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PAGE TWO Tha OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, September 20, 1929 ISfiloPEHE ' Buron Filts, District Attor ney, Leads Pantages ; Prosecution i " (Continued trom Tag 1.) defense experts over prosecution objections yesterday. Defense Seeks te Offset Drmkenness Charge Oa cross exa.mias.tion Steuer sought ' ad mission from. the doc tort that shock might produce symptoms of 1b toil cation la at admitted effort to strengthen de fense contentions that Mrs. Pan tages was suffering, from shock and was not drank -when seen by prosecution witnesses shortly aft er the crash. The doctors denied symptoms were identical. Four more state experts will testify tomorrow. They- will be followed by three Japanese, who Fltts said, would contradict Dr. Bertha Brumbaugh's defense tes timony that Rqkumoto told her before the operation he was not in pain. Fltts said the Japanese would declare Rokumoto could not' speak English. ; Two rebuttal witnesses were presented before Fltts began bis argument to reopen the state's esse this morning. They corro borated testimony given yester day by a rebuttal witness that Mrs. Catherine Mulchey, a de fense witness who testified Mrs. Pantages was sober, had said prior to the trial the woman was drunk. Sen TODAY (Continued from Par LI lag corporation, another of the companies sued by Shearer, wilf ho nnttatinnaA S W WaVanaa director of the west coast lines of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding cor poration, and Eugene O. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Ship building corporation, are expect ed to be here with Mr. Schwab, representatives of the Newport ivews Shipbuilding and Drydock corporation, the third company sued by Shearer, will be sum. moaed next week. The commit tee has been Informed that Homer LI Ferguson, president and gen eral manager, and Frederick P. -aiea, rice president, will repre sent this corporation. Once the shipbuilders hare been questioned, the committee intends to call Sheerer. xne inree snipbuiiding com panies are now engaged in build ing cruisers for the American nary, cruisers which Senator Bo rah says might not hare had to bj built if the Genera conference of two years ago had bees cessful. sue- CHICAGO. Sept. 19. (AP) A supposed gang kidnaping, which officers : all day had expected would be supplemented b y mur der, was set down by police to night as a mere figment of a taxi driver's frightened imagination. The driver, Erwin Koler, sped to a police station last night with a story of having seen an automo bile forced to the curb by another car and three men, force two oc cupants of the -first machine into the supposed gangster's car, amid curses of "stool pigeon," and "squaker. Sergeant Oris Callahan, leader ot a detective squad, said he bad stopped three negroes in an auto mobile carrying a Michigan li cense at the same time Koler re ported the kidnaping occurred. He questioned the trio and let them go. , Koler had said the supposed kidnapers' car had a Michigan 11- Police believe Koler saw the squad car stopped beside that of the negroes and. thought a kid naping was taking place. II ra io en CLENDAIaB. Cal.. Sept. If. (AP) Lieutenant Herbert J. Fahy, test pilot, seriously injured yesterday In a crash of Lieutenant Harold Bromley's seeond "City of Taeoma" monoplane, was report ed holding" his own at a Glendale hospital tonight. Fahy, who saved his lift by saddling in the cockpit of the powerful plane when It tell on Its back in m Burbank, CaL? city, street yesterday after Its tail a skull fracture orer the right eye, group had broken away, suffered brain concussion, a . compound fracture of the right elbow and numerous gashes about the head and face. .After an X-ray examination. Dr. David Tbfomsen, treating Fahy, said he held some hope that the pilot's elbow would mend "so that he will have a asable ana." RECORDS IHE61M1II UEUPHI3. TeanV Sept. It (AP) Search for missing records of 77 negro children, - who were inmates of the Industrial settle- ment home, destroyed by tire here recently, with loss of eight lives, was being conducted today by WIl lam G. Headrlckv director of the 1 MISTAKE PILOT WW j At Ekinore Today Hal Skelly sad Nancy Carroll as