WEATHER Generally 'cloudy and an settled today and Thurs day. Moderate temperature. Southerly winds. Max. tem perature Tuesday 79; lain. 41. No rain. BARGAIN RATE . During October, Statesman dally or om year by mall FOUNDED 1651 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 173 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, October 16, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS i. PlrinCDClMII I I II IU 1 1 1 II. I UUII I nr nnni iniirn . nr iimii.iini-ir UL HUULIUIILU ipi rinirr Tinnr .1 U L ML mm mm mm r niij rci vein ntuuiuuii io Announced by Officials Of Paper Mill New Equipment Nearly All in Place at Spaulding's Plant is Report Cinders, the bane of existence for eiery downtown merchant whose good have been ruined by the "black snow" and for every citizen with susceptible eyelids, will soon cease troubling these Individuals, according to predic tions made by official of the Ore gon Pulp and Paper, company. The paper company has made changes in the arrangement of its toiler and flues, with the result that in the opinion of these offi cials, at least 50 per cent of the cinders are being consumed. The aoot fall, they claim has already been reduced to that extent, but It Is pointed out that the full effect , of this improvement will not be generally noticed until after heavy rains wash down the cinders which have collected on down town roofs. A wind in the wrong direction may, until that occurs, fchower the city with cinders prev iously emitted from the smoke stacks. Improvement Made on Strong Recommendation The changes were made, It was Stated, in accordance with the rec ommendations of an engineer em ployed by the city to make a sur vey of the soot fall last winter,' and the reduction in output of cin ders has been as great as he pre dicted could be accomplished. Any further reduction, company offi cials said, cannot be made wlth put the installation of equipment on which the cost would be pro hibitive. At the same time, officials of the spauiding Logging company Announced that the installation of (Electrical equipment at the saw inlll would possibly be completed next Sunday, and immediately fol lowing the completion of that fcsk, the output of cinders from .at source wilt be entirely stop ped. All of the motors are in place find now being used, excepting the tone which will operate the head Jig. This motor was expected to jfcrrive about the middle of this week, and if it does, it will be in stalled Sunday. Only two boilers ire now being used, and there will fe only one after the plant Is Completely electrified. The one remaining boiler, of POO horsepower, "will furnish team for the dry kiln, and will te used to only one-third of its capacity, thus eliminating any nec essity for forced draft. Under these conditions, company officials Bay, the lone boiler will not give forth any cinders. The city's campaign against the (kinder nuisance began late in i28, after The Statesman had tailed the matter forcibly to pub lic, attention. The survey made during the winter was brought about through the work of a spe Hal "cinder committee" of the City council, headed by Alderman pal o. Fatton. lBayard Findley Sows Grass Seed J Using Airplane An interesting bit of informa tion is the feat performed by Bay ard Findley; son, of Dr. and Mrs. fA. C. Findley, on his sheep ranch In the Salzar valley near Cen tralia, Washington. Needing to sow one? thousand acres of stump and sparsely tim bered land with grass seed to fur nish pasture for many hundred giead of sheep, Mr. Findley con tracted the nse of an airplane and towed the entire 1000 acres In pne half day. Sowing the same amount of land by the old fash ioned method would have required a month s time It is estimated. OKLAHOMA BOYS WIN ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15 (AP) A earn of 4-H clubs boys from Ok lahoma today won the 4-H club Rational dairy judging contest. City Officials of This State to be Entertained Here Entertainment for possi bly 100 city officials from all parts of Oregon, when they gather here October 24 for the conference on uni form accounting called by Hal K. floss, secretary of state," Is befog planned by local city officials. 7 ; OaV'tbe day following the conference., at .JO state house, the League ot Oregon Cities . will hold Meeting here, at which a' number of ; lnrportant matters," includ ing that of sewage disposal which hint Keen emphasized recently, will ; be discussed . Local city , officials have announced that they will participate in the conference planned by the secretary of state. .. . Highway Repairs Will be Finished This Wk, Word . - ' .... . w. -. -.