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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1929)
t u WEATHER .JUNE! . A ttrw, month brings an wnmsttally favorable ant look for a prosperous eoncluskm to the spriag-tlaae- baainesa Unacttled , today; " Occa aioaal how; Iodrat temprratare. U ax. temper atoro Friday 64; Mto. 41; Bala .14; Wtad rest; TUr r 1.7. . r - - - - FOUMDCO 1831 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning:, June 1, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS CHURCH Mil IN THREE. GHICAG revious ' f SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 57 ,: i . - ; M F ST S m RY CM Bads Wonder SillLLIG She's Champ High Flyer II I - MIW IW III I W I 1 TO - i IRliG FRIDAY ; ink iff I r V: r : r m t .11 Texas at Same Time Swept by Flood 'Waters Tak ing Two Lives - Mercury Shows 90 Degrees! in New York for First Time This Year By The Associated Preaa Still Bweltcring in heat that was all the harder to bear be cause It was so unseasonable, the popnlation of the eastern part of the United States hare turned ex pectant faces to the north. Relief riding the wings of north erly breezes that started blowing across the eastern states about noon Friday, was reported to be on Its way. Boston, one of the hottest places in the irhole country at 8 a. m., Friday with a temperature of 84, experienced the highly pleasing sensation of a 19 point degree drop in temperature around noon. However, before It got cool er in Boston, it got hotter. The temperature had gone up to 90 at 11:30, then a breeze off the At lantic came to the aid of the northerly wind, and by 12:45 p. m., the mercury had dropped down to 71. Heat Wave Sweeps Sonth Along Seaboard But while Boston was covliag off other Atlantic seaboard cities were Just getting the crest of their heat wave. By the middle of the. afternoon it was 90 in New York and in Philadelphia, and in both cities the humidity' was high. The end apparently was In sight in New York, however, after the 90 degree temperature had been recorded at 3 p. m., making Fri day the hottest day of the year in New York. There was a drop ,to 89 by 4 o'clock. While It was cooler in BoBton, (Turn to Pare 6, Column I.) ISSUED IN DhE D.Vi Circuit Court Busy Place on Friday; Most of Suits Go by Default Department number tvfo of Marion county's circuit court sys tem waa busy Friday as mar riage contract after marriage contract was declared null and void, in the majority of Instances the cases going by default. When the day was done Judge McMahan had granted 15 decrees and in the majority of cases separation al- wsi made permanent and legal. Included-in the cases where divorces were granted - were the following: Alma Brennan from Michael Brennan, the plaintiff having her maiden name of Alma Campbell restored. . J. Gerald "Volk from May S. Volk, by defiult. Minnie Ml' Merrill from Howard P. Merrill, $20 a month support money being allowed the plain tif for support of a minor child. Mary Heasler from Albert Heas ler, plaintiff having her maiden name of Mary Van Loanen restor ed. Nellie H. Jensen from Clark W. Jensen, plaintiff having name of Nellie H. Shute restored. Carl F. Dickson from May B. Dickson. Olive M. Doan from Eugene L Doan, with 50 support money provided for two minor children. The divorces Included F. Ethel Lau from John F. Lau; Sylvia Thompson from Bartone Thomp son; E. Sneed from Ivan Sneed; Seth Carkson from Millie Carlson; Davis from Davis; McLaughlin from McLaughlin; Barker from Barker; Young from Young. mi Appeal From Ballot Title For Referendum Measure Argued Before High Gourt Clatmlnr that the ballot title prepared by Attorney General Van Winkle for the proposed ref erendum measure attacking the excise tax law enacted at the 1 $2 9 ; legislature, was" misleading and not true description of the act. i Attorney W. 8. U'Reo of Portland, delivered an argument In the state .supreme court here Friday ,', en appeal from .the ballot title. V. Attorney U'Ken stressed tne - contention that the ballot, title as ; i . .. prepared by. the attorney general t . :- would convey the Impression that the excise-tax measure was an in ccme taxJawHe said such an im - pressleffwould be unfair for the f. '7 reason that the income tax la un . '"popular and ha been defeated at nine elections held In this