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CIRCULATION CLOUDY Tonight and Tuesday, probable showers west portion, fresh south erly winds. Local Max., 60; Min., 50; rain, .03; river, 3.0 feet; part clear; south wind. Dally average distribution lor the month ending May 31, 1929 10,284 Average daily net paid 9.913 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Anuqri O ;o nT" 42nd YEAR, No. 144 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY..JUNE 17, 192j.nrc PRICE THREE CENTS mm if mmiw WOMAN LOSES LEG AS TRAIN CRASHES AUTO West Coast Limited Hits Car on Market Street Crossing Mrs. Charlotte Hardy Badly Injured and Two - Qthers Hurt Mrs. Charlotte Hardy, 23, lost her left leg at the kne when light coupe in which she was riding Sunday evening was struck by the Southern Pacific's south bound West Coast limited at the Market street main line crossing. Two other occupants of the car. Ward Howe of Mill City, and his gin mend. Mrs. Hardy s sister. Miss Ruth Runde, of Mill City were both cut seriously about the head and shoulders. . Mrs. Hardy's right limb was badly mangled that doctors de clared it would have to be amputat ed, providing she recovered suffi cient strength to withstand the operation. The accident occurred when Miss Runde and Mrs. Hardy, who form erly resided in Salem, called here (Concluded on page 8. column 6) HOUSE PASSES $151,500,000 Washington (IP) Without a dis senting vote, the house Monday passed a bill appropriating $151, 500,000 for the new federal farm board. Only two short speeches were made against the bill, which was introduced by Chairman Wood of the house appropriations committee. Representative Hastings, demo crat, Oklahoma, said $150,000,000 for a revolving fund and $1,500,000 for administrative expenses were Inadequate, contending congress should appropriate the entire $500,- 000,000 authorized by the farm re lief bill. Representative Byrnes, democrat-Tennessee, also favored appropriation of the entire author ized sum. Although one hour's time was al lotted to discuss the bill, less than 15 minutes was used. The greater part of this time was consumed by Chairman Wood of the appropria tions committee In explaining that President Hoover thought the sum would be ademiate to start the fed eral farm board off In its work to solve the farm problem. The president's budget message reouesting the appropriation ar rived at the house a few minutes after the bill was passed. BLAST WRECKS IDAHO BUILDING Oransevllle. Idaho. UP Dynamite cas exploded in a deliberate attempt to wreck the Hickerson ouuaing in the main business section here bun. riu nluht and the lives of fifty per sons sleeping in apartments on the upper floor were impernea. The explosive was placed directly under the ice machine in the butch er shop of John Hans and wrecked the rear end of his establishment with property damage of $500. Oc cupants of the upper floor of the two story brick building were In manv cases thrown from their beds. Th explosion came at 11:45 and by midnight the place was filled with volunteer firemen, who soon discovered a second charge of pow der, fuse attached and fire laid. Had this charge, exploded deaths inevit ably would have resulted. 4 INCHES OF SNOW FALLS AT TRUCKEE Truckee, Cal., tin Snow, four inches deep, blanketed the landscape here and at lake Tahoe Sunday nigh. The snow fell throughout most of Sunday, while the tempera ture was around 34 degrees. High water In the Yuba river caused delay to the through service stage over Donner summit. The Pla cerville road to Lake Tahoe was re ported to be dangerous without the use of chains on automobiles, due to wet conditions. Good Evening! DON UPJOHN OFFERS Sips for Supper It's all clear now. Charlie Wilson in the famous say ing in his pamphlet that in the Willamette valley winter time is just like springtime, merely got turned around. Evidently, from present conditions, he meant to say that spring and summer are Just like winter, which, of course, amounts to the same thing. But. If you think this is anything, we went over to the coast Satur day and Sunday. While it didn't rain all the time over there, no body could tell when one rain ended and another rain commenced. They also told us the waves were running the highest lor any June In we don't remember how many years. We looked the waves over careful v llKunntr on niciung one out to" bring home and put in the back yard for the children to play with, but couldn't decide on which one we liked the best. On top of that we are not one of those parties who are always running around picking up a piece of nature here and there to clutter up the yard at home with. We are glad to see that the Port land ball club Is picking up a bit and got beat only 20 to 1 in a game with Hollywood. If Portland can