HAPPY! It was' a gronp of happy boys and girls that entered ' the big parade la Salem Fri day. They made a mighty Bice showing as ' they marched throughout the city. WEATHER Unsettled today; Prob ably occasional showers; Southwest wind. Max. tem perature Friday 60; Mia. .40; Rainfall .08; River 3. FOUMDEP 1631 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 51 - Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, May 25, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS Rinni iv" a i nn i I i i 1 a-v-i In I - Z I Z Z I MMt M WITHIN REACH OF Less Than 21 Hours Remain Before New Record is to be Established Motor Still Functions With ' Ease; Seven Days Set as Minimum Goal PORT WORTH, Tex., May 24. - (AP) The monoplane Fort Worth was well down ; the "stretch" of the 151 hours, 40 minutes. 15 seconds goal of sus tained flying at 10:33 o'clock to night having leas than a day's time ahead In which to set a new record. At that time, less than 21 hoars more of flying was need ed for the new mark, the ship haying been aloft 1S1 hours. The single motor etill was functioning smoothly. The plane was refuelled early tonight. FORT WORTH. Tex., May 24. (AP) With every endurance flight record save that of the fa mous army "Question Mark" be hind them. Reginald E. Robblns and Jim Kelly drove their mono nlane "Fort Worth" on tonight through occasional misting rains toward an all-time record for aer ial cruising. As the fliers passed the 124th hour in the air their motor Founded as sweet and effi cient as it did last Sunday morn ing when they last touched earth. Time of Record ! Approaches Steadily At 4:13 p. m., the fliers had only 27 more hours to stay aloft to establish themselves as the champion endurance fliers of the world. During the day the last two records, separating Robbins and Kelly from the time established by the "Question Mark" fell. At 3:03 o'clock this morning, the 112 hour record of the "Graf , Zep peUn'' went by the boards and Earl B. Mathews, one of the offi cial timers wrote in the log: - "Adlos Graf Zeppelin. Your flight Is ancient history now." The 118 hour record establish ed by the ill fated French dirig ible "Dixmude" was surpassed at 9:33 this morning. The record for sustained flight by two man erews had been passed hours be fore as had the record for single motored ships. The Question Mark carried three motors. Some worry was expressed to day, as it appeared possible that the fliers might try to break the record by days, Instead of hours, as to the length of time the' " ar ograph which the plane carries. 1 1 II I II I UUtlll LI VT au ltiui.vi aav v a: A - .An:Dt a Tr a tuiroETanh records altitude and is a positive proof at the end of a flight, that the plane did not come to earth at any time during the flight. Officials at Meachem field here were of the dpinion that the barograph was set to run eight days which would make it run out Monday morning. A telegram has .been sent- to Washington urging that a new in strument be rushed to Fort Worth so that it may be lowered o the "Fort Worth" from the refueling plane. When Robbins went aloft he set seven days as a minimum for the flight suggested that he might stay up ten days and promised to remain aloft two or three weeks If the plane would stand it. Today It apeared to be a question of whether the plane could outlast the men. Peanut Pusher Stops To Rest After Journey COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. May 24. (AP) Bruised and bleeding. Bill Williams, premier peanut pusher, rested tonight af ter one and one tenth miles pounding gravel up Pikes Peak with a goober in front of him. Williams, who halls from Tex as, sent out a special order for heavy rubber knee pads to protect his knees from the battering they received on bis arduous and slow ascent of the 14,109 foot peak. He wore out five peanuts today in his hardest day's work. ORDINANCE Salem Streets Still Scene Of Auto Display SCOPE HELD TOO WIDE A city ordinance that became a 'dead letter" from the time it was - passed and approved is the apparent fate of the recently adopted ordinance to prevent dealers in used cars from making the streets their display rooms. The ordinance was an amendment of an existing ordinance and was made to read as follows: No person, pcrias, flraa, asaoeiatioa or eorpo ratios ahatl park and r leaa any vrhicia ttanlint- ia the (treata, al ley, and or parking atrip of tha City of Salwn for the pnrpoao of offering or a1 uniting tho Kama for aaio or axehanjee. This wording is general in scope and under It a dealer in new cars would be prevented from -1 riving up to a house and inviting lie lady out to inspect the new Sir Exme Howard