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C aiDital AJonr nial CIRCULATION Dally avaras attribution tof tns I month todlng Jull tl IMO 10,507 Average dally net paid 10,077 Member Audit Bumu of Circulation FA1K tonight and Thursday except fof an the coast; moderately warm Tnurs day. Oentle northerly winds. Leoal: Max. 83; mln. ; rain river 3 feet; clear; north wind. . 42nd YEAR, No. 204 Entered m secon cim matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS 1, ' ixwdri o i n -LL 1 MM mi Ml Ify wills fAiinrrvnc InLIUII I Ul SALET1 nUIiGS QUESTIONABLE Legality Of North San tiam water Rights Up To Court For Decision City Attorney Completes Formal Filings on San tiam and Tributary That legal opinions concerning the status of the North San tiam river, possibly litigation in the courts, will be necessary to deter mine whether the city of Salem can take advantage of the with drawal of that stream in 1923 and bar the Northwest Power company from . further considerations as an applicant, seemed probable Wed nesday. Doubt was expressed at the of fice of the state engineer as to whether the city of Scilem can avail itself of the North Santiam water withdrawal made by Percy A. Cupper in 1932. The reason for the doubt was that the withdrawal was made for a specific purpose, and that since nothing has been Concluded on page 9. column St" NORTH AFRICA BAKES IN RECORD WAVE OF HEAT Ben Ouerir, Morocco (If) The gun-blistered village of Ben Guerlr, said by desert tribesmen to be the hottest place in Africa, recorded a temperature of 131 degrees Fahren heit at 11 a.m. Wednesday, setting a new summer record. Ben Ouerir had warning that the heat wave, which extended along the African coast and even to Prance, was coming. Several weeks ago there was a sudden rise of temperature, accompanied by blistering sirocco winds from the desert, bringing a horde of scorpions and spiders on the town. Some of the most exper lenced desert travelers were caught in sand storms and beat that car ried torture and death to camels and men on the caravan trails. Natives said it had been more than a decade since Africa witness ed such severe heat. Camels have suffered severely, often stretching on the sand and refusing to move. The natives sleep almost all day in the darkened rooms of their houses, which are ventilated only by narrow openings. At night they enjoy a sudden drop in temperature, often as much as 50 or 60 degrees. FRENCH PLANE CRASH KILLS 4 Dijon, France T A pilot, two Eon -commissioned oil leers and the wireless operator of a military air plane were killed early Wednesday when their machine crashed near Corcelles-Lesmonta, a few miles west of here. Two other members of the crew saved their lives by jumping with parachutes. They escaped with alight Injuries. Ten military aviators have lost their lives in France within a few hours. Last night while in defense manoeuvers six army fliers were killed when they cracked up at Chavennes, near Chartres. AVIATR1X SUFFERS SUNSTROKE IN AIR Le Bourget, France MV-Terrific heat which caused her to have a alight sunstroke in midair Wednes day forced Maryse Bastle, French aviatiix, to the ground In the midst of her attempt to break the world's duration flight record. Mile. Bastie had been In the air 18 hours when she was an but over come. Although on the point of fainting the girl brought her airplane down to a safe landing. 8he had to be as sisted from the plane to a waiting automobile. Physicians said she would be all right In a day or two but flying men asserted she had narrowly missed coming to grief. WILBCR COMING Portland uP Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of interior, will visit Port land September 10. He will address Joint meeting of several city dubs. Good Evening! Sips for Supper . By. DON UP JOHN - . Lon Chaney, the man of a thous and face, has assumed his thous andth and first disguise and the most Impenetrable one of all. Be talked once for the world to hear and then cams silence. - It Is reported some endurance sit ters are trying a contest sitting in the hot waters of the springs at Breltenbush and have been making good for several days in an attempt to reduce at the same time. - We got the same effect on the same portion of our anatomy in our early days while being conversed