keep whittling down the score a little more every game it may win a game by Christmas. We have never been able to find out Just what questions the sena tors asked Sinclair, but if they were as much damphool as some of the Questions they ask each other, no wonder he preierrea going to jan to answering them. A dispatch to the Oregonian says that 20 years ago John D. Boctte- feller's life was saved by recourse to a diet cf human milk. And hasn't he been milking a good share of the human race ever since? SUFFRAGISTS AT BERLIN CHEER CARRIE CATT Berlin, JP The entire assembly at the opening session of the ele venth congress of women's interna tional suffrage alliance rose as one woman today In tribute to Carrie Chapman Catt after a message from Mrs. Catt had been read by Miss Belle Sherwin, leader of the American delegation. The congress voted unanimously to cable Mrs. Catt expressing the hope that she would recover her health and "see the completion ol her great work." Mrs. Catt's message among other things said: "The most we hoped twenty five years ago was that somewhere, some day, women might vote. We never dreamed in twenty-five years the women of half the nations of the world would have the suffrage. Many of the women present who had been in the suffrage fight since the beginning were deeply stirred by a symbolic ceremony in which, to the strains of martial music, a pro cession of wlhte-clad girls holding aloft the flags of forty-three na tions marched up the steps of the Tribune and arranged the flags of the world in a frame behind Mrs. Corbett Ashby of England, presi dent of theUiance. The flags were presented by Mrs. F. Louis Slade of New York. The opening session was a bril liant spectacle in contrast with the small beginnings of the enthusiasts of twenty-five years ago. Mi SS AUSTIN HOME Wood burn Miss Julia Bell Aus tin returned Saturday from a week's visit at the home of her brother Captain Leland Austin at St. Hel ens and also at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wal lace Jones In Portland. Hawley Engineers Tariff on Bananas But Ignores Vetch While Congressman tlawley of Salenr, who drafted the tariff bill now before congress, succeeded in putting over a tariff on bananas and cocoanuts, farmers in his own home dis trict who are to a considerable extent dependent upon re turns from' vetch and rye grass seed are more or less gnash ing their teeth because the new bill as reported here so far, fails to show a requested Increase In the tann on the two commodities. What makes this a more bitter pill for the farmers of Hawley's own district to swallow Is the fact that this part of the Willamette ASKS SENATE TO CONDEMN MRS. HOOVER Blease Offers Resolution Protesting Entertain ment of Negroes Florida House Passes Measure Against So cial Policies Washington (LP) Entertainment of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of the negro congressman from Illinois at the White House last week was condemned In a resolution intro duced in the senate Monday by Senator Blease, democrat. South Carolina. The resolution asks Mrs. Hoover "to be careful whom she en tertains. Introducing of the resolution created an uproar in the senate with republicans managing to have the resolution expunged from the congressional record. Motions to expunge the resolu tion from the record were sponsored by Senators Edge, republican, New Jersey and Bingham, republican, Connecticut. Blease finally consented to have it withdrawn from the record, de- Concluded" on page 8, column 1) BORAH OPENS DEBATE TO LIMIT TARIFF REVISION Washington P) Debate on the resolution to limit tariff revision to agricultural and related products got under way in the senate Mon day with an opening statement by Senator Borah, republican .Idaho, author of the proposal, that the house had exceeded the republican Dlatform. promises in the bill it passed. "I look upon the tariff revision,' Borah said, "as part of the program for farm reHef which this special session was failed to consider. "My only purpose in offering this resolution is to have an understand ing whether we are to undertake a revision as part of that relief pro gram or whether we are to under take a general revision." - He said he wanted to determine whether the senate would treat re vision in good faith as a prime ele ment of farm relief or merely make it incidental to a general revision MURDER LAID TO BOOZE OFFICER Newport, Ark. (IP) First degree murder charges were filed Monday against Deputy Sheriff George Johnson, in connection with the liquor killing of Mickey Dillon, 22, El Pao, Texas, son of a Texas ranger captain. Dillon died In a hospital here from two bullet wounds inflicted Sunday night by the deputy when the youth tried to escape after ar rest on a charge of Intoxication and