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Salem is Surely a Polite City; This Summer it Pays Due Respect to all the Many Welcome Conventions NEXT! WEATHER Fair today; No change In temperature. Mai tempera lure Mouday O; Min. 54; Hirer -2.2; Clear; No rain; No wind. Comes bow the northwest convention of Kiwanis dubs in Salem, August 18, 19 and SO. Salem Is trained In this, b ashless of being a host. FOUNDED 1831 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 119 Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, August 13, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS FIRES IIGE EASTERN AREA Two Trestles Destroyed by erty Threatened Cinders Fall on Mehama and Lyons; Blaze Visible From Stayton STAYTON. Aug. 12 (Special) Two logging railroad trestles hare been destroyed and other property is threatened by a for re8t fire reported late Monday to be still out of control, in the Four 8. Lumber company s jnoiamgs northwest of Mehama. Fire fighting forces directed by two state fire wardens are com bating the blaze, cinders of which hare been falling both in Mehama and Lyons. The fire threatened to break over into the timber of the SilTerton Lumber company, adjoining the tract which Is now burning. SeTeral small sawmills were in the path of the flames, but the mill crews, with some additional aid, were reported today to hare saved these structures. The fire was plainly visible from Stayton tonight. WENATCHEE, Wash., Auk. 12. t LT tToow vjlnila and thA lowest humidity of the year 10- day had played havoc with the efforts of the fire fighters to con trol blazes in north central Wash ington in both the Chelan and Wenatchee national forests. , At least 20,000 acres have been burned over in the Chelan forest alone, forest officials estimated, and about 2,000 men are battling the flames on many fronts. One hundred additional men were sent here last night and an other hundred men were ordered sent from Seattle. , The 11,000 aere Lake Chelan fire broke out anew yesterday. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. Aug. 12. (AP) Fire that has eneveloped 20 Oacres of timber near the camp of the-Abernethy Loucheed Logging Company. Ltd., ten miles north of Port Haney. west of Alouette lake, today had destroyed 250,000 feet of Jailed and backed timber, but the camp equipment has been moved to safe ty. One hundred men with two pumps and 5,000 feet of hose were fighting the blaze, which is high up on the mountain side. Water has to be pumped successively from two huge canvas tanks that were carried up the slope. SPOKANE. Wash.. Aug. 12. IAP1 Forest fire that had rav- TKU - r acres were oeyona control on a dozen fronts in the northwest tonight, piling the to- (Turn to Page 2, Column 8.) FOREMEfTS SIOUX LOOKOUT. Ont.. Aug 12. (AP) A furious forest fire broke out today half a mile south of Howey gold mine at Red Lake and two score men set about pre venting Its spread. Half a dozen " other fires cov ered large areas well to the south of the Woman lake sector around Bluffy and StateTakes. but mem bers of the fire fighting service operating out of Gold Pines kept them within bounds. .' Hundreds of square miles of country was shrouded in smoke believed to nave floated from tires in 'Manitoba, and the outlook was considered still serious. ACCIDENTS KILL FIVE SASKATOON, Sask.; Aug. 12 AP) Accidents near Saskatoon took a toll of five lives yesterday four persons meeting death by drowning in a lake near Hanley Sask. While the fifth death was the result of an automobile acci dent near Dundurn, Sask. NThS CfllTl CANAD1 FOREST Plans For District Meet Of Kiwanis Are Rapidly Approaching Completion Completion of all details tor the northwest district convention of Kiwanis Is expected today when Harold Jones, secretary of the northwest, organisation, telephones last minute preparations to "Nate" Elliott, local secretary of the club. Klwanians will hear the final mes aM about the convention at the iiaaii luncheon today when the wives of all the club members will be guests. Reservations kept coming In to the Kiwanis leaaers nere au uj . - -a it .1 - urniMtar and every maicauon points to a large attendance: An auto caravan Is coming from Seat tle, it was announced Monday, and state traffic policemen will escort Prince 111 1!V The British royal family la said to be greatly concerned over the continued 111 health of Prince George the fourth and youngest son of the British King. Prince George wm recently transferred front the Navy to the Foreign Of. fice in the hope that his health would improve, but the change ha failed to better his condition. T PIIMES SIFTED District Attorney Launches Probe of Story Told By Young Girl LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 (AP) District Attorney Buron Fitts today began a personal In vestigation of assault charges against Alexander T. Pantages, 54, wealthy vaudeville magnate. by questioning fire employes at the theatre In which the man is alleged to have assaulted Eunice Prlngle, ,17, a dancer who was trying to book her act on me Pantages circuit. Ruth May, bookkeeper, Cather ine Stone, telephone operator. Rose Fowler, Pantages' private se cretary, Ray Keene and E. N. Stevens, auditors, were quizzed by Fitts, and his chief deputy, Ro bert P. Stewart, who will prose cute the case. "The stories told by Pantages employes detracted nothing from Miss Prlngle's account of her vis it Friday to his private office," Fitts said. "Mostly their state ments substantiated the girl's story." Pantages was held under J25,- 000 bond Saturday for prelimin ary hearing Wednesday on a sta tutory count and a charge of at tacking a young girl by force and violence. Others questioned by Fitts to day were Dr. Lewis A. Pringle. suburban physician and the fath. er of the girl, and officers W. H. Baker, vv. A. Rathburn and Li. P. Stitts, who took Pantages to Jail from the theatre. Meanwhile a special police guard had been directed to guard Miss Pringle and her mother, and a telephone connected from their home directly to the police sta tlon. These measures were taken after death threats had been re ceived by members of the Pringle family. Dawes Hailed as Real Statesman WASHINGTON. A u g. 1 2.- (AP) Arthur Henderson. Jr., and William Henderson, sons of the British secretary for foreign affairs and members of the house of commons said here today that never before had an emissary from the United States so "quick ly impressed" the British govern ment as had Ambassador Dawes. They added that- the preliminary steps taken on naval limitations by Premier MacDonald and Dawes had met with the wholehearted approval of the English people. the party. . The Seattle group will dine at Longview Saturday night on its way to Salem. More than 800 have already sig nified their Intentions of attend ing the convention to be held In Salem August 18, IS and 20, ac cording to U. S. Page, general chairman. Of this number about 300 are wives of Kiwanians. From Portland more than 100 will attend. Tillamook promises 75, Albany 36 and Bremerton 28 and a dosen or more from Vic toria. B. C. Of the 80 Kiwanis clubs In this northwestern district, every one will be presented in the Salem (Turn to Fag 2, Column X.) URGES 1 CRISIS DODGED : FOR DAY WHEN RECESS TAKEN International Finance Com mission Adjourns Un til Wednesday The Hague Conference Upon Young Plan Takes New Turn THE HAGUE. Aug. 12. (AP) Adroitly skirting the crisis that has deadlocked its deliberations, the Hague conference to make the Tonng plan for repartions effec tive took a new tact today and sailed along toward a solution of the Rhlneland evacuation prob lem. Just as if the tieup over rep arations didn't exist. Philip Snowden, chancellor of the British exchequer, who Is gen erally credited with having al most run the Hague conference ship on the rocks by challenging the Young plan expert" for reduc ing Great Britain's reparations payments, himself helped save the situation by calling for the ad journment of the finance commis sion until Wednesday. Committee Taken By Complete Surprise This move in the committee where the reparations crisis exists came as a surprise, but it enabled the political committee to inaug urate discussion of Rhlneland ev acuation. These deliberations de veloped the? opinion that before any particular date eould be con sidered it would be necessary for military experts to pass on a great number of technical questions connected with the transport of troops. Foreign Minister Stressmann, Premier Briand, foreign minister Hymans and Foreign Secretary Henderson will study these sub jects tomorrow with their respec tive military advisers and will meet privately during the after noon to talk over the situation be fore referring it to the technical committee, , The text of the message went (Turn to Page S, Column S.) GERVA1S YOUTH IS Paul Roesch Fatally Injured and John Stecklein of Mt. Angel Hurt An automobile accident caused by a broken steering wheel Sun day resulted in the death of Paul Roesch, 19-year-old Gervals boy, and the serious Injury of John Stecklein of Mt. Angel. The accident occurred on the Mt. Hood Loop road, about a mile east of Sandy, as the party In which also were Frank Roesch, Paul's father and driver of the car. and John Stecklein and his son Joseph were returning from Zig Zag camp, where they had participated as members of the Mt. Angel band in a