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LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932
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NUMBER 200
WESTERNERS
ASK TARIFF
ON LUMBER
Senate Finance Committee
Hears Van Duzer
and Greeley.
CANADIAN LUMBER
X IS HELD MENACE
Representative of West
Coast Lumbermen's As
sociation Presents De
tailed Program.
WASHINGTON. April 20 (P) A
new tariff drive opened before the
eonato finance committee today with
the appearance of a group of west
erners to lay down their arguments
In behalf of Import taxes 'on lumber
and pulpwoods.
Like the copper tariff advocates
who appeared yesterday, they said
their Industry was hard hit and the
duties were needed to hold back
foreign competition and retain Jobs
for American workmen. -
Arguments for the levy wero pre
sented by several 16-mlnute speakers
who appeared In the stream of wit
nesses that Vame to oppose the sport
ing goods and other taxes written
into the billion dollar revenue bill.
Opposing the sporting goods tax,
Julian W. Curtlss, of New York City,
representing the A. G. Spalding com
pany, said "Most of the goods manu
factured go largely to the youth of
the country," and the tax would
harm their physical development.
He said that about 25 colleges
havo large football receipts, "but in
no case do they supply more than
enough for athletic needs."
"Double Taxation"
Since the bill proposes to tax also
gate receipts, Curtlss said, "it seems
to me to be a case of double taxa
tion." Curtlss said 05 per cent of sport
ing goods goes to young people, ex
cept material for golf which he added
was a gamo for old and young. '
"Mostly for old fellows like the
chairman," observed Senator Harri
son (D Miss.), indicating Chairman
Smoot (JR., Utah). ..
...Continued 6n Page .Five)
. S. JOHNS, OF
PENDLETON, IS
CLUB SPEAKER
i
The Rotarlans and numerous guests
and visitors had the privilege of hear
ing an address by J. S. Johns, of
Pendleton, and president of the Am
erican Title association, at today's
luncheon at the La Grande hotel.
Mr. Johns, after a brief introduction
by Prank Wylde, chairman of the pro
gram, related many Interesting de
tails In connection with the history
and system of recording land titles,
and showed how the American Title
association is endeavoring to con
stantly improve and simplify ills
methods and make It easier, for Am
erican citizens to own property.
Quests of the club today were State
Senator Colon R. Eberhard, , J. R.
Oliver, Judge O. M. Humphreys, Sher-
wood Williams, Robert Scott. R. D.
McGl&llcn, of Enterprise, and P. A.
McCallum, or Bauer.
Visiting Rotorians were J. E. Akey,
of Pendleton, and Sam Brookover and
Charles Sampson, both of Boise.
McClay Director
Of State Group
PORTLAND, Ore., Apr. 20 (Special)
The Oregon Retail Merchants asso
ciation In annual session at the Mult
nomah hotel Tuesday elected officers
for the ensuing year as follows:
President, J. B. Roberts, Redmond;
vice president, B. E. Slsson, Salem;
secretary, O. P. Tate, Portend; di
rectors, P. P. Conover, Tillamook;
Vern L. Wenger, Portland and Harry
McClay, La Grande.
The session closed with the 27th
annual ball at tho hotel Tuesday
night.
Price maintenance is essential to
development of sound business struc
tures of the community and is not
at all detrimental to the buying pub
lic, Stephen Matthleu, attorney, said
In his address before the association
Tuestay.
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WEATHER FORECAST
g Oregon: Unsettled and cool $
4 tonight or Thvfsday, snow Q
S flurries In the high moun- g
8 tains; probably showers on the $
3 coast; fresh to moderate 3
$ changeable winds offshore. 3
$
S WEATHER TODAY
7 a. m. 36 above.
Minimum: 30 above.
g Condition: Partly cloudy, &
frost.
. 3
$ WEATHER YESTERDAY
4- Maximum 51, minimum 41 ?
$ above. 8
t Condition: Cloudy, rain .24 $
4 of inch. Range 10 degrees. 3
Q WEATHER APR. 20. 1931
Maximum 64, minimum 29 S
l & above.
Condition: Clear. Range
4 35 degrees.
Students From
3 Counties To
Vie For Honors
Declamatory Contest
Here Saturday to In
clude Gilliam, Morrow,
Union Speakers.
