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Ill I ..'-.(, r'.Vf-' -r ' 'j:,, f . -i.-;-t , - i ... ' i ; I ' I WEATHER 1 .. '(.i.e. - :H . Fair today; -Teioperatar ' abevej . onnat with ; low hamidy and Increasing fir hazard. Max. Saturday 89; ' MIn. fS'j RiTtr lj7. , ' 1 ' ' 1 ' : - ! : FOUNDED IA31 . -' i 1 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 106 Salem, Oregon, Sun jay Morning, Jury 28, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS : : - : 1 1 11 " i 1 1 n i ' v ! R LAUDS MM Explanation of Situation Is-' sued by President to People of U. S. Settlement Liberal on Part of America, Chief Ex ecutive States I WASHINGTON July 27. (AP). President HooTer in ex that pre8ainr gratification today France had ratified the Mellon Berenger debt agreement. told the American people that f this settlement. In effect, wipes out the. entire Indebtedness at France wnlch arose during the warj per iod, aa simpfy protides fo the payment of advances, to France after the Armistice." "I think in fairness, to the American people I am justified in mentioning the liberality of . the settlement," the president aid. adding that the French debt to the United States on Jnn 15, 1925, was $4,230,000,000 and that on a fire per cent basis which the French obligation; bear the present value of the pay nents In the Mellon-Berenger i.gree, ment concluded subsequently Is $1,681,000,000. Advances Total Billion and Half The president said the advan ces to France after the Armistice aggregated with accured interest J1.C55.000. 000. and continued: "While one of th after-Armistice advances were made fc r the liquidation of obligations Incur red in this country by the French government during the war con siderable advances . during the war period itself were for per manent' Improvements; for ship ping. For the meeting of, obliga tions to private creditors incur red prior to the entrance of the United States into the war, and advances to the Bank of France for credit and exchange pur poses." Mr. Hoover said' he was "giv ing these facts so that in recog nition of the honorable which -France has, acted Eray in o meet its, oblivions. bt will under. stand that our people too feel that this settlement Involves a measure of sacrifice part." Ratification Praised By Mellon Also on their Secretary Mellon, who headed the commission which concluded the agreement. In a Etatepient is sued simultaneously with that of the president, said the French ratification would "provri erful factor in promoting a pow general economic progress. The president's statement. is- (Turn to Page 3. Colunin 1) Thanks for Hospitality Expressed Appreciation of hospitality shown the officers andl delegates of the Oregon Reservation, . Im proved Order of Bed Mn. during their 3Sth Great Sun sjessions In Salem Friday! and Saturday, was expressed in a resolution passed shortly before adjournment Satur day forenoon. - 1 f Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: John Jessen, Portlajnd, great sachem: Edison I. Ballagh, St. Helens, great senior sagamore; E. Dean Haas. Portland, great junior sagamore; Henry Swift!. Portland, great prophet; i2. M. Wells, Port land, great chief of records; Jacob Hahn, Portland, greatj keepeii of wampum; George C. Layxeu,vAs toria, great trustee; E. T. Kertson, Raiem. rreat sannap; j. Bounds. Portland, greit Mishina- wa: CUfford Gardner! Portland, rreat guard of wigwam; Fred Pur- din, Hedford, great guard of for est. I Greaf finance committee, O. L. Bickel. Dr. Duane A. Fellows and C. E. Orr. All c I Portland. Orphans board, AlvfJ Sievers, J L. Morgan ud Alex Johnson, all of Portland. I Great board of appeals, W. C. A Pohl of Astoria, L. JL Jacobs of Med ford and E. A. Fellows of Port land. ' - i" Classic Army Sounded for At Huge Airport Barbecue -Game and get it!" "This classic lnvita may -have originated ; Ion, which among the diselDles of Paul Bunyan but achieved Its greatest fame In the army camps here and in France .Jl years ago, fittingly epitomizes the message now being broadcast by Capital Post No. t. American Legion, Informing all' and sundry that they will be fed; free of all coat, at the Salem Municipal air port Thusday afternoon, August 8, at 5 o'clock The barbecue. whlch follows Im mediately after the airport dedi Nucleus Of iGreat Wheat Firm Is Organized $20,000,000 Grain Corporation is Under Guiding Hand of R icently Created Federal Farm