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Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, February 21, 1929
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GO M US
K'ouse Passes New Classifi
cation of State Info Five .
Wage Groups
If Bill Becomes Law, All
: Officeholders Here To
Reapfieward
Salary increases in Marion coun
ty will aggregate approximately
15000 per year, if H. B. 522 which
Sensed the house Wednesday, is
approved by the senate. Is ap
proved the povernor and becomes
law. The measure, drawn and in
troduced by a special committee to
work out a classification for coun
ties and salaries for officials met
with opposition from only It
Tiembers of the house, most of
them members of the so-called
"farm bloc."
The bill divides the counties
into five general classes and sets
salaries for each. In, Marion coun
ty, which would be- in the second
class, the followln table shows
graphically just how local officers
would be affected 3 i
Present Pro-
In
Officer
Recorder
Sheriff . .
Clerk . . .
Treasurer
Judge . . .
Pay posed
. $1500 . $1800
crease
$300
700
600
500
600
. 2000
. 1800
. 1500 -1800
1500
2700
2400
2000
2400 .
24001V.
Soh. Supt
900
Com'sioners $5 day 200I80
TotaJ Increase '500
Proponents of the mftflarare
pointed out that at the prfaent
time a large number of salary "bfils
come pouring into the legislature
each session, and it is estimated
that these bills actually cost the
taxpayers, thousands of dollars
each session. Under this new law
all this will be done away with,
as the salaries would bejjtoroat
ln1lv adlufited. This saving IB
bickering would go a long ways
toward making up the increase
that the measure would cause. It
is declared. The total Increase is
figured at $6ft,000 per year.
Men backing the bill also point
out that many county officers all
over the state are underpaid, and
that raising their salaries is mere
ly a matter of time. Those ppds
ing the bill were chiefly from
. n,iitiM 'vhpro the new . measure
would cause a large increase in
'present rates.
The measure was amended to
become effective January 1, 1930.
GIRL WHO BUTTLED
Congratulations Pour In Upon
Heroine in Escape At
tempt Episode
"And how does It feel to be a
heroine"
"I can't see how I've done any
thing wonderful: I think it was
Mr. Lamb who displayed the cour
age." Claire Cornell, 20-year vold
office assistant to Drs. O'Neill and
Burdette. was doing the answer
ing. Tuesday afternoon her cool
ness and nerve helped to frustrate
a convict escape. j-
"Of course it seemed funny to
come down the street this morn
ine and hare folks shouting at me.
"Phone calls. Oh yes, there have
been plenty of them during the
day." Then Miss Cornell pointed
to a bouquet of red carnations,
4Antnir Yt nw n1nu1 nh was when
IC H 111 .w rw f ' '
the flowers and a box of candy
came from Superintendent H. W.
Mevers of the state prison:
By the way, when vne interview
er entered the optometrist's office
presumably another person to ee
the doctor. Miss -Cornell was wait
ing on a mother and her little
girl. And it was safe to say that
the mother and daughter didn't
know that she had starred In a
hair-raising episode not so very
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Smith-McKenney
Case Will Enter
Third Court Day
The case of Ray Smith versus
Claude McKenney will begin its
third day in circuit court today.
The suit is the second of three
growing out of an accident of the
Dallas highway a mile from West
- Salem., The first case was decided
Husser. -i
v A car drives Ty Husser ran Into
the rear and of a wood track be-
longing to McKenney.- Husser al
vlegad that he could not see the
.track until too lat to avoid hit
ting it as there was no tail light
on the wood carrier. MeKenney's
defense baa been that a light was
not required as It waa still light
enough to allow 'clear risibility.
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TRIAL. KEYES CASE
Former District Attorney and
Co-Defendants Given Pri
son Sentences
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20.
(AP) Former District Attorney
Asa Keyes and E. H. Rosenberg.
ex-Julian Petroleum Corporation
promoter, both convicted of a con
spiracy to give and receive bribes,
were sentenced to terms of one to
14 years In San Quentin peniten
tiary late today by Superior Judge
B. I. Butler. Judge Butler denies
their motions for a new trial.
Ben Getzoff, the third man con
victed in the Keyes bribery trial.
was given two weeks probation
from sentence because of Illness.
District Attorney Buron Fitts said
the motion might be opposed later
thereby subjecting Getzoff to sen
tence.
Oral notices of appeal were
filed in all three cases and mo
tions for admittance to bail were
started.
