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321 Salfm, Ore-jon, Tuesday Morning, March 26, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENT3 Head Zonta Lczisiczcfs CHtf To Rest Beside Napoleon Executive to i'SAY "50(r. y. remember than tM statesman It rwha i rews. iHlTertWr latlon kP A i I 1 I 1 1SBSL Ss" BATON ROUGUE. 1 IBS i i 7 sir Marshal Ferdinand Foch, whose dolences to the French government rest beside.

Napoleon Bonaparte to 1 death in Paris has brought con rear of Les Invalides. Above Is his last portrait before he was taken ill, showing how the commander of the allies had aged. Outldiv Stations Get Into Step and Sell Gas at 25c; Price Highest in Valley But Seven Members of First List Accepted as Case Gets Off to Start Defendant is Charged; With Killing Lewis Dickerson Last December t.t nrl Mir. APWith the first Jury panel exhausted and only seven men passed tentatively by both the first day of the trial of Una Bryant, charged with stabbing to Lewis Dickerson. former Football star of the-Oregon State college, enaea eanj w.

taken to allow JUUI Illiic-" newly drawn Jurors from remote sections of tne siaie stabbed Decern ber 17 while accompanying Mae Troxell to her home from a Cor-Tallis coffee shop where, she was employed. thtk eond time In three months Bryant stood in court to day and pleaaea noi pwu -first decree murder for which the state will demand that no vj case of conviction. Arrangement Clears His second arraignment marked the opening session this aiiernwn after a nw Jury hard re-in-tA him. The new indictment was asked by District Attorney Mnnn iftr 'i anestion was oio nv the lexalitT of the or ganixatlon of the. first grand Jury which serrd ln January.

A the examination of the Jury this afternoon many' worn excused for cause, usually having formed some advance opin ion as to tha gum or imowhw the defendant. Ot the seven men still on the list six are farmers and one is a contractor. How many will remain after "the defense and state exercise preemptory challenges Is not known. Most of those from the city of Corvallis examined are either friends, of Dickerson or were adjudged unable for other reasons to render an unbiased decision. -Former College Students Included 1 ury men passed, as eourt adjourned are: C.

A. Barenger, Independence; Johnston, (Torn to Page Z. Cohimn neisltFH FI6HT WITH RIVAL Bringing with him the hide of a cougar measuring, nine feet pieht inches from tin to tip. F. Myers of Mehama told here Mon day how he shot the animai imi Wednesday Just a few hours after it had emerged from a bitter fight with another cougar.

Hunters declare that this is mating time for the cougars and! it is presumed that the animal got into an argument with a flval for the favor of a third cougar. 5 Myers trailed the animal with dogs and after a short chase it took to a tall cedar tree. It was 70 feet In the air When Myers first saw it. Two shots frem his rifle were necessary to bring It down. Most of his rwonnds were deep scratches across his face.

Myers will receive a total of $30 in bounties. Kendall' Post Vacant for Time ivSr: A successor to Fred P. Kendall, member of the state fish' commission, will not be appointed for several according to announcement made at the executive department. Mr. -Kendall died in Portland Saturday.

He had served as a member of the fish commission for sereral years, The gorernor refused to divulge the names of persons he has under consideration for the, office. Lost Battalion liar. 23. (AP) -The Morn 'Mag Advocate will say tomorrow that as committee of bowse members tonight were drawing a bill of charges be introduced in the legislature tomorrow seeking Impeachment of Governor Huey P. Long.

The governor has' been in office less than eleven months. Mexican Captors Decide Not to Set Morrison Free as First Planned NOG ALES, ArhL. Mar. 25. (AP) An abont face In their at titude toward G.

K. "Buzz" Mor rison, captured American aviator. was announced late today by Mexican rebel leaders at Nogajes, S6- nora. They stated that he would be held pending final disposition of his ease by Commander-in-chief General Gonzalo Escobar. This morning rebel spokesman had said that Morrison, who was captured Saturday when forced down) Jn an airplane he had been flying for Mexican federals en trenched at Naco, Sonora, would be unconditionally, released to Am erlcan consular officials here.

