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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1929)
-I GUARANTEED ' guarantee satisfactory ' carrier .service. If your pa per Is not delivered properly, phone 500. WEATHER Generally fair today. TeiM perat are unchanged; fog this morning. Max. temperature Thursday 45; mla. 33; river ' .1.4. No rain. "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shell Awe" ST rcWfllt LITATION OF I ARMS CONFAB 100 11 s ii ily Reports Indicate Un it e d States Navy Program Has Healthy Effect Informal Statements Point to Probability of British Overtures LONDON, Feb. 14 ( AP, A new approach to the problem of naval -disarmament, which has disturbed Anglo-American rela tions more 8erlousy than any other Issue In recent years, la be lieved in authoritative quarters here to be imminent. It is un derstood that the British govern ment is considering some means of eliminating the stumbling block of naval parity which caused the collapse of the Geneva conference and which appears Insurmount able as long as relative strength is based on tonnage. Details of the new British plan are not available. High officials are known to be studying the problem more intently than any other problem of the (British for eign policy. So far as is known the cabinet ha3 not yet been asked to approve their plan. Negotiations Started j With Dominions Any new disarmament policy must have the approval of the governments of the dominions and it is believed that negotiations to this end are "going on. Solution of the disarmament problem still would leave the question of maritime law to be wrestiea wun T)y two govern ments. As yet there is no indi cation that the British admiralty has changed Its attitude on this historic Anglo-American problem. Official quarters here are not Tiirn to Pace 10, Column .) Constitutional Revision Meas ures Voted Down to Save Ballot Space A batch of constitutional amend ments which, if panned, would have made it possible for counties to maintain a commission form of government went by the boards Thursday when more than a half dozen senators deplored, clutter ing up the ballot at the next gen lEIIUS IE BEATEN BY SOLK eral or special election. 4, Senator Joe Bailey said the amendment authorized the coun- , ties to reduce the number of pub lic offices, and would result in a material saving to the tax payera. Senator Ed Bailey attacked the proposed amendment on the ground that there was no crying need for the legislation and that it merely would serve to clutter up the ballot and confuse the vot ers. Salary increases for circuit judges of the state In amounts ranging from $1000 to 12000 were approved by the senate. The circuit Judges now receive $4000 a year, from the state. The bill provides for the segre gation) of the judicial districts in to three classifications. In some districts the circuit Judges would receive 16000, while in other dis tricts the judges would receive $5500. Judges in Multnomah conn, ty would receive a total of $8500, including $500 which Is contrib uted by the county. . - The senate over-rode Gov. PaU terson's veto of a bill passed at the 1927 session increasing the salary of the county Judge of Union county from $1200 to $2. 100 a year. Senator Kiddle said the salarv increase was desired bv SEATTLE. Feb. 14, (AP) James L. Posey supposed 'storm maddened oiler and storekeeper of the freighter Alloway, was tak en off the helpless chip by the coast guard cutter Chelan to night, two days after he refused to join his 33 companions who took to the lifeboats and were picked up by the steamer Mon tauk during a raging .Alaskan gale. When Posey was taken-oft, the ship was swinging crazily on her anchor chains in a heavy surf, her stern almost grazing the rocks of Alktak Island, in the eastern Aleu tian chain.. ' I A physical and mental examin ation showed Posey to be In sound condition, the coast guard re ported. : "'.;--' Part of. the cutter's erew went aboard the Alloway. and i were lighting up the boilers prepara tory to getting up steam so that she could be towed safely into Dutch Harbor, where her erew is recuperating .from Its tire - day battle with the North Pacific gale. "The Alloway's hull was apparently sound. - HOCCUPHOF STEAMER RESCUED Stirs Feeling (f:;-p r ' J 4 V i -j - - i fl - ' j Leon Trotzky Feeling Rife Over Soviet Exiled Chief CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 14. (AP) The presence of Leon Trotsky within the boundaries of Turkey has intensified the anti communist regulations of the Turkish republic. PassDort for malities, already extremely severe, have been made oven more strin gent so as to exclude followers of the exile and prevent the forma tion of a group around the ban ished Soviet leader. Turkish government has been bo persistent in rounding