Board s.t Chicago GlklCAGO, July 27. (AP) Underj thi gliding liand of the federal farm board, the nucleus of what is anticipated to become a $20,000,000 grain marketing corporation was formed here today. The nucleus is a committee of sixteen representative grain men, selected from among more than fifty who have attended the sessions of the farm board here during the last two days, at the board's invitation. I SOVIET REVOLT IS St Movement Intended to Make trouble for Americans Report States LIMA. Peru. July 27. (AP). La Prensa, a newspaper which enjoys the confidence of the gov ernment tonight said that two plots recently discovered by the police were fostered by an em ploye" of the union of Soviet so cialist republics and designed to create difficulties for the United States,, : It said thai one movement was prepared at the capital and. an other at the Talara oil field. A man named Falipe Iparaguirre came there to organize the work men -on. instructions of some In-1 ternational association which carries on propaganda against "what they call Yankee imper ialism" but which in fact U an agency of Russian communists endeavoring to create difficulties for the United States. It was charged that literature found .with him proved that he was receiving- money from the Soviet. His mission was to or ganize at the Talara oil fields disorders similar to the out breaks a few months ago at San ta Marta, Colombia. - La Prensa also stated that Iparaguirre Informed 'his head quarters, which, was said to be in Mexico, that he had ecured the help of "defeated politicians" who would start a revolution at Lima. One of the annonymous pamphlets circulated recently was quoted as saying, the tyran (apparently referring to Presi dent Leguia) must know it. II he does not want to listen the clamor of the Peruvian people and leave the power, we will throw him out and we will not avoid means not excluding that of political crime." NEW YORK, July 27 (AP) Try as hard as he could, John R. Voorhls. zrand sachem " of Tam many and president of the board of elections, could not make today, hia 100th birthday, "just a usual day." ! He got down to his office in the Municipal building half an hour rly just to show the world that two banquets In a row, last night and the night before, weren't ga in to interfere with business Andthen, right, here In his office, the congratulations sneaked up on him. Before it wasjover Mr. Voorhls had wept for the first time since he entered public life, more than SO years ago. he rater ' said and had declared with sincereity .-' am bursting In my heart," JVith the exception of Mayor Walker, who was out of town, all the big Tammany men were there led by former Governor Alfred E. Smith and John F. Curry, Tammany leader. There was a birthday cake with just one big candle, for they would have needed a cake the size of a wash tub to hold 100 speech es, handshaking, more speeches, and poems written in hia honor. One admirer came bringing 100 roses. . Gall Again j Legionnaires cation, promises to be .the most stnpendous event 'of its kind ever staged in Oregon. . I. A ton of beef, comprising IS or 14 hind quarters, will, be barbe cued In the huge oven which waa completed late last week. The oven la 7V4 by 10 feet inside. 4V4 feet' high, with a parapet wall at the front eight feet highlit re quired 1500 fire brick and 4009 common brick to construct It, and 15 yards of dirt to cover it Here. Sheriff Si Bingham tf Grant county j will preside, ea'mp- EXPO 0 III PERU wm mm m 10DTH HU (Turn to Page S, Column 1) Marketing This jcommittee will hold its first meeting in Chicago Au gust 2G and organize the farmers' national grain corpo ration with an authorised capital stock of 110,000.000, which will be increased ultimately to 920, 000,000 through the instrumen tality of stock dividends. Stockholders in the new corpo ration fill be co-operative mar keting associations, elevator com panies or farmer owned sales agencies at central markets, on the basis of one share of stock for each member. -Individual farmers also will be permitted to purchase one share of stock each. Par value of the shares will be $20. Organization by the raln in terests of the farmers' national grain corporation will mark the first actual step taken by the new ly created farm board to solve the farmers? marketing problems. Other similar corporations are expected to be organized later to deal