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WEATHEB Fair today; Warmer with lower humidity: Moderate orth winds. Max. teropera tare Thursday 67; Mia. 45; River 3.9; No rain; Part cloudy. SECTION I $4 Pages 1 to 20 28 pages this issue No Favor Sways Ut; No Fear Sftcfl Act" ST SSrSTVSS: SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 38 Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, May 10, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS MAYOR PLACED UNDER FIRE IN CONTRACTU Livesley in Same Boat With Rosebraugh, Members of Council Intimate Thorough Probe of Situation Likely at Next Meeting of City Aldermen Faced with a renewal of the controversy over the furnishing of manhole covers and other Iron ma terials used in street work, by a company in which W. W. Rose braugh, a member of the council, is claimed to bo interested, certain members are considering the launching of a counter, attack at t ie next meeting. '.,fr "fr The question will be raised, they Indicated Thursday, as to whether Ifayor Livesley is not in the same Soat with' Rosebraugh. in that looms in the First National Bank building, of which the mayor is tne of its owners, are rented by the city for the uae of the bridge department. O Slight Chance For " Loophole Is Seen '4 The only noticeable difference is that the arrangement whereby the rooms are rented, may bp con. strued as not a contract. The pro vision in the charter on this sub ject reads as follows: "No member of the council shall, during the period for which he is elected, be interested in any contract the expenses of which are to be paid out of the city treas ury, and any member of the coun cil so engaging or participating in nv Miiilrart or contracts as afore said shall upon conviction thereof before the council, be punished by expulsion from the council upon a majority vote thereof." As to whether the mayor falls under this provision, that question Is apparently settled by a clause etating that "the mayor and al J?rmen shall comprise the com mon conncil of said city." The problem of councilmen par ticipating In contracts was revived following action of the council Monday night in awarding a con tract for the iron material to the W. I. Spencer company of Port land, a firm in which Mr. Rose braugh is said to have an interest. It haa also been reported that the materials purchased from this company in the past, have been furnished by the Rosebraugh plant. BulTlafRlCW TO SUPPORT PEftCE Government Issues Guarded Statement on Situa tion at Geneva LONDON, May 9. t AD-The British government today gave in the house of commons its con sidered view of the question which has arisen oyer reduction of the British share in German repara tions payments at the Paris ex pert's conference. The question has stirred the entire Hrltish press to opposition. The cabinet considered the mat ter in council during the morning, and in the afternoon Winston Churchill, chancellor of the ex chequer, made a carefully guard ed statement to the house em bodying thi results of the minis terial deliberations. There was a certain intentional vagueness of phrase aboiS Mr. Churchill's statement, but its es sence was that British delegates to the Paris conference had no power to commit the British gov ernment to any agreement and that such proposals as "had been foreshadowed In the newspapers yesterday" would be inacceptable. Mr. Churchill studiously avoid ed mentioning Owen D. Young, who is the author of the proposal in question, and just as carefully avoided saying whether the gov ernment under any conditions would onnoee any modifications of the Spa agreement for allocat ing reparations payments among the allies. Reports on the matter from Paris have aroused the British Tires to such unanimous opposi tion as would have been impossi ble for any government on me eve of a general election to resist. Statesman-Capitol MATINEE For Children TODAY'S MATIXKE This coupon and five cents will admit any ehild under 12 to see and hear a thrilling chapter of "Tarzan the Mighty" Also Vitaphone talking comedy "STOLEN KISSES" All talking comedy acts and talking news. Jerusalem Artichoke to Be Produced Locally for Human Consumption Carload of Seed Tubers Distributed Thursday To Nine Farmers in Various Sections of Willamette Valley THE Jerusalem artichoke grown extensively as a feed for livestock will be produced for the first time in Oregon this year as a product of human consumption. A carload of Jerusalem artichoke seed tubers were distributed at Salem Wednesday by William L. Teutsch. assistant state leader of county agents, who has arranged the plantings for the Pabst Dietary Products, Inc., of Milwaukie, Wis. Nine Willamette valley farmers located in Marion, Linn and Yamhill counties will grow 31 acres under contract to the Pabst corporation and in addition five acres will be grown for the company un der irrigation at Hermiston in eastern Oregon. Thursday in Washington By the Associated Press The senate continued debate on the farm relief bill. The tariff bill was formally reported by the house ways and means committee. Eastern railroads agreed to limit reduction of grain rates to wheat and wheat flour. The senate manufactures committee heard further testi mony on conditions in southern textile mills. Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana was chosen chair man of the National Republican Congressional committee. Republicans from ten agri cultural states decided to ask the house to postpone adoption of a rule governing tariff con sideration. PETITION IS FILED ST 23 Signers Enter Protest to Improvement of Breit enbush Route Twenty-three citizens who live in the road district including the six-mile stretch from the Ham mond Lumber company camp 17 and Breitenbush Hot Springs do not want an expenditure of $6000 made for graveling that stretch of road and they did not hesitate to tell the county court the fact in a petition filed Thursday. In asmuch as more names are on the petition of remonstrance than were on the petition asking that the road be graveled, the second application for improvement of the road is automatically quashed. Extended reasons are given by the petitioners for their opposi tion to the road. Included in these statements are those that there are no permanent families in the district and a statement that the road is only for commer cial interests and not for the ter ritory encompassed by the route. It is further contended byVhe pe titioners that a special 10-mill tax is needed for the present road which is all the levy the district will stand. Early this spring a petition was filed with the county court asking that this stretch of road be in cluded in a $(000 gravel outlay, M. D. Bruckman, owner of the Breitenbush property . holding that the federal government and himself had already spent $60,000 on getting the grade to the springs. The court stated that the road was not as yet on the county road map and since that was the case it was necessary for the dis trict to pay for any improvements which were made to the road. Friend Aids In Boosting Charge Bill Suppose you went to pay your bill at a store and found it $71.70 more than you supposed it was? Wouldn't you at least "won der?" Miss Leona Mosher who Is one of the Salem young ladies who keeps 'phone numbers straight did more than "wonder." She invest igated the reason her bill had run so high and found that another person had been making numer ous purchases and charging them all to her account. Members of the local depart ment store on whom the fir ,d was perpetrated, assisted PC-ice Thursday in making an informa tion charge against the young lady who is alleged to be guilty of the offense. And Miss Mosher, rightfully, has a considerably reduced bill to pay as the. 10th of the month. comes. CARTKR WINS TACOMA. May 9 (AP) Les lie "Wildcat" Carter, Everett ne gro light weight, won a decision over Billy Townsend of Vancouv er. B. C, in a furious six round main event here tonight. 1 NEW ROAD ine plantings are being made as a test to determine the adapt ability of the crop to Willamette valley conditions and careful rec ords will be kept as to yield and quality. F. J. Postel, assistant gen eral manager of the Pabst corpor ation, wh'o visited Oregon in Jan uary told Mr. Teutsch that if Ore gon produced a satisfactory qual ity of tuber with high yields that it was possible that the company would locate its processing plant here. Similar test plantings are being made by the corporation in other sections of the country with the largest planting at Santa Rosa, Calif. "New Industry Hoped For," Says Tentsch "It is with the hope of estab lishing a new Industry for Oregon and a new cash crop for a limited number of Oregon farmers that we are locating these test plant ings." Mr. Teutsch said. "We know that on fertile soils the crop yields well, the average yield on the experiment at Corvallis hav ing been around 10 tons per acre and in some instances yields mnch higher than this have been ob tained. At a price of $15 per ton for which the crop this year is contracted on a field-run basis it should provide a very satisfactory per acre return." It is as a food for diabetis that the Pabst corporation is develop ing the crop. Research conducted by the Carnegie Institute and also by a number of leading physicians throughout the country has proved that the levulose sugar contained in the artichoke provides a source of carbohydrate that is not injur ious to the diabetic as are other forms