Offers To Swear Off All Ram Here WASHINGTON, May 24. (AP) The Washington Post In a copyrighted story from Lynchburg, Virginia, tomorrow will say that President Hoover has been called npon to decide whether the diplomatic pri vilege of importing liquor is to be withdrawn as a result of Sir Esme Howard, Brit ish ambassador's written willingness to abandon this tradti'on. The Post will say that James Carter, Lynchburg, Virginia, lumber manufac turer, who, "armed with a letter from Sir Ksme How. ard Intimating that with drawal of the privilege of diplomatic Honor wouId be gladly aeeepted and scrap, nlonsly adhere to' has ap proached the president with demand that necessary step be taken immediately to accept the proposal of the British ambassador HI UNDER ARREST HERE 10 Year Old Lad Makes Trip From Portland to Salem on But 25 Cents From Portland to Eugene on 25 cents, and that found after he started his journey such is part of the story John Leppert, 10-year old Montavilla school lad of Port land, told to Mrs. Nona White, county probation officer, Friday afternoon. And likely enough he would have reached Eugene had not he hailed a motorist on South Commercial street for a "lift," thus giving the motorist an oppor tunity to decide that 10-year-old boys who strayed away from home and school should be held for in vestigation. The youngster reached Salem about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, carying an extra coat and a bundle of clothes in an old Saturday Eve ning Post bag. He left Portland at 10 o'clock that morning, he told the Juvenile officer. He said he was on his way to Eugene to visit an aunt, Mrs. Jim Spriggs, until school started next fall. His mother told him Thursday night he could go if he knew the way and that he had better wear his overalls, the boy maintained, although he did tell conflicting stories. John says his 28-year old moth er, Mrs. Mary Leppert, works in a Portland laundry, but efforts to locate her failed. He gave the home address as 22 E 78 street. He had had two step-fathers, he said, adding "And I guess we're going to have another one now." The "we're" includes two broth ers, one younger and one older. He has lived in Portland three years, he said. Asked if his mother was in the habit of letting him leave home in such a manner, he said he walked from Portland to Scap poose last summer to go swim ming but without mother s con sent. MM SCHOLAR Brenda Savage, one of the most promising senior art students at the Salem high school, was Friday voted by her class members to be the logical recipient of the Joseph H. Albert $25 cash award. The Albert prize has been given to a Salem high senior each year now for the last ten years, and with this year's award the boys and girls share equally. Although the prize is in no way for excellence in scholarship. Miss Savage ranks scholasHcally among the five highest members of the class. Barney Cameron, student body president, and Edith May Jenks, editor of the Clarion annual this year and a member of the school debate team, were nominated with Miss Savage, by an impartial fac ulty committee for the award, nomination to it being considered as great an honor as the final se lection. Bases for selecting the three candidates include: trust worthiness: service to fellow stu dents during year; development Intellectually, socially and spirit ually. NOT USED car which was being offered for sale. Friday an automobile deal er drove a beautiful new car np in front of the place of business of a member of the council. He told the councilman the car was for sale as is stood parked on the street Thia of course was a rlo-. lation of the wording of this or dinance and the dealer pointed It nnt in th mnnrllmii. The purpose of the ordinance of course was to get at the mass ing of rows of used cars on the atreets: hut when it was discover ed that It applied to every car that was offered for sale or ex change the city officers threw np (Turn to Pace 2, Column L) BREi HK IS ACTION SOUGHT BY SALESPEOPLE Residents of City Back Pat ton in Demand That Law be Enforced Here Attention of Council May be Called to Violation of Local Ordinance Commendations for his stand against the cinder "menace" in Salem poured in to Hal D. Patton, alderman, all day Friday from cit izens who agreed with Patton's demand that the black snow which has been falling steadily - in the city for more than a year, be stopped. "I am going to write the beads of every industrial plant in Salem, which is causing this trouble," said Patton Friday. "I'm going to tell them we must have the cinder nuisance stopped. If we don't get results I am going to Insist that the city council