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: VALLEY NEWS . WEATHER ;V;-- Conttaaed rains jr. today; " Frrsh tveet" . and northwest .-winds. Mm. tiwperittnro Wed. 49; Min. 43; Ratn42; River 11.4; Wind south. 'corrmpondeate throughout section, f the Willan. Jfut f"' working faithfully to eerre yo.- 3k J '.' "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe19 nVsmT SEVENTY.EIGHUl YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, Januafy S, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS i . ; j :! . . - FIRE TRAGEDY ' BY STATE MEN No jnquest Planned; "Purely Accidental" Says Polk ' ; County Coroner Bodies of Three Victims Sent to Homes; Identification Difficult Investigation' by the state fire marshal's office of the boarding bouse fire which took a toll of three lives at Monmouth Tues day night, disclosed few new de tails of the tragedy Wednesday, it was announced that night. Deputy Taylor had not yet submitted a . written report to his superior. Clare Lee, but outlined his find ings In a telephone conversation. The lighted candle which caus ed the fire was not on the Christ, mas tree, which had been lighted cicciricaiiy, i ayior reported. Airs. Minnie Mack, owner of the board--l'S? InJt house, was liehtlntr th. fan r ' -) dies, a gift from one-of the girls -who. died In,4hdlire, and was plannlng-tcTset them on pedestals nearthe tree to add a. cheerful ''welcome which she had planned for. the girls; when one of them Ignited the cotton which had been placed beneath the tree to resem ble snow. Mrs. Mack attempted to drag the burning tree out of the house, but was so badly burned thai. she jwas forced to drop it beneath the istairs, which soon caught fijre. Screens Held Xot J Cause of Death The Bleeping porch at the back , of the building was screened, but the investigator reported that the three girls who were trapped and burned to death could have es caped In the same manner as the others if they had not been too quickly overcome by smoke, so that the screens could not be blamed for the tragedy. Students of the normal school -who live in Salem said a report was current on the campus Wed nesday that Mrs. Mack was in ser ious condition from burns and shock, and might not survive. MONMOUTH, Ore., Jan. 2. (Special) Fears that two Corval lis gfrls, Lillian Martin and May belle Sloan, were victims of Tues. day night's disastrous blase here were dispelled this afternoon when it was learned that they had not yet left their homes at the time of the tragedy. They were to have oecupied rooms at Mrs. Mack's boarding house. Bodies of Victim "Shipped to1 Homes Bodies of the three who were burned to death, Florence Graham of Newport, Evelyn Ohman of Portland and Marguerite Hem. mers of Gresham, were sent to the homes of their parents. Miss Hem men' body was identified only by a gold tooth, and the other two by measurements. Miss Ohman, 19. was the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Erik Ohman f the Kenton district in Port land. Miss Hemmers, 20, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hemmers of Pleasant Home, near Gresham. Several brothers and Bisters also survive. Miss Graham. 17. is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. H. M. Graham of Newport. I She and Miss Ohman were room mates, and their bodies were found tn their bed. Miss Hemmers had evidently tried to escape. -She was seen at a window by C. W. Price, who shouted "Jump! Kick out the win dow!" but she then fell back. Price and his son obtained a lad der and the son climbed to the window In an effort to rescue the girl, but found the interior of the room completely ablaze. Miss Alice Wallace. 21, of Woodland, Wash., president of a , (Turn to Page 2. Please.) State Hospital Visitors Barred Because oi 'Flu' Ttprjue of an outbreak of in- fluenxa In the Oregon state hos vtdtal here, no visitors will be ad mitted to the institution unt.l further notice. Dr. R. E Lee Steiner, superintendent, said that approximately 100 patients were tinder the care of physicians. Exact Analysis Effected Of Mysterious Endocrane Glands; Reward Is Given By COLEMAN B. JONES AroM-litted Press Science Editor NEW YORK. Jan. 2. (AP) A chemical achievement which promises to reduce the age-old suffering of childbirth and help save the lives of surgical patients and victims Of severe burns, was "recognized with its highest award today by the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Sci ence. - ' " t .' It was the isolation and analy sis ot the .two hormones of the ' posterior pituitary gland by Dr. i ' Oliver Kamm, head ' of chemical research In the laboratories of parke, Dav's" and company, at De trolt: . v . . 