Capital journal., May 21, 1928, Image 1

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' CIRCULATION
Dally average distribution for the
month ending April 90, 1928
10,108
- Average dally net paid 9619
Member Audit Bureau of Clrculatlana
CI-OIIDY
tonight .-and Tuesday, continued
mild, normal humidity, variable
winds.
- Local: Max. 91, Mfn. 51, river 14
feet, rain 0, clear, southwest wind.
FIFTIETH YEAR, No. 121
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1928
PRICE THREE CENTS'
1L "iinnffittf
WAR IAS STIFLES fENSJlGS
PLURALITIES
INCREASED BY
LATERETURN
Kiddie Wins Place on Re
publican Delegation-
All Pledged to Hoover
Smith Wins Three Out of
Four Fry and Canon
Lead in First District
Portland, Ore., May 21 (LP) Ore
gon's preferences tor candidates for
national and state offices were on
record today as a result of Friday's
primary. Belated returns trickling in
over Sunday showed added totals
and the only change from the late
Saturday tabulation was the placing
of Herbert Hoover's campaign man
ager, Fred E. Kiddle, among the
seven republican delegates at large.
Early reports had him trailing in
eighth place. All the republican
delegates at large were pledged for
Hoover. One candidate for dele
gate pledged for Lowden ran consid
erably below the seven successful
delgates at large in a field of 16
candidates.
Some republican voters took the
trouble to vote in the names of other
republican candidates. Unofficial re
ports showed 73 written for Frank
O. Lowden, and six for Vice-President
Dawes. One republican wrote in
the name of Governor Alfred E.
Smith of New York.
Governor Smith, who carried the
democratic endorsement over Sena
tor James E. Reed, of Missouri, and
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon
tana, by substantial leads, won three
of the four democratic delegates at
large on the face of returns avail
able today. The fourth on the list
was a Walsh candidate. In the first
district the two Smith delegates
were leading; In the second district
(Concluded on Page 8. Column 3)
M'NARY SEES
EARLY VETO OF
FARM AID BILL
Washington, May 21 (JP) An early
veto of the McNary-Haugen farm
relief bill by President Coolidge was
Indicated today after the president
had conferred with Senator McNary,
i "publican, Oregon, and representa
tive Haugen, republican, Iowa, au
thors of the measure.
Neither the senator nor the repre
sentative would divulge directly the
trend of their conversation with the
president. Asked point blank about
the outlook for the bill, McNary
aid:
"It looks like rain. The weather
man says the forecast is not good.1
Mr. Coolidge is believed to have
called the congressional farm lead
ers in a conference with a view to
asking them to see to put through
a farm bill which would not provide
for the controversial equalization
fee.
The equalization fee provision of
the McNary-Haugen measure is the
stumbling block in the path of the
legislation. Attorney General Sar
gent a year ago declared it uncon
stitutional and the president has
stood on tnat ruling.
With a view to obtaining consid
eration by congress of a farm relief
bill, it Is expected the president will
eend his veto of the McNary-Haugen
legislation to the capitol late
today or within a few days.
Senator Brookhart told the presi
dent that the dispute between con
gress and the executive regarding
farm relief legislation revolved
around the question of the constitu
tionality of the fee.
Unwilling to admit defeat, Sena
tor McNary and Representative
Haugen would announce no plans
today in the event of a veto. There
were Indications that the senator
might ask to have the bill referred
back to the agriculture committee
with a view to having it decide on
whether to seek legislation without
the equalization fee.
chainstorTprobe
SOONJJNDERWAY
Vashlngton,- May 21. (lPThe
federal trade commission announced
today It soon will start an irrrcstlgn
tion of chain stores, as provided in
the Brookhart senate resolution. It
will consider marketing and dis
tributing methods of the chain
stores, their growth, and questions
of possible regulation or anti-trust
prosecution of them if such is found
warranted.
