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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1929)
A ii CIRCULATION Dally arerag. distribution la lb month ending Ji'o 30, U2t 10,243 Average dally net paid tJSl Ucmbtf Audit Burwu of CtmUatlona CLOUDY unsettled tonight and Tuesday, (air In Interior. Cooler Tuesday. South west wind. Local: pari cloudy; northeast wtnd; no rain. Max, temperature S3; mln. 41; river -1 J. . 42 nd YEAR, No. 173 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS ??SSl!?Af"?S UJ i- i I --a eaaasva? - -- -w-- M EAST TEiT MiMB 1300 CONVICTS STAGE RIOT AT CIIIIT01I PRISON Three ; Prisoners Killed When Attempt Made To Break Prison Score of Inmates Wound ed, Shop is Burned, Walls are Stormed Dannemora, N. Y. (IP) Three convicts, two of them serving life sentences, were shot and killed dur ing a riot of 1300 Inmates jl Clin ton prison here Monday, Warden Harris M. Kaiser said In a state ment issued after the revolt had been quieted and the prisoners had marched back to their cells early Monday afternoon. .A score ot in mates -were In the prison hospital being treated for gunshot wounds Inflicted by armed guards, during the revolt. ' The dead convicts, according to the warden, were: Herman Reese, 46, of Buffalo, serving a life term as a fourth offender. Harold P. B runner. 33, Tioga, Pa., serving a life term as a fourth of fender. ' Clyde Shakelford, 30, sentenced from Albany county, serving a term of 20 years to lue I or muraer, sec ond degree- Albany, N. Y., VP) Two unidenti fied convicts were killed by prison guards Monday In a 'riot of mora than 1000 of the 1508 inmates oi Clinton orison at Dannemora, ac cording to the state department of correction here. The carpenter shop was burned and an unsuccessful at tempt made to storm the prison waU. The 124 prison officers manned the walls, armed with rifles and ma- (Concluded on page 4. column 3) REORGANIZING , OF 3 DISTRICTS IS UNDERWAY Rhea Luner. state engineer, will leave Monday for San Francisco where he will spend three weeks conferring with bondholders of the Ochoco, Eagle Point, Warm Springs and Grants Pass Irrigation districts relative to reorganization and re financing plans for those projects. The Ochoco bondholders will meet July 3S to discuss the report of the Loveland engineers, who, as repre sentatives of the bondholders, re cently completed an examination of the project, Including a check of the information given out concern ing It by the state reclamation com mission. Luper thinks the prospect Is favorable for the state, the bond holders and the district to get to gether on a district debt refunding plan whereby refunding Donas wiu be exchanged lor we present issue. Relative to the Warm Springs and the Grants Pass districts Luper will confer with individual bondholders In an effort to get a minority of the bondholders, who have not deposited yielr bonds, to deposit them so the reorganization may proceed." Of the total of 1,459,000 Grants Pass bonds only about $200,000 have not been deposited, and of the $1,550,000 Warm Springs total about $350,000 has not yet been brought in. O. O. Boggs of Ashland, chairman of the board of directors of the E?g'.e Point district, will meet Luper In ban Francisco. ICEBERG SMASHES STEAMER Y1NIERA St. Johns, N. F. W Lloyd agents here received a message Monday from the steamer Vinlera, reporting that she had hit an Iceberg and requesting a tug to tow her to Hal ifax. The petition of the ship fn the message was given as 42.40 north and 4t.4t west. AMERICANS VISIT ENGLISH COURT London OPi Benches in the lord chief Justice's court. King's bench division, bore a decidedly American aspect Monday as 60 members of a group of mldwestern Judges and lawyers now visiting In England attended a session of the court. The Americans exhibited great Interest in the proceedings. Good Evening! don upjoas OFFERS Sips for Supp$tt Wa read In a current publication and article where in it bemoaned the late ol millionaires In not be ing able to find anything to do. We offer the suggestion to any mil lionaire who Is really hard up lor some way to pass the time that he try to count the seeds In a black cap raspberry. . That will hold him. In fact If be just counted pe still sticking between our teeth from the last dish of them we ate it would keep him comfort ably going the rest of the sum mer, at least. The "Salem business man" who has been the butt of the new ordln ance to shut off radios around in the local stores told us yesterday that the reason his born hasn't been shut off Is because nobobdy asked him to shut it off. If youD take our tip and some body go ask him nicely it might not be necessary to pass aforesaid ordinance. HOW OLD LADIES HAVE FUN We happened to listen in on i conversation of a couple of elderly ladles yesterday and this is about what we heard: "Too bad about Mrs. Smith, isn't , I understand she has paralysis In her right side." "Isn't It terrible? I have said all along that she had cancer of the liver but the doctors don't think so." 