BACK THE CLUB - Salem's ball club is a lire wire organization and can and will receive tlie support of .boosters locally. Today local citizens will underwrite the club's success. WEATHER Fair today. Warmer. Lower humidity. Gentle north wind. Max. temperature Tuesday M; mln. SO; River 4. Part cloudy. Wind north. FOUMDEQ 1691 Wo Fiwor Sway ; JYo Fnr SAafl Awe" I ifcir5V "ftsT SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 42 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, May 15, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS C V AAA AA v vV nwjfflnnRfinn wvww ZEP IS CAUSING INTtRITIOiL Jprt, cupligatiis m m French Strenuously Contra dict Report About Keep ing Dirigible Away Flight Delayed One Day Due to Misunderstanding, Reports Indicate PARIS, May 14. (AP) The French foreign office said tonight that it was mystified by the state ment of Dr. Hugo Eckener that failure to receive permission toi fly over France had caused post ponement of the start of the Graj. Zeppelin for America. The foreign office insisted that authorization had been given some time ago and that there had been no question of revoking tt. It was pointed out that on the last flight to the Mediterranean not only did ' the French allow the dirigible to erni3e over their country but pro vided an honorary escort of j I rench planes during part of the trip. Weather Blamed For Pclay In Takeoff It was considered here that weather was a greater cause for the postponement than the mat ter of permission. A gale was blowing off the Brittany coast to day with such force as to sink a fishing boat with its crew of three. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Ger many, May 14. (AP) The dir--iT ieible Graf Zennelin will start its a flight early Thursday morning and not tomorrow and whether it at ieiffpt a two hour dash across France depends on the weather. French Permission Arrives At Last Announcement was made late tonight that permission of the French govern meat to fly over its soil, which Dr. Hugo Eckener Bad said had not come to him although he asked for it two weeks ago, was received by the dirigible com mander at ten o'clock tonight. The condition was attached ihft the flight be mad between seven a. m., and nine a.' m., and ofiiec.i of the airship declared it was im possible to assemble their crew in time for a start tomorrow that would enable them to conform to this rule. Dr. Eckener tonight believed that the violent storm over the English channel might subside in another 24 hours so that he could fly by way of Holland and avoldl the necessity of any French per mission. The 18 passengers who have signed up for the second flight of the Graf Zeppelin to America had assembled here early today and throughout the evening impatient-! ly waited in the Kurgarten hotel for word as to whether their ad venture would begin sooji after daybreak. HTK EXPERT TO RETURN TO FRANCE Ernest Loir, who has been In Salem since the first of December to supervise setting up of a knitt ing machine for the Miles Linen company, will leave this morning for his home in Paris, France. He plans to return direct there, ex cept for a two-day stay in New York City. The machine now in use at the local mill is the first of its kind set up in the west and one of few in this country, Mr. Loir said Tues day. Loir, who is 70 years old but doesn't look It. lived in this country tor 20 years, returning to France in 1919. Although he says he likes Salem and the climate is n't unlike that in hie home, he said he was happy to be returning to France, "Where the living is all right even if it does take 25 francs to make a dollar." His big objec tion to this country is that it "doesn't seem like home." The machine shipped to this country by hie country only weighs 12 tons. Word from the mill describes it as doing excellent work. It it being used to knit seines for the fishermen in the Co lumbia, thus making its controbu tion to the third largest industry In Oregon the Salmon industry. Army Air Forces to Stage Huge Sham Battle Tonight As Part of Big Exhibition COLUMBUS. O., May 14. (AP) United States army air forces, divided for maneuvers into a "Red" army and a "Blue" army, against weather conditions and preparing to begin their sham bat f ie tomorrow night. The battle against the elements kept many of the planes from re porting to Dayton and Columbus, headquarters of the Blue and Red armies respectively. Weather con dition! In the J south, east and north, made , It impossible for gome of the ships to take off. Two ships, however, were flown to their battle stations and tonight Busy! I x t mm is f -rTt I 1 M 3?S 1 nt, . i.r i BLnuMuaaaKennV MnUMuuuuuuuVjMltiMMtdM liiut liartlly expresses the way Congressman Hawley feels in these days of battle on the tariff bill which he has introduced into the house and which, with farm relief, constitutes the principal ac tivities of congress at the special session. RATES F III R TIFF Milk, Cream, Flaxseed and Windowglass Are Given Boost by President WASHINGTON. May 14. (AP) While a number of repub licans and democrats were finding fault with the pending tariff bill in the house today. President Hoo ver took advantage of the flexible provisions of the existent law to proclaim increases In duties on flaxseed, milk, cream, and win dowglass. On recommendation of the tar iff commission, the executive raised the tariff On flaxseed from 40 to 5C cents a bushel, the same rate proposed in the Hawley bill. Some western republicans, how- ever, are not satisfied with the 56 cent rate The milk duty was increased from two and one-half to three and three-quarters cents a gallon. The bill provides a duty of five cents. The rate on cream was raised from 20 to 30 cents a gallon. The bill proposes an increase to 4S cents. The duties on window glass were boosted by varying degrees from the present rate range of one and one quarterto two and one half cents a pound. The bill provides similar increases. Asked what effect the presiden tial increased would have, on the rates in the bill. Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the house republican leader, said the presi dent acting on cases which have been pending some time befora the tariff commission merely was giving relief now without waiting for the pending bill to be enacted into law. Examinations To Be Staged Soon The spring state eighth grade examinations will be held Thurs day and Friday of this week. The county superintendent's office has sent out 1900 preliminary papers. including the physiology and ge ography questions for the sixth and seventh grades. Superinten dent Fulkerson estimates about 600 eighth grade students will write on the questions. This num ber is about the usual total of eighth graders to write. were in hangars at Dayton where the pilots discussed the maneuvers to begin shortly after midnight Wednesday. Arrivals today Includ ed 38 planes of the third attack group and 14 craft of the 11th bombardment group from Rock well Field. Calif. The fliers will spend tomor row studying the terrain and tun ing motors for the beginning of "hostilities," which will be car ried on under war conditions, with early morning flight patrols, night bombardment flights and little sleep for the "kicky" ones who will remain at the bases of operations. HOOVER INCREASES NEWSPAPER IS DEFENDANT IN BIG LIBEL SUIT Million Dollars Demanded In Action Against Philadel phia Record Alleged Social Breach Told About by Defendant Pub lication Monday WASHINGTON, May 14 (AP) An article published yesterday by the Philadelphia Record was ; made the basis of a 11,000,000 li bel suit filed against that news paper today by Bernard B. Mc Lean, publisher of the Washing ton Post. The article, a photostatic copy of which was included as a part ; of the McLean brief, had purport- ed to describe circumstances of a social Dreacn Detween MCL.ean ana Prince De Ligne, the Belgian am bassador. It said a story was cur rent that the publisher had been requested by the diplomat to leave the Belgian embassy after he had dined there. The Record article said that the next day McLean's Washington Post "began printing outbursts i against Prince De Ligne," and that the Belgian ambassador had called at the state department "to find if he really was persona non grata with the government." Secretary Declared To Have Apologized "Secretary of State Stimson," the article continued, "immediate ly wrote him a public note expres sing 'sincere regret for the editor ial discourtesy'." "But it was President Hoover who completely stemmed the breach and put the publisher in his place. To the outsider it was highly diplomatic, but to those in the know it was a blunt squelch ing of McLean." The McLean brief declared the publisher: "Did not attend a dinner at the Belgian embassy referred to," "Did not at such a dinner dine too well,' Did not annoy any guests at such a dinner nor shock said guests," "Did not subject the. Belgian ambassador