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! 1 i ! " 1 - 1 - ' ' ' 11 ... . . . . i ' i ' TARRY" 1LFE 0.1 S. Former L Infield Director Hopes to rui nunucu Sports On Top OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL. Monmouth, August 1. (Special) 5. . "Larry" Wolfe, well known coach at linfleld college at Mc - Mlnnvllle for the past three ye has been encaged as athletic dl ; rector and head coach at the Ore fgon Normal school at Monmouth. 'Under the tutelage of Coach '!Wolfe the normal hopes to bring 1 football and baseball standards up to the basketball record, which j-fclaced them at the top of the Wil lamette ralley conference for the -.' east two years. Ti Before going to Linfleld Coach iSffolfe was athletie director at 1 Viewberg high, where be iosi dui iSree football games in two years. "id developed other lines of sporu Accordingly. Since taking charge i :t the Linfleld college he has built j lyxp the morale and sporting spirit that institution In such a man- - ; --v . . i i vii u "?ner as to piace me pcawi -':ithe athleUc world of the coast. Raises Standing ; When he took over the manage ment of Linfleld athleUcs the -school was almost unknown in f Starting circles and had not com ?cpeted In even the inter-collegiate jvents. Due to his work and in fluence the school activities iook fon new life and were soon ad J;tnitted to the new northwest con ference, which included such schools as the College of Idaho, Whitman, Willamette and Pacific juniversitles and the College of Vpuget Sound. I In appreciation of his work at iiUnfield, is the following from an f itr.Hai of a McMinnvllle paper: fw8 can say that Linfleld college Justly proud of Coach Lawrence HWolfe and the work he has done, tlfte has organized the men into a iifclfied football team and he has Instilled into them a ngnung spir- it and loyalty to Linfleld. He has & taught 'them many things that or dinary life will not teach team " Vork, self-sacrifice, sportsman ship and fair play." With such a Recommendation in just one line tt sDorts. the Monmouth normal "anticipates a splendid year under ?nhe new coach." ; Is War Veteran Coach Wolfe is a graduate of f filnmdo colleee. where he was a filar track, tennis and football nan. He la a world war veteran of ,tbe 28th (Pennsylvania) division 4 nd h saw real flKhtinK i n ' France. He did his first coaching x in the Colorado Springs high "-school, whose team gained a leg itimate claim to the national high Whool title in 19 23. v . Jnt hla enthusiasm, snirlt. j d etermlnation and coaching ability jut Newberg ana Linneia on- me athletic man. so It is nredicted he f ,wiU do for the normal at Mon- v 'mouth. ' NASHVILLE, Tenn.. August 1 .(AP) Senior United States Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Memphis, and Representative Fin is J. Garrett of Dresden the state's oldest congressman in point of ser vice are entered in a four cornered IfflESSMlDS ! PRIMARY ElECnOll race with George L. Casey of Gib son county and John Randolph Neal of Knoxville for the senatori nomination in tomorrows' Dem ratic primary. f?5 4 The republican primary will be (.- held simultaneously, both parties l-v selecting nominees for the senate, !cpngresa, governor, legislature, state railroad and public utilities commissioner and state executive committee. I Mayor James A. Fowler of IjJKnoxville is unopposed for the republican senatorial nomination. McKellar favored the McNary lliaugen farm relief bill, which Barrett opposed and both have up-. Jusld their positions in campaign speeches. It was between these tiwo that the sharpest fight was waged. The Democratic gubernatorial Jv'jace which has a field of four, has Jjpioduced fireworks a plenty. Sup Wporters of Governor Henry H. Iljorton and Hill McAllister of N'ashvllle have carried on a bom C(vbardment of personalities in lwhieh the state press has figured conspicuously. I Paget Sound lines 14 r Get Spokane Power 5.5 - Aug. 1 (AP- Through con tract . closed today - le Washington Water Power com ft'pany of Spokane will begin at mld- 1 -night tonight to supply the Puget tx i Sound Power and Light company J: ot Seattle with 15,000 kilowatts or 20,000 horse power of electric "Vlenrrent. TV-, The contract runs for a period of year and after the first year calls for an Increase in the contracted power to 20,000 kilowatts or some thing over 28,000 horsepower. i alter ton and Kozet Start Medferd Trip; Then Will Vm Burns ' Governor Patterson and Secre tary of State Kozer left by. auto mobile - Wednesday for Med ford where they will spend a day at tending the annual state conven - tlon of the American Legion. They later will go to Burns where they will inspect, the state experimental station which Is operated - under , the supervision of the extentloa -department of the Oregon Agricul tural college. , The governor and secretary of state will be joined at 5 urns by Justices John L. Rand I and O. P. Coshow of .the.