'Well the doctors don't know everything. Take Mrs. Jones. The doctors told her she'd have to have ber tonsils out when all the time It was gall stones that was both ering her." - "If someone ever gets poison In her blood once she might as well give up." "Yes, Just think of poor Mrs. Johmon. She had rheumatic fever so bad that she had all her teeth pulled out and even that didn't do any good." "And how about poor little Mrs. Roe when the doctors took out her appendix and found that wasn't her trouble at all." Well, it's Just terrible. For In stance when Mrs. But we didn't remain in earshot to find out about Mrs, Doe. We presume the - ladles - are nearly through with the directory by now. The question Is often asked whv there Is so much pain in the world. we trunk It mutt be to give the old ladles something to talk about. TURKISH QUAKE FATAL T0 1000 Constantinople, (JP) Latest re ports from northern Antolla state that recent earthquakes and land slides have caused the deaths- of one thousand persons. Ten thous and are homeless and without food. As reports of the disaster con- tinued the Turkish Red Crescent society began rushing aid to the assistance of the victims while the Constantinople press is appealing for the help of the International Red urea. Shocks and landslides, the latter caused by torrential rains, were re ported to be Increasing the havoc in northern Antolia where recent inundations devastated the towns of Surmene and Riser. ACTORS SEPARATE Hollywood. Cal. 0P Marie As aire, screen actress, announces she and ner nusoand, waiter Kane, stage actor, have separated. "He is a wonderful chap, but needs few more rehearsals as a husband, Miss Astaire said. No divorce pro ceedings were contemplated at pres- ent, zne saia. $500, 000 Heart Balm Sought From Tunriey For Loss Of His Wife Bridgeport. Conn. (UP) accused of alienation of affections and seduction In a suit for $500,000 damages brought in Fairfield county superior court Monday by the former husband of Mrs. Katherine King Fo garty, John S. Fogarty, Fort Worth, Texas, plumber. Mrs. Fogarty s $500,000 the retired heavyweight boxing champion Is pending in tha same court. In his complaint, Fogarty charg ed the boxer induced Mrs. Fogarty to obtain a divorce so ah might marry him. He further alleged Tunney and Mrs. Fogarty lived as man and wife. Judge Charles I. Martin of New ANGLERS LOST ! AB1QUA WILDS o;i way ho:,.e Three Salem Fishermen Spend Night and Day Wandering in Woods Only Had Fish to Eat, Missed Trail, Posses Started Search Tired and hungry and little the worse for a night in the open and a diet ot fish,-three young Salem men wandered into the cook shack at Bucket Camp about 17 miles above Scotta Mills during the noon hour Monday after being lost in the fastnesses of the Ablqua sec tion since Sunday. Search ot the upper Ablqua dis trict began early Monday morning when Edwin A. Thomas, ol the ad vertising department and Addison Lane, mailer, both of the Capital . lurnal staff, and Horace Baker lau- el to return home from a week-end tuning trip Sunday night. The search was conducted both from land and from the air, Lee Eyerly volunteered the use of his mono plane for the reconnaisance trip in an effort to locate the missing trio from the air. . Belief that the men had spent two nights out of doors without blankets or provisions was fathered Monday morning early when Mrs. (Concluded on page. 7. column 8) SLIDING SCALE SUGAR TARIFF HELD VICIOUS Washington VP) Characterising the proposed sliding scale tariff for sugar as an lnlquitious device, Chester H. Gray, Washington rep resentative of the American farm bureau federation, in.- a letter to Sam H. Thompson, the federation president and to mo state iarm bureaus, declared -that . "no risky experiments should be tried out on agricultural products.