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The New Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 14, 1923 CITIZENS ARGUE E Zoning Body Hears Talks by , Several But Meeting Takes No Action Legal talent was marshaled Monday Bight by all parties in a many aided discussion on tn de sirability of extending Falr arrannds Road, held before the elty planning and zoning commi . aura in turn city nan. no agree ment or decision was reached. Toward the clone of the hear ing the talk shifted to the ques tion of who should finance the purchase of right of way and con struction of whatever extension may be decided upon, although L.J v. umpoeu. cnauman or. tne -commission. Insisted that the fin ancial problem should not come up untn the genera merits of the question are decided. Ameodnmt Required The conclusion apparently reached was that the city charter will hare to be amended so that an enlarged Improvement district may be established and the cost . apportioned to the benefit as It may be appraised. Representatives of both Com mercial and High street business men said that they would be will ing to pay their share, but that they believed the entire city would ' '-be benefited and that part of the . expense therefore should be a gen eral obligation, and that adjocent property would be enhenced Sn value and likewise should stand a ahare. -Opposition Voiced The attitude of the Hollywood business men was outlined by Joe Minton as being entirely opposed to any extension of Fairgrounds Road from its present terminus at Hood and Church streets, charac terizing the entire proposal as in spired by Commercial street inter ests for their own profit. .' Chairman Campbell contradic ted, this statement, declaring that the commission had been ap- proached by no one prior to start ing its study of through traffic ' needs, and that it had encountered "as much opposition from the Com ' merclal street business men as from any other group in the city. Lautennan Speaks J. H. Lauterman reiterated Mr. k Campbell's statement that the Commercial street interests have not attempted to Influence the t: 'commission, and introduced James f.-W. Mott of Astoria as a speaker for that group. Mr. Mott being an owner of Commercial street property. ' ;- Mr. Mott emphasized the desir ability of an artery into which traffic bound for the northward hiehway would be able to turn from any of the north and south streets. He admitted frankly V that Commercial street will be - benefited in that, retaining a tV share of the regular travel. It will ' be stabilized as a retail street and ' not become like Front street In Portland. Since the extension Is a plan for the future, Mr. Mott urged that the best route should be " chosen unless the difference in expense Is too great; and he de clared 'that in his opinion the r curved route to Commercial at Belmont is the best. Finance In Question Kenneth Randall, another rep ' resentative of, the Hollywood j group, said there would be no ob jection to the extension if the downtown business men, whom it would finance the project. Lars Bergsvlck, for the High street business men, spoke in fav ' or of extending Fairgrounds Road on its present line to Broadway as only onethird as costly as extend 4 In it to Commercial; he pointed out that there is already a diag onal street to Liberty, and sug .'; gested that the route to Commer t cial could be on Division or any ', other of the streets closer to the , business district. , Other speakers Included Fred ; W. Jobelman. W. J. Barham. the f Rev, J. TV Jacobs, pastor of the ? Adventist church. - Young Navy Pal KeepsPaWith His Dead Buddy A promise to a buddy brought Edwin A. Cook, navy air pilot. from San Diego to Salem last week. A' year ago, while they were In training at Pensaeola Florida. Cook and his baddy, Har old Thomas Melntyre agreed that If either one should be killed. the other would accompany the body to Its . last resting place. ' After the fatal crash a week ago this morning In San Diego bay. which cost the life of young Melntyre, Cook made arrange ments to carry out his part of the agreement. He accompanied the body of his pal to Salem, ma naval honor, escort, and yesterday after. noon drove the hearse to the cemetery, on "the last hop. a3 he expressed it.