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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1929)
THURSDAY DECEMBER 5. 1923 SERVICE FIRM SELLS PLANT FOR 3100,000 Smith & Watltins Wednesday af ternoon disposed of their properties 1 and service station business at Lib erty and Center streets to the Fire stone Tire & Rubber company for a consideration of approximately $100,000, of which $85,000 was paid for the property and buildings and the balance of $15,000 on the in ventory exclusive of tha tire inven tory. The property In question lias a frontage of 86 feet on Liberty street and 106 leet on Center street. This proiierty was purchased by Smith & Wat kins two years ago at a cost of $25,000 for a 100 toot strip on Liberty street and around $8500 for an additional 66 foot strip, the cor ner 100 feet being purchased from Hawkins & Roberts and the back 6ti feet 'from Percy Cupper. The ser vice station buildings were erected alter the purchase. Smith & Watkins entered busi ness here on a small scale at the old Great Western garage on High street in 1920. A little later they moved to Court and High streets in a building constructed by the late T. G. Bligh where Jhey remained until moving into the present loca tion. The station under the new owner ship will be manavd by H. M. Fay who has had charge of the Fire stone business here the past five months. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON PACK WWP HELD IN TRIANGLE SHOOTING AUSTRALIA CUTTING DOWN LOAN BUDGET Sydney, (fPt The annual burd?n jf Australia loan interest, which has reached $300,000,000, has caus ed the Australian Loan Council to slow down the rate of its loan ex penditures. As a new country with vast re sources to develop Australia has necessarily been a heavy borrower. Roads, railways and other public works hae had to be undertaken that have placed a tremendous bur den on the 6,000.000 inhabitants of the country. The federal and state governments have been spend ing annually about $200,000,000 of loan money, but this year's expen diture has been cut down to $112,000,000. Such sinks for money as the Queensland state trading concerns, which had, under the Labor re gime, been losing millions ot dol lars, are being eliminated, and in other directions also a severe curb is being placed upon loan expendi tures. The fact that the common wealth has had to pay better than six per cent for its latest London loan, although the issue was lim ited to 12 months, is a sufficient indication that the limitation of expenditure has been timely. COPS FLUNK EXAM; SCHOOL GIRL PASSES WoLstanton, Eng. (i A 13-year-old girl here knows what every po liceman ought to know. As an ex periment she was given a general knowledge police examination, pass ed it perfectly and said it was easy. "I wish I could get a Job by an swering a list ot question like the poliecemen have to," he said. But the would-be policemen didn't think it was so easy, for only 25 per cent of those who took the ex amination passed it. Among the questions were. Who was the tinker who wrote a famcus book. Who was the emporer who fid dled while Rome burned? Can you name any great religious leader who lived at the same time? Write a short note on Amanullah, his troubles and their cause. Explain the presence of rust on nails, soot in chimneys, sand on the seashore, deltas at the mouth oi nvers. PHONE SERVICE RAPPED London U) Owini? to th. cam plete unreliability of the new auto matic phone service recently in flicted upon us. our customers and friends are requested to send all orders and communications by post or hand to save delay." an adver tisement of a London firm stated. THEY STACKED THE DISHES Kenosha. Wis. (IP) Edear Leh man returned to his heme after day's outing and found signs of company In his absence. Hungry burglars had eaten a meal, emptied tl.e icebox of edibles, stacked the dishes In the kitchen sink and de pirtwl with loot of $35. ; . : V. . 1 J 'Mr-' J ' - I Sjw ' 1 1 J S4: XT4- i .fH f , A ' . ". r, kr:?:.' - prr, )Ps t- 1 AiMociated IVeM J'Aoto Howard Dorr, Insurance scent, who told police that ha thot and seriously wounded William J. O'Brien, husband of Genevieve O'Brien. Mrs. O'Brien told police they had plotted to kill O'Brien. AUTO AGGIDENTS IN DETROIT MOUNTING Dstroit (LP) This motor capital of the world which owes its prosperity to the automobile industry faces a crisis brought by the same vehicle. Mayor John Christian Lodge declar ed in calling upon all citizens to help reduce automobile fatalities. "When traffic deaths mount from 26 to 72 a month with 1371 persons maimed and cut in 3482 accidents as was the case last month, the combined resources of money, indus try and education should unite to bring the increrse of trafiic slaugh ter to a stop,' Mayor Lodge said. The mayor has appointed a com mittee of prominent citizens to co ordinate in lowering traffic deaths, and the committee wilt appoint sub committees in an effort to enlist the 500,000 