- ine letver was made public Monday. If we must experiment wun a sliding scale proposition," his let ter said, "it should be tried out on some profitable Industrial com modity like steel, aluminum, rayon or Jewelry. It would be Interesting to see the fate of any memoer oi congress who would dare advocate sliding scale r any industrial commodity." The sliding scale would mean virtually "price fixing" on the part of 'the federal government, Gray's communication declared, 'it is equivalent to telling the American larmer wno pruuuuca augur uwv ms refined product shall never go beyond So a nurrarea pounas. He asserted that the tariri rate would decrease under the sliding scale plan when the price ot refined sugar exceeds so a nunarea. If the price should exceed ,6, he added the tariff bars "are let down to such an extreme extent that for eign sugars are invited to flood our markets." FAST DRIVING RESULTS IN FATAL ACCIDENT McMinnville, Ore. L Alfred Herring, 47, Portland, was killed in an automobile accident near here Sunday. He was driving his car at a high rate of speed and was attempt ing to pass another machine when the accident occurred. James J. "Gene" Tunriey was breach of promise suit against Haven, Fogarty' lawyer, said Fo garty had been considering a suit for "some time but wa unable to start action until the suit of his divorced wife gav him sufficient evidence. Fogarty la living In New Haven, according to his attorney. The old colonial farmhouse in (Concluded on page 9, oohimn Woman Swallows Open Safety Pin, Yard of Cloth gprlrrrfleld, Mo, UP) An open safety pin and a piece of pongee cloth, eight Inehes wide and a yard long, were removed from the- esophagus of Mrs. Mary Blalsk, 30, of Springfield, by Doctors W. C. Cheek and Jay SUsby here yesterday. Relatives of the woman were unable to ex plain hew Mrs. Blalsh hap pened to swallow the pin and cloth Saturday night. The pin's point was lodged In the swatl or the tube with the cloth wadded on top of It. - FIND Nd TRACE OF 3 ELDERLY MISSING WOMEN Ban Francisco UP) Three elderly California women missing In sev eral ru creed sections of the state, were still the objects of fruitless searches Monday. Authorities and private trackers engaged for over a -week In hunt ing for Miss Edith Irene woiiskui, missing from her Solano county ranch, were about to give up the search. Mendocino county officials kept up a hunt for Mrs. B. N. Rowe, 77, who dropped from sight Thursday noon while picking berries near her ranch soutn oi f ort Bragg. Another search was Instituted by Tulare county officials for Mrs, 8 E. Knight, 71. She walked away from the home of ber son near Vlsalla and has not been seen sine. Sheriff's deputies said tha woman was probably wandering In the woods near the dwelling. A systematic search of the ranch near Fairfield and surrounding country for Miss Wolfskin has failed to reveal a trace oi vne woman. Miss Betty Kitschard, ' of Los Angeles, former nurse of the eccentric heiress, told authorities she Is convinced Miss Wolfskill hid in a ravine' on her own ranch and died from exposure. She would have done this, thef ormer guardian said, to hide from a newly engaged nurse. FOUR KILLED IN PLANE CRASHES Chicago, VP) Pour persons were killed yesterday In two airplane crashes In the middiewest, one nere and the other at North Platte, Neb. Jens Jensen, 28, and Miss Hilda Schaufelberg, 21, were killed and Miss Pauline Taylor, 28, was criti cally injured when Jensen's plane fell. The engine stalled and the plane went into a tall spin, land ing near the Akers airport, west of Chicago. County police said they learned the women had given Jensen, who was not licensed as a commercial pilot, $5 to take them aloft, "Frown" controls were believed to have caused the North Platte accident. Henry Oldham, pilot for the Mld wect Aviation corporation, was in structing Mike Ryan in flying. They had been In the air nearly an hour and were about to land when the crash occured near the North Platte municipal airport. Both Ryan and Oldham were killed. They lived at North Platte. CALL MILITIA TO GUARD NEGRO ' Birmingham. Ala. UPr-Compan ies I and L of the 187th Infantry, Alabama national guard were being mobilised at the armory here to go to Montgomery Tuesday and ac company Lester Bouyer, negro slayer, to Clayton where a grand Jury I to investigate nis wc. The order was Issued ny oover- nor Bibb Graves at Montgomery Sunday night at the request m. narhour eountv Keugaul authori