benefit pic nic. Stecklein Jr., sustained a bro ken leg and internal injuries and was rushed by ambulance to Port land. The machine, traveling at a rate of 15 miles an hour,' swerved to the opposite side of the road and settled on its side after the steer ing wheel broke, the senior Steck Iein said. Both boys were pinned under the automobile, Stecklein being able to drag his son free. Roesch was pinned tightly under and died before help arrived to assist in lifting the machine from his body. Employes of the Statesman who happened on the scene of the ac cident Just as Stecklein was being loaded in the ambulance, report the cover torn from the car but the staves apparently intact. Less than a two-foot ditch was at the side of the road at this point. Scores of cars from either direc tion were lined up as the injured man was rushed out. Funeral services for Roesch will be held from ML Angel. Mt. Hood May Yet Get Its Tramway PORTLAND. Ore.: Aug. 12. (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Jardine's special committee, ap pointed to recommend whether of not Mount Hood shall have tramway to its top, was back in Portland today making a final study of the data. The committee spent four days in treking about the mountain afoot and on horse back. HOOVER TO BE INVITED ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12. (AP) Expecting to reach Washington about Sept. 10, Boyd Jones, IB, of Amarlllo, Tex., left here today astride bis pony with an invitation to President Hoover for the tri state fair at Amarlllo on Sept. 23-29. He bad his mount shod here KILLED INACCIDENT Lepon Races to Be Completed as Threats Subside PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 12 (AP) Americas Le gion executive, following a conference with county fair board officials, announced today that raring under aus pices of the legion will close Wednesday at the conclusion of the fourteenth day of the meet William P. Kyne, San Francisco turf man who joined the legion In protnit Ittg the meet, said tha it has been entirely successful. He added that he hoped legisla tive action would make it possible to etage another meeting next year. If such action should be taken, he declared, better horse will be broujrbt here and the track will be improved. DUG sueu T Series of Vibrations Takes Place Over Wide Area Along Seaboard ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 12. AP) Throughout parts of five eastern states and one Canadian province belated sleepers rolled from tilted beds while earlier ris ers leaped from the breakfast ta ble and rushed in alarm to the streets as the earth's crust vibrat ed in a series of quakes of varying Intensity and duration today. When the last tremor died away it was found that while the shocks were felt from Connecticut to Ohio and from Pennsylvania to tne province or Ontario, the re sultant damage was but slight. residents of a score of cities re sumed their daily tasks and left to the scientists the task of de termining the extent, intensity and location, of the quakes. Observers in various laborator ies scanned their seismographs and announced that the tremors had moved in a north and south direction through the central and western part of New York and that the center of the disturbance probably was located somewhere near ueueionte, fa. The greatest damage was re ported from Attica, where one in dustrial plant was forced to sus pend operations because of dam age to its machinery, throwing 300 men out of work. One wall of the Attica Methodist Episcopal chnrch was cracked and the roof damaged by falling chimneys. A huge chimney on an industrial plant at Warsaw collapsed. The earliest manifestations of the temblor was at Binghamton. where residents reported feeling the shocks between one and three a. m., the majority oi tne reports (Turn to Page 2, Column 3.) 2 now ATTACK Befriended Hitch Hikers are Accused of Brutal Acts Toward Autoists HOXIE, Kans.. Aug. 12. (AP) -Victims of a brutal attack by two young men whom they had befriended, Leda Beauregard, 21, and Mrs. Beatrice Walsh. 