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Conies bow the northwest conrention of Klwania clmba in Salem, August 18, 19 and 20. Salem Is trained in this business of being host. Fair today; Slightly cool er; Moderate northwest to west winds. Mux. tempera tare Tae-sday tH; Min. 43; RlTer -a .2; Clear. FOUNDED 1651 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 120 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 14, 1929. PRICE FIVE CENTS . f E FROM SALEIlfl JO FIGHT FIBE 2? Men Sent Out by Truck To Augment Crew Al - ready on Scene Further Calls for Help Are Expected to be Made Again Today With the forest fire In the Me hama vicinity still raring Tues day, 25 fire" fighters were sent out Irom Salem Tuesday to augment the large fbrce already on the scene. The call came into the T. M. C. 'A. employment office on Front street &nd within two hours and ten minutes, the 25 men were on their way in a truck. The group went to Sublimity whers they were to be routed into the fire region. Additional calls will probably be made today, Sim Phillips, manager of the employ ment office, announced. Word from Mecama was that the fire was still out of control and spreading. EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 13 (AP) More than 1200 acres of ma ture timber on Coon creek, sev en miles northwest of Noti, has been burned out by fire, reports reaching here today revealed. The western lane fire p?.trol had a large crew of men at the blase and chances of controlling it were reported to be good. MEDFORD. Ore., Aug. 13 (AP) Eight incendiary fires along a six mile strip in the Pleas ant creek district near the Jose phine county line were under control today. The fires broke out last night. The forest ser. Tire reported today that three ot the fires were still burning but were confined to a small area. The same section was subjected to the ravages of an incindiarist last year. SEATTLE, Aug. 13. (AP) Man-power and machinery was be ing mustered on many fronts to night in a desperate hand to hand battle against forest fire and its natural allies, winds . and hot weather. . . . Reports from flameswept re gions throughout tHe" Pacific northwest and western Canada (Turn to Page 5. Column 5.) Water Hole Disagreement is Aired in Court but low Continues LAKEVIEW, Ore., Aug. 13 (AP) An impending range war growing out of a water hole con trovery in the Wagontire moun tain district near here threatened momentarily to flare Into gunfire today. Several homesteaders have allied themselves against the stockmen. An airing of affairs" in justice of peace court today served only to heighten feeling of the home steaders against the men who they think have wrongfully trespassed upon their land. Harley Brown, humane society agent, was held not to have cut Frank Dobklns fence with evil Intent. . Dobkin, backed by other homesteaders. charged that Brown's action was inspired by Link Huttonr and W. W. Brown, whose horses could not get to his water holes. The homesteaders were said to feel that Hutton and Brown are attempting to ran them off the range to that it may be kept free. Cutting of the fence, however, was reported by Harley Brown to have been authorised by Mrs. F. Vf. Swanton, manager of the hu mane society. - The Wagontire mountain dis trict is one ot the few remaining frontiers where open range and open water holes prevail. mm Unexpected Resignations From Public School Staff Reported at Board Meet The resignations of several prominent Salem school teachers were read at the school board meeting Tuesday night. Coming as. a complete -surprise were the res ignations of Miss Edith Bragg, English teacher in the senior high school, and that of Miss Mabel Ar thurs, commercial teacher on the high school staff. ; Miss Bragg, daughter of E. E. Bragg, of the State Industrial ac cident commission, and . Mrs. Bragg, has been on me nign OlmSb -w 3 school staff, for the" past three years, and taught one year at iar riafc Junior high school previous to that, Miss Bragg is to be mar ried this fall. Miss Arthur is another high school teacher leaving the staff to be married, her wedding being Made For Confab Of N. W. Kiwanis Inspirational Service Sunday Will Be First Feature of Three Day Session; Officials To Welcome Delegates Formally A FULL program with a list of prominent speakers, has been completed for the Pacific Northwest district con vention of Kiwanis International, to be held here August 18, 19 and 20, according to announcement made late Tuesday by Scott Page, chairman of the district program committee. An inspirational