of carbohydrates. To meet these requirements the tubers are dug with a machine' JusT"as pota toes are dug, peeled, sliced and dehydrated and then manufactur ed Into a number of products in cluding artichoke chips, soup stocks and breakfast food. Dehydration Here Hoped For This Season It is likely that the current sea son's crop will be dehydrated in (Turn to Vnxe t. Column 1.) T AGIST NEW BILL WASHINGTON, May 9. (AP) A revolt against the tariff revi sion bill among a large group of republicans from the agricultural west, who are joined by at least one eastern republican and an ap parently solid democratic mem bership, materialized today as the house began general debate of the measure. The opposition, which develop ed both on the floor and in state delegation conferences, indicated that a vigorous fight would be di rected against certain proposed increased duties on manufactured commodities and particularly against the retention of hides, lea ther and boots and shoes on the free list. Republicans from ten agricul tural states lent a decided Impetus to the expected Uemocratic oppo sition to the bill. In a conference before the house met, they ex pressed dissatisfaction with the proposed duties on buifVy ma terials and with failure of the ways and means committee to grant higher protection on certain farm commodities and to take oth ers from the free list. The conference selected Repre sentative Dickinson, republican, Iowa, to present a request to the republican caueus to be held to morrow to postpone definite ac tion on an amendment limiting rule until the far m group had completed a thorough study of the bill. Chairman Hawley of the ways and means committee, who open ed the debate on the floor with an explanation of the bill, said the conference tomorrow weuld only be a starter on the rule question and that many others would be held before a decision is reached. Monmouth Prof Injured In Crash MONMOUTH, May 9. (Spe cial) C. E. Stan wood of the training school faculty here, was seriously injured when his auto mobile was demolished by a Southern Pacific train at a grade crossing near the Mountain View school building on the highway be tween Monmouth and Corvallis about noon today. Mr. Stanwood was taken to the Corvallis hospi tal, where it was reported that his injuries were not likely to prove fatal. 'FALL GUY' IN L 1DFJKT Walter Gramm, Who Rushed to Rescue of Congress man, Faces Charge Confessed Owner of Trunks That Contained Liquor in Toils of Law KEY WEST, Fla., May 9 (AP) Walter Gramm, Chicago coal dealer, who admitted owner ship of the trunks in which the government charged liquor was found and for the ownership of which Representative M. Alfred Michaelson of Illinois was tried and acquitted, was arrested today. The federal warrant charged vio lation of the tariff act of 1922. Gramm made bond of $2,000 but refused to comment other than to remark "I'm sorry." Representative Michaelson, who was cleared of charges of illegally importing and transporting intoxi cating liquors, also declined to make a statement. Testimony To Be Used Against Him Gramm, termed "the fall guy" by Assistant United States Attor ney General J. N. Morrison in summing up the government's case against Michaelson, testified in the trial that the six trunks seized at Jacksonville belonged to him and Lester Rein, also of Chi cago. They were members of the Michaelson party which made a tour of Panama and Cuba and re turned to the United States through Key West on January 2, 1928. The coal dealer said Michaelson brought three of the six trunks taken at Jacksonville January 3, 1928, through the customs under his congressional privilege of free dom of the port, but that the con- (Tura to Page 2. Column 3.) BE C1MI9I CHIEF New York Man Regarded as Provable Head of Law Enforcement Body WASHINGTON. May 9 (AP) George Wi Wickersham of New York, attorney general in the Taft administration, is regarded as the most likely choice of President Hoover as chairman of the propos ed national law enforcement com mission, i Having abandoned hope of ob taining the services of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, of the supreme court, as head of the commission, the president was said in high official circles today to have turned to Mr. Wickersham as his next choice. There also were reports that Mr. Hoover had decided upon sev eral other members of the law en forcement group and that an an nouncement of the commission personnel could be expected be fore the end of this month. Mr. Wickersham Is here attend ing a meeting of the American law institute, of which he is pre sident. SWEPT BT BLAZE A residence at 935 Madison street, owned by W. A. Rentschal ar, was almost totally destroyed in a fire which broke out about 