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; . OPPORTUNITY - !fow la yew chance to get the ;New freeman and the Ami weather" m tf il K Fair today, wit gentle rortlaad Telecram deUrercd to year home at small cost. iviMMo wiaos; humidity ormal. Max. teptMira Tuweday 7; Mia. 44; river Subscribe today. "No Fever Svsays Us; Ilo Fea Shdl Aae" Zr&FX'ZZ . i ... . . i - I SEVENTY-EIG&TH YEAR FIRE DESTROYS E Mre City Aroused As Sky Is Illuminated By Glow of names Spread' of Blaze Prevented By Desperate Work of Department v .' ?-J Fire of undetermined origin B WAR ON COTTAGE ST early today destroyed the ware l bouse ol the Drager Fruit com- r. . . w -.a a a v r f pany. at uw BBiii-fc w Trade and Cottage street, spread of th blase to the property of the I Willamette Grocery company," di rectly across the street, being pre- vented by desperate worn on me f lrt of the Salem tire department. The alarm was tamed in by the l til,ht.itihmin of the, Rvan Fruit comoanv 1 diartmally across the street from the Drager warehouse t 1:15 a, m., and within an in credibly short time the entire building was a mass of flames. ! Although the hour was late the Illumination was so bright that residents in many sections of the city were 'aroused and a crowd of seven or eight hundred quickly gathered. ""iGrooery Warehouse Saved Z m nova it was icru ium it X ... a. .v.. I. TA TVIe Impossible to sare the Drager their attention to preventing spread of the fire to the Willam ette Grocery structure, which ap peared almost certain to burn. Several lines of hose deluged the building with water, with the result ' that danger of the flames spreading was obviated. A car-load of matches, standing on a siding at the grocery com pany's property was moved just in time to prevent a terrific explos ion. It was estimated that the damage amounted to more than 110,000. This was tbe second fire at this location within six weeks and it . was said that It was the third oc curring there in the past few years. - Entire City Aroused Within a few minutes after the discovery of the fire the entire city seemed to nave awakened to the fact that there was a big blase in the downtown section. Telephone inquiries poured into the offices of the New Statesman in a constant stream, keeping the I staff busy answering anxious in fIiries from persons awakened by Jr lie glare that spread over the en- lfcjlre heavens. ffThe fire was apaprently under i control by 2 a. m. The contents H of the Drager warehouse, a total id loss was said to consist of dried prunes and loganberries. PARTS OF MISSING PLANE DISCOVERED SEATTLE, Aug. 28. (AP) Pieces of airplane UDholsterv and f several tourist postcards, suppos edly rrom the British Columbia airways plane which disappeared Saturday morning with six persons were picked up on the beach sev eral miles southwest of here to day. Lieutenant Commander L. L. Bennett, directing the coast guard search of the missine mononlane tonight declared he was satisfied : mat the fragments of upholstery were' from the giant passens-er ship. He ordered the uurrh r. Sjiewed in Port Discover whsnt ' the articles were picked up by i Oeorge A. Smith, fire warden and fcr. E. E. Gleason. retired dentist. vZ-jjW'Ub the pieces of upholstery !V fTwere several fragments of felt Snjedto insulate the body of the I fltae from the engine. . 1203 New Subscribers - - - New Statesman Has Added 199 New Paid Subscribers to an Already Rapidly Growing List in the First Two Days of This Week. , Statesman Grow.v'L 5 There is no longer any doubt that the ex traordinary growth of the new Statesman is on the solid basis of popularity among readers. This week, interest has been more than erer keen, with the result that virtually 200 new names were added to the subscrip-' tion list in only two days. 7 i . A total of 1203 new readers hare' joined the Statesman family of subscribers since August 1. , Salem is interested in the new Statesman! Headers by the hundreds are joining in the rush to get n the subscription. lists! This astounding gain, which is winning attention over the entire Pacific coast, is a wonderful tribute to Salem's clean, constructive, pro gressire newspaper. ' North Salem Sewer Found Real Menace Pouring sewage upon the bank jot the Willamette river 30 feet (from the water's edge to let It flow the whole, distance and then float idly upon stagnant water, the North Salem sewer is in worse condition than either of the oth ers ever was. This was brought out yesterday by means of a personal inepection authorized by the local firm of Cupper, Simpson and Cooper, which is drawing up plans for Sa lem's new sewage disposal system. This firm was employed by the city shortly after the June elec tion last year, when 1400.000 in bonds was. voted for a new sewer system. A thorough inspection was made yesterday after an article had been printed in the. New Statesman describing the putrid aroma that at (present is rising constantly from the mouth