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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1930)
ol Post is Host Today to The Air Caravan; You'll Want to See The Newest Planes, Fliers and Stunfo CIRCULATION Dally time itrfbtioa for tk ntk adiac Jaaa SO. ISSO WEATHER Fair today and Monday, Bormal temperature. Max. temperature Saturday 80, Mia. 43, clear, northwest wind, rtrer a.7. 6,677 Avtrsfa daily set paid ISM StesiUr AaaH Bum af Cirealartoaa. FOUMDJZD IdSf EIGHTIETH TEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Horning, August 3, 1930 No. lit Cdpit SHOWDOWN ON TRADE STREET MATTER LOOMS Legal Action Must Wait for Formal Hearing Called Later by Council Remonstrance Dwindles to Eight Names With One More Off Saturday The city council's first session In August can aptly be escribed as a vacation meeting, for the moot ed question of releasing 43 feet of Trade street to the Oregon Pnlp Paper company Is assured a place of first importance on the council's evening program. A final action on' the matter, however, will be impossible to morrow night. No ordinance for the action has as yet been given or second reading .'although the ordinance has been prepared and the vacation' proposal discussed before the council. . As the matter stands, the coun cil mar decide to call a special hearing oil the issue and to piac the bill on third reading at that time. The public would be In vited to take part in this session. iy Right Names lyfiv Gut Of Z Only eight of the original 22 remonstrance signers have their names remaining on the protest document. Mrs. E. Statier, 2113 Trade street, removed her signa ture Saturday. Several of the other signers have indicated they will withdraw their protest if the paper mill makes a binding agree ment to end the cinder nuisance, once and for all. Provided the legality of the va cation ordinance, with or without protests can be established, the council will approve the measure. This 'was apparent Saturday from a poll conducted by The Statesman. At least eight votes are assured for the proposal and several non-committal councllmen indicated they were leaning to wards the vacation. Different saving clauses will be attached to the affirmative votes of some of the aldermen. One of the councllmen wants the council to prlvide that the street revert to the city provided the paper mill should ever "win out." At the same time this councilman believes nothing can (Turn to page j., col. 4) forest Fire Is Spreading Fast In Eugene Area EUGENE, Ore.. Aug. 2. (AP) - Fire ' of undetermined origin started In logged off lands of the Hill Creek Lumber company 12 miles east of Eugene today and was burning over a large area. FACE FOUR CHARGES PORTLAND. Ore.. Ang. 2. (AP) The Multnomah county grand Jury today returned four . indictments, each charging as- aanlt and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon, against Earl Sears, 12. alleged 'sock" bandit. Theodore Rierson, 22, vrho was arrested with Sears, was in dicted on a charge of larceny by Bailee. He is alleged to have stolen an automobile from the Bee Hive garage here June I. FIRE LOSS $100,000 HOOD RIVER, Ore. Ang. 2. (AP) Fire today destroyed the ice-plant and cold storage warehouse of the Hood River Apple Growers' association. Loss was estimated by direct ors of the company at nearly f 100,000. The buildings were Inswred. The fire started In the cold storage plant where workmen were pouring hot tar on sand on the roof. Officials are to meet tomor row to determine on rebuild ' lag plans and to deride npon temporary facilities. GONE FRIDAY NIGHT ROSEBURG. Ore.. Ang. I. IAP Forest rangers and .1 sportsmen tonight are combing J the mountains of the Fish creek 1 country for Ben Otis, If, who t has been missing since late ri ; I day evening. "i Otis, his step-father and two ij other men were fishing Friday !' in the North Umpqua river, r-! mii ast of Rosebarg. At 7 o'clock that eTeniat; the older i men left Ben to go downatream j to fish.- When they returned the youth was gone. BRIDE-TO-BE HAPPY , : PORTLAND, Ore., Ang. 8. A -(AP) Early fbia week Miss . Ethel Idaronay, who la to be j married soon, reported to po ; lice robbers had entered her anarlment and had stolen, gjMiGS Mexican Statesman Weds "r i. y - ' 4,, S V ! -ff . fci o,hii m mm 'iMii-- , i, iwifci PluUrco Eliaa Calles, fbnrier president ojf Mexlc. and his bride, Sendrfta- lienor Llorente. They were married yesterday at hi Santa Barbar4 hacienda. He is 62, she 23. Thia picture shows them watching a sports contest staged in honor of his return from Paris, where he was recuperating from a nervous breakdown. Ex-Head of Mexico Weds Young Woman Calles and Senorita Leonor Llorente Married Quietly Saturday at His Hacienda; Ceremonies Unpretentious MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2-(AP) In the rustic setting of his Santa Barbara hacienda,.