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t CIRCULATION Daily ftTersc ditribntio for fh Bontk ndiac October SI, 1910 WEATHER GeneraUx fair today and Sunday; Light valley ' fogs. Max. temperature Friday 55; Min. 40; Wind east; Hirer -2.8; No rain. . 6,674 ATenr daily act paid 5.9SS Member As-lit Barraa of Circaktfoat. V777f FOUIMDGP J651 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, November 30, 1929 No. 213 if Meeting Scheduled Today to Learn future Opera tions of Firm .Water Service Corporation To Confer With Offi cials Here Today Details of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company's plans for its filtration plant and pumping plant in Salem, will be made public today when the com pany's engineers hold a confer ence with representatives of the state public service commission, the state board of health and city officials. The meeting will be held in the public service commission's offices at the state house at 10 o'clock. The board of health will be repre sented by Dr. Frederick D. Striek er, state health officer, and. Dr. W. 15. worse, ol Salem. The city will be represented by Mayor Llvesley, Aldermen Patton and Vandevert of the council's spe - cial water supply committee. City Attorney Fred WiHiams and City Engineer Hueh Rogers. Water Company Mn Reach Here Yesterday E. K, Barnum, chief engineer of the Oregon-V7a3liington Water i Service company, and Prof. Lang lier of the University of Califor nia, sanitary engineer who has been consulting engineer in the designing of the filtratton plant, arrived in Salem, Friday, to attend this meetisg, bringing with them all of the plans and data as they have been approved by officers of the company at San Francisco. Provided that the plans 'meet with the approval of the state and city fficialrjresent at this meet ing, the company is prepared to Issue a call for bids on construc tion next Monday, One unit of the improvement project, the pipe line across Minto Island, has been completed, ex cent for a short section where it will tit In with the pumping plant. The present pipo line across the .Willamette sleujch. installed last spring, will be utilized. The entire system has been estl 1 mated to cost 1275,000, and will have a capacity of 7,000,000 gal lons of water a day. The filtration plant will be lo cated on the southwest corner of Liberty and Trade streets, east of the company's present offices. It .will be of reinforced concreted and .will rise slightly more than two : stories above the street level. The i exterior will be stucco finished, and the grounds will be land scaped. The plant will include six filter .tanits, sedimentation ' basins, aer ation chambers, coagulation basins and mixing units. Provision will fee made for addition of more units a need may arise. The pump house, on the west aide of the island, will be 28 by 18 feet -in dimensions, with a tower rising 40 feet above -the foundations, which is higher than the highest recorded level of the river water. The pumps, like the filtration plant, will have a ca pacity of 7,000,000 gallons daily. Riding double on a bicycle without lights, two Salem boys about 14 years old were knocked down and ran over by an automo? bile driven by Wilson Edwards, 18, S30 Jefferson, shortly after !:30 Friday evening, ifarry West ly, 1005 North Churchy was the more seriously injured of the two boys when it was learned at the hospital that two of his ribs had been broken. His chum, Clarence Thompson, 1150 Jefferson, suf fered a dislocated shoulder and other "body injuries although not serious. The accident occurred at North High and Liberty streets -when Edwards, who was going north on High, crashed Into the bicycle jwith Its double load as it was ieomlng toward the city. "The boys were about in the middle of the Street," read Edwards' report of the accident filed at the police Station W IN NST CHICAGO, Not. 25. (AP) Frank J. Uoesch, 7 7 -year-old crus ader against crime resigned to day as special assistant prosecutor on the staff of Jeh A. Ewanson, state's attorney. Loesch Js a mem ber of President Hoover's : crime commission. His action had been anticipated since the. collapse of the state's ease against the nine men accused of slaying Octavius Granady, neg ro politician. The state nolle prossed the case following a clash between Loesch and J edge Jos eph. B,. David. t nnvn mm nurn r w ill 1 1 ii