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ONLY 5 MORE DAYS November i positively Is lust date subscriptions will be arrepted at bargain rate of $3 for a year (by mail in Oregon only). WEATHER Fair today and Wednes day, rising temperature, lower humidity; Mas. Temp. Monday 57, Min. 36, north wind, rivrr -2.0, rain .00. FOUNDED 1851 EIGHTIETH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, October 28, 1930 No. 184 Mr i i i t i i i i i r I l 1 1 1 j i GOVERNOR TO FREE MURRAY AND HI Men Who Killed While Drunk Must. Never Drink Again, Pardon Condition No Decision yet on Burke Case; Plea for Bryant Is not Considered Two conditional pardons atfect ir.'g S. Schibata, serving a life term in the Oregon state peniten tiary for murder in Umatilla county, ana Charles A. Murray, under eight years penitentiary sentence for involuntary man slaughter in Lane county, were announced by Governor Norblad here Monday. Schibata was received at the penitentiary May 2, 1921. and has served approximately 10 years. Under the terms of the condition al pardon, Schibata must refrain from using intoxicating liquors during the remainder of his life. A pardon for Schibata was recom mended by the trial judge, dis trict attorney, the 12 members of the Jury who found him guilty, and Mrs. A. B. Todd f Hillsboro, and Martha Randall of Portland, whs previously served -as mem bers of the state parole board. The state pardon board voted unanimously for Schibata's re lease. Killed Companion While Gambling Records show that Schibata killed a companion while the two were engaged In a gambling frame. Both men were intoxicat ed at the time. Murray was received at the Penitentiary March 1, 1928. He also must refrain from in dulging in Intoxicating liquors during the remainder of his life time. The five members of the tate pardon board voted in favor of granting Murray a pardon. Re quests for executive clemency for Murray also were received from a large number of residents of Lane county. In addition to (Turn to page 2, col. 3) LARGE APARTMENT IS i Change in ownership of the Suatton apartments, built at T70 North Winter street a few years Ko by Orin and Lulu Stratton. wis announced yesterday, the new owners being James D. and Ella M. Wilt. ! The deal involved consideration of $45,000. The apartment house is entire ly modern and contains 16 apart ments of three rooms and up. The rew owners are already in pos session. In the deal, the Strattons took in three buildings, including the Wiit home at 1155 South Bel mont street, and two other' dwel lings. Mr. and Mrs. Wilt have lived in Salem a number of years. He was for a long period superin tendent of the sulphite mill for the Oregon Pulp and Paper com pany, from which position he had retired. They will both give their attention to the apartment house. Mr. and Mrs. Stratton will tpend the winter in California. OWNERS IN HOSPITAL PORTL XD, Or., Oct. 27. (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Alex Har per were in the hospital tonight while their pet rat, indirectly responsible, paired peacefully at home. Mrs. Harper was upstairs when the telephone rang. She harried to answer it bnt failed to see the rat lying at the top of the stairs. She tripped, fell down and dislocated her shoul der. Mrs. Harper Managed to reach the telephone and called her husband. He left his office for a taxi stand but as he crossed the street was struck down by an automobile. His right leg was fractured. CAN'T BE REMOVED ASTORIA, Ore., Oct. 27. (AP) The McCormick steamer Munys tic, grounded on Meins Sands in the Columbia river during a heavy fog today. Efforts of the Arrow Tug and Barge company's tugs. Arrow No. 3 and Enterprise, and the Knappton tugs, Defender and Irene, to pull the vessel off the sands were unsuccessful. The steamer was said to have grounded at high tide. The local tugs were standing by tonight and reports said the tug Port of Port land and the tug Shafer were be ing sent from Portland. SATS DAMAGE $25,000 , PENDLETON. Ore., Oct. 27.- (AP1 A 125.000 damage suit was fiied in circuit court today by Vera Grant, teacher, against Em ma Coldiron, doing business as the Bin Line Motor Coach ays en and the United States Inter- BUILDING SOLD Brazil Provisional Go v eminent Q uells Counter Revolution Stubborn Fighting Between Barricades Brings Over 100 Casualties; Populace in General Favors Junta Hf RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 27. (AP) Foe two hours to day forces of the provisional government battled against a regiment of revolting military police and commun ists who sought to fan disaffection in the resulting excitement. When it was over, with more than 100 casualties hadO- been tallied. For a time the outbreak threatened to become a menace to the military Junta which on Friday ousted President Wash ington Luis and set up a provi sional government,' in the mean time awaiting the arrival of Ge tulio Vargas, rebel generalissimo, to take control. The military police regiment started the conflict and took over the central police station, firing indiscriminately. Firemen and city police at first were called to combat the revolters, their ranks quickly augmented by armed citizens Soon forces of the regular army aouoie-timea through me .a a . . . I streets or rushed up in motor trucks. They threw up barri- cades of sacked flour, beans and sugar around the ministry of war, the central police station (Turn to page 2, col. 3) TRUCK OCCUPANTS MISS SURE DEATH RICKEY, Oct. 27 (Special) Two men miraculously escaped deatb Monday morning wnen a truck belonging to S. Matnania or near Silver Creek dropped off the edge or a culvert ana aown an embankment into a nei or len feet beiow, flea: tae -u. ai. -via- gee home. Tt a V as.II-. Inn W a I me hulk wo ueiij luaucu with wood, bound for the Salem paper mm. rsear me iui i til iV. . 