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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning. July 13, 1929 MORE TUMI 10 i np,vq mini dp uniu iu i un Fluttering of Tail Group is I Reason for Finish of Record Flight (Continued from Page 1.) 174 Lours, 59 seconds, made by Bvron K. Xewcomb and Roy L. Mitchell, of Cleveland, recently. ' Not long before that Reg Rob- i bins and James Kelly at Fort j Worjh established a record of j 172 Hours, 32 minutes and one j second. It was early In January that the United States army set I a mark to shoot at, when the army ; trl-motored monoplane "Quesion mark, at Metropolitan airport, near . Ias Argeles, remained aloft for 150 hours, 40 minutes and 15 seconds. The Angeleno flight started here nnauiIciously in the mornins of July . Paul Whittier. millionaire filer, had ts.Jcen Mendell- and Reinhart to Dallas, Texas,. some time previous, to pick up a couple ot.old night mail planes. The Frort Worth fliers were preparing to break the Questlonmarks record. Words Exchanged In Cafe at Juarez In a Juraez cafe, Mendell. who knew Robbins of the Fort Worth duo. exclaimed: "If nS Puts up anything to shoot at. we'll smash it with these j crates." referrine to the ancient second hand mail planes. They flew tie two ship to L03 Angeles and at Fort Worth Rob bins made his record. But they found the mail shipa too uncer tain, aftd the secondhand Buhl aircedan was provided with co operation of V.'H'uam Gibbs Mc Adoo and his son Win. O. Mc Adoo Jr.. A. E. McManus. Culver City airport manager and Paul Whittier. -W. E. Thomas, Wright aeronau tical expert here, went over the secondhand Wright whirlwind mo tor, which already had done 450 hours work and, was supposed to be eligible for retirement, and thus the boy set out. First Three Day Prove Hard Ones Not much attention was attract ed at first. The Initial three days were hard ones. Three time-3 they were almost forced down by miss ing refueling contacts. Once, only the third day, they were down to a few minutes of gasoline supply. In a heavy fog blanketing the air port and at night. They awaken ed a Hollywood hillside resident by awoplng over his house and dropped 'a note to phone the air port they mu3t have gasoline Im mediately. Under the fog, which was al most to the earth, the ground crew was frantic, the ancient refueling plane's motor would not respond. So F. M. Duree. with a tiny little monocoupe, called Paul Whittier. and they sailed into the fog with a five gallon can 3f gasolfire. In the fog the two machines met, and the can was lowered to the Angeleno. Mendell tore the top of the can and pored the pre cious fluid; Into the tank just as tha engine, started to sputter. Missing high tension wires by lnchee, ther Angeleno soared" al'oft again. At another time they had only 4 5 minutes supply of gasoline aboard. I After the third day their spirits soared high and the flippant notes they dropped to earth, and their cheerly wavea to the thousands at the airport as they zoomed d'own in greeting after each refueling, re vealed that the going was easier. . They slept Jn four hour shifts, some times doing a longer spell for each other. Here their war service training was a handy one, for Reinhart had served on a de stroyer and Mendell In the light-er-than-air forces and they were habituated t'o little sleep and hardships. (Continued from-vPage 1.) ed he was going to Sew York. He headed westward from the flying ti plies met moss mm, field in what by that time was b. ad daylight. The Poles had 45 mln eg start . but the "Question Mark" was much faster and if both, were go ing the s me way Coste should pass them quickly. , The element of a race however was still quite plausible inasmuch as skill in cro82lpg the shorter and less windswept route could bring the Poles to the .American sea board first. ' The Poles were so deeply intent at their Job of getting into the air with their enormous burden of petrol that thT.did not even sup plement the goodbres said on the ' ground with waves of their hands from their plane. F nchmen Are More Spectacular la Takeoff ' Coste and Bellent . more accus tomed to spectacular starts, held ct:' their armsr the parting' hand shake of airmen. They smiled at those below them and were off on their great adventure. The Poles Intended ti adapt their route to t e circumstances, Rourhly the . distance between New York and Paris is about 3. 