Contestants from Gilliam, Morrow
and Union counties will vie for hon
ors In an lntercounty declamatory
contest which will be held at the
Eastern Oregon Normal school Sat
urday evening at 7:30. E. A. Sayre,
county school superintendent, has
cmpleted the entire arrangements
for the contest to which the public
Is Invited free of charge.
The contestants will be divided
Into three divisions, third, fourth and
fifth grades; sixth, seventh and eighth
grades; and the high schools, and
winners will be chosen in the non
humorous classes In the two former
divisions, while In the latter they will
be selected In dramatic, oratorical
and humorous classifications. Judges
will be chosen fromi the faculty of
the Eastern Oregon Normal school.
Contestants will be Judged on In
terpretation, 50 per cent; voice and
stage presence, 25 per cent; pro
nunciation and enunciation, 25 per
cent. In the oratorical or extempor
aneous class, 25 per cent will be given
(Continued on Page Five
Mercury Drops
To 30 Above In
La Grande Area
A frost of severity enough to
cause many to -fear that the apricot
crop In this section would be dam
aged, occurred in La Grande and
vicinity this morning. Tho mercury
at the municipal building dropped
to two below freezing point, and
other points In this vicinity reported
temperatures as cold as 27 or 28
above zero.
Snow fell In the mountains of suf
ficient quantity to be noticeable this
morning. Some flurries of snow oc
curred hero late yesterday, but the
snow melted as rapidly as it reached
the ground. The precipitation for
the 24 hour period ending at 7 this
morning was .24 of an Inch.
The weather forecast for tonight
and tomorrow Is unsettled and cool,
with snow flurries in the high moun
tains. . '
WATCHING WEATHER
PORTLAND. Apr. 20 (fl) Weather
conditions throughout the fruit pro
ducing sections of Oregon are being
eyed with close attention by growers
and produce Interests. Some appre
hension was caused among cherry and
pear growers In some sections by the
recent heavy rains but they were un
able to say whether more than pass-
(Continued on Page Five)
County Meet To
Be On Saturday
At Union Track
Arrangements are being completed
at Union this week for the county
track and field meet scheduled for
Saturday afternoon, beginning at 1:30
o'clock, at the stock show grounds.
The meet will. In effect, serve as a
preliminary to the Eastern Oregon
meet which will take place at Union
a week from Saturday.
County competition has been hold
nearly every year during the last
decade, with a few exceptions, and
from present indications. La Grande's
team will be pitted against athletes
from Union, Imbler, Cove and pos
sibly Elgin and North Powder. The
events are open to any high school In
the county that desires to enter
athletes.
La Grande is favored to win the
event with ease, following its tri
umph in the quadrangular event at
Pendleton last Saturday, when It
scored more points than Pendleton,
Walla Walla and Mllton-Frecwater
teams did altogether.
DISCUSS PLANS
FOR RALLY AT
BAKER MAY 11
The women members board of the
Grande Ronde association of the Bap
tist church met yesterday afternoon
at Haines to discuss plans for the
women's rally to be held In Baker
on May 11, and for the association
meeting which will be an event of
early June In Haines. Mrs. C. E.
Happersett, president of the women's
division; Mrs. Myrtle Moore, president
of the local organization; Mrs. Wil
liam Shade, secretary of the reading
contest work; and Rev. and Mrs.
B. M. Godwin attended the meeting.
Saturday evening a group of girls
belonging to the World Wide Guild
of the church will go to Baker to be
present at the rally at which Mrs.
Hodge, of Portland, state secretary,
will be the principal speaker. The
meeting will open with a banquet at
6:30 In the Baptist church.
Disarm Principle
Is Given Approval
GENEVA. April 20 JP The world
disarmament conference approved to
day the principal of reduction of
armaments "to the lowest point con
sistent with national safety and the
enforcement by common action of
international obligations."
Approval of the -principle was op
posed only by Maxim Litvlnoff, head
of the Soviet delegation.
MAZUROSKY
GUILTY OF
BRIBE OFFER
Ex-president of Portland
Market Company
Pleads Guilty.
MADE ATTEMPT TO
INFLUENCE MAYOR
Case Continued Until May
2 For Sentence flea
Comes Day Before
Scheduled Trial. .