-and with the simplest of ceremonies, GenerafPtuftarcd'EIias Calles, former president of Mexico, and iron man of "her politics since, married Se norita Leonor Llorente this afternoon. Fewer than a dozen persons witnessed the brief cere- n MILL TO BE HUTED Attempt to Reorganize and Avoid Receivership is Now Proposed Monday afternoon the present status and future course of the Oregon Linen mills will be dis cussed at a meeting of the board (Turn to page 2, col. 3) "Sock" Bandits Indicted Apple Warehouse Burned Youth Lost in Mountains Wedding Dress Returned wedding dress and slip. The theft was Mutual ad ac counts of it were published la local newspapers. When Miss Maronay re turned to her apartment to night she found a paper bag in front of her door. It con tained the missing garments. DUFFY BANKRUPT SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. (A P) Henry ' Duffy, ' Pacific coast theatrical manager, today filed a personal petition in bank ruptcy in the United States dis trict court here. The petition lists liabilities of $703,493 against assets of $361,750. Duffy's theaters were closed recently after a " receiver for his show properties was appointed An involuntary bankruptcy peti tion was filed against his busi ness several months ago. At the time it was said the show houses would reopen after a reorganization. BOURBON MEET QUIET PORTLAND. Ore., Ang. . (AP) Carl C. Donaugh was elected chairman of the demo cratic state committee at an organization meeting of that body here today. Other officers elected were Mrs. Rosemary Schenck, Lin coln county, vice-chairman; Joseph K. Carson, Jr., secre tary. -The treasurer Is to be named by an executive com mittee to be appointed by Do- avHwinAPmn map MATtE A W. VXJSSMJVSk SUV i"itS J EUGENE. Ore.. Aug. 2. (AP) Dr. Edwin T. Hodxe. srotessor of economic geology at the Uni versity of Oregon, has completed a topographical man of the north central portion of Oregon south to Bend, east: to Condon north to The Dalles and cutting the. Cascade range la the middle on the west. The man Is expected to prove of value both to scientists and travelers. It shows every stream i ana mountain ua inu u r mrnrn 1 -1.v4: ' 4 Omony which was held on the J screened-in porch while farm ac tivitles went on uninterrupted. Only two of the general s chil dren were present. While the Judge read the mar riage lines, two workmen of the estate, unaware of what was go ing on inside, proceeded to un load a truck of wood not many feet away, i General Calles, who is 52, and Senorita Llorente, who is less than half his age, were dressed in street clothes. The marriage was a civil ceremony and en tirely lacking In ostentation. DEATH TIKES HEAD OF BIS MILL FIRM KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Aug -(AP) George Smith Long. 7. rice-president of the Weyer haeuser Lumber company died in his room in a local hotel tonight Death was caused by heart fail ure. Margaret and Helen Long, his daughters, were with their father when he became suddenly ill. Physicians wer called but Long was dead when they arrived. Long and his daughters had come here Wednesday and bad intended to visit Crater Lake to day, but remained In Klamath Falls because Long was not feel ing well. George S. Long was born in Rush county, Indiana. December S. 18S3. besides his daughters he is survived by a son, George S. Long, Jr. Mr. Long was general manager of the Weyerhaeuser company un til about a month ago when he retired. He retained the office of vice president end chairman of the executive committee. The body will be taken to Ta- coma. Wash., Sunday morning. Newly Elected Librarian Quits Wisconsin Job MADISON, Wis., Aug. I (AP) Harriet C. Long, chief of Wisconsin state traveling library for the past ten years, resigned today to become Oregon state li brarian. Miss Long was recently elected to the office of state librarian by the state library board,, to suc ceed Mrs. Virginia Cleaver Ba ton, who died several months ago In Portland. The new librar ian Is expected - to ' arrive here sometime in September. SLAYER RECOVERS " BAKER; Ore.. Ang. 2 (AP) George McGlennon,. La Grande. who yesterday shot ana lined his wife. Mrs. Bessie McGlennon. wounded seriously 'Harold Gilkl- son end then shot himself in the head, was