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SEND IT ON r . Send The Statesman en to your home for the vacation season, 'phone 5O0 and have WEATHER Fair today and warmer; decreasing humidity. Max. temperature Monday 80; min. 41; .rffer 1.3; west wind; ncf rain. ' it follow you to your mer haunts. FOUISLDOP 1831 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 95 Sakm, Oregon, Tuesday Morninj, July 16, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS p. 14 11 &10JiiiiEd jt frjt ARMORED -CARS PATROL ROUTE Garrisons Are Established at Strategic Points ' Along Railway , Delays in Transmission of , Ultimatum Puts Off ; Crucial Decision SHANGHAI, July 15. (AP) FMspatehes from Nanking tonight I) the Kuomjn. an official news egoncy, stated that the Kuomin tang party leaders In discussing the crisis with Soviet Russia over the 'Chinese eastern railway In Manchuria asserted that a pro nouncement of the Chinese gov ernment's policy was expected with a "few days." The minister of railways, the dispatches added, frad reports ifrom Harbin, Man churia, that njorir.al passenger and freight service was being main tained on tire 'Chinese eastern rail r c despite "wholesale changes In railway personnel. More Troops Being fcKationed Along Iload Additional troops, it was stated, xure garrisoning various imports air ,i the railway, and six arm ored trains were patrolling the en tire line betwicen Harbin and Ma ehuli, from central Manchuria to the border ofj Manchuria and Si beria. '? ' MOSCOW, iluly 15. (AP) A delay in transmission cf , the So Tiet note to-China on the Chineie eastern railway question In Man churia seemed likely tonight to lead to an extension of the three day limit for ja reply. The foreign office today pub lished a statement from the Chi nese representative here notifying th?m that the) note was translated into Chinese f on Saturday night and filed by telegraph to Nanking with a request to replay it to pro vincial officials at Muken, since thsre was n direct communica tion. More han 24 hdurs were thus lost in transmission. "Visa Is Requested By Soviet Official M. Serebiaiov, a member of the railroad commissariat, has applied (Turn -to pnxe 2, column 4) RECOVEK FAST " ' -! . HORTA. Azores, July 15 AP) Majoif Casimir Kubalo to night was said to be making rap-Id-recovery IJrom the injuries he received when th eairplane Mar shal Pilsudskl crashed on the island of Graciosa, there was, talk today of exhuming the body of his companion Major Ludwik Idi kowskl to take it back to Poland. Kubala had gained sufficient Ft rength to describe how they circled over iGraciasa on Saturday evening after a long struggle with a strong adverse wind and with a defective motor Irapidly becom ing useless. He said that fumes from the engines; at times en veloped -the plane' and seriously hindered visibility n landing.' They attempted) to come down In a big wheat fiel but the sharp slope caught one wing. Knbala jumped clear ; just In time. The airplane was I almost .completely wrecked an4 Idslkowskl died within a few ; minutes. Residents searched through the wheat until ttey found Kubala lvlng with a deep cut in his head. He was takea to the hospital where he remained unconscious until -Sunday i morning. Filipino Leader Delivers j Ringing Speech in Favor Of Islands' Independence . WASHIINGTON, July 15-(AP) Statistics and technical data were shunted aside by members of the senate finance committee; at Us , tariff hearings. today as a youth t ful appearing . Filipino with tears In his eyes pleaded for free dom ef the Filippines. He was Manuel Roxas, speaker r.t ihA honae of representatives of the Islands ana Chairman of the Philippine Legislation commis sion, sent to thisx country to pro- : tect the placing of Import duties or restrictions on goods from the - archipelago entering the United ' .States. i . - S . ' I Defiant As Heads Board Mept Aliviunder LfW;o( Chica go, ( wha Monday presided over t ho first meeting of .the United States farm hoard. Mr. Jgge was' fonnerly pi-ellent of the International Hiwesierl company. T ITS FIRST SESSION ! I Hoover Charges Group With Solution of Vexing Ag ricultural Issue By FRANCES M. STEPHENSON, Associated Press Staff Writer I WASHINGTON. July 15 (AP) The federal farm board created bycongress after years bf dispute assembled today and" was charged by President' Hobver with respon sibility for a solution of 5 America's long Standing and vexatious agri cultural problem. . At the end of the