'f -: i-i- , For dis acmevemeni ur. rwamm Ijwas : awa rded - the annual "associa , . i , r Voyager jAS 7. ' ' U , J 4 1 v W V V 1 i " " I kb ' --I r y 1 I ftf.5 Her earnings as a stenographer have enahN'd Miss Heatriee faennlt, UA to travel half way around the world and bark home to San Francisco. She pl.ins other world trips in the near future. At each port Mis Berndt worked iiu til she had enough money to jour, ney farther. E PRICE STILL FSLLS Dealers Unanimously Pass Buck in Rate War; Fig ure Goes Below 17 PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 2. (AP) With all dealers disclaim ing responsibility, for the price slashes, Portland's gasoline price war continued unabated today. And motorists, who seemed, tatJw the only ones obtaining any satis faction, from the situation, con tinued to purchase the fuel at as low as 16 cents a gallon. The cause of tb conflict, with its probable result, could tonight be determined with no degree of accuracy. The oil companies charge the independent dealers with starting the price war. The independent dealers reply that the oil companies themselves prompt ed the move. In the meantime gasoline can be purchased here from 16 cents up to 21 cents, the top price. Several Associated oil sta tions this morning displayed 16 cent signs as they had on Monday and Tuesday, but by noon most of these had been taken down and the price was boosted to 21 cents. In the cases of Standard, Shell and Union stations, there was a marked discrepancy. All com pany-operated pumps were selling fuel at the top price, while the leased stations were selling i be tween the high and low marks. F. C. Eastman, assistant dis trict sales manager for the Stand ard Oil company, said today that "It is. purely an Independent war." 'Spiritualist' to Face Charge of Selling Spirits , "Bob" Taylor, who recently has been advertising himself as a "spiritualist," may be proven to have had association with at least one type of spirits, as a result of his arrest Wednesday night on a charge of selling liquor, by fed eral and state prohibition officers. Taylor, who has been charged with violation of the liquor laws before, at one time had a sign on his automobile, "lubrication ex pert," which according to the po lice was just as significant as the one relatng to spiritualism which hasjiiuSeared-jin his car recently. tion prize" of $1,000. This is the first time that sci ence has been able to obtain from any of the mysterious ductless en docrine glands of the body two specifically different hormones, the chemical messengers which enter the blood stream as It pass es through the glands and en ables them to perform their fnnc- L. J PORTLAND S HI tions of controlling life processesUhining silver wings started today throughout the body. The "pituitary twins," as the hormonies isolated by Dr. Kamm are called, have been named al pha and beta. Although they are almost identical in chemical struc ture, he told the chemical and medica sections of the associa tion, they' control vastly 'different ( Tu rn' to Page 2 , Please. ) iRTHCOTT'S MOTHER SAYS STORY WRONG Repudiation of Previous Con fessions Attempted Aft- er Plea Made Sanford Clark Murderer of Boys, She Now Tells Newspaper Men SAN QUENTIN, CaU Jan. 2. (AP) Mrs. Sarah Louisa North cott this afternoon repudiated all confessions she has made in which she admitted killing boys on her chicken ranch at Wineville, Cal. The repudiation was made in the presence of Warden James B. Holohan and a reporter for the San Fransclco aJl;---- --" 'Others trTedto make it appear my son killed thisboy," said Mrs. Northcott. "Sanford is the murderer. My son is innocent. "I was railroaded into a plea of guilty for Sanford's crime when I was sick with influenza and half crazy with grief. "They told me if I pleaded guilty it would save my son bat after I entered the plea they did not give me a chance to tell my story. "They did not give me a chance to say that Sanford was the murd erer but Just put me on the train and brought me to San Quentin." Ignorance of