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iidii a j uER LIT BUEfi POTATOES HOOVER IN PORTO RICO f raise? JOB-flLlil CIE o- ! - OUTBOARDERS RACE AT MlAMIv'-fi;!: -o IS iii'ilOtlilCED EEL1 jr The OltEGON STATESSIAN, Salgra, Oregon, SgadayHornlriT. March 23.1931, J1E0 Building to, be Erected , on Liberty - Street "With . Produce Stalls Direct farmer-to-consumer mar cetior. a problem on. which tann ers' organizations, the Grange and Salem's city council have been working slowly bat without tangi ble results to date, will te accom plished through' private capital In time to handle the greater part ot this year's produce from farms ; participating In the plan,- accord . log to an announcement mad Fri day, r-;;;"'";- v: , ':','- . The plan, financed br, local ln ttmti, contemplates . the 'con struction of an' excluaiTe farmers producers market building-at 35f North .Liberty street.- 'This will be a one-story reinforced concrete building with Vopen ' front- and stalls for about 20 farmers to dia. play their, produce. In addition to a meat market and grocery In the rear. . . The. meat market - will ' handle farmers produce xelqslYely- and the grocery will be the only de partment not so conducted- It Is being added fori the convenience of customers wishing' to do all of their shopping: under one root. XL L. Gray to be - - - - Market Master " ' ..- The plan is under-the general charge ot E. L.. Gray who will be market master. He has been interviewing- farmer for the last month.discusslng proper planting to Insure maximum supply of var ied produce throughout the grow ing season. . .. ...... The market will be erected cm a lot owned by James G. , Heltxel which will be -leased by persons Interested In establishing the mar ket. The lot Is across Liberty street from the Smith & Watklns service station and lies between the First Congregational . and Christian Science churches. Con struction is expected to be com pleted about June,llf , - Farmers who are Interested In leasing space may gef. in: touch with Mr. Gray by " telephoning 2771. About half of. the staljj are Old Scandal Of Hoover's Bit Mistold We rise to beg forgiveness. Thinking that . 2 o'clock at .... night - could be the oniy dls-1 graceful 2 o'clock hour at which to . arrive home we so -said in a story concerning the Hon. Herbert Hoover in the ' anniversary edition of the Statesman Saturday.' '-' Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner rises to a point of correction say lag' that it was his. wife-to-be who . was Involved In that scandalous . escapade and that had the pres ent Hon. Mr Hoover kept the : present) Mrs.- Steiner at a, church meeting, until 2 o'clock at night; in those days - when 1 late hours were Just -.not be ing "done" well, who could -think ot marrying such a maid? It was 2 o'clock in the after- . noon Instead of 2 o'clock at night that. Mr. Hoover brought Mrs . Steiner who was then , Belle Golden and her friend. Louise 'Heulat, who Is now , Mrs. J. W. .Blckford of Port land, home from - that Quaker church meeting to many years ago. Yes. we certainly beg for giveness, and say ""thank you" for allowing us to remove the stigma. ' . , AGE 53 HUBBARD. March 28 Isaac Ott, 53. a prominent farmer in this district, died suddenly at his home la ths city Saturday morning.- Heart trouble was the cause of death. . ? i - " " Funeral services' will be held at the Hubbard city hall Monday at 2 p.m.. Rev. F. E. Long or Salem officiating. - For years -Ott had engaged In the raising of onions in, this dis trict and. was rated successful In business. - His wife died elrerr years ago but his mother, Mrs. Anna Ott. 88, resides in Hubbard. Two brothers, Jake and Ben Ott, both residents ot - Hobbard, also " sur Tlve. He has three sisters, Mrs. Mary Troudt, residing "here, and Mrs. Ljdia" Harris and Mrs. Sarah Laird, living-in Spokane,' Wash. One son.arl Ott, live In Sa lem, and Versa and Mable Ott, daughters, live at the 'family home In Hubbard. ISAAC OTT DIES AT A stirring ' change . In style , has taken place". . . a mar- velous -advancement in the quality of fabrics' and In the richness and rarity of -colors and patterns ' has been achieved. It all com bines in Value, surpassing . all your economical expee- ' Utlons. -'!!