lure, Tbe Dance of Life." welfare division at the state de partment of institutions. The search followed charges made to authorities yesterday by mh Georgia Taan, executive se cretary of the Tennessee children's home society, that wards of the home were made to sit on hot stoves, stand In hot ashes and an oergo other forms of torture as disciplinary punishment. The charge also that there were ao records found at (17 .children known to hare been in' the home. The Shelby county grand Jury will Investigate charges of cruelty against Bessie Simon, negro su perintendent of the institution. OF U. S. 1IB CORPS WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (AP Both the army air corps and the navy are finding the short age of pilots on of the per plexing problems of their avia tion expansion programs. in pushing the general devel opment of their aviation activi ties, both services are being handi capped by the inroads of commer cial aviation, the effects of which the army has felt most, and other causes which are threatening to Interrupt the expansion. The army 18 meeting the diffi culty to an extent by holding graduates of its advanced flying school at Kelly Field, Texas, in the service for two years. Up to the present the air service has re quired cadets to enlist for one year only. At the end of that time, which Is taken up in train ing, graduates hare been free to resign or to accept a commission. Under the new regulations all graduates will be Teqaired to serve. This measure. It is honed, will help In overcoming the pilot shortage which Is nearly S00. By June 30. 1932 the army should have 1,650 regular flying officers and 650 in the reserves. IH1U TO GET SEATTLE. Sept. 19. (AP) An intensive drive to bring the 1931 convention of the Pacific Foreign Trades council to Hono lulu bore fruit today when the council recommended that the di rectors award the next meeting to the island metropolis. The direc tors will accept the recommenda tion, they said. A. F. Haines of Seattle, senior rice-president of the council, and general manager of the American Man line, was advanced to the presidency, succeeding the late William Pigottjof Seattle. it. a. wiieox, roruana. was elected senior vice-president. J. A. H. Kerr. Loe JUeies nd Paul Shoup, Saa Francisco, succeeded themselves as viee-prealdent. Ri ley H. Allen, editor of the Tar- Bulletin. Honolulu, was named vice-president, to till the vacancy caused by the advancement of the ether officials. E 0 L A Z 1 fl 6 FIERCELY MISSOULA. Mont,, 8ept 19 (AP) Biasing fiercely in dense timber and brush 20 miles sontji of Lola Fase. the Elk Summit fire la western Montana gave grave concern t otorest . officials to night The Gee had burned over 590 acres and was re-ported spreading rapidly in all direc tions. Fifty men -were en ronta to the scene to aid the 60 already -on, the lines, -y The -largest uncontrolled fire In the district was raging west of Avery, Idaho, and had covered up tbs east side of Slate creek after crossing the- stream and ad vandna lata territory burned over ia 1910. It was Joining with ahead. Three hundred men were combatting the flames. . ; - HAZARDS GO NORTH B. W. Hasard and his daughter. Miss Edith Hatard, leave today for Seattle where, their son and broth er, Fred H. Hasard. 1 seriously in la the 8wediah hospital. He has beta tattering from stomach, aleer atioa and several blood transfu sions aave bee necessary. , Too Late To Classify WiiiWWAMaMWSUM S piano for sale; call at TsS K. Ill ME) TRUES uMity. t pic- 53 DESire T WASHINGTON, Sept. If. (AP) Fifty-three destroyers now la active service with the battle and scouting fleets soon are to be decommissioned for eventual sale of scrapping. Built during the war, the ships always were considered unsatis factory by the navy and after ten years of hart service repairs of their engines and boilers is deemed uneconomical. Today they were ordered decommis sioned. Their passing was recorded to day in navy orders, which showed they will be replaced from among the 159 destroyers tied up at San Diego and Philadelphia since the war. Because the ships being taken out will eventually be re moved from the navy list. Amer ica's present Urge destroyer pre ponderance over Great Britain, 2(2 ships against 184, will be ma