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BE HAPPY! April days are garden days; the Salem Garden club asks you to enroll In its City Beautiful campaign. The project is a worthy one. WEATHER Continued fair today; Slightly colder; North wind. Mar. temperature Thursday 74; Mln. 38; River 7; .No rain ; North wind. wsm "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shell Aae" EST SSV'ttSt SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 26 Salmi, Oregon, Friday Morning:, April 26, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS aTUT I 'FIFFFfTWIfi) w BM.M 11 Mil 1M NEW TWISTER TOLL OF More Than Score Killed By Tornado Sweeping Into Georgia Section Storms Cause Much Damage in Other Sections of United States MACON. Ga.. April 25 (AP) A tornado sweeping out of the southwest, this afternoon dipped its destructive tail if middle and south Georgia, caused' 4 death list that it is believed Will exceed twenty, Injured more than a hun dred persons and left property damage that will run high into the thousands. ; The Injured at Coeftrffn were reported as 100, with several pos sibly fatally hurt, and at Rentz several were injured. An overseer, named BaHlett tel ephoned his employer here. Jack Massee, that 17 persons had been killed in the vicinity of Cochran andJh more than 100. ninety of them negros. were injured. Snath Half Mile "Wide Report ed The tornado cut a swath half a mile wide as it swept out of the i Eouthwest, leveling houses, trees, fences and telephone poles, leav ing a path strewn with debris. Reports trickling in over mea ger telephone facilities said that the greatest damage was in the outskirts of the town and in ad jacent rural communities. The town of Helena was also reported struck by .the tornado, but the re port was unverified. A child was known to be dead at Renta, where a group of farm buildings were demolished and several persons were injured. DENVER, April 25. fAP) A maze of twisted and broken telegraph and telephone wires, the harvest of one of the worst April blizzards in many years, to day formed an entanglement which cut other Wyoming cities from direct communication with the outside world. . TO T Scores of linemen and road ince won s name was placed workers struggled to restore wire! among the applicants for the Sa ' and traffic communication with ! len job numerous recommenda little avail and tonight roads lead- tions as to his fitness to. handle Irg into Cheyenne were still vir-ithe local situation have been re tually Impassable and wire com-iived by the city superintendent municarlon wa.f unrestored. i and should Mr. Hug and the Ttaniage To Wires school board find the man fits the Ktimntcd $100,000 recommendations , it Is almost Telephone and tolegraph om- certain he will be the next high panies estimated the damage to school head. wires near Cheyenne would ap- Wolf had been at Baker only proximate $100,000. Sheep and;this year, but is reported to have (Turn to 1r.r 1" 'oIv.n TUX ROW IS YET III STATUS QUO No change In the status of Mar Jon county's six national banks and their relation to the county taxes for 1926, 1927 and 1928 has yet occurred according to mem bers of the county court who are insistent that at least 35 per cent of the lax assessed for those three years be paid. Custer Ross, at torney for several of the national banks, filed a statement Thursday showing that Polk county had ac cepted a payment from the na tional banks there of the bank's share of the tax paid by the coun ty to th estate in 1926 and 1927 and 25 of the balance paid the county. The court took this plan f settlement under advisement. Green Cap Tradition of 18 Years Standing Abolished For Willamette Freshmen Salem's scenic attractions next fall will be lacking one feature that has been a source of variety and interest for the past 18 years. The green caps, worn since 1911 by Willamette university fresh men, will be conspicuous by their absence. In their stead, the fresh men will wear caps in the univer sity colors, cardinal and gold. First year women, who have worn green ribbons on certain days of the week for several years past, will wear cardinal and gold rib bons. The green cap tradition has al ways been considered as based on sound practical principles, since the caps served to identify the new students at Willamette, so that they could be recognized both by other students and by Salem townspeople. Trouble over the enforcement of the tradition was given as the reason for changing the style of headgear. It was felt that fresh men would not object to wearing caps In the university colors, and there would be no occasion for Air Tragedy First photos of mid-air accident Sunday over San U;ego, between giant air liner and stunting army plane. Six persons were killed. Witnesses declared accident was caused by army plane, which was going through series of aerial stunts. Maurice Murphy, pilot of the air liner, a San Francisco man. fflMFOI) JOB AS Fred D. Wolf Rumored Pos sible Successor to J. C. Nelson in Salem Fred D. Wolf, principal of the Saker high school and so far the most talked of candidate as sue cessor to Principal