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Your Thrift Week Budget WEATHER FORECAST OreKon: Rain west and local snows east portion tonlnht and Thursday; moderate temperature. Hosehurg and vicinity: Rain to night and Thursday; moderate luinneraiure. VOL XX NO. 246 OF ROSEBURG Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS DOWN at Salem, a 1)111 to be in troduced soon proposes a Btute department of agriculture. It may surprise you to know that of the 48 states in the Union 43 have state departments of agricul ture. Included in the 43 are Cali fornia, Washington and Idaho. It Is worthy of note that Califor nia, Washington and Idaho are GO ING AHEAD of Oregon in agricul tural development. MERE creation of a state de partment of agriculture will do nothing toward promotion of agri culture In Oregon. You can't make tanning prosperous by passing a law. But If an able department of ag riculture wore backed by an Intel llg?ntly administered grading stan dards law, so that in time only the HKST products were going out or Oregon under standard grades, ' arming might easily become much more prosperous here. HERE Is an Interesting para graph from a European news dispatch: "December's events were only a prelude to the great battle that all republican elements of Spain will tight in the near future In order lo overthrow. Alfonso and the mon archy, establish the republic on a solid basis and at last make Spain one of the European democracies." It will take more than a buttle lo make Spain a SUCCESSFUL democracy. That can be done only by raising the general standard of Intelligence in Spain so that the Spanish people will be qualified to govern themselves. mm Mm 1 CAPTAIN ROBERT DOLLAR is I operated on suddenly at San Francisco, and the entire Pacific if Coast is interested In his comli- i lion and hopes for his recovery. A Why? The answer is simple. It is because Captain Dollar has been n iiBerul and vaiuame cur.eu u... ing his long life. We can't afford to lose citizens of that sort, and so when their health Is endangered we are inter ested, keenly, and hope for their recovery. HERE is a statement nbout busi ness conditions that is repeat ed by nearly everyone who talks on that subject: "The Pacific Coast is better off than the East." Why Is the Pacific Coast better off than the East? Well, It may because the Pacific Coast GAM BLED less during the big stock boom and so has a narrower gnp be tween Its present condition and Its IMAGINED condition while the big boom was on. You feel rich while you are gambling and winning, but you feel mighty poor after you LOSE. FRANCE, we read, is planning to stabilize the price of wheat at $2 a bushel. In order to do that, presumbaly. Imports will be abut out and the country will be com pelled to depend upon its domestic production. But here is the interesting part of the story, as told in a dis patch from Paris: "Even at $2 a bushel, taking into consideration high costs of production, French farmers will just about break even. In the opinion of the minister of agriculture.' THAT is to 8R Franco Isn't adapted to the growing of wheat on an economical basis. Hrr farms are too small. Too much of her labor la done by hand. So her costs are exceedingly high. This writer, who doesn't pose as an authority, has an idea that In the long run France will SI'F FEn. Instead of gain, by subsldii Ing the growing of wheat under (Continued on page 4) 1 REVIEW T T T Senator Eddy's Advice to Eliminate Clause Finds Favor With Framing Uroup at oalem. i (Associated rcr Lonwd Wire) . SALEM. Ore.. Jan. 21 Fearful of the reception that the public would give a new intangibles tax act, with retroactive clause lo forestall- a refund of taxes paid under the act of 1929 recently de clared unconstitutional, the house and senate committees on assess ment and taxation, meeting joint ly, indicated that a bill in this form will not be offered. A tenta tive bill including the retroactive clause had been drawn and was be fore the committees. The decision on the meeting was an agreement, on motion of Sena--tor B. L. Eddy, not to attempt any intangibles tax legislation until the supreme court lias disposed of the petition for rehearing of the case in which the 1929 act was invali dated. Should a bill be passed with the retroactive clause included, Senator .1. O. Bailey- declared that the. -people, 'having been fooled once, might refuse to pay their in comes taxes.' Senator E. W. Miller v-'s nfflie same opinion, declaring that the poopleof Oregon, "are on the v&rge.of resistance. against; the payment of any fax." Renctor Eddy said the present legislature" would "be "a" failure ' if it did not do something tor the relief of the, people who pay taxes on. real estate. "There is a vast number of people in the state," he said, "who are in such distress that Continued on oaae 6. 