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CIRCUIiATIQX Dally itk SitHWtia tor boiA aiag Swlw 0,.ltl 6,830 Averse daily net fH ,10 Xtdil Bums ' Cirem!tiBA, WEATHER - - - , Continued rain today ud Wednesday; Snows la moan-, tains.. Max. temperature Monday 72; Min. 47; Rata .77; RlTer -a.7. FOUNJDEP 1631 SEVENTY-TilNTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 10, 1929 No. 221 I Long Awaited Showers Come To Answer Prayers of Local Farmers1- Weather Man Brings Extra Supply of Moisture to Offset Delays SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9. (AP) The tar west yesterday and today enjoyed ltg first real bath in months, and farmers, stockmen. lumbermen, and those who make electricity from waterpower, smil ed tonight as weather forecasts promised more rain and more snow. - Never since establishment of the United States weather bureau here three-quarters of a century ago has there been such a dry year. Health officials, noting the spread of disease which fresh washed air would virtually elim inate, have anxiously awaited. Its end; forestry officials hare been forced to fight fires through the autumn and into winter. Stock men have been forced to buy feed where green pastures uso-ally had been available; crops hare suffer ed, and hydroelectric plants in some sections have been all but shut down. From wondering when the long dry spell would end. and worrying about such matters as pasture and fall crops, residents of the middle Willamette Taller suddenly turn ed Monday to speculating about the possibility that the weather man, in his haste to make up for lost time, would pour down mois ture fof "forty days and forty nights" and duplicate the flood of 1890. From early Sunday morning, when a light drizzle began until Monday morning, .81 inch of rain was recorded by the govern ment weather station here. Early this morning it was still raining, after only a few short interrup tions, and the total fall was un- doubtedly double what It wasTToanS8tes the typical American Monday morning. This, however could only be estimated," as the rain gauge is read only - nee dally. . Little damage had" been: 'report ed, although some downtown' base ment bad been flooded ana emer gency measures had to be taken. A number of automobiles appar ently had difficulty In becoming acclimated and were seen stalled on the streets. Curbs were flood ed in many parts of the elty. The present rain will provide a test for the rains- which have given trouble in past wet seasons but were improved this year, not ablr the one serving Southeast alem. a district which has al ways been trouble in wet periods. TJn to late Monday night, no flooding in that section had been f re dp r ted. I The rainfall up to early this morning had exceeded the total . for October and November, 1.17 and .S3 inches. The forecast was for mora rain, and it was freely predicted that the precipitation vmid continue for several days at least. EKTD1SIVE Fully ISO miles of improved market road and at Jeast five anlles of paving are expected to be finished as part of the market jroad ' program planned by the jfcounty in 1930. This prediction jwas mad by the county court in Its market road program which vae under discussion at the court fhouse Monday. First In local importance Is th proposed resurvey of South Twelfth street, making that road m. through road to the Pacific iiirhway. Two surveying crews started at worfc yesterday, preparing the (market road program when Don Cell, a Portland surveyor, was placed in charge of an extra crew. it is expected that the complete market road program for next ear wll be ready shortly afjer fhe first of the year. Willamette HIGHWAY PlllED OH Local Gathering Is Told It is a significant fact la esti mating the -worth of Willamette junlversltyr that more than SO per Icent of its freshman class and jrore than 50 per cent of its fac ulty members are not Methodists although the university Is con ducted' under Methodist auspices. It wae- stated by Dr. S. B. Laugh- 1 1 Jin, head- ot the sociology and eco .. mimics department, la a brief talk : em ther Willamette day" program at the chamber of commerce ' luncheon Monday.. , Dr. Laughlln explained that an tducatlonal. instltutloa of real merit will draw from a wider field. He mentioned' that of the .gTadaaies la the last ten years, f gi.l per