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apitfidiiJoiRnial.- CIRCULATION Dally avenge distribution (or the month ending Ma; 31, 1829 10,284 Average dally net paid 0,918 Member Audit .Bureau of Circulation FAIR tonight and Thursday but unsettled with probably showers. Mild temper ature. Southerly winds. Local: max. 75; mln. 51; river 9.1 feet. No rainfall. Wind south. 42nd YEAR, No. 152 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS UN rKAlNH AMI .r tiTANim rivr im rfi i flPft mm NORMAL DROPS USE OF HOME FOR TRAINING Withdrawal of Children For Work in Fields In terferes With Teachers Greenwood School in Polk County Selected As Training Center Die board of regent of state nor mal schools voted Wednesday to drop the children's farm home near corvaiiis as one ox the teachers training centers for the Monmouth normal school. This was on recom mendatlon of President J. 8. Land ers of the Monmouth normal. One reason for the recommenda tion was that the superintendent of the farm home -vas said to exercise too great freedom in withdrawing Inmates of the homi from school whenever it is desired to have them work in the fields. "In the week Jul- closed." said Landers' report, the upper grades were out or school lour days and the superintendent desired the teacher of this room to withdraw from the work and leave the room vacant. Things of this sort are be- in done without any regard to the needs of the students of the normal school sent there to do practice teaching." Another reason given was that living quarters for the student (Concluded on page 10. "column 8) AUTO OUTPUT FOR YEAR BEATS ALLRECORDS Washington, ( World auto mobile production set a new record to 1928. The department of commerce an nounced today that the total pro duction last year was 6.203,139 ma chines, combined output of the United States and Canada was 4, 601.141, an increase of 1.020.761. De creases were reported for England Spain and Denmark. This indicates that the Industry Is approaching what might be termed a stabilised condition, that is, each year an increasing percent age of production is being absorbed in the form of replacements. Unit ed States and Canadian exports alone, totaling 586,498, almost equal the combined production of the balance of the world which num bered 601,998. The production of passenger cars, trucks and busses in the United States and Canada during 1928, which was the highest ever record ed, amounted to 4.601,141. White this was a gain of 1.020,761 over 1927, the 1928 production was only 95,280 in excess of 1926. LIQUORPRICES Memphis Tenn., 0P More than 70 persons were in Jail here Wed nesday because federal prohibition agents have determined to "raise the price of liquor in Memphis to the national level." Forty-two agents started out early Tuesday with thick sheafs of war rants sworn out by under-cover ag ents, and by nightfall all the Jails In the city were crowded. Colonel A. W. Mays, of Louisville, district prohibition administrator was in charge and had cooperation of local and county authorities. "We are going to raise Memphis liquor prices to the level of the rest of the country," Colonel Mays de clared. "Liquor has been to cheap and too plentiful here." PLANE FLIES 6000 MILES FOR hliCORD Minneapolis, Minn. (LP) A new .oiid record for continuous miles of flight was claimed by Owen Haugh land and Thorwald Johnson as they passed the 76 hour mark at 9 a. m Wednesday in their projected en durance record flight. Sponsors of the fllrht declared the Minnesota fliers already had travelled more than G.0O0 miles in their Miss Minneapolis which was flown on a triangular course be tween twin cities, Hastings and Northfleld. The present continuous mile record is said to be 3,200 miles. Haugl. and and Johnson began their endurance record attempt at 6:02 a. m. Sunday. They have re fueled in the air several times e:. day. Good Evening! DON UPJOHN OFFERS Sips for Supper Under the proposed ordinance making folk who eat in restaurants take all contents of bottled goods from the original containers and suck them through a straw, wc fig ure there'll be a great falling on in the use of mustard, catsup and horseradish. Taking mustard and catsup out of a bottle through a straw wouldn't be so bad, with an A No. 1 straw without any kinks in it. But we figure if a man wants a good en joyable meal of horseradish it's i darned wasteful, unsatisfactory way of getting it by trying to hist it up to the epiglottis through a straw. Its apt to cause the main feed line to oe stopped up and just as a man is getting a good sip of it the fource of