Salem- Citizens Again, Greet a Convention; Now the Kiwanians are Our Guests and Each One is Welcome
WEATHER
Generally fair .today;
Somewhat cooler; Northwest
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85; Mia. 4tt; RiTer -2.2;
Clear; Xo rain.
KIWANIS
EDITION
FOUNDED 1851
SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 124
Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, August 18, 1929
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WELCOM
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lOWANIANS
EDnTO CITY
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Russians A ndManchurians Siari Warfare On Major Scale
URGE SOVIET
FORCE IKES
I0STHH
Army of 10;000 Officially
Reported Invading
Manchuria
Moscow Dispatchesi-Same
Time Tell of fng'
Counter Attach
TOKYO. Aug. 18 (Sunday)
(AP)The Renrro news agency !
correspondent at Manchuli. Man
churia, today quotes the comman
der of the Chinese railway guards
in that district as saying that Chi
.. nese military forces had 27 killed
and 37 wounded in the Soviet raid
ti Dalainor last Friday. He be- j
lieved the Russian losses also ;
were considerable.
The civilian population of the
Manchuli region was described as .
terrified by the raid and fleeing
in numbers toward Harbin. Food
left in stores was commandeered
.by the military authorities.
MOSCOW, IT. S, S. R Aug. 17.
(AP) A detachment of Chi
nese and white guards tonisrht
were alleged to have crossed the
Soviet border at the village of
Poltavskaya and to have surroun
ded a Soviet outpost nearly two
miles from the border. Jo the direc
tion f Nikolsk-Ussjtrliik." They
opened fire with .OAChine guns
but soon were flrfren back by So
viet troops. j
LONDON, Aug. j 17. (AP)
The first military operations on a
major scale along the Manchurian
Siberian border, where the armies
of Soviet Russia and China have
been facing each other for gome
weeks, were reported today from
Mukden and purported to be bas
ed on an official announcement.
An army of 10,000 Russians,
.equipped with machine guns and
30 field guns, was said to have
penetrated western Manchuria,
both north and south of Manchuli."
It was believed that their objec-
Dalainor.
Twelve Russians And -Four
Chinese Killed
Peiping reported what was ap
parently an incident in this gen
eral advance. Twelve Russians
and four Chinese, according to
this version, were killed near
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Culver Reported
Slightly Better
Although W. J. Culver, county
roadmaster who was stricken with
paralysis while at wTrk In his of
fice Friday morning, was still un
conscious late last night, his con
dition seemed to show slight im
provement. Dr. Carlton Smith, one
of the attending physicians said.
The patient Is not yet able to take
food, although he did drink water
with some difficulty Saturday
morning. Special nurses are do
ing everything to assist in his re
covery, both a day and night
nurse being on hand.
LEGION MEET SUCCESS
Report of Financial Deficit Bit Premature
RELEASE GUARANTORS
Success financially as well as In
all other respects, attended the
American Legion state convention
held here August 8, 9, and 10, ac
cording to an announcement sent
oat Saturday by the convention
commission to the individuals
and firms who participated in the
program of underwriting the
event.
The announcement, signed by
H. G. Maifon. executive secretary
of the commission, follows:
"The.Convention Commission of
Capital Post No. 9 is very pleased
to return herewith your pledge
guaranteeing a certain propor
tionate ahare of any deficit that
may have occurred In connection
with the holding of the eleventh
annual American Legion conven
tion, department of Oregon, in Sa
lem. August 8, 9, and 10.
"The convention proved to be
financially self supporting and we
are therefore enabled to return
all pledges to -the respective un
derwriters without any 'assess
ment thereon.
We sincerely appreciate your
Remonstrance Of
Property Owners
Filed With City
Projected Industrial Area Along S. P. Tracks
Meets Strenuous Opposition From Res
idents in Affected Section
CHLOROFORM is in sight for the proposal submitted by
the zoning commission for opening to unrestricted
building the district three blocks wide along the Southern Pa
cific railway from the passenger station south to the city
boundaries." The up-in-arms protest of the property-owners
in the district affected is the cause attributed for the proba
ble application of the anesthetic. C. M. Inman filed with the
city recorder Saturday afternoon the remonstrance signed
drive wee
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Effort Made to Rescind Re
cent Action of Salem
City Council
Concentrated efforts to bring
about a split in the "independent
party" of the city council have
been made in the last two weeks
by friends of Watson Townserd,
chairman of the bridge committee, ,
with the immediate purpose n're
consideration of the vote cast at;
the last meeting terminating the
services of the bridge engineer
August 31, it was reported Sat
urday. Since the vote on that issue was
a bare majority, the opposition is
reported to have been centering
its attack upon an attempt to con
vert one member, which Is suc
cessful would swing the decision
the other way. provided that all
members of the council attend
Monday night's meeting and those
who were absent from the last
meeting vote against me unae
pendents." The latter have issued, a flat
denial of charges that they were
actuated by any consideration oth
er than the city's welfare.
"We don't think we made any
mistake," one member said, "but
if we did, it was an honest mis
take." It was set forth in the resolu
tion terminating the employment
of bridge engineer. R. A. Furrow
and his two assistants and trans
ferring their duties to the city
engineer a-nd one assistant, that
the bridge program has been prac
tically completed, and that an ex
pense of something over $600 a
month for the bridge department
is no longer justified.
A contract will probably be let
at Monday night's meeting for
construction of the hangar at the
municipal airport. Prior to the
council meeting, the airport com
mittee will meet and decide upon
a recommendation as between A.
J. Anderson and A. A. Siewert,
the low bidders. Andeon's bid
was slightly below Siewert's, but
some matters related "to deductions
under alternative specifications re
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very excellent cooperation. With
out the aid of the citizens of Sa
lem, the convention which turned
out to be so successful, would
have been, impossible.
"Our many visitors left the city
with only words of praise for the
maner in which they were treat
ed. Salem proved to be 'Some
Host'."
The exact state of convention
finances has not yet been an
nounced, as a few small Items re
main to be checked over. The re
ceipts and expenses were In the
neighborhood of $10,000.
Following is the list of guar
antors who underwrote the con
vention in the amount of slightly
over $31,000: Valley Motor Co.;
Cherry City Baking Co.; Capitol
Dairies; Bishop's Clothing &
Woolen Mills Co.; L. B. Endicott;
Otto J. Wilson; Douglas McKay
Cher. Co.; Fitigerald - Sherwin
Motor Co.
Worth's Dept. Store; Fry's
Drugstore; Fred E. Tiffany; Ray
L. Farmer Hardware Co.; U. S.
lEPEi
NT RANKS
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Xby 83 property owners resid
ing in the district which is af-
fected by the proposed change.
The petitions were signed
practically 100 per cent it was
stated, by all who could be seen.
Prune Dryer Backers
Held Chief Instigators
The ruction is caused by the ef
fort to validate a building permit
is sued for the construction of a
prune dryer which is being erected
at 1375 Howard street by the Sa
lem Co-operative Prune Growers
association, F. C. Ewing, presi
dent. The permit was issued by
the building inspector covering
lots 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, block 18,
Yew Park addition. However
only lots 6 and 7 of these are in
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A
Rich Automobile Dealer
Found Dead in His
Own Home
is
LOS ANGELES, Aug." 17.
(AP) Frank S. Howard, wealthy
southern California automobile
dealer was shot and killed by his
eleven year old son today police
reported, during a quarrel with
his wife, Mrs. Irene Howard.
Detectives who made the first
investigation, said they learned
that Howard had returned borne
in an intoxicated condition, and
began abusing his wife. Richard
Howard, his son, remonstrated
with his father, and then detec
tives said, ran from the room.
He returned with a pistol and shot
the man through the right side.
Howard was dead when police
arrived. The boy was detained at
Wilshire division police station on
suspicion of patricide.
While hospital attendants,
called following the shooting,
dressed her face, Mrs. Howard
cried, "Richard did not know the
gun was loaded. Do something to
save him. I don't want my boy
blamed for this."
Richard told police he and his
father had gone to a ranch near
here, owned by the automobile
man, and the foreman told his
father Mrs. Elizabeth Rlchter,
Mrs. Howard's mother, had been
telling other relatives "what fath
er was doing."
