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PAGE TWO! The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, March 9, 1934 CITY AECEPTS FEDERAL HELP Salem Must Build Its Own ..Distribution1 Plant is ; ' Ukase From Capital '; (Continued from Pa I) of distribution system by city In crease not ayallahle for purchase ot existing system. Speed Is Urgent, i Engineer Quoted Telephone and personal con versations had with Major Hock i bv Citv Attorney Chris J. EowiU tsd aldermen. Impressed, noon them the- fact that speed was nxsent la setting actual con struction mader way. Major uaca ley advised Alderman Hughes that ha was telerraphinr Washington hMdonartera tor nermlssion to proceed with the; project by units so that the city's engineers coald concentrate en plans for one unit at a time, - , Engineer 'John Cunningham, present at the meeting last night, stated the first request from FWA. probably would be for more elaborate plans I to! substantiate the preliminary cost estimates on which the city's loan applica tions hare been I based. The ex tent of plans to be required be fore construction: can proceed Is unknown, be said, since Salem's Is the first water projects under PWA allotment in Oregon. :The engineers, it was Btated at the 'meeting, probably will first outline 'plans and ' estimates for the local distributing system, on which no information has been given the PWA. Cunningham told the. council his firm, from the appraisal it made for the city in 1930, has as accurate records of the Oregon Washington Water Service company's system as the company, itself has. l The water company's franchise to 'operate In Salem in no way prevents the city from building a competing system, the city at torney declared after the meet ing. He seemed to. feel no ob stacle would be encountered from that point. Finn's Lawyer Here Has No Statement ' Walter Keyes,: local attorney for the water company, had no statement to make pending a conference with company offi- A spirit of unanimity in ju bilation over the million dollar increase in the PWA allotment appeared to pervade the council chamber. At Mayor McKay's sug gestion, a motion was quickly put through to send a letter of thanks to both Senator McNary and Congressman Mott for their services in securing . the allot ment, , Payment of the, engineers for their preliminary work will be on an actual cost basis and prob ably by city warrant Formal em ployment of engineers to prepare final plans and specifications and to supervise the construction was left to a later date although it was generally maintained that Baar Cunningham, by virtue of the data the firm already pos sesses, would be best fitted for . the work. The engineering fee, Cunningham told the council, would be around five per cent f the project's cost, the usual . remuneration among reliable firms. The Increased PWA offer deft nitely removes the obstacle which had. apparently thwarted all ef forts of the city council to take advantage of the 1, 600,000 al lotmentobtaining the existing water system. The Oregon-Wash- w6iou water service company had held out for $950,000 for ineir plant, wnlle PWA had limit a the city to Issuance of $2, 000.000 in water bonds, $200,000 less than would permit payment of the company's purchase price and providing sufficient collateral for the federal loan. LOG HAUL RATES II" Wintering in the South, S Kit" 1 Visiting their Winder home in the sooth for the first time since the death of their neighbor, Thomas Alva Edison, inventive genius; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford are pictured with Mrs. Mina Miller Edison (right), widow of the inventor, at Fort Myers. Fla, who resides in the nearby home her husband bousrht forty-five years ago. Fine Collection Indian Relies and Arrow Heads Gathered by John Diem IHDinnS PARLEY FEDERAL PLANS By CLARA GIROD QUINABY, March 8. There are noDDies ana noDDies. tor some it is gardening, for some it is old books, but for John, Diem much ot 4 8 years has been spent collecting Indian relics of stone. Ever since he was a small lad he has spent his spare time and cash in gathering a fine collection. He has at his home here what to most people these times would be a small fortune invested in them. Two large glass covered cases hold but a small part ot the more than 600 