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CIRCULATION WEATHER Rain today and Sunday; continued mikl. Mat. tem perature Friday 73; min. 8.1; rainfWI JM; wind south; river JTB. Dtl? itmii llitrtbntioa for k month tndlBtf November 10, 1S3S 6,830 Attrtf daily Bet pld '.109 MtmW Audit BofMu ot ClreoUtloBi. FOUNDED 1831 SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, December 14. 1929 No. 225 1M Mi w -r i I annix Is 'Mistaken He States f i i Haphazard Compila tion of Pleadings Is Excuse Given Unprofessional Activi ties Are Charged to Portlander Entering the plea of "a mis take" to showings of wrongful entry of name of a litigant In a complaint, complaining about the "technicalities" which hlg exam lner Evan Reamed brought up in other Inconsistencies, Thomas Mannlx appeared as the first wit- ness called by the prosecution in the disbarment action against him which began yesterday morning Associated with Mr. Rcames are Arthur Clark of Corvallls and Ar thur L. McMahan of Albany. Man nix was the only witneatf exam ined during the day and the ex aminers were not through with him when court adjourned. Hear ing resumes today at 9:30 and continues till 3:30. The proceed ings yesterday afternoon became extremely tedious to those who have been in constant attendance on the Joseph-Mannlx cases this week. Much of tbe.tlme was de voted to the introduction of pa pers from the numerous Wemme cases, original complaints, briefs, contracts, etc. Then the exam iner would lead the witness through this documentary mater ial, bringing out the inconsisten cies which the prosecution relies on to prove Mannix guilty of un professional conduct. For the prosecution Mr: McMa han outlined the grounds for dis barment. They were three: his double-dealing In the Wemme cases, his utterly worthless cheeks, and his representation of clients of special Influence with members of the Supreme court. In his opening statement, Mr. Mc Mahan said: "Mannlx in various cases made the most glaring mis statements of facts. There were the grossest efforts on the part of Mannlx to commit fraud and to deceive the courts." Frank Lonergan, Portland at torney, appearing for Mannlx, de clared there had been no misrep resentation, that mistakes often crept into pleadings about the worthless checks he said some of (hem had been paid up, others (OaMladtd on Page 2, Column 1.) MAWYlD MUCH NEEDED HEBE Salvation Army Finds Case Of Destitute Family yl- . . Without Food THE SALVATION ARMY "GOOD WILL FUND" Rex Russell $ 6.00 J. R. Carrutbera . . 5.00- Anna W. Cross .... 5.00 A Friend 25. OO Anonymous 5.00 JB. E. Gleeeon ...... 1.50 The- Spa 5.00 II. O. Strong 5.00 U. O. Heffley 3.5 Ministerial Ass'n . . 20.O8 Lontee Huguenin . . 2.50 Street Kettles Previously reported 187.25 Mr. and Mr. J. R. Woodward 1.00 J. II. Farrar 10.00 Elbert L. Powell 1.00 W. H. Dancy .... 5.00 A. J. Paris 1.00 L. O. Herrold .... 15.00 F. A. Elliot 5.00 E. W. Acklin 1.0O Wm. BIcGilchrist Sr. 5.00 B. Tnrncy 1.00 Street kettles, Dec. 18 20.23 Total to date $345.07 Four children went off to school yesterday morning in Sa lem without their customary lunch pails. ' The mother had bravely smiled (knowing there was no food in - the house) as she Instructed them to come home for lunch. The husband, leaving his wife their last quarter with which to buy vegetables bo that she might snake soup for the family, bid the two younger children (under "school age) good bye and started out in his daily fruitless search for work. He did not return at noon, so that there might be more soup Cor his dear family. In his hour of need he sought The Salvation i Army and Captain Williams says V (hat the angels might well covet (he joy ot taking food to such a y borne as this one. Supplies were immediately tak ; en out and this morning the man 4 Is working for The Salvation A Army. ' v " Captain William urges that the "Checks be mailed in at once as ere la an acute need owing to I 1 difficulty of finding employ- -snt. Two Frank Lead Lions and Others On Singing Tours Just a tiny, cheerfully twinkling candle In the wln dow of a Salem residence will be sufficient notice to the Lions club carolers that the folk In that home would appreciate their singing on Chriatmaa eve, ft waa Indi cated when the nutter of singing carols on that occa sion waa brought up and fa vorably disc unwed at Fri day' luncheon. The original proposal came from J nut ire George KoMnian, and it found gen eral favor among the mem bers. It waa derided that two group of carolers would be organized, not necessarily limited to mem bers of the club. One group will be headed by Frank Doolittle and the other by Frank Neer. CARL MILLER WI T SERVE Oil COUNCIL Seventh Ward Again Shy a Member Upon Salem's Governing Body Dr. Carl E. Miller, who was elected to the city cooncll as al derman from the seventh ward at the last council meeting, announ ced Friday night that he had found it impossible to accept the office because of the demandsof his profession and private bus ine It will devolve upon the coun cil to elect another man in his place at the meeting next Mon day night. It