CIRCULATION
Daily average d;triWjo far the
WEATHER
Fair and colder today
ad Wednesday; Northerly
winds. Max. temperature
Monday S9; Min. 31; M ind
north; Rain and snow .24;
6,656
Ar daily net paid 8,105
awnth ending Derpmbcr 3L 122
M?mher
Audit Bureau of Circulation.
SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR
No. 246
Southern Oregon
SALEM IN
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INDEPENDENTS
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Elected Salem
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By Snow Blanket
Grants Pass Marooned for Ten Hours Monday
as Wires Broken Down ; Fallen Trees Block -Traffic
on Roads and Streets
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Large Expenditures Planned
By Water Firm First 6
Months of 1930
Capacity of Fairmount Hill
Reservoir to be Dou
bled Says Delaney
Improvements In the Salem
water system which call for an ex
penditure of more than $300,000
during 1930 will be begun within
the next 30 days according to J.
T-. Delaney, general manager of
the northwest district of the Oregon-Washington
"Water Service
company. He made the announce
ment Monday before starting on a
trip to some of the company's
properties in Washington.
"We will be calling for bids
within the next ten days on the
construction work here." said De
laney. In addition to the installa
tion of a new filter system, the
company plans to double the, ca
pacity of Its reservoir on Fair
mount hill, and to run an IS and
24-inch pipe line between the filt
er and the reservoir.
Kntire Program Finished
By First of July
The construction work which
will be in progress between Feb
ruary and July will call for con
siderable expert and day labor ex
penditure. Delaney pointed out.
"We plan to have the entire im
provement program finished by
July 1 to allow full use of the
v,ater facilities by the canneries,"
he said.
Delaney was in conference
Monday with W. H. Dancy, city
councilman who has charge of the
fire department. Dancy expressed
his pleasure at the water improve
ments inasmuch as a reduction in
fire insurance rates can be
brought about.
Improvements made by the
water company in Salem in 1929
Included an expenditure of $70,
30 6 including larger main exten
sions, betterment of service, ex
pansions to new districts and ad
dition of additional office room
to the headquarters building. The
old transmission rope drive was
replaced oy an electrical line
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an electrical
which made possible the opening
of Liberty street. -I-arge
Well Drilled
Near Madison Street
The company has drilled a
large well on Madison street and
has erected an attractive building
in which it has installed a com
plete electrical pumping unit of
the latest type. The water is' of
high quality.
A second 12-inch well has al
ready been drilled at 21st and
Market streets. The construction
work for the pump house has been
started and the pump and electri
cal equipment is on the ground
The water to be furnished by the
well will be the same in quality as
that now supplied by the Madison
street units. These two wells are
to increase the pressure in north
ern Salem and will also add ma
terially to the. fire protection of
all property in that vicinity.
As additional improvements dur-
lne the last year the company has
also anDroved a new 24-inch steel
transmission line and has In
stalled a temporary filtration
plant on Minto's island involving
an expenditure of many thousands
of dollars.
Delaney in his statement Mon
day pointed out the fact that Sa
lem was the northwest headquar
ters of the Oregon-Washington
Water Service company are lo-
cated in Salem, which which direct
control of companies in Sedro-
Wooley, Hoquiam, Mt. Vernon,
Vancouver, Wash., and Hillsboro,
North Bend and Marshfield, Ore
gon, is made.
$57645 Is Spent
By Zoning Group
The city planning and coning
commission spent only $576.95 of
Its $1,200 appropriation In 1929,
Its annual report submitted to the
city council Monday night re
vealed.
Telling Salem
Oi Statesman
And a Big Sale!
fflODAY every home tn
Salem receives a copy
of The Statesman. Fall
of news and complete with
the features which make a
modem newspaper., ..Ore
gon's second oldest difly Is
becoming constantly more
welcome visitor tat the
homes of this city.