Doubt was cast upon, his status as the result of advices from Naco this afternoon stating that he had resigned from the Mexican federal air service a few hours prior to makinc his unlucky last aerial survey over rebel territory. American consular officers ac ross the border, and Nogales city officials continuing ne gotiations opened Sunday with rebel leaders for Morrison's re lease. The aviator, whose parents live in Reno. Nevada, is being held by the rebels under General Faus-to Topete at Cananea, 40nnlles south of the border at uisoee. ,7 TOLEDO, Mar.

25. (AP) Mrs. Gaylord 25, and her hree small children were found dead at their home five miles northeast ot Maumee. a sub urb, late today: and authorities were working on the theory that they had been slain and their house set afire. Coroner Frank G.

Kreft said Gaylord five, had been beaten about the head' before the house was set on fire. Howard, four, had two, cuts above the right eye and kerosene apparently had been thrown on Rose Marie, one, and lighted, while she was in bed. The coroner also fonnd what he thought were finger prints abont the woman's throat. Gaylord Steger, the father and widower, returned home a few minutes after; the fire had been subdued. He said all of his cloth ing, his guns, a radio and his trunk had been taken from the house.

Steger said "be had been In Syl- vania, 15 miles away, all afternoon, helping an acquaintance trade horses. He said that so far as he knew he had no enemies and was positive that his wife did hot kill the children and then set the.house on -The Maumee firemen had put out the fire and were about to leave the building under the sup. position that. the Steger family was away when one of the men stumbled over Howard's body. He was In front ot a window ap parently trying to open it to flee when he was struck down Mrs.

Stegers body was found In corner of a bedroom. Finger marks were found on one side of her throat POPE Will' BLESS JILLII PERSONS ROME. Mar. 25. (AP) A strong report In circulation is that the pope will bless 1,000,000 persons on Ascension Day, May from the Church of St.

John -The first exit from the Vatican by Plus XI, breaking the 59 years ot voluntary Imprisonment of the heads of Catholicism, has been a puzzle as to time and which diplomats ant politicians as well as courtiers of the pope and king were Interested in solving. All sorts of suppositions were afloat but so far It was only a question of guessing, sines no one knew when tne event wtuld occur which will remove the last trace of the Roman- pope now Is reported to have said "I hope that my first visit outside the Vatican -will be to' St. John lAUran. 4 GOVERNMENT VETX3 LONDON, 21. (AP) A labor motion censuring the government for Its alleged failure to solve the unemployment problem was defeated In the house ot commons The tote was 149 to 100.

ilil AIM. OF CUUEN SLAIN REVEILLE GALL Soldier to be Taken to His Final Resting Place as Nation Mourns Leader of Allied Armies in World War to be' Laid Near Napoleon PARIS, Mar. (AP) Mar shal Foeh wUl be laid to rest to-mprrow near the tomb of Napol eon under the golden dome of the InTalides chapel." All the nations of Europe whose armies' were allied with France under Foeh's command hvesent high civilian delegates and mill tary detachments to attend at the national funeral which his grate ful country has prepared for him. Never in ancient or modern times have so many people mourn ed together over the body of a sol dier as will Join with France in the requiem -services at Notre Dame' tomorrow and In the solemn procession that will escort Foch's body to its final resting place. Cathedral Crowded With Notables So great is the number: of per sons 01 oixicuu rani aeiegaiea 10 attend the ceremony at the cathe dral that no place at all has been left for the general public within the Gothic walls of the great na tional Basilica whose towers have looked out over Paris for nine cen- Dart tbe of Paris who made "a numbering aoreV than a million souls to sa lute the bier of a great soldier un der the Are de Triomphe Sunday, will wateh the funeral procession along the mile and one-half route it Is to follow.

Reservations for vantage places In windows and on roof tops along the line ot march were sold today by thousands, for as much as fifty dollars each, and tonight there were no more even of these. Only 6,000. persons will be ad mitted to the funeral mass at Notre Dame. Th trit nnrtala nt the cathedral were closed from noon today to -permit workmen to prepare me eomcejor us atarsn-sTr obsequies. From iu m.

until noon the public Tras allowed to pass by the flag-covered bier, PORTLAND, (AP) Governor Patterson today was looking over a list of prospects with a view toward appointing one to the Oregon state fish commission to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fred P. Kendall, chairman of the commission, who died. Saturday night. An appointment probably will not be made before 10 days or two Several names are being mentioned as possible appointees. A.