J, C. Nelson of the Salem high, arrived in Sa lem Thursday night to confer with Superintendent George W. Hug and members of the Salem school board relative to the post. Mr. Wolf will meet with Mr. Hug this morning. The two men are not Unknown to each other, having met at the recent Inland Empire teachers' meeting in Spo kane. At that time, however, there i was no npea 10 iaiK position. aojustea airncuii scnooi irouDies in fine manner. He formerly. was principal at Payette, Idaho, and Kalama, Wash. He has coached othletics, was an army of f icer and is said to have a generally pleas ing personality. Wolf's visit in Salem today does not necessarily mean he will be chdsen to the position imme diately, even should the school chiefs be convinced he is the man for the job. 2 British Flyers Seek New Record LONDON, April 25. (AP) The air ministry reported late to night that the airplane in which two members of the British royal air force are seeking a new long distance record was sighted over Bushlre, Persia, at 6:45 p. m., Greenwich mean time. The aviat ors are Squadron Leader A. G. Jones Williams and Flights Lieu tenant N. H. Jenkins. the skirmishing that has attended the custom in recent year.s Up to about 1922. there were no interclass skirmishes over the wearing or green caps, for, the simple reason that the freshmen themselves enforced the rule and it was considered a matter of class pride to conform. If any fresh man thought himself too good to wear the badge of verdure, he was summarily disabused of the Idea by hi own classmates. One exception to this state of affairs occurred In 191, when the the upper classmen decreed that the caps should be worn on Sunday as well as on week days. One of the most exciting affrays iu the history of class hostilities grew out of this situation, and resulted In the temporary suspen sion of 40 .upperclassmen. In recent years, the sophomores, the Cubs and the lettermen have in turn attempted enforcement of the tradition, and each succeed ing freshman class gave evidence of the perversity of human na ture by resenting tka compulsion. 1 at San Diego Takes Big Toll -TLr ,;.. J . x-r.'af VvVa: Longford Suffers Fractured Skull And Other Hurts smith living at 443 North 24th street. Is In a local hos pital In semi-con scions state, with his skull frac tured, his left leg broken in two places and bis nose brok en, as the result of a fall he sustained Thursday after noon while working on the roof at the cottage farm at the state asylum. loctora do Hot give him aa evea chance' for recovery, though word from the hospital late last night said his condition was about the same. Mr. Liangford had been 111 the past week and Jnst re turned to work Thursday morning, and It Is supposed his weakened condition and the warm weather were too much for him and that he simply fainted and fell from the roof. He Is past 50 yean of age and has lived here four years. DRIVER KILLED Of PORTLAND POLICE PORTLAND, April 25. (AP) Royal Weckert, of Sherwood. Ore., was shot and killed late to night by Patrolman Sam Ramsey of the Portland police department, when battling with the officer In a deep ravine near the outskirts of the city, after Ramsey had placed him under arrest for driv ing while drunk. Wickert, piloting a five-ton truck, registered to the Schmidt truck line, of Sherwood, had previously crashed Into a touring car; and after telling the occupants of the car that he would meet them at police headquarters, drove off. Patrolmen Ramsey and Ross Tilton, pursuing in a prowler car, overtook the truck on the Slavin road. While Patrolman Tilton was guarding Joseph Yard, a compan ion of Weckert on the truck. Weckert broke and ran, with Ram sey In pursuit. When caught he grasped the policeman's flashlight and began beating the officer over the head with it. and Ramsey fired twice, wounding Weckert fatally. The man died after being brought to the emergency hospital. Yard was beld on an open charge. DAWES SAILS SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. April (AP) General Charles G. Dawes sailed this afternoon for New York. Thursday in Washington By the Associated Press The house passed the farm relief bill approved by Presi dent Hoover. The United States and Can ada agreed to submit the I'm Alone case to arbitration. A statue of the late Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., was unveiled in statuary ball at the eapitol. A senate democratic caucus decided not to bind its members to support the debenture plan In tbe farm bill. President Hoover delivered an address on plans for the beautlfication of Washington. I Ml or s Salem High School Student Gets by Eftmination at Corvallis CORVALT.IS, Ore., April 25. (AP) Ashland placed two con testants, and ten other cities placed one each In the finals of the state high school extempor aneous speaking and interpreta tion contest to be held tomorrow night, as a result of an elimina tion contest here this afternoon. The best six speakers In each di vision, chose from 25 district winners, competed. All contest ants were guests tonight at a ban quest given by Delta Sigma Rho and National Collegiate