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BARGAIN RATE Daring October, States- .WEATHER Fair and mild toIay and Thursday; Gentle easterly Triads. - Max. teniperatare Tnentey 83; Mia. 40;tClar;. Calm; Xo rain. one year for mall aar- where la Oregom $2.00. FOUNLDEP 1651 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO; 180 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, October 23, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS HOOVER SAILS em Senator Under Fire evy lh lBSO To 1 JrJmmm- On-Mystery , J' J t .1 PHAGES HOT ISil Sa Municipal Aviator Speeding crossr Atlantic L inp v ef endant in Criminal Pro ceedings Contradicts . : , Self on Stand ''Mystery Room" Not Pri vate; Locksmith. Needjed :- To Open Door - LOS-ANGELES, Oct. 22 (AP) --After standing mora than four hours' on -the witness stand, both to relate; his version of an alleged . "frame "up! assertedly 'staged by Eunice Pringle, young dancer, and to deny much of his own testi mony while under cross examination-, Alexander Pantages still was being grilled at the close of to ., day's session of his trial on a " statutory charge preferred by the irl. -" Questioned by District Attorney BuTon Fitts concerning his pos--jess!on of the key to,(the little ""mystery room." in vMfh he was -accused of attacking tile girl, the 4-year-old theatre magnate de & Tiled that he, had a private desk or , a private office in his suite of offices In which to keep such a' key. He denied that the room repeatedly identified by his own employes as "Mr. Pantages' pri vate office" was such, declaring that If was "a general office" to which all employes had access. In almost the i same breath he told Fitts that he had not told Miss Pringle on August that be had . sold his theatres, and - therefore t ' could not book her act. because he "let no one know about my prlrate business. Employment of Locksmith Admitted Concerning his key, which some of his employes had testi fied as far as they knew was the - only one in existence, Pantages admitted that when he lost It , about two months prior to August 1. he had been obliged to hire a locksmith to open the door of the "mystery room." ' Pantages testified that, during the affair in the little room neither he nor Miss Pringle were on the floor. Fitts confronted him with a statement he asserted, ly made to twe policemea the night he wai arrested. In it he was Quoted ss telling them that she disarrange! his dobbins in such a manner that, as he strug- gled with tie girl, he became en- tangled and fell on the floor. It also Quoted him as saying that he then grabbed her ankle, pull ing her to the floor to prevent her - : "escaping and exposing us both." Asked if he did not so state to , fthe officers, in the presence of other persons, Pantages declared: Police Called Liars By Pantages ; "I did not. It's absolutely a false statement entirely made up by the police officers." . - - Telling his version of the al leged attack. Pantages denied the testimony of previous witnesses that he had taken Miss Pringle to r, a seat in the theatre balcony the vSafternoon of August 9. He said he merely took her to the door., regarding this Fitts asked him If - Miss Hasel York, a violinist, also had not been waiting to see him ' - all that afternoon- He admitted 'she had. . : "There also were other ac tresses waiting to see you were there aot?" "Tea, there were several peo pie." "Now did you put Miss York In the theatre? ' . -No."" .. "Did you put anyone else In therel" ' Special Attention to Mlsa Pringle Admitted . . " : Pantages hesitated a moment then admitted "not that I recall." "Now you testified you went to the theatre exit door to hunt an f DipiUv iur ma rii ajuu. But you knew Mrs. Fowler, your secretary, waa In your office?" : "Yes." '. "And you knew where Mrs. Stone, Mr. .Steven and Mr. Wal ker, all your employes were?" - (Concluded en Page 4, Colunm .) Instruction in Health is ; Found Important Part of i Education of Youngsters v -Sdlteis XoU! The Stiknui today prmU the iMli f a iril t daily article Sesifaea t aeqnalat t pa - pl af Mario aooaty la a eomprehn ' - aaaaa with tb preimia aad ae- eoarpliikaveaU of tho Mario evaaty , ' ehild koalta demonitratloa Md with ta ! &0 ropOMd ataaaac la which tho haalth ' wragraBi U ' ho carried ' forward Whoa ha daaMaatratioa withdiswa at the aad ' v cl this yes. ; " - Teaching health is as necessary, - 'if the child Is to grow up dueeess - fully, aa teaching the three R's. Manioa county senooi directors ,bave been quick to recognise this, and. with, the aid and promotion of the health demonstration. It is ; a part of the regular routine of , " ; the scfrool teachers to impress upon . Johnny and Mary what to : . eat and when, when to bathe, how " i to care for the teeth, how to stand aad sit In : short, now. to keep t'C that physical machinery running smoothly. AM It's a fact that more thaa one teacher has cheer fully admitted . that she, too, has . Be $400,745M Increase of .