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t CIRCULATION Pally Tvrs( diitrifcation tar 1km month nding October SI, 193t WEATHER Onerally fair today and Friday, bat with morning ad evening fogs. Max. tem peratare Wednesday 57; Mia. 46; Wind -north. 6,674 ATersca 4aily act psid 5,2t Applieaat fr membership. Audit Burets CirtoUUosi. SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR Sakny Oregon, Thirfsday Morning, November 28, 1929 No. 211 Salem Folk Give Launching Sale of Christmas Seals RflflflclllinSl - , ' -..-.-- - .. .FOUNDED . 1651 - -. SUI1S REPORT !. . . . o t it . friydu Diiagei uaus iui wcoi iy Two Billion Dollars Expenditure Plans Indicate Prosperous Times to Come in Im- mediate Future By JAMES L. WEST . Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Not. 27. (AP) Public utility managers have such confidence -In the .im mediate future that they are go ing ahead with a 1930 budget for extensions, betterments and main tenance approaching the two bil lion dollar mark and exceeding that for this year by more than one hundred million dollars. They came to Washington some thirty strong today to lay this In formation before President Hoo ver and to report on the outlook. Among them were Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric company; Samuel Insull, of Chicago, who has vast utility holdings through out the country; Mathew S. "Sloan, of New York, president of the National Electric Light asso ciation; B. J. Mullaney, of Chi cago, president of the American Gas association, and John N. Sharinahan, of Omaha, speaking for Paul Shtup, president of the Electric Railways association. Hoover Well Pleased With Report ReceiTed Since perhaps no other indus try is in a position to keep its finger quite as close upon the public pulse as the utilities, the president was represented as be ing particularly pleased with the tenor of reports on conditions generally over the country wr-h-h the light and power, gas and elec tric railway managers gave. Each of those present in thm cabinet room outlined rather ex tensive programs for the individ ual companies or groups of com panies and accompanied these 'with statements that the contem plated expansions were immedi ate future needs, - - The programs outlined, it was explained, were sufficient not 1 only to keep-busy the many thou sands employed in the industries, but also to 'provide enormous or ders to be turned out by the many other thousands on the payrolls of the manufacturers of electri cal, gas and street railway sup plies. Absolutely No Wage Redactions In Sight Without exception those at tending the conference of nearly two hours in the cabinet room at the White House executive offices said there was no question of wage reductions, that such a thing had not been considered, and that a number of companies reported that usual first of the year in creases, to employes would be forthcoming. The reports made to the presi dent were based upon a survey made at Mr. Hoover's suggestion, as a part of his business progress movement, and were correlated at conference the utilities man agers held yesterday In New York. Tbe general situation was sum marized In this statement read to (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27 (AP) Conferences in sections distantly removed from Washing ton, D. C, to supplement Presi dent Hoover's meetings In the na tional capital with leaders of business and Industry were advo cated today by Edgar H. Sensen ich, president of the West Coast National bank. Sensentch, In ae eord with other Portland bankers. sees in President Hoover's confer ences, substantial benefits for American business, but pointed out that the Pacific northwest and other parts of the west may ex perience delay In feeling the full force or tne Washington meetings. To rectify this situation Sen- senlch would -have the governors of tne northwest states call siml lar conferences of business leaders. to stimulate immediate action on building and expansion programs MORE CONFERENCES FOB HOOVER ASKED Victorious Oregon State Team Is Welcomed Back PORTLAND, I Ore., Not. 17 (AP)- The victorious Oregon State college football team, greted by the strain of "Hall. Hall, the Gang's All Here," arrived here 'tonight from Detroit where last Saturday it defeated -the Univer sity tDatroit 14 to 7 In an inter lectlonal grid contest. Some 2000 fans, alumni and others concerned met the returning squad and escorted It through the downtown streets to a theatre, where the players were guests of the management. -' , Only 20 of the SO Oregon Stat rs who made the trip were on the Custom Observed Union Services to be Held in Churches of City 1 his Morning; Business to be Halted and Time Spent in Fitting Manner THE hustle and cares of the business world will be forgot ten, for the most Dart, todav while Salem and th rpat of the country pauses a day to other to tne bounteous of the year past and yet again to ob serve a pleasing custom which has come down from the days of the Pilgrim fathers' when heartfelt thanks were given, not for luxuries and east of a modern life, but for the fruits of FOREST FIRES ARE West Wind Sweeps Blazes inland From Coast Re- v' ; jgion in Oregon . GRANTS PASS, Ore., Nov. 27 (AP) Expanding forest' fire lines in southwestern Oregon to-; night were being swept inland by a brisk wind from the Pacific and sections of virgin forest in widely separated districts were being de vastated. . Fourteen new fires, all within the boundary lines of the Siski you national forest were reported tonight at headqusrters of the forest service here. Despite a heavy fog over many fire regions, crews had lost ground in their battle with flames. In the Port Ortord district the Shumate logging camp was threatened by a fire burning along China mountain and tonight families of employes were report ed fleeing with their personal be longings, having abandoned their cabins to the flames. A fire truck, loaded with pro visions, tonight followed auto mobiles carrying recruits into fire areas but before the supplies can reach fire fighters stationed along various fronts they must be pack ed over tortuous mountain trails. Forest officials declared -that II of the. latest fire reported are of incendiary origin. Two of these fires, located almost direct ly on the Oregon-California line in the Siskiyou forest, were being held by rangers tonight but oth ers, one at the head of Sixes riv er near Powers, Oregon; another at McGribble station in the Elk river country, and a third at Lane station- in the Chetco district, were reported to be giving fight ers serious trouble. $1 BAIL MONEY WASHINGTON. Nov. IT (AP) After posting 1500 bail on li quor charges, Representative Ed ward E. Denison of Illinois said today he did not know when he would be brought to trial and the district attorney's office said the case would come up "in the nat ural course of events." Denison had requested an early trial when informed at his home in Marion, 111., of the indictment, growing out of the report of pro hibition agents that a leaking suitcase and a trunk addressed to John Layne, his former secretary, in his care at 411 House Office building, has been found to con tain liquor. He arrived in Washington to day and issued a formal state ment which said he had "nothing to say with reference to the mis demeanor with which I nai re cently been charged la connec tion with the prohibition act." An investigation is being made by the district attorney into the contention of John Layne. who was indicted jointly with Denison, that his case is one of mistaken Identity. FESSEXDKN WINS MILWAUKEE, Nov, 27. (AP) Ray Fessenden, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, tonight won the na tional American balkline billiard championship by defeating M. O Wallgren, of Everett, Wash., 900 to' 845 in a challenger match. Wallgren. who took the title month ago, and Fessenden played 65 innings. Continental limited when It pall ed Into the Union station tonight, two . hoars late. The other 10 had dropped .off at way points, some of them to rislt their homes over the Thanksgiving holidays and one of them to get a sand wich. . - . - : The player who failed to arrive with the team becanse of his un- timely .hunger was "Snowy" Gus tafson. end, who left the train at Rock Springs, Wyoming for a bite to eat Before he had finished his sandwich the train had gone on without him. - He will arrive here a day late. IK HEADWAY 11 DEPOSITS give thanks in one form or an the ground which made ac tual sustenance less hard. Topping- the choices of en tertainment of the Thanksgiving spirit are the anion services to be held, in the churches of ' the city this morning, at 10 o'clock and 10:30 o'clock, depending upon the section of town in which one lives, or the church to which one wishes to go. This afternoon, many townspeople will find their way to the .Willamette football field,' there to watch the game between Salem high school and the boys from Chemawa Indian training JchtJof; --The game : will start at oWockv Picture shows and svrec Concert at 7:30 o'clock at thd. Knight Memorial church wift offer the public attraction for the evening. ..