motorists in the Detroit district in a safety campaign. "The situation has reached the point where criticism and condem nation have no place," Lodge said. "Voluntary work with this commit tee and" willingness to help person ally are the important things at this time." More than 10.000.000 women in England spent $15 each on perman ent waves in the last six months. Gall Stone Colic Don't oiwrte! You make a bad condition worse. Treat the cause tn a sensible pain less, inexpensiva way at home. Writ Home Co., 810-93 Masonic Temple. Minneapolis, Minn . for recOBnlsed practicing special ist's prescription on liver and fall blad der trouble, for literature on treatment which has been tivtnc gratifying results for 31 years. Sold under Money Back Guarantee. Clip thH out NOW. th WOMEN OF ALGERIA AGAIN MAKING BUGS Tlemcen, Alfreria UPi Ru? weav in?, one a ureal native industry, is rceainine Its lost importance. A new training school is being built here by the government as a technical center, Intended to raise standards of design and dyes. Once neariy all native women made rugs. The Industry was on the wane before the French con ouered thf rounrrv a century ago BYNG ENDS ljIS FIRST YEAR AT SCOTLAND YARD London (LP) Important and unus ual conferences, the first of thelr kind, were held at Scotland Yard. Men famous In police history took time from their duties to congratu late their grey haired .soldierly chief Lord Byng of Vlrny. For he has completed one year as head of the Metropolitan police. The first year on the soldier chief's administration of police af fairs was highly active. There were revelations of graft In the policing of West End night clubs and many a door was closed that formerly open ed into a world of night life carried on after official closing hours. Scot land Yard was confronted with six unsolved murders, the highest num ber in years. Proceedings have been taken in two of the cases, one a "shop murder' in Manchester and the other the Oliver case in Read ing, in which the American actor Philip Yale Drew figured. Motor bandits, smash-and-grab raiders, and window slashers were unusually active. The police, always In the public eye, received more than the usual amount of publicity. Lord Byng offered to resign soon after he took over his police duties. There was no question of dissatis faction on his part or on the part of his men, nor was the offer due to any of the usual troubles in such cases. Lord Byng merely thought that the new labor government might prefer that someone else han dle his job. He was informed that the home secretary was quite pleas ed to let him carry on. The police are engaged In the construction of a system of police boxes throughout London that should be a great aid in their fight against crime. The boxes are of metal, and contain telephones, first aid material, and handcuffs for use in the event that a prisoner needs to be detained. Hundreds of these boxes will be erected at strategic points in the Metropolitan area, forming another link in police communications. and has continued to lose favor since. After the war French authorities encouraged a revival of interest by establishing a small training school at Algiers for trirls who later went into native homes to stir up the women and get them back at the looms. Within the last few years there hnve been established 320 small rug weaving studios where 3,000 girls and women work. Girls are taken in very young and most of them leave when they are 12, the age at which they us ually put on the veil In public, and rarely go out unless accompanied by their parents. These girls, how ever, continue to weave at home. In this way, besides the many rugs made for home use, the na tives have tripled the country's ex ports in six years, selling abroad last year rugs valued at $500,000. SEA DAM PLANNED FOR WELCH HARBOR SPEAKING BOOK ON STEEL WIRE NEW INVENTION London. (IP) The world's best seller, the Bible, has been written on numerous surfaces, from an egg shell to a book the height of a man. Cardiff, Wales A) A huge eea dam costing roughly 120.000,000, which would make Cardiff and other Welsh coast towns world im portant harbors, is contemplated by the Great Western Railroad com pany. The dam, which would be con structed on the northern side of the deep-water channels which run into the Cardiff docks on the Welsh side of the British Channel, would open up this port as a great trade and passenger route linking Can ada, the United States and South America, with Wales, the Midlands and Western England. It would extend from the Cardiff breakwater to Penarth and would transform Cardiff from a tidal port to a deep water harbor capable of sheltering the biggest Miners. The steamer Prince Olav, for merly the British royal yacht Alex andria, will be placed in passenger service out of Miami, Fla., to the Bahamas and West Indies this winter. fBuy A Gift A Day g It's the Easy Way" W I . 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