$48,000 Over 1929 Estimated by -Ways and Means Committee of Gity Gun cil; New Bonds Cited as Reason Salem's municipal tax levy for 1930 will amount to ap proximately $400,745.66, if no changes are made in the budget as outlined by the ways and means committee of the city council when the budget committee meets October 80. A slight variation is possible when exact assessed valuation fig ures are made available. . v The total budget is estimated at $433,245.66, of which E 111 START TODAY v First Session of Part Time School Scheduled for This Afternoon First session of the new auto mechanics' course for members of the part time continuation school will be held this afternoon at S o'clock announces Miss Lilah Hol loway, director of the part time school, which has rooms on the first floor of the senior high school building. The class is par ticularly fortunate in securing Tom Wolgamott, high school auto mechanics' instructor, for teacher. Miss Holloway says. The state board of vocational education is making the class pos sible, as it has also been instru mental in adding a typewriting class for the continuation . stu dents. The mechanics' group will use the regular high sctoool equip ment and will meet twice weekly from 3:15 to 4:45 o'clock on Wednesday and Friday, afternoons. Twelve can be accommodated in the class . and nine are already signed to report for the first meet ing today. Two more students may enroll for the, typing class before max imum capacity is reached. This class meets two times' a week, on Thursday and Friday, , ' tor one hour, beginning at 8:15 o'clock. Shorthand has also been added tor a few .advanced students. Miss Holloway announced Tues day that the part time school will conducte. the housemaids' course which has made such a hit the past two years, beginning after the holidays. Twenty students are now enrolled in the part time school, and Miss Holloway hopes to eee this number doubled be fore too long. E 1 LAKE MICHIGAN CHICAGO, Oct, 22. (AP) Lake Michigan pounded violently at the front door of Chicago to day, battering at the sea waUs and sweeping over the Lakeside boulevards. Small boats in the sheltered harbors were ripped from their moorings and a barge being towed here from Muskegon broke from its tug and sank after its crew of two, adrift for hours, had been rescued by a freighter. Captain Harry Lord of Boston and .Frederick Harvey of New York were aboard the oil barge when It left Muskegon Monday night in tow of the tug Butter field. The storm broke when the ships were - In - mid-lake and the tow line snapped. Fearing the tug would founder if It turned kniiiMA nf tha wtft to attemnt a nseMt tBe mter pushed on to Chicago and sent coast guards to the rescue. Meanwhile, however, the freighter Charles M. Schwab sighted the drifting barg IS miles off the Calumet river light and picked up the two men, suf fering from exposure. learned sot only to know but to practice better health habits. In Salem' three nurses devote their time to the health of school children. Miss Elisabeth Freeman has a regular route in the south part of Salem, making periodic visits at McKlnley, Lincoln, Lea- He, Park and Richmond schools. Miss Martha Harrison . devotes much of her time and energy to guiding health of boys and girls at Garfield Grant. Washington. Parrish, St Vincent dePaulj 8ae red Heart academy and Living stone school pupils. The latter three parochial schools do not con tribute directly to the conduct of health work in the city. as does the public scvool eystem. Miss Grace Taylor, , who had the I stu penduous task of senooi nurse In Salem prior to 1125, when the school Jboard united Its health. (Concluded oa Paca a. Column C IK C BALE RAGES f32,50ttis to be met by funds to De received m the record er's and building inspector's departments, these receipts being estimated at $32,500. The tax levy will be approxi mately 148,000 greater than this year's lery, but any taxpayer who is disposed to growl at the in crease, will hare himself and the other voters as a target, rather than the tax levying body. The budget for running expenses of the city has been kept within the six per cent limitation, and the increase is almost entirely ac counted for in larger . payments on Interest and principal of bonds voted by the people. The budget tor operating ex penses has been set at $197,253.50 by the ways and means eommlt--tee, and the amount necessary to be. raised for retiring bonds. In terest on bonds and the two spe cial levies of two mills each, totals up to $237,992.16,- of which $103,099.1$ is for retiring bonds, $$4,893 for paying interest on bonds, and $70,000 is accounted for in the two mill levy for street improvements and the two mill levy for fire department improve- (Concluded on Page 4, Column .) U. S. PAGE