Fiotged Jdf iCflJQricoQ 3tb toys Sugar Beaia, pridXlnri County Taking-Hold Vigorduoly in AcrcQ&3 .Ctnmpafon Um . . i ",f .-4,-' , " 1 " T V " V '" "', 1 , " I - SHOP EARIY-4-OBly 15 -shopping 'days remain 'before Christmas. Do your shop ping early and avoid the rush. Ton will find a new delight in this early shopping and 'also you'll bring happiness -to the merchants and the post office clerks. -. WEATHER FORECAST: . Generally fair; cooler; 'gentle - variable winds. - Maximum -yesterday. " fc minimum. 38: river, &.9; rainfall, none; atmosphere, cloudy; Triad, southwest. PRICE FIVE CENTS ijCEVENTY-SIXTH YEAB SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8,1926 I 1E61HES BiDSIffll Expenditures : During Period IReach $10;000i000 Ac-; wording toSecretary ! $2,290;409E0R UP-KEEP Roy Klein Submits' Report to Gov ernor Pierce Snowing Total J Receipts for Depart ment 10,888,900. ' The -state ofOregon laid only ne-fifth of a mile of new pave taent daring the past year and rpur faced only eight and. a-half miles, according to a report, sub m it ted yesterday to Governor Pierce by Roy Klein, highway commission secretary: Total of ; the i highways of the t tate .improved and J unimproved la 4468 miles,. of which .947 miles are unimproved. The improved portion consists ot 8 8.5 miles of RttuTntnniin navement. 208.5 of concrete. 575.8 miles oiled macad am. 1747.5 miles of rock f surf ac inar and 300 miles of unsurfaced traded roadway. Anion the Improvements noted in the report is S43.6 miles of. lled macadam, 129.8 miles of rork xurfacine and 149.7 miles of gradlngaiid , widening. Expenditures during the cur rent year aggregated 110,018.- 492.75. of which $3,744,425.85 was listed as ne'w construction. Additions and betterments aggre gated 5 1 3 ,U 3 2: 4 8 , whileatnte- aance was xed aM2,Z9Q,499.z. Other expenditures were listed t follows: ';' w Cooperation on forest road work Y'I2.36OT0; rights of way and PTperty.M51..2 purchase. Sark sites, fzu,t.ii row birub, 12.024.98 ; operation of movable tridges.7477.Hi ntarcement of traffic laws, ;5M444; admin Istratlon- and general supervision, 187,085.8; surveys, S66,674.06; engineering in connection with county work 589414, and mis cellaneous general expense placed at $4105.58. , Bonds matured during the year aggregated $1,197,000, while In terest; paid on bonds totaled $1, ?22,71,5. . The' two largest, items listed as receipts credited to the state high way department during the cur-f rent year -were -motor -vehicle license fees. aggregating $4,260, 000. and gasoline taxes totalling $3v13-.149.0. -Interest on bank balances amounted to $38;372.94, while fine from violations-f-traffic laws aggregatedf$33,558v05. Federal akl was r eceived. in the amount of $1,264,688.74, while county cooperation was $715, T01. 37. Miscellaneous cooperation was listed at $78.9 6.59. -and net equipment earnings $32,055.40. The balance on hand December 1, 1925, was $1,452,458.44. The report showed that the to tal receipts of the state highway department for the year aggregat ed $1-0.888.900.73, which left a balance on hand on December 1 of this yean of $879,407.98. CHICAGO CAFES SHUT BY COURT SNUFFER APPLIED TO BRIGHT LIGHTS OF CITY Decision' Direct lowat Those Who Carry pocket Flasks to Clubs CHICAGO, Dec. 7. (AP) The snuffer 'was applied to the bright lights in Chicago's downtown night life ' today by Judge C. C Sliffe. who ordered three cafes osed tor a year each under the abatement of a nuisance provi sion of (he prohibition law. The places ordered locked up were the Moulin Rouge, Friar's vOand the Lown Club. The de cijpn was a direct blow at those wno carry hip liquor Into the cafes and there obtain the ingredients to mlrwlth it. Tlje action, unique in prohibi tlon enforcement, in Chicago.. was patterned after a decision Tecentiy handed down in federal court In M il waukee. . .There waa jio, presen tation of testimony In court as to the purchase of liquor, in any of ' the places closed, nor waa -there anr liauor seized in any raids. i ne ' government oasea us en tire evidence on iwhat prohibition agents, who had visited the-. -re-, sorts, had seen particularly that waiters , had served cracked Ice, XCvSt!afd 1f JL HUNTERS DISCUSS SAVING OF DUCKS " 1 ol -rrniERs op frontier DAYS ATTEND" MEETING Ezra-Sleeker Points Out Present Depleted Condition, of Wild Water Fowl HHWi YORK, .Dec 7. (AP)- Old- timers of the frontier days of America sat around the plush-lob bies of the-Hotel Pennsylvania to day, and as official delegates to the 13 th annual conference of the American ; Came Protective asso ciation, listened to the experts tell how to save 4ucks. . Ezra' Meeker. 