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Unsettled tonight and Sunday.
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Local: Max: 00; Mln. 43; Rain.
0; River 1.1 feet; partly cloudy;
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42nd YEAR, No. 166
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929
PRICE THREE CENTS
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Convention Of Catholics Opens
OPENING DAY
IS DEVOTED TO
REGISTRATION
National and State Offi
cers Arrive, Commit
tees Hold Sessions
Convention Opens Sun
day, Great Gathering
at Fairgrounds
Headed by the two national pres
idents, Wllllbald Eibner of New Dim.
-Minn., and Mrs. Sophia Wavering
of Quincy, 111., other national offic
ers and state presidents, the first
delegations to the national conven
tions of the Cathoiic Central so
ciety of America and the National
Catholic Women's Union, arrived in
Salem In special coaches on the
ten-thirty train from the north Sat
urday morning.
Shortly before one o'clock a del
egation of thirty from St. Louis,
Mo., arrived In a special bus. The
group of nearly 100 delegates. In
cluding 22 from the state of Minne
ntk alone, occupied three special
coaches. The train was stopped at
Twelfth and Chemeketa streets
Where the delegates were greeted
officially and escorted four blocks
down Chemeketa to St. Joseph's
ball where they were registered.
Committee meetings and executive
board meetings of the two organiz
ations were held Saturday afternoon
and scheduled for evening also but
the conventions will not be formally
opened until Sunday morning at
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MARTIAL LAW
RULES FLOODED
KANSAS GITY
Hutchinson. Kansas (IP) Hutchin
nn & under martial law Satur-
riav with the 130th Field artillery
patrolling more than 2,000 homes
inundated by the worst flood this
city has experienced in 26 years.
Hutchinson's situation was seri
ous Saturday and property loss will
be enormous. Already the flood has
claimed the lives of two persons
and fear was expressed that a third
Injured would not recover.
Truffle was at a standstill as
m mile an hour current, waist
deep in some of the main streets,
swept through the city.
I. E. French, Hutchinson political
leader, was missing Saturday and
it was feared that he had been
drowned as he attempted to cross
flooded Cow Creek whose waters
were sweeping the city.
Mrs. Betty Ringler was not ex
pected to recover from injuries suf
fered when an improvised gas stove
exploded in m temporary tent shel
ter.
Hundreds of homes have been
opened to residents who were for
ced to leave tneir nomes. live
stock, driven ahead of many ref
ugees from nearby farms, roam the
streets not yet touched by the flood.
Every available boat has been
nresed into service.
Publication of the two daily pap
ers were suspended Saturday when
It was found it would be impossible
to deliver them because of the
water. The basement and press
room of the News was Inundated
The publishers of the News were
endeavoring to dry out a job press
In order that they might k'sue
Sunday paper.
KING ALBERT ROBBED
WHILE SWIMMING
Brussels, UP) King Albert wu
robbed of his Bold watch, a pocket-
book containing 500 francs and a
gold pen knife while having an en'
toy-able swim in the sea at Maria
kerke and Saturday returned to
Brussels anything but pleased about
It.
The king did not conceal his ill
humor at the robbery and the fact
that Belgium's first sea resort did
not enjoy better supervisory service
while the Ostend authorities have
hastened to offer apologies.'
Good Evening!
DON UPJOHN
OFFERS
Sips for Supper
THE HILARIOUS CLIMAX
Last evening our old friend
Newell Williams staged a thrilling
slack wire stunt before the assem
bled service clubs at Hager's Grove.
With the slack wire laid on the
ground he went through a number
of startling gyrations while spot
lights from automobiles played
upon bis agile form. Mid thun
derous applause Newell finished his
act and backed along the rope,
bowing to right and left. He backed
a step too far and suddenly disap
peared over the bhnK of the 15
foot cliff and dropped clothes and
all Into the swimming hole.
That's the only time we've ever
been sorry we don't belong to a
service club.
Now that the endurance flight is
safely over we await breathlessly
the arrival of the new magazines to
find out what kind of cigarettes
Pete and his comrade smoked dur
ing their flight.
If the boys were wise they would
have each smoked a different kind.