state. - He suggested that the short title - .read 'Excise tax of 1I29." v -' . ' -Objection also was raised by At- Question Raised as to Authority by Which Men Employed to Clear Salem's New Airport; Fund Nearly Spent BY what authority the city airport committee has entered into an agreement for preliminary work toward con struction of the airport, will be questioned at Monday night's meeting of the city council, members said Friday when in formed that this work had been started. It was announced that Ralph Walling had been employed to remove oak trees and brush along Mill creek where it passes through the airport site, and that work had" also been started on the runways. crap FIXED Details Arranged in Program ta be Given, at Local Theatre Friday With secondary school days vir tually over for 277 seniors of the Salem high school, the graduation exercises to be held next Friday morning, June 7, at 10 o'clock at the Elsinore theatre are the cen ter of interest. Preceding com mencement will be the baccalaur eate services to be held Sunday evenlnr. June 2. at the First Presbyterian church. Rev. Norman Kendall Tully will deliver the class sermon and has chosen as his subject "The Mak ing of a Man,'.' his message based on Luke 2:52. Special music for the hour will include Mozart s -Gloria tn Excelsior"; O'Hara's "The King's Highway" snng by William Wright rand organ num bera: "Grand Cheour "fvvest and -Festival March" (Harris). Tlfe complete program for the commencement exercises Friday morning follows: a. "Processional Melody In F, Rubinstein, b. "White Queen. Over ture," Metra. High school orches tra. - Invocation; Rev. R. L. Payne. Vocal solo, 7!H .Not Complain," Schumann,-! " netlrlAbbbtt; Mr1orvfV - "mr Classy "AdTaSU, zke. first; honot w Violin sold. "Romance ia CTW jor," (Beethoven) by Vera Wil son, elected by. faculty; Barbara Bar ham, accompanist." - . Talk. "The Meeting." by Mar vin Byers, elected by class. Vocal solo, "I Am Fate," Hamb len, Vctor Wolfe; Lois Plummer, accompanist. Address to the class, "Prospect and Retrospect," Principal J. C. Nelson. Senior girls' quartet: a. "Will o' the Wisp," Spross. b. "The Two Locks," Rogers. Marjory O'Dell, Joan Evans, Louise Wilkes and Doris Gardner; Elizabeth Lewis, accompanist. Presentation of diplomas, Su perintendent George W. Hug. Mal HJATtet: a. "Secrets," Smith. b. "aii&y Moon," Brown. Willard Moses, Homer Smith, Victor Walfe and Kenneth Abbott; Marjory O'Dell at the piano. Benediction, Rev. J. M. Franz. Thomason Quits Police Position On Local Force George Thomason, detective in spector with the Salem police de partment, terminated his official connection with the city govern ment Friday night. His resigna tion will be before the city coun cil for approval .Monday night. Thomason plans to accept an ap pointment to the state traffic di vision which has been offered him. Prior to his promotion to the de tective department several months ago, Thomason was day traffic of ficer on the city force. His suc cessor has not been announced. torney TJ'Ren to the words "re quire" or "levy" as contained In the long ballot title. He urged that the word "impose" or "ex act" ' were better suited for a privilege tax. He said the words "require" or "levy" would convey the Impression that the electorate was voting on an income tax. ; L: B. Smith -of Portland, who tiled . the appeal from the . ballot title, argued that the 'excise tax waa not a tax on incomes, but was passed for the purpose of placing a tax on banks and ether finan cial corporations for the privilege of transacting business In Oregon. : - Attorney , General Van Winkle, In defense of his ballot title, ar gued that he considered It fair and a true description of the ex cise tax law. He denied that there was any intention on bis part to (Turn to Page S, Column J.) Council members said Fri day that the council had not authorized any construction work, but had merely author ized the airport committee to employ an engineer to survey the site and prepare plans, which they supposed would be submitted to the council for its approval before any move was started to carry them out. Can For Bids Held Usual Procedure Furthermore, construction of the airport is a public work, and the usual procedure in such cases is to issue a callfor bids and let a contract to