-.-, Not the least of the Thanksgiv ing joys will emanate front the hundreds of happy and" leisurely family gatherings, withC their cen tral evidences of theu-date,'the carefully planned -.'and! .meticu lously prepared TbanlfiigiviBgMln ner. And judging from; the-Xtnnv ber of turkeys that were carried out of Salem shops In the past few days, more children will watch papa carve the turkey today than In many a Thanksgiving.- The schedule of union Thanks giving is repeated, that all who (Concluded on Page 2, Column' S.) SGI1GDAY HAS MUCK HISTORY Annual Custom is Found Far Older Than Pilgrims' Observances WASHINGTON, Not. 27. (AP) The multitudinous fam ilies which enjoy Thanksgiving turkeys tomorrow will be observ ing a euseom that prevailed ages before the Pilgrims first gathered round their festive board. Smithsonian institution records bridging the thousands of years that veil. the aboriginal civiliza tions showed today that the In dians of the southwest domesti cated turkeys a n d fattened them for the choice morsels -of their ceremonial feasts. When the Pilgrim fathers. grateful for good harvests and a year or prosperity jn the new world, decided on a day of Thanksgiving to be celebrated -at a banquet of roast turkey, they gave posterity the birth of Thanksgiving. The practice of such feasts, however, had been established long before by the cliff dwellers who got their birds from a pen instead of a thicket. The turkey of the aborigine more nearly approximated the modern Thanksgiving fowl than tbe scrawny wild birds felled cen turies later by the blunderbuss of the pilgrim, most of the do mesticated varieties, especially the bronze," descended from the Mexican wild turkey that ranged over Arizona, western New Mex ico and southern Colorado vir tually the dooryard of earliest American civilisation. The Pilgrim's turkey was the wild variety that ranged the east ern part of the United States from Maine to Florida. MEXICO CITY. Not. 17 (AP) The high commission of the chamber of deputies today re jected an objection of supporters of Jose Vasconcelos- to .the elec tion of Pascnal Ortiz Rubio as president on the ground thai he had not been a resident of Mexi co for a full rear prior to Novem ber' 17 as required by law. Ortlx Rubia returned in late January from his post In Brazil where be was ambassador. The commission held that under the International law of extraterri toriality he bad been serving Mex ico while la Brazil, living on if ex lean territory In the legation and was therefore a legal resident of the country. . The last of the ballots east In the election arrived today from Lower - California -and - the - com mission expects to finish computa tion of the electoral Tote before tomorrow. It will submit Its find lngs to the complete chamber for approval, after which the official results will be announced. thai mm object DIED "Giant Liquor Conspiracy" is Broken by Federal ' Officers in Idaho Entire City Governments Are Found Corrupted .With Law Breakers WALLACE, Ida., Not. 27. (AP) The federal army march ing through north .Idaho's alleged "rum Mecca tonight increased Its total of conspiracy arrests to SO, out ox 91 inaicted. The arrest of Chief of Police William J. Dalley on charges of consipracy to violate the national prohibition act was reported. The mayor, the county sheriff and the county assessor had been appre hended, Along with the mayor, the chief of police and most of the city councilmen of Mnllan. Federal indictments for other IffuoT violations, including sale, possession, manufacture and trans portation brought the grand total to nearly 200. Thirty have plead ed guilty and been sentenced. Enormous Rum Conspiracy Deolared to Exist The federal district attorney has asserted that a "giant liquor conspiracy" exists in Shoshone county, where most of the arrests have been made. t Cities where arrests have "been made Include Wallace, Mullan, Burke, Kellogg, Clarika, Warden, Prlchard, Bonners Ferry, Sand- point and Coeur d'Alene, but towns most affected were Wallace, where 46 were indicted for con spiracy, and Mullan, with 44 in