service Sunday night at the First Pres byterian church leads the list of events. The main address of the service will be given by Rev. Alexander vG. Bennet, pastor of Queen Anne Metho-7 dist Episcopal church, Seattle, Wn. Kiwanis duos quar tettes and singers are placed on the program. Prof. T. S. Rob erts will be the organist. Regular Business To Start Monday The regular convention pro ceedings will begin Monday morn ing with breakfasts for district officers and trustees, for club presidents, and for club secretar ies, in rooms at the Marion hotel. T. Harry Gowman of Seattle, dis trist governor, will preside at the breakfast for district officials; Ben H. Hazen, president of the Portland Kiwanis club, will pre side at the presidents breakfast; and the district secretary-treasurer, Harold C. Jones of Portland, will preside at the secretaries breakfast A general breakfast session will be held in the main dining room of the Marion with Charles Knowland of Salem pre siding. Capitol Building Used For Session The business session Monday forenoon at the capitol building, will open at 5:15 o'clock with singing led by the district music chairman. Dr. Elmer HiU of Wal la Walla. The convention will be formally convene i by T. Harry Gowman of Seattle, district gov ernor, and an invocation will be offered by Rev. Earl Cochrane of the Calvary Baptist church. Addresses of welcome will be given by Governor I. L. Patter son, on behalf of the state or Ore gon, by T. A. Livesley, mayor of Salem, and by Chief Justice O. P. Coshow, of the Oregon supreme court, on behalf of the Salem Ki wanis club. The response will be made by Kenneth Ferguson of Victoria, past district governor. Immediately preceding Mr. Gow man's official message, district and international officers present will be introduced to the delegates. Singing, led by Geo. H. Angell of Portland, will precede the reports of the district secretary-treasurer, Harold C. Jones of Portland, and the chairman of the district fi nance committee, Walter H. Rob ertson, also of Portland. Spokane Maa Will Deliver Main Speech The main address of the Monday morning session will be made by A. H. Syverson of Spokane, imme diate past district governor, who will speak on the responsibilities and opportunities of a delegate to the district convention. The report of the convention program committee will be submitted by Scott Page of Salem, chairman, and singing will be led by Tom Kelway of Victoria, B. C. The following lieutenant gov ernors of the Kiwanis district will give their official messages: divi sion 1, Dr. Will B. Burnett. Van couver, B. C; division 2, Clinton S. Harley, Seattle; division 3, Jack E. Stewart, Aberdeen; division 4, Ole H. Olsen, Pasco; division 5, Geo. E. Erb, Lewiston; division , Judge J as. A. Fee, Pendleton; di vision 7. Robert F. Moore. As toria; division 8. Claudo W. Bar rick, Tillamook; division 8. Dr, Geo. A. Massey, Klamath Falls. Singing, led by Les Walrad of Gresham, will follow. Tillamook Maa To Talk Oh Children A report of the district com mittee on the Under-Privileged Child, will be made by the chair man. R. B. Miller of Tillamook. Frank L. Chambers of Eugene will give a talk on "The Handicapped (Turn to Page 5. Column 3.) set for the very near future. She has been connected with the high school commercial department for the past eight years. Miss Arthur is now in Portland. Newlyweds who hare resigned from Parrish junior high school to go into business In Wa Id port are Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Fulp i Sarah At wood.) Mrs. Fulp was an art teacher at Parrish, and Mr. Fulp was in the manual train ing department. Incidentally, Mr. Fulp was the only Junior high I " f teacher not to be re-elected. He had an offer from the Portland school system at an increased sal ary, although the Salem schools refused to keep him except his salary was decreased. The resignation "of O. P. Thay- (Tura to Pag 8, Column J.) jt A II 1 '8 HI PROGEUMI IS FIXED Inspirational Service Slated At First Presbyterian Church in Salem The program for the Inspira tional service to be held at fhe First Presbyterian church on Sun day evening, August 18, by the convention delegates to the dis trict Kiwanis international con vention, is as follows: 1. Prelude, "By the Sea," Schu bert. T. S. Roberts, organist 2. Invocation. 3. Patriotic Hymns (America, God Save the King, etc.) Congre gation. 4. Violin Duet. "To a Wild Rose,"- MacDowell. Dorothy and Catherine Robinson, Spokane club. Ruth Meredith, accompanist. 