96 years old, sur vivor of the Oregon Trail, was one old timer, and John J. Mc- Dermott of Courtland, N. Yvviee president of the New York -Fish and Forest league, claimant of the old men's fiddlin' contest, -was an other. ; Still another was W. A. 'Scotly" Smith, -of Point Barrow. "Alaska, Arctic explorer and big game hunter, who held the record of coming from the farthest point north to find out why the game birds of the country are dying off. t The' three listened to Dr. E. W. Nelson, director of the -bureau of biological Harvey, say that west era Irrigation methods are drying up lakes and ponds and depleting the game supply. He said federal investigation and control are im perative steps. Meeker, the oldest delegate present, recalled the early days when game, large and small, filled the west when .he first made the Oregon rTrail with, an ox team. It was scarcer ' when ' he made the trip later in an automobile, and a year ago when he flew across the overland 'route In an airplane, he hardly saw a fowl. AFRICA FEELS TREMORS Y FOUR 'KJLuLKD AND MANY - IN- JURED IN "ROCK BURSTS : i, JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa, Dec. 7. (AP) - Violent' earth tremors shook the Rajad, South Afrlcas famous gold bearing region, this morning. The residents were t greatly,, alarmed, but aside from two severe rock bursts 1 nthe Wolhuter gold mine, little damage has been reported. Four men were killed and many others, mostly natives, injured in these rock bursts. RUMOR OF NEW WARDEN JOSEPH KFXLAR, ONE TIME -STATE PAROLE OFFICER Joseph Kellar, at one time state parole officer, - but now at the head of an auto theft department with headquarters In Portland spent yesterday in Salem confer ring -with Governor-elect - Patter son. f Reports here indicated that Mr Kellar was being considered for the office of warden of the state penitentiary- POLICE HOLD BAISDEN WARRANT ISSUED CHARGES RECKLESS DRIVING EUGENE. Ore.. Dec. 7. (AP) Ted Batsden or this city was arrested -here today on a warrant issued at ; Salem charging him with reckless driving. Baisden is alleged to - have driven his car against another one on the high way near Salem. THEATRE OWNER DIES PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7 (AP) Jules E. Mastbaum, presi dent. of Stanley1 Company of Am erica and head of one of the larg est chains of motion picture and vaudeville bouses In the United States, died In Jefferson hospital today. lie was 54 years old. o : ; . . o YESTERDAY WASHINGTON Associate Pre President Coolidge's message to congress was read In the senate and house, Senator Bruce, of Maryland, at tacked the prohibition law in senate address. . f ' Edward L. Dobeny'a illness tern porarily ,hated the oil conspiracy trial. j ; - The- house adjourned in ' honor of the memory of its . former speaker,' "Uncle Joe" Cannon. , Repeal of the senate's ratifica Uon of the; world court, protocol was asked' in a resolution by Sen atorTrainmelL pi Florida. ' -Senator Edwards of New Jersey, declared he would press his reso lution for repeal of the 18 th amendment through a national BIHiO ill ii liS BRIDGE One ' Killed and All ? Passen gers on Car. Hurt in Fall to Gulch ENGINE STAYS ON TRACK Loggers Leaving' Woods' ton Green Mountain Branch -of .Kerry Timber Railway When Accident Occam ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 7. (AP) One man was fatally Injured, nine seriously hurt, and 30 slight ly .'