iii iia i in i ii im i a u r an m mm u m sa. - at-a s a. sur mm mm w I IIWII W bl I i Bf JEFFERSON CM pun QUITS r f J Russian W bri't Negotieiie Despite Soviet Chiefs Change suaded to Relinquish Railroad as Pre liminary to Expected Confab MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 29. (AP) Acting Com missar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff today handed the German ambassador a note for China saying that Governor Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria already had agreed to the Soviet terms for peaceful settlement of their conflict and that Nanking's offer of negotiation was therefore "super fluous and only delaying settlements. Despite earlier emDhatiaO denials by' the Nanking gov ernment, dispatches from sev eral sources late Friday asserted that the nationalists government of China had agreed with Russia to negotiate directly to settle peaceably the crisis in Manchnria which had resulted in armed con flict. From Geneva, Mukden, Tokyo and Shanghai came categorical re ports that the nationalist govern ment had followed the lead of it! Manchurian territory in making an Independent trace with the So viet government, and had Consent ed to negotiations with Russia to end the controversy over control add operation of the Chinese East ern railway, the cause of dissen sion. Soviet Forces Cease Military Activities -Military activities in Manchuria by Russian forces that forced this decision to arbitrate, apparently had dwindled to raiding attacks by Soviet bombing planes upon western Manchurian communities. Russian forces . were reported withdrawing from Manchuria. China and Russia having initia ted movements for peace, said a Paris dispatch the United States, France and other great powers who had agreed to Joint action to pacify the situation by dispatch ing a note to Moscow, had re- (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) GIRLS TRY FLIGHT Sixteen Miles Traversed Be fore Pair Apprehended By State Officer , A thrilling dash for liberty which led them through fields, In to ditches, over fences and through orchard tracts ended on the Pacific highway some IS miles north of Salem for Joyce Henderson, Iff, and Minnie Hend ricks, 19, both inmates of the state training school for girls. ' The girls were clad only in light dresses which were covered with mud and wet from dew-laden grass. Both girls were scratched and one was limping with a badly swollen ankle when they were ap prehended by state traffic officers. The break was made after the dinner hoar at the school, the girls being "allowed to spend a short time in the recreation room of the Institution. The escape had been planned by the two girls and In breaking the glass in the door, one girl was ' badly cat on the knee. Both girls have been in the care of Institutions such as the train ing school here, . although they have been in the local school for only five months, they told police. . Mrs. Myra Shank, Sale:n police matron, cared for the young wom en until they were turned over to officials of the training school about midnight BERLIN, Nov. 29. (AP) Surprising even his friends by bis aggressiveness, Dr. Julius Curtius, Germany's new foreign minister, threw the weight of the German government behind the Toung plan today in his first speech to the Relschsf&g since he succeeded the lata Gustav Stresemann. , . Dr. Curtius, affirming that the Toung plan was a great improve ment over the Dawes plan, oppos ed on behalf of the cabinet the passage of the so called law against the enslavement of the German people," which cams ap for Its first reading today. - He asked the Reichstag to re ject the proposed lay, which was introduced by the nationalists, and declared the recent plebiscite against the Tonng plan was an attack on the authority of the state; Ali SINGER WINS , r NEW TORE, Not. J9-(AP)-Al, Singer, sensational New Tork junior lightweight, scored a tech nical knockout over Pete Nebo, Seminole Indian from Key West, Fla.; in the fourth round of the feature ten round bout at Madi son Square Garden tonight. Sing er weighed 132, Nebo 129, 2 TUfttrilNB SCHOOL YOU BED BY JULIUS CUBTIIIS Leaders Promises Minds After China Pur- Diagrams of Railroad Yards Mysteriously ObtamecT By Frank Kienn Railroad officials were called upon Friday to Investigate the past of Frank Kienn who Is being held in the county jail here with