have the ordin ance enforced and this calls for a heavy penalty upon any indus try which does not curb the cin der output from its smokestacks." Patton said leading citizens of the town had dropped Into his place of business Friday to de clare themselves to be disgusted with the continuance of cinders throughout Salem. Patton says he means business and says a firm policy on the part of the council will soon stop the rain of black snow which has continued in the downtown part of Salem without a halt. SUi'S '111 GIRL Posses Searching for Assail ant Who Murdered Six Year Old Child FORT BRAGO, Cal., May 24. (AP) While a sheriff's posse searched the woods south of here for the slayer of six-year-old Tre sa Johnson, Mendocino City school girl, whose body was found in a lonely clearing near her home this morning an au topsy revealed late today that the girl had been attacked and strangled to death. The crime was discovered after a searching party of 150 lumber men, headed by the girl's father, S. O. Johnson, had hunted throughout the night for the child who had failed to return home from school yesterday. The body was found in a clear ing off the Little Lake road about one mile from the Johnson ranch. The girl's clothes had been torn off and her mouth was cut and bruised as from a heavy blow. Fingermarks on her throat at tested to the manner in which she was slain. From footprints and other marks in the soft ground of the clearing. Sheriff R. Byrnes re constructed the slaying. The slayer evidently came up on the girl from behind as she walked through the woods from school. Sheriff Byrnes believed the attacked dragged her through the brush to the clearing and then choken her to deaht. 10 WOMEN ID GIRL ARE INJURED Twn film -women and a Toung riri vora aerlonslv injured In an accident on the West Side Pacific highway two miles north or uor- vallia Fridav nlrnt. -according 10 word brought to Salem by per. sons who passed the scene oi me accident shortly after it occurred. The Ford conne in which the group were riding had gone into the ditch and overturned. Mrs. Barbara Darling, 242 Cen ter Street, was reported to have been driving the car. dui me nam nf the two other occupants could not be learned, although it was understood that they were members of the Darling family. Members of the family remaining in Salem said they had been in formed of the -accident, but did not'know bow serious the injuries were. The Injured persons were taken to a Corvallis hospital in an amnu lance. Ontario Man Is Slain By Current TWIN FALLS. Idaho. May 24 (AP) Frank Bowers. 49. of Ontario, Ore., was electrocuted to day when he came in contact wun an electric sower line carrying 44.000 Yolta. Bowers was a line man for the Idaho Power company and was at work near Flier, Idaho, when killed. RAPTLST MEET ENDS ROSEBURG, Ore., May 14. (AP) The Oregon State Baptist convention. In nrorress here since Tuesday, closed at noon today with re-election et last year's of fleers. ON CINDERS h n m 2 PLANES WILE NOT START HOP T Long Awaited Start !t Off Another Day Due to Ad verse Weather Yellow Bird and Green Flash Now Slated to Begin Long Trip Early Sunday OLD ORCHARD BEACH. Me., May 24 (AP. Start of the French monoplane. Yellow Bird for Paris and that of the Green Flash for Rome, was tentatively postponed until Sunday morning after rainy and cloudy weather settled over the ocean today. Na vigators of both planes took ad vantage of the enforced delay to check their instruments. The good feeling existing be tween the two expeditions was evident when Lewis A. Tancey of the Green Flash invited Rene Le- fevre. Yellow Bird navigator, to accompany him to the local tele graph office to compute chrono meter errors by the Arlington time signals. Armano Lottf, sponsor of the Paris flight, who will act as co pilot and radio operator, said the plane was ready except for fuel ing. Lottl, Lefevre and Jean As solant, third member of the Yel low Bird's crew, have spent scarcely an idle moment since their arrival. Their activity has been attributed to eagerness to be off. Departure of their plane wiht scant notice seemed prob able. Mysterious Assailants Take Unidentified Man From His Taxicab CHICAGO, May 14 (AP) A hunt on tonight for the kidnap ers of an unidentified man, and the mystery of their identities and the plight of their victim only deepened as the search went on. Police had expected to find the body of Thomas Cooper, huddled as is the fashion of gangland s vic tims, in a prairie roadside ditch or some bullet-pelted automobile. But Cooper, whose photograph re sembled the man torn from a taxi- cab 4n early morning by a quar tet of machine gunners, was