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SATISFACTION We guarantee satisfactory carrier delivery for the Statesman. If you have any trouble about your copy, phone 500. .Weather Unsettled today and Monday. Little change in temperature Max. temperature Saturday 87; min. :(; rain .04; river 8.6. mm JO No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe" ST "-Vlfc SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 267 Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 3, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS PLANS CONFABS WITH PARTYCHIEFS Several Southerners Among Number Called to Con fer With Leader Farm Leader Backs William Jardine for Agriculture Secretary LONG KKY, Fla., Feb . 2 -(AP)-t President-elect Hoover, having finished his second fish ing expedition in this vicinity, prepared late today to give his attention for the next few days to a series of conferences with party leaders and friends concern ing cabinetr appointments and po litical and legislative matters. With this In mind, be has in vited to his vacation home on Bell Isle, Miami Beach, to which he returned tonight. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the senate finance committee; Henry W. Anderson of Richmond, Va.. Mrs. A. T. Hert, national committee-woman for Kentucky: Charles Barrett of Union City Ga., president of the farmers Union, and John Hays Hammond of Washington. Opponent of McXary Hill Support Jardine Mr. Barrett, who has been oik of the chief opponents amonp farm rgani7ation officials of the McNary-Haugen idea of farm re lief, will recommend the re ap point ment of William M. Jardin. os secretary of agriculture. He will urge this selection on th ground that Mr. Jardine has made a capable and efficient officia' and is favored by many farm leaders. With Mr. Anderson the next chief executive was expected to discuss the political situation in Virginia, one of the four states of the solid democrats couth which cast its electrical vote for Mr Hoover, thus turning republican for the first time since recon struction days. Anderson Thoroughly Familiar With State Mr. Anderson is one of the leading republicans of Virginia, and not only was a candidate of his party for governor- -ef that commonwealth, but also has bten In the running for the vice-presidential nomination of Beveral oc casions. He is thoroughly famil lar with conditions in his stat and is expected to be able to give Mr. Hoover verbal information as to the future ofttlook for the party there. Mrs. Hert, who as a vice-presi dent of the republican national committee, had charge of wo men's work in the last campaign, has announced that she seeks no appointment although her name hs been urged for the post of sec retary of the interior. She is spending the winter at Palm Beach and will be a luncheon guest of the President-elect and Mrs. Hoover tomorrow, along with Mr. Anderson, Senator Smoot and Mr. Hammond, who al so is staying at Palm Beach, liindy Entertained With Other Notables Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who is in Miami to open the air mall service to Cristobal. aPnama. Monday morning, also will be a guest . of the President-elect to morrow, but whether for lunch, (Turn to Page 6. Please.) Ad Plate Rushed For Statesman; Postage Record No less than 16.44, the largest amount expended for postage on any air mall package ever to reach Salem, was necessary to rush one plate across the contin ent for an advertisement appear ing in today's Statesman. George Fried, hero commander of the re cent America rescue, Is featured In the advertisement. Postal authorif.es here saved the w.cpper and stamps appear ing on the package as a souvenir of the arrival of the package bearing the largest cancellations of air mall stamps. Committee Reverses Vote On Appropriation; Stray er Forecast Reconsideration There is little chance for abol ishing a state department, orce It 1 established, and Senator Strayer would have all legislators kep this statement, made by him. in mind when voting for ap propriations for the establishment on the following night that the ap of uch departments. propriation requested by the board Senator BU-ayer was speaking! of curricula be authorized. . The before the Join! ways and means j motion was read, and one by one committee on a bill to re-create a most of the members of the corn state board of higher curricula. ;mittee voted for the appropriation. The appropriation was refused by i Two years ago similar action the committee. was taken in connection with an "It is my opinion, gentlemen." effort to abolish the state board remarked Senator Btrayer. "that for vocational education and the you will re-oonsider your action state uealer of weights and meas with relation to this appropriation jures. Both of these appropriations and that