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PAGE SCVCNaTZ?? inis weeicssios : - Automotive Payrolls in the 5 Salem Metropolitan District More Than$10,COO Daily H riere Are More Than 2000 People Employed in- the Various Automotive Industries Here, Supporting About a Fourth . of the Population Only a little over 20 years ago, the automotive Industry- la its Tar ions branches began .to make a feeble shoving 4a tie Iadastrial lite of Salem. There were no automobiles worth mentioning west, of New York In, 4900. and only a few there of the first lum bering taxi type. It has not been more than 20 years Ago when all the gasoline and oil deUrered in fialem was taken around by one man with , a team of old horses. Noir seren of the great and lead . ing gas and oil concerns In the country. operate here,- employing many tracks, and haring on their payrolls directly 67 people, and serving 0.5 local companies, firms and individuals that retail oil and gas to the public. ... . - The 'slogan pages of The States man fire years ago made a re sume of the automotive industry In Salem. It found 94 individuals and firms in business employing 499 people. In 1925, It found 110 employers and 532 employ ees. In 1927, 234 employers work ing 659 people. Its estimate for 19 28 was 265 individuals and con cerns with 902 workers. Bluch Growth Past Year These 905 retail customers of the big. gas, .and q(1 companies operating braBohea. in Greater. Bar lem territory, including all the automotive agency, sale, aha parts and repairs concerns, many of which retail no oil and gas, It Is estimated employ, all told, at least 1600 people. Nearly every service station has at least two men. Some of them have fire to 20 or .more men. The Smith ft Watklns service station, for In- . stance,: employs 22 to 25 people, seven days in the week. The Val ley Motor company has 60 to 65 people on :ts payrolls, with a wage toll of over 110,000 a monthj Add' to the estimated 1500, the 67 direct employees of the whole sale gas and oil companies; the 185 ia the state highway depart ment in its offices and shops, and estimated average of 200 in the licensee department, 100 from the state vide forces, oa an average; doing:, business In Sajtm; 16 conn ty highways employees; SO stage employees living here, and 21 dri vers pt the ante stages serving Salem 'instead of street cars, and we have a total of -.2128 with out counting the 45 men working in and! around the Salem airport. If the reader thinks" that la high, let's make it 2000 eren. Per haps the average sise el the forces in the! license department Is leas than .00 the year through. Per- haps we do not hare as many as) 100 from the state wide forces tl thm i.th.. an.mant a. )! " .n i" b,,1 w-rC' average. -sw, numb runs into the thousands. in busy seasons.) - But; there has not been Includ ed in the estimate to make up the 2138 the many men employed by or operate to and from Salem; nor thV driver, It trucks for the valley Packing company, the ""rr,, "7v',,.v"::: :r: Z:r;rnr;:; nioyinK autoa and trucks for ... " ..T V,. . A.i ,n rL.-- VIi-.- r.v. the 2000 employes .(and th real number ismueh larger) -and mul tiply the numner by $5 a day. and you get $10,000 a day in wages for people employed In the auto motive industries in the- metro politan district of Salem. Multiply $10,000 by 812 working days In iVnJitlLiStow the hemp tfcer-for making auto tops and seats and iVkmlnVhodao more; for many'.-'hjgtt class m- cnacnics oraw more swan s day, and many r $he men who operate service- atstlons make more than 5tdayand tnost of STiHiiiiira FRMHEET WASHINGTON; Sept 81 fAPi Secretary Stlmeon today Invited conference wtt the dip lomatic representatives la Wash ington of the three naval powers which are to be Invited with the . United State and Great Britain in a seapower limitation-' conference next , January.' 