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in Your Check for the Boy Scout Camp Fund 'Today! The $300 Goal Should be Passed at Oncqf- THE WEATHER Fair today; gentle varia ble winds. Maximum - teni peratare yesterday 85; min imnnt 4; river 1.7; part cloudy; northwest wfaiid. BARGAIN DAY , "Bigger and better" la a trite way to mj It bat ncr chants mean what they say! FOUNDED 1831 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 81 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, June 29, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS 0 5" FOURTH URGED Bf FIRE CHIEF Dangers That, Lurk in Inno cent Looking Firecracker Are Stressed Shooting of Fireworks Pro hibited This Year Ex cept on the One Day With the annual noise fest In cident to Fourth of Jaly ap proaching. Fire Chief Harry Hut. ton has Issued a statement urging a safe and sane Independence day celebration, pointing to the large losses In life and property from firecrackers and other fireworks in recent yearsw Mayor Livesley has Issued the usual regulations affecting the sale and use of fireworks, and has made them a little more stringent than in the past, part ly, perhaps, as a result of the growing abuse noticeable here and the publicity which The States man has given to the damage done and the nnisance caused thereby. Shooting Prohibited Except in g on Fourt h This year, sale of fireworks may begin July 1, but it will be unlawful to shoot any firecrack ers or other fireworks excepting on Independence day. Whether this prohibition can be enforced, remains to be seen, although the police are determined to do their best. In past years, sale of firecrack ers has often started before the time designated, and the moment that the explosives became avail able ,an uninterrupted bombard ment was begun, extending throughout the entire week of the Fourth. Loss of Property And life la Hage Describing the dangers of fire works and the losses caused. Chief Huttoa says: "Property losses due to this cause amount to approximately $800,000 a year. In 1927 they reached. 1893, 63. Sin'i fire works ' and firecrackers were among! the first causes of fire to be considered under control, these losses come as a surprise to many. "Fireworks and firecrackers are a menace to life in every com munity. We would not permit our children to run about with blazing torches or with bombs, yet unfamiliar as we are with the potential dangers of explosives ,we allow them to use fireworks and firecrackers, when there are so many pleasurable ways of ob serving Independence day, which Involve no bodily injury or fire disaster games. exerci?es, in u sic and festivities of a safe and in teresting nature. Warning Issued To 8aleni Parents "Many parents believe that the children are merely indulging in a little Innocent but unusual pleasure, refusing to reckon with the harmful side of the situation in spite of the many lessons (Turn to Piige 2, Column 3.1 POSTAL STAFF HERE Three additional regular car riers will be allotted to the Salem postotfiee July 1. ArthucGibbard, assistant postmaster, reported Fri day following word from the fed eral office. The addition brings the total carriers of the local office to 21. Auxiliary carriers who have served from five months to nearly a year in that capacity will hold the new regular posts. They are Chester A. Nichols, Floyd F. Vol gel and Lyle D. Knox. The change puts these' carriers on a regular salary, rather than on an hour ba sis as in tbe auxiliary serriee, and also gives them a chance for promotion. ADD 3 CARRIERS TO Thousands Make Saving On Purchases; Bargain Offers Continue Today Bargain Who can resist them? Certainly bo one who saw the values offered by Salem mer chants on Friday. And now comes the sews that the Bargain Day prices are to be continued over Saturday. Miller's placed 500 bath towels on sale of 1 cents each. Those towels lasted just zv minutes, mil. ler's also proved that it is not Omnly women wno are interested la real . Bargains. l neir aaie oi men's felt hats brought great num bers of men who, recognising a bargain, proceeded to buy a felt gat even though the sunshine out side soemed to demand straw. They were looking ahead and buy ing accordingly. . "You "get through the crowds very, well," said one shopper to Every Boy of Scout Age in Scotts NUh U Member of Troop Scotta Mills may claim the first hand red per rent boy scout troop in Marlon county, for every boy of scout ag in the town Is en rolled in the troop formed there this week, reports O. P. Went, ftcont execntiTe, who was there to help the troop nH organized and hold its first meeting. Carl E. Millard is scout master and Homer 8. IMx on assistant