bail at $1500 under a charge of larceny not In a dwelling. Kienn was arrested by local police for taking a flashlight and an over coat from a locker at the South ern Pacific depot sometlmeThurs day night. ' . When searched at thf police station the officers found an elab orate blue-print book which con tained diagrams of all the rail road yards in the Chicago, Mil waukee & St Paul railway sys tem. An official of the Southern Pacific lines told Judge Small In justice court yesterday that the blueprints in Elenn's possession were ordinary kept by-the chief engineer and were not available to others. Along with' the blueprints in Klenn's pockets were several purses and bill-folds. The man declared that he had found all of the articles. Kienn gave his address as St Louis, Mo., and at bis arraign ment Friday declined to enter a plea but asked time to consult aa attorney. The case was continued. SCIENTIFIC YaCHT DEMI BY FIRE TDTUILA, Samoa, Not. 29. (AP) Dispatches from Apia, Sa moa, tonight, said the yacht, Car negie, non-magnetic scientifie ves sel of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, D. C, exploded and burned at Apia harbor at 1:20 p. m., today, eanslng the death "of Captain J. P. Ault, the master. Meager advices said several of the crew were Injured and that Tony Colar, cabin boy, was miss ing. Eric Stenstrom was reported seriously burned. Others said less severely injured were Karl Albln Stark, Otto Erlcsen and John Lindstrom. The Carnegie was still burning tonight, the reports said. Aimee and v-f ? it TV r WUMMS FOUND ONPitlSOHEn f Aimee Semple McPherson. left, and her mother. Mrs. llinnie favorite borses thxoogii Grlffitb "Radiant" suad Mrs. Kennedy rides onllka tba of bit CTfBgelisUe Egncsafcg TEI ILL BE HONORED HERE Newly Crowned Northwest Champions Invited to Special Banquet Football Squad Guests of Chamber of Commerce In Salem Friday Honoring Willamette universi ty's football team, champion elev en of the Northwest conference, andlts coaching staff, a banquet was arranged Friday by the Salem chamber of commerce, to be held fat the service dub dining roem at the Marion hotel Tuesday night at 6:30 o'clock. Governor Patterson and Mayor Llvesley have accepted the invita tion to attend, and other state and city officers will be present. The governor and the mayor will be included among the speakers, along with President B. E. Sisson of the chamber of commerce, Coach R. S. .Keen, Prof. W. C. Jones, and members of the foot ball squad. W. L. Phillips, director of. the civic department of the chamber of commerce and one of the most active of the downtown boosters for Willamette athletic teams, will be toastmaster. Praise for the Willamette team, and recognition of the prestige and publicity it has obtained for Salem through winner In the Northwest conference title, was expressed Friday by President Sis son of the chamber of commerce, in connection with the planning of this banquet. STATE MEET HERE Delegates Gather From All Parts of Oregon for Annual Session - Forty-four young people from all parts "of Oregon were regist ered Friday afternoon for the opening session of the annual Toung People's Institute of the Congregational churches of Ore gon, being held this week end at the First and Knight. Memorial Congregational chnrches here. Worship led by Miss Cecilia Tuttle of Eugene, chairman of the state group opened the conference, and a word of welcome was given by Rev. C. E. Ward, pastor of the First Congregational church here. Dr. Fred Grey of Seattle, religious secretary of the Northwest area of the church, led the afternoon ses sion on "Knotty Problems We Want to Discuss," and this was followed by a seminar on the prob lems opened. Rev. H. - W. John son, of Portland, presided over the late afternoon "I Want to Know" session. Last night's session was held at the Knight Memorial church, where the chorus choir presented its Thanksgiving cantata. Rev, H. C. Stover, pastor, presided at the (Concluded on Pace . Column s.) WIG PEOPLE ID Ma Now Good Friends .xK-:,, - v - Vr Park, Los AngeJe ti their dlffereacee ended. Mrs. McPherson rides "Billy Sunday," which aha says Mrs. Stiff Hade New State Chief 01 War 11 others PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 20 (AP) Mrs. .3L--8. Skiff, Salem, was elected president of the Oregon chapter, American war mothers, today when the or ganization opened its third biennial Meeting in the Neighbors of Woodcraft building here. She succeeds Mr John Kubanks of this city. About 60 members of the organization from variows parts of the state are In at tendance at the meeting. Tomorrow's program will Include installation of offi cers and a memorial service. 