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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1929)
C apital omraal CIRCULATION FAIR - tonight and Tuesday, cooler Tues day; gentle variable winds. Dally average distribution for the month ending May 31, i28 10,284 Average daily net Datd 0,919 Local: max. 88; rain. 48; rain 0; river 2.7 feet; clear, no wind. Member Audit Bureau ot Ct renin t Ion SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JUN & - "u,rl o ;o a 42nd YEAR, No. 150 DDII'P THRPP l'17MTS N rHAtXS .M aa uiuu Aiiuuu vuii STANDS MVK I KMI ia ran u Mill if CALIFORNIA GUESTSOFCITY AT LUNCHEON SO Members of Redwood , Empire Association En tertained by Cherrians Pleas Made by Speakers t For Abrogation Bound ary Lines on Coast About 50 members of the Redwood Empire association of California, traveling in a fleet of 14 automo biles, and accompanied by Oregon cavement entertainers from Grants Pass, were entertained by the Elem Cherrians at luncheon here Mon day. The party departed from here at 3 o'clock for Oregon City and Portland. The travelers were met at the new Smith river bridge by W. G. Ide, manager of the Oregon State Chamber of -Commerce, who is com pleting the trip with the caravan. At Medford the tourists were joined by C. E. "Pop" Gates, member of the Oregon highway commission, who is finishing the tour Into Can ada with the Calif ornians as a rep resentative of Governor Patterson. The. governor and Mayor Livesley were unable to attend the luncheon Monday, both being on the program at the Chamber of Commerce. The governor, however, accompanied the party from Smith river bridge to Roseburg. City Attorney Fred A. Williams, representing Mayor Livesley, wel- (Concluded6n 'page7, column 3) JONES BLAMES RUM RUNNERS . FOR SHOOTINGS Washington IU The desperate character of bootleggers and not prohibition, la largely responsible lor the recent series of killings by border agents, Senator Wesley Jones of Washington, declared In an In terview Monday, Author of the "five and ten" law five years In Jail and $10,000 for liquor law violators, Jones Is re garded as the dry leader In con gress. "The prohibition people are op posed to crimes of every kind," he told the United Press. "We regret the shootings Just as much as any one but I do not think any one has right to assume that the govern ment agents shot without provoca tion or without a good reason. II they did, they should be punished. "It must be remembered they are dealing generally with some of the most desperate men who do not hesitate to use firearms under any circumstances. "The shooting of people cannot be blamed on prohibition. It does sot provoke the shootings. It Is the desperate character of the men who are attempting to violate me law, which causes the shootings. 5VICTIW0F AIR ACCIDENTS Bv the Associated Press Five were killed In week-end air plane and parachute Jumping ex peditions. Two of the victims were parachute Jumpers who fell when their parachutes broke. At Cincinnati. Joe Hlte, a para chute Jumper; Homer Nosers, the pilot, and Harold Blddle were bumed to death when their plane dived rnd burst Into flames. E. J. Cain. 23 years old, a com- mercial fiver, fell 2.000 feet when his parachute rigging parted as he essayed an exhibition Jump at Al bemarle, N. C. VIOLENT STORM STRIKES MONTREAL Montreal, OP A violent storm that caused three deaths and heavy property damage Sunday night, marked the climax of eight days of Intense heat. The storm, sweeping the country south of the Lauren tian mountains, crippled communication lines, over turned automobiles and wrecxea farm buildings in Its path. At St. Anse de Vaudreuil, a sum mer resort, two men were drowned when their boats were overturned by the storm's sudden onslaught. Another person was drowned in Mis sisquot bay, 60 miles south of Mon treal, when a motorboat was overturned. Good Evening! " DON UPJOHN OFFERS Sips for Supper We never bad an ambition to have a million dollars up to last Saturday evening when Ed Blehn drove up to our house and deposited with us a crate or straw berries sent up by Marlon Cook from La- combe, said Marion being Lacombe s strawberry king. These berries were Marshall.; and not a box that had more than 15 berries In It. Returning to the million dollars. Now we intend to get in and earn that amount so we can leave It to Marion Cook in our will when we die. - We understand that Senator Hef- Hn Is going to call on God to assist him In making a man out of his son. That will be the first time