5. Scripture Lesson, Rev. Will M. Richards. Sec. Port Orchard, Wn.. Kiwanis club. . Quartette, "Deep River," Marion Moore, Portland Kiwanis club; Arthur A. Binford, 1st ten or; George N. Angell, 2nd tenor; Lindon F. Barnett, baritone; Glenn L. Hart, bass. Mrs. Wini fred Norrell, accompanist. 7. Prayer, O. .P. Coshow, chief justice, Oregon supreme court 8. Solo, "The Cross of Light," Cecil Forsythe. Esther Saager, Eugene Kiwanis club. 9. Hymn, one verse, America the Beautiful, Congregation. 10. Address, "A Salutation of the Dawn," Rev. Alexander G. Bennett, pastor. Queen Anne Methodist Episcopal church, Seat tle, Wn. 11. Quartette, selected. Eugene Kiwanis club. Jack Carpenter, 1st tenor; George Hopkins, 2nd ten or; Ray Bryson, baritone; Herald White, bass. 12. Hymn, "Onward In Kiwan is,' Congregation. 13. Benediction. 14. Postlude "Chant Trium phale," Gaul. T. S. Roberts, or ganist. Couger Is Shot Down By Taylor Ed Taylor, resident of the Me hama district, shot a cougar seven feet in length and weighing 135 pounds after his dogs had treed the animal late Monday. The place where the animal took to a tree after being pursued by the dogs was about half a mile above Taylor's grove and something more than three miles above Me hama on the Little North Fork of the Santiam river. The cougar, seeking to climb farther up into the tree to escape a shot from Taylor's rifle, was just leaping from one limb to an other when Taylor fired, hitting him in a hind quarter. The bullet passed almost the entire length of the huge cat's body, emerging neaf'his right shoulder and bring ing him to the ground where he was quickly dispatched. Taylor brought the animal to Salem Tuesday on the running board of his car. SP1SK LUTES FlAY DICISIlSf MADRID, Aug. 13 (AP) Strongly attacking th epresent government of Spain, generally termed the dictatorship of Gener al Miguel Primo de Rivera, a la bor manifesto to the Spanish peo ple was issued today by the gen eral labor union congress in ses sion in Madrid. This action was taken after an overwhelming rote against- the government's Invitation that the union send five representatives to the national assembly. The anion general De Traba J adores .represents Spanish organ ised labor and is nationwide In membership with the exception of communists and syndicalists. The union corresponds somewhat to the British labor party as It con tains both socialists and non-socialists. EFFORT IDE TO CUT SPACE T S Area Now Planned Extends 4 Blocks Between Rur . d and Wilbur Councilman Purvine Voices Idea of Compromise In Controversy Settlement through a compro mise of the issue which baa arisen over the proposed change of sone for the district-along the South ern Pacific tracts south from the passenger station, was suggested Tuesday by Alderman S. E. Pur vine, and the possibility was seen that the matter will be adjusted satisfactorily to all parties con cerned. . The proposal made by the plan ning and soning commission was to designate a strip extending a block and one-half in each direc tion from the tracks, to xone four, unrestricted. Residents of the vi cinity indicated at the last coun cil meeting that they would object strenuously, and at their request the hearing in the matter was postponed nntil the next meeting, which will be next Monday night Space Suggested Has Few Residences Mr. Purvine. who was disposed to sympathise with the views of the objectors, has suggested that the change be limited to the area between Wilbur street and Rural avenue, lour blocks in length, where there are few residences. This area includes the property on which plans are already under way for construction Of a prune drier. One unit of the prune drier is under construction, but this is on property already in sone three. A strip extending half a block each way from Twelfth street is in this zone. Zone Three Would Permit Warehouse While it has not been proposed by any of the parties concerned, a possibility has also been seen that the change might be made with less objection if the area un der discussion would be designated as sone three, since this classifica- (Turn to Page , Column l.'