ties who declared the presence of guardsmen would be necessary to preserve order when the negro ar rived from Kilby prison at Mont gomery. A telephone report from Eufaula. near where the crime occurred, said feeling was at a high pitch against the nesro. esoeclally In the cotton miU district, although no disorders have been reported. ' Bouyer la charged with the slay ing of Jack Hlnes, mechanic, and an assault upon Miss Beatrice Clark, his IS year old companion, on an automobile tide three weeks ago. State officer said he con fessed shortly after hi arrest near Spelgner. LEGE' ATORS Jfcsak I LOSE TILT FOR i EXPEHSEGRAByS Judge McMahan Over rules Demurrer Filed Against Injunction Case Likely to be Appeal ed to Supreme Court After Default Decree Judge Ii. H. McMahan of the Marlon county circuit court ruled Monday that the 1929 legislators snolud not receive the additonal $5 a dav exnense monev which they voted themselves during last session ot the legislature when he signed the order overruling the demurrer of Hal E. Hoss, -secretary of state, and State Treasurer Thomas B. Kay to the complaint brought by W. A. Jones, bead ot the Marion county grange. The demurrer claimed Insufficient cause ot complaint and in his or der overruling the demurrer which allows the complaint to stand. Judge McMahan allows the de fendants until August 1 to make their answer. j Custer E. Ross, attorney for Jones said Monday afternoon that the answer win probably not be filed by Hoss and Kay and that It will be taken to supreme court after default decree Is given Jones In circuit court. Before the legislators had an op portunity to receive the 15 - addi tional dairy expense money from the state treasurer the grange started the injunction against tne state oi flclals. Two years ago the addition al expense money which aggregates more than $22,000 was paid the senators and representatives before any action was taken to restrain the payment. RUSSIANS SEIZE CHINESE VESSEL IN AMUR RIVER Toklo (IP) Nippon Dempo News agency . dispatches from Harbin stated that two Chinese vessels went seised by Soviet warships In lower Amur . river and that their crews and cargoes were being held. Reports from various sources Mon day Indicated that the situation along the Manchurian-Siberian bor der continued to be tense, In spite of Japanese war office advices that the tension wa lessening. A report from Harbin stated that all red Russians in Manchuria above the age of 16 have been made war prisoners and were being con centrated In a virtual prison camp pending deportation, other Har bin reports stated that the Chin ese forces In the vicinity of Man chull had swelled to 15,000 equip ped with artillery. Later reports said the Russians were evacuating the city of Pogdan itchaya in the face of further Chines reinforcements. They also stated that the Japanese nationals were evacuating all north Man churia. Delayed dispatches from Harbin said Russian bombing planes drop ped four bombs near Pogranitchaya without doing any damage. This was not confirmed:- The-dlspatches denied that the Russian troops had entered Manchull, as reported Sun day. 60 PERISH IN SHIP COLLISION AT SEA Tokio (LP) Sixty persona were be lieved to have been drowned Mon day when the Chinese steamer Hsinkang sank off Shantung after colliding with the Japanese freigh ter Tateuno Maru. The Hsinkang carried a total of 160 persons, Th Tatsuno Maru res craefl 120 and cruised for four hours seeking th others without result. It was believed all the drowned were Chinese, many of whom were unable to swim. The collision or curred at 10:30 p. m. "Monday In dens fog. Tha Hsinkang sank rapidly. BABY DROWNS .IN DITCH Pendleton, Ore OPi The 14-month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pace, living near Hermlston, drown ed lata Saturday when th fell Into an Irrigation ditch near her home. A TL ANTIC Ki nai asjai bub hub bus w By Liner Bremen In m. . r AJk ja sw JL New York (AP) The new ed Ambrose light at the entrance to New York Jiarbor at 3:02 p. m. Monday afternoon, easily breaking the speed rec ord for ocean crossing held by the Mauretania. The Bre men s time from Cherbourg on days, IS hours and 15 minutes, which beat the Mauretania s ume by eight hours and 17 minutes. New York P The seaplane New York,' carrying a cargo of express mail, landed In the bay at 1:35 p. m. Monday from the liner Bremen, where it had been catapulted from ttu deck. Messages' from