scoutmaster of this troop, to be designated as troop -No. 16. KI-ve boys belong. Business men of the town are sponsoring the unit. This troop brings the to. tal of Cascade Area Council groups to SO now functioning. DAY OF Mil Protest Against Versailles Treaty Results in Huge Demonstration BERLIN. June 28 (AP) Germany's "day of morning," was observed throughout the republic today and culminated in imposing public demonstrations tonight in the stadium and the Reichstag hall against the peace treaty fram ed at Versailles and the "war guilt lie." The flares of thousands of tor ches lit up the great central field of the stadium, while 5J.000 per sons stood in impressive silence while a resolution demanding re vision of the treaty and protesting the blame laid on the shoulders of Germany was read. Gray garbed members of the steel helmet organization and black and white uniformed corps of cadets formed a solid mass over which floated rows of black, white and red imperial banners and the black crossed white flags of Prus sia. The vast audience was rever ent as the strains of "Deutschland Uber Alles," and ot&er national airs sounded over the field. Resolution 'Adopted At Reichstag Meet The public meeting in the Rels chstag building adopted a long resolution charging the German nation still suffered moral ostra cism as the result of the Versailles treaty which remains the greatest obstacle to international under standing, the resolution said in part: "Hence the nation demands calling an international commis sion of experts to give an impar tial verdict on responsibility for the world war." Resolutions along similar lines were adopted at meetings through out the country on the tenth anni versary of the signing of the Ver sailles treaty. University students in Berlin clashed with police and 11 were arrested for obstructing traffic. Otherwise no violence was re ported. President von Hindenburg at tended the special evening service in the Protestant cathedral of Ber lin where Pastor Burghart preach ed on a text of Saint Paul's "We are troubled, yet unafraid; we are oppressed yet do not perish." Frail Yale Lad Wins Collegiate Tourney Finals DEAL, N. J.. June 28. AP) Tommy Aycock. a frail. 22 year old youth from Jacksonville, Fla., and Yale, won the national inter, collegiate golf championship to day in one of the most erratic matches that ever decided an im portant battle. Their nerves frayed by four days of play in which they had survived all encounters and came down to an all Yale final, the be spectacled Aycock and his rangy captain, Marshall Forrest, of Lowell, Mass., missed putts and approaches all OTer the place until Aycock finally won by a margin of 5 up and 4 to play. another. "Oh, yes," was the re ply. "I have shopped at bargain sales in- Portland and there they use their elbows and their teeth Shipley's doubled their force, of clerks for the day and yet during the first two hours Friday morn ing they were simply "swamped. With all the rush and work of the sale the clerks have time to note those little interesting things that happen just because folks are human and the world la a pretty fine place. A woman stood before a counter of children's things at Shipley's. She was lost In ad miration at first but finally began to select her purchases. When questioned as to sizes she was puzzled. "Ton see I bare no chil dren of my own and I don't Just (Turn to Pa a 2, Columm 4.) HELD BY GERMANY HIGHER SGHDDL SEEKING II Executive Secretary From Outside of Oregon Sug gested at Meeting Definite Decision Blocked, However; C. L Starr Chosen President Selection of an educator from outside the state for its executive secretary, thus eliminating any suspicion of bias in the governing of the five higher educational in stitutions under its control, was suggested by members of the state board of higher education when it held its first meeting in Salenr Friday. C L. Starr was elected presi dent, 4nd Aubrey Watzek tempor ary secretary. Both are Portland men. General discussion of policies followed. The board was created under an act of the 1929 legislature, and will have control of the University of Oregon, state college and the three state normal schools. The board will become operative under the law July 1. Will Sot Reduce President's Powers It was made plain at the outset of the meeting Jthat the board would serve as a? governing body and that all administrative details would be left to the presidents of the educational institutions and the executive secretary. Mr. Wa.txek suggested that the executive .secretary, when elected, should come from outside of Ore gon. C. C. Colt agreed with the suggestion of Mr. Watzek, and added that such a