-injured -About 5 o'clock this afternoon, -when the rear car of a logging train on the Green Moun tain Timber company railway in eastern Clatsop county, about 25 miles south .of Kerry, plunged from a trestle, and to the bottom of the gulch, 40 feet below. Every man on-the car was In jured. The car -was completaly smashed. Andre Anderson, 42 -years of age, was terribly erusnoa ana died on ,the way to Kerry. He leaves a-wife and children in- Nor way and a sister in Seattle. Five of the seriously , injured have been brought to a hospital here. They are: O. E. Wells, back Injured, and possible internal in juries, no address, relatives in Denver; Sam Andrios, Portland, gash, in the face,, and probably broken ribs; John Spkof, Port land, cut on back of head; Nick Blackish, Portland, badly bruised and possible ' International in juries ; Charles Cameron, Vancou ver, B. C, back . injured. Four others of the seriously injured are being brought to the Astoria hos pital by ambulances. " " Eye witnesses to the accident Were unable to explain the cause of it tonight. According to the story of men on the train, the log ging train, made up of a locomo tive and two flat cars, on which were riding about 95 men, was re turning -from the woods at quit ting time to camp, over the Green Mountain company branch of the Kerry Timber company railway. The train was traveling at a mod erate speed, ' and the accident oc curred on a straight away. As the train was crossing a high trestle, about two miles from the junction with the' Kerry, main line, the rear car suddenly 'jumped the track. and plunged off the trestle. The Coupling with the head car broke and this car and the locomotive (Continued on pc 5.) I'VE WAOTO pULt- YOO ENOUGH? : MONROE SECTION! TO GROWEETS SOME TURNER FARMERS SHOW INTEREST IN PROJECT Linn ' County Going Into . Matter With View to Taking Com- I siderable Acreage. -Three important meetings were held yesterday and last evening. In the campaign i; for sugar beet acreage, at Monroe, Albany -and Turner. The first meeting was at Mon roe at 1:30. where Kenneth fil ler end C. M. Dickinson were the speakers, explaining the abject of the movement and the, desirability of getting this new industry started. Farmers Took Meeting. r- : -There was a large crowds of farmers: present at Monroe, and they were vitally , interested. . A number of them were ready to sign up At the meeting,-but it was decided that the: best plan was to name a large committee of farm ers, and it was arranged that way, with 20 to. 25 to be named to can vass the matter in that section and have further conferences,, per haps with the factory field man. and complete the arrangements. There is a lot of land in the Mon roe, district suitable for sugar beet growing, and the result of yester day's meeting will be a consider able acreage there. Meeting At Albany. The meeting at Albany in the evening was composed largely of business men, addressed by Mr. Miller and Mr. Dickinson. Mr. (Continued on page 6.) KOZER EXPLMNS ' NEED FOR ROOMS SECRETARY FIRST URGED NEW STRUCTURE IN 1921 Finance Raildtng Through Work of -Highway, 'Bonus and Accident Bodies Need 'for a new4 state : office i building to hold the state em ployes who -now overflow the state capitol, going ' to downtown offices, in -both Salem and IPort land, was stressed by Sam Kozer, secretary of state," in a speech be fore the Salem Kiwanls club at its noon luncheon Tuesday. In 1899 the state had 350 em ployes with a monthly payroll of $25,000, and in 1926 has 5375 employes with a monthly payroll of f 547,000, or 36,500,000 a year, Mr. Kozer stated. In 1S99 the state had the same capitol build ing it has now, and the supreme court building is the only new one. The city of Salem gets one third of this, huge payroll, he said, so the business men should investl- f Co a tinned on pace 6.) ANOTHER "HOSS" KICKS OVER THE TRACES t - LIQUOR EVIDENCE STIRS AUDIENCE SICK -FRIEND' NEEDED ALCO HOLIC STIMULANTS Dry Chief Helped Self to Quantity of Confiscated Goods from Vault SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Dec . 