was not necessary for Dr. Miller to resign, as he had not taken the oath of office. He was elected to succeed Ralph E. Thompson, who died recently. Dr. Miller's letter to the mayor and council declining the office, fnllnurs To the Honorable Mayor, Ir." T. A. Livesley and The Com mon Council of the City of Sa, leni, Oregon. Gentlemen: Allow me to express to you my sincere appreciation ef your con sideration that I become a mem ber of the governing body of the city of Salem as one of the repre sentatives for the seventh ward. I feel that it is imperative that I do not accept, for reasons that I feel are fully Justifiable. The practice of my profession, along with my own private business, ful ly occupies my time and therefore it is my desire and request that I be not expected to serve. I am very truly your, CARL E. MILLER. Salem Y. M. C. A. Members Go On Conference Trip Twenty members of the Salem Y. M. C. A., including three lead ers in boys work, left for Mc Minnville Friday afternoon to at tend the Older Boys' conference. The leaders are Ivan White, Bert Crary and William Wright. I A banquet was to be held Fri day night, with group discussion Blated for today. These theme of the conference is "Vocational Ed ucation and Guidance." Ray Culver of the northwest T. M. C. A. staff, and Jim Palmer of the Portland Y., are in general charge, with Prof. Saltzer of O. S. C. leading the vocational educa tion discussion. ftArtrnri SVeny MA Stornr Sweeps vyiCgOIl Section Near Entrance to T 1 Columbia River Yesterday; -DriClS Barnstorming Trip Starts Gale Does Damage ASTORIA, Ore-, Dec. IS. (AP) Shipping at the mouth of the Columbia river was halted and heavy damage caused in this district today by a 70-mile gale from the southwest. Fred Lay sell, employe of the city street de partment Buffered a broken shoulder when he was swept off his feet and hurled to the pave ment by the wind, Webfoot Hoopers Travel EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 13. (AP) Coach Billy Reinhart and a squad of 15 Oregon basketball players will leave here tomorrow afternoon to play the Multnomah club at Portland Saturday night. The game will be Oregon's third of -the season although the first off home territory. Bend Seed Ranks High BEND, Dec. 13. Alsike clover seed belonging to W. B. Gerking of Tumalo was given ninth place at the Chicago International, ac cording to belated information re ceived at Bend. This give three of the first ten places to Tumalo alsike seed growers. Family Fight Aired MARSHFIELD, Ore.. Dee. 13. (AP) Following .an alleged altercation between" stepfather and son here last night Gas Carl ton, 32, Lakeside, Ore, waa In a hospital here today with a bad ly slashed throat and his step father, Sam Gibson, was in the Coos county Jail. Outstanding Man Selected PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13. (AR) John C. Ainsworth, pres ident of the United States Na tional bank and head of many fine any TO SIEGIND PLAGE BACKED Engineer Swart Rushes Into Print as Probe of Road Project Looms Premature Cry of Pain Gives Indication of Conscience Not Quite Clear By RALPH CURTIS Someone at the court house has a guilty conscience. Complaints reached The States man several days ago that the county court had caused a market road to be built at a cost of some thing over $17,000, in the Meha ma district, a road which served only three families and stopped abruptly at the farm of County Judge Slegmund's father. Pending a thorough investiga tion in which it was planned to include a trip over the road in question, The Statesman said nothing about these charges, and unless they were proven true, nothing would have been publish ed about them. But the Investigation led a Statesman reporter Thursday to the office of Hedda Swart, coun ty engineer, who wag asked some questions with respect to the road. Quick Reaction Shows Shoe Pinches Hard Immediately thereafter Mr. Swart apparently got busy, with the result that there appeared in the Capital Journal Friday a de tailed defense of the construction of the "Siegmund road." The haste with which Mr. Swart rushed Into print Indicates that he, or someone at the court house, had some misgivings as to the Justification of this construc tion, and feared that an attack might be made on the county court in connection therewith. The Statesman was not con cerned in the matter in any way except to ascertain the facts with regard to charges which were brought to this newspaper by out siders. It bad no Intention of making any attack unless the dis closures justified it. ' , That all has not been well with the market road program, was brought to ' light earlier this (Concluded on Pfe 1, Column 7.) Supreme Court Chief Justice To Give Speech Chief Justice Oliver P. Coshow of the Oregon Supreme court, will make the principal address at the monthly meeting of the Men's Council at the First Methodist church Monday evening. ' This meeting Is under the auspices of the council, which is the succes sor of the 6 o'clock club, and la open to business men of Salem generally who May desire to meet with the members of