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(C aBitalmJoiirEal C1KCU1.ATI0N Daily average distribution tor the month ending June 30, 1929 10,243 Average dally net paid 9,851 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations FAIR and continued warm tonight and Wednesday. Oentle to moderate wes terly winds. Local: max. S3; mln. 45; river J; no rain; atmoa, part cloudy; wind, south. " 1 O JO Q i 42nd YEAR, No. 157 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS VSllXSSMff'&li MWW n3 SEEKS M ii i BUS FRANCHISE REGULATED BY TWO MEASURES 2 New Bills Replace Re jected Referended Act Before Council Bills are Companion Ones and Each Carries an Emergency Clause Two new ordinance bills, both bearing upon the operation of au tomobile passenger busses over the streets of Salem and designed to accomplish for the owners of the present bus operators the same ends as would have been served by the franchise recently granted by the council, referended by some 1, 300 voters of the city and then re jected by the Southern Pacific Motor Transport company, were submitted to the council Monday evening under the name of Alder man Rosebraugh. During the same session the council declined to pass the ordi nance repealing the inoperative lranchise act. The ordinance draft presented Monday evening are companion measures. One would re-enact the referended franchise ordinance with but a few slight modifications, but In the name of Oregon Stages, Inc., which at midnight Sunday (Concluded on page 10. column 4) COOKE LOSES APPEAL; MUST GO JOfRISON James P. Coolce, president of tbe defunct Portland brokerage firm of Overbeck 4c Cooke, must go to tne state penitentiary to serve out his punishment for embezzlement, the charge on which he was convicted In Judge Robert Tucker's court In Multnomah county. The supreme court Tuesday in an opinion written by Chief Justice Coshow, affirmed the Judgment of the lower court. Cooke, Charles 8. Goodwin and Howard Phllpott were all Indicted and Cooke demanded a separate trial, which was granted. He was convicted of embezzling $1881.04 be longing to Arthur M. Weicn and was sentenced to serve a term of seven years in the penitentiary. The firm of Overbeck Jt Cooke went into voluntary bankruptcy in February, 1928. In addition to being president Cooke was active in the management, ovrned 60 per cent of the stock and had been with the corporation since Its organization in 1007. A. P. Loundagin, Umatilla county youth, Is ordered remanded to the state penitentiary by an opinion of the supreme court Tuesday, revers ing Judge L. H. McMahan of the circuit court for Marion county in habeas corpus action brought by L. A. Loundagin, father of the young man. However, Loundagin served his minimum sentence while the suit was in court and Is now out on parole, so will not have to go back to the prison unless he violates the parole. The youth was sentenced in Umatilla county to serve a year for obtaining money by false pre tenses. He was received at the pris on In November, 1928, and released on parole April 10. Loundagin was 18 years old when the offense was committed. In the attack on the Judgment of the lower court It asserted that his case should have been taken before the Juvenile court. HOOVER TALKS ON TAX CUT Washington, (flv-President Hoo ver is hopeful that the treasury sur plus at the end of the fiscal year just closed may lead to a reduction in federal Uses, but he still feels that there are many factors to be determined before a definite pro gram can be formulated. . Before tax reduction can be ef fected, the president said Tuesday, the effect upon the treasury of leg islation approved in the last twelve months must be determined, the ex tent to which routine expenditures can be reduced must be known, and prospective revenue must be more closely estimated. By November 1, the president said, these things should be known. He did not say, however, whether he thought it possible to Introduce tax revision legislation at the regu lar session of congress next winter. Good Evening! DON UPJOHN ' OFFERS Sips for Supper alps Thorn ptoe aaya be doesn't figure how a girl can have the nerve to wear one ol these new sun tan bathing alts, AH Ralph needs to do la to look at one of them to see that she baa plenty of back bone. At any rate, when we're swim ming with one ol them, whether she leaves us or not, we're glad to see her back. One of those new