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Newspaper Page TextX CIRCULATION Dally average distribution for the month ending May SI. 1828 10,284 Average dally net paid 9,919 Membet Audit Bureau of Circulation CLOUDY tonight and Friday, continued mild. Gentle to moderate winds, mostly southerly. Local: max., 80; min. 48; no rain fall; river 2.0 feet; wind north. 42nd YEAR, No. 153 SALEM, OREGON,' Y. JUNE 27, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS SJ.SSKSWS-.Wi? I 'FARM 1 i IK PRUNE RAISERS AGAIN TALKING ORGANIZATION Holding Pools Proposed To Enable Growers to Profit by Rising Market Restriction to Stabilize Prices Sought, Meeting To be Called Soon Organization of the prune grow ' ers of the Willamette valley, Doug las county and Clarke county, Wash., Into some form of a holding association which will enable the growers to take advantage of the speculative nature of the prune market this year Instead of being required to sell for what they can get, Is again being agitated. Tried repeatedly in past years without success the movement to ward organization this year Is launched under more auspicious conditions. In that the demand for such a pooling association so far has come from the growers themselves and not from the professional or ganizers whose activities in the past have been colored with the suspi cion that they were more Interested in creating jobs for themselves than profits for the grower. Stirred by the activity of Rosen bent brothers, and the California Concluded on page 14. column 3) OREGON CHOSEN FOR AIR BRAKE EXPERIMENTS Los Angeles (JFy Northern Calif ornia and southern Oregon will be made the proving ground In one of the most extensive tests of air brakes In the history of transpor tation, Harley A. Johnson, general manager of the Chicago Rapid Transit company, told the mechani cal division of the American air way association. The mechanical division is holding its tenth annual convention here. The tests will be under way Aug. 1, and will cost more than $1,000,000," said Johnson, reporting on safety aoDliances. "After an exhaustive survey of all railroads In America and Can ada, the association selected 26( miles of the Southern Pacific rail road between Hornbrook, Calif., and Eugene. Ore., as being the best adapted for the tryout." The test section of road Includes a level stretch near Walker, 25 miles south of Eugene, and 25 miles of steady average grade from Grant's Pass to Afhland, Ore., and neavy mountain grade between Ashland and Hombrook, over the Siskiyou nountains. LINDBERGH OFF FOR ST. LOUIS Indianapolis, Ind., (IP Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, the former Ann Morrow, will take; off "sometime Thursday" for Lam bert Field, St. Louis, the next stop on his inspection tour of Trans Continental Air Transport landing fields. The couple spent the night here after arriving from Columbus, Ohio, first stop on the tour. Besides inspecting the airport here Lindbergh said he and his bride would be guests of Governor and Mrs. Harry G. Leslie at a luncheon, and that he would view the body of James A. Perry, who was killed In an airplane crash. Lindbergh, still shy of cameras, told newspaper photographers upon landing at the local airport that he and his wife would not leave the plane until they left. The cameramen answered that "we'll stay here all night to get our. pictures. STEPIN FETCHIT TAKES A BRIDE Hollywood, Cal "Stepln Fet chlt," dusky screen star known In private life as Lincoln Theodore Terry, whose shuffling feet have carried him from a handy man Job to feature productions at $1,000 a week salary, Thursday will harken to wedding bells. "Fetchit" Is 26 years old. His bride to be, Dorothy Stevenson, 17 year old negro school girl, Is from New Orleans. Good Evening! DON UPJOHN OFFERS Sips for Supper BEFORE AND AFTER "Preceding the ceremony Mrs. ' J. Llnfoot of Salem sang 'I Love You Truly," -uid afterwards sang The Awakening. " from report Woodbu-n wedding ceremony. E. B. Cochran of Jefferson, has written us to ask if the cussing and discussing of farm relief bill was what caused the Gann green in Washington. A little lady, whom we had not seen for years, approached us on the street today, looked us over, called us by name and then re marked, "Why, I wouldn't know you from Adam." When we looked at her in her little light summer dress we might also have told her that we wouldn't know her from Eve. But we didn't Oosh, this world is full of disap pointments. Strawberry shortcake to