22 miles, bnt variations because of the wind, or in choosing- a northerly or southerly course, ould run that either higher or lower. It waa probable they would ndi fix their direction definitely until they reach-d the open sea. Th.a if the wf-i w.as moderate ly favorable they probably would strike straight west but IX It was too much against - them they in tended to take the road on which '"they pioneered -and failed last fyear?, flying Jurt north of the Asores and then veering norther ly toward Halifax. LE BOURGET. July 13. (AP) Act Boy Chosen to Go After Edison Hoitors 4W 1 I I K5 .uliV . If i- SUB til Herman f . Robinson, CallfornU's choice In the contest to find a suc c es&or-to Thomas A. Ediscn, Is shown here looking through his fath er's telescope and it work in. the laboratory at his Venice home. (Saturday) M. LaCoste, mak er ofXosie's Hkpaqp motor and M. Breguet, builder of the plane, announced shortly after Coste's start that the Question Mark j would attempt to cross the North I Atlantic, setting at rest doubt ari 1 ing from previou3 announcements it was goin? to Tokyo. LEADBETTER LAUDS (Continued from Page 1.) partially been met through U3e of river transportation. Asked if he still was consider ing removal of the- paper mill from Salem, a step mentioned by him last fall, Mr. Leadbetter said such a step would be contrary to his own wishes except for the fact that good business might dictate such a step as an economic one. Salem sis favorably located In the senseSthat it provides excel lent living teonditions, for work men, Mt. eadbetter. remarked, and it la in tha center of a val ley which has great natural tim ber resources for paper manufac turing. Given lower water and an improved tax situation, paper manufacturing here could be made much more advantageous than at the present time, he said. Asked about his new venture in Olympla, Mr. Leadbetter salt that this property could be used la connection with their new kratt pulp mill at Vancouver, B. C. The pulp Will be turned out at Van couver and moved by barges up sound, to Olympia, wohere it will be turned into kraft paper. The Olympia property is the recon verted Olympia Brewing company plant. It has a paper machine, but no sulphite plant, so the proper ty will fit in satisfactorily with the kraft enterprise In British Columbia. E IfJ (Continued from Page 1.) TuesdayX at which indictments cgainst the three Chinese would be requested. Foon appeared i.t the commis sioner's office later in the day, ex pressing surprise rnd consterna tion at his arrest. He too, was re leased on a $10,000 bond, and will appear Wednesday with the Kaos to face the opium smuggling charges. If convicted the three Chines have five year terms of imprison ment, $10,000 fines, and deporta tion. Mrs. Kao told newgpapirmen I her husband was not in any way connected with the opium, and de clared she wis innocent of any wrong-doing. She claimed the contraband was brought here in trunks as "presents" for friends of acquaintances she' knew in China. She refused to reveal their: names, on the grounds that they would kill her if they were brought into the case. MANCHESTER. England. July 12 (AP) A big lockout in the cotton manufacturing industry, possibly affecting a half million workers, was expected tonight to result from the decision today of the federation of master cotton spinners to enforce a reduction of 12.82 per cent in wages from July 29. 