-- Even the designers " had kept them; a secret. -YouH simply have -to see them . PRErEASTER PRICES ?SILVERTON, OREGON I ' - ...; f ' : V ; t .: -r r; , mm . . i . AbeYe Is it general view of the Biscaynef Bay 'course at Miami during the running et the annual outboard' motoWait regatta. Speedsters from all ever the country were Green Trophy. Ray Pregenzer. Jr. ( right )r of AntJochi HL, carried 'off .the honors. r His .top' speed was 40.05 .miles peinour. Trial Looms For Unnamed N. G. Officer Court-martial of an officer of one of the Portland units of the Oregon national guard, was indi cated here Saturday In orders Is sued, br .Brigadier General White. Althouga tne national - guard officials refused to diruIgeTthe name of the person accused;" It was learned that the officer had been placed under technical ar rest by his regimental command er, pending .investigation of. his official accounts; - The general court, which hears only serious offenses, - Is com posed of high ranking officers of the Oregon national guard. These officers -are Colonel Eu gene C. Libby. Lieutenant-Colonel -William G. Scott. Lieutenant-Colonel - Clifton M. Irwin, Lieutenant-Colonel William ' D. Jackson, Major James Shirley, Major Herbert W. Smith, Major George L. Dutton; Major Freder ick? H. Drake and Captain Karl F. Glos. ! The order designates Major Drake' .as j trial Judge advocate and Captain Glos as , defense counsel. All members of - the court are stationed In Portland. The date of 'the trial has not yet been et. . OF i FORCE HERE , The"X)rfegoa , state insurance commissioner has no authority to ' enforcer a decree of - the t su preme court of Colorado, In ' the case of. the Woodmen of the World and others, against - John J. McCue et al, enjoining the de fendants from proceeding under a .certain amendment to the laws of the , Woodmen of the World, which operated to. readjust and increase the rates and methods of Insurance , of such benefit so ciety. - . . This was the substance of a legal opinion handed down here Saturday iby Attorney General VanWInkle. The opinion - was sought by Clare A. Lee, state in surance commissioner, after Dan Kellaher and others, at a . mass meeting held in Portland recent ly, had demanded, that the decree of the Colorado supreme courts should ' be enforced ' in Oregon, The, Colorado court handed down the 'decree Decenber 15," 1930. "It appears that' said decree," read the attorney general's. opin ion, "left the Woodmen of the World In the same condition and with the same rights and duties, in so far as its operations in the state of. Colorado are concerned, as though no amendment bad been attempted. -. "It is my .opinion that : you have no authority to act in ac cordance with the decision of .the supreme court of Colorado;' un less and until a court of compe tent jurisdiction in .the state of Oregon has so ordered. - Seek Champoeg - Cemetery Road I Establishment ;.. - - The county court will be peti tioned shortly to establish a coun ty road Into the Champoeg' ceme tery. Henry Zorn. large taxpayer from the Champoeg district, .said while on 'a call at "the county court house yesterday. ' There is cow a road into the cemetery, but it has never been they're so absolutely differ ent ' not . that ; they're freakish, . or unfashionable, but the smart new detail so necessary to this season's frocks is combined in them In a most striking manner. Every Jacket, slesve, and neckline is s, perfectly con trived jlece. cf a,rL ; They represent every color of the rainbow and many others at whlcu the rainbow has sever even fchited. ' GEOPPE son entered In the race for the Colonel ' a public road and move will now be made to. have It so designated. Zorn Indicated. The road is only about; 300 feet long. , - 'Zorn is president of the Mar Ion county taxpayers' league, which, Is .working toward reduc tion of property tax; and substi tution of an income and intangi bles tax that will help bear the burden, ot taxation. He expressed confidence . yesterday that , the taxpayers' : problems : will be ironed out in a reasonable time. He reported that aa , organisa tion ' meeting - would - be held at Aurora Tuesday night. Outlook for Jobless a Bit Despite a week filled with rain, the unemployment situation gath ered a force of sunshine, judging from the weekly - report of Sim Phillips, director of the free em ployment service here. More than half of the men who sought work were placed -in 'jobs, this propor tion being ; reached for the first time m weeks. Eignty-xonr men registered for work and 45 were placed. . Four of the 19 i women got work. ... 5 ; ; ?'- 1'--. - Most ox tne men wno secured jobs were registered as common laborers, or 48 out of the 84. Twenty-seven of those so regis tered found work. Nine of the 11 agricultural job seekers got work; one ot the four painters: two of the two casual workers; "one of the .four salesmen; four of the 10 woods laborers; and the one watchman who registered. None of the four cooks registered found work ' 5 '',. vi,"'- J": . Two kitchen workers and two hotel housekeepers were the only women to find work through the bureau. The women registered included: laundry workers, six; nures, five; cooks, six? kitchen workers, four; and matrons, eight. -, - - Mineral Spring Property Sold At Low Figure Four thousand dollarsVas paid by the Lawyers Title and Trust company of Portland for the Hubbard Mineral. Springs prop erties, according to return on ex ecution made by Sheriff - O. D. Bower following sheriffs sale of the property. The sale was held March 21, after having been twice postponed. ' . ' The total paid at the sheriff's sale. Including also 3 2 So for per sonal property, ; leaves a " balance of $65,76.45 unpaid on the tfital judgment : of 870,046.45 against the property. . The Port land concern is trustee for 1 the bondholders. ; . THIS IS THE END OF THE MONTH . ; . HAVE YOU SAVED AT WARD'S? . . . Any Salesperson WUl Gladly Help You Llntual Sarahs and loan Assodation . A Salem Institution Organized in 1S10, Place your savings with ti's Lei us finance your home on. weekly, or rronthly payments . 