last only a few days longer. We understand President Doney of Willamette was caught reading a Sundry Statesman the other day. We hope he doesn't resign, like the faculty member did who partici pated In a home talent play on Sun day, We had a tip today from one of Salem's best informed men not to worry around too much, that some big things are going to happen here within the next 12 months. Such being the case will be all right with us. Warren Pohle was cussing the hot weather to us yesterday and a month ago we heard him raving around because It was so cold. Folks were never made to be pleased. But why kick about the weather? It don't get you anywhere. You don't have to wash your hands when y a handle It; you dont have to submit to any medical examina tion when you come in contact with It why, doggone it, you don't even have to suck It through a straw. So that's some consolation. We don't see why Warren Pohle should 1 oiler about the weather. All he had to do yesterday was to load couple of 500 pound rollers, half dozen bay mowers, two or three tons of wire and a couple of tons of other things onto wagons. If he had to come down and write this column some hot afternoon he'd know what hot weather felt like. SURPLUS PUT AT SI 70,000.000 Washington (IPX A treasury sur plus of approximately $170,000,000 at the close of this fiscal year, June 30, 1929, was predicted Thursday by Secretary Mellon. . Mellon said the treasury expected to havethisamountavailadblc geET to have this amount available in excess of the expenditures even af ter the $45,000,000 payment to rail roads necessitated by the Interstate commerce commission's decision granting railroads that amount in back railway mail pay. Treasury statisticians have esti mated re ently that the surplus may be as high as $200,000,000. Presi dent Hoover recently said the bud get bureau had advised him there will be a government surplus of more than $100,000,000. The surplus, which has resulted despite predictions some months ago of a deficit, is attributed by the treasury to increase Income tax pay ments caused by profits obtained by Individuals from stock market op erations. Red Bluff, Cal. UPh-Fire that umed over an estimated 70,000 acres of brush and range land was finally controlled by a crew of volunteers. Bargains For Every Member of Family And Every Bargains which make everybody happy. Bargains for the housewife, herself, family home owner, himself, family gains that are bargains are being offered by more than 60 of Salem's leading mercantile establishments cooperating in the 12th annual bargain day event which orjens Friday. Trading merchandise for needed cash, to eliminate overstocked shel ves caused by unfavorable weather conditions and to provide space for merchandise that has been order ed, the merchants are making an unusually attractive event of the annual sale which should draw the STEIWER ASKS PROTECTION OF BATHING SUITS Tariff Changes Asked So Oregon Product Can Enter Foreign Market Beet Sugar Head De clares Hoover Favors High Sugar Schedule Washington CP) Senator Stelwer of Oregon, appearing before the senate finance sub -committee on Thursday In behalf of the bathing suit Industry of his section, asked a change in tariff methods so that Oregon bathing suits might enter the foreign market. Under the present system the mills must "practically conduct two industries," Senator stelwer said, since It is necessary to keep domes tic and Imported wools departed. He declared this works such a hard ship on manufacturers that they cannot compete abroad, sieiwer submitted a letter from H. L. Cher mar, of the Jantzen Knitting mills, Portland, and asked that the mat ter be referred to treasury experts. Testimony that President Hoover had told him within the last three months that he was "much Inter ested In protection for the domestic sugar Industry was given Thursday by Stephen H. Love, president oi (Concluded on page 14, column 4) GROCERS ELECT NEW NATIONAL LEADERS TODAY Portland (IP) The national con vention of retail grocers in session here is expected to elect B. B, BerthlPtme of Superior, Wis., presi dent before the day's session ends. Berthlaume Is unopposed by any other nominee. Other unopposed candidates are J. Walter Tyler, Sac ramento, Calif, for vice-president; George Croner of Kansas City, for treasurer, and W. H. Funk of Bal timore Md., for director. Two other directors are to be sel ected from three nominees in the election. The nominees are D, A Affleck of Salt Lake City; Richard