bathing suits like a game of hide and seek you don't have to seek far to find the hide. There are lots of different ways of making money in this world. For instance Jack Dempsey made his fortune on his socks, and Clara Bow made hers without any socks. We have always been advised that to make a building look better it should get a new coat of paint. Harry Hawkins and Tommy Roberts are reversing the process by making them look better by removing the paint A lot of women could profit by tbe example. Just why the editor calls the col umn for public letters the "Open Forum" is beyond us. All the let ters we read in it don't seem to be for 'em but against 'era. Whatever happens In this squab ble about the Espee bus franchise, let's hope It gets rid of the old yel low Highland bus, at least. While It didn t go very fast everyone who rode In it got rattled before the trip was over. , . . Mrs. Walter Denton sent a fine box of candy down to the society editor yesterday, and we were glad to be able to report to the society editor that It was wonderful candy. "John Cool id ge Goes .to Harvard School; Flnancee Takes Him, says headline in Oregon Journal, Which should save the boy the necessity of working his way through school. AND JUST WHKRE IS THAT? "Two sets of plans were com pleted several weeks ago by City Bridge Engineer Furrow for the pro posed bridge over North Mill creek on South Commercial street." Prom item In Capital Journal. BLAME SKIPPER FOR SHIPWRECK Portland, Ore. (LP) Captain Louis Johnson was found guilty of gros negligence in taking his steamer Laurel out of the Columbia river during unsafe weather by the Unit ed States inspectors of hulls and boilers Tuesday. Responsibility for the wreck of the Laurel on a sand spit outride the Columbia river entrance was there upon fixed upon Johnson. After the Inspectors had announ ced their findings Johnson entered a plea of not guilty. Sentence will be passed tomorrow. The Laurel was wrecked during a gale on June 16. One man was lost and 32 sailors were taken off Sunday and Monday by the coast guard. Johnson refused to leave his ship Monday with the last of the crew but was rescued Wednesday, PERSIAN REBELS WIN VICTORY IN FESAN London, (IP) Constantinople dis patches to the London Daily Mail Tuesday stated that Persia rebels scored a victory against government troops in the Fesan region. The gov ernment sent reinforcements and also sent six airplanes, two tanks and two armored cars to the Shiras district, where 50.000 horsemen were reported in revolt. Gibraltar Greets Rescued Fliers With Wildest Acclaim Gibraltar (AP) Bearing patience in the face of death, three companions of their landed at Gibraltar from the day, safe, sound and still able ton laugh happily. Along the streets and waterfronts in all directions were thousands who had come to see them and cheer them on their deliverance after a week's floating In the At lantic in the region of the Azores. Crowds and demons rations such as the. military flavored, ,Qlbraltr NO HOPE FOR OREGONIAH OH FARM BOARD Senator McNary Back from Capital, Jubilant Over Accomplishments Stabilizing Corporation of Board May be Lo cated in Portland Portland, Ore. JPt Charles L. Mc Nary, United States senator from Oregon, enroute to his summer home in Salem Ore. Tuesday from Wash. ington, D. C, said he held no hope for Oregon landing a place on the new federal farm board created when President Hoover signed the farm relief act. Senator McNary was accompanied by Mrs. McNary and stopped over briefly In Portland. He was jubil ant over hat he has accomplished and what will be accomplished In the way of agriculture relief. Senator McNary spoke briefly on the appointment of members of the federal farm board created when President Hoover signed the farm relief measure. "It will only be a short time now until President Hoover announces the complete personnel of the farm relief board," the senator said, "and if should be able to organize and render assistance to the crops to be harvested this year." The farm relief act recently pass ed by Congress and approved by the president marks the end of the seven year controversy over this major subject," Senator McNary continued. President Hoover and (Concluded i 9, column S) REFRIGERATION GAS CAUSE OF WOMAN'S DEATH Chicago, OP) Methyl chloride gas escaping from an electric refriger ator Is given by a coroner's jury as the cause of death of Mrs. Violet