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PHONE ,500 i WEATHEB ; 7 - - ... ... I - Generally I fair : r todays - Light : ground . toga-; 'o change la temperature. 3pax. temperature- 41; Mia, 23; River S.3 No rata, : , If your- copy of the States- Is ot on your porch br --.' . :80 aw m. call COO and copy . will be delivered at once. - - - - - j. -JJ, rNo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Avot" rUSSL SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, January 11,1929 FOBOERIiii; cbefefler ViB . ? Hf TS Ema Scission Of TAX CROUP iS I Ketired I HI fl7F SWFFPS . HIT IN SENATE: emPl 9ust QF A. WOOD Congress Will Be KHTROUBLE I 1 LARGE HOTELS; Mysterious Thefts of Genu ine Documents Also Dis- cussed &y -Solon's' American, Embassy inMex ico City Loses Over 200- k Valued Papers f .i WASHINGTON, Jan; te fAP) Tale of ;the mysterious ; disappearance, 'f estate" documents ana ineir equally mysterious re covery- today formed i another chapter for the long record on Capitol Hill; involving Mexican documents and Russian docu ments, now branded as forgeries. in which the names of United States Senators appeared freely as purported recipients of rich ' sums of money. .testimony taaen before a sen ate committee which investigated ,tne subject showed an account by a state department official who told of the disappearance and sub sequent recovery of 200 or more papers belonging to the American embassy In Mexico City. They were turned over, the testimony said, by George Barr BaUN & former newspaperman ' but ! fwhere Mr Baker got them was ' not made clear. Borah and Xorris Demand Fall Probe Incidentally, the testimony showed-, that Senator Borah of Idaho, who, with Senator Norris of Nebraska, was named in docu ments published yesterday as having received ? 100,0 00 each from Soviet Russia, had demanded an official Investigation by the American government to deter mine who forged' these papers which yesterday were branded as spurious by Chairman Reed, of the committee. I Borah today said he had initiat ed steps to hare the Russian gov ernment find out who. tbe forger was. The committee's record also in cluded a typewritten note purport ing to show that the Soviet Am bassador at Paris had authorized payments to Ivy Lee, who runs a New York publicity organization and who recently wrote a book on Russia. , ,- The records likewise embodied a statement from Chairman Reed that "there is reason , to believe tlrat the typewriter on which they! (the documents), were written lsj one of those which was In the Soviet embassy at i Paris." Be yond this, however,' he said, the committee had been unable to find out who manfactured the papers. Under questioning by the com mittee, headed by Senator Reed, republican, of Pennsylvania. Ar. thur Bliss Lane, chief of the Mexican affairs division of the state department, after negotia tions obtained almost 300 papers from Baker which had come from Mexico, and 200 of which were genuine documents taken from the American embassy. SIGHT III ONE EYE LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 (AP) Mrs. Thtlma Sanford, 19, asserted liquor runners' revenge victim, who was stricken blind here Sunday night after she had had drinks with friends, tonight had recovered the sight of one eye. As soon as her condition will permit, detectives plan to question her as to the identity of a man known as "Jack" who left liquor at her apartment Saturday. The friends who drank with her Sun day were not affected. Mrs. Sanford and her sister, Mrs. Juanita Burnsv who is now with her, obtained evidence while working ' in the federal custom , service at El Paso, Texas, last year which lad to the conviction of two airplane liquor smugglers at KoBwell, N. M. detectives are in vestigating on the theory that Mrs. Sanford was poisoned for revenge. I LIQUOR VICTIM HftS Scientists Gather to Find Means of Combating Flu Epidemic; Fear New Wave WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (AP) Fnoiic neaun omciais ana scientists from all over the Unit ed States mobilized here today for an attack on influensa which for weeks has been spreading over the country. They gathered, however, with out the presence of 4he commander-in-chief, Surgeon-General .Hugh ; S. Curamingr who called for the mobilisation only to find himself afflicted with the disease and un able to attend when the session began.' - i ? ,"" . Assistant Surgeon-General Dra per, presiding tor D. Camming, appointed . three committees ; on epidemiology,', prevention and re search; to summarize the deliber