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49 WEATHER Vnettled today and Thursday; probably comm. ued snow; cold. Mai. tern peratnre Tuesday SO; win. 19; trace of Mow; river 1. 6,656 Average daily art paid 6,105 Member AndU Bureau of Circulation. SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR ; CIRCULATION . Daily itmp dittribatiaa far tk Month endiag December SI, 192t FOUMDED 1651 O.I n TT 1 -mm a v oaan, vrtyni, wcQncaaay jqqnimg, jamy 10, 133(1 - - SjBK Portland Candidate Basks in Limelight Due to Most Recent Maneuver George Neuner Enters Race For Governor in Near Future, Report PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14. (AP) Henry L. Conbett, who last Saturday announced bis can didacy for the republican guber natorial nomination, today an nounced his resignation as state senator from Multnomah county. The action was virtually unpre cedented. . The vacancy created by Senator Corbetfg resignation probably will be filled by vote of the people at the coming primaries and general election. In announcing his resignation. Senator Corbett said: "I recognize that there is no constitutional prohibition against a man holding one elective office running for another. However, I shall personally feel better if I re sign from my present office before asiprlng to another. If I should be so fortunate as to be nominated and elected governor, my resigna tion as state senator at this time will be fairer to the people of the 13th senatorial district by permit ting my successor to be nominated and elected by the, people in the regular way through the primary and general election." Xorblad Told Action to Ik Effective at Once The senator's resignation was forwarded to Governor Norblad with the note that it is to take eJIct immediately. The Oregonian, in a signed ar ticle tomorrow will say that George Neuner, United States dis trict attorney for Oregon, will in nounce hia candidacy for the re publican nomination as soon as he completes writing his platform. Neuner will be the outstanding dry candidate. He wHPie backed by the anti-saloon league and re cent "developments in Washington and the president's commission on prohibition will provide Mm with ample campaign material. Rumors that the candidacy of John A. Jeffrey would become ex tinguished and that he would be used to assist another candidate were denied today in a commun ication by Jeffrey. He said: "In answer to a query which has been raised, I wish to say that I am in this race to the end and to win. I have also waited for some of friends to have their opportunity, and have waited at my own ex pense without even a finger in state or federal treasury to help carry on. I believe this Is my chance and am not assisting any other candidate." Ben W. Adams, who is listed in the Portland city directory "as a grain handler, today announced Lis candidacy on a "democratic progressive" platform. i COAST GUARDS FREED PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 14. (AP) A state grand jury which had been considering the evidence against eight members or the coast guard patrol boat 290 which fired upon and killed three members of the rum runner Black Duck oft Newport, December 29, reported no Indictment late today. OortAt, re Blscnott Gives Own Tde VrCgOll of Mystery Disappearance Xyt Trip South; Politicians DfierS Hold Session at Pendleton Pilots Elect PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14 (AP) Captain William C. Mc Naught today, was elected presi dent of the Oregon state board of pilot commissioners, of which or ganization he has been a member for several years. Captain Mc Js'aught Is chief surveyor In the Oregon district for the San Fran cisco, board of marine underwrit ers. - Bischoff Tells Tale PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14 (AP) Fred Bischoff, whose dis appearance from this city recent ly aroused police Interest, until lie- was located In San Francisco, 'today was back In Fortland and cave his version of the Incident. Bischoff said that two men threw something In his face caus ing 'him to lose his memory for two days. When he recovered his jncmory he was In a San Francis co rooming house, and his money and keys were gone, he asserted. He did not recall, he said, con versing with an acquaintance In Itoseburg while enrout south, as Roscburg and Portland police were informed, : t Political Pot Boils PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 14 (AP)'r-SmetBl,IK resembling a political huddle formed here to night when widely scattered of fice! holders, ex-officials and for ' xner candidates assembled for the annual - banquet of the eastern Oregon wheat' league. ' Among those who swapped pre- dicttons were erOovernor Walter pieree, La Grande; Senator Fred Kiddle, 1 Island City: Seymour Jones, state market agent; A. R. Chumway, Hilton, and ex-Senator Jtoy Rltner, Pendleton. - The political medicine