Clark, 29, in her apartment Satur day. At the same time the department of health estimated that at least 15 persons and perhaps many more have died In Chicago in recent months from the same cause. Four persons have been victims of the gas within the last 10 days, the de partment said. The jury, composed of patholo gists and expert chemists, recom mended that "proper public offi cials and the leaders In the arti ficial refrigerating Industry" Join to seek means "for the protection of the public against recurrence of such deaths." Coroner's Physician Ralph Web ster testified that there waa no doubt of the cause of death. He told of placing two live guinea pigs in the Clark apartment Sunday night and of finding them dead Monday morning with unmistakable signs of methyl chloride poisoning. E. T. Williams, consulting engin eer for Servel, Inc., and member of the technical committee of the re frigeration division of the National Electric Manufacturers' association, said he could not believe methyl chloride gas was wholly to blame for the deaths. WED AFTER 20 YEARS Kalamazoo, Mich. (LP) James Travis and Lulu Carr, childhood sweethearts, quarrelled 30 years ago. Their ways parted and each married another. But after they had been left widower and widow they renewed the romance and were wed here recently. a story of quiet heroism and Major Ramon Franco and his ill-starred trans-Atlantic flight. rescue ship H. M. S. Eagle Tues - has never known greeted the four men. Tralllc was stalled and news- papermen almost literally had to fight their way every foot through the streets white launches in the harbor had difficulty In getting to and from tlie Eagle. All the Brit ish tOD.latlon of Gibraltar hid CoochMkfl on pr- it column a SOUTHERN SOLONSmtm TELLS am KM w f9 Dubbed by LOT OF COWARDS' Cleveland. Ohio (AP) Charges of cowardice and hy pocrisy were flung by Congressman Oscar De Priest, negro, of Chicago, Monday night at members of the legislatures of southern states which recently passed resolutions cen suring Mrs. Herbert Hoover a White House reception, con-? gressman De Priest was speaking before 2,000 persona at a mass meeting of the national association for the advancement ol. colored people. "They're just a lot ol cowards," the Illinois congressman called the southern legislators. "This is my country and your country. I've been elected to congress the same as any other congressman and I'm to have the right of every other congressmanno more and no less if its In the congressional barber shop or at a White House tea." De Priest said the-- criticism of Mrs. Hoover's receiving Mrs. De Priest at the White House tea was an incident used by southern dem ocrat politicians,, seeking to win the solid south back into the demo cratic party. However,he added, all racial (Concluded on page 11, column 5) LA FOLLETT IN JAIL, CHARGE OF NON-SUPPORT Portland. Ore., (P) Charles La Pollett. Washington county repre sentative, arrested at Hillsboro, Ore., on a charge of non-support Dreferred by Mrs. La Follett, was placed In the Multnomah county Jail today after being returned from Hillsboro. ills oau was set at .ow but La Follett said he would stay In JaU. Portland. Ore. (P) Charles La- FoUett, state representative from Washington county and former senator from Marion county, in tall at Hillsboro. Ore., charge of non-support, according to Information received by Sheriff Hurlburt, Multnomah county, Tues day. LaFoliett, accoraing to onerm Hurlburt, was arrested at Hills boro on a non-support complaint Issued here June So by Deputy Dis trict Attorney Hammersley, who said Mrs. La Follett was In "great need. The complaint charges failure to support four children aged six, eight, JO and if. Earlier this year Mrs. wronett filed a divorce suit and presiding Judge Morrow Issued an order for LaFoliett to show cause wny ne could not support the family pend- TEXAN JAILED AS LOTHARIO New York, P) An elderly six foot Texan who is said by the police to have laid a trail of at least fifty broken hearts and as many empty purses across the con tinent was being held today as a fugitive from Amarillo, Texas. They said the elderly Lothario, who described himself as Charles H. Boyles, 68 years old, was wanted In Texas City on charges of bigamy and grand larceny and for Jump ing tlO.000 ball on April 4. lrn. His arrest, they said, cut snort romance he had started here with a Brooklyn woman, whom they described