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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 4, 1930
5 BILLS DRAWN
UP BHUDfiES
Legal Procedure in Oregon
Subject of Discussion
; At Annual Meet '
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 3-
CAP) Five bills, designed to Im
prove Judicial procedure In Ore
gon, will be presented to the next
state legislature if the state ju
diclal council follows recommend
ations of Oregon circuit judges
who met here today.
The recommendations provided
for the following changes in the
state laws:
That the defendant In a crim
inal casebe allowed to waive trial
by jury and presenf his case di
rectly to the court, except in such
tases'where the penalty is death
or life imprisonments
That the jury panel be improved
by the appointment of jury com
missioners and the examination of
prospective Jurors.
That persons convicted of
crimes on pleas of insanity be sen
tenced to serve at least three years
In an asylum withont right of
habeas corpus.
" That the defendant who relies
tapon a plea of Insanity in a crim
inal case must inform the .prose
cution that this will be bis defense
before he goes to trial.
That the number of peremptory
challenges of the defendant in a
criminal case be reduced to the
number allowed the prosecution.
The proposal that defendants
In criminal cases be allowed to
Talve Jury trial was presented by
Justice H. H. Belt of the Oregon
supreme court.
"Criminal judicial procedure
here is the same as when our
grandfathers were fighting In
dians," the justice said in intro
ducing his subject. "The proced
ure is in serious need of over
hauling, although It should not be
entirely discarded."
- He suggested that criminal de
fendants, except those "in which
t!:e penalty is death or imprison
ment for life, be allowed to waive
trial by Jury if they so desire and
present their cases solely to a
judge. Two states already have
such a provision, he declared,
and the method has proved suc
cessful. SHI SPEEDY RISE
Failures at the senior high
school' were reduced 182 In the
second six-weeks period of the
present sehool year, according to
figures Just compiled by Principal
Fred Wolf. Four hundred one
failures were recorded the first
six weeks, as against 219 for the
second period.
This is only 9.1 per cent fall
ores the second period, or eight
tenths of one per cent under the
average rating for good high
schools. Wolf-says the drop in the
second period was greater than he
had dared hoped for, and esti
mates that la proportion, the drop
fri the next six weeks will be even
larger.
, While Wolf believes the big de
crease Is due in part to the new
supervised study program inaug
urated this year, he says there is
no way yet of proving as much.
However, the decrease in failures
Is confined to no one or two de
partments, but is general over the
entire school. He says, too. that in
part it Is due to the normal ad-
Justment following the first six
weeks of school, when both stu
dents and teachers are usually
busy finding themselves.
S. C. KIGHTLIfJGEF!
ESTATE PROBATED
. .An estate valued at $15,000 of
which 15,000 In personal prop
erty was admitted to probate Fri-
day under the will of S. C. Kight
lineer. recentlv deceased. Should
Mary Elizabeth Kightlinger die
.oeiore sne reaches the age of 40
years, the Salem Y. M. C. A.,
Christian Science church. Leslie
M. E. church and the Salvation
army will become residuary lega
tees under a trust, according to
the will.
Half Interest in the real proper
ty, except a certain portion In the
George H. Jones addition to Sa
lem, and one half Interested In
the personal property has been
left to the widow. Ladd & Bush
bank has been named as trustee
of the Remainder of the- property
which was left to the daughter.
It Is specified that the trust
Swift 7?
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snbiutt ret Hill's fro amy
Take it and relieve that coU ia
third the usual time. Without
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HILL'S CASCARA-QUniME
JOHN D. HAPPY I
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A smiling eloseup of John D. Rocke
feller Sr Standard OH magnate,
after lie had left his train to begin
his annual winter stay in the south.
Mr. Rockefeller looked to be in ex
tremely good health.
company pay to the daughter
$500 on her 21st birthday and
1500 on each birthday thereafter
and to transfer all the property to
her at the age of 35 years except
the land alloted to her which she
shall receive- when 40 years of
age.
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SANTA CLARA. Calif Jn
(AP) Seven persons were In
jured, one perhans fatallr. in
terrific gas explosion shortly after
i a. m.. toaay that shattered the
fronts of seven stores on snt
Clara's main street and broke win-
aows over a radius of several
oiocks.