supply is cut off. We suggest for the benefit of Salem merchants that Charley McNary's oat crop over the Gem Cafe on South Commercial street be harvested and con verted Into straws for restaurant use. This would be a saving of money, boost the use of home products, and also get rid of the oat crop. Leave it to as to be always in the forefront In advancing the interests and civ ic pride of our fair city. BIO SCOOP BIG SCOOP ELEVATOR AVIATORS MISSING Local People Last Heard of Tues day Great Anxiety Felt Great anxiety is felt about the city over the fate of a Salem dele gation starting out Monday morning in the new courthouse elevator on a pioneer expedition promising to make the first non-stop flight from the basement to the top floor. Load ed with provisions for three days, with plently of gas aboard, the radio sending machine working perfectly and an expert elevator aviator at the controls, friends of the group felt little anxiety as the party gay ly started off on the beautiful Mon day morning with high hopes and aspirations. Radiograms came through constantly advising of progress when suddenly the words from out the ether ceased, the last report received late Tuesday even ing saying t.ie elevator was making good progress between the first and second floors although bucking strong headwinds and hitting air pockets. Prom then on silence has reigned. Under good headway the elevator should have reached the top some time Thursday afternoon, but watchers at the second floor report there Is no sign of it and somewhere In the vast recesses be tween the firs'; and second floor the elevator and Its crew are facing un known perils and hardships. If nothing is heard by midnight tonight, it is probable the county will borrow some of the city's fire ladders and send out a rescue crew. The fact that Miss Theresa Kirrch, operator at the controls, carried with her a book by Horatio Alger, Jr., entitled "Slow and Sure," is the one bright spot which gives heart to the waiting, anxious relatives and friends. SANDINO TO LIYE IN YUCATAN STATE Mexico City, P) The department of interior announced Wednesday, Augustlno Bandino, former Nica raguan Insurgent leader, would take up his residence in the state of Yu catan, probably at Merida. The department's announcement said: "Augustlno Sandino has solic ited permission to come to this coun try to reside In Yucatan. The Mexi can government has not considered it inconvenient to grant this permis sion which is In accordance with Mexican law as well as international custom which permits the citizens of any country to establish them selves honestly in another." Late Season Brings Special Values For Annual Bargain Day With merchants laying in fall supplies, a late summer season and very little if any spring weather, it is apparent that consumers in the Salem district will greatly benefit from the merchandise offered by many of the leading retail stores in the city at the 12th annual bar- gain day event which will De ob served Friday. While much of the merchandise Is first class and the retailers hate to part with It at give-away prices, room must be made for expected arrivals and also seme of the older stock gotten rid of at once. Broken sizes and odds and ends will be PORTO RICANS PROTEST NEW SUGAR DUTIES Increase Described as Prohibitive to Industry In Dependency Pleas Heard for Reten tion of Proposed Tariff On Hides Washington, (JP) The tariff du ties to be imposed upon sugar and hides, commodities affecting every household and each individual, were taken up for consideration today by subcommittees of the senate fi nance committee. Rates to be placed on these art icles precipitated a storm of con troversy when the tariff measure was before the house and the dis pute now has been transferred to the senate where arguments pro and con again are being heard. Although not listed to be reach ed until Friday, the hides schedule was taken up unexpectedly today to hear two of several dozen witnesses who have asked to be heard on the subject and the first of these, P. E. Mollin, Colorado, urged that the rate of 10 per cent ad valorem, proposed in the house measure, be retainea, Before another subcommittee. Prank A. Dillingham, of New Jer sey, representing the association of sugar producers of Porto Rico, head ed the long list of those waiting to discuss sugar duties. He described as prohibitive as far as the island was concerned tne increase irom si to $3 a ton on sugar cane as recom mended in the house measure. E. B. SpiUer, Port Worth, Texas, representing Texas and the south western cattle raisers' association, (Concluded