as the widow of a banker. They said another Brook lyn woman stoDDed going with him only after she had spent nearly $7,000 while In his company. Bovles. when arraigned in ier ferson Market court, declared he was Innocent of the bigamy charge and asserted he had obtained divorce before the questioned mar riage. He was held under sio.ooo ball for a hearing Friday. PEANUT FATAL TO 19 MONTHS CHILD Quincy, Mass. UP A peanut which h3 swallowed two weeks ago resulted in the death of Theodore Olenn. IB months old son of Dr. Chester L. Olenn. Quincy baby specialist, at the children's hospital In Boston Tuesday. The peanut, lodged In the baby's lung, had been removed by surgrons at a Philadelphia hospital but Mon day while believed recovering, the child became ill atain. Less than a fortnight a.o. n ' Olenn's three-day-oW "u' tfi.i, TO HE SB SS DePriest a for inviting Mrs. De Priest to TEACHERS ASK PROPAGANDA ! CUT OUT Atlanta, Ga., UP) Two general sessions and a series of department al meetings Tuesday stressed the purpose of the 67th convention of the National Education Association Education for a New World. Heading the list of reports to the general session, was that of the propaganda committee which held that all schools should be securely safeguarded against propaganda. Children should be taught "How to Think'' not "What to Think," the report said. Meanwhile delegates also were faced with the problem of choosing oct ween Miss Ruth Pyrtie ol Lin coln. Nebr., and Miss Effle Mac- Oregor nominees for the presidency of the association, not to mention nominees for 11 vice presidencies. other officers and board members from the states. The elections will take place Wednesday. Addresses before the general ses sions and departments as prepared for delivery today gave concrete examples and prescriptions for education in a new world. A. C. Eldridge of Cleveland, told the sec ondary school principals that more personable teachers were neeaea. He said students deserved Instruc tors of whom they could be proud. "Today too- many of the physic ally unfit turn to teaching prob ably because the bars are not so strong as In other fields of en deavor, where one must win his clientele through personality and ability." ABOLITION OF PRISONS URGED BY EX-CONVICT San Francisco, (P) A plea that prisons no longer be allowed to serve aa instruments of "punishment, cruelty, revenge and this tooth-for- tooth Justice" was made before the national conference on social work here Tuesday by Jack Black, author and former convict. "I can testify from my own exper ience that Jailers try to separate a man from the little by which he dif fers from the animal when he gets to JaU," said Black. He declared that "the dead weight of deprav ity" downs a youthful prisoner "be fore his name is dry on the books. "It pulls down the guards, the officers and the wardens," said Black. "The moment a man steps In to prison he sheds all sense ol re sponsibility, and nothing lr. done while he la there to revive it. His bed and board are furnished. He Is bathed and shaved and his laundry is put In his cell. "It would be bad enough If he were standing still, but he is not. He Is going backward and soon for gets the little he knew about get ting along In the outside world. "It Is no surprise to me that so many men return to prison. The surprise is that they don't all go back. They are released without any money-sense, without any sense of responsibility and they are as unfit to face the world with any honest endeavor as canaries released from their cages. They are stunned to find that the world has gone by and left them on a sidetrack." Got Three Years For Renting Son Out to Beg Alms . New York David Bern stein, who rented his seven year old boy ent at $3 a day to a negro, to pone aa a crip ple and beg. la to spend three years In Jail. .The son told the police his father fixed up five or ti men dally as cripples, got 12 oat of every M each made, and had an income of about $100 a day. The boy's wan SO cent. OF EXPERIENCE III ,'IDOCFJII Rsscued Spanish Flier Says Water Shortage Caused Suffering Cold Weather and Rough Seas Added to Hard ships of Drift Gibraltar (JP) Shortage of water. cold, rough seas and a bitter sense of being at the mercy of waves were the chief memories of Juajor Ram on Franco and his three compan ions who reached Gibraltar Tues day. 