PORTLAND, Ore., Apr. 20 tfP)
Jock j. Mazurosky, former president
of the Central Municipal Market
company, today pleaded, guilty to an
indictment charging him with having
offered Mayor George L. Baker a
$10,000 bribe to influence the mayor's
vote on a public market site.
The plea was entered In circuit
court. The case was continued until
May 2 for sentence. Mazurosky was
to have gone to trial on the Indict
ment tomorrow. The attempted brib
ery is said to have occurred about
July 26, last.
The bribe Is Bald to have been of
fered in an attempt to Induce the
mayor to vote In the council meet
ing for selection of the Fifth street
alto for the municipal market. The
mayor, and City Commissioners John
M. Mann, Earl Riley and A. L. Bar
bour voted for the First street site,
which was purchased.
Later Indictments were returned ac
cusing the mayor, Mann and RUey,
among others, of advocating a bribe,
but the Indictment against the mayor
was dismissed yesterday.
Mayor Baker, Mann and Riley, how
ever, must go to trial on Indictments
charging them with malfeasance and
negligence In office Jn connection
with the alleged overpayment of about
$200,000 for the Front street site.
Mazurosky's guilty plea today, a sur
prising turn of events, made It ap
pear likely that tho trial of Baker,
Mann and Riley, as well as of O. O.
Laurgaard, city engineer, and C. Lee
Wilson, president of the Front street
market group, will be set for early
next woek. Laurgaard and Wilson,
likewise, are accused of malfeasance
and negligence in office. v ; i
(Continued on Page Eight)
HOME MISSIONARY
CROUPS TO MEET
Convention of Western
District Will be Held
at M. E. Church.
The eighth annual convention of
the western district of the Women's
Home Missionary society of the
Methodist church will open In La
Grande on the evening of Tuesday,
Apr. 26 and continue through the
morning and afternoon of Apr. 27,
with the women of the La Grande
Methodist church acting as hostesses.
Delegates from the entire western
district of the Idaho conference are
expected to attend the sessions.
Miss Mabel Keech, of the Manley
Settlement Center In Portland, a na
tional project, will be the principal
speaker throughout the meetings,
while a feature of the Tuesday evo
nlng meeting will be the pageant pre
sented by the Queen Ester Standard
Bearer girls of La Grande.
Women who will participate In the
Tuesday evening program are Mrs.
H. Halscy, Union; Miss Mabel Morton,
La Grande; Mrs. H. S. Gardner,
Frultland, Ida; and Miss Keech.
Mrs. Leltner, of Boise, will lead the
devotional program Wednesday morn
ing, reports will be heard from vari
ous divisions of conference; Mrs. J.
Houston, of Caldwell will lead a quiet
hour devotion program, and Mrs. W.
W. Nusbaum, of La Grande will fur
nish a solo.
Miss Keech will address the after
noon session, following luncheon; and
Mrs. B. F. Meredith, of Frultland,
Ida., will conduct the Installation
service. Mrs. C. O. Heath, of Cald
well, will lead the prayer, and the
vocal solo will be furnished by Mrs.
Thomas McGulre, of La Grande.
Tho sessions will close Wednesday
afternoon.
FEELING RUNS
HIGH IN TWO
MILL CENTERS
EUGENE. Ore., April 20 W) Feel
ing In the lumber communities of
Veneta and Wolf Creek, west of
Eugene, was tense today as two saw
mills were forced to close when they
were attached In a suit to collect
money allegedly due for labor. About
400 persons are said to be left without
Income.
The mills closed last night after
attachments had been filed In the
suit brought by Oscar Vaughn to col
lect $515 for labor.
Mill No. 1 at Veneta. and No. 3
at Wolf Creek, operated by the A. M.
Matlock company, had been working
throughout the year to keep the men
employed, although the market was
not good. With the closing of the
mills the workers are left In a desti
tute condition. ,
A group of the mill workers confer
red with the district attorney today
as to their future course.
More Arguments
Against Bonus
Are Heard Today
Colonel Castle, Represent
ing Committee For Re
ducing" Cost of Peace,
Opposes Measure.
WASHINGTON, April 20 m The
house economy committee today
struck from President Hoover's re
trenchment program provisions limit
ing certain allowances, pensions and
free hospitalization to World war
veterans.