Smithy motor dealer, who was under consideration for a place on the state game commission two years ago, la being discussed. J. H. Gallagher, engineer. Is another.

4 Roderick operator of a cannery on the Rogue river. also. mentlone4 as possible timber, The coast section of the Calum-bia river has no representative on the commission. a FEDERAL TIMBER ROSEBURG, Ore Mar. 25.

(AP) Considerable competitive bidding marked the government timber sale held today by the United States land office at Roseburg. Twenty-one tracts were sold In Tamhlll, Linn, Coos, Klamath, Josephine. Clackamas and Colum bia counties. The sale returned $138,404.93. A Coos county tract containing nearly a million and a half feet of Port OTford cedar brought the highest price, 130,072, double the amount asked by the government.

Purchasers' at the sale today were: El EL- Smith. Eugene: Cor vallis Logging company. Corvallis; Willamette Valley Lumber company, Dallas; A. Garoutte, Cottage Grove; J. R.

Sowels, Cottage Grove; Roy. Swenson, Vene-ta; Linnke and Shaw, Tamhlll; M. Howard Sheridan; B. G. Coch ran, Lyons Coos Bay Lumber company, Marshfield Frank Heath, Marshfield; T.

L. Clinton. CoQuille; Wlhtred M. Turpln, Cot- tage Lou Krause, Grants Pass; Union Lumber company, Portland A. M.

Matlock. VeneU, and H. Newman, Scappoose. SCHOOL BOARD TONIGHT Ttia Mrat nulhi iif tti Salami sthool board In a month will be held tonights Reports of Superin tendent George W. Hug, who has Just returned Jrom trip east, will occupy much of the meeting.

It Is 5SS Ordinance Recommended to Permit Proposed High Street Development Commission Declines to Se lect Type of Lights Pend ing Legal Step Legal machinery whereby "light In districts' may be formed in Salem similar to other Improve ment districts, and under which the High street business men may carry out their plans to make that thoroughfare a "great white way; was recommended in principle ry the city planning and zoning com. mission at its meeting Monday night. The ordinance vn-hich will be drafted by City Attorney Fred Williams under Instructions out lined by the, commission, and which will go before the council next Monday night for first read Ing. Is patterned after ordinance bill 2583 which has been held np for many months-by the ordinance committee; but Instead of specifying the type jot lights to be In stalled, It delegates the city en gineer to' approve plans and in specting, the work. Property Owners To Install Lights The general provision Is thst the property owners Interested shall Install the lights and that they shall then become the pro perty of the city, which is charged with the task of maintaining them This matter was hronrht hefnr the zoning commission by Lars Bergsvik, representing the High street property owners, who plan to erect 40 two-light standards on that street from Trade to Cen ter, eight to each block.

Their plans provide for 400 candle power lights In each globe. Commission Delays Selection of Type wishes ot the High street own ers that the zoning commission express its preference as between several types of standards, were not iumiied. the commission de ciding that the first sten should be adoption of an ordinance. Members of the commission agreed to the Idea that a uniform type of standard should be adopt ed for each district, possibly for cue enure aowntown area. ordinance' proposed would repeal existing ordinances which nre- criDe cast iron standards.

George M. Boyd, representative of the Westinghouse- company. told the commission that the spe cifications as drafted by Mr. Bergs vik were almost ideal for the purpose. The standards.

should be at least 18 feet high, he said, and the 400 candle power lights would be the minimum to be considered for such a height. Woman Shot AURORA, Mar. 25. (AP) Mrs: Joseph De King was shot and killed tonight during a llauor raid conducted by six deputy sher-1 urs. one or the deputies was wounded by her nine year old son Gerald.

Three" deputies went to the De King home early In the evening, armed with a search warrant. The deputies, were met at the door by De King, who said he would shoot them if tney came Inside. The deputies went back for re- lniorcementa and then, with their force doubled, returned to the De King, home, three going to each door. They were again met by De -King, armed with guns. They went insiae, and one of them hit De King with the butt ot a gun.

anocaing nim unconscious. Mrs. De King bent ever her prostrate husband, as if to pick up one of his guns, undone of the. deputies fired, striking her In the stomach. She died almost Immediately.

