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omraal Capita CIRCULATION FA IK and mild tonight and Sunday; Oentle variable winds. Local: max.. M; mln., 4T. river, I t; Atmos. Clear; Rain, none; wind north. Dally avenge distribution for the month ending Ma; 31, iwa 10,284 Average dall? net paid 9.913 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation 3 42nd YEAR, No. 155 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 19aa ... ;o a PRICE THREE CENTS ,SttEMS,5M J mm w (gUl DRY CHIEF TO BE DISMISSED IS FORECAST Hoover Reported to Have Decided upon Shakeup in Prohibition Bureau Displeasure over Sensa tionalism and Publicity Methods Cause Washlngtor U The resignation wf Seymour Lowman, assistant sec retary of the treasury In charge of prohibition enforcement, within 30 days was forecast In high official circles here Saturday following re ports that President Hoover had de cided upon a shift In the dry en forcement machinery because of re cent sensational news stories relat ing to enforcement activities. Reports that President Hoover has summarily dismissed Lowman from the service, however, were denied at the White House and Lowman em phatically denied his resignation had been reauested. President l'oover has given close attention to prohibition activities this week and is known to have con sulted treasury officials in at least two Instances relative to his new program for the prohibition bureau. On both occasions the president expressed " disapproval of recent sensational prohibition enforcement. Following a White House conference between the president and seen tary Mellon Thursday evening, re Concludedonpa8e10. column 6) FRENCH PLEA FOR TIME REJECTED BY PRESIDENT Paris, UP) American Secretary of State Simson gave Ambassador Claudel no hope for a favorable de cision on the French request Fri day for postponement of maturity of the French debt for American war stocks, it appeared Saturday at a meeting of the cabinet which con sidered Ambassador Claudel's dis patch in reply. The French ambassador's report says: "The ambassador of France applied himself with great energy and set forth to the American gov ernment the reasons for the request of postponement as asked by the chamber and contained in the dis patch received. "The secretary recalled with visi ble emotion that he was an old friend of France, having French blood in his veins, and that he worked for three years to obtain the entrance of the United States Into the war and himself enlisted at 50 and served through the whole campaign." "The secretary regretted that the Question was one for which a fa- Concluded on pane 10. column B STIMSON BUYS HISTORIC HOME Washington Secretary Stlm uon has purchased as his home "Woodley", a historic property over looking Rock Creek park, in which four presidents have lived and his toric conferences have been held. The large place of spacious grounds, was the summer home of Presidents Van Buren, Tyler, Bu chanan, and Cleveland, It once was owned by Benjamin Stoddert, the first secretary of the navy. George Washington was a fre quent si tor to the spot and is said to have suggested It as the proper one for the Capitol. Colonel E. M .Ho. -e held at Wood ley many of his important confer ences with foreign diplomats prior to Americas entry into the world war. WILBUR TO VISIT KLAMATH PROJECT Klamath Falls, Ore. iPt Ray Ly man Wilbur, secretary of the Inter ior, will arrive in Klamath Falls July 5 to Inspect the Klamath irri gation district and the Klamath In titan reservation, both of which come under hts department jurisdiction. Secretary Wilbur, according to word received Saturday, probably will be accompanied by Dr. Elwood Mead, U. S. commissioner of recla mation, Botl men are now in Cali fornia. Good Evening! DON OPJOHN OFFERS Sips for Supper Dear Sips: I am a telephone op erator and a few of us girls engaged in an argument yesterday as to who make the best husband'. We all have our own Ideas and could reach no agreement, so finally decided to leave It up to you. What do you think about it? Number Please. Dear Number Please: You have opened here a wide subject for spec ulation and we do not pretend to be an expert authority In the mat ter. But offhand, and assuming without deciding, we should say that as a general rule men make tne best husbands. A CASE OF IDENTITY Steve Stone, the statehouse urmUst-philosopher, after looking over our car yesterday, remarked that a similarity of appearance seemed to grow np between a car and its owner during years of association and after awhile It was hard to tell one from the other. We wonder if that's why Frank Loose looks so much Hke a five-ton truck. Fire Chief Hutton announces we're to have a safe and sane fourth this year. The only way to do that is to keep all the cars off the nigh ways. Another one of Bill Tallman's bodies has been found In a Calif ornia bay. We notice by the Statesman that a bartender has been arrested for selling liquor. Well, just what is a bartender rupposed to do If it isn't to sell liquor? Roll a South wick, the city's well known carpenter, has taken on