to embarrassment by reason of his conduct." and "Was not requested to leave such dinner." The brief asserted further that (Turn to Page 2, Column t.) Defendant Is Off On Fishing Jaunt When $46,500 Suit for Damages Begins PORTLAND, Ore., May 14. (AP) Attachment proceedings in connection with the suit brought yesterday by Sarah E. Smith, re puted wealthy resident of Bel lingham and Seattle, Wash., against Denton G. Burdick, cen tral Oregon attorney an state leg islator, were enforced, by the sher iff's office today against Bur dick's property within the juris diction of the court. Meanwhile, friends were mak ing efforts to locate Burdick, who is on a fishing trip, and apprise him of the situation. Mrs. Smith seeks t o recover $46,500 from Burdick, charging that she had been misled and de frauded by him while acting as ner legal adviser. Certificates of attachment were filed today against Burdick'g home In Irvington, an automobile and four accounts in Portland banks. Garnishments were served on the United States National and bank of California. Two years ago Mrs. Smith was the central figure in a Washing ton affair when her -husband, George F. Scallard is alleged to have stolen $2,000,000 worth of bonds. Jewels, moneys and other personal property from her. A portion of it was recovered and Burdick was retained to regain the remander. Legion Making Great Plans For Convention Here Numerous matters in contuse tion with Salem's entertainment of the American legion convention here in August, were reported on by the convention commission at Tuesday night's meeting of Capi tal Post No. 9. It was announced, among other things, that the con tract for the 64 page souvenir program had been let. The state chaplain, the Rev. Duncan P. Cameron, was unable to be present. Entertainment at the post meeting included num bers by pupils of the Barnes school of dancing, and accordion musie by John Esch. CRASH IS FATAL BAKER. Ore.. May 14. (AP) Elias Scott, 72 ,of Carson, died In a hospital here last night from Injuries received in an automo bile accident near Roblnette. BUB PHOPEflTT UNDER ITTIIUEIfT Cop Also Fooled; Fenders Marked As Girls Pass By Varying opinions have been expressed about the new stunt the- police have adopted for enforcing; the overtime parking ordinance marking the rear tires in stead of front one but here's something new. It seems that Tuesday af ternoon a bevy of Fancboa and Marco chorus girls were bicycling down the street, and Officer Kuykendall be came so interested in watch, ng them that he went along absent-mindedly marking fenders instead of tires. About the same time and place, a reporter on the af ternoon paper barely avoid ed being run down by an au tomobile. He, too, was said to have had his eyes on the bicyclettee Instead- of the traffic. DIRIGIBLE FLIGHT Commander Says French "Pigishness" to Blame for Day's Delay FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany May 14. (AP) With weather conditions seldom more favorable for a voyagle across the Atlantic ocean, the Hamburg-American air liner Graf Zeppelin will remain in port tomorrow morning instead of leaving for Lakehurst, N. J. Departure of the big dirigible. assigned for this voyage to the Hamburg-American line for entry into the United States, was sud denly postponed this afternoon until tomorrow. Her commander. Dr. Hugo Eck ener, said it would he Impossible for him to get away on scheduled time because he had not yet re ceived permission to fly over France. His statement brought a denial from the French government. When informed tonight that the French government declared per mission had been granted for the flight across French territory, Dr. Eckener insisted: "If so, it cer. tainly hasn't reached me or the Zeppelin works." Germany's present agreement with France provides that aircraft carrying neither radio nor photo graphic apparatus may fly over France without special permis sion, but airships like the Graf Zeppelin, equipped with radio and photographic apparatus, must ob tain a special permit. "The German foreign office told me today that the French foreign office had made remarks about our having flown over the Le Creusot munitions works on our first voyage to America." Dr. Eckener declared. "But this is nonsense. Le Cruesot lay on a straight line from Besancon to the Vean. Naturally from a height of 400 meters we couldn't see any thing." Dr. Eckener Baid that this was the third time he had had "schein erei (piggishness) with