thelowest bidder. Councilmen raising the question as to whether the airport commit tee has not exceeded its authority, have not intimated that the ar rangement entered into for work at the airport site is unbusiness like or contrary to the best inter ests of the city, as they have no information of its nature; but they have announced an intention to hold the committee to account ability and demand that It shall not exceed such auhority as has been granted to it from time to time. Of the $50,000 In bonds author ized a year agQf?r purchase of land Sud"C5nslruction of the air port, 825,000 worth were sold last month. At the last council meet ing, authority was granted for the purchase of 31T acres from J. R. Linn for $50 5$, and CO acres from T.W. Holmainor $10,000. This brings the. expenditure for land op to $22,300. leaving little cash available for engineering and con struction work until more of the bcwef -old.?W-v r , ... . ready tor final cUji.im,j cil Monday night. IS OF Six days of summer weather were experienced by Salem In May with the temperature be tween 78 and 80 and the sky was devoid of all cloods for five days. Thirty-five degrees was the low est temperature experienced, be. ing recorded early on the morn ing of May fi. On 20 of the 31 days no rain-fall was recorded The total precipitation was 1.0$ KcSes. Prevailing winds for the month came from th2 north and west keeping the sky frOm being com pletely overcast except on the twelfth. The heaviest rain-tall waa on the thirteenth when .27 inches were recorded. A summary for the month fol lows: Max. MIn. 1 69 43 2 .........65 S2 S 62 40 4 .........55 44 5 5S 43 6. 62 35 7 .........70 37 8 66 46 9 67 45 10 ....72 37 11 80 40 12 78 47 13 68 49 14 69 39 15 68 41 16 '..67 43 17 78 42 18 79 42 19 ? 45 20.. 77 42 21 80 44 22 80 44 23 ...78 47 24... 69 44 25... 60 41 26 61 44 27 ....62 37 23. .67 45 29 66 47 30. ...63 40 31 64 41 Rain Wind 0 .08 .17 .18 .04 .05 0 0 0 o 0 .03. .27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .08 .01 .05 0 0 0 ' 9 .14 N W s s s N N NW N N N S E N W N N . N W NW NW NE SW : w w N N N ;N w Belleque Given : Freedom When Bond Is Posted Elmer Be!lequ,wha for the past two months basJeen lan guishing In the county jau os-Ae charge of manufacturing, liquor, was released Friday when jroper bond was posted to Insure the pay ment of a $130 balance yet due on his ttne. :- " , - Minder the present law a man may be released before the fine Is paid provided such bond is given. Belleque had previously paid 1129 on his total fine of 1250 1 DFvnin SIZW m Trio Also Wounded as Man Pumps Loads Into Re peating Shotgun Ferdinand Preuss Believed Insane Following Long Drinking Spree CHICAGO. May 31. (AP) An ex-soldier with a deadly aim tan amuck with a repeating shot gun today, killed three men and wounded three others before he ran out the back door of his flat and escaped the tear bombs of de tective squads. Police believed he had been crazed by drink. Ferdinand Preuss, 38, the slay er left a trail of blood for nearly two blocks in the course of his flight. Indicating he had been wounded. The dead were Sergeant John Conley, leader of the detective squad which went to arrest Preuss. Policeman Herbert Hegberg; and John Chorazek, a bystander. Wounded Bystander Not Expected to Live The wounded are Gus Karos, a bystander, who is expected to die: Frank Vodicka also a bystander; and Policeman Joseph Murphy. The officers went to the Preuss flat on a call from a neighbor that "a drunken man is beating up his wife." Thinking it was "Just an other drunk to be quieted," Ser geant Conley .and Policeman Heg berg went to the rear door and knocked. A shot crashed through a win dow on the porch behind Conley and he fell. Hegberg stepped back to return the fire and a second charge caught him full in the chest and head. Both died almost instantly. Attracted by the shooting, Chorazek had just stepped into the front yard when Preuss, ap parently-haying hurried through the house, fired again from a front window. Chorazek fell dead in sight of his 11 year old son, Edward. Murphy had Just Jump ed from the squad car to aid his fellow officers and Vodicka had gone to Charozek'a assistance. Preuss'a next ahot wounded both. Preuss then rushed out the back door and escaped after firing again at Vodicka. In