making Over Seven Inches Falls In CHy Government By Manager Plan Is Found Fmlrure CLEVELAND, O., Jam. 14. (AP) That the death knell of city manager government In Clevelaud, the largest city where It ever ham been used, was sounded last night in the ousting of City Manager W. K. Hop. kins, was the belief express ed by numerous civic and political leaders here to night. If they are right, within a .year Cleveland may return to the mayor and ward council form of gov ernment. SALEM H CUT Reductions Personnel Will Follow Resfgnation of Two Instructors Although the first school board session In a month, few problems confronted the school board at the regular meeting held last night. Superintendent Hug reported that the census enumer ation for the district would show an increase of between 35 and 40 when completed. Check on the census Is now being made and does not, so far. tally with school records. In view of this, the board asked that a recheck be made. The school district will b e saved two teachers next semester, as Hug has figured that with the drop in enrollment at Parrish, an additional teacher will not be needed to take the place vacated by resignation of Lois Reynolds at Parrish; also, a Garfield teach er may be transferred to McKln ley to take the place left vacant when Miss Dorothy Thomsen quit last fall. Substitutes have taken the classes at McKinley. The board asked that E. E. Bergman, head of the machine shop, and Tom Wolgamott of the auto mechanics shop, submit a (Turn to P.age 2, Please.) Mississippi Is Nearing Flood Stage, Report MEMPHIS, Tnn.. Jan. 14. (AP) Approach of a new rain storm from the west to add to the deluge which already Is sweeping down the Mississippi and its trib utaries inundating thousands of acres of lowlands, added gravity to the high water situation In the lower valley today as the first levee dynamiting of the present rise was reported. Levees, how ever, were holding fast. Interior streams already were at or near the flood stage, while the big river itself crept up to 31.5 feet at Memphis, only 3.5 feet below flood stage, with 33.5 predicted for Sunday. is expected to continue at the state wool growers convention at The Dalles later this week, to which Pierce is enroute. Snow Covers Beach Tm.VTWl nro Jan 14 (API For the first time In years the snow line extends to the very edge of the Pacific ocean In Lin coln county. Higher altitudes have more than a foot of snow. A heavy fall began at four o'clock today with every indication of continuing through the night. ' Boys Steal 25 PIT.BVR. Ore.. Jan. 14 (AP) Marvin Teible, 15, and Billy Coles, 12, of Puyaliup, wasn. to day escaped from custody of the matron of the detention home for Juvenile of lenders with a purse containing $25 belonging to the matron. The two boys were ar rested several days ago on a charge of stealing a car at Te nlno Wash. Eugene Bank Elects EUGENE, Ore.. Jan. 14 (AP) H. L. Edmunds tonight - was elected vice president of the Unit ed States National bank of Eu gene and Judge Lawrence T. Har ris, chairman of the board of di rectors. Edmonds advanced from the post of cashier. Clarence Lombard was advanced from as sistant cashier to cashier. The local bank Is owned by the Pacific Bancorporation. . . " Slarna Trims Pels : PORTLAND, Ore,, Jan. 14 (AP) Joe Marcus, 131, won a ten round decision from Benny Pels,- Ml; in the main event of the fight card at the. auditorium here tonight Both are Portland fighters. - '- - Evening; Mercury t .. V 1 STAFF N Salem Cold Grows Less Severe; Heavy White Blank et Prevents Continuation of Skating Parties But Encourages Coasting Expeditions yjkj INTER weather in Salem this year s nothing if not TT definite. So far this year there has been just one week of rainy weather, one week of intense, dry cold, and the third week opens with snow and plenty of it. Tiny flakes began falling almost exactly on the stroke of 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and they continued to come down steadily up to an early hour this mornimr. with no uium of abatement. At mirinnrnt the white covering averaged 7.25 inches in depth, which is in itself a snowfall worth talk ing about in Salem. Meanwhile the cold' snap was virtually at an end, although the mercury was still below 'the freez ing point In downtown thermom eters. The penetrating chiU of preceding nights was gone. In anticipation of continued dry, cold weather, numerous skat ing parties had been planned for Tuesday night, but they were failures. The ice was still on the Willamette slough and various lakes and ponds in the vicinity of Salem, but the deepening snow quickly spoiled the skating and before long made it entirely im possible. " But the lovers of outdoor win ter sports cheerfully changed their plans, and already Tuesday night many were out coasting or simply wading in the snow and enjoying it, and organising snow ball fights which were