possession of liquor. County Prosecutor Hugh William son, who filed the first degree mur der charges, said Johnson had ar rested the youth and was taking him to Jail when Dillon broke away. The deputy fired two shots at a distance of not more than ten feet, both striking the youth in the back, Williamson said. valley Is the only place In the United States which produce these two seed crops. They be grown ex tensively here, particularly In Marlon and Linn counties and are used In the east and the south. The (Concluded op n,e S. column 1) PLANE CRASHES INTO CHANNEL; 7 LOSE LIVES Imperial Airways Pass enger Plane With 13 Aboard Dives Into Sea Six Aboard Are Women- Several Americans Are Among Those Lost Folkestone, England (LP) The Im perial Airways passenger plane City of Ottawa, with 13 persons aboard, plunged Into the English channel oil Dungeness Monday. Seven of those aboard lost their lives. Five others were brought ashore to a hospital. Six of those aboard were women, Several of the passengers were re ported to have been Americans. The plane was en route from Croydon airdrome, near London, to Paris on its regular trans-channel trip. Something went wrong r in mid-channel and the piloj. .turned back, sending out S. O. S.' calls by radio as he retraced his way to the English coast. Near Dungeness the plane crashed down Into the water. The sea was calm and boats hurried to the scene. The list oi those aboard was given out by Imperial Airways as follows: Mr. Colcom, Mr. and Mrs! Smith, Madame Boesinger, Mr. and Miss Fleming, Mrs. Ickeison, Mr. Meister, Miss Roberts, Mrs. Jaracki, Mr. Taham. Captain R. A. D. Ballari, pilot, and H. R. Barnett, mechanic. The nationalities of the passen gers had not been determined At first it had been reported that all aboard the plane were safe and had been taken ashore. Imperial Airways explained the error was based on the mistaken observations of one of their planes which flew over the scene, ?aw a trawler a long- (Concluded on page 8, column 3) TURN WATER FROM FILTER TO CITY MAINS An immediate improvement In the quality of Salem's water supply will be noticeable within a few hours, according to officials of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company who announced that water was turned Into the new slow sand filter at the island intake of the system Monday morning, and that the new supply would be turned Into the distributing system between 3 and 4 o clock Monday afternoon. Tests of the water sent through the filter during the morning showed it to be of A-l quality and entirely free of the taste and odor of which Salem people have been complaining for months. All of the water from the old filter crib will be cut off from the distributing system as soon as the new connection is made. The company officials also an nounced that an engineer to de sign the new permanent filter, to be located at an entirely new In take on the west side of the river above the city, has arrived in Salem and has started work on the new project. This filter will be of the forced-feed type and will be de signed to supply an adequate flow of water to meet all of the city's needs for years to come. As soon as the design has been completed work will start on the new project, which the company expect to com plete within a year. The total outlay by the company for improvements now contem plated and under way will be in the neighborhood of $300,000. $150,000 JEWELRY ROBBERY PULLED OFF Philadelphia, Pa., IIP) After bind ing and gagging two clerks and two customers in the Brooks Pawnshop Monday, six men robbed the safe ol more than $100,000 in Jewelry and cash and escaped. The men were be'jeved to have hidden themselves In the building over night. At least six policemen were direct ing traffic near the store during the hold-aj:. It wa ajU. Joseph Goodman, manager of the shop, freed himself within half an hour, released the three other men and notified police. Creating The "Metropolitan Aspect" JIM CHUNG TO BE MISSED m mm mm turn WHEN PAGODAS ARE SET UP HOOVER ACTS ON SLAYINGS BY DRY AGENTS Washington. (IP) President Hoo ver moved Monday to quiet the pro tests which have arisen during the past ten days over prohibition en forcement shootings. Finding on his. desk at the exec utive offices this morning a tele gram from a group of citizens at International Palls, Minn., asking for "protection" against over-zealous border patrol officers, the chief executive dropped all legislative and administrative business for a time to give personal attention to dis posal of the message. The International Palls telegram was a direct appeal to President Hoover for vigorous action to place responsibility for the killing of Hen ry Virkula, Big Falls, Minn., confec tioner, by Border Patrolman Em mett J. White. The telegram