After a brief argument before
Judge Butler, a denial to motions
seeking admittance to bail for
Keyes and Rosenberg was made
and Judge Butler remanded the
prisoners to the county jail.
Yes, Solons
Could Wind
Up Session
If each house'of the Oregon leg
islature could dispose of 130
measures each day from now un
til Saturday, there wouldn't be
any need of prolonging the ses
sion beyond this week.
But along with that monstrous
if," it would have to be provid
ed also that bills passed in one
house could pass through three
readings and the necessary com
mittee consideration in the other
house, within the allotted time. It
would also have to be provided
that no more new bills would be
introduced.
Bearing in mind that even when
no major bills retard the ma
chinery of the two houses with
prolonged debate the maximum
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Ecicts and
CjOSSlp
Jerry Gunther, remembered as
a star basketball player back at
the University of Oregon, brought
the Silverton high school student
body, or a good part of it, over
to the state house today to watch
just how the legislature works.
Jerry declares that the youngsters
at least paid as much attention to
what was going on as they do in
their classes.
T H S
NEW
Mrs. Elbert Bede left for beflodttr. however, which by the way.
home in Cottage Grove Wednesday
and she took with her, Harold
Bede, her eon, and her charming
young daughter. Elise. Harold has
just returned " from California,
where he has been employed ior
several ' months,- and - he" declare
ha Is glad to be la Oregon, even
If the legislature ia in cession
Elise, who la still a couple or three
years 'under the grammar-school
age, la glad anyway, and Is as gay
little sprite as has ever visited
the state house. Miss Elise la one
'young lady who Is not afraid of
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Kubli's Consolidation Plan is
Given Emphatio "No" and
Kozer Keeps Job
State Purchasing Agent and
Ex-Secretary of State
Retain Duties
"Yon are saved, Sam Kozer
yon are saved!"
This was the glad cry that rung
in the ears of the state budget di
rector Wednesday afternoon, after
the vote on H. B. 515, which
wonld have combined the state
budget act and state purchasing
act, was counted, and it was dls
covered that this "efficiency'
move of Representative Kubli's
had polled but few votes besides
that of the author.
When the smoke had cleared
away It was discovered that
grand total of 47 of the represen
tatives had voted "no" on Kubli's
measure. Included in this list
were most of the Multnomah dele
gation, and even the veto of that
staunch economist, LaFollette of
Washington county.
Representative Kubli fought a
hard fight against overwhelming
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BOGlTSlilP
TO BE INTRODUCED
Pup Measures Bark at Door
of House; "Day" Aain
Looms Close
I
L. The famous "dog bill" which
was before the house a day or two
ago, and then was recalled to com
mittee for re-drafting, has '"had
pups" and is coming "In for" the
house again today in three separ
ate measures, it became known
Wednesday evening.
The purpose of making a litter
out of the original measure is
two-fold, it Is understood. First,
each bill will be taken up separ
ately, and explained so that every
one will know Just what it is
Secondly, it there are any amend
ments desired for any one of the
three, or even all three, they can
be made without a lot of confu
sion that might result in sending
the old canine back to kennel
again.
The jthree bills still provide the
drastic and complete protection
that the first measure included.
The original bill called for licens
ing of all dogs, $5 for females and
$3 for males; for capital punish
ment of all dogs caught out after
sunset and before sun-up, whether
licensed or not, and for a like fate
for all dogs caught at any time
without licenses; and it provided
good policing powers by establish
ing districts in which dog catchers
could be appointed who would see
to It that the law was enforced.
In one of the new bills the
license section will be found. In
another the death penalty Is pro
vided and in yet another the dog
districts are defined.
And so the dog bills will have
they day. Farmers who have seen
their sheep slaughtered declare
they are tired of just barking
about this business, since the pub
lic seems to take the attitude
found in the saying "barking dog
never bites," and so are growling
now In earnest. They insist upon
a law with real teeth, and If it
takes a whole litter of laws, they
intend to put them over.
Brief Btt oi News Bem
Uef Gathered Here and
Therein Legislative Halls.
Mr. Bede, the thunderous reading
clerk of the house, and no matter
how fierce he looked as he roared
out the roll she failed to be Im
pressed. For the first time la a week
the desk of the house was de.
clared "cleared" by Speaker Ham.
ilton, and so the threatened night
session did not come Wednesday.