cent were residents ot Salem, 10 per cent from Portland fl.l from II other communities fa Oregon and 18.9 from outside To Marry. if. .y. : A CanneUa Pome lie of the Met ropolitan Opera Company has announced her engagement to Joseph J. Lyons of Mew York. Mr. Lyons la well known in New York realty and political cir cles. New Feature Strip to Appear Daily in Oregon States man for Readers Sugar-coating worth while In formation that is the task of Paul Pim, nationally famous car toonist, has set for himself in the production of "Telling Tommy,' new and extraordinary feature which will appear in The Oregon Statesman beginning this week It's not a comic strip, but an educational feature and yet it contains more real humor than the average comic strip. That is in line with the theory Mr. Pim pro pounded for himself after years of experience as an art teacher. I discovered in teaching," the artist said, "that facts were unin teresting if they couldn't be em bellished in such a way as to dis guise the fact that people are be ing taught something. So I immediately thought of a boy. who, like millions of his kind throughout the world, would be Interested in historical events. "The idea worked and as a re- suit the strip Is being read in Mexico, Chile, Braze! Argentina and Canada, aside from all the states in me unitea Biaies." Mr. Pim that's his real name, by the way has no little boy "Tomtny of his own. In fact he ?'nl "L.!1 .BuK.opi; wo uivuauiia uvuiv iu w ncu Range of Alabama, where he and Mrs. Pim live, he puts himself in Tommy's place every day and asks a question which any inquis itive boy might ask and then he answers it in the most delightful and interesting wsy imaginable. The questions are not all histor ical in fact they cover an unbe lievably wide range of subjects. on all of which Mr. Pim Is well qualified to expound, for he is student as well as artist He is still a member of the faculty of Birmingham Southern College. FIVE NEW CONCRETE Five new concrete bridges are listed, as Improvements to be made next summer on the Turner Aumsvllle county highway, ac cording to plans made public by Hedda Swart, county engineer, yesterday. On this piece of road there are at present eight brldg es, all crossing the same creek which runs a serpentine path along the right of way. Two bridges, the. covered bridge and the bridge nearest Aumsville, are both in good con dition and will not be replaced for some time yet, the engineer de clared The eighth bridge win be repiscea wil . t t.wu Engineer Swart pointed out that it the road had originally been located half a mile east of Its present location, only two bridges over Mill creek would have been necessary. This loca tion was not selected however, he said, because the county lacked money to purchase the right of way. The road is paved.' Civic Asset the state including a number of other countries. t ij . m t (iwiuou un v. uqiht. di in- ZSZtSTutoVSutt university has made in the last ten years, when huildlLi worth ion years, wnen euuaings worm . . . I28S.00O were built In: compari son to .8189,000 In the preceding 75 years; endowment amounting to 1115,000 was obtained la com parison to 8 4 5 0,0 0 0 previously. and the budget was increased to three times what it wag at the beginning of the period. Each one of the IIS students brings about $100 a year to Sa lem: la the ease ef local students. aot that much la spent bat that much la kept from going else- waere, tae president poinieq euu a a. . . tconctaeed en Page 8. Column C) TEIM TOMMY' COIf MSILFJ 5P SCHEDULE OF SEAnLE lS TdKfMIHCIIQT inilL.ll 111 LflUI Prisoner is Held to Answer For Reign of Terror In Northwest' Suspect Has Gunshot Wound Which He Says was Ac quired in Indiana JANESVILLE, Wis., Dec. (AP) Sheriff Charles Garey of Rock county was notified-tonight that Seattle officials have filed with Governor Hartley a request for extradition papers for Lloyd Fathers. 15. held here as the mystery man" who terrorized Se attle by attacking women. They have wired .him a copy of a warrant charging Fathers with a criminal assault on Oct. 16. 