with In the woodshed. It not only gave the sprifhtly feeling of warm'b but also reduced the posterior as well as the ego. The Oregon wildcat now wants a change of venue as he wants some other . than a Multnomah jury to heat his trial. It's too bad be couldn't have been as considerate of Multnomah county folk when he was forcing his blah and ravings on thtm over the radio. He was anx ious for jeverybody to heir those. you have to take your hat off to this here town of Silverton. It not only produced a champion kid ball team, but when it welcomed It home at a banquet the town's citizens had sense enough not to bore them to death with long speeches but or dered only a .few short, snappy talks instead. The long winded after dinner nuisances have done more to kill banquets than even the ab sence of Joy water. We wish to pay our acknowledge ments to the 000 or 900 people who have stopped us and asked us how little Jackie Hughes is making It with his golf game since be started a couple of weeks ago. These in- qulries have reached such propor tions the matter seems to be a live local Issue. . We'll not bawl Jack out. We simply say he Hughes to the tees and let's the balls fall where they may. Jack wound up a hilarious two weeks of golf by busting the head off of a new driver and busting a record for cuss words at the same time. We hope the folks will leave Jackie alone and let him golf in peace seeing as how he Is let ting his golf clubs golf in pieces. RAISED $50,000 FOR BIG BILL Chicago OP) The News Wednes day in a copyrighted news story under a Middleboro, Ky., dateline. quoted friends of the slain gang lord, Jack Zuta, as saying he had raised 150,000 for the 1927 election campaign of Mayor William Hale Thompson of Gnlcago. Mayor Thompson was Zuta's guest in Middleboro shortly -after Thomp son was elected mayor in 1337. the news dispatch quoted Arthur H. Thorer, former county prosecutor at tne Kentucty city, as saying. Thorer now Is representing Zuta's cousin, Colonel Ike Ginsburg. in ac tion concerning the murdered gang ster's estate. MENCKEN MARRIES AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Baltimore &h Miss Sara Powell Haardt of Montgomery, Ala., and H. L. Menchen, author and editor. were married here unexpectedly Wednesday. When the engagement was announced several weeks ago, September 3 was set as the wedding date. Outstanding Foes of Administration Win Return to U. S. Senate Washington (UP) Two outstanding senate figures who were leaders in the democratic-western republican tariff coalition against the administration, Fat Harrison of Mis sissippi and Boran or Idaho, ap-at parenly were assured Wednesday of returning to tneir seats. The democratic nomination in Mississippi which Harrison won without a contest, la regarded as tantamount to election, while Idaho democrats are given slight chance to defeat Borah, who was renominated Tuesday by a republican conven tion in his state. Th; most picturesque figure In the senate. Cole E. Blease. of South Carolina, who lias been a constant Title of PredMent Hoover, waa lead 30 ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING ViTH DICTATOR Peruvian Junta Prepares to Bring to Account Old Regime Profiteers Former Dictator Very III Aboard Ship. Where . - He is Prisoner Lima, Peru (IP) Thirty promi nent persons. Including some for eigners, were ordered arrested Wednesday as the Peruvian mili tary government prepared to bring to account those who profited by the 11 year dictatorship of former President Augusto B. Leguia. The names of the persons want ed were not made public, nor the nationalities of the foreigners. Their identities probably will be known only as they are rounded uu and brought to answer what- (Concluded on page 4, column 1) GERMAN FLIERS WELCOMED BY GOTHEN CROWDS New Tork (IP) Four German air' men received New York's acclaim Wednesday for their westward ci-oaslng of the Atlantic In a- sea' plane, ' - . Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau and his aides, Eduard Zimmer, co pilot, Fraru Hack, mechanic, and Fritz Albrecht, radio operator, end' ed their nine day air Journey Im pressively by bringing the Dornier Wahl craft down Tuesday In the busy harbor after a six hour flight from Halifax. Thousands watched from shores and office buildings as the flying boat circled low around the Statue of Liberty and settled near the bat tery after dodging car ferries and tugs plodding their way about the harbor. The flight, which started from the Isle of Sylt in the North Sea and took the airmen over a 4670 mile route by way of Iceland, Greenland, and Canada, was termed by Von Gronau a training flight. but he hinted at the possibility of developing commercial lines. Von Gronau said it would be im possible for him and his compan ions to fly back the way they came, as they had used the gasoline pre viously placed along the way for their westward trip. Their plans are undecided at present, although they may visit the air races in Chi cago, possibly in the seaplane. RANKINS STAY UP ON FOURTH ATTEMPT Portland CP) A test flight of Tex and Dick Rankin, - Pacific coast aviators, begun at 8:45:50 a. m. Tuesday, apparently had turned Into a fourth attempt at the sustained flight record Wed' nesday with the plane, On-To-Oregon still aloft after six con tacts with its refueling ship. The test flight was started to learn if the motor had been dam aged from its 10 minute run with' out oil when the third attempt was abandoned Sunday night. An oil line broke. ing in his contest for re-nomlnation. but apparently must engage In a run-off contest against his nearest opponent, Representative James F. Byrnes. While these results were expected in view of circumstances In those states, and no national Issues were at stake. President Hoover and ad ministration leaden, were keenly concerned about the gubernatorial race In Mr. Hoover's own state, Cal ifornia. (Concluded on pact 0, column NOMINATED 4 . Anttltttd frttt Pkl Jane B. Ralph, major of San Francisco, who has won the repub lican nomination for governor.-" .. POLICE FAVOR SUICIDE THEORY WIGFALL CASE Portland (LP) Police Wednesday again leaned toward the suicide theory In the deotlv of Charles Y. Wigfall, Portland attorney, when It was established that Wigfall owned a gun similar to that found near the spot where he claimed to nave been shot by a nitcn-nixer. The gun was found on the Pen insula golf links along the inter' state bridge approach the same day Wigfall claimed that he had been shot by a man wnom ne nad pic ed up In his car. Detective Van Vaulkenberg Wed nesday learned that a gun of similar make had been given to Wigfall by Mrs. Denla Parker, who was ad ministratrix of the estate of Noyes Babbitt, a friend of WIgfall's. The latter aided Mrs. Parker in liquid ating the estate and the gun was found among Babbit's effects. Mrs. Parker gave it to Wigfall. Wigfall drove to the home of Judge and Mrs. W. W. McCredle, with whom he lived, early last rn- day morning. He was fatally shot and claimed the assault had been made by a stranger whom he picked up in Judge McCredie's car near the interstate bridge. DRY TICKET TO OPPOSE ROLPH Los Angeles ILO-Steps will taken immedialelv to place independent dry on the November ballot to oppose Mayor James Rolph, Jr., of San Francisco, for governor, according to a statement here Wednesday of C. H. Ranaau, citv councilman and dry leader. "Against repeated and earnest protests the drys of this state di' vided, part for Fltts and part for Young in this primary.- nanaau said. "The result was inevitable. A conference of the dry and pro gressive leaders of the state will be called to the end that a candidate may be selected who is repre sentative of the overwhelming dry army which split its votes between Young and Fltts. "My idea of the proper candi date would be either William Gibbs McAdoo or Harlan G. Palm er." McAdoo, noted democratic lead er, was secretary of the treasury under President Wilson, palmer, a republican, is publisher of the Hollywood citizen. AIMEE SAYS FACE NEEDED NO LIFT , Kansas City (IP) Rolph Mcpher son, 17-year-old son of Aimee Sim ple McPherson, Angelus temple evangelist, preaching to 1,000 per sons here Tuesday night, read a telegram which he said was irom his mother. It said: "Darling son; proud of your de fense. Never touched mother, face needed no lift. Stay at your post and fight the good fight of faith." Young McPherson is conducting a revival throughout the middle west. WANT ABOLITION OF FISH SEINES Astoria (IPl Petitions are being circulated here Wednesday request ing the