A lot of hard work Is in store for
is the next to the last day of the
"fatal 40 days" regularly allotted
for the work. But this time it will
be "40 and " at leastand maybe
some mere besides.- v
Yamhill county walnuts ware
passed out' to all: house members
Wednesday - but since. - the press
table reeeirea but one small cacK
for an six reporters, this Is the
slia -story this column writer is
giving the donor. If aaid donor,
will come around with a bagful
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IS VOTED DOWN
Ways and Means Committee
Can's Find Funds for
Share of Memorial
Requests for Funds Behead
ed Wholesale at Wed
nesday Night Session
The joint ways and means com
mittee of the legislature Wednes
day night voted to report out un
favorably! a bill by Senate Rey
nolds appropriating $100,000 for
a memorial building at Champoeg
Park. This appropriation was to
have been contingent upon the
federal government making an ap
proprlation for the building in the
amount of $125,000.'
Milton A. Miller of Portland.
appeared before the committee
and pleaded for the appropriation
He said the federal appropriation
bill already had passed the senate
of the United States congress and
was now in the house with a 4fa
vorable report. He referred to
Champoeg Park as probably the
most historic spot west of the
Rocky "Mountains.
Other persons who spoke in fa
vor of the bill were H. G. Stark
weather of Portland and Judge
Peter D'Arcy of Salem. Both of
these men urged the appropria
tlon in commemoration of the
Oregon pioneers.
Yeon Memorial Bill
Shorn of Appropriation
A senate concurrent resolution
authorizing an appropriation of
12500 with which to purchase a
site for the proposed John B
(Turn to Pase 2, Column 1.)
E
TONIGHT ENDS YEAR
Victory Over Independence
Pot Teams in Line for
Statewide Clash
The final debates in the district
series will be held tonight, with
Salem holding a dual match with
the Independence teams, the Sa
lem affirmative composed of Mar
vin Byers and Edith May Jenks
debating in the high school audi
torium here at 8 o'clock.
While Salem Is tied with Dal
las for first honors in group one
of the district there should be lit.
tie likelihood that local support
ers i need to worry over the out
come of tonight's contests as the
Independence teams have not been
particularly strong so far. Al
though the debate looks easy on
paper, Norborne Berkeley, Jr.,
coach, is making no strong predic
tions on the outcome.
Fred Blatchford and Norman
Wlnslow are members of the neg
ative team which travels to In
dependence. Judges for the debate here to
night will be members of the Ore
gon State college faculty: Dr. W.
H. Driesen and Prof. B. H. Moore
of the department of home eco.
nomics and sociology, and Prof.
M. M. Chambers of the depart
ment of political science.
IHSEWFOIINEW
STATE STREET STORE
H. S. Tower, for 22 years in the
Jewelry business in Marshfield,
took a lease Wednesday for two
and one-half years on the restaur
ant room of the Gray Belle in the
Thielsen building on State street.
The lease begins March 1 and
soon thereafter Tower plans .to
open an art and jewelry store in
this location, the Gray Belle con
fectionery and restaurant contin
uing In Its present location.
Mr. Tower sold bis business in
Marshfield nine months ago and
has been traveling since that time.
His wife and family will remove
here within a fortnight.
The lease was made by Ander
son and Rupert.
Fourth of Quintet
Of Cons Captured
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H.Toung, 4,
Ifarfetta killer, was -captured to
night, in a field south' of Shades--
vine. Ohio, at tha southern dge
of Franklin county, by county of
ficers and' was returned to Ohio
penitentiary from which he - es
caped yesterday with four other
convicts. Three of tha men were
I caught last night. :
SALEM HIGH DEBIT
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Pp?c tSSFPI bUNrtno Willi
I" coinrn
Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, of Knglewood, . J. iluuglitcr of Ambassador and Mrs. Dwight W. Mor
row, and Colonelj Charles A. Lindbergh, whose engagement announcement came us a Valentine sur
prise to the world. The announcement va made b y the Morrows at the American embassy In Mexico
City, Mexico. The wedding is expected to take pla ce in June.
HARD TIRES B19IED
S
House Passes Bill Aimed to
Protect Highways; Law
Would Begin in '31
On and after July 1, 1931 all
trucks having a combined weight
in excess of 22,000 pounds must
be equipped with pneumatic tires,
and trucks having a combined
weight in excess of 18,000 pounds
equipped with one pr more solid
tirel cannot 'be -operated on the
highways after January 1. 193.0,
without permission of the state
highway commission, according to
provisions of bouse bill 514 by the
house joint committees, on roads
and highways and automobiles and
roads, passed by the house Wed
nesday.