recovering today DEATH DELAYED JUST A Master Mind of MoranGang Bullet-Ridden at Dance In Wisconsin Resort Warning Given in March by Police Head is Carried Out Dramatically CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (AP) Last March Jack Zuta sat In a plain wooden chair at the detec tive bureau and heard this warn ing from Captain John Stege, then deputy police commissioner in charge of detectives: "Fourteen men have sat in this chair, Jack, and heard me warn them to get out of town. They didn't go and how all 14 are dead." "I'm not worrying," was the answer of the Horan-Atelio gang's so-called "master-mind." A fifteenth nick was chiDDed out of the chair today. cTangland foes of Zuta stalked into a Dela field, Wis., resort last night and made Stege's prophecy come true. Gets Extra Month Lease -on Life Zuta lived an extra month. His death made gangland cut the 50th notch in its 1930 collective gun stock as against 48 all last year. Zuta, deserter from the Capone ranks, reputed plotter of the death of Jake Lingle, Tribune re porter and friend of Al Capone. knew his time was coming. He said so a month ago when he was discharged from the detective bu reau, and asked for an escort across the loop. At State and Jackson streets his enemies ov ertook the squad car and shower ed It with lead. Two Innocent by standers were hit, one killed, hile Zuta slunk out of sight unhurt. That was July 1. On August 1 he had no chance. He had regis tered four days ago at one Dela- field hotel under an alias J. H. Goodman. He had moved to the (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Perilous Task Done by Crew Passing up Lakehurst Base Facilities ST. HUMBERT AIRPORT. Que., Aug. 2 (AP) Determin ed to make their own repairs without resorting to the use of the United States naval hangar 4 at Lakehnrst, N. J., the crew of the British dirigible R-100 today began the work of patching the air monarch's damaged fin Unable to use ladders because of the air currents which move the giant ship around despite her ground cables and mast anchor, the crew is faced with a most painstaking task. For a time of ficials considered taking the R- 100 to Lakehurst where the hangar and equipment would fa cllitate the repairs. The work of lacing on the new piece of fabric over the huge rent will be comparatively easy but It is when the work of doping" the new covering begins that the task becomes dangerous. Men (Turn to page 2, col 1) ENDURANCE PLANE TOE ROOSEVELT FIELD. -N. T. Aug. z (AP) The red enaur- ance monoplane piloted by Bob Slack and Lou Reicners was xoro- ed down at 6:05 o'clock E. S. T., tonight. The pilots said the mo- tor went dead. The ship landed in a rough MONTH JACK TA REPAIR OF DAMAGED DHLE sum FORCED 111 field near the Sallsburg oiriln tinding their landing place, crab, a half mile south of the airport. The axle was bent m landlnr bnt neither pilot was hurt. . They had been aloft 113 hours In quest of the refueling gro,,,,,! helped them out of their endurance record held by the predicament by waving and point Hunters of Chicago, lng In the opposite direction, and Slack aaid the motor suddenly ,imntt th. .mo im rawt went dead and they were unable to get it started oeiore toey were forced down. " . " . , . BX. 1AIU13, ABB. -" ' Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine nad roonoea oui vv tamed Iligni at 1:1 .u., ln their attempt to regain the re fueling endurance record. At that honr their monoplane was Idling leisurely over Lambert-St, Louis field. If they are up at 7:11 a.m. Monday the fliers will have com pleted two weeks flight which will he near the halfway mark of their projected thirty-day flight They are within 254 hours of eonalinjc the ' present record of ski knnn hv the Hanters at rhiearo. HARBOR GRACE,. N. F Aug. 3. (AP) (Sunday) The monoplane "City"of New York" while taking off in the darkness by aid of flares, crashed and was wrecked just off the airport. Neither John Henry Mears nor his pilot, Henry J. Brown, was injured. The plane was a complete wreck. The accident occurred when the plane had taxied half the length of the flying field for the takeoff. Some of the landing gear tires were punctured and the plane ground looped off the field into a patch of rough woods. Everything breakable on the plane was broken and pieces were found ten yards away. - , Mears and Brown crawled from the wreckage unhurt and immediately began searching for "Tail Wind II," their small dog mascot. He also was found to have escap ed unscathed. After a survey which convinced them that the plane was beyond