Interim fish committee oi the state legislature to recommend during the 1931 session that all seines and traps be abolished in all waters over which the state of Ore gon has jurisdiction. PLURALITY OF OVER 20,000 GIVEN ROLPH Young Leads Rtts Who Gets Larger Vote in Los Angeles Fought by Dry Organiza tions Congressmen Are Renominated San Francisco (JP) Governor C. C. Youxil' continued to whittle down the earlier lead ox Mayor James Rolph. Jr., of San Francisco for the republican gubernatorial nom ination early Wednesday aiternoon, with returns from 6498 precincts giving Rolph 326,183 and Young 305,043. The same returns gave Buron Fltts 244,402, San Francisco (&) Mayor James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, Jr., of San Francisco clung to a lead of nearly 40,000 votes for the republican nom ination for governor when complete returns had been received before noon Wednesday from 7,768 pre cincts out of 10,283 in Tuesday's statewide primary' The figures: Rolph, 299,945; C. C Young, (Incumbent) 260,979; Burro.. Fltts, Los Angeles district attorney, 228,760. Cablegrams were received from Hong Kong. Honolulu and Austra lia and telegrams were received from most of the states. Hundreds of special delivery letters were piled (Concluded on page 0, column 3) CHINESE REDS SHELL FOREIGN SHIPS IN RIVER Washington UP) Firing by Chin ese communists on foreign ships forty miles above Kiukiang was re ported to the state department Wednesday by American Consul General Frank B, Lockhart at Han kow. The communists are quartered on the hillside above Kiukiang and firing on foreign vessels with field pieces, the consul reported. Lock- hart said one shell which missed its target was fired at close range at a British ship on which he was traveling at 2 a. m. Aug. 24. He said Japanese and other vessels had been fired upon at the same point. As a precautionary measure some foreign women and children have been evacuated to ships in Chang- sha harbor although the city was quiet up to the night of Aug. 25, the message stated. The navy said Its river boat Panay was one of the vessels fired on by field guns about 15 mues from wusueh Tuesday. The Panay returned the fire and silenced it. No casualties were suf fered aboard the Panay and no hits were made In the ship. The Panay is attached to the United States Yangtse river patrol. CHICAGO ELECTION JUDGES INDICTED Chicago fJPh-Twelve judges and clerks of election in the 42nd ward in the last April primary were re ported named late Wednesday In true bills voted by the grand Jury and charging conspiracy to violate the election laws. The grand jury based its action. according to reports at the state's attorneys office, on the testimony of witnesses that votes cast in favor of Wallace F. Kirk, candidate for state senator, were changed in favor of Senator John T. Joyce who died last week. Senator Joyce had charged men from the state's attorney's office threatened voters in the 42nd ward, Joyce died before a second meeting of the grand jury at which he was to have testified. INDIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE JAILED New Delhi, India (IP) The entire Indian congress working committee government struck again at the leadership of the home rule gov eminent. The congress committee, which covers the organization of the Ma- hatma Gandhi's Independence cam paign, was taker, into custody here and held In Jail. . Prune Raisers Face Quarantine Unless Inspectors Obeyed At a conference here Wednesday between United States Senator McNary and Dr. B. J. Howard of Washington, D. C, in charge of the micro-analytical laboratory of the food and drug administration for the government, and other govern ment and state officials, the matter of regulations govern ing growing, drying and packing oi prunes was gone over ana me atti tude of the government and state outlined. Dr. Howard declared following the meeting that the government Is taking up the problem of prunes simply along the" same lines which have been followed in connection with other food products, notably tomatoes, blueberries, rotten beans going into pork and beans, cherry maggots both in the east and west and similar food products. we found some abuses in tne (Concluded on piuie 8. column 5) OFFICERS SEEK DEATH MOTIVE DOUBLE KILLING