Authorities InvestirafT?
explosion expressed the belief It
was caused by ignition of an ac
cumulation of gas from either a
leaking main or pipe leading into
one oi tne bandings. L. A. Mead,
one of the store owners, was at
the city hall complaining of the
irons oaor or gas when the ex
plosion occurred.
The Injured:
William Forsev. Mead fewalrr
siore employe, both legs broken,
broken arm and possible Internal
injuries. May die.
Mrs. Grace Brown. Art store
proprietor. oossible fractured
skull, cuts and bruises. Condition
serious.
Floyd Rankin, customer in th
Mead store, bruises and cuts.
Mrs. Georce Green. Art tnr
customer, cuts, bruises and ahock.
ueorge Green, Injuries about
head.
P. G. Zaechione. defTcatessen
store employe, scalo wounds and
cuts about face and neck.
Charles Ullioua. meat market
employe, cuts and bruises.
Stores most seriously damaaed
extended one half block on ana
aide or tne street.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Jan. 3.
(AP) Dr. I. Jesse Citron. Hollv
wood physician who is awaiting
trial In ledeiwl court for the al
leged sale of narcotics to Alma
Rubens, former screen star, was
re-indicted by the federal errand
jury today on 31 counts of viola
tion of narcotic laws.
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EXPLOSION
HURTS
PERSONS
I LAST TIMES TODAY I
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HUGE SUM TO
BE AVAILABLE
$29,500,000 Spent in Ore
gon in 1930 Norblad
Tells Hoover
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pairs and Improvements, 2,197,
940 for construction of public
buildings, $5135 for Improve
ments to public buildings and $3,
346,206 for projects such as air
port hantrars. sewage disnosal
plants, extension of water sys
tems, sewers, electric, lirht in
terns and school bnildines. 1
Public Improvement
Financed by State
Most of the $10,500,000 to be
made available bv the atatn will
be expended in the construction
of highways and bridges and ac
quisition of parks.
Actual renorta of nrnnnsnl mn.
nicipal improvements during 1930
were received from 77 of the 112
cities and towns to which lettera
requesting Information were sent.
expenditures or cities and towns
which did not report were estl-
matea.
Gathering of additional Infor
mation will be continued by Sam
A. Kozer. state bndmt dlrortnt
who was assigned to this task by
tne late Governor Patterson.
In a letter to the executive de
partment regarding Jhe Oregon
data, the budzet direetnr aafil-
Reports Carefally
Compiled by Kozer
"The renorts which hav (imh
receivea from tne count inArm
of the reeoective counties of th
state, and the mayors of the ci
ties ana towns, have been careful
ly compiled and the estimates
made of those citiea and town
not reported were prepared on the
Dasis or the reports of t he muni
cipalities reporting. Levies for
the year 1929 and the population
oi tne respective localities were
tacen into consideration. .
(JI tn nronoand ontlan f
the year 1930, the counties con-
lempiaiea tne expenditure of ap
proximately $3,000,000 within thA
next six months, and the cities
ana towns an approximate- like
amount within the same period."
Secretary Lamont telegraphed
Governor Norblad Friday that he
desired all information that was
available at this time so that
President Hoover might gain
some Idea of the puhlic money
that would be spent in 1930. .
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HIT Bf BI6 FIRE
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assigned to the house of repre
sentatives, said the artist was "hi
such a condition that anything he
migni say as to tne origin of the
fire could not be depended upon."
The fire tonitht wa thm thlnf
since August In the structure
where the legislative business ef
the nation Is transacted. Than
carelessly thrown cigarette light
ed a trash box on the south side
of the building and only about a
week ago another trash box was
ignited In the house office bund
ing oy a cigarette.
There was no damum th
Other two flra hnt thv riniul
some excitement.
TJ. 8. C. BEATS WHITMAN
PULLMAN. Wash.. Jann
(AP) The Washington State" col
lege basketball team defeated
Whitman college S5 to 27, in a
nftn . . .
uuu-iuuwicme sauie uere loniKnt.
The score at halt time was 14 to
7 for. Washington State.