the French." "They delayed the permit for our first American flight and also for the second trip to the orient. It is sheer Insanity." insisted the zeppelin's commander. KEENE REELECTED JJ JEWELERS MEET EUGENE. Ore., May 14. (AP) The Oregon Retail Jewelers as sociation ended the 22nd annual convention tonight with a ban quet. Election of officers featured the final business session. Those elected are: R. G. War ren, The Dalles, president; J. S. Zell, Portland, vice president; P. T. Bubar, Roasburg, second vice president; Seth F. French. Al bany, third vice president; Frank Heitkemper, Portland and Carl Greve, Portland, members of ex ecutive committee A. A. Keene, Salem, secretary treasurer, holds over for another year. 25 Cherrians Are Wanted For Trip Committee Says If 25 Cherrians sign up for the summer trip this year it will be made a three-day-and-two-night affair over the new Cascade route to Klamath Falls, It was decided Tuesday night at the Cherrian meeting. A vote of the members will be taken this week. Business men will be invited to make the trip. Part of the Journey will be made by bus and part by train. The trip over the Cascades will be made by daytime, T. A. Raffe ty, chairman of the summer trip committee announced. Wives of Cherrians and business men will be asked to go on the trip. ASSAULT CHARGED PORTLAND. May 14. (AP) A charge of assault with a dan gerous weapon was filed against Charles Cralle, 26, lumber work er, today by the district attorney In connection with scrape in which Chuck Nordnke suffered a gashed head. HELD UP BY CLASH NINE TEACHERS ARE CHOSEN IT SCHOOL BOARD American Legion Given Per mission to Use Field for Convention Directors Tackle Matter of Pupils' Transportation From Polk County Nine new teachers were elected to the Salem school system as the chief business of the school board at its regular meeting held last night. Other matters taken up In cluded opening of wood bids which will be held until board members see wood offered; dis cussion of construction of a port able stage for the Parrish Junior high; discussion of beautification of school grounds especially dur ing summer period; report on the transportation of Polk county pu pils. The board granted the Ameri can Legion permission to use din ger field for the three days of the state Legion convention and a re quest from the Miles Linen mill for use of the machine shop dur ing the vacation period was turned down. Following student excite ment that the armory might not be available for commencement this year because of a higher rent- (Turn to Page 2, Column 2.) IS Bean, Bortzmyer Thinks Vegetable Growth Is Cause of Trouble O. C." Bortsmyer and L. J. Bean members of the public service commission, Tuesday made an un official Inspection of the intake and filtration ground of the Sa lem plant of the Oregon-Washington Water Service corporation. The public service commission recently ordered an Investigation of the rates, practices and service of hte water company. Members of the commission said it was their opinion that the water company is doing every thing possible to eliminate the vegetable growth, which was held responsible for the peculiar taste of Salem's water supply. A new filtration plant is Installed. The plant will cost approximately $200,000. The water company also has ordered a modern chlorine plant for the purpose of purifying the local drinking supply. A laboratory has been estab lished near the intake, and the water is being analyzed daily. Toad Found; City Almost Gets on Map Salem got on the "discovery" map yesterday almost. And while it lasted, local scientists lost plenty of heart beats. It all be gan when a reptile resembling the horned toad was found in some iris dug up at the Henry J. Mil lie home Tuesday morning. Horned toads, be tt explained, simply aren't found in western Oregon but live in arid sections. Hence the excitement; if the "find" proved really to be a horn ed toad, scientists bad a right to be worked up for something big had happened. And sure enough. Professor Ce cil Monk of the Willamette Uni versity decided after due exam ination that the creature was a horned toad. The Millie's suspect ed that they had brought the rep tile with them from Yakima in iris bulbs about four years ago and that it had lived In this cli mate all that time. That was on conjecture, but it blew up when It was learned that the sure enough horned toad was one of two which Clarence Bowne had exhibited recently