This City "Bigger and better art exhib its" must be the motto held con stantly before the pupils in the grade schools and the art students 1 n the Junior high and high schools: or at least so one could judge from the large display of student work which lines all the walls of the old Kafoury store building on State street. The an nual exhibit was opened to the public Friday, with townspeople showing an Immediate Interest, and wUl continue showing until 9 o'clock tonight. Mrs. Ida M. Andrews, "super visor of art in the grade schools, has directed the display, with the able assistance of Miss Sarah At wood of the Junior high schools and Miss Ruth Brauti of the sen ior high. Crayon, water paints, oil paints, pencil, charcoal, pen and ink; or iginal work, copies, color match ing, tracing; big pieces and little pieces; all are represented in the scores and scores of mounts that line the walls. Each school has its own section and each something (Turn to Page S, Column 4.) 1 H SCHOOL PAPER 1 : Dedicated to James C. Nelson, gentleman, scholar and friend, the final edition of the 1928-29 Clarton newspaper was distributed at the high school Friday. The paper carried a two-column cut of the principal with the dedication, paid editorial tribute to his work and carried several front page stories of phases of his work. The editorial says in part: 'James Nelson has been more than a principal; he has been a friend to every student, teacher, and parent with whom he has come in contact He haf watched every new Improvement come In to the school with a proud and happy eye. . every new trophy and victory have been as a personal glory to him: Just as every criti cism and hard knock has evme as a personal blow to him. ' i "Mr. Nekon does not forget his students after they hare been graduated: he carries on an active correspondence with Salem alum ni In every corner of the world. --"Let as hope that Mr. Nelson wllr0t lose his touch . with the studentsvthe years to come. Al though heknot occupy the principal's chair, hek4 be prin cinal emeritns and heauvfit the history department and will - M M. . . amy . nave just as many irienas and as many admirers among his students as he has now. - . IHlBBf SETTLED SOON Preliminary Conference Is Arranged With Presi dent Portes Gil Archbishop Ruiz Will Leave Washington for South in Near Future WASHINGTON, May 31. (AP) Early negotiations for settle ment of "the-differences -between! the Mexican government and the Roman Catholic church were pres aged tonight by the announcement by Archbishop Ruiz, president of the Mexican bishops conference, that he had been appointed by the Holy see to be apostolic delegate in Mexico. President Portes Gil is under stood to be ready to receive over tures from the church looking to ward reestablishment of the Cath olic ecclesiastical organization in Mexico. He took a step in that di rection recently with an address to the Archbishop here of an invi tation for negotiations. How soon the Mexican arch bishop will confer with President Gil has not been decided. He has applied for a passport but has made no plans for departure. It is considered likely, however, that he will go to Mexico City within two weeks. JOIN ORGANIZATION 10,500 of 17,000 Acres Now Listed in New Oregon Group Ten thousand, fire hundred acres of hops, a majority part of the estimated 17,000 acres pro duced in Oregon, are -represented by growers who to date ' have agreed to participate- in a state wide organization for the purpose of educating the public to the value of the hop growing industry and in taking constructive meas ures to protect the future of the -try. s' Jor part of the hop regnted, as ""rrowers, nuiuo. cording to-. hop grower whov w. llminarr arrangements formation of the association.