8tory LEEPER DOME WORK WILL BE RELAYED Directors of the Oakland Oil company met at Oakland today to consider plans for renewing drill ing operations at Leeper Dome. The directors have n plan under consideration, but It was decided to give the matter further study and investigation before making a final decision. Work will not be start ed for several weeks at all events, it was reported. WIFE'S PETITION ALLEGES DESERTION Suit for divorce has been filed in the circuit court by Ida Dean against Elmer Dean, alleging de sertion. They were married at Eu gene, April 18. 1928, and have one child. The plaintiff is represented INTANGIBLES T Bullets Prove Better than Prayer in Resisting Reds, Pioneer of Douglas Recalls By GLENN RADABAUOH Q V. CARLILE, pioneer resident of Oakland, believes in the old admonition: "Trust in the Lord and keep your powder dry." The reason for this conviction is that when he was cross- thetrJn f) in which he travelins foucht off Indians for two days without a casualty while a caravan composed of a certain religious body just behind was annihilated when its members prayed instead of fighting. The train crossed the plains In '64 and the first Indiations encoun tered were peaceful. They were the Pawnees and the Sioux and were anxious to trade and beg from the whites. They were incurable thieves Mr. Carllle remembers. It was when the caravan met up with the Snake Indinns that the first and worst battle took place. Renegade whites had helped the Redmen locate the party and had given signals for the attack to begin. The Snakes, armed with rifles sold them by white men. were dan gerous foes. The Inaccuracy of their aim accounted for the poor success they had in their battle with this particular train. From nnon of one day until lu o'clock the next morning they circled the train, firing upon It without killing one while man. woman or child. The only real damage they did was to kill stock and wreck some of the wagons. A little farther on the Journey the party met a band of soldiers ,who, with most of the men of the train, went back, encountered the Should Include WILL HEAD U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY A portrait of Rear-Admiral Thomas C. Hart, commander of the control force ot the , United States fleet. He has been designated by the navy department to succeed Rear-Admiral S. S. Robison, as su perintendent of the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis . The latter will retire from active service May 15, when he reaches the age of 63. T Two" Billion Necessary for Cashing - Certificates Held Impossible. " WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 Secre tary Mellon today reported to the house ways and means committee enactment of the Garner hill to pay cash on veterans' certificates would seriously affect national fi nance and "our general economic situation." Several hundred American le gionnaires marched today in a dem onstration urging legislation to authorize the cashing of the World war veterans' adjusted compensa tion certificates. - They were addressed by Repre sentative Pat man of Texas, Ran kin of Mlssissippia and Connery of Massachusetts, democrats. All three have boon urging legislation to authorize cashing of the certifi cates. The secretary did not specifically disapprove the measure but stress ed the problems he said it would present. Mellon said the Garner measure would "have far reaching conse quences, not only in its practical destruction of the endowment in surance plan, but in its effect on the finances of the nation and our Continued on page 6, Story Q Indians and killed many of them. During the battle one of Mr. Car llle's sisters narrowly escaped be ing killed when she waR making bullets. A bullet ripped through her clothing. Bridge Has to Be Built Hardships were plentiful, but none were more arduous than ferrying acrosB the rivers. At Green river It took two days to get the wagons torn down, floated across the stream and put hack together. Another place on the trip there was a stream whose hanks were so straight they would not permit fording until a log bridge had been built. At one place on the long trek the caravan came upon a train that had been attacked by Indians. They found eieht men dead and scalped In the tall prairie grass and the wRgons looted and wrecked. At an other place two entire families, (fourteen persons) were found buried In one grave. The bodies Continued on pag (, Story 2 Chamber of Commerce Support Financially. 7& THE'DOUGLSSXOUNTY daily ROSEBURG. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21.1931. ' - QjgyP- - m. UNEXPENDED ' HMDS More Than Two-Thirds on Bond Redemption Item ; $5,270 Saved From Annual Budget. Douglas county, on December 31, 1930, had $643,295.63 of unexpended funds, according to the annual cash balance announced by County Clerk Roy Agee. These funds were credited to the several accounts as follows: General county, $73, 511.94: u n a p po r 1 1 o n e d tax. $2,233.69; general road fund, $27, 356.77; market road fund, $43, 899.72; road districts, $17,451.81; special road tax. $26,940.91; court house fund, $5,727.32: motor li cense fund, $6,3K2.3a; forest rent als. $7,318.21: bond redemption fund, $433,469.91. Nineteen of the county's thirty six budget accounts were under their allotments for the year, with fifteen above the allowances while two were exactly even. The total budget was $193,851.03. The tolal expenditures were $188,580.59. Funds In which the total budget allowance was not UBed left a bal ance of $16,888.92, while those over the budget created a deficiency of $11,618.46. leaving a net amount under budget allonces of $5,270.46. Court Statistics The report for the clerk's office shows a total of 258 cases tiled In the circuit court, of which 53. were dWorces and 205 Involved other complaints. There were 45 di vorces granted during the year. Marriage licenses totalled 255. There were 120 cases filed In the probate court, 3.358 Instruments recorded, 1,559 dog licenses sold. 81 beekeeper's licenses sold and 16 dance hall licenses Issued. The clerk received $4,172 111 rec ording fees: $3,454, circuit court fees; $1,060.00, probate court fees; $765, from marriage licenses; $133.75. Torrens fees; $220.95, miscellaneous fees; $81 from bee keeper's licenses, and $3,398.00 dog licenses, making tolal receipts for the year, $13,285.20. Of this money the clerk paid $9,042.20 to the gen eral counly fund; $81 to the bee keepers' fund; and $3,398.00 to the dog license fund, making a total of $12,521.20 turned over to the county treasurer. He paid to the state treasurer $479 for the circuit judge's salary account and $285 for the district attorney salary ac count, a total of $764 paid to the state. The expense of operating the clerk's office. Including salaries Continued on Page 6, Story 3 COLLEGE HIT BY $1,000,000 BLAZE (Awioclaled Prw t-eawd Wire) CAM HHinGR SPRINGS. Pa., Jan. 21. The main building of the Polish National Alliance college here Including the school's fine museum was a mass of smoulder ing ashes today, and faculty mem hers estimated the loss In last night's fire at close to $1,000,000. Many valuable relics, including letters exchanged by George Wash ington with distinguished Poles who aided him in the American revolution, were prey of the flames. College officials said today the Polish government once had of fered the school $50,000 for these letters. No one was injured. The 500 or more students, who were In the chapel when the fire broke out. were not Informed the building was ablaze until they had filed out. Origin of the blaze was not de termined. LOCAL CLERK NAMED AS STORE MANAGER James Geil, clerk In the local! Safeway store, received word last night of his appointment, as man-1 nger of a branch store in Oakland ! California. Mr. Cell, bis wife, and their four-year-old son are leav-j Ing this evening for Oakland where! he will take over his new duties immediately. Mr. Cell's advance ment comes as a recognition of his fine service here in Hoseburg. WOMAN KILLED BY I GASOLINE BLAST M.vl.tM pro UM Virr) MT. VERNON.. N, Y., Jan. 21 Gasoline with which she was clean ing her glOTPS exnloded and fatal ly burned Mrs. Lorraine Abbott, 40. wife of F. O. Abbott, an exe cutive of McKesffOn A Rohhins, wholesale druggists. k ksy vv fr rVV r vrvr vr IMi 01 E. TD GET SILETZ O. BLOCKED Federal Examiner Sullivan Finds No Necessity for Sale Unless Made to Southern Pacific. (Awoolnted Tli'M Utittil Wire) WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. Plans of (he Great Northern, ami North ern , Pacific railways to extend their operations in Oregon In com petition with the Southern Pacific system met with a preliminary ob stacle today before the interstate commerce commission. Thomas F. Sullivan, examiner who Investigated, advised the com mission to disapprove purchase ol the Valley and Kilotz railroad hy the Oregon Klectrlc railway, a sub sidiary of the northern companies, 1 at $2,000,000. He urged the commis sion to refuse the. Oregon Klectrlc permission it had sought to con-1 struct a connection with the vallof line Ht a cost of f 465.000. Sullivan advised the commission to allow the Southern Pacific, which opposed the program of its competitors at all points, to pur chase the valley Hue at a reason able price. The controversy, together with recommendations, will be submit ted to the commission for final ad judication. The Oregon Klectrlc purchase and construction proKinin wTUeh Sullivan b report tentatively re ieated, is only one of a series of colttested extension projects In which the northern roads, the Great Northern being particularly aggressive, have sought to enter Southern Pacific territory. Although the valley road Is only 40 miles long and all located In Polk and Benton counties, Oregon, the projected extension hy the eectric company from Orovllle to Independence to reach It would en tail construction of an expensive bridge, Sullivan held. He said ser vice to shippers could be rendered with existing facilities without new Investment if the Southern Pa cific should acquire the valley Hue. Offer "Not Justified" The report observed that "pub lic convenience and necessity would be best served by ownership of the Valley and Sllelz road by a trunk line, but consummation of the plan presented by the Oregon Klec trlc is not the solution of the prob lem. It added thai "the proponed price of $2,000,000 for, the valley Continued on page 6, Story 4 LEGION POST WILL HOLD SMOKER FEB. 6 A large group of Itoseburg le gionnaires and auxiliary members drove to Canyonville last iiigbt. where a joint meeting was held with the Grants Pass groups. Kach organization held a short business session. I'mpqua post fixed Febru ary 6 as the date for the annual smoker and arrangements were placed in charge of Ihepast com manders, with J. A. Soules as chair man. The smoker, which will fea ture several good boxing matches, will be given Tree for all ex-service men. Due to the late arrival of the Grants Pass delegation, there was no formal program, but following the business meetings a social dance was enjoyed until midnight. GEN. WOOD VIEWS WALLA WALLA SITE General Georee II. Wood, head of the national soldiers home bureau, made bis Inspection of the Walla Walla site yesterday, and left In the afternoon for Yakima, where he Ik to look over ft site offered there The Walla Walla site in connected with the grounds of the 1. S. Vet erans hospital. General Wood Is nitoted as stating thnt the Walla Walla site Is ideal "If the depart ment wishes to try the experiment of combining locations for a hos pital and soldiers home " ELK KR.I ING TRIO FINED AND JAILED thrmrW- f'ttf tH WirM PRNflMCTON'. Jan. 21 Don Varm. I.mirne Tlmmnns and Kyl Cowles. nil of Milton-Rree-wafpr. ' wre fined S2"0 eah and "entered to 30 rfvs In (all when they pleaded gulltv todav in 1ns tlcn rnnrt to a chant of killing cow elk. The minimum nnaltv waft given. The maximum Is $1,000 fine and one year in Jail. 1 11 )ICJBIC6 mi 1 1- iui M r x MEET SUCCESSOR ,( "4,"" SylVia Sflm Ilecausc (Mara Mow is at. present cast in a discreditable role in a spicy criminal action against her former private secretary in a Los Angeles court, Sylvia Sidney will take the red-headed screen flapper's place opposite Gary Cooper In "Cily Streets." Official announcement of this change of co-stars comes from the Paramount studios, which ex plained that the change was made for reasons "within (ho organiza tion." Pictures in which MIhh How appears have already been banned In several cities, and agitation against them prevails in others. Miss Sidney, recently brought to Hollywood from New1-York, is regarded as a sensational screen "discovery," E Joe Payne, Geo. Burt Local Selections for Seat on Cooperative Board. Joe Payne and G. W. Hurt, local poultry imm, were placed In nomina tion for the office of director of I he Pacific Cooperative Poultry Producers at a. meet lug of the Douglas county poultrymuu at the clly hall in Hoseburg yesterday afternoon. J. H. Clark, who has served two terms as director of the cooperative, announced that he would not he a candidate again. Douglas county growers, who de liver a large percentage of eggs to the cooperative, are. naturally, de sirous of being represented on the hoard and will make an active cam paign for their candidates. The matter of erecting a build-, Ing In Portland, through federal farm hoard aid, was discussed and approved. This matter Is being con sidered by t tie directors and w tit probably he submitted to the grow ers for their approval or rejection in the near future. At present the association is quartered in a rented building. Short talks were made by J. C. Tweedy and J. II. (Mark. There was n very fine attendance or the mem bers. MAC DONALD REGIME DEFEATED BUT SAFE ( AfcPKMjitffl I'nwi J .'(? Wir' LONDON, Jan. 21.- The Mac-' Donald government was defeated In the house of commons today on an amendment lo t he education hill, but Prime .Minister Ma. Don aid said no vital principle was In volved. Thus the government will not be obliged to resign. The bill wns moved hy John Sciirr. Roman Catholic iHbor mem ber, who previously had moved an amendment which would authorize the use of government funds to en uble denominational schools to meet expanses Incurred by the pro vision in the hill raising the school leaving age from 14 to lf years. Ho said in making that motion that this provision meant that the denominational schools would need $r.uoo,000 to enlarge their buildings. Offer it; There'll be no Drive VOL. XXX TO CLARA BOW 1 ' 1 1 Sidney CLARK'S DRY ACT U. HELD Mi 18th Amendment Legally Adopted, Thacher Tells U. S. Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Tho Chirk decision holding the eigh teenth amendment invapd was put lo test today In the supreme court. Oral argument on the govern ment's prompt appeal began short ly after noon. Chief Justice Hughes wlthdrew from the case, announcing ho sub mitted a brief to the court when prohibition was before it In 1!I1MI, and thus considered himself dis qualified. The decision of Federal Judge William Clark of New Jersey, was based on a contention that the amendment to be valid should have been ratified hy state conventions rather than by slate legislatures. After brief preliminaries. So lid lor General Thac her launched Into the government's argument. He said It seemed clear that ar ticle five of the constitution had conferi o(l ample authority upon congress for Its determination lo refer Hie amendment to state legis latures. He added the article was a man date upon congress and left It free to use Its own judgment In de termining whether (H prohibition amendment should he referred to state legislatures or conventions. The court In plain language had supported other constitutional amendments against similar at tacks, be said. In closing, be said: "This attack against the eigh teenth amendment falls utterly and completely to the ground hcrausc based upon a fundamental miscon ception of the character of Hie gov ernment which hud been created by the constitution." FIRE PROTECTION ; LEVIES ARE UPHELD ( rtr!al.t Pi cm l-wd Wtr- 8 A MOM. Jan. 21. Assessment for fire protection Is to be levied against all timber lands, regardlens of resident exemption unless specif ic areas are designated and pa trolled by owners. This was thn opinion rendered today hy Attor ney General I. IT. Van Winkle to day on the request of the state for estry department. WEATHER YESTERDAY HlKhest temperature yesterday 40 Lowest temperature last niifht 311 Precipitation, last 24 hours. . 0 l'reclp. since first of month 2.88 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 19:10 6.87 .87 j Relative humidity 5 p. m. () NO. S OF. THE EVENING-NEW3 Findings as Whole Favored Revision, One Member of Board Says; Hoover t Definitely Dry. ; (ArmvIhII Vreta Leaned Wire) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 The growing tumult of discussion, dis pute and speculation over the Wlckershum prohibition report centered today around two salient queries: . . How far did the commission, mean to go toward recommending; revision of the eighteenth amend ment, and what will be the politi cal effect of President Hoover's opposition to such a step? So aroused were the commission members over reports that the president had Intervened to fore stall nn unequivocal modification proposal that the following state ment was isBued by Chairman Wlckershum. "The statement this morning In the Washington Herald that the president, persuaded this commis sion to abandon a tentative recom mendation in favor of revision of the eighteenth amendment is ab solutely untrue nnd without foun dation." Inside Story Is Secret Neither the chairman nor any member of the commission now in . Washington, however, was willing to tell tho full story of the weeks ,of discussion within the cominln- biimi. or expmiu now or wnen, wq decision against an ,out and out revision proposal was reached. As it appears In the combined commission report, signed by all of the members but one, the sug gested draft or a new eighteenth, amendment was preceded by art "If," and by a statement that opin ion among members was divided Yet at least six of tho eleven declared In appended statements t hat I hey favored either revison or repeal, and at least two of these Continued on page 6, Story 5 OLEO COLORING BAN IN OREGON FOUGHT f AMortitod I'reM IMwd Wire) PORTLAND, Jan. 21 Coloring1 of oleomargarine to the likeness, of butter Is defended In an attack filed on the Oregon law In .federal district court here hy Durkee Famous Foods, Inc. The suit seeks to restrain tho state dairy and food commissioner from enforcing tho law prohibiting manufacture and sale of oleomargarine artific ially colored to imitate butter. Making its own product, the Illi nois corporation declares ihe word "Oleomargarine" Is printed In bold face letters on the package, and, contends this Is sufficient to let the consumer know the nature of the product. EX-PUG HELD FOR MURDER OF GIRL f AMoeinleil Pre IrwiI Wire) I.OCIXVH.KK. Ky., Jan. 21 Miss Mildred Meyer, 24, was shot and kilted on the front porch ot an apartment house here early tin day. George W. "Newt" McCas land, ex pugilist, was arrested and charged with murder. Two Chicago youths. Gordon C. Keith, 2.1. and Donald Muck. 2(, who were stopping at the apart ment house, were held as witness es. Police said the killing was tho result of a sweetheart's quarrel ami that McCasland ktlled Miss Meyer In a row over a date she had with lluck recently. Pays to Rid Himself ot MineiThen it Yields t .iat.l fn Leiiml Wire) ALAMOS. Sonora, Mexico. Jan. 2t. L. S. Patterson, an Amori st) farmer who lived near Chi 'lad Ohregon. purchased an old mine. La Frouterfa. from a Sy rian, f-'cllpe do Iza, and went to work looking for gold. After six months, when all his money was gone, he decided to qufi. He paid Ira a sum to can cel his contracts, and the Syrian look the mine hack, Patterson returning to the United States a month ago. Ira, curious to see how much work Patterson had done, went to the mine and hacking at a rock with a small hammer, dis covered a vein of gold which is paying off at the rate of $2,000 a ton. mm WASHINGTON ECHOES ORAL TUMULT