WASHINGTON. Aor. 20 (P De
mands for payment of the two billion
dollars outstanding on veterans bonus
certificates were blamed today by
Colonel Benjamin F. Castle, of New
York, upon "a lot of self appointed
political leaders."
He made the statement in a brief
hearing by the house ways and means
committee, saying he represented the
veterans committee for reducing the
cost of peace.
Brigadier General Frank T. Hlnes
will tell the committee tomorrow of
the possible effects to be expected
from the payment and Charles G.
Dawes, head of the reconstruction cor
poration, will testify Friday in oppo
sition to the payment.
Colonel Castle said :
"I want to state my opposition ,to
tho Patman cash payment bill."
I resent any one coming before
this committee and saying they Bpeak
for 4,000,000 veterans. They don't rep
resent me; I don't want It.
There are a great number of vet-.
erans in the United States who ore
not organized and If they could be
heard they would say they don't fa
vor the bonus."
Castle said World war veterans are
badly led by a lot of self-appointed
political leaders," in seeking a bonus
payment.
He regarded war service as the in
herent obligation of every able bodied
citizen.
Yet we are ending toward making
the veterans a special class," he con
tinued. I think all the money the war
(Continued on Page Five)
Car Stolen And
Wrecked: Three
Boys Are Sought
4 .Rrrr.B officers today were searching
for three La Grande youths who stole
Oscar Marshall's automobllo last
night and wrecked it In an accident
at Fourth street and N avenue..
When the car collided with I. Mc7
Kenzle's machine, the three leaped
from the car and escaped. Tho acci
dent occurred about 0:16 o'clock.
According to Mr. McKenzie, he
was driving along Fourth street and
the stolen car camo on N avenue.
falling to stop at the stop sign, and
ramming into his machine. The Mc
Kenzie car has a sprung frame, two
spokes broken, a fender torn off and
other damages. The Marshall car
was quite badly damaged, with the
frame sprung, the radiator and head
lights damaged, etc.
Mr. McKenzie was not Injured and
it is not known whether any of the
three boys were hurt.
Mi. Marshall Is a member of the
La Grande fire department.
Two Hurt Fatally
By Hit-Run Driver
PORTLAND, Ore., April 20 (P) Two
men were fatally injured hero today
when a hit-and-run driver operating
a large, black sedan, sped Into a
group of four at a street Intersection.
Police were searching the city for
the driver.
Daniel TuJl, 52, was killed outright,
and Mike Henncssy, 38, died in a
hospital several hours later. Two
other men in the group leaped to
safety.
PHILADELPHIA LADS FOIL KIDNAPERS
Kidnapers didn't fare o well whrn Ihey tried to abrluct Thomas Walsh, 13 (rlchl). and Ills brother Kil
tvurd, 14 (tpnter), In I'lilladelphia the other day. Tlifmias torn hiniftplf awny from three mm who
sought to pull hhn Into an automobile, and Kdnard, though seized and Imprisoned In n tu rn, nmiuisnl
to escape through an uiitarred window while his kliliiaTS were away. Hero the two boys uro shown,
safe again, with their mother and father and Francis f'lerkln. 12 (left), who was with the brothers
when the' kidnaping nltempt was mcde.
CHINA WILL
ACCEPT PLAN
OF LEAGUE
Japan Asked to Complete
fvacuation of the
Shanghai Area.
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TOKYO, HOWEVER,
WILL NOT AGREE
Japanese War Office to
Spend 205,000,000 Yen
on Military Expenses
During Yeai
. NANKING. April 20 () China
has decided to accept the draft reso
lution on withdrawal of troops from
the Shanghai area prepared by the
League of Nations committee of nine
teen.' a foreign office spokesman an
nounced today.
Dr. W. W, Yen, China's representa
tive on the league council, has been
Instructed accordingly. .
The League of Nations committee
of nineteen, representing the many
member governments, adopted a reso
lution yesterday asking Japan to
complete evacuation of the Shanghai
area "In the near future." ' The reso
lution gave full authority to the
negotiating for an armistice at
Shanghai to determine whon eva
cuation can reasonably be effected.
JAPAN WILL NOT AGREE
TOKYO, April 20 (fP) It was
stated on good authority today that
Japan will not agree to the draft
resolution of tho League of Nations
committee of nineteen dealing with
the Sino-Japanese dispute and will
object to any provision for permitting
a mixed committee to fix the date
of withdrawal of Japanese troops
from Shanghai.
The war office today fixed 205,
000,000 yen as the amount of the
(Contlnuod on Page Four)
JUDGE TO ACT
ON SLAYING
CASE TODAY
BA&BHVOre., April 20 (P) Only
14 years old, declared by police to be
the slayer of hte foster mother, and
by acquaintances to bo "an un
usually good boy," Clarence Woolcry
was today to learn what the state
exacts of a youthful killer. -
The boy, accused of first degree
murder for tho fatal shooting last
week of Mrs. Fronk Garlock, 50, In
whoso home ho lived, was given a
hearing in juvenile court Tuesday.
Judge Charles E. Balrd reserved his
decision until today.
Three lines of action were before
the court. The boy could be released;
sent to the reform school, or trans
ferred to the Jurisdiction of tho cir
cuit court for trial as an adult.
Screams of Women
Aid Snake Hunters
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Apr.
20 P) Attendants at tho
Kent museum! know their
snakes and also feminine na-
ture.
So when 15 harmless rop-
tiles esoapod, an attendant
was stationed in front of tho
museum. Whenever ho heard
a woman scream, he sauntered
over and picked up a snake.
Tho last reports from the
front of the musoum was that
11 of the fugitives had bcon
trapped.
,
Salem High School Boys, Members
Of Secret Society, Kidnap and Beat
Athlete Because He Wouldn't Join
SALEM, Apr. 20 im Because
he refused to Join one of the
secret high school soclotles here,
Victor De Jardln, prominent Sa
lem high school athlete, was
"kidnaped" last night and
"taken for a ride" Into the
country. There he was beaten
to unconsciousness by ten of his
schoolmates, whom he alleged
all belonged to the same high
school fraternity.
Battered and bleeding, De Jar
dln was found by friends sev
eral miles out of Salem. He said
that among his attackers were
sevoral promlnont athlotos who
threatened him with another
beating If ho accepted a ride back
to Salem. Tho attackers' an
nounced plans of tying up tho
youth was thwarted by noise of
MORE TROUBLE IN
OHIO COAL FIELDS
t-
Explosion Shakes Village
of Jewett Shots Fired
Near Tasa Mine.
CADIZ, Ohio, Apr. 20 m Freeh
disturbances broke out today in the
Eastern Ohio coal fields where miners
are on strike In protest to wage
reductions.
A mysterious explosion shook tho
village of Jewett, 10 miles north of
here, about 1 a. m., but apparently
did no damage.
Sixty miles to the south, in Noble
county, nearly 200 strike sympathis
ers, a few, hours later, attempted
unsuccessfully to prevent 200 non
strikers from going to work at the
Caldwell mine near Caldwell. The
strikers wero dispersed by Sheriff
Clayton McKee and six deputies with
a machlno gun, although no shots
were fired.
A group of strikers was reported
earlier in the march in Guernsey
county, but authorities there were
unable to locato them.
Shot Fired Ncur Mine
Six shots were fired naar the Tasa
mine, a short distance from Jewett,
but national guardsmen at the shaft
reported no one was hit. They were
unable to discover who did the
shooting.
Tho explosion was possibly a short
distance outside the village. Its ex
act locality was undetermined, but
a cheek of nearby mines Bhowed none
of them wero touched. -" .
.Tho national guard troops had
anti-aircraft guns In. position in the
Cadiz sector today to proven any
attempts of an alrplano bombing of
the mines. ' . ; .
These weapons wero Bet up after
(Continued on Pao Eight)
MOONEY'S FATE
TO BE KNOWN
ON THURSDAY
8 AN FRANCISCO, Apr. 20 (P
Governor James Rolph Is expected to
make known tomorrow his decision
on tho pardon application of Thomas
J. Moonoy, and leavo soon afterward
for Richmond, Va., to attend tho an
nual governors' conference.
Tho oxecutlvo has announced ho
will mako his decision public "as
soon as posslblo after noon Thurs.
day."
"Thoro aro still some matters un.
dor Investigation boforo completion of
tho announcement," ho said.
The governor came hero yesterday
to attend funeral sorvlceo for Charles
O. Mooro. Later ho conferred with
Matt I. Sullivan, former supremo
court Justice and tho governor's chief
advisor In tho Mocme cose.
