Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, July 08, 1929, Page 1, Image 1

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CIRCULATION
Dally average distribution for the
month ending Ji'ne 30, 1929
10,243
Average dally net paid 0,851
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations
FAIR
tonight and Tuesday,
portion Tuesday. Moderate north
erly winds.
Local: max. 82; mln. 47; rain 0;
river 0.6 feet; clear; north wind.
42nd YEAR, No. 161
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929
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LACK OF FUEL .
AGAIN NEARLY
ENDS FLIGHT
Attempt at Record Al
most Spoiled by Short
age of Gas Supply
Salem Flier and Com
panion Pass Six Day
Mark Going Strong
Culver City, Cal. (A) A bit more
than a day and a night separated
the biplane Angelno from a new
endurance refueling record as it
roared past the 149th hour of con
secutive flight here at 12:29:30 p.
m. Monday.
Culver City, Cal. (JP) With a sec
ond narrow escape from being forc
ed down for lack of fuel safely
passed, L. W. Mendell and R. B.
(Pete) Reinhart piloted their single
motored biplane into the seventh
day of its time journey at 7:29:30
a.m. Monday, determined to better
the endurance record of 174 hours
69 seconds. At that time they had
been In the air 144 consecutive
hours.
The mixun which all but threw
the non-stop refueling record at- j
tempt Into the discard as it neared
triumph, came as a result of a re
duced refueling load at the contact
Sunday night.
Ground officials said that only
106 gallons of gasoline had been
transferred to the plane at that
time, In view of the strenuous run
the 220-horsepower motor has al
ready made, thereby reducing possi
bility of being forced down with the
goal so near.
However, the amount of fuel In
the tanks had been over-estimated
Concluded on page 11. column 6)
RECLAMATION
PROJECTS WAIT
UPON SURVEY
Portland, Ore Of1) The future de
velopment of reclamation projects
In the west by the Interior depart
ment will depend on the economic
soundness of the Individual projects
proposed. Secretary Wilbur, on an
Inspection trip of Interior depar
ment activities In the west declared
here Monday that the department
was making a complete economic
survey of existing irrigation proj
ects and that where "the econom
ics of the situation are unsound
stern remedial measures will be re
ported to.
"Most reclamation projects de
pend largely on the kind of people
who settle them," Dr. Wilbur said,
"but In a number of cases we have
placed good farmers on reclaimed
land to compete in an open mar
ket with the result that they have
practically starved to death.
"There Is no dirtier trick in the
world than settling a farmer on
land where there is no chance for
him to make a living," he declared
"No land should be reclaimed un
til It is certain that when it be
gins producing it will rake some
thing that land watered by rains
cannot raise."
PRIZE BEAUTY WEDS
THOMAS INCE'S SON
Beverly Hills, Calif. IP) Miss Ada
Williams. 18, winner of many beau
ty titles Including "Miss United
Piates," In 1927 and William Ince.
20, son of the' late Thomas Ince, film
producer, were married here Sun
day.
The bride ' 'as attended by friends
In the film colony and young Ince
was served by his brother, Thomas
Ince, n., as best man. Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., and Arthur Lake,
youthful comedians, were ushers.
Ml
Threatening
"Pete" Relnhart (left), and L. W. Mendell and one of the reserve fuel
tanks that Is helping to keep their plane going In their assault on the en
durance flight record.
Good Evening!
DON UPJOHN
OFFERS
Sips for Supper
While no one expected any rec
ord to be broken in the fruit busl
less In this off fruit year, yet Prank
Brown of The Spa has an orchard
tear Dallas that's going to knock
em cold.
Yea, Frank has a prune orchard
over there and Indications are it's
going to show some startling per
formances this year. Prank Is as
satisfied as -any man can be, that
his orchard this year will produce
prunes running right around 2000
pounds to the ton. Not so Dad, we u
say, for a little chap like Prank.
And what more, he figures on
these prunes grading out Into some
prunes. In fact he bets ngm
straight through his prunes will
not only run 2000 pounds to the ton,
but 16 ounces to the pound. Of
course this is only Frank's estimate
but he seems to be mighty sure
about what he's talking about. You
can't beat this climate.