dicted on this charge. Federal officers say Mullan city officials collected protection money from liquor dispensors and paved its streets and paid the po nes' force with the "rum fund'4 when the city treasury was low7 but they made no charges of per sonal graft. Mullan councilmen de nied the "licenses" were for pro tection. Wallace also employed the license system. Insurance Agent Fined $500 tor Breaking Laws Wallace Truax of Corvalllsr who was alleged to have collected pre miums for insurance carried on a number of used automobiles In Benton county without qualifying as an insurance agent, yesterday was fined $500, according to Clare Lee, state insurance commission er. Truax operations were investi gated by the state Insurance com missioner, "after reports were re ceived that In some cases the mo tor vehicle had not been insured according to contracts entered in to Detween Truax and tne ear owners. Your Best Friends - - r Will tell you of your faults. Our best friends are telling us ours, in the space for "suggestions" at the bottom of the readers' preferences coupon. Their criticisms are not all fault finding, however. We have received many bouquets along with the brick bats. Both are equally welcome. We want to find out what is liked and what is not liked about The Statesman. , The coupon will appear only a few times more. Clip It out today, mark in the parenthesis after your first choice, "2" after your second choice and so on. You may sign your -name or not as you choose. Mail to "City Editor, The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon." READERS' PREFERENCES World news by Associated Press Salem stories with headlines Pictures of world events - News of the theatres - "Valley Stories with headlines Editorials - - - ' -Bits tor Breakfast - - -Local news briefs - -News of the churches - - -Radio programs and newt Society and clnb'news - - -News of Salem schools - - Serial stories , - - . Cartoons, comic strips - -Miscellaneous Features -Local sport news - - Curt Comments - -World sport news ' - -Building and real estate news -Market Reports and news Valley news briefs " Local pictures - Automotive aewi . - -Agricultural news - . s . Suggestions Colin and Fred Slade, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Slade, selling Governor Patterson Christmas seals to aid tbe Anti-Tuberculoftis campaign. The drive for the sale of the seals starts today and con tinues till Christmas. S Ml HIGHWAY CRASH Salem Car Figures in Auto Collision- Near Jeffer son Yesterday Nine 'persons, four of them from this city, were injured more or less seriously Wednesday .after noon when two automobiles col lided head-on two miles and a half north of Jefferson on the Pa cific highway. Of the ten involv ed in the wreck only a small ba by was unharmed. Both, ma chines were badly damaged. The Injuredr G. W. Lafler, Salem real estate dealer and driver of the first car, dislocated right collar bone; cuts, lacerations and bruises. George ,' Smith, Salem grocery man fractured wrists, arm, pel vis: cuts. Mrs. George . Smith fractured collar bone and Internal injuries. James K. Nash, Salem stock buyer three fractured ribsr la cerations of scalp, deep laceration over left eye; bruises. Vern Bollin, of Okanagan, Wash,, driver of th eother car crushed chest, cuts and bruises. Mr. and Mrs. mold Boilin, Ok anagan, Wash., and Fred Mc Adams, of Cashmere, Wash., re ceived severe bruises and cuts. Roderick, five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Boilin deep cut in scalp; bruises. The injured Salem folk were brough tto Ihls city by ambulance while the Washington people (Concluded on Pace 2, Column t.) INJURED w .(.-If-' . vN.rft " Governor- Statement I regard it as an annual privilege to express my bearty commendation and support of the seal sale by which the Oregon Tubercu losis Association finances its program of health work. This organization has al ready accomplished splendid results In alleviating the ef fects of this dread disease in Oregon, and deserves the encouragement and the co operation of the people of Oregon in ita future efforts. I. L. PATTERSON, Governor. E OF FINAL SUCCESS Difficulties to be Overcome At Five Power Naval Meet He Says LONDON, Nov. 27. (AP) Admitting that numerous dlffl culties will confront the five- power naval conference when It opens here In January, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to day expressed