IT PAYS!
Where Ls the contributor
to a Christmas cheer fund
who regrets his gift? There's
nary a one. It pays to be
generous!
WEATHER ,
Generally cloudy today;:
Occasional rains; Southerly
winds. Max. temperature
Saturday 40; Mln. 40; Rain
.87; liiver 0.6.
No Favor Sways Us; No Fear ShaU Awe"
SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, December SO, 1928
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PLANE TO TAKE
OFF UPON 1
TESTIf SOII
"Questionmark" Expected to
Remain in Air More Than
Entire Week
Endurance Test to be Begun
Tuesday Morning; World
Record Sought
SAN DIEGO, Calif.. Dee, 29.
(AP) The big monoplane "Que
tlonraark" and the two planes
which will carry fuel to it dur
ing its attempted world's record
endurance flight, tonight were
ready- for the takeoff Tuesday
morning.
Rockwell field has been a busy
place since the big plane arrived
from Washington. Motors have
been changed, test flights have
been conducted, and every possible
contingency has been forseen an:
planned against.
Seven contacts between the
"Questionmark" and the refuelinc
ships or "nurses" as they call them
at Rockwell field, were made to
day. About 150 gallons of gasoline
were transferred to the 'Question
mark." after two false starts,
when air pockets formed in the
long hose.
First use-was made of the "fly
ing blackboards' " small pursuit
planes, with the black painted
fuselages. On the black surfaces,
messages are written in chalk for
the information of the men In th-?
big plane. .
Plan Wins
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Major Chester P. Mills, of New
York, former federal prohibition
administrator for the New York
district, is the winner of the 925,.
OOO prize offered by W. C. Dur.
ant for the best and most prac
ticable plan for making the eigh
teenth amendment -effective. The
plan deals with the prevention of
the diversion of industrial alco
hol, which, says Mills, is the chief
source of the bootlegger.
MPnOHITS
Mil BUR ASKS
AUTO LEGISLATION
Provision lo Aid Litigation
Against Out-of-State .
Drivers Sou eh t
TO
EXCEED S2.400.000
Building Figures Lower Than
1927 But Much Public
Work Completed
NEGRO
SLAYER
i
KIDNAPER
SURROUNDED
Posses Send in Call for 200
Men as Reinforcements;
. Search Ends
Abducted Girl Returns Home
After Being Locked in
Cabin All Night
CLARKSDALE, Miss.. Dec. 29.
(AP) A call for 200 addition
al men was received here late to
night from posses seeking Charles
Shepherd, escaped negro convict.
Officers here were informed that
a negro believed to be Shepherd
had been surrounded near Pare fa
man prison farm, where the ne
gro was alleged to have killed a
guard and kidnaped his daughter.
Changes in Oregon statutes to
facilitate litigation against auto
drivers from outside the state,
will be urged upon the 1929 leg
islature by the Marion county bar
association. The bar association
Saturday appointed a committee,
headed by Don Miles,' local attor
ney to draw up recommendations
for a bill.
The objection raised to present
laws I3 that drivers from outside
the state can do damage to ma
chines or other property In Ore
gon, and get away before their
cars can be attached in a damage
anion. In the case of a damage
at tion no attachment can be made
until-judgment is obtained, which
" takes a certain specified length of
time even when the case goes by
default.
If the bill recommended by the
local association should become a
law, a foreign car could be at
tached at the time action is be
gun, Just as attachment can ac
company action on a contract un
der the present statutes.
A method of obtaining service
through the secretary of state will
also be requested.
President Doney of Willamette
university gave a talk on the use
of English.
Youths Attempt
To Scare Wife
Of Rich Banker
SANTA ROSA. Cal.. Dec. 29.
(AP) Wilbert Dixon, 15, and
Edward Crane, 16. were in cus
tody here tonight after authorities
had traced a "terrorist" telephone
message received by Mrs. Joseph
T. Grace, wife of a local banker,
to the home of Dixon's father.