1929. Photographs today established the Identity of the "mystery man" wanted by. Seattle. Wash., author ities for 31 brutal attacks upon women, Sheriff Garey said The man, 25 years old, was tr- rested last night after under Sher iff Robert Moodie saw him on the street and recognized him from photographs mailed from Se attle at the time of the nation wide hunt tor the mystery man several weeks ago. He was suf fering from a gunshot wound. Garey said. Seattle Officer to Bring Defendant West While the man refused to make statement, the sheriff said he was confident he was the man wanted for the west coast attacks. Seattle authorities wired that a man would be sent to Wisconsin to take the prisoner west. Several weeks ago, Seattle, and other nearby cities were terror ized by a man who forced his way into homes and, at the point of a gun, attacked women. More than 30 such cases were credited to the "mystery man. Police doubl ed their watch; husbands guarded their homes; extra officers were detailed to hunt down the man. He eluded them all. The man held here, officials said, came to Janesville from Ra ring wu on Not.' S. and was bar- wd br a family whd"called doctor to treat hia,wonad. TU doctor failed to report the wound to nolle, officials said. The man ,A ba w.. wounded when In a m,n Indiana, town. He attemnt- gteal a botu. of mUk and was shot. 8HAKOPEE, Minn., Dec t (AP) Acting on a "Up" from the underworld, a posse, ambushed' in village shops,' shot down tnree bandits as . they fraught to escape after robbing the First National bank of 11,500 here today after a lEBHSk BM( gun tight in Main street in which elation meeting today in the ofc nearly 100 shots were fired. flees of John Lalng, treasurer, ex One of the bandit trio, wound- pressed confidence that practical ed with machine gun and pistol plans will be worked out to pre bullets, and buckshot from a duck serve the annual fiesta for which gun, was Identified as wwiamithe city ot roses is bbuobwij Bud" Mclnerny of St. rauu lie Is not expected to live. The oth - ers. Frank Morris of Chicago, and George Laram, si. i-aui. doui rtously wounded, are expected to recover. . While Mclnerny and Larkln were inside the bank raiding Us safe, Morris sat at the drivers wheel of a large sedan outside. h . - m a m a. sit. ue sieppea out oi me car. unaries u. v., Cial agent from the Minnesota Bankers association, who had re ceived the "tip" at 2 a.m., today, from sources he would not reveal, opened fire with a shoulder ma chine gun and Morns droppea. . i.. .it v. Mw,n.fnr.a rmk ft the tfc to the street ,th th. loot nTTreA. to speed wVr'- staccato t v. on tnml rvhn nine, i-hief of nollcer Sher - Iff Weckman and several deputy sheriffs. Ther had remained hid den in establishments across the street from the bank. RMfH HMS0IJ HURT AT SALEM When the trucks on heavy hanrar door at the Salem airport I aiinnad from their tracks the birl I . . . .. ' rail nn tan ttr iuinn aaasoa. UJbTow local .porta officiaL knocking him unconscious and otherwise Injuring him to such aa . mmmm .v.. . t. extent that he was taken to the Salem General hospital Monday afternoon. ' . Mason, according to reporta from the airport, was engaged la painting one of the hangar doors when someone attempted to close it, The tracks are thought to have become disengaged from their tracks and the falling door Pin - aed Mason underneath. . Hospital officials reported late last night that the Injured man I vju a cahiiln suemsjaj w nuu at mm evv was resting easily and It la he - PT UlTt4 ht wW recover. - Noh Thirty-four eara made th trip I bones were broken, It was said. Cherries to Pick King Ding Tonight At Monthly Meet - Election of King Bins and the coudl of nobles for the coming year, win be the principal Item of bosinees on the program- at the Cher rians December meeting, which win be at a dinner to night at 6:80 o'clock; at the chamber of commerce aadl torinm. A committee will be ap pointed to arrange for the . annual banquet and the j 'crowning of the new King Bing. Plans for the activi ties of the coming year will be discussed. BROOKHART PHV IS Grand Jurors Decline to In dict Participants in Famous Dinner WASHINGTON, Dee. t. (AP) The District of Columbia grand Jury dismissed with two short paragraphs today a subject that had occupied thousands of words in the newspapers the famous Wall street booze party brought to the attention of the senate by Senator Brookhart of Iowa. . Reporting that it had insuffi cient evidence to indict, the Jury said It had heard various witness es, but had deemed that the lack of evidence, "together with