Indications are Portland's ball club
is going to smash all records in the
second half of the Pacific Coast
league contest. Right now It ap
pears Portland will win only one
ball game in the second half while
it won quite a few more the first
half.
The ball team that has the most
games to play against Portland
should have the pennant cinched,
hands down.
Speaking of the fruit situation.
Ralph Allen of Hunt brothers, after
making a careful investigation for
us, denies the report that a num
ber of Royal Anne cherry trees arc
producing Lambert black cherries
this year because of the heavy fall
of cinders over the city. "Some of
the Royal Annes look like Lamberts
In the morning when the dew is
on them," said Ralph, "but she's
the same old Anne down under
her hide."
And while we're on the subject
we will stop long enough to remind
our customers that that little Sal
em peach, Dorothy Beyerl, will be
back here Wednesday evening as
the Capital Journal's own Miss
Salem. Will we miss Miss Salem?
We will not.
New Industry Makes
Bow Here, Utilizing
Flax, Paper Waste
Prospects of development of a new industry here to take
care of waste products from the flax plants and paper mill
come with filing of articles of incorporation by the Western
Board Products company with F. Puttaert, F. D. Thielsen
and James Q. Heltzel as incorpor-
atom. The concern Is capitalized
at $50,000.
Under the articles the concern Is
authorized ta manufacture board
from flax, straw, paper and other
products. The board In question is
principally used In the manufac
Southern California
HEARS Wtmn
Air Record
ROCKEFELLER
CELEBRATING
90TH BIRTHDAY
Tarrytown, N. Y. (JP) John D.
Rockefeller, uaster of the fine art
of living, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday anniversary Monday.
Observance of the day brought
little deviation from the daily rou
tine by which the veteran oil mag
nate has learned to be healthy and
happy.
Entering his ninety-first year.
Mr. Rockefeller is the dean of
world figures. Thomas A. Edison,
and President Hlndenburg of Ger
many are 82. George Haven Put
nam, the publisher, is 8o. Georges
Clemenceau, the grand old man of
France, is 87. One biographer has
predicted Mr. Rockefeller will live
to be 100. But he himself pro
fesses never to think of the term
ination of his life. "I am too
busy trying to be useful," he ex
plains. The day marks the close of the
third decade since, having amafsed
$1,000,000,000, Mr, Rockefeller"
linquished his business interests to
his son and began his pursuit of
health and happiness.
In a statement herald:
"I have every reason to be grate
ful on my ninetieth birthday.
Everybody has been so kind and
good to me all the year. With
perfect health and full of hope and
cheer for the future. I have noth
ing but kindness and good will for
everybody."
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
FOR WORLD COURT
Kansas City Pi A resolution
irging the United States senate to
take action to enter this country
into the world court of interna
tional justice and to ratify the inter-American
treaty of arbitration
was adopted Sunday night by the
delegates to the thirty-second an
nual International convention of
Christian Endeavor.
"We believe that the United
States in order to make effective
its pledges under the pact of Paris,
should become a member of the
world court of international justice
and respective hope that without
delay the senate of the United
tSates will complete this relation
ship," the resolution stated.
ture of trunks, suitcases and simi
lar articles. The board Is exceed
ingly tough, having virtually the
strength of board from wood, but
with greater resillencey and does
not split so easily.
(Concluded on page 10, column 3
QUAKE SHAKES
LOS ANGELES
AND VICINITY
Severe Shock Rocks
Cities, $50000 Dam
age to Whittier School
Los Angeles City Hall
Tower Sways 12 in
ches. Oil Wells Stop
Los Angele- ypf Four persons,
two men and two children, were in
jured in an earthquake which sev
erely shook Los Angeles and com
munities within a thirty mile radi
us at 8:45 a. m. Monday. These
injuries were reported from Santa
Fe Springs, oil town- fifteen miles
south of here.
Damage to the extent of $50,000
vas reported in East Whittier, sub
urb of Los Angeles, from the earth
quake. A section of one wall of
lie East Whittier school caved in
and the structure was thrown out
of line. It was unoccupied, this
being vacation period.