PICKED IS Dr. Fred Thompson Selected For Vice Presidency by Committee TJ. 8. Page appeared to have the race all to himself tor the pre sidency of the Salem Kiwanis club for next year, when nominations were announced by the election committee at Tuesday's luncheon. No nominations were made to am plify the single slate selected by the committee. The election will be held at the first November meeting. Dr. Fred II. Thompson was nominated for vio president. Dean R. R. Hewitt for trustee, T. M. Hicks for treasurer and James H. Nicholson, George M. .King, T. A. Windishar and Arthur Mason for directors to serve two years. Plans for a boys achievement exposition to be staged early neat year, in cooperation .with other civic organizations, the schools and the Boy Scout organisation, were announced by J. M. Cham bers, chairman, of the club $ boy's work committee. The relation of vocational guid ance to character development as a problem of education, was dis cussed by Charles A. .Howard, state superintendent of public tn structldn. speaker of the day. Mr. Howard declared . that character education Is a more dif ficult problem than , It formerly appeared, to be, because tt Is aow recognised tnat mere enumera tion' of ! virtues and warning against vices is not sufficient to build character. Motivation Is ne cessary: and it young folk are able to make their choice of vo cation early, motivation la sup plied toward the acquisition of virtues necesary to that vocation. From that point on, the objec tives In character education are, said Mr." Howard, to bring the student to a recognition that the vocation ' Is bigger than. Its pro duct; to show that It la an oppor tunity to serve a social need, to discover its code of ethics or cre ate one,' and finally to realise that It depends upon the stability of the social structure. FALL'S moms E WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 (AP) Counsel tor Albert B. -Fall, eharxed-with accepting, a bribe from Edward L. Boheny tor the Elk Hills oil lease, spent tour hours today attacking the govern ment's: case and presenting a fa vorable view of Pall's transactions to the-Jury.- - -r : Frank J. Hogan, chief defense counsel,' occupied the- entire court day. challenging the documents Introduced by the government and criticising counsel 'for . Its repre sentation of the prosecution. He had - been expected to ; require about, two' and a half hours and the additional time made fit Im probable that the esse would go to the Jury before late tomorrow atteraooa or Thursday morning. TOM KIM .1 Occasion Signalizes Estab lishment of Naviga tion on River Tremendous Ovations Given President's Party on Extended Jaunt - By RAYMOND Z. HENLB Associated Press Staff Writer- S. S. GREEN BRIER, Ejroute to Louisville, Oct. 22. AP)- President Hoover was steaming down the Onto to Louisville on this trim little light house tender tonight to signalise with a speech in the Kentucky city the Improve ment of the river for all year round traffic from Pittsburgh to the gulf. He embarked at Cincinnati to the accompaniment of noisy salu tations of hundreds of factory whistles along ttfe wharfs, steam ers on the river and horns from automobiles of the large crowd of citisens who had come down to bid him adieu. As the president's flag of deep blue and ' its white ' eagle was hoisted above the river craft, a stiff, biting wind swept over the valley and dashed a foaming spray across the bvat s prow. Greetings Xnthuslaetie Despite Wet Weather But neither the rain nor the cold which the president was forc ed to contend with again as in Detroit yesterday appeared to dampen the enthusiasm of the re ception and farewell given him in the Ohio city. Quartered com fortably on the Green Brier along ! with the president were Mrs. Hoo ver, his aides, Secretary Good of the war department and Speaker Longworth. The remainder of his party followed In quarter boats of the United States army engineers propelled by powerful tugs. Be hind in the parade steamed the Greater Pittsburgh and the Cin cinnati, carrying a crowd of Ohio valley residents to the celebration at Louisville. Before embarking on the Green Brier the president took part at Cincinnati in the dedication of a monument in Eden Park commem orating the canalisation of the Ohio from Pittsburgh to Cairo, III., as in Detroit, he with Mrs. Hoover again rode through a cold driving rain in an open automo bile, along practically the entire route from their downtown hotel to the park. Crowds that lined the (Concluded on Pace 4, Column 8.) CERTIFICATE FILED E The claim of the consolidated taxing units of Marion county for the payment of money on O. ft C. grant lands equivalent to the 1928 taxes amounts to 111,889. Certificate showing the segrega tion of the amount now claimed to be due has been made by Oscar Steelhammer and waa tiled Tues day with the county court. This certificate will be transmitted to the secretary of the Interior for checking, and if approved by the land office, will be paid by the treasury. The segregation of the gross amount is as .follows: State, county, county senooi ana iiorary, general road, non high school tuition . .