the extraordinary lapse of time be tween the alleged violations and the revelation of facts relating to this affair, make it impracticable for the grand jury to consider the matter further." The grand Jury instituted an in vestigation after Senator Brook hart had related to the senate that he had attended a dinner at the Wlllard hotel on December 10, 1926. It was given, he said, by Walter J. Fahy, a Wall street broker, and the Iowan charged that liquor had been presented to the. guests Eighteen Workers Build Mine Road crew Ml men Is now at work on the road which will con nect the Amalgamated Mining company's claims on the North Santlam with the outside world, it was reported in Salem Monday b" R h. Tyson of Woodbum and Hannler of Portland, men who are associated with the mining venture and visited the premises Sunday. DROPPED -v Portland Gets Rose Festival WregOIi After AU; Astoria? M for T Columbia Bridge Filed in OnetS U.S. Senate by McNary PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. t. (AP) This city is virtually as sured of a rose festival next year. Directors of the festival asso- known. 1 Josephine Forney, executive MCretary of the association, told the meeting that the principal J pr0Diem confronting the directors I nresent is to determine public t which features . m08t popular. PORTLAND. Ore., Dee. t. . a i j. (10,w w VMwmm teft this city tonlgnt for his home at Palo ntw ...eo-tufted with Alto apparently dissatisfied with his reception here. Edwards parked his ear in a public garage, started across a down town street to a hotel and encountered a lone gunman. He host S60. H turned hack to the ga- I rage anosianea boum. I " WASHmGTON, D. C. Dec. 9 fAPl A bill to authorize J 1 C. Tenhrook to construct and operate a bridge over the Colum- bia river at" or near Astoria, to nnect the Roosevelt highway with the Washington ocean beach highway, was introduced today h Senator McNary. PORTLAND. Ore., Dec f. (AP) -Six more community clubs have swung into line behind the nroposal to tarn over to the state that portion ot the Columbia river highway which lies in Multnomah eonntv. H wae revealed today in letters received by the heard of eounty .commissioners. - nm I - .asvc w -SSt'Z a special train to take thent to Eugene Wednesday night where a .Mm...ni hM ikm( I Joint program wlll be held. About one hundred local lodgemea are expected to make the trip. They will leave hero at f :4 p. aad leave Eugene on the return trip I shortly before midnight, I . . I MEDFORD. Ore. Dee. t. I (AP) Tout inches ot snow the 1 first of the season ten tn Crater ILake NaUonal -park yesterdsy aft- I noon and all travel to the rim of the lake tor this jear was or- 1 dered suspended. yesterday through slush. II.S.10IIESTO WORLD COURT Final Decision Rests With Senate; Three Official Documents Signed ' President Hoover Will Give American Solons Time To Argue Issue GENEVA. Dee. 9 (AP) To the gratification of League' of Na tions circles here, the United States today took an important step toward entry into the mem bership of the permanent court for international justice. Jap Pierre Moffatt, American charge d'affairs at Berne, Switzer land, signed three different docu ments on behalf of the American government, the court statutes. the revision adopted by the recent assembly of the League of Na tions, and the protocol for the ad mission of the United States. United States Senate's Action Now Awaited The eyes of International ob servers at Geneva are now turned toward Washington. Everyone is awaiting the action of the Amer ican senate when today's signa tures are presented for ratifica tion. Mr. Moffatt was in the league secretariat for only half an hour and the signing was, private and without ceremony. Sir Eric Drum mond. secretary-general of the league, Arthur Sweetser, Ameri can official In the secretariat. Ju an Antonio Buero, former foreign minister of Uruguay, and Sanchez Teixldor of Spain were present. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (AP) American adherence to the world court again hinges on the senate but President Hoover, who authorized the affixing of the sig nature of this nation to the revis ed protocol at Geneva today," is expected to give the senate some time for reconsideration. Hard Fight Lfkely, President Is Told Hoover has been informed that another stubborn senate contest la In prospect even under the re vised protocol. He Is not expect- ed by senate leader to Inject thlslTney uvea atgni years near onestion before the return of Se- coin and in 1884 took np a home-j cretary Stlmson from the forth- stead in the northwest corner oi constructive ueas to me realtors, 0fferei. w. Lair Thompson was coming London naval arms confer- the regular army, being employed each two of whom argued the pro the cnlef examiner for tho preee ence. as a wood workman for 84 years, and con on a given selling or buy- ention. with Mr. Veatch cross-x- The senate group which unsuc- cessfully opposed American adher ence to the court when It was vot ed by 7f to ! three years ago has given notice that the modl- ( Concluded on Pace . Column T.) EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 9. (AP) A slashing warm rain which started tailing about midnight Saturday followed Sunday by enow in tne mgner amtuaes. brought relief to Lane eounty from one of the longest dry spells on record. Snow was on the Mc- Kenxie Pass today and also at Cascade Summit and 1.13 Inches of rain has fallen here since the downpour started. A snow storm which started Sunday on McKenzie Pass brought j half an inch of snow before tne flurries ceased, but auto travel still continued over the pass. Cars have not yet resorted to ehalns and the snow was reported melt ing under warm winds today. PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 9. (AP) Commercial fishermen ot the Oregon coast welcomed heavy rain along virtually the entire Oregon coast. Hug C. Mitchell, di - rector of the department of fish vutvuiv w - todar.i The genera! rain which "Der ii7 uainpeueu mm v vsvit, raisea au importani coasi. sweaius Htt uictculcu mivua uwj u the collection of SUverslde salmon eggs by the State Fish commission which was threatened by the long j drought. PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. tVr-r (AP) Mysterious attempts to shoot Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Murphy, residents of this city, aroused po lice today. Murpny reported that recently he was fired upon on the dark and that late Sunday night tour shots were fired at him at a range close enough for him to observe the tire - flash from the gunman's weapon. EUGENE. Ore.. Dec 9. (AP) Governor I. Lb Patterson. Pres ident W. J. Kerr. Paul V. Maris. direction fit the extension course at -v the Oregon State eoliege. aad several other state leaden have been invited to participate in .reception aad celebration hon- oring Miss Lola Bailey. Oregon's Natlonal club champion, wnen sue returns home hero on December 21, It was announced here today. Plana are being made lor a great day in Eugene. . i MEDFORD. Ore.,' Dee. f . (AP) Thieves entered the south era Oregon Normal school at Ash- land last nlrht and atole S10 the students had collected for Christ mas acala. : Five Generations V-' w .- T. G. Harris, whose 91st birthday was last Saturday, and representative of four generations of his descendants. To his right, Mrs. Clara McDerby, his daughter, aged 60, above on the right, Mrs. Blanche Stewart, his graaddanghter, aged BO; above on the left, Mrs. Laura Scott, his great granddaughter, aged 21 below on the right, Gloria Jeane Scott, bis great great graad danghter, aged eight months. mis IS IMF DESPITE HIS YEARS Picture Taken on 91st Birth- day With Four Younger Generations T. O. Harris celebrated hist 91st birthday last Saturday. His home is at 16 1 Waller street where he lives with his daugther, fan. Clara J. McDerby. Mr. Harris is a veteran of the Civil war, having corved four vears as a member of nnmotiT B. 77th Illinois voiun- teer Infantry. He was In 13 en- nMmcnU and was In the earn- naixns from Cairo to the sea, go ing through the siege or vicss- burg under Grant, Mr. Harris was a native of Il linois and before the war married Lucinda B. Douglas. After the war they settled in Marshall county and in 187C moved to Nebraska. I He resigned August 1. 