1 ' - Hla first Ulk waa wtlth Paul Claudel, - th ' French: ambassador, and It was ladicated there wsuld hA rtm venations ' later with the ynanesa and Italian ambassadors. Keither tbe secretary of state nor the French diplomat would dis cuss the meeting. Since the invita tion! to the conferenceejar to be issued by the British government . thr wa aneealatlon as to what th anblact matter had been. France. Janan and Italy have luua vfit informed of the -Anglo- American negotiation for limita tion of their emiser, aesiroyer aao submarine Ueets. Consummation of this agreement - must .depend upon the attitude of the other three powers. - r While the Japanese gorernmeat Is seeking an Increase Jn Its ratio with respect to all classes of na tional ships ar compared t "that of th United States and Great Britain, the expectation generally Is that It proposal will present comparaUvely liUle difflcnlty for the projected conference. -Unksa the French" gaternaeat has had a very extensive hane of view sine the 1921 arms eon.' . fereac tU r proposals regarding ' submarines wta present a complex the salaried men on the gtate pay rolls get much more than $5 a day. Multiply the 2000 employees by five for the average family, and yea get 10,000 people depending en the automotive industries di rectly ia the 8alem metropolitan territory. There are perhaps 40,- 999 people tn this territory. which Indicates that the automo tive industry here are furnishing their livings to about a fourth of all ouxpeople. 1 The' Individual Items .The big. oil companies are: As sociated Oil company. General Petroleum company of California, shell Oil company. Smith ft Gil bert, Standard Oil company of California, union Oil company, and Texas company. The state highway department employs 69 people in its main offices, including its bridge de partment, and 66 ia its shepa op posite the penitentiary, - and there are 50 on the state police ("speed cop") force. Over 150 stages are scheduled dally in and ant of Salem, and there are often two or more Stages on a single schedule. The estim ate above is that 60 of the drivers make their headquarters in Sa lem; Ifve'here. There has been an Increase of about 50 per cent In the past year in the number of stages, in and out of Salem, and in all other ways the Automotive Industries are growing fast, and are des tined to continue Indefinitely to expand. F WASHINGTON. Sept 21 (AP) Hopes of Harry F. Sinclair and Henry Mason Day, his aides, for commutation of their JaiHten- teneee for Jury shadowing were dashed today by Attorney Gen. eral Mitchell, who recommence that President .Hoover deny,their application for executive v clem eney, ': . ' V WMle the -attorney general's recommendation In the case not final. It Is rarely that the pres- : : r- DM OSES III mm Our Automotive Industries TYnutLU tnan zooo pxjpi are MJLY J. If IndnatriM fn tttrfr warTM I . T. 7.. . . . m tne metropolitan distrtec nere. rroDaDiy more tnan zauu. . . , . MHirur ine numuer ul iuw. ana a ns uie average ubuj wage or earningr, that means $10,000 a day, and for the 312 weefe days in the yp,120Sm. And many of the service omuvuo wb.vikm uj 1 v. With live to the family or this means that 10,000 people these industries In and about uus ou variuua . twna. And nit means sdoui of the metropolitan district, 1 im ' itm i 1 -'Anere are ipw I ataUon at the senator notei I bars on a schedule. This traffic brings much ready money I to oaiera; nunoie ounes auu nf a rm.vp.1 in -native. Each one treta his share. This'does not count the 45 people already working, in and about the Salem jtir-port. - t 5Ubm ht Anmer well in this field: but she should do bet- tpL Autos and tires arid trailers should be manufactured kMxavuf mnn imlftnt.L We have the flax fiber and may terf as well as an automotive M. Oiir Rcfwxir Men can help :. We carry - ' ngox nana FISK RUGGED ALLCORD The finest tire ever made, gnring the utmost in safe traction, good looks, and long life. A remark able vatue. i -lSS.