74 BODIES OF U. S. VETERANS LANDED Corpses Brought Back From Siberia After Many Years Wait . NEW YORK, Nov. 29. (AP) Ranks of veterans, fathers of families most of them, approach ing middle age, some of them grown stout and a little grey, gathered on a pier in Hoboken today to receive the bodies of the last of their, comrades coming home frogi the war. There around the flag draped walls ' of a baggage room were ranged 74 caskets of American soldiers, back from Siberia after a journey more than half way around the world. Over one casket, the 76th, set apart from the rest and contain ing the body of hero whose identity must forever be unknown, prayers were said, an oration was delivered, and , solfliers fired a volley. From .amonjg 2 1, ujiidenti-, fled this body waa selected 'to re. ceive the tribute accorded them all. ' More thana decade ago on the dreary ' Siberian tundra they fought shoulder to shoulder, these veterans of the World war, not doughboys any more now, and those youngsters whose remains came back to their own country today. For more than ten years these 76, cut down to thelrTrotrthrwera to lie in lonely graves along the rivers that wind sluggishly through the white Siberian wastes until their comrades could go back to them. Before dawn today the liner Roosevelt, bearing the bodies of the soldiers dead, came to anchor off quarantine. Six Divorces Are Granted by Court The following couples were granted divorces by Circuit Judge McMahan yesterday: James Harold Humphrey and Mildred Humphrey. William McDonald and. Edna McDonald. Annts Seims and John Andrew Selms.. ' Ira B. Goodman and Kela B. Goodman. Tyra Phillips and John R. Phil lip. . Jennie L. Roberts and Clifford A. Roberts. 7 "Sir','; i -f' 1 Kcnitedy: are pictured riding their she cnosa necaase off us easy gait, 110 IRE IN SU1INED TO BATTLE FIRES Million Feet of Spruce Is Destroyed by One Blaze Alone, Is Report Conflagrations Total 14 In Siskiyou National For est; More Likely PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 29. (AP) More than 100 additional men were recruited by forest of ficials at Grants Pass to combat fires raging in. national, state and private forests of southwestern Oregon.- The United States dis trict force office here announced today. Fourteen fires were burn ing in the Siskiyou national for es and three new incendiary bla zes were reported in the Umpqua national forest, officials declared. The "forest office here esti mated, that more than 22,000 acres of timberland. 10,000 of which are outside national re serves, naTe been destroyed by fires In southwestern Oregon in the last three weeks. The heaviest loss was suffered at Ranch creek in the Siskiyou forest, where more than 1,000,000 feet of spruce was laid waste by flames. Little Hope Seen Of Better Weather No Immediate change in atmos pheric conditions was indicated in weather reports today. Humidity remained low and a brisk wind continued to whip the fires. Although reports, on the extent of fires in the Umpqua forest were unavailable today, forest of ficials said they believed the fire situation there had become ser ious. No improvement was seen to night in the fire situation in Coos and Curry counties. The Big Crown fire near Powers was rag ing uncontrolled over 2000 acres and additional fighters were be ing enlisted at the fire warden's office at Marshfield. Fifty men were sent to the fire "at Powers today. THAT INS NEi SAN FRANCISCO, Not. 29. (AP) A disturbance in Alaska, moving eastward and expected to bring clouds to the coast of Wash ington tomorrow, is the only Im mediate hope offered by the San Francisco weather office today for a break In the Pacific coast's record protracted dry spell. Just what the effect of these rain carrying clouds will be and how far eastward or southward they will extend, cannot be pre dicted at this time, said M. B. Summers, forecaster for the dis trict. While these clouds are the only promise for rain now in the horizon, he said, there will be no precipitation for at least another 36 hours. Down at the University of San ta Clara, 'Father