Two East Whittier homes were
wrecked, and several damaged by
falling chimneys. No personal in
juries were reported from that sec
tion. Los Angeles OP) Communities
within a thirty mile radius of Los
Angeles reported a strong earth
quake of several seconds duration,
beginning at 8:45 a.m. Monday.
Long Beach, Hermosa Beach and
Santa Monica, all on the Pacific
ocean, felt the effect of the tremor
more than the inland communities
of Pasadena and Glendale.
The tremor was an undulating
north and south movement, causing
chandeliers in some buildings to
sway several feet like pendulums,
rattling windows and moving small
objects, but causing no damage. A
(Concludedon page" 10, column 4)
SCHILLING FOR
FARM BOARD
Washington (JPh-William P. Schil
ling of Northfield, Minn., has ac
cepted an appointment to the fed
eral farm board to represent the
dairying industry.
Washington, P) W. F. Schilling,
president of the Twin City Milk
Producers Association of St. Paul,
Minn., held an extended confer
ence with President Hoover Mon
day and it is understood he was
offered a place on the federal
farm board.
At the conclusion of his Inter
view with the chief executive, Mr.
Schilling declined to say what had
taken place, but said that some an
nouncement could be expected from
President Hoover tomorrow.
As president of the Twin City
Association, Schilling has had ex
tensive experience In cooperative
dairying. A place on the board was
originally offered to W. 8. Mos
crip, secretary-treasurer of the
same organization, but he declined
because of the press of personal af
fairs. NEW RECORD FOR
NON-STOP FLIGHTS
Winnipeg, Man. UP) A new
world's non-stop long distance rec
ord for light aeroplanes was estab
lished Sunday when Wight 8. "Bar
ney" Zimmerley flew from Browns
ville, Texas, to Winnipeg. ,
Zlmmerly, who is holder of alti
tude records for light planes, landed
at Stevenson aerodrome at 6:45 o'
clock, completing the 1725 mile
flight In 16 hours to beat the pre
vious distance record by 758 miles.
Last year, Harry J. Brooks In a
plane weighing under 771 pounds,
flew 072 miles.
Zimmerley's monoplane, equipped
with a 60 horsepower motor, weighs
726 pounds.
M
TORCH MURDER
CONFESSED BY
Young Amazon Tells of
Strangling Common
Law Husband
Drunkeness Alleged
Cause, Poured Naptha
Over Body
Toulon. 111. (P) Laura Weaver, a
21 year old woman of great size
and strength, was held Monday lor
the torch murder of her common
law husband, Wllmer Kltsel
man, 52.
Six feet tall and weighing 230
pounds, the young woman told of
strangling Kltselman, trapping his
body in a quilt, rolling It down
stairs, loading It Into an automo
bile and driving Into the country
where she dumped It by the road
side, poured naphtha over it and
touched a match.
A brother identified the victim
through a set of false teeth.
After two hours' questioning, the
Weaver woman jetailed for county
ffflcers the story of her affair with
Concluded on page 11. column 8)
249 RESCUED AT
SEA AFTER TWO
SHIPS COLLIDE
Boston, (IP) Another thrilling ad
venture of the open sea has been
written, in the matter-of-fact phra
seology of marine records, into the
log of the United States coast guard.
It concerns the rescue of 240 pas
sengers from the coastal steamer
Prince George, carried out without
the loss of a single life after a col
lision, fifty miles off Cape Ann ear
ly Sunday.
The accident was described un
officially as unavoidable.
It was reported by some of the
Prince George passengers that the
coast guard patrol boat Agassis was
running at full speed through a
heary fog and tore Into the Prince
George, Boston-bound from Yar
mouth, N. 8. The passenger vessel
was ripped open above and below
the water line while the nose of the
Agassis was flattened.
An 8.O.S. was sent out Immediate
ly by the Prince George and the
work of transferring her passengers
to the Agassis which seemed the
more seaworthy of the two ships,
was begun.
The Agassiz sent out radio calls
for assistance and the cutter Mo
jave sped to the scene. The Mojave
took the passengers aboard and
brought them here.