GOOD EVENING
WORDS AND MUSIC
. By STODDARD KING -
THE SPELLBINDER'S PROGRESS
There was an orator who song-lit -
To crowd his speeches full of
thought,
But sadly murmuring, "Too deep!"
Ills congregation went to sleep.
Then the same Uilnrs he tried to
say, .. . ..
But In an unconventional way,
And found his auditors were fussed
And look upon him with distrust.
And when, with cleverness and
guile,
He tried the sharp satiric style .
Ills hearers rose and went outside,
Suspecting they were being guyed.
His thoughts were hardly fit to
print.
And yet our hero took the hint.
And henceforth not a word he said
Was over anybody'.; bead.
Although his manner was profound,
He aimed his discourse at the
ground,
And no one's mind was forced to
reach
To get the purport of his speech.
It worked, of course; It always does.
How sad this speaker's downfall
was!
Yet such may be the fate of all
Who learn a speech and hire a ball.
PICK JURY IN
With the Jury finally selected
nearly three hours after court had
pened, Lyle J. Page, deputy dis
trict attorney opened - the state's
case against Fred Taylor, colored.
shortly before 2 o'clock this after
noon. Taylor is charged with bur-
Clary of the George Waters store on
state street on the moming of Feb
ruary 17.
The defense attorneys. Joe Mln-
ton and Ben Forbes, Jr., asked that
witnesses be excluded from the
courtroom excepting during the
time that each is on the witness
stand and the state came back with
the same request for defense wit
nesses. The judge asked the wit
nesses, George Waters, Marion Put
nam, W. H. Wolfe, M. O. Berry.
Raymond casing. J l m Medley,
Frank Minto, James Williams, E, C.
Charlton, and Gene Hawley, to
leave but to stay with in quick call
of the courtroom.
The Jury, finally -selected after
nine rejections, cincludes Chester H.
Miller, William M. Cory, Ralph I
Stevens, Herbert Looney Ella S,
Crolsan, Lester Laws, Rich L. Rel-
man, Adam Burns, Clara Ncedhom
Milton Kephart, Elizabeth Unger,
and Elizabeth Norton.
Taylor has previously done time
at the state penitentiary. Wallace
Crews who was with Taylor when
they were caught at McMinnville
several hours after the robbery,
plead guilty when arraigned and
was sentenced to five years.
The Taylor trial opened the May
term of circuit court in Marion
county.
FORD INTERESTS TO
BACK AERIAL LINE
San Francisco, May 21 (fl) The
Examiner today quoted William B.
Stout, head of the airplane division
of the Ford Motor company as say
ing a trans-continental air line hav
ing the backing of the Ford inter
ests would be put into operation
this summer.
The project was expectdoy Stout
tc be in the experimental stage for
about a year, during which planes
would be operated across the
country about once a week. By next
summer he expected to see daily
service inaugurated.
Mystery Veils Murder
At La Grande; Suspect
Son Of Slaying Mother
La Orandc. Ore.. May 21 fFV
Bert W. Smith, between 25 and 30
years of age, is today being sought
following the finding yesterday of
the body of his mother, Katherine
P. Smith, about 55 years of age, in
their home in that part of the resi
dential district known as Old Town.
Mrs. Smith was shot through the
forehead, and, from Indications, had
apparently been 111 before the crime
was committed. The last time Smith
was seen here, as far as officers can
learn, was on March 20. The coroner
believes that Mrs. Smith has been
dead nearly three months.
The house is in a sparsely popu
lated part of town and the discov
EARLY ACTION
FOR BUILDING
an AIRPORT
Committees Unite Efforts
Without Waiting For
Legislative Sanction
Approval by Legislature
Regarded by Members
of Board as Certain
Committees interested in the Sa
lem airport for which bonds were
voted in the special city election last
Friday will immediately unite their
efforts to devise legal ways and
means to construct the landing field
on property to be purchased from
the state without waiting for the
next legislature to sanction the
transfer.