arrows and spearheads collected from most of the differ ent tribes of Indians in the United States. Arrowheads and spear heads range in 6ize from a frac tion less than one-half inch to nine inches. They are. the usual colors of black and brownish flint. Odd Colors in Flints There are several unusual col ored ones of pink, pale green, blue and a beautiful one chipped from a sardonyx stone. One man in West Virginia heard of Diera's hobby and sent him a perfect spearhead -and three arrowheads of creamy white quartz. Mr. Diem thinks that those he got here in Oregon show more skilled work manship than those of any other state. The poorest comes from Ok lahoma. One article he prizes is a metal spearhead dug from an Aztec Indian burial ground in Mexico. Early Devices Found Some unusual articles he has are: a stone shuttle about three inches long used in weaving, a stone last over which Indian moccasins were made, stone drills used to bore holes through their beads, flesh knives made of stone used in scraping flesh from ani mal hides, several stone hammers of the kind seen in pictures of cavemen, mortars and pistols these stone bowls used for grind ing corn. His most prized possession Is a double arrowhead. These are very uncommon and this one is the only one he has seen in a lifetime. They are made together, both pointing same way with the point of one worked into tho shank of the second. Mrs. Fran ces Ganiard, his sister, has a griddle-like rock which has been split in half, making a griddle about six inches thick, 10 inches wide and IS inches long. These were heated and corn bread baked on them. Knife Has History Diem also has a handmade skinning knife presumably made by a Hudson Bay trapper. The knife was found two feet under ground by Mr. Diem's father when he was doing some excavating here in 1868. The popular sport at that time was wild boar hunting. The woods on what is now the old Jack Painter place harbored quite a few and John has some tusks and razor-like toes as trophies of his latner s marksmansmp w 1 1 h a muzzle loader. Mr. Diem now spends much time at the coast raising blue berries. 150 Delegates, 200 Others Gather at Chemawa to . Hear Federal Plan (Continued from Page X) scendant of Chief Joseph of the Nes Perce and J. M. Parsons, Car lyle graduate and son of Chief Eugene Mallikan. ' ,: No word In the Indian lan guage covered the term of "com munism," and as a result one fnternreter broke the tenseness of the conference by requesting how communism couia oe trans lated. Paul Bheppard, who was explaining the land policies In the measure, put the term in other words for their accommodation. Banners of delegates from Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and northern California displayed banners of tribes in cluding Couer d'Alene, Hoopa Valley, Grand Ronde, Colville, Kootenais, Tualip, Flathead, Kal ispell, Yakima, Nex Perce, Uma tillam, Siletz, Klamath, Sacra mento, Tahola and Spokane. Criticisms ot the act centered around the fact that while it would Rive Indians so-called self- government, they would still be controlled by department of in terior officials: that the Indians were called here to conference but during the first day they were snnervised by the "white man"; and that conditions in lo cal tribes were such that many features of the new act were un workable. Tribal delegates, who arrived In fine automobiles, by bus or by train, represented twenty councils in the 14 Jurisdictions in the northwest. All delegates were being entertained at the scene ot the conference, the Che mawa Indian school, where Su perintendent James Ryan was hard pressed for a time for sup plies as the result of a fire last Saturday which destroyed the school's commissary. The Call Board . ... ELSES'ORE Today Noel Coward's "De- sign for Living" with Fred- rle March. . GRAND Today James Dunn "Hold That Girl". In CAPITOL Today Double bill, Ri cardo Cortes in "The Big Shakedown" and Colleen Moore in "Social Register" STATE - A. A. U. W. ben- Piirh in Roots", nn. Today efit. eretta anA "Yhn liMlm Pa. raAa". hoth first rnn tl. tures. Saturday Buck Jones in "The California Trail". in ED H ERE J7 (Csotlnoad from par 11 Lewelling who will be called upon to decide whether or not the Thomas - established rate is rea sonable. No additional testimony will be