found at his home, unharmed. Melville Oliver, taxi driver, gave the police their only clue. A man had hired his cab and order ed him to "hurry out of this neighborhood," but down the street his car was nosed to the curb by another and its occupants, displaying sub-machine guns, hauled hisfare from the cab, and the victim, struggling with his captors, pleaded: "Ernie, remem ber I'm a married man, please." With the collapse of Cooper's identification as the victim, the police could only guess that the leader of the abductors was Ernie Rossi, already sought in the inves tigation of Sergent Ray Martin's death at the hands of extortion ists. Oliver was not certain of Ros si's identification. TO BE. HERE Memorial Day esrrices for the Oregon circuit riders will be held at the Circuit Rider statue at the Capitol grounds immediately fol lowing the exercises at the Ma rion county soldiers statue next Thursday, according to announce ment made Friday. The Rev. W C. Kantner, will give the memo rial address, and several musical numbers will also be given. Following the services at the statue, another program wiU be given at the grave of Jason Lee in the Lee cemetery. Dr. E. S. Hammond will present a floral offering, assisted -by young people from the Jason Lee Memorial church. President J. M. Canse of Kimball School of Theology will deliver a brief address at the graveside. FLIRTING IS F ATAL TO TENNESSEE MAN GEORGETOWN, Tenn., May 24. (AP) Lee Athcley, S 5 year old merchant, died here today of wounds alleged to have been In flicted yesterday with a wagon spoke by Eva Cofer, 25, who was reported to bare resisted advances made to her by Atchley. The yonng women went to the store yesterday and left after the alleged remarks of Atchley. She returned a few minutes later with the wagon spoke and, according to the reports of the affair, hit him six times on the head. She then returned to her home, and spent today at her employment, picking strawberries. She had not been arrested tonight, DURING 1 STRANGE KIDIiW OCCURS in on CIRCUIT BS 110 Colorful On Streets Of Salem By Nearby Community Clubs Keizer Region Takes Highest Honors For Size Of Crowd Stayton And Labish Sections Tie For Special Prize A host of Marion county's finest product, her boys and girls, descended on Salem Fri day and, gaily attired, staged a parade which for the next year will be the talk at the fireside of many a home whose lads and lassies marched blithely to portray the picture of their community's accom plishments. Of eourse, there were older folk there, too. but it was a boys' and girls' parade and whether they carried a huge green bean to tell the world theirs was the section where the best beans come from, or were clad about by a pasteboard can, typical of the canning indus try in their community, each one had a real part In this gala march. Keizer Community Has Largest Delegation The Keizer community, with 40 carloads of people and a total of 235 representatives, easily took first honors for the largest repre sentation in the parade. Honors for the most unique en try were divided between Stayton and Labish Center with a consola tion award going to Mount Angel. No less than 11 communities were represented in the march as it threaded its way up and down the principal thoroughfares of Sa lem and then made its way up Court street to the capitol where the marchers were reviewed by Governor Patterson. All Sections Of County Represented Entries were in the parade from Mt. Angel, Stayton, Salem Heights, Labish Center, Silverton, Aums ville, Rickey, Aurora, Keizer, Hubbard and Molalla. ' With Carle Abrams as marshal of the day and H. O. Miller his (Turn to Page 2, Column 1.) L Building activity may Just coast through this week and still bring the May record ahead of that for April, it was Indicated Friday when the total of new per mits for the month reached 1116,239. The April figure was $132,532, so that if this week's permits sur pass $16,293, a new high mark for the year will be created. Reports were current Friday that at least one additional big project, previously announced, would be started in time to be counted in the May total. This month's figures already Include the cost of the Portland Electric Power company's new warehouse, and several ohter fairly large projects. Nine permits were issued in the week which ended Friday, for buildings estimated to cost a total of $22,600. Seven of these were for dwellings, Indicating an in- crease In the volume of residence construction. One was for a store building which William Lebold is to have erected at 1256 State street. The largest residence Is that to be built for Delmar L. Bond, at 865 Market