1 The balloting of the federation was overwhelmingly In favor of reduction The, weaving side of the indus try already bad decided without a ballet to apply the reduction.. AH the workers unions have agreed to reject the demands of the em ployres) i -There seemed little, hope of reaching any compromise before July 29, unlessthe minister of la bor Intervenes He may do this if the parties themselves are un able to arrive at a settlement. This Is the first big labor dis pute since the labor government came Into office. The workers are firmly opposed to the idea of compromise. They argue that the serious conditio in which the industry now Is. really is due to its over-capitalisation during the boom period after the war. They think It' behooves tha employers MUNICIPAL POWER HI 1 SMUGGLING CASE mm WORKERS -IN UH DISPUTE V?H:-5:"ir1 ,N T. I Y-U tit'"- U r TU -rife'" ? m i ' U. ' f "li UUI 0m . I I to put order. The Cowon Spinners and Mariu facturer Association today sent out noices of the reduction in wagesamounting to two shillings and6ix pense in the pound ster- or about sixty cents in fire 4 ars. The cotton spinners claim that the poor condition of the indus try necessitated sthe reduction. E The elaborate Fanchon and Mar co stagft "Ideas which has been offered to Salem theatre-goers for the past few years, and which re cently were abandoned, will again be resumed, according to an an nouncement made by George B. Guthrie, owner and manager of the Elsinore. The Fanchon and Marco "Ideas" will be offered every Wednesday. and in them will be seen the cream of the' theatrical world. Inasmuch as Marco Woir, head or.tne iamous stage producing team, has Just re turned from an eastern trip, where he signed up some of the best tal ent obtainable. . "I am Indeed very happy to be able to present agatn'to local theatre-goers the beautiful and artis tic Fanchon and Marco shows," stated Mr. Guthrie. They are un excelled in stage entertainment, and are now proving very popular with audiences In the big eastern cities, as in the? West." The inaugural show under this policy will be the spectacular and elaborate "California C a p e r s Idea." featuring the 16 Sunkist Beauties." This stage presentation was personally selected by Harold B. Franklin, president of the huge Fox-West Coast theatres string, to Open the new $5, 000,000 Fox the atre in San Francisco, a few weeks ago. This show will be offered to Sa lem theatre-goers, Wednesday, July 17th. with a big Fanchon and Marco "Idea."; following every Wednesday thereafter. PORTLAND, Ore., July 12 Policy holders of the Oregon Life Insurance company, meeting here today, voted to mutualize the company, according to a state ment issued from the iffice of C. F. Adams, president. The state ment says, in part: "The action 'taken at the meet ing will make Oregon Life the on ly mutual life insurance company west of the Rocky mountains. The company's capital Stock of S10Q, 000 will be retired at par. "Oregon Life wa3 founded in 1906 by the late L. Samuel. The company has ; made substantial gains and at the close ofVbusi. ness June 30. Shad insurance out- SnaTofi ' V 3 "The institution will heri4 be known as the Oregon Mutual Life Insurance company. The business of the company will con tinue to be conducted on the le gal reserve old line plan as here tofore and there will be no change in the general plan of op eration. Theire will not be any changes in tb epersonnel of the management of the company." CLOVER SEED U CORVALLIS, Ore.. JulV 12. (AP) Federal and state special ists and over a hundred Oregon growers and dealers In clover ceed gathered al Qregon State college today in a conference aimed, at de vising some means" of saving the industry,, which annually returns some $1,500,000 to the state. Dr. A. J.' Peters, a specialist from Washington. D. C. reported that eastern markets were against Ore gon seed at present because of Its failure to yield well under con4 ditlons, where hardiness and dis ease resistance is required. Plans for changing Oregon pro duction to more desirable strains were outlined by H. A. Schoth and G. R. Hylsop. crop specialists of the Oregon experiment station; and the conference named a com mittee to organize a representative seed council I to assist fa putting the plan inte effect. The commit tee consists of A. M. Hand, Port land; Vernon Burilngham, Forest their financial houses In - j , 7n&v 1 Hn, or about sixty cents in fire I - ' " 1 FlCMiCO TO n IDEAS HERE OU LIFE iw TO BE iTUAUZED DEATHS? 