not too successful, for the snow was of that comparatively dry consis tency which prevents ideal pur suit of the pastime. Automobiles wallowed in the snow and skidded in wierd" cours es, but the drivers were content that their principal worry, froxen raaiaiors. was practically at end for the present. an WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (AP) The federal farm board broke ground today for two new national commodity marketing as sociations one for fruits and one for vegetables. On special invitation, 80-. rep resentatives of cooperatives hand ling apples and other deciduous fruits, citrus fruits and potatoes, met with the board to discuss the feasibility of welding two or more of their groups Into a national sales organization or organising the groups separately, by com modities, into national coopera tive sales agencies. C. C. Teague and Charles S. Wilson, farm board members for fruits and vegetables, issued 1 a Joint statement in which "they told the convening conferees the only way "to make effective to te fruit and vegetable industries of the United States the benefit of the agricultural marketing act is to set up national cooperative sales organizations." Teague explained the invita tions had been kept to a minimum for the purpose of expediting dis cussions, and had been issued only to cooperatives which had long experience with the problems of national marketing and were handling the largest amounts of produce on a national scale. FOR HEEDED REST WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (AP) Chief Justice Taft en trained tor Asheville, North Car olina, tonight for a rest to re cuperate his strength from weakness induced by bladder trouble. He had spent the last week undergoing treatment at Garfield hospital. He was accompanied by Mrs. Taft, Doctor Thomas A. Claytor, his 'regular physician, and a nurse. The chief Justice vaalked to the train with an easy stride through the long concourse t the sta tion. He did not seem to tire. Mr. Taft was in a cheerful mood and appeared materially improved since his return ten days ago from his brother's fun eral at Cincinnati. He said he hoped the balmy alt which he expected to find at Asheville would in a few weeks restore his strength and permit him to resume his Judicial duties. Doctor Claytor will remain with the chief Justice at Asheville only alone enough to give suggestions to the physclan who will attend him there. FIRE TAKES SCHOOL CORVALLIS, MonW Jan. 14.- (AP) Every child 'in the high school marched out in good order Into : the temperature of 15 de crees, below sero here today while tne'i scnooi bunding -Durnea. school officials said the loss was $40,Ho; with 120,000 insurance. FH BOARD READY FOR NEW ICllY TIFT i SOUTH Show Tuesday Higher V JILOFISSTITE Many Regions of Oregon Re port All Winter Records To Be Shattered By The Associated Press A white blanket, varying in depth from a few inches to sever al feet, today covered virtually the entire state of Oregon, from the east border to the very foot of the Pacific ocean. Winter records were shattered in many sections and the weather man last night saw no immediate relief. After an overcast sky had threathened all yesterday, snow began falling shortly after 8 o'clock last night at Portland. The fall was heavy and down town streets, relieved of their recent white burden, were quickly buried under a soft dry blanket. Snow Falls too Fast for Workmen Street crews we're immediately put to work, but the fall was too rapid to permit of maintaining clear traffic lanes. With a blanket of snow 8 Inches deep, Roseburg yesterday had the heaviest snow covering in history. Records have been kept at the wieatber office' since 1890, but in that time the deepest snow was only, six Inches. - - Sunshine at Med fori and warm er temperatures, reaching a max imum of 28 above, found 10 inches of snow on the ground. Probable snow and continued cold was the forecast there. Near Medford, Gold Hill re ported 31 4 inches of snow. Four inches of snow covered the streets of Newport last night and from surf bathing, the favorite pastime of that city, to slidjn g on frozen ground was an experiment many enjoyed. Eugene Reports Mercury Higher Weather at Eugene yesterday was warmer than for several days (Turn to Page 2, Please.) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14. (AP) Jack L. Maddux, executive of the commercial air line which em ployes Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, today revealed that the famed aviator's new specially designed Lockheed low winged monoplane Is a flying laboratory. Maddux said Col. Lindbergh de signed tbe craft for the express purpose of testing high altitude flying in anticipation of the future development of transport avia tion. "In cooperation with naval me teorological experts at the Lake hurst, N. J., airship station and the United States weather bureau, Col. Lindbergh is planning to car ry out a. number of experimental flights," Maddux said, "testing the use of various atmospheric conditions which are found at high levels. "Col. Londbergh has been in terested for a long time in the possibility of transporting pas sengers and mall at altitudes above the storm cloud layers, and at the same time obtaining in creased speed In rarified atmos phere by making use of wind cur rents believed to prevail there." OVER HALF MILLION PORTLAND, Ore"., Jan. 14. (AP) Exactly $681.987. can be sent In constructing and Improv ing roads through Oregon's na tional forests during 1931, CM. Granger, district forester here, announced today upon receipt of the approved road schedule from Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. The total appropriation for for est roads throughout the United States and territorial . lands Is 4,SOO,000 and Oregon ranks sec ond in alloted ' apportionments with California leading with a to tal of $178,451 to be. spent dur ing: - the fiscal . year beginning July 1.-. ; 4 ' ; 11 fill s n 111 S PLANE IS LABORATORY IN AIR FOR ROADS ON Htl SLADE CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF 1 Dan Fry, Former Head, Now Chairman of Board of . Directors Annual Election Held by Lo cal Institution Tues day Evening E. F. Slade was elected presi dent .of the First National bank of Salfm at the annual directors' meeting Tuesday. He succeeds Daniel J. Fry, Sr., who was elect ed chairman of the board of di rectors. Mr. Slade was formerly a vice president. S. B. Elliott was re-elected vice president and named as chairman of the executive committee; C. W. Paulus was re-elected .cashier ; H. E. Eakin assistant vice president and trust officer, and A. W. Smither and Arthur B. Bates as sistant cashiers. All members of the old board of directors of the First National were re-elected at the stockhold ers' meeting in addition to six former directors of the Salem Bank of Commerce and also Keith Powell, president of the Bank of Woodburn. Slade Is Third Head Of Local Bank The directors now are Daniel J. Fry, Sr., B. L. Steeves, D. B. Jarman, Carl F. Gerlinger, Harley O. White, T. A. Livesley, Custer E. Ross, R. E. Lee Steiner, J. C. Perry. John H. McNary. W. M. Hamilton, H. H. dinger,, R. M. Hofer, W. W. Moore, Keith Pow ell, 8. B. Elliott and E. F. Slade. The newjy elected president has been the active executive officer of the First National Bank since its organization in 1923, and is its third president, Mr. Fry hav ing been preceded by George F. Rodgers. Mr. Fry has been presi dent since 1924. The election of directors and of ficers Tuesday was the first since the merger of the First National Bank and the Salem Bank of Com merce last November. FIJIBE HEPDRTtn US SNOWBOUND FLYER LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14. (AP) Western Air Express of ficials here announced they had received a radio from P. O. Lee, their representative in Salt Lake City, Utah, saying that a Union Pacific railroad engineer report ed sighting a flare tonight at the top of Saw Mill Canyon, 15 miles northeast of Caliente, Nevada, in the heart of the treacherous ter ritory where Maurice Graham, missing mail plane pilot, is being hunted. The messages said that the flare was believed by the ' train crew to have been a signal from someone snowbound in the rough country. Graham left Las Vegas, Nev., the night of January 10, and was heard over the Bristol mine near Pioche, Nev., a few miles west of the Utah border. Bristol mine is 40 miles north of the Saw Mill Canyon. A Quick check, the message de clared, had revealed that no one other than Graham was reported lost near in the district. Seftrch from the air for the lost aviator, whw was considered an expert flier, has been futile. PSITTACOSIS KILLS W TOLEDO FOLK TOLEDO. O.. Jan. 14 (AP) With two deaths in Toledo at tributed to psittacosis, or parrot s disease, the city health office was at work here today trying to am physicians In the diagnosis of oth er suspected cases under observa tion. Mrs. Catherine Tierney, 07, housekeeper for the Good Shep herd church pastoral residence, died yesterday. Mrs. Tierney is believed to have contracted the disease from a parrot brought from South America in December by the Rev. George A. Branegan, pastor of the church. The par rot died. Mrs. Percy Q, Williams, who died two weeks ago is beUeved to have been the first victim here of the disease. - A man and twg girls, who were employed before Christmas in a store1 where parrots were sold are seriously ill hero. Physicians say they have symptoms of the par rot's disease. Mrs. Hoover Is Much Better Now- WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (AP) Mrs. Herbert Hoover had sufficiently recovered from a cold which she has been suffering for over two t weeks, to attend the dinner given tonight by Secretary Mellon to the president. Mr. Mellon's dinner was the third of the state dinners which the president attends other than those given at the White House- 11 j I .1 He Tells Senate About Work oi m Sugar Lobby at National Capital H. ft. Pike, New York -sugar broker, as be appeared on tbe witness stand for tbe purpose of testifying to tbe activities of tbe sugar factions at Washington. Tbe Senate's lobby investi gation com mittee bas already sum' moned numer ous witnesses , in connection with its probe. ( International ' ": :.. . - -- :::T-Vv! ' .