Jerome B. Ri card, "padre of the rains" and advocate of the sun spot theory in forecasting jralns, gave added hope to the anxious by predict ing rain In San. Francisco and northern California early In De cember. The aged cleric said the sun spots had been governing the weather over the coast and that when their positions changed early next month the weather also would change. MMISTER TALKED II Mention is already being, made of candidates f 6r one and possib ly two Tacancles in the city council hare indicated that tne place 'formerly held by Alderman Ralph Thompson, who died laBt week, will be left vacant for two weeks more out of respect to his memory. It was learned Friday that friends of Lee McAllister, state representative for Marion county at the last session of the legisla ture, have been urging him to become a candidate, and Indicat ing that they would circulate pe titions within the ward, backing him for the office. The V expected resignation of Harry Hawkins, alderman , from the earns 'ward, had not reached Recorder Hark Poulsen Friday AI GETS NEW JOB NE WORK. Not. 29 (API Former Governor Alfred ESmith today was elected chairman of the board of directors of the County Trust company! The former gov ernor said he was rested with power of president and eventually would head the trust company. He succeeds the late James J. Rior- dan, who recently committed sui cide. ? r.' ; i ICE PACK ' THREATENS SATJLT STB MARIE, ' Mich Nov. 29 (AP) An Ice blockade appeared Imminent tonight -in the ISU Mary's rtrer, - ME" SEB 1 COUNCIL BERTH 1 , i Co-ed Hater K SI vo t iJKif, Joe McDowell, law student at the University of Kansas, won the or atorical contest in tha canipns. Despite the fart that he chose for his subject "The Uselessness of Women on the Campus of the Uni. versity of Kansas," the co-ed or ganization had no alternative but to present him with this token of their esteem. Changed School Situation is Responsible for Boost In Requirements Enactment of new school laws in Marion county providing for the transportationof students, cou pled with t Jarge addition to the high school Tund caused by the influx of new tndents because of transportation, has rudely placed a budget plan of about $40,000 be fore the county court; as it pre pares to clear the desk for work on the annual appropriation bills. Based upon 3 the six per eent limitation under which the county operates la planning Its coming budget, there will be an $800,- 76.72 tax levy for the coming year. This figure shows but $45, 321.32 Increase over the 1928 levy which was $765,336.40. It is pointed out that the $45,000 in crease is but little more than Is required by the schools for trans portation and extra tuition fees. Consequently the county court Is scheduled to go carefully when It outlines the budget for the coming year and it Is not expect ed, that the appropriations for the various county needs will be much higher than they were In 1928.. In fact, it is predicted that a few of the 1928 funds will be pared, the general road fund being listed as a possible solution to the need for money to help defray the bounty's expense, It has been announced that the county will pay its road bonds with a tax levy and not by funds taken from the market road bud get, a plan that had been sug gested by John H. Carkln, state tax commissioner. IS TOLD III REPORT MINNEAPOLIS, Not. 29. (AP) Involved business transac tions extending oyer the North American continent were shown today In a preliminary report by Joseph Chapman, as receiver for the Public Utilities Consolidated corporation, a holding company for public utilities properties.. The. report was filed in federal court here which appointed him as receiver fof the W. B. Foshay company and its subsidiaries, Nov ember 1. The preliminary check shows. an indebtedness of $10, 500,000 discovered this far against the Utilities Consolidated corpor ation. FININCIIL DRAIN ON COUNTY REPORTED o r ens Vivid Glimpse Of State Half Century Ago Given A glimpse into Oregon's polit ical and social life of 69 years ago, was afforded here Friday, when workmen engaged In remod eling the -state penitentiary opened the cornerstone which was laid August 24, 1871. -ri Newspapers found in the cor nerstone gare evidences of the bit ter political feud that raged In that period. , Vlrtaally.: every newspaper In Oregoa, was , repre sented, with the