The Statesman is proud,
to carry a feur-page adver
tisement of Bishop's 40th
anniversary and 1U annnal
two-for-one sale, an event
which has 'become known
throughout the valley. Be
eanse of the importance of
; the aale and, the high repw
,'tatkm of its sponsors The
: Statesman feels honored by
being selected aa the princi
pal snedlmm to pnbllsh this
advertising.
GRANTS PASS, Ore., Jan. 6. (AP) With one person in
jured, two reported lost and several marooned in outlying
districts, Grants Pass late today was brought into direct wire
communication with the outside after having been isolated
for more than 10 hours.
Skidding through a snow said to have been the heaviest
CHANS STAGE
Initiation of New Members
and Installation of Of
ficers Scheduled
The annual banquet of the Sa
lem Cherrians, to be featured by
installation of recently, elected of
ficers and Initiation of new mem
bers, will be held tonight at the
Marion hotel beginning at 7
o'clock.
About ten new members will be
initiated. All former Cherrians
have been invited to attend the
banquet.
Arrangements for the installa
tion and the entertainment have
been completed by a committee
consisting of Carl D. Gabrielson,
P. D. Qulsenberry. Gus Hixson,
Roy Simmons and Jack Elliott.
Officers to he installed are
Grover Hillman, King Bing, who
succeeds C. F. Giese; Walter Mol
loy. Lord Governor Wood; C. E.
Wilson, chancellor of the rolls; H.
E. Eakin; keeper of the orchard;
Roy Simnrons, king's jester; Dr.
Milton Steiner, Duke of Lambert;
Milo Rasmussen, Queen Anne's
consort; Jack Elliott, Archbishop
of Rickreall; T. A. Raffety. Mar
quis of Maraschino; T. A. Windi
shar. Earl of Waldo.
The Cherrians are entering up-
Thpv hav nlave a nrnmint
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Mrt 1 tha eltv cnmrnnnttT life
for 16 successive years, playing
host to visiting delegations and
carrying the city's expressions of
good will elsewhere, as well as
taking the lead in numero3 com
munity affairs.
LOCAL PROFESSOHS
A close escape from serious in
juries was the lot late Sunday
night of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. McCor-
mick and Prof, and Mrs. Cecil R.
Monk, when the automobile In
which they were returning from
California skidded on the pave-
ment, spun off into a ditch, roll
ed over and rightef itself. None of
tn occupants was hurt, beyond a
rew bruises, although the top of
the car was practically demolish-
fid.
The accident occurred near
Rickreall as the group was driv
ing north from Monmouth and on
the way home from a holiday
trip to California. They were
driving along without concern
when suddenly the pavement- be
came very icy, which resulted in
tJe accident The group walked
oaca to Monmouth to summon a
friend from Salem to come after
them.
Dr. McCormick, dean of Kim
ball School of Theology, said last
night they encountered rain all
the way from San Francisco to
Eureka on the return trip and
that along the coast it was snow
ing hard during a considerable
part of the trip. They returned
over the Redwood highway. They
found snow in southern Oregon
also,
Dr. and Mrs. McCormick spent
the holidays in Pasadena with her
mother, Mrs. Emma Welse, and
brother, Forest Weise. They vis
ited there also with Mrs. Luella
Kimball, connected with Kimball
but who has made her home for
several years In Pasadena. Prof.
and Mrs. Monk Bpent the time
with relatives in Los Angeles
California has experienced no
rains at all this winter and is
badly in need of them, McCor
mick reports.
Moores Funeral
Held Monday in
Portland, Word
Funeral services were held la
Portland Monday for Charles
Bruce Moores, 80, an early grad
uate of Willamette university and
a trustee of that Institution for
63 years. He was granted an hon
orary degree of doctor of laws by
Willamette last Jane.