first day's conferences, begun at; a meeting room -of the White House, the with Mr. Hoover in" the cabinet chairman of the board,; Alexander H. j Leege, a Chicago; business man announced that "we are go in to work long and Hard." Say ing there were no prpmises, he expressed hope that the board could organize agriculture to per mit application of its work to this year's ccops. j Most of the day was occupied with routine business. Chris L. Christensen, chief of the cooper ative marketing division of the de partment of agriculture, was selected as secretary to the board. Ambitious Program Outlined by Bowrd -He cited these problems "to (Turn to page column 1) RECORD HOP ACROSS CONTINENT FAILURE WICHITA, Kans., July 15. (AP) Delay in repairs to the leVking oil system onj his Lockheed-Vega monoplane tonight kept Lieut Herbert J. Fahyj transcon tinental flier, in Wichita. He was forced down Sunday at Kiowa, Kansas, on a record flight attempt across the continent. A check of the plane's motor late today revealed j additional trouble, which '"may aot be re paired in time to take off tomor row for Los Angeles, as he had planned. He expects to take off from Los Angelejg within tho next 10 days, in i another attempt to (better the existing -non-stop mark, between that city and New York. He has set a goal of 15 hours for the cross country hop. j Roxas objected particularly to testimony by John M. Swltxer of New York, representing the Phil ippine-American Chamber of Com merce, that the Filpinos wanted independence as a principal but were praying they would not get It. These words were used by Chairman Smoot and ; Swltzer greed that was the case. Jn i clear English, f Roxas de nounced this thought and declar ed the Filipinos were for inde pendence,, "Not only on principal, not only because its! a natural yearning of a , people to be free. I ? -fc J " ' y It 3 t. 1 a-, ' , - i v ' I -s- J U HOLDS (Turn to pas 2, column S) 1 11 N FALL FROM i Salem Man strikes Heaci on Concrete Driveway at 1974 Hazel Ave. Death Occurs Almost Instan taneonsly, Local Phy sician Asserts Felix Weinman, 2107 North Commercial Street, owner of con siderable real estate in Salem, fell twelve feet to almost Instant death when a scaffold slipped out from under a ladder from which he was panting a house at 1974 Hazel avenue Monday afternoon about 1:45 o'clock. Mr. Weinman feii head fore most upon a concrete driveway, and his skull was crushed. The physician called by Cerner Lloyd he was painting a house at 1974 practically instantaneous, al though persons living in the vi cinty who rushed to the scene Im mediately following the accident, said Mr. Weinman was breathing for a short time after 'he felL The house which M. Weinman was painting was his own prop erty, it was said, and he owned other houses in t&at vicintiy. ; Mr. Weinman was 52 years of age and unmarried. He is. surviv ed by his father Andrew Weinman of Salem. E Approach to South Liberty Street $pan Ordered Leveled, Oiled Leveling and oiling of the filled South Liberty street bridge, and street surface approaching the construction of a guard railing on street fill, were authorized at Mon the culvert under the North High day night's city council meeting as steps In furthering the use of these partly completed spans, which cannot be paved until the fills settle thoroughly. Over the matter of building the guard rail, some dissension devel oped on the ground that there bad been no proper call for bids, but it subsided when Alderman Sim eral pointed - out that an emer gency existed because of the dan ger to children crossing the fill, A contract was let to E. S. Patton on the low bid of $385. In response to agitation which developed recently anent the de lay in preparing plana for a new bridge across North Mill creek on North Commercial, Chairman Townsend of the bridge committee been making a study of two alter- repofted that the engineers had native proposals, a full width bridge or a culvert and fill, and had decided in favor of a bridge as being less costly. Preparation of detailed plans was authorized. WILL BET Portland, Ore.. July 15 (AP) The state board of higher edu cation, meeting here today, au thorized the building committee to execute a contract for the con struction of a tine arts building on the University of Oregon camp us at Eugene at a cost sot. to exceed 1200,000. The building is to be erected In the memory of the late Prince L. Campbell, university president.; William Whltefleld and