Provisions of the bill do not ap
ply to equipment used by counties
in construction and maintenance
of public highways.
Howard of Lane said that the
primary purpose of the bill was to
protect the state highways. Own
ers of trucks will not overload, as
a rule when the trucks are equip
ped with pneumatic tires and thus
it is expected that the actylll not
be generally violated. This will be
one case where it will be self-po
licing, he said.
Nevada Retuses
Divorce Change
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 20.
(AP) By a vote of 30 against
two for, with five members not
voting, the lower house of the
Nevada legislature today killed a
proposed amenament to tne in
vada divorce law making the res
idence requirement for divorce
purposes six months. There was
no debate preceding the vote.
Wednesday
In
Washington
By The Associated Press
Herbert Hoover conferred
with President Coolidge.
The house held a memorial
service for the dead members of
congress.
The senate ratified the Pan
American conference concilia
tion protocol.
TheVan Sweringens applied
to the interstate commerce com
merce commission for a railroad
merger. -
The house ways and means
committee started consideration
of the tariff act's free list.
Vice-president Curtis sub
mitted his resignation from the
senate effective March S. .
Senator Robinson of Indiana
charged tha government was de
frauded of more than a billion
dollars In the Salt Creek oil
leases. . , ' . .
Republican congressional lead
er splanned to scrap tha 124,
oOo.OOO prohibition ' enforce
ment Increase proposal and
place President Cool Idge's $2,.
427,600 recommendation In a
second deficiency appropriation
bill.
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Byrd Claims Vast
Newly Discovered
. Land for America
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (A
P) The Xew York Times,
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and their aaaociated news
papers announced today that
Commander Richard E. Dyrd
in an extensive a i r p la n e
flight made with two planes
on Monday last, discovered
and mapped in part a vast
new territory ir the Antarc
tic, which he has claimed for
the United States and has
named for his wife, Marie
Byrd Land.
Commander Byrd has also
discovered a second new
mountain range, east and
south of the first discovered
by him recently and named
the Rockefeller .range. That
range is within territory
claimed by the British and
known as the Ross Depend
ency, i
COLLEGES' RU
The very bitterness of the con
test between partisans of the Uni
versity of Oregon and Oregon
State eollege for support in the
legislature, is militating to bring
about the adoption of measures
which are expected to end this
costly rivalry for all time, accord
ing to indications apparent Wed
nesday.
These Indications were, to the
effect that the Schulmerich-Bell
senate bill, 192, will be given gen
eral support and that it may have
the advance approval of Governor
Patterson.
It creates a board of higher
education, under which will be
employed a chancellor to super
vise the work of both the uni
versity and the college and all
of the state normals. A presi
dent would be retained at the
head of each' institution.
Affection Valued
A t $10,000 Sum
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 20.
(AP) Charging that she shower
ed hex husband with gifts and of
fered financial aid to set him up
in business, Mrs. Lillian Nolan to
day filed a $10,000 heart balm
suit against Miss Emma Murphy.
SOLUTION
ID
Senate Approves Measure
To Halt Frequent Change
Of Textbooks in Schools
With but three dissenting votes
Senator Fisher's bill providing for
10 year adoption of textbooks In
elementary and secondary schools
of Oregon passed the upper house
Wednesday. Tha measure if it
finally becomes a law will affect
every school district In the state
except those of Portland.-
Senator Fisher ' explained that
foe had Introduced tha bill In. the
Interests of the parents, 'Children
arid.. economy. -."Under tha pres
ent-system one-third of the text
books are adopted . every two
years. , said.- -Senator Fisher.
"There la nothing radical , In my
bill, and it concerns the welfare
of every home in Oregon. '
Figures wera presented fey Sen
IRE
Price Drops to 19 Cents at all
Filling Stations; Lower
Elsewhere
Gasoline warfare that has been
raging intermittently In the Pa
cific coast section for several
weeks made its appearance in Sa
lem Wednesday with the price re
duced tt 19 cents.
The reduction was made at vir
tually every filling station and
curb pump in the cvuAnd there
was no apparent attempt by any
of the operator to cut prices
lower than the new minimum.
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 20.
(AP) Retail gasoline dealers
were pumping their motor fuel
out of tanks today for 11 V cents
a gallon.
Announcement that virtually all
of the major oil companies would
meet the reduction first announced
by the General Petroleum com
pany, led officers of the Portland
Retail Gasoline Dealers' associa
tion to meet the slash.