of two of Salem's sewer lines. . Near Heart of City The Center street sewer, the mouth of which just meets the river surface, would be less - ob jectionable, Percy Cupper assert ed, except for the fact that it Is only a few blocks from the center of the city. The North Salem line empties upon the river bank at about Hickory street, which Is practically at the northern edge of Salem. The Hickory street sewer flows into the water at a point not af fected by the river current, being protected by a peninsula that runs parallel with the river bank and creates a lagoon. Sewage has been flowing into this lagoon all summer. The plan evolved for a new sew age system for this city offers re lief within the next few years, but none for the time being. Under the plan a main trunk line would be installed along North Church street, which is lower than the immediate river bank. This would carry sewage from thy three pres ent sewer lines to a sewage dis posal plant near the north edge of town. , WASniVflTflW n t4 Inr 9t (AP) The shipping board to day approved the agreement of the trans-Pacific passenger con ference, with the headquarters in San Francisco, designed to cen tralize action and stabilize rates for the trans-Pacific transporta tion of passengers to and from Pacifie coast ports of the United States and Canada. The agreement fixed the com missions to be paid agents, the rales and conditions governing transportation of passengers and prohibits absorption of local .port- to-port fares, except between Seat tle and Vancouver in connection with third class and Asiatic steer age passengers. Provisions are made for re duced rates to missionaries, em ployees of railways and conference steamship lines, army and navy officials on the Orient, diplomatic and consular agents, theatrical parties, and large parties and families. Members of the conference are the American Mail Line, the Can adian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., uouar steamship Line, Los Ange les Steamship company. Mateon Navigation company, Nippon Yu- sen Kaisha, and the North Ger man Lloyd. Morrow Plans Brief Vacation MEXICO CITT. Aug. 28. (AP) United States Ambassador Dwight Morrow will spend a brief vacation early in September on a large ranch in the state of Coahu ila as the guest of its American owner, Hall Mangum. it was learn ed today. Watcb The SUP WW GIVES MIRK OF APPROVAL 40; ADDITIHL NATIONS ASKED Ton PACTS Kellogg Treaty Renouncing War Will Be Extended : To Wider Scope Total of 64 Countries Would Be Affected If Ail Enter Treaties BELGRADE," Jugo-Slavla, Aug. 28. (AP). Jugo-Slavla today bad the distinction of being the first' nation outside of the .origin al IS signatories of the Kellogg Briand pact to sign the treaty. Foreign Minister Marinkovitch signed the pact just six hours af ter receiving the official invita tion to do so and after a short ministerial conference. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (AP) The, Kellogg treaty re nounelng war as a national policy was placed today before forty, eight other nations by American diplomatic representatives for the consideration and approval ' of those governments. Russia is be ing invited by France to join. Adherence by all of these na tions would make the treaty ef fective between 4 nations, and thereby practically universal as was contemplated by .secretary Kellokk throughout the negotia tions. Already a number of the governments have Indicated in formally that they are prepared to participate In the treaty. Complete. List Glvem In addition to Russia, the roll call of the nations invited today follows: Albania. Afghanistan. Argenti na, Austria, Bolivia. Brasil. Bul garia, Chile. China. Colombia, Cos. ta Rica. Cuba. Denmark. Domini, can Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Es tonia. Ethiopia, Finland. Greece, Guatemala, Haiti. Honduras, Hun. gary. Iceland, Latvia. Liberia, Lithuania, Luxemberg. , Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua. Norway, Panama. Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal. Begging Will Be "Done Away With r "For Jerusalem JERUSALEM. Aur. 28 (Jew. ish Telegraphic Agency) Beg ging In the holy city will shortly be prohibited by the Palestine gov. ernment. It was stated today on good authority. An ordinance to this effect will be promulgated in a few days. Thi ordinance, when promul gated, will remove from the wail ing wall the sight of many old Jewish beggars who frequently are Associated in the minds of the tourists with Jerusalem scenes. A meting of the council of the Jerusalem Jewish community was called to outline a plan to provide maintenance for the poor wno sained their dailv bread by beg ging. It was stated that the group of beggars would number one thousand. Valuable Pearl Necklace Stolen SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. T-. Aug. 2S.