34, both of Concordia, aJCns., were found nude, slashed about their faces. arms and bodies with razors' and apparently abandoned to bleed to death in a pasture a mile east of here today. The women were taken to Quin ter, Kans., hospital, where their condition was said not to be dan gerous. Two- youths, whom the wumen had picked up in Limon, Colo., are being sought by Sheriff Fred E. Morse, of Sheridan county. In ad: ditlon to the attack upon the wom en, who were returning alone frvm the vacation in their home, the robbers took all their-money and their motor car, a gray Chevro let landau'. The robbers, who told the wom en they were begging rides to Kansas City, their bome. stopped the women In Llmon. The youths were well mannered all day Sun day, Mrs. Walsh said. Then with out warning they attempted to overpower their benefactors. Most of the women's garments were torn front their bodies in the struggle that followed. Sheriff Morse said he believed an attempt had been made to sever the arteries in the tourists' arms. The assailants were described as about 20 years old. PRAT LATER MEASURED The peat layer tn the Lake Lab- ish area Is It feet thick at the places where soundings were made by Dr. B. P. Dachnowski- Stokes, bureau of soils expert, it was reported Monday by Dr. W. L. Powers of O. 8. C, who co operated la the survey. The par ty from the bureau of soils la beaded by Dr. C. F. Marbut. . EEH WIN REPORT 1 6 DEFENDANTS IN PHI CASES LAND IN COURT Justice of Peace Puts in Busy Day in Salem Yesterday Ralph S. Wells Gets Sixty Days in Jail and Fine of $500 ' The busiest day in several months in justiee court was spent Monday by Judge Brazier Small who had no less than 16 Rend ers brought before him, most of whom were charged with an of fense against the statutes reg ulating the liquor traffic. While some of the offenses were occa sioned by the Legion convention here. Judge Small pointed out that the men were not legion naires but rather hangers-on who came into town because they thought they could prey among convention attendants. Ralph S. Wells, twice before convicted on liquor charges, pleaded guilty to a charge of transporting liquor August 10 and was sentenced Monday to 0 days in jail and a fine of 8500. Wells, when arrested, had four gallons of liquor in bis possession. He is the father of five girls and the family is said to be in circum stances which mawe the payment of the fine impossible. On a pre vious sentence he served out the fine in jail. L. D. Raich Enters Plea of Not Guilty L. D. Balch, accused of sell ing liquor, pleaded not guilty be fore Justice Small and was releas ed on bail of 8100 which he fur nished. The case will be up for hearing Friday, August 23. Bert Zielinskl pleaded guilty to a charge of selling beer and paid his fine of 8250 In cash. vvhen Joe Schrinishe, a Port land woman, was brought before the judge she pleaded guilty to possession of liquor and paid a fine of 25. She had accompanied four men, "crap shooters," to Sa t wtrn to Page . Column I.J wins MUCH PISE Slight Deficit Possible but Officials are Uncer tain as Yet "Outstandingly worth while," was the verdict of members of the ' American Legion convention com mission Monday as they surveyed i the results of the three day event staged successfully last week end. Although it was totally impos sible to estimate the number of visitors who flocked to the city for the legion program and the en tertainment features, there is no denying that Salem was crowded with pleasure seekers each of the three days, and that untold thou sands of dollars were spent here. A big percentage of this cash re turn went first into the hands of hotel and restaurant folk, but nevertheless, it was money from out of town and will eventually be more widely distributed. Of greater eventual benefit to the city was the reputation estab lished throughout the state for Sa lem as a royal host. Innumerable legionnaires from-other cities clas sified the convention here as the most successful and enjoyable of the eleven which have' been held. This verdict was frequently ac companied by a remark that the convention here was less boister ous than some of the others, but was characterised by more real enjoyment. Special gratification was x- (Turn to Pag- I, Column J.) Tom Kay Is Seriously HI, Word "Thomas B. Kay, . state treas urer, is in a very serious condi tion, but Is holding bis own In spite of the heat." This was the contents of telegrams received In Salem Monday from Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, superintendent of the Oregon- state hospital, who met Mr. Kay in Quebec. Mr. Kay was stricken at Brus sels, while on a tour of Europe. It was first reported that he was suffering from ptomaine poi soning. Mr. Kay, accompanied by airs. Kay and Dr. Steiner, will arrive in Portland early Wednesday. He either win be transferred to Sa lem in an ambulance, or taken; to a hospital in Portland. It was said that Mr. Kay has lost the use of bis arms and hands, and is suffering partial paralysis of the bowels. LEG DM COHM Winner in 3 - L J r. ' I? f "- h v-, vie- "Tex" Rankin of Portland, who piloted his speedy little biplane from Vancouver, B. C, to Agua Caliente. Mexico in 13 hours, seven minutes and 49 seconds Monday. Situation In East Is Again Alarming Reports Describe Growing Tenseness Along Manchurian-Siberian Border; Arson and Sabotage is $ 1 0,000,000 LONDON, Aug. 12. (AP) Further dispatches to the Daily Mail tonight from Harbin, Manchuria, told of a growing tenseness in that city . 