-.:- . Tin two young men had known each other only a year, and were transferred r to San Diego only three months ago. . The agree ment was Just an oral promise to each other, bat' It was sacred trust and fulfilled to the last de tail, s IfGlEFHEira 0 0 S 11 Continued from page 1) Salem I will be very pleased If you will do us the favor. Tour offer to perform the ceremony without the usual fee is very much appreciated, and If my fiance can be prevailed upon, we shall be married in Salem. . Couple Appears At about 10:30 o'clock Judge Small happened to be talking with omcer Van De Walker of the state traffic department. He com mented on the letter he had re ceived that morning, wondering whether the couple would arrive. "There's a car with a Califor nia license parking across the street now." said Van De Walker, glancing out the window. The two watched a couple emerge from the car and a moment later Miss Jones Introduced her prospec tive bus band and herself. "I helped them get their license, too," Judge Small said in telling about it later. "They had to have a witness swear that he knew both parties, and I had corresponded enougn so that I felt I knew them. I was the only one in town who did. Despite previous correspondence however. Crane insisted on paying giving Small his fee for perform ing the ceremony. TIBS FLAYS fBIIMITIES Says Wan Street "Called Al Off Equalization Fee in Jigg Time" - WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 13. (AP) Norman Thomas, socialist presidential nominee, speaking be fore a rally of his party here to night, denounced the republican and demociatlo parties as .playing openly, "for the favor of the rich who finance them. and advocated the McNary-Hangen farm relief bllL -V-:;.j -After assertion that. Herbert Hoover -position on farm relief was pretty well known, the social ist candidate declared that nobody knows Coventor Smith position, "least fall himself. "But we do know- that Wall street called him off the equalisa tion fee la Jigg time" he said. "We ha vent much confidence in that conference of landed and. banking farmers to which Al wants to paas the farm problem, . ; "Against this our socialist posi tion Is plain. So serious is the plight of the farmers that as an emergency measure we favored the McNary-Haugen bill unless the farmers themselves can. as I hope. improve It at certain points. The equalization fee, however. Is the very heart of the plan. Without it the plan cannot long be financed and the danger that it will in crease over production is vastly in Only the socialist party. Thom as said has ai program for civil lib erty and one for world peace. i Coolidge Fails to Listen To Mr. Hoover -s Address SUPERIOR. Wis-. AOS. 13. (AP) The belief that President Coolidge would net add his mes sage to the thousands which have poured upon secretary Hoover in connection with his speech of ac ceptance last Saturday was ex pressed at the summer white house today. . . . President Coolidge, It was said. haa given no indication that he In tends -to aend any communication to the republican presidential It was also revealed today after two days of great reserve that Mr. Coolidge did not listen over the radio to Mr. Hoover's acceptance speech. The chief executive, was fishing on Saturday while the ad- drees was belnc. delivered.- White house officials and aide had been very reticent, both yesterday and Saturday, regarding this point. saying; they had no information to giro oat. -" iA-i Dr. Benedict Lust was keynote speaker and Benjamin T. Loos was a nrominenl tlmr at th MHnni Progressive party convention In I Omaha. We're crazy to see the 'commanding: the sixth corps area platform. at Chicago will call upon Presl- Prealdent Coolidge ' discussed with Major General Edgar Jad win, chief of army engineers, the report of the Mississippi flood con trol board, of which. General J ad- win Is a. member, regarding: the practical execution of the. Missis sippi flood control plan adopted at the last session of congress. General Jadwin arrived last night on an inspection tour and was invited by Mr. Coolidge to be a white house guest. Upon his re turn from the lodge, today. Gen eral Jadwin, although admitting that he had discussed the report with the chief executive refused to disclose the purport of that doc ument. ' . ! 1 General Jadwin intimated, how ever, that the report had succeed ed in reconciling differences in the two Mississippi flood projects and that President Coolidge would have no difficulty in making fu ture recommendations' for flood relief execution. Major General Paul P. Malone. f dent Coolidge tomorrow. Judge C. Z. Lose of tho district court and other officers of the federal court will also .pay their respects to the chief executive. , Members of the Wisconsin and upper Michigan districts of the Kl wants clubs, at present in Super- tor attending- a convention, will be photographed 'with President Coolidge tomorrow on the steps oL the executive offices. In add! lion, the , chief executive 5 will be presented with a canoe .paddle by a. delegation of boy scouts from Solon Springs, Win, - m mm FOB 0H1 LIKE Churchmen Will 1 Extend Welcome To Bishop Today This afternoon and evening at the Laurelhurst park in Portland, the Oregon conference of the Methodist church will welcome Bishop Titus Lowe, recently ap pointed to the Portland area. Dr. A. L. Howarth, superinten dent of the Portland district will be In charge of the program which the Rev. Fred C. Taylor and the Rev. S. Darlow Johnson Indicated yesterday that they would attend. HOLLYWOOD Tuesday - Wednesday fax Heart to Heart, HART ASTOR and with LLOYD HUGHES Long Loud Laughs STARTS TODAY STORM m LDDQ F BOTH HIT FIJI Jack O'Day Sues For Back Salary Affairs of the defunct Saiam World have become more eompl!- caiea man ever with attachment of the plant by Jack O'Day, who was managing editor from March 4 unitl June 31. O'Day claims he was to receive 375 a month, and mat still is due. Pre viously the World attached O-l fays automobile claiming that he had $1000 of the company's luonex. 0 Watch For "SPANGLES" ffturgwous pre seen n The most scntatlon Salem. , Pyramid f Beauties ID Greater Movie Season Starts August 19th 16 re l 4 r-V mi I r .i ;IQ ft 4 DAYS ' liBW ri storting imMR&mMInm today inwi msmm .LOSEOX' ' - ' -yZY S' -s THIS TEXSK . v" ti"lCSt) , DRAMATIC 'y 1 ,-7 VXrSwVLI STORY OF , T-V-Tr- THE UNDER ( J HI r AXD UPPER I A W ?'C " WORLD .. ' DOUBLE vs THE 4 - " STAGE 1 6661 Man lnteret Great W-' STARTS -J TODAY I BILL RF m r. v s i as aw avaranw r w -v mm m : CAPTB" aTORt . NOW PLAYING Attend the Matinees and i Avoid Evrnins; Crowds! (Continued from page 1) several places. .Advices from Fort Myers were ? that three feet of water stood In ' the town of Everglades, county ! seat of Collier county and south western outpost, located about 20 ij miles east of Cape Romano where i the storm center passed this morn .? Ing. ' '- ' i Other Storms Traced Having predicted that the dls- " turbance now centered off the ! coast Is not of great intensity, the I weather bureau meteorologists : wc re also watching the , progress A of the other storms reported now 'i In the Caribbean. One storm, evi j; dently moderating, . was blowing r west or northwest from the Isle of v Pines off the Cuban coast, while the other disturbance has crossed ?... the windward islands and was cen tered In the vicinity of St. Lucia. , r Urgent calls for aid for more t than 50 families made destitute by the swelling floods of the Klsslm- .: mee river and Lake Okeechobee : ij were received by tho Palm Beach ll county chapter of the Red Cross .. late today In messages from tho i: inundated area, -! ; " s-- V First attempts of the local Red Cross tond reUef to the flood ed territory were futile, when they :i were . turned hack by Impassable .. roads. The party then returned to rs west Palm Beach and left, for Fort rj" Pierce In an attempt to enter the i area over another route. Tr Tf agricultural experiment ) station la Hawaii has bees expert V menting with,. various crops to de termlne one that can take the . place of pineapples or-sugar-cane In the event of the failure of these fj two crops.'- Present indications point to edible canna asthe log- ' leal.: snccessor,. : - . -Av."" i Street Angel" Win transport yow. to the 7th. Heaven of Delight' .... ,t; Gloriously . accompanied by the RoxyN.-Y. Theatre Or chestra of -12 Mnslcians. , r Freeented on Movtetone A FAXXIE HURST STORY VIVIDLY BROUGHT TO THE v 8CREEX . Directed by the Man Who Made The Patent Leather Kid" v ALFRED SANTELL , Every kind of love la this thrill-packed - dram. The eternal - mother-love. The love of brother for brother. The glorious sweetheart lore and the Jealous love of two boys for the same glrL "Our Dick" blead them J1 into one ulglitT drsuouk ; It's so ' reaL so life-like, you'll for fet you're seeing s moving picture. ' " GREATER MOVIE SEASON STARTS AUGUST 19TH. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug, 13. (AP) A petition that the pro posed cross-state -line he construc ted between Burns and Prlne ville instead of between Crane and Crescent Lake was presented at today's session of tho Interstate eommsree commission's hearing, stitute a route for lntermountain on the original petition of the and transcontlneptal traffic with pablie service commission of Ore-! better grades than the Oregon - gon asking for an order directing an Oregon carrier to build . the road.. . : -v v.;.----Prlnevtlle was represented by Attorney L. M. Bechten who pre-; w uuiq(iod present una over the Blue mountains and would be through territory potentially cap able of developing trafflo the en tire distance, which would not be sented as witnesses, C W. Wood-' xteaslon 1 ruff, manager of the PrlnevtUel municipal railroad; W. B. Tuck-. A Massachusetts woman madt r. Crook coanty agricultural ag- a hole-In-one. played the coura at. I again and made the same hole-in- Mr. Bechtell said the route pro-lone. Maybe Amelia Earhart didn't posed by Prinevllle would con- do so much after all. Ameiri,afs GoDdl Co uid dip it A School QNE THOUSAND positions! Preferred positions by hundreds, in banks, big business establishments, lumbering concerns, public utilities, preferred positions in industrial, professional and sales lines opportunity for RAPID PROMOTION with shipping companies, importers, exporters, wonderful chances to WIN the splendid rewards that business so willingly pays for TRAINED MINDS and ABILITY made keen BY BUSINESS EDUCATION! None save Behnke-Walker could do it -none save Behnke-Walker is doing it! None save a great institution of its char acter can do it! But hundreds and hundreds of prominent business execu tives are demanding more of us.. Year in and year out there are far more calls for. Behnke-Walker graduates than we are able to filL Business leaders want winners and they look to Behnke Walker to produce them. Last year for example with 1000 positions filled we still were compelled to leave several hun dred openings unfilled. Demand as usual ;was far ahead of supply I " The same situation has obtained year after year. While the untrained vainly seek for work or take whatever they can get the ambitious, far seeing young men and women spend a few months at Behnke-Walker and from this national ly famous institution step into positions TRAINED for RAPID PROMOTION and for LEADERSHIP. As in everything else, there are vast dif ferences in the quality of training facili ties and services offered in the Business College Field.- The first thing a student learns is that "Shoddy lasts only long enough to disappoint the buyer". QUAL ITY alone endures, and quality is the foundation on which the college stands. Thai is Why Behnke-Walker is America's Gold Medal School That is Why Behnke-Walker students have won (and are winning) more awards in National Competitive Contests than those of any commercial school in the United States That is Why Behnke-Walker alone is able to fill 1000 preferred positions in a year That is Why Behnke-Walker is the ONLY business college in Oregon that occupies its own fireproof, specially built college building ThatisWhy Behnke-Walker provides MORE INDIVIDUAL instruction and maintains the largest faculty- 23 instructore each a specialist ThatisWhy Behnke-.Walker's equipment is by far the finest, most modern and most complete of any commercial school in its territory That is Why . . . . . . cr students are winners, and why this great insti tution attracts the kind of young men and women who will be winners For Larger Opportunities "gQgpgj Lm. walker. Confer with Them goa are interested in secur ing the larger opportunities md wish to train for the better positions, we cordially invite you to personally call on or write to either President . M. Walker or Principal George S. Johnson. Go over your quali fications with them; discuss your ideals, your ambitions They can and will help you In 'deciding one of the most vital questions of your life Your Choice of a Career I t , ' - A CTORCT aJQKNSOat "Golden Opportuniti People" points out the Tarious ways success in life is won. : - Send for your copytoday it is yours without charge - Fall Classes are Now Starting Night School Begins Sept. 4 HUOi-. ELEVENTH AND ELEVENTH AND SALMON STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON BEacon 3138 AMERICA'S GOLD MEDAL SCHOOL y -rT-rr-, - J