ud sporadic communists in recent years that no organized group of mat political faith exists any where in the country. TJX Painless Extraction of Million a Year Proposed; Bill Now Ready A real tax on Intangibles, one that will be carefully worked over until it will "work," is soon to make its appearance in the house, it became known Thursday night. The measure, it is estimated, will raise approximately 41,000,000 a year, and it will do It so smoothly and easily that It will hardly be missea by those who contribute. The bill will provide that all In tangibles such as stocks and bonds certain types of securities and similar documents that represent wealth will be taxed at a rate now said to be three mills. This may vary, however, before the meas ure Is introduced, or before it comes up for third reading. This would mean that if a person owns a bond with a par value of-$100, and it yields six per cent, or jsix dollars per sear, the tax would be three per c?nt of the six dollars; or 18 cents. If the bond yielded eight per cent, ot; $8 per year. the tax would at this rate be 24 cents. The rate of taxation seems low, so.ldw that it would hardly pay anyone for trying to 'dodge the (Turn to Pane 2; Column 3.) Bobcat Takes Hovine's Place On Cowcatcher SPOKANE, Feb. 14. (AP) when a cowcatcher catches 'a tow. that is to be expected, - but when ac owcatcher catches a cat that's news. When a Northern Pacific train pulled into the repair shops here today workmen found a bobcat on that part of the engine which nominally is Intended to brush bovlnes from Its path. The cat was dead. The workmen claimed the $7.50 bounty, on the animal. INTBLES WILL APPEAR S00I1 Tarm Bloc' Hard to Find When Bills Pass Without Smgl Followers of legislative proceed-1 tngs here who were apprised Thursday that a "farm bloc" had i formed in the lower house were greatly befuddled In trying to check up on Its reported person nel when a , measure of real in terest to Oregon's farm-popula tion came up for final hearing. - The uniformed critie would have been torced to conclude that the bloc encompassed the entire membership ot the house, lor H B. 309 was passed without the slightest evidence of opposition. This is a measure "making it un lawful to spread false reports of the finances. and management of a cooperative association, - and strengthening the provisions o f the act." . lionergan's Faith Attacked The bill had created something of a tempest la a teapot the-day before when it came up for final hearing, and Representative Lon- ergan objected on the ground that it was not properly phrased. Some aspersions were cast on Loner- . v Salem, Oregon, Friday 3fofwgFg6nfaryJ5Jgfg Q Q U ARTE R 1 S BE GANGS BATTLE War to Death Predicted by Police Commissioner; Politics Blamed Cold Blooded Murder c Seven Chicago Hoodlums , Creates Furors By W. H. MAGEE Assoc latrd Press Staff Writer , CHICAGO, Pcb. 14. (AP) Chicago gangsters, posing as po licemen, invaded the north side stronghold of the George'Bugs Moran gang, lined up seven help less, unarmed victims with the faces to a white brick wall and mowed them down with automat ics and machine gunds William F. Russell, police com missioner, went to the scene as did Coroner Herman N. Bundes en and several assistant state at torneys. Russell, who a few weeks ago rounded up 3,000 persons In drive against crime declared ve hemently today's killings meant a war to death between gangB and police with no quarter asked or given. The wholesale raids will be as nothing to what is to follow he added. John A. Swanson, the new state's attorney, elected on a plat form of law and order, refused to comment until an investigation had been finished, but Frank J Loesch. his first assistant, said "things like this can happen only In a city where there is an active alliance between crime and pol itics." Bodies literally Filled With Lead An examination of the victims tonight revealed each had been shot from six to ten times. All were well dressed and carried considerable money, more than $800 being found In one man's pockets and more than $1,100 in another's, besides expensive wat ches and Jewelry. Checking over their gangland register, the police decided that all but three of Dion O'Bannion's elan have been erased from the picture. George Moran they named aa one, and whether he was alive or dead none knew tonight. Frank iMlller is serving a term at Leav enworth penitentiary and Loul Altieri has retreated to California where he lives in retirement. Even Chicago's aldermanic elec (Turn to VaKB 2. Column 41.) STATE CDfJVENTIDrj TO BE THIS The Oregon State Tuberculosis association will hold its annual conventio nln Salem Tuesday and Wednesday. February 26 and 27, with sessions to be held at the chamber of commerce. This is the first time that the association has