Ensenada, Lower California, Mex ico (IP) A motive for the brutal slaying of Francis Conlon, 24, Mon rovia. Cal.. business man. and his fiancee, Lois Marlon Kentle, Los Angeles sorority girl, was sought by -Mexican and American authori ties Wednesday. The bodies of the couple, stabbed to death by an unknown assailant, were found on the beach here Tues day. Near the spot were evidences of a camping ground that evidently had been hastily broken up, police said. There appeared to be no motive for the murders, the American con sul at the Lower California resort told the girl's relatives. They ap parently were strolling along the beach when their slayer crept up on them, Mr. and Mrs. John de Wild of Vista, Cal., who started tor En senada with the young couple, were located Wednesday by San Diego authorities. They reported that they turned back below Tijuana on Monday in the belief that Condon and his fiancee also had returned. Mrs. William Kentle, mother of the girl, said the young couple had planned to be married. The port captain of Ensenada discovered their mutllated bodies, sprawled 20 feet from a tent they had pitched on the beach. Relatives said they knew of no secret enemies the couple might have had. JONES DISOWNS 5 AND 10 LAW Seattle (LP) Authorship of the "Jones five and ten ' law was dis claimed by Senator Wesley L. Jones Wednesday when he refused to ac cent the challenge of Ralph A Horr, wet republican congressional candidate, to debate prohibition in the primary campaign. The "five and ten" law, Senator Jones declared, came from the de partment of Justice. "I Introduced It at their request,' he said. Jones refrained from comment ing upon criticism recently directed at the law by George W. Wicker- sham, chairman of President Hoov er's law enforcement commission, Horr had listed the law as one sub ject to be debated. Although declining to participate In the primary battles. Jones reaf firmed his support of the 18th amendment and dry legislation. LORD BEAVERBROOK - ILL ABOARD YACHT Dover, Eng. (IP) Lord Beaver brook,' proprietor of the London Daily Express and father of the Empire free trade movement, a dominating feature of British poll tlcal antagonisms lust now, waa tak. en ill aboard his yacht Wednesday, The yatch put In here where the publisher could receive treatment. He was said to be suffering from food poisoning. Dr. Wilson of St Mary's hospital. who arrived from London, went aboard the yacht Immediately. Dr, Laird of Dover also was In attend ance. The yacht remained in the harbor. Inquires at Lord Beaverbrook'a London home elicited tne iniorma Uon that his Illness was not consld ered serious. ART GOEBEL LAST TO LEAVE IN AIR RACE Metropolitan Airport, Los Angelas, (JP) Art Goebel, noted Los Angeles aviator and last of the five entrants in the Los Angeles-to-Chicago non stop air race, took off at 5:10 a.m., Wednesday in an effort to better Wiley Post's time of 9 hours, 9 min utes and four seconds, set Tuesday. The race is a feature of the nation al air races now being staged at unicago. His eyes on the $7500 first prize for the best time between Los An geles and Chicago, Goebel pulled his Lockheed Vega high-wing mono plane Into the air as quickly as Its 500-gallon load of gasoline would permit and headed away east on his 1725 mile flight. His plane Is pow ered with a super-charged 425 horse power wasp motor. Tuesday four other fliers flew 'to Chicago in varying timet. They were William Brock, of Detroit, round- the-world aviator; Lee Schoenhalr, Los Angeles, holder of five speed records for loaded planes; Roscoe Turner, Los Angeles, holder of the border-to-border record, and Post, Oklahoma City. Brock was the only pilot to carry a passenger, Robert V. Brown, ra dio announcer, flying with him. Turner was accompanied by a lion cub. LOPER ASSERTS POWER PERMIT NOW HELD UP Washington (VP) The federal pow er commission Wednesday author ized the California -Oregon Power Co. to construct a 283,000 horepow- er hydro-electric .project on Klam ath river, Oregon. The commission reported con struction work on the first unit. costing about $5,000,000, would be started immediately. Regardless of the action of the federal power commission in grant ing the Calfirnia-Oregon Power company a license to use federal right of way on Klamath