- state supreme courts .. Her Friends Just : " Always Goto lal lit i t " MIlI' M Bessie Moran New Orleans, Aug. 1. (NBA) One after another, friends of pret ty Bessie Moran go to jail. In 1926, she was Bessie Stone. She was in company of, Ernest Brighton when he was arrested on a cnarge or assault ana roDoery. Brighton was sentenced to three to five years. Several months ago she was with F. S. Jackson when he was arrested in Canada. Jackson was sentenced to a long term for em bezzling. American Express com pany money orders. The other day, on the eve of Jackson's departure for the peni tentiary, Bessie was arrested with Charles Whitney, who has con fessed, according to police, to par ticipation in several recent hold ups. Police are waiting to see who Bessie's next friend will be. CRAIHDS,NEH Three Salem sportsmen, Carl Nelson, H. R. Crawford and his eon Lee Crawforu, returned hero yesterday from a weeks' vacation In the Cascades and report a very enjoyable and Interesting trip. The enure tup, wucn mciuaea Jefferson park, Pamelia lake, Marlon lake, arid Red Bluff lake, was made on horseback with Wil liam Selfert cf Detroit as packer and guide. Horses were used from Detroit on as the road to the Breitenbush Hot Springs is by no means com pleted and in all probability will nut be till at least next summer and the road following the old railroad grade up the Santlam Is open only a short distance to automobile traffic, and then only with special termlssion of toe forest officials, although it is ai ways available to horsemen. The entire trip from Detroit to Jefferson park was made the first day and the following day was spent in the park studying tne scenery and the glacers on Mt. Jef ferson. On the following day a short trip was made to Pamelia lake where veiy excellent fly itsu ing is always available. From Pamelia the party vent to Marion lake, where the re maining time wa? spent with the exception of cne day on K d Bluff lake. All the fish that could be used were taken by members of the party and ote cutthroat trout of 19 indies in length was reported taken on a fly from Red Butte lake. King of Bootleggers And Partner Handed 13 Months, McNeil's $ PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1. (AP) Frank Vaughn, known as "king of the bootleggers," and his partner, A. J. Yeager, were sen tenced to 13 months apiece in McNeil Island prison Tuesday by Federal Judge McNary. Both pleaded guilty to violation of the liquor laws. Eleven others are serving jail sentences in con nection with operations of a liquor ring which had four garages and a fleet of 25 automobiles and four stills. "What are you doing with that red lantern?" "Oh, I juet found it. Some care less fellow left it beside a hole in the road." "Let's go to the movies." "No, let's' stay here on the front porch. We can read better sub titles on the flivvers." Life. ONE NIGHT ONLY Mon Aug. 6 Show Grounds on Commercial Betweea , Bellevne and Oak 11 L IT 1 Night Club Proprietors Along Broadway Stalked For Four Months NEW YORK. August 1. (AP) Affidavits and expense accounts files in federal court in connec tion with applications for war rants against night clubs were made public today, revealing in mare detail how the prohibition agents gathered their evidence. For four months these agents, sent from Washington without even the knowledge of the local prohibition administrator's office, frequented the city's night clubs, at an estimated expense of be tween $60,000 and $75,000. As a result of their investigation 138 persons have been Indicted so far this week for conspiracy to violate the Volstead act in 26 resorts. The Volstead accounts submit ted with affidavits to Judge Hazel of Buffalo when warrants were de sired for the night clubs, state that the agents paid $25 a bottle for champagne at Texas Gui nan's sa lon Royal, and $10 a pint for whiskey at the same place. At the European club they said they bought whisky on some occasions at $10 a pint and on others at $1 a drink. The statement of Lon H. Tyson, one of the agents, indicated that he was accustomed to take his wife with him to the clubs assign ed to him, Agent John J. Mitchel generally accompanying them. His expense account says that on June 28 he and his wife and Mitchel spent $50 for champagne at the Silver Slipper. On June 9 Tyson said the trio's expenses were $12.40 for ginger ale and dinner, the wine bill bringing the total to $30.90. ua june i ginger aie ana a pint of rye cost them $15.45 and champagne $36.25. Tyson s expense account for himself, his wife and Mitchel on their various visits to the Silver Slipper during June alone amount ed to $245.53. He did not confine himself en tirely to this one club, however. An affidavit attached to his ex pense account tells of visiting Hel en Morgan 8 