held Its annual meeting out side of Portland. The first day the tuberculosis association is in session, the Mar lon County Public Health associa Hon will hold its annual meeting, the two bldles to be guests at the regular weekly luncheon ot the Ki wants club that Tuesday noon. when J. W. McEachern of the Crane company of Portland will be the principal speaker. - .Other wise the Marion county and tu berculosis - associations will meet separately. Complete urogram for the tu berculosis meeting has not been released - by the secretary, Mrs. Saldle Orr Dunbar- of Portland, but among the principal speakers of the two-day convention will be Mayor T. A. Livesley of Salem, "Dr. R. Matson of Portland and Dr. G. C. Bellinger, superintendent of the state, tuberculosis hospital. ion gan's good faith In attempting to block Its passage. - but the bill went to the revision of laws corn- m it tee, of which he is chairman, and came back In due time. That was partly the. basis, pre sumably on which the Idea that the "farm bloc" had anybody to oppose, and undoubtedly the rea son why Lonergan rose to "ex plain" his favorable vote Thurs day. ' " - - w i VFarm Measures Few Legislation of special ' concern to the farmers is not extensive at this session, but it has been noted also that H. B. 39. authorizing the, state board of horticulture to establish control areas to prevent spread of tree diseases, was also passed without trouble.- - . Marion county residents -alsc are all at sea as Co why Repre sentative McAllister was listed si a member ot the "bloc," he beln a resident of Salem, and not th. two Marion county members lir Ing outside the) city. MONTH Vote of Opposit "ToachyfNotUs" Say Police; Show Public Valentines Exceedingly uncomplimen tary valentines received by members of the police de partment have been posted on a bulletin board In the police i station as evidence that the members aren't a' bit touchy. It was remarked, however, that Mrs. Myra 1. Shank, police matron, did not post her valentine along with the rest. The source .of these attentions -was anonymous, although some suspicion points to Sergeant Walt Thompson. His valen tine, however, is there with the rest. - Ike is Happy With 'Shoif Like Jacob's A blazing, almost blasphemous Tony de wop" silk "sholt" Is now being sported by Governor I. L. Patterson, and like his new set of office furniture, the three yards of material and the matchless work manship that went In the apparel did not cost the groaning tax pay ers of Oregon one single cent. It all came about this way. Several weeks ago L. B. Smith, Portland attorney, stopped in the lobby of the state house to greet Harry H. Belt, associate Justice of the supreme court, and the gov ernor. After passing the time of day with Mr. Smith, and chatting about what the coming legislature was going to do, the governor's eye lighted as does a connolseur's when he spots a matchless work of ancient art, and he exclaimed, 'I would like to know Just what Pullman porter donated that shirt to you!" Whereupon Mr. Smith proudly replied, his face, as crimson as the stripes in his chest covering. 'Jazzy shirts are out of executive urisdiction, but if you must know, mjr wife, with her own two hands, fraade this shirt, and what's more, I'm proud of It!" "I knew it,"- the governor said laugningiy. "Every time I see a man with a wild shirt or tie. he always says his wife gave it to him, but this is a variation. Your wife made this one." The next morning Smith bad oc- (Turn to Pace 2, Column 2.) ET SAME MODEML MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14 (AP) While messages ot congratula tions continued to pour Into the American embassy from many parts of the world fecllitatlng Miss Anne S. Morrow on her engage ment to Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh, she spent the afternoon to day playing golf with her mothefi at a country club near the capital. This morning she went horse. back riding with Miss Suzanne Beck, daughter of E. L. Beck, an American business man here. They are close friends and may be seen on the bridle paths almost every earlv morning. Anne Intends, to continue her quiet life at the em bassy residence until her wedding. As In the past, golfing, riding and walking will be her chief recrea tions. Thursday Jn Washington By The Associated Press The senate defeated the Car away bill to prevent cotton and grain futures trading. The house passed the $18,- 000.000 appropriation bill for the legislative branch. - . The shipping board accepted the $16,300,000 Chapman bid for its North Atlantic passenger fleet. x The house- ways and means committee concluded Its study of revision of paper tariff rates. A special commission to In vestigate the vlsability of erect ing a country White House was. suggested in the senate. Representative Maas of Min nesota was stricken ill while on the floor of the house and was taken, to a hospital. A decrease of $101,000,000 In brokers' loans 'was recorded In the first week since the fed eral reserve board's wars ing for Ihe curtailment of specu lative loans. , The Investigation' ot charges against Federal Judge Wlnslow of New Tork asked by Repre sentative Laguardla of New York was placed la , the hands of the department of Justice,. PjesleFnTCTOnage recom mended $12, $70,000 for begin, ning construction of five cruis ers during the next fiscal year but a senate appropriation sub-1 committee voted to make $700. 