those two have gotten together in a Joint enterprise. The most exhiliratlng pastime now open to local people for sum mer sports is riding up and down in the new courthouse elevator. We understand now why young ladles were hired as operators. Had an old man been put on and started on a trip to the third floor in the morning, he'd have died, been bur ied, his will probated and his estate closed before the elevator got back on the first trip. The Ug cities have their all night movies where one can go In to see a show and save a night's lodg ing. If a man wishes to sleep here in the daytime all he needs to do is to take a trip on the courthouse elevator from the first to the second floor. He can have time for a good nap, eat his lunch and wash up be fore the elevator even whistles for the next station. Barney Page took a boy up to Juvenile court In the elevator this morning to be tried for auto theft, and the boy could have served term in the reform school, come out reformed and have had time to be come mayor of the town and be elected deacon In the church before the trial even started. We hope no members of the county court make a mistake and try to go up in the eleva tor to work some morning or It will throw this year's road program over Into next year. Carl Logan has come back to work with all his teeth pulled out and his mustache looks like a sun ken garden. 'Charley McNary ha: a wild oat crop growing over a building," faid Carl. "That's nothing, pretty soon 1 11 have a mustache growing over a bridge." LIGHTNING BOLT FIRES CONVENT Montreal, MR Struck by light ning, the convent of the Sacred Heart at Sault Au Recollet was in ruins Monday. Fire, discovered half an hour after the flash of lightning had struck the metallic roofing, burned the structure Sunday. All of the occupants, including 22 convalescent nuns, escaped. The four story stone building and its contents were a total loss, estimated at si 000.000. The storm crippled fire alarms and telephone lines so that arrival of firemen was delayed. As the roof and floors fell, the walls crumbled until nothing re mained standing but a section of the front wall surmounted by a cross and a stuffed eagle. Four firemen were hurt. The convent, which was conduct ed by the Ladles of the Sacred Heart was widely known as an educational Institution. Agrees to Figh t In Justifiable War Only; Loses Citizenship New Haven. Conn. (AP) professor of theology in Yale promise to "defend the United btates against all enemies was denied American citizenship by federal Judge Edwin S. Burrows. Monday. Professor Macintosh reiterated his refusal to defend the country In any war except a "JusU-' fled war." in a 300 word written statement he expanded his views on the subject, saying that he "could" be willing to take up arms In de fense of the United States but he reserved his right to serve only when the cause Is Just." "I could swear allegiance to the OBJECTIONS TO TREATY VOICED BY STRESSMAN - Germany Will Not Stand . For Rhineland Board As Evacuation Price Declares Young Plan Im provement On Dawes' Plan for Germany Berlin, (JPi Foreign Minister Stressman told the Reichstag Mon day that Germany would not stand for the installation of a commission in the Rhineland as the price of its evacuation. At the same time he declared that President Von Hindenburg and the members of the cabinet would sup port the manifestations this week against the treaty of Versailles, es pecially the clause by which Ger many acknowledged sole guilt for the war. The foreign minister's statements weae made in the course of a speech replying to severe criticism by Count Westarp, leader of the nationalists. The foreign minister declared that the newly drawn up Young plan was a definite improvement over the Dawes plan from the viewpoint of the burden of Germany. As to Its future he said: "Nobody in the world can give an absolute guarantee as to its workability. The experts them- (Concluded on page 9. column 7) PROGRESSIVES PLAN TO FIGHT NEW TARIFF BILL Washington, P With the demo cratic-republican Independent move ment In opposition to the house tar iff bill apparently gaining momen tum, four schedules of that mea sure which are destined to be the subject of more or less intense con troversies In the senate engaged the attention today of sub-committees of the finance committee and scores of witnesses. Two of these schedules, wool and sundries, were open for testimony for the first time since the commit tee began Its publio hearings on the bill, while about 100 