"When he came home father
began drinking, and went up
stairs cursing at grandmother
(Mrs. Richter), and then came
down and cursed mother," the boy
said.
"Mother backed into a bedroom
and father started after her. I
started in there too, but father
kicked me out," he went on. "I
started to grandmother, but moth
er began screaming. She and
father came out again and I saw
father hitting and choking her. I
don't remember anything else un
til I saw father fall."
B.W.Potter Dies -Here
Last Night
Benjasnin W. Potter, for 45
years a resident in and near Sa
lem, died at 5 o'clock Saturday
evening at the home at 1605
Broadway street at the age of 81
years. Funeral services will be
held at the Rigdon parlors Tues
day mornlnng at 10 o'clock, serv
ices In charge of Pacific lodge No.
50, A. F. and A. M.,. of which he
has been a member for years.
Besides his widow, Anna, he
leaves the following children: Mrs.
N. E. Abbott and Mrs. Walter
Beardsley, of Salem; Mrs. T. A.
Manson and Miss Jennie Potter, of
Portland; lira. O. H. Raines of
Malvern, Iowa; and Charles of
Taeoma and Jesse of Bend.
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1 TURNER
GIRL IS KILLED
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Evelyn Naomi Bones, 5, Hit
By Wood Truck Near
Her Own Home
R. Wi; Patterson of Salem is
. Operator of Auto In
volved in Crash
Five-year-old Evelyn Naomi
Bones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
V. N. Bones, of Turner, was in
stantly killed about 5:30 o'clock
Saturday night when she was
struck and run over by a wood
truck, driven by R. W. Patterson
of 1560 Bellevue, Salem. The ac
cident occurred on the highway
about the middle of the business
section of Turner and Just oppo
site the Bones home, and near the
church there.
Although there were apparently
no eye-witness to the tragedy,
Evelyn darted across the road
ahead of the truck, which swerved
way to the left of the road in an
attempt to avoid hitting her, ac
cording to reconstruction of the
accident. Patterson was traveling
toward Salem with four cords of
wood on his truck. The girl's head
was struck and terribly niangied,
death coming instantly.
County Coroner Lloyd Rigdon
was summoned, but up to a late
hour last night he had not heard
Patterson's version of the accident
nor had an inquest been decided
upon.
Besides her mother and father,
well-known residents Kt Turner,
Evelyn is survived by one brother,
Lester Neal, and two sisters, Leta
May and Mildred Lucile.
Remains are at the Rigdon
mortuary, from which funeral ar
rangements will be made later.
sun IK ITS
Mamer and Walker Expect
To Make Cleveland to
Refuel Again
NORTH PLATTE. Neb.. Aug.
17 (AP) The endurance plane
Spokane Sun God left here at
8:15 p.m. (central standard time)
for Cleveland after taking on a
final supply of fifty gallons of
gasoline. Pilots Nick Mamer and
Art Walker planned to make
Cleveland in one jump, flying by
way of Omaha and Chicago.
Four refueling contacts were
made here and the Sun God bad
a full load of approximately 400
gallons of gasoline aa it resumed
its eastward Journey. Pilots Ma
mer and Walker expect to arrive
over Cleveland hy day break.
Pilots Vernon Bookwalter and
Neil O'Connell of the refueling
plane will remain in North Platte
over night, taking off tomorrow
morning for St. Paul, Minn.,
where they plan to await the re
turn of the Sun God on its round
trip trans-continental flight.
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Convention
Of Kiwanis
Ends Season
The Kiwanis Northwest district
convention, which opens today,
will bring to a close Salem's rec
ord season as a convention host,
with the exception of the reserve
officers' meeting, dates for which
have not yet been announced.
Salem has already entertained
ten conventions of statewide or
even more extended scope, bring
ing unestlmated thousands of vis
itors to the city. The meetings
which drew the largest attendance
were those of the American Le
gion, the Catholic Central society
of America' and National Catholic
Women's union, and the Oregon
Christian Endeavor central on
ion. Others were the meetings of
the Oregon Chiropractic associa
tion, the Red Hen, the Modern
Woodmen of America, the Oregon
State Auto Park association, the
Oregon Public Health association,
the Oregon Tuberculosis associa
tion, and the Pacific Northwest
Real Estate association.
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This remarkable view shows
the distance looms the dome of the state capltol of Oregon, fronted by beautiful Willson park. To the
left is seen the post of flee and federal building and opposite It Is the lofty spire of the old First Metho
dist church. In- the foreground is part of Salem's fast-growing business district. With itn wide street..
Its beautiful parks. Its well-planned state and community buildings and with a citizenry, loyal to the
city and appreciative of its quality. Salem has proved time and time again a delightful host for var
ious gatherings.
DIRIGIBLE RAPIDLY
By The Associated Press
Aided by a following wind the
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin to
day was making good time over
the wilds of Siberia on her flight
from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo.
A radio message from the Zep
pelin to the central station at To
kyo at 5:15 last night (est) gave
her position as 62 degrees north
latitude, 120 degrees east longi
tude. This position placed the air
ship over the Viliuisk mountains.
Due west of Yakutsk the message
Indicated the ship was slowly
swinging southward again In con
formance with the great circle
course. The air ship was estimated
to be making more than 75 miles
an hour.
NEW YORK. Aug. 17. (AP)
Copyrighted articles to the New
York American and other allied
Hearst papers state that the Graf
Zeppelin on the Hearst-Zeppelin
round the world flight Is now in
communication with the OtchishI,
Japanese, radio station on the
northern Island of Vezzo, Japan.
The dirigible thus will not be
put of communication with the
world for 24 hours, as was feared.
The Japanese station picked up
the first message at 8:30 a. m..
eastern daylight time. At 6:04
a. m., same time, the Graf had
covered 3,750 miles of Its flight,
the three correspondents on board,
Sir Hubert Wilkins, Lady Drum
mond Hay and Karl Von Weigand
tell of passing through a heavy
storm late yesterday. The weather
today is clear.
FILM STAR WEDS
NEW YORK, Aug. 17. (AP)
The Daily News will say tomor
row that Carol Dempster, motion
picture star, was married secretly
this week to Edwin S. Larsen,
vice-president of P. W. Chapman
and company, investment brokers.
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Salem, Convention City
the American legion parade coming down historic State strct. In
City Attorney to
Gather Witnesses
For Power Probe
Persons who wish to tes
tify in support of the pro
tests filed against the claims
of the Northwest Power
company to waters of Marl
on lake and the north fork
of the Han Ham river, has
been asked by Fred A. Wil
liams, city attorney of Sa
lem, to get in touch with
htm. The hearing will be
held In the state engineer's
office at the statehouse Aug
ust 21.
POPULATION OF
IS
'Population of Marion and Polk
counties, nearly all of which is in
Salem's trading territory, is esti
mated at 80.000 in the weekly
bulletin of the Salem chamber of
commerce. The 1320 census gave
Marion county's population as
47,117 and Polk'i 14,181. a total
of 61,298. As indicative of the
growth of other communities, it
is mentioned that Silverton, with
2,260 people in 1920, now is esti
mated to have 4004, and Salem
has about 28,000 as compared to
the 16,679 credited to it in 1920.
Other statistics for Marion
county, quoted from the latest
census of the U. S. bureau of agri
cultural economics, follow:
Horses, including colts, 7100;
mules, 220; sheep and lambs, 40,
000; goats, 9000; hogs, 23.500.
Marion county leads the state In
the number of swine.
Marion county is credited with
22,600 cattle including 13,760
dairy cattle. Contrary to a general
impression, Marion county leads
Tillamook county In number of
cattle and in number of dairy cat
tle, the respective figures for
Tillamook county being 17,780
and 13,200.
TWO
COUNTIES
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JEALOUS MURDER IS
SEEK AS GIAL DIES
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17
(AP) A note reading: "If I
can't have you, no one else will,"
furnish pit virtually the nnlv 1nf
the police had to work on today '"'. Albany and Salem, six of tba
in trying to solve the death of eight clubs in this section of the
Miss Mary Frances Morgan, 19. j northwest district, had all repert
who was found in her Narberth fed 100 per cent enrollment for tee
home yesterday strapped to a j convention. The enrollment fees
chair near a gas range with open-j for the meeting are 85 tor each
ed Jets. member. Salem club men have
The girl died a few minutes f- I paid $10 plus a fee of 33 for their
ter she was found unconsciousCjj wives.
STALEMATE DEVELOPS
Hope of Reaching Reparations Agreement Dim
B m m
SNOWDEN IS UNMOVED
THE HAGUE, Aug. 17. (AP)
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Philip Snowden late tonight ac
cepted a proposal of France, Italy.
Belgium and Japan that experts of
all five of the principal repara
tions creditors of Germany exam
ine the previous proposal by the
four powers for increasing the
British share.
THE HAGUE. Au. 17. (AP)
Facing a British ultimatum
such as nearly wrecked its exist
ence last week end. The Hague
conference tonight seemed doom
ed to complete breakdown unless
France, Italy, Belgium and Japan
can agree on some way of making
the Toung reparations plan effec
tive without cutting down Great
Britain's ahare of payments.
Still the central figure of the
negotiations, Philip Snowden,
British chancellor of the exche
quer, told the other creditor na
tions today there is no use going
on .with the conference unless
soma substantial offer toward
SALEM
FOR SE!
Cummings, Past President,
and Jones, District
Secretary Here '
Registration Slated to Begin 4
At One o'clock This i f''V
Afternoon
With 1100 men and women as
sured as attendants at tne izn
annual convention of the north
west district of Kiwanis Interna
tional, Salem was ready today to
receive its visitors for what, prom
ises to be one o? tha most success
ful conventions of its kind staged
in this district.
O. Sam Cummings, a former in-ter:i:-.t!onal
president of Kiwanis,
and Harold Jones, district secre
tary and trpaFurer of the organ
ization, arrived in Salem late Sat
urday afternoon and early this
morning and throughout the day
other delegates, officers and Ki
wanian members will be coming
into the city for the threi-day
gathering.
Promptly at 1 o'clock this after
noon registration for the convfn
tiori will start at the Senator ho
tel, Kiwanis headquarters for the
next three days. At 2 o'clock cars
will be available for visitors to
tour Salem and Its surrounding
territory to see attractions provid
ed by this city for the visitors.
Kxerutive Committee
Scheduler Meeting
At 4.-30 o'clock this afternoon
the executive committee of the
northwest district will hold its
first session at the Senator , hotel.
The principal meeting of the
opening day will be an Inspira
tional gathering to be held in the
First Presbyterian church. The
pastor of the Queen Anne M-tho- 1
dist church in Seattle will deliver "
the address at that time, his ad
dress being on the subject, "A
Salutation of the Dawn." A num
ber of musical numbers have been
provided for the program Sunday.
"We have worked hard for tbe '
convention since early this veer,
said Ralph Cooley, Salem Kiwania"
president, Saturday. "We feel
that all details have been taken '
care of and that Salem and the
Salem Kiwanis club is now amply
ready to welcome its visitors. We
trust the meeting of Kiwanis here
will be a pleasant and profitable
occasion; one memorable in the
history of the organization.
Scott Page, general convention
chairman, held a final meeting of
his committee Saturday noon and
checked over all details for tbe
gathering. Optimism over the at
tendance was manifest by com
mittee members when It was an
nounced that the clubs at Dallas,
Tillamook, McMinnville. Orexon
Great Britain's request is mad.
The cred' r nations consider
they have offered 60 per cent of
the payments Great Britain Va
mands. Chancellor Snowden says
the offer amounts to but 20 per
cent o f bis country's require
ments. After exchanges of opinion to
day which left the atmosphere
more hopeless than has existed
during the conference the ealy
means of keeping the confereaee
alive seemed to be a plan for ex
perts representing both sides ef
the dispute to meet and go ever
figures together to compare meth
ods by which they arrive at such
different results.
This move was expected tonight
or tomorrow. If it is not accented
the French delegation are as con
vinced as the British tbat it la
useless to continue tbe parley.
The German foreign minister.
Dr. Gustar Stresemann made y a
fruitless effort to end the repara
tions stalemate when he called on
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