No doubt we will find out that it
wasn't the motor. It wasn't the
stamina of the fliers, it wasn't the
old ship that carried them through
But each time the flight seemed to
falter the boys either reached for
a snipe or walked a mile for one,
and he was good for another 10
hours of the gruelling pastime.
Verdon M. Moffatt, who leaped
into the limelight as the man in
charge of the police at the airport
during the flight, has left his ever
lasting imprint on Salem where he
used to be chief of police. When
chief herehe had a sign bedecking
police headquarters which read
something like this:
Notice No police officer is per
mitted to use profane language. By
order Verdon M, Moffatt, chief of
ponce.
And since that famous order was
posted It Is. well known that no
Salem cop has ever cussed a cuss
word. It goes to show what a great
Influence for good a moral man
may have on a community, long
after he has departed.
We wonder what kind of a sigr
Verdon put up to keep back the
crowds at Los Angeles.
Ralph Thompson swears that
he has been at the beach but
has never seen a sun tan bath
ing suit. What the heck does
Ralph do all the time he's at
the beach play blind man's
buff?
Now Doc Carlton Smith comes
forward and claims Pete Reinhart
got his bulldog tenacity when
boy by taking the Smith bulldog
out for a walk every day at 10 cents
a day. Belore he gets through
with it Pete'll wish he'd never be
come a champion.
NATUROPATHS PICK
SALEM FOR 1930
Portland, Ore. VP) Dr. Albert
Slaughter, Portland, was named
president of the Oregon naturo
pathic association Saturday which
closed officially the 20th annual
convention of the organization.
Other officers named are: Dr.
Mae Putnam, Salem, first vice-
president; Dr. A. N. Mayvllle, La
Grande, second vice-president, and
J. w. Sargent, Portland, secretary
treasurer.
Salem was awarded the 1930 con
vention.
Adolphe Menjou Off
For Europe to Hunt
For Job In Movies
New York (UP) Adolphe Menjou. who for veara en
joyed great popularity as America's sophisticate of the
screen, has sailed for Europe in search of a job. '
Word that Menjou had been unsuccessful in negotia
tions with leading; motion picture producers of the United
States got about New York Friday night and just before he
sailed on the liner Paris he was
assured that he could make one
more picture here at least. The
prospect made hint decide to shop
around the European studios for
nly 30 days instead of for the in
definite period he had planned.
Edwin Earl Smith of the execu
tive department of the American
Sound studios announced that Men
jou had signed a contract to make
RECORD FLIERS
LITTLE WORSE
FOR VENTURE
Mendell and Reinhart
Heroized in Los Angel
es for Flight
Gathering of Refuse on
Tail of Plane Cause of
Sudden Descent
Los Angeles (IP Two adventur
ous young men awoke from woll
deserved Blumber here Saturday and
stepped from their suites In one
of the city's best hotels to accept
the adulation paid to heroes of the
air.
Loren Mendell and R B. -Pete'
Reinhart, changed from greasy fly
ing togs to clean linen, and, smooth
faced after the removal of ten days
growth of beard, presented a much
different picture than Friday at
2:13 p. m. when they crawled from
their biplane, Angeleno, after a sus
tained flight of 246 hours, 43 min
utes and 30 seconds.
Telegrams of congratulations, of
fers of movie and stage contracts,
invitations to endorse sundry mer
chandise for cash, and other prob
lems confronted Mendell, Reinhart
and their managers.
It's a big job," A. E. McManus,
co-manager of the flight with Wil
liam O. McAdoo, Jr., said. "It
looks like these two men belong to
the public for weeks."
According to McManus and the
pilots, the direct cause of the sud
den descent of the Angeleno during
its 37th refueling at 150" feet was
the gathering of refuse In the tail
group of the plane.
"Examination showed that paper
and other refuse tossed out of the
plane gathered in the tail group,1
Concluded on page 8. column 4)
TIMBER FIRE
NEAP, KLAMATH
Klamath Falls, Ore., (F) A forest
fire which covered an entire moun
tain and threatened the Alboma
Lumber company Friday night was
under control Saturday after 200
firefighters waged an all-night fight.