witnesses already had been heard on the oth er two, agriculture, and earths, earthenware and glassware. Most of the witnesses who have been heard thus far have appealed for great er Increases than the house voted in the duties on products with which they were concerned. The sundry schedule Is the one which contains the house proposal, adopted after considerable contro very, to place duties on hides, leath er, boots and shoes, now on the free list. This, with the similar proposal (Concluded on page 9. colu mn 7) SLIGHT RELIEF IN CALIFORNIA HEAT San Francisco JP) High fogs and gentle breezes were bringing slight relief to heat-ridden California Mon day. The weather bureau here an nounced that although high tem peratures continued to prevail over the southern portion oi the state, and in ihe Interior, the heat wave was gradually diminishing. At dawn, the mercury here registered 62 degrees, considerably lower than at the tame time in any of the last three days. Prof. Douglas C. Macintosh divinity school, who would not united States as .fully as to any country," he said, "and I know of no duty higher than that to my country. Judge Burrows then said that the president of the United States, must In time of war, have absolute power (Concluded on page 9, column 7 OREGON MUST PAYmfk g SBO SHI W ' In Rebuilt PIONEERING COST Oregon in the next few yeara will begin to pay the pen alty for having pioneered highway construction in the north west, Judge Kobert W. Sawyer, ot Bend, member or the state highway commission, told the chamber of commerce Monday noon. Koads more than adequate at the .beginning or tne highway program In 1917 are .noi- meeting present demands ana must, be widened and straightened out In many places, he said. There Is available lor highway construction this year In excess of $12,000,000 Judge Sawyer said. Au tomobile license fees are expected to yield about $5,175,000; the three cent gas tax $4,276,000; federal aid allocation $1,850,000 and about $550,000 from the forest highway fund. The last two allocations are annual ones, with the forest aid money being allocated on the basis of 62-38 with state funds up to highway construction costing $30, 000 a mile. When expensive bridge construction Is necessary the full 62 per cent Is available. In the case of the span over the Rogue river, announced last week, the bridge will cost the state approximately $250,- (Concluded on page 7, column 3) GUGGENHEIM TO ESTABLISH FREE DENTAL CLINICS New York UP) Announcement was made Monday on oenau oi Murry Guggenheim and ' his wife that they planned to establish free dental clinics for children in all five boroughs of New York. The announcement did not state the total amount of the foundation. It was said between ?3 ,000,000 and $4,000 ,0C 3 had been set aside r the construction, equipment and en dowment of the first unit In Man hattan. That clinic Is to be put in operation as soon as possible and comprehensive plan tor tne es tablishment of the others worked out. The organization, which Is incor porated as the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim foundation, has for its broad purpose the promotiou through charitable and benevolent activities of the well being oi tne world. The clinics will supply first dental service to children between two and 16 years. Dr. S. S. oold water, iormer neaitn commissioner, and Edmond A. Gug genheim, their son, are charter members of the foundation with Mr. and Mrs. Ouggenheim. Mr. Guggenheim Is a member of the family whose vast fortune was made .n the copper industry and Is an uncle of Harry F. Guggenheim. president of the Daniel Guggenheim fund for the promotion or aero nautics. FINAL TRIBUTE London UP) One of the greatest popular outpourings in English an nals for the funeral of a great man was witnessed Monday when final honors were paid to the late General William Bramwell Booth, former commander In chief of the Salva tion Army. The same motor car which carried him thousands of miles during his lifetime In many campaigns for "soul saving" bore his body Mon day on Its laH Journey from Salva tion Army headquarters to Abney Park cemetery in northern indon Tens of thousands of Londoners, heads bared, lined the streets along which the cortege passed from Lon don's financial center to the bury ing ground. A devoted army fol lowed the hearse, taking the same path the body of his father, Gener al William Booth, took in 1912 to a grave nearby where his ton i buried Monday. GETS BROKEN LEG IN AUTO SMASH Mrs. Dave