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EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER TEN PAGES TODAY FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE 15a ftrattoe Supmw C I T Y EDITION THE WEATHER CWtEdON: Fair eat, cloudy ana utiBcltlcd in tho went portion tor night and Saturday. Modoralo temperature. VOLUME XXVIII MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1930. MEMBER A. B. C. NUMBER 141 POULTRY MEN MAKE PLANS FOR SEASON Members of Association Enthusiastic Over Pro gram For The Year. . FRANK WEBB IS NEW PRESIDENT irr'n n t j win encourage increased Production 111) tO a 13 4- 4. iftui i nun ijwiviia na tions Planned. Plans for the coming yoaj were t made and 'officers elected at tho annual meeting of the Union coun ty Poultry association, held yester day In tho civil service room of the post office.- building. Members were, enthusiastic re garding plans for the coming year d it ri ii g w h ich t h cy ex p ec.t to on large the membership, which now includes about -5 per cent of tho poultry of the county. ' Another project they plan to put into effect (m Mimn arliHHniiiil VmIom in handling eggs, aimed at a. bet- - tor quality of eggs, which ..is ex pected to bring about bottor niar ketlng. .:" ...',',. Wbl I Reeled '-' , ' Krunk Webb, manager' !of the Hot Uiko poultry farm, was elected president - of tho 'association, L. G. lAt., of Cove was chosen vice president, and Mrsl Irwin Moss of Alice), secretary-treasurer. A meeting has boon scheduled for February 15, when the by-laws, which aro being, revised, will be considered" for adoption. '' The association .will cnee-urnge Increased iiroduction of eggs in tho county, at least to a point where there will bo a sufficient supply to meet tho winter requirement. Tills would mean a surplus during tho summer months that must bo marketed outside. In connection with this plan, egg candling and egg '-'grading demount rations w4U bo, hold, along with several man agement meetings, during the year. - There are iibuuf. 20 members In the. association representing the largest flocks in the county. As sociation eggs have a trade mark. are packed In special cartons, and uro-laboilod Ucooo-eggs. T.h6y aro all graded, and candled bofuro pucUlng. . ; TIGERS-BUCKS MEET TONIGHT; RALLY STAGED A student body pep assembly. In ii reparation for the .. basketball gam.' to bo played tonight: by tho.j; Pendleton and La G ramie learns In tbp L. D. S. Iteeroatlonal hall, was -lliiiil U1IH iiiornuiK in mi? iiin . M'hool. The Hi'hool band furnished j niuilo and in addition tothe yells. I etc., tallis were made by Nelson and Kheppard. nienibers of the Tiff- I er aqtiad. and Kills Watklns and I Vernon Patten, managers. Kodcral Inspection of the four Tho Biime, the. only Inter-distrlet I ml0,m guard eompanies in liisl Kamii to be played in thin city this ,,rn 0,.,.,.on wi takojilaco the. third season, will beKin at S o'clock, fol- wJ(k )n ,viiniary, with the in lowluc u preliminary contest at T ! spect lug officer at Union Thurs o'cloek between the rtipliomorea , tlltV .20 ,uul In l.a Otando h'rl- anil Juniors. Jimmy Itoscnhauui ! will referee tho Tiger-Puck cUish. Indications point to a close con test, and faun, remembering thrills of former Pendleton-La Griindo battles, aro expected to fill the Recreational hall to, capacity. Volley Ball Team Wins From Union Winning three games of four, the La Orantlo volley bull team de feated Die I'nion aextct at Fnion last night. Next week a game is scheduled with. Tmbler to take place at La Grande. ins win: was si RPKisi;i) .,,..,. 4v.i i 1 n 1 -W. V. 'Miller was' In tiic- county jail inday feeling sorry for himself becauHO ho didn't, stay "dead.'' lie is under indictment for non Huppurt und was arrested today. Some months ago, deputy con stables went out to his fu"d yard Willi a warrant for his arrest. Mil ler Mas at work. "We have a warrant for Mr. Mil b r. Can you tell us where to find hlin?' the officers questioned. "Miller'.' Miller? Ho you mean Mr. W. F. Miller." the man ask.-d. "lie's the fellow." Ilm constable choroased. "Oh. he's dead and wus burb.d tm months ugo. was lb, reply. Tin- officers went their way. Mrs. Miller heard about It and was surprised. She told police to day. The police found Miller. WKATHKIt TODAY 7:'l a. ml. 31 above. Minimum: .11 above. Condition; cloudy, W MATH Kit Y l;'ST I : 111 A X Maximum 1 1, minimum 2 1 above. Condition: cloudy, mobturo .15 of Inch. ; WKATHI Jl JAN. 31, 1028 Condition: snow, three inches moisture .OS of inch. Quiet February Circuit Court Session Likely So Believe Officers Term to Begin on Mon day Grand Jury is Meeting Today. A qili.'t February opsslun f i-lr- cult court was Indicated today. with few cases cxii.ied to in- nied (iurlnt; tho rlrat term of 1330. It ! Is believed tlmt ono reason fur the . fewer cases Ih because of tho fact that inuny of tho arrests made during the lust several weeks by county officers have resulted hi , t)to prisoners pleading guilty, and Cer-:T0coivl"tf entonce uL the time. enner lrom mo justice oi pence, County judge- or circuit Judge. I Tho term is scheduled to open Monday mirnlng, Feb. 3. , Grand Jury Meeting ' The county grand Jury, called into . session yesterday by Circuit Judgo' J. W. Knowles, is expected to complete Its investigations late today, after which It will bo dis - missed. A now grand jury,. to servo during1 1930, will bo appointed next week, It is said. .J. K, Shumutc, of Ii Grande, Is .foreman of tho present grand Jury. Other mom hers are: J. 1'3. Wither spoon a'nd Ren Bruggcr, of Klein; Fred Self and Dan Beard, of La Grande, and eter Woll and M. S. -Turnbull, of Union. Willamette Five To Play E. O. N. Here On Feb. 12 j . Wlllamello university, now lend ng tho Northwest basketball con . ferene", will piny the Knstern Ore igon Normal school team in La -Grande on Wednesday, Feb.' 12,. H was announced todtiy by Coach Hob j Oulnh, who has just cojiipleterl negotiations with Couch Spec Keene, of the Western Oregon ; .school. ' :. Lorn I fans know something of :'.th present Wlllainelto team, it having played here, a couple of ' yours ugo against ah Independent 'organization. Rank, guard.' and Cardinal, center, now stars on tho -squad, saw action here that night. I, Incidentally. Willamette took two FtrniKht games from the University of OrogoiK coast, eonforence has ketbail teinu this seasou. College of ' Idnho also has been signed up for a co;;est to b play ed In La Grande Feb. 24. and Coach Quliin Is dickering this week with Columbia university, ff Portland, and the Southern Oregon Normal school at Ashland, for games In La (iraado next week. .Providing the negotiations are successful, either two or four college games will be played in this city next week. T ! . . ' 1 J atlOIial IjUaFQ Inspection Third Week in February , .. ...., i n announced day. today by Capt. W. A. Ileum of Company K. The. company will lmvo a preliminary Inspection Mon day night by Capt. K. W. F.ly. Ca.pt. ltean also announced that Llouteniint A. V. Sanford has re signed his commission for business reasons. No iippolntiuent. of a suc cessor has been niadu as yel, advknti i;i;it sr;NTi;N i:i) POKTL.NI. Ore. Jan. Kl ( AP) James .McCanna, SS. adventurer. ! former bar tender and purporled jonce a ward of the Apache Indian ('Chief Geronimo, was sentenced to sixty flays in the county Jail today 1 by Federal Judge McNary ufh-r iiho Klamath l'alls man pteudeii !'"'"' .' 1"'uur. "un; spiraey Me' 'anna, although reticent to llalk alioul his Indian foster father. I said he had been kidnaped when ! he was 12 years old and had lived with Geronimo and his tribe for iiuany years, inditms. he siild, kill- Ied ail of his family except a twin brot her, Phil Aid 'anna, whom he met by chance in Titas Jo yours luler. LONDON GLTK A flAltf LM.V whi;n t. s. has a iiacknlt j LONDON (AP) America's Wall I street crash has heroine u huIch ar 1 gumeui in london. Ono of tho biegest depa rtment ; storea here w hieh. Incidentally, I was founded by an American. Ie. gan an after-Christmas bargain ad vertisement with the line: "Owing to lb" recent American stock exchange crash, we have been jiblo to purchase for .spot cash at thu dorks In New York lifiM yards Of good quality velvet." etc. RODY IS Mf.HTLH MONTKLKY. Cal.. Jan. J1 (AP) Police believed Hie body signied In the water off Pacific Grove beach to have been that of 15-year-old Henrietta Ylerru, niitiHing Oak Grove echoo! glrj. INTRODUCES PHILIPPINES BILL TODAY i . Independence of Islands Cmin.l,f U M I "J ' Fathered by Vandenl)erg SENATOR RECALLS '"SOLEMN PROMISE" Bill Provides for Immed iate Establishment of Commonwealth; Ameri- . can Withdrawal. ' AVASHINOTON. Jan. 31 (Al'l A hill tn. provide fur the Immediate 'establishment uf the "common wealth of the .-Philippine Islanda," under a pla-n of proKreHsivo auto- nciny looking to -complete, with- senate innian atlatrs com drawal of American sovereignty In' nilttoo, sjtid today he would call ten years wus Introduced today by lh attention of the Indian bureau Soniifor Vandcnberg. republican, ' complaints filed with tho corn Michigan. -: - mlttee against tho superintendent. f Tho measure' Is patterned' along-1 I-'msslcr said he would usk tho lines suggested by the lute Secro- committee to take action shortly tary of War WVeks but gooa far- lnp fUlaint subniiittcd by ther by proposing progressive tar- iff autonomy within ton years of (piuKi indcpejidonoe.. ' .Tho. Weeks plan conie.,Lplated complcU- wtUi-..HU,or i .... i f,u,.i I, , Ma years, KtMiills "Sidoiiin lroml?c" . . "X believe the, American people are under solemn promise as a re sult of an act of congress on Aug. 2!. 1 HI fi to give the Philippine:! their complclo independence when a stable govonuncnl is establish-- ed." Senator Vandonberg told tho senate in offering his. measure. NEW STORE WILL OPEN SATURDAY , I tO.. Pay'n Talrit Concern1 Occupy Brick. Building on Hemlock and Adams. :' Many persons imvo watched with Interest the building .of the ono-:' story brick structure -on tho cor-' ncr-or Hemlock- and , A.danUt and h'aVH wondered' .wh'iit' ImisIiiohs would occupy It. Tomorrow tho 1'a.y'n'Takit, a chain grocery store, will have its opening in tjhc new building, featuring a new typetof servieo or rut her a combination f tho sorve-yourself und the clerk service. Customers, tuny either select their own. jurchases or may have tho asKlstunce of one of the clerks, , : . IV, H. Halo, of Itlackfoot. but more recent ly from t.h Pay'n Takit stor in Haket. will bo manager of the new store. This, company opened a similar concern In linker about two months ago. and during that time has experienced success. ('.. T. Hales and (loorgo C. Hill will be employed as clerks, with about six oiJier men to be KocWod later, according to their present plans. The new building Is a one-story red brick structure with a GO-foot rrout and extending 116 feel from Iho street to. the alloy. Tho in lerior 1b divided into two store rooms, ono 60 by 115 and tho oth or 20 by 1 I. The new store will occupy tho Jurger room, i.owen Williamson and Claude Horry sup ervised the erection of tho slruc t u re. Tod sty last, m I tut to propa rut Ions are being made and stock is being rapidly put Into plueo, .making ready for tomorrow's opening. An other feature of the accommoda tions of the new store, is the large amount of parking space near it, which offers case In chopping. ni;gho attacks woman OAKLAND. Cel.. Jan. .11 (AP) lienten and attacked by an uni dentified Negro, who escaped after stealing jewely and a shotgun, Mrs. Stephen Loveland, 3fi, wife of a deputy constable, was found by a boarder bound In a chair nearly strangled by a gag. 20-Year-Old Love Triangle Bared In $300,000 Suit In Los Angeles LOS ANGWLFS. Jan. :t I (A P) Samuel Sheffield Hutchinson, the apey of a 20-year-old V,Vf t'iunglc, will continue today to reveal de tails of hb: double life In superior court In hh wlfe"s $;pni,ma aliena tion of affections suit against hid paramou r. Hutchinson, a wealthy film dis- t-ii..,in ....-i. .I.-..,-,.I fr.tfn the hiiiud he preferred Mrs. Ldlth I. Taylor his wire, .Mrs. Mnttie Dean Hutchinson, because kio was "mode-t, thrifty und kindly." Hlrt b-ve forhis wire. Hutehln. son said, began to wane six years after their marrlngc. when she be- ( sun to be rocinlly ninJdl lous. That. Uh said, was In RtOfi, Light yeurs later he iml M rs, Taylor, ih'-n a student in Yaipuriso, Jnd., and they fell in lovo. C'unil Only for Money Hutcblnuon I'll Id his wife und be hud lived separately since 1900, und "she paid no, attention to me. RESERVATION HEAD FACING U. SJCTION Superintendent Arnold, of Klamath Area, "Outlives His Usefulness." CHAIRMAN FRAZIER CITES COMPLAINT Indians Accuse Arnold and Other Officers with Misrepresentation, Lack . of Sympathy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (AP) Stating ho believed Superintendent Arnold of the Klamath Indian re servation in Oregon had "outlived Ills usefulness" Chairman Fraxter ' " 1 M nuui IMUMII,UI Ul illv 'Mit- toiiiimimu oi mu jiu- ",ul; Ufe ',"ul" J '"indent Jms defendod hi record. . Two to Have Hearing Tho business committee petition asked the Indian bureau to sum mon Arnold and T. 11. Wheat, fin ancial clerk of tho reservations, to show cause why they "should not be discharged." Ii complained the officers wero not sympathetic, would not coop cratP. permlt "extravagant uso of funds"; "discriminato against the Indians in employment of labor"; "misrepresent conditions to con gress"; "deceivo congress in respect . to operations of the irrigation pro Joe L" and expended tribal funds for benefit of individual Indians. ARNOLD IS ACCL'NHD 'PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 31 (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Wudo Chester and Luko Chester, m'emljci's of tho re contly woloclod tribal council of , the Klamath reservation, yesterday mado serious charges ugalnst J. J). Arnold, reservation superintendent before the senate Indian affulra subcommittee, a special Washlng- (Continued on Page Five) Girl, 18, Breaks Air Loop Record AKRON, Ohio. Jan. at (AP) Miss Mildred Stlnaff, IK-yoar-old girl filer, toduy had to her credit 12 consecutive loops mudo yester day at the Mid City iilrport hero. Tho previous unofficial women's record of 28 consocutivo loops was mado at' Houston, Tex., Nov. 2S. 11121) .by Miss Lorothy Stockor. Roche Has Plan To Eliminate Bombings CHICAGO. Jan. 31 (AP) The state's attorney. John A. Swanson. lias boon presented by his special Investigator, Pat Roche, villi a plan for eliminating bombings from the county's catalogue of crime. The plan reduced to Its essen- tlals. calls for trie closing of every speakeasy and gambling place in Chicago. Jtocho does not believe tho plan as difficult as It sounds. Ice Slill Hampers Water Traffic ! PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. Ill (AP) 1 leo in tho Columbia, and Wllla- motto rivers continued today to j hamper the return to normalcy of j river transportation and life at ' Hrook field. Wash., nnd on l'uget 'Sound, in tho mid-Columbia, i Attempts of tho Northland to lout its wuy to tho relief of Hie ice locked river steamer N. R, Lang were chocked when the cutter rum mod into lee piled JO feet deep. An Icq Ju:n threatened the