street at a cost of $4375. One permit was for repair of a building on South Commercial street. AUTHORITIES SEEK UMETEOB , WINSLOW, Aria., May 24 (AP) With Water hazards en countered at the 600 foot level overcome, authorities at the site of the excavation project for the giant meteorite which buried itself Into the earth 22 miles west of here centuries ago, tonight ex pressed the belief that their ob jective would soon be reached. The metorlte, estimated to be 400 feet in diameter, and contain ing 10,000,000 tons of valuable minerals, first had been the ob ject to scientific Investigation, and in later years a treasure sought by commercial enterprises. The latest of these, conducted by the meteor exploration com pany assisted by a London engin eering firm, has been constructing a shaft in the direction of the buri ed metorlte for a number of years. The operations are under the di rection ot D. M. Barringer, Phil adelphia geologist. Samples of scattered bits of metal found for miles around the volcano-like crater caused by the falling body, assayed, hare led experts to believe the metorlte is composed ot about $2 per cent iron, with balance In nickel, plat inum and iridium. BUI WE ACTIVITY GONG STRONG HERE Parade Staged C V -' x-f . V -s ' 1 4r " - '' ' vsf iff I " s7 fill I 4 iv il ' Sana m trl5w V . 6 3$Siw V?. Labish Center "knows Its onions' Its float told the world Friday in the community club parade here; the lower picture shows the first section of the parade coming up Salem Night Marks First Community Entertainment At Elsinore Theater Here Pleasing Musical Program Presented Mostly By Local Talent; Large Audience En joys Numbers Given On Stage THE Marion county federation of community clubs opened its annual community talent contest with a superior pro gram Friday night before a packed house in the Elsinore theatre. The program presented had not only the advantage of being well chosen but it was pleasingly presented. Soft 3 Three suits for divorce were filed with County Clerk Boyer Friday, while only two applica tions for marriage licenses were given out, a net loss of one in the married couples in the coun ty, Mr. Boyer pointed out. Ruth M. Armstrong filed suit for divorce from Myron W. Arm strong, her husband, whom she married In Moro in 1911. He de serted her in 192sV the plaintiff claims. Custody of one child is asked by Mrs. Armstrong in her complaint. Alleged familiarify with other women is held to blame for the matrimonial difficulty which Dor. cas Wickizer alleges leads her to ask relief from her martial bonds with E. L. Wickizer. The eouple was married in Vancouver, Wn.. In 1226. Plaintiff seeks to have her maiden name of Dorcas Hill restored. She also wishes the cus tody of their one child. Louise Grimm Stohl and Clyde E. Stohl were married in Port land in September, 1908, but for some time they have not lived to gether, Mrs. Stohl sets forth In a suit for divorce begun in circuit court Friday. They have no chil dren. The plaintiff asks for $40 a month alimony. Marriage licenses granted by the county clerk were given J. F. Dougherty, 24, who lives on the Fairgrounds road and Audrey Irene Warker, 23, Oswego, and Anthonv J. Wolf. 21. Salem, to Jewell Lewis, 19, Salem. Harmonica King Performs For Lions Club Here Claude Sullivan, better known as "Harmonica Mike," who claims to have been the first entertainer ever to broadcast over the radio, presented several harmonica nov elties at the Salem Lions club luncheon Friday. Sullivan broad cast from station 2LO at London in 1913, when the range of radio telephony was 15 to 20 miles and all listeners used crystal sets and head 'phones. Sullivan has been a vaudeville performer since 1900 He has appeared before 178 Lions clubs. ft NT - V''ifisw $ .Ssv i j-v State street. lighting effects and the quiet beauty of the Elsinore did much to accentuate the at tractiveness of feminine appear ances on the stage. The first number presented was petite Jacqueline Duke, six year old Portland miss not much larger than her violin who played with a sureness and surprisingly well mastered technique that quite si lenced into respectful quiet an audience which much ot the time seemed more interested In itself than what it had come to hear. The program Friday night was Salem night and following little Miss Duke the Salem high school (Turn to Pae S, Column 1.) IS Selection of the winner In the district contest for the Thomas A. Edison scholarship contest will not be announced until Monday as all the community entrants had not been interviewed before school closed for the week. Lee Coe is Salem's entry In the district contest. Other schools in the district include Corvallis, Al bany, Newburg, Silverton. Dallas, Independence and other Marion, Polk, Linn and Benton county schools. Members of the committee to select the district representative include Robert Goetz, Silverton superintendent of schools; O. E. Whiteworth, Dallas high school principal; V. D. Bain, Woodburn high principal; H. W. Adams, Cor vallis high principal, and Nor borne Berkeley, Salem high de bate coach. Former Slave Passes At Age Of 94 Years SPOKANE, May 24. (AP) Mark Cain, 94 year old negro ex slave, who friends said knelt ev ery morning for 64 years to pray before a picture of Abraham Lin coln, died at the county hospital today. - The aged negro was held : In such esteem that the Spokane county commissioners will close their office tomorrow to attend bis funeral In a body. EDM n IB n i CONTRACT LET Tl Bids Opened Friday for Con struction of $184,000 Phone Structure Excavation to Start in Few Days for Three Story Plant in Salem Bids were opened in Portland Friday on general construction of the new $184,000 building which will be erected for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company on the south side of State street between Cottage and Winter. Tne contract will be let this afternoon. officials "of the company announc ed. Plans have been prepared by Frank H. Struble. local architect, who will supervise construction. The contract for steel to be used In the building was let a little over a month ago. It is expected that excavation will start within a few days, as the company hopes to have tha building ready for occupancy lata in the present year. New Structure To Be Three Stories In Height The building, according to an announcement made by local offi cials of the telephone company, will be three stories high for the present, with provision made for adding two more floors at a later time when expansion of the ser vice makes it necessary. It will be of steel frame con struction, fireproofed throughout, with exterior finish of light terra cotta. The building will be set back ten feet from the sidewalk line and this feature, together with the architectural design, will insure its harmonizing wth the other buildings in that vicinity, one of which is the city library. Telephone equipment in the building will be entirely new, both for local and long distance service. A possibility that the lo cal system will embody the auto matic type of operatron, although according to the latest Informa tion available here, officials of the company had not announced a de cision on this point. In addition to the central office equipment, the building will pro vide quarters for the company business office in Salem. Construction of this building, according to an announcement made some time ago by official of the company, is but the first step In a program of telephone de velopment and improvement ia Salem which will involve an ex penditure of approximately $840, 000 in the next two or three years. One feature of this program will Include the placing under ground of practically all telephone lines. Some progress toward this end has already been made, an un derground long distance svstem i having been laid out Cottage street early this year. PFAFFIN6ER CASE Marion county's most popular circuit court case In many a moon Arthur Pfaf finger's $10,000 suit against Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Seely because he lost his right arm when his motorcycle collided with a wagon owned by the Seelys is expected to go to the Jury some time today, after having occupied the court all day Friday. Tha court room was crowded with neighbors and friends of the liti gants. Judge Percy R. Kelly ia hearmg the case. The case is based on an acci dent which occurred last August 31, wnen rraf ringer, riding a mo torcycle on the Woodburn-Moni-tor road, collided with a wagon of hops belonging to the Seelys and driven by Mike Snyder, in em ploye of the defendants. Pfaffin ger lost his right arm as a result of the collision. . The plaintiff claims that the wagon was without lights, that the wagon was on the wrong side of the road and that the driver was not holding the horses' reins, but lying on his back on the hops. The opposition claims that the motorcyclist was rounding a cor- ner so fast he drove between the horses and that the wagon was oa the extreme right of the road. Statesman-Capitol Children's Matinee Friday and Saturday Afternoons 2 o'clock To See the Next Chapter of TARZAN THE MIGHTY" also Singing, Talking Specialty Lcky Boy starring George Jeel Tltapbone Act Movietone News : This coupon and five cents will admit any child under twelve to Eligh's Capital Theatre' 1 BUILDING WILL CLOSE TOBftY