11 and left Fort Robinson, Nebr., to come to Oregon. His wife died January 18, Ills. His birthday was spent in call ing of friends about town, and he showed himself spry despite his years. He played his harmonica where he called. Last year ne drove a car east. Saturday he had i his picture taken with five genera- tlons and also with a group of four Daughters of Veterans of the local organisation. BE H FEATURE Vnthnr Af ennrse. so he'll think and ditto. Ma nerhans. Mother may surprise Pa, and the rest of the family, too, once she really starts solving the clever Cross-Word Pussies which will be published in The Statesman be- ginning today. ... . And nrotner ana sister wi competition there'll be to see who can "make-out" those brain-tick lers first! Tes. this new and brilliant Cross-Word Puzzle series will fas cinate the whole family hun dreds of families, because a big 1 -n..lA -.-.1 1- BOW in fnll awlng. the solution of cross-word , cryptics is oecoming me most pop - I ni-r -ru f ttta dir. Even 1 grandpa and his pals will eorrn- gmt6 tnelr prows over tnese orain- teasers. i Aad this nn A indoor BDOIX UUll I v., actual educational value, for y,. dictionary wjll get a thumbing extraordinary in the course of solving this newspapers Cross- Word Puzzles. Lodk on the feature page. Soon Ma and the rest of the famuy ought - to ' And out whether Pa Is j as clever at solving things as he would have others think he is: B TO HE WASHINGTON. D. C. Dee. 9 (AP) Rear Admiral WUliam A. WORD JUZZLES TO rM CHIEF URGES ZjTYvMit 2. un?i "v otfleen. BW.irt moval of army activities I North Island at San Diego was es- ea Weaet sentUL The sooner this Issue la brought to a successful conclusion the better It will bo for the gov ernment as regards both economy and 'efficiency. Admiral Mof let said. ;North island is both logi cally and in tact our most impor tant fleet air station and our ac- trvltles at that point are many - 1 times those ef army activities Itkert. . - . 1 m t CITY REALTY BOARD Pennington and Krueger Re- tained as Secretary and Treasurer Karl O. Becke was elected president of the Salem Realty j Board, and W. M. Pennington and W. O. Krueger was reelected sec retary and treasurer, respectively. at the annual meeting held last nleht at the Marion notei. s. m. Earle was named first vice-presi dent: L. A. McAllister, second rice-president and E. B. Graben horst. Paul Hendricks and Wil liam McGilchrlst, Jr., members of the executive committee. J. F. TJ1 rich Is the retiring president. A sales clinic on conditions per tinent to the real estate situation in Salem was arranged by L. E. KARL BECKE HEADS uwret wa iiurwsueu I amin the material and pasr tipen estlng entertainment as .well .tne eompeteney of much that was lag situation. Daring the course of the "din- le" advantages of an exclusive listing were weighted against a promiscuous listing of property for sale: the wisdom, at present. of buying a practically new home Instead of building was brought to the fore; advantages of dealing with a realtor were debated; and the farm situation and other prob- lems were treated. J. F. Ulrich. retiring president, eommended the board upon the splendid conditions in which It finds Itself at the end of this year and expressed his hope that the group might continue to build upon the new standards to which the members have brought it. vi- rich and Pennington reported that they would attend the annual mid winter conference of Northwest Real Estate dealers to be held in I Tacoma December 18. rt..n..t r h. mttt th n Mal Mtate Dr0kers' law, which be- effective the first ot the JttSt wm have upon the realtors and egpeclauT the appraisal work of the board wag entered Into. I with one result that another mem ber wm aaded t0 eMQ th clty . . .ppralsal committee. Also standard appraisal will be secured and used. blanks SIX OP CREW SAVED L'Arochelle. France. Dec 9 (AP) The French steam tr awler 1 uucosoa iuuo .z. I six survivors of the crew of 40 ot the Italian steamer ChierL Tne iiauan vessel was overwmwuicu T ngantie wave at iu:sw last I nini wnca Y uuca vn. woum. light. Justice Ot Peace Wins In Hot Courtroom Carl Stewart, Gervais athletic coach, paid a fine of f 15 in jus tice court yesterday afternoon for driving his automobile with ille gal lights. Stewart's extra large fine came as a result ef his at tempt to argue the matter out be fore Judge Brazier Small Several days ago the Gervais l " " " " " " IT v i 1. . A I V TS.ml fl. . "vf T" tl I . a - - t.1.11 niga. e was given tne vioiauwn tag and told to have his lights corrected and mall or bring the slip to Judge Small In justice ; court here.' r; - Z ' ,-. railing to abide by the Instruc tions, Stewart was arrested and I brought before the judge Monday afternoon. Guilty or not guilty!" asked I the Judge, I "Not guilty. answered Stewart. . 