7. CAP) An unidentifed "sick friend" who required an extraor dinary amount of alcoholic stimu lants figured in the testimony of government witnesses In the trial which began in the United States district court here today of Colon el Ned M. Green, former prohibi tion administrator for northern California and Nevada charged with the embezzlement of liauor confiscated by' the government in enforcing the Volstead act. It was for this mysterious "sick friend." witnesses testified, that Colonel Green, retired army offi cer, abstracted varying amounts of assorted liquors from the base ment of the sub-treasury building where confiscated liquors were stored and even from his own of fice in the business district. ' Harold M. Charlton, a prohibi tion enforcement agent, described what he said had been several In stances where Colonel Green, in the presence of Charlton and other "prohibition agents, had removed bottles of liquor from the . prohi bltion administrator's office. Charlton said that on one occa sion, he had called Colonel Green's attention to the fact that the hot tie ; he -was carrying - away,- bore- a label designing it as evidence and (Continued on page 2.) PRIME CHOSEN GUN CLUB HEAD ALL OTHER OLD OFFICERS RE. ELECTED AT "MEETING No Action Taken on Avcrill's Pro posed Changes In State i Game Laws Dr. G. E. Prime was re-elected president of the Salem Rod and Gun club at a special meeting last night, and all the rest of last year's officers were re-elected with him. They are Clarence Phillips, vice president; G. A. Mc Kay, secretary, and Carl Bahl burg treasurer. - , No action was taken on propos als made at a . banquet Friday night by Edgar F. Averill, state game warden, affecting the kind of deer to be killed, and making open season on Wednesdays and Sundays. These proposals will be considered at the next meeting two weeks from last night, and recommendations will be made to the game commission. The club went on record as fav oring the reappointment of E. F. Averill as Btato game warden and (Continued on page 5.) JUGOSlflA illH ITIUliCT "N ew and 1 Grave Situation" Regarded as Menace to European Peace EVENTS DISTURB LEAGUE Complications ' Foreseen and Mus solini's Expansion Program -and Alliances May Strike Resistance PARIS, Dec. 7. (AP) Trou ble is seething over Italy's new treaty with Albina. Jugo Slavia is aflame with anger; her foreign minister. Dr. Ninchitch, resigned last night as a protest, and the whole cabinet headed by M. Ous ounovitch, followed his lead, to attract the world's attention to what he has described as the "new and grave situation," and what is generally regarded as a serious danger to central European peace. Even the League of Nations is greatly disturbed over these events, advices from Geneva state, for Dr. Ninchitch was president of the last assembly of the league, and complications of a widespread nature are feared. Jugo Slavia is a heavily armed nation" with an estimated force of 200,000 men. It is feared, too, that Mussolin's program of ex pansion and alliances will run afoul of the "Little Entente", which in large measure was de veloped by Ninchitch. The Jugo Slavs are reported as regarding the Italo-Albanian al liance as "disloyalty" to their country and other Balkan nations and the Belgrade newspaper Poli tica prints a3 statement' from aa unconfirmed source in Scutari that the pact contains a secret military clause, whereby Italy undertakes to go to the defense of the Alban ian, government if need be. Official quarters in Paris, how ever, are without confirmation of the existenoe of such a clause. PHOTOS TO GO BY WIRE five crrres included in NEW PHONE SERVICE NEW YORK, Dec, 7. (AP Persons in five cities will be able to exchange photographs by tele graph over the Christmas-New Year holidays, it was announced today by the American Telephone St Telegraph company. The cities are New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco. Procedure to be followed by those desiring to transmit photo graphs is as follows: Take your photograph to the tetephotographic office In any of the" five cities. Hand It to the clerk. A short time later a print of the portrait will be in the hands of the person to whom it was sent. Greetings written on the orig inal photograph also will be trans mitted. D0HENY TRIAL HALTED