'Ask anything you want, said Majo Franco to the correspondent of the Associated Press who talked with him. The major was dressed in khaki. The suit had been given him by one of the members of the Eagles crew. Out of gas and, much to their surprise, beyond the Azores, the airmen were compelled to alight on the sea. "The landing was made perfectly on a quiet sea," said Major Franco. 'My watch showed nine In the morning. At first we did not know where we were although we pre sumed that we could not be so far from the Azores. Then the sea be came rough and strong winds push ed tne ptane from oue side to the other, we aw no vessel. We felt slightly cold. Naturally we were (Concluded on page 11, column 0) NEW JAPANESE CABINET TAKES OATHOFJFFICE Tokyo (AV-Yuko Ham acu lent the third untitled premier In Japan's history and the members of the new Minseito cabinet were Installed late Tuesday In the palace In the presence of the emperor. The new ministry succeeds that of Baron Tanaka of the Sieyukai party, which resigned shortly be fore noon after a cabinet crisis precipitated by Investigation of the assassination of Marshal Chang Sto Lin In Manchuria last year. The following have agreed to ente. the Minseito cabinet. Baron Kljuro Shledehara, form er ambassador at Washington, for eign affairs. Kenzo AdachI, home affairs. Kyo Takarabe, admiralty. General Issei Ugakl, war. Junnosuka Inouye, finance. Chull Machida, agriculture and forestry. Genjt Matsuda, overseas affairs. Other position In the cabinet are Viscount Chifuyu, Watanabe, jus tice; unit Kooasht, education ; Matajiro Koizumi, communications; Naggichl Tawra, commerce and In dustry; Yoku Egl, railways. DYNAMITE CAP BLAST FATAL La Grande, Ore. UP) Delbert Darr was fatally injured and his brother, George Darr, was seriously injured Tuesday by the accidental explosion of dynamite caps In the granary at the home a few miles north of Elgin, Ore. Delbert. whose face was torn by the blast, died late Tuesday morn ing In LaOrande after the two men were rushed here In an ambulance. George Is expected to recover. Reports received here indicate the two men went to the granary to get dynamite caps for work on a highway. Delbert stooped over and is believed to have dropped the cap which exploded igniting others. The two men were sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Darr, pioneer fam ily. SUSPEND TRADING DAIRY EXCHANGE Portland. JPt By a majority vote at a special meeting Monaay nignt, the Portland Dairy Exchange de cided to suspend trading in butter and eggs for a period of sixty days and eliminate official quota tions for that period of time. The action was taken after officials charged many abuses had crept In from within and without the ex- "hait ii i i j i Rattlesnake Goes To Church To Hear Sermon ManhaUviUe. Ga ( A rattlesnake said to be Mere than t feet long figured In the services held at the Methodist church here Sun day by Her. M. T. Webb. Only the pastor was aware ef the presence of the rep tile. The pastor was expounding the doctrines of his faith, . when to emphasise one of his remarks, he glanced heaven ward. His voice died away but his glance remained peering over one ef the globes in the chandelier, was the snake. Its beady eyes fix ed on the pastor. Rev. Mr. Webb, realising the panic that would ensue If the congregation knew of the snake's presence, contin ued with the service. At Its conclusion he gathered sev eral members of his board of stewards together and with a long pole they dislodge the reptile and killed U. LUMBER LADEN SHIP ON ROCKS IN DENSE FOG San Francisco (LP) The vessel aground off Point Honda was re ported to the Southern Pacific of ficials here Tuesday to be the Ann Hanify of San Francisco, sister ship of the Ryder Haniiy, The report of the marine disaster was made by a signal maintenance man to the railroad operator at Surf, five miles from the point. and said that the vessel, heavily laden with lumber, was fast on bar, two miles from shore. Two men irt a small boat attemp ted to make shore, the signal man reported, but were forced to put back to the ship. They came close enough to fhore, he said, for him to hear their cries for help. The J. R. Hanify company, lum ber dealers, confirmed Identifica tion of the vessel. The Ann Han ify, according to the company's headquarters here, was bound from the Columbia river to San Pedro with about 1,500,000 feet of lumber aboard. The ship carried no passengers on the trip, and was manned by a crew