ations; and report them in a form which' may be distributed to the public! for Information. - :;. While public - faealth . officials i :-ffr unnl wmVa kin IvMtn iitad txtensive stockholder; un Standard Oil; Company to Depose Stewart - NEW YORK, Jan. 10. (AP) John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. dis closed today that he Is mobilizing his forces. In. ah effort to oust Col. Robert W, Stewart: from ' the chairmanship, of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana at the stock holders meeting March .7." Col. Stewart declined to. resign when requested by Mr; Rdckefeller after the colonel's refusal to , answer eertkin Questions 'before the-sen ate Teapot- Dome--Investigation committee last spring. Mr. Rockefeller made public a form letter which Le has mailed to stockholders requesting those opposed to ; Col. Stewart's reelec tion to Join the movement to oust him by mailing stockholders prox ies, properly signed and witnesses, in order that the stock may be voted against Stewart's candidacy. Mr. Rockefeller then pointed out that he had announced pub licly at the time that letter was addressed to Col. Stewart that the request was made because of less of confidence in the colonel,' and In the belief that the oil company best would be served by his resig nation. - Mr, Rockefeller stated that although eight months had passed. ' CoL Stewart had not re plied to the letter. Most of Gervais Population Present at Trial; Three Boys Accuse Mr. and Mrs. Peter Becker of Gervais were found guilty of as sault and battery following a trial in Justice court Thursday after noon that was attenaea oy a crowd that packed the small court room and overflowed out Into the hallway. It was commonly re ported that two-thirds of the pop ulation of Geryais was on hand to observe developments. The convicted pair will be sen tenced this morffing at 10 o'clock. It was announced by JusticeJoI, tne I'eace amau. T - One after, another the three youths who ; were beaten by the elderly couple, each recounted his version of the affair that took place at the Becker home Sunday of this week. The defendants both declared that their grievance dated back to Christmas day They were away from home that day, they asserted, and the three lads, Alfred Bowley, Tony Lyicke and Maurice Stolz, all of Gervais, came to their place to buy some cream. Two lads who are staying at tbe Becker home were on hand and sold them the cream, but the Beckers assert that before the trio left they had ransacked the house In search of wine, and that some time during the course-of this procedure two ten dollar bills dis appeared. This currency and its its w Hereabouts remained a mys tery after Thursday's trial was rinished. One of the lads admit ted that he had found some wine, nowever, but declared that he did not drink it "because It was too sour." Plotting to avenge themselves on the youths for these alleged depredations, Mr. and Mrs. Beck er had an invitation issued to them to return Sunday. A jug was willed wih water and a yeast (Turn to Page 2, Please.) , Bank Reelects All Directors All officers and directors of the Salem Bank ' of Commerce were reelected at the annual meeting iield Thursday. Dr. B. L. Sleeves is president, i S. B. Elliott vice president, H. V. Compton cashier and A. W. Smither assistant cash i3r. Dr. Steeves, Mr. Elliott and I. C. Perry are directors. !the disease. the session was only a .few hours old when Dr. G H. Blgelow, state health officer of Massachusetts, startled the' gath ering with the announcement that in his, opinion no influenza, epi demic existed. 1 c ' ' - He declared he was tired of reading newspaper accounts aboa the supposed epidemic, and said that graphs i and charts, - which have been issued, are nothing more than reports on the panic tot the nation. r " - .Dr. Camming in a message read 10 me session reueratea a recent l warning by. the public health, vice-that a more severe epidemic might follow .the. present outbreak. Dr,.Erwln O. Jordan,, of n the University of Chicago, Ya member of a committee which has been in vestigating ' Influenza" and pneu monia for 10 years, praised efforts of tbe public health' service to bb- tainlhfortnatlon about lnrruenza.' BECKERS CONVICTED on assault coumr i i iul ui ii ii i u l.u ; f - - . -rr : . -ir r .t r niiiiiiiiii i i iiii i iji - iiiii n i n unui n Both Men Declare Intended .Victim's Estranged Wife Employed Them - "-V ' - f ' - - . Fourth" Member of ' Quartet Set Free as Reward for : Y ! Being' Informer . DETROIT, u Jin: lO.r(AP)- Warrants charging assault with intent to kill will be: recommend ed; Prosecutor James E. Chenot said today, against Mrs. Grace M Wood and two of four men she Is accused of having engaged ' to take for a ride," her wealthy husband. Ralph A. Wood. The two men are William Thompson, 24, and Taylor Pierce, 30, both of whom charged Mrs. Wood had hired them to slay her husband so that she might collect his S100. 