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PAGE EIGHT . New York Governor Favors Prohibition Repeal, he i Announces" ALBANY. N. Y-, Sept. 10 (AP) Got. Roosevelt today . broke a two-year official silence concerning the prohibition amendment and substitution of a federal statute granting each 1 state the right to control the sale of intoxicants. In a letter to Senator Robert F. Wagner, made public here, the governor included the subject of prohibition among the topics he believed should be stressed at the democratic state convention in Syracnse the' latter part of this month and added he was "positive in Baying that there must be some definite assurance that by no pos sibility at any time or In any place tbe old saloon can come back." The governor urged that not only should states be given con trol of liquor, but there should be "definite recognition of the extension of home rule to the lower subdivisions of government In other words, a recognition of the rights of cities, villages or towns by popular vote to prohi bit tbe sale of intoxicants within their own borders." Temperance not Aided he Claims The eighteenth amendment, the govenor said "has not furth - ered the cause of a great "tem perance in our population." He expanded this statement by quot ing a resolution of the American Legion which said the law had "led to corruption and hypocrisy" and added the declaration "I per sonal share this opinion." "So widespread in this state Is the resentment against the results of the eighteenth amendment," the governor wrote Wagner, "that the time has come to stop talking and to seek action." The governor's expression of attitude had been awaited almost since the moment he took office on New Year s day, 1929. IVesidential Talk Has Some Bearing The announcement was regard ed with special interest in view of the frequent recent mention ing of his name in connection with the presidential candidacy for 1932. Although the governor has refused to comment or even indicate indirectly his intention to run for re-election this fall, such action has generally been presumed by both members of his party and republicans. His statement of attitude pre cedes any possible similar state ment by a republican guberna torial candidate, since the man most prominently mentioned by republicans, U. S. Attorney Charles II. Tuttle, also has- re frained from committing himself either on the candidacy or the subject of prohibition. C O The Other Bullet . - (Continued from Pageq 4) moments of conscious insight, he saw the empty local room with its shrouded typewriters and bat tered desks, as one of the most romantic places in the world. The ghosts of old stories walked here the drifting shadows of for gotten turbulence, the ashes of heroic and passionate and tragic hours, settling to dust in the files of tbe morgue. Somebody, long before Peter's time had covered the de la Mon tanya story for the Herald and had left him this anonymous legacy. Some one had rushed to catch a long-past deadline for some other Jimmy. Only the Herald local room remained through it all, listening to their curses, taking their best and giv ing them well, giving them grueling discipline and disap pointment, but giving them now and then, a high moment, such a moment as Peter was having now when he knew that those yellow marrined clippings would give him the clue to another great story. "Good luck to you, old scout, whoever you were wherever you are," Peter murmured salute to his unknown collaborator. Then, ashamed of his own senti ment, he sat down at his desk, adjusted the green shaded light and with a padd of copy paper be fore him began to sort the clip pings. Some he laid aside, face downward. Others he read swift ly, then slowly and carefully, Jotting down nites. Suddenly he leaned pack in his chair, staring at the lampshade with a non pulsed frown. "Well, I'll be damned," he announced to an unlistening uni verse. ' There was no doubt about it de la Montanya had died that night eleven years ago. And the face that looked out at him from the smudgy reproduction of a blurred photograph would have been the face of Mortison eleven years ago. Peter reassorted the clippings and read them again from beginning to end. A man of large affairs old and prominent family mother prostrated with grief. The body was found by tbe chauffeur who had been aroused by some Inde terminate sound. Except for the mother and a cousin. Miss Maria de la Montanya, a pensioner of the family, the chauffeur had been alone in the house with his roaster. Peter jotted down his ' name Joseph Lynn. It was the chauffeur who bad given the alarm. . he was dead all right, for the next day's story announced that Joseph Lynn was being held for the murder. De la Montanya Had been killed by a blow on the head from a "blunt instrument," Wouldn't some bright newspaper man - cnmntlmit find ft avnnnvm for that nvrwnrlcp(! nhraite? In the golf bag in the corner of the roo mthe police, had found a . .11 l.f. - 1 T . - - man nmmeit In a. smear of blood on the metal. Lynn's fingerprints COLUMBIA AGAIN TO SPAN ATLANTIC o i -y-" if r-s ft - v? ; - -v y: - - - ? jp ' 7fy J - iMPWiL1- 5r3t?i Vj? 1 The Bellanca monoplane, nmbia," in whi Boyd, (inset) nonoplane, "Col- soon t eh Captain Enrol I is the of Toronto, will I Charle: take off for Europe. same plane in which Charles Levine and Clarence It t Chamberlin flew from New Eh I York to Germany. utes before two, but the alarm had not been turned in until two o'clock. He accounted for the de lay by saying that he had gone to the back of the house to tele phone from the pantry, and had had difficulty in getting the con nection. When asked why he did not use the telephone -instrument in the room where he found his master, he said that he had not thought