-onunerdal Street - Phone 783 1 . Solcm b tha Volley Center of a Ltunre end tH.t Fast Growing Automotive Industry ident disregards"!! advice on pleaa -for clemency. - Sinclair ia serving six months after, conviction for contempt of court for having employed detec tives to shadow the Fall-Sinelatr conspiracy Jury, They, filed appli cations for clemency In August, . i Th ofl Aneratnra t arm will mx plre November 22, while Day win 1 B9 uea ivo vevu eaxuer. . i Mr. Hltcnett toM the president he had read the record of the trial of Sinclair and Day and was con vinced that-whan the oil 'operator had Day fair- the detectives to ihtdnv thm inrr Anrtnr thu eon. I spiracy ease they had r "sinister i and ulterior purpose. The. attorney general said that although Sinclair had been ac quitted at a subsequent trial of having conspired with Albert B. Fall to defraud the government In the lease of the Teapot dome naval fill reserve oil other fed-! eral courts. Including the supreme court, had held la a suit involv ing the same leas that Sinclair was a. party to a corrupt and dle-j honest agreement with FalL' Mr. Mitchell also told the pres ident' that In his opinion to grant clemency to Sinclair and Day' would , undermine the ' confidence ! of the public in the administra tion of Justice. When Mr. Hoover will act on the adverse recommen dations was a matter of specula tion tonight. .- WASHINGTON (AP) Many and varied are be insignia which decorate the fuselages of the air planes of the navy's battle fleet; Some are significant, others are not, but each squadron has Its In signia painted on the Bides of its planes, be they giant bombers or llttl fighters. . Those who cross the equator ana are initialed at jiuer xsep tune's court become-"shellbaeks" and the planes of the airplane carrier Saratoga are no exception. Those which were aboard when the Saratoga crossed the equator have a "flying turtle" as their In signia. Then there is the "high hat gang" the shipboard tighten . which hare a silk top hat painted on their sides. "Felix the cat, running smil ingly with a' lighted bomb la one pmw. Is the insignia of the Sara toga's light bombing squadron. - A flying dragon, expelling fire from its nostrils and carrying a bomb and a torpedo in its claws, is the insignlna of the heavy bombing and torpedo squadron. There used to be individual In signia, fitting the fancy of the various pilots of the battle fleet, but these became so many and so varied that naval authorities lim ited them to one to the squadron. employed in tne automotive hmrrien in fWemt or rather . . , f. -v i c 1.1 - - - J.TWI j . dependents oi eacn workman, get their support directly from Salem; extending to the sub- ? per cent 01 tne popuiauon, 10 11 Biipn "which may toe termed ureateritmat (AP) Th oldest grape- i. a MfWI "Tl aauy; witn oiten wow uuuats xur u jiuiuiK wu w i traific center. t TT OU cant et fuUTiiaeaftwn yout . X tires nless roa keep them ia good condition.- ThaVa where, we tan help. we adjust brakes, line trp wheels and re-: - pair mnaH cuts and bruises. : a lull une ol tires, too, and thi m woe ana wvmvimb ill S3 Tfcit Stay 150 STAGES ARE SALEM SCHEDULED YOU Call 8tiy 3 Ticket by i .. vij. vi duty 3 10 MCW? IWK, u - The Salem Office The past rear has witnessed big growth of the stage bl- oie. uc lUBwer au uuia twuv vi to about ISO; and on some of. the schedules two and mor cars are often operated.. in order to accom-J modate the crowds. i The lines are the' Oregon Stages, the Pickwick and Telle way and the Hammond. All but th Hammond line are. under the ownership or direction of the Se curities Transportation company, a subsidiary of th Southern Pa cific railroad. The Hammond line operates only between' Salem and Mill City. Detroit and Brelt eabush, , The Pickwick and Telloway lines .operate in connection .with th Oregon Stages, and make all coast points and connections east. as far as New York City, .Two tickets were sold a couple of days ago at the Salem office, all the way by stage, to Pittsburg. About 5 & of the employees of the stages operating in and out of Salem live in ibis city. . All Come To One Depot All these stages come to one depot, at the Senator hotel, Court and High streets. The Terminal Hotels, lac, has its head office at the Senator, and owns and oper ates under the direction of W. W. Chad wick, president, and W. A. Cummlngs, secretary, - and other hotels are owned and operated as follows f Oregon hotel at Eugene, under the direction of J. F. Rey nolds: Terminal hotel at Rose- burg, G. McAllister, manager, and