3 , ! II t - - : ;- Grove; G. R. Hyslop, Corvallis. A disease resistant strain had been tested out at the experiment stEation and has been found suit able for Oregon's climate. Seed of this strain is being increased as rapidly as possible, and other sour ces of hardy seed are being sought. A plan of seed certification is un der consideration for use in the future. CENTRAL KANSAS IS swept, irons TOPEKA, Kas., July 12. (AP) Two flood choked streams, run ning wide over their' banks, to night Were pouring their waters into central Kansas cities, Hutch inson and Salina. Large areas in the residential sections of both cities were being inundated. Governor Clyde M. Reed, at the request of Hutchinson city offi cials, instructed Brig. Gen. Milton R. McLean, adjutant general, to order out members of national guard units stationed at Hutchin son tb protect life and property. Tonight a sheet of water borne southward by Cow creek had en tered the north end of Hutchin son, covering to a depth of three feet an area 18 'blocks long and two blocks wide. While the flood was advancing rapidly toward the business section, a series of east and west bridges were expected to prevent excessive flooding. Mer chants earlier in .the day had moved' their 6tocks from lower floors. Salina tonight was confronted with a new menace, when Dry creek broke over the Missouri Pa cific railroad embankment in the west edge of the city flooding many streets in the residential district near Che Union station. Water from the northwest earlier had flooded an area extending from the north and south city limits between Dry creek and the Missouri Pacific tracks. T IS TAKEN BY DEATH ( SEATTLE, July 12 (AP) Captain John Of Berry, .63. com mander of the northern division of the United States coast guard and . well known among shipping men over the entire nation, died here early today. The end "came after a brief ill ness. He was stricken with apo plexy, Wednesday night. - After graduating from the naval aca demy at Annapolis in 1886. Cap- tain-fierrjr sen served more than 40 navy and coast guard. He served la every coast guard station fa the United States and passed 22 years in sea duty. His achievements won tor him the decorations of three govern ments. Including the navy cross of the United States, the knight of the- crown jof lttaly, conferred up on him by the king and" the knight of the order of Avis of Portugal. 7 LOS BUS Convenience , Comfort VCospitelity . You wiQ appreciate excellent service and moderate rates. Tbs dry's most centrally located hoteL -One block from Pershing Square --cotmnwnt to all leading shops, theatres, financial institution ana electric depots far all resorts. . -Garage sd joining. AnOueridiRoaaM EaAWiABatk OmPMM 15. S. $4 .Two Panont t.S4. U. $S FaAiat Sutrsoit. I-. Director Hotel Gavoy tkmth CT Ormaaat ANC j FLrtHS FOUND : IFIIttTH Culver City Hospital Doc ' ; tor Examines Rein hart, Mendell CULVER CITY, Cal., Julr 12. (AP) Dr. Frederick Rhodes of the Culver City hospital, who ex amined Loren W. Mendell and Roland B. Reinhart, record break ing endurance fliers, when they landed today after 246 hours, 43 minutes and 32 seconds aloft, re ported their physical condition "much better than might have been expected." "The temperature, blood pres sure and pulse of each was about that which a person Would show sifter violent exercise under ord inary conditions, with the excep tion that the return toward nor mal was slower," Dr. Rhodes said. In reporting the physical con dition of the fliers, Dr. Rhodes declined to differentiate between them in the statistics he an nounced. The temperature of one man, he said, was 98, and of the other 97.9 lis tenths of a de gree to eight tenths of a dogree betow normal. The blood pressure of one of them was 120, dropping to 96 in half an hour, and of the other 16a, dropping to 140 in half an hour. Dr. Rhodes found the pulse of one to be 10S, dropping to 9 2 within half an hour. and other other 136, slacking to 120 in- 30 miputes. Mendell and Reinhart. both complained of slight deafness and roaring in their ears when tl:y first stepped