it will be reinstated. I were refused by the ways and kave seen appropriations for these: (Turn to Page 5, Please.) H.?. Mow Will Head La Grande Normal School Pendleton Educator Unani mously Selected by Re gents' Board Election of H. E. Inlow, super intendent of schools at Pendleton, as president of the. new Eastern Oregon Normal school, now un der construction at La Grande, was announced Saturday by the state board of normal school re gents. The Pendleton man was unanimously selected after bein nominated by George A. Hartman of Pendleton, a member of the board. Mr. Inlow has served as city superintendent at Pendleton for nine years. Previously he was at Forest Grove for six years. For six years he servtd as a director of the eastern Oregon summer normal school. He is a graduate of the old Ashland normal and received degrees from the Univer ity of Oregon and Stanford uni versity. He was president of the ;:egon State Teachers' associa tion In 1928. The only other candidate placed in nomination was Ethel Redfleld. 'ormerly of Albany, and for three terms state superintendent of schools in Idaho. The names of 15 other candidates were read, but none was placed In nomination. Construction work on the La Grande school probably will be completed about May 1. Mr. In low will take over his new work March 1 at a salary of $4500 a year. His term of office will ex pire Juno 30, 1933. SIM EE ARRIVES Famous Evaitjelist Finally Located After Anxious Hunt by Reporters PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 2 (A P) Aiinee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, flitted in to Portland at 10:40 p.m.. tonight aboard the Shasta limited from California and flitted out again at 11:30 pjn., aboard a northbound train for Vancouver, B. C. where he will conduct a series of re vival meetings. Mrs. McPherson described the hearing of Judge Carlos Hardy be fore the California state legisla ture committee as a "terrible in justice, " and in the same breath branded her reported disappear ance from Los Angeles as "simply silly." "There was no secrecy about my leaving," the evangelfcu said. "I 'eft Los Anecles by automobile Vhursday night and arrived in Sac ramento the following morning, leaving there Friday night at about 10 p.m. "I have read the stories about (Turn to Page 18. Please.) NEW YORK. Feb. 2 (AP) The Norwegian steamship Dagfin which sent out an S O S this af ternoon reporting she was without fuel and drifting helplessly off the Virginia capes, tonight was report ed safely in tow of the American steamship W. E. Hutton. The Dagfin sent her S O S at 3:22 p.m., appealing for the as sistance of a tug. Radio broad, casting ceased for 20 minutes as shore stations waited for further messages, but it was not until sometime later that the naval ra dio naval station at Norfolk, Va., announced receipt of a message from a third vessel reporting that the W. E. Hutton had reached the scene and had a line aboard the Dagfin. The Dagfin. commanded by Cap tain E. W. Johnson, dtachardged a cargo of coal at St. John's N. F. three weeks ago and left later for an unannounced destination. She is a vessel of 12R0 net tons. The W. E. Hutton. a tanker, sailed from Port Arthur. Tex., on Jan. 28 for coastwise points. boards and commissions refused in the past, but as often the doors have reopened and the appropria tion authorized." True to the predictions of Sen- 1 ptr - straver. a motion was made A N mm DISABLED STEAMER ! NOW SAFELY IN TOW 1 STATES IRON OUT TROUBLES IN CONFERENCE I Committees Get Together on Proposed Legislation for Auto Trucks Meager Reports Filter Out Due to Action Barring Newspaper Men OLYMPIA, Wash.. Feb. 2. (AP) Agreement to seek laws that would eliminate the neces sity of both Oregon and Washing ton licenses for freight trucks do ing an interstate business was reached today by committees rep resenting the sto states. Identical bills were drafted by a sub-committee that would call for non-resident registration of such trucks in each state and would also provide for reciproc ity on Issuance of licenses. At present such vehicles must take out licenses In both states. The Washington truck owners complained that the Oregon li cense fee Included a tax and that in effect they were paying per sonal property taxes in both states. Licenses To He Split By Oregon, Washington The bills will be introduced in the Oregon and Washington leg islatures. Inurstate carriers would agree to take half of their licenses in Washington and half (Continued from Page 5.) OVER SNOWDRIFTS Eight Miles Covered in Six Hours to Get to Expectant Mother's Bedside Four feet of snow and a forced trek of five miles over and through the heavy crust which lay on top of it, did not deter Dr. E. H. Hobson of Salem from a professional call to a home in the Detroit district