Jepson of Omaha, and S. T. McAtree of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The automobile and woman s in creasing tendency to shop, to handle and to examine goods before pur chase, 1 ,ve revolutionized the gro cery business, the convention was told. A motion picture film depicting the evolution of the modern store with appealing displays to attract customers was exhibited during the session. The grocer whose volume of busi ness Is less than $25,000 per year, can not make a profit, Shirley Haas of Louisville, Ky., told the assembly. He urged his brother tradesmen to seek to eliminate the store doing such volume and thus add to their own business. Nathan Eckstein, Seattle, whole saler, told members of the associa tion that money properly spent for advertising costs no one anything, It increases the volume of goods sold and manufactured and thus cuts production costs and consequently cost to the consumer, he said. GANGSTER KILLED Chicago iflVTwo men shot and killed Samuel Muscia, 36, reputed alcohol peddler and gangster, tossed their revolvers beside his body and fled. Police said Muscia was gangster under the banner of Joe Alello, a George Bugs) Moran any. Use Listed and home. Bargains for the and automobile. In fact, bar - thrifty to the business section Fri day. In case that some cannot take advantage of the low-pncea offer ings at this time, many of the re tailers are holding their merchan dise over for the Saturday shopper. Materials for personal use and the home; supplies for almost every TcoucTuded on-pagel. column 5) Diamond Dick Reader Gets A Real Thriller Albany, G targe McKhrals, who was arrested near En gene Monday evening on the charges of trapping beaver In Linn county in December without a license, pleaded gnilty to the charges and was fined I2M and costs in Jus tlee of the Peace Victor Olll ver'i court Wednesday. An amusing incident, ac cording to game wardens who made the arrest, occured during the arrest of McKln nls, who upon the approach of the officers started to make his getaway. Several shots were fired Into the air to halt him, the shots also brought a neighbor running from under cover as the fir ing had startled him while he was in the midst of an exciting episode in a thrill ing, "hair raising" detective story. FUSIAN TICKET ENDORSED BY VIRGINIA G.O. P. Richmond. Va.. ) Virginia re publicans have joined forces with the antl-Smlth democrats In an ef fort to take control of the state government out of the hands of the democratic party. Dr. William Moseiey Brown, a 39-year-old professor of psychology, a democrat until the 1928 presidential campaign who asserted he was an "Independent" in politics in accept ing nomination for governor offered him by two political conventions within eight days, neads tne coali tion ticket. Running with Dr. Brown are Walter Dickinson, southwest Virginia farmer and a republican, seeking the lieutenant governorship, and C. C. Berkeley, a Newport news lawyer, and antl-Smlth democrat, candidate for attorney general. Brown was nominated by the re publicans Wednesday night. He had previously been named ny anu Smith democrats. C. Bascom Slcmp, national com mitteeman, and for a number of years a leader of republicanism in Virginia, in his address to the con vention preceding his nomination of Dr. Brown, said "the democratic party has its Smith and its Raskob but no longer has the southern de mocracy. The coalition ticket will oppose democratic nominees to be chosen in the democratic primary August 6. Three democrats seek the nomina tion for governor John Garland Pollard, O. Walter Mapp and Rose- well Page, PLAN MERGER OF AIR FIRMS New York Creation of the largest aviation company In the world through merger of Wright and Curtiss interests was proposed to stockholders Thursday. Directors of the companies ai fected have approved plans for the formation of a $70,000,000 holding corporation to be known as the Curtiss-Wright corporation. It will take over, by an exchange of stock, the Wright Aeronautical corpora tion anu the Curtiss Aeroplane and Engine company and 10 affiliated organizations. The new company will bring un der one head the concerns founded by Americas air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss. Clement M. Keys, president oi Curtiss, will be president of the holding company and Richard F. Hoyt, chairman of the board oi Wright Aeronautical, will be chair man of the Curtiss-Wright corpora tion. MOTOR BACKFIRES, YACHT DESTROYED Buzzard's Bay, Mass., (") The