$ 1.747.45 Special school 885.12 Sepcial road 1.53S.43' Total .$11,889.00 This sum accrues to the taxing district under the Stanfield act. by virtue of which the govern ment reimburses' the taxing dis tricts wun tne-amounis or. taxes which, would have been, collect ed from the O. C grant lands had' they, remained 4ln private ownership Instead of reverting .to the government as trustee for their sale. . . E PILOT IS . ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Oct. 22. tAP) Questioning of natives at the .Tyonek. Indian reservation has verified the report that Pilot Russell H. MerrllL who left An chorage on September . 1 s, was forced down or fell In Cook Inlet and his plane wrecked In a storm. It was learned here today. ' Pilot Barnaul and Mechanician Cope made 'a flight yesterday to the ..reservation and came Hack with word that natives had identi fied the object seen floating in Cook Inlet on September 17 Merrill's plane. They said the wings were tilted sideways with. one side partly, submerged. Barn hill and Cope made a search of the beach but found o wreckage H RETURN FROM TRIP ' Mr. and- Mrs. Wm. Hamilton have returned from a lt-day trip Into the Burns district la eastern. Oregon. Hamilton is division man ager here for. the Portland Elec NLMra WRECKED III SMI tric Power.comBasy.i - i. x. ? A W Senator Hiram Binrhajii; of tho Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, in Washington, D. C, that he bad employed Charles L. Eyansom (Inset) as his secretary de spite the fact that be knew Evaasoa waa bedna- naid hw the Conneetl. cut Blannf acturers Association. - Special Investigator is Re tained for Work by Senate Group WASHINGTON, Oct. 22-(AP) Preparing to broaden Its in quiry, the senate lobby commit tee today employed a special in vestigator and attorney, John HoUand, who assisted Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, in un ravelling the Teapot Dome oil scandal. The day's session revolved prin cipally about the activities of the Atlantic Coast fisheries, corpora tion to secure a reduction in the tariff on fish in the bill no be fore the senate. F. W. Bryce, president of the corporation, said in that connec tion he had called upon Senator Bingham, republican, Connecticut, a member' of the finance commit tee.' He acknowledged authorship of telegrams to fish dealers urging them to wire their senators in fa vor of a reduction of the fish du ty and defended the practice. Tomorrow the committee will attempt to complete its scouting of the relations between the Con necticut Manufacturers' associa tion and Senator Bingham, who waa "loaned" a paid officer of the association to assist in his share of writing the tariff bill. Charier EyanBon, that officer and J. E. Wuichet, an employe of the association, will be questioned. EXPERT BELIEVES SEA TRIP TO FAIL SPOKANE. ; Oct, 22. (API- Lieut. N. B. Mamer, Transconti nental round trip non stop flier today said U. P. Dlteman, Bill ings, Mont., cattle man, who hop ped ostensibly for London "could never make it" with only lift gal- ons of gasoline. Mamer, who piloted the Bun God across the continent and hack without stopping, using a motor said to be similar to that in Dlte- man's plane, estimated that the cattleman had fuel enough only tor 20 hours of flying. "Such a flight as Dlteman is undertaking," Mamer asserted, "would not be possible on 1(5 gallons of gasoline if he Is using the typo of motor I used. 1 hope he has all the luck in the world. If he has favorable weather, of course, his chances'are increased. but bad weather with such a small ship well, thst's too bad." SalemitesWm Attend Session, OiSiateGrange A number of Salem persons are planning to go to Ugard tomor row to attend a special session of the Oregon State Grange, which will begin there at 1 o'clock Thursday morning.- Fifth and sixth degrees'wlll be conferred on several candidates at the evening session .'which. Is scheduled for t o'clock. - r ! During the day, series of con f erences will he. held, including those for -masters and deputies. lecturers,' secretaries, home econ omic eommltteenvenflre t Insur ance agents' and' juvenile matrons and patrons. Grange matters will be discussed Women of 4h Tk gard gr2se wflL, serve luncheon. and up9. OBBY INQUIRY WILL BROADEN ITS SCOPE Connecticut, who admitted Tbefor BBIfflUUETIS DEPOsmjv vorre French Government Under goes Sudden Change as Parliament Meets PARIS, Oct 22.