of it. He was accustom ed to using the pantry telephone; he was dated and upset, and had followed his established habit without thinking. "Well, that's natural enough," Peter murmured. "But of course the police wouldn't take a little thing like psychology into con sideration." There followed "Chauffeur's Strange Statement Saw Ghost of Murdered Man, He Alleges," in heavy type. He had come down the stairs in his bare feet. He could not tell what sound it was that had awakened him, but he had stum bled out of bed to investigate. etill half drugged with sleep. He could not even swear that he had heard anything. At the foot of the stairs, lie had seen a light shining through the portieres di viding the hall from the library. He heard no further sound, but as he looked across the hall, he saw the reflection of his master's face rise from the level of the table and pass across the mirror above the mantel. He had wait ed a moment, wondering if it had been his master whom he had heard, and considering the advis ability of going back to bed. However, heaflecided to go in and ask de la Montanya if he had heard anything. He had found de la Montanya lying on the floor by the table. The gold club was close beside him. He was puzzled, as he was sure that he had just seen his master's face in the mirror over the mantel piece. And why had he been swinging a golf club at that time of night? Mr. de la Montanya was very particular about his clubs. Lynn had automatically picked up the club and put it back in the bag. He could not say why he had done this. It was Just habit. When he saw the club, he picked it up and put it away. He hadn't thought about it as disarranging evidence he hadn't thought of it at all. It occurred to ham that his master might have had some sort of fit. He even thought he him self might be dreaming it was all so queer. It was a warm night and the window was open. He stood in the window for a mom ent, and the night air cleared his head. When he turned back into the room he was fully awake, and when be felt de la Montan ya's pulse, he knew that he was dead. He had gone to the pantry and after some difficulty with the operator, had given the alarm. This was Lynn's story, from which he could not be made to deviate. "So help me God," it ended, "I saw tbe man's soul leave his body it was his soul that I saw rise in the mirror. His soul passed out through the open window. I saw it!" "Good work!" Peter paid his tribute to the man who eleven years ago had quoted those words verbatim in the Herald. They had the ring of authentic utterance. They came to Peter across the years, with their vibration of ter ror. "New Evidence Against Chauf feur," the next headlines read. The police Jiad received an anony mous note bidding them "look for the missing ring and the money." Mrs. de la Montanya was too ill to be questioned, but her cousin, who had been-a mem ber of the household for many years, declared that de la Mon- tanya always wore a signet ring, set with emeralds, the gift of his mother on his sixteenth birth day. The ring had vanished, but In the chauffeur's trunk was found a leather wallet bearing the ini tials J. de la M. and containing several hundred dollars. Lynn de clared that the wallet was an old one which had been given him by his master, and that the money represented his own savings. The ; police had been able to find no trace of the sender of the note. ''Hm! I wonder now was Saw-Tooth Mike trying to double cross Callahan? Or did the mur derer crouch outside the window, see the robbery, and fasten upon it as a chance to shift the blame to Callahan's shoulders? But why not leave well enough alone? The evidence already pointed to Lynn" Peter addressed the mass ed shadows of the local room. "If Lynn himself nek of the robbery he'd have said so unless Lynn and Callahan were confederates. But that's out. Callahan really did find that corpse, exactly as he said he did." The clippings on Lynn's trial wereYairly brief. The case of the prosecution rested on the - rob bery motive, t wals not a cleverly constructed crime. Lynn had slip ped in upon his master alone and had killed him. He was familiar with the house and knew that Mrs. and Miss de la Montanya slept in distant rooms and wonld FEET HURT? If so, your entire body is suffering. Let us prove to you that we are SPE CIALISTS in fitting your feet with the proper type of footwear, there by assuring you perma nent COMFORT. WALK-OVER MAIN BS CANTILEVER FLEXIBLE ARCH Headquarters Official Girl Scout Shoe 41S State Street not be awakened by a slight dis turbance. He had opened the win dow in order to give the impres sion that It was an outside job. had gone upstairs and bidden the money, and then had given the alarm. (To be continued) We guarantee our carrier service. If your copy of the Statesman fails to arrive by 6:30 a. m., phone 600 and a copy will be sent to you. FARMERS APPROVE 1 E M Designation of Addresses is Received as 'Great Improvement That the farmers of Marion and Polk counties are accepting the National Bureau system of lo cating rural residences enthuisas tlcally is the report coming from Hal G. Child, vice-president, in charge of fields activities in Sa lem. The National Bureau crew of workers calling upon farmers to explain the system and its many benefits are finding: that farmers have for years felt a real need for the adoption and installation of some uniform system of des ignating and locating farm homes such as is now made available throueh the nation-wide system sponsored by the national bureau. Leaders in rural welfare and governmental circles have care fully studied the rural home num bering system perfected by na tional bureau engineers and have given it their unqualified en dorsement. They recognize the unlimited