his belief that these would be overcome and that success would crown the efforts of those seeking reduction in the armaments of the world He spoke at a tea In the house of commons which was attended by representatives of various Brit ish peace organizations, Frank B Kellogg, former United States secretary of state, and Mrs. Kel logg, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, Prof. Gilbert Murrah and Nor man Ancell, author and lecturer. The prime minister brushed the "difficulties" aside, declaring, we will not he afraid." Sum ming up his attitude, he said, "I am neither a pessimist nor an op timist. I believe that good is go ing to come out ot faithful, sin cere, and earnest work religious ly stuck to, work that is not go ing to be thwarted or clouded by temporary difficulties or rebuffs. If one way does not yield re- suit we will try another, always Sticking, Sticking to the work. We will have a great many dlf- Acuities, but, as we have faced those difficulties before, we will still face them in the five-power conference. SEATTLE, Nov. 27. (AP) Temporary respite at least from the power shortage in Seattle was reported today by officials of both private and municipally owned electric systems The recent rains, although light, have served to check the lower of water levels In reservoirs serving hydro-electric plants, officials re ported, while the plants were now reported In a position to utilize auxiliary plants arranged for pre viously. In Tacoma, however, the power situation was considered acute and ranldlv annroaehinr a crisis nnleas relief was soon found. The airplane carrier Lexington, use of which has been requested by Seattle and Tacoma to augment municipal -eystems, anchored in Elliott bay here today, having been moved from lta anchorage off Balnbrldge Island. In order to permit shore leave for officers and men. v ' VKS8EI SINKS PENS ACOLA. Fla.. Nor. 27 (AP) -The Italian freighter Es - cambla listed and sank in Pensa- cola bay here tonight. No Uvea were lost, according to early : re ports. . - ' - " , . - i r . POWER SHORTAGE S r.Tivv sad uoe 1 , i .J . i.irw " M- V 'i " i ki- - I I x I .- - ' -"-"r " ii mm iimiI HT 1 UOLUS BULBS Growers' War Indicated in , i acuou in uisnusiiiK Russian um JOSephine COUnty Re- ! lals from the joint board of con gion Yesterday GRANTS PASS. Ore.. Nov. 27. i ( AP) Determined tarmers of Josephine county tonight stood guard over gladiolus hulbs valued at thousands of dollars while Sher iff E. H. Lister, heading a group of deputies, sought the leaders of an alleged gang of night riders, which early today blazed a torch trail throughg at least three bulb growing communities. In the wake of the night's as serted depredations He the smould ering ruins of One barn which contained more than 1,000,000 of choice bulbs and the blackened embers of another shed that held more than half that many bulbs ot the third alleged raid little could be learned, One grower told Sheriff Lister that several thousand bulbs bad apparently been stolen from his barn before it was tired. Sheriff Lister declared he found in the other barn evidence which defin itely connected the two fires. Josephine county's bulb Indu stry is divided between rowers associated with a bulb pool and independent growers. Relations between the two factions tonight were reported to be cordial and no apparent reason for the alleged in cendiary fires existed. BY SPORT CRITICS SEATTLE. Nov. 27. (AP) Two football championships will be at stake in Washington tomor row afternoon the Northwest conference title at Walla Walla and the state high school crown at Seattle. Whitman college and Willam ette university will tangle on the Missionary field with the former alon- Nelther team bas lost ft con. f-rence- tilt since the season and tomorrow's clash will wind ud the Northwest conference season as far as the championship is con cerned. Whitman has won four games and Willamette three. College of Idaho Is also sched uled to play tomorrow in a non- conference contest with the Uni versity of Nevada. The conference season will officially close Satur day with a game between Lin- field and College of Puget Sound at Tacoma which will decide last place. The state high school cham pionshlp is the price sought by the Falrhaven eleven of Bellingham andthe Hillyard team of Spo kane in tne university or Wash ington stadium tomorrow. The game Is sponsored by the Unlver sity post of the American Legion and Is planned to be an annual af fair. 1H FAVORED Parents To Get Reports If Pupils' I Parents ot Salem high school hrtudents who are failing. In one I or more ot their school subjects I will shortly receive a blue warn I lng slip acquainting them with I the fact, and also with the reason. I This .method of Inducing students I to keep up their subjects is being put into effect at the local high school for the first time, and In announcing it. Principal Fred Wolf asks that parents receive it with the spirit in which -it Is in- 1 tended and that they co-operate In responding to the warning by re turning the slip to the school and taking the matter up with the son or, daughter. ... Defenders BackDown Chinese Government Complies With Demands Russians to be Giveri Control of Rail way Again MOSCOW, Nov. 27 (AP) The Mukden government was of ficially reported tonight to have capitulated to the demand of the Soviet government for re-establishment of the status quo on the Chinese Eastern railway in Man churia before opening negotia tions for peaceful pettlement f the dispute. Acting Commissary of Foreign Affairs, Maxin Litvinoff tonight forwarded to the provincial gov ernment a telegram recommend ing re-instatement of M. Emshan ov, as manager and'M. Ethreont as assistant manager of the rail way. He appointed M. Siminavosky. foreign office agent at the border point Kliarovsk. as official repre sentative ofthe Soviet government fla conduct further negotiations with Mukden. The break between Russia and chna was precipitated bycum trol oi me railway auer a ram ua the Russian consnlate in Harbin wag said to have dhsclosed that they were U3ins '.heir positions to further communist propaganda. Russia Ion? demanded rein statement of these officials as a preliminary to peace talks, but Nanking, while expressing willing ness to have other Russians ap pointed to the posts, flatly refus ed to accept the previous holders. Recently there have been reports that the Manchurian or Mukden government was seeking peaceful settlement of the dispute Inde pendent of the foreign office in Nanking. BERLIN. Nov. 27. (AP) The Chinese minister to Berlin has received instructions from Nanking to make formal appeal to the League of Nations for in tervention with a view to ending the state of war with Russia. This action follows upon an earlier appeal through Chinese ambassadors and ministers in va rious countries to signatories ot the Kellogg antiwar pact request ing intervention and is of the na ture of last resort. "The Nauking government has gone to the utmost limit," a high Chinese official told an Associat ed Press correspondent, "to dem onstrate Its peaceful . intentions. We have declared our willingness to meet Russia on every possible point, but vainly. "It seems that Russia is main taining a recalcitrant attitude to' divert attention from her internal troubles. China is absolutely united on this question and our great regret is that the United States is not a member of the League of Nations and that we are Conclude on Pajre 2, Column 3.) MIMHUS TRIAL TO BE NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (AP) The McManus murder trial almost caught jip with itselftoday. Fri day morning when sessions ar re sumed fater a holiday recess the case will be where it was last Fri day afternoon. The reading ot testimony al ready adduced by the state to a blue ribbon jury was completed at three p.m. today; Friday morn ing new witnesses will be called. The state is attempting to nnove McManus shot Arnold Rothstein, Broadway gambler, a year ago. - The rehashing of the testimony was made necessary by tbe ezcu gal Monday ot a juror becanse of "extreme nervousness," formal declaration of a mistrial and the seating of the eleven remaining jurors and one new one. Tbe tes timony was read for the new Jur or's benefit. Work Is Poor Slips will be sent only in of students of whom it is known better work could be done, for some ot the students are bound to be failures. As a rule reason tor low elass work will be checked on the slips; these falling largely In to four groups: Lack ot prepara tion, lack of Interest, too many outside activities and irregular at tendance. ' Purpose of these warnings is two-fold, Mr. WTolf pointed out: First, to get the student through ehool in the accepted or custom ary length Ot time and to keep (Concluded en Page 2, Column .5.) PUSHED ADA . 4