142 South Liberty Street f 1 Copco Third Rates Probe : Formal Investigation of the rates, charges, ; regulations and practices of . the California-Oregon. Power company was ordered by C. M. Thomas, public utilities commissioner, here Saturday.' Similar investigations of. the rates, charges and .practices - of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company and the Moun tain States Power company were ordered ' previously. The method ot conducting the - Investigations has not been divulged " by the utilities commissioner, and no definite dates - have .been fixed for the hearings. . " "Informal consideration of the rates and charges assessed and collected by . the California-Oregon '-. Power . company indicates that sufficient grounds exist to warrant a formal investigation to determine the -propriety, and lawfulness of such rates and charges," read the latest order Issued ' by the utilities commis sioner, "It. is therefore ordered that the said California-OregOn Pow er company be required to ap pear I before the public utilities commissioner, at such times and places as may be designated, to give testimony relative to all Is sues Involved in the Investiga tion." Travels 350 Miles to be In on Exams .Believe it or not, ' a woman traveled all the way from Eureka. Calif., to be in Salem yesterday to take one of the four civil ser vice examinations that were eon ducted, in the examination rooms at the postofflce. Her only ob ject in coming here, a distance of 350 miles, was ,the examination, a six-hour affair. . She came this far because Sa lem was the .closest point to her home where the- examination in question was being given. San Francisco, 500 miles away, was the next closest point. - -: Fire persons wrote on the four examinations,- covering . ; junior blue . print operator, senior and Junior teachers in high schools and intermediate teacher In high school. All exams were six hours long and all to fill posts in the Indian service. Two of the ap plicants were from Albany. Jo seph Benner, regular examiner, was in charge,' ' - v ' 'Thss store sella thousandi at 1 items sot essrxieel ttt stoclc IT you don't fid just 'remember, a SSRVXCIt pisswd wtdx ssay case of our salespeople qakSdw brings yoa aaxj at tise qvality itesm offtred in Usui Order . Ctore wl yotoc order to yoss the day it is received. llsrHaMr stems) sent Postasc Prepaid direct to yoox Firm Facing Corresppriding cut In Area Devoted to,r Spring rA Grain is rioted Material increases la tne- It 21 acreage of - barley, : potatoes 'and tame hay -with a substantial re duction of .the- spring .wheat crop In Oregon are 'Indicated by. the March 1 intentions to plant report of the federal-state crop reporting- service. The report; however, does not purport to be an abso lute lndlvatlon of the actual acre ages -which- will be planted, as this will "depend on ': several ' factors which may cause material changes beUreen March 1 and i planting time.: ; j"?- J''-' ."r;"- f,j The planted .:acreaegl estimates ef fall sown grains were jaade la December but are carried on. this report which -shows . - tor c. these, crops- the. relationship to.' )the planted;: (not. harvested) ' acreage of the premlus autumn"" -- X reduction 'of' J per 'cent or." 1 1,0 00 acres Is Indicated in the Oregon spring wheat acreage. Usually no great . change in wheat acreage occurs from year to year because of the peculiar conditions under which wheat is produced in the northwest. Changes which oc cur are usually occasioned by shifts as between - .winter . and spring wheat. Material decreases la the Washington and. Idaho spring wheat acreage are shown la the totals amounting to 36 and 24 per cent, respectively. , - ' Slight Increase.. !; ,; la Corn Acreage" ' Oregon corn acreage shows a little .increase according to ex pressed intentions. The oats acre age shows a five per cent reduc tion or 14,000 acres. The unusu ally mild winter which has been experienced in Oregon in common with most of the other states in the western area has resulted-in unusually large supplies of feed remaining on hand and as a. result no appreciable changes In acreage of feed crops are .to be expected. Expressed Intentions as of March 1, support this statement. Barley acreage is estimated at 121.000 acres, an increase ot 17,000 acres or -If per cent, but barley Is used as a cash crop to a considerable extent. . The decrease in barley acreage Slightly more than offsets the drop in oats. ' . An Increase of ten per 'cent In Oregon potato acreage indicates that the upward trend in potato production will be continued with 4,000 more acres in 1931 than were harvested In 1930.' In the case of the group . of tame hay crops, a combined increase of , S per cent or 60,000 acres is Indi- PHONE 66 - ... am 7 Above Trlcphoto transmitted ' over Uell . 