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WEATHER Fair today and Thursday; Slightly lower temperature. Max. temperature Tuesday 01; Mln. 58: River 2.4; Wi.xl west; Xo rain. FREE CIRCUS TICKET Free circus tickets are available for Salem boys and girls. Read details on page four of today's paper. FOUMDEP 1651 f SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 132 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 28, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS V 4 .1 1 3 t i f . SPAN BACKERS MOVE RAPIDLY IN ONE PLACE 5 i Bridge Plans Authorized Months Ago Are Not Yet Produced Unusual Technique Arouses Comment of Independ ent Faction By RALPH CURTIS Instructions to "proceed at once" with plans for a bridge across North Mill creek on Com mercial street, were given by the city council to the bridge engi neer, R. A. Furrow,- at a meeting on the night of April 1. On Saturday, this week. Just five months later. Engineer Fur row's employment by the city will cease, and unless he becomes yery busy in the four days remaining of his official connection with the city, he will go out of office leav ing to his successor not even a rough drawing upon which to start in carrying out the instruc tions given five months ago. Townsend Says Plans Are Almost Started This is stated on the authority of Watson Townsend, chairman of the bridge committee, who Tues day night said in answer to a question, that the bridge engineer had made an extensive study of the proposed span, and had taken the necessary measurements but had not commenced drawing the plans. That the engineer bad made such a study, was brought out nearly two months ago when mem bers of the council Interested in the promised bridge, began to ask question as to what was being done. That was late In June, lie port Come Faster Than Bridge Plans Replies then came from one source that the plans had already been drawn; but It was not until two more weeks had gone by, that the bridge committee made a pre liminary report. This report, made with much pomp and ceremony, was to the effect that after careful study, it was found advisable to build a bridge rather than a culvert and fill. The committee then an nounced that the engineer would proceed to draw plans for the bridge. That was July 15. August 31 will be six weeks aft er this latest report. Meanwhile one new set of plans for a cul vert at 13th and Lewis streets was brought in for the council's ap proval and the order for a call for bids. These plans were brought In at the meeting at which the council voted to dispense with the engineer's services. Conclusion Drawn From Evidence Evidence here briefly summar ized was taken by the majority group in the council to mean that the bridge engineer, seeing the period of his usefulness to the city about to terminate, delayed work on the remaining important pro ject,, in sight, hoping thus to avert the action that , was finally taken. It has been stated that Mayor (Turn to Page 2. Column 8.) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 (AP) Michael J. P. Cudahy, 21, scion of the meat packing' family. today paid the $5000 fine levied upon his conviction last week on charges of driving an automobile while intoxicated. He turned in his driver's license, which was suspended for a year by the court during a tongue lashing at the time of formal sentencing. . Cudahy orfered the court clerk a ckeck for the fine, but It was refused, and a bailiff accompan ied the young millionaire to a bank where he secured ten 1500 bills. HU I Governors Are Unanimous In Support of President Hoover's Latest Proposal SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 27 . (AP) The conference of western public land states late today unan imously endorsed President Hoot. er's suggestion for appointment of a commission to study his pro posal for turning over to these states surface rights to federal lands, together with administra tion reclamation projects. It re commended t"hat each governor submit the president names of three citizens for members of a commission to study the proposal. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (AP) Considerable interest was manifested at the capitol today In President Hoorer't proposal for transfer of public lands to the states and there were indications actual recommendation of such a step would meet opposition. Several senators from states -which would be affected expressed Allies Back Down Allowing Britain Most Of Demands Philip Snowden s Request For Larger Share In Reparations Meets With Success After Threatening Confab THE HAGUE, Aug, 28 (Wednesday) ( AP) Agreement in principle on the British share of reparations which had blocked adoption of the Young plan for three weeks, was reached just after midnight by the six powers who called the conference. Details of the agreement were given out by the British delegation. The French placed a slightly different interpre tation on them but it was understood that in the main the THE MULTDMAH T E Lads Disillusioned Concern ing Attraction of Ad ventures Three young boys, wards of the Multnomah county court, left Sa lem Tuesday afternoon somewhat disillusioned on the glamour of the great wide world. They were on their way to Portland in com pany with J. Teuscher, Jr., super intendent of the Boys and Girls Aid society of that city. They were glad to be going; they said so themselves. The boys were Francis Hartley, 11, Leonard Cas to, 14, and Orin Eager, 12. Their story la brief, as the boys told Mrs. Nona White, county proba tion officer: About a week ago, the three boys decided to leave their com fortable boarding house on the Powell Valley road out from Portland to have some adventures of their own. They traveled to the country around Silverton, re maining there for a day or so and then going t Aumsville. where they got Jobs berry picking. Word from a resident of the latter place sent county officials after the boys. One day the boys spent recu perating from ptomaine poison. Another time the day tt rained one of the boys had his shoes burned in a fire over which they were trying to keep warm. "But they were brighter and much more full of pep than many of the boys that come in here and really glad to go back to Port land," Mrs. White commented. They had been involved In no trouble. F BOSTON, Aug. 27 (AP) The first leg of the Philadelphia Cleveland air derby ended tragi cally today with the loss of three lives when the Cessna monoplane, piloted by E. J. "Red" Devereaux fell with him, his bride of three months and his mechanic to a mud flat off the Boston airport. Devereaux and the mechanic, Al Roiss, were killed Instantly and Mrs. Devereaux formerly Miss Herma Borges, was taken to the East Boston relief hospital, where she died later. As Devereaux's plane roared over the field the wings were seen to wobble and the airlons dropped from them. Devereaux strove to preserve control of the machine, but his efforts were unavailing and the plane came hurtling down to half bury Itself in mud and water.. LINCOLN HONORED FREEPORT, 111., Aug. 27 (AP) Freeport today observed the 71st anniversary of the histor ic second Lincoln-Douglas debate here by unveiling a bronze statue of the great emancipator on the spot where the debate took place. desire to await a fuller develop-: ment of Mr. Hoover's initial sug gestions. Others said flatly that if the transfer did not Include giv ing states complete ownership of oil and mineral deposits they would be opposed to It. The president plans to appoint as quickly as possible a commis sion to study his transfer propo sal. He announced his intention today after receipt of a telegram from Governor Baldridge, of Ida ho, which said that the governors of the public land states in session at Salt Lake City had "warmly appreciated" the suggestion that such a commission be appointed. Mr. Hoover had outlined his pro posal for the transfer in a letter read to the conference by Assis tant Secretary Dixon of the in terior department. He said the transferring of public lands to the (Turn t Page 2, Column 1.) YGUTHS SEN 10A1HIE stally mm "agreement gave the British substantially 70 per cent of their demand in money while other concessions were made to them on deliveries In kind. Among the last was agreement by Italy to buy an additional 1,000, 000 tons of coal annually for the state railroads on the reparations account. The agreement was a compro mise. The British sacrificed 8, 000,000 marks of the 48,000,000 they demanded in addition to amounts attributed to them under the Y6ung plan. They had asked for about $11, 530, 000 additional and obtained about $9,530,000. German Part in Plan Talked Later The agreement requires release by the Germans of their interest in (Turn to Page 2. Column 1.) E fSPEf FISH Ted Wells Wins Plane Race From Portland; Other Flyers Coming CLEVELAND. Ohio, Aug. 27. (AP) Two cross country air der bies, symphonies in speed, roared to a finish at the national air races today w.ith T. A. (Ted) Wells of Wichita, Kas., winning the dash from Portland, Ore., while George Halsey, of Kansas City, was declared victor in the Miami Beach, Fla., race after a long huddle at the Judges 'stand, so Croseiy bunched were the lead ers. Two other derbies were still en route to their finish and the na tional races tomorrow, one group spending the night at Syracuse, N. Y., in their race from Phila delphia by way of Boston, Albany, Syracuse and Buffalo, while the other group was quartered at Ft. Wayne, racing from Oakland, Cal., via Salt Lake City, Omaha and Springfield, 111. Two Are Killed at Start of Race Tragedy marred the start of the Philadelphia-Cleveland race to day with the deaths of Pilot D. J. Deveraux, of New York, one of the racers, and AI Reiss, Dever eaux's mechanic, who were killed when Deveraux'" plane crashed at Boston. Mrs. Deveraux, also a passenger, was perhaps fatally In jured. It was the only bad accident In a day crowded with speed and daring. The 50-mile speed race for wom en over the Cleveland airport spir al speedway was awarded to Mrs. Keith Miller of Buffalo, N. Y.. aft er Phoebe Omlie, of Moline, 111., had been disqualified for crowd ing the plane of another contest- (Turn to Pajfo i. Column S.) J FLAYS TARIFF BILL WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. (AP) The pending republican tariff bill, In the opinion of Rep resentative Mary T. Norton, dem ocrat. New Jersey, "strikes vic iously" not only at the farmer but at women's household and person al expenditures, affecting princi pally the 8,500,000 wage-earning portion of the female population. "Everyone of these women, very many of whom are finding It dif ficult to live now," said Mrs. Nor ton In a statement Issued today through tne democratic national committee, "will have to pay an increase of from 10 to 7 5 per cent on their shoes, stockings, dresses, coats, hats, underwear, toilet ar ticles. In fact, upon everything that goes to make a woman com fortable." Mrs. Norton voted against the tariff in the house. Her two demo cratic women colleagues, however, were divided on the final roll call, Mrs. Paul Oldfleld, of Arkansas, voting against and Mrs. Ruth Bry an Owen, of Florida, daughter of the late William J. Bryan, voted for the bill. As for silk, the New Jersey woman legislator said this was no longer the exclusive fabric of rich women, but working women were nsing it extensively, too. The in dustry, she added, already was over-protected and suffering from over production which the tariff conld not cure. I 111 EMU LIQUOR TO STUDENTS TO Salem School Board Tackles Issue of Bootleggers Near Senior High Gahlsdorf Declares Evidence Obtained By Question ; Mng 13 Youths If bootleg traffic to high school students is to be carried on this year, as It was last, almost under the very nose of school officials and teachers, things aren't going to be so easy for the fellow at the illegal end of the game. At least so one may Infer, following ap pearance of William Gahlsdorf, former school board member be fore the school board last night to ask that steps be taken to keep high school boys from patronizing, during school hours at least, boot leggers and gambling dives. Gahlsdorf directed his criticism at one of the small stores across the street from the high school, where he said he positively knew a man, not the owner, was allow ed to bring his liquor to sell to the students and where boys con gregated at pool and crap shoot ing. He knew It, he said, follow ing his own questioning of 13 boys who had indulged. Gahlsdorf charged that someone had neg lected duty, and asked that re sponsibility be placed. Weak Excuse System Declared to Blame This situation was due largely to the fact that students were per mitted, under a weak excuse sys tem, to get out of the building for whole periods at a time, and will be remedied to a large extent so far as school hours go this year through the rigid excuse system which Fred Wolf, new principal, plans to put Into effect. Owner ship of the confectionery In ques tion has changed hands this sum mer, and -board members said the new owner is decidedly hostile to such dealings. Before the discussion had end- (Turn to Page Z, Column 4.) is me i Death Comes as Result of Heart Trouble in Doc tor's Office Daryl F. Proctor, prominent sportsman and popular youn? business man, died suddenly about 3 o'clock Tuesday after noon. Death was due to heart trouble. Proctor had complained some the night before of severe abdominal pains, and shortly 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon went to office of Dr. J. H. Garnjobst and Dr. Edgar S. Fortner for examination. He had only been on the examining table about 10 minutes when he died. Both doc tors were working over him. Proctor has been employed for the past nine years In the Valley Motor company, and seven of these had been manager of the parts department. Proctor was most popular with all with whom he came in contact and few, if any, had anything but praise for him. Daryl F. Proctor was born In Middletown, Idaho, June 15, 1896, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Williard Proctor. The father died here August 80, 1926, and is buried In the Jason Lee came- (Turn to Page 2, Column 4.) $7 JO Fine is Levied Against Man by Judge When brought Into police court Tuesday on a warrant for neglect ing to report after receiving a tag for overtime parking, W. D. Chase was fined $7.50 by Judge Poul- sen. Efforts to bring all persons dis regarding overtime parking tags to police court are being streghten ed by warrants issued for their ar rest. In all cases where it is nec essary to serve warrants fines will be Increased and service charges made. Believe It or Not About Salem Marlon county has more hogs than any county in Oregon. Real hogs, not road hogs. Incidentally, Sal em has a meat packing plant that has an output of more than $1,000,000 a year. Th Statesman will welcome eon- -tribntioaa from Its reader! of oth r rmrbl fact aboat SsUm. B E CURBED 4 Lady Passenger Explores Ship . ft- W ' "JPT I Him. 1 Escorted by s member of the crew. Lady Dranmond Hay, the. Grafs only woman passenger on Its globegirdllng Journey, la shown in this picture exploring the labyrinthian interior of the giant air vessel. Lady llay has been called "my bravest passenger" by Commodore Eckener. International Illus trated News photo. Air Cruiser Turns North As It Soars Over Texas Liquor Possession Laid to Two Men Arrested Tuesday Charged with possession of intoxicating liquors, two men were brought into the toils of the law Tuesday night. One was held for lack of 950 and the other was out under that much balL One driver was book ed for speeding. Tom Edwards of Salem, was held In the city jail when he failed to produce 50 bail while 8. Carroll, also booked on a liquor charge, was at liberty under $50 ball. Both will appear In police court today. Richard Sherman, 1000 N. Church street, was ar rested for speeding and will appear today. Laborites Support Old Age Pension TILLAMOOK. Ore., Aug. !7. (AP) The plan of the Oregon state federation of labor to "abol ish the poor house" and provide an old age pension law for the en tire state was furthered today when a resolution promising to put a pension bill before the peo ple next year If the legislature re fuses to pass the measure was ad opted at the annual convention of the organization here. It was unanimously derided that the new pension bill will be based on house bill 357 which was voted down at the last legislature. It was also decided that some of the features of the old bill will be discarded and that it will be spon sored solely by the federation, which has 11,000 members in this state. Other groups favoring old age pensions will be heard by a com mittee of five to be appointed by President William Cooper of Port land, however. The committee will draft the bill and present it to the 1930 la bor convention before It is sent to the legislature. That the federation means bus iness was evident by the promise contained in the resolution to put the measure on the ballot by In itiative petition if necessary. The state grange will present a bill at the next legislature for the election by popular vote of a lieu tenant governor for the state, de clared George Palmiter, state grange master, In an address be fore the federation this afternoon. He asked the support of the federation. Oil Tanker Said " Afire off Coast WESX PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 28. (AP) The oil tanker Paulsboro reported at 12:50 a. nr., that It was afire 292 miles west northwest of the Tortugas. The report was picked np by station WOE, of the Radio Ma rine Corporation of America here. Radio reports said the tanker was owned by the Vacuum Oil com pany, but did not give its desti nation aor the extent of damage. 3 Originally Planned Course Will Be Followed By Graf Zeppelin on Last Lap of Trip Around World From Lakehurst By the Associated Press Indications early Wednesday were that the Graf Zeppe lin was headed for Lakehurst, N. J., on a northerly course which would take it over Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, In diana, Ohio and New York state. Such was the course plan ned upon departure from Los Angeles if weather conditions should permit. The airship sent word to Cleveland that it might fly over that city at noon Wednesday, and the dirig HEAD OF Y. W. G. A. General Secretary of Local Organization Reaches Here Last Night Mrs. Elizabeth K. Gallaher, new general secretary of the Y. W. C. A. succeeding Miss Elizabeth Ba ker, arrived in Salem in company with her 13-year-old daughter, Gwen. Tuesday night from Yreka, Calif., where she had been vis iting friends. Her young son, Sumner, aged nine, remained In Yreka with friends until Mrs. Gal laher has found a suitable home location. Mrs. Gallaher comes to Salem from Vallejo. Calif., where she had been general secretary for nearly four years. She comes with a vast amount of experience, having began Y. W. C. A. work in 1912, and having continued in it with the exception of a short per iod during which time she was loaned by the Y. W. C. A. to the state commission of immigration and housing of California to do special work. Although this Is the first time Mrs. Gallaher has been iu Ore gon, with the exception of a vis it here seven years ago, she Is indirectly acquainted here for her husband. Homer Gallaher, now deceased, was a well-known Ore gonian. The work of the new secretary will begin September 1. For the next few days she will be busy finding a place to live, and getting acquainted with her surroundings. Until she is acquainted a bit more Mrs. Gallaher says she has nothing to say as to plans for the Y. W. C. A. 5 Shorter Route To Salem Wins Kmn cr VI ir nnri - rt"-' - PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27. CAP) A movement is under way here to combine the community clubs of the Tualatin and Willam ette valleys In the Interest of the proposed shorter route from Sa lem to Portland for the purpose of paving the new road ready f o t dedication when the Portland-Tualatin tunnel is completed, Quy D. Kenney, president of the Falryale community club announced today. Delegations from Tigard and Sherwood already have met with the Falrvale group and made pre liminary plans for the movement, Kenney said. ARRIVES IN SALEM ible's progress through Texas bore no signs of deviation from the northerly route. FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 28. (AP) The Graf Zeppelin passed over Lockney, Texas, at 1:05 a. m., headed northeast and making about 60 miles an hour at an altitude of about 1,000 feet, according to a message received by the Star Telegram. Lockney is nearly midway in the panhandlo between the New Mexico and Ok lahoma borders. DALLAS. Tex.. Aug. 28. (AP) Operators on two railroad lines reported to their Dallas offices early today that the Graf Zpppelin shortly after 1 a. m., "was a fewi miles" north of Childress, TexasJ about 30 miles south of the Okla homa line. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 27. TAP) The Texas and Pacific railway here was informed tonight by an operator of the Santa Fe lines that j the Graf Zeppelin passed over i Loglng, New-Mexico, Just over the ' Texas-New Mexico line at 9:35 j p. m. I The Zeppelin had been report- j ed bearing to the north away from i the Texas and Pacific tracks, from ! the last two previous towns it had j passed over. 1 It therefore was assumed that j it shortly would begin bearing eastward as that course would be j (Turn to Pajce 2, Column 4.) Salvation Army Workers To Start Organized Drive For Money This Morning From a kicboff" breakfast at the Marlon hotel this morning at 8 o'clock, approximately 40 work ers In the Salvation Army finan cial campaign will start out to so licit funds toward the budget of S4575. The campaign hopes to ' have the drive completed by Sat- urday nil urday night. The budget Includes $3575 for the year's expenses above esti mated general receipts, and $1000 toward the building fund. Dr. B. F. Pound heads the campaign com mittee. The workers include principally business and profes sional men, in addition to. a few Salvation Army officers and work ers. No organization or enterprise has ever been granted a broader charter than that embodied In the certificate of Incorporation, Is- tued by the State of New York in 1889, from which the Salvation Army derives its legal existence in the United States. Holy Land Race War Spreading Grand Mufti, Moslem Head Makes Appeal to Stop Further Fighting French and British jTroops Are Bringing Order in Some Sections CAIRO. Eeypt. Aug. 27. -'AT, British marines opened fire rl,s afternoon at Haifa in an attempt to quell an Arab attack on f Jewish quarter of the city in whi i many were killed and wour-d among both Jews and Arab. ac cording to reports received her- t-y the Jewish telegraphic ngeu-. The marines fired ou both t' Jews and Arabs. It is stated. By The A.socIatMl Pirv Unrest anl disorder is spiff ing through the NVar East follow ing four day of bloody fij;huii between Jew anl. Arabs in I'a stine. Outburst? of religious anil ra cial hatred ar-j reported in Trar--Jordania. Beir'it stated Frii troops had been dispatched to pro tect the Jewish 'luarter of Luiic.p cus. Twenty thousand Beirut Ar abs paraded in sympathy i-B Palestine Moslem. The riotinp tends to all of Ju iei, part of Ei: and Galilee. Possibility of '?sation of fare Is seen in au appeal by Grand Mufti, Moslem reli.tio.il head, urging Arabs to stop the c-1.-breaks. Assault continue in J rusalem, but British military tt thorities appear to have a iip the situation. Same shops ifnpi, ed today. British Force Getting Grip on Situation Airplanes patrol Jerusalem. sr British troops continue to ruto the Holy Lanl. More ships zi-m preparing to go from Malta, whr two battalions, th-s aircraft carrw Eagle, the battleship Royal Sover eign and two destroyers are ii der orders. Th-i-) forces will sup ment warships already at the port of Jaffa. Communieari on' between Ja'Ta and Jerusalem are reported cat. Paleetine Is sail to be without newspapers. Th frontier toward the east has bn closed to cb-. k advances of Arabs from Trr Jordania. While Pals'ina Itself remans under stri. t censorship, JtiMi sources, particularly the Jei'tj Telegraphic Agency, continue to receive detaiiei reports of the tuation. T!n Moslem version is that the Initial cause of the con flict was the throwing of a hfcMi grenade at Moslems who (Turn to P. E, Column .) UTS SWIM MARK PORTLAND. Oro , Aug. 27. (AP) Agu-M Gerughty, New Yo;a mermaid, tonight became the fim swimmer ever to better a w.rki . record in a Portland swimmitg pool when she negotiated the 440 yard breast stroke in the unoffi cial time of ?:-$. Miss Geraphty knocked 'off and 4-5 thfon': from the pre.sent record. "Officials o? the meet, an -bition staged at .lantzen pool hn-f, said they would send Miss t;r aghty'8 tim to the National A. A. U. in an effort to have it reg istered as a nw -world record. Miss Gerahty and seven other women swimmers are enroute e: j after having competed In the Ns. i tional A. A. V. Women's outdo r i meet at Honolulu and the Nam-i-al A. A. U. men'a and worrit's meets at San Francisco. This charter defines The Sana tion Army aa an organization "t signed to operate as a religious and charitable corporation lc ail the states and territories of tt United States," and enumerate the following ag its purposes: The spiritual, moral and physi cal reformation of all who need It. The reclamation of the vicSoB, criminal, dissolute and degraded. Visitation among the poor s'td lowly and sick, and the preaching of the Gospel and the dissemina tion of Christian truth by mefcte of open air and Indoor meetiaj". The act of incorporation further authorizes the establishment t a variety of home-s, bureaus and in stitutions within the scpe of these general purposes, and tr.e maintenance of such busines-s tivities and relationship as are - sential so long as the profit or proceeds, II any, are devoted ex clusively to religious and human itarian pursuits. raw III