DEFENDANT SUFFERING FROM CARBUNCLE ON ARM WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP). Illness of Edward L. Doheny forced a halt today in the oil con spiracy trial-here, but a resump tion of the taking of testimony is expected tomorrow. Suffering from a carbuncle on his left arm, the 70 year old defendant felt much better tonight, and his phy sicians predicted he would be able to be in court in the morning. Justice Hoehling stopped pro ceedings today -when it was found that Doheny was too ill to be pres ent. Suspension of the trial until be could return to the courtroom was announced. COUNTY TAXES LOWER CUT DUE TO CHANGED ' ESTI MATE OF STATE FUNDS Prospects now are that Marion county's taxes will be I5,263V96 lower-than the estimated bndget calls for.' it was Indicated follow ing the receiving of a report from the state tax commissioner. The lowering is due to a changed esti mate of the amount of state taxes. !' The state tax-for. Marion coun ty -was originally estimated at J3 4 0.000. but the estimate turned jn from the tax commissioner yes terday was only 3324, ,736. tin view of this unexpected cuV &ext year's "appropriation for market road s may be Increased f 5 0 6 0 by Jh? county court, - ' ''.- WIRTH FORFEITS 5 DRIVER'S PERMIT OFFICER EDWARDS ARRESTS HOI FOR DRIVING CAR - Man Secured Second License After First Taken Away, Hearing Today George Wlrth apparently thought the ' judge was only kid ding him when he took his driv er's license away for a year fol lowing -' his conviction on a reck less driving charge in October, for George obtained another one for himself, and went right back to driving his car. Last night Officer George Ed wards, the same man who arrest ed Wirth early on the morning of October 1 0 following a pursuit that ended when Edwards began shooting, saw him driving a car in Salem. Remembering that his license had been suspended, Ed wards stopped him. Nothing daunted. Wirth pulled out another license, made out to "George Worth" and dated No vember 13, 1926, just one month and two days after Wirth's arrest When asked why he had obtained the new license, his only answer was that the judge "had not asked him for the first one." Wirth's car ; was taken from him as bail on a charge of driving after his license had been suspend ed, and a hearing , was set for 9 o'clock this morning by Brazier Small, justice of the peace. When first arrested, Wfrth had crashed into a car driven by Lark Tate, and fled, pursued by Officer Edwards. He was stopped near the state penitentiary after a chase from 21st street, only after Ed wards began shooting and had dented his car with a bullet. Wirth's car still showed the bullet hole last night, police stated. Wirth was held in October on charges of hit and run driving. and of driving while intoxicated. He plead not guilty to the second charge, but on the first one Jus tice Small fined him 3100. sen tenced him to 30 days in the coun ty jail, and took away his license. Wirth apparently obtained his new license as soon as he was re leased from jail, as It was issued just a month after his sentence. KING HAS GOOD 'NIGHT FERDINAND MUST -UNDERGO SECOND OPERATION BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec T. CAP) King Ferdinand must undergo a second operation, which the attending physicians announce is necessary to complete that per formed yesterday. They express the hope that the king will be strong enough to undergo the op eration Thursday. The royal patient passed a good night, and is reported to be pro gressing satisfactorily. When the surgeon. Professor Hurtmann, was operating , yesterday with the aid of a local anaesethic, -the kingj puffed . complacently on - his ac customed cigar. - He started pro ceedings by telling the surgeons: "Well, gentlemen, let's get busy." VISIT DAMAGED FERRY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN VESTIGATE AT BUKNA VISTA 'John Porter and Jim Smith, county commissioners will inspect the Baena Vista ferry today to see if it wfll be advisable to install a new ferry boat there. The ferry is not being operated now. Members of the Polk county