terially reduced. The destroyers at San Diego and Philadelphia have been main tained In good condition. Squad rons eleven and twelve of the bat tle fleet, less the squadron lead ers Decatur and Litchfield, will be tied up at San Diego and squadrons six and tea will take their places. Squadron nine of the scouting fleet and the experimental ship Converse will be recommlssloned at Philadelphia and replaced by squadron seven. The Dallas, squadron leader, will remain with the fleet. E -PLAINVILLE, Conn., Sept. 19 (AP) With Tirtually all other details of the wedding of Miss Florence Trumbull to Major John Coondge, son of former Presi dent Calvin Coolidge, completed. the family of Governor John H. Trumbull, the bride-to-be's father, busied itself tonight with arrange ments for the handling of trans portation of guests and wedding day traffic in this seat of the Trumbull home. Governor Trumbull has arrang ed to hare 22 state policemen handle the traffic next Monday afternoon when the wedding party travels from the Trumbull home to the Plainvllle Congregational church and back. The honeymoon. It was indi cated today,' will end October 7, when Manor Coolldge's vacation from his position as clerk in the operating department of the New Haven railwav ends. He leaves on his vacation Saturday noon. Bon far the couple have not revealed their honeymoon plans. Attorney Files Action Against Mrs. Pantages LOS ANGELES. Sept. 19. (AP) James . P. Sweeney, aa at torney, filed suit la municipal court today for collection from Mr. Lots Pantages of SMst.ta alleged to be duo for preparatlonJ A m . , A. M AS. . W or n uivorce compuuni iot m wemaa against her husband. Al exander T. Pantages. multi-mil lionaire theatre owner, te 1927. A summons issued ia conneo tioa with the salt was tiled oa Mrs. Pantages at the close of to day's session of her trial on a see ond degree "murder charge grow-' tug eat of the death of a Japan ese gsrdnerla aa automobile col lision last June. , EXERCISES SLATED "Go Amy to College Week" win bo observed at the First Christian church this coming 8aa day.ewith appropriate exercises at both morning and evening ter vices. Members of the faculty and students of Eugene Bible college will participate ia the evening program. y Y y'" vy - SALEM HEIGHTS '( ' BENEFIT SHOW Y Tonite only " -..-' ' TED WZLLS la . "KEiUJTr and BULLETS' and a diamond ring free to the ; holder ot the lucky ticket - SPECIAL Mudne Sautter wm sing 'Mean to Me' and 'Among My Souvenirs. V Omt appear 1m the BE llEO SHORTLY WnTSFOR none so riYOR SIGflS LIGHTS RULIfJG Street Decorations Author ized by Official Ac tion of City (Continued freed Page L) passible. The post Nearest the corner whall be set back five feet from the adjoining cross street property line, and as near to the crb as passible without interfer ing with any fire hydrant. The other posts shall be spaced as squauy as pass. Die Between me corner posts and la a direct line therewith. All light posts shall be uniform la the designated district, and in stallation shall conform to plans prepared or approved by the city engineer and adopted by the city council by ordinance. Before be ing lighted or connected up with the city lighting system, and ac cepted for maintenance by the city, the iastattsifon and construc tion shall be approved ia writing by the erty engineer. Several conflicting ordinances are repeal ed. Borne Doubt Seen Aboat Ftrtwe of Project This ordinance was originally prepared at the request of the High street property owners through their representative. Lars Beegsvik, as a preliminary step toward establishment ef a lighting district oa that street. The prop erty owners planned te finance in stallation, the city then to take over maintenance and pay the coat of electricity. Much ef the de. signing had been done. Whether the High street Inter mits iwoald proceed with their plans new that the enabling ordin ance has been passed and approv ed, could not be learned Thurs day as they had had no opportun ity to confer. . High street Is the poorest light, ed street ia the business district, several of the blocks having only one cluster light of the present type on each side of the street. A company desiring to have Its type of lighting standard adopted, has installed a sample