oo page 10. column 7) STOWAWAY OF YELLOW BIRD ARRIVES HOME New York. UP) Thr. surwaway of the Yellow Bird, Arthur Schrelber of Portland, Maine, returned to Am erica aboard the Leviathan Wednes dayfirst class attired In extreme cut French clothes but with little to say about himself or his uninvited trio. He was met at Quarantine by his father, Morris Schrelber, Portland fur worker, with whom he exchang ed affectionate greetings and then he posed, with his father and by himself, for several photographs. The youth had nothing to say about his future plans. All he wished now, he said, was to get back home and see his mother. The French clothes he wore were purchased for him by Armeno Lotti, backer of the Yellow Bird flight and one of her crew of three that flew from Old Orchard, Maine. Schrelber started home from France In a second cabin but was shifted to first class on the voyage. Money for his better passage was furnished by his father. Aside from his father and the photographers and reporters there was no one to meet tne stowaway. The elder Schrelber said he and his son would leave for Portland during the day. DAWES A DOCTOR Oxford, England. (IP) Ambassador Charles O. Dawes Wednesday re ceived the honorary degree of doc tor of civil law from Oxford uni versity. Spanish Ambassador Mer ry Del Val aL'O received an hon orary doctorate of civil law. A large and distinguished audience crowded the famous Sheldonian theater to see the degrees conferred. offered at highly attractive figures and thousands. If experiences oi the past can be taken for a guide, are expected to take advantage of this opportunity. Nearly every line of merchandise la offered this year and a wide ranee exists from which a selection (Concluded on page 4. column 3 HEALTH RULES HIT Stores and aa va ano us) a 6a ms a? . CANNERIES A JOLT - By HARRY N. CRAIN Masked behind the professed purpose ot providing ma chinery whereby the health authorities may "clean up" a few allegedly unsanitary small restaurants and cafes in the city there lies in the proposed sanitation ordinance a threat of senseless and impracticaole food establishments" employing probably 5,000 peolpe either regu larly or seasonally In Salem. If the proposed ordinance, as drawn and approved at a meeting of six health officials and three restaurant men one evening recent ly, is enacted the 3,000 men, women, boys and girls employed in the can neries here during the peak of the season will be required to undergo medical examalnatlons at tne nanas of the city health officers or his regular deputies. Nor would a single examination during the two or three months that most of these workers are em ployed be sufficient. Every time they changed then- place of employment from one can (Concluded on page 10. column 4) DRUNK FIRES SHOTS AT PRIEST BEFORE ALTAR Chicago, (JF Fifty early morning worshippers were tnrown into panic as a drunken man tottered down the aisle of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church today and fired three shots toward the priest as he administered communion. The third shot struck a kneeling parishioner In the hip. The man then turned the weapon upon him self, the fourth bullet grazing his scalp. The priest saved nimseir oy dropping to the floor as the shoot ing began. The assailant, Charles O. Faster, 45, was arrested. Befuddled by liq uor, he thought himself mortally .wounded. "I wanted to finish him and fin ish myself," he muttered. "I'm not a Catholic, but you can give me the sacraments If you want to.1 Foster's wife said he had been drinking heavily. She could offer no exnlanatlon for the act The communicants saw the drunken man stagger toward the al tar, but no one moved toward him. Then he took a seat in a pew, sat there a moment and as the priest, the Rev. Father A. E. Keenan, began to attend the communicants he drew a pistol and fired two shots in quick succession. Then a third shot was fired, wounding Richard Murphy. The priest and most of the parishioners had dropped to the floor, and as Foster pointed his wea pon at his own head an occupant of the same pew grappled with him and disarmed him. Father Keenan said he had never seen Foster before. SALEMlTElHOT DURING BRAWL Portland. Ore., (IP Wakefield Eubanks. 