possibilities for better ment of farm conditions, both ec onomic and social, which the gen eral adoption of this system will bring about. "Our men find that farmers are quick to recognize the benefits of the system, particularly as a means of directing prospective purchasers to their farms, or in cases of emergency when no time can be lost in giving lengthy, and often uncertain, directions," said Child. "Many farmers tell us they view the installation of this num bering system as a form of in surance. Day and night the Na tional Bureau location marker stands by the roadside directing travellers to th particular rural heme they art seeking. The system, as explained by National Bureau engineers, oper ates for counties as an urban numbering system does for cit ies. The main differences are that Instead of dealing with small square blocks, the rural number ing system treats square-mile sections as blocks. Instead of names for streets, as in cities, this rural system designates roads by numbers. The square block with in which a certain house is lo cated Is assigned numbers, the first indicating the miles east ward, and the second indicating the miles southward, which the block is distant from the north west corner of the county. A third number indicates, in hun dredths of a mile, the exact lo cation of the house within the block. By the aid of a county map, compiled from original National Bureau surveys, any block, road, or home can be quickly located. A county directory, listing ev ery person living in the rural dis tricts, gives the National Bureau number assigned to each fam ily's home. By reference to this directory and the special map it is a matter of but a few moments to determine the best roads to take to reach a given place. The traveler recognizes the place he is looking for by the number in front of the property. In tthat way no time or effort is wasted in hunting for rural homes. Girl is Born to Noted Violinist And Screen Star NEW YORK, Sept. 9. ( AP) Mr. and Mrs. Jascha Heifets to day were receiving congratula tions on the birth of a daughter at the-Lying-in hospital Monday. ICTWIFLEII15 POPIIUffl While census taking has occu pied the nation, it has also kept the Willamette valley division of the Pacific Northwest Public Ser vice company busy, according to W. M. Hamilton, division mana ger. A comparison of June, 1920 figures with June 1930 statistics for this division shows v an In crease of over 100 per cent in the number of customers served by the company in this area. In 1920 the Willamette Valley Division had 6,545 customers. By 1930 the nuumber had risen to 11,717. For June 1930 as com pared with June 1920 the average price received for each kilowatt hour sold dropped 61 per cent, from 3.29 cents to 1.29 cents. This figure includes the low fates received by the company's indus trial users. For residential lighting service, a class which includes 9,984 of the division's customers, the rap idly increasing use of electricity has resulted in a 52 per cent drop in the average price per kilowatt hour, from 5.83 cents in 19 20 to 2.76 In 1930. This average cost per kilowatt hour for residence lighting In the Willamette Valley Division is low er than that of the congested Portland area where the June av erage for residence service was 3.27 cents a kilowat hour. Ham ilton points out that the wide spread use of electrical equipment by homemakers in this division is responsible tor this showiifg. Escaped Ward Is Recaptured Virginia Hill, one of three girls who escaped from the state indus trial school for girls here a week ago, was apprehended Wednesday at Aurora, where she bad been living in an abandoned house for several days. IB H a s mraatt Mimg Gusts Repair Shop G. A. ARONSON, Prop. 1610 N. Com! Telephone 3659 Where Style is Always Inexpensive Vivaclotso GMi CcaffOo TriangleiOblo ngs Ccoe Pleated Sty tee ) 5 Brightly colored hand painted silk scarfs , . . the triangle type for sportswear and the oblong to wear with a coat. Smairtly Now IKIatt IFaoIhiSoimo Fojp Fall Cushion brims that are softly flattcrinf , . . double brim effects , . . beret types draped in new ways. Yoa may select felt, velvet or tricot in black or one of the rich Fall tones. Dress Fashions for Fall Oar itylati krre adeeteil these modes to start of! tbs : son because they are ftAioiwight m every detail . ; . r thentic adaptations of the fashions sponsored by designers here and abroad. As ntual, our pnees arc moderate f-Ttf in ... see the new stvks here fust! , Fall Coat Fashions 14 75 to 49 .75 Stunning dress coats and tailored "and fur-trimmed utility coats makeTup this collection of early Fall fashions. Each coat is of par ticular interest on account of its fashion importance and outstand ing value. Semi-Sheor Silk Stockings 98c m Pun-faibiooed , . . fine gauge eml-ihetr til stockings with teo-up toe guard ana nercer is3 top and foot for durable rear. New summer shades. Girls' Rayon Undloo Vests, Bloomers, each 5 ttyon, trimly tail. "Td .... . jnst like Mother's! Wr tyk; 12 to 16, wS bodice top, . Rayon Undies Are Popular Because They're Inexpensive Practical For business ... for school ... for travel : . . for home, too I Chemise, gowns, bloomers, dancettes and panties . , . lace-trijnmed or novelty tailored applique styles . . . inexpensively priced! 98c to $2.98 Girls' Dresses $2.98 and $4.98 Dresses with style, made for wear and warmth, all wool, wool challies and serge. Sizes 2-16. tor Very CxsaUGirl $o$ Fine, warm materials art m4 14 faihloa these coats for tfrts from 1 to 6 years cl"Theyai smartly stykd, some with cases iv. and there : art some boyish . taQorei laodels, too. All are splendid valuta, m K. W. AckBn, Mgr. were on tne nandie or tne euro. 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