- - Salens motorists who have Jreited jthe-long detour from NewkJErafto' Oregon CSty which, baa beeA a' dreaded part of tb. trip to Portland, for the. last 10 months, wUl be able to tarn . op - their noee - at weather beaten "detour" signs and roll merrily along the new highway Thursday, when the last work on reconstruc tion of the atrip from New Era to Canemah la complet ed. All of It except a abort stretch near New Era baa been la ase since Sunday. The detour, over the hills east of Oregon City, was an. til --recently one of the -roughest pieces of road la the state. Within the test few months, in response to widespread complaints, it has been considerably inv proved. CULT PRIESTESS IS Three Other Members of Or der Freed From Jail At Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15. (AP) -Mrs. May Otis Blackburn, high priestess of the Great Eleven cult, was bound over to superior court for trial on 12 counts of grand theft after arraignment today be fore municipal Judge William S. Balrd. Her bond was set at S10, 000. Three other members of the re ligious order. Incorporated as the divine order of the Royal Arm of the Great Eleven, were released from Jail. Mrs. Ruth Weiland Rizzio, sec ond priestess and daughter of Mrs. Blackburn, who also was charged with grand theft was re leased by Judge Baird, and the charges dismissed for lack of evi dence. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Rhoads, held in connection with the Investigation of the order fol lowing the discovery of the body of their foster daughter, Wills Rhoads, 19, beneath the flooring of their beach home, were releas ed when no evidence that unnat ural causes had contributed to the girl's death was uncovered. Although chemical analysis of the girl's body, which had been concealed for three years because Mrs. Blackburn predicted she would arise, was incomplete. Cap tain Ray Cato, head of the inves tigation, declared there was insuf ficient cause to hold the couple longer. E CUE IS World Famous Woman Sci entist Makes Landing at N. Y. Yesterday NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (AP) Timidry gazing about her in wonder, a little old lady In black came slowly down the the gang plank for the liner. He de France here today. The bustling, chattering crowds on the pier fell silent as her frail figure appeared on the deck above them. "It's Madame Curie," the whis per went around. Her steps carefully guided by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, who had arrived on the same steamship, and by Owen D. Young, who had come down to meet her, Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co- discoverer of radium, set foot for the second time on American soil. She has come to honor her fel low scientist, Thomas A. Edison, and will attend a dinner to be given in celebration of the 60th anniversary of his invention of the. incandescent light in Detroit October 21. Only her courageous spirit made the voyage possible, her friends said today. Mme. Curie is no longer young, and in recent years has been enieeoiea oy an aemia, brought on, it is said, by her constant handling of radium. Her physicians did not want her to attempt this voyage. Agent Attacked By Escaped Deer E. H. Batson, traveling agent for the Oregon State hospital, suf fered bruise's and cuts Tuesday when he was attacked by a deer which had escaped from a corral near the state penitentiary. Pris on employes hearing Batson s cries, went to his assistance and the deer trotted off Into the woods. FlyerSets New Airplane Record PORTLAND, Ore.6ct. 15.- (AP) C. B, Stead, pilot of, the West Coast Air - Transport com pany, set what Is believed to be a I record - for - commercial . planes when he . flew his 12-passenger ! plane over the 15S miles between Seattle and this city la 19 min utes, Portland ' airport . officials lira coil Nil MA N MEU announced tonight. - - BTbe Charges of Lawlessrsss by Government Officials Ordered Sifted Two Experts Are Appointed To Compile All Avail able Facts WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (AP) The law enforcement commis sion has decided to face squarely the problem presented .by lawless ness of government officials in en forcing prohibition and other laws, and announced today the appointment of two additional experts to make an inquiry to that