selection prob ably would relieve the board of considerable embarassment. E. E. Sammons declared that while the suggestion might be a (Turn to Page 2, Column 2.) GIRL'S LIFE EBBS; LOVER STILL Ulbrich Not Told Condition of Viola Gentry, Victim of Bad Crash MINEOLA. N. Y.. June 28 (AP) Viola Gentry, woman pilot critical j 1 injured in the crash this morning of an endurance plane that caused the death of her co pilot, was given a blood transfu sion late today. During the opera tion she told what she knew of the accident. Wallace Bishop, a newspaper cartoonist and close friend of Miss Gentry, was the blood donor. "Jack Ashcraft was at the controls," she told Bishop. "The gas went low and we went very high. The ground was covered with fog and a landing was im possible. Then the gas gave out. Yog Prevented Safe Landing of Plane "The engine stopped and we started down, trying to pick out a hole in the fog. Suddenly some thing happened. I don't know what, and that's all I know. They haven't told me what happened to Jack, but he was in the front seat and so I know he was killed." Both Miss Gentry's arme were broken in four or five places, both elbows were broken, there 1a a deep cut all across her forehead above the eyes, deep gash in the neck, and there are internal in juries. ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y.. June 28 (AP) Their plane wrecked by the stress of a rising storm and their hearts torn by tragedy which befell their friend ly rivals, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Jen sen and William Ulbrich jolted along the skies tonight awaiting the third dawn since they began their assault on the refuelling en durance flight record; "Don't yon fellows hold out on me." Ulbrich imptored. "Tell me just what happened to Viola." The radio man at the field heard Jensen call peremptorily to Ulbrich to take the controls and Mrs. Jensen took his place at the telephone. "Don't tell him the details," she said in a low voice. "Marty saw the wreck of the ship and has been keeping away from ther." And so Ulbrich and the Jen sens, the to pot their craft loosen ed by a rising wind, acudded along the rain-filled skies with fear In their hearts. Had Ulbrich seen what Jeasen had glimpsed through the clouds he would hay known all too well that Miss Gentry's chance for life must be slim. Last Half Year Licenses Ready Issuance of motor vehicle licen ses for the six months period of Ills, will begin at 3 p. m, today, according to announcement made at the office of the secretary of state. These licenses will cover the period July 1 to December 1. FLIES Body Found in Boy Smi to Tdly With Tollman Description SALINAS, CaL, Jane 28 (AP) A body found In Monterey bay today, said by sheriffs deputies to bear marked similarities to the missing William Tallman, wanted In Los Angeles as a suspect in the Virginia Pat ty death mystery, was brought to Salinas this af ternoon for examination by Coroner's officials. Tbe body was found at Marina beach near Moss Landing. County officials requested San Francisco po lice for Identification marks known to hare been pos sessed by Tallman. FILMS F Twenty Local Men Will Visit Santiam Resort Sunday for Final Work With but little more than a week before the 1929 Boy Scout summer camp opens its first period, registration is slow, re ports O. P. West, scout executive and camp director. So far, none of the troops from Silverton, Mon mouth. Stayton, Brooks or Wood burn have been heard from, but the camp director is feeling no alarm, over this, inasmuch as the last week usually sees increased interest and signatures. Twenty men, under diection of West and Rex Sanford, chairman of the camp committee, will go to Camp .Santiam, four miles north east of Mehama, Sunday to com plete construction of the ecout summer quarters. All that remains to be done at camp is to shingle and give minor touches to the mess hall and construct 15 floors for tents. West and Sanford will leave for camp today, taking with them the pump,, which will be next in place. The first camp period will open July 7 and last two weeks, two other periods to follow that. Ar rangements are being made to ac commodate 50 boys each period. Weat-hfSjp laced orders forsaariy f 100 -worth of food for the six weeks. The director will leave for camp Jnly 5, his office to remain closed from that time until the end of camp. Reservations which come in after that date should be sent to Rex Sanford at his office. Bulletins for the camp -have been sent to scouts, and outline the daily program as follows: .6:30, reveille; 6:32, setting-up exercises; 6:45, wash-up for breakfast; 7:15, breakfast; 8:00, assembly, police duties; 9:00, scoutcraft