Both boys, police said, admitted
placing the call but declared it
was only a "boyish prank." Last
Apric, Mr. Grace, vice president of
the local branch of the bank of
Italy, received anonymous notes
demanding that he pay $25,000 or
face death and the destruction of
his home.
Salem is more than 2, 400,000
richer in improvements, public
and private, at the end of 192S
than it was at the beginning, ac
cording to figures made public
Saturday.
Building permits will fall con
siderably short of the 1927 mark
of $2,626,427 and the record of
$2,904,104 established in 192C.
The total up to Saturday for this
year was $1,591,993.
But in estimating total im
provements, the public expendi
tures must be taken into consid
eration, and these, according to
City Recorder Mark Poulsen, will
amount to over $800,000.
This year 120 blocks ot pave
ment have been laid, at a costjof
approximately $2000 a block, so
that the value of new street Im
provements to be paid for by in
dividual property owners under
the Bancroft bonding plan is
$240,000.
The city used all of the two spe
cial 2-mill levies, which amounted
to $30,000 each; the one for
street improvements and repair
and the other for fire fighting
equipment. In addition, the coun
ty paving plant resurfaced streets
at a cost of $14,000, to be paid
for next year out of the two mill
levy for street work. Some side
walk work was also done but not
enough to raise the total ma
terially.
The major public improvements
for 1928 were the sewer and
bridge construction programs, in
which $300,000 was expended oa
drainage and sanitary sewers and
1200.000 on the bridges so far
built.
PARCHMAN, Miss., Dec. 29.
(AP) Return of Miss Ruth Du
vall, 18, abducted early Friday by
a negro convict, spurred .posses
tonight to renewed vigor In their
search for Charley Shepherd, 41,
trusty at the state prison farm,
who is wanted also for the mur
der of the girl's father, J. D. Du-
vall, carpenter sergeant at the
prison farm.
"At leat 100 men distributed
among a number of groups,
searched a wide area for the ne
gro, who forced the young woman
at rifle point to leave her home
on the prison farm with him and
made her walk barefooted
throughout Friday.
Girl Tells of Being
Kept In Negro Cabin
Miss Duvall said today when
she reached a convict camp about
six miles from her home, that
Shepherd late last night pointed
out a negro cabin and told her to
stay there or he would kill her
She remained in the cabin until
this morning, when, with the aid
of a negro woman who lived
nearby she made her way to camp.
The young woman said Shep
herd entered her room early Fri
day morning, choked her and told
her to get up as he was going to
take her with him. She partly
dressed and then asked permis
sion to get a drink of water. In
stead she wert to her father's
room and, not finding him there,
she screamed. Then she ran into
the back yard and screamed again.
Shepherd followed and choked
her, Bhe paid, and threatened her
with death If she did not remain
quiet. Her father, he told her,
had gone to the "cage," where he
said some negroes were trying to
escape. They left through the
front door and wandered through
thickets from about 2 a. m. Fri
day until 10 o'clock that night.
Then, after warning her not to
leave the cabin the negro left and
she did not see him again.
Remarkable Ideas
For Enforcement
Of Law Outlined
Unique Methods of Punish
ment for Prohibition Vi
olators Described
NEW YORK, Dec. 29. (AP)
Tortures varying from a dose
of castor oil to exile on St. Hel
ena and electrocution were recom
mended for liquor law violators
by contestants in the W. C. Dur
ant $25,000 dry enforcement
competition.
In disclosing some of the cruel
and unusual punishments suggest
ed to curb the illicit sway of John
Barleycorn, the Durant commit
names. tee today guarded the authors'
One contestant urged that
liquor law violators should be
"hung by the tongue on an air
plane and carried over the Unit
ed States," while a woman sug
gested government distribution of
poisoned liquor through bootleg,
gers. "Only a few hundred thou
sand persons would die," she
wrote, "and It would be worth it
to get prohibition enforced."
Other solutions for the prohi
bition enforcement problem were
"a city-high wall about any man
found drinking and a "sea
sick" machine for drinkers and
bootleggers. Flogging, hanging
and .electrocution were frequently
urged.