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TAK A! AAA AAAK At. ALALIA lhJKA
PLOW
BOY
ON THE STAGE
FANCHON
AND
MARCO'S
"BLACK
AND GOLD
IDEA"
Featuring
The Kemmy's
EVArlVEY
Arnold Grazer
MAUXE HAMILTON
LEE WEUIOTT
Elsinore
Orchestra
and the
Sonkist
Beauties
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The Call
Board . .
By OLIVE M. DOAK
HOLLYWOOD
Xorth Capital St. ia Korth S.lem
Today "In Old Califor-
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CAPITOL
But St.. between Church and Hirh
Today "This Is Heaven"
with Vilma Banky.
GRAND
North High St, between Stt Hih
Today "Jazz Heaven," all
tnlVlnfr Sa11 nVM
FOR ELSIXORE
South High between Stat and Ferry
Today "Dynamite."
Hear Te! Hear Ye! The Grand
theatre Is a man of his word. It
promised the public that Its new
Western Electric sound equip
ment would be In and operating
for the first time January 4 and
here it is today. It will open with
"Jazz Heaven," t he latest picture
made by Sally O'Neil and Been
and heard for the first time in
Salem this afternoon and evening
and Sunday.
This Is an RKO production and
is described as "all jazz all Joy."
John Mack Brown supports Uiss
O'Neil ia this peppy and Interest
ing picture.
There will be short talking and
singing acts as specialty numbers
one of which is "The Skeleton
Dance" which has proved one of
the sensations of the year tor
sound uoveltr. It was held over
for many days at the world's larc
est theatre "The Roxy" In New
York City.
"Our Gang" and a Mack Sen
nett cbmedy "The Constable" will
conclude this interesting "first af-
ternooner and nighter" at the
Grand. This theatre Is to be con
gratulated on its first talking pro
gram.
Color set to rhythm la the de
scription of the "Black and Gold"
Idea which' will be the presenta
tion of Fanchon and Marco at the
Fox Elsinore today. It is hard
to imagine just what sort of re
sult will be obtained from the
use of such strong colors as these
two in stage setting and In en
semble chorus numbers. Certain
it is that the result will be unusu
al. Specialty dances will be the
outstanding features for the show.
"The Great Gabbo," a picture with
an unusual plot Is the feature
picture.
"la Old California" now show
ing at the Hollywood has the ad
vantage of having for the most
part been photographed In the ac
tual locations specified in the
historical story which la told In
the picture thus realty and gen-
Luiness Is given to this lovely pic
ture and exciting story. The old
costumes of early Calfornia days
remind one of the delightful pic
ture just Been In Salem, "Rio Ri
ta." Objectives of
Chamber Will
Be Given Here
The eleven members of the new
board ef directors of the Salem
chamber of commerce will be call
ed upon at the luncheon next Mon
day to present their ideas on what
the organization's objectives
should be during 1930.
One innovation for the new rear
Is the serving of food products
grown and packed in the Salem
district at each luncheon. Next
Monday strawberries, raspberries
and pears packed by Reid Mur
doch and company will be part of
the menu.
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BETTY COMPSOU
and a Rotable cast
ATcW&y-Singing-Dancing
Drasmtfc Spectacle j
It Brings Manhattan
to Salem.
NEW-- LAVISH - - VIVID
- - SPECTACULAR - -lr
--DRAMATIC --
Over flowing .with tuneful melodies
and breath taking ensembles. 'It's
CITY TT I
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BUSINESS
I. Doughtorr Cannot Legally
Sell Goods to Salem in
Williams' Opinion
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to sign the warrants, Mr. Dough-
ton said he had understood when
he accepted a seat in the council,
that the charter provision referr
ed only to contracts let following
calls for bids, and that there
would be no objection to his firm
selling small items of hardware
to the citr as it had done in the
past.
Acting under that understand
ing, he had given evidence of his
good faith by refusing to submil
a bid on a list of articles brought
to him by a council member.
Doughton and Sherwln have al
ways sold a considerable volume
of merchandise to the city, and
Mr. Doughton said ho would not
have accepted membership In the
council If he had' known there
would be any objection to a con
tinuation of this business.
Difficulties along the same line
have been encountered by other
aldermen In recent years. Legal
action was started something ov
er a year ago to prevent payments
to two aldermen who had tran
sacted business with the city, but
was later dropped when the coun
cil adopted a resolution agreeing
that no such contracts would be
entered into in the future.