club, the Summer Hoik;, and asserts the hostess had knowledge of prohibition viola tions. He said that he posed as a resident of Dallas, Tex., and that Miss Morgan offered to help him start a night club there. Tyson told in his affidavit how he and other agents got into the good graces of the night club folk He said he, Mitchel and Agent R. E. Herrick, obtained a card from a waiter in the Frivolity club to an attache of Helen Morgan's place. This gained them entrance, but they were not served any "hard stuff" until two housemen had looked them over. They were then permitted to buy two bottles of ginger ale, a quart of cham pagne and a pint of whisky for X5Z.75. Another night he said, they re turned with Mrs. Tyson and had some drinks and a "light lunch" rer $92.60. They met Miss Morgan during these visits and Tyson said she. told them of a former raid on her club but said she had everything fixed up now with "one Campbell." The affidavit did not identify this Campbell as re ferring to Maurice Campbell, pro- niouion administrator in this dis trlct. The affidavits revealed that sev en agents gathered the evidence and not four as had been previous ly understood. BROWNS CAMP. Nea"r Horn- brook, cal.. July 31 (AP) Her bert Hover demonstrated his skill: as an angler today by catching nearly a dozen Rainbow trout In Beaver creek, about thirty miles from this place. Accompanied by Dr. Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford Uni versity, and another friend, the re publican presidential nominee left his cottage here shortly after dawn and motored neatly ten miles to a point where the highway ended. The party casted in the creek there until saddle horses could be obtained from a nearby ranch. The mountain trail then led through trees and underbrush for 15 miles to what proved to be good fishing grounds. Some of the trout were so small they ' were thrown back Into the stream but the party brought home a sizeable SUCCEEDS C ASKFOR- Euttercup Pasteurized Butter For Sale by Capitol City 137 South Commercial string te show for their efforts. ! After lunch Hoover rested until time for his party to break camp and leave by motor for Shasta Springs, 70 miles away across the Siskiyou range, and to the foot of Mt. Shasta, the snow-dad peak which rises 14,121 feet. After spending the night at the hotel at Shasta 8prings the nomi nee will try his luck for the fourth time on this trip, fishing in tribu taries of the McCloud on Pit Riv ers, the location to depend upon reports as to where fish are most plentiful. Tomorrow evening Hoover and companions will motor to Dnns- mulr where they board a train for the return trip to San Francisco, i Arriving there at 7:30 a. jn. Thursday they will complete the journey back to Palo Alto by au tomobile. This will give Hoover a full day to study and revise his accept ance speech which is to be deliver ed at the notification ceremony at Stanford University stadium one week from Saturday. He hopes to nave a completed copy ready not later than Saturday. This five-day outing is the only one which the nominee has In mind on this visit to his old home. He probably will leave Palo Alto on August 15 on his return trip to Washington via Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Kansas City. Cedar Rapids and his birthplace at-West Branch, Iowa. While the plan of campaign af ter his return to Washington has not been decided upon, it is re garded as almost certain he will make some speeches in the East and will visit several border states. including Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. MATRON SOBS OUT Women Crowd Montana Courtroom to Hear Sen sational Testimony MISSOULA, Mont., July 31. Ap) Her voice choked with sobs and with tears coursing down her face, Sylvia Thurston, 18 year old Mllltown matron, this after noon described before a jury the fatal shooting of Doris Wentworth, 16-year-old Milltown high school girl with whose murder she is charged. During the morning session four of the state's star witnesses, Cor rine Daigle. Earl demons, Robert Farmer and George Kolppa, Mrs. Thurston's companions on the fatal joy ride and drinking party early in the morning of June 20. refused to testify on the ground that their testimony would tend to Incriminate themselves. AH four are charged In two counts with contributing to the delin quency of a minor girl. Refusal of the four witnesses to testify forced the state to close its case this afternoon without getting to the jury the accounts of the eye witnesses of the shoot ing. In her testimony Mrs. Thurs ton declared she carried the pistol with which she sho tand fatally wounded her girl companion as a matter of custom. She said she carried the gun for self protection whenever she was not with her husband. The defendant testified that jealousy over George Kolppa, which was given as the reason for the quarrel by other members of the party when they were ques tioned by the county attorney after the slaying which had noth ing to do with the case. The court room was packed to capacity today by a curious crowd. composed almost entirely of women. Blinhhorn Finds Three Producers Slack in Handling Thirty-seven Inspections of pro ducers, most of whom had not been called upon before, were made during the month of June by James E. Blinkhorn. sanitary inspector with the Marion county health unit, according to his monthly report just compiled. There wej-e 27 routine inspections of distributors. Tests conducted by the inspec tor Included 72 on producers. 