Mooncy Is serving a life sentence
for conviction of tho 1018 Prepared
ness day parade bombing here In
which 10 persons wero killed and 40
Injured.
approaching persons. This was
tho third time tho men attempt
ed to "get him" It was reported.
Do Jardln was a member of
the Salem American Legion base
ball team last summor and his
name came to prominence at
that time because of protests
filed against him that he was
over age. His record was cleared.
Principal Fred D. Wolf of the
Salem high school started 1m
medlato Investigation and said
some action would be taken.
Some of the names of the boys
are reported known to investi
gators. Whether the district at
torney's office would bo called
into the case had not been de
termined by De Jardln's father
(Continued on Pago Five)
Woman Detective
Kicked to Death
In Cleveland, 0.
CLEVELAND, Apr. 20 W - Mrs.
Kathryn Jones, 28, a divorcee who
worked as an investigator for private
detective agoncles, was beaten and
kicked to death today In the hallway
of an east side apartment.
Throo men running from the build
ing wero halted by patrolmen and
later ono of them was identified by
two occupants of the apartment house
as a man they saw kicking Mrs. Jones.
The woman acted as an informant
for police in several liquor cases and
once submitted evidence to federal
prohibition officers, one of her former
employers sold. . She was reported to
have been threatened several times
In recent weeks and once was at
tacked on the street.
Federal officials, however, denied
she was an "under-cover" agent.
Letters addressed to "Kathryn Mar
shall" and "Kathryn Mason" were
found at the slain woman's home. The
latter, police said, apparently was her
maiden name.
J. V. Gibbons, head of a detective
agency for whom Mrs. Jones had been
working, suggested her death might
havo been due to some enmity she
Incurred in her Investigations. ,
TWO, FORMERLY
FRIENDS, FIGHT
TO THE DEATH
QUESNEL, B. 0., Apr. 20 . (yP)r-TwO
men, once pals In the quest for gold
in the northland wilderness, are dead
vlctimn of a furious fight for pos
session of a tiny shack.
Last summer Mike Kopok ' and
Withold Nowokowsky, prospectors,
shared a cabin on tho road to Old
Antler town site, bearing tho hard
ships of the wilds together. But
they quarreled no one knowB over
what and separated.
Last week Kopok heard that Now
okowsky had returned and taken
possession of the . cabin. He left
Barkersvllle and headed for the shack,
saying:
"One of us will likely be dead be
fore this is settled."
Saturday camo word that Kopok,
a wound in his head, was lying dead
near tho cabin. Constables went to
get Nowokowsky. They found him
lying in tho battered shack dead.
Constablo Vlckers said he believed
Kopok slew Nowokowsky after a
struggle and then shot himself.
Woman Kills Her
Nephew And Herself
MONROVIA, Co!., Apr. JO 11? -
Mrs. Agnes Holmes, 45, shot and
killed her nephew, C. Dwlght Thom
as, and then shot herself to death
Tuesday because, she said, sho could
not bear to see tho boy "face this
rough world." Sho loft a noto which
said: "Financial difficulties make
this tho best way out. I cannot
stand to see Dwlght faco this rough
world during this crisis."
FORMGItl.Y OF COR.VAI.MS
' CORVALLIS, Ore., Apr. SD (ffl
Dwlght Thomas, who yesterday was
shot and killed by his aunt, Mrs.
Agnes Holmes, In Monrovia, Cel., af
ter which the woman took her own
life, was a studont at Oregon State
college during part of 1930, when ho
and Mrs. Holmes lived here.
Mushrooms Cause
Death of Man, 32
VANCOUVER, Wosh., April 20 (P)
Fred E. Finncol Jr., 32, died In a
hospital here Tuesday from poisoning
caused by eating Inedible mUBh
rooms. His mother. 02. 1b In a seri
ous condition. The mushrooms which
wero picked near the family home
near Battlo Ground, were eaten Mon
doy evening.
Protest is Made
By Salem Legion
SALEM. Apr. 20 (IF) Protests of
proposed congressional action requir
ing World war veterans to take a
pauper's oath before receiving com
pensation, and the reduction of vot.
erans' aid, was voiced by the Salem
post of tho American Legion last
night. Telegrams will bo sent to the
Oregon representation In congress.