The city transacts business with
something like 90 local firms, and
th operation of this clause of the
charter means that members of
all these firms are prevented
from serving on the council If
they wish to retain that , business.
SPEED TIFF BILL
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. (AP)
United Support by senate re
publicans of the pledge to give
the long pending tariff bill un
disrupted right of way henceforth
will be asked at a party confer
ence on Monday, which was call
ed today by Senator Watson of
Indiana, the republican leader.
llrHdv aonnta lAHri nt all
pactions have given their pledge
that the tariff would be kept con
stantly before the senate until dis
posed of. It appeared certain that
a final drive will be opened on
Monday for completion of this
legislation.
Lealers of the democratic-republican
coalition, which has a
majority ia the senate la the tar
iff struggle, demanded before the
Christmas recess that hereafter
nothing be considered by the sen
ate except the tariff.
Senator Watson gave his pledge
to that program and in his anxie
ty to urge support for this pro
cedure by the republicans is seen
also as a determination by Presi
dent Hoover that the tariff bill he
enacted.
The new republican move for
final disposition of the tariff
committees soon after pronounce
ments by some of the republican
regulars that the tariff bill Is
"dead."
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SHANGHAI. Jan. t. (AP)
The Nationalist government will
push negotiations with other pow-
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Listen
Mickey Mice
Mar J oris
Weum
is going te
sing and
dance for yon
at
1:00 o'clock!
Membership
cards and
of sod
HMIOETO
CHINESE GiTi
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POLICIES
5c Today
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WINS PRIZE
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William Poole of Wilmington, Del,
a student of SwirfdmnM nnk
has the distinction of being the only
student in tha Rm maaj
Rhodes Scholarship this year. He
waa one at &iiw.mm a .-i
chosen to study at Oxford. Not only
Is Poole aa outstanding student bat
he is also on of the athletic leaders
w u couege.
lal
ers In the few months in an at
tempt to end all extra-territorial
right of foreign nations in China,
said Foreign Minister C. T. Wang
today.
These rights involving the priv
ilege of having their nations' af
fairs tried In court in China pre
sided over by their own country
men, have been enjoyed by some
countries for more than 80 years.
Speaking at a luncheon for for
eign and Chinese newspapermen,
Wang expressed satisfaction that
the unofficial replies . of the
American and British govern
ments to China's extra-territorial-!tr
decree made recently had in
dicated their willingness to nego
tiate the question.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. S. (AP)
Increased income tax payments
which totaled 11.185.317.860 in
the last six months enabled the
government to start the 130 cal
endar year more than $260,000,
000 ahead of last year, when
there was a treasury deficit of
$168,475,696.
Figures for the first six months
of the 1930 fiscal year made pub
lic by the treasury today showed
that the publie debt had been de
creased $1,008,006,000 to a total
of $16,300,921,501 In the last 12
months; that there was a surplus
in the treasury on December 31
of $91,644,655; that the receipts
for the six months were $2,077,
539,616, an Increase of $209,900,
441 over the same period a year
ago, and that income tax collec
tions were $172,622,000 greater
than in the first six months of the
1929 fiscal year.
GAS FRAUD SCENTED
SACRAMENTO. Jan. 3. (AP)
The books of nine small, inde
pendent Los Angeles etaoin dis
tributors showed a loss of approx
imately $100,000 in taxes due the
state durlnr 1929. through be
lieved illegal diversion ot motor
fuel, Richard E. Collins, Redding,
Calif., chairman of the state
board of equalisation, informed
the Associated Press tonight.
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Gala Opening of Our New Western Electric
. PLS A GREAT PROGRAM OF TALKING
SkeleftM
A Sound Seasauoa
The Harmony Club
AH Siaetag Act
Oar Gang
The Smile Wins
lfatiaeec
Tfl 6:00
Balcoay 15e
Floor S
CAUSE OF BLAZE AT
SEA BEING SOUGHT
SAN PEDRO. Jan. S (AP)
The cause of a fire which flamed
out of a turpentine pot on an of
ficer's gig. lashed to the side of
the U. S. S. Saratoga, gigantic, air
plane carrier, bringing deaths to
two sailors, severely burning four
others, was sought today by aides
of a naval court of inquiry.