38. Salem, a longshoreman was In Emannuel hospital Wednes day, suffering from two bullet wounds which police say he sus tained at a beer party at au'.a Cherry street. Jack Rhoads, 36, who lives in a house at the rear of that address. was held for questioning but denied any knowledge of the party or shoot ing. The house in wnicn tne party was held was unoccupied when po lice arrived there but several dozen fuU and empty bottles of beer and disarranged furniture bore mute evi dence of a brawl. Rhoads claimed that he heard two shots and ran out of his home, find Ing Eubanks In the yard. He called an ambulance. Eubanks haa been working In Longvlew, Wash., as a longshore man. He came here several days ago. WESTERN BANKER FOR FARM BOARD Washinaton AA The business man or banker to bs Appointed to the federal farm bosrd will probably come from the northwestern tier of states. This was made known at the White House Wednesday aloni with Lhe news, that Mr. Hc3er vn mak ing satisfactory progress to.vnrd the naming of the farm board r.i mDrr.' and it was indicated that some ol the names probably would bs ncunced d'.:rln the rrfk. Hands in regulation 01 some auu or ouu CATHOLICS OF NATION MEET HERE JULY 13 Portland IP) Arrangements were completed and committees named here Tuesday night for the 74th an nual national convention of the Catholic central society of America which will meet this year in Salem on July 13, 14 and 15. The society met last year at at. Cloud, Minn., with 30,000 delegates attending. This year the meeting will take place on the state fair grounds in Salem. Tne mn annual conven tion of the Cathollo women's union will be held at the same time. The celebration of pontifical high mass at an open air altar at the fair grounds will mark the joint observ ance of national Catholic day, Sun day, July 14. Delegates from every state In tne union will attend the Salem meet ing, It was said Tuesday night. More than 500 will arrive on a special train from St. Louis. Arrangements for the convention are In charge of Frank Saalfeld, Salem, president of the Oregon section ot the central society, and August Moormann, and Dave O'Hara, vice-presidents; John Meyer, secretary, all of Salem, and Andrew C. Weber, treasurer, of Portland. LAND GRANT OF NORTHERN LINE IS FORFEITED Washington UPi A bill removing 2,800,000 acres of national forest land claimed by the Northern Pa cific railway from operation under the Land Grant acts was signed Wednesday by President Hoover. Under the act, the United States retains the title to the lands in question. All unsatisfied Indemnity selection rights, if any exist, claim ed by the company, together with all claims of additional lands Dy virtue of grants made to the rail roads are declared forfeited. The act. however, has no effect upon the present title of the railway to the right of way acquired under the grant or lands used by the com pany in the operation of its roads, or such as lands used for depots, station buildings, work shops, ma chine shops- and for similar pur poses. Under the act the attorney gen eral is directed to institute proceed ings to make secure the aim of tne legislation which is to reserve a large amount of forest land claimed by the railway to the government the theory that it cannot De used by the railway for the purposes for which it wa; given. LOW TO ENFORCE WEED CUTTING Patience has ceased to be a virtue, Insofar as it pertains to property owners and their crops of tall grass and weeds in various parts of the city, stated Walter 8. Low, city street commissioner, Wednesday, and from now on there Is going to be more action and less talk. He has been extremely lenient with persons who have neglected to clean up their parkings ana vacant lots as required by ordinance, ne says, henceforth the owners are to to be notified and If they fail to act. the city will. The city ordinance covering the matter is very specific. It reads in part: 8ec. 1. It Is hereby declared to be the duty of every property owner, . . . to cut close to the ground and remove or destroy all weeds, thistles, grass or other rank vegetable growth. Section 3 reads: "Any person who shall violate the provisions or wis ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than 5 nor more man 25, or by Imprisonment In the city 'Jail not to exce.