Situation Claimed by Woman "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life here although I am an innocent woman and my pon is an innocent boy. "I sent that telegram this morn ing because I thought my boy was accused of only one murder and I said in the telegram that I was guilty of any crime of which they accused my son. I thought he was on trial for one murder and did n't know he was charged with four. "I want to go back to Los An geles to tell my story. I hope to God they let me." Warden Holohan made no com ment on the woman's statement bat returned her to the women's quarters of the prison. Mrs. Northcott said the victim of the murder was a New York boy whose name was unknown to her., She said he arrived at the ranh hungry, tired and sick, and put to bed in a chicken house, . Dlsposariof Rody Unknown to Her She carried him a lautern lat er, she added, and insisted that she found him dead, with San (Turn to Page 2, Please.) HITY DEFENSE DENIED NORTHCOTT COURT ROOM. Riverside, Calif., Jan. 2? (AP) An at tempt to enter an insanity de fense for Gordon Stewart North cott failed this afternoon when Superior Judge George R. Free man denied a motion of Norbert Savay, Northcott's counsel, to en ter a, supplementary plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. At his arraignment last month North cott pleaded merely not guilty. Judge Freeman denied also a motion of Savay for continuance until January 7. On the first mo tion the court found affidavits submitted by Northcott's attorney to be insufficient and on the sec ond motion Judge Freeman de clared it his opinion that Savay had bad sufficient time to prepare.- Court was adjourned until tomorrow after the judge ren dered his decision. Savay had asked for continu ance of the case citing inability to obtain reports of alienists in time to make proper preparation and the plea of guilty entered by Mrs. Sarah Louisa Northcott- to the murder of Walter Collins as hav ing upset his plans for defense. He asked time to meet the new situation. Toy is Removed From Throat of Suffering Youth CINCINNATI. Jan. 2. (API Frank Brooks, 18 months old. was reported well on the road to re covery tonight after surgeons had successfully removed from his throat a toy motorcycle, an inch and a half in length which he swallowed eighteen days ago. The toy had lodged itself in the child's throat and his condi tion, which on several occasions was critical, prevented an opera tion until today. Plane Carrying Anti-Toxin Tubes EDMONTON, Alta., Jan. 2 with (AP) An angel of mercy on a 60 mile flight, carrying life in little glass tubes for toe men. women and children of Fort, Ver milion and Little Red River, where it was feared diptherla has raged unchecked for 18 days. The airplane piloted by" Captain 'Wop" May. and carrying Victor Horne was fofced down at McLennan, AT. ta., this afternoon. . , Salvation Army Divided Into Two Opposing Camps - f Removal of General Bram well Booth Anticipated by His Opponents LONDON. Jan. 2.-(AP) For ,the first time both parties within the Salvation army openly admit ted today that the high council which will meet shortly is pplir into two opposing camps. Officials at the International headquarters and at the headquar ters of Evangeline Booth, the American commander, freely made pronouncements on the probable lineup on next week's voting when the questions of removal of Gen eral Bramwell Booth as commander-in-chief and reorganization of the army will come up. An official of the Evangeline Booth group stated that after a careful canvass the group was sat isfied that more than the neces sary three-quarters majority of the council will vote the removal of the general and for reorganiza tion of the army. JAMES LIE DIES El Prominent Civil War Veteran and Mason Passes at Age of 87 Years Dr. James Lisle, active in Meth odism since he was ordained a minister at the age of 18 years and oldest but one in Masonic af filiation In the Northwest, died at 9:45 o'clock Wednesday night at the home, 1041 South 13th street. He had been ill a week of the in fluenza and bronchial pneumonia. Dr. Lisle was 87 years old at the time of his death and was one of the few remaining Civil War veterans. It was 66 years ago. dur ing the Civil War that he became a Mason. He had been chaplain of Pacific lodge No. 50. A. F. & A. M of Salem for years, and held the same position in the department of Oregon, Grand Army of the Republic. James Lisle was born in Del- mont county, Ohio, June 16. 