com pany was employed by the board to make an immediate audit of all state institutions of higher learn ing. B. F. Irvine, Portland, mem ber of the board, was elected treasurer for the Oregon State College at Corvallis. All members of the board, which succeeds the boards of, re gents of the various institutions, were present and Dr. Arnold Ben nett Hal, president of the Univer sity of Oregon, and Dr. W. J. Kerr, president .of Oregon state, were in attendance. . At tonight's meeting of the Executive committee: Starr, board three committees were named as follows: chairman; E. C. Samnrans, Port land; A- R. Watiek, Portland. H SCAFFOLD STREET AND BRIDG PROBLEMS OREGON 5200.000 BUILD! Open War Threatens f'J&sk.' "I " V f. ':- lata - Xv C7 r, j s W :- J - Y v lt -7s S"it' I ' i s ' ' ' 1 lrr- V iVp-H! ' Roger Q. Williams, left, and Lewis A. Yancey, right, who recently blazed the air trail from New York to Rome, were (ranted a special audience by Pope Pius at Vatican Vity Sunday. Officers Are Nominated By Catholics At Session RELIGION HELD NEED OF MODE! SOCIETY People Have Severed Rela tions With God, Speak er Tells Meeting "The crime and misfortune of modern society consists in this it has severed its relations with God, it has pushed the Creator out of this creation. If we would escape the evils (brought on by this condition) we must keep the home fires burning in the family, in the nation and in the church." This declaration was one of the key-notes of an address on "Re ligion in a Nation" given by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis Nau, rector of St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, during a mass meeting held at the state fairgrounds Sunday afternoon. More than 6000 Cath olics, including delegates to the annual national conventions of tbc Catholic Central Verein of Amer ica and the National Catholic Women's Union, attended the mass meeting in the afternoon which was preceded by a pontifical high mass. . Msgr. Nau stressed the effects of the recent World War on pres ent day conditions in the religious world. The noted Catholic church man stated, "The great war tore away the cloak of our conceits and (Turn to page 2, column C) THREE ARE KILLED MILWAUKIK, July 16. (AP) Two trains were wrecked with in a half honr of each other in Wisconsin today, killing three trainmen and Injuring several passengers. Chicago Northwestern railroad passenger train No. S, eastbound from Marshfield, left the rails at a road crossing near Princeton, tore up 300 feet of track and plunged through a trestle over Black creek. ; Eugene Curran, the fireman, waa fatally injured. The engineer, A. O. Hassman, was not expected to recover. The cause of the wreck was not learned. At Tomah the second section bf a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific road equipment train hit an open crossover switch and piled up, killing Benjamin Schulti. 32, the fireman, and Benjamin Clark. a brakeman. HI WRECKS They're Honored By Pope Minnesota and Indiana idency of National tion Will be - - y WILLIBALD EIBNER of (Minnesota, incumbent, and J. J. Bauer of Indiana, were nominated for the presidency of the Catholic Central Verein ernoon session of the annual convention being held here. Elec tions will be held at the business sessions today, with the vot ing closing at 5 o'clock, but results of the election will Jiot be CIVIL Will VETERI Death Takes D. M. Wilson, at Age of 90; Funeral is to be Wednesday Death Monday called D. M. Wil son, 90, 321 North 21st street, a veteran of the Civil war, for years a resident of Salem where. he waa for Borne time engaged in the real estate -business. i The funeral will be held Wed-f nesday at 10:30 a. m. in the Ter- williger parlors, the G. A. R. be- ing in charge of the service. Mem bers of the Sons of Veterans will act as pallbearers. Interment will be In the G. A. R. circle at City View cemetery. Mr. Wilson enlisted in 1861 in Company I, First Regiment, Wis consin volunteers. He served throughout the Civil war with this contingent and won recognition as a sharpshooter. He was with Sherman in his famous "march to the sea." 3 JIESTED FOR , THEFT IN STORE Three youths aged about 18 were arrested early this morning on charges of stealing new inner tubes from Scheelar's tire service store at 275 Hood street The proprietor, Lu A. Schealar, thought he heard someone in the building, and called Officer Burgess. The boys were gone by that time, but they were rounded up soon after by