with other commodities. Plan for the new grain corpora tion was submitted to the grain men by the board as the most feasible: means of stabilizing pric es. Members of the board ex pressed ' themselves as gratified over the attitude of the grain men toward the suggestion, and over its ready adoption. William Settle of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana farm bu reau federation, is chairman of the committee, representing the eentral states wheat pools. Other members Include George: Duie, Grand Forks, N. p., repre senting the northwest pools; Ern- (Turn to Page J, Column 1) Al Smith's Woids Now Foist Class NEW YORK. July 27 (AP) A badge of scholarly and official respectability was given today to the pronunciatoin of first as "foist" or of New York as "N'oo Yoick." This educational change of heart was contained in an announce ment from the American Council of Learned societies at Columbia university of plans for making a dialect atlas of the United States. In the announcement, Prof. Hans Kurath of Ohio State university, was quoted as saying: "Movements of population have tremendous importance in the shaping and "spread of dialect, the New York 'oi', to which the East Side may claim "foist" rights, has been carried to all parts of the city. to Long Island, to New Jersey and up the Hudson by business men and working men, and com muters have imported it Into Connecticut towns along the Sound- ' . "This one-time vulgar pronun ciation is fast becoming respect able with the rise of tht 'oi' speak ers to commercial,- political and cultural importance. Not a few professors at Columbia university are nslng It in a somewhat milder form, and Ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith is not the only man of prominence to giv e It social standing." M DERBY VIEWED BTiSK EUGENE, Ore., July 17 (AP) Several thousand visitors to the Sunset Trail celebration attended the 'air derby sponsored by the American Legion -at the Eugene airport today. . Les Meadows won the 15-mile race for OX6 planes with Dick Rankin second and Al Adams. A Union Oil company plane won the 'free for all i with Gordon Mounce jand G. H. Eckeraon di viding other honors. Tex Rankin and Adams won the relay race with Dick Rankin and Mounce coming In second. Local Friends to Attend Meetings Rev. I and Mrs. Simms of the Friends church, Salem, left Mon day for Twin Rocks where they will attend the annual : Oregon Friends Christian Endeavor con ference' which will be in session at Twin Rocks this week. About 11 members of the Friends church of Salem f will be far attendance during the week, i -i f ROBIN PUSSES I Flight Over Pacific Projected 354 HOURS 1 1 ' i i record int Bmm Jackson and 0'Brine Outlast Rivals who are Forced To Come Down Today is Third Sunday Spent In Continuous Flight by Intrepid Flyers ST. tXDUIS, July 28 (Sunday) (AP) Sailing serenely over Lambert-St Louis field the endur ance record-breaking monoplane "St. Louis Robin." passed its 354th hour In the air at 1:17 a. m., (CST.) today. Shortly before mid night the pilots, Dalt (Red) Jack son and Forest O'Brine dropped a green' flare signalling' to the ground crew "all's well." ,- ST. LOUIS, July 27 (AP) Still resolved to fly their mono plane "St. Louis Robin" until the motor quits. Dale (Red) Jackson and Fortst O'Brine tonight were nearly at the ctose of their fifteen th day in the air and the motor was showing no; signs of giving In. At 5:17 p. m., they had been up 346 hours. j The fliers were somewhat jubi lant over having conquered their nearest rival, the Houston, Texas, endurance plane Billion Dollar City, " which was forced down this momlnr. but this anneared to snur them on rather than to tempt them to land. ' Big Crowd Gatliers At St, Louis Airfield . One of the largest crowds that has gathered at Lambert-St. Louis field since the fliers broke the record of the "Angeleno" last (Turn to Page J, Column 4) E Archie Button, 23, Encount ers Downfall at Port land Show House PORTLAND. Ore.. July 27 j (API Archie Button, 23, tried nitron-glycerine robbery fad H)nce too Often here tonight and now he's in the city Jail wondering why a cashier in a motion picture theater did not give up the $2,000 he demanded in the customary note while he, waved a bottle filled withjiquid. ' Arcnie, ponce saia, started out to make today a banner one on his calendar of crime and first held up a taxicab driver, stole the