river steamer ltobert Young, Icebound near Jennings lodge, in tho Wil lamette rlvor. I could go anywhere on earth and It would be all right with her as long an 1 brought bark money enough." When asked when Uf fhi1! be gan to lovo Mry, Taylor he .said it wun In or 1910. He said she first asked him If he were marrie in m:t. "What was tho occasion of men tioning marriage?" "Tho Impending birth of JiMie." "Are you the rather of Mrs. Tay lor's 1 0 -year-old child Jane V" T am. and J'm proud of It." Hutchinson paid he was earning a salary Of between $2,0(i0 a nd Ho.ooo a year with com missions w lien bis wife lersuadcd him to build their homo on SIm Tidiin road in Chicago. Ho nub he of fered to build Mrs. J ruirhf axon a homo in Los Angelen if flic would sell their Jioub; In Chicago, but (Continued on Pug Three) CONTRACT DOESN'T WORRY BABE r S .Arguments over n few tons of thoiisnmls of ttuUurM a year, iiiorc or less, don't worry tho mighty Mr. Gootgo Jlorman Ruth, who is now iobathig with tho New York. Yankees' nuiu ngemeut on how inueh lie's vor(h to tiio Uiun, For lici'o you . set the nattily aft lied lltimlilno, with his wife, managing to enjoy himself at (he ringside during a fight can! at Miami teach, Fat,, despite the fact Unit ho may have to accept a little less thiiu tho $100,000 n year salary lie demands. Plans Of Naval Conference Are Facing Obstacles LONDON, Jan. 31 (AP) Plans of the naval conference to let a special conuiiltlee consider the two rival methods of measuring navies glolml and categorical wore sldolrnckoil today ut leust for tho present. Faced with an apparent hitch In tho Mritish effort" to choose com mittee members to speak for bo.th Groat Hi it n in and the dominions, tho full conference itself continued today witli tho work previously as signed the committee and decided to hold another nioetlnff On tho .ainc subject Tuesday. Nine Widows, 13 Children Given Part Of Estate .NKW YORK, Jan. 'SI (AP) A J,6ndon iilspntch to the Now York Times today said that after a five, year legal battle nine sur viving widows and U children of Abdul H'amiil, sultan of Turkey who was deposed In Ifloy, have ob tained $r!UHin,Ufi() from Iho ruler'n ?1. 5(10, 0(10,00(1 estate. Greec, It was reported in Loudon ofrered fad, 000,000 to. Abdul's for mer harem favorites now living in poverty In various capitals of tI-3 1 rope. The Aegean; Financial Trust, Ltd., of lmdcn. hopes to get for them $100,000,000 from Jnio.. Abdul, who died In prison In Hi IS, was said by some to bo tho richest man In the world. A num ber of llrltish and American finan ciers ha vo backed tho contention uf his heirs that confiscation of his properties during a nd after tho world war wa s i Mega I. O recce's offer concerns properties acquired from Turkey under post war Irealfes, Grundy's Criticism Of Hoover Recalled WASHINGTON, Jan. SI ( AP) Testimony that Joseph R. (irundy, republican senator from PennJtyl vn hia, had s;ifd at a meeting of the national association of wool iiuMiufiictnd eqs p,-or to I I'Vbe,rt Hoover's inauguration that Mir. Hoover "never ran for oven the officii of dog catcher. ami doesn't know anything at all from experi ence what, legislation means," was given today to tho senate lobby commJtleo. Grundy wan quoted In a Kpeech before (1m? wool mantiraelurors on Dec. IS, 1H28, as expressing con cern bora use of the preside u I. -elect's lack of knowledge of legis lative procedure and because It In mind "runs on many other sub jects than economic KUbJeelH." fLWGSTKK SHOT CHICAGO, Jan. .10 ( A,P) John ny Gciuuvo'h enemies found hint last night, and shot hfrn. If he survives I ho right bullet wouikIh their guns pumped Inlo his body, It will bo something hospital physi cian believe almost Impo.vslblo. "Geiiaro undoubtedly was shot as the result of racketeering," said Lb-tit. William