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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1929)
WEATHER I'nscttled with showers today; Moderate tempera tures. Max. temperature Fri day M; Min. 41; River 2.4; Trace of rata. Cloudy. . PRICES SOAR! . No pity now for the poor prune grower. Prices of 10c for 80-35's are exceptional. FOUNDED 1631 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 129 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, August 24, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENIS MM WIPMBK ami m WWW r CITY'S AIRPORT IS Id BEST GULVEBAVEHS Flying Chief of U. S. Realty Organization Feted At Banquet Development of Aviation to Make Rapid Strides He Declares SAMKXT STAT KM K X TS FROM HARRY CllVKR'S ADDRESS "Oakland, Calif., had 7500 takeoffs from her airport in one month. "In the last four years los Angeles airports have increas ed from four in number to 49 within a radius of 15 miles from the courthouse. "In 1022 there were seven airplane factories in the Unit ed States; in 1928 there; were 167 factories. We have traveled 85,000 miles in our airplane without an accident. The only thne I'm afraid is when I am on th ground. . "I make it a rule never to fly in a fog, not to fly at night and not to stunt. "The individual parachute is out of date. I look for the rapid development of a ship parachute which will bring faulty planes to ground safe- "Think of it the expendi ture of the entire United States on airport this year will be $500,000,000. "I am 100 per cent for the Pacific coast. It is going to be the most densely populated aection in th world. The world's commerce is going to the west. "Do you want definition of a big man? It's a man who tack els a job that folks said conIdn"t be done ami does it." Salem's municipal airport ig to be the instrument through which the progressive spirit of the com munlty is going to be reflected, and that within a startling short time, Harry H. Culver, flying pre sident of the national real estate association, told the even hundred persons gathered at the banquet held in his honor last night at the Marion hotel. The Salem Realty Board sponsored the din ner, inviting a number of citi zens to hear Culver. After visiting 450 airports in all parts of the United States, Cul ver declared that Salem's field was the best he had seen for a town of this size. "Just this noon, (Turn to Page 2, Column 1.) ELGIN. Scotland. Aug. 23. (AP) Definite assurance that the Anglo-American negotiations for naval reduction have favorab ly advanced was given today by General Charles G. Dawes In a speech here. At the same time he warned that they have not neces sarily reached the proper stage for. public discussion In detail. "We must realize." he said, "that the one unforgivable thing now would be inadequate prepara tion for the proposed naval confer ence." Although the American ambas sador and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald met once again here today it was in ceremonious cir cumstances which did not lend themselves to continuance of the naval conversations begun at the neighboring town of Forrest soon after the arrival of the ambassa dor In England. The prime minister, who was made a burgess of the town, spoke only on local topics. But General Dawes brought up the subject that was in every one's mind. The ambassador returned to London tonight and the pre mier will follow in the morning Airplane Entries In Schneider Cap Event Are Scarce LONDON, Aug. 23 (AP) -The Schneider enp trophy committee tonight deckled that the request of Italy for postponement of the Airplane speed races could not be granted under the rules governing the con test. In the resulting confu sion it appeared that British planes alone may race them, selves around the course off Cowes, Iste of Wight, on September 6 and 7. British preparations for the races have gone forward without s hitch. In contrast the Italians have met with four serious accidents, the most tragic of which was the death of .Captain Guiseppe Hotta, vice-commander of the school of high Telocity al Desenzano, and loss of hbj plane. mi SEDUCTIONS BEING WUFIKED OUT Religious Rioting Occurs in Ancient . Palestine Capital JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 Jewish Telegraphic Agen. cy) Nine Jews and three Arabs were killed and 110 other persons were Injured in a fresh outbreak in the city tonight. All shops were closed and police in armored cars dashed through the streets. The excitement was intense. Among the wounded was Wolfgang Von Weisl, a cor renpondent of the Berlin Vossische Zeitung. LOXDOX, Aug. 24 (Sat urday) AP) A Jerusa lem dispatch to the Mail to day described the city as an armed camp all last even ing. All inhabitants were ordered to remain Indoors after 6:30 p.m. Armored cars patrolled the streets and special police were en rolled. There had been an air plane demonstration in the afternoon and snipers on the slopes of Mount Scopus fir ed on automobiles going to the Hebrew university in the evening. WOIM ATTEMPTS TO KILL POLICE Mrs. Anna Schrader Relates Story at Portland City Jail PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 23. (AP) Mrs. Anna Schrader, pri vate detective and wife of a rail road man, was arrested here to nieht on an assault with. Intent to kill charge by Police Lieuten ant William Breuning. who told his superiors that she had tried to shoot him twice. Breuning said the attack occur red as he drove up in front of his home. He declared the woman, whom he has known for several years, walked out of the darkness and fired through the window of his automobile. The bullet missed He struggled with her, he said and managed to knock the weap on from her grasp, only to feel the breath of another bullet against his face as he stepped from the machine. Again he wrestled with her, he declared, and succeeded in Jerking the weapon from her band. He then called a patrol wagon and sent her to the police station. In her cell Mrs. Schrader sobbed a story of what she was said to have described as "eight years of intimacy between us.'" "I didn't go there to kill him." she was reported to have said. "I Just tooR the pistol for my own protection. He was such a brute and hurt me once when he twisted my arm." She declared Breuning had never missed seeing me for a single night In the last eight years." "He called after my husband had gone to work," she said, "and we would go to shows and other places, then not long ago, he went to Chief, of Police Jenkins and told him all." She said she had gone to meet Bruening tonight with the inten tion of "having a settlement." "I was afraid of him, so I took my gun," officers said ehe told them. "The we fought on the side walk and the gun went off." Chief of Police Jenkins late to night verified Mrs. Schrader's statement relative to Breuning's conversation regarding her. "Lieutenant and Mrs. Breuning both came to me," the chief said, and advised me that Mrg. Schrae- der waa infatuated with the offi cer. Breuning told me that she in sisted on him keeping appoint ments with her." Bus Routings to Be Finished Soon Principal Avers Routing of the busses which will transport out of town stu dents to the Salem high school, will be completed within two or three days. Principal Fred D. Wolf announced Friday night. As soon as possible a complete outline of the routings will be made pub lic. Presenb indications are that there will be seven route in Mar ion county and two in Polk. T. E. McLean, who has the con tract for hauling the students, has purchased six new busses, each with a capacity of 40 to 50 pas sengers, it is reported. Rdadmaster is Honored Friday At Final Rites One of the largest crowds. If not the largest, ever gathered at the Rigdon mortuary to pay final respects to a Salem citizens as sembled Friday afternoon for the funeral services of W. J. Culver, late county roadmaster. The au dltorlum and halls were crowded to capacity and many stood out side during the service. Floral tributes, too, were profuse, three truck loads being taken to the Ml City View cemetery. LI FIRST PAHT OF IE One Flyer Forced Down Due To Motor Trouble on Way to Spokane Clarence Bates Lands Upon Tiny Sand Island in Columbia River SPOKANE. Aug. 23. (AP) Charles W, (Speed) Holman, Chi cago, took the lead in the Portland-Cleveland air race by arriv ing here at 3:14:30 p. m., to day for an elapsed time of 1:55: 12 from Portland. He had a lead of only 14 seconds over T. A. Wells of Wichita. Kans., who ar rived here at 3:12 and had an elapsed time of 1:55:26. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23. (AP) Nine bright-hued biplanes flashed across the starting line to day in the Portland-Cleveland air derby, but only eight arrived at Spokane, where the fliers were In structed to stop over night be cause of their late start here. Clarence F. Bates, of Milwau kee, Wis., was forced down on a sand Island in the Columbia river near Bridal Veil. He reported that he made a perfect landing but ran Into a sand hump, tipping his plane over. He said the landing gear, propeller and lower wing were damaged and that he would be unable to continue the race. Bates was not Injured. Portland pilots learning of the accident, took off in planes to re turn Bates to this city. They were expected late tonight. Bates, In a long distance tele phone message, said he blamed no one but himself for the mishap. He was delayed several minutes at the start of the race by minor motor trouble and was reported to have said that he should have been more painstaking in making repairs. The pilot declared he ran into low fog in the Columbia river gorge and waa forced to skim the surface of the river for several miles. He was at an altitude of about 200 feet, he said, when mo tor trouble developed again and forced him to drop his plane on the tiny sand island. Inclement weather might have resulted in a postponement of the flight, had not incoming pilots told of meeting clear weather east of Portland. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 (AP) Michael J. P. Cudahy, 81, scion of the Chicago meat pack, ing family, was convicted by a Jury in superior court tonight on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. The Jury re commended a $5000 fine. The Jury, composea or 11 wo men and one man, took the case late today following the appear ance of the young millionaire and his bride, the former Murlal Ev ans, Florida beauty prize winner and film player, as witnesses. Cudahy's arrest July 12, after a collision between his automobile and one driven by Charles B. Lang, caused postponement of he young couple's honeymoon to Honolulu. mi' coin 11 FINE ASKED I Los Angeles Ready to Welcome Graf i I i Lhmm Groin Undamaged By Light Rein is General Verdict Friday's light rain had no harmful effect on grain about to be harvested y in the stack, and It will reyilro several days of much harder rain to do any damage, per sons in touch with the grain situation sa;l that al'tei aoon. The grain harvest is about two-thirds completed, with exceptional yields reported for all grain crops. There are a few sections where harvesting of fall grain is just being started, and the first fields of spring grain are being cut in other sec tions where all crops are farther advanced. IT PAVEMENTS v t Collisions Plentiful Due to Rain After Extended Dry Spell Rain and wet pavement, to which local motorists have not been accustomed for many weeks, caused an unusual number of mi nor traffic accidents Friday. Automobiles driven by W. Webb Ramage, 1145 Oak street, and Joe Leach of Gervais, collided Fri day afternoon about 3:15 at Che meketa and Liberty street. Ram age reported that Leach, coming from the opposite direction, turned the corner directly In his i path way. A truck driven by Lyle Raines, 1580 Jefferson street, and an au tomobile driven by Marvin A. Roth, 1590 Madison, Collided at State and High streets at 3:15 p. m. It was reported by witnesses that Roth's car made an ambitious attempt to climb over the truck. Nina E. Gilbert, 2157 Maple avenue, was the driver of an auto mobile which collided with a truck driven by C. E. Tlmme, 640 North Commercial, at South Commercial and Ferry streets about 10:30 Fri day forenoon. Cars driven by R. H. Bassett, 655 Marion street, and Frank O'Brien, Salem route 6, col lided at noon at the Intersection of High and Center streets. Bas sett claimed to have had the right of way. Cars belinging to Robert F. Herron, of Los Angeles, and D. B. Cohen, of Independence, crashed Friday morning about 11:30 on North Capitol street. No details of an accident involving cars driv en by Mrs. Fred Barker, 1190 North Commercial, and a Mrs. Todd, were given in Mrs. Barker's report. Legionnaires are Welcomed to City By Mr. Mussolini ROME, Aug. 2 3. (AP) Rome today gave a Roman welcome to the visiting party of members of the American Legion headed by National Commander Paul Mc Nutt. Their day was loaded with visits and receptions, of which the climax was an audience with Pre mier Mussolini wno fs considered chief of the Italian former serv ice men and was himself wound ed in the World war. The Legion representatives sa luted the Italian war dead and the soldier kings of Italy this morn ing bylaying wreaths at the Pan theon and the tomb of the un known soldier. The American national com mander congratulated the pre mier on his work in behalf of the i Italian veterans. 1 $f "4 ICC D NTS ID DRILLING 3TIISIEK IS CORPS PLAN Legion Group Will be Well! Prepared for Contest At Louisville Pep Banquet Held at Hotel Last Night; Financial Backing Sought Practice sessions three times a week will be the program of Sa lem's American Legion drum corps in preparation for its pro - posea participation in me nauou- ai contest at lomsviue, ivy.. "Uu ;f n.i,iA mo n,,tD, was announced following a "pep banquet at the Marion hotel Fri day night. In addition to the 35 members of the corps, Commander Douglas McKay and the members of the post executive committee, and Carl D. Gabrielsori and Max Page of the drum corps committee, at tended the banquet. Financial Backing Thought Fairly Sure The trip to Louisville still hing es upon the question of finances, but with all of the leading civic organizations tentatively backing the program to raise the necessary amount which is estimated at ap proximately $5000, the corps has sufficient assurances of success, to warrant commencement of the three times a week drill schedule. Practices will be held Wednesday and Friday nights, and on Sun days. Real Publicity For Salem Planned The corps plans to advertise Sa lem as widely as it did a year ago when it journeyed to San Antonio, Texas, and won second place in the national contest. All day stops will be mado at St. Paul, Minneapolis and Indianapolis, and brief stops at Chicago and many other cities; and wherever the corps alights from the train, it will make its presence known, members promise. The corps, if it goes, will leave Salem September 24, reaching Louisville prior to the opening of the national convention Septem ber 30. The contest will bo Tues day, October 3, with preliminaries in the forenoon and finals at night. Bozo Eats Razors To Win Wager AMERILLO, Tex., Aug. 23 (AP) Bozo, a chocolate colored human being of uncertain nation ality, ate 150 razor blades and 24 electric light globes at a carni val here, and as a result Gene Howe, editor of the News-Globe and known as "Erasmus Tack," was out 200 today. "Tack" in his personal column, had criticized the management of the show for permitting what he hinted as a fake attraction. Three newsboys, however, who had seen the performance, came to I low-rand insisted Bozo really ate the blades. The editor' then offered Bozo $200 if he actually prrio.ni ed the stunt. In the prpren"o f the boys and a number v' Bozo started to work, chewing the steel and glass into bus u ... . swallowing them. An X-Ray photo today showed that Bozo ate the blades and globes and Bozo and his manager were enriched by $200 from "Tack's" pocketbook. f Composite photo of the globe-girdling Graf Zeppelin tied np a, the Lakehurst, N. JM naval air station mooring mast. This mooring mast is being constructed at Los Angeles to re ceive the dirigible when it completes the third leg of its flight. Workmen placing pipes In position to refuel the Graf Zeppelin at Los Angeles when it arrives from Tokio. 5 Electric Shops Hit By Strike Of Union Employes Workers Walk Out As Requests For More Pay And Less Work Are Not Met; Five Day Week Listed Among Demands jtnION employes of five local electrical shops left their J jobs Friday afternoon, thus serving notice that the threatened strike has taken effect although no formal strike Lnotice was given the employers. The workers have been demanding that they be granted an increase in wages to $9 a day for eight hours, with no work on baturaays. it was to me latter request that the employ-, ers objected most strenuously, their attitude being that it is i unfalr t0 other businesses m IXJ. V1LJ TT liaV.i.1 aaaCAJT V'ivU 11 Ivl emergencies wmcn will re which will quire electrical repairs on Sat urdays. How seriously the walkout will affect electrical construction in the city could not be predicted by any of the