One contestant, on the other
hand, proposed that liquor be dis
tributed free so that there would
be "no lure left."
GITlf OFFICIALS
NTERESTED
ITER
Dreams of Countess Broken
Purification, Not Source, is
Issue, Mayor Livesley
Gives Opinion
Problem Will be Taken Up at
Chamber of Commerce
Luncheon Monday
HI
GIRLS TO BE TAUGHT
Coshow to Assume
Supreme Court's
Highest Position
O. P. Coshow will become chief
Justice of the state supreme court
next Wednesday, according to an
notincement made by the clerk of
the court. He will succeed Chief
Justice Rand and will serve for a
period of two years. Justice Cos
how is a democrat and originally
was appointed Justice of the su-
nrcme court by Governor Pierce
The records show that Justice
Coshow is the first democrat who
haa succeeded to the office of
chief Justcie of the supreme court
since 1878. In that year Justice
p PS Prim, democrat, served as
chief Justice of the court.
Twenty Millions Spent on
State Highways, Report on
Fund Shows, in Two Years
Tl.e state highway fund ex-T-eneled
during the two years 1927
and 1928. including cooperative
county payments, but excluding
market roads. $20,531,687.18, ac
cording to the biennial report of
Ihe state highway commission
completed here Saturday.
.State funds included in the ag
negate expenditures totalled $17.-
449,814.70. county funds $1,30Z.:
305.17. miscellaneous sources.
185.605.47 and federal aid $1,-
693.961.84.
Of the state funds $6,599,2.76 -f6
was used for the payment of
principal and Interest on the
bonded. Indebtedness; Approxi
mately $250,943.85 of state fundf
was expended for forest highways
to which was added $160,266.1$ of
connty cooperative funds and gov
ernment forest highway funds of
$i82,789.12, making a total forest
highway expenditure on state high
ways ot 1993,888.12. Forest high
way funds are expended under the
supervision of the United States
fenreair of public roads and the fed
' aral and county funds do not pass
hroi:rh the state highway fund,
(losing 12th Year
"The close of the year 1928.
read the report, "rounds out the
12th vear since the adoption of
the state highway plan and pro
gram of 1917. In that period high
way improvements have followed
each other In rapid succession In
all parts of the state until at the
present time on the state highway
system of 4368.3 miles. 3723.7
miles have been improved. Only
644.6 miles remain unimproved.
"The work done by the commis
sion to date consists of 729.3
miles of paving ot which 178.3
mile are of cement concrete pave
ment and 661 miles of bituminous
type. There are 107.6 miles of bit
uminous macadam. 1194.4 miles of
oiled macadam, 2347.1 miles of
road and gravel surfacing. 3921
miles of repaying, 453 miles of
resurfacing and 141.6 miles ot re-
grading.
"These figures do not Include
the forest roads on the state sys
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SCIENCE
0
SOUND SAID UNIQUE
Algebra and Geometry to be
Displaced Gradually,
Teachers Told
PORTLAND, Dec. 29. (AP)
Algebra and geometry as re
auired subjects for high school
girls in Oregon, will gradually
give way to a good course in busi
ness arithmetic, in the opinion of
J. L. Gary, principal of the Union
high school at West Linn. Prof
Gary addressed the Oregon Teach
ers' association at its convention
here today.
"If it is necessary that a boy
should know how to handle me
chanical tools." Mr. Garf declared.
"it ls just as essential that a girl
should know how to manage a
home.
"I beieve we will see the time
when home economics will be re
quired for every girl in every high
school In Oregon.
The teachers' convention ended
today with the installation of new
officers. Miss Julia A. Spooner,
Portland, was installed as presi
dent and R. R. Turner, of Dallas
vice president.
Pupils prefer patience above all
other qualities in their teachers,
said Dr. Thomas H. Gentle, pro
fessor of education at the uni
versity of Oregon. Humor, mas
tery of the subject and "ability to
sell the goods." were next in the
order given.