end. They are Professor Zachariah Chaffee of the Harvard law school, and WalteftN. Pollak of New York City. A lawyer, Pollak served as special assistant to the attorney general in the prosecution of Nicky Amstein for bond thefts. Details of Undertaking Are Kept Secret Aside from the brief announce ment at the end of its session to- fday that they would probe into "lawlessness by government law enforcing officers," the commis sion revealed no details of the work to be undertaken. It Is know, however, that this most re cent phase of its work begun at the direction of President Hoover is considered vital by members of the commission. Pollak left New York tonight for a conference with Chafes at Cambridge, Mass., and the com mission said they would be busy tomorrow "blocking out the In quiry which has been assigned to them." (Concluded on Page 2, Column S.) City Takes First Place In Building Salem leads among Oregon ci ties outside of Portland, in build ing construction for the first nine months of 19 29, according to fig ures compiled by S. W. Straus and company, this city's total being 11,972,955. Klamath Falls was next with $1,393,716. The Straus report credits Sa lem with only 139,784 for Sep tember, this being the total of ac tual building permits. In fig ures compiled locally, the cost of the new postoffice annex, for which no permit was issued, was included in this month. Leaving out this- item, Salem fell behind Klamath Falls and LaGrande In September. Although the Pacific coast as a whole fell live per cent below the corresponding month of 1928 in. its September building activity, Oregon showed a 22 per cent gain. A large Increase in Port land Is principally responsible for this. Oregon in the nine months period fell behind its mark for the same period in 1928. Cult Scandal Points to Murder Trail - v, , s r , - t'i X - iW '- 7v'l - --- ' V fS ' - . , - f h -;a";a i .., ktV" 1 " hi t if -, O-S 'vvv. If '- -s" -x:TJ 4 Lil i j h 1 '-"j mmmmm. ' I , - '-vV". snuw ' I ir "i? -"'' -' - In the toppr left hand corner and Mrs." William Rhodes, mother of sixteen-year-oia wina itnooee, whose ooay was aiscovcrea tmnea U ft coffin, .under the Rhodes Venice CaU borne, who have promised to make a complete eonfesslow re garding the activities of the. mysterious "Great Eleven CaUn mow sought by .the- Dallfornia police. Xead- lng up into the mountains, the trail brought police to Busaaa Pass, where they discovered a fsaMSsm temple of the Great Eleven Cult with a lavishly furnished room, get aside for the antral of the Messiah. AH the furniture and a massive Gale Oonde Banks, supposed to be uce, agreeing to teu of his acuvaues. . .j- , Chapel Car to be Used on Travels By Notre Dane 11 SOUTH BEND, IwL, Oct. 15-( AP) A ; chapel . has ' been added to the traveling . equipment of the football' team of the University of . Notre Dame, so the players will' not miss Sunday ser vices during their long trips . about the country. The traveling church" was built some time ago for the Baltimore Ohio rail road for use of the road's ec clesiastical guests. Notre Dame made use of it last week while returning from Baltimore, where Navy was defeated. It was said a priest will accompany the team and by special permission win hold eerricea in the chapel car. CHINESE ROUTED BY E Small Soviet Force Advanc es Capturing Manchur ian Settlement TOKYO, Oct. 15. (AP) Con troversy between Russia and Chi na over the Chinese eastern rail way situation in Manchuria Is re ported to have entered a new phase with the striking of one of the heaviest blows that the Soviet forces hawe yet delivered in the Quasi-war on the Manchurian frontier. Chinese official dispatches re ceived here report that Soviet land and water forces struck Sun day night and Monday morning at the continence of the Amur and Sangari rivers along the Manchur ian frontier. Reports agree that a Russian force estimated at 800 men cross ed the Amur river Sunday night under the cover of artillery and occupied the town of Linkiangh- slen on Chinese territory. There has been no reports of a Russian withdrawal and it was therefore thought possible that the attack differed from previous border raids when no attempt was made to hold hostile territory. While one Chinese report as serted that? the Russians sank three Chinese gunboats, drowning In all 00 men of .their crews, the official Chinese commnnlqu did not mention any sinkings, merely saying the "Chinese squadron was obliged to withdraw up the Sun- gan