000 life insurance and inherit bis real estate business. Ambrose L. Hagerty, 27, was shot and killed in a police ambus cade at Wood's: office -In Wyan dotte, a suburb last night, as he attempted to blackjack the real estate man. The fourth man In the alleged pldt, Cecil Holt,j an accountant, turned informer, and It' was his story that Iedvto pre parations to shoot down the would-be assassins Holt said he bad informed Wood of the alleged plot as it was broached to him. Prosecutor Chenot said Holt would not be held as a police wit ness. Woman Weakens After Making Flat Denial Decision to recommend war rants was reached after the prose cutor had questioned Mrs. Wood for the third time today. She ad mitted, he said, that she met Hag erty and Holt on two occasions yesterday, and that she was pres ent with them in the evening at the rooms of Thompson and Pierce.. She said Chenot added. hat Hagerty. Holt. Pierce and (Turn to Page 10, Please.) 6EHL BOOTH TO I ASKED TO QUIT Delegation Will Walt on Aged Salvation Army I Leader in Near Future SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, Jan. 10. (AP) Members of the high council of the Salvation Army started to mark time tonight while deputation of seven councillors prepared to visit General Bram- well Booth with a proposal that he voluntarily retire from active duty. This proposal was framed at a session of the council which ended at noon, adjournment be ing taken until Saturday when the reply of the commande ris expect ed. It was emphasized that by re tirement from active duty Gener al Booth would not be deprived of he honors and dignities of his office. The sudden turn in affairs re sulted largely from publication in a London newspaper of a digest of letter sent to the council by the general on January 6t In this let ter -the commander had proposed that control of the .affaire of the army should be put" in a commis. sion which would include Evange line Booth, leader of the reform element, and Catherine Booth who has been her father's "right hand man.' The council found Itself unable to agree to this plan and had de cided to offer the counter-proposal of retirement It had been in tended, however, that these ne gotiations should not be divulged until some decision - had been reached, thus giving the general opportunity to retire in a more or less voluntary manner "and with out suffering the odum of a for mal vote against him. Publication of his letter, however, upset this procedure. IS STARTED AGAIN PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1G. (AP) The flag of truce 400 Portland dealers and garagemen hoisted last night In an effort to halt the '"gas war" was hauled down, today with . slashed prices being offered at various stations. Continuation of the "war" foi lowed tbe refusal of dealers -outside an organization perfected last night to sell motor fuel at a min imum price of 21. cents, forcing members of the newly formed or ganization to protect themselves. .. .Even the edict of three major oil companies that unless price slashing ceased .? they .' would no longer be furnished gasoline did not prove eneeuve oecause oi rau ens IB ser-rare .of other oil companies to take a similar stand. " The 400 dealers and garagemen last night formed the Portland Gasoline . Dealers Protective as sociation. Solicitation "of member ship was under way today with a view toward building .up 'the. or ganization until strong enough to Srard - off future "gas wars. Congressman Hawley of Salem Makes Forecast After . Long Conference -With President-EIeci Hoover; - Farm Relief-and Tariff Revision to be Chief Issues Settled " . : " WASHmGTON, Jan.