a literary inclination and read a book Whether it was the novelty of the thing or the nature of the book, Rolla at least says e rather en joyed the experience. The book in question was Chic Sales new book called "The Specialist." Rolla also garnered some ideas from the book which have caused him to ;ay he is kind of figuring on cutting down his general carpenter work a bit and start specializing himself. The field seems to be ripe here for such a man as Rolla in his new venture and we wish him luck. 6 CONVICTED LIBELING K. C. Washington, P) Members of the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus were informed Saturday by Luke E. Hart of St. Louis, the order's supreme advocate, that six convictions already had been ob tained in libel actions growing out of the circulation during and after the last presidential campaign of the bogus "Knights of Columbus Oath." Of those prosecuted, he said, two were protestant ministers and two were women. Two more cases are pending, he added, and no acquittals have resulted in any that have been tried. Distributors of the "oath, he re called .have been denounced by the committee of past grand masters of California Masons which examined the Knights of Columbus ritual sev eral years ago and found "neither the alleged oath nor any similar oath of pledge. The spurious oath describes protest ants as "infamous heretics" and pledges "relentless war" against them and against all Masons. CANAL TONNAGE Washington, (A The cargo tonnage carried through the Pana ma canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific In May set a new record for all time with 020,360 long tons. The heaviest Pacific-bound tonnage in any previous month 85,641 was in October, 1928. County Will Widen, Straighten Road from Niagara To Detroit Announcement is made by as right of way matters can plans to widen, realign and improve the eight mile stretcn ot road between Gates and Niagara which will be a portion of the important east and west road over the mountains into the central Oregon country through- Hogg pus. The matter of the location of the proposed grade may take some lit tle time and as a result lt Is pos sible that work may not be definite ly started on the road this year but It Is practically certain It will go ahead next, summer. The members HAWKS SETS 3 RECORDS ON ROUND TRIP Crosses Continent In Both Directions In 36 Hours Flying Time Smashes Best Marks Eastward and Westward Roosevelt Field, N. Y. 0P His weariness forgotten in the Joy of success. Captain Frank Hawks com pleted a non-stop flight from Los Angeles at 1:16:03 a. m., daylight time Saturday, establishing a one stop round trip coast-to-coa.t rec ord of 36 hours, 46 minutes, 48 sec onds flying time. A thousand or more persons were at the field awaiting his arrival when the plane appeared overhead. He circled the field twice and then dropped in slowly, barely skimming the treetops. Alter the wneeis had touched the ground he speeded up the motor and taxied several hund red feet. Seeing that he was too far down the field and heading for a wire fence, he speeded up in an attempt to jump, but the plane came down straddling the fence. Hawks clambered out of the plane smiling and appeared undisturbed by his narrow escape. "Its just too bad," ne said. One of the first to reach his side was his wife. Hawks fa id he had excellent weather and good visibility over most of the trip. There was a little fog over Pennsylvania, he said, and Concluded on page 10. column 6) ENJOIN NEW RATES SOUGHT BY WOODMEN Denver, Colo., MV-District court yesterday granted temporary In junction restraining officials of the Woodmen of the World from col lecting Increased insurance assess ments from members of the organi zation. Headquarters of the Wood men of the World are in Denver. The Injunction will hold until the case comes to trial in the fall session of the court. The restraining order was directed against six officers of the organiza tion and came as the result of a suit brought against officials by members of the organization in Idaho, Colorado, Utah and Mon tana, who asserted that if the new insurance rates, voted at the last annual convention of the order, were out into effect, hundreds of aged members would be unable to keeD un their premiums. Terms of the injunction Include restraint of cancellation of insur ance of any member for failure to pay the increased assessment and from suspension from the organiza tion because of failure to pay it. 2 DIE IN PLANE SWASH, RIVERSIDE Riverside, Calif. WO Lieut. Wil liam O. Plummer and flying cadet, Cyrus J. Wallace, were killed In an airplane accident at March Field Friday. The accident happened when a second plane, piloted by a , cadet, scraped the wing of Lt. Plum mer s ship, causing It to crash. the county court that as soon be straightened out the county of the court feel now that the best grade would be to follow the rail road track but this Is to be worked out aa fast aa possible. This Is the poorest stretch of road up In that section among the de veloped roads, in some places too (Concluded on puse 10, column 7) FLIERSTELLSTOR Y WS SWI S S Of Losing 88 isa ' OF DRIFT AT SEA London (UP) Commander vealed to the world Saturday that in his flight to the Azores he had overshot his mark, landed upon the ocean to map his own rescue and had again taken off from the ocean's surface only to be forced down by exhaustion of fuel in a strong head wind. 40 miles from tne lsiana ot Fayal, upon which was Porta, his goal. The commanders statement was transmitted to the admiralty Sat urday by the British aircraft car rier Eagle which rescued him at dawn Saturday. The Eagle's com munication read: We left Los Alcazares at s:w u. m. on June 21, passing Cape St. Vincent at 8:00 p. m. Prom Gibraltar we were lorcea to gain height owing to the exces sive air disturbances. 