Three committees worked for the
enterprise before the election. One
was an Informal committee of the
city council, one represented the
Chamber of Commerce and the
third, the American Legion. At an
early session of the city council,
probably two weeks from tonight, a
resolution will probably be intro
duced to make the airport commit
tee a standing committee, which will
give its work more substantial back
ing. With this committee the legion
and chamber of commerce com
mittees will work In advisory capa
city.
The desire of everyone interested
In the airport enterprise is to get
the landing field built this year. An
actual transfer of land f or the
Salem airport site from the state to
the city of Salem cannot be made
legally until the sale is approved by
an act of the state legislature, ac
cording to State Treasurer T. B.
Kay, who is a member of the state
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 4)
JOHNS DIES IN
TRYING TO SAVE
DROWNING BOY
Bend, Ore., May 21. (IB The body
of Franklin T.. Johns of Portland,
who lost his life last night In an
attempt to save Jack Rhodes, Bend
boy, from drowning, was taken from
the Deschutes river this morning at
8:45. The body was found by Homer
Cole and Archie Fineout, with the
aid of grappling hooks. The body
of the boy was taken from the river
last night at 9:50 o'clock.
The bodies of Johns and the boy
were found in the river near the
place where they were last seen.
Johns at 8 o'clock last night was
addressing a group of local people
in the city park when the boy, Iff
years old, fell from a foot bridge
from which he was fishing. Hear.
lng that a boy was calling tor help
from the Deschutes river, Johns
raced from the speakers' stand and,
taking off only his coat, leaped Into
the stream. The youth was Strug-
gllng In the icy water In the main
current, near the opposite shore.
Jack Rhodes was the son of Mr,
and Mrs. J. C. Rhodes of Bend. Mr.
Rhodes is clerk of the Bend school
district.
New York, May 21 (Pi The heavy
fog which has blanketed New York's
harbor for three days and caused a
series of collisions, lifted slightly to
day and four trans-Atlantic liners,
the Leviathan, Baltic, Albert Ballin
and American Banker began creep
ing toward their piers.
ery of the body was due to the ef
forts of a friend of Mrs. Smith,
from Pondosa, Ore., to call on her
Saturday. Going upstairs he and a
companion found a note on the bed
room door which was nailed shut.
Becoming alarmed, they called
Deputy Sheriff Hugo Hammer, who
opened the door and found her body
on the oca. --
The note, which was circled with
chalk marks, was unsigned Jt read
"Everything in this house belongs
to Mrs. 8mtth. I do not own one
dollars worth. The kitchen range is
from Lilly's. I am legally of age so
none of her effects can be held for
(concluded on P.ge 9, Column 7)
M'Allister
Winner For
Legislature
Lee McAllister of Salem, won a
place among the lour republican
nominees lor representatives In the
legislature from Marlon county in
Friday's primary election, according
to -a recheck of the complete figures
from every precinct in the county
made by the Capital Journal this
morning and confirmed by the totals
announced by the official canvas
sing board this afternoon. .'
.McAllister, the recheck reveals,
nosed out Mark A. Paulson, of Sil
verton with whom he vied for fourth
place on the ticket throughout the
unofficial count by 10 votes. me
first convplete unofficial compila
tion gave Paulson a lead of .nine
votes.
The complete official figures for
the republican legislative contest as
announced by the canvassing board
this afternoon reveal the touuwing
standing of the candidates, with
four to be nominated:
Settlemier, 3735: Gouley, 3758;
Smith. 3531: McAllister, 3273; Paul
son, 3263; Weddle, 2985; Nelson,
2967; Page, 2839, Wilson, 2444
Moores. 2267.
The ci"ficlal count also puts
Gouley in first place with a lead of
23 over Settlemier, but leaves the
relative standing of the other can
didates unchanged.
NEW CHAIN OF
Portland, Ore., May 21 (P) Frank
O. Bramwell. former superintendent
of banks for Oregon, has announced
the formation of the Oregon Ban-
corporation.
Two of Portland's banking insti
tutions will form the nucleus the
American Exchange bank and the
Lumberman's Trust company.
Oregon Bancorporation is lncor.
porated with an authorized 275.000
shares of no-par value scock, oi
which 25.000 shares will be man
agemcnt stock. This organization
will make possible acquisition of a
chain of banks having aggregate
capitalization in excess of (10,000,
v00.
Officers .and directors will not be
announced until after a meeting of
the organizers today.
Associated with Bramwell In the
new bancorporation, are several
San Francisco men, in addition to
officers of the American Exchange
and Lumbermen's Trust.
Frank C. Bramwell was elected
president of the Oregon Bancorpor
ation at a meeting of the organi
zing stockholders today and Robert
E. Smith was chosen vice-presiacnt;
W. B. Brlggs was elected secretary;
C. C. Donaugh, assistant secretary,
and Carl Detering, treasurer.
Directors elected were Frank C.
BramweU. A. H. Averill, Earl C.
Bronaugh, L. S. Franck, and Rob
ert E. Smith.
A board of 15 directors was au
thorized at the stockholders meet
ing but only five were elected at
this time as otners wm oe. aaaeu
later. The San Francisco Interests
desire representation on the board
as will also other banks which are
'under consideration as members of
the new chain, Smith explained.
POSSE HUNTING
Eugene, Ore., May 21 (flV-A
tiosse of men from Monroe and
Corvallls was out searching all day
Sunday for two men who roooea
the A. Wilhelm and Sons' store at
Monroe and the Southern Pacific
tool house there about 3:30 o'clock
Sunday morning.
Discovered Just as tney were
working at the store's safe, the two
began shooting and dashed to one
of the two automobiles they had
and escaped into the nearby woods.
Thev left a large amount of
plunder in a touring car outside the
store that was Identified and re
stored to the owners.
Mrs. Cash Martin who lives across
the street from the store saw the
men leaving with their loot and no
tified the telephone girl who in turn
immediately phoned the men of the
town. The two robbers were sur
rounded but dodged out between
their would-be captors. Deputy
Sheriff Carpenter shot at one of the
fleeing robbers but could not tell
if he hit him. .
TEXAS NKORO LYNCHED
Center, Texas, May 21. (LP) A
nefrro, who hftd been charged with
killing a farmer, was taken from the
county Isll here by a mob early to
day and hanged to an oak tree in
the courthouse yard. The negro,
known ' as Evans, was accused of
clubbing John Wheeler, farmer, to
death. The mob comprised about
50 men.
B0DIESOF6O
RECOVERED IN
MINE BLOW-UP
Gas Explosion in Mather
Mine Fatal to Entire
Night Shift of 100
Rescuers Must Fight Way
Thru 4000 Feet of Gas
Laden Tunnels
Mather, Pa., May 21 (IP) Fire
broka out In the workings of the
Vather mine this afternoon and
temporarily halted rescue workers
in their efforts to locate nearly 150
entombed miners. The fire started
about a half mile from the foot of
the shaft, 300 feet below the surface
of the earth.
Relief crews were forced to flee
from their positions to the surface.
The flames were brought under
control without any Injuries report
ed.
Mather, Pa., May 21 (ff) The
bodies of three score miners, vic
tims of an explosion in Mather mine
Saturday, had been recovered up to
tl-:s afternoon by rescuers, who were
pushing past the scene -of the blast
in an effort to learn the fate of 138
men entombed in the far recesses of
the workings. Shortly after noon
rescuers caried 13 additional bodies
from the mine, making the known
death toll 60.
After finding nine bodies this
morning near butt 15, the rescuers
pushed on, building air - locks. -to
carry the fresh air with them. At
butt 24. they came upon 11 bodies,
some of them mangled and burned
indicating that the greatest force
of the blast w. - felt in this region
Henry Filer, loader, who left the
mine a few minutes before the ex
plosion spread death through the
(Concludcd on Pago 8, Column 2)
OUTLINE PLANS
FOR CONVENTION
OF LIONS CLUBS
Plans for the state convention
of Lions club here over the- next
week-end were outlined for the
chamber of commerce Monday noon
by members of the local club. Be
tween 350 and 600 people are ex
pected to attend, depending upon
the weather. A feature will be the
appearance of a drum corps of high
school girls from The Dalles.