-10. (AP) Herbert. Hoover gave today ov er to conferences' chiefly with con gressional 'leaders on the ques tions of farm relief and tariff re visions and bis last caller, Repre sentative Willis-C-Hawley, of Ore. gon, after being closted with the President-elect' for . some time-, forecast "an extra session about the middle of April to tackle both. Hawley, chairman of the pow erful house ways and means com mittee which already. has started hearings on tariff revision, em phasized that he was voicing his own views. as Mr. Hoover himself had said nothing on the subject.. The Oregon member, however, said it was his opinion the new congress would be called together about the middle of April, and that an attempt would be made to put tariff and farm relief bills through- by July 4." , Hoover's Promise To Fanners Recalled During the campaign Mr. Hoo ver promised to call a special ses sion if the farm problem were not disposed of by present congress and although Chairman McNary of the senate agriculture committee TO MEET NEXT WEEH Annual Session of Oregon Council in Salem Thurs day and Friday The program of the Oregon Co operative council annual meeting. ivhlch will be held m saiem Thursday and Friday of next weeK was announced Thursday. Sessions will be held in the Salem chamber of commerce auditorium. The first meeting will open at 1:30 p. m. Thursday, with an ad dress of welcome by Governor Pat terson following initial, routine business. Addresses at the after noon session will Include: "Signlf icance of Proposed Changes In Oregon's Cooperative Laws," by Arthur A. Goldsmlty, Portland attorney. "Plans for a National Organ isation of Cooperatives," R. A, Ward, manager of the Pacific Co operative Wool Growers. General discussion and appoint ment of committees will follow. The annual banquet will be held Thursday night at :30 o'clock at the Marlon hotel. A representative of each member organization will respond to roll call with a five minute report on the status of the organization represented, includ ing number of members, volume of business in 1928, and other in formation. On Friday morning, beginning at 9:30, an address will be given. "Analysis of Farm Relief Bills," by Dr. M. N. Nelson, O. S. C. There will be one other address which has not yet been announced, and a report oi the council s legisla tive committee. In the afternoon James G. Bretherton, United States bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, will discuss "Foreign Markets for Oregon's Farm Products." V. C. Follenius will lead open discussion of this subject with respect to fresh fruits, John F. White con cerning dried fruits and J. W. MayO, canned products. The afternoon program will in clude a report of the resolutions commutes, general business of the session and election of officers. Al Smith Slated To Make Speech On Radio Hookup '1. V- - - ; t ' '', NEW YORK, Jan. 10. (AP) The democratic national commit tee announced today that former Governor Alfred. E. Smith. would speak over the red network of 32 stations of the National Broad casting company next Wednesday evening,' January 16, at 8:30 o'clock .Eastern . Standard Time. His subject was not announced. ' The stations will Include WEAF, New York; WBAL, Baltimore; WRC, Washington; WCAE, Pitts burgh; WTAM, Cleveland; WW J. Detroit;- WSAI, Cincinnati; WGN and. WLIB, Chicago; KSD. St. Louis; WOCt Davenport, la; WHO, Des Moines, la. i WOW. Omaha; KGW, Portland, Ore.; KOMO, Se attle; K HQ, Spokane; KOA, Den ver; and KSL, Salt Lake City. ' 3 High Mexican Officials Slain MEXICO CITY, Jari. 10. ( AP :From a muddle of reports from Atatonllco. state of Hidalgo, to night' It appeared that three men. one of them a general In the Mex ican army, bad been killed in a clash there last night, while a fourth. Jose G. Parres, under-sec-retary of agriculture, at first re ported dead himself, had -escaped and .-was seklag to return to Mex ico City.- COOPERAT IVES has a measure pending and a num ber of .members, in both the, sen ate and 'house have expressed a desire1' that this subject be;settled bythe Hoovetadmlnlstratlon.'tbe tariff work. now under way by the ways and means .commlttee.'is in tefidedjo jerervaa. a. basis." for; leg lslaUon'.ta be-eaaeted. at either a special session' of the regular ses sion which will start next Decem ber, ; In this connection Mr. Hawley said he believed house members from the midwest do not wish farm legislation to come up at the present session of congress and added, that the farm question and the tariff were closely allied and should be put through together. . Close Relationship Of Two Issues Seen , "Tariff Is the greatest relief the farm--has or ever will have, he declared. The tariff hearing by his com mittee, he said, would be complet ed durlag the present session and tbe work of drafting the bill then would be turned over to sub-com mittees. He said he expected the sub-committee would have their work In shape by April 20. Ap proximately fifteen percent of the items now on the tariff lists, he said, would be affected. "In my judgment," he contin ued. we should