. Mr. Moores was the brother of
A. N. Moores of Salem. His father
was president of the old Capital
Lumber company here, now the
C. K. Spauldlng Logging company,
and was a member of. the state
senate and at one time mayor of
Bin TOUT
IN
-20 years, residents of
Grants Pass today faced a
langiea mass of broken Dower
and light wires. Street and high
way traffic was blocked by tree
fallen under the weight of snow.
While slowly battling his way
to Grants Pass, where his aged
father had just died, H. A. John
son, a Josephine county farmer,
was Injured when a snow ladened
tree fell across bis automobile. He
finally reached the city, where he
was given medical treatment.
Buildings Strained
By Weight of Snow
Buildings at the Josephine
county fair grounds. were he first
to nap under the weight of tons
of the moisture laden snow. Pri
soners in the county jail were
rushed to the scene and" relieved
roofs which bad not fallen. Sev
eral downtown office buildings re
ported strained and leaking roofs.
A group of business men, head
ed by Samuel Baker, president of
the chamber of commence, was
reported marooned at the Oregon
caves. Another group, headed by
Earle Voorhies, managing editor
of the Courier, had not been beard
from since Saturday night. At
that time they were camped near
a mine in the Holland district
Two workmen for the California-Oregon
Power company, said
to have been on patrol duty in the
hills near here, had not reported
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Zero Hour For
Auto Licenses
Nears Rapidly
Applications for 1930 automo
bile licenses are arriving at the
state motor vehicle department at
the rate of apporxlmately 7,000
per day, according to announce
ment made by Hal E.Hoss, secre
tary of state.
Hoss announced Monday that as
soon as the applications now on
hand are disposed of he will notify
sheriffs and other peace officers to
enforce the laws requiring the
licensing of motor vehicles on
January 1. The secretary of state
indicated that the present accum
ulation of applications would be
disposed of not later than Satur
day of this week.
Kapitola Willing to Face Salem Charge
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R. L. Neff Nearly Severs
Head From Body With Old
Fashioned Razor
Mysterious Call to Police
Precedes Fatal Act by
Local Resident
After calling the police so that
they would be sure to find his
body, R. L. Neff, aged about SO,
cut his throat from ear to ear
early this morning in a house at
698 South 16th street, and bled
to death before the officers ar
rived. The police found Neff's body,
lying face down on the floor with
a pool of blood around it, in the
small living room at the house to
which they were called, the sharp
old-fashioned razor he had used
lay beside the body.
Neff left several letters and
notes, - including one in blood on
the wall, "I love you R--" Borne
of the letters Indicated that do
mestic troubles caused him to take
his own life. They revealed that
he had been married three times.
Clothes Indicate
Painter's Occupation
He was dressed in working
clothes, paint marks on them in
dicating he had been employed as
a painter. One note asked that a
key. attached to it be left at the
Cross meat market. Another was
addressed to W. W. Moore.
The telephone bell in the police
station rang at 12:25 this morn
ing and a voice, later believed to
be Neff's, said:
"Send somebody to 698 South
16th street. Send them to the
back door; it is open."
Asked who was speaking, he re
plied:
"Never mind who is speaking;
send somebody out here and they
will see when they get here."
Women's clothing was found in
the house, but no one was there
when the police arrived, which
was about five minutes after the
call came in. Officers Charlton
and Miller answered the call ac
companied by Alderman Paul
Johnson.
Bearcat Squad
Plans Debates
On Home Floor
Among debates listed for the
Willamette university squad on
home territory are meetings with
iWeber college, Ogden, Utah, and
Wheaton college, of Illinois. Oth
er contests with northwest col
leges and universities are also on
the squad's schedule although
many are still tentative.
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Amory "Slats" GUI
01 C. HOOP MEM
IS CRITICALLY SICK
Former Salem High Lad
Confined to City Hospital
With Pneumonia
Completely "run down" and In
serious condition, Amory T.