Instruction and half hour classes until 11 o'clock; 11, tent inspection, with honor tent awards; 11:15, morning swim and instruction; 12:15, dinner; 1:00, rest period; 2:00, games, hikes, exploration trips; 4:00. afternoon swim and water sports; 5:30, re treat ceremonies; 6:15 supper; 7:00, games and study period; 8:00, camp fire program; :30, taps. Visitors' day will be held each Sunday, when the camp will be thrown open to parents and friends. The camp fee for the two weeks' period is $12. MET PHILIPPINE OFFICE PORTLAND, Ore., June 28 (AP) A special dispatch to the Oregonian from Its Washington. D. C, bureau says: "Major-General Creed C. Ham mond of Portland will not be re appointed to his present post as chief of the -militia bureau, in which he has served four years, bnt will probably be given an im portant civil administrative post in the Philippines as a consola tion prize. It was definitely ascer tained here today. The appoint ment in connection Wits which he is being: mentioned Is that of auditor-general at Manila, one of tbe most important positions to which an American can be named. It is said to carry a salary of 912,009 per year. Hammond's present pay as a major-general Is $9000. "The refusal of Secretary of War Good to give General Ham mond another term as chief of the militia bureau Is plainly re sented by Senators McNary and Steiwer, and may stir np trouble among the 48 governors, who had recommended his reappointment, as well as in the national guard organisation generally. State Building Plans Reported Near Completion Bids for the construction of the new state office building, to be erected here at a cost of approxi mately 1590.000, probably will be opened Jnly 15. This was announ ced by the state board of control Friday. , The plans are now searing com pletion and will be ready for final consideration early next week. ISM'S ft 1MH BREITENBUSH ROAD OPENED ; THIS morning; ! Scenic Route to Medicinal Springs Ready, Says Forest Supervisor Drive Described as "Little' Columbia River High way;" is Popular A telephone messape Friday from C. C. Hall of Albany, dist rict supervisor in the Santiam Na tional forest, announced that the new forest service roado Brelten bush springs will be opened this morning. Until this time it has been necessary to walk the' last few miles to the springs, but with the advent of the forest road, the report is available to motorists. The drive from Salem to Brelt enbush is approximately 70 mile?, and can be made with ease in three hours, according to Dr. Mark Skiff. As it now stands, tbe. road situation between Salem and Breit enbofih is: Salem to Mehama, paved; Mehama to Mill City, oil macadam: Mill City to Detroit, rock macadam; Detroit to Hum bug creek, gravel; Humbug creek to Breitenbush, good dirt road. Route is Praised For Scenic Beauty A part of this last sector of the road is built on the bed of the old Hammond lumber company's logging railroad. When the com pany took up tbe rails, the forest service made arrangements to build the road on the old bed. The Journey has been character ised as the "Little Columbia River Highway" by persons who have followed the route. As it parallels the Breitenbush and Santiam riv ers, crosses numerous small streams and winds about among the trees. It bears considerable re- (Turn to Pag 2, Column 1.) "TKFfflPWIHT Unconditional Postponement of Debt Due August 1 is Proposal Made WASHIXGTOX. June 28. (AP) Negotiations with th American government for the un conditional postponement of the $400,000,000 world war supplies debt due on August 1 were begun today by Ambassador Claudel on I instructions from Paris. Ambassador Claudel conferred 20 minutes with Secretary Stim son at the state, department. He did not present a note, it was learned, but merely discussed with" the secretary of state the question of postponement of the due date until December 31. Secretary Mellon said the treas ury department had received no advices from the ambassador or the French government with re gard to the proposal. Prior to the conference Secretary Stimson de clared he did not know of any manner in which the French debt could be postponed without action by congress. Borah Indicates Strong Opposition Displeasure with the statement of the president of the foreign af fairs committee of the French as sembly. Franklin Bouillon, was ex pressed tonight by Senator Borah, chairman of the senate foreign re lations committee. "The president of the foreign af fairs committee." Senator Borah declared, "is quoted as saying that the United States was underkin to railroad France to a ratifi cation of the 'debt settlement. He (Turn to Page 2, Column 5.) TO Kill IDEALS ' PORTLAND. Ore.. June 28. (AP) A challenge to the under graduate members of the fratern ity to take full advantage of the opportunities afforded them by the universities and colleges of tbe United States and" to the alnm ni to prove true to the idealism bora of college association. as sounded by Bishop Titus Love of the Methodist Episcopal church of Oregon. In his address as grand orator of the 39 th bi-annual grand chapter of Sigma Chi, national college social fraternity, now in session here. The bishop's address was deliv ered during the public session this afternoon ai which the grand chapter poem.' written by Mrs. Thomas Cowan 'Bell of Alameda. CaL, sola surviving widow of one of, the seven founders of the fra ternity, was read. The $100 prixe offered tor the best Sigma Chi song, was won by Dwlght J. Merriam of the Unlrer. sity of Nebraska chapter. Second prise were to Leland L. Tost. Uni versity of west Virginia chapter. FRANCE A6A1N ASKS SIGMA cms Will Discuss J yTT. L J A? " . v 4 v v i " , , v V V v 4. i , . ,iu This excellent portrait la tbe most recent of Ranuwy Mac Donald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and shows him in m medi tative pose. MaeDonald and Ambassador C. G. Dawes will soon meet for a lengthy discussion of naval reran Jiruuga; pact Disarmament Question Should be Approached With Caution, U.S. View Present Nebulous Status Does Not Justify Early Attempt at Settlement, Officials at Washington Advice British Premier WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) Suggestions have been made by the American government to Great Britain that the naval disarmament question should be approached V'ith caution in view of the present status of that problem. There is a feeling of uneasiness in official circles here that a conference of naval powers might result without suf FARM E PORTLAND, Ore., June 28 (AP) "The most powerful board ever created by congress," is the way R. R. Butler designated the newly authorized federal farm re lief board. Mr. Butler, representa tive of the second congressional district, was in Portland today, having Just returned from Wash ington, D. C. "The farm board is almost all powerful," explained Mr. Butler. "It has $500,000,000 at its com mand and can do just about any thing that It wants. Its powers are almost unlimited. The shipping board is nothing in comparison to it. It will create many paying jobs and its patronage will be ex tensive." Personally. Mr. Butler shakes his head at the prospect of Ore gon finding a place on the farm re lief board. He would like to see an Oregonian on it, but developments have been such that the prospects are not bright, he-declared. Bartender Held For Liquor Sale In Panama Zone PANAMA ZONE. June 28. (AP) The first arrest of a bar tender for selling liquor on a ves sel passing; through tbe Panama Canal zone has been made here. The man arrested was Georgio lniperiale, first class bartender of the Italian liner "VIrgilio" from Valparaiso and South American west coast ports for Genoa. Captain.: Romulo Chlesa. the ship's master, also was arrested, being held responsible for the con duct of his subordinate. It was Captain Chiesa's first trip and he declared that he did not know he waa violating the law by keeping his bar open in Canal Zone waters. Matthews Faces -Murder Charges LEWISTON, Ida., Jane. 28. (AP) Raymond Matthews, 20. accused of killing his father with a .22 calibre rifle and, then turn In the gun upon himself to in flict a superficial flesh wound, was formally charged with first degree murder today by R. EL Dur ham, Nea Perce county prosecut ing attorney. : POWERFUL AG Big Nayy Gut reductions along the lines of the ficient preparation. The United States has been in formally sounded out by Great Britain, it became known here to night, on its attitude toward a conference of the principal naval powers either separate from the league of nations preparatory dis armament commission, or under the league machinery. Although the Washington gov ernment is willing to participate in almost any plan which would mean further disarmament, it is felt here that the present nebulous status of the question which has f llowed the preliminary work of the preparatory commission does not justify the calling of an Im mediate conference of the powers. The attitude of this government is that the whole problem must be approached slowly and only after a long and laborious arrangement of details. Secretary Stimson emphatically denied today that Ambassador Dawes had been instructed to in dicate the United States' unquali fied approval of an immediate conference either under the aus pices of the league or a separate conference involving the five