have Hn extra session and have it early, to get through by the Fourth of July. so that the farmers could have the advantages of tariff adjustment this crop season. From the stand point of business also, that would- be better, for the sooner we let the country know what the tariff Is to be, the sooner they can ad just manufacturing and prices cor respondingly." Thursday In on By The Associated Press The national conference on In fluenza was started. Herbert leaders on outlook. Hoover consulted the special session The house debated the bill to reapportion its membership on the basis of the 1930 census. The senate unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement for a vote on the Kellogg i anti-war treaty. The federal trade commission resumed its inquiry on public utilities publicity. The house ways and means committee started hearings on the second schedule of the tar iff act, earthenware and glass ware. Congressional action on the Hawes-Cooper bill to regulate Interstate commerce on prison made goods was completed by the house. The name of George Barr Ba ker, former newspaperman, was brought into a senate committee testimony' In connection with Mexican documents. Former Secretary Work and Attorney General Sargent told a senate committee about the stopping of a grand jury inves tigation of Commissioner Burke of the Indian bureau. IGIBLE OFF PORT ST. JOE. Fla.. Jan. 10. (AP) The navy dirigible Los Angeles resumed her Florida cruise late today, and taking a southwesterly course from the ten. der Patoka in St. Jesph'a bay, here, slipped out of sight behind the clouds. The dirigible, which left her base at Lakehurst, N. J. Tuesday night, was bearing out into . the Gulf of Mexico, but before leaving the mooring mast. Lieutenant Commander Rosendahl said the craft would pick a route taking it over a number of Florida cities before returning to the Patoka to morrow. . j ' The Los Angeles arrived at the Patoka at 11:30 o'clock this morn ing after bucking a southerly wind all night as she was tamed from her course to Miami, Fla., to cross the peninsula and seek ' a mooring in St. Joseph's bky. ;" " -.-Commander Rosendahl. said hlsj tog was incomplete ana maae lit tle comment en the ' flight ' last night over' many Isolated places in tb sparsely settled districts of westers Florida. .Tb commander said the ship was delayed hyths fores of the south wind, and that visibility was poor." The re-was log and rain fell at times. At 1,000 feet altitude -he -"w - able- to make sS- knots' an Kbur.Cl. . JL. Wachingt Entire . uay consumed in . Conferences With Bank ers and Financiers : Everybody Wants Levy Put - on Everybody Else,-Com-., ; ; 'mittee Finds . - PORTLAND, Ofe. Jan. 10.4- ,'(AP-VThe fburthsubcommit: tee" .of the property' tax relief commission, .faced. numerous com plications today as it continued efforts to whip a draft for the proposed exeise -tax into shape for submission to the legislature. ' The subcommittee spent practic ally the entire day in conferences with bankers, representatives of building and . loan associations with state tax commissioner Fish, er and State Superintendent of Banks Schramm attending. Banks are desirous of having what they termed "competing cap ital" taxed, these being loan asso ciations which represent a large amount of money, the associa tions want, as deductions. Inter est paid on money for shares as part of the expense of operation, but above six per cent they favor applying a tax. Exemptions Subject Of Much Disousskm In the draft of the California excise bill which is being used as a pattern, sky scrapers are ex empted on the theory that they pay a heavy real property tax and would have no personal tax offset as a sky scraper company prob ably has nothing more than a desk and a few chairs. However, the subcommittee ar gued over permitting this exemp tion to appear In the Oregon bill and arrived at no conclusion. The exemption was fostered by build frig managers in California cities. but they are few in Oregon. Applying the excise tax on con cerns doing installment saies uia not meet with the enthusiasm of Commissioner Fisher. He believed this class of business could be handled better if it was left out of the bill. Much Grief Foreseen In Collecting: Levies The business affected would be dealers In furniture, automobiles, radio and similar enterprises where the installment plan is followed. This same question came up under the 1923 income tax law and caused tbe collecting departments of the state much grief. No provision Is made In the pro posed excise