Terminal at Medtord. W. M. Clemenson. manager. This com pany is now in charge of tile Del Rogue hotel at Grants Pass, also managed by Mr. Clemenson, There is also a stage terminal at Corvallis, connected with a lunch counter and confectionery. . All this chain of terminal hotels is a development of the past few years. Tickets arealso sold at tne Salem office at the Senator hotel for travel by air, on all planes operated by the West Coast Air Transport company. Tickets of the Southern Pact flc railroad are good on 411 the lines of the Oregon Stages. lOOthBirthday Oi Mouth Organ Industry Noted PLAUEJT, Saxony AP)'rTM Gferman mouth-organ Industry can look back upon 100 years of ex-i istenee. , . Th industry which has Its een- I Z ZVJTrV-" I VMJun maaer buko . i imt century ago, i idb pnwamun vi uwmu-vnu ' t m , .1. had reached such proportions that SfES I run irons tivvu,tvt mv,wvr ooo instruments. From 400,000 to 1.000,000 accordeona nre alo exported oldest gkrman tk uks 0bkblustadt, Rhenish Pahv rears it grew on a private estate I Droduclax its 75 gallons of wine j rwiariy very yar. Bat. aftei the past severe winter, no new For Sal signs. For Rent signs. Legal blanks, etc., for Sal at th Statesman. ZrX l VJP:-T JTftowI-. scrape Turn to the HART OIL BURNER it is 10 years ahead: of the field L TBS HART VACOUll TEED SYSTEM Me ethm are !. fMd hvaen. Vacwrn. Fee alias iaaSte If, arenhlfiams yenppa. Only en nmbi past a endr . Triple ATOMTZATIOIWrCXO. SIVK. Twms ea into ie-uamtst. Ofl bans trnkpUtdft K 4irtyc watefal resths. Every HART aaT th - . . Underwriter V, S.'-".' See Idenosstrator in action . 466 Ferry. - Highway Business of the . State About Twice Size of ; j All the General Business1 The Road Fundi Will millions ror i nis-1 ear, w rule tne jenerai Fuhcfe Will Be Around Oidjr, v "'? w " Seven Millions - - ir - ".s Only a UtU . while axo the People of Oregon were, atartled by the statement f : Torn Kar. state trearr, , that the, highway ; rasa ot tuis commonwealth were as large aa the general funds. They are due for another thrJU when they are teld in these Jinealthat the Stat highway funds aire-very close to, being twice the amount available tor. the general expenses of the state government. , . - The estimated fees for antamo- bll licenses for. 100 are $7,000,- 000, and for gaa taxes S4.C50.000. This Is conservative The footinc $12,250,000. - r But th counties t a fourth of the automobile license money rer read purposes. However. t her; money comes in to swell the stste highway funds. Here ;arem of the Items; : interest on "daily balances this year to th.Irst of September, 120,850. On mill market toad tax for 1028 $1,124,416.46. rost roaa money from tne gov ernment, for 1928, 8547,893.01. Contributions in 1928 of county road money, f 265,223.90. ' ' Fines for violations for this year up to September 1, 812,000. FudIIc aerriee department motor licenses this- year, op to September 1, 858,000. Counting AIL Double Now Of the estimated $7,600,000 for anto licenses for 1929, one- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 11 (AP) Need of more extensive education in the moral, physical and economic benefits of temper ance was stressed by President Hoover in a letter of greeting read today to the 65th annual conven tion of- the national Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Hoover's message deplored the burden placed upoa law enforce ment agencies because of the failure of individuals te grasp the "personal rain of temperance In all things.? The president's , message, ad dressed t Mrs. Ella A. Boole, na tional W. C. T. U. president read: "Please present my greetings to the convention of the national Women's Christian Temperance Union. , I am dally impressed with the great need for extended work of education, la th moral, physical and economic benefits of temperance. Since the adoption of th prohibition amendment, too many people have come to rely wholly upon the etrong arm of law to enforce abstinence, forget ting that the cause of temperance has its strong foundations in the conviction of the individual of the personal value to himself of tem perance