"Slats" Gill, coach of the Oregon
state college basketball team and
former Salem boy, is lying at the
Salem general hospital in critical
state. Gill had been suffering from
a bad cold for several days prior
to the basketball game played
here between Willamette univer
sity and the Oregon Staters last
Saturday. He remained here over
Sunday and his condition became
so bad that Dr. F. K. Power sent
him to the local hospital.
Hospital attendants last night
declared that Gill's condition was
grave although the next 24 hours
would reveal the actual extent of
his Illness. A "lung condition" was
the expression used in describing
the illness which caused Gill to
be sent to the hospital.
30 Delinquency
Cases Handled
B Mrs. Shank
Thirty cases of delinquency
were handled by Mrs. Myra L.
Shank, local police matron. In
1929, her annual report to the city
council discloses.
She also handled 19 jail cases,
found homes for 17 girls and re
turned 11 runaways.
Five girls were sent to Portland
institutions and fonr to the Indus
trial school for girls. Investiga
tions numbered 98 and consulta
tions 380. The number of dances
inspected was 71.
This Is Kapitola Cooper, 21 ,
of Montana, Washington, Ore
gon and way points. Kapitola is
girl who la oat to see the
world. In addition to pants, she
wear tottoo designs. Thursday
she made a social call on the
police of San Francisco Just to
be sure she was not wanted at
Salem Ore., on a bad check
charge She was not!
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Controlling Faction Returns
Good for Evir When Ap
pointment Made
Townsend Only One Slighted
When Committee Berths
Are Handed Out
Promises of the Independent
majority In the city council that a
"fair deal" would be forthcoming
In the distribution of committee
assignments by t he newly creat
ed committee on committees,' were
fulfilled when the committee
brought In its report Monday
night, especially with reference
to Aldermen W. H. Dancy and
David O'Hara, members of the
minority group.
Mr. Dancy drew two important
chairmanships and Mr. O'Hara
one, and both were placed on oth
er, important committees. Alder
man Watson Townsend did not
fare quite so well, although he re
ceived the chairmanship of the
committee on rules and revision
of minutes. It was believed that
his personal attitude toward the
indpendents was responsible for
this, rather than the mere fact
that he was one of the Capital
Journal party.
Purvine Chairman
Ways and Means Body
Following are the committees
as announced.
Ways and means S. E. Pur
vine, David O, Hara and L. L.
Wilkinson.
Ordinances Chris Kowits,
Paul Johnson and O'Hara.
Streets W. W. Rosebraugh,
Henry Vandevort and Wilkinson. '
Public buildings and incinera
tor I. M. Doughton, W. H. Dan
cy and B. A. Rhoten.
Sewerage and drainage Van-
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SEMATE TAKES UP
TIFF BILL ISSUE
Rapid Progress Made First
Session After Christ
mas Holidays
WASHINGTON. Jan. C (AP)
With the exception of one par
agraph the senate today complet
ed action on committee amend
ments to the wool schedule of the
tariff bill by approving increased
levies on all classes of woolen
yards and manufactured goods. A
move was made to take up the su
gar rates tomorrow but no agree
ment was reached.
Fresh from a two week's rest,
the senate returned to considera
tion of the long pending tariff bill
today and, In a little more than
three hours; adopted 31 amend
ments to the wool schedule pro-
riding Increases all along, the line
on manufactured wool, including
yarns, fabrics, blankets, clo'thing
and rugs.
The action, marked by another
split in democratic and western
republican ranks which makes
possible the increases, all but
completed work on the wool
schedule and paved the way for
early grappling iwith the most
controverted rates In the blll-su
gar. These might be reaclfed to
morrow, when the tariff will have
been seen before three sessions of
congress almost continuously for
exactly one year.
GALVESTON. Tex.. Jan. C
(AP) Lientenant Clarence C.
Mitchell, 25, and Sergeant Julius
Bihami, 32. of t he third attack
group. Fort Crockett, were kill
ed this afternoon when their
plane collided with another half
a mile west of the Fort Crockett
landing field.