light on this street just north of Court street. TRADE IS TALKED BY CIPM DOM SEATTLE. Sept. 19. (AP)- Explodlng the popular American theory that "youth will win the day," Captain Robert Dollar of Saa Francisco, veteran shipping man of the Pacific coast, warned delegates to the Pacific foreign trades council here today against sending boys" abroad to develop them. "Don't send boys abroad to de velop your trade," be admonished. "It is useless, your biggest men must get up and go out after the business. Yon are up against good men abroad big men, leaders in their lines and yoo must meet them. If you go after trade, you are going to get It. But If yon sit at home, they wont come over here to you." Captain Dollar bluntly told Se attle business men that they would have to get out of their chairs." it they wanted to eompete with Californiana to get their share of the rapidly developing oriental trade. He said his boats left San Francisco with full cargoes, while in Seattle all he could get was half a cargo, being compelled to buy Salem, September 23-28 Don't fail to Tisit this great state fair; thousands of prize horses, cattle, sheep w and swine; boyi and girls in club work , demonstrations ; many county displays; big exhibits of fruits, flowers and vege tables ; auto show ; six-oiurht horse show ; and scores of other educational attrac tions have been planned; thrilling vaud eville entertainment daily; and dancing; every evening. Six Bi(j Days - - Sis Big Nights A nine uucenneut We have several Essex Demonstrators ; and Courtesy Cars that we will sell at a substantial Discount. All aire 1 930 models and carry our regular new car guarantee. Some of these cars have only run a few hundred miles and can not be told from new. M5Tnot Inc. High sn4 Cheneketa Hudson and Essex DUtributors Marion and Polk Countiea Open Nights and Sundays materials here la order to fill his ships. He urged Seattle business mem to develop more manufacturing plants as a Beans ot competing successfully in. foreign fields. EXPERT MS HI H JfERHG "Business men are mora . and more demanding that they receive resalts trosa advertising with the outcome being a more careful ap praisal of advertising expendi tures," B. P.' Kohl, manager at the Kohl Advertising ageney told members of the Salem Advertising etas) at its regular meeting Thurs day noon. Kohl declared that ad vertising was effective as a means ot encouraging distribatloa and thus had a permanent flaee? al though its use has become more technical and scientific. He said advertising was more useful is creating consumer acceptance than id producing consumer demand. Kohl, who Is charter member ef the Advertising club ef Seattle, praisea too tocai eiun ror eon Fin ing its work to advertising and its related fields rather than seeking a 'large uawledly club. : Miss Jean Spencer gave a read ing as a preliminary on the pro gram; J. Garner Knaps, chairman of the committee oa fall opening, re ported that mor8 merchants -had participated than ever before. FICIIT COMBIOil ISSHORTDFFUiTOS PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 19. (AP) Mayor George L. Baker today requested the Portlaad box tag commission to explain why it naato sorrow a 409 from the fund the law devotes te charitable work baakruptlag that fund, tollowlag the discovery by the city council that the commission is Da vine a match maker as much as the may or receives for his work. Mayor Baker said the commis sion pays Joe Levy, matchmaker. S50V monthly and Joe Wood, bus iness manager. 1250 monthly. "Levy gets as much as I do.' he declared. The mayor said an investigating revealed that for the lsst several months the boxing commission has been losing money on fights staged here. "TheyTl have to get the f 400 they need elsewhere," Mayor Ba ker said, "fil not approve the loan from the charity fund." LAST TIMES T-O-D-A-Y American Legion Benefit Show DOUBLE BILL Corp. Ingleston and Ms TJ. 8. World QWar Bi William Al All-1 "The Flrii Movies Also Boyd u Talkie The Flying Fool Phone 1000 1 7 piny GROUP HELD COB STEADILY Hundred More Stores to be Added to Chain With in Month Addition ot two more Jobbiag bouses representing; about 100 stores to the- Parity group ot stores will be ready for announce ment la another month. Parity