court have also been invited to attend the inspec tion. The old ferry boat, damaged In the recent flood, will probably not be repaired because of its poor condition.' A new ferry will prob ably be installed some' time In the future if it is -found advisable to do so. Next Saturday nd Sunday FANCHON & 'MARCO'S Gorgeous Stage Presentation "RED ROBIN" " enacted by 25 artists and the feature photoplay "FINE MANNERS' ; Starring' Gloria "Swanson will more than . -. please, the most ' critical audience, at , THE ET.STNOTtlE4 .' ! t - i ' -. - RELIEF URGED BY PRESIDE! Message of Coolidge Deals With lyiany Matters of National Interest RADIO CONTROL SOUGHT Pledge of Economy on Behalf of Administration Made and Stand on Protective Tariff Re iterated WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP) Conceding that there could be no great amount of legii?"Jou during the present session, ' President Coolidge laid before congress to day a long list of recommenda tions in" which -temporary tax re lief and attention to the farm marketing it ol U.ir stood out prominently. '" To the house and . senate , was left the task' of fitting the rec ommendations to the necessities of the limited time at the. disposal of the law makers r tore the 69th, congress goes ou - tf existence on March 4, next. ( Inasmuch as . Mr. Coolidge touched on almost every point of pressing national inter est, there can be.no Question that in going aoout tceir task: tne re publican leader ill have at hand the desires of the caief executive. While leaving the form o tax relief to be decided by congress itself. President Coolidge opposed any permanent i eduction at this time, suggesting ta t "It Is pos sible to grant 03e real relief by the simple measure of making re duction in the payments which, accrue on the 15'ii of March and June, 1927." A to farm relief, he urged a "sound solution," ith the stipu lation that .It was necessary .to "avoid pdtrting the - government into the business of , production or marketing or a tempting to enact legislation for t'c: purpose of price fixing." , - The message. In addition to touching taxes and farm problems, (Continued oa pas 4.) BANK EMPLOYE ENDS OWN LIFE THIRD SENSATION IN RECENT WEEKS ROCKS MEMPHIS Suspension of Business Strikes m Heavy Blow to Christmas Shoppers MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 7. (By AP) Memphis financial circles were stirred today ; by the third sensation within five weeks when business of the American Savings' Bank . and Trust - comoanv was placed in, the hands of-state bank examiners after - an employe ad mitted shortages of $300,000 and then killed himself. Clarence Henochsberg, assistant cashier and teUer, fired a bullet into hi heart afti t.l..1,nnl.v Abe Plough, Memphis capitalist, of the shortage and saying he would kill himself unless ' help could be obtained to save himself and the bank. Accountants at work on the books of . the institution tonight sought to fix the extent of the Dana s losses -ana to discover the relationship if any between Heno chsberg's activities and shortages found last Thursday on .the .dis appearance of Rush H. Parke, wers in me same oang. .parse was still missing tonight: His al leged defalcations were' set; at S105.900. - ' - . ; Today's developments recalled the flight October . 27 of Courtney Gliflson, young, teller; of the Bank of Commerce and .Trust company and disclosure ofS465,000 short age la his. accounts. , Glisaon's - whereabouts. too, ro m allied a mystery, but the bank's operations -were not affected, bo auso Gllsson'a shortages was made up from undivided profits and his bond. - Suspension of -business struck a 'heavy blow to Christmas - shop pers. The bank -mailed out I art night: 6,000 cheeks for $235,000 to holders of Christmas savings accounts. Depositors who have lodged a weekly 1 sum ' with the bank for 50 i weeks past were a large .part of the throng -rhirh milled about: the closed doors to. day. . i Henochsberg, who had been em ployed byithe bank '15 years, was convicted ' of forrerv In , fBio.ni coort four years ago, paying a fn anJcosts totalling "J7.00O tuz