'Prom Cape St. Vincent to me Azores was an .uninterrupted layer of clouds above which we had to fly and later another cloud layer formed above us. 'Our intended time of arrival at the Azores was 9 a. m. (Greenwich "(Concluded on page 10. column I) NEW BUILDINGS DURING JUNE COST 5156,672 Construction work in the city of Salem during the month of June up to 1 o'clock Satudray afternoon, as recorded by the city Inspector cost 1156.672. This Is an Increase of 128.813 over the month of May, when the total figures were 8127.859. or 140.522 more than tlie month of June, 1928. There were 33 permits issued our ing the month, of which six of them were for new dwellings, cost ing 16,000. Nineteen permits were granted for repair wont which cost approximately $5345. While the to tals for the month were greater than during May. one Job accounted for large share of tne total, xnis structure Is the new telephone build ing, the general contract for which was given as 1134,352. The record for the six months of 1929 shows a large decrease in building here as compared to a sim ilar period in 1928. The total for the first half of this year Is $705,828, as against $1,073,378 for fix months last year. One or two large pieces oi con struction work for which no permit was Issued, is not Included in the totals for the first half of this year. One of these is the new grandstand at the fairgrounds which will cost close to $150,000. PLEA FOR TARIFF IS BEING HEARD Washington, yp) Hide, leather and shoe interests were given the stapte exclusively at the senate sub committee tariff hearings Saturday, testimony on the controversial su gar tariff having been concluded'. The metals sub-committee was in recess until Monday. Merlon DcVrics. representing the tanners council, declared the house rates ranging from 12'i to 30 per cent on leathers were beneficial but inadequate. The tanners had no ob jection to the proposed 10 per cent duty on hides, he said, adding that the fanners would benefit also by the rates on leather. John H. Ec Glastonburg, Conn, representing the pig leather manu facturers, protested against the house rate of 25 per cent on both rough and finished pig leather and asked a duty of ten per cent on rough and 30 per cent on partly or completely finished pig skins. LINDBERGH SIGNS AD TESTIMONIAL New York. (IP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has Joined the vast army of "endorsers." and a national advertising campaign Is being launched by makers of ft wrist watch. Advertisements have appeared In New York newspapers and elsewhere bearing the celebrated flier's auto graphed testimonial, his photograph and of course, of the wrist waicn. Tills Is believed to be the first case of Colonel Lindbergh's endorsement In an advertising campaign, a now common practice of social, boxing, racing, baseball and other celebrities. KB H SB B Way And s am aar Ramon Franco of Spain re JAP CABINET FACING CRISIS AND NEAR FALL Tokyo, P There was every indi cation Saturday that a sudden cab inet crisis, threatening the govern ment of Baron Ollchl Tanaka, has arisen. The trouble was understood to have Its roots in the report of the investigation into the death of Mar shal Chang Ts-Lin, defeated Chinese warlord, in Manchuria last June. The leading native papers Satur day freely asserted that the cabinet. formed from the Seiyukal, or con servative party, in 1927 and reconsti tuted in 1928, was tottering and that the Mlnselto, or liberal opposition, was preparing to take over the reins of government. Publication of the findings of the inquisitors Into the assassination of Chang Tso-Lln was set for Satur day but according to good authority has been postponed indefinitely due to the opposition of the minister of war. General Hoshinorl Sliirakawa. The report exonerates Japan of blame but censures severely certain officers in the Manchurian garrison for agreeing to temporary replace ment of Japanese troops by Chinese troops. General Shlrkawa was understood to have protested vigorously against proposed punishment of these of ficers. It was assumed it he resign ed it would be difficult to replace him, since hts successor would have to be a general military officer and the army has supported him throughout. CALIFORNIAN ON FARM BOARD Washington un President Hoov er has offered positions on the fed eral farm board to