The curriculum of a school
should be regarded as a means
and not an end. Dr. Gentle said
"The successful teacher is not
bound by a set curriculum" he
said, "for she comes to know her
pupils and the psychology of pu
pil growth so well that she will
select examples of the world's wis
dom and greatest achievements
that will cause tnis mental pro
gress."
Inspection Job
Wanted by Many
Numerous applicants for the po
sition of, city building, plumbing
and .wiring inspector were making
personal calls on Mayor Livesley
to acquaint himywith their quali
fications for the job, the mayor
reported . Saturday. Several appli
cants in addition to those wnos
names' have already been before
the city council, have indicated
that they will make formal re
quest for appointment before the
first meeting of the new council
January .
Vibrations Obtained From
Magnetic Tuning Fork
Without Connections
Jly HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. (AP)
Sounds produced in a wholly new
way were listened to at the Am
erican physical society section of
the American association for the
advancement of science today.
First, in a perfectly normal
way, a magnetic tuning rorfc was
caused to sound a note of high
clear pitcht produced, y J600 vi
brations per second.
But some distance away, in the
same room, stood two other sound
modulators, unattached through
human, electrical or mechanical
means with the tunfng fork. No
impulse of any sort was given
these modulators. Yet when an
amplifier was attached to them.
two notes rosec lear and distinct,
almost musical, to fill the room.
They had been caused by the tun
ing fork sound.
The amazing fact was that these
two notes were not the same as
the tone from the tuning fork.
They were of lower pitch, and
each different from the other. One
was of a pitch of 700 vibrations
and the other of 900.
The explanation is that the
high pitched tone sets up certain
accompanying tones which are sep.
arated from it by fixed regular
intervals. The demonstration was
for the purpose of opening to phy
sicists a new method of investigat
ing one of the great discoveries of
1928, which is certain light waves
set up light of a different wave
length, or color, by a method
which seems to be almost exactly
analogous to what happens in
making of ghostly sound waves,
discovery Is known technically as
the Raman effect.
The demonstration was made
today by R. V. L. Hartley of the
Bell Telephone laboratories, New
York.
5 Arrested on
Liquor Charges
Saturday Night
Three men charged with poses-
sion of liquor were arrested by
Salem police Saturday night; S.
L. Swegle. 303 -South Winter
street; J. D. Crier, Woodburn, and
B. Peoples, Redmond, Wash. They
were also reported to have been
occupants of an automobile which
failed to stop after being Involved
in a collision on Ferry street Fri
day night with a car driven by R.
S. Johnson. Early Saturday morn
ing the car they had occupied,
was found abandoned on Bellevue
street.
State prohibition officers were
also active Saturday night, arrest
ing John P. Drascher and Bern
ard . C. Bunnemeyer at Monitor
on charges of selling liquor.
City officials of Salem will be
responsive to the request of the
American Legion executive com
mittee which will come before the
city council soon in a resolution
asking action toward obtaining a
satisfactory water supply, it was
indicated Saturday by Mayor T.
A. Livesley.
While convinced that improve,
ment in the water supply is essen
tial and is the foremost problem
facing the city today, Mayor
Livesley expressed the opinion
that the solution to be sought is
not a new source for water, but
better purification of the pres
ent supply. .
"It would be possible to obtain
mountain water, but that would
not insure pure water," the mayor
sald 'IThe day Is past when foun
tain vater Is any safer than any
other water. The thing to do is to
purify the water .taken from the
most convenient source."
Chamber of Commerce
Discussion Planned
Salem's "water problem" will
be presented to the chamber of
commerce at its Monday forum
luncheon for such consideration
as may be warranted, it was indi
cated Saturday when a group of
taxpayers took the question into
their own hands with an outline
of procedure to force action in the
matter.
Saturday night this group had
formed no definite plan of action,
but promised that the problem
would confront 'the chamber of
commerce.