Lieut. William C. Mills, pilot
of the other plane and Sergeant
Lindsay Braxton, passenger, . sav
ed their lives by Jumping with
their parachutes. Lieut. Mitchell
and Sergeant Bihami crashed to
the ground with their ship.
- The planes crashes at an alti
tude of 1,500 feet Both plunged
to the ground and were demolish
ed but did not catch tire.
Sergeant Bihami waa born In
Budapest but enlisted from New
York City where a sister resides.
He had r been in the service ten
years and at Fort Crockett one
year.
Lieut, Mills is also a reserve on
active duty with the group.
Appropriation For
Champoeg Asked
WASHINGTON. Jan. I. (AP)
Appropriation of $125,000 for
the construction of a memorial
building at Champoeg park, Ore
gon,' would be authorised under a
bill introduced today by Repre
sentative Hawley of that state.
TWO FLYERS KILLED
III IIBPLII CRASH
W. H. Trindle
LISLE! FURS
Annual Message Read to City
Council at Its Meeting
Monday Evening
A dontir.il af a Bolicr looking
toward the construction of a mu-
nieinal dock system, so arranged
that it may be expanded Into a
central freight terminal for river,
rail and motor truck transporta
tion, is urged upon the city coun
cil by Mayor T. A. Livesley in his
annual message, read to the city
council Monday night.
"Thera is sending before con
gress a substantial appropriation
for improvement or tne wnia
mette river and wa should antici
pate the demands which such im
provement will bring," the mes
sage states.
The mavor still favors the
chance to a council-manager form
of government, the only one of his
original policies whicn nas not
been put into effect. He says:
Public Officials
Held Poorly Paid
"The salaries established tor
city employment by charter and
ordinances are in most cases
woefully inadequate. The remedy
lies not in unjustifiable subter
fuges but in reorganization of the
entire governmental structures of
the Htv in the interests of effi
ciency and centralized responsibil
ity and a scientific grouping of
function to justify the payment of
salaries commensurate with the
duties of the various offices.
"I would suggest to the coun
cil, in this connection, that seri
ous and thoughful study be given
to the matter of a needed charter
revision along the lines of a eoun-cil-manager
form of government."
Earlier in the message he had
counseled against further pay
ments out of the street improve
ment fund as additional salary to
city officers, while work in that
department Is at a low ebb.
Completion of the bridge pro
gram is urged, the mayor pointing
out that the bond market has re
covered sufficiently to permit re
sumption of the bridge program.
He states that Investigations made
so far by the audit committee as
sure that at least $50,000 remains
to be spent out of the bridge bond
Issue of $350,000.
The mayor thanks the council
for its cooperation in the past and
enlists its counsel and support in
the remaining undertakings of hlg
administration. He urges a gen
eral . program of construction to
relieve unemployment, consistent
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PUBLIC DOCK HERE
Commissioner Smith Finishing
U rCgOIl Plans for Annuel Session in
tt f Portland; Cold Weather Is
DlTlClS General Throughout Oregon
Meeting Plans Made
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 6
(AP) The annual meeting of
county judges and commissioners
of Oregon will be held at the
court house here on January 14
and 15, J. E. Smith, Salem, se
cretary, announced here today.
Smith is making final arrange
ments for the session.
Although the session Is sched
uled to last only two days, the
county, officials will be given an
opportunity to attend the state
highway commission meeting Jan
uary 16. A banquet will be held
the previous day. "
Highway Offered
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan.
(AP) The tward of county com
missioners formally petitioned the
state highway commission today
to take over that part of the Co
lumbia highway within the coun
ty but not within the city or Port
land Cold Weather General
Portland, Ore., Jan. t (AP)
Breaks toward lower1 tempera
tures throughout the state were
recorded today. The Hinterland
of t he state lies now under a cov
erlet of white for the most part
of the first of the year, ,
Here are a few of the lowest
temperatures:
Enterprise, 4 above.
, Meacham,' S above.
Pendleton. It above.