Players, honor societies in public speak ing and dramatics, sponsoring the contest. Winners today were: Extempore division: Floyd Young, Ashland; Marl Llles, Cor vallis; Carrie Weaver, Malin; Grace Mason, Pendleton; Marvin Byers, Salem; Morris Russell, Russell, Redmond. Interpretation division: Irvran da Bateman, Ashland; Noma Brown, Beaverton; Minnie San ders, Dallas; Louise Thomas, Mavshfield; Florence Gibson, The Dalles; Waive Lenon, Woodburn. Gertrude Wlnslow also made the trip to Corvallis to represent the Marion-Linn district in the statewide finals in the interpreta tion division of the contest. Nor borne Berkeley, Jr., debate coach, and Miss Mabel Robertson, dean of women, accompanied the stu dents to the state college campus. HEALTH EDICT IS OK With all grade schools, and the two junior high schools working on the health pageant, "The Land O'Health," to be staged at Olinger athletic field Wednesday, May 1, as the first all-schools undertak ing in. years, the following procla mation of Mayor T. A. Livesley. comes as an added Incentive for townspeople to jot "taken" on the pad for Jhat day. "May first is being observed throughout the United States as Child Health day and In 'view of the pageants and gathering of the children upon that occasion and more particularly for Salem and Marion county at this particular time, I deem It important to bring this matter to the attention of the cinsens of Salem and Marion coun ty, who are aware of the wonder ful work that has been accom plished In this city and county during the past few years by the child health demonstration. "It affords me great pleasure, as mayor of Salem, to bring this matter to your attention and for your cooperation and support In this wonderful work. "I hereby proclaim May 1, 1929 as Child Health day. "T. A. LIVESLEY, Mayor." Salem Bowlers Lose Top Place VANCOUVER. B. C. April 5. (AP) Tbe fire man team of the Aberdeen Smoke shop pushed O'Leary's Legionnaires of Salem, Ore., out of first place in the Northwestern International Bowl ing congress tonight by crashing down a -total of 2799 pins. The Legionnaires held to second with 2782 while the Aberdeen All Stars took third with 2707. EVEN FARM AID BILL PASSES HOUSE BY 367 TO 34 Difficult Time Over Deben ture Clause Anticipated Among Senators But Two Republicans Oppose Measure Which is Sup ported by Hoover WASHINGTON. April (AP) The new farm relief bill having the support of the Hoover administration was passed by the house today Just ten days after the convening of the special ses sion of congress, which was call ed primarily to provide means for alleviating agricultural ills. The vote was 367 to 34, only two republicans being among those in opposition Tinkham of Massachusetts and Stafford of Wisconsin, the latter a new member. The measure was sent to the senate where a bill with the dis puted export debenture plan is pending. The house had refused to accept that method of farm re lief, which was inserted in the senate measure by its agriculture committee after vigorous disap proval by President Hoover. Bill Designed To Put Farmers Upon Feet The house bill would launch the government upon a program which its advocates contended would enable the farmer to help himself to prosperity. It would create a federal farm board with a revolviag fund of $500,000,000 to be used in loans to cooperative associations. The support giyen It by both republicans and democrats brought the bill through the house unchanged in any major respect from the form In which it came from the agriculture com mittee. The three minor changes that were made were proposed by committee members to clarify the language of the bill. The vote found most Of the for mer advocates of the debenture plan and the equalization fee ranged alongside their former op ponents in support of a bill that is minus both of those features. The majority of those who voted against the bill were advocates of one or both of those proposals, who still hope that the bill as it finally emerges from the senate may be changed in several re spects. Neither the debenture plan nor the equalization fee came to a Turn to Page 10, Column i.) Raid Staged Upon School By Vandals Someone, or possibly more than one someone, entered the Pratum school house early Thursday morning and judging from the looks of things when the teacher arriver at her usual time, it is a wonder that district hasn't a pile of ashes instead of a school house. So reported County Superinten dent Mary L. Fulkerson Thursday afternoon on her return from an inspection visit to the Pratum and Willard schools. Egg shells, remnants of a fire, a blackened can which had con tained paint thinner, a great blis tered and charred spot on the door and a blistered spot on the wall opposite the door constitu ted the remains of no one knows what; that is, no one but those who did it. It is supposed that the part of a can of paint thinner, used in some manual training work, was responsible for the burned sections, as the can bore marks of a n explosion and the charred spots on door and well were evidently there through the exploding can being hurled at