taken either by Thomas or Lewelling. . ; William p. Ellis, heading the counsel for the Spaulding inter ests, contended the railroad had failed to accoont in its amortisa tion plans - for billions of feet of timber tributary to its lines. He claimed these amortisation charges were too high. J. P. New ell, Portland engineer, introduced . cost studies, tending to show the Valley ft Silets cost studies show ed a rate that was too high. y OF PROMISE ID Berry growers or general farm ers who enjoy trying out promis ing new varieties may get consid erable aid from a new mlmeo-j graphed list of new berry var ieties that show the most promise for Oregon as the result of pre liminary tests at the Oregon State college experiment station. Some of the varieties listed, such as the Corvallis and Redheart straw berries, Lloyd George raspberry and Yonngberry, are already in rather wide commercial produc tion, but are listed as being new to the general trade compared with the widely used standard varieties. The list, prepared by Dr. W. S. Brown, chief in horticul ture, is as follows: Strawberries B 1 a c k m ore, British Sovereign, Corvallis, Dor sett, Fairfax, Kanner King, Nar cissa, Redheart, Royal Sovereign and Rockhlll (everbearing). Of these Dorsett, Narcissa and Red heart are recent introductions by the U. S. D. A., while Corvallis was developed by the Oregon ex periment station. Red raspberries Chief. Lath am, Newburgh, Lloyd George and Viking. The Lloyd George pro duces very large berries and fruits in the fall to some extent as well as in the summer. Purple raspberries Potomac, a recent U. S. D. A. introduction. Blackberries and dewberries Cosmo, Yonngberry, Thornless Yonngberry- and Thornless ever green blackberry. '--Gooseberries Poorman, an L JQLLYIVQOL Today and Saturday "- 15c Two Features 15c The Master of yHWi63--P"fif Spectacle Prim D 1111 I UGUII D. UGIUUIC Makes his first great spectacle of modern times i 1 is Dav AndAge Paramount Picture Ad Jed Tightingr With Kit Carson" Cartoon and rathe News Special Matinee Saturday, 1:80 pjn. 10c old variety but little tried In Ore gon. Currants Viking, resistant to white pine blister rust. COUNTY WIDE 1 E HOLLYWOOD Today John Wayne "West of the Divide." Saturday Midnight matl- nee, Cecil B. DeMille's "This Day and Age." And so it came to pass that the little lady loved two handsome men and they lived happily ever after. Sounds like adult entertain ment, and it is. It's Noel Coward's "Design for Living" which Para mount transferred to the screen with Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Edward Ev erett Horton in the cast, brilliant ly directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It opens today at the Elsinore the atre. Miss Hopkins becomes the boys' severest critic, gets a producer to put on one of March's plays and gets Cooper an art reputation. As it eventually must, the situation gets out of control and it isn't until Edward Everett Horton comes into the scene as a villain ous comedian that the boys put up a united front before their joint enemy to win back Miss Hopkins' love. n ucnr TOMIM Play is Most Ambitious So Far Attempted Here by Chemeketa Players Accorded by preview audiences the compliment of being called the most unusual and by long odds the most ambitious dramatic effort ever undertaken in Salem, Chem eketa Players' new production, "The Romancers,' opens tonight in Nelson hall to ran through next week, and longer it interest war rants It, The play, a comedy of 17th cen tury France, written! by Edmond Rostand, is a silk and-sat!n and wig affair, a brilliant ' satire on romance. Credited with whatever success the play may have are: Lucille Tucker Paulus, director, who has achieved considerable local fame in that work Jacques Gershko-vitch,- director of the Salem sym- Today - Saturday THRILL HIT! "The Big Showdown" . with CHARLES FARRELL BETTE DAVIS RICARDO CORTEZ phony,, who arranged the music used in. the play; .Barbara Barnes, director ot the minuet used In the last, act: P. J. Rennings, artist who executed the scenery In the style of Watteau, , famous French landscape, painter; and Thomp son's Costume shop, for the color ful clothes the characters wear. Cecil Edwards was in charge ot the technical staff. In the cast are Genevieve Thay er and Lawrence Brown as two