'i i ii . wun aiiegea Kussian saootage along the Chinese Eastern railway and Chinese retaliations. The correspondence did not attempt to say whether Chi nese were actuated by fear or a desire for revenge but he de- scribed parties of Russians bound with ropes and with faces bleeding who were marched through the streets of the city on Sunday. He estimated that 2.000 Soviet nationals had been arrest ed during the past two days and sentenced to imprisonment or de portation. While the military forces of the Soviet union remained quiet be yond the frontiers, it was said that attempts to intimidate the Chinese into yielding to the Russian de mand for restoration of the status of the railway had led to a calcu lated policy of arson and sabotage whereby $10,000,000 damage had already been done. It also was said that police and fire brigades could not cope with the situation. Chinese authorities were de scribed as alarmed by discovery of attempts to dynamite the Sungaru bridge, city water works and the railway workshops. Soviet recruits at the border point of Progranichnaya were said to have been so excited by reports of the arrest of relatives in Harbin that they attempted to cross the frontier Jn defiance of orders but were disarmed by other Soviet troops after a struggle in which shots were fired. SALEM VETS GO TO Between 25 and 30 Salem resi dents attended the reunion of the Oregon association of Spanish war veterans in Portland Sunday. Charles Kinier was elected to the executive committee and Col. Carle Abrams was re-elected. Ap proxlmately 600 in all attended. The meeting adopted resolu tions favoring the universal con scription of men and wealth in the event of a national emergency, the new state pension bill and the vet erans' bonus law passed by the last legislature. .Governor Patterson and Jay Up ton of Bend, were speakers. A response was given by Col. Abrams. The first 200 delegates registering received volibaug hats sent from the Philippines by Cap tain Heath who commanded the company from McMinnville. Percy Willis, formerly of Salem, haB been president of the association for several years. LOT PUCE HURT Lot L. Pearce. un several years ago in the Implement busi ness here, but now retirea, is in the Albany hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an auto mobile accident Sunday when the car in which he was riding was struck by a machine driven by A. Larson, of Warroad. (Minn. The accident oceured in Albany. Pearce received a cut over the eye, brok en nose and bruises. He will re turn to Salem Wednesday, accord ing to word from his home last night. Mrs. Pearce, and Mr. and Mrs. Mern Pearce, were also in the ear. Mern Pearce driving. Mrs. Lot Pearce was bruised consid erably nd remained in the hospi tal Sunday night, returning to Sa lem Monday ' afternoon. She re ports her husband resting comfort- "ably when shs Is ft. - SPANISH wl MEET III 1ITT0 ACCIDENT Flag Flight and other parts of Manchuria . . . t WOOLIUi GROUP SJO MEET Federal Farm Board Calls Session for Early in October, Chicago WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (AP) Officials of all wool CO- operative marketing associations and producer-owned warehouse associations in the United States will meet with the federal farm board in Chicago early In October to form a national cooperative sales agency- and an advisory council for the commodity. This plan was announced by the board today after several con ferences with afficials of the na tional wool marketing council and other wool marketing associations which had asked the board for the immediate selection of a com modity advisory council and for financial aid from the farm relief revolving fund. A similar petition is expected to be received by the board tomor row from officials of the Ameri can cotton growers exchange. At, the board's officers It was indicat ed that on the basis of the present organization of leading cotton market agencies the selection of an advisory council for that crop appeared to be liktly. The decision of the board Is to withhold funds for the time being from the wool marketing associa tion was in keeping with its policy to bring about as large an amalga mation or the marketing concerns of each major commodity as pos sible. William Fox at Last Plays His Round of Golf NEW YORK, Aug. 12. (AP) William Fox, New York motion picture owner, and his friend, Ja cob Rubinstein, went out to the Woodmere golf club today and played that game they were on their way to play