the wall. Whether the thing was the work of a tramp, boy vandals or someone else had not come to light. Statesman-Capitol MATINEE For Children FRIDAY and SATURDAY MAT1XEES This coupon and five cents will admit any child under 12 to see and hear a thrilling chapter of Tarzarr the Mighty" also Little Davey Lee "SOXNY BOY" his first Vltaphone all-talking picture LEGION HONOR 1 HIS VISIT HERE Paul V. McNutt, Commander of American Veterans, Gets Big Welcome Salem's Crack Drum Corps . on Hand to Participate in All Ceremonies Hundreds of Salem olk paid tribute to the American Legion Thursday by turning out to wit ness the parade headed by the Sa lem drum corps, honoring Paul V. McNutt, national comm.nider of the legion, on his visit here. Hun dreds more crowded around the entrance to the eapitol building on State street, to watch the le gion official and his party walk from their automobiles to the ex ecutive department offices for a reception arranged by Governor Patterson. Afterward, the national com mander listened tc a number played In bis honor by the drum corps, and then shook hands with each member. He also publicly thanked Governor Patterson and the Salem legion officials for their hospitality. Dignitaries On Hand With Commander's Party In the national commander's party were Mrs. McNutt, Mrs. Boyce Ficklin, national president of the American Legion auxiliary; Ben S. Fisher, state commander, and Carl Moser, state adjutant. They were accompanied from Cor vallis by the governor. Command er Douglas McKay of Capital Post No. 9, and Carl D. Gabrielson, general chairman of the legion convention commission. Tbe group left after the recep tion for McMinnville, where an other brief stop was to be made. Commander McNutt spoke at Cor vallis at noon, and at Portland last night. Failure Of Congress To Paa Bill Rapped That a serious situation for the disabled veterans of the World war, thi pigh the failure of con gress to pass the bill proposing appropriation of 111, 480, 000 for hospital construction, is one phase of the message which Commander McNutt is bringing to legion naires of the northwest on his present tour. Five thousand veterans ailing mentally as a result of their war time service, are awaiting hospi talization, and others are in over crowded state institutions, he has declared. There is no hope that the special session called by Pres ident Hoover can take up the hos pital legislation, and it will be next December, when the 71st congress meets, before any relief can be considered. The Salem building code itself Is very lenient, If properly in terpreted, Earl C. Bushnell, new building code inspector, told the Salem Realty Board at the regu lar weekly luncheon held Thurs day at the Marion. He pointed out, without defining the types, that the code consists of five types of buildings and covers most any class of construction. Severe competition among the Salem builders has been responsi ble heretofore for a poor quality of workmanship and material "un til even the builder himself had no pride in his product," the in spector asserted ninety-five per cent of the Salem builders have already whipped into line .and are conscientiously following the new code to a letter, Bushnell stated. Some minor errors have been made In interpretation and it is the problem now to get the people to study the code and understand it in short, to get a uniform translation. In the course of questions from the realtors, he pointed out that the new code follows the tones established by the zoning com mission; also the fire zones, plumbing and electrical laws. Curtis Is Given New Gavel Amid Great Laughter WASHINGTON. April 25. (AP) A shining new gavel was presented to Vice President Curtis by Senator Borah, of Idaho, while the chamber chuckled with merri ment. The vice president, who has been using the gavel rather ve hemently, yesterday broke the one he Is accustomed to use. "I accept this new one' with pleasure," Curtis said, smiling, "but I have seven others In reserve. BUILDING CODE IS DECLARED LENIENT Arbitrates V fzJ . --as v Secretary of State Stimson, who bears the brunt of diplomatic deal ings with Canada in the vexing I'm Alone case. The case has be come so delicate that arbitration has been decided on to prevent a more serious international situa tion. OLD RECORDS ARE GIVEN NEW PLACE County Clerk's Files Show Happenings of Former Days in This Area A glimpse into the earliest days of Marion county's histroy as an organized government was reveal ed Thursday when County Clerk Boyer completed a task undertak en this week in tbe removal of valuable records from the attic of the county courthouse to tbe vault in his office. For years the re cords have reposed in the upper reaches of the courthouse but storage space has been at a pre mium and they have not had the safekeeping which their age mer ited. Included In the files of earlier days are county court proceedings dating from 1849 to 1897 and in cluding records of the first ses sions of the county commission ers. Carefully written in a long, hand now virtually extinct through the prevalent use of type writers, the records disclose