1VA oui aDOve ruaaing circa. iu truck slid off the pavement on me Jeft side or tne roau. l oe ariver couian t gei ii oaca anu u ioii;u along tne edge oi tne pavement i until it reached tne culvert. me leu irom wneei mi me edge or ine cuiven ana oounceu orr. A few incnes lanner u would have toppled into tne creek which would have meant certain death death to both occu- pants. bui u oaiancea on me raised edge of the culvert ana went down the embankment. through a woven wire fence and into the field on the farm of Mrs. W. J. Culver. It stopped still upright, but with only three sticks of wood remaining of the load. The machine was damaged in varioufc ways but when the owner arrived he drove it away under its own power. One of the men suf fered slight scratches. Bishop Griswold Said Near Death CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (AP)- Bishop Sheldon Munson Gris wold, head of the Chicago Epis copal diocese, passed into a state of coma roday and Dr. Dwight F. Clarke said he feared the bishop would not live through the night. Sleepy cat Responsible Foggy Steamer Grounds Teacher Sues bus Firm Planer at Elgin Burns insurance association. Miss Grant alleged she was in jured in October, 1928, In an acci dent involving a Blue Line bus. SAID IXCEXDLUtY LA GRANDE, Ore., Oct. 27. (AP) The Pondosa Pine Lumber company's planer mill, located at Elgin, Ore., and 50,000 feet of lumber and box shooks, were de stroyed by fire Sunday night. Loss was estimated at 8100,000. The state fire marshall express ed the opinion that the fire was of in ce diary origin. CARTER GETS STAY KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct, 27. (AT)- -A defense motion for m continuance of the trial of La Verne Carter, charged with the murder of his wife, was granted In circuit court here to day. 1 The defense said its chief counsel had been called to Port land to appear in another case, and that chemists had not com pleted an analysis to be used la the trial. DEMUR SUCCESSFULLY PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 27. (AP) A demurrer to an Indict ment charging Isreal Weinstein, Burns merchant, his three sons, and four others with consnlrarr to conceal assets amounting to 8100.- 000 when the Weinstein Mercan- are planning to attend the party tile company was adjudged bank- rally which will be held in Silver nipt was sustained today by Fed- ton at the K. of P. hall tonight. eral Judge McXary. Judge Me- Nary, however, signed an order. permitting Assistant United States Attorney J. w. nccuiiocn to re - submit the matter to too grand jury this week. ; the government in control. sin SHEEP Grand Champion Dorsets are Owned by Floyd T. Fox; Judging Still on PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 27.! (At) Blue ribbons were dis played tonight in front of many .1.11 A i v . w .J a a a. at. mo racmc iniernauon ai kxpositron in progress here. Judging of the thousands of entries bean today and will con tinue through Wednesday. ' Forty-seven 4-H club teams from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Ltah and British Co lumbia today tried their skill at stock judging. Four hundred 4-H club members are attending the exposition and most of them have entries in the show, Results announced today were: Horse division: shires grand and senior champion stallion. Royal Coldham Chief, owned bv David Rankin, Yakima; grand and senior champion mare, .Hal- ne, David Rankin Percherons: senior champion stallion. Napoleon. D. F. Burse. Albany. Ore.: arand and senior chamnion mare. Laetine. Nation ai Woolen Mills, Seattle, Sheep and goats division: Dor sets erand chamnion ram. Floyd T. Fox. Silverton. Ore.: . grand champion ewe, Floyd T. Fox. Fat sheeD erand ehamnfon wether of show. University of Idaho Moscow, swine division, fat hogs: champion Barrow. Oregon State mllece: chamnion Tien. Tnlver. Sty or Idaho. cattle division, fat steers: grand champion of all breeds, Aberdeen-Angus. Queen of All Montana State college, Bozeman, Montana. COLUMBIA BARGE If LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 27. (AP) Mark A. Means, Lewis- ton, chairman of a temporary board of directors, said today that articles of incorporation for western Inland waterways had been approved and would be filed within two days. The corporation, he said, would engage in a general tow ing and barge business from As toria, Ore., to Asotin, Wash., via the Columbia and Snake rivers. A new type of barge has been found. Means said, which would permit operation at all times of the year