-(AP) A necklace of mi assorted nearls. valued at $100,000 and belonging to Mrs. Jerome Louchelm of Philadelphia. was reported as missing or sioien to police here today. Mrs. Louch elm wore tbe pearls to a night club and bad them while there, she told police, but found them missing when she reached home. Mrs. Louchelm said she was driven to and from the club in a private au tomobile. . Cabinet Member Shoots Perfectly ' j . SUPERIOR. Wis.. Aug. 22. (AP) Roy O. West, newly ap pointed secretary of itnerlor. es tablished a real trap shooting rec ord today He scored 100 per cent in a competition with President Coolidge. But Secretary West was extremely modest about IL "You see," he said, "I only shot ones. It hit the darn thing so I thought I'd better call it a day. I didn't want to Impair my amateur stand ing." -, " Marines Rout 40 Sandino Troops MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Aug. 28. -(APIA patrol f Unttedl States - Marines under Captain George P. Stockees, of San Diego, Calif., today routed a group of 40 Sandinistas headed by Miguel Aa- gel Ortex. near Macuellsot In the western part of the .province of NuevaSegoria, Towji ln Siberia - Swept By Storm iinsCOW. lux 28.IAP) - The town ot Zera, in eastern Si beria, has been, devastated by a hurricane followed by floods, ac cord in g - to . dispatches ' ' received here today. fUver steamers have been sent from - Blagovyeschensk with help for the inhabitants who Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning, August 29, 1928 What They TWnkJDf . Boys end Girls of 70 day, That Ways, Morels, Etc, A FAVORITE topic of J vermtioa awomg older Potbom ' these days, in every q warier of America, is tbe so-called "TvoBger fteseratioa sotaesinaes derisively referred to as flaralns yovth. Opinions as to the ultimate goal or ob jective of the 1028-model flap per and her boy friend are widely divergent. In Us search for composite opinion on this saost engrossing sabject the Hew Oregoa Statesman laid the qaesttoa before several persoas la Salem Tuesday. This is how they look at it: NEWTON 8. SMITH, man ager of the Gray Belle, said : The younger generation seem all right to me. They are not like the boys and girls of my time, but you must remember that times have changed. These young folks do things snd talk about things that were taboo to their parents at their age, but the youngsters are, if anything, cleaner minded than the gen eration which went before them. They are just direct, honest and unaffected. I like 'em that way, myself. More over. I think they will average up physically better than their fathers and mothers did. Tbe world moves and nature bal ances her books. I'm not old fogy enough to think only the old ways were good ways. I'm for the younger generation." 1 MRS. FRED A. ERTJCON, 1C9C State street said: "I'm strong for the young people. I've worked with them for many years, and I think the young people today are just as fine as those of my generation. Theyhave greater opportuni ties, especially for education; these opportunities give greater chance for temptation, but those who survive will be the stronger for It. When young people nowadays go wrong, it usually Is because their parents don't set them a good example. Ton can't turn them out for the world to raise and expect, them to be perfect." C. C. DETER, manager of the Ambassador . apartments,, is sure ihe younger, generation Is wilder today than it has ever bMn and rettlnr wilder, but be isn't worried about the future. -There Is bound to be a limit and- then will come a change for the better," he said. "Most of the young people settle down eventually and seem to suffer little for their past rashness. There is no question that the young people who are held down by their parents are worse when that restraint is re moved, than those who have al ways had a reasonable .amount of freedom." DR. CHARLES L. - SHER MAN, bead of the psychology and philosophy department at Willamette university and au thor of "The Moral Self," is confident that the youth of to day is no worse than the youth of any previous age. "If they seem a little wild, greater op portunity is the explanation." he said. "The prevailing phi losophy of today, realism, has no bearing on the young peo ple's behavior, and it is not due to a decline of religion. Cha racter has never been based on formal religion, which Is los ing ground. Real religion is not disappearing." DON H. UPJOHN, well known local gladiolus grower and writer, said: "The young er generation is much better than tbe older generation was In Its prime. I can't see where they get all this talk about the youth of today going to the dogs. When I was a boy we were a lot worse than the kids are today." " GEORGE O. CHABOT, night clerk at the New Salem hotel, cannot see much hope for some of the younger people. He said : "I think the younger generation' Is getting weaker and weaker; there is too much temptation in their way. If the use of liquor among them con tinues as it has been and is. it seems to . me they will have no brains left. : I believe the con dition i Is largely the parents' fault; if mothers and fathers would devote more time to their children and take them out to shows and dances. " conditions would be different, tThere is too "much levity. I have spent 28 years la the hotel -business, and I have seen both sides." Borah Brands L ; . Bourbon Claim As :Ridiculous SPOKANE. Aug. '2 (AP)- In M statement here' tonight Sena tor William B. Borah of Idaho tamped as "absurd" the predic tion of John J. Raskob. chairman of the' democratic national " com. mlttee, that Governor Alfred Smith would receive -3 OS of the S3 1 electoral votes for president. Senatot-Borah left Spokane to night for tbe middle west where be has speaklag engagements In Hliaols and Michigan. Lli COUNTY REPUBLICANS HEAR HAWLEY Smith Is Called Bolter From ; Democratic Party By : Oregon Orator Enthusiastic Gathering Hear Prominent Men Present Case For Hoover ALBANY, Ore.. Aug. 28. (Special) Democrats have every right to bolt their party In the coming presidential election, for their candidate, AI Smith, has bolted the democratic party plat form, Willis, C.Hawley, congress man from the first Oregon district told-a large audience at a meeting here tonight sponsored by the Linn county republican central committee. Herbert Hoover, the republican candidate, is standing firmly on the party's platform, and accepted the nomination on that basis, Mr. Hawley added. Ralph Williams Speaks Ralph Williams, national com mitteeman from Oregon, was an- I othec speaker. "Herbert Hoover was nominated by the people and not by the delegates," he declar ed. "The delegates and the repub lican machine did not favor Hoo ver's nomination but were forced to accept him because of public pressure." Tbe true story of Hoover's re fusal to pose for movie camera men while fishing on Rogue river was disclosed by Phil Metschan, chairman of the state republican central committee. Mr. Hoover bad been having poor success as an angler. One of his companions caught a big trout, and handed his pole, with the fish dangling from it, to the presiden tial candidate, suggesting that he pose for the cameramen with this fish. Mr. Hoover refused, saying: "That isn't the way I have ever conducted my business." Was Not Discourteous This occurrence, said Mr. Mets chan. is what gave rise to the story that Hoover treated the cam eramen discourteously. Other speakers included Gover nor Patterson, Jack Day, chairman ot the Multnomah county central committee; Chairman Tripp of the Linn county central committee; Carl Sochs and Percy Young-, Al bany men who were classmates of Herbert Hoover at Stanford uni versity; and Dr. Booth of Leb anon, of the district congressional committee. ELKS CONVENTION ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 28 (AP) Members of the Elks lodge from cities in ail sections of Orn are beginning to assemble here for the annual state conventon of the or der to be held here Wednesday to Saturday of this week. The city Is bedecked with bunt ing and flags. The Astoria lodge has made extensive preparations for the entertainment of the thousands of visitors expected. Sessions will begin Wednesday night with a big initiation cere mony. Races, boat trips, dances banquets and other sala events are to be staged on succeeding days. Railroad Strike To Be Fixed Up, Announcement WASHINGTON, Aug, 28 (AP) Differences between west ern railroads and employes or ganized in the -.Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and tbe order of Railway Conductors are ex pected to be reconciled by an agreement announced here today by the United States board of mediation, which has been dis cussing the questions at issue with representatives or both groups since July 22. . . The proposed settlement, de tails of which can not yet be made public under the law, must be ratified by the Association of Gen eral Committees on behalf ot the railway employes before It goes Into effect A. P. Whitney, presi dent of the Brotherhood of Rail, road Trainmen, will present Jt to the association at a meeting In the midwest in the near future. He signed it for bis organisation, and E. Pj Curtis simed it as presi dent for the order of Railway Con. doctors.-. " Albiris Hat Now Cast Into Ring . C. E...AlbIn. former Salem mayor, has been added to the list if possible candidates to fill .the tiftn ward vacancy on the ' city ouacil created by the resigna tion of George W. Thompson, ac cording te reports current ..Tues day. Friends of Mr. Alb in were said ; to be , circulating r petition! asking his election by the conn, ell. Petitions favoring Kenneth L. Randall ' had heea la circula tion previously, and some mention has been made of David O'Hara, one of the nominees for the two IT ASTORIA US year term from this ward- Rides Far to 't Boyd Jones, 14 years old, rode horseback, 1,800 miles to see President Ooolidge at Superior and extend to him the invitation of Gov. R, C Dillon of New Mexico to attend the