Meanwhile Salem residents
grow anxious about the state of
the water supply. They view sor
rowfully the placards in restaur
ant windows, announcing "spring
water served here," and declare
these and other manifestations of
disapproval are reflecting against
the city.
Problem Is Viewed
From Varied Angles
Many have interestedly viewed
microscopic studies of drops of the
city's water supply, in which is
seen a network of growth that
looks like miniature moss. Al
though yie problem is serious
enough to give grave concern, it
is, nevertheless, viewed with hum
orous sarcasm by some. -
W. E. Wilmer. 765 Judson
street, suggests to the Statesman
that "too much fuss is being made
about Salem water," and offers
this way out of the situation:
-J'All you have to do ls bore
your own well for domestic water
and use this glorified Willamette
valley sewage furnished by the
water company for fertilizer on
your lawns and gardens."
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HIGHER TARIFF
FILBERTS IS
I
GROWERS' GUI
Data to be Presented Before
Congressional Committe
Gathered Here
Leaders in Industry From
All Over State Attend
Meeting in Salem
1 NOW TIG 0
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PAST PROF CLAIMS
Dreams of establishing a school of fine arts in an ancient cha
teau in southern France, have been sliattered for Countess de Taur
ine, better known in her home city, Wichita, Kas., as Mrs. Pearl Hus
sey Flanagan, by an attachment proceeding by which she and her a-s-Kociate
in the scheme, Charles F. Faye, liave been deprived of their
personal belongings at Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Flanagan acquired the
title of countess witluthe chateau, presented her by the Abbe Lou
biere. Attachment proceedings were begun by Grosvenor Barron, of
Kingman, Kas. Above, the countess, the abbe, and the chateau.
Federal Health Service
Calls National Congress
To Control Flu Epidemic
Officials From Every State
in Union Summoned to
Special Meeting
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.
(AP) Health officials of all the
states and ten other outstanding
scientists have been invited by the
public health service to attend a
national conference, probably in
January, to devise methods of
controlling the present influenza
epidemic and others in the future
The Invitations, sent by tele
graph, have already brought ac
ceptances from 4 6 state and city
officials, three specific purposes
of the conference, as outlined by
officials of the public health serv
ice, are:
1 To enjphasize the necessity
for additional research on influ
enza.
2 To clarify and standardize
information on the disease which
is to be submitted to, the public
during epidemics.
3 To assist in completion of
Figure? which are expected
show that the Tilbert industry in
Oregon Is entitled to increased tar- -iff
protection, were compiled at ,
meeting of filbert growers trim
all sections of the state where til!
crop Is raised, Saturday afterne
in the Salem chamber of com
merce rooms.
Seymour Jones, state maiket
agent, presided, and C. E. Seluis-
ter, marketing specialist at the
Oregon State college, was secre
tary of the meeting.
From the representative grow
ers present, data-on the value- t
filbert land, the cftst of planting
and caring for the trees until the
orchard Is ten years old, and tie
cost of harvesting and curing tbe
top, were obtained.
This data was turned over te
Professor Schuster, who will flu
sh the compilation. Local grow
lers who attended the meeting es
timated that the cost will pro
to be about 15 cents a pound.
Will IV' Presented
To House Commit lee
This data will be tahea to
Washington. D. C. in January by
W. II. Bentley of Dundee, who was
selected at this meeting to repre
sent. the filbert growers before the
ways and means committee of the
house of representatives. The
tariff commission's investigators
will then be asked, if the Informa
tion is not already available, to
determine the comparative cost of
producing filberts in other coun
tries, and on the basis of thee
figures a request will be made for
a tariff on filberts grown in the
United States.
A similar campaign for addi
tional increase in the cherry tariff
is forecast by the announcement
that Max Cehlar of West Saleia,
plans for an extensive field study
of the nrpupnt outbreak
Statisticians of the public : who represented the cherry grow-
health service declared today that
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. (AP)-
Sin has been relegated by science
into the limbo of ancient super
stitions," Professor Harry Elmer
Barnes of Smith college declared
today in an appeal for a new view
of life In place of old theological
dogma.