000 of it immediately available. HE MORROW iniTIO IS NOT BACKED BY COMMITTEE Kubli's Jill to be Reported Out Minus Favorable Recommendation Patterson and Kay Both Op pose Proposition as Be ing Impractical' Representative Kubli's bill pro- Tiding for consolidation ot the state budget department and the state purchasing agency will be reported-out without recommend ation the joint ways and means; committee decided Thursday night. Representative Kubll first sug-! gested that the budget depart ment and the state purchasing agency should be consolidated under the direction of the gover nor, but later amended his bill so the board of control would be In charge of the consolidation would save the state approximately $50,- 000 a year without decreasing the efficiency of the state governmnet. He charged that the cost of con ducting . the budget department was too high. Kay and Patterson Both Oppose Measure Governor Patterson and State Treasurer Kay urged that the con solidation would be lmnractical anI that no saving would accrue to the taxpayers. The state trea surer said that in addition to wrecking an organization which it has taken years to perfect, the consolidation would tend to place too much authority in the hands of one man. He emphasized the statement that the man who makes the budget should not spend the money. The state pur- (Turn to Pas 2. Column 3.) LAST IN HISTORY OF "Y" Membership Goes Up 50; Six New Leagues Organized; '- Many Projects On The greatest month ot activities In the history of the Salem Y M, C. A. was January according to the activities reported at the board of directors meeting Thursday noon. Total membership ror an groups was increased by more than 60 while the attendance re port of the physical department shows high points of 2099 for the men, 3160 for boys and 809 tor women. Three basketball, two volleyball and one handball leagues were or ganized during the montht Thirty- four basketball teams are using the floor regularly each week. The community volleyball league brought four teams to the asso ciation gym, while 26 men were enrolled In the handball tourna ment. Boy Scout troops and Sunday school leagues from many small towns In Marlon county have made the building their headquarters while in Salem,, the scouts taking their swimming tests there. Projects for February Include two billiard tournaments, a social evening for the day and night high school boys' classes, a re union of boys who attended the 1928 summer camp and their fa thers, a get-together of members ot the beginners' class and their boy friends and a boys sales con test for association men. VALET PAYS FINES HONOLULU, Feb. 14. (AP) William Reid, valet, of Walter P. Chrysler, thex automobile .manu facturer, appeared at the office of the collector of enstoms here today and paid $405 fine for at tempting to bring 81 bottles ot Intoxicants Into the Hawaiian Islands. The intoxicants included whis key, gin, rum and champagne. They were seized by customs of ficers yesterday when RelsJ tried to carry them off - the steamer Malolo on its arrival from San Francisco. The contraband was discovered when a whiskey bottle broke and the scent attracted at tention. The fine was at a rate of $6 a bottle. Senate Report On Airport Expected To be Made Today The special senate committee considering the : proposed sale . of L state property east - of Salem to the city for a municipal airport, is slated to make Us report today. and It Is expected that the house committee will follow soon with its reporf on the . same subject. The senate report is expected to be favorable to the Salem, but the -trice which It will fix has not een divulged. W NTH BUS EST WALTER CHRYSLER S N I Escape Dynamite Death iSTOTF MIMI1 . - - - - - w - bkbv rrfesi ' I HI THOUSANDS il ..fPl'If 4 i UPON BfHTHDilY wSn. ' rttFlk ' ' Governor Extinguishes 70 if)tK fc 1 Candles With One Mighty i LS? BreathofWind iJlS m i i iiniinnur m i nn irnwmr MomtJk. tiLf-mnn i imiiiiinnniin'H 4 Tim J A recent photo of Provisional President Enillio Portes GIL of Mexico, with his wife and baby daughter, who escaped death when their presidential special train was dynamited 160 miles from Mexi co City. The