river to r ugdm. The com mander of the Manchurian "navy' (Concluded on Page 2, Column I.) Pheasant Hunter Shoots in Window Members of the Frank Rickett family on Garden Road didn't have to look at the calendar to know that it was October IS, opening day of the hunting season on phea sants and other game birds, when they awoke Tuesday morning, They were aroused from their slumber by a reverberating crash, and on Investigating found that bird shot from some nimrod's scatter gun had shattered a win dow in the dining room of their home. (left to right) are Mrs. Uay Otis throne flower left) . were carved with the financial head ef the cult and I atTr Political Reasons Given for Refusal to Approve Council's Act Livesley Sides With Special Commission in Matter Of New Store Efforts of T. W. Campbell to establish a grocery store in a dwelling on North 24th street. were apparently little nearer re alization Tuesday than they had been several months earlier when he first applied for a change of zone, although the city council last week passed an ordinance ap proving the change. Mayor T. A. Livesley Tuesday returned the ordinance bill to the city recorder with his veto. Inferences that politics played a part in the council's action fa voring the change are contained in the mayor's veto message. It reads, in part, as follows: "Zoning Is no longer an experi ment. ... It Is not effective if the ordinance is not intelligently en forced or if it is made the foot hall of politics. Action of Commission Cited by Livesley "This matter has been before the commission several times, and each time they have unanimously adopted a report adversely to this change of zone. ... To grant this request would be absolutely class legislation." The property in question, al most opposite the state hospital grounds, has been in zone one, re sidential. Mr. Campbell's first petition asked that it be changed to zone three, business district. It earried the names of almost all owners of property affected, in cluding the state of Oregon through the members of the board of control. The zoning commission's prin cipal objection was to changing the zone for one lot only, as Its policy has been to include half blocks as a minimum zone area, and grant the same regulations on both sides of the street BlU JleftuHt of , Much: Agitation After the matter had been shunted from the commission to the council and back again sev eral times, an ordinance bill was prepared changing the zone to three special instead of three. This bill was passed at the coun cil meeting last week, with Alder men Rosebraugh and Dancy dis senting. The purpose In allowing zone three special instead of three, was to Include a restriction that use of the property be confined to that of a grocery store in a dwelling, preventing any other construction or type of business. Possibility of unrestricted use had been an other suorce of objection to the original petition. GRAF ON FLIGHT FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, G e r -manj, Oct. 15. (AP) The Graf Zeppelin started tonight on a CO hour flight over the Balkans. Blackbora, UrsV Rnih A. Tfldand gigantic lion's head. Right is who sunehdered to ! Angeles po lr J V J- K-; U 1 Pantages Ages Rapidly . Three recent poses of Alexander Pantages, millionaire California theatrical manager whose defense to a statutory charge involving Eu nice Pringle was begun in circuit court yesterday. As the trial has progressed, with evidence piling up againt him, Pantages has been seen to lose much of the Jaunty manner he originally displayed. Defense In Trial Of Fall Criminal Prosecution on Bribery Count Ends With Introduction of Sinclair Testi mony Over Strong Objection WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. (AP) The defense of Albert B. Fall to charges that he accepted a bribe of $100,000 while secretary of the interior was commenced in the Dis trict of Columbia supreme court today after the government had introduced testimony showing that Harry F. Sinclair, had turned over to Fall's cattle company a total of $268,500, 1 Tl TO FLY SOUTH SODIi Banquet Held -at Seattle in Honor of Quartet of Soviet Flyers SEATTLE, Qtt. IK. (AP) Completely retted from their strenuous flight from Waterfall, Alaska, to Seattle, by two nights of rest, the Russian aviators, en route from Moscow to New York on a "good will" tour, were guests of the Seattle chamber of com merce here tonight. The banquet was arranged by the aviation committee of the chamber