-d 10 dayv LUTHERANS OF WORLD MEET, COPENHAGEN King of Denmark Attends Opening of Second World Convention Swedish Archbishop De clares Zulofly on Gos pel of Martin Luther Copenhagen (JPi The second Lu theran woild convention opened here Wednesdry in the presence of thou sands of delegates and visitors from all parts of the world, and of King Christian of Denmark. Divine service was held In the Copenhagen Cathedral with a ser mon by Bishop Ostenfeld of Co penhagen. The very Rev. Nathan Soderblom of Upsala, archbishop of Sweden, opened the regular sessions with an address to the delegates and visi tors, among Wi.om were hundreds of Americans from all over the Unit ed States and Canada. The archbishop declared that when Martin Luth-r nailed his ninety- five theses on the church door at Wittenberg, he had not the inten tion of forming a new church or (Concluded on page 10, column 0) FIVE HELD FOR SLAYING NIGHT CLUB OWNER New York UP Five persons, one of them a young woman, were ar rested Wednesday as material wit nefses in the slaying of Frank Mar low, night club owner. Police Com missioner Whalen announced that homicide Indictments would be sought against two unidentified men. The commissioner said detectives had traced Marlow's movements up until 4ft minutes of the time when he was found fatally wounded Mon day night near a cemetery at Flush ing. Long Island. Those arrested, an of whom were said to have spent the afternoon and early evening in the company of the slain night club owner, were Johnny Wilson, former middleweight boxing champion; Edward M. Lewis, known as "Boston Louie," a gamb ler, of Boston; Al Siegel, a dancer of Coney Island; Ignatius Coppa, proprietor of a West 62nd street restaurant where Marlow dined shortly before his death, and Mary Seiden, of Coney Island. Two night club hostesses, Betty "Mickey" Farley, 19 years old, and Billle Burke, her roommate, who had been questioned for several hours by the police, were released from custody. The Farley girl denied she had seen Marlow on the day of his murder. LINDY INSPECTS AIR STATIONS Columbus, Ohio, P) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's program before he continued his transcontinental air journey with his bride, the former. Anne Morrow, Wednesday bore out his statements that the trip is pure-1 ly for business reasons. Lindbergh is hard at worr,- ne said, on a flight of final Inspection before the formal opening July 8 of the air-rail system of the Trans continental Air Transport, to which he is technical advisor. Wednesday he faced numerous conferences with company officials and a survey of Port Columbus, eastern air-rail Junction of the line, before he con tinued the Journey. The trip in his open plane will carry the Lindberghs via Indian apolis and other stations by easy stages to the coast. He will serve a pilot on the first eastward flight from Los Angeles to Winslow, Ariz., when the line is opened. SEEK RELEASE OF CAPONE FROM JAIL Philadelphia, JP A petition for a writ of error was filed In the munic ipal court Wednesday for the pur pose of having "Scarface" Al Capone, Chicago gangster, released from the Hnlmthiit-ff rmintv tall where he is serving a one year s sentence for I carrying a itmueu pmioi. Radio to Enter Movie Field to Rule Industry Chicago, (P The Chicago Daily Journal today quoted Leon Rubinstein, a represen tative of the Radio corpora tion of America, as declaring that negotiations for an affil iation of Fox and Zukor film interest with the Radio Corporation had been broken off and that radio would now enter the movie industry com petitively, and Its program in the movie field would be to "dynamite all competition. We will buy and build theaters. What competition we cannot swallow into our organisation we will dynamite out of the field. "Mr. Fox and Mr. Zukor prefer to remain in the pic ture business. That Is the reason the deal is off. FRENCH FLIER'S YANKEE DRIDE REACHES HAVRE Havre. France. WV-Pauline Par ker, new Madame Jean Assolant, was welcombed to France with an air plane salute Wednesday while her husband and his two comrades of the Yellow Bird bent low and kissed her hand. When the He de France, bearing the American wife of Assolant, came Into Havre, a military plane with Assolant's friends aboard flew to meet her and circled low while the gangplank was lowered to allow the American bride, her arms full of roses, to be the first to land and to be greeted by her husband. The three fliers were the only ones who knew the bride, so after their greeting came the formal pre sentation of the officers and friends. They had planned to fly to Duclair on the river Seine, but military reg ulations forbade a woman going aboard an army craft. Consequently Assolant and his bride went by au tomobile. Madame Assolant was shielded by her husband from too much ques tioning, but she insisted on telling how glad she was to be with her husband. Asked if she was going to settle down In France she replied that she would live wherever her husband wished to live. KNEE CREECHES DISCARDED BY H ELL' N MARIA London A Ambassador Dawes will abandon the example set by certain of his predecessors, and will not wear tilk knee breeches and pat ent leather