ma jor naval powers, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy. The secretary of state also said that in the recent conversations in London between Ambassador Dawes and Prime Minister Mac Donald and the diplomats of the other naval powers nothing defi nite had been decided concerning procedure to be followed In future disarmament discussions. CEXTEXARIAX DIES PRATT, Kans.. June 28. (AP) J. C. Bales, only centenarian liv ing in Pratt county, died last night at his home in Preston. Km., he was 100 years old last October. Playground Exhibition And Band Concert Draw Crowd to Olinger Field Approximately 2000 persona were at Olinger field Friday njght for the formal opening of the cky playground for this season and the special band concert given la the grandstands. The demonstra tion of the playground work was practically a' five-ring circus tor spectators, and persons who tried to see everything that waa hap pening soon gave np the attempt. Boys from the various grounds began the evening by playing in door baseball abotlt $:$0 and at the same time glrla gave folk dances and played singing games. Then outdoor basketball and Ger man batball held the center of in terest. ' , : "Betcha can't, and "Betcha I vast Land Sighted in Antarctic Twenty Thousand Square Miles Discovered by Byrd Expedition, Word Explorer Unwilling to Make Full Report Until Next Season's Trip WASHivr.Tov t o (AP) A report from Comman der Richard E. Byrd, made pub lic today by Secretary Adams, re lated that observers in the air planes of his south pole expedi tion had discovered approximate, ty 20,000 square miles of hither to unknown land in the Ant arc- The flights, according to the report ofthe secretary of the na vy, were made during the period preceding the winter-long night which nowhas forced susppusion of exploration. The major part of the report described the discovery and par tial survey of the rockfelier mountain range which one of his airplane parties discovered in January and was surveyed prin cipally from the air In the two months following. Byrd reported the landing on March 7 of L. M. Gould, geologist of the party, near one of the southern mountains of the ranee. Tnis, he said, was the first time that man had discovered a new land from the air and landed up on it for scientific investigations. These mountains, he reported, "appear to be struggling to keep their heads above the snow" which covers all hut the highest patches of rock bared by tbe wind. Commander Byrd mentioned the sighting of other peaks i cludlng one which resembled the Matterhorn, and very extensive snow covered land areas, but be cause observations were uncer tain and mirages frequent, he said he did not wish to report up on tlrem until the next season's explorations had checked the first findings. Seek Xew Ronte Chicago to Berlin CHICAGO. June 28 (AP) Chicago Tribune officials tonight revealed that the newspaper's amphibian plane, the "Untin Bew ler" would take off from Roose velt field. Long Island, tomorrow morning for Chicago, preparatory to a round trip flight from Chica go to Berlin. Parker Cramer, co-pilot with Bert Hassell on an attempted Rockford, Ills., to Stockholm flight last year, will be at the controls. With Bob Cast sharing the controls and Bob Wood, Tribune aviation editor, as a passenger, Cramer will seek tochart a new air route along the great circle from the Chicago industrial cen ter to Europe. ENDURANCE FLIGHT PLANE STILL 6016 MINNEAPOLIS. June 2$. (AP) Flying steadily along. Owen Haugland and Thorwald ("Thunder") Johnson, piloting the Miss Minneapolis, completed the 138th hour in the air at 11:00 o'clock in their effort to set a new world's endurance refueling flight record. Early In the evening they took on 127 gallons of gasoline from a refueling plane, which also lower ed food. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. T., June 29. (A P) (Saturday) Captain Frank M. Hawks broke his own record for a non stop transcontinental flight from west to east upon his arrival here frost Los Augelea at 1:20 a. ft.. (E. D. T.) today.. can!" were shouted with vigor by youngsters preparing to climb tbe 11-foot rope and getting ready to trr ehinninsr themselves on the crossbar. Swimming races and fancy diving furnished considerable in terest to spectators as well as par ticipants, and the Improvement vf the swimming hole over last year was noted by many. Bat of all the playground events, none elicited such universal interest and genu ine pleasure as the boxing match es. - : - -- Little fellows equipped with (lores to bis; tbat they were herd, to swing, and so well padded that a good hard ewat could no injury. (Turn to Page 2, Column L) .