W. 8. Moscrip of Lake Elmo, Minn., and C. C. Tea- gue, of Los Angeles. Moscrip and Teague ere consid ering the offers and no definite arrangement has yet been made. Moscrip Is secretary-treasurer of the Twin City Milk Producers' as sociation, a large dairying coopera tive association, with headquarters in St. Paul. He conferred Satur day with President Hoover and Sec retary Hyde. Teague Is connected with a Cal ifornia fruit grower's cooperative association. FISHING VESSEL LOST WITH 16 LIVES San Pedro, Cal. (fl1) Unconfirmed rumors were current here Saturday that the fishing boat. Southern Cross, had been lost in a storm off Mexican fishing banks in the south ern part of lower California with 16 men abroad. The Southern Cross, described as one of the largest fish ing vessels on the coast, was valued at $100,000. It was a 117 foot crait powered by 450 horsepower Diesel motors. It sailed from here June 32. Reports of the disappearance of the boat were received by an lin ing sources here, but they were un able to be verified. A message to one shipping company said several boats were helpless In harbors on the southern extremity of lower Cal' ifornia following a severe storm about ten days ago. SOUTHERN CROSS LEAVES SINGAPORE Singapore. Straights Settlement, rrt The airplane Southern Cross, with Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and three companions aboard, lelt here Saturday In con tlnuation of Its flight from Sydney, N. S. W., to England. The next stop probably will be at Singora Muang Sawing Kla) Slam, on the eastern coast of the Malay Penin sula. FIND TEACHER LOST 5 DAYS AT Y0SEM1TE Located by Forest Rang ers, Feet Badly Blis tered and Bruised Disappeared Monday While Returning From Glacier Point Yoseraite, Calif. () Miss Bernice Trussell, San Jose school teacher. who has been missing for five days In Yosemlte national park, was found alive Saturday by forest rangeiv who hunted all night for her with search lights. Miss Trussell was weak and ex hausted from lack of food and ex posure. Her feet were badly blist ered and bruised from tramping through rough, hilly country day and night. Otherwise she was In (rood health. Rangers said the young school teacher would be carried 10 miles on horseback to an automobile and then removed to a camD for medi cal treatment. When she will be J auowea w return u ner name in San Jose depends, lt was said, on how rapidly she recovers. Miss Trussell was found In the Buena Vista creek region. She dis appeared last Monday while return ing from Glacier point with Miss Rose Ward of Los Angeles, a com panion. Supt. C. C. Thompson of the park ranger service said that finding the (Concluded on pane 9, column 4) BOBBY JONES TIES ESPINOSA FOR GOLF LEAD Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaron- eck, N. Y. (IP) The collapse of Bob by Jones on his nnai round threw the 33rd national open golf cham pionship in a tie late Saturday, the amateur champion finishing even terms with Al Espinosa of Olencoe, III. Jones and Espinosa tied with ag gregates of 204 and will play off for the championship over 36 holes here Sunday. Gene Harazen of Flushing, w. Y., and Denny Shute of Worthington Ohio, tied for second place with 296, the latter having had and muffed a chance to win the great est of golfing prizes after Jones col lapsed. Bobby went completely to pieces and took a 79 for his last 18 holes, tossing away what seemed a per fectly safe lead. The leaders and their rounds in the championship were: Bobby Jones, Atlanta, 69-75-71- 79294. Al Espinosa. Glencoe, 70-72-77- 75294. Henri Culcl, Stratford, 40-36-75- 224299. Gene Sarazen, Flushing, 41-37-78 218296. Denny Shute, Wor'hington, 38 38-76-220296. CHARLES CIESLACK KILLED IN LOGGING Staytoi, Charles Cleslack, about 48 years old, was killed at the 4-S Lumber company camp ten miles northeast of here about 10 oclock Saturday morning. Cleslack was working as a rigger and was struck In the head by a log. He Is sur vived by a 14-year-old son here and wife at Salem. The remains are at the Weddle parlors. A son of his was killed a few years ago in an automobile accident following a school party. SLAIN MAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER Portland, Ore. ifi The body of an unidentified man, with a bullet hole In his left temple and his trousers weighed with bricks, was found early Saturday In the Wil lamette river near the Sellwood bridge, Portland. Harbor patrol officers believed the man was 'taken for a ride'' and are checking police records for missing persons in an effort to identify him. Rescued MAJOR RAMON AANCO PAVING PLANT TO START HERE AFTER FOURTH The county paving plant at Sa lem will start work shortly after the Fourth of July, the only coun ty paving plant to be operated this summer, and work will start imme diately on patching of pavement throughout the county, states Dep uty County Roadmaster Frank Johnson. The patching work will not be particularly heavy this year, some of the worst places being chuck holes on the pavement on the Sil verton road near the state fan grounds. Another rather bad place is