jobbers who held aa all-day meet lag Thursday at the Marion were agreed. O. B. Oafler ot Taeoma, president ot the Parity group, pre sided over the meeting yesterday, called to discuss problems and ways and means of Improving the service ot the alHed stores, and te discuss also cooperative buying. . Theodore Roth, treasurer of tho Jobbing roup, Fred Broer and C. M. Lee, all of the Willamette gro cery' here, were hosts for the meeting. The next gathering will be held la Yakima, Besides the local men, present were: O. C Me Callum and Erie Johnson of tho Bound-up Grocery company, Spo kane; Randloph Cunningham of the Central Grocery company, Ya kima; Fred B. Leo of the Lee Gro cery company, Everett: O. B. Cut ler. O. El Tounglove, Stanley Steel and E. P. Kohl of the Tounglove Grocery company, ot Taeoma; R. C. Dunham and B. V. Gordon at the Allied , Grocery company. MaVshfleld. ' Representatives of Guilllard and Cockrolt, owners of klx California Jobbing houses un der the Parity banner were unable to be present. Four of the visitors, Cunning ham; McCaUum, Gordxi& end Kohl, were guests at the Thursday noon meeting of the Balem Ad club. NOW PLAYING . . . 4 m li OA I U3 (Cuk Momilte tL,i n BOB CHQSBY SHOWS WEIL AT Famous Cowboy Turns in 3 Firsts and Tie for Another TjrvTTKTON Ore.. Sent. IS. - riPi Rnh f!rofihv. three time winner of the Roosevelt trophy vmhlmtA ot thO WOrldS' all round championship la tho rodeo realm, advanced aeoiner ropes intrfit favtrd anarinr wild honors again at the Pendleton Roundup by turning in three firsts and a fU tnr flint la the four events he entered. The boy from Kenna, New Mexico, tied his steer in 24 1-4 mrnnAm ta tie with E. Pardee in this number. Chester Byers, Dan Clark. Wilkins Williams. Eddie McCarty and Jane McClure, veter an rotters, failed to get inside the time limit with their steers. OAahv took first in steer bull- dorrlnr with a fall in 18 2-5 sec onds and was far ahead of his rivals ia this event. He tied his rt t IS 4-5 seconds. The fleet- ness ot the Texas bovines enabled Wm to callop the full length of the arena before they were caught and roped. Rirht hehfnd them came tho backing horses, who spilled eight nf 17 riders whUe a ninth let day light shine between him and the saddle tor a no ride." Lloyd Cook made a corkine rido on Winne- mucca to advance in the northwest championships. Earl Thode, Tucke Greenouugh and Eddie woods rode Phillln Rollins. Bill McAdoo and Sataa into tho dirt, respect ively, for chances at the world's bucking honors. Read the Classified Ads. ROUIW SPECTACULAR . . . FLASHING 100 ner cent talk in? ... sinrinsr ... production , . .mat yon see once in a moon. . YOU WILL ADORR . . . NANCY CARROLL and how yoo will fall ... for that Broadway m mm ai O cal comedy star . . . HAL SKELLY . . Then for tho bis snrpetso ... a beauty CHORUS OF . . . doing their stmff In natural and gorgeous TECHNICOLOR sequenced . . , mm Wttfl UAL SKELLY NANCY CARROLL A Paramorot Pictwre GAT. and GUN. (only) In conjunction with "THE DANCE OF LIFE" we jrill offer ... on our stage ... Faacboo & Marco's "Watermelon Blues Idea" with The 16 Southern Steppers with GREATER DIRECT FROM SEATTLE Femturmg Aussftiim All Fair Veek OPENING DANCE Turner Man Dies Thursday Alter Lengthy Illness Joseph Randolph Bessie, a resi dent of Turner since 1893 aa sKortly afternoon Thursday at the noma oi nis aaugnter, Mrs. A. L Bones, in Turner. Bessie had been In 111 health focvseveral vmm ti was II years old, and a native ot Illinois. Funeral services will bo held at the Rlgdon mortuary here at 1:20 o'clock. Monday afternoon. with interment to follow at th Lincoln Memorial park In Port land. Besides Mrs. Bones, Bessie leaves the 'following other chil dren: Mrs. T. M. Cook, of Helix. Ore., and George A. and Clarence R. Bessie of Portland. .For Sale signs. For Tien t signs. Legal blanks, etc., for sale at the Statesman. Hollywood Tbcdtbrc ot 25c Home Talkies Tonight and Saturday The Leatherneck' Starring Wm. Boyd Hear Boyd tell one of the Strangest tales ever put on tho screen. Story of the Marines la Russia Also Our Gang Comedy 'Growing Pains" PATHS NEWS and FABLES Special Matinee Sat. 2:00 P. BL- record-breaking days ... A darrein? .j . : Dine . r w h SY nrasi- 1 I H vn -s p vr v. I r I. up