( E E Private Talks Take Place During Recess at. In ternational Meet THE HAGUE, Netherlands. Aug. 13. (AP) Making rapid prog ress in private talks, the powers at The Hague reparations confer ence seemed tonight on the verge of a satisfactory compromise for both the political and financial aspects of the young plan. Evacuation of the Rhlneland by Christmas to satisfy Germany and exchange or part of the condition annuities for unconditional ones to meet the demands ot Great Britain were the bases for the compromise discussed in Ihe pri vate apartments of the different delegations today. With delegates retiring from the conference floor to the seclu sion of small gatherings and per sonal contacts, the quietest day. of the conference in outward appear ance promised far-reaching re sults. Important negotiations went on behind closed doors. Propositions made to Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, by the French, Bel gians and Italians were admitted by the British delegation to be well worth considering and nota bly relieved tension of the finan cial deadlock. Meanwhile, Premier Briand of France, showed such good will with reference to the evacuation of the Rhlneland that actual dates for beginning the movements of troops were discussed. . A committee of jurists set up last week to consider the legal as pects of instituting a control com mission to verify armaments in the Rhlneland after evacuation, met today. FEDERAL PRISONS WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. (AP) The prediction that Pres ident Hoover would have no dif ficulty in securing the approval of congress for the erection ot two additional federal prisons was made today by Representative Boylan, democrat. New York. After recent riots in the over crowded Leavenworth prison, President Hoover announced he would recommend additional fed eral prison facilities. Boylan, a member of the house special prison Investigating com mittee, said in a statement . the prison population had Increased 100 per cent in the past decade with, no increase in facilities. PROGRESS MK T 1 T 1 1 Navy Plane Shrouded in Mystery ' v "'uif iai mir 'vv'f? 'SV.V'i HERE IT IS! The new Navy J. William, the speed demon of the uracil secrecy has been maintained construction of this air bird, thai little la actually known about it. Tboee close to Lieutenant Williams, however, predict It will fly 400 miles per hour and that it will be America's entry In the Schneider cop races In England next month. FAMOUS CHICAGO Ml ARRESTED "Baby Face" Doody Taken By Police Without Ex pected Fight CHICAGO. Aug. 13. (AP) Willie (Baby Face) Doody, gun man, mail robber and terror of the West Side bad lands, who shot his way to freedom so often it be came a habit and who boasted he never would be taken alive, was captured today without the firing ot a single shot Tonight two witnesses identi fied Doody, police reported as the leader of a gang which held up an Illinois Central train and slew an aged guard last week within the city limits. Police cut their way through a screen door into the modest third floor apartment which he occupied with Miss Lillian Kahler, comely divorcee and her 6 year old daugh ter, and placed him under arrest. Doody offered no resistance. The capture ended a search for Doody which had continued with out intermissions since last May, and which has sent squads of heavily armed detectives to va rious parts of the cfty time with out number, always prepared for a gun battle to the death. Such was Doody 's reputation. Doody who turned upon his ques tioners mild blue eyes filled with childish wonderment will have many questidns to answer. Police had plenty to question him about Among other things, he was wanted for questioning in connec tion with the slaying of Police Chief Charles Levy of suburban Berwyn, shot to death several weeks ago; the wounding of Post al Inspector Evans Jackson when the latter tried to ambush Doody in a northBide hotel. Some Have Real Alibis Judge Finds Many are' tagged, but a few have good alibis. Recorder Mark Poulsen Tuesday dismissed the overtime parking charge against Frager of Albany, on the let ter's - statement that, his car was parked too long because gas which he took in a dentist's chair made him "deathly sick" and it was Im possible for him to drive the ma chine. C. R. Catron of Athena also claimed an alibi when he sent back a tag, without the $1 as sessed. He arerred that he hadn't been in Salem in the last three years except for one stop of a few minutes; and the license number given wasn't his anyway. Bert Fanning sent in his dollar, with fhe accompanying note: "You can scratch my name from your preferred list. This is the last I intend you shall get." Minor Injuries Sustained When 2 Autos Collide R. P. Beach suffered minor in juries when an automobile in which he was riding, driven by D. A. Beach, 1575 North Commercial street, collided Tuesday night with a machine driven by W. T. Ramsden, 771 North Commercial, on that street between Division and D. D. A. Beach in reporting th. accident said Ramsden was turning in the middle ot the block, and that considerable dam age was done, to his car. ": . - - - " mystery plane with Lieutenant Xavy (inset), at the controls. 