youngsters In love with romance; Roswell Wright and Ronald Cra ven as their droll and scheming papas; J. Lyman Steed as the swashbuckling villain; H. C. Leav enworth, Ted Thielsen, Robert Clark and .George Campbell. Brown learned his difficult part in Just two weeks, having replaced Clifford Hurt, who had to leave the cast because of illness in his family. Wright is an old trouper, wise in the ways of the stage and likely to steal the play. The play may be taken to Reed college in Portland for a one-night stand after the Salem run. If plans go through and a date can be ar ranged. The play it of the sophis ticated style popular with college students, picturesque and color ful., " WORK MAY START S0OI1 Oil PROJECT (Continued from Page 1) would be laid in parking strips to avoid tearing up pavements. This would provide a large amount ot hand labor since ma chine diggers would damage cross-pipe lines of various sorts. v A 12,500,000-water system un der the original estimates would provide the city with a maximum ot 15,000,000 gallons of water a day.. Cost of the city distribution system was set at 11,112,000. i'imQg(l TODAY AND SATURDAY LUIS ED M PROGRAM mm (Continued from Page 1) which impairs fishing prospects there. --aU A committee named to draw up a resolution asking for revision of the duck hunting season to apply to Marion county conditions con sists of R. W. Niles, chairman, Clarence Townsend and Van Wle der. H. R. Crawford was delegated a committee of one to ascertain from the forest service what regu lations, if any, are to be applied to the portion of Marion lake which has been left ontslde the Santiam primitive area. The task of enlisting other In terested organizations throughout the county in the conservation movement was delegated to C. B. Wilson, Townsend and MInler. The next meeting of the general committee will be held at the call of the chairman. The city manager form ot gov ernment is growing In public fa vor while the commission form, popular between 1910 and 1920, is on the decline, declared Mayor Douglas McKay at Thursday's Salem Lions club luncheon at the Gray Belle restaurant. In the ! United States there are appoxl matelv 661 municipalities that I have tried out the manager sys tem and of these but 15 have thereafter rejected, he stated. The mayor likened the man ager system proposed for Salem to the board of directors and manager appointed by that board for a large corporation. Advantages or the manager system Mayor McKay listed as economy, city planning, effici ency, and a better situation for employes. He averred city em ployes would be better oft under a manager system because they would have to work under not a committee ot three men, but a single manager. LaGrande has had a city man ager system since 1913, and Ore gon City since 1925, and both have shown financial progress in the city's affairs, the mayor said. Meeting reported opposition from organised labor. Mayor Mc Kay declared that he held state ments from prominent national labor leaders in favor of the city manager plan. PLAN GET-TOGETHER The Salem Business Men's league will hold a get - together banquet in April to which all local business men will be invited, it was decided at a league meeting at the chamber of commerce Wed nesday night. General business problems will be discussed at the affair. HIT No. 2 Romantic! Hilarions! Tuneful! COLLEEN MOORE in SOCIAL REGISTER' Doors Open 6:45 500 -f r A in Seats V " v ' : VJ z0?:' - voc C s . V.- -X C Z wait i ' x a NOEL COWARD'S The daring, distract ing play of a woman who loved two men ... completely ... simul taneously! FRGDRIC in MICKEY MOUSE MAT. SAT., 1 P. M.t EXTRA FEATURE, Zane Grey's "GOLDEN' WEST" with GEORGE O'BRIEN with GARY COOPER MARIAM HOPKINS EDW. EVERETT E0HT0.1 i ( : ' AT ... ' .. n rmr i nfe witn the w-yi' Screen'. New Comedy Pair J-DUNN Cu. TREVOR rfJfl'fiPtan SUN- m r Ijjfjiijjgj Last Time Today 2 FEATURES 2 "PUSS IN - BOOTS" and The Film Parade Saturday Only Buck Jones in "California TraiT TIGER" CQMTTjrrOTys show -l.ur.K Inc. Sfalcnv Omw Ploy thwhmn TONIGHT "The omanccrs" Internationally Famous Comedy R Played In Roceoeo Style of Louis XV Nelson . nj : Liberty at Auditorium buC Chemeketa Curtala 8:15 i 1 ; " fmmimm V';: aVl-" ;x -rfxv till m fr-. 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