10:30 o'clock Thursday night. The' blaze started from an unknown cause in the back part of the house. A family which had been rent ing the house had moved out Wednesday, and Mrs. Rentschalar had been kalsomining and paint ing the interior Thursday and she and her daughter were staying there Thursday night. They did not discover the fire until it had gained such headway that it was impossible for the fire department to check it. A considerable amonut of fur niture in the house was also de stroyed. Committee Is Named To Eye Water Rights Mayor Livesley Thursday an nounced the appointment of Al dermen Harry Hawkins, David O'Hara and F. L. Wilkinson on a committee to investigate whatever rights the city may have to water or power at Marion lake and on the Santiam river. This committee was authorized at the last conncil meeting when the matter of withdrawing the city's protest against the claims of the Northwest Power company came up. The committee is to report at the next meeting, when the council will make a final de cision with respect to this pro test. RUM n i in HNU HOME ANIMOSITIES IN SENATE SHAKE PARTY'S RANKS Fess Sends Letter Complain ing About Independent G. 0. P. Members Borah and Other "Pseudo Republicans" Arouse Ire of Ohio Man WASHINGTON. May 9, (AP) Animosities in the senate re publican ranks over the break of President Hoover's farm program flared forth today in almost un precedented exchanges between Senator Fess, the party whip, and three supporters of the export de benture plan approved yesterday by the senate whom he had des cribed as "pseudo-republicans." Senator Fess made public a letter he had written to an Ohio, friend In which he complained that the president "had been led through Senator Borah and other pseudo-republicans to promise a special session upon the represen tation that such a promise would bring these republicans to the president's program." He also mentioned Senatois Nye, North Dakota, and Brook hart, Iowa, among those who had urged the extra session on the president. Senators Defend Selves In Statements All three senators quickly took notice of the Fess letter in state ments, declaring they had no apologies to make for joining with 10 other republicans in lin ing up with the democrats for the export debenture plan. Just how wide or permanent the breach in the republican ranks would be in view of the bitter reactions was a matter of speculation tonight. Senator Borah said he had sup ported Mr. Hoover "sincerely" in the national campaign and added that he "did not get the idea that I was to be deprived ever after ward of voting upon public meas ures in accordance with my own views." Party Growing Stale Senator Xy Asserts Senator Nye remarked that "some day Ohio republicans will learn that North Dakota republi cans are striving to hew a little closer to the line laid down by Lincoln than is the case in Ohio, and with that realization will come new life for a party that has been growing so stale that it for gets that people can make and break parties." Senator Brookhart said "no - (Turn to Page 2. Column 1.) HESTER MS FINE DERBY PRIZE LONDON, May 9. (AP) A seven year old boy who "does not understand what it is all about," was envied by thousands tonight as the result of the draw today in the stock exchange Derby sweepstakes which gave him the ticket for the favorite in the clas sic race. All business in London's financial district was suspended for a time this afternoon while the drawing "was made. Jimmy Gibbs, small son of a city contractor, held one of the two tickets for Cragadour, the colt of Lord Astor. His mother and father already have arranged for him to sell the ticket at a. good price, or to sell at least half of it, before the colt has a chance to b? beaten in the race on Epsom Downs on June 6. "We are all naturally greatly excited," said Mrs. Gibbs after the news was brought to her. "Jim mie does not understand what it is all about. His father gives each of his four children tickets for each draw but keeps none for him self." All big prizes were duplicated this year but the other most lucky person had not yet been discov ered late tonight. PASTOR KILLED BY PORTLAND, Ore., May 9. (AP) Andrew LaJunen, Mullan. Ida., minister of a Finnish church died In a Portland hospital early today from injuries he suffered April 8 when he was attacked and beaten by four members of the congregation who took exception to a portion of his sermon. Death resulted from a frac tured skull. He had been uncon scious the past two days, but Tal - lied early yesterday and told two Portland detectives his version of the affair. He was unable to -give police names of the quartet. LaJunen said he left Mullan three days after the beating and went to Spokane, Wash., later