exception of the Oregonlaa. The omission' of the Oregonian waa explained - by- the fact that the newspaper had crit icized the democratic office hold ers lor the manner in which they had expended funds in construct ing the prison. , Among, the several newspapers which directed editorials at The Oregonian because of its criticism of Governor ' Orover, wore the BP RETURNS TO BASE AFTER ft Much Territory Surveyed by American Explorer on Extended Flight Airplane and Equipment In Perfect Working Order Throughout Trip NEW TORK, Nov. 29 (AP) The New Tork Times, the St. Lou is Post Dispatch and newspapers affiliated with them in publtafns reports from Commander Richard E. Byrd'8 expedition, announce that Commander Byrd has safely returned to his base, Litte Ameri- -ca, after a successful flight across the south pole in which he sur veyed much adjacent territory. The flight was without mishap and everything worked welL Commander Byrd's flight .the south pole has made first man in history to fly t both the earth's poles. -iMi In May, 1928. in the trfemotor- ed Fokker airplane, the Josephine Ford. Commander Byrd flew from King's Bay, Spitzenbergen, across the north pole and return. That spring 'time flight requir ed a total of 15 hours and 30 minutes and the round trip cov ered 1,660 miles. In addition to being the first to fly across the north pole, Byrd was also the first man to fly over it in a heavier than air machine. On that historic flight his pilot was Floyd Bennett, who died April 25, 1928. while attempting to rescue the crew of the trans-Atlantic plana Bremen from Greenly island. Ben nett was second In command of the Byrd Antarctic expedition and had intended to accompany the commander on the trip. Pole Reached Upon Very First Attempt The flight across the south pole, begun yesterday was the first attempt he had made to fly to the pole, although previously he had used airplanes In flights from his base at little Amerlc, laying sub-bases on the I the pole and in exploratlG He was the third man L . j the south pole. The first .i. aid Amundsen, a Norwegian, who reached it December 14, 1911, aad a few days later he was followed by Captain Robert F. Scott, Brit ish explorer. Both of them used overland, methods of travel. Bernt Balchen, pilot for Com mander Byrd on the south polar flight, also was a pilot on the commander's trans-Atlantic flight of June 29, 1927. With Bert Acosta and Floyd Bennett, they flew the monoplane Amerlea from Roosevelt field, N. Y., to Ver-Snr-Mer, France. Balchen, chief pi lot of the expedition, is a native of Norway and has had extensive ex perience piloting planes under po lar flying conditions. He assist- PB (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) ,v OPS nninnwfii. U . - J -. . MM irnjHGJlTJ s The roposal to unite all finan cial drives for charity and welfare funds in Salem under a commun ity chest plan, was endorsed by the Salem Lions club at' lunch eon Friday. Some obJei-on was voiced on the ground that in sev eral nearby cities community chest drives have failed this year. This was answered with the ar gument that single campaigns have also failed, In Salem and elsewhere. - Justice George Rossman of the supreme court suggested that the community chest idea would save the time of business men called upon to solicit, and would" also Insure the merit of any project Included In the chest program. - He declared that there is ser ious need here of a representa tive committee to pass upon all projects involving solicitation of funds, with an agreement among business men that they would contribute to none which did not have this committee's approvaL Weely Enterprise, Oregon City, and thi Salem Mercury. In tht Mercury were two or three arti cles defending the Ku Klux Klan, and ridiculing congress for its in vestigating committees. Z- The Mercury also took a fling at tha grand Jury system, refer ring to it as "the star chamber. . miscalled a grand Jury." Refer ence was- made to the indictment of O. H. Smith on a charge of sell-, lng liquor on Sunday to a Mr, Scott, v "The farce reached Its cli max, the Mercury said, "when within a few minutes time, tha prosecuting! attorney ; examined seven witnesses and Jodge Boise directed the jury to return a ver dict for the defendant. President Grant was referred to by the Mercury as "that old toper : (Conelodod en Page t. Column L A. 4 - - ' ' . . .