the council and enjoy a good dinner and lis ten to the remarks ot the chief justice. Judge Coshow will dis cuss a topic of his own choosing. He is a fluent speaker, entertain ing, and speaks the words of wis dom which will be of value to his auditors. The meeting will con vene at 6:30 o'clock, giving the guests ample time after closing office and shop to reach the place of meeting. clvie movement in the city ot Portland, was named by the Port land Realty Board today as this city's outstanding citizen for 1929. Legal Fight Looms PORTLAND. Ore. Dec. 13. (AP) The first of a series of proceedings questioning the right of the Mu'tnomah County Civic Service commission to discharge C. S. Stowe, chief . deputy county clerk, and Morris Perkell, deputy in charge of the marriage license bureau, was filed today by Jay Bowerman, attorney for the two deputies ordered dismissed for al leged political activity. McKenzie Snow Melted EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 13. .(AP) Rain such aa pelted this city throughout the night aided by a chinook wind is melting snow from the McKenzie. pass and this morning the mile high gap was again opened to automobile traffic after being reported closed for th winter season. Fatalities Total Six There were six fatalities dne to Industrial accidents in Oregon during the week ending Decem ber lz,' according to a report pre pared here Friday by the state industrial aecident commission. The victims were Earl J. Row land. Independence, hook-tender; James F. Huntley, North Bend, backer; E. J. Whalen, Coqnllle, taller; Edward W. Fahy, North Bend, section worker; James V. Blake, Klamath Falls, taller, and O. B. Slagle, Myrtle Point, chok ersetter. There were 713 accident sre ported to the commission. State Troops Hurl Tear Gas Bombs ' BBSBBSaBSBBBaSSSBSSSBSBSB ryD' Vi 'ir-vi ii'-w-.- s-,w ; i' . - v Vet v5 "--r5.- r'. - 'i JZil f- ,4mv .blw mfrT . ., lMllM'''"',, Showing the beginning of a pitched battle between armed convicts and officers of the law that cost eight lives at Auburn prison. New York, before it finally was subdued. Railroad Across Central Oregon Is Ordered Built Interstate Commerce Commission Requires U. P. System to Extend 195 Mile Line Through Neglected Section of State WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (AP) For the first time since its inception in 1920 the Interstate Commerce commission today drew upon that section of the transporta W BADLY INJURED III ill ICCIDEffi DALLAP, Dec. 13. (Special) Irvln Holman and Elmer Hayes, Injured so seriously that It was feared amputation of one or both legs Would be necessary In each case to save their lives if It could be accomplished at all, were still In a critical condition here to night. Holman's right leg was am putated above the knee this fore noon. 4 The accident happened when the boys ran out of gas and start ed to shove their car a short dis tance along the highway. John C. Uglow of Dallas, driving a heavy car. approached from be hind, saw them too late to swerve and his brakes failed to hold. The boys apparently were caught be tween the bumpers of the two mo chines. Albert Voth, owner of the machine, was in the front seat steering and was not injured. 'Holman is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Holman. who live on a farm south ot here. Hayes Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hayes of Dallas. Both had been employed at garage work. Silverton Auto Dealer Injured When Car Skids SILVERTON, Dee. 13. Earl Hartman. proprietor of the Chev rolet garage here. was injured when his automobile skidded in slippery pavement and overturned four miles east bf Silverton on the Ablqua road this afternoon. Seven stitches had to be taken to close a cut In Mr. Hartman'a forehead. Mr. Hartman was returning from a business trip to Idaho. Allen Porter of this city, who was riding with him, escaped uninjured. tion act which evidently con fers upon the commission the power to order construction of new lines when it required the Union Pacific system to construct a 195 mile link across central Oregon, the largest area within the United States still without rai) facilities. It was apparent there was hesi tancy within the ranks of the commission as to making use of this authority, four of the 11 members dissenting from the re port prepared by Commissioner Frank McNanamy, who earlier this year held hearings on the complaint of the Public Service commission of Oregon and recom mended to his colleagues that they require construction of the road. Line Will Run West To Crescent Lake The cross-state line, required by the commission's mandate, would leave the present Ontario Burns branch of the Oregon, Washington Railway & Naviga tion at Lawen, near Crine in east ern Oregon and extended westward to a point on the Cascade line of the Southern Pacific at or near Crescent Lake. Construction was ordered by the commission to start by July 1, 1930. The new road would be com pleted and In operation by July 1, 1933, under the terms, of the or der. The cost of the line Is esti mated by the Public Service com mission ef