UNTIN BOWLER
UNHEARD FROM
Chicago tVP) " Somewhere In Can
ad a" was the most definite address
Monday of the Chicago Tribune'
Chicago-to-Berlin amphibian plane,
the "Untln" Bowler, and Its crew
of three who were last heard from
early Friday.
Since 9:58 am., Friday no mes
sage has been received from the
plane. At that time Parker D. Cra
mer, co-pilot and navigator, radioed
that the "Untin" Bowler was land
ing at Great Whale, In the Hudson
bay country.
For five hours Sunday the Elgin
operators heard a loud whirring
sound which they were confident
was from the plane's radio gener
ator being operated by the motor.
If such were the case, backers of
the flight said. It was evident that
the "Untin" Bowler flew a consider
able distance.
Fears were expressed Sunday that
the Bowler had been forced down
In the wooded wilds of northern
Quebec by storms
Headed For Rome
4
A p li Intel
Monoplane "Pathfinder", In which Cant. Lewis Yancey llefl) and
Rorer ). Williams hopped off Monday momlng on trans-Atlantic flifht
to Rome.
PROHIBITION HIT
B5 ffT9 ' JJ5 Btai SU V. SM 8B
As Form of Tyranny
gat K H.iu mm
BY MEDICAL HEAD
Portland (UP)" Launching an attack upon intolerance
in general, Dr. William S. Thayer, retiring president of the
American Medical association made a forceful onslaught on
the federal prohibition law in his farewell address to the as
sociation here Monday.
When in a country like
attempts to legislate for the whole
country as to what we may or may
not eat or drink, as to how we may
dress, as to our religious beliefs or
as to what we may or may not
read, It is to interfere with those
rights sacred to every English
speaking people; this is no longer
a republican form of government.
It Is tyranny," he said.
"In the long run, we English
speaking people will not endure
tyranny. In time of peace we in
sist on local and individual liberties
which we regard as rig at.
"As a nation we have of recent
years set a rather sorry example in
the matter of inconsiderate, ill
considered and Intolerant persecu
tions and prohibitions proscrip
" (Concluded on page 10. column 7)
YEAR COOLER
THAN JVERAGE
Two weeks of warm weather have
almost caused Salem people to for
get that the spring and early sum
mer this year was considerably
cooler than corresponding periods
of past years when temperatures
as high as 100 degrees have been
recorded. Tth warmest day last
month was 80 degrees on the 24th,
while May had a ' high-' tempera
ture of 80 degrees on both the 21st
and the 22nd. against 07 degrees
May 21 in 1028 and 93 degrees on
the 24th.
June, 1927 was fairly cool but the
previous year saw a temperature of
100 degrees on the 24th and 0:i
degrees on the 25th. July of 1923
was also warm, the mercury
mounting to 107 degrees on the
11th and 100 degrees on the 10th.
June 1925 witnessed 100 degrees on
the 24th and 99 degrees on the
25th. On May 30, 1924, the mer
cury registered 00 degrees while
June of that year saw 98 degree
on the 20 th.
Last year July brought a week of
extremely warm weather, the tem
pera tuns varying from 08 degrees
to 06 degrees between July 21 and
26 with 103 degrees on the 23rd.
With the temperature touching
M degrees thortly after noon Mon
day, a "heat record" for the year
was established. The appearance of
a light breeze caused the mercury
to drop to 91 degrees a little past
1 oclock.
CRASH KILLS TWO
New Preston, Conn. (AN Martin
F. Brown, 34, of New Brunswick, N.
J., and Gordon Spencer Whittlcy,
19, of Arlington. N. J., were killed
Sunday when their airplane went
into a nose spin and crashed.
u a a
ours the national government
8 PRISONERS
ESCAPE LANE
COUNTY JAIL
Eugene, Ore. E;nt prisoners
staged a successful break from the
Lane county Jail here early Mon
day. It was -thought that the escaped
prisoners scattered and posses were
soon organized to spread-eagle the
county in an attempt to prevent
the men from getting far from here.
It was believed the men made
their escape with the aid of out
side help. They sawed their way
out of the cell with a hacksaw. The
escape was discovered about a half
hour later.