out of their plane. When they reached the hospital, however, this appeared to have cleared away in large, part, and they conversed with newspaper men and answered questions asked in ordinary tones of voice with no difficulty. A circumstance which seemed most to surprise both fliers was weakness in their legs when they attempted to walk after more than 10 days in the cramped cabin of their plane. Mendell discovered -it before he took many steps, and did not essay to walk about urtll his leg muscles had again accus tomed themselves to bearing his weight Reinhart, however, trlfe to step briskly away from the plane when he reached the ground, and would have fallen had not W. G. McAdoo, Jr., one of the backers of the flight and W. E. Thomas, motor expert, caught him in their arms, and supported him. T, LAUDED or BID COP CULVER CITY, Cal., July 12. (AP) "There's no secret why those lads shot the record to pie ces" remarked a burly traffic of ficer, who had motorcycled back to the airport for duty after lock ing up an autoist for driving while intoxicated. "You see, they were used to Jumping out and getting things. Pete Reinhart was a traffic cop on the Oregon State force, and a real go-getter there; and Loren Mendell why, didn't he come out here from a Job of chasing boot leggers in Florida on the prohibi tion air force. "They're Just regular go-getters that's all." McClain July 12 at her late home in Sa lem. Heights, Julia Ann McClain age 72 years. Survived by her husband, John A. McClain; three sons, Leonard F., J. D both of Albany, and Arthur E. of Pres cott, Ariz.; one daughter, Mrs. Oral Gosson of Klondike, Ore., and one sister Mrs. S. Mason of GraybulL "Wyoming; also 13 grandchildren. Remains in care of Terwilllger Funeral home. Funeral announcements later. t N MENU. it wM jrgj Syffl IS 663 Now in iu second year on Broadway Comedy of Home Life, Love and Politics Chautauqua Tent Tonight 8.15 p.m. !"( . 5 Full of laughs from beginning to end The Gloom Chaser .ALL STAR CAST JESS PUGH, "The Wifl Rodgcrs of ChautauquaT Monday night, 8:15 RUSSIANS NOW REMTO FIGHT Forces Advance to Frontier of Eastern Siberia as War Threatens (Continued from Paee 1.) footing, which had moved to the very frontier. , ' Invasion of Russian Territory Anticipated According to the same reports Russian white guard detachments which the Manchurian comman ders intend to send forth on Rus sian territory were lined up with the Manchurian troops facing the frontier. "Tho report adds that the Chi nese have arrested 4 0 Soviet rail way workers. Lui Chun Chan ord ered Yemshanov, manager of the Chinese eastern railway, to hand over the management to Chinese appointees. Yerashanov on his re fusal to grant the request v.-as re moved together with his aid and replaced by Chinese officials." TOKYO. July .12 (AP) Ad vices from Harbiu state that In ! view of the probability of a tie-up J on the Chinese eastern railway in Manchuria, the Harbin consular body is considering mediation to j seek a peaceable settlement. Rnssi.ans Depart. For Siberia, Word j Dispatches to the Japanese news agency Rcngo, say that the former i Russian manager and assistant j manager of the Chinese eastern, i left for Siberia tonight with their j families and other Soviet officials i in compliance with the Chinese order for their deportation. ! Chang Ching-Hui, governor of the Harbin district, lias forbid den public meetings under rigid penalties and the city' is heavily policed, being virtually under j martial law. Two Chinese gun-j boats are anchored Jn the San gari riler fflsar aHrbirs j A Moscow dispatch received at j the Chinese eastern headquarters in Harbin says that the Soviet j government has appointed L. B. j Serebriakov, a member of the rail- ! way commissariat, as pleni-poten- j tiary to proceed to Harbin to seek a diplomatic settlement of the problem. He was stated t'j have left Moscow for Manchuria today. Ministry Studying Situation Closely The new Japanese liberal min istry, which replaced the conserv atives on a Manchurian Issue, the assassination of Marshall Chang Tso-Lin', followed developments of the