Naval authorities said their re
port on the accident which also
destroyed the gig, valued at $25,
000 and scorched the steel sides
of the Saratoga, would be for
warded to superiors at Washing
ton for such announcement as
they might see fit to make.
At the hospital where the in
jured men were confined. It was
learned they probably will recov
ed from the burns which at first
were feared might prove fatal.
At a late hour today, Admiral
Louis M. Nulton, in command of
the battle fleet at anchor here,
had not appointed the board wfafo
will meet with him to determine
causes and responsibility for the
fire.
The fire broke out late yester
day, burning fiercely for three
minutes before 1500 men aboard
the Saratoga were able to extin
guish the blaze which raged
along the side of the big vessel,
for a time threatening stores of
combustibles Inside the carrier.
ALLEGED TAX FRAUD
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. S.
(AP); Request for an Immediate
investigation of charges that em
ployees of several of the largest
petroleum companies in the na
tion are Involved in a purported
gasoline tax fraud against the
state of California was made in a
letter to Attorney General U. S.
Webb today by A. L. Weil, gener
al counsel for the General Petro
leum corporation.
The alleged swindle, by which
the companies said to be involved
are reported to have mulceted the
state of between $3,000,000 and
$5,000,000, was perpetrated, ac
cording to reports received by
IN CALM A TOLD
LAST TIMES TODAY
Special Matinee Today 2 PM.
IN OLD CALIFORNIA
stPicturtsttufhotodnunAas
?t entrancing as a. Spanishlx Song.
Qtxturing ' ,
HENRY B.WALTHALL
HELEN FERGUSON
GEORGE DURYEA
arjd'jserifpoHir cast
All Talking
Also KING OF KONGO and
OUR GANG COMEDY
Coming
SUNDAY
for Three Days I
COME! COME!
Forget years . . . trouble . . . business . . and fly
with youth up the golden stairs of romance
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SALLY O'NEIL JOHN MACK BROWN
JOSEPH CAWTHORN - CLYDE COOK
Laugh-peppered dram of
two star-etreck kids
S ATURD AY-l-SI rMri a v
"The Gaastablo
All Talttaf Mack
Sennet Cofaedj
Scree. Baap-Shota
An Talklns; tow throat
"oujwooa
Well and revealed in his letter to
Webb, by selling within the state
gasoline on which no tax bad
been paid, contrary to law.
Weil's letter stated he had been
Informed that employes of com
panies had reported, gasoline be
ing shipped out of the state tax
free when in fart It was sold with
in the state.
He asked General Webb to start
an Immediate investigation to find
the guilty persons and punish
them in addition to exonerating
the petroleum companies not in
volved. Well's letter stated his views
on the necessity for an investiga
tion were shared by official of
the Standard, General, Shell, As
sociated and Union Oil companies.
PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 3
fAP Dan O'Dar. gugnman.
went out to rob today, and what
a busy afternoon -he had
At 1 p.m., he held up Jo
Red" boxer, belligerent clerk in
a clothinz store at 221 Morrison.
street, obtaining $28, police said.
During the following five min
utes he was being chased b thv
resentful Boxer, and Boxer's
friend, Harry Lichtgarn.
Ten minutes later, having eiua-
eri Rover and Lichtgarn. O'Dar
was pointed out by them to police
a he aat. a nald sneetator in a
First street theatre, a few door
from the scene of the robbery.
At 1:30 p.m. today, police said,
O'Dav sirned a full confession in
the presence of his captors.
Three minutes later ne was
booked in the city Jail and imme
diately following that technicality
he nosed for news photographers
with Lichtgarn and Boxer, chat
ting pleasantly with them while
he smoked a cigareti.
At 2 n.m.. he faced Municipal
Judge H. M. Tomlinson, waived
preliminary hearing ana was
bound over to the grand jury. At
10 U'Day was on ms way to
the Multnomah county court
hmiM anil at 3: IS n.m ' he id-
peared before the grand jury.
WASHINGTON. Jan. I (APM
Contracts for power to be gen
erated at Boulder Dam will be
negotiated by the interior depart
ment as soon after February 1 as
possible.
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