- Anxious to enlist every grow er In the new organization. Need ham this week sent out a fourth letter to local growers who have not yet responded, urging them to get In line with the movement. One of the present duties be fore hop men 'is to see that the tariff is increased on hop lunnlin, Needham said. This is now being imported at 75c a pound but the product is equal to 20 pounds of hops and Is being widely used by malt makers as a substitute for hops. Needham says It la the inten tion of the growers to extend their organization to "their friends, hop-pickers, day labor ers, business men, bankers, in fact every one that derives any benefit from the hop industry." BOY SCOUT RALLY Late this afternoon some Mar lon or Polk county boy scout troop will be the proud possessor of a 16-inch lorlnr cup, token for win ning the annual field rally which starts at Olinger field this morn ing promptly at 18 o'clock-. The cup tas been donated by the United States National bank. More than 100 boys scouts of Cascade Council Area are sched uled to participate in the field day competition, which means that winner of the several Individual prises and the first, second and third troop awards will hare to step lively. Thirteen events will mark the day's events, with troops to. be scored 25 points for first in each event; 15 for sec ond and five for third place. The field events are all opea to the public -f Statesman - Capitol CHILDREN'S MATINEE - This Coupon and Five Cents will admit any child to see the chapter of t fTaraaw" the- Mlghty Also . , ; ; 100 . An -rande "Melody of Love" All 1 Talking Vitaphone and Comedy Acts ..:. m i DIED - a, "7CT-:?5Svf?; , v..jr VS. v .v, v-x JB"S W ' x-.s V r jr ' x -o , ; S .. a i . s-J - - . a. Miss Mjuvel 'ros-on, nan isifgo girl flyer, who shattered the woman's altitude, record when she in Los Angeles Tuesday. Woodburn Entries Capture J TT t Minuet icers and Chorus Declared Best tv Official Judges; Fruitland Lass Wins Approval With Her Songs MINUET dancers and the chorus from Woodburn were chosen the best on the program at the Marion county community talent contest at the Elsinore Friday night but the girl in the Alice blue gown who hails from Fruitland took the collective eye of the audience at least the reporter's eye and she could sing, too. Billie Snyder took the second honors for Hayesville with her contortionist act. The girl won mucn applause but the Judges seemed to think that the com munity is depending too much on her. AumsviUe was third, with a mixed chorus' that won approval. Fruitland and Keizer took ribbons with their song and dance acts. Communities on the program for next week are Labish, Brooks, Donald, Rickey and Qervais. Three of these have surprise num bers worked up according to re marks overheard at the perform ance last night. What waa said Indicated that nothing at all sim ilar has been given by any club this year or last. Judges were Mrs. Walter A. Denton, Mrs. A. J. Rahn and C. E. Wilson. The community program will begin shortly after 8:30 o'clock each Friday night with fire clubs on the program each night until all communities en tered have presented their pro grams. Underwriting , Of Legion Meet To Be Continued Opportunity .to participate .ta the underwriting of the American Legion convention, which will be staged here In August, will be ex tended to the people of Salem gen erally next Monday, it waa an nounced Friday by the convention commission. Plans of the com mission call 'tor underwriting , to the extent of ; $25,000, although the expense budget. la far below that amount and receipts are ex pected to exceed the expenditures. Members of the legion have signed the underwriting bonds to the ex tent of Mfvx5 "'rff.rv;!-. TRIPOLI REVOLT CRUSHED TH1POLI. L. Uu -11,- f AP-. Italian authorities believed they have - crushed the :. rebellion v of tribesmen under Mohammed Bev Hag Hassan by a major engage ment in which 451 were killed on both sides. - J W -ill My v ft. i- - s piloted a monoplane 24,000 feet St rrVAil Moonshine Distributed Over House Pint bottles of alleged moon- ehine were found cached in every conceivable hiding place at the residence of Archie McKlllop, 4 SO south . university street, when state -and city officers raided it Friday night, . But after a thor ough search. It '-remained for Mc Klllop to show them, two more bottles. "Here's a couple of nints tou missed. he volunteered, drawing mem out oi an inside coat pocket. "You would hare found., them down at the Jail anyway..: Nineteen pint jbottles full of the suspected liquid, and a half gallon jug, were found at the Mc Klllop residence. McKillon was placed In the county jail to await bearing in justice court. 