cab. crashed into another automobile and (finally ended that spree by smashing into a tree. He fled afoot. Tonight, Archie, a slender, light haired youth, approached the ticket office of the United Art ists! theater, police said, pushed a note through the wicket to Miss Grace Coomer, waved his pottle and waited results. When Miss Coomer read the note which told her not to "ask me one question or don't touch one thing," she didn't ask ques tions but motioned for the door man. He rushed Archie while Miss Coomer streamed for help. Her cries brought Patrolman Hacker who seized Archie. The bottle was filled with water. j (Turn to Page 3, Column 3) Britain and U. S. Moving For Peace LONDON, July 57. (AP) British political observers, grati fied with the, improvement In Anglo-American relations during the past week, tonight looked forward hopefully to further advance in solution of the paramount Inter national problem of naval disarm ament. - The rising of parliament will enable Premier Ramsay MacDon- ald to give as much time as he has promised to farther negotia tions with the United States, Unit ed! States Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, one of the most 1 valued agents of President Hoover in these discussions. Is again coming from his post at Brussels to renew his conferences with Ambassador Charles G. Dawes. - , (Well Informed persons believe these two : Americans with the British premier should record an other forward step In the nego tiations daring the coming week. The British - press has not yet ceased praising President Hoover and Premier MacDonald for their announcements of curtailment ef the current naval construction. There are many who optimistic ally echo the words of a political writer who said, "when Mr. Hoover said . 'drasuo reduction' and meant If he began the saving I work and . democratic Britain is I going hand In hand with the American republic to start It out." mo nil BM) 1ST D 1 ( 1 . , .,i , , . : ; XT' ': ' The -first non-stop flight from the United States to Japan 1 scheduled to begin at Tacoma ' this morning. Lieutenant Harold Bromley, shown bf low, wiU attempt to make himself famous as the Lindbergh of the Pacific by making the flight alone. i : : o Briand To Aid New French Premier Hailed by Officials in Washington as Likely to Add Impetus I To Movement WASHINGTON, July 27. (AP) Acceptance by Aris tide Briand of the commission to form a new French cabinet was hailed in official circles tonight as likely to furnish an impetus toward negotiations for an international naval re duction parley. Much credit waa given former Premier Poincare by Washington officials and diplomats for the part he has nlaved t . 1J A A' 1 in -pom international ana ao-rr mestic French affairs. Some of thein noted that Poincare had successfully concluded vir tually all of his efforts to put the internal problems of France en a sound basis and said the way was now open for Briand to devote greater; attention' to foreign af- Briand. If he succeeds In form- ing a cabinet, is expected here to retain the portfolio of foreign min ister inil addition to that: f - pre mier.. He has been dealing With international affairs for a long period and is considered by Amer ican officials to be the best equip ped statesman in France to deal with the naval question on behalf of his country after the problem reaches-a definite stage. As pre mier; It was i pointed out, he would not be "obligated to seek the approval of a superior upon shaping- a foreign policy, as was the case while he.ws foreign min ister under Poincare. 1 A firm supporter of the league of nations, Briand Is expected to (Turn to Page 3, Column 4) y ! 2 Convicts Attempt to Escape Pen Sonny Martin, 21, and Harold Hall, 18, prisoners at the state penitentiary, attempted to escape Saturday afternoon by hiding out in a huge sawdust bin near the boiler room. A count of the pris oners When they are checked In at 4 o'clock revealed the absence f the two men and a search of the premises was ordered immediate ly by Henry Meyers, superintend ent, j( "They no doubt Intended to hide away for a few days," said Meyers, "and then try to make it over the wall at some favorable time of the night.? . Both prisoners were serving ten years and bfcth had been received from : Multnomah County en charges Involving assault and bat tery armed with a 'dangerous weapon. Martin was received July 3, 1928, and Hall, who also was known as Harold H. Tipp, was re ceived March 10. 