- ' ?. Lobby Activities Held Mere Graft Nearly Half Million Expended During Sugar Controversy by Interested Concerns, Cara way Tells United States Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. ( AP) Lobbying activities in Washington were described to the senate today as "simple graft," by Chairman Caraway, of the lobby investigating committee, as he presented a report estimating that more than A(( Afn hod KpPTI pt. O pended by those interested in the pending sugar tariff con troversy. "Business men might Just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer and have the future of legislation foretold," Senator Saraway observed after the com mittee's report was read, "as to put their money In the so-called publicity agents and those lobby ists we see here In Washington." The report absolved President Hoover of any impropriety in connection with any attempt he might have made to bring sugar interests together on a proposed sliding scale for sugar duties. In his speech, to the senate. Caraway said if "might be safely said" that $1,000,000 had been sent to influence public opinion on the sugar duties in the tariff bill. The lobby committee, a little while before, had started an in vestigation into the activities of New York importers. It heard a denial from E. R. Pickrell, of the General Dye Stuff corporation, of New York, that he had used the office of Senator King, democrat, Utah, as headquarters during con sideration of the tariff bill. VANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. 14. (AP) California wine manu facturers are attempting to flood the Canadian market with wine manufactured In the United States since the Volstead act went into effect, Gordon W. Ross, sec retary of the British Columbia moderation league, declared here today. Hundreds of gallons of wine containing more than 20 per cent alcohol, aged In the wood from three to four years, are being of fered to the Canadian liquor trade. Ross said. This is in no sense a bootleg ging operation; Ross . asserted, as the agents of California wineries represent they are able to secure United States treasury permits for such transactions. "There seems to be an incon sistency in. the proposal of the United States to place large num bers . of armed soldiers on the Canadian border to prevent a trickle of Canadian liquor when the United States permits huge quantities of wine to be exported to Canada," Ross said. Oil Companies Made Defendant In Damage Suit PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14. (AP) Charging the Shell Oil company of California and the Oregon petroleum company sought to force him into a agreement to violate laws relative to restraint of trade, made a lease contract with him and then broke it and refused to deliver him gasoline, Carl S. Miller filed suit against the two companies in circuit court here today for $38,805.65 dam ages. Miller, proprietor of a local ser vice station, alleged he agreed to lease the station to the two. oil companies for five years and was to bo paid a rental of two cents a J gallon on each gallon of gasoline purchased from the defendants.; I I MEE IDE HE IS SOLD IN CANADA CANNIBALISM TO CHINESE HORROR Mohammedan Fanatics Kill Large Numbers as Situa tion Grows Worse SHANGHAI, Jan. 14 (AP) Gruesome stories of wholesale canibalism were added today to the tales of horror recounted of famine and cold that are reported to have taken 2.000 lives in Chi na within eight month. Another 2,000,000 persons are said to be doomed to die by starvation. Typhus, grim sister of famine, is charged with the death of un numbered thousands, and 3,000 000 Mohammedan fanatics are ac cused of massacreing all adult males of numerous villages of Kansu province. George Andrews, a missionary born In Kansu province and. just returned from nine months of re lie'f work there, said that famine, disease and exposure In Kansu, Shensi and Shansi provinces had caused one of the most terrible situations ever experienced in China, In which plagues of disease and famine are common and life is cheap. Failure of crops last year, and no seeds planted for the coming season, together with betow sero weather in the Yantse valley and north China, were ascribed by An drews as causes for the wide spread suffering. Speaking of a statement from (Turn to Page 2, Please.) Farm Loan Body Selects Tower A Tj. Tir.U Hi l& IT I Officers and directors of