eighth f Indian ceremonial at Gallop, N. M. E UPON PEACE TREATY ROME. Aug. 28 (AP) Sig nature of the Kellogg Pact does not mark the end of war but does mark the beginning of a conscious ness that "war is not only damage but a crime," the newspaper Ser. vatore Romano, - official Vatican organ, declared in an editorial to night. Citing Mr. Kellogg's statement that "peace is for all." the news paper declared "the axiom comes from the very place where Presi dent Monroe uttered another one of division and isolation, "Ameri ca for the' Americans." Continuing the newspaper says: "At Paris the Kellogg Pact says that peace is for all the worldand the signature of the United States beside those of the other powers bears witness that no paricular interest, be it even so great as a continent; can prevail over the universal interest in peace." The Vatican organ laments that the principles of Pope Benedict's plea of August. 1917. to tne belligerents of the World war bas taken eleven years "to get to the quai d'orsay." but finds in the pact and M. Briand's speech the "identical concept and the same words." It scores the cynicism shown by some sections of the Italian press and while admitting that the treaty still is only a dec laration of principles, "even pla tonic," says that the 27th of Aug ust will be a "fruitful day in hu man history." NOT TO BE PISSED BOSTON. Aue. 28 (AP) A prosecution for blasphemy, the second in mpre , than a ceniury nnrier an ancient Massachusetts statute, was halted today when Judge Murray in municipal coun recalled a warrant in which Dr. WrtYa M Kallen. nhilosopher and former Harvard lecturer, was charged with the offense. The action of the Judge was taken after a conference attended by representatives of the Boston police and -others interested in The warrant was based on a speech delivered oy Dr. KaU len at a Sacco-vanxetu memorial mMiinr lRt Thursday in which he said: "If Sacco and Vansetti were anarcuisio, cai . - an anarchist." It was announced that the warrant had been re called pending a further study of the statute in relation to me wnrdn complained of. but the gen eral view in police circles was that no further action would oe taken. Ritchie King Is Returned Victor In Portland Go - PORTLAND. Ore.. Jlug. 28: (AP). Ritchie King. Seattle lightweight, stopped Kewpie ROey of Vancouver, Wash., In .the fourth round of what was to have been a ten round bout here to nigh t. King had his opponent on tbe floor four times In the four rounds 'before the fight was fin. ally stopped. He dropped . him twice in the fourth and both times Riley got up at the const of nine. After the second knockdown i the referee stepped in and stopped rt, Jn the v preliminaries . Touag Sam Laa gfoTdVSeatUe. lightweight took a six round decision overEd-i die Graham of Salem; Fernandez Gonsales. . Chicago bamwelght, won in stx rounds over Billy Rob bins. Portland and Johnny Wood; Seattle lightweight, decisioned Johnny Case beer, Spokane, la six rounds. ---,; MM BLASPHEMY CHARGE - See President SJLEM HHIES GOING FUEL SPEED The Hunt cannery is packing as high as 80 tons of pears a day, besides a considerable tonnage of evergreen blackberries. The only reason more pears are not going through is because no more room can be found for the operatives. It takes more work ers to get a ton of pears into the cans than it does to dispose of the earlier fruits. The Hunt cannery is working about 850 now. Next week will come the can ning of prunes in volume, and then will follow the second peak load of the year for the Salem canneries. The first was at the height of the strawberry, logan berry, raspberry and cherry sea sons. . j It is likely that a" considerable number of persons above the 3000 who are now employed will be working in the Salem canneries at the height of prune canning, for pear canning will last throughout the prune packing season. " Blaze Fatal to Entire Family, Toronto, Canada TORONTO. Aug. 28 (APi A father, a monther and . three of their four children lost hteir lives early today In a fire that trapped them in their third flood home. The dead are Joseph Klianman, 39; his wife. 37;' Sydney 3: Sadie, 14; and Benjamin. 5. The last two were takne from the fire alive but died in a hospital. Another child, seven-year-old Morris, Is not expected to recover. Klianman's body was found cov ering the little forms of Benjamin and Morris, while In Mrs. Kliap man's arms was tbe body of her baby. Police were investigating a story told by Sadie before her death that her father had received threats of harm to himself and family. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. Farmer Who Shot Thief Is Indicted VALE, Ore Aug. 28 --AP) The grand jury today indicted J. M. Wallace, 70, a farmer living near Nyssa, In connection with the death of Robert Gray, 19. in Wallace's watermelon patch -Friday night. A coroner's jury found Wallace guilty of the death. A 1 hearing will be bad Thursday at 11a.m. Plan for Changing Form Of City Government May -Not Go Before Citizena The. committee firrp posed of one member from each of Salem's service clubs, . selected -to sld - tbe ordinance committee of the ; city council in perfecting the proposed charter embodying the council manager plan, held iu first meet ing Monday night. , : .t -Beyond electing Dr. George H. Alden chairman, little was done at this meeting. It was left te Dr. Alden to call another meet ing , at such , time as seemed ad visable. .U'J... S.' v The chairman , stated --Tuesday that the committee's plans are in definite at this time, ! and that there is a possibility that no ;ef fort will be made to: place .the charter, before the voters : in Nor venrber. . ...- -s t. ? Xaek of unanimity among the members of the- committee upon the issue of electing. the council at . large or retaining tbe ward system ' was v noticeable at : the meeting Monday night. : Newell Williams of the Lions club, Mas . Pact el the Rotary PRICE FIVE CENTS IGIRLS STORV HS ROBBER BEHIND BAR!) Frank Kodat Goes to Eugene To Face Charge Of Burglary There Delia Hand Says Prisoner Is One Of Gang Which Blew Safe Here When tbe lonr arm of the law ' plucked Prank Kodat from a card room in Portland TuMdav an4 placed him in a cell In the Lane county jail, the arrest came as the aftermath of di nf th mnat daring and baffling series ot Durgianes. roDDeries and murders- in the historv of the Pacific nnrt fe west, touching many cities of Ore. gon ana Washington and includ ing Salem in its meshes. Kodat arrest was the direct result of a "snitch" bv Delia nr- nlce Hand, 18, now confined la tne recelvlnr ward of the Hrrcon hospital for the insane. Kodat speciflcallv is charred with thm robbery of the Washburn depart ment store In Eugene last winter wnen 11547 in cash. 84000 in dav monds and other things were stol en. He is said to have been on of the leaders of the gang which blew the safe or the Capitol the, tre here in February of this year, taking therefrom about $500 4a silrer and currency and jewelry which had belonged to Fra&h Bllgh's father and worth approxi mately another $100. The bur glars also took the "strong box" in the safe, in which was about 82.000 more, but abandoned it oa the stage of the theatre w.hea they heard the janitor arrive for his morning work. The arrest was made hv Shrff Taylor and Deputy Sheriff Fran jioDeris of une county, and Beet Love and H. Christofferson, dep uty sheriffs. of Multnomah coun ty, at the Thomas Coleman pool hall and card room on Everest street, just before noon. Tae pnsoner passea tnrough Salem lor Eugene two hours later. Besides implicating Kodat in the Washburne store robbery the woman identified photographs of '.'Dutch" Pete Stroff, William, (Turn to page 7, please) Ell COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Aug. 28. (AP) Reindeer hunters have joined the parties searching the interior of Greenland for Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, tbe Rockford-to-Stockholm fliers. It was made knwn today. The hunt ers will search in the remote mountain regions and explore tbe shore cliffs for traces of tbe air men. The Danish explorer Knus Rs- buseen is searching the fjords in the vicinity where a plane believ- ed to be the . Greater Rockford was reported sighted last week and motor boat parties are pro ceeding along tbe coast. Pringle Creek Inquiry Sought Investigation of the conditlm on Pringle creek caused by the alleged poisoning or the fish by dye materials has been asked by Fred A. Williams, city attorney, and Dr. Estelle Ford Warner, hi charge of the city health office iu the absence of the health offices. Dr. Vernon A. Douslas. and kit deputy. Dr. William DeKlelae. Batty Cooper, city sanitation of ficer, and J. E. Blinkhorn, sanita tion expert with the health de partment, will make the investi gation. It was renorted to tbji city attorney snd to the health demonstration that the decay nsn were cresting a stence and were a menace to health. REINDEER SEEKING club and Raymond Bassett of the American Legion, all favored re tention of ward representation oa the. council, and after some : dis cussion of this feature the meet- . ing was adjourned. ' Mr. . Page said farther that the hub of the whole question is le gality of tbe charter and the nec essity for safeguarding ths cltyV bonded Indebtedness. This is . a . matter on which expert bond at torneys only are competent to, pass judgment, he declared, u4. there is, not sufficient - time te -' malntng to draft a clause which will safeguard these existing char ter amendments : -and obtain an opinion from tbe bond attorneys. , : Only nine days remain In which to revise the charter and file at for preparation of a ballot title, either through resolution ot the . city council or by iVtiaUve peti- ' tion. Charter amendments meat -be filed days before the eiea- tion.' this being a provision v beta of the state law and of the pi ent Salem charter. --