1928. Hall al ready b-d a record of two erms in the state reform school and had been n trouble in California for auto theft . j The two men were placed 4n solitary confinement In correction cells of the penitentiary. t Injuries Result From Accident On Main Street SILYiRTON. July 27. (Spe cial) Arthur Sonde waaiiievere. ly I hat not fatally Injured when the motorcycle ho . was i riding Tashed head-on Into an auto op erated by John Elton in front of the Conrad feed mill here late this afternoon. The motorcycle waa nearly: demolished. : The two Were approaching each other' from opposite directions, Elton taming as he reached the eorner. He declares that he held oat his hind for the turn, bat the son! was shining almost di rectly Into Sonde's face and It is believed he was unable. to see the signal. Expected Navy Cut for World Peace UemOnSlTatlOn IS btaged Be- fore Consulate; Anita Whitney Arrested ' SAN FRANCISCO. July 27. (AP), A group of men ' and women bearing banners protest ing against "Chinese imperialism against Russia," werej arrested today as. they" staged a demonstration- before the Chinese con sulate here. Among (them ; was Anita Whitney, club woman and lecturer, who was arrested in Oakland ten years ago under the criminal syndicalism act and par doned by Governor C. I C. Young ! shortly after he took office. ; TflA pTrnrMB ttfrfitnef TLffca tXTVift ney nnu nine oiners laKen into custody Included violation of the penal code making It illegal to carry banners as a gesture of op position to organized govern ment. This Is a felony. Arrested with MlSs Whitney, now 62 years old, weri Emil Gar dos, who described himself as the Communist leader of San Fran cisco, and Benjamin Fee, said to be the chief of the Chinese Com munists. , - Gar d os said the depionstifation was made as a "protest against the attack on the Soviet admin istration in Bjsssia I by China." Miss Whitney aid others Waved banners on which was Inscribed : "Support the Commjunist jParty in Its Struggle Against War." 1 Miss Whitney was released on $1,000 haU. Preparations were made by friends of the other pri soners to obtain -their release also. , J 1 . 1 . , . .. ' RFfSFRVF lll.Uf.HEL Ul I 1UK.1IU RETU1 TO S1LE1II Several members of the offi cers' reserve corps j returned to Salem Saturday after two weeks of training at Vancouver .Bar racks, Wash. , Colonel Carle Abrams, commander (of the 187th Infantry regiment, was among the group, j j :; Instruction1 work with the young men taking (the citizens' military training courses and ob servation .of demonstrations put on by the Seventh infantry occu pied their) time. Each reserve officer gets several weeks of Isuch training yearly. j Colonel Abrams. expressed: sat isfaction with the Work fo the reserve oficers of this? district. The program, work and moral of the Citizens. Military Training camp, which : more than a dozen Salem boys attended Is believed by the Colonel to be? the best of an excellent series of training programs. LAD SWALLOWS COIN I I H - EUGENE, Ore.,' July 27 (AP) Junior Bash, six, (was recover ing today from an operation for removal of a 25-cent piece he swallowed when an automobile in in which he was riding hit a hump. The operation ; required three M-CHIISE HOT QUELLED III FRISCO hours. PROPOSED COURSES 6000 WEATHER. 47SO.WUS DANGEROUS iiojo - mmm it i 77TT 4 - 13 Children Told About All at Once Whether Mr."and Mrs. Anton Pfau of Gervais believe "13' 18 lucky or otherwise may be known only to them. But the fact rer mains, they waited until after their thirteenth Child arrived to report the birth of any of their children.: Report has just been made to the" county health offi cer. The county health nurse of the Gervais territory happened across the case and told the par ents of the , necessity of filing record of the births, whereupon Mr. Pfau did, swearing to their birth under a notorial seal. As a rule, the doctor or mid wife In charge files the birth re port, but Mr. Pfau was his wife's only attendant at each birth. Seven of the children are .girls, and the first was born January 9, 1906.- . . jtv i J 5rf IV p:3fe sfcifa1' Hi - iiirT.)!iBi v i Mv4 1 fc "4" ' 1 "1L"' V " " vCt ::i mm 1 wkvifofia9wH i.:iiis I l Eyerly to Recover From Effects of Plane Crash At Eugene Airport Friday Lee Eyerly will recover from Injuries received in. an airplane accident at Eugene Friday accord ing to word given out late Satur day night at the hospital where he lies In Eugene, but his condi tion has been considered serious according to physicians Who' at tended him. ;. j -Ray examinations Saturday disclosed his injuries as cerebral concussion, j fractured light ; arm and contnslons of the shoulder, neck, back and right hip. Eyerlys skull was hot .fractured as wis first thought to be the case. . i Eyerly was reported I in ; good spirits and 4 eager to he back to V ( l , , vw .' . . iu nun. iu oaiem. - lie is in Will Take pfodai ? i in . , Harold Bromley Gets Ready For Long; Solo Flight ! Across Pacific Everything put in Readinest For Fueling and Start j at Early Hour TACOMA. Wash.. July 27. (AP)r Gasoline supply for the City :of Tacoma monoplane in which Lieut. Harold Bromley will attempt a non-stop solo flight to Tokyo, arrived at the airport hers at 10 o'clock tonight and was tak en to the southwest end of the runway from where Bromley hopes to hop off. " The plane was still In the hangar-and Bromley was . asleep nearr by in an army tens guaraea oy a aonoie patrol oi na tional guardsmen. It was expect ed that the plane Would be rolled to the end of the runway to take cjn her more -than,900 gallons of gasoline for the long flight we Bromley awakes as he left word On retiring that he would person ally supervise the fueling. . TACOMA. Wash.. July 27. (APJ Lieutenant 1 Harold Brom ley reported to Tacoma field, from where he will start on an at tempted flight to Tokyo, Japan, at 9 o'clock tonight and alter order ing that his ship be moved to the Southwest end; of the-'runway for refueling, went to bed in a na Uonal guard tent that had bees especially prepared for hini. .A doubly armed guards was -placed over the tent. IE was stated by C. W. Paxsoa, motor expert who has, pronounced Bromley's plane, tpe City of Ta coma, in shape, that "Bromley wiB take off in the morning, if he hasn't a cross wind." L ; Bromley was sq heavily guaroV jed he could not bel reached but let ;it be known; through his guard that he was ready! to go at a mo ment's notice: Earlier in the day he announced his take-off official ly for dawn Monday. TACOMA, July 27. (AP) Preparations were under way at the Tacoma airport late today for fueling Lieutenant Harold Brom- ley's plane, the City of Tacoma, in which he is soon to -attempt s non-stop flight to Tokyo. Tank wagons with 903 gallons of gaao- (Turn to Pagre J -Column S) Conference j Is Held On Runt Charge The Indictment of W. H. Ellen burg, state traffic officer, on a charge of malfeasance In office, will not result In the dismissal of T. A. Raffety, chief of the state traffic - department, according to Hal E; Hoss, secretary of state. The announcement . followed a conference here Saturday attended by Mr. Hoss, Senator A. W. Nor blad, of Astoria and Representa tive Linn Jones of Oregon City. The visitors Said they had been informed that Raffety was slated for removal because of the Ellen burg incident; The Indictment against Ellen burg resulted from the disposal of an automobile which was con fiscated by the officers during the arrest of a' liquor law offender. - Norblad and Jones (said they were interested In the successful operation of the state traffic de partment, and would welcome an arbitration of the Ellenburg case without trial. Hoss replied Each action probably was Impossible for the reason that Ellenburg is new a eharge of the court., Ellenburg will "be -defended by the attorney general, rand will have the support of th secretary of state. . -:, 'I ' : Hoss made It plain that his re lations with Raffety had been har monious and pleasant. V charge of the Eyerly; airplane fac tory nere as well as the school in -which he ! has 1 trained scores, off f ; pilots. Work both In the scheefl j and In the factory will proceed! -t this week ias! usual. Eyerlj'a' -friends nredlct he will ha hv tal time to carry on his part, in the dedication!- of the airport here at the legion contention. ' Eyerlys airplane . which he" was flying when; the crash came was one of his own construction. While the motor was badly damaged, the 4 airplane Itself was unusually free from harm, the Instruments in the' cockpit being endamaged by. the 1 S 6-foot drop i which - they madef -when Eyerly failed to bring the airplane out of Its dire. , mm ;";.vv. J i - - I -. - - . - . . v.r nit. -; ' '- - - :'-