the Horticultural National Farm Loan association) of Salem, were elect ed at the annual meeting held Tuesday, as follows: Gordon E. Tower, president; A. F. Beardsley, vice president; F. L. Wood, secretary; L. E. Hennies, J. C. Snyder, John Cornforth and William Oldenberg, directors. The president and vice president are also directors. ' Mr. Hennies is the local appraiser for loans from the Federal Land Bank," administered by this association. Legion Plans Membership, Contest To Obtain Quota Something new In the way of m e nvb e r s h 1 p campaign was launched Tuesday night by Capi tal Post No. 9. American Legion, at its first .meeting of the new year. The campaign will take the form of a contest, according to the outline presented by Mr. Clif ford Moynihan, chairman of the membership committee. , Members taking part in the con test . will be paired off in teams of two members each, tbe teams to register by January 28; and before any member is eligible to qualify as, a team member, "his own 1930, dues must be paid op. L Scoring will be on a basis of two points for eacji renewal ob tained, and ' five "points for each new member. Points will be cre dited to the teams and not to ln7 dividual members. ' Teams -may 1 3 Slayers In Arizona Mrs. Irene Schroeder and Two Men Un der Arrest Nation-Wide Search Is Brought to Suc cessful End PHOENIX. Ariz.. Jan. 14 i (AP) Sheriff Charles W. WriRbt of Maricopa county said tonight a woman captured with two men near Laveen earlier fn the eves ing has admitted she is Mrs. Iriw Schroeder of Benwood, W. Va.. for whom a nation-wide search has been made- In connection wi;b the slaying of a Pennsylvania highway patrolman near New castle, Pa. Mrs. Schroeder and two men arrested with her. after an ex change of shots with a posse near Lave'en, Ariz., tonight, are being questioned by Sheriff Wright. The men tentatively have len identified as T. R. Crawford, and Glen Gage, wanted with Mrs. Schroeder for the murder of Cor poral Brady Paul. Series of Sktt-iiiilits Ends With Capture The capture was the climax ef a state-wide hunt, started after a deputy sheriff had been kidnap- at Florence, Ariz., and laur wounded by the trio, and another deputy had been shot and wound ed at Chandler, Ariz., last night. The trio's car, found by depu ties where they had abandoned it before barricading themselrw near Laveen, bears 1930 Ken tucky license number 358.84. The engine number is B12C4 and serial number P 185 W. A description of the men and their woman companion, and ct the car, is being sent east in an effort in confirm the tentative Identity of the trio as the Rlayr of Corporal Brady Paul of the Pennsylvania state highway pa trol. Information here 1b bat they are wanted also In Detroit and in Texas as slayer suspect. Premature Volley Results In Ditrovpry The fugitives were surrounded on the top of a small peak in the South range mountains. Had they remained quiet and hd their fire, they might not bar been discovered before" dark, of ficers said. As an advance guard of the main body of possemen approach ed the base of the peak, howevtr, it was scattered and driven to cover by shots fired from the top, none of the fugitives' bulfH took' effect, nor was any of tbe fire returned by ttie possemea. A brisk exchange took place, until the men and woman on the peak discovered the main body of tk posse In the offing. Chapman and Wright, the dfp (Turn to Page 2, Please.) S PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14. (AP) Governor A. W. Norblad, in an address before the 24th an nual convention of county judges and county commissioners at the court house here today. Indicated his slogan as governor and candi date in the republican primaries this spring would be "Pull for Oregon or 1 regon or pull out.' The governor declared l.e would expend every ounce of his energy while in public office for the progress and development f. Oregon. "Oregon must forge ahead." he said. "California and Washing ton have passed us while we have lagged behind. The county courts are mighty factors in the state development. It Is the county taxes levied and disbursed that constitute 30 per cent of Oregon's tax total." The governor then made s plea tor tax equalization. obtain the assistance of other members in - signing ? member ships. -.. - The members of the team win-, nlng first place will each receive a gold medal donated by. Com mander Biddy Bishop and Mr. Moynihan, and the members of the second place Jeam will re ceived engraved ceremonial bad ges donated " by Adjutant L. A. Hamilton. i The campaign will continue un til the full quota of 1200 mem bers has been reached, or until June SO -if the quota has not been reached at that time. Judges of the contest will be Commander Bishop; Adjutant Hamilton and the chairman of the membership committee. They , will not be permitted to particl- pate in the contest. r PRD6RES URGED GOVERNOR mm