Friday. The stork arrived several hours before the doctor and his two trail breakers could reach the home but mother and child are both out of danger. The last eight miles of the Jour ney took the doctor six hours to make. The Gates and Detroit country has been snowbound ' for days, no trail having previously been broken on the road. Upon his return trip Dr. Hob son slipped and fractured a bone in his wrist. This misfortune was partially offset by a chance to nee nine deer in agroup, a sight never before experienced by the doctor. Detroit people have suffered because of the extreme weather, says Dr. Hobson. Food supplies are low in that community, some homes being out of food. c f DOCTOR MAKES WAY ill ;' i 1 v 7., :-v iw tpWA 1 N llfpllml fAA 4 1 w m 11 W n vs- ji nrSPT H ll- si v H i ji iur . mr Left to right, for secretary of sUUe Charles Evans Hushes, IK WAJUrY-Jr,t AUinson B. HovghUKi, H. P. Fletcher, H M, Robinson, Son. W. . Borah war -Ckn. J. J. Pershing, U. F, Davis, Ben. J. K. Watson, Ben. James Wardworth; attossWijr general ... Bliss HU-awn, Mrs; M. W. WUlebraadt, W. J. Don van interior Thomas K. Camp bell, Mrs. Alvin Hert, I. 8. Gates; labor Hen. It. 8. Oopeisjid. William Green, J. Lu Lewis, Wm. Hntchesoa, Matthew Woil) navy Cnrtts D. W liber, TUy Ll. Wilbur j comnerc" W. F. Brown, Julias Klein, W. F. Whiting, Charles G. Dwesj postmaster general Harry 8, New, J. H. Bartlett, Bascom SletpP, W. Good treasnry Andrew Mellon, O. Lu Mills; asjrlcidtare W. M. Jardine, Sen. Arthur Capper other posalbiU ties Mrs. Raymond Bobbins, Cot H. Anderson, Hubest Week, 11. H. Hogers, lOngme Meyer, A. C Miller, J. Q. Tilson, W. H. Calder. Important Bills Due To Hit House As Deadline Near Old Age Pension, Free Text Books Proposed in Meas ures Expected Interest in legislation is ex pectcd to start with a rush Mon-j day and during the coming week many bills of first importance are due in. "The number of bills introduced during the first fhree weeks of the 1929 legislative session is much smaller than that of other years for the same length of time," de clared A. W. Norblad of Astoria, president "of the senate. "While there are many bills being written they are coming in very slowly," he said. . Ralph S. Hamilton of Bend, speaker of the house, explains the unusual slowness by the fact that there seems to be less demand for legislation than usual, and it is the tendency of the solons not to Introduce bills unless there is a demand for them. Altogether, 344 house bills and 81 senate bills had been intro duced at the end of the first three weeks of the legislative session. Of the 344 house bills, 137 were repeal bills by the committee on repeal of law appointed last ses sion. Monday will see In the house the introduction of the "old age pension" bill, to be presented by Mrs. f-ee, Anderson and Bron ough, of Multnomah. Some time during this week the long await ed Income tax is expected to be dropped in, and explosions will then he heard on every side. The rumblings caused by the intro duction of the excise bill the last weeek will be as mere echoes, members predict. Another bill of state-wide in terest that is expected is to be in the form of a measure that will change the present lien system on automobiles, under which gar ages now work. At present a gar (Turn to Page 18, Please.) OIL DEAL DEFENDED BY G. D. P. SENAT . WASHINGTON, eb. 2. (AP) Republicans of the senate lands committee today rejected a report by Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon tana, censuring the interior and justice departments for their handling of the renewal of the Sinclair contract for Salt Creek royalty oil. Senator Walsh who was sup ported in committee by the demo crats, immediately announced he would go before the senate next week and ask it to pass Judgmen on the report. The report contains severe lan guage respecting the course pur sued by Hubery Work, former secretary fitrfg&tTt0T and now chairmatfJ7feTtepublican Na (Turn tcFrf18, Please.) Hoover Ponders Choice of Candidates for Cabinet :-: . : -,.-9. --.-':;-t-:-;xiv:':-:-:-: yx.:-:.-M f J ft ft if REVOLT AGAIN FLARES UP IN SPANISH ARMY! Commander of Troops at Valencia Defies Author ity of Dictator Meager RepOrtS Filter Out bouef for the murder of her hus . . . band, was brought to light today UUe tO ACtlOn Barring I by Eugene Dreher. his nephew. Newspaper Man 'buried today, Dr. Dreher's at Clin- LONDON. Feb. 3. ( AP) ; ton. La., his boyhood home, and Telephone advices from Madrid; that of Mrs. Lebouef at Morgan Indicate a serious revolt has again i city. broken out in Spain. J Dr Dreher's letter was written The commanding officer at Va.jon the eve of nis execution and lencia is reported to have rc fused jwas entrusted to a reporter with to obey orders and to have defied i the reuest that it be given to