shoes with silver buckles at his presentation to Queen Mary at the Third Saint James' court Wednesday night. Instead the American, a former general t unetimes called affection ately "H-ll N Maria" Dawes, will wear plain swallow tail evening dress. Both former ambassadors, George Harvey and Alanson Hough ton, donned knee breeches for court functions. No reason was assigned by the sources revealing the former vice president's Intention, which was in defiance of the convention laid down by the Lord Chamber., in's office. In the caves of Ambassadors Har vey and Houghton their compliance with the old world formality oc casioned considerable comment In America. The ambassador and his wife met both Queen Mary and King George when General Dawes presented his credentials recently, and Wednes day night's uttendance at the court will be merely in compliance with formality. Plant Thief Caught In Act of Robbing Garden of Flowers Officers think thov may good share of plant theft and plained of for some time, by the arrest at an eariy nour Wed nesday by Officers James and Winterstcin of Waller E. Downing who operates a small plant and bulb nursery nt 21st and State streets. Downing when discovered had just hidden two delphinium plants which he had thrown behind a hedge at the Sally Bush residence on Mission street and which h- afterwards admitted to the olll cers he had stolen from the gar dens of D. H. Upjohn at M South Liberty street. By coincidence It was discovered the two plants wcro of the choicest ones In the ganlen- RATIFICATION COMPLETED BY PACHR3 Japan Privy Council Ap proves Kellogg Treaty Outlawing War Count Uchida Resigns as" Result of Interpreta tion Attached Tokyo, UP) In an unusually strained atmosphere the privy conn ell, presided over by the emperor. Wednesday finally approved the) Kellogg anti-war pact. The approval was given without reservations but an interpretative declaration was attached regarding the hotly contested phrase, "in tha name of their respective peoples" which according to many members of the privy council violated the em- peror's constitutional prerogative. It was understood Count Uchida, who signed the pact in Paris, strong ly contested the necessity of attach ing either reservation or interpre tative declaration but he was over ruled and haa resigned from tha privy council. Count Uchida, who has a long and dlstinguisned record In the Jap anese foreign service, represented Japan at the historic signing la Paris of the Kellogg pact. Japan's ratification of tha signa ture met difficulties, however, when the opposition entered strong objec tion to the phrase "in the names of (Concluded on page 11, column sT" BISHOP'S STOCK DEALS HELD AS SPECULATIVE New York A1) The trading ac count of Bishop James Cannon, Jr of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, was described as speculative in testimony on record today in th bankruptcy hearing of Sable and company. C. W. Kable, who lent his name to the brokerage concern while he did clerical work for $35 a week, was examined at length yesterday con cerning the relations of the South ern churchman with the firm. Ho was shown photostatic copies ot ledger sheets bearing entries of tha bishop's deals. "Don't you see from that account that the stocks were not held and that it was really a speculative ac count," he asked. "Yes,'' replied Kable. Harry L. Goldhurst, who employ ed Kable, testified Monday that) Bishop Cannon bought stocks) through his firm on a part pay ment plan. The bishop recently said in Washington that his dealings with the company had been part payment stock purchases for in vestment. Kable said Goldhurst had full charge of Bishop Cannon's account and that he was nothlnr more than an office boy to the bishop. He said the bishop kept in close touch with the stock market and once when he made a trip to South, America left with Goldhurst a 11: t of places where he could be reached. Washington, (H It Is now First Lieutenant Herbert Hoover, Jr. The son of the president Wednes day was given that rank in the spe cialist reserve of the army. The name of the son ot the presi dent moved through the machinery of the war department In the usual way and the appointment was an nounced along with 500 others. have located the cause for a vandalism which has been com and had been taken from separata places as II they had been selscted on their merits. James and Wlntersteln, operating In the prowler car along Mission street shortly alter midnight, saw a figure duck behind a hedge at the Bush place. They Jumped from the "l(:(MirUiMcd oil mi. 4. column 3)