Foster. Corvallls. suf fered a broken leg and received painful cuts about the head In an automobile accident in the Benin Hills district near Zen a about 5:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Fwter, with a companion, was driving down a steep, narrow hill road when she lost control or the car and it plunged from the road, through a fence and crashed head-on into a tree. She wo3 rushM to a Corvallte hospital In the Oolden ambulence l W. . KB SB Roads As METEOR FLASH SEEN ALL OVER THE NORTHWEST Salem ites drawn out. onto their lawns and porches Sunday night by the first comfortably warm evening of the year were treated to the spec tacle of a peculiar meteoric demon stration about 9 o'clock. A bright flash In the sky almost immediately above the city spread a momentary glare over the coun tryside and left a smoke patch so high in the heavens as to be illum inated by the sun. The smoke patch, visible for sev eral minutes, first appeared as a straight line and drifted before the breeze first into the form of a ques tion mark, and then Into a gradual ly expanding circle. Portland, Ore., (IP) An unusually brilliant meteor which left a lumi nous train which resembled smoke and remained In the sky for nearly half hour, was seen lost night from nearly all parts of the north west. The ball of fire fell about 8:50 p.m. but the "smoke" remained for about 25 minutes and many persons saw only the "smoke" and not the meteor Itself. Reports of the falling body were received from southern Oregon to Seattle and also east of the moun tains. Astoria, Ore., (IP) Many residents of Astoria witnessed nature's pyro technic display last night when a meteor was seen to fall about 8:45 o'clock. It took a direct course down ward in its flight, leaving a brilliant trail, only to fade quickly. At a first glance it looked like a sky rocket. FRESHMAN RACE Regatta Course, Poughkeepsle, N, Y., iA) Syracuse swept to victory in the two-mile race for freshmen eights which opened the intercol legiate championship rowing regatta here Monday. Making a runaway out of the race, the Syracuse yearlings who had been given only an outside chance to win, drew away from the field to win by three lengths from California which was second. Cornell was third, two lengths further back. The other four crews were Drettv well bunched but in the final drive the Navy's hard rowing pk-bes ap peared to come on fast to take fourth place, with Columbia fifth, Massachusetts Tech sixth and Penn sylvania seventh and last. The smooth strok.ng orange Jer- seyed yearlings from upstate New York pushed Into the lead at the start along with California, which was in favor Jointly with Cornell. Stroke by stroke the Syracuse lads pulhd away from the Golden Bear Cubs and the big red boat load and when they reached the bridge the only battle was over second place. The official times were: Syracuse 10:23 3-5 for the two mile course; California 10:33 3-5; Cornell 10:42. EUROPEAN EDITORS VISITING PORTLAND Portland (An European editors visiting the United States are much impressed with "everything Ameri can." Petro Petridls, owner of the Green Newspaper Agon, published In Paris and Athens, was spokesman Mon day for the group of eleven visit ing newspapermen. , The thing that has made the greatest Impression upon the group, M. Pet rid is said, is the fact that in American cities the business sec tion an:l residential districts are apart and to distinctly different. In old world cities the vat part of the population lives In the up per stories of business structures. The editors were Monday plan ning a trip to Lorgvkw. GROWERS ASK DOUBLING OF WOOL DUTY National Head Demands Substantial Increase In Duties Gray Urges Abrogation Of Reciprocal Treaty With Cuba Washington Substantial in crease in the duties of raw wool and wool waste, which would double and i treble some of the rates provided in the house tariff bill, were advocated before a senate finance sub-com mittee Monday by F. J. Hagenbarth, Spencer. Idaho, president of the national wool growers' association. The witness said It was necessary to have a higher rate on wool waste of all varieties, declaring wool Im ported last year displaced one-third the American production oi virgin wool. He asked that the Dresent : 31 cent a pound duty on raw wool. which the house Din raises to J cents, be further advanced to 36 cent. John E. Snyder, of the Hershey Chocolate corporation of Hershey, Penn., told the sub-committee on agriculture schedules, that he was opposed to the