river, any move toward actual construc tion by the power company Is block ed until after the 1931 legislature because of the announcement by State Engineer Rhea Luper that he will issue no permits until after the next regular session. Preliminary to Its acting In the matter the lederai power com mis slon some weeks ago wrote State Engineer Luper as to the status of the power company here. Luper replied that the company had com piled with all requirements lor state permit to appropriate water and said, in effect, that the ap plication for power rights woild be granted. This assurance from the state was required by the lcdeial commission before it would gram (Concluded" on pane 7. column 6t Grand Army Vets March In Parade With Feeble Steps Cincinnati, Ohio, (AP) The Grand Army of the Re public passed in review attain Wednesday with feeble but triumphant steps inspired by the memories of 64 years ago. The scenes oeiore tne reviewing ljnrf vm . far rrv from Washing- ton's Pennsylvania avenue of 1865 whep the Grand Army came home from the battlt fields of the south. Their ranks were numbered In hundreds of thousands then. Wed nesday there were only 700 veterans keeping step to the music of the days of '65. Nearly 1,000 others, too infirm to march In the ann ial parade of the encampment, followed their more virile comrades In 250 automobiles. Bands of O. A. R. posts, Cincinnati FATAL SMASH MARS RACE OF IIAVALPLA!IS Pursuit Plane Flips Over, Catches Fire, Crashes Next to Bleachers Crash Occurs Just as 17 Navy Planes Finish 50 Mile Races Curt Lss-Reynolds Airport, Chka go (An The navy plane of Lieut J. P. De Shazo, speeding 125 miles an hour, sideslipped into a crash beside the south bleachers and burst lnt flames Wednesday. The pilot ar.it one spectator, Louis Werner, Chica- go merchant, were killed,, and sev-" eral others were Injured. Many escaped by running as th plane leu. De Shazo had ust finished third in the closed-field 50-mile event for navy planes. He attempted a barrel roll, stalled with It half completed and sideslipped to earth. From the ground It appeared De Shafco's Boeing ship had gone sud denly out of control. It tilted, spun and veered.. One wing grued a con cession booth and the plane Itself narrowly missed the packed bleach em, and burst Into flames as it fell. Concluded oh page 8. column RUN OFF VftTF iivn waa mm NECESSAY FOR MIC RICICC n.a. Columgla, 8. C. UP) Senator Col L. Blease and Olln D. Johnston. Spartanburg legislator, led their fields for the United States senate and governor in Tuesday's demo cratic primary but returns compiled early Wednesday indicated both would have to enter a second raos to win the nomination. With 1108 precincts of 152 ac counted for, Senator Blease had 75, 657 votes to 65.657 for James P. Brynes, of Spartanburg, former con gressman, and 36,142 for Leon W. Harris, Anderson solicitor. Johnston, 35 year old world war veteran making his first bid for state-wide suffrage on a platform pledging a cessation of work on tho $65,000,000 highway program, was far In the lead for the governorship. In 1194 precincts unofficially re- votes. His nearest competitor was his fellow townsman. Solicitor Ibra C. Blackwood, of Spartanburg, who polled 31,889 votes. Three members of congress who had opposition were apparently re nominated on the basis of partial unofficial returns. QUIET FOLLOWS RIOT IN LOUISIANA PRISON Baton Rouge, La. MT Quiet pre vailed Wednesday In the Louisiana penitentiary alter the killing of Curtis Blackwell, 19, negro prisoner In a riot of more than 25 convicts who refused to work on a private rice farm and barricaded themselves In a temporary wooden cellhouw. Guards climbed to an adjoining room and gained admittance to the cellhouse by breaking in through a lent opening. The convicts within hurled missiles, and the guards op ened fire. lAm-rlcan Legion, Ohio National Guard and 10th U. 8. Infantry and the United Stat marine corps played the martial airs of Civil War days as well ac of more re cent years as the parade, an hour and a halt long, passed by. Commander In Chief E. J. Foster, heading the army M by General Ulysses S. Grant on Its first par ade fell out of lint at the officials' star 1 and watched his comrades pass hi review. With him stood (Concluded on pal S. column a