oi so men, under command of Captain Frank Z. Addart, Oakland. This city is the home port of the Hanify vessels. Portland, Ore. (ff) The steamer Anne Hanify was reported aground on a sandbar near Point Arguello, Calif., Tuesday morning by the (Concluded on page 10, column 6) DECISION DUE ON FINKE TRIAL Portland. Ore., I A1) A decision on whether Walter J. Flnke, It, who shot and killed Herbert Beem, high school student. In a corridor of the school May 20, will be tried in ju venile court or remanded to the grand Jury will be handed down either Wednesday or Friday by O. H. Ollbert, Judge of the domestic relations court. Judge Ollbert said that should the case be referred to the grand Jury and a conviction secured, the boy still might be remanded to Juvenile court again without pass age of sentence and the case could be disposed of as a Juvenile matter depending on the behavior of Finke. Flnke shot and killed young Beem in what was said to have been a quarrel over the affections of a 17 year old high school girl. Personal Politics And Red Tape Delay Progress on Airport By HARRY N. CHAIN Salem got another sample of the inefficiency and the abuses incident to its antiquated councilmanic-committee form of government Monday night when the intricacies of the system, plus a display of personal politics threw a monkey wrench into the machinery for speeding up construction of the new municipal airport in an effort to have it so far com pleted as to permit of Its dedlcation during the state convention of the American Legion here August -9-10. Tuesday members of the joint airport committee were seeking by some means to straighten out the tangle precipitated In the council 'jaetUng by .-Aldermen Rosebraugh REIIIHART AIID MEIIDELLIIOP Salem Man and Com panion Seek Record for Endurance Long Delayed Attempt Started Early Tuesday At Culver City Culver City. CaL un The mono plane "Angeleno" passed its first six hours In the air here Tuesday with out incident. The ship piloted by L. W. Mendell and R. B. (Pete) Rein hart of Salem, began Its attempt for a new endurance record at 7:29 m. Despite the handicap of dense fo that hung like a pall, Mendell and Reinhart maneuvered to make their first refueling after about five hours of flight, taking on 240 gallons of gasoline. Hundreds of persons In Salem are following with a personal interest news reports on the progress of the attempt of L. W. Mendell and R. B. tPete) Reinhart, who took off from Culver City airport Tuesday morning, to better the refueling en durance flight record. Keinnart la a Salem boy - and graduated from the Salem high school before entering the Univer fity of Oregon, For several years he was a mem ber of the state traffic squad, be ing stationed at Astoria, hi the Willamette Valley district and In southern Oregon. After leaving the traffic department Reinhart was engaged in business here and learn ed to fly during his spare hours. From Salem he went to Texas early this year to become associated with his brother-in-law In an aviation enterprise. Mrs. Renhart. who la soendinc the summer here with her mother, Mrs. Fannie Campbell, said Tues day morning; that the flight has been postponed several times, and expressed relief that It waa finally under way. Los Angeles (Pt U W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart bopped off In (Concluded on page II. column 6) MACDONALD IN SPEECH STATES PARTYPOLICY London, W) Premier Ramsay Mac Donald, speaking on the debt question during bis address in the debate on the reply to the speech from the throne In the bouses of commons Tuesday said aa to the question of some new agreement which would supersede the Dawes plan: "We shall go back on none of our contracts, but we shall in future arrangements not forget that the just business Interest of our nation cannot be sacrificed.' The prime minister dealt exten sively upon foreign relations, partic ularly those with America. His gov ernment, he said, had two dominat ing concerns, first, relief of unem- '. ployment and social betterment, and second, peace and security by the cordial cooperation of the nations of the world. Essential to the latter was a bet ter understanding with America. - and Johnson, and to devise a meth od by which the sub-committee In charge of construction details and the engineers might be given au thority to proceed without Inter ruption. They seek permission from the (.Concluded on p 9, oolusw 4