Forty Years CAVOUR, Italy, Jnly 17 (Tuesday (AP) Former Prem ier Vlovanni Giolitti died at 1:S o'clock this morning, following up on a long illness froiu uremic poi soning. For nearly four decades Giovan ni was one of the outstanding. po litical figures of Italy. During his most active years, whether In or out of the govern ment, he wielded a power that was little less than that of a dic tator. He had served as premier fre times and between the govern-r ments that he beaded, several premiers remained In power only at his discretion because of tha majority he usually was able to control. However, with all tits power and Influence. Giolitti had rough sailing at times because his' politics ran contrary to pualie opinion. After the resignation of one of his governments a movement was inaugurated for his Impeachment on charges of abuse of power as minister; he fell Into disfavor be cause of his attitude toward Italy's participation In the World war, and In 1918 , was charged with treason by a member ot the chass- ber of deputies, but was cleared of the charge by a parliamentary commission ot inquiry. ; . Notwithstanding the numeraas political and governmental cos troversies in which he was involv ed during his long public career, , there never: was ' any question of Giolitti's -personal honesty. This was strefwed by a parliamentary k commission which Investigated ths ' condition of state banks, during one of the early Giolitti govern ments. The report, although quitting him of any personal wrongdoing, proved disastrous ' ts (Coaliamed p( 2.: