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Th OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Wednesday Morning, January 1, 1930
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Substantial Advance is Made
By This State During
i : -( a Past 12 Months "
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Jones. Even the lowly Portland
Baseball . team took . heart - and
etased a last-minute rally that
took It to the, top of the Pacific
coast league standings and held
it near there until the end of the
eason. The University of Oregon
finished In a tie for the Pacific
coast conference football championship.-
Farmers, however, were not
unduly prosperous during the
year Just ended, because of sev
eral things.
War's Crop to Gross
Total of 9180,003,000
But Oregon farmers will real
lie $180,000,000 for their pro
ducts of 1929. This is $5,000,000
snore than the combined value of
the state's agricultural products
in 1928. Wheat was above the ave
rage at $25,000,000, crop. Pear
growers, got almost 100 per cent
more than the previous year, be
ing exceptionally favored. Prune
growers were similarly fixed,
.their increased return being con
siderably more. Hay growers had
a. good year, the apple men, the
jtruck gardners and livestock men
.fared not so well, however, but
the general average was better.
The state chamber of commerce
alone located 800 new families in
Oregon, families that bought 50,--600
acres and invested more than
13,000,000 cash.
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Outside Markets for
Lumbermen Open Up .
Lumbermen saw better market
outlets looming as 1929 drew to
a close and were making prepara
tions to meet it.
In transportation spectacular
strides were taken.
The Southern Pacific company
opened its new Alturas cut-off,
built at a cost of $6,000,000. The
Great Northern announced plans
for an extension from Klamath
Falls to California to provide a
rorth and south route for that
'area east of the Cascades. The
jTJnion Pacific system was direct
ed by the Interstate Commerce
(commission to build a road from
'Crescent Lake to Crane. Passen
ger train schedules on railroads
to the east, west and south were
educed. A new, direct air mail
route to the east was established
at Portland.
All In all, Oregon fared ex
tremely well and indications are
,tbat she will fare better during
Jthe new year.
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GREETS IBV YEIR
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Was welcome.
Tet the demonstration was or
derly. Not a single arrest for
drunkenness, or any misdemeanor
more serious than speeding, had
fceen made np to the "zero hour,"
and the noisy crowds were man
nerly despite their excess of jubi
i la t ion.
It I seemed that everyone was
out ..tooting a born or helping
hold down a wnistie cora. oui mi
was hardly the case. Within the
rwalis of the Fox Elsinore, Bligh's
Canitol and Hollywood theatres.
ranaeitv crowds attending 'mid
night matinees" were, if anything,
surpassing the outdoor noisemak
ers with "whoopee"" of their own,
there were large crowds at public
and private dances doing the
same, and hundreds were in at
tendance at watch parties whose
demonstrations were but i little
Jess vociferous.
Radio listeners Hear
Four Celebrations
Then there were those citizens
-who stayed at home but a ma
jority of them' celebrated the
opening of the new year by listen
ing t a -the radio demonstrations.
in fact thev had a distinct adN
vantage over the other celebrants,
.for. they heard the new year
u s'jer ed in four times.
First at 9 o'clock they heard
New York City break loose In its
own matchless style; at 10 o'clock
Chicago followed suit with equal
enthusiasm If not Quite equal voi
time; at 11 It was Denver or Salt
Lake City, and at midnight, the
Pacific coast, stations.
The downtown celebration here
was so extensive that for the first
time since the American Legion
convention, there were ' traffic
Jams on the principal street cor
ners shortly -after midnight, when
theatre parties and dances broke
np and mingled with the general
'whoopee makers who were still
careening noisily about the streets
in automobiles.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (AP)
information that American tug
i- interests in Cuba had run short
of funds to carry on their opposi
tion In Washington to a mgner
sugar tariff and had sought assist
ance from Cuban mills in paying
for the amnloyment of Enoch H.
Crowder, formerAmerlcan ambas
ador to the island republic was
disclosed in letters made public to
day by the senate lobby commit
turn.- '. . 1r; . . '.
Writing on last June .to Anre-,
lio Portuendo, of the Cuban ttsu
ine eomnanv. of Havana, H- C. La-
kin, president of the Cuba com
pany, said crowaer naa seen oi
touch help to thexmoa interests in
Washington since January 15 and
had ; an "approach to senators
which Is not-excelled, by that of
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DETAILS OF SUGAR
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Scenes at the pier as Ihe rescue tugs brought back to port
passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Fort! Victoria, which was
rammed by the S. S. Algonquin off Sandy Hook during a
'snse fog. ; j .
DAMAGE SUIT If
F1CE IM, REPORT
Loss Resulting From North
Winter Street Bridge
Irks Residents
Notice has been served on the
city officials of Salem that the
city will be held responsible for
damage caused by the flooding
of an area along North Mill Creek
above North Winter street bridge
between December IS and Decem
ber 22. 1
The notice, filed with the city
recorder Tuesday, is signed by P.
A. Elker, 780 North 'Summer
street; F.;w. Poor man, 790 North
Summer; H. C. Epley. 798 North
Summer; F. Ethel Lane, 794
North Summer, and N. C. Ka
foury, 750 North Summer.
At the time that the flooding
was first reported, residents In
that part of the city declared the
design of the bridge was at fault.
as It did not allow sufficient
clearance for the water. They
mentioned that - the false work
used, in, Its construction had not
been removed, but did not consid
er this an important factor in the
flooding.
At present, with the false work
practically all removed, the wa
ter level la about 18 inches below
th concrete span at the east side
of the bridge, and the flow is not
as great as It was while the flood
was under way. Some doubt has
been expressed as to the ade
quacy of the space beneath the
bridge in time -of high water. The
Cottage street bridge, one block
below, barely took care of the
floor of two weeks ago.
However, the contractor on the
Winter street bridge, P. L. Fra
iler. Is possibly liable for dam
ages under his contract, as he
did not have the bridge complet
ed and the farms removed by De
cember 1, the time specified. The
matter will probably be discussed
at the council meeting' Monday
night.
IN JAIL FOR THEFTS
NEW LONDON, Conn., Dec. 31
(AP) With the investigation
into the theft of liquor by coast
guardsmen from the seized rum
runner Flor Del Mar completed,
preparations were being made to
night for the disposition of the
four rum running boats captured
by the coast guard since Satur
day night.
In announcing the completion
of the Investigation into the li
quor thefts. Captain L. T. Chal
ker. chief of staff of the destroyer
force, today said that five men
have been confined to brig for
courtmartial. Several other
guardsmen who were said to have
been Intoxicated at -the base are
on report.
Captain Chalker denied reports
that 875,000 worth of liquor had
disappeared from the storehouse.
Not more than six cases of liquor,
he said, were stolen Sunday and
nearly all of it has been recov
ered. - .. .. .
- Under the supervision of Cap
tain Chalker the liquor seised on
the Flor Del Mar was being trans
ferred tonight from Jthe. store
house pier to two patroiboats. The
liquor will be taken to New Tork,
probably Thursday. The two pa
troiboats also will tow the Roam
er with SeO eases of liquor and
the fishing boat Leona.lf. Sproul
with COO eases and fonr prisoners
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; HALIFAX. N. 8.. Dec;
f API J. EL Smith of the Inland
Revenue department and J. Me
Leod, nls assistant; were beaten
by a mob' and their" automobile
was rammed by an automobile
truck' hero todayafter rum ' run
ners and preventive forces had ex
changed shots in a battla earlier,
IN PLACED
FOR LIQUOR C1H
Their automobile was suitoub
ed by a group of mesvwhile they
were on their way to visit a liquor
Wen. boat fcihe aja el.tttjur.
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tor. The 12 or 14 men In the
gang stopped the automobile and
rained blows on Smith with clubs.
McLeod was also struck. Ater
beating the officers the men
climbed into an automobile truck
and rammed Into Smith's machine
three times, wrecking It -.Smith
said the buck was filled with lif
quor taken from a motorboat
which was near several nearby
boat-houses.
Earlier officers jumped a group
of alleged, rumrunners who were
attempting to salvage the contents I
of a sunken motor boat near
Birchdale.j
Shots were fired and the group
resisted the officers until the ar
rival of j city policemen. The
gang then! ran. The only one
caught was William Gregoire, di
ver, who "said he had been en
gaged for; the salvage work. Two
automobiles were seized, and a
third stolen from the officers was
later found abandoned with a case
of whisky Jn it.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 11.
(AP) Mrs. Mina Maker Gatens,
widow of .the late Judge William
N. Gatensj former circuit Judge,
who died in 1927 as the result of
heart attack, tonight surprised
friends when she became the bride
of Curtis Edson Van Bergen, who
is connected with a local bond
house. In a private ceremony at
the home of the Rev. Oswald Tay
lor, pastor; of the Grace Memorial
Episcopal church.
No inkling' of the ceremony
had reached friends and the mar
riage was revealed only through
tbe routine filing of applications
for a marriage license. No one
was reported to have attended
the ceremony except the neces
sary two witnesses. v
The marriage of Mrs. Gatens
followed closely on the heels of
that of herj daughter, Helen Gray
Gatens, who married Walter J.
O'Brien on December 18 at the
Gatens family home In Dunthorpe,
near here. I.
BUFFALO, N. Y.,' Dec. 31.
(AP) Three coast guardsmen in
volved in the fatal shooting De
cember 25 of Eugene F. Downey,
Jr.. suspected rum runner, 'were
being held for the grand' Jury cn
charges of manslaughter, second
degree, as! a result of tuelr ar
raignment ithis "afternoon In city
court. The! guardsmen, Randolph
H. Thompson, Asa Ewnes and Or
ville La Grant, pleaded net guilty.
They were ordered held under
surety bonds of 85000 eacn.
Their cases will be among tne
first presented to the grand Jury
when it sits on January S, said
District Attorney Guy B. i Moore,
who conducted the inquest leading
to the arraignment.
Appearing in court after being
fingerprinted at police headquar
ters, the guardsmen, on the advice
of their counsel. Federal Attorney
Richard Hj Templeton, waived pre
liminary examination. . i
JUDGE'S WIDOW IS
MARRIED SUDDENLY
MEN CHIDE
OF ffllMGHTFJ
Here's : Wishing You
A Happy and
. Prosperous
New Year
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134 North Liberty Street
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The S. S. Fort Victoria was holiday bound for' Bermuda.
Fine seamanship averted what might have been a terrible
disaster. The entire list, of passengers and crew were
hrouarht safely to shore. .
LIQUOR REBELLION
RETS EM BLOW
Substantial Sentences Are
Meted Out to Officials
Of Idaho Town
COEUR D'ALENE, Ida., Dec.
31 (AP) The "Mullan whiskey
rebellion" received Its death blow
today, as 24 men and women were
given prison sentences and assess
ed fines for conspiring against the
national prohibition act.
The mayor and trustees of
Mullan, charged by the govern
ment with: licensing liquor and
vice for the benefit of the village
treasury, and the sheriff of Sho
sone county, together with bar
tenders and women operators of
disorderly houses, stood up to be
sentenced by Federal Judge J.
Stanley Webster after a trial
unique in the United States.
The chief characters in the con
spiracy and their sentences fol
low: Sheriff R. E. Weniger of Sho
shone county, two years in federal
prison and $1,000 fine; Deputy
Sheriff Charles Bloom IS months;
Chief of Police F. E. Welch, 15
months; H. Norphy, policeman, a
year and a day; Mayor Arthur
Harwood, 18 months and 11,000
fine.
George Houston, trustee, IS
months; Henry Foss, trustee, ten
months; Charles Rlstau, trustee,
ten months; John Wheatley,
trustee, IB months.
EIELSDN'S SISTER
S U R E HE'S U
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 81
(AP) Confidence that her bro
ther, Carl Ben Eielson, American
aviator who has been lost for
more than seven weeks In the Ar
tie region, will be found was ex
pressed here tonight by Miss Ade
line Eielson, teacher of Wenat
chee. Wash., who is spending the
holidays with Mrs. G. H. Royer
of Xhis city.
"Ben told us before he left that
we mustn't worry if we didn't
hear from him for months," she
said. "So I am not worrying. I
am sure he will be found or will
show up. Naturally, I feel anx
ious about him and I watch the
papers closely for any word, ; but
I am confident he will be home
soon to tell us of his experience."
Eielson was accompanied by
Earl Borland, mechanic.
Legal Actions
Are Numerous '.
Past 12 Months
A compilation of eases filed and
tried in the circuit court of Mar
lon county during the year 1929
was being prepared by, clerks at
the.eounty clerk's office Tuesday.
The report, while not officially
complete, is listed as follows: law
actions filed, 414; equity suits
filed, 190;l divorce suits filed,
200; criminal actions. 6 2. v
Casea tried .before court or Jury
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were as follows: civil cases tried
by Jury, 56; criminal cases tried
by jury 4; equity suits tried by
jury none; law actions tried by
court 8; equity suits tried by
court 10; contested divorces, 9;
default divorces, 150. It was esti
mated that the ost of jury trials
of criminal cases was $650. -
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PARIS, Dec. 31. (AP) Three
Italians 'were arrested tonight on
suspicion of plotting against Fas
cists and In the home of one of
them police found quantity of
high explosives, a number of de
tonators, and other materials for
making bombs.
The arrests and raid were made
by agents of the Brete General,
the French Scotland Yard, which
lends Its efforts particularly, to
ward the protection of the state
and of prominent personages.
The police alleged that those ar
rested had maintained relations
with Camllio Bernerl who was ar
rested about a week ago In Brus
sels, Belgium, and who confessed
to a dual plot against the lives
of. the Belgian royal family as
they journey to Italy for the wed
ding of Princess Marie Jose, on
January 8.
- The Havas News Agency des
cribed the prisoners as Italian
newspaper men. Their names
were given as Alberto Clanca,
Giuseppe Sarbelll and Alberto
ParchlanL It was at the home of
Clanca that the explosives were
found. The Havas Agency indicat
ed that the three were perhaps
plotUng against the Italian naval
delegation which will pass through
France enroute to the London
conference next month. The exact
nature of the plot has not been
disclosed.
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FOB BOMBING FLO
A Happy New Year
To Wish you a Very Happy and Prosperous
New Year and to
THANK YOU
for your patronage during the past year -T.
J. Brabec Insurance Agency
"INSURANCE FOR ALL NEEDS"
116 New Bligh Bldg, Salem, Phone 2549
Mew Year's Greeting
990 N. Front
Cold Storage for Fresh Fruits, C o l d Packed
Fruits, Vegetables, Meats, etc.
Bonded storage warerooms
Garlot icing. , r
Perfect Refrigeration
WILL BE BRIGHT
Optimistic View is Taken by
Government
Officials
At Washington
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approximately - S3. 250,000, 000.
Broadly speaking,) the business
history of 1929 recorded the con
tinuation of a movement which
has been substantially unbroken
for an exceptionally long period."
Food Surplusses Found
Lacking This Tear
As to the farm future the agri
culture department head said the
new year was beginning "with no
depressing surplusses of food pro
ducts to be worked off," although
the 1929 crops had been worth
$85,000,000 more than those of
1928, the livestock sales in the
same period $90,000,000 better
than those of 1928.
The advance of the government
toward association with vital eco
nomic national progress was most
marked in 1929 in the agricultur
al field, for the year end finds a
federal- board, armed with $500,
000,000 of federal funds, oversee
ing the whole of national farm
product marketing.
Aside from the direct grappling
with farm problems, the govern
ment's contact with business un
dertaken in 1929 : included also
the partial shaping of a new tar
iff policy, still uncomplete and in
bitter controversy as 1930 begins.
Secretary Mellon's mention of tax
reduction and credit matters' re
ferred indirectly, also, to the long
and action filled period of the old
year when the federal reserve sys
tem faced the increasing credit
strain arising from ever mounting
security speculation that culmin
ated in October and November
with stock exchange depression.
After tbe bursting of the spec
ulative bubble came the signifi
cant step of the government into
what was historically an unprece
dented role. President Hoover, in
the last months of 1929, summon
ed the leaders of finance, trans
portation, commerce, agriculture
and labor from all parts of the
country' to Washington, and with
their cooperation, laid down a
program of expanding capital ex
penditure, of instituting construc
tion activity, and of taking a ser
ies of considered steps with the
announced purpose of adverting
economic depression. The year
closed with this demonstration of
governmental participation in na
tional economic life still in prog
ress.: SPEIGFfTWILLFAGE
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grand jury here in connection
with the death of little Lawrence
Walker t of ML Angel who was
killed in an automobile accident
when Speight's car; overturned.
"Scotty" was adjudged insane and
committed to the state asylum last
August and less than a month lat
er he was discharged from that In
stitution on condition that he re
turn to his former home In Can
ada and remain there.
But Speight decided not to re
main in Canada and returned
here to frequent his former busi-
CHARGE OF KILLING
1P(a?DDuffljufl Iks soacfl
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ness location, a market located on
South 12th street. The man con
tinually defied the authorities to
come and get him and finally the
bench warrant on the manslaugh
ter charge was gotten out and
turned over to the sheriff for
service.
Information from Roseburg to
the effect that Speight was seen
in that district, caused Sheriff
Bower to send the warrant south.
Ife was arrested near Roseburg
Monday night and Tuesday Depu
ty Sam Burkhart left to return
Speight to this city where he was
locked up In the county jail.
SLR CHARGES
"NAPA, Cal.. Dec. 31. (AP)
District Attorney W. G. Ruther
ford of Napa county said today he
would withhold charges of assault
with a deadly weapon and assault
with intent to commit murder
against Mr. and Mrs. John South
pending the outcome of bullet
wounds received by Federal Pro
hibition Agent Robert D. Freeman
n a liquor raid Sunday on the
South home near here. -
Freeman was shot twice, one
bullet shattering bones In his
right wrist and the other striking
him in the shoulder and ranging
downward to lodge near his lung.
Bones in the wrist were set today.
X-rays determined the other bul
let had not injured the lung and
it was considered possible - an
operation would not be performed
to remove the slug. At the Victory
hospital here, where Freeman was
taken following the shooting, it
was said he would recover barring
complications.
BLAST HURTS WOMAN
NEW ORLEANS Dec. SI (AP)
An, aged woman was slight
ly hurt tonight when an explosion
ripped up, the front section of a
street car in the upper section of
the city. The explosion was sim
ilar to many that have marked the
street car strike here.
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If your furnace does not heat satisfactorily
We Can Cure It
H. B. SEAGRAVE
Inquire at Allen's Hardware Store
or call 2568-R
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! In wishing you a Happy New
Year, I thank you for your past
patronage . . . and ask only th
happiness of retaining old friend
ships and making new ones. -
David Smith
Sales Manager
Capital Motors Co.
S50 N. High
Careful, Responsible I ilanacement
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Remainder of Programs WiJI
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first. Jack Horsford second. Max '
Hauser third. . Flint collections .
Clayborn Dyer first. Reid Hanson i
second. Howard Sehon third. Cu- '
rio collections David Thompson
first, Sidney Wiederhom. Becond,
Sam Summers third. - Single ex- -
hiblt, relics Norman Weaver
first William Mosher second. Fin-
gle exhibit, curios Byron Ran-- w
daU first, Dick Pierce second. ' - -
, Section VIII. Mechanical and'
technical. Class A. PhQ Brow- '
nell first. Allen Stewart second,
Lloyd Street third. Class B. J"
Georce Jackson first. Jm Vort ";
reeond, Menalkas Selander third. ''
section jl. uoosing. cage ,
Jack Ostlind first, Max Haufser
second, Lee Koch third, Arthur
Eaton fourth. Cookies Wilbur '
Curry. Hot dish Allen McCal
lister. Biscuits Don Chambers -first,
David Hoss second.
Section XL School work. Class .
A. Max Hauser first, Norman .
Weaver second, Alvin McCarthy .
third. Class B. Irving Hale
first, Menalkas Selander second-. ' '
Section XII. Airplanes.- Class ;r
A. Flying models. Stanley Nets ', -first,
Waldo Mills second, Dan
Clark third. Scale models, Or
vllle Varty first, Harry ,Wesdy
second", "Harvey Larsen third.
Class B. Flying models. Oscar"
Gingrich first, Robert Hulat sec
ond, ficale models, Paul Franklin
first, Harold Eyerly second. Oscar
Gingrich third. Harold Eyerly
won the grand prize tor the best -collection.
Southwestern university, at
Georgetown, Tex., has a set- of r
triplets in Its student body for the
first time In the school's II years.
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