proposed duties on almond imports In the house tariff bill. He declared Imported almonds were superior in quality and said (Concluded on page 8, column 4) TRAIN ROBBERY AN INSIDE JOB SAYINSPECTORS San Francisco, UP) Convinced that the robbery of the Southern Pacific passenger train near Mc Avoy, Contra Costa county, Satur day, in which $16,000 was stolen, was an "inside Job." United States pos tal Inspectors Monday were tracing the activities of recently discharged Southern Pacific and Columbia steel mill employes. Proof that the three bandits, now believed to be ex-convicts, had "in side" knowledge of the $130,000 Co lumbia Steel company payroll, us ually carried in the express car of the train on Saturdays, was furnish ed by N. A. Becker, general super intendent of the mill at Pittsburg, who disclosed he had received a let ter requesting information about the payroll two weeks ago. He did not answer the letter, Becker said, but warned officials of the company, who sent the payroll to Pittsburg two days before the robbery. Police at Pittsburg reported the discovery of a suit of clothing in a house thought to have been occu pied by the robbers before the hold up. A tailor's label in the suit and other clues, which the postal in spectors refused to reveal, were con sidered important evidence that might lead to their capture. ON ESPEE RATES Brooklyn. N. Y., (IP) The Inter- state commerce commission Monday opened another hearing on the ap plication of the Southern Pacific company to lower its freight rates so that by a combination rail and water route It can compete with the all-water route by way of the Pan ama ttnal. W. A. Worthlngton, vice-president of the Southern Pacific company, holding company for the Southern Pacific railway, was the first wit ness. He said the Southern Pacific established its combination service years ago In the hope of getting a majority of the trans-continental freight. It operates steamers from New York to Galveston, Texas, and ships by rati on to the coast. Construction ot the Canal cut the Southern Pacific business severely and now It seek approval of rates on a par with those for all water route. Hearings have been held previous ly at Galveston, Los Angeles and other places. HOOVER RETURNS Washington, OP After an early morning start from his fishing pre serve in the Blue Ridge mountnira president Hoover motored back to Washineton Monday, arriving at the White House a few minutes before 10 o'clock. Wear Handcuffs Until Locksmith Can Be Located It's one thing to slip a pair of handcuffs over one's wrists and lock then, but It's en tirely aemetbtng ebe ts get them off again, especially when Um key Is missing. Bob by Velcbok, son i Abram Volcbok, l7t Sooth Cottage, found this out Monday. Play ing with a brother, Bobby slipped the . steel bracelets on over his wrists and click ed them shut. Then he awoke to the fact that there was. no key to unlock them. A pbone call was sent In for a locksmith, but the only one available was reported out of town. 8o Bobby came down town, handcuffed, to wait the return of the man who would set him free again. WOMAN KILLED 3 INJURED IN 'FRISCO BLAZE San Francisco, (JP) One woman was killed, three persons were hurt, and a woman was rescued from a third story ledge by firemen early Monday morning, In a three alarm fire caused by an explosion of gas in an Ellis street apartment house. Eighty persons were driven to the street in night attire, while the flames, fed by leaking gas, spread throughout the building and threat ened to destroy an entire block. A woman believed to have been Mrs. Mary T. Johnson, a hospital dietician, was overcome by smoke and fumes, and died in Central Em ergency hospital. Mrs. Emily Miller was overcome and was taken to the same hospital, where It was said she probably would recover. Hugh McCrite, a roomer, was so startled when awakened by the crackling flames, that he leaped out of bed and fell, breaking two ribs and an arm. A passerby, John Spain, was severely cut about the hands when he crashed through a first floor window In an attempt to res cue some of the occupants trapped by flames. Fighting her way through flames with her retreat down a stairway blocked, Mrs. Anne McHugh, reach ed a window and crawled out on a ledge where she was rescued. The Interior of the building was completely destroyed. Firemen wen searching the ruins for other pos sible victims. Damage was estimated in excess of $25,000. SNOOK ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA Columbus, Ohio, (fpy