at the Ken Brown store. The H. T. had sim ply escaped from display. Session Laws Take Up 895 Pages This Year, Hoss Reports - The 1929 session laws have been printed and are ready 'for distribution, ac cording to announcement made by the secretary of state. The book contains 895 pages as against 820 In 1927. The first volume will be distributed among state and county officials. The session laws will sell at fa over the counter, $2.20 to any desti nation in Oregon outside of Salem, and f 2.40 for distri bution outside of the state. This is 25 eenta lesa per volume than charged for the 1927 session laws. WATER Ml MOT REPORT Ex-President is Here you see a president and an ex-president. On the left is President Darwin P. Kingslcy, of the New York Life Insurance company, who greeted Calviu CooUdge, formerly Chief Executive of the nation, as Mr. Ooolldge took his seat aa a director of the big insurance company. SUPERB LEAVES LOCAL IKE STIFF Miss Fern A. Goulding Ends Active Term With County Health Demonstration Miss Fern A. Goulding, super visor of the nursing service with the Marlon county child health demonstration with which she has been connected for the last year and a half, will leave this morning for Ames, Iowa. Miss Goulding will travel via the southern route. 1 stopping at San Francisco and Los Angeles briefly. She will spend a short time in Detroit and plans to attend summer school at the University of Michigan. Her plans for the winter are yet uncertain. Miss Goulding reported Tuesday that the education program con ducted by her department for the past three months included 89 lec tures to 400 high school girls; that the nurses had reached 150 women in lectures on care of the sick and that 38 Red Cross cer tificates would be granted as a result of the classes conducted over the county in home health and care of the sick. Miss Goulding .was for five yearj. before coming to Salem, dean of women and Instructor in personal hygiene at Olivet college. Olivet, Mich. Harry Riches To Be Aide De Camp To General White Harry L. Riches of this city Tuesday was appointed aide de camp to Brigadier General White, with headquarters in Salem. He will act as supply and training of ficer for the 82 nd infantry bri gade. Mr. Riches was a member of Company B., 162nd infantry at the time of his promotion. He served overseas during the World war, and has aa excellent army record. At the time of his appointment, Lieutenant Riches was a private in company B, 162nd Infantry, here. Lieutenant Riches' advance ment from private to aide de camp to General White is the greatest promotion the headquarters has announced for some time. Peetz Is Stricken On Way Up Stairs Stricken by a heart attack as he was coming up the stairs pre paratory to a lawsuit in which he was seeking damages, E. W. Peets was seriously 111 Tuesday after noon and Judge Kelly postponed the case until the recovery of the plaintiff. The trial was set for Tuesday afternoon. Mable Simp son appearing as defendant in a suit brought about by a disagree ment over a real estate commission. Has New Job 1 - ' f, v:: SITUATION STUDIED Qlf AIRPORT GROUP Eyerly Desires to Remain In . Salem, He Declares at Meeting Here Lee Eyerly wants to keep his airplane factory in Salem. And Salem wants it kept here Eyerly was told Tuesday noon when he conferred with members of the airport committee which included Brazier Small, Henry Crawford and Watson Townsend. The first Job is to find Eyerly a satisfactory eight for his fac tory and this the committee feels can be done. Eyerly, as a major ity stock holder in his manufac turing company, has stated that he is anxious to get under way but he realizes that it may be a matter of some weeks before the Salem airport can be finished for use as a landing field. Albany is said to be seeking to locate Eyerly there but aa yet without making any definite offer. The proposition of moving the fac tory there was discussed at an Albany round-table meeting but the talk was entirely informal. Kiwanis Getting Ready For 1929 Convention Here A general discussion of plans for the district Kiwanis conven tion to be held in Salem August 20-22 occupied the attention of a Kiwanis committee meeting held at the chamber of commerce last night. Committee chairmen were named- and will be announced within a week or ten days. The lo cal club expects to entertain be tween 800 and "1000 visitors for the convention. Saleni Baseball Up Against it Of Adequate Salem ball