explosion derailed the locomotive and two coaches. The president and his family were riding in their private car farther back In the train. A revolution is sail' to be pending against the government. SIIFM S DEBATERS 111 ONE, LOSE IE Decisions Two to One in Each Case; Believed to be Still in the Lead Salem high school broke even in its two debates with Corvallls and Dallas Thursday night,, win ning the former 2 to 1 and drop ping to Dallas by the same score. The decisions give Salem tour ad ditional points in the district con tests, for a total of 17 points. While returns from other schools were not received here last night. It is probable Salem still main tains the lead in the district as both Lebanon and Dallas, run-ners-up, would have had to win both their debates by unanimous decisions to top 8aleto-4jy a single point. nJ Marvin Byere and BJdtur May Jenks of the Salem affirmative met the Dallas debaters at Dallas while Fred Blatchford and Nor man Wlnslow of the Salem nega tive engaged with Heinz Heubner and Dorothy Cummings of Cor--vallls here. All contests were on the subject of armed Intervention of the United States in foreign countries, save after a formal de claration of war. In the contest here. Miss Cum mings presented the most con structive argument for her team. pointing particularly to the ill will engendered in Central. American countries by the armed interven tion' of American forces, and that (Turn to Pasre 2, Column 2.) MERCURY FAILS TO HIT FREEZING MARK A temperature increase so grad ual as to be scarcely noticed al though It has continued all this week, had progressed to such an extent that local thermometers registered above the freezing point at midnight Thursday night. It was the first time that this situ ation had existed in the past three weeks. ' That the thermometers were correct was indicated by the fact that water in the gutters had not yet frozen at midnight. The mer cury was expected to go below the freezing point by this morning, however. The official minimum Thursday morning, as announced by the weather observer here, was 25 de grees above zero, only seven de grees below freezing. The maxi mum Thursday afternoon was 45. RATE UNCHANGED NEW,, YORK, Feb. 14. (AP) -Directors of the Federal Re serve bant of New York, made no change today In . lts re-discount rate ot five per cent after a ses sion lasting more than four hours. jPalCtS illd VsWct' Bits of News and Be- Gossip ; Visitors In the house of repre sentatives Thursday 1 n e I ufd e James H. Overrun, former Je sentative from the . five Mntral Oregon counties. v . i .... s A . Joint . m eetlng of tfefgame commissions of both hosrses will be held tonight on the i6u affect ing the status . ot the steeThead trout - as. a commercial or game fish. . ,-. ... The courtesy of the house was extended Thursday to "Bill" Ham ilton, son of speaker Hamilton, who spent the day here watching his - father handle the house. Representative - Lonergan was la the chair when the courtesies were extended. "' . ,. Legislators may become so In EXCISE BILL AGAIN IN HOUSE CALENDAR Mutual Savings, Loan Groups to Pay Tax On All Funds Distributed Over 5 The excise measure, which started Its career in the house as bill Number 27 ft, reappeared Thursday, all completed, with a few amendments and with the rates included, as H. B. 507. This legislation is regarded as one of the most .important that has been introduced during the present session. It is a tangible answer to the cry for a reduction of property taxes, and is one of the major maesures that has been worked out by the property tax relief commission. Banks Make Plea The bill has been temporarily delayed because mutual loan and savings associations have Objected to paying the tax on the amounts returned shareholders. The first contended that this was Interest paid for the use of the money and should be exempted, Just as interest paid out by banks is not taxed. ' A compromise was offered In the form of a higher franchise tee, but this was not acceptable to banks. Bankers contended that the mu tuals competed with them in their business such as loans, and that they should therefore be taxed. It was finally decided to allow the mutuals exemptions on their re turns to investors up to five per cent. The excise tax rate decided upon is five per cent, the same as that agreed on in California and Washington. This is one per cent more than was at first contem plated and will raise approximate ly $150,000 mote per year if the law Is passed. Estimates on the amount that this one will yield? which will be used to reduce pres ent property taxes, vary from $600,000 to more than $1,000,000 annually. Circuit Judges9 Salary Increase Hurdles Senate The senate Thursday approved salary Increases for circuit Judges of the state in amounts ranging from $1000 to $2000. The circuit Judges now secelve $4000 a year from the state. The bill provides for the segre gation of the Judicial districts into three classifications, nl some dis tricts the circuit Judges will re ceive $6000; while in other dis tricts the Judges will receive $5, 500. Judges in the smaller dls in Multnomah county will receive trlcts will receive $5000. Judges a total of $6500. Including $500 which is contributed by the county. 