Entertainment Includes registra
tion Friday morning, golf contest
between the champion golfers of the
diferent clubs at the Illihee Country
club In the afternoon, business
meeting and tea and bridge for
wives of delegates. Stunts will be
offered by each of the clubs at the
armory in the evening, followed
with a dance. The public is invited
to witness the stunts. Committee
reports will be made Saturday
morning with the election of officers
and selection of the 1929 convention
city the main business of the after
noon. Water sports, with a variety
of races, will be offered during the
afternoon with a dinner and dance
closing tho convention in the eve
nlng. Salem industrial plants and
institutions will be visited during
the convention.
Activities of the club In the pant
include the placing of a sign for
tourists at the camp ground and the
painting of all tables and benches
contribution of $400 for a summer
camp near Mehama for the girl re
serves; sponsoring of Troop No.
Boy Scouts; contribution of bass
horn for the high school band; the
caster egg hunt which will be an
annual event and a flower garden
contest for junior high school stu
dents.
Speakers were F. E. Neer, former
district governor; Harry Scott,
past president; J. E. Fitzgerald
general chairman of the convention
John Orr and C. A. Swope, seer
tary. M. D, Ohling, president of the
club, piesldcd.
FAMOUS BRITISH
SCULPTOR PASSES
London. May 21. (P) Sir Oeorge
James Frampton, noted British
sculptor, who executed many me
morials and statues including the
Edith Cavill memorial In London,
died today at the age of 68.
High School
At Neskowin Nearly
Fatal To Students
High school picnics, narticularlv
the kind that occur on Sunday 75 or
100 miles away fro mSalem, are very
much in disfavor among tne powers
that be at Sale.. Vgh school today.
Four high school girls and one boy
narrowly escaped serious Injury or
death last night when the car in
which they were returning from the
Snlkpoh dramatic. -society picnic at
Neskowin crashed head-on into an
other car and went into the ditch.
One of the girls In the Salem car,
Margaret Drager, daughter of Mr.
and' Mrs. Rue Drager, was uncon
cious for a half hour afteward and
it was thought at first that both her
hip and jaw were dislocated. Today
it has been found that she is suf-
$100,000 FEE
ASKED BY SHAW
TO DIRECT FILM
London, May 21. (LP) George
Bernard Shaw would charge $100,000
to go to Hollywood to direct produc-
tion of a film based on one of his
plays, he told Adolph Menjou and
Catherine Carver, American movie
stars, honeymooning here alter their
marriage in Paris.
Shaw called on the Menjous In
their flower-banked suite at the
Carlton hotel. Menjou greeted Shaw
nervously, and asked htm to go to
the united States.
"They would go crazy about you'
he said.
'I'm too old," replied Shaw. "Be-
sides, what's the use? All nice
Americans come to see me here.
Chaplin once called on me, rang the
t ell and then went away, frightened
He Is the only genius in the films
today."
We always thought you sarcastic
and stern, but you're not," Menjou
said.
"It pays," said Shaw. "If you
have the reputation of being sarcas
tic, you can behave naturally In pri
vate life."
"I am considering making a film
in England," Menjou said.
"Why not my 'Arms and the
Man,"' asked Shaw.
"I'd be glad to have you go to
California and direct it," said Men
jou. '
"But that would cost you $100,000
for my fee," said Shaw.
Still It would be worth consider
ing," said Menjou.
Shaw rose to depart.
"Adolphe, you'll never look that
young at 72, said Mrs. Menjou.
"What you say that now?" asked
Menjou. "Why, we've only been
married four days."