Five of the eight men who es
caped were:
Harvey Brlce, 42. ex-convict, be
lieved to be the leader of the break.
He in said to have a long list of
prison records In various states. He
was being held under the habitual
criminal act.
William Gillen, 42, tnick driver.
held for parsing bad checks and
for auto theft.
C. E. Mos, alias, Blarkie, hrld
on suspicion and for Investigation.
Ed Miller, 40, negro hobo, serv
ing time for vagrancy,
Cecil Dunham, 26, who was ar-
Concluded on page 9, column-4
Sudden Death Closes
Political Career of
Bean Here Saturday
The funeral service of the late Louis E. Bean, chairman
of the Oregon public service commission, who died suddenly
Saturday night, will be held at 10:15 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing at the Kigdon mortuary here. Interment will follow ir
Kugerre.
The service here will be conducted by Rev, D. H. Leach
of Albany assisted by Rev. Fred C.
Taylor of the First Methodist
church. Employes of the service
commission will serve as pallbear
ers and prominent Salem and Eu
gene men as honorary pallbearers.
Active pallbearers at Salem will
be James Bunnell, Herbert H. Hau
LONG DELAYED
TRIP TO ICE
IS UNDER WAY
Yancey and Williams
Head "Pathfinder?
Out Over Atlantic
Take -Off Perfect and
Weather Forecast foil
Flight Favorable
Gloucester, Mass. LP After be
ing forced down at sea. Lieutenant
Leonard M. Melka, who accompan
ied the Pathfinder on the first 120
miles of Its trans-ocean hop, land
ed his big amphibian plane at the
coast guard base here shortly after
3 p. m. Monday.
Old Orchard, Me. (jH) The mono
plane Pathfinder with Pilot Roger
Q. Williams and Navigator Lewis
A. Yancey aboard, took off from
the beach here with Rome as its
destination at 8:49 a. m. E. D. T.
The fliers expected to make the
5.700 mile flight in from 45 to 60
hours.
The plane took off after a run of
about one mile and headed due
south gaining altitude of about 100
feet as it left .the beaeh.
The ship then made a wide swing
and headed east on her course until
lost to sight In the haze.
Three planes accompanied the
Rome-bound plane. The coast
luard amphibian was on the left.
Concluded on page 11, column 5)
LINDYOFFON
FIRST FLIGHT OF
TRANSPORT LINE
Glendale, Cal., JPi Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh took the controls of
a 12 -passenger trl-motored airplane
at 8:50 a. m., Monday and soared
away to the east from the Grand
Central air terminals here, bound
for Clovis, N. M., on the opening
eastward flight over the new
trans-continantal air transport
lines.
In the big ship were nine other
persons besides the flying colonel,
including his bride, the former
Miss Anne Morrow.
The departure was delayed five
minutes from the scheduled time
while the party stood in astonish
ment from a momentary earth
quake shock which rocked a large
section of southern California at
approximately 8:45 a. m.
The only expressions came from
several of the passengers, who on
experiencing the first earthquake,
described it as an "uncanny feel
ing." Colonel Lindbergh and his
bride remained silent, but It ap
peared they with the others were
relieved when the ground quieted
Its rumbling.
The Colonel shot his plane away
to the east In a graceful take-off
and soon disappeared over the bor
dering foothills. He was expected
to land his passengers at Clovis
about 30 tonight. Mrs. Lindbergh,
it wi s understood, will Journey
only to Kingman, Arizona.
At Clovis, the passengers are to
be transferred to a passenger
train and Colonel Lindbergh on
the following morning will pick up
the first group of passengers to
travel westward over the air-mail
route of trans-continental and the
Pennsylvania railroad, bringing
them to Los Angeles.
En route on his return here, he
will pick up Mrs. Lindbergh In
Kingman.
-
ser, Vern Drager, A .F. Harvey, Wil
liam P. Ellis and Carl Clear, all of
the public service department. Ac
tive pallbearers at Eugene will be
E. O. Immel, W. H. Brooke, E. R,
Brywn, Lynn McCready, Dr. C. B.
"(Concluded on pa 9. column 4)"