bill for deducting the federal law permits a deduc tion of the federal Income tax it would be a point of much dispute. Such a deduction would make a difference of three fourths of one per cent on the rate, it was said. One section proposed exempting public utilities. Commissioner Fisher explained this was handled in a different manner and assert ed that the very mention of such exemption would bring protests from the public. The subcommittee will have a draft ready for the legislature next week, but committee hearings on many controversial points prob ably will be held in Salem. JUGO SLAV SOUS FID FOR KEEPS BELGRADE, (By Telephone to Vienna) Jan. 10. (AP) Dis missal today of several hundred officials and employes attached to the Skupstina, or Jugo-Slavian parliament, was accepted here as indication that that body will re main suspended under the new dictatorship of King Alexander for a long time, perhaps indefi nitely. - . . t . . . At the same time there were other indications that possibly in the near future the government will undertake negotiation, of 'a loan with an English group, and will dismiss half of those now connected with the civil service, retiring some on "pension and maintaining others at half their annual wage. King Alexander today had a long conference with Dr. Vojislav Markinkovitch, foreign minister in tbe newly formed cabinet, re garding the tri-uneklngdom's for eign policy, in which,; it is fore cast, there will be no change. It was announced afterwards that Dr. Markinkovitch will leave Sat urday for Davos, Switzerland, to recuperate from an illness which nearly has incapacitated him. Legislature to i? Meet t 4 Year t Intervals; Plan Reports here Thursday, indicat ed that' a proposed constitutional amendment would be referred td the voters of Oregon at the next election providing for a "session" Of the leglslaturs-every four', years instead of erery two years under the existing laws, . - It was said that ths amendment would be similar to ths one now.in effect in Alabama, where lh leg islature hold a session every four yaarar.jrj.. : rr : 1". ': mKK-A-- Aen: , -;Aw L i Commander, Evangeline. Booth above, head of the Salvation Army in America, who may succeed her brother. General Br am well Booth, below, comniander-in-rhlef of the Army, who has been asked by the Army's high council to retire. Ml ADMITS DEATH PACT WITH SPOUSE Arrangements Told Whereby Divorced Wife and He Were to be Killed SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 10. (AP) An amazing story of a, death pact by which Garland Wil liams, 28, was. to kill bis former wife, and then; submit to execu tion by the stake, was elated to police by Williams today Btter his arrest on a charge of murdering the -woman, Mrs. Lorraine Am brose, who was found choked to death here last Sunday. Williams said Mrs. Ambrose had begged him to turn on the gas so they might die together, but he had refused, eaying he could never commit suicide. I agreed to kill her, and then give myself up so that the law would take care of my death," po lice said Williams told them. They added that Williams' story had the ring of truth, although several points required investigation. The prisoner said he had "several lit tle things to attend to," and had deferred surrendering until his af fairs were In order. Williams said he and his wife were happy together for four years, until they were separated by 'a double crossing friend" whom he had employed as a steve dore, and who carried tales to Mrs. W'llliams. "She left me, and I did not fol low her or molest her." police quoted Williams as saying. "Last Thursday she came to my room and wanted to talk things over. She could not live without me.She said. She wanted me to kill her and then commit suicide, but I told her I couldn't do that." Burglars Visit Two Residences Two houses on North 19th street were entered, evidently by the-same burglar or burglars, Thursday night. At the home of George C. -Clark, 1945 North 19th whteh'was entered through a win dow which had been . left open, about. $5 in change was taken. The uninvited visitors obtained nothing, at the home of ; E. L. Brunk, 1225 North'19th. . Permits to Appropriate Water Total 1176 in Two Years; Power Small Item .. Approximately. 