Officers Burgess and Charlton. They are Ed Ryan, 624 North Capital-street; Gordon Whitting ton. 944 North Cottage, and Ralph MelsohriHO North Front, They had the . tires In their ; possession. and later admitted tbeir part in the burglary. Men Put Up For Pres Organization; Elec Stagecl Today of America at the Monday aft submitted to the convention until Ihe report of the com mitted on election which will be made Wednesday morning im mediately preceding the' installa tion of the new officers. . H. B. Dielmann of Texas and Charles Knetzger of Illinois are nominees for first vice president of the league, and Joseph Adler of New York and A. F. Mischell of North Dakota were nominated for second vice president. Uncon tested nominations were that of Frank Saaifeld of Salem, Oregon for third rice president, and the president of th Catholic Wo men's Union. Mrs. Sophia Waver ing of Illinois, for fourth vice president. Fiilf Ust Of Nominees Put Up Other nominations made were: for general secretary, F; J Dock John endorf of Wisconsin and Neuner of California; for assis tant secretary, William A. Ham mecke of Pennsylvania and Jo seph Allbrecht of New York; for treasurer. George Korte of Min nesota and John Dockmann of Maryland. Selection between Joe Brockland and William A. Schmit, both of Mirssouri. must be made for the trustees; and two more trustees must be chosen from a pro up that includes William H. Siefen of Connecticut, John A. Roehl of Wisconsin, Frank C. Riled of Wisconsin, J. A. Wer ner of California, and Valentine Rieger of Ohio. Baltimore Picked Por Next Convention t The Verein delegates unani mously selected Baltimore, Mary land for their 1930 convention city. The diamond Jubilee of the Verein will be celebrated, tke so ciety having been organized in Baltimore in 1855. Letters from the Baltimore mayor, William F. Broening, from Archbishop Nicho las J. Curley of Baltimore, and from the Baltimore Association of Commerce, were read. The annual report of the presi dent, Mr. Eibaer. was read at the Joint session of the verein and the National Catholic Women's Union held Monday morning. The pres ident reviewed the activities of the Central bureau of the society. ! model organizations, the Kolping societies, and the solution of the l- (Turn to page t, column f) Dancy,Rosebraugh Patton, Townsend Sole Backers Left Ordinance Having Similar Purpose Is Tabled To Permit Consideration With View t r t 9 Eliminating Emergency Clause ATTEMPTS of- the Oregon Stages, Inc., to obtain an exclusive-franchise for the operation of street busses in Salem were permanently sidetracked Monday night when the city council indefinitely postponed consideration of the ordi nance bill embodying this proposed franchise; but the fat of a companion measure of similar purpose is still in doubt. The second ordinance bill w4s merely lain upon the ta-! ble, from which ft may be takenat any time. This measure proposed to require any transportation company to obtain a ; :r 1 franchise before operating INTS IT Turner Road Resident Asks Well be Deepened at City Expense When the city built a drainage sewer 15 feet deep thtpugh the property of E. Bella af2 210 Tur1, ner Road, it took all the water j out of Mr. Bello's well, he com- I nlained in a letter read at the city I councll meeting Monday, night. The city dug the well three feet deeper than it was,- hut that wasn't sufficient, the' letter said. Now Mr. Bello wants the city to dig it deep enough or pay the cost of doing so. There were a lot of complaints facing the ceunciimen Monday night. Sim Phillips wanted to know when the sidewalks are to be built the rest of rt$ way along J e r r I s avenue, two-thirds of the property owners having al ready built their' walks. Some of the others are non-residents. The upshot was that a motion was passed requiring all side walk notice ordinances to be checked by the city engineer be- j fore they are passed, and' then the engineer will be required to fol ' low them up and see that the side walks are built, or build them and arrange to place liens against the property for the cost. The problem of forcing such construction was discussed at length before this, decision was reached. An objection from Earl Race on the ground that paving of 18th street is being done contrary to original surveys, was anticipated and the city engineer instructed to investigate. Mr, Race had told (Turn to pae 2. column 4) BIG FIELD ENTERS GOLF SWEEPSTAKES PORTLAND, Ore., July 15. (AP) One