the Primo de Rivera. The Premier J Associated Press, has left Madrid by airplane to, Ag j s,t here ,R my ?ad and check the revolt. j lonely death cell tonight with an The palace of King Alfonso islaching heart, I want to write my surrounded by loyal troops police. Newspapermen have anil barred from the vicinity. No confirmation of these reports have been received here from any other sources. MADRID, Feb. 2 (AP The official newspaper today publish ed a decree naming as inspector general of the third military dis trict at Valencia General Sanjur jo with extraordinary powers. Inquest Held In Death of Spouse Of Ball Player WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 2. (AP) An inquest into the deathl of Mrs. George 11. (iiabe) uutn, who was fatally burned in a fire at the home of Dr. George H. Kin der, Watertown, two weeks ago,; was held in district court today. Dr. Kinder was questioned by Judge M. J. Connolly, who con-i ducted the inquest. He testified only concerning his whereabouts at the time of the fire. He said that he was attending a boxing match in Boston. Dr. George L. West, medical ex aminer, testified that an autopsy on Mrs. Ruth's body revealed no evidence of foul play". Judge Connolly reserved his findings. Two Men Accused Of Making Booze J. X. Welter and Elmer Bul leque of West Stayton were ar rested and. brought to Salem Sat urday where they were lodged in the county jail charged with op erating a still. Officers declared they confiscated a 55 gallon still in a shed on Welter's premises. They also took two gallons of moonshine and three 200 gallon vats, practically empty, they said. A v 1 Innocence Protested By Doctor In Final Letter To World Before Death Mrs. Lebouef and He Not Lovers, He Says; Trap per Held Murderer FRANFKLIN, La., Feb. 2. jAP) A farewell message to the i world from Dr. Thomas E. Drc 'her, who was hanged here yester- dav with Mrs. Ada Bonner Le- , i His body and that of Mrs. Le ' j bouef, his alleged paramour, were ast message to the living people 0?en:of this world who knew some thing of this tragedy," the mes sage said. "I want theie words to be pub lished to the world. "I wish they could be given the same prominence in the press and over the radio as our trial was given. Innocence Protested Until Very Last "This is my message: Poor Mrs. Lebouef and I go to our doom tomorrow. Two inno cent souls. 'I may not have a chance to say anything tomorrow before they hang me. Mrs. Lebouef, I be lieve, is too sick to be able to say anything. That is why I am writing this. "Neither Mrs. Lebouf nor I fear We do not fear death be cause we have made our peace with God and we will soon be FIRST MOVE MADE TO MERGE 2 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (AP) -The first of a series of financial tand legal moves to bring to a head the contemplated consolidation of eastern trunk line railroads was Instituted today before the inter state commerce commission by tho Pittsburgh and West Virginia railroad. That company asked the com mission to allow It to acquire con trol of the Western Maryland sys tem, which only lately has been taken over by the Baltimore iz Ohio railroad, and to use It in combination with the Wheeling & Lake Erie line and present Pitts burgh & West Virginia to make a new direct through-route from the Great Lakes to tidewater. The commission was asked to fix u price and sanction. the transfer of the railroad ownerships. if ' 4,1 n I, lb j ROADS vhere suffering and punishment re no more, safe at home with ftrus. Thousands know, as well ... Mrs. Lebouef and I know, that .ve are innocent. "Beadle (the trapper serving a .ife sentence for his part in the nime) killed Lebouef and mutll ited and disposed of his body over my protest and against my wishes, saying he had done the same thing to. a man years ago and nothing ever came of it. Long Uphill Fight Entirely Fruitless "Yet, Mrs. Lebouef and I have been led to the slaughter like sheep. For a year and a half we have been fighting for our lives. We have fought with truth for our weapon ever since we were put on trial. We have lost. We will die game. "It has been an uphill fight all the way against those who have been against u. "If our lives are sacrificed I hope it will not be all in rain. I hope with our deaths a move ment will be started to abolish capital punishment, a relic of the barbaric ages. "If some movement like that grows out of the legal murder of Mrs. Lebouef and myself, then as (Turn to Page 18, Please.) ITS HE KILLED SPOUSE She Was Unfaithfuljo Him, Christopher E. Cullen Explains to Cops MIAMI; Fla.. Feb. 2 lAP) Christopher E. Cullen, 3 6, a chauffeur of East" Weymouth. Mtiss.. tonight roused from the semi-conscious stupor that has gripped him since he suffereJ it fractured skull in a fall from a freight car here