fans and the backers of the Senators are faced today with the cold, stark realify that unless some support is rallied at once to the cause of baseball in this city, the high hopes of the town for a winning team this year will be knocked into a cocked hat solely because financial backing for the team Is lacking. Officers of the local ball club and its manager, Leo "Frisco" Ed wards, went into conference Tues day evening to discover an effec tive method of insuring financial stability for the team and pre venting Its possible disbanding through lack of support. As a result, today leading busi ness men of the city are to be ap proached by backers of the team asking that the season's activities BILL FOR FARM PASSED BYU.SSENATE Debenture Clause Retained Despite Objection of President Hoover Final Vote is 54 to 33 In Favor of Agriculture Aid Measure By Ra-jinoiHl Z. Henle Associated Pre Staff Wrilrr WASHINGTON. May 14 t AP) A farm relief bill unacceptable to President Hoover because it contains the export debenture p"aa was passed today by th senate. 54 to 33, after a full month's la bor. Both branches of congress now have acted upon agricultural relief legislation, but the greatest hb certainty surrounds its final en actment because of the sharp dif ference between the senate and the house on the debenture action. The president early in the session strongly objected to that method of farm relief. The senate measure will he messaged tomorrow to the house where administration leaders are inclined to refuse the bill. They base this on contentions that tee senate had no right to initiate tie debenture proposal on the theory that it is revenue legislation aad therefore constitutionally must or iginate In the house. Strong op position to this opinion was ex pressed today in the senate and ministration leaders have been working to prevent a deadlock. Independent Bkc Sides With Bourbon The farm bill was passed hi the senate largely by the same combination of Democrats and Re publican independents who voted for the debenture plan. Thirty-one administration Ra publiearts Including Senator Wat son of Indiana, the party leader, voted against the bill as a protest to the debenture section. Twt Democrats, Wagner of New York and Walsh of Massachusetts alse voted against the bill. Nine senators who voted agaiasi debentures, however, voted for the measure, but even if they bad cast their ballot with the administra tion group, the bill would have passed. These senators were Capper of Kansas, Couzens and Vandenherg of Michigan, Cutting of New Mexico, McNary and Stel wer of Oregon, Shortridge of Cali fornia, and Thomas of Idaho, Re publicans, and Ransdell, of Louisi ana, Democrat. McNary Prepares For Joint Conference Immediately after the measura had been passed, Senator McNary. as chairman of the' agriculture (Turn to Page 1, Column 1.) OIC, ELECT!! 12 SLATED FOR IT It OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corvallis, Ore., May 14. (AP) The second election of the Ore gon State college student body was postponed today until Thurs day, May 16, to avoid confictlag with the annual inspection of the R. O. T. C. unit Wednesday. The time for voting was extend ed three hours to take care of the rush of ballots under the new se cret voting system. A new elec tion board was appointed today headed by Clifton Adams of Hunt ington. The former election was de clared void by President Kerr following discoveries by the fac ulty investigating committee et Irregularities. BAOLT FUNKRAL. PLANNED PORTLAND, May 14. (AP) Funeral services for Fred L. Baolt. former editor of the Portland News and assistant to B. H. Can field, manager of the Scrippe Canfleld group of coast newspa pers who died Saturday, will conducted tomorrow aftern here. Club Now Due to Lack Support Here be underwritten and the season's entire schedule completed. Wet weather which has caused the postponement of three home games as well as a seeming de cline in baseball interest locally are held to blame for the situa tion but given financial stability, and an equal break with the weather, there is no reason the Senators cannot make a fine shew ing both financially and in the league averages, Edwards said last night. Tffe immediate situation re veals the local treasury not en tirely deplete of funds, and with virtually every bill paid as well as a full supply of uniforms and other baseball paraphernalia. The Immediate distress in ie clab's (Turn to Page 2, Column) 1.) r