and was attended by aer onautical experts from all parts of the Pacific northwest. It was the first official function which the tour fliers have attended since their arrival here Sunday evening. The pontoons with which the plane, "Land of the Soviets," was equipped while flying over the north Pacific ocean were removed and the work of equipping the craft as a land plane completed today. First Pilot 8. A. Shesta kov was confidant that he and his companions, Philip E. Bolotov, Dmitry V. Pufaev and Boris V. SterigoT, would be able to resume their flight Thursday. They will fly to Oakland from here. The Soviet visitors completed the formality of officially enter ing the United States today by calling at the Immigration station. Their entry by plane was arranged previously through the state department- Prime Wins Suit Against v X-Ray Man The circuit court In Judge Kel ly's department was occupied all day Tuesday with the trial of the ease of Dr. G. E. Prime vs. F. D. Hoag, in which the plaintiff seeks recovery of approximately $700 which he paid on an X-ray ma chine sold him by defendants and which Prime claims was defective and not np to representation of the seller. Testimony was taken during the day . and arguments made in the late afternoon, after which the case was placed with the Jury for their lr4. - . After aenDeratissrfJWMr9tours and 15 minutes, he JuryobBSTight in a verdict. awarding a judgment in the amount of $674 to the plaintiff. . ... ' The case of Braun vs. Skaggs Safeway Stores, which was set for trial Tuesday was held -over till this morning. It is stated the de-. fendant will not appear, leaving the plaintiff to present his case. . Another trial set for today Is Lunt ts. Formick, in which plain tiff Is suing for alleged seizure of gotfds. by the Woodland Develop ment company of which Mr. Form ick was an officer. Defendant filed a motion asking that -i plaintiff bring Into court a certain notice which had been posted In connec tion with the property. CLERK .ARRESTED AGAIN PORTLAND,: Ore., Oct 15. (AF) 8. Herlinger, discharg ed clerk of. the City Water bureau was rearrested here tonight and charged with, a shortage in funds formerly under his supervision "in excess ef 10,000t . a Started y subsequent to receiving the Teapot Dome oil leases. Fall is charged with accept ing the bribe from Edward It. Do- heny six months prior to awarding to the oil man's company the con tract to construct oil storage tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and a lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve in Chicgo. He will seek to prove through Doh'eny that the money was a loan. Instruction of the Sinclair tes timony was regarded as a blow to the defense. It was the first time connected story ot both leases has been placed before a Jury and showed Pall's Interests received a total of $319,000 in 1921 and 1922 from Sinclair and Doheny. A Jury which heard only about the Doheny sum acquitted Fall and Doheny of conspiracy, while an other jury which heard only about the Sinclair sum found Sinclair not guilty with conspiracy with Fall. The defense today built the ground work of its effort to show Fall had little to do with the awarding of the Elk Hills lease and nothing to do with inserting the preferential clause in the Pearl Harbor contract giving the Pan American company preference to Elk Hills leases. HAMILTON ELECTED W. M. Hamilton was elected president of the Chemeketans for the coming year, at a meeting of the newly elected executive coun cil Tuesday night at the T. M. C. A. Other officers were elected as follows: Justice.O. P. Coshow, vice pres ident; Miss Catherine Gay lord, re cording secretary; George Fake, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Ruby Hoffnell, chairman of local walks; Ben Rick 11, chairman of annual outing; Miss Augusta Not- durft, membership secretary; Mike Panek, treasurer; Edwin Hoffnell, chairman of publications commit tee. The next meeting of the execu tive council will be held soon at the call of the president, who is now out of the. city. At that time a number of committees will be appointed. Regular meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month. HEAD Marion County Selected Out of 26 Communities For Public Health Work When the Commonwealth Fund announced its intention of locat ing a child health demonstration on the coast, exactly 26 communi ties bid for that demonstration. Boulder, Colo., wanted the child health program; San Jose, Calif., pat In a strong bid; BeUinghamJ and v Walla Walla, Tvash,; each produced flattering 'reasons why it should be placed there; River side, Calif., wasn't slow la seek ing the demonstration.' Great Falls, Mont, Chelan . county, Wash.; and Pendleton, Oregon, all felt they were entitled to it. These cities were but a lew of the bid ders. - ; ; But Salem and Marion county wonl. 