a depression in the road near the old boys' school where the state ran a water pipe under the road. Here and there holes are found in various places and also some work will be done in smoothing up the pavement by filling In low places. As soon as the patching work is finished, states Johnson, paving will be started on the un paved portion of the macadam ba.se on the road to Hopmere. This pavement will be from the end of the present pave ment, a distance of about two miles. This road is one of the pieces of road on which expeiments with oil were tried without success and is badly potholed. The portion of this road from McNary's corners to the end of the present pavement was paved last year. The new fleet of light trucks pur chased by the county will be Initiat ed with this black top work. FLIERS FAIL TO BREAK RECORD Minneapolis Uf "Miss Minneap olis." piloted by Thorward "Thun der Johnson and Owen Haugland, failed Saturday in the attempt to break the world's endurance flight record after :49'i hours continuous flying. The record is 172 hours, 32 minutes, one second. Motor trouble forced the little Cessna monoplane to land in I wheat field one mile south of Lang- don, which Is 15 miles south of the twin cities, at 10:35 a. m. The plane was in the air Hs'n hours, having taken off at Wold -Chamberlain field here at 5 a. m. la-t Sunday. This time was 23 hours less than the record. The fliers dropped a note at 5 a. m. saying oil was leaking steadily from the motor's crank case and re questing more oil. The refueling plane went up and five gallons were taken aboard. A half hour before noon. Tl.or wald (Thunder) Johnson, who with Haughland had flown the red mon oplane nearly 150 hours, telephoned Wold-Chamberlain field they had been forced down In a pasture near Langdon with a "stuck valve. ' Bandon Physician Accidentally Killed While Hunting Seals Marshfield, Ore. (AP) Dr. R. V. Leep, Bandon physi cian, was accidentally shot ami killed Saturday while huntinpf sea lions on Cape Blanco rocks near Port Orford. Dr. Leep was in a party with four Portland physicians and had gone to the rocks this morning. Louis Peterson and Harry Jen sen, in whose power boat the party was conveyed to the rocks, returned to Port Orford to secure a smaller craft In which they expected to place the body and return It to Port Orford. Meager Information received here Indicated the tiv physicians had LOST AVIATORS RESCUED AFTER VEEKAT SEA Franco and Three Com panions Picked up by . British Plane Carrier Rescue Made NearAzor Islands; Plane Badly Wrecked " Madrid W All but given up tor dead. Major Ramon Franco, fam ous Spanish aviator and three com-, panlons who started a trans-Atlan-tic flight to the United States by way ot the Azores more than a week: ago and have since been missing. Saturday were enroute to Gibraltar aboard the British airplane-carrier, Eagle. Snatched from the waters of the. Atlantic at a point barely 100 mllea southeast of the Island ot Santa, Maria on the tip of the Azores arch ipelago, the airmen were reported all well by the British rescue ship. Even their plane, a huge two-mo- torea uornier-wahl was salvaged, although badly damaged. First news of the rescue waa giv en out at the Spanish ministry of state which announced It had re ceived the word from the Spanish; consul at uioraitar, tne consul's) message read: 'Franco and companions nicked up alive by Eagle near Azores com, Ing Gibraltar." This news later was confirmed taw the British admiralty In London concluded on page 10. column 5) VIOLA GENTRY- HURT IN CRASH. SINKS RAPIDLY Roosevelt Field, N. Y, UPy As th monoplane Three Musketeers took on more gas and oil In Its attempt for an endurance flying record, tha odds lengthened against recovery of vioia ueniry, girl pilot who was In jured yesterday. Her craft, In which she and Jack Ashcraft were In friendly competition with the; Three Musketeers, crashed In a fog ana Asncraii was Ruled. After a blood transfusion lata yesterday Miss Gentry failed to rally and at midnight was reported sinking. She recovered for several hours, however, but shortly before) noon her physician said she had only one chance In three to live. She Is suffering from a fractured skull, fractures of the arms, and Internal Injuries. Meanwhile In the skies, Willianj Ulbrich, who with Mr. and Mrs, Martin Jensen comprises the crew of the Three Musketeers, waa kept in Ignorance of the girl's condition although over a radiophone be had demanded from a ground crew thQ full details of the accident. AMERICAN OFFICER AT GERMAN SCHOOL Washington V For the first tiina fince the world war the American army has assigned a cavalry offi cer to study at a Oerman military school. Captain Ray T. Mad clocks, of Fork Riley, Kansas, has geen ordered to report to the German Cavalry school at Hanover, for a course of Instruct tion beginning October 1. completed their hunting trip and were about to return to Marshfield by boat. Five rifles, tied together, were being hoisted Into the boat when one of them waa accidentally discharged The full charge struck tCoiiciuued oh pe 10. column 3