the ship to the officers on the North German Lloyd line. Indicated a Sunday's run of 705 miles, one mile more than the world's record she had established on Saturday. Her speed at one time was 28.25 knots an hour; the day's run sh-wed an average speed of 2a 2 knots. Captain Leopold Zelgenbein said in a radio message that he expected to pass Ambrose Lightship, at the (Concluded on page B. column 8) ALASKA FLIER FORCED DOWN ON WAY HOME Edmonton, Alta. (IP) r- Captain Ross O. Hoyt, United States army flier, rested here Monday after his ambitious round trip flight from New York to Nome, Alaska, ended In a crash at Valemount, B. C. near here late Sunday. Hoyt appeared fatigued when he arrived here by motor from Vale mount and he made no statement of future plans. Although the flier was uninjured In tne crash, nis plane was completely wrecked. Captain Hoyt left Mitchell Field. L. L, Thursday morning and expect ed to return there late Monday. Lack ot fuel forced hjm. down at vandernou, a. u. late jriaay. After refueling he continued on, reached Alaskan territory, circled over Nome and began his return flight. The crash occurred while Hoyt was en route from Whltehorse. a refueling stop In the Yukon, to Edmonton. The trio was made to determine the efficiency and speed with which a plane could travel over the north west frontier. Water in his gasoline was said to have forced the army pilot down on the rough mountainous terrain. SNAKE EATS ARMY BLANKET Cincinnati. VP) A boa constric tor with an army blanket In its vi tals drew the services of eleven men at the zoological gardens here as It lav In evident pain, but the snake still held the blanket Monday after futile efforts to remove it. S. A. Stenhan. general manager of the zoo. Immersed tne 24 loot rep tile in an alligator tank, placed hood over its head, and attempted with the aid of ten men to work the blanket out. That falling, Stephan Inserted into the snake a tube with a metal Inside, but waa unable to catch the blanket and pull It out. A half gallon of oil then was poured Into the snake to relieve It, The blanket caught In the serpent's fans Friday as It struck at a pi geon, and was swallowed with the bird. J. H. Poe, carnival operator, paid $1000 for the boa a few weeks ago, he said. JESSE WINBURN, PIERCE ANGEL PASSES Portland (LP) Je'se Wlnburn, 69, banker and Internationally known iportsman, died at New Rochelle, N. Y. Sunday, according to Infor mation received here Monday, Wlnburn was a former resident ot Portland and Ashland. He came Into prominence In Oregon during the. campaign of Walter M. Pierce for governor and was tne largest contributor to the campaign. Later he purchased a lodge In the mountains near Ashland and made numerous gilt to that city, including a hospital and commun ity center. He lived here part of the Pierce administration, then moved to New York, later to Europe, where he spent the last five years. CROSSED mfnS ; -L-ja V- -SL W H-r German liner Bremen reach its maiden voyage was four SOVIET FORCES OPEN ATTACK UPON CHINESE Peiping. China. UV-An Increas ingly serious border, situation in Manchuria over the week end coun teracted gratification that American intervention under the authority of the Kellogg pact seemed to have averted actual hostilities.. Chang Hseuh Liana. Governor of Manchuria, reported to the na tionalist government at Nanking that Soviet forces opened an attack on the Chinese along the Sulfen river )n tne eastern border of Manchuria at a. m. Saturday. Chang said the Chinese troons re mained on the defensive. Russian troops, he said, were eaulooed with poison gas ana 32 field guns. Delayed Associated Press dis patches from Pogranlchnaya, sent Saturday morning, mentioned no battle but said the populace there was panic stricken because of re peated demonstrations by four So viet airplanes above the city. Chi nese fired upon the planes but scor ed no hits. The same dispatch said viaaivostok was cut off completely by rail. An appeal of President Chiam Kai Shek, who is also generalissimo (Concluded on pnge 4 column 1 CHINESE ISSUE MANIFESTO TO WORLD POWERS Shanghai, (IP) Simultaneous with reports from Manchuria that Soviet troops had fired into Chinese terri tory and that five Russian bombing planes had overflown Chinese troops concentrated at the fron tier, the Nanking government issued a manifesto to the powers of the world claiming self defense in Its action against the Soviet union