Areletha, $208,000 auxiliary schooner yacht of A. Atwater Kent, Jr. son of the radio manufacturer, lay burn ed to the waters edge in 15 feet of water near the entrance to the Cape Cod canal Thursday. Mr. Kent and the Arelethas crew of two. rescued by the crew of a coast guard patrol boat after a back fire from the engine set the yacnt afire, were at New Bedford hotel minus all their belongings except the clothlne- on their backs. The engine backfire started a fire that spread over the 50-foot yscht with great rapidity, names ncea at the sails and crept up the masts and along the deck so quickly that the three men aboard had hardly time to launch a small dory and get away. FLIERS SEEKING TO ESTABLISH NEWRECORDS Hawks on Coast to Coast Flight; Southern Cross Starts for England Swedish Fliers Start and Return: 2 Endurance Flights Under Way Captain Frank Hawks on non-stop flight from New York to Los Angeles and re turn. Southern Cross leaves Aus tralia for England. Swedish fliers leave Iceland for Greenland but return af ter short flight. Owen Haughland and Thor wald John pass 100 hour mark at Minneapolis In en durance flight. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Jen sen In Three Musketeers at New York seeking to break endurance record. Roosevelt Field. N. Y., WV-Cap- taln Frank M. Hawks took off at 5:15 SJn. (3 E. T.) on a round trip flight to Los Angeles where he ex pects to stop only long enougn to refuel. He honed to establish three rec ords, that for the round trip, for east to west, and west to east. The non-stop record to the Pacific coast Is 24 hours, 51 minutes estaonsnea bv the late C. B. D. Collyer and Har ry Tucker. The west to east record is 18 hours, 21 minutes established by himself. St. Louis, UP) George B. Man ning, ground school instructor at Parks airport, East St. Louis, (Concluded on page 15. column 7) ADMITS HE SHOT SALEM YOUTH IN BEER JOINT ROW Portland, (LP) George G. Brown, 37. Is in jail here. Police said he ad mitted shooting Wakefield Eubanks of Salem Wednesday in a beer gar den brawl. Eubanks was reported as resting easily at Emanuel hospital. He was struck by two bullets. According to the story Brown told police, he had been in charge of a beer place for the last six weeks. Eubanks had made his home with Brown for the last week. Tuesday evening Eubanks, Brown and several men and women were drinking and accidentally Brown spilled some beer on Eubanks' pants. Eubanks, Brown i said, retaliated with a blow to the; chin, but the party later became quiet. Eubanks went Into a bed room and Brown followed, to patch up their differences, he said. Eubanks cursed Brown and picked up a bot tle, threatening to hit him with It. Brown reached Into a dresser draw er for a pistol and shot three times. Alter the shooting Brown ran out the back door to Broadway, obtained a taxi and rode to the west end of the Broadway bridge, where he threw the weapon In the river. Brown said he came to Portland from Detroit, Mich, about a year ago. LEVIATHAN SERYES BOOZE BOUND EAST New York R New Vork Herald- Tribune says that liquor Is now be ing sold aboard the United States liner Leviathan on both east and west bound voyages. The source of supply for Uie last eastward trip was unknown, but the newspaper said It was learned when t ie ship docked here Wednesday that there was enough liquor on nana to put the bartenders to work in first, second and tourist sections. Passengers said cocktails were available before meals, the best of wines at moderate prices at the dining tables and anything except beer after or between meals. On previous trips since the United States Lines, Inc., toon over tne Leviathan from the shipping board liquor was soid only on the west ward trip. The Herald-Tribune said the only explanation for the presence of the liquor was that the medical stores were being used as has been the practice on other American ships sailing to foreign ports. HOOVER HOLDS-UP S3 RTO WW KS9 BUT BK SB SB Dry Propaganda In 88 633 Slat 6Ca BXH lI W PUBLIC SCHOOLS Washington (AP) President Hoover personally inter vened to halt the plan of the prohibition unit to use the pub lic schools of the country for dissemination of prohibition law observance propaganda. The president's first information concerning the issuing of a pamphlet proposing a course of prohibition study in the public schools was gleaned Irom tile- newspapers, tie lmmeaiaieiy sigiu- fled his emphatic disapproval to treasury officials, who said that they themselves were unaware of