Oregon at $9,000,000 or about $49,000 a mile, while the railroads say it would cost at least $11,717,677, or about $63,- 340 a mile. It was held by the .commission that neither figure would impair the ability of the Union Pacific system to perform its duty to the public as its net earnings approximate $40,000,000 annually. U. P. Wages Better Fight Against Project The efforts of the Public Serv ice commission to bring about the building of a railroad across the central part ot the state have been bitterly fought by the Union Pa cific. Southern -Pacific and the Hill lines in combination, on the ground that the spatsely settled section, the line or ou Id penetrate. ((fonclude Pas S. Co la ma .) Divorce Industry Sees Slump Upon Friday Thirteenth RENO, Nev., Dec. IS. (AP) The county clerk's office might as well not have existed today consider ing ita nsefulness as a place for filing divorces. For the first time in more than ten yean, the entire day passed without a single divorce case going on the records. The ordinary run of di vorces is from ten to 80 a day without a let-up. It was Friday the 18th. CALIFORNIA RAINS OVER SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13. (AP) Storm clouds which since Sunday bad released rain over northern and central California, ending the most prolonged dry spell in the history of the weather bureau here, today Were disap pearing from California skies. California Claim Refuted By 6 -Toed By Beulah Hesse Craven MONMOUTH, Dec. 13. Mrs. Ethel M. Miller and Mrs. Inez Mil ler of 250 West Clay street, own a cat which is endowed by nature with six perfect toes and claws on each toot; so when they read In Tuesday's issue of the Oregon Statesman of two California cats having more than 5 toes on each foot, they immediately called the Statesman correspondent by phone and Invited her to "inter view" their cat which they believe is the only feline in Oregon so phenomenally equipped. Howev er, "Tejee of the Desert" is not a native son of Oregon. His birth place and ancestry are matters ot conjecture. Last summer Mrs. Ethel Mil ler with her mother, Mrs. E. A. McLain of Gresham, Theodore McLaln. a nephew, and John Leh man and Elwyn Knapp, young men "students of Oregon Normal school, toured the Rocky moun tain section, and while stopping overnight in an auto camp at Ce dar City, Utah, a little vagabond kitten, hungry and emaciated, meowed for a hand-out of food. Mrs. Miller responded to the little tramp's plea, and immediately ob served Its super-abundance of toes. Inquiry among the camp ers elicited no claim to the kit- Ten Million Will Go For Roads In State Next Year f Coast Highway to Receive Substantial Increase With Nearly All of First $1 ,000,000 to Be Spent There, Commission Rules PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13. commission today outlined volving millions of dollars. The commission ordered adver tised for the January meeting projects approximating $1, 000,000, virtually all of which are on the Roosevelt Coanf highway. Estimates of revenues revealed that there will be avail- C. A. SWOPE IS SENT 10 STiTEJOSPIl Local Attorney is Found to Be Strangely Involved Financially Following- the lsKtianre of a $5,000 larceny by embetzlement warrant from Justice court this week, C. A. Swope, prominent Sa lem attorney and recent presi dent ot the Lions club, was de clared insane by an examining Doara of doctors and committed to the stats insane asvlum Fri day afternoon. It was brought out at me nearing nerore rounty Judge Sieemund that Swoda mav have been responsible for a loss of nearly $10,000 through his en tangled affairs. The petition of Insanity had been drawn up for several days but was not submitted to the county until Friday at which time a hearing of the matter was held. Doctors W. Carleton Smith and L. F. Griffith of the state hospital staff examined the young lawyer and after two hours declared him Insane. Moritz Says Swce Owes Him W,000 Embezzlement charges against Swope were started by John Mo- (Concluded en Pg 2, Column 1.) mm, sister Norman and Gertrude Wins low Picked With B latch -ford, Henderson Norman Winslow and Gertrude Winslow, brother and sister, were Friday picked as two of the four best debaters of the high school and as such will form the nega tive team for the district debates which will begin early In Janu ary. Fred Blatcbford and Eleanor Henderson won the coveted places on the affirmative team. Tryouts were held Thursday and Friday under direction o f Norborne Berkeley, debate coach. Davis Ross was named alternative on the negative team and Frank Chllds will alternate on the at-, firmative side. Prospects for a successful de bating season for the high school team are much more favorable this year than last with two of last year's veterans, Fred Blatcb ford and Norman Winslow, on the school teams. Champions of each district, following a series of debates In which each team de bates every other team, "vie with other district winners for the state debating title. Last year Sa lem lost the district champion ship to Dallas by a two point margin. Oregon Feline