Toung Gerald then picked up one of his father's guns and shot ueputy Roy Smith In the leg. SEffiEfAM SEATTLE. Mar. 35. (AP) Charging that city officials, the Seattle boxing commission and fight promoters entered Into a conspiracy to promote an Illegal exhibition, salt tor, 825,000 was filed.

In superior eourt today for the death of Hamilton Cartwright, negro pugilist, who died ot Injuries following a boxing bout here In February. 'i'-r It was alleged In the complaint, which was filed by the administrator of Cartwrifhfs estate, that Cecil Geysel unlawfully administered a beating to Cartwright, knocked him causing his head to strike the From these Injuries, the complaint Cartwright' died. The mayor and chief of police were cited for having permitted the fight to take place. Bending Over Hubby'sBody Spanish Aviators Head West Across Atlantic Toward South America Long Distance Flight Season Opens With Bang; Yanks Hurdle Continent BUENOS AIRES. Mar.

2C. (Tuesday) (AP) The Braxiliar Aero Postaol company Informed the Rio Janiero bureau of La Na- don that the Spanish plane, Jesus Del. Gran Poder, passed over to aviation camp, Terralq, at Natl at 2:35 a. m. (Presumably Buenos Aires time.

1:30 a. m. E. S. and headed southward.

By The Associated Press The 1029 long distance flight' season was opened with a bang yesterday with three major endeavors in progress. The Spanish aviators. Cantaina Francisco Iglesias and Ignaclo JV-menex who left Seville Sunday f- lernoon an attempt to reach South America without refueling their airplane Jesus Del Gran Poder were reported at 4:30 p. Greenwich time, yesterday, bver Cape Blanco, Mauretanla, West Africa. At about that point they were to swing out over the Atlantic for the long set leg of their voyage.

Zeppelin Ends Jaunt to Italy The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, veteran of a round trip flight to the United States, completed yesterday its Italian tour which occupied the first day of its scheduled four-day, 5.000 mile night over the eastern Mediterranean. Its takeoff from Friedriehshafen was timed st 54 minutes after midnight and It was circling Naples at o'clock In the Neapolitan evening. From there its over water stretch began which would carry It past Cyprus to Palestine. The. Uruguayan aviators Berisae and Otereo, who- are making a.

round about good will flight wit many stops from Montevideo to New Tork, yesterday completed another, stage. They flew frosa Santiago, Chile, to Antofagasta fct northern Chile in about If hours, landing it 5 p. m. MADRID, 25 (AP) The newspaper Vos says a radio message received here states that-the airplane Jesus Del Gran Poder at noon today passed over Cap Verde, West Africa. This report conflicted with an earlier report from Dakar, Frese West Africa, that the Spanish plane was believed to have been sighted over Cape Blanco at 4:20 p.

G. M. The Cap Verd report, it confirmed, would mean that the chances of the plane's' reaching South America were much increased. GUNNISON, Mar. 26.

(AP) Buried under a ous snow slide, four miners wee killed today as they slept In bunk house in the stormbound Hensen creek area of Hinsdale county, 12 miles from Gunnison. Reports reaching here over js railroad telegraph line which con stitutes the only remainine lis of communication, said it Is feared. oiaers may nave been Killed la 25 snow avalanches In the district last night. Mrs. Susie Miller.

Gunnison county coroner, left for Lake City, to take charge of the bodies, which are being returned frosa the man ia property Lake City on sklis. Debaters WinOirerW.S.C. PULLMAN. Mar. 25.

(AP) University of Oregon men'g aepaters detested Washington State college here this afternoon. Oregon argued the negative of the question: Resolved, that the court system should be abolished. Prof. G. H.

Orion of the University of Idsho Judged the. contest, Grows in -V America's per capita sumpUos bas Hot reached that Europe. There; we tre Informed, the per capita consumption snv-nually man, woman and child. Is 1400 while in the United States the per capita; consumption is only $00. We expect that the total national tt cigarettes, now placed-at 105 bil-ilons, will reach 180 billions year.

Cigar and 1 pipe smoking are somewhat on the decline, the wholesaler declared, while snuff never extensively used, holds -its own, USHSUDE 'from virtually all the world, will crypt under the dome at the Trip oh Both Sides of River Shows Lower Prices in Effect Whether It's due to the ability of Salem service station men to "get together" or just tn account of some peculiarity of freight rates, the fact remains that gasoline prices in Salem Sunday were higher than those charged anywhere else in the lower Willamette valley. While dealers here maintained a 25 cent price with only one exception, it was possible to drive just across the Willamette river to West Salem Jand buy motor fuel at one cent ft' gallon less. Lower Prlces at Portland Now Prevalent. If one. happened to be making a loop trip through the Tualatin valley, then to Portland and back over "the Pacific highway, would find prices gradually lower as he got nearer to Portland, and higher as he left that city behind on the way back; but the Salem price stood out above the rest like Pike's Peak.

In Yamhill and Washington counties the price varied from 24 to 23 cents and down to 22 cents beyond Hills boro In the direction of Portland; all over Portland the price was 204 cents excepting in seuwood. where it was 20. Com- ing south from Portland, the price remained constant at 20 cents through Milwaukle. Oak Grove, Gladstone, Oregon City. fCanby apparently hadn't heard of the gas war, as no signs were exhibited; but higher prices again became manifest at Hubbard where one station advertised.

22 cents and another 24; at Wood-burn the price was 24 cents, and from there on into Salem it was 25. activity la Salem took sudden spurt Monday when five permits, four ot tnem for new iii uweuuigB, were usuea. me mosi costly of these Is to be a house for Milo Matthews at If 75 East Nob Hill, to be erected by Earl Pruitt The estimate Is 13100. Blanch B. Huffman took out a permit for $2000 dwelling at 771 North 21st street, to be built by J.

Gray. Frank Reeves obtained a permit for a $2000 house at 340 Lefelle, to be erected by Wenger John Hawk was Issued, a permit for a house to! be built at 1030 North 17th street at a eost of $2500 by Anderson and Martin. B. Kropp and Gene Vaughn took out a permit for a double garage at 14th and streets, to cost Cigarette's Use BUGSPUU; SF.BV PERMITS iT Know what Zonta Is? She's member of the organlxatioa bear tag that same wbjrh corresponds In woman's circle to a Rotary club. Picture is of Mrs.

Violet A. C. Ahlf, president of the new Zota- taclnb in Portland. Mrs. Ahlf speaks here Cn IN SALEM Business Women's: Interna tional Has Worker.

lar verily ctuiiy uuuuu 2 The "Zontas, an orgahliatfon of women which is to business women what the "Rotary" is to business men- has an organizer working in Salem for the purpose of establishing a chapter in Salem if this city is ready 'for such an organization. The purpose of this club Is to promote better business relation ship between men and women In the business world and to advance the cause of women In execotire positions. As does the: Rtjry tbe Zoatlans take only' member from each organization 1 and must be an execntire. In other words the membership goes by cmssifleation. It does not aim at competition with any organized group of women.

Being a member of any other organization does not with becoming a member of Zonta. The organization is internation al In its scope; with most of the organizations in the United States established in the east. Portland has Just organized a chapter, Seattle has one. likewise Los Ange les and San Francisco. The 1929 convention will meet in Erie, Ne York.

Friday night the Portland chapter will come to Salem for a din ner at the Gray Belle at which "time Violet A. C. Ahlf, at torney, and president of the Port land will speaks PORTLAND STREETS PORTLAND. Mar. 25-4 API Recommendation that the six persons: bitten Sunday night bv Condu.

i a great Dane, on downtown corner, take treatments for prevention of rabies was made today bv the state board of health following an examination of the dog's brain. 1 s. Condn.s a familiar: figure on Portland streets, went mad sud-denhr Sunday night and held a theatre crowd at bay until a po liceman shot and killed him. Six persons were nipped when they at tempted to escape. A charse of allowing a vicious dog to run at large, lodged-against Captain John Barkland, owner, was dismissed In municipal court is state of Slnaloa.