LaGrande, 10 above.
Salem,-31 above.
Fred Williams Replaced by
Vote of Aldermen at
Annual Meet
All Other Officers Chosen
By Unanimous Ballot to
Succeed Selves
Election of William H. Trindle
as city attorney to succeed Fred
A. Williams featured the annual
meeting of' the city council Moa
dav, night. There were no "stump
speeches" and no fireworks. other
than the balloting, although It Is
possible that something may have
been said in the private caucnv
which the mayor and council held
prior to the election of officers.
Mr. Trindle was nominated y
Alderman Henry Vandevort. Mr.
Williams by W. H. Dancy and
Martin Ferrey by Hal Patfon. The
vote was nine for Trindle. five
for Williams and one for Ferry.
Appreciation Is
Expressed by Wi Mania
At the close of the meeting Mr.
Williams arose and thanked tae
mayor and council for the ce
aperation given him during fear
years in the office, and assured
them there were no hard feeliaa
and that he would assist the city
government in any way if called
upon. He praised the ability of nie
successor. Mayor Livesley respond
ed with a& expression of apprecia
tion for Mr. Williams' services,
and of regret that the vote had
gone as It did.
All of the other city officers
were unanimously re-elected, in
cluding Harry Hutton. chief of the
fire department, and all of ais
subordinates; Chief Frank A.
Minto of the fire department, aad
the officers he recommended; Mr.
Myra Shank, police matron; Hugh
Rogers, city engineer; Dr. Vern
on A. Douglas, health officer; Bat
ty Cooper, sanitary inspecter;
Earl C. Bushnell. building ln?pec
tor; L. J. Simeral. Incinerator su
perintendent, and some minor em
ployes. Board Members Named
By Mayor Livesley
Mayor Livesley- reappointed
Mrs. John Harbison, William
Burghardt, Jr., and E. T. Bamea
on the library board, L. P. Aid
rich on the park board and C. P.
Bishop on the playground board.
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FOR GITY AIRPORT
Recommendation that finaiiees
for further improvemen of Sa
lem's municipal airport be pro
vided by appropriating SlO.ftOO
each year for five years in the
City's budget, beginning next
year, is included la the final im
port of the airport eommissfoa;
presented to the city council Moa
day night.
Other recommendations pro
pose improved drainage, mere
leveling of the area outside th
runways, that the runways be oil
ed and the area outside sown to
grass; that removal of telephone
and power wires be speeded, that
fire fighting equipment be in
stalled, that a minimum of a4
quate lighting be provided for,
and that roofs of buildings in var
ious parts of the city be marked
with arrows pointing out the di
rection of the airport.
Auto Crashes Man
McMINNVILLE. Ore., Jan. 6
(AP) When the automobile wi
der which he was working, slip
ped off a jack. Otto E. Hathaway.
Portland Insurance man, was kill
ed here today. Hat haw ay's nerk
was broken when the transmis
sion box struck 'his head.
The body was found by Hatha
way's family. The family had
been visiting 'Mrs. Hathaway's
mother Here.
The coroner, after viewing the
body and the scene of the acci
dent, which occurred near Mrs.
Hathaway's mother's house, said
he would hold no Inquest.
Chnrch Bells Silent
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan.
(AP) The "ringing of woild belle
to-the wild sky. may be all right
In poetry, but it Isn't being dene
by the chares, Dr. Perry C. Hop
per, pastor of Westminister Pres
byterian church, declared, today
at a meeting of the Portland min
isterial association, of which he
is president.
The suggestion had been made
that since January 16 will be the
anniversary . of national prohibi
tion. It might be a good Idea a
ying all the church bells of Pert
land by way- of celebration.
The proposal was coAidered
seriously ior mom aunuico.
Then Dr. Hopper roe. He said:
"If all the church bells in Port
land rang at once It, won HI at
make much noise. Churches
don't have bells any more."
The matter was dropped.
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