Russo-Manchurian situation with intense application, because of the repercussions It might have on Japanese foreign and domestic policy. Premier Hamagucht summoned a meeting of the cabinet to discuss the affair today, and the general staff likewise considered 4t. Their deliberations were kept secret. A government spokesman point ed out that Japan might be ob lige dto send troops to Harbin to protect the important inerests of its nation, even if the trouble be tween Russia and China should not Involve the. Japanese-owned South Manchurian railway. Tokyo considered the situation a grave one, but It wa3 felt that Russia would hardly risk armed intervention in Manchuria for fear of complications with other pow ers. Japanese sympathy, although 6 HOLLYWOOD Last Times Today GEORGE BANCROFT fTheWolf of Wall Street" j Matinee 2 P. M. Today One Price Alwnys " Adults S5c Childrer 10c not very warm toward Russia in general, was this time rather on Russia side. The Manchurian methods were sot cdnsiderjed as setting, a good precedent or as be ing those approved by internation al politics. ' WORK PROGRESS! SALEM AIRPORT (Continued from Page 1.9 ' gion. In connection with the le- gion s state convention, best airport will be in- Oregon's excellent condition for the landing of any ' plane that lues. other improve ments including hangars, repair shops, other buildings and bea cons, will come later. - Few Salem residents other than those who have some official con nection with the airport develop ment, have gone out to view the rap.id progress that is being made4 on its improvement although the field is easily found, either by driving out Turner Road or oat State street and turning onto the road -.which goes directly sou'th niriu Kill? ucUHCUitai V . i Preliminary grading of" the I three runways .which converge at I Scoop! IN ORE Eatya! . Presents , " v At Tonight's Performance Pathe Sound Talking News i ' j Showing of the Famous Pilots -- Pete jKeinhart arid L. W. Mendell g in Their "Angeleno" SEE and HEAR IT ALL! 'I' i " - !l i ... ' : ' -i ' - ' i EiLnkJmis si J aaa ' 2S 'M4 ft i KnorJcamrauNs ROCANDWEST El V aOAi jiffiuOMffiEN u.ijjfctfly tSi.igfr& A 3, Mij&iitt'ie&' STARTS SUNDAY For 3 Big Days! j SEE AND HEAR, j The Popular Dix at His Best Packed with Action .... His First All-Talking Drama . !. . V Win With ' Beautlf uf ESTHER and O, PIEGGIEi Next Sunday For One Week TAU1IK3 DANCIMG US Play ing Sa lem at Regular Prices. Shows Start at 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00. Cob tianous Shows Daily. The greaaf Blusical Success of the stage brought to the screen la its entirety, Never has there been any thing so 'marvelous I j VtTEJaacftj Vltaphone Acts, 4Talkl News it rprojeeie'd buildings. Is near com pletion. Tne longest extends 480 0 feet from the northwest corner of the field to the southeast cotfaer; A second. 3500 feet long, bisects this at right angles, and the short est runway, 3300 feet, runs north and south. Along the far side, crossing the short runway at right angles, is the 3800 foot runway. Thpy are so arranged that a flyer will be able to "land under ideal" wind conditions no matter what; the wind direction. This one feature causes the Salem airport to rate higher that that at Swan Island.' Portland, which has but one runway. . Elkinore to Show Talkies of Flight , Soiund movie3 of the world-famous endurance flight Just com pleted by Reinhart and Mendell are being rushed to Salfni hv - airP1g;ne today and, will be .shown for tShe first time at Elsinore to night. Announcement of this ex tra feature- was made late Friday afternoon by George "B;" Guthr'e-. owiwr of the theater. Mr. Guthrie ! i3 hopefull that the rrktunps will include views of the fliers ; after 1 they I landed LAST TIMES TODAY Adventure! - On a Romantic Southern Coast . . . Belasco's Great Play Now a Film Sensation Fan chon & "Califor- nia Capers" Idea with 16 Sunkist Beauties RALSTON' raWaiUie-'nfl Starts Next Sunday 7 Big Days TThutieby JOHN DOLES CAEaSJDTIA king NYRNALOY JOWNNYAITT1TWI staoanOMAi. STAGE SUCCESS - s 5! a noiat directly in front or the 'towS. ( mm