Troop move ments at other points on the long anoTirregular front went on without producing a General Armenta was" In the state ot Sonera with 100 soldiers, half infantry 'and half cavalry, when he heard that General Francisco Manzo had revolted. Realizing that he was outnumbered, Armenia: began a forced march over the wild mountain district Into i Chiahuahua. which he believed bUU Joysl. Loyal Troops Caught In Governor's Trap He reached the small town of Matachlc. north of Guerrera.

but men were then In rags and. almost starving. Not knowing" that Governor Caraveo had Joined the rebel cause, he tel-egYaphed htm a -request for ammunition. and provisions, The IS Ruin WM ivihu nuui Making Only One Texaco Deal er Stays Down; Big Profit Made Possibly the most profitable business "in Salem Monday was conducting a Texaeo gas station retailing the product at 25c a gal lon for all Texaco dealers in tne city, save one, had complied with the association's regulation and boosted the price 10 cents above the wholesale mark which re mained at 15c, three cents and four cents below the price asked by competing wholesalers. One Texaco dealer on Bush street remained outside the pale and continued throughout the day to sell the product at the 22c mark.

His business was rushing all day long although uniform 25c signs about' the 'city conveyed the idea that all dealers were agreed on the new high level. Retrieving of Losses Held as Cause Inquiries made seeking for the sudden advance of retail prices to two and three cents above the scale of a tew weeks ago found no satisfactory answer. Sidewalk comments attributed the marked advance over former prices to a desire on the part of wholesalers to retrieve losses prevailing dar ing the recent war. IS DEAD AT AGE OF 76 Jaeob Idlewlne. a resident of Salem for the past 48 years, died at 2:15 clock Monday afternoon at a local hospital at the age of 78 years and eightdays.

-Mr. Idlewlne has conducted the Highland nursery on his residence pro perty at 2 0 2 Broadway for a number ot years. Funeral services will" be held Wednesday afternoon, March 27, at 1:20 o'clock from the Rlgdoa mortuary chapel, with the Rev. W. C.

Kan tner officiating. Interment will be made in the Lee Mis sion cemetery. Mr. Idlewlne Is survived by four children, three daughters and one son: Mrs. Dora Pickens and Mrs.

O. D. Binegar. both of Salem; Hattie Varoaos of Cedar City, Utah; and Harry Ashford of Portland. Eight grandchildren also survive.

PlahipMined For Northwest Realty Meeting T. W. Zimmerman, secretary of the Northwest Reel Estate asso ciation, met with the Salem realty board in a called meeting Monday evening to discuss plans for the convention to be held. In-Salem July 21, 25 and 20. Mr.

Zimmerman outlined the program being planned by the association, telling of some of the speakers that would Each local committee made a report, especially interesting of which was that of the entertainment which Is making a strong effort to emphasise the flax Industry at-the convention Mr. Zimmerman, whose headquarters- are, in Portland, -will be In' Salem Wednesday and Thursday of next week to assist the board in local matters. J. F. TJl-rich is president of the board i "-WOMAN DROPS DEAD SAN FRANCISCO, Mar.

,28. (AP) Stricken while on a shopping Mrs. Florence Meyer, TS, today dropped dead In a down town department store here, OLEWK Way Laid by Rebels' Governor Leaps and Bounds; Europe Ahead in Per Capita Scale JUAREZ, Mar. General J. Gonzalo Escobar, Mexican rebel commander In chief tonight said he had received advices indicating that 7.000 'men ere being concentrated In the state of Guanajauto for a march on Mexico City.

MEXICO AP)The attention of the cap-Hal tonight was focused on the doubtful state of a "lost wandering In the heart ot the rebel state of Chihuahua without knowing who were their enemies. Their capture by rebel Governor Caraveo was' regarded certain unless. the messengers ent out by the federals: reach them in time. The fate ot these S00 men overshadowed for the moment the prolonged and sanguinary struggle ror the Port ot TJataUan. kef to 'he west coast campaign In the Cigarette smoking hi bad habit Once begun, the practice Is rarely stopped.

Some time the American public mayfaee an Issue not unlike the classic one of prohibition, But. the cigarette will never, be blamed, because Its devotees are legion. Such Is opinion of a promi nent distributor in Salem, speaking Informally Monday afternoon. "Two DUllon more cigarettes were. consumed In the United States In January.

1020, than the same month a year before and the amount of cigarettes used is constantly Increasing. said. the distributor, -J- Tun Page X. Column 2.).