repair to continue the flight around the world for a speed record Mears and his pilot returned to their hotel. Biggest Airship Safe After Perils mm i 4 - tin P$flv x' x-i-i JSt qknimo ICCtANO mSmmk mmic ocm ! The R-100, Britain's bid for aviation supremacy, moored at Cardington, Eng., Jus beort she started for Canada. The big gasbag arrived at Montreal naay morning of the "fins," shown at the extreme right, was ripped open by a cyclonic current which tossed the ship 2500 feet upward in a few seconds. Repair of the damaged fin is now being made. Below, the ronte the R-lOO followed on tlie. long Journey over the Atlantic. Inset, Squadron Leader Booth, com mander of the dirigible. Hill PI FACE REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 2 (AP) Two German airmen airmen, WUtram Hlrth and Oscar WeUer, en ronte to America, to day braced themselves (or tne most difficult phase of their our- ney, the hop to Greenland, The fliers, who made the 1,- o0 mue jump from the Orkney I inlands yesterday, lost no time In visiting aa outfitting store to equip themselves with the warm clothing necessary for their next flight. They chose Jackets made of Iceland wool. Hirth and Weller were a pair of very cold aviators when they alighted npon the improvised alr- field last evening after their long trip along the edgewaterg of the arrtie. Thev had honned off from tne Orkneys without fur coats, not naTinK wished to burden their piane Wuh the weight of such garments, at the expense of its fu- el capacity.' Way After Nearins Port I The men had some difficulty having taken the wrong direc tion after reaching land. Seeing they would hare a hunt before them, the fliers came down to a low altitude. The people on the from their course and landed be- tween i0Dg Btrip9 of white cloth upon which lights had been train- ed to show them their path. Th w.ffA th. rivtn.. I only long enough to have hot cof- I fee, &nd to protect their plane. Th naniah sovernment to night had not granted permission for the tilers, to land on Green- i land but was expected to shortly. HORSEMAN DIES ATLANTIC CITY, X. J- Aug 2. (API Camuel Ross, widely known race horse owner and hard ware merchant et Washington, was dragged from the surf by I lifeguards today, only to he pro- I nonneed dead of a heart attack. M OCEANIC Iff BULLETIM1 1 SflLEM IS HOST Greenland Officials May Refuse Landing Privilege to Fliers COPENHAGEN, Aug. 2 (AP) Rumors were cur rent here today the German trans-Atlantic fliers Wolf ram Hlrth and Oscar Weller, who en route to America reacbedi Iceland yesterday, would be refused permission by the Greenland admini stration to land on that ter ritory. Greenland is the next scheduled stop of the air men In their small single motored monoplane. The Greenland officials are said to consider their attempt ficidal," In view of their relative inexperience and slender resources. In case of. a refusal, the Germans intend to fly direct to .Labrador. Their airplane cad carry enough gasoline for this jnmp, which they esti mate they could make in 25 hours. S IE cnoiiED Fire which has been raging on the W. C. Winalow property west of Painter's woods since Friday was well under control Saturday night after the north Salem tire department had been called to fight the blaxe In timber and un derbrush. A small fire had been burning In the property for about three days, bnt Friday, night, according to two men camping in the tim ber, two' youna con Dies started a ,new blase which spread to grass and underbrush quickly. L. E. Weeks and two hired men bat tled the fire all Friday night and Saturday . noon the fire depart ment was called. After two hours' fight the blase was said to be - nnder control. 1 Late Saturday night the fire was practically oat with only a few spots smoumermg ana not likely, to cause damage. PAUS WOOD alter a near-caiastropne wnen one E IS DETROIT, Aug. 2. (AP) Police today continued to hold young woman who they say knows the "voice" which lure! Jerry Buckley to his death, and took another woman into custody for questioning. Miss Marjorl Mansell, entertain er for radio station WMBC the station for which Buckley was the militant political commentator was ordered held for 48 hours more under the 'equivalent of 1200,000 bond after a hearing this morning before Judge Henry sweeny In recorder a court on writ of habeas corpus. The latest woman to enter the case Is Miss Ethel Bronson, said by police to have been with Buck ley 24 hours before he was shot down. She was taken Into custody this morning and questioned most of the day. DF RJCKLEt