the events of November 19, 1849 when the county court had its first meeting. T. Crump and Ben jamin Walden were commission ers while Isaac N. Gilbert was clerk and Wen Gilliam, sheriff. Walden was selected by the group as Judge. On the first day of business the will of John M. Crow ell was admitted to probate and N. M. Garrison was named admin istrator. The next day of the court's ac tivities found that body busily en gaged in setting bonds for the new officers of the county. Tbe sheriff was asked to obtain bons of $6,000, the clerk $500, the treasurer, $25,000, the Justice of the peace, $1,000 and the .con stables in the county $1,000. County Clerk Boyer has arrang ed all the records in chronologi cal order and now has available for public reference the proceed ings of the last 80 years. Baldwin Refers To Address By Hugh S. Gibson BRISTOL, England, April 25. (AP Premier Stanley Baldwin made his first reference tonight to Hugh S. Gibson's speech on dis armament at Geneva on Monday. Speaking at an election meeting here the premier pledged cordial cooperation with its purpose, and declared England wanted peace. Industrial peace at home and world peace abroad. Polo Game, Free Barbecue, Placed on Legion Program For Convention in August Salem legionnaires advanced an other step towards the completion of their plans for the annual state convention to be held here In Au gust when the convention commis sion of ten headed by Carl Gabriel son, chairman, made a number of important decisions at a meeting held Thursday night In the offices of the World War Veterans State Aid commission In the First Na tional bank building. Outstanding among the events decided upon for the program was a two-day polo contest to be played between a company from the Van couver, Wash., barracks and an opposing team yet to be selected. Olinger field will be the site for the game which win be an attrac tion extraordinary since It will be 1 ALONE HI TO BE SETTLES UNDERTREATY Each Government to Select One Arbiter Who Will Consider Facts Delicate International Situa tion Brought to Head; Rights Defined WASHINGTON, April 25. (AP) The United States and Canada have agreed to arbitrate the dispute over the sinking of the Canadian rum runner I'm Alone by the American coast guard. This decision was disclosed tonight by the diplomatic cor respondence on the I'm Alone case, which was made public by Secretary Stimson. The case will be submitted to two arbiters, one selected by each government, under ' the terms of the liquor smug- ! p-linc trpntv htvppn the Unit ed States and Great Britain, They will decide whether Can ada is entitled to redress. Canada made formal represen tations to the United States April 9 concerning the sinking of the I I'm Alone off the Louisiana roast March 22 by the coast guard pa trol boat Dexter. The Canadian case was , predicated on tbre points. Vessel Claimed Beyond American Jurisdiction That the I'm Alone was at all times beyond the one hour's sail ing distance from the America shore provided in the treaty; That the essential elements af the International doctrine of "hot pursuit" were lacking in the case; and That the sinking constituted toe severe measures to effect Ameri can rights under the treaty. The Canadian government ac knowledged that the I'm Alone "had unquestionably been en gaged for a number of years, un der various owners, in endeavor ing to smuggle liquor into tbe United States." Secretary Stimson Outlines Yankee Case Replying, Secretary Stimson based the American case on three points: That the I'm Alone was 10.S (Turn to Tnge 10, Column 4.) TO INDICT SIMS GENEVA, 111., April 25. (AP) Information from a reliable source here tonight was that tbe Kane county grand Jury failed to vote a true bill today against Dep uty Roy Smith, who shot and kill ed Mrs. Lillian de King in a raid on her home last month. Eugene Boyd Fairchild. dry in vestigator, whose false affidavit of buying liquor at the de King home resulted in the raid, was charged with perjury In a true bill. The action against Fairchild was taken after some hours of de bate and two days and a half in- vestigation. Failure of the grand Jury to vote bills against Smith and other members of the raiding squad gives them a clean bill of health. The grand Jury will meet again Tuesday to return the indictment against Fairchild. Further action might be taken by the investigating body at that time, although it is hardly regard ed as probable. the first of Its nature ever beld In Salem and tbe first to be staged at an American legion convention In Oregon. A free barbecue was also agreed upon as an event to be added t the convention program. Official Badges Selected aad Ordered Selection of the official badge for the convention and placing of the contract for making the badg es was decided upon by the com. mission as was the Job of publish, ing the official legion program. Additional seats for Olinger field to augment the seating in the grandstand was provided for when a proffer of bleachers from the Multnomah Athletic club's supply, made by "Jimmy Richardson, manager of the club, was accepted GRID JURY FAILS