coming to Portland for a visit with a friend. His condition be came worse and he entered the hospital here. After he had refused to sign a complaint against his assailants, LaJunen said the sheriff at Mul lan had dropped an investigation. FOUR PAR SHERS 'Tseudo-Republican" : . . . .., ii i DlTHiwn friMi - wMMMw.xo:;v...lfrAllAbNlMTOlnlllllllllll n in ..v i i Senator Borah of Idaho who came in for some pointed remarks on the senate floor yesterday when Senator Fess criticized members of the G. O. P. who had voted for the debenture clause in the farm relief bill. Borah declared he was voting "according, to my long settled convictions' and accused Fess of being partial to wealthy man ufacturing interests. T j Local Boys Will Take Part in Competition in Port land Saturday The Salem high school boys' band will leave by bus early Sat urday morning for Portland, where they will compete for state honors in the band tournament with entrance in the national con test at Denver looming for Ore gon winner. Prof. O. P. Thayer is director of the band, this being the first year for a ioog-period Salem high has developed so much interest in a school band. Those who will make the trip to Portland include: Fred Rem ington, Douglas McKay, Matt Burgomaster, Robert Payne, Fred Broer, Wilber Harms. Glen Ma this, Chares Emerick, Harold Bird, Arthur Rhebb, LeRoy VanCleve, Wesley Heise, Dale Ayrehart, Ken neth Kline, Lyle Sellers, Raymond Rollo, Clyde French, Ronald Hud kins, Eugene Snlith, Bob Good rich, Delvin Durham, Menalkas Selander, Virgil Danison, Otto Meyer, Lynn Heise, Al Downs. Darrel Parker, Lawrence Brown, Edgar King, Charles Heltzel, Ken neth VanCleave, Wilson Edwards. Norman Speck-, Elmer Wedel, Robert Utter. Richard Devers, Fred Carmichael, Howard Glisson, Rollin Graber. Walace Newton, Blair Foley, Loree Barham and Russell Scott. TRAFFIC LIGHTS TO BE Recommendation from the po lice committee of the city council relative to letting a contract for installation of the traffic control lighs downtown, under bids open ed at Monday night's council meeting, will' be delayed until the committee confers with a repre sentative of the General Electric company. This firm's equipment was spe cified in one of the bids submitted by the Brownell Electric company of Salem, the figure for purchase and Installation of the seven sig nals being $4,000. In conjunction with the Brownell company, the Harrington-Seaburg company sub mitted a bid which totals $4,392. A representative of this firm has been in Salem this week, and the equipment specified was on dis play in the council chamber Mon day night. Since the city has an appropria tion of only $2450 for purchase and installation, the council will have to decide whether to Install only a part of the signals, or in stall all of them and arrange to pay the additional cost out of next year's budget. Lindy Will Be Married On June 15 LNEW YORK, May 9 (AP) The Daily News in copyrighted article tomorrow will say that Col onel Charles A. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow will be mar ried Saturday, June 15 at the Mor row home at Englewood, N. J. The Daily News will say it learned from a close friend of the Morrow family that the ceremony will take place at 4 p. m., and that Miss Morrows elder sister. Miss Elizabeth -Morrow, win be the bridesmaid. . Jliss Morrow's wed ding dress wilWbe of white satin trimmed with cream lace which her mother woreuat her wedding. ENTER H HMD Will M GIVEN LAST NIGHT Three Elaborate Events Are Presented as Part of Special Week By OLIVE M. DOAK Three elaborate programs were presented to the public in the name of good music week Thurs day night. Miss Norma Maier, in solo recital assisted by orchestra and Vocal numbers from the de partment of the Sacred Heart academy; "Bulbul," a comic op eretta by the Leslie Junior high school students, and E. Ruth How assisted by Joy Turner Moses and students at the state school for the blind. These programs represented the work of the children of Salem and as such showed very painstaking endeavor. Miss Maier played a representative program with very able assistants. The Leslie Junior high school students presented a well controlled, rather elaborate production. The costuming was especially well done, the chorus work was praiseworthy and lines were well remembered. In view of the fact that these children were doing their regular school work while making preparation for this operetta there Is much praise due them and their director, Miss Kreamer, and their accompanist, Doris McCalllster. The program at the school for the blind was well received, and represented very credibly the spir it of music week. One conclusion reached In lis tening to the various programs that are being presented