80 by the navy department as to the Williams Awaits Fine Weather For Trying Oat Plane ANNAPOLIS, Md Aug. IS (AP) Unfavorable weather conditions today kept Al Williams plane, the Mercnry racer, in Its cradle on the dock at the United States naval academy, where It haa been since, taxiing tests FYiday afternoon. Lient Williams, who hopes to win the Schneider enp in the September races, in Eng land, said at noon hie would take the plane on its first flight the moment condi tions on tho water and In the air justified the test Perfect conditions must pre. vail, he remarked, giving no Indications when he expect ed to take off. E FORTH TOlf State Treasurer T. B. Kay will arrive in Po trlatadnr (r ldwo arrive In Portland at 7 o'clock this morning, where an ambu lance will be in waiting to convey him Immediately to his Salem home, according to advices re ceived Monday by his son-in-law, Hollis W. Huntington. According to instructions, a nurse has been employed and all possible pre parations are being made for Mr. Kay's home-coming. The full extent of Mr. Kay's illness, and its seriousness, is not definitely understood here, ac cording to Mr. Huntington. He states that Mrs. Kay's letters from England, telling of the state treasurer's Illness, have been very uncommunicative as to the state official's physical condition and the cause of his sudden seiz ure. A message from the Kay par ty, sent from Glendive, Mont., to Dr. Milton Steiner, said that Mr. Kay, although exhausted by the hot weather, is otherwise Improv ing. - PHOENIX. Ariz., Aug. 13. (AP) United States deputy mar shals who are investigating the murder of Paul E. Reynolds, de partment of Justice agent, stated late today that they had located a man who declares he heard fir ed the shot which killed Reynolds, and that this witness also over heard a brief conversation be tween two of the suspected slay ers Immediately after the ahoot ing. The scene of the murder also was reported by the marshals to have been located on a lonely des ert road a quarter of a mile from the csnal where the body was found. Automobile tracks, identi fied by the officers as having been made by tires similar to those on the car Reynolds had rented, showed that the agent's machine had been crowded from the sandy road and brought to a stop against a bank. The officers re ported that the shooting evidently took place there, and that the slayers then turned their ear around, driving back to the canal where the body was found. OFFICE WORK FATAL NEW YORK, Aug. 13. ( AP) Joseph A. Warren, 47. former commissioner of police of New York City, died in a Greenwich, Conn., sanitarium, a martyr, his family and friends say, to the rig ors of the office. W 10 IV C T I IN HOED POLICE T Drainage Improvements Not To be Made for Time Being, Word Practically all Improvement work at the Salem municipal air port which is to be done this year, with the exception of construction of the hangar, has been complet ed, it was determined at a meet ing of the airport committee Tuesday night when the members decided not to proceed with any additional drainage work tor the present. j ,.. The purpose behind this deci sion was to determine by actual experience, just what drainage improvement would be necessary. It was stated by Lee Eyerly, su perintendent of the airport, that without any more work now, there will be sufficient dry area upon which planes may land and take off, for all practical purposes next winter. He based this opinion on his observations made last winter. Because of the porous nature of the soil, It was declared, there Is a possibility that no drain tile will have to be placed, and in any case, more economical planning of the drainage system will be possible after the field is observed through one winter. In case that drainage is found necessary after the heavy (Turn to Pag I, Column .) Flowers Are Wanted For Convention Wanted more flowers. Such a request should be eas ily complied with believe Karle Becke and Fran Doerfler, mem bers of the Kiwanis committee on flowers for the convention. Members of the Garden club have been asked to make contri butions of short, cut flowers for use on the 50 banquet tables at the Kiwanis meeting Monday. Mr. Doerfler of the Garden club said Tuesday that he would like to have pledges of flowers made to him a tthe First National bank so he could depend on. Contribu he would know how many flowers tions need not be limited to mem bers