230Grade School Pinnls Junior HiffhN Exactly 239 pupils ' attending the nine Salem grade schools this year will be promoted to the Jun ior high school when report cards are distributed next 1 week rthat is. If present class work li'con-tlnues- Garfield : heads the list with 4T sixth A students. Other schools will graduate the follow, rng number: Englewood, -I4; Grants 22; Highland, 21; ' Me KJnlay, 20; Park, 27 ; Richmond. 1 ; and .Washington, , 1 S. . ' Most of the schools are plan ning brief exercises for their ele mentary gTaduates. " The" pu pil and the school attended fol low i!-",". g ;.! ; i - ' . 1 Englewood Eugene Stlckland. Marion Hyland, . Arthur Bassett, Norman BelL David Collier, Billy OF LANDSLIDE Youngest of British Parties Makes Most Impressive Showing of Career Liberals WiFlSold Balanct of Power; MacDonald to be Prime Minister LONDON, May 11. (AP) The Labor party tonight, with the counting of the votes of the gener al election all but completed, waa -just short of an absolute majority in the house tot commons. The most Impressive showing of its young life had given it a plurality over the old established conserva tive party of 38 seats although the popular party for the conserva tives was about 200,000 greater. The 8,292.204 labor votes counted had won 28 seats while 8,506.224 cast tor conservative candidates had elected 26. Since there are 615 members of the house, a clear majority would re quire 308 seats. Conservative Government Is Definitely Defeated The government of Prime Min ister Baldwin, which had the over whelming majority of 185 in the dissolved parliament, stood defin itely defeated. The liberal party, the second veteran of British politics, was led by David Lloyd George to increased representa tion which seemed to give them a valuable balance of power al though they ran a poor third. The victory of labor was the more im pressive because it had been a steady growth since it won the first two seats in 1900 by a vote of about 2,000. The country faces several alter natives. Mr. Baldwin might try to fight it out with the present gov ernment, less the members whe (Turn to Pae 5, Column 3.) 1 PLANT EYED C. T. Chenery Inspects De velopment Being BufltP- 7. l zi&rr. r tfaWtserrlce company. parenl organization of wchtiia . Oregon-Washington Water Ser vice company Is one of numerous subsidiaries, was In Salem Friday to Inspect the development that is taking place on.Minto island for temporary development of the lo cal water supply, and to make a first hand inspection of the ar rangement proposed for the per manent filtration plant and pipe . lines. Mr. Chenery expressed pleasure at the propect for eliminating ob jectionable features In the sys tem which the company acquired la 1927. He found construction of the filter beds on the island being rushed td completion, with indica tions that they would be in use fa less than a week. Accompanying the chief of the parent company were Earl C El liott, vice president of the Fed eral company and president of the Oregon. Washington and Callfor nia companie; C. B. Jackson, vice president and general manager of the coast companies, and J. T. De laney, vice president and division manager of the. Oregon-Washing-1 ton company., -1 .- . . i After a tour of the proposed., route for the permanent pipe lines, visits to the proposed sites for the permanent filtration plant, to the island, the reservoir and the pumping plant which is he tug erected at the Madison street well, the officials continued on their way to Portland. - JUDGE ACQUITTED OKLAHOMA CITY.' Mar ( AP Charles . W. Mason, ehief Justice of the Oklahoma supreme court, tonight was acquitted by a senate court of impeachment of a charge of accepting as a brlbo a motorcar valued at $4,000." " m mm to -Advance Into ext Season DeSouca, Robert Keuftcher.' Quay . Waesam, Philip . Jones, Ana Tar. tar, . Marian Johnston, , MaxiM Hill, r Victor Dahlen. : Margaret Tlnnel, Opal Martin. Arline Cross, Harvey Moulett,- Porter . Watts, Marian ' Smith. . Cornelia KImsey, ' Steward Donaldson, Kenneth Rob- ' inson, Irena Dahlen, tMaxine li-. gon,J dyda Carnlne; Dale Love land, - Frances Christ ensen, Edna ' Hart, Catherine Ban ta, Betty Rae -McGahan, Elmer Zamzow, Mllo Erion, Charles Painter and Lorna Grant. - V . : i . : Garfield Marine McKillop, Ro ger Miller, Helen Shultz, Charity 4 Blodgett, . Richard Smith, ,: Sybil ' Johnson. Pearl Pederson, " Mar garet Staddea Robert White, (Torn to Page.. 5,' Column J.r ill . .i avA