McCarthy of Iho dolcollvo bureau, "but It will bo hard to dint-over w hich of his num erous enemies were responsible," J irGLKALD APPOINTOR PtiHTL.VND. Ore., Jan. :io ( A P) Of. II. HUgenrtd, frmer Varucy Air Lines pilot, succeeded H. H. Hoggs as supervisor uf the Colum- blu Gorge airway between this city, Puhco and Spokane, Wuuh. WINS BATTLE TO SAVE AGED MINER Roy Burke 70, Taken From Isolated Part of Idaho in Frigid Weather GRANG KV1LL13, Idaho, Jan. J1 (AP) Roy Rurko, 70-ycar-old minor, a. hero in his own right, was In a hospital todny, probably recovering: fronv blood poisoning hoeanso-a doctor ami two eompan touM luughed at death dealing bliz zards and brought him out of the Isolated Green isCountuIn country. Hurko was brought to Orungo vllle.' yesterday from tho Copiior King mluc.'whoro ho had lain for "( two weekw Willi tt'uk lufWtPtl' HVini 'by Dr. J. 1. Weber; a guide, tac I'oltlbone, and Kunnior Ktonobi-eak- er,' a dog team driver.- Tho trio j followed eight bird .dogs' hooked to a sled for tho trip .In, which, wan negotiated with temperatures j runglng as low as till degrees below I zero and blizzards - burling their I trail. All three of the men re turned with frozen faces and hands us testimony of tho hardships they encountered 'on. .tiio C4-hour Mtrugglo.into :lhe .heart of lilts Wild central Idaho region. ; ' Reaching tho miner, It .was de cided that tho physiciun would Htay with him 'until ho had re covered, but Tuesday morning it whs found that hospital euro was necessary to savo his life, so the return trip was arranged. Minors ltrenk Ralli Might miners preceded tho team, breaking a path for tho bird dogs. Tills time, however, skies were eun ny, and tho tcinperaluro was al ways higher than 1 5 degrees abovo zero. JJy 4usy stages, tho lt covered In an automobile, tho man was brought out, arriving ut the hospital yesterday ufternoou. "Tho trip was a slum-winder," Doctor Weber said. Hurkc gained local famo -with heroic, leadership Into tho central Idaho country of a relief expedition in IHH I. A parly abandoned a man by the nanto of Colgate, who waa ill and foeblo and worked its wuy to civilization. Rurke. volunteered to go after hlni and was joined by several other men. Colgate was brought to safety. WHEAT SLUMP IS FOLLOWED BY RECOVERY CHICAGO, Jan. HI (AP) Wheat, prices, affected by persist ent selling abroad, reached a level , almost fioc a bushel under the sea son's best prices today and estab lished new bottoms for the crop. j A lato recovery, however, lifted wheat, to Iho. same, as yesterday's close to v. higher. The advance was regarded as a response to rrost , damugc In tho winter wheat area or the American southwest. March wheat. Mulshed at ll.lfi'K (i . May I. 0 Wr July i.22 VkP, und September riUKSTOM; I IK ATS .IOIIX D. CMtMOND J:;ACH, I'la., Jan. .'10 (AP) Harvey l-'lrestoue has come, seen and conquered John D. Rocke feller. Meeting for the first time they played golf. John lias a habit of rewarding touch pulls with a dime, inrvcy took away four nhluy ones. NAVY I'LILUS Ill.KT LONG HLACH, Cub, Jan. 31 - (AP) Two t'tilted SlatoH navy aviators from the II, S. S. Lexlng- ton wore injured critically h.ere to day in th0 crash of tholr airpla'ne after It had dived earthward when a wing grazed a hungur at the Long Reach municipal airport. First Home Of Man In Nevada And Calif ornia So Says Alan Le Baron, Archeologist, After Ex haustive Study of Anc- - ient Writings. HAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (AP) Man's first homo wuh in what is now' tho bleak wasteland of West ern Nevada and Eastern California if tho conclusions of Alan Lo Har on, archaeologist, aro correct. After months of study of ancient writings, fossil romains and megal Ithln tombs of a considerable' ter ritory along tho hordor lino ho twoon tho two Blales, Io Huron de clares himself convinced that tho 1 district wus occupied by a cultured' raco antedating tho Glacial period. ' ThlN history of this territory, as read In the geology and urclmoo- J logical treasures is, ho declares, "an encyclopedia of Ufo on this earth" and Is probably tho only "land lying in tho latitudes con duct ivo to the growth nnd evolu tion of life that has remained con stantly abovo water Tor a sufficient length of time to permit tho com plclo ovolution uf animal Ufo," Traceable From Amoeba Roglnuiug with the lowty slnglo colled amoeba, he states, Ufo Is traceable hero with "scarcely a aln glo break until it renchos its great est physical oxprosslun in tho giant mastodons." Tho section which Leila ron con ceived as having cradolted tho hu man raco ho envisions uh a sub tropical realm of a million years ago, holds thut tho Siorra range was not then In oxlstcnco to bar the warm moisture laden winds from tho Pacific but whoro tho Sierras now riso there was a low range e hills from which itemed sluggish stream that wound a devious way lo tho ocean. Calls It Cawadla Terming it "Caacadin," tho namo coming from tho Caacado ran go (Continued un Pago ElghO Coast Industry Condition Good, Reports Reveal SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (AP) Federal rcsorvo statistics,, for Pacific eoust industry show pust duo accounts' in bottor condlV?n at tho clouo of ltiU than lVliH. ,.lm provumcnt was shown ill agricul tural jmplomont, automobilo sup plies, drugs,' dry goods, nhoos, paper and stationery, and groceries. In tip same report only three lines furniture, electrical supplies and hardware showed groator debts against purehaucu, tho incrcaao be ing flight, Building permits Ju 15 Pacific coast cities worn morn than $23, 000,000 in 10 Hi), compared to around $10,000,000 for industrial plants In lfJUS. Man9 8 Confession Exonerates Youths ST. LOtflH, Mo.. Jan. 31 (AP) Waller Kess and Alvln Craig, Kes tiiH, Mio., youths who wero convict ed of murder a year ago have been exonerated In confessions by Louis A. Taylor, 22, and his Termer Hweothearl, Mamie Wooleiu, 24. They Implicated a third man. Gil bert Browning. 25, who was ar rested yesterday at l'Yoehurg, 111., and a fourth mail not yet appro heuded. Additional Cut In Egg Prices Today PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. RL (AP) Accumulating egg supplies have brought another price roductbm. Tho Pncirio Co-operativo Poultry Producers loduy announced a cut of 2c in all grudos bringing fresh extras down to !Mc. Butler prices wero steady, but the undertono was weak. Robber Gets $2000 Pinned In Lingerie KAN ntANCIHCO, Jan. !lt (AP) 'Pollf'o wore seeking a bold rob ber, who forced Mil's. Lulu Column, npaitmcnt house uumager, to dis robe at gunpolnl, took $2000 In jewelry pinned In her lingerie and fled. DROP IV HATHTCH LXPORTK IS SHOWN BY THK OLD YLAIt WASHINGTON ( AP) Bathtub exports from tho Lnited States for 12! show a deereaBO of approxi mately lo per cent, says the com merce department, compared with 192. The total volume of shipments for each mouth during 1923 was lower (ban for (he corresponding month of the previous year. Lxports in HC8 totulvd l.iltufi: liilm computed with an estimate of less (ban a million for 11'29. YOITH, ll, If ANGLO HOONVILLrJ. Mo., Jan. 81 (AP) Uiwrenee Marby, lU-ycnr-old Hodalla, Mo'., youth, was bunged here today fur tho murder of Will iam It use h, a law student, in Ke dalla thu night of February 4, 1'JS. NOTE STARTS PROHIBITION DISCUSSION Senate Thrusts Tariff Question Aside at Brookhart's Letter. COCKTAILSSAID . SERVED BY CLUB Century Association, Ex clusive New York Or ganization, . Kef uses to Make Comment. By Itlchurd Ii. Turner . (Associated Press Staff Writer) . WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (AP) Senator Brookhart has a letter which says Hint "real gin cock tails" ure served nt a famous Now York club an organization which numbers President Hoover among its members and Chairman Georgo W. Wickorsham of the law enforce ment commission among its of ficers. lip read a part of It in tho son ato Into yesterday, appended a fow remarks of his own and promised that in the near futuro ho would . havo still ntoro to say oa tiio sub ject. ........ r In tho meanwhile, he is particu larly unxloua that Wickorsham sea ' the communication, and hopes that . "at an early date he will bo ready to advlao us how to top thestf vio lations of tho liquor law.','. ICxclOMive Club ' Tho club in question is tho Cen tury association, No. 7 Wkist 43d street, and of tho most exclusivo in Now York City. It was founded by William Cullen Bryant and is devoted to the advancement of the arts. Its membership Included a long Hat of men distinguished In tho professions, tho arts and the sciences. ;"-. Tho tariff bill and the question of imposing an import duty on straw hats woro laid aaldo quickly when Broo.khart produced his let ter and a half dozen members entered with a vim Into tt rousing discussion of prohibition, a subject seldom mentioned these days In tho sonato chumbor, despite tho heat ed controversy that nas boon in progress- for mor than a month.' " 'J'yriinffM' of Mjary4anU,,'il demo- ,' crat, told tho Iowa senator that by u diligent search ho could discover 00 such clubs In any largo Ameri can city. Calls TydlngH "Crazy" Brookhart replied that Tydlngs was one of a group which Ih "crazy on this liquor issue." Copclund of Now York, wanted to know how Brookhart had ob tained nduilsslon to tho Century club und added that ho lilmeelt' couldn't got in. Borah's cxplana- , tion was that tho Now Yorker is "porsonally dry." Ha said ho had not been in tho club. Tho debato then settled down lo a discussion of tho measure of tho success of tho prohibition law, Byookhurt contending that "Iio.oko conditions'' have improved, and tho wots heatedly denying this as sertion. Copoland told him ho wus "blind and deaf." KKPt'Kti TO XMTMKNT NKW YORK, Jan. 31 (AP) Members of tho Century club, which at one time forbade Its mem bers playing bridgo, today refused to comment on charges of Senator Smith Brookhart that gin cock tails woro served at tho club. The club Is also known us tho Century association. : ' Membership of the club has In cluded Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosovolt find William Howard TaR. Charles A. Piatt Is presi dent, Alexander Dana Noycs, sec retary and Henry Do Forest Bald win, treasurer. None of tho of ficers was available for common t on tho Brookhart charges. (Continued on Taffa rive) RECORD SNOW FOR 8 YEARS IN CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 (AP) Washington's heaviest snowfall In eight years found tho capital's1 residents eager today to believo tho weatherman's promise of fair weather and rising tomperuturos. A II hough tho snow which had fallen continuously sluco before midnight ceased by dusk yester day and tho let-up was welcomed by the hundreds of men working with plows, scrapers and shovels lo clear the streets. The mercury, however, started on a downward, course, ran woll below tho freezing point. Asido from the cost of clearing tho streets. Inconvenience to the thousands o government work ers, President Hoover himself not excepted, school children and oth ers was Iho chief toll charged against tho snow torm. A num ber of accldenls wero reported by motorists and pedestrians, but few wero at all serious. Bight years ago this week, a 28 Inch snow en veil jrt tho roof uf the Knickerbocker miovlng picture theater, with a loss of 08 lives. Householders yesterday nnd toduy responded to a warning by local officials to clear their roofs quickly. f