1842, receiving his early education in the public schools and academy at Barnesville, Ohio. , The family moved from Ohio, to Iowa in 1860."the year in which he was (Turn to Page 2, Please.) Sport Briefs NEW YORK. Jan. 2. (AP) The New York American will say tomorrow that Jack Dempsey definitely has agreed to enter the ring in quest of the heavyweight championship he lost to Gene Tunney in 1926. Promoter Tex Rickard is ex pected to announce the Man assa Mauler's return next week from Miami. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Jan. 2. (AP) After battling al most on -even terms for nearly three quarters of the game, the Whitman defense cruiSpled un der a brilliant Montana State college offense, and the Bobcat basketballers won 45 to 30, here tonight. The score was tied at 18 at half time. VANCOUVER. B. C. Jan. 2. (AP) For the Becond suc cessive night the Vancouver Lions defeated the Victoria Cubs when they won 2 to 1 in the Pacific coast hockey league fixture here tonight. MIAMI BEACH. Fla., Jan. 2. (AP) Tex Rickard. New York fight promoter celebrated his 56th birthday today like other patients in the Allison hospital here, obeying orders of nurses and physicians. Rickard had planned to sup ervise the launching last night of his latest sports venture, a dog track here, but started the new year Instead, by undergo ing an operation for appendicit is. PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 2. (AP) Bob Meyers, ex-national amateur wrestling champion in the welterweight division, won on a foul from Tom Alley, Outlook. Mont., in a light heavyweight match here to night. Chinaman Jailed After Gardener Found Murderetf PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 2 (AP) Ong Chew, 41, a Chinese, was in city Jail here tonight, held incommunicado, in c o n n e c ti on with the slaying yesterday of Lin? Sins. 75. Chinese gardener fore man at a cemetery here. Ling' head had been crushed and his body rolled to the bottom of an 80-foot embankment. - Ong Chew has been for a month past assistant. to Ling at the cem etery. Tonight he shouted again and again his denial that he had been in any way connected with the killing. Ling was last seen about noon tstrlay when he was prppariris to p-o downtown to- buy groceries for tht caretake-r's Jionse. H NIGHT FR WAITS HIS CHANGE TO T1CKOHTIES President-Elect Anticipates Plunging Into Round of Conferences Battleship Carries Good Will Delegate North Through Sargasso Sea U. S. S. UTAH, Jan. 2. (AP) Thoroughly rested after his strenuous good will tour through Latin America. President-Elect Hoover is enjoying a last week of recreation on board the Utah be fore plunging into a round of con ferences in Washington on the se lection of cabinet members and the program of his inauguration. These conferences will begin almost immediately after his ar rival at the capitol next Sunday and he also expects to call at the White House some time during the week in order to acquaint President Coolldge personally on his observations during his tour of ten Latin America republics. The good will ship had another day of perfect weather today as it steamed along the edge of the Sargasso sea. the legendary rest ing place of many derelicts. Dense patches of seaweed were passed by the center of the so-called "sea" where the accumulation is much thicker. 1855 Miles of Trip Still Remains Ahead The Utah at noon today was ap proximately a thousand miles east of Cuba and 1,355 miles from Hampton roads. The sun was probably hotter to day than on any other of the ten days since leaving Rio De Janeiro, but the wind tempered the heat and it was not uncomfortable on deck. The president-elect commented npon the weather, remarking thatj he had had practically perfect conditions throughout his cam-; paign and hot a single bad day during his visits ashore either in Central or South America. Dur ing the 28 days that he has been at sea in this Pacific and Atlantic oceans during this trip, he has encountered only one storm, that met by the U. S. S. Maryland when crossing Tehuantepec hay, off the coast of Mexico. That storm last ed only ondi night and part of a day. The last outdoors event on board the tJtah was held tonight on the quarterdeck. It