Originating four miles north of
Klamath Falls, the blaze travelled
five miles over dry 8 rasa flats to
the timber line in a half hour. In a
short time a timber covered moun
tain ten miles north of here was
afire. A barbecue stand, dance hall
and adjacent dwellings were con
sumed by the flames which for i
time held up traffic on The Dalles
California h ten way.
At 'its height, the front of the fire
covered an area estimated at from
eight to ten miles. Timber losi
could not be estimated.
The flames came within one-
eighth of a mile of the Alboma Lum-,
ber company. A large force of men
patrolled the mill and yards to pre
vent the wind carried sparks from
igniting the dry lumber.
FIRE NEAR ASTORIA
Astoria iVP) Seventy-five acres of
cut over land had been burned over
and fire was still spreading in Clat
sop county where thei Crown-Wil
lamette operation crews are fighting
it.
one picture on a co-prooucuon oas-
is. Others may follow. Smith said
The revelation that Menjou had
been going the rounds of the em
ployment offices was a surprise,
since he had been In great demand
after his performance in "A worn'
an of Paris" several years ago and
was considered a Hollywood fixture.
(Concluded on page D. column 01
GRILLS DELAY
IN DREDGING
RIVER CHANNEL
Senator McNary Prods
Government Engineers
for Dilatory Tactics
Says Grave Injustice Fol
lows Failure to Main
tain Navigation
In response to a telegram sent
from Salem by Senator Charles L,
McNary, sharply calling to the at
tention of the federal engineering
department the condition of the
Willamette river channel between
Salem and Portland, a reply was re
celved by the senator Saturday,
promising immediate correction of
the channel difficulties which are
now a handicap to navigation.
Senator McNary advised the en
gineering department that the Sa
lem Navigation company Is operat
ing two steamers on the upper Wil
lamette between Portland and Sa
lem, and that it is severely handi
capped due to the failure of the
department to maintain "even I
minimum project depth." The sen
ator explained that one government
and one private dredge are now em
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BAN ON MALT
TONIC ORDERED
BY DRY CZAR
Milwaukee (P) James M. Doran
U. S. prohibition commissioner, has
ordered Milwaukee brewer', to dis
continue at once the manufacture
of "12 per cent" malt tonics. Brew
ers spoke of the order Saturday as
the most severe blow to the in
dustry since passage of the 18th
amendment.
The order, delivered through E.
O. Yellowley. prohibition enforce
ment chief at Chicago, stated that
effective immediately malt tonics
must contain a minimun of 18 per
cent solids derived from malt, and
not more than two per cent alco
hol by volume.
The 18 per cent product, the or
der decreed, must be bottled and
Concluded on page 9, column 7)
OREGON LIFE
MUTUALIZED
Portland. Ore. (JPh-C. F. Adams,
president of the Oregon Life In
surance company, issued a state
ment Saturday In which he an
nounced that policy holders had
voted to mutualize the company.
"The action taken at the meet
ing of stockholders," the announce
ment read, "will make Oregon Life
the only mutual life insurance com
pany west of the Rocky mountains.
The company's capital stocic oi
$100,000 will be retired at par."
The Oregon Life Insurance com
pany was founded in 1908 by the
late u Samuel and statements have
shown the company made substan
tial gains.
BAKER CANDIDATE
FOR YET LEADER
Portland, Ore. op Competition
developed Saturday In the selec
tion of a state commander of the
Veterans of Foreign wars, military
organization conducting Its conven
tion here.
Late Saturday afternoon the
election Is scheduled to be con
ducted with Colonel Thomas R.
Hamer, colonel In the Spanish
American and world wars, Robert
Mears, Jack Thatcher, all of Port
land and J. S. Baker, Turner and
B. Oamett, Oregon City, in the
f eld.
Bend Is the only contender for
the 1930 convention.
J. 8. Baker, of Turner, Is a past
commander of Marlon post No. (ml
of Salem. Baker, with Capt. Ci
cero Hogan, present post command
er. Is representing the post at the
convention.
National Officers Here For
mm m v
Ton row. reading from left to
Catholic Central society: Mrs. Sophia
anion: Mrs. M. Anna Lawrence, Bird Island, Minn., third national vice
Minnesota state federation: Wll'ibald
Below, a croon of local men who
making arrangements for the entertainment of the visitors, reading
John Meyer, Rev. F. R. Sherbring
RANCHER FORCES
TWO RAILROADS
TO PAY BILLS
Klamath Falls, Ore. (JP) Frank
Stiles. Salan Lake rancher, defied
two railroads for five hours and fin
ally won his point.
The O. C. and E. railroad. Jointly
owned by the Great Northern and
Southern Pacific, had maintained
a spur line across stiles property
for years. Friday a locomotive was
sent out on the spur to tear up the
line and remove the rails.
The engine puffed out to the end
of the spur and a short time later
started to back out. But it stop
ped suddenly. Stile.1 had driven
his automobile across the rails.
"Now," he sold, "you can either
run over my automobile or you can
pay me rent for the use of my prop
erty all these years."
Pleading and arguments by rail
officials were of no avail. The
district attorney was consulted, but
he refused to take part In the con
troversy and pointed out that the
spur was on Stiles' property and
that he was free to drive his car
wherever he wanted on his own
land.
Hours passed and the locomotive
remained.
Pet e Reinhart '
And Wife Plan
Flight to Salem
"Pete Reinhart, who with
Loren Mendell made the
record endurance flight at
Culver City, CaL, and Mrs.
Reinhart are to fly to Sa
lem en a vacation trip soon,
according to a telegraph ie
mesnage received here Sat
urday by Mrs. Elmer Camp
bell, 15 North 14th street,
mother of Mrs. Reinhart.
The message did not say
when the start to Salem
would be made,
-Plane landed safely,' read
the message. "Pete In good
spirits. We are flying home
for a vacation soon. Love,
Ha."
Before her marriage Mrs.
Reinhart was Miss Ila" Campbell.
right: Frank J. Dockendorff, La Cross,
Wavering, Quincy, 111- national
Eibner of New II I m, Minn., national president of the Central socltly.
have been assist Inr Frank Saalfeld,
of Sublimity, F. A. Bell of Sublimity,
COUNTERFEIT OF
. NEW CURRENCY
Portland. Ore, (&y -The first case
of counterfeiting the new and small
er Issue of United States currency
cropped out In Portland Saturday
when W. T. Custer, unknowingly.
nearly passed one on a grocer. The
mistake was discovered by Custer
and the grocer. Police were notified.
Jt was of $5 denomination.
E
IN HARD FIGHT
Mission Hills Flash Moe wins
one up on 37th.
Mission Hills country Club, Kan
sas City, W) Oilbert Carter, Ne
vada, Mo., and Don Moe, Portland,
Ore., were all square at the end of
their 36 hole match for the western
amateur golf crown Saturday af
ternoon.
Mission Hills Country Club, Kan
sas City. (fl Oilbert Carter, Ne
vada. Mo., was only one down to1
Don Moe, Portland, Ore., at the end
of the 12th hole of their afternoon
round In the final match for the
western amateur "golf tltie.
Two down after winning the
tenth, Carter won the twelfth after
having the 11th hole.
Losing four of his f hole advan
tage on the outward nine of the af
ternoon round, Don Moe, Portland.
Ore., was only 3 up on Oilbert Car
ter, Nevada, Mo., at the end of
27 holes of their final match In the
western amateur golf tournament
Saturday afternoon. Carter shot
three under par on the first nine,
scoring a 32 while Moe was one over
par with a 36.
Moe did not have the expert con
trol of his shots as in the morning
when he was two under part while
Carter Improved on the greens, the
most pronounced weaaness of his
game.
TRUCK COLLIDES
WITH SMALL PLANE
Portland, Ore., (F Add this one
to the perils of progress:
The tail of a small monocuope
crushed Into Port of Portland truck
at Swan Island late Friday as the
plane attempted a landing near the
center of the field. D. Andrews,
truck drivers, suffered scratches.
Convention
Journal Stall Pltoto
Wis., national secretary ol the
president of the Catholic Women's
- president, and president of me
general convention chairman, in
from left to right, T. A. Wlndishar,
and Dave O'llara.
CHARLES LISLE
ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Seattle, Wash, ) Charles Lisle,
parole officer of Wood burn. Ore. ac
cidentally shot and wounded him
self Saturday when stepping from
an automobile. His gun caught in
his coat and was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet shattering his
arm.