yesterday, t" make an oral confession that he had shot and killed his bride of five days as they sat in an auto mobile fh South Weymouth. Mass., on the night of January 23. Three Miami detectives tonight ousted his confession. "She was oue of those double crossing kind. I had a .32 cali bre rifle handy," he said. "She was not living ' right. That's why I shot her. She was not true to me." Cullen said that after he had discovered his wife was "not liv ing right," he took her for a ride." In an automobile to South Weymouth, Mass. There, he said, he stopped tho car and accused her of being unfaithful. "Then I told her 'I'm going to let you have it' and I pointed the gun at her," he said. "She told me to go ahead and I shot her five or six times." Police said Cullen told them he then drove to a pond in South Weymouth where he hid the body In some brush. I ' ' Si 1 1 4 BUM CORPORATIONS ED More Rigid Regulations Re quested by Corporation Commissioner Bills Being Drawn Up By Mark McCallister for Presentation Soon Sterner laws regulating opera tions of building and loan and. saving associations in Oregon it proposed In a number of amend ments Mark C. McCallister. mtate corporation commissioner, wa preparing Saturday for presenta tion to the legislature Monday. "Whenever It shall appear to. the corporation commissioner" reads one of the amendments, "that the affairs of any buiMing and loan or savings and loan mo clation are in an unsound rendi tion or that it is conducting its business in an unsafe or unlaw ful manner, the corporation com missioner may direct one of his assistants to take possession of all books, records and assets of such association and retain them defending further proceedings. Possible Refusal To Ilr Provided For "Should the board of directors, secretary of person In charge of such association refuse to permit the said assistant to take posses sion of the records, the state cor poration commissioner sholl com municate such fact to the attor ney general. It then shall beiwn.e the duty of the attorney general to Institute such proceeding as may be necessary to place - ench assistant in immediate possession of , the effects of such association. "Upon taking possession of the effects of the association the as sistant shall prepare a full and true statement of its assets ar.d liabilities, and shall receive and collect all debts, dues and claims belonging to it and pay the Im- meaiate and reasonable expenses of his trust. Such assistant shall be required to execute to the r--poratlon commissioner a bond in an amount required by the r poratlon commissioner condi tioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties as custodian of the association. The expenses shall be borne by the association under examination. Twenty Days Given To ReMore Hound .Status "When the condition of sun association has been fully ascer tained, and it shall appear that the affairs of the association are In an unsound condition, the cor poration commissioner shall at once notify in writing the bsard of directors of the association of his decision giving them 20 days in which to restore the affair of the association in sound condi tion.. ''Meanwhile the corporation commission shall remain in charge of the books, records and assets, attend or be represented (Turn to Page 5, Please.) BARED BY IIUI CHICAGO, Feb. 2. (AP)-. Charging that the Chicago sani tary district's payrolls have bee used to perpetuate a bi-partisos) political machine and that ths trustees have been guilty of "a startling disregard of their duty," and "Inconceivable carele'ssBesw the January special grand Jury to day submitted its report to Chief Justice John J. Sullivan of the criminal court. The grand Jury, the seventh spe cial government, returned no in dictments but reported an appar ent deficit of $9,602,355 in the bond fund of the district and rec ommended that John A. Swanaon state's attorney, continue the In quiry of the district and the lice department "to the end there shall be brought to Justl any, every and all persons fw to have engaged in any r1tn activities Jn the conduct bllL., two vital and necessary adjuncts' of local government. Groundhog Views Shadow; Spring is Well on Its Way Persons to whom "groandk hog day" means something more than the occasional ap pearanee of saasage on tlas breakfast table, were confi dent that spring wonld'an pear without delay. 8tnrdas when the feua was cloodssl from morning antil night and the rrpturdlj hJbernas tng animal, - no matter an what hour he ventured forth, -could not hare been startles) by the ' appearance bes shadow. . The ' weather ' forev" rsst for today was ni tied," which according to ml iresther critics, esnflr ed the grewndltege verdlnt, slare lnscttlcd" Is creditesT with belnac the normal pring condition hern. ARE WIN POLTCAI ME