Dr. James H. Snook, dismissed university pro fessor and confessed slayer of The ora Hlx. student at the university. pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder Indictment when arraigned Monday morning in criminal court. On the request of County Prose cutor John J. Chester, Jr., Judge Robert P. Duncan, set July 22 as the date for trial. The early date was fixed over the opposition of E. O. Rickets, one of Snook's attorneys, who said the defense would not have time to prepare its case. Dr. Snook entered his plea of not guilty himself. Speaking in a clear and calm voice he answered: "Not guilty." He was brought before the Judge handcuffed to another man under Indictment for first degree murder Albert C. Gunning, Columbus, al leged wife slayer. This was the first time In the history of Franklin county criminal procedure that two men handcuffed to each other were brought before a Judge to plead, Gunning also pleaded not guilty. Suspect Firebug Cause of Three Fires At Salem Heights Presence of a firebug in the Salem Heights section just south of Salem is suspected bs a result of the third serious fire in that district in the Inst year, the latest victim being Joseph Kasberg, whoso eight room two-story home was burned to the giound about 9:30 o'clock Sunday evening. In all three Instances the dwellings were unoccupied or apparently so. Kasberg was alone in the house at the time and was sleeping upttalrs when he was awakened by smoke. He was blocked from using the stairway by the smoke and returned to his room, throwing only a few articles and following them through SHIP REPORTS DEBRIS SIGHTED IIEARAZORES Spain Dispatches De stroyers and Airplanes To Seek Fliers Nothing Heard Since Ear ly Saturday Fear Dis aster Met Horta- Azores UP) As the da? wore, on, Horta was still without word ot the Spanish fliers under Major Ra mon Franco who hopped off front Cartagena last Friday morning tot; New York by way of the Azores. . Madrid VP) Alarmed by the dls appearance ol Major Ramon Fran co and three companions on a flight to New York by way of the Azores, the Spanish authorities Monday dispatched destroyers and airplane to scour the sea between the Span lsh coast and the Azores. The Spanish government was) particularly eager to run down ft report from the British merchant ship Grelden stating that this ship saw airplane wreckage iioaiins in the sea about 100 miles off the Azores. There were, no personal aboard. As soon as. this report was re ceived the ministry of the navy dis patched five destroyers from Fer roll with orders to patrol the dis trict northeast of the Azores In th hope of finding this wreckage, whose Identity was not established definitely by the Grelden. The destroyers sent on this duty were the Alsedo, the Sanchez, tha Barcalztigue. the Velasco and th Lazaga. In addition to sending outthlj (Concluded on page fl.'column MOUNTAIN IN NEW ZEALAND DISAPPEARS London (IP Wellington, N. Z dispatches to the London Telegraph, revealed Monday that as a result) of the recent earthquakes, Mount Stevens, nearly four thousand fees high, disappeared completely. Slopes have Leen levelled, trees destroyed; and the water supply at Westport cut off. Diphtheria, the report said, was making heavy Inroads at Kar amea. Wellington, New Zealand tlP The complete evacuation of the en tire Murchison district was under way Monday as the result of re newed earth tremors which have terrorized the populace. Practically all the Inhabitants of the adjoining valleys have flocked into Wellington. Most of them fled, in such haste that they left behind even what was not destroyed by tha quakes and had nothing except tha clothing they were wearing. Two severe tremors shook tha district Sunday, one of them so powerful that the light al Fare well Cape was extinguished. Pre vious quakes had been felt in the Murchison, Taka and Westport districts on Saturday afternoon. London ftP) Dally mall dispat ches from Chrixtchurch, N. Z Mon day staled that 31 earthquake shocks occurred there within eight hours Saturday, two of which were as severe as the Initial shock which, rocked the countryside lost Monday. The reports said the populace walk ed the streets throughout Satur day night, fearing to enter ths buildings. the window to the ground. Mrs. Kasberg and one of the boys were at a nclifhbora while several 01 the girls returning from a picnic ar rived home in time to see the flames. Hundreds of motorists were attracted to the scene by the blaze. "(Concluded on pce 9, column 1