ended with the plea: "For God's sake, help us." Treasury officials declined to con firm reports that the White House had asked for a detailed report on tlie Virkula slaying, but it was learned that President Hoover con ferred with both treasury and jus tice department officials relative to possible course of procedure. While the whole matter of prohi bition killings was before the pres ident, two of the foremost dry lead ers of the nation were White House callers. They were Senator wesiey Jones, republican, Washington, au thor of the Jones "five and ten" law, and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal cnuitii south. QUAKE SHAKES NEW ZEALAND Wellington. New Zealand, UP) At least half a dozen lives were lost In a disastrous earthquake which rock ed northern New Zealand Monday. Four men were reported to have been killed by a heavy landslide which blocked the Westland river. Two other men were missing In the Westland district. Another man was killed at the Fall Rock cement works. The main tower of the boys' col lege at Nelson collapsed and the principal building was reported un safe for further habitation, several boys were Injured by falling mason ry, but none seriously. Cracks appeared In the walls of numerous business houses In the center of Wellington. The post office at Westport was badly damaged. A pupil at one of the Westport schools was seriously injured when one of them toppled over. It was necessary to amputate one leg. ALASKA ATTORNEYS Washington (tP The nominations of Julius H. Hart and Warren N. Cuddy to be United States attor ney, district of Alaska, divisions two and three reosectively. were vot ed favorable report today by the senate Judiciary committee, ine re port la conditional upon the approv al of a few members of the commit tee who were not present Monday. sb hb xi w As the staff artist has visualized the future when Salem will be equipped, with the $2500 Chinese pagoda pattern street intersection traffic controls a feeling of sadness comes over Salem people when they realize that Jim Chung went home too soon. It will be remembered, that Jim, after living here for half a century. endearing himself to the hearts ol the people and carving upon the aforesaid hearts a wilderness of ten der memories, still sighed for the land of his fathers, drew his savings from the bank, and went home to live the rest of his life and die In the air made sacred by his ances-, tors. Had Jim only waited. He could have saved his money, remained among the friends of his lifetime, and still could have gone down by the Ladd Ic Bush corner and smoked his pipe, dreaming that he had been transported on a magic (Concluded on page 8. column 3) JAP VOLCANO SPOUTS LAVA Hakodate, Japan (LP) K omasa- take volcano, 25 miles north of this city, broke into violent eruption Monday. Earthquakes followpd the eruption. The villages of Honbetsu and Tomesawa were partly destroyed. Some visitors to the hot springs re sorts at the base of the mountain were missing. The village of Shikabe, near the base of the mountain, was evacuat ed. The town of Sunshara was re ported in flames. Most of the Watershima peninsula was enveloped from the smoke from the volcano; which drifted south to the sea, enveloping Hakodate. Railway service was suspended and wires were down. The Onuma power station was closed for fear of disaster from the breaking of the high tension lines. With the cutting off of the power, tramway service In this city was suspended and all fac tories closed. Refugees crowded the railway sta tion at Mori and Umama near the scene of the eruption. Some were evacuated in .'.peclal trains before service was halted. LITTLE INTEREST IN SCHOOL ELECTION Little general Interest was being evidenced early Monday afternoon In the annual election of the Salem school district at which two direc tor are to be elected for three year terms. The polls in the W. C. T. U. hall at the corner of Ferry and Commer cial street opened at 2 o'clock and the voting will continue until 8 o'clock. Every man or woman over 21 years old who is qualified to vote in any state election and who has resided In the school district for 30 days Is entitled to vote at this election. The four candidates for the two directorship are E. FriU Slade, E L. Weider, Mark McCalllster and Dava Pugh. "- -""" - -"" vci?y sw - i m a DAWES CONFERS WITH M 'DONALD ON DISARMING London. fP) America's new am bassador, Charles O. Dawes, and Great Britain's new prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, have launched a new movement toward broad na val disarmament. In a luncheon at the little town of Forres, Scotland, I Sunday, Oeneral Dawes and Mr, MacDonald, arrived at an under standing which will prove the basis and beginning of negotiations for their two governments, joined