consisted of a vaudeville show and three boxing bouts between the light weight, welterweight and middle weight candidates that the Utah is putting forward as contenders for the championships of the scouting j fleet. TO BE NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. (AP) Surgeon-general Cummings to day set January 10, as the date for convening the public health service's national conference on influenza. Decision to hold the conference at that time was announced after a conference between the surgeon-general and Secretary Mel lon of the treasury. Secretary Mellon, whose department has Jurisdiction over the health ser vice it was said, "heartily favored" the conference, particularly the opportunities it would provide to outline intensive research in the disease. Reports from 32 states, public health officials said, indicated to day that influenza declined in prevalence during the holidays. They repeated their belief in the probability that the peak of this wave of influenza has been reached, but still saw the possi bility that cases not yet reported might'be as many as existed dur ing the week ending December 15. A total of 132,682 new cases in 32 states during the week ending December '29 was reported today. Officials estimated this indicated at least 663,410 cases, actually ex isting in these states. Tfrey esti mated more than a million and a quarter cases in 42 states for the week ending December 15. Officials said the conference to be held here would be the largest ever held to study influenza. They noted that little could be done to cut short the present wave, but that Infoririation gained from this may assist ' in curbing the spread in the future. Frugal Scotchman Obtains Fine Boat Service, and How! NEW YORK. Jan. 2. (AP) A Scotchman who crossed the ocean with 25 stweards to wait upon bim and him alone, head ed by a thief steward, an assistant chief steward and a. diningroom cap tain, arrived today. He is Peter Robertson, - of 11iwkow, the only first class passenger aboard the At'henia. which left Scot land's principal seaport ' on Christmas eve. ' Robertson-paid for one first j, class , ppstwgerr-win-to rate. -. v ' INFLUENZA CONFAB Honors Childhood Hero f si MA l p I .iJ'f ll) yawn srt Iinj i : WL j'.'JUMlffl-' mf' ' " " " JS.-V lilt . ji , ml While on his long voyage to the Anarctir, C'oinuiamU-r lijchartl E. Bjrd, loader of the Byrtl exposition to the South Polo, stopped long enough to pay tribute to the man who he sayH inspirvd him in shaping his own career. He laid a wreath at the monument of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer, who lost his life in the Ant arctic Photo shows Commander Bjrd taking the wreath from his aide. Chief Yoonian Charles Ixrfgren. County Superintendents Elect Roy L. Cannon as Association President Howard's Program Sugges tions Approved by Con vention Votes Election of Itoy L. Cannon, su perintendent of Multnomah county schools, as president of the Ore gon County School Superintend ents association, was a concluding feature of the annual convention of that organization here Wednes day. Cannon succeeds the late W. C. Alderman as president. An educational program sug gested by C. A. Howard, state school superintendent, was en dorsed by vote of the association. This program includes sugges tions for enlargement of school administration units wherever pos sible, by a vote of the people, as well as the following features, among others: Reorganization of the daily program of one and two room rural schools to provide for in dividual instruction. The development of standards and a program of studies adapted to the requirements of the small rural high school. Definite provision in the high school program for maintenance of skills and for development of "command of fundamental pro cesses. Continuation And enlargement of provisions for developing an undertaking and appreciation of Oregon among children or the state. A substantial state contribution to public school education to be BOLIVIA TO ACCEPT ARBITRATION OFFER BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 2 (AP) La Paz dispatches to La Nacion tonight said that the Bolivian minister to Washington had been authorized to sign, with certain modifications in the text, the pro tocol for arbitration of the dispute with Paraguay. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. API Word of Argentine's refusal to take part In the Pan-American conference's effort to conciliate the Paraguayan-Bolivian dispute was received tonight as something of a .shock by the delegates for 20 of the American nations. The action withdraws from the field one of the five neutral na tions invited to sit in at the con ference table to inquire into dif ferences between the two repub lics. The other neutrals are the United States, Cuba, Brazil and Uruguay. Of these Brazil alone has not replied thus far to the in vitation. Argentina withdrawal has not the state department. It is the opinion of many delegates to the as yet been received officially by conference that the invitation to take the place made vacant by Argentina will be extended to either Mexico or Panama. Lifeboat Making Its Way Toward U. S. Over Ocean PLYMOUTH. Eng.. Jan. 2. ( AP) The, Dutch lifeboat Schut teVaer which has been tied ' up here since last May after leaving Rotterdam on a proposed trans Atlantic voyage, left today en route to Nw York by way of Lis bon and the Azores. The boat is described "by its in ventor, John P. Schuttevaer as "unsinkabte" and the object of the trip is jto demonstrate this. Schuttevaer, who is captain of 'he craft, is 70 years old. His crew "omprises C. C. Van Lean, mate, ind P. Meyer,; boatswain. ' The - voyage will be v" made - ew irely under canvas. - j. . listiibuted so as to equalize edu cational opportunities. Superintendent Howard dis cussed a number of measures pro posed by the state tax conserva tion commission-. Special refer ence was made to the measure re lating to the cooperative purchase of school supplies through tin; of fice of the county superintend ents. The county superintendents promised to hack this measure. although it was said that several counties additional clerical help would have to be provided to care for the extra work entailed. The legislative committee, com posed of A. E. Gronewald of Wasco county, E. A. Sayre of Union county and- Mrs. Mary Ful kerson of Marion county, present ed the report of the Oregon State Teachers' association. This com (Turn to Page 2. Please.) METROPOLITAN AIRPORT. Los Angeles, Jan. 2. (AP) A new world's endurance flight mark for feminine fliers was set today by Miss Bobbie Trout, 19 year old Los Angeles girl, wherf she landed her Golden Eagle plane at 6:36 p. m.. tonight, set ting a new continuous flight time of 12 hours and 11 minutes. Miss Trout officially broke the record by remaining aloft for 9 hours and six minutes. The best previous time was eight hours six minutes, but a new record cannot be official unless it excels the pre vious mark by an hour. She in tends to fly until forced down by lack of fuel. Miss Trout, who previous to starting the endurance flight early today had a record of 150 hours flying, set her .plane down in the dark of night with an abil ity that won plaudits from male pilots and aviation enthusiasts. who were awaiting her at Metro politan airport. Floodlights on the field revealed to the young avlatrtx that a huge welcoming crowd pushed into the danger zone in front of her dropping plane, but she circled and landed in the dusky far edge of the light ed zone, slid toward the crowd. and then wheeled about as the crowd broke from the police lines. Army aviators applauded her keen thinking when, after an ex hausting 12 hours in the air. Miss Trout switched off her motor im mediately upon coming to a stop. $1500 Reward AVIATRIX SUCCEEDS IN Ml RECORD Capture of Fiend Slayer ' Of Twelve Year Old Grl SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 2. fAP) Spurred on by one of the most baffling murder mysteries in this city's history and by a $1, 500 reward offered by state and county, peace officers continued their efforts tonight to run down the slayer of little June Nelson, whose mutiliated body was found in a creek near here yesterday. Discovery of the 12-year-old child's shoes and galoshes in the same stream where her body was discovered yesterday, shed little light on the case today". They were some two miles downstream, bat their condition led officers to the belief that they had been thrown there, probably from the road that skirts the stream and from which the child's body had been cast. . j ; Her hat and other articles of her clothing are still missing, and search was continued for these. ' A