7 net uatnerea next i cna. terested In toelrj-wcVlr th they forget all abourtfcn bu t not so those hard working folks in , the house who occupy- the t crescent desk Just under that ot Speaker Hamilton. When the hands ot the eight day clock in the chamber be. gari to slip past twelve the ewsr efficient calendar clerk ; sent a note down to Representative Set tlemier, to remind him it was time to . stand up and make his usual motion to adjourn. - Eric W. Allen, , dean of the school of Journalism at the Uni versity of Oregon, brought down hla senior class in editing Thurs day, and the embryo newspaper men and newspaperwomen (they have long ago discarded the term . (Turn to Page 1. Column 2.J ....... V; . -N PRICE FIVE CENTS Pioneers Who Established Oregon Government Laud ed by B. L. Eddy . IKE'S WTXn STILL OOOI Yes, he did it. Oregon's future Is assured. With one big gubrenator lal puff. Governor Pattereoa Thursday night extinguished the 70 candles on Oregon's birthday cake, and the state house reception went merrily on. Had the governor only . , tingulshed 05 candles, the state would have suffered five-year setback, an ancient belief has It. Thousands of Salem folk kun. dreds from other parts of Oregon, state officials and members of the legislature Joined in maklnr mem orable the state's seventieth birth day anniversary celebration at the capItol Thursday night. It was estimated that 2000 per sons filed through .the executive department for thft.-.. receotlra which followed Presentation nt elaborate furnishings for the ex ecutive offices by the West Made uesR company of Portland. r.d still larger was the crowd which jammed the rotundas of the cap- uoi ror tne rormal "birthday" ob servance later. Officials Appear In Receiving Line Presentation of the furnlshinjr were made at a Joint session ot the senate and house at eight o'clock. The acceptance addreea was given by Governor Patterson, who thanked the donor of his gen. erosity. A copy of a Joint resolu tion adopted recently by the bouse and senate and engrossed on vel- (Turn to Paa 2. Column J. OPPOSED BY'CITIES Reports Indicate That Control versial Provision Will Be Retained Interest in the bill sponsored by the property tax relief commis sion providing that county courts appoint municipal budget commit tees and that the governor appoint county budget committees, was re vived Thursday when reports were circulated that the hwuee committee on taxation and rev enue was to report out this meas ure, H. B: 237, with those, provi sions left in it despite the pro tests filed by the League of Ore gon cities. Opposition to this propsal is es- pecially strong in Salem e- cause of an incident of the last budget making period when etty and county officials varied widely on the question of supporting tbe program of the Marlon county child health demonstration. . It Is argued that similar differ ence might arise In the future and a city budget committee, ap pointed by a-county court at Var iance with the city administra tion, might block the program of the municipal officers. Local city officials are still of the opinion that this measure if in violation ot the constitutional amendment guaranteeing home rule to municipalities, but they do not wish to see it enacted and then taken Into court to""go through a long time test ot tta constitutionality. E SLAYING IS TALOGA, Okla.. Feb. 14. (AP) A double slaying tay ended what was saicf to have been . an attempt by a son to bring abeat reconciliation between - his es tranged parents - During a jar- f- rel that ensued, the son, Lsvyd Holllngsworth, 27, a garage. oarajor of Canton, Okla., shot and killed BUDGET GROUP IDEA his father, William HolHaga worth and his brother WiUlaav X.: Jr.; at his father's farm ha-as near here, i-- m. 8. Corn, attorney for., . . slayer, said a companion whoat It -. declined to name, accompanied Lloyd Holllngsworth to his father's . farm and witnessed tbe quarrel that preceded the -slaying. The companion, Cora said,; declared -that the. elder Holllngsworth had brandished two pistols and Wil liam, Jr., had reached f or on of the guns before Lloyd openea rtre with a double barreled shot gaa. Lloyd Holllngsworth surrend ered to authorities - immediately : after the shooting and was- held r in- the Dewey county JaJl ied-, ng the .'preparation of mvpsMsr harges. - . ,;.--.-:.-, ,4 : "V v : if