57 of which were the regular week ly samples and showed better than the average In former months. In the bottle tests on distributors, there were three sellers ' who needed, more efficient sterilization equipment. Altogether there were 31 producer tests. , All Grocers STO 0 FM DEB Co-Operative Crezmsry Telephone 299 FEE HELD 0. K. Democratic Campaign Lead er Hints AI Smith May Adopt That Plan NEW YORK. Aug. 1. (AP) John J. Raskob. democratic na tional chairman, today said after a -preliminary study of the equal ization for farm relief, he bad failed to find that It is economic ally unsound. Something of the sort he said, might be Included in the demo cratic plan for farm relief. The McNary-Haughen farm bill, car rying the equalisation fee, was vetoed by President Coolidge. The party would set about at once, the democratic chairman said, in formic ating a constructive farm relief plan, and not wait un til after the November elections. Governor Smith in a recent tele gram to a western farm leader said if he were elected he would seek the best, advice available In drawing up a farm relief program for presentation to congress- im mediately after inauguration. Raskob yesterday conferred fori four hours with George Nelson Peek, of Moline, 111., head of the farm belt committee of 22 that fought unsuccessfully for the McNary-Haughen bill. When apprised of the Raskob statement, senator George Moses of New Hampshire, Hoover east ern states manager, said: "If Mr. Raskob has been con verted to the equalization fee, he Is a brand plucked from the burn ing. I can't think of anything more revolutionary from a man with his tuckground." Peek and Governor Smith are to meet tomorrow. Senator Moses left today for the Dublin, New Hampshire, home of George Harvey, former ambas sador to England, for a confer ence. From there he will go to Chicago for the regional republi can conference Saturday. Philadelphia Maintains Same Distance Behind Yankee Ball Team CLEVELAND. Aug. 1. (AP) The Athletics assured them selves of at least holding their own against the Yankees for the day by defeating the Indians 6 to 4 this afternoon. Score: R H E Philadelphia 6 9 1 Cleveland 4 9 0 Ehmke and Cochrane; Hudlln, BSyne and L. Sewell. Yanks Crush Browns ST. LOUIS. Aug. 1. (AP) Babe Ruth's 42nd home run and Bob Meusel's ninth helped the Yankees to score a 12 to 1 victory over the Browns here today in the first game or the series, xoung Htnry Johnson pitched for the champions against the St. Louis iana. Score: R H 16 New York 12 St. Louis 1 7 Jomfon and Grabowski: Crow- der, Coffman, Wiltse and Manion. White Sox Win Twice CHICAGO. Ausr. 1 (AP) The Chicago White Sox made It two straight from the Boston Red Sox, taking both games of today s double header, the last by 7 to 3 and the first 4 to 2. ' First game: R noston 2 H E 9 2 7 0 Hof- Chicago 4 Harris, SetUemire and It ATHLETICS Ai NEW YORK 11 mann. Having; Faber and C rouse. Second game : R H 4 J5 Boston . 3 18 "'S Chicago T 12 ,1 Griffin. Simmons. Setaemire and Berry; Walsh and Berg. Detroit Whips Senators DETROIT. Aug. 1'. (AP) The Detroit Tigers hammered fpur Washington pitchers for 14 Mts and won 10 to 5. Score: 3t H E Washington . .5 12 Detroit 10 15 Zachary, Marberry Burke, Brown and Ruel; Whltehlll and Hargrare. SEATTLE BEATS 7-5 Indians Come From Behind In 8th To Take Revenge On Beavers PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1. (AP) Seattle beat Portland to day. 7 to 5, coming up from be hind in the eighth inning when Joe Chamberlain, an Oakland high school youth substituting at first base for Sherlock, hit a home run with the bases full. Score: R H E Seattle 7 10 3 Portland 5 10 0 Wilson, BorreanI; Couch, Pou- der and Whitney. Oaks Whip Sacs SACRAMENTO, Aug. 1. (AP) Oakland made it two straight over Sacramento here today by coming from behind again to win 6 to 4. The Oaks hopped on Kal- Uo for four hits and a like num ber of runs in the seventh frame while Craghead held the Solons scoreless after the third inning. Score: R H E Oakland 6 12 1 Sacramento 4 S 1 Craghead and Read; Kallio, Donnelly and Severeid. Seals Nose Out Angels SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. (AP) Earl Averill, center field er, hit a home run in the eighth inning today to win the game for the Seals, 6 to 5, after Los An geles had ied the count in the seventh with a four run rally. Score: R H E Los Angeles 5 10 0 San Francisco A... 6 10 3 Plitt, Osborn and Sandberg; Mails and Spins. Stars Beat Missions LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1. XAP) The Hollywood Stars nosed out the Missions 8 to 7 here today in a see-saw game that was marked by three home runs. Score: R H E Missions 7 11 3 Hollywood 8 13 3 Krause and Baldwin; Rhodes, Mulcahy, Hulvey and Agnew. Convict Cost Lower July Report Reveals The per capita cost of caring for the inmates of the Oregon state penitentiary during the month of July was $19.71, according to a report filed with the state board of control, Wednesday. This is a material decrease when compared with the per capita cost tor prev ious months. Thore were 702 in mates of the prison Wednesday as against 713 prisoners on July 2. Fair State Officials Fly Portland-Seattle Miss Beatrice Walton, private secretary to Governor Patterson, returned here Tuesday .night from Seattle where she attended an educational conference. She was 'accompanied by Miss Cornelia Marvin, state Hberian. They made the trip from Seattle to Portland in an airplane. While in Wash ington Miss Walton visited the state capital at Olympit. It is wisdom to inspect burial sites be fore sorrow's stress makes selection a painful duty. is economical to buy in advance need at pre-development prices. - . - Petoest Memorial $ark 71 4-7 1 6 First National Bank Bldg. Phone 2205 SOUTH BISHOP OPPOSES AL SMITH Strong Stand Against Tam- manny Man Taken Due to Wet Leanings ATLANTA. Ga.. July 31. f AP) Bishop W. N. AInsworth of the Methodist Episcopal church south, in a formal -statement aeainst the presidential candidacy of Alfred E. Smith, declared to day that no one "should be be guiled by the sophistry that the president cannot change the 18th amendment." "The coming election will be largely a referendum on national prohibition said the bishop in his statement which was issued on the eve of his departure for China and Japan where he goes to his mis sion fields. "The wets of all parties will support him (Smith). The pity is that some drys and a few good men in the "Bible belt" (the south) will join the notorious Mencken, large numbers of pur- chaseable negroes and foreigners in the cities of the north and all the loose elements of American citizenship to put him in the pres idential chair." "And then if successful," 4he statement continued, "they will immediately assert that his elec tion is the will of the people and appeal to all congressmen to lis ten to the voice of the people. Many of them will fall before it. The president himself would make the appeal, the candidate is al ready making it." Declaring that Smith has fought every vestige of anti-liquor re form, the bishop said that "he has done it so persistently and spec FIREPROOF 889 North Liberty Street First Class Storage We protect the finest of furniture and pianos and use precautions against moths and mice. We invite you to come and see our new warehouse." Larmer Transfer and Storage 143 South Liberty Street PHONE 93ft Salem. Oregon tacularly that he has become the Idol of all the rabid and intoler ant wets of America who regard him as their most hopeful Joshua to lead them into a land that flows with beer and wine. "The' nominee Is personally and by practice wet," the statement, said. "He Is a habitual drinker. There has been no effort to deny a statement made by the nation last November that he drinks every day .and the number of his cock tails and highballs is variously es timated at from 4 to 8. "Unless as president he re forms, he would have to transport llauors to the white house In vio lation of .the nation's. law, or go constaqtif outside for bootleg li quor, orHo Jhe homes of friends to imbibe their pre-prohibltlon stocks. For the Vhad ot a govern ment to violate' the law , he has sworn to enforce will not promote respect for him or for law and a cocktail president of a prohibi tion republic will disgrace .Ameri ca before the intelligence of the world. Such Incongruity may suit the sidewalks of New York but it affronts the sober sense of all genuine Americans." Active Hoover Fight ) Planned in New York By Roosevelt Friend WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (AP) An active campaign for Herbert Hoover in New York wai promised here by William Loeb. of New York, former secretary to President Roosevelt, In a call at republican national heaquarters. A statement by the republican national committee related that Mr. Loeb predicted the largest vote in history in New York this year, with republicans going "into this campaign with plenty of con-v fldence" although the party or ganization" is still more or less In a state of flux." WAREHOUSE I of ft y