8ystem . to . San Francisco shows President . Hoover TrpeakiHjr . oa steps of capltol at Porto .lUco,' Amrlng bis recent visit here; a: cated by - Oregon v farmers in the lfarch-1 'intpntiona ronnrt. Th dry edible bean acreage Is ' negll- giDie ana win remain so. ' 1 STATE riEeH TWO MIU.I0H LOtfl . Through State Treasurer Thom as B. Kay, the state of Oregon Friday closed negotiations for a short term loan of - f 2,000.000 from the Chase National bank of New York City, . The : money, which Kay ' said wbuld bear 3 hi per cent interest, will be used to augment. the gen eral fund until tax payments beH gin to come In after June l-' Treasurer Kay today forwarded to New. York City a draft for' $1, C33.025.68 to cover 3937,500 in principal and 395,625.58 in In terest payments on highway bonds due April 1. - Snowflakes And Flowers In Argument Tulips and daffodils peeping through the 1 snow; sunshine and icy rain. Not a study in contrasts. Just a glimpse of Oregon weather during the last few days. Just as Oregon lans. were congratulating themselvea.that .spring '.had ar- Mm .1 o h 1 11' SI I II - 4i. - -I I I i -ru;.. TJACJEn GEnVCiSE SKAnZQl : Ccziplete Satisfaction 7ith Every Transaction r l North Commercial at Center SU' ' rlTed Several weeks early1 Old Man Winter came back for a fare well visit. .. ..:.;-K-'-. - : : Many parts of the state are indulging In snowball batles with daffodils and spring flowers- for an audience but Salem has man aged to escape with : only cold rains and wind. . - '; ' Rainfall . for the fiast four days has been heavy for this time of year.-Records show that March 25' there was .04' of an inch, March it, .04; March 27,t , . 22, and March 28, .26. A year ago .01 of an inch fell on March 25 and there was no more rain for sever al days. . - .- - - : The rain Is welcomed by farm ers many of whom agree with the would-be bard who wrote: -. "It's not raining, rain to me, It's ' raining corn and. kale; . , In each jeweled drop I see alfalfa by the bale. . Cantaloupes come forth In troops and melons roll to town; It's not raining , rain to me, it's raining onions down. ' "It's not raining rain to me, but bursting bins of grain -' Where hopeless starved human ity . may have its fill again. Here's a health to ; him who's happy; a prune to him who pints; It's not raining rain tb me. It's raining dollar signs." KIWANIAKS ENTERTAINED DALLAS, March 28. The Dal las, Klwanis.club held their-regular meeting at noon today at the Presbyterian church. Harry Sey more was the , principal speaker. He gave a -very Interesting talk on the 4-H club work. The rest of the program consisted of the usual group-singing. and Gtv&er a.. s ... . rmm. . . IJfERE, in this pandtom new " G o o d y a r Stan d a r d Al I WeatHer, Is a naw hjcjh vaKja for your dolUrt made possible by tfe. fact Goodyaar builds'; MILLIONS MORE tiras.. Lat us show you tha alavan graat tm provamants which maka if tht trr stnsttion of 19311 ": AS stzas Unemployed men must look to someone besides the county for Jobs .hereafter, Roadmaster Frank Johnson declared yesterday af ternoon.' He had just finished in terviewing 15 men who sought ' jobs, and declared they were the last who should come to him for work. . Johnson will ' send some ot these men out. on' the road widen ing job at Rosedale Monday, and also send some to the Lake La blsh' trestle Job.' ' - : I Johnson Is "ending his Job-disposing task because with regular work opening up he. feels the foremen on various Jobs should be' allowed to hire their own men. So in the future that will be the rule, he'declared. That does not mean,' of course, that unemployed, may not find work . on county roads,, hut rather that they will have to apply to the foremen for Jobs. j. ,... ;' .- .- CANDT BALE SrpXS0IK3 . HUB BARD. ' March 28 Miss Frances Hatch and her pupils of the third and fourth grades of the Hubbard school gave a home made candy sale at. the school house Friday. The proceeds are to be used In buying an Indoor baseball for the girls and a base ball for -the boys. Miss Hatch has charge of the grade girls' ball - games and Mrs. Richard Fields of the high school ' English and French classes has charge of the nigh school girls hall playing. Bright. BrimoiittlXcUcaU Modern Solid Colo Sheits ImU CHICK. CHICK y PmHiK, $ 0 iO Stmt. Qnt0f Ajmm adUr Aa wwh i CHICK a CHICK t.k. homm ?(fZ MAOIC WAND" Dt t mmM w4 - niodatMMtK 4cs- S" tStnl. iue. 1S7 MOOCLTM.H V Jt7 COIWT .curlpriicnc 4 (ItU. historys lowast pricer D : 0 - PHONE C3 it t tn mi ii Hi i;M I .:("