"Not only must the objectives
of human life be reduced to a sec
ular plane, but we may now def
inltely ennunclate and defend 'the
right to be happy, " he told the
history of science society a n 1
members of the American associa
tion for the advancement of sci
ence He conceded that many acts
hitherto branded as sinful may be
socially harmful, immoral and
criminal.
As the foundation of the new
order, he said, "we must supplant
theology by mental hygiene," and
take into account the knowledge
provided by science and the discov
eries of astronomy which have
shown that, instead of man beini;
"Lord of all creation," and the
earth the center of the universe,
he Is only a "temporary chemical
episode," on "a Celestian juvenile
and cosmic dwarf."
"The old theological taboo up
on secular felicity in a terrestlal
setting," Professor Barnes assert
ed, "was based upon supernatural
considerations which we may now
discard with safety and assurance.
Modern science, especially mental
hygiene, has indicated the desir
ability of freeing ourselves from
the Inferiority complex and the
fears and worries which are pre
scribed for the faithful funda
mentalist and self-confidence."
Rush is Started
For Motor Plates
Special Court is
Established For
All Bootleggers
CHICAGO. Dec. 29. (AP)
Racketeering and allied bootleg
ging are to have a special court
In Chicago.
Chief Justice Harry Olson of the
Chicago municipal courts today an
nounced the establishment of a
new branch of the tribunal to b?
devoted exclusively to such cases.
Judge Olson addressed a joint
meeting of the American political
science association, the American during the afternoon. A similar
association of law schools and tho situation probably will enue next
American sociological society. Monday, officials said.
The rush for 1929 motor ve
hicle licenses started here earlv
Saturday. A number of applicants
were waiting when the office
opened and by noon the streets
adjacent to the motor vehicle de
partment were congested with
cars. The congestion continued
Sport Briefs
for the country as a whole the
peak of the present epidemic has
probably been reached, but that
this general average seems started
in western, mountain and nor:h
central states while the wave has
"scarcely begun" in New England.
When the health conference is
convened, public health officers
will submit to its plans for a na
tionwide survey of conditions to
be executed on a house-to-house
canvas basis and involving inten
sive laboratory studies.
MYMOHD WJU.1EHS
TO
BUILD 8!
DAM
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PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 29.
(AP) Amateur boxers of
eleven western states are ex
pected to participate in the Pa
cific coast amateur athletic
union boxing championships
here February 25 and 26. Five
Pacific coast and far west A. A.
U. associations have sanctioned
the meet, which will be at the
Portland armory, sponsored by
the Multnomah Amateu Ath
letic club.
TACOMA, Dec. 2. (AP)
With the score tied 31 to 31 at
the end of regular time the Ta
coma Sciots, one of the strong
est independent basketball fives
in this section, defeated the
Oregon State college quintet 36
to 32, after a five minute over
time period tonight.
The score at the end of the
first half stood 18 to 15 in fa
vor of the visitors, but the lo
cals came back strong in the
closlngperiod to knot the count
at the end of the second half.
Legion Seeking
To Reach Mark
Of 500 Monday
Special effort ls to be made by
the membership campaign work
ers of Capital Post No. 9, Ameri
can Legion, Monday to sign up at
least 25 more 1929 members. The
reason is that the membership
Saturday night was 475, and the
post officials are anxious to report
an even 600 or better signed up
before the new year opens.
The post's membeship drive Is
considerably behind the mark at
which it stood a year ago, when
a more strenuous early campaign
was conducted. On January 10 this
year the post had 755 paid up
members.
Officers of the post are anxious
to enroll as many new members
as possible early, so that atten
tion may be turned to the plans
for the state convention which
will be beld here. First discussion
of these plans will take place at
the meeting January 8.
DENY E R, Deck? 2U. (AP)
Raymond F. Walters, chief engi
neer of the bureau of reclamation
here today faced without visible
signs of trepidation or elation the
greatest United states government
project since the Panama Canal
the construction of the mighty
Boulder Canyon dam project.