of the largest fields, if not the largest, that has ever competed In a-sweepstakes event sponsored by the Oregon Women's Golf association will tee off to morrow at the Lake Oswego coun try club. There are 120 women now en tered and this figure probably will be swelled by several post entries tomorrow morning. The sweepstakes will serve as the qualifying round for the Ira P. Poers trophy. Each club will nominate a six woman team and the two teams having the low ag gregate scores will play off for the cup on a neutral course later this week. mm. Lee Eyerly Is Awarded Contract Operating New City Municipal Airport Problems of operation of the "Salem Municipal Airport," the name of which became official up on action by the city council Mon day night, were pretty generally solved at the same meeting when a contract was awarded to Lee Eyerly, whereby he is to super vise the field in return for the privilege of keeping two of his own planes in. the hangar, have space for his 'airplane factory. Conduct his flying school on the field and operate the repair shop and gasoline concessions. Proviso was made that In con ducting the flying school. Mr. Eyerly must conform to the U. S. department of commerce require ments. It was indicated that a the next meeting, a further safe guard will be set np by requiring Mr. Eyerly to furnish a liability bond against any damage his students might cause to commer street busses, set up a rpmV ule of fees which would be prohibitive to a small oper ator, and made certain re quirements as to equipment. Revision Advocated Ky Some ('oum-iliiicn S-onis numbers of the " (! piil they believed this met sure could be revised afld passed, giv ing the Oregon Stages exclusive ihrh:-- but at thesamie tiiii? loav--ing conlr-il of the' situation 'in the hands of th" council: Revision, they - inJii-r.lod, would include elimination" .of. the emergency clause, the..jriu -ipal basis of ob- kt-tion since its purpose, mowers i-J't, was to prevent a po.lh1 icit roiuluiit.. Asi.int Post jioiieuieiit On the ,iudtf iniie postponement ot the franchise bill, there was a ripple of dissension, Atdormen Kosebraugh, Pattern, Townsend and Dancy holding out for mere ly tabling it. with the apparent hope that it too could be revised to an acceriablc form. There waa t-Home confusion over ?he vote and a claim was made that the Nao tion was defeated four to three, but Mayor Livesley pronounced it parried. , There was no argument on the measures. Alderman Patten moved to table the bill requiring franchises and changing the fees, and his motion passed despite; an objection from Alderman Kowlts that the -bill should be indefi nitely postponed, a vote befag taken before he could more tor an amendment. " ?. Postponement Moved By Alderman Kowlts On the exclusive franchise bill, the motion to table was nude and Alderman Kowlts, now alert, moved ,an amendment j to postpone indefinitely. i ew ordinance dius Tf aa urn and second times included one graphs or radios on the streets or through open doors or wi dows, and another to limit the speed of trains in the city ta 2 miles an hour. Recorder Mark Poulsen spoke up and said here was already an ! ordinance on the books limiting trains to ten miles an hour. The new ordinance on this subiect waa referred to the ordinance com roittee. Poftlander Hurt In Auto Collision Vincent M. Howard of Portland suffered bruises on his legs wbea his automobile collided with one driven by E. D. Griggs, 2030 Maple street, at Hood stree. un Fairgrounds Road Monday. Sir. Griggs claimed in his report fto the polLee that Mr. Howard waa driving too fast and attempted to take, the right of way. It was he second accidqgt in which Mr. Griggs figured in less than : a week. - - 1 cial planes. This was insisted upon by Alderman Pur vine. ! The agreement provides that Mr. Eyerly .shall not have exclu sive right to. conduct a flyia school at the' field. : Alderman Rosebraugh read; report showing t hat although more money has already been spent on the airport than is avail able from the sale ot $2E, 09 worth of bonds, it will be com pleted for less than the total au thorized issue of $50,000, - j- Expenditures so far have been: For labor, $3,737.68; 'purchase of tractor, $1,C20; purchase-ot land. $22,708; making a total j of S28.065.68. . Estimated additional expendi tures include 110.000 for a hang ar, between $3,000 and $4.A00'fot tile drainage, $723 to complete the runways, 31,000 for leveling Tarn to page t, eehtmn SV