'And whytvV. ' '..". r Marion county was finally eho- Sn, after all bidding cities had en given a bearing, for not ne but sexen or eight good reasons. Probably first and most telling of Garland Biffle is Held fcr Perjury Upon Leaving , Stand in Court State Ends Its Case Against Millionaire;' Defense Gets Under Way LOS ANGELES. Oct. 15. (AP) Garland Biffle, defense witness In the trial of Alexander Pantages, wai arreted for per jury as he left the witness stand late today. Biffle, who was the first wit ness for the defease, was taken into custody by Blaney Matthews, district attorney's investigator, as he stepped into the corridor out side the court room. He had been on the stand but little more than an hour, for direct and cross ex amination, when Fitts sent an or der outside for the arrest. The district attorney said that Biffle would be taken before the grand Jury for indictment as soon as possible. He declined to di vulge the basis of his perjury charge, commenting that the ac cusation spoke for itself. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 15. (AP) The state rested its case in the trial ot a statutory charge against Alexander Pantages, thea tre multi-millionaire today and the defense began a quick attack on the testimony of the defen dant's accuser, 17 year old Eunice Pringle, co-ed dancer. After a half hour examination of its first witness, Garland Bif fle, law book salesman and attor ney, the defense succeeded ta contradicting parts of the girl's testimony. With this advantage in hand. Defense Attorney Joseph Ford turned the witness over to the state. District Attorney Buron Fitts commenced a cross examina tion and soon had before him a long list of neutral answers by the witness to questions relating to Miss Pringle's appearance and that ot her companion, Nicholas Duneav, on the day ef the alleged attack last August 9, in Pantages' private offices. Putting aside perfunctory ques tioning. Ford plunged into an In terrogation of Biffle on circum stances preceding the alleged at tack. "Question: About 3:30 p. m., August 9, you went to the Pan. tages theatre building on business find saw Eunice Pringle in the obby, did you not? "Answer: Yes, sir. "Question: You saw a man with her, did you not? "Answer: Yes sir." Biffle identified the girl and man as Eunice Pringle and Dan ear. He made a general descrip tion ot their appearances. The defense read into the rec ord prvious testimony by Miss Pringle on cross examination that she entered the building alone and made no statement to Duneav nor heard any from him after leaving the car In which he drove her to the theatre where she had an ap pointment with Pantages to dis cuss a dance act. "Question: Did you not see Es nice Pringle and Nicholas Duneav go near or about the foot of the stairway in the lobby and hear her say 'If he doesn't place my act he will always be sorry," and Duneav replied: 'Don't get cold feet,' and she said 'I won't?' "Answer: Yes sir. "Q That was said and done "A Yes sir." The defense surrendered the witness to the state. "Q How was Duneav dressed? "A In a dark suit. Q What color shoesT "A I don't know. "Q Have a shirt on? "A I doa'i knbw. . "Q A tie? "A I don't know. "Q Have a hat on? "A Don't think so. but if had one it was in his hand. be (Concluded on Paga 2, Column 4. these was the Interested coopera tion shown by organizations with in the county-and the manner in which thse groups got together to : bring, the : demonstration here. The connrv court. Citv of Salem. Sale'm.Ischools, the Salem chant..,- kau .a . ahi in araa - 4 i a - . V I m? a bat Hah. thmi H-roontv in.dical av- uciALiuu. kii a LiiiuuuLy urntai eunw I.Ia. 1 .a. Jm S.I an. aAalaflAMatiif W A Vawl Aevrt HA. mans' clubs gave - their whole hearted -support vto . the - project from the start. nirh DAth Rate Here - Also Strong Factor Z " Another paramount I reaen J..I J.J Ka HAmMAMViitllil UU.U UMLIUEU .ua I,H A W - - " the fcirh death'. rale. both Infant mortality,1 which prevailed . p to that- time- in- this county. With this county showing a high (Concluded en IVfcJ 2, Column 1.) - '" .va