SIGN CONTRACT,
PRINTING PLANT
The state board of control today
approved plans for the basement for
U . state tuberculosis hospital to be
bui'.t at The Dalles. The secretary
of the board was authorized to ad
vertise for the bids on the basement
construction, and these will be
opened by the board on June 2. The
general building plans will be com
pleted about July 1.
Al . on June 2 bids win be opened
on the construction contract for the
nurses' home at the state hospital
for the Insane, Excavation and ce
ment work on the basement of this
Ljildlng has been completed by state
hospital labor,
A contract was signed today with
Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner and D. B. Jar
man of Salem for lease to the state
of a building to be erected by Jar
man and Steiner on 12th street, cast
of -the state grounds. The state
printing plant and some state of
fices will be transferred to the new
building.
PERUVIAN VILLAGES
DESTROYED, QUAKE
Lima, Peru, May 21 (Entire
native villages have been destroyed
by successive earthquakes in the
Gajamarca department, taking a
heavy toll of life, according to Irag
men tary advices reaching the gov
emment today over partly destroyed
telegraph lines.
The tremors oegan last Monday
morning and lasted until Wednes
day.
Jaen, a village In the Cajamarca
department near the Ecuador Iron
tlr, was destroyed and a number
of Inhabitants were burled In the
ruins. Pimpincos was also razed with
at least 25 known dead.
Picnic
fcrlng only from, bad bruises and a
severe shaking up.
Two other girls, Virginia Blsson
and Lorraine Kinzer, were badly
bruised and shaken up also. The
fourth girl, Juanita Powell, and the
driver of the car,- Keene Wain, were
unhurt. The car wreck was left In
the ditch until today when its owner,
Ivan Kafoury, and Aulden Adolph
went over after it.
The four girls and four boys,
young Wain, Ivan Kafoury, Charles
Claggett and Homer Smith Jr.,
started from Neskowin in two cars.
At Cloverdale the Homer Smith car
burned out a bearing and the three
boys stayed there with the ar and
ColiciudednPage9r"Colum'rr 7)
FLOOD NEARS
AS DAM BEGINS
TO COLLAPSE
Salt Lake City. Utah. May 21 (LP)
Information received at the local
offices of the D. and R. G. shortly
alter noon today is that the Plea
sant Valley dam Is virtually certain
of collapsing with ii. the next three
or four hours.
Engineers state that the dam im
pounds 60,000 acre feet of water. It
is located on Goose creek branch of
the Price river and was completed
only about four years ago.
The town of Castle Gate has
about 1200 population and Helper, a
railroad division, has about 2,000.
The reservoir back of the Pleasant
Valley dam Is said to have a sur
face urea of about 32 square miles.
Telephone communication be
tween the United Press and the
sheriff at Castle Gate at noon today
brought the information that prac
tically every one in both castle
Gate and Helper had moved their
families and belongings out of the
towns to the higher ground of the
hills and every preparation was be
ing made by the Rio Grande lail
road company and the various min
ing companies in the district to take
care of the refugees in the matter
of food and shelter.
HICKMAN'S CAPTOR
WINS NOMINATION
Pendleton, Ore., May 21. (IP) Al
though he collected less than $4,000
of the huge rewards allegedly of
fered for the capture of William Ed
ward Hickman, Tom Gurdane, co-
captor of "The Fox" managed to win
political favor.
Gurdane, who as chief or police,
captured Hickman with the help of
Buck Ueuallan, traffic officer, has
won the republican nomination for
sheriff of Umatilla county.'
Complete results today from Fri
day's primary, gave Gurdane a com
manding majority over Sheriff R. T.
Cookingham, his only opponent.
NORTH POLE TRIP
AWAITS WEATHER
Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, May 21
(P) Whether General Umberto No-
bile makes his next trip In the diri
gible Italia to the north pole or
northern Greenland was dependem
today upon the weather report
which was expected from Tromsoe
Norway. It Is planned to fly about
2500 kilometers (about 1500 miles)
during which time the Italia wlL1
be In the air 30 to 40 hours.