except when the rivers were filled with floating or solid ice. The articles of incorporation will be filed under the laws of Delaware, he said. It is planned that communities along the Snake and Columbia rivers will become owners of the line, through stock purchases. Auburn Bank is Closed; Unwise Loans to Blame AUBURN. Wash., Oct. 27 (AP) The First National bank of Auburn closed Us doors here today after a five day run by de positors. Bad loans were report ed by owners of the bank stock to have caused the directors to decide to turn the bank over the federal bank authorities to con serve remaining assets. It was expected the bank would liquidate 80 cents on the dollar. The First National, founded two decades ago and serving the rich, small vegetable raising com munity of the White River valley near Seattle, bad assets of f 890,- 000. Depositors took out- 850,- 000 Saturday, directors said. Republicans to Rally Tonight Ai Silverton A number of Salem republicans Ronald Glover of Salem will be I one speaker, and those in charge I hare been endeavoring to bring irau Metscnan. eanaiaaie xor gov ernor, as a guest. A musical pro- gram Is planned. WIN M FORMED SAVAGE JAPAN TRIBES REVOLT KILLJFEICERS Attack, Destroy two Police Stations, Slay Defend ers, is Report Uprising is Most Serious In Last Decade; men Were Head Hunters TOKYO, Oct. 28 (Tuesday) (A P) A serious uprising among savage aborigines of the Taichu district of Central For mosa, southernmost of the Jap anese island chain, was report ed in an official dispatch to the Tokyo war office today. The savages were reported to have attacked and destroyed Jap anese police stations, killing the defenders. A company of Japan ese infantry and some aircraft was dispatched to the affected district. The commander of the Formo sa garrison reported the revolt to the war office. He stated 1500 savages revolt ed Monday morning in the Tillage of Musha, 35 miles southeast of Taichu. Police stations were wiped out and the policemen presumably killed. The savages captures about 100 rifles, then advanced upon other nearby vil lages. The uprising was described as the most serious In the last dec ade. These aborigines were head hunters until Japanese subjuga tion. Even a Goat Can't Climb Those Hills PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 27 (AP) High above the Columbia river a lone white goat tonight moved restlessly back and forth across a preclpittfous hillside. In Portland the Oregon hu mane society was discussing plans for Its rescue. The goat's predicament was called to the society's attention by Captain Arthur Cocks, of the Royal Mail steamer Loch Ka trine. Captain Cocks said Captain Arthur Riggs, Columbia river pi lot, had told him the goat had been on the hillside for at least three months. It apparently had climbed in search of forage. Be fore it returned a road crew cut beaneath it destroying the trail and making descent impossible. Ascent also was impossible. Every day since then, river pi lots said, the goat has watched the ships pass to the sea. Mean while the hillside has become barren. Tomorrow the goat will be res cued or shot. missing en GALVA, Ills., Oct. 27 (AP) The mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance Saturday of Earl Yocum, Galva bank presi dent, was intensified today by re ceipts of a second special delivery letter mailed to Mrs. Yocum from nearby Kewanee, 111. County authorities, believing the bank president might have been the victim of an extortion ring in Chicago, had conducted an extensive search for Yocum but suddenly. dropped the case af ter the missing banker's wife de cllned to take them into her con fidence. Any future moves, they said, were "up to Mrs. Yocum.". Yocum, president of banks at Galva and Aurelia, Iowa, was be lieved kidnaped by two men who accosted him in front of his home Saturday night and the receipt of two special delivery letters by his wife strengthened the theory that he was being held for ran som. Other than revealing that one of the letters was in her has band's handwriting and that he was "alL right" Mrs. Yocum re fused to discuss the case, even with county authorities. Son of Mexico's President Will Battle in Ring ATCHISON. Kas.. Oct. 27. (AP) The president of Mexico has a fighting son. Fernando Ortls Rubio, 14, student at St. Benedict's college here, will make his first public appearance in the boxing ring to morrow night when he meets Gas Glaser, St. Joseph, Mo., on an in tramural card at the college. Toung Ortiz Rubio, who weighs 142 pounds, learned to box at private school In Mexico City, W. BECHTEIi DIES LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (AP) William A. (Billy) Bech tel, 13. reputed to havo been the first motion picture player re cruited from the stage, died at his home today after brief ill ness. MYSTERY Work to -4s m Phf lit r .y WV , ?u s vr t V : TJX' Seeking Jobs for all, members of tne unemployed, rney re photographed after their meeting with the president. Left to right nre Eu gene Meyer, governor of the federal reserve board, and Secretaries Wilbur, Hurley, Mellon, Lamont and Davis. Unemployment Relief Of 15 Cities Pointed to as Models for Rest of Nation DