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
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 28, 1929
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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YGUTHS SEN
10A1HIE
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"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
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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-
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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.
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TO STUDENTS
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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-
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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-
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$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.
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Lady Passenger Explores Ship
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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