this week is that the American people and their children need to make music week extend to 365 days of the year and thereby live music, ra ther than perform it. It is appall ing to realize how much is done in the name of music that is pure mechanics and gesture with the joy of life and expression absent. Is it that it has gone through drill, or is it that it has never been nourished? "We need more music, expressive music, with the joy of life in It. Night Clerk Of Local Hotel Is Taken Suddenly C. C. Cloutler, night clerk at the Marion hotel here for the past three years, died at 5 o'clock Thursday night at the St. Vin cent's hospital in Portland. He had been in ill health about a month, and underwent an opera tion in Portland a week ago.. "The Proof Pudding . . THE Statesman must confess a jcertain pride In the accomplishment of today's issue. One section, that containing the eight-page ad vertisement of Fulop's, reveals the largest amount of display advertising ever purchasd in Salem at a single time by any institution. The Statesman was honored by having this unique, outstanding an nouncement made exclusively in its columns. Furthermore, today's issue has the largest vol ume of display advertising ever carried in Salem in any newspaper, save for Sunday or special editions. Complete coverage of the Salem trade territory, superior press facilities affording color-power to ad vertisers' messages, helpful advertising service in a newspaper of news and editorial aggressiveness, are combining to prove that The Statesman is the news paper for the state capital field. RIVALS TRY TO I LUREAIRPLAI FACTORY AIY Matter to Come to Head at Important Conference Here Tonight Fight Found Necessary to Keep Eyerly Transport Firm in City Faced with the possibility of losing the airplane school and fac tory which for the past two years has been in operation in Salem, local citizens were busy Thuraday laying plans to keep the Eyerly Air Transport company in business here permanently and to resist a. movement on the part of Engine which is said to be active in a campaign to locate the industry in that city. Tonight the Industrial commit tee of the chamber of commerce and the airport committee rom posed of chamber. Legion and city council members, j3 to confer with Lee Eyerly. S. W. Inman and Fred E. Taylor, all representative of the airp.ane company, with the of arriving at some satisfactory means of keeping the factory in this city. Increase in Size Effected Recent ly Recent Incorporation of the Eyerly Air Transport company at $100,000 bespoke the com mencement of manufacturing of the Eyerly monoplane on a quan tity scale and necessitated enlarge ment to the present airplane fac tory location and the improve ment of the flying field which for the past few years has been main tained by Eyerly himself. Eyerly is said to have received no especially welcome to his pro posal of locating his factory here while in Eugene -a number of pro minent citizens rallied at once to the request that a factory site be provided. Eugene men have ag reed, it was said on good author ity Wednesday, not only to pro vide a factory site for Eyerly tent to lease it to him at the nominal charge of one dollar a year for 20 years. Eugene has offered of its ewn volition to raise $40,000 for the (Turn to Page 2, Column 4.) EUGENE FOLK DENY piRiK phut Representatives of Salem Factory Given Entire Credit by Jenkins In no sense is Eugene "pirat ing" -Salem's rapidly developing airplane school and factory but all interest manifested in the project in the Lane county city raaje about solely from the visit of rep resentatives of the Eyerly-Inman firm. Frank Jenkins, president of the Eugene chamber of commerce, stated Thursday night In a con versation with a Statesman repre sentative. Jenkins stated that the chamber of commerce in that city had not agreed to purchase any stock in the company but had said that it would recommend its purchase by Eugene citizens with the reserva tion that the stock was speculative due to the unsettled nature of the airplane business at the present time. lie declared that Eugene had proferred a site to the Eyerly company. Eyerly and his party flew to Eu gene Monday, Jenkins said, and it was not until late that afterneon that any conference was held with Eugene citizens. Immediately showing interest In the project, 19 representatives of the chamber of commerce, dined with the Eyer ly party Monday night and dis cussed the proposal. Jenkins said his chamber waa considerably Interested Tn the pro ject. He expressed the opinion that Eyerly seemed somewhat agrieved that Salem business men had shown little or no interest in the development which has been underway in the rapital city in the last two years. of the 99