Council To Decide Fate
Of Maxwell Petition For
Barbecue Tonight's Meet
Barring failure of the city coun
cil to accept the responsibility
which the planning and zoning
commission Insists lies with the city
"dads" alone, Charles Maxwell, who
for months has been endeavoring to
secure parmission to open a barbe
cue and lunch room at North Capi
tol and Erlxon streets, should know
the fate of his petitions tonight.
Maxwell, .his building completed
and fully equipped to open for busi
ness, has been sweating beads of
figurative perspiration for weeks
while the council and the planning
commission have been tossing his
petition for a change of the lot
upon which his building stands
from a residential to a business
zone back and forth between them.
If there Is a single member of the
council not yet Informed aa to the
POISON GAS
DEATH FUMES
HIT HAMBURG
11 Dead, 90 in Hospital
When Deluge of Phos
gene Gas Escapes
Gas Masks Are Used as
People Flee Homes
Firemen Fight Fumes
Hamburg. Germany. Mas 21 WV
Faced with all the grim reality of
chemical warfare, the city of Ham
burg today was fighting a deluge of
phosgene gas a war time poison
gas which began escaping from a
chemical factory In the free harbor
last night, overcoming a large num
ber of persons.
By noon today 11 persons, most of
them firemen and policemen, were
dead and 00 victims were in hos
pitals under treatment.
The entire city was menaced but
it was hoped that rain which set
in would absorb the gas fumes. A
needed number of gas masks for the
use of .those actively fighting the "
menace reached Hamburg from
Berlin after an emergency call had
been sent for them. A northeast
wind also was carrying the fumes
from the city In the direction of the
nearby town of Wilhelmsburg.
The gas escaped from a tank In
the chemical factory of Dr. Hugo
Stalzenburg. Phosgene Is no longer
manufactured there but quantities
of It were stated to have accumu
lated and stored for exportation to
the United States.
The first effect of the gas were
felt near the harbor, driving resi
dents of the district' from their ;
homes In panic, Troops were called
out and guided men, women and
(Concluded on Pnge 0, column 7) .
BREMEN FALLS "
IN TAKING OFF
St. Johns, N. P.; May 21 (IP The
trans-Atlantic airplane Bremen
damaged in an unsuccessful take-off
attempt from Long Point, Labrador,
Sunday, will be dismantled Imme
diately and sent by steamer to ths
United States, it was learned today.
Fred Metchoir, who was at the
controls when the airplane failed to
rise Sunday, and Dr. Louis Culslnier
of the Canadian National Airways
have decided to abandon the plan to
flv the craft out of the north.
Nothing definite is known as to
what caused the airplane to be
recked Sunday. Melcholr had made
parachute landing Saturday from
United States army plane and
was expected to fly to Plctou, N. 8,
to Join two army airplanes there.
It was considered possioieenre tnat '
(he Bremen did not have sufficient
loom for the take off and had nosed
over.
METHODISTS OPPOSE
MILITARY TRAINING
Kansas City, Mo May 31 VPh-A
strong declaration against compul
sory military training in the schools
of the United States was adopted
here today by the quadrennial gen
eral conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
The conference went on record as
high schools and to compulsory mili
tary training In colleges and unlver
opposed to all military training in
sltics.
merits of Maxwell's contention It Is
not Charlie's fault. He has, so far
as can be determined, made a per
sonal plea to every member of the
council.
Two weeks ago the council had
the zone petition before them on a
hearing, and sent It back to the
zoning commission on the ground
that the zoning ordinance gives the
commission no authority to take
cognizance of remonstrances; that
Its power In the consideration of
petitions for changes of zones la
limited by ordinance to the check
ing of petitions to determine U16
sufficiency of the number of prop
erty owners signing.
Any discretion in the matter of
allowing or denying zone changes,
by reason of subsequent remon
strances or for any other reason
"(ConciuUcd on fige 8," Column IT"