In aU things, Keep Tour Money In Oregon -Buy Monuments Made at Salem, Oregon Capital Monumental Works I. C Jones A Oo Proprietors All Kinds ot Monumental Work Factory and Office: .2210 S. Commercial St. Opposite L O. O. F. Cemetery, Bos 21 Pheme 689 Salem, Oregon eaovel. Jhut end soef and aire and Utter. T)h Oaf fa price for com fortttbU heat and drudsr 44 for-it, too and. Kortt fUaO, SEVER OETTWO IT. Slave to the coal pile 1 HoMened Twentieth Cenrary. J. there a saeiel for erery heating . nsed . . . indndlng a asses!. spedaBy destgnea fee warn ah? 4 HART wnnaip is ntsie ssy. and pleasant by a ssaatt dWa fMynwut ani Z' liberal finance plan. Let s absnr yea how te co - W Cfethn CAREFREE HEAT. ami of mpprocol 6 th Laboratory ; . -Velgm 2949 .' f IV tf Run Beyond Twelve fourth must g t th counties wher the vehlclea are wwned In proportion to the receipts In each county;-.' layrf; it-vtM'e k'-' . The receipts of the stat high way fond from all sources f Or 192S were $11,099.$ 1 5.91. This was after th counties had been paid their one-fourth shar for auto licence fees. The receipts from all sources' up to September 1st bf this year , wer : $g,2 44, 818.0T. But this does sot include the jgas tax collections .for Aug ust, which are not paid in and ac counted tore t&I the 15th of the month tollowlnr. ; . ' : "': ', There will b a million dollar payment Into the state highway fand within a few days, from the three-fourths .share of - the state of recently collected auto licenses ' Counting all state - highway fundi, i&clndlnr th eolleetiana that go back to the counties, "it is safe, to say that the" .cash. busi ness of that department will amount to at least $14,000,000 this . -CJLl&ndar, year or . about twice the general business of the state. And it Is conservative to pre dict that the total for 1929 wUl bea good, deal above $12,000,000 and wm snow an. increase over 192 S of far over a million dol lars, for the net amount handled. not -countings the one-fourth of the funds that are returned to the counties. 5 v' ; lis is Kot ajarmin i T fact tnat the UB wags, U dog' now-Hhat the child has grown to twice the sise of the par ent is not at all alarming. It is on the contrary encouraging. It shows the highest marks of pro gress, in that this state is becom ing great in th possession of splendid highway faculties. It is highly probable that in 19$0 th net highway funds will be above $14,000,000 that Is, more than double the amount of the gener al funds of the state. This resume was made while coUeetlng data for the Slogan pages concerning th importance of Salem as the center et a large and growing, automotive Industry, emnlorlnr a constantly increasing number of people. This city Is of course the state center of these aetlTities, as well at the valley center. SPORTS LEAD MTVE DEL MONTE, CaL (AP) Several yeara of trspshootlng at the Del Meat gaa dub has created a "lead mine" whose pay dirt Is expected to yield $00 pounds of the metal tb the ton. Sifting of the soil promises to pro duce 78 Ions" of lead. . Everything In DUJ ELIDING Cobb & Mitehen A. B. Kdsay, ftfanager S40 8, IZth fit, rhosM SIS and Waternulons look a lot aSkeit 8 ae tires. Bat yen can pmg" a watersseloa t maker aoreifscoei. Te cant do taat with Urea." So yeo'r get U rely n the ( as me on the tires. -S.y' A - 'r.-'- ' There's one warn that means) abaclnt as tn th way f sj throngh and three gh is GOODTSAR, Ten don't need t paw rer a "heap af Goedyear Tires to pick oat th best. v If It says GOODTEAR ea th tiiewtO. yen're OX with the first ea yea lay lunds ' " - Suberttviot Cord INfcct t Dmblm Cargfeay H. D A3U WamGier, Reg AZVea&mrm, Pa (2 Tin 7ersi C3 TcSecos I l U S. IS Ml LONDON, f API Tragedy- Is stilting through ihe empty halls pt Jiareheater House, one of the few ; remaining fits of Americana tn London representative' of the stately Edwardian ra.'-. . -t'. I It Is the tragedy of th house jrreckar and the. sadness of lav ender nd eld lac rudely disturb ed. A hotel to. be erected on the aite. - " . - " -. Th famous marble balustrades. carresed by the pink and white ringers of the loveliest women la the empire In the days when Dor chester; Hons was the" American emnaasy, prestdea over oy josepn H. Choate and Whltelaw Reid, are smudged with the hands of toil ing workmen. .. : ; -;, . The other day. in a 'room where TltlansiMarilos, Velasques and Tlnforettaa used to look down on th political dinner - parties and the royal-receptions :" which the Whltelaw Beids gave from 1900 until King Edward's death, the hammer .of the auctioneer sound ed; realising a few guineas for ob jects of ait which cost thousands. l.Tbe great marble staircase. trodden' by the feet of princes and kings.' diplomats and society beau- Jties, . was sold in : three sections. It brought only $J,250. although In 1851 when the mansion was built, it cost .$150.0r0. Whltelaw Held was not tn Dor chester . House many months be fore the Balfour government fell. It was a time of Intense political exeiteent in England, and- Park Lane, on which Dorchester Houso is situated, was In the center of il : . King Edward came freauently. When Theodore Roosevelt came over as special ambassador at the tune cl. His. Maiestya ideath.- he and; TOooseHmlW t$ thOwFAudfedtotdpfii Dor3 cheater House. Joseph H. Choate, the Immedi ate predecessor of Mr. Reid, loved to browse through the old books of Dorchester House library. Other browsers included Alfred Austin, Mark Twain,- Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Carnegie, William J, Bryan and Alma Tadema. . : Th manslf n with Its 40 bed rooms was built by Robert Stay- ner Holiord who was born seven years before Waterloo and made a fortune ont of shares in the New River .company and from bullion buried by a relative on the Isle of Wight fn the days when 1 USSY Oregon Pulp and Paper Company - - Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE S Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made' Paper for Tour Office Stationery The ftraoV is alt ahewn; DOUBLE XABLR means "finest that can a sua re - gardlsas eX casi AUfRATimt (heary . dnty or regnlar) means "tki best atandaia qaality ia th werU. PATTIFIH DBS "good gnaraatee of geodV in tires. That (llaster nzzzi d ttai! trier tts Ncrih Ctacrdsl at Center l Napoleon was . threatening Inva sion - -r -v. , - . Hertford ailed tn Lowls Vail- lamy, the architect, . Alfred Ster- ' ens, th sculptor, AglinattI, th R painter and Sir Coutts" Lindsay, SJL the man of art. Their combined genius created Dorchester Hons which covered 80,000 square feet of ground.' r- Pleasant Island Population Hard ,'; 0 Hit by Leprosy l: STDNET, Australia (AP) Leprosy has riddled th. aatlrf) . population ot Kanru. which was known as Pleasant Island because jr . of th tdyllie lif ot tta tnhabftaaU..4 before th cstabUshment of th j j phosphate industry 10 yeara agow' It lies a few miles south f th ..--equator and Is Jointly administer ed by Australia and New Zealand : -: under mandate. w tAv j,i , Official figures diselos that of a population of barely 2,000 more than 250 are stricken with the deadly disease and a total of It. per cent are affected to some de gree. " ' ' , There scarcely Is a family that, la not minus at least on member. Two large medical establishments on the island deal with nothing ;: but leprosy. . , LEWI3TON, Idaho, Sept. 11 (AP) An escaped ; convict from' the Idaho State penitentiary at Boise slashed his throat with, a rasor In an open field near Cotton wood today and died before m pursuing posse could reach him. Oliver E, Jones, the convict, left the prison farm Tuesday in com pany with another-prisoner. MILLION DOLLAR JUDGE : SUPERIOR. Wls -(AP) Judge F. S. Parker, who has been oh the municipal beach here more than 27 years, has collected more .than $1,000,000 in fines. 1 Gideon Stols Company Manufacturers et Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies Salem Pttoae 20 Ore. iraallty at alls saTittg.'V Beeaaae years f experienee hare ahewn tire ; asers that "GOODTEAR means th "Host Talae for the Money," Caodytar makes mU Hens more tires than any ether company. That fact is the iily "plorgmr whU Gedyear Tires reqalre," It nays plenty I'i' nn3 rilrcl) C3 S9 "J ' a - a ..-'. : m Hi . - :.r SI- 'i1! 4ft situation. J .1