the proposed campaign. Using proceeds from a fund of $50,000 made available by congress for the dissemination of prohibition literature, Miss Anne D. Sutter, of the statistical and educational di vision of the prohibition bureau. had caused the pamphlet to be pre pared for general circulation at the meeting Friday of the national edu cational association at Atlanta. She also had gathered together other literature in her proposed campaign of education. SOCIAL LEADER DIES IN CRASH; DRIVER IS HELD Redwood City. (D Investigating officers announced that formal charges of manslaughter and driv- Inn while drunk probably would be filed against Carl Flannigan, Palo Alto hospital attendant and driver of the automobile that crashed into limousine and killed two Ban Francisco society women near Men lo park Wednesday. Muttering and otnerwise acting queerly, Flannigan was brought here and put Into a padded cell after he had been examined by Dr. Harper Peddicord. The physician declared Flannigan had been intoxicated. The victims of the crash, Mrs. Henry J. Crocker, widow of a San Francisco capitalist, and Mrs. Louis Monteagle, prominent In philan thropy in the bya district, appar ently were killed instantly when Flannigan car, coming suddenly out of a cross road, struck the Crocker automobile and Jammed It into a tree at the side of the high way. Mrs. Fannie Crocker McCreary, sister-in-law of Mrs. Crocker, who also was in the limousine, was crit ically injured. She was taken to a Palo Alto hospital. Officers said they had located per sons who would testify that Flannl gan's car had bien moving along the lateral road at 40 to 50 miles an hour Just before the crash. MABELLE LOSES ROYAL LOVER Paris, UP) A formal statement todav by Mrs. Mabelle Oilman Corey, divorced wife of the Pitts burg steel magnate, said her en gagement to Prince Louis De Bourbon, cousin or tne King oi Spain was "absolutely finished." Her statement said: "The entire press will unanimous ly agree that I never have sought publicity. At It is In the past so It is today, people know more about my private affairs than I do my self. "I wish to state that my en gagement with his royal Highness Don Louis Ferdinand Marie Sac ralas Bourbon is absolutely finish ed and I have nothing more to say on this subject and I wish peo ple would cease speaking and writing to me on this subject." The Prince's dissatisfaction with the details of the marriage settle ment which the former Broadway beauty was willing to make with him were understood to be behind the rupture In their romance. ANTI WAR PACT SIGNED BY MIKADO Tokio, (IPV-The Kellogg anti-war treaty was signed Thursday by the emperor, completing its formal rat ification by Japan, last of the 16 original signatories to ratify. The treaty now becomes effective among all the signatory powers, as soon as Japa.ia ratification haa been depos ited at Washington. The emperor signed the treaty with the Interpretative provision at tached by the privy council, which holds that the phrase "In the name of their respective peoples," does not hold as applied to the emperor, who si (rned In his own behalf, not in the name of the Japanese people. CHINESE ARMY ABANDONED BY TWO LEADERS Shanghai (IP) A sudden uprising of outlaw soldiers In Hupeh prov ince wnere towns were plundered nd Jails destroyed, furtner compu cated the government's problems Thursday while leaders fought to prevent tne disbandment of 300.000 soldiers under General Feng Yu Hsiang and Governor Yen Rsl Shan of Shansi. Yen has threatened to leave his province and live abroad if the government Insists on his taking over Feng's troops. Feng likewise insists on retiring from the politl. cal field. Withdrawal of the two leaders would leave a vast army practically uncontrolled. Government troops were Thurs. day rushing from Hankow to wes tern Hupeh whero outlaws reported ly under communist leaders cap tured several towns including Changyang and Llchuan. Jails were torn down and the prisoners freed. One magistrate was murdered at Llchuan, A small government force in the district has repulsed the out laws bui. two battalion commanders have been killed and reinforcements are needed. These outlaws are mostly dis banded soldiers. Similar conditions on a larger scale might result should tne Feng and Yen forces be left without able leadership. Many of Feng's unit- are in famine areas and all of them are accustomed to accepting discipline only from the nignest local authority. MAY MCAVOY WEDS BROKER Beverly Hills, Calif (jpi With movie c .meras and sound devices recording the ceremonies, Miss May McAvoy, film actress, was married to Maurice J. Cleary, Los Angeles banker, late Wednesday at the Church of the Good Shenherd. L-eieDretles or filmdom filled the pews of the church while crowds clamored outside in hope of getting grimpse or the newly-weds. A reception immediately followed the wedding. The couple will leave shortly for the Hawaiian Islands for four weeks, and late In the fall the honeymoon will be continued with a trip to Europe. Rev. Father Michael J. Mulllns officiated at the ceremonies. Mrs. Harold Lloyd. Mrs. Lloyd Hughers. Mrs. Robert Z. Leonard. Helen Fer guson and Edith and Irene Mayer, all of the movie colony, were the bridesmaids. Lois Wilson, film act ress, was maid o fhonor, and Arnold nangar, Richmond, Ky., best man. WHAT AN A1E EATS New York, fT) Seventy-two ban anas for breakfast, 15 apples and 22 oranges for supper. Such are typical meals or Azwas, a giant ape brought from Sumatra, who can be purchas ed for a pet or other our poses for around $25,000. He's 5 feet 10, weinhs sw) and is 12 feet across, with arms outstretched. Crossed A tlan tic in Lifeboat; Wrecked On Carolina Coast Charleston. S. C. (AP) 20 miles south of here holds the battered and burned remains of the Apra, 18 foot boat in which Paul Muller, Berlin grocer, crossed the Atlantic alone. Her skinner, safe here exposure, told the story of burg-New York voyage. Beating ms way up the coast from Miami where he first touched the American shore. Muller ran Into storms off the South Carolina coast, late Tuesday. A squall struck the Aga, tore her sail to bits and tossed her on the rocky Klawah shore. I "The Aga began to break up, said LEGGE OFFERED OF NEW BODY President of Internation al Harvester to Head Farm Board Five Others Selected In cluding Teague of California League Washington (JP) Chairmanship of the federal farm board has been offered by President Hoover to Al exander H. Legge, president of the International Harvester company. Besides Mr. Legge, the following five men are considered to be on the preferred list for appointment to the board: Carl Williams of Oklahoma City, editor of the Oklahoma Farmer- Stockman. C. B. Denman, of Missouri, presi dent of the National Livestock Pro ducers association. Charles C. Teague, of California, connected with the California Citrus league. F. B. .Veils, vice president of the F. Peavey anu Company, grain deal ers, Minneapolis. Major Arthur P. Knapp of Lake Charles, La., a banker .who has bad experience in financing the expor tation of rice. OPEN BIDS FOR BRIDGE ACROSS PUDDING RIVER Portland, Ore. (IP) The paving of four miles of The Dalles-California highway between the boundary of Klamath Falls and the Junction with the road to Lakevlew, was among projects for which bids were opened Thursday toy the state highway commission. The pavement Is to be of concrete and 30. feet m width. Other construction projeetn were the regrading and surfacing of the Keene Creek-Jenny Creek section of the Green springs highway In Jackson county, the grading of the black canyon section of the Wil lamette highway and surfacing of the Springfield -Cogswell hill section of the McKcnzie highway in Lano county. Minor grading Jobs were the grad ing of approaches to the Umpqua river bridge at Bcottsburg and to the McKenzie river and Gate Creek bridges In Lane county. New bridge construction included one over Salmon river on the Mount Hood loop highway, one over Indian Creek on the Siuslaw highway, one over Haynes Slough In Coos coun ty. Acting for the respective county courts, the commission also opened proposals for bridges as follows: Bear Creek, Jackon county; Deep Creek. Lake county; Mill Creek, Penitentiary Mill race and Pudding river, Marion county. SPEEDER WHO SOUGHT TO COOL HOGS FINED Kansas City, VPy Farmer Percy Smith, brought a truck load of hogs to town and was arrested for speed ng. "Forty-five miles an hour." ths arresting patrolman told the Judge. "The hogs got hot packed In like that and I was driving that way to keep them cool," Parmer Smith ex plained. "Oet a fan," said the Judge, "you re fined 25." The beach at Kiawah island, after a shipwreck and night or this disastrous end of his Ham wuiier, so i w mr ur .- as a signal lor help. I poured what was left of my lamp's petrol over the decks and touched a match." When no help came, he related he began swimming tor John Island, seven miles away, where he could Tconctuded onpag. 14, column 7)