of the Garden club, Doerfler said. FINISH COMMITTEE TOLD Graf -Zeppelin Will Take Off For Tokyo Thursday Morning On World Jaunt FRIEDRICHSH AFEN, Germany Aug. 13. CAP) With prepara tions tor the Graf Zeppelin's flight to Tokyo, the second link in its round-the-world route, virt ually completed for early Thurs day morning.' Dr. Hugo Eckener today found time to indulge in so cial relaxation which necessitated hobnobbing with royalty. At a beautiful Wasserberg sum mer chateau the Zeppelin's com mander was guest at a luncheon to which King Gustav of Sweden was Invited. The party of eleven Included Claudius ' Dornier, -. con structor of the super-airplane "DO-X" Ulrlch Rancher. German minister to Poland. - Helnrieh Sahm, president of the Free State of Danzig, Ludwig Duerr, Zeppelin constructor, and several Swedish officials tm the staff of the Swedish monareh, who is summer ing on the island of Malnau in Lake Constance. 125 ARRESTED BrOFEICERSIfJ' IMMENSE RAID Mayor and Chief of Police Are Taken in Net of Prdhi Laws Large Quantities of Liquor and? Carload of Acces , ' sories Seized HAMMOND. Ind.. Aug. 13. . (AP) One hundred and twenty fire men, women and children, in cluding R. P. Hale and James 'Re gan, mayor and chief of police, - respectively, of East Chicago, were arrested tonight by 25 prohlbttta officers from Illinois and Indiana on warrants charging violatiena and conspiracy to violate the Vat stead act All those ucaer arrest were from East Chicago and from In diana Harbor, agents said. These were still 75 warrants yet to hm served. Whether any other offici als of the two towns were on ran long list of warrants yet to be served, prohibition officers de clined to state. Among the children arrested were a number of young girts m their teens, warrants for whose ar rests charged them with t ending: bars in the speakeasies operated by their parents. Large Quantities Of Liquor Taken One man, whose identitv aa not yet been revealed, was serious ly injured in the raids. In virtually all the places visited by the raid ers quantities of liquor, beer and alcohol were seized and before the raids were half over more than ' a freight car load of bootlegging accessorles had been seized. As fast as the defendants could be rounded up they -were taJtn to Crown Point, Ind., where the will be given preliminary hearings before the United States commis sioner. The scene of the wholesale raids is in the Calumet iron and steel mills district where for the past several weeks under-cover agent of the prohibition department aav been conducting an investigation. EAST ST. LOUIS, III.. Aug. 13 i At") Raids on 16 alleged (Turn to Pag t, Column .) AT sEins ran Local Plant Puts on Extra Shift to Increase Its Operations All the canneries in Salem will' soon be in the midst of another very busy season. The 13 th street plant of the Oregon Packing com pany is now up to capacity on beans, with between 400 and 5M persons working. An extra shift was put on last night, to keep p with some of the operations that were lagging; though in some re spects the capacity of that plant has been doubled since last year. This will give the operation ef that plant a 24 hour day till the end of the peak of the season, which is approaching, it not here. The beans are coming from the Stayton irrigation districts most ly, with some from other points where an excellent quality bean i grown. The tonnage that came yesterday was both large and goad in quality. At the Paulas plant three prod ucts were in evidence yesterday. Some loganberries arrived, frees the Falls City section. -but not in volume sufficient tor canning. Se they were being put into e4d pack, in barrels. Beets for can ning are coming in quantities, and work has already commenced oa these. And there were a few Turn to Pag I. Column 4.) . King Gustav expressed to Dr. Eckener and also to Dornier and Duerr his great admiration ef their work for the science or a via- -tion. Twv men who will be exceeding ly busy on the coming flight to Tokyo are Radio Operators Dunne and Speck, one of whose tasks will be to determine Just what wise less station can be really worked with during the trans-Asian flight. During the Zeppelin flight to America this problem was relative ly simple In that , the dirigible communicated with Nbrddeich and Chatham. All they know this' time is that they will stick to Nerd deieh as long as possible. There will be no changes made in the Zeppelin's wireless equip ment which is considered adequate as eaa be expected considering; the circumstances and difficulties of the flight. BE1 C1MG