ten s ownership, and the camp manager thankful to be "shet" of one non-paying camper urg ed Mrs. Miller to take the kitty as a souvenir of Cedar City. So Tejee traveled more than 2000 miles as mascot of the Miller car. In fact he has become, so fond ot motoring that he purrs with contentment when taken Into an automobile, and often accompan ies the Miller family on trips to Portland. Tejee is a blue Maltese in color and has eyes of a bluish hue, quite dissimilar to ordinary cats. His age is reckoned to be between and 9 months, and he weighs nearly 9 pounds. He possesses superb poise and equability of temperament, commanding the Miller household by right of might rather than by aggression. John Osfrorn. assistant profes sor of zoology at Oregon State college, who knows of Tejee. has suggested to Mrs. Miller that there is in Connecticut a species of cats having supernumerary toes.. Possibly it is not too far fetched to infer that since Tejee was stopping at an auto camp he may have emanated from Connec ticut: and with no Intent whatever ot sounding catty, we aver that his pronounced predilection for fish smacks of a New England appetite. TE SQUAD (AP) The State Highway work for the coming year in able $10,000,000 beyond th bond and interest require- ments. Of this amount $3,- 000,000 will be required for main tenance, leaving $7,000,000 fr new construction and improve ments. Practically all of the $7, 000,000 has bees allocated, how ever. The sum Includes federal aid. SO 10,000 Forest Fund Allocated by 'iumUion In addition to its own red schedule, the highway commis sion, in annual conference ith representatives of the forest de partment and the United Stata bureau of public roads, allocated the $610,000 of forest fur.da available the coining year. No action van takon on Marian county's offer of $100,000 in l3e to be used on the North Santiam highway on a 50-50 basis. Projects ordered advertised fo? the January mpptiu.: on the cruut highway, following that meeting, will leave only 22 miles of the road along the coast unfinished. This gap will consist of two stretches of which Douglas coun ty will have 7.4 miles, and 15.1 miles in L,ane county. An off-r has been received" from Latie coun ty that it will co-operate on the coast road to thf extent of 15 p-r cent. Two of the projects to be considered at the January niett ing are in Lane county. Coast Highway in Lniie County Ordei-od The commission ordered adver tised for January letting the fira nada south section of the coat highway, a distance of .4 milts. Another section is 3.7 miles from Sutton lake, north of Florence, Both jobs are in Lane county. In Lincoln county the Yaqulna bay south beach sectton and the south Ferry Slip was ordered adver tised and the north Ferry Slip at Alsea bay. The largest of the projects to be advertised at tli next meeting is the bridge across the Rogue river, between Wedder- burn and .Gold Beach. Announcement was received at the meeting from the United States bureau of public roads that the forest highway system of Ore gon will have to be closed. Ore gon, it was explained, is the only state without a forest system map and has done better with the for est department than any other state. The state and forest de partment have worked together without a definite forest highway system, but the word has come from Washington that the ma must be closed. Last Gap in Ochoco Highway Advertised The commission also advanced to advertising in January the last gay on the Ochoco highway. Thi is the section of 10 miles between Barnhouse ranch and John Day. Among proposals the federal road men agreed to, was to make a survey to Diamond lake and en to Beaver Meadow. Jackson and Klamath counties are contribut ing to this project. No participa tion was offered by Douglas coun ty, through which the survey will run. The "non-skid" program for 1930 will be 182 miles. Non-skid pavement will be applied between Astoria and Seaside and on the Pacific highways, east and west side, between Portland and E- gene, on such portions of the pres ent pavement that are blacktop. Non-skid pavement will also he applied to the Columbia River highway from the Multnomah county line to a point two miles east of The Dalles. The entire program in this division will cost $239,000. New oil will be applied on 27 miles of highway during the com ing year at a cost ot $316,000. Reoiling of 265 miles ot highway will cost the commission $203, 000. Arthur Smith of Waldo Hills is Taken by Death J. A. (Arthur) Smith, who was born in the Waldo Hills district in this county 69 years ago, pass ed away Friday morning at a hos pital in The Dalles, following ae emergency operaton performed Thursday night, according to word received by-relatives here. Smith farmed southeast of Turner until 25 years ago, when he went to Wasco county. He lived at Wasco, where interment will take place Sunday. Smith was a brother ef Mrs. W. T. Rigdon of Salem and of Charles M. Smith of Jefferson. ITc Is also survived by his widow. Nora Smith, and the following children: Lester and Arthur Smith and Mrs. Lydla Darby. a!l of Wasco. 4