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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,
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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
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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
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DISABLED STEAMER !
NOW SAFELY IN TOW
1 STATES IRON
OUT TROUBLES
IN CONFERENCE
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Hoover Ponders Choice of Candidates for Cabinet
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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