possible clue to the identity of the slayer was . uncovered today when residents of the neighbor hood of the home of the girl's par ents, told ot being accosted by a yoang man, bat lew and with sleek E CBUCIJITEST OF Question Mark Now Believed Reasonably Certain to Make Record Flyer Receives Spray of Gas olir.e in Face While Transfer is Mad METROPOLITAN AIRPORT. Los ;Angeles. Jan. 2. (AP) With the crucial first 24 hours of continuous flight ?afely behind rti the army refueling endurance tet idane Question Mark, tonight was nearlng the time record set in th only previous American refuelin endurance test. Already having re mained in the air 35 hours. The trlmotored Fokker at 8:4 o'cloc'-ft.' here tooay will have passed tb mark of 3 7 hours. 15 minutes, 4d seconds, made in August. 1923. oy Lieutenants Lowell Smith ami Paul Richter. in ah army plane at Rockwell field. San Diego. The present world record, 60 hours and 7 minutes, was made oy two wei- gian army fliers at Tirlenwrnf, Belgium. last June. Steadily purring over, a li "ourse between here and San Diego, the Question Mark late this afterrtoon swung about the Met ropolitan airport Pylo. A mes sage was dropped requesting that Rockwell field's supply plan- be notified to nte'et the big Fokker along the coast near San Digo with 250 crallons of gasoline. Th plane's schedule calls for refuel-1 ling at 4 p. in., at midnlKto, and it 8 a. m. daily!, according to a plan adopted 1-y Major Cafl Spat, ommanding officer, and dro'pjMHl here today. Refueling lrov'ss IKsTart'd Easily Ifctnc Tle Question Mark's log. a copy of winch was dropped in sec tions here, reported today that night refueling "is easy."' The dec laration was made after the first night refueline was accomplished over San Diego at midnight with Captain Eaker, pilot, who handles the controls during the refueling contacts, as its author. However. Major Spatz, who handles the re ceiving end of the gasoline bos, was obliged to make a varyinpr re port when he recorded tha the first aid kit was used as the result of the retreating hose eprayig his face with a shower of gasottae. ' 'The reacting hose gave a gasoline shower which was dis tributed over the face and eye principally,' Major Spatzs' mt ; sage read. "The first aid kit was used and zinc oxide applied. Noth ing serious." "The overflow filled the aMa with gas fume's which had nt all departed at this lime, 1 a m. Our clothes have proven amply wars. I have taken off my leather Jer kin for comfort." Flyer's Eyesight Sot Badly Impaired Assurance that Major Spat e sight was not affected by the; Car oline drenching he received im (Turn to Page 2, Please.) O.'P. Coshow New Supreme Court Chief Justice O. P. Coshow, democrat. Wed ¬ nesday became chief justice ot the state supreme court. He succeeds Justice J. L. Rand, and' will serve for a period of two years. ; 1 Chief Justice Coshow . an nounced that he would retain-his present office location until men. time as remodeling operations In the supreme court building are' completed. He then will raeve into the offices now occupied by - the attorney general. The rooms previously occweled by the state printing depart nwnt are being remodeled, and aeow completion, will be occupied by the attorney general and state su perintendent of public instructtea. Put up for PLAN PISSES hair, on Monday evening sacni before the girl disappeared. One woman as she alighted frosa a street car, was seized by the man. who fled when she screened; Another woman said she foaad a man of the same description re net apartment in that neighborhood when she returned home last Frt. day evening. She said he ram . when she screamed. Other reel j dents of the vicinity saw a yeeac 1 man there Monday night who they said acted ' suplcionsly. Police also revealed today that j a youth has been frequenting pen. ' lie coasting lanes here this win. ter, invlegling young girls inte bis , automobile on pretense of arrest, ing them, and then attempting attack them, - T The cause of the girl's eeata was strangulation, a- cityl say clan reported today after n -. performed an autopsy. i -f. Her i face - was - anderneatfe tee water when her body was feead, v and It, hrt been .'thooght, -might not hare been dead when she was thrown ; there, . bu kad . drowned before she :-coal V- herself to the bank.-. ,. - , -. j.' - -v i .- - ' f ' , . " -f