when their au tomobile was in a fatal collision near Mineola, July 17. F1XKE BOUND OVER PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12. (AP) The case of Walter Finke, who fatally wounded a fellow high school student, Herbert Beem, over the affections of a girl, went to the county grand jury today. Snook Trial Nears Close As State Introduces Its Testiony Upon Rebuttal COURT ROOM, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 12. (AP) The closing of direct testimony on behalf of Dr. James H. Snook, confessed slay er of Thebra Hix, Ohio State uni versity co-ed. and the launching of the state's rebuttal Intended to prove the defendant falsified while on the witness stand indi cated today that Dr. Snook's fate may be placed in the hands of the Jury not later than Wednesday. The defense rested this after noon with a final attack on the autopsy by which Coroner Joseph Murphy decided that Miss Hix died from a knife wound which severed her Jugular vein. The state immediately began Its RANKIN MIES JO I OVER UNITED STATES New Official Record Estab lished for Flight to Mexican Line Trip From Vancouver B. C. Is Made in Little More Than 13 Hours SAN DIEGO. Aug. 12 (API Establishing a new official mark for the three flags flight from Vancouver, B. C. to Lower Cali fornia, Tex Rankin. Portland avi ator, landed his mopquito plane at the Agua Caliente. Mexico, air port, 20 miles from Fan Difge, this evening Just 13 hours. 7 min utes and 49 seconds after he left Vancouver. He covered 1350 miles In h! flight and when he landed he had 25 gallons left of the 100 (rallen fuel supply he carried aloft. The official timers announced that Rankin left Vancouver at 4:40:87 o'clock this morning, and they checked his arrival at 5:48:2. Rankin was over the Agua Calien te airport at 5:45 p.m., but cir cled several times before landfrie;. nrin Rth a w.'i Are First Concern Rankin's first request was for "a bottle of beer and a bath" bnt before he had either he posed for photographers at the Mexican air-" port. He plans to remain here over night and expects to leave at noon tomorrow for Los Angeles en route to Portland. He said he felt fine and had no trouble ou the entire trip. Rankin passed over the eastern section of San Diego at about 5:40 p.m. flying about 20 miles from San Diego, he circles over the Mexicsn flying field several times and then came down gracefully and easily. Large Delegation of Officials On Hand Upon arrival at Agua Caliente Rankin was greeted by a large delegation Including Mayor Harry C. Clark of San Diego, to whm the flyer brought greeting front the mayor of Vancouver, and the mayor of Tia Juana. Rankin said that after taking off In the north he hid not see the ground again until he was near Portland, Ore. This was be cause of the heavy fog which was in evidence. The weather he said through the San Joaquin valley was particularly warm but that he was not bothered to any great extent by head winds. FUNDS ARE SOUGHT BT HOI FACTORY Instead of accepting the finan cial support of Portland Interests on their own terms, F. Puttaerd. who plans to establish a paper board factory in Salem utilizing flax shives as raw material, is now seeking to raise the necessary capital here, it was learned Mon day. Practically all of the capital necessary was available In Port land, it was reported several weeks ago, and the persons pro posing to furnish it were agree able to establishment of the plant in Salem, where the raw material was available. But it soon developed that the Portland persons Interested in the project insisted on retaining a controlling interest, and that ea second thought they wanted the plant in Portland. Therefore Mr. Puttaerd declin ed the offers, and he recently re turned to Salem to renew efforts to raise the necessary capital here. The project is regarded by local men who have Investigated it aa a meritorious one, since a favor able contract for purchasing the flax waste has been agreed upon between Mr. Puttaerd and the of ficials directing the state flax in dustry, and there Is a steady de mand for the paper board which the plant would preduce. - rebuttal to slrow that Dr.'Snoes: , contrary to his testimony last week, admitted he cut the girl's throat to relieve her suffering from hammer blows, which he in flicted during a quarrel. The rebuttal testimony will con tinue tomorrow and the final ar guments ot counsel and. Judge Henry L. Scarlitt's charge to th jury are expected to be delivered Wednesday. The ease will be given to the Jury Immediately after ward. Decision of defense attorneys to dispense with the testimony of their two alienists and to leave the plea for insanity supported (Turn to Pag 2, Column L)