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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
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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
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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".
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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---
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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
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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
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