What the final outcome of the
newest strife between major oil
concerns will be remains for time
to tell.
A queer situation is found in
the fact that on one street in Van
couver, Wash., across the river
from Portland, motorists. can pur
chase gasoline from as low as 14
cents a gallon to as high as 19
cents.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 (AP)
All the major oil companies to
night had followed the lead of
General Petroleum corporation to
day In reducing the wholesale
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W. U. Endowment
Drive is Backed
By Bishop Lowe
Titus Lowe, Methodist bishop.
Issued the following statement
here Wednesday in support of the
Willamette university endowment
campaign:
"In my Judgment it is impera
tive that the present campaign go
over the top. It will be years be
fore another Willamette university
campaign will ber possible. Hence
it is not only desirable but ex
ceedingly vital that this campaign
meet with complete success."
ator Fisher to snow that the ag
gregate cost of school books pur
chased In Oregon over a six years
period Is approximately $3,996,
978. He said that the approval of
his bill would reduce this cost
$2,664,652 over a 10 year period.
Bailey Objecta to ..
Baring All at Once -
Senator Bd Bailey said his prin
cipal objection to the bill was that
it provides for a flat adoption of
all textbooks every 10 years. He
said - this would ' prove an .added
burden" to the parents of children
because 'they would be compelled
to purchase all of the textbooks at
etc time. " - 1 . : '
Senator Butt asked Jf histories
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OS
M FELT N SALEM
Details of Plan to be An
nounced in Full Soon by
Service Firm
Assurance that steps toward a
permanent cure of Salem's water
problem would be started without
delay, and indication that i tha
course adopted would In Its es
sential features carry out the pro.
sram suggested by Dr. Twrnoa A.
Douglas, city health offcier, to the
city council this week, was givta
ly J. W. Helwlck. manager of th.
Oregon-Washington Water Service
company, at a conference Wed
nesday night with members or the
special committee appointed by
Mayor Livesley to negotiate this
matter.
Details of what occurred at this
conference were withheld pending
a formal announcement of plans
which will be Issued by the water"
company officials within a few
days. However, it was learned
from members of the committee
that the results were highly satis
factory from the standpoint of wa
ter users who have been Trwaitlna
a solution of the situation which
has prevailed for several months
during which the water, while pro
nounced free of dangerous baccilll.
has had an unpleasant odor and
taste.
The solution will Involve the
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NEW PACT SOUGHT
British Delegate in Charge of
Foreign Affairs Wants
Disarmament
LONDON. Feb. 20. (AP)-
Slr Austen Chamberlain, secretary
of state for foreign affairs, today
confirmed in the house of com
mons the fact that Great Britain
was considering a new line of ap
proach io the United States on
the question of naval disarma
MB N
ment. '
He also took occasion to uphold ,"
the correctness of the public state
ment which Sir lbme Howard,"
British ambassador at Washing
ton, made last week to the same.
effect and in support of Intima
tions emanating earlier from au
thoritative sources In London. Sir-jr
Austen said that the ambassador
had expressed personal views and
had acted without instructions
from the foreign office, but it was
authoritatively understood that
the diplomat's outline of the prob
able course of future events was
prompted by the earlier advices
from this capital.
The foreign secretary spoke in ;
response to questions propounded
by members of the house, some of
which intimate that there was a
conflict between Sir Esme's state
ment and a communique issued
the next day by the foreign office.
He denied this and said that the
home office pronouncement was
put out to correct misunderstand
ings which arose from varying in
terpretations of the Howard state
ment. He gave no intimation of the
trend of the new British thought
on naval questions, but he . indi
cated the important and far-reaching
changes which are taking -place
in the British policy on die- -armament
as well as the question "
of defending "freedom of the
seas." He did this by revealing
that the dominions are sharing In
the government's study of these .
problems. .
HELP IS ASKED IX
8ALKM TERRITORY
"rpHE Forward Movement
I for Willamette univer
sity is. so significant for
Salem that we are persuaded
every citizen should be deep
ly Interested in it. A n am
ber of the friends are show
tag their appreciation by
giving "time to seeing - oar
citizens. Their task will to
greatly, lightened If those aa
whom they go will receive
them kindly and grant then
an opportanity . to prenent
the claims of the institution.'
We feel that the opportunity
now presented means mongh
to everyone to Justify m in
this request. : We are sin
cerely' ' hopeful V that i every
bass will receive the 'solleftV
tors and that they wOl aim
give to their utmost to that
great canee,
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