1 Thereupon the Judge asked for , I AIFWSPAPER'R i 1 FORCES RALLY TO MR. JOSEPH Publication of Rand Charges Not Inspired by De fendant, Said Disbarment Hearing Starts At Capitol Building Here Monday At the conclusion ef the first day's hearing of the charges tor the disbarment of George W. lo . seph before Circuit Judges Skip worth. Norton and Wilson, the ?-'. lines of the prosecution and the defense were indicated. xThe pro secution which is handled by W. . Lair Thompson of Portland, John Carson of Salem, and Oscar Hay ter of Dallas developed as its ease in chief the articles in the Pert land Telegram Involving Justices - Rand and McBride and radio ad dresses and circulars by Mr. Jo seph published during the Rand - campaign. Effort was made witn little success to connect Mr. Jo seph with the Telegram publica tions. The defense- which Is being re presented by John C. Veatea and Bert E. Haney. Mr. Joseph's asso ciates, takes the stand that Mr. JoBeoh was not responsible for the Telegram's articles, and that his own rsdio addresses and cir culars were privileged because they were uttered during the Rand campaign tor re-electron. Against this claim of privilege the prosecu? tion is developing its case under the corrupt practices act which brajtds as political criminal libel matter circulated in a campaign which is a false attack on the character or integrity of a candi date, but exempts the circulator from charge of mance proviaea ne submits a copy of the circular to the candidate involved fiftaen days in advance of publication. Justice Rand was placed on tae stand and denied tbat the Joseph circulars were submitted to htm any. time prior to publication. Judge Skipworth of Eugene served as presiding Judge. His rulings were generous for the ad mission of evidence with the com ment that the referees would ex- aminlng. In the opening state- ment Mr. Thompson briefly reiat- ed the charges against Attorney Joseph which are summarised as follows: That Mrr Joseph caused to be published In the Telegram articles defamatory to a Justice of the sa- preme court during the pendeacy 0f a case before that court. That he mnsnired with El via C. . Condlt In fllinr a false complaint before the bar grievance commlt- tee against Thomas Man nix and la agreeing with Condit that Condit should give perjurea testimony i- volving Mannlx with supplying 11- quor to a supreme Justice for the purpose of influencing a ease ae- xore tne court. That in cases now pending Jo seph has charged that Mannlx has claimed corrupt Influence ever Justices of the supreme court; , that Joseph conspired with Henry Haxen to plant liquor at the home of Justice Rand with Intent to la volve Thomas Mannlx, the com plainant In the disbarment pro ceedings. For ibm oef ensS "tCttorney Veatch went Into a lengthy recital ot the history ot the Wemme eases, which litigation is concern ed in the attacks on Rand. On the Condit matter he-stated that the complaint was filed on informa tion brought to their office, that the ease was now pending in the circuit court ot Multnomah eounty where the truth of falsity t the cnar,eg win he adjudicate.'!.' On I the liquor charge he told a story 1 . n.nM Wnum wbQ h&d told joseptt tales about .j be na4 disappeared r41)teared. bnt had been (6mtcraAb o Irage s, Comma an additional $11 ball and told the man his ease would be set tor Argument trial. ' . r v-: . h-;' But Stewart, sensing additional . expense, thought he had oetier change his plea. Judge Email a fe ed him If . he really believed ne were guilty and the answer waa negative. - : A lengthy : argument oetween the Judge and Stewart resulted and finally the plea or -guuty. was accepted. The Judge then de clared the fine to be $15. Stewart would not produce the money so a committment to the county Jail was ordered and he was taken to the court house to serve out the tine. At the court house Stewart wrote out a check for the fine aad was releMed":4v;:'-;"'-''ci-v-: 't : The case was pointed ' out by Judge Small as being the result ef carelessness on the part ot the mo torist who Is given a tag for Ille gal lights and who does not report after having them repaired. Those who - do report are not fined. said the Judge. . V