1176 permits to appropriate water from Oregon streams were issued during the past . two years, according to the biennial, report of Rhea Luper, stats engineer, which .was -filed with Governor ' Patterson here Thursday. Ths -permits covered 8176 cubic ' feet - pert second of water for various purposes.,;-' ' Power does sot seem to be a large factor!, ,'read ths report, "as the development of but 35,811 horsepower is' covered by the per mits Issued during the biennium." " The construction of 23 dams is contemplated for the' storage of ?0,ST. acre feet! J Among; ths largo pormlta is that for the Owy hee project, which willi irrigate approximately 127,000 acres at a eoat f about lf .000.000. ' A' permit. Mr. Luper explained, does not become a vested s right until "the 'contemplated work has been completed and tbe water ap plied to a "beneficial use, - When 24 Companies Combint to' Bring Flames Under Con-s- trol; Loss Large Heroic Rescue Work Wit nessed by Large Crowds--- - Filling Streets -V SEATTLE. Jan" lb.--(Ap . Half an .hour after a fjre started on -a , downtown corner here to night, 1 24 fire companies had brought the blaze under control. The flames afe their way throng the Seneca hotel and badly saw. aged the adjacent Victoria betel and neighboring buildings. Te -persons were" carried unconscious ', to safety. Twelve others were believed by ' firemen to be trapped in flames that were eatine their war through the two 'hotels and ad joining stores. At 11 o'clock t night police and ' firemen h4 carried out nine - semLcossrsons persons. -- - -. An explosion in the Model EJee- trie laundry, to which fire snraad before.. tire, .apparatus arrived-. rocked neighboring downtowa buildings and spread the firs through adjacent structures. . The blase was reported when a thin trail of black smoke was coa ing out of the transom of tbe American Stationery store, wear the corner of Seneca and First avenue. When firemen arrived tbe blaze had spread to the hotels and nearby stores, and the explosion burst the entire corner into fire, , Heroic Act of Fireman Haves Woman With the explosion a woman im ... night attire appeared at a, third story window of the Seneca hotel screaming and apparently ready to leap. Hundreds of onlookers shrieked at her not to leap as the first of the fire trucks arrived. . Before firemen bad begun run ning up ladders-to rescue people who had appeared at a ! nuub-r of windows of tbe two hotels Policeman W. M." Palmer das bed ; into the blazing Seneca and seized ;i the woman as she collapsed. The J crowd cheered the officer as. bo ! reached the street carrying Jlho -itni' conscious woman.- ;. Firemen brought eight" othens overcome by smoke to - safety "H " " rapid succession. They searching other rooms for (Turn to Page 10, Please.) HAS GIRL FOB WF. LOS ANGELES, Jan. It. (AP) Katherine Wing, who yes terday frustrated officers' at tempt to prosecute her on Mais Act charges when she revealed that she was a woman posing as a man, faced the possibility of an other court action today wbea bs admitted having been married to Eileen Carnet. - The girl who was raised oa a ranch In Tintio, Utah, said that she has always worn men's etoth ing. Two years ago, she said. be MUM ft Q met Miss Carnet in Los Angeles, and married her. She said the , ceremony was performed by a Jus tice of the peace in Santa Ana. Calif. The marriage was happy, Miss Wing' said, and finally was brok en off because Miss Carnet's par ents and other relatives came to live with them. She then re turned to Utah. She came here : three months ago bringing Stella Harper with her. Miss Wiag ; posed as a man and was employed ' as a barber. A Mann Act charge,, was filed against her when it was discovered that she was not star- '-: ried to the girl. ; . Officers say that it Is a feloay under California law to take part -In sjjeh. a marriage as that Misc ; ' Youngdescribes in San fa Aaa. The girl Is being held for Santa . Ana officers. ."'.,,' ;, the right Is completed, a water, right certificate, .showing evi dence of title. Is' issued for, the quantity of water, actually uswd. . . In the past . two years. f 4$ water right certificates . were is sued under permits, covering the' appropriation of 4 CO cubic feet. per seconds ' The ..water Is , for the Irrigation of 20,700 of land and for the- development . of 10SS I theoretical , horse pewer.. A total of 210 certificates www is-, sued 'for domestic municipal por- poses, 45 for mining,-and SI Cor water supply for: propagation fish and fur, bearing animal. The report shows the prog-ass of " adjudication proceeding tmU tlated 'before the state u' Jl ' river systems, .aaa water rights bow. being adjudicat ed by the state engineer lac&sde those of the Jehu Day river. tTJ- la Walla river, Cow Creekr' river, IHmols river.-and (Turn-to Page 10. Pleas y sr. -A s t : "-Mr ';.'i'v .v.;,