contractors Friday night. It was stated, however, that at least one member of each firm affected by the strike, is qualified to do electrical work, so that all will be able to handle emergency repairs. Construction jobs will undoubtedly in some cases be delayed unless the work ers and employers adjust their differences soon. Shops from which workers withdrew Friday afternoon were Brownell Electric, Fleener Elec tric, Eoff's, Vibbert & Todd and Malik's. IS E British Representative Ad amant In Refusal to Compromise THE HAGUE, Aug. 23. (AP) Great Britain and her four war time allies, France, Italy, Belgium, and Japan, faced each other at The Hague reparations conference tonight in their second serious deadlock after Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exche quer, rejected the new four-power offer to make up part of England's claims for additional payments in the Young plan. Mr. Snowden decided, after con sidering verbal proposals by Pre mier Jaspar of Belgium last night and another detailed offer this morning, that the offers repre sented much less than the 75 per cent of the British claims they purported to satisfy. Hopes that the present confer ence might finally agree on adop tion of the Young plan were dash ed by Mr. Snowden's forthright re jection. The plenary session fixed for tomorrow has been postponed until Monday, and many of the delegates saw a ray of hope in that fact. Louis Locheur, French delegate and minister of labor, stated that Mr. Snowden's rejection of the 1 second four-power compromise j was not fatal, that everybody was 1 still working to bring about a ! compromise and that despair for the future of the conference was justified. M. Loucheur admitted, how ever, that the French delegation planned to go home on Monady. Tonight all delegates attended a sumptuous feast given by Queen Wilhelmina. NEW REACHED AT H V-T .aA., ..iiiWili " - mmr m z," v LOUSE EBEil IS STILL WELL AHEAD Pittsburgh Woman Looms as Likely Winner of Long Airplane Race WICHITA, Kas., Aug. 23. (AP) All fifteen of the avia trices that remain In the Santa Monica to Cleveland women's cross country derby out of an orig inal field of 20 starters checked in I at municipal airport here late to day. Louise McPhetrldge von Tha den, of Pittsburgh, held her lead of around one hour over Gladys O'Donnel of Long Beach in the heavy ship class with an elapsed time of 13:25:53, while Phoebe Omlie, Memphis, continued to lead the light plane-division, with 16: 30:16. Death, sickness and mishaps forced five fliers out of the race before the Wichita control was reached and tonight indications were a sixth pilot would be elim ated. Race officials received a telegram from the department of commerce at Washington advising that the license for Thea Rasche's plane had expired on July 15 and asking that the German flier be withdrawn from further compe tition. Miss Marvel Crosson, San Diego, met death when her plane fell near Welton, Ariz., Monday. Clare Fahy of Los Angeles, withdrew at Al buquerque because of damage done to her plane on the first hop, when she attempted to avoid a collision. Florence Barnes, San Marino, Cal., was forced from the race at Pecos, Texas, aiter a col lision with an automobile hi land ing. Bobbie Trout, delayed by plane trouble early in the contest, landed at Pecos, Texas, early to night from El Paso. She is follow ing the race route but is consid ered out of the competition. Marg aret Perry of Los Angeles, hav ing contracted influenza shortly after she left the starting point, lies ill in a hospital at Fort Worth, Texas. HAZEL GREEN PARK Games and a "Johnny Jones feed" were features of the Lions club picnic in Hazel Green park Friday night. Approximately 60 persons attended, including Pres ident and Mrs. Dewey, represent ing the Monmouth den. Mrs. Har ry Scott won the women's prize. Several musical numbers were on the program arranged by New ell Williams. The Lions quartet sang several numbers and Miss Betty Bedford played piano solos. Accordion music by Miss Roberta Morton drew applause. Members of the quartet were Dr. William Mott, Leslie Springer, O. D. Olson and Frank Doolittle. Harry Scott's huluhulu dance was the feature number. Arrangements for the picnic were made by a committee headed by B. D. Bedee and consisting of O. D. Olson, Newell Williams and Harry Scott. C0NERES11 ISO FLAYS TARIFF BILL SUMNER, Wash., Aug. 23. (AP) Sharply criticizing the re publican members of the senate finance committee, whom he ac cused of striking from the house tariff bill practically everything in which the northwest is Interest ed, Congressman Albert Johnson of Hoquiam addressed the Sumner Rotary club here today. "The bill," said Johnson, -Is entitled to be named the senate committee's 'string bean, tariff bill." and went on to explain that a few farm products such as to matoes, are still protected. He predicted a terrific fight in the senate with party lfnea com pletely broken, with probability that the bill will be further r -culated to the point where the house republicans will not accept it. HUGE ZEPPELIN . IKES STEADY If OVER SEA Liner Passes Through Heavy Storm With Ease on Eastward Trip Arrival at Los Angeles Now Scheduled for Tues day Afternoon TOKYO, Ausr: 21. TSaturuaO (AP) Plun'-rinij uns ai itf-d through a violent storm of wird and lightning -which- struk k-r full forre tlir? hours after rif-ir.K from Kasumig.iut a airport, t ne Graf Zeppelin roai on across the mightiest of oean toward Ait? ica. With clear moonlit kies al'e and the waters of the Pacific fiv miles deep below her, the sailed through the night cuit;ng away at the 5.0i)tt mil's separat ing her from l.i Anf:el". res- to last stop on her circumnavigation of the world. Dr. Hugo Eckener seized ai; .r expected moment of good weaih. ordered passengers aboard and big Graf was drawn from the har gar Friday afternoon, heading intie the northeast on her platr1 course. The Zeppelin disappear- within seven minutes in the !iro- tion of the opn Pacific. Zep Passes Tlu-ougU Dangerous Storm Almost immediately 'great er ger faced the dirigible with ita crew of 41 and "passenger li 19. Storm areas were reports off the coast of northern Japr. over the Aleu'ian Islands and tm Bering Sea. creating new b--ards along th great circle rotnr. Apparently without a moment' hesitation the Graf's comm&netr ordered hr nose pointed 6traif:H into the vast spaces ot the Pa cific along a route 400 miles t the south of the intended cour But the Graf was unable to area. Wind and rain beat aj;ai?t her and lightning flashed on silver sides as the rode throitf-n the squall Into clear weather. !" spite the great danger there was no anxiety aboard the airship. The passenger gathered for din ner in the dining .salon as if tie th ing had happened, according 1-e wireless dispatches from the Grr to Japanese government radio Mo tions. Speed Picked Up Graf Reports When her position was report ed at 10 p. m.. Friday (S a. n. EST) the Graf announced sr.e wmi picking up her early lack of (Turn to Fas I, Column 4.) 1 MADISON, Va., Aug. 23. AP) President Hoover, accompaTi4 by a party of guests arrived at m fishing camp near here late te.f to spend the weekend after an un eventful trip from the White House. Accompanying the president were Secretary Adams and Ma.ior General Neville, commandant t the marine corps, and member f the navy general board, Willi whom he was expected to confer on the pending naval limitations negotiations with Great Britair. Others in the party were Jam s R. Nutt, treasurer of the republi can natfonal committee; Mr. eid Mrs. Lewis Straus and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Woolley of New York; Roy Roberts of Kr.npfes City; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Yei-nor, of Washington; Lawrence Rkkev, secretary to the president rd Lieutenant Commander Joel T. Boone, U. S. N., the chief execu tive's personal physician. Believe It or Not About Salem IN the Salem district of Marion county, more children ovserve the rutes of health than in any like district in the west. The Marion County Child Health demonstration has been teaching the children of. Marion county health habits for the past four and a half years. In competition with 22 cities, the Salem Chamber of Commerce in 1924 influ enced the Commonwealth Fund of New York City to establish i t s five - year health service in Marion county, with headquarters in Salem. Result: More healthy children in Marion county than anywhere in the west. This is a fact. The Stattmaa will welcome con tribution from ite readers of oth er remarkabla bete about Salaam n ARRIVES T 1 1