by the other naval powers. Bare announcement of the accord between General Dawes and Mr. MacDonald was contained in a statement after their conference. The details, they said, would be left to two speeches, both to be deliv ered Tuesday night. The former vice-president will speak before the Pilgrims at London, Mr. MacDonald before the town council at Lossie mouth, Scotland. The prime minister, with his own hand, wrote out the summary of the conversation with the new ambassa dor. It said: "We have had a conversation re garding the present position of the question of disarmament as between the United states and ureal Bri tain. It has been informal and gen eral, and most satisfactory. "His excellency, General Dawes, proposes to refer to the subject at the Pilgrim's dinner on Tuesday night, and 1 shall do the same at Lossiemouth and that Is intended to be the beginning of the negotia tions. We both wish to make it clear that other naval powers are expect ed to cooperate in these negotiations upon the successful consummation ol which the lace oi we woria ae pends." DALLAS YOUTH ON WRECKED VESSEL Portland Included in the crew of the "Laurel," wrecked off the mouth of the Columbia river early Sunday morning, was Ira A. Harrison, 27, radio operator and freight clerk Harrison listed as his next of kin, Mrs. T. J. Harrington, box 128, Dal las, Ore. French Forgive and Forget and Idolize Stowa way In Paris Paris (UP) The American youth who staked his own life and endangered that of three others for the gloiy of 'sharing in a trans-Atlantic Monday, forgiven by the French government tor nis 1001 hardlnesa and cheered by the Pa-'- - ; , . " : - ."--i.-rlslan crowds for his audacity, iptetcd their trip to Paris Sunday Arthur 8chreiber. the Portland, night. Maine, lad who stowed away on the The tear that the youth would monoplane Yellow Bird and made (tet a cool reception here for ndn the flight from Old Orchard, Maine, fterlnir the lives of the three filers to the coast of Spain, was brought on their hasardous journey across lonr hv the French aviators Jean the Atlantic by addinf his extra ' Assolant, Rene LePevre and Ar-1 weight to the ship was quickly dia I meno Lottl, Jr. when they com- (Concluded on pr . co'umn D BIG STEAMER GOES ASHORE BREAKS APART One Member of Crew Lost and Many Hurt In Rescue Work Coast Guardsmen Battle Storm In Effort To Reach Survivors North HpaH Wmth HP Alt mom bers of the crew of the wrecked steamer Laurel had been removed shortly before noon Monday except Captain Louis Johnson who refused to leave the derelict after-part of the VAKXPI Whlrh tunn rmimrliniw n I spit Just outside the Columbia riv- SilC lilPmtVm Cif th mm n-Vtn, spent the night on the ship were rrmuvea oy me me saving crew of the Willapa harbor coast guard sta tion and - transferred to the coat cutter Redwing. Johnson refused to leave the ship despite the nleadinss of th rrui and the rescuers. Astorio. Ore (I Pi r.n man killed, 24 were rescued and seven were mougni sun aboard the after part of the steamer Laurel of the Quaker line as the coast guard cut ter Redwing, and the power lifeboat from the Willapa harbor coast guard station, prepared to attempt to res cue those still aboard. ... Eighteen of the men were brought here Monday morning bv the Red wing. Six were at the Fort- Canby life saving station on the Washing ton shore. The man who was drowned was Russell Smith, 19, of 20 Hotton street, Dorchester, Mass. rt)ur oi those brought here were (Concluded on "page, 9 "column 6) JAPAN AGREES TO COOPERATE IN NAVAL CUT Tokyo (JP) Japan's cooperation in any disarmament program negotia tions that Ambassador Dawes and Premier Ramsay MacDonald may have begun Sunday at Forres was promised Monday by Tanaka, pre mier, in a statement to The Associ ated Press. The premier said: "I cannot fail to be gratified at the report Pre mier MacDonald and General Dawes have had an important conversa tion which is to be regarded as be ginning negotiations among the powers concerned for the reduction of naval armaments. "Japan will be quite ready to offer cooperation in such negotia tions as she is always anxious to do her utmost to promote universal peace." Later, addressing Japanese news papermen. Premier Tanaka said that Japan welcomed the oppor tunity of further reduction in arm aments with a view to lightening the national burdens as well as, making a contribution to world peace. He expressed gratification that Premier Macdonald and Ambassa dor Dawes had emphasized the ex pectation that all the naval powers would cooperate. High naval officials received tho news with customary caution, a navy office spokesman merely re iterating in general terms Japan's oft repeated willingness to cooper ate fully in further reductions. flight was the hero of all Paris