and reiterating its intention to live up to the spirit of the Kellogg pact. Reports of Russian's activities long the border came from General Chang Hsueh Liang, the young war lord of Manchuria, who arrived at Mukden Sunday to take command of China's armies -along the threat ened frontier. General Chang stat ed that Soviet troops fired at Po granitchaya, at the eastern border point of the Chinese Eastern rail way, (This report is at variance with an earlier statement given by Gen eral Chang Hsueh Liang to the United Press correspondent at Muk den). Subsequently. General Chang stat ed, five Soviet planes flew over Chi nese territory at a point where Chi nese troops were concentrated. The Chinese troops were Instructed not to return the fire. The manifesto was Issued by the Chinese government to the powers which have made themselves inter ested in 'the current trouble between China and Russia. Chemeketans Return After Successful Climb Of Mount Jeff erson Thirtv-two hikers and members of the Chemeketana rv turned to Salem Sunday night after spending a week in tha Mt. Jefferson country. The outing was one of the most en joyable ever experienced by a great many of those who mad the trip, according to reports of returned inemeKetans. Everybody entered wnoienearteaiy Into camp life and trips, whU the comlssary under Burton Crary was admirably handled. What wa probably the special event of the week was the climb ol Mt. Jefferson, 16 having made a successful ascent. Four of these surmounted the pinnacles. After being advised by forest ranger and others that horses could not be taken Into Hunt's cve, CHIIIA REPLIES to peace iiote fro:m'3o;i Asserts Abidance by Ob ligations Under Kel logg Pact Hope Expressed of Aml .cable Settlement o Dispute with Russia Washington (IB War between) China and Russia appeared Men day to have been averted definite!; through the good offices of the United States when both govern ments officially advised Secretirjl of State Stlmson they have no ln tentlon ot violating the Kell:g4 anti-wax pact to which they ar pledged to adhere. , Washington Secretary Stlm son was advised Monday by Ann bassador'Claudel of France that hd had been Informed the Soviet 11 possible would abide by the Kely logg pact for the renunciation of war. ' . Washington (tJV-Cbinese Minis tef C. C. Wu delivered to Secretary ol State Stlmson Monday the reply of the nationalist government of Chlns to Stimson's reminder that Chln should xot go to war win the Sov let government of Russia, becaust of the Kellogg peace pact. The reply, Or, Wu told the United Press, stated that China has abided and will abide fully by its pledge under the Kellogg peace treaty tA denounce war. Dr. Wu also said that China al ready has attempted to initiate dl rect negotiations with the Soviet government at I oscow to settle th Chinese Eastern railroad dispute. The Chinese minister to Finland, Wu said, has been ordered to go to Moscow to take up the question but disrupted communication has) (Concluded on paga 9, column 7) ST. LOUIS ROBIN IN TENTH DAY OF ENDURANCE St. Louis. VP) The Klasourt Robin," second of two sister endura ance planes to go aloft at Lambert. St. Louis field in an attempt to set a new record for sustained flight, landed at 7:S1 am., Monday after having been In the air 117 hours, 20 minutes. A leaky oil Una which they were unable to repalf forced the fliers, Joe Hammer and W. Gentry Shellon, to bring tha plane to earth. The "St. Louis Robin,' first of the planes to take the air, continued its flight, entering Its tenth day at 7:17 a.m. Monday, and passing i:a 318th hour at 8:17 am, central standard time. The pilots, Dal (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brien, reported that the motor was still functioning smoothly. The "St. Louis Robin" was wttrw In 29 hours of setting a new world' endurance record. TWO BOYS MI8KING Dallas Ralph Chrlatenson, aged 14, and Edward Wuerah, 17, dis appeared from their homes neat Rlckreall Saturday night, Tha boys departed dressed in th?ur work clothes. Sheriff Hooker haa been notified to search for them. - from where the ascent wa made, owing to deep snow, the pack an Imals were taken over the eight mil. trip to the cove by detoortng thera around the large snow banks wher ever they covered th trail. It was unfortunate that th a cent of the mountain was mad on the only dlsacreeabl day ot tha week. A terrlflcwlndwept thj "(t'oilcivv.i'U 'on Mil a. eonmn