-(AP) The French cabinet, headed for the 11th time by Aristide Briand. was overthrown In the chamber of deputies tonight less than three months after it had appeared be fore parliament and asked for "a three months' truce" in Internal politics in order to face the pro blems of The Hague representa tives conference with security at home. The "cabinet of the hundred days,", as it was called with re ference to Napoleon's reign aft er his return from Elba, went down by a vote of 288 to 277. M. Briand and his colleagues imme diately resigned. The defeat of the government. coming with astounding effect on the first day of parliament's re union, was brought about by the votes of the radical socialists, the socialists, and the right wing srgup, led by Louis Marin, min ister of pensions in a former Poincare government. It came over the demand of these parties for Immediate dis cussion of foreign affairs. Needless Call to Portland Is Sent For Plane Taxi Some' folk in Salem apparent- y are unaware that airplane taxi" service Is available here. S. V. W. Peters of Portland, here on business, wanted to get to- Se attle tn a harry. He asked it he could get a plane here, and was told that be could not, so called a Portland company to send one. After Jearning that such service waa. provided here, he tried to caneel the order; but the plane was already od the way here. FOREST BLAZK RAG-ES SANDY, Ore.. Oct. 22. (AP) A vicious fire was raging to night In slashings on the Bear Creek Logging company's hold ings near here. One hundred men were fighting the blaze In an at tempt to keep it out of the Mt. Hood national reserve. Diteman's Attempt Third . Of Kind in History of Sea Flight; Linflrjtrgls first NEW -YORK. Oct, 22. (API ! Urban T. Diteman, Jr.; who took off today from -Harbor " Grace, Newt eundland. for London, is thft third solo flier to undertake the west-east crossing of the North Atlantic The first waa Charles A. Lindbergh, who. won'; the second, was H. C. MacDonald, a Canadian, who lost. "';Ti.W -' . v- S The east-west adventure of the North Atlantic has taken 11 lives of " tho heavy: toll in cross-seas flights.: Others have) been lost In the 8outh AUanUe and In the Pa- ; ; Tight planes 'nave spanned the North Atlantic from west to east, and eight Jiare tailed,-one of them not even, getting of t the ground. - "Weather conditions at the time ot Diteman's takeoff were f avor- was teat a year ago- ia a flight Whole Country Taken by Surprise When Ur ban F. Diteman Starts East Toward Lon don in Open Cockpit of Airplane By The Associated Press A Golden Hind of the skies sailed out over the North At. lantic Tuesday, in it a man of 30 who named his fragile craft after a staunch galleon of Sir Francis Drake, whom he re- Sards as a forbear by blood and apparently, adventure. . This new Golden Hinl was a small monoplane and the new adventurer, who challenged sky as well as sea, was Ur ban F. Diteman, Jr., of Billings, ARMISTICE DAY TO Two' Football Games. Danc es and Shows are Listed By Legionnaires Definite lineup of attractions which Capital Post No. t, Ameri can Legion, will offer on Arm istice day, was outlined by mem bers of the Armistice day com mittee at Tuesday night's post meeting. In addition to the parade and memorial exercises In the fore noon, the attractions will be two football games on Sweetland field, Willamette vs. Llnfield and Salem high vs. Eugene high; dances at the armory and at Crystal Garden; shows at all three of the local theatres; and the merry-go-round and other rides on Church street. The Armistice day committee wUl hold its next meeting Thurs day night on the second floor of the Oregon building. The service committee of Capi tal post made its annual report at Tuesday night's meeting, indi catine- that 65 cases of need among ex-service men were ban' died in the past year. Aid was obtained from the county. Indi gent fund, in addition to funds ex pended out of the legion treasury and by the legion auxiliary. (Concluded on Page 4, Columa .) SUFFERS SETBACK Advance On Hankow Looms As Government Forces Are Defeated HANKOW. China. Oct 22. (AP) Nationalist government forces today were reported to have suffered a severe setback at the hands of the Kuominchun, or peo ple's army, which has been threat ening a descent upon Hankow. Although it was generally quiet here, there was an atmosphere of uneasiness. National supporters, however,' were confident that the Ktfominchun troops would not reach the city. Dispatches tonight indicated that while the defeat was severe, It was not decisive. The Kuomin chun forces were said not only to have broken the nationalist lines, capturing Sincheng ia north ern Honan about 160 miles north of Hankow, but to have penetrat ed further along the Klnhan rail way, capturing Yencheng, well to wards Hankow. . While information from the af fected region was meagre, the re ports Indicated that the Kuomin chun had driven the nationalists back along an east and west line 100 miles south of the Lunghal railway. As the nationalists were said to. have planned to assume the offensive, it appeared that the followers of Feng Yu-Hsiang, leader of the Kuominchun, had thus far outmaaeuvered the na tionalists. from Harbor Grace to London.