Lisle came to Seattle to take
Charles Kay, 17, Into custody.
Chas. Lisle, mentioned in the fore- '
going dispatch, Is well known in 1
Salem where' he has resided for
several years. He Is a writer of
magazine articles and formerly was
employed on local newspapers.
Lisle Is considered to be an ex
pert on firearms and a crack shot.
For several years he has collected
various types of weapons and is
the owner of most of the pistols.
guns and other firearms which make
up the display In the corrinor of
the first floor of the state house.
Lisle accepted the position of pa
role officer for the state training
school last September.
The boy whom LHe went to Se
attle Friday to return to the school
at Wood burn, is a parole violator.
Blanks Prepared
For Intangible Tax
Returns For 1929
The Btale tax commission has completed the printino; of
the intangible tax roturn forms to be used in collecting next
year the tax on intangibles for 1929.
Llanks are included wherein the taxpayer will show his
revenue income from six sources. These are dividends on
stock corporations, Interest on bank
deposits, interest on state, county the commission. The remaining
and municipal bonds. Interest on
corporation bonds, lnverest on notes
and mortgages, and other interest
or dividends. The total of the.se
minus the $200 exemption will pro
duce the taxable income, the tax
being five per cent. One half the
tax must accompany the return to
RADIO REPORTS
FRENCH FLIERS
TURNING BACK
Polish and French Planes.
Leave Paris in Race to;
New York City
Separate Routes Taken
at Start but Near each
Other at Azores
Paris, (A-The air ministry an
nounced Saturday night Uiat the
French central radio station had re
ceived a radio message via Lisbon
from Dieudonne Costa, pilot of the
Question Mark, saying "We are re-
turning to Le BourgeL"
The air ministry added that the
message from Costa, Indicated he
had turned back at 6:15 pjn. G. M.
T. (1:155 p.m. E. 8. T.).
Horta, Azores Island OTA radio
report to Horta Saturday said the
Polish aviators urgently wished to
land In the Azores. The radiogram
gave their position as 50 kilometers
distant from Horta. There are no
regular airdromes or landing fields
on the Azores.
Steamship Chesapeake, UV-(Bv
wireless to the Associated Press,
via steamship Albertlc) 1:11 p. m.
to a:iu p. m. ureenwlch Meridian,
time, was in tireless communica-
t'.or. witn the Polish airplane. Gave
our position and weather by re
quest. Heard French almlane wireless
American steamer Davenport in
our vicinity 1:32 p. m. Didn't sic lit
either airplane.
'me steamship Chesapeake at thr
time that she heard both the
French and Polish planes by wire
less was several hundred miles due
north of Cape Fmistcrre, Spain,
and about 440 miles west of the
French coast.
London. (ffV-The master of the
steamship Balmoral Castle Satur
day evening sent to the Associated
Press a message intercepted from
the steamship itnakos.
(Conci'udedon page 8. column 5)"
RUSSIANS HEAR
NEWS OF CLASH
IN MANCHURIA
Moscow, (IP Reports of concen
tration of Manchurian and White
Guard ist troops along the Russian
borders in the east were published
in the Soviet press Saturday togeth
er with the first Information which
has been, made public here of the
current clash between Russia and
China over the Chinese seizure of
the eastern railway.
The Soviet newspapers gave a full
account of the railway seizure and
the Chinese confiscation of and the
subsequent arrest of som? 200 Rus
sian railway officials. The account
said:
"On July 10, the Chinese, without
stating their reasons, seised the tel
egraph office (at Harbin presum
ably), closed and sealed the Soviet
trade delegation offices, the textile
syndicate, the shipping bureau, etc.
and arrested over forty railway men.
"The Chinese provincial govern
ment demanded that hereafter all
railroad orders carry Chinese as well
as Russian signatures.
"Manager Ycmshakoff, on the ba
sis of the Mukden treaty, refused.
Whereupon he and his assistant,
Eismont, were removed and replaced
by Chinese.
half may be paid In six months
Intangibles are defined for tixn-
tion purposes under the Oregon law
as "money at interest, bond, notet,
claims and demands, secured or un
secured (not including open ac
counts, all shares of stock in ccr-
(Concluded on past 9. column 1)