CASE MB Cabinet Plan's Weakness Asserted in Argument Excerpts from the negative ar gument on the proposed state cabinet form of government con stitutional amendment, prepared by a committee of which Lee Mc Allister, state representative from Marion county. Is a mem ber, follow: ' - . "The so-called cabinet form of government constitutional amendment provides that all ex ecutive and . administrative func tion of the state government shall bo performed by the gov ernor with the assistants of sine departments. - It abolishes (the following . elective offices: AH district attorneys, attorney gen-1 eral. superintendent ot public In struction, labor' commissioner, dairy and food commission, state land board, board ot control, and an other executive and adminis trative offices except the govern or, secretary of state and state treasurer. W TO fill AVIATION Stunt Program Scheduled! To Start at 3 P. M. at Airport Here Vast Crowd Meets Fliers k Portland; "Reliability" Of One Not Shown Salem is host today for more than 40 airmen and Dorotew Hester. 19-year old stunt filer from Portland, who arrive at J m. at the airfield. The visitor come to Salem on a 17 J 5 mi! tour throughout the northwest through the sponsorship of the American legion and the Pacific northwest division of the Nation al Aeronautical association, spea- . sors of the reliability tour. ' A score of varied models of airplanes, with the newest devices will 'be seen by the crowds which are expected to attend the cara van's stop here. Promptly at S p. m. the first flier will arrive and he will be followed in regular successioa by his flying neighbors. As each) ship arrives a loud siren at tne airport will be sounded to warn pilots on the field as well as to warn the crowds. Special features of the after noon's performances include loop flying by Miss Hester and stuats by Tex Rankin, Lieutenant Gor don Mounce and Frank Brooks. The latter will make his famous triple-parachute Jump. Reliability of Aviation Shown The purpose of the tour is to demonstrate the reliability of air planes as a method of travel and the caravan also alms to show te the public the latest develop ments in airplane construction. A lump sum of $500 is paid to the visitors for Salem's share ot the costs and this sum will be- secured by the legion hers through an admission price ot cents at the airport field. (Turn to page 2, col. I ) ATUilC Flffl Plans to Hop From Harbor Grace to Ireland on Globe Circuit MEADS READY F0 HARBOR GRACE, N. F-. Ads. 2 (AP) John Henry Mears, who twice in a comparatively short life time has broken the round-world time record only to see it again shattered, was poised here tonight for t"he longest hop-- of his latest effort, 1,90ft miles across ine auiiu awbuuc uvm this airport to rhe Baldonnell air drome at Dublit, Ireland. Mears dropped out of the skies at 1:65 o'clock eastern standard, time this afternoon in his red and silver monoplane, the City ot New York, after a speedy flight -from Roosevelt field, N. T. fa tfco -unusually good time of 8 hours, and 15 minutes. The distance was 1,150 miles. " With him were two passengers, Henry J. Brown, 31-year eld air . mail pilot, who acquitted himself. perfectly in his first long ever water test, and Tailwind 2nd, a terrier and gift to Mrs. Mears , from Mary Pickford. x . May Hop Today For Irish Port If all goes well, and there wan : every prospect tonight that wsa -than tomorrow would be as near to ideal possible over the dead stretch of fog shouded north At lantic which they must next nego tiate, th fliera hope to be off at, Z dawn. The world's record for the ir- -, cumferentlal Journey they have undertaken is 21 days 8 hour and 26 minutes, and it belongs to the Graf Zeppelin which made the mark last year. Hears andl Brown hope to cut It to IS ajg "It was generally understood by all members ot the legislature that the passage of resoiatioa proposing this amendment was not an approval of It by-xhe leg islature, but only a submission ot it to the vote ot the people. "The abolition of all present offices and discharge of all fu no tions by the governor and him directors would result la briaglcs; the national guard back as a po litical football, which was tfca condition existing f or many years, and was finally gotten rt of about 1$ T ago. s This would be a fruitful source 'of polities. - -I ' "Asy necessary reorgsnlxatioav of. - administrative department can be accomplished by law with out an amendment to the con stitution. ' - "An example In a small way (of the increased expense f a (Turn to page 2, eoL 2) -