- , Outstanding In the successful wset-east flights was that of Col onel Lindbergh from New, York to Paris, flthough Captain Jack Al- coca ana Lieut. Airnur w. Brown eight years before flew from St. Johns to Rielaad for. the, first time by airplane - - ';: i ; Other successful flights includ ed those of Clarence D. Chamber lain, Commander Richard E. Byrd, William F, . Schlee . and William Brock, the. ; late Wilmer - Stults with Amelia Earhart, the French monoplane Yellowbird with Asso- J-lant, Lefevre. CotU and a stowa- wav and the American monoplane Pathfinder f of f Yaneey t and .Wil liams, ;'A month -c Before Aleoek and Brown succeeded. Harry" C. HaW- ker and McKensie Grieve were res- ccoociuded 4. Comma s.) BE BUSY TIME HERE i n mi Mont., and formerly of Har- f risburg, Ore., and Portland, Ore., who took off without ad vance announcement from the air port at Harbor Grace, New foundland, "bound for London. Ten minutes after the takeoff at 12:45 p. m. (eastern standard time) this Montana livestock bar er soared over Cape St. Francis, 17 miles north of the airport, aad disappeared in the eastwhere Dr. James U. Kimball of the New York weather bureau and unoffi cial starter for Transatlantic flights said "fairly favorable" weather awaited him. Flyer Apologizes For "Impromptu. lies" Meanwhile back at the airpert. 100 spectators who had regarded Dlteman as a retiring person natag an airplane in junkets around the country to look up records of Sir Francis for use in settlement of an estate In which he was Inter ested, learned of a brief note to which the flier announced he was "bound for London," and apol ogized "for so many impromptu lies." "Many, many thanks ye New foundlers," he wrote, "Drake did not bring me here nor to Lendea. albeit I am a descendant. Sorry if I hurt anyone's feeling. I meant no harm." The note was signed "Dite." There was nothing more. From other sources, howeTer, tale was pieced together and. ft filled in the gaps and the non chalant flier had left before fee started in a tiny plane aad only 185 gallons of gas on a flight ef approximately 2,350 miles whiea bad been dared previously only by planes much more powerful and much heavier fueled. Wife Believes He Will Complete Trip Mrs. Diteman in Billings, Alont., seemingly was the only person be sides the pilot who knew of rna adventure. She knew the takeoff was planned for yesterday, aad she shared the confidence of bar husband-airman for success. "The ship was bought and al tered with the crossing in view, (Concluded on Page T, Column 4 Board Asked To Back New Music Plan The newest trend in music edu cation was presented to the Salem school board last night with a view that a few of the school buildings be used in connection with its establishment In Salewj, 'and it last night's reaction of the board carries through, it's a toss up whether or not the new system will be adopted here. The meet ing was altogether a successful one from the bystander's stand point, with plenty of action and at times a rapid-fire exchange ef ' ' ideas. Germ of. an Idea whereby , . Salem school teachers msy not be required to attend the annual in-. titute presented . by George w. r Hug, city superintendent, end ap parently met with favor of board members, although approval was in official form. Miss Gretchen Kreamer, super visor of music in the Junior highs and grades, furnished the central. excitement ot the evening when she asked that the board allow use ot several -of the elementary school .buildings after school' hours for one day a week that group music lessons might be eon ducted at-a nominal tea by pri vate teachers. Miss Kreamer ex- plained that group teaching was the coming movement for the ele mentary, pupils, and that she-had . conducted surveys - among Salem school children which showed, that ; financial Handicaps were keeping many pupils from enjoyif .the privileges ot music lessons.. .Miss Kreamer asserted that see was making her proposition in the Interests of children and f on.be r ment of music. She said piano or violin - lessens through the group system could be arranged tor chil dren at SO and 75 "cents a leseoa. working in units of 10 boys and ; girls.; She asked tint the idea be given a chance ia Salem, pointing out that all she wanted from the school 'board, was .use of chairs, and piano in the school building.. She proposed that Mrs. Frank Lil bum. piano Instructor," and Wia Mary Scbulx, violinist who Is in Salem Yor the winter, be allowed to try the arrangement here. V , Principal " objections: from tho . school board came from Chalrma Ollnger and also from Superinten dent Hug, both of whom epined that the reaction which the tan m - (Coochided an Pas 4. Coluirn . is- I fcf?-t-'--. - - 1 - i