He greeted the announcement
of his appointment by the bureau
of reclamation at Washington
with a "is that so? I had not yet
heard of the appointment." Afte;
that he revealed his interest in
irrigation problems that have been
his work during his long associa
tion with the reclamation bureau.
He commented on the first work
to be done preparatory to actual
construction work on J he dam by
saying that as soon as congress
passes a special appropriation of
$350,000 for designing the dam
his staff will "grt busy in ear
nest." He pointed out that letting
the contracts for the work itself
must wait upon the rat ificatiorr
of the Colorado river compact by
the seven states of the upper ami
basins and the completion of ar
rangements for the i-ale of water
impounded by it and the powet
produced by its hydroelectric
plant.
ers at Washington prior to the
granting of the last temporary in
crease, has called a meeting of
cherry producers i n Portland
January 9.
Cherry Growers
Hopeful of Raise
The duty on cherries, set at two
cents in the last tariff law. wa-i
raised to three cents at the recom
mendation of the tariff commis
sion; but with a new law to be
rate are seen, with the res alt in
prospect that cherries grown -on,
the Pacific coast will be use eA
clusively in the maraschino indus
try. Cherries imported from
southern Europe for this purpose
are an enormous handicap in th
marketing of home grown cher
ries. There is also a two cent tariff
at present on filberts, but the
growers claim this is not suffi
cient. This duty was obtained
largely through the efforts of Sen
ator Charles L. McNary of Oregon
who Is. himself a filbert grower.
Since Congressman W. C. Haw
ley of Oregon is chairman of the
ways and means committee the
house, the petitions of Oregon
growers are expected to receive
ample consideration.
Prominent filbert growers who
attended the meeting here Satur
day included J. A. ThornburR of
Forest Grove. Ben Dorris of Eo-
gene, and Dr. J. Jobsey of Wll
sonvllle. Henry R. Crawford wa
one of the local growers present.
Heavy Seepage
Into Old Tile
Sewers Blamed
Difficulties with old tile sewers
feeding into tho new Trade street
sanitary sewer, were responsible
for the break which occurred last
week in the latter, engineers whe
had charge of planning the new
line reported Saturday to Mayor
Livesley. The tile sewers absorbed
a large quantity of rain water.
overloading the main line.
Huge Navy Dirigible May
Participate in Ceremony
Inaugurating Mr. Hoover
WASHNGTON. Dec. 29 (AP)
Plans to have the huge navy dir
igible, Los Angeles, lead the inau
gural parade down Pennsylvania
avenue, when Herbert Hoover be
comes president, today were pro
nounced "entirely practicable" by
Secretary Wilbur of the nevy de
partment. He added that depart
ment officials were taking under
advisement the request from the
inaugural committee for use of
the Los Angeles.
The committee chairman. Ma
jor -General Anton Stephan in out
lining his plan for the inaugural
said the dirigible was wanted to
lead a large air force that would
circle over the route of the proces
the program. He has twice made
statements that he wished. a "sim
ple inauguration."
On January 5 the general inau
gural committee will pass upon
the details worked but by the var
ious subcommittees and submit
the program to Mr. Hooter wkeg
he- arrives In Washington. - ,
The parade, according te' the
present plans, will take two hoars
In passing., will be four-miles, low,
and will have 20.000 participants.
It will be divided into two settlea. .
the first fo comprise ; District f'
Columbia ' troops,' and ; navy, ' mar-'
Ine, national guard, and : setecte4 .
reserve detachments. . The second
division will be made up of pr-'
sion. Planes, from the army and tmtatives of veterans and patriotic
navy would compose this escort.
- As pjans for the nationwide
four-day-, celebration developed
there still was doubt as to President-elect
Hoover's reception of
organizations, state fiesta; tkfTln-' :
augural committee, governors of
states aBd their ; official reports.
Indians of mixed tribes, aad
schools and colleges.' - - - -