Similar action Is being urged over the
state by Carl Moser, state legion adjutant.
JAFSIE GETS
MESSAGE AND
BAY DUCKING
Lindbergh's Emissary
.pans into water When
Rowboat Capsizes.
LOCKS OF HAIR
SENT TO LINDY
Canadian Beauty Parlor
operator Tells of Cut
ting Locks of Boy Posed
as Girl.
HOPEWELL, N. J, April 20 UPt.
One of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's
emissaries In the attempt to get kid- .
naped Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., back
was recovering today from a soaking
In chilly water.
Dr. John P. Condon, the "Jafsle"
who paid $60,000 of the Colonel's
money to a man who represented
himself as an agent of the kidnapers,
wont rowing In Pelham Boy, off the ,
Bronx, New York, In an apparent
attempt to make another contact
His boat capsized at a dock as he .
returned and he was thoroughly wet
before ho scrambled ashore. The New
York Dally News quoted him as say
tng "I got a message."
' Reports wero published today that
Henry (Red) Johnson, sweetheart of
tho Lindbergh nurse, who was ques-
tloned about the kidnaping and ex
onerated, was on his way to Europe .
as a deportee, but this was found ;
to be an error, Johnson remained '
at EIIIb Island where he Is held tor ,
deportation.
CHILD'S LOCKS SAVED
NEW YORK, April 21 (P) A Spe
cial dispatch to the Broklyn Eagle,
from St. John, New Brunswick, Can
ada, today said the curly locks of a
child which had been seen there have
oeen sent to uoionei vnanes a. ijiiiu
bergh In Hopewell for possible ldon-
tlflcatlon. -
A beauty parlor operator saved tho '
locks several days ago when she cut '
tho child's hair. . 1
Tho operators . said a woman
brought the child In, representing it ,
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STAB WOUNDS ,
CAUSE DEATH !
I OF 2 PERSONS
GARDEN OITYVN. Y., Apr. 20. W) -
The body of a man who had been -
stabbed to death and a woman whose
head had been crushed were lound
today In an opon field In Garden City ;
Park, Long Island. .
They -wero victims or what ponce
said "must have been a terrlflo strug
gle." . - ' i
The man was tentatively Identified
as E. B. Brlnker Jr., of Jackson
Heights, and the woman was believed
to bo Rose Welk, of Flushing. Both
wore about 35 years old.
The woman '8 mouth was- covered
with adhesive tape. There were
numerous stab wounds in the man's
throat and chcBt.
Indictment Against
Mayor is Dismissed
PORTLAND, Apr. 20 (P) An In
dictment charging Mayor George L.
Baker with advocating a bribe of
95000 to each of - two city commls- -slonors
for their votes In favor of
a municipal market site here was dls-.
missed by Circuit Judge Jacob Kanz
ler hero late yesterday. The Indict
ment was one of 16 returned recent
ly after an Investigation of the site .
controversy.
Lotus L. Langley asked dismissal
of the Indictment because there was
"no probability of securing a convic
tion," and "not sufficient evidence
to Justify sold Indictment."
Mayor Baker, however, still Is un
der Indictment for alleged malfeas
ance and negligence In office.
Wheat Today
CHICAGO, Apr. 20 (P) Almost
two cents a bushel tumble In wheat
prices late today accompanied liquida
ting sales by holders of May con.
tracts.
Reports of dust storms In Kansas
and Oklahoma failed to act as an off
set. Bears put stross on Kansas City
messages from a loading crop expert
that It would probably tak0 two weeks
to determine If tho March, freeze and
recent dry woathor had caused severe
crop damage
Wheat closed unstable, l',4 o
lower than yesterday's finish, corn
(fiil!4c down, oats Jo off, and '
provisions unchanged to 5 cents ad
vance. PORTLAND, Apr. 20 (P) Further
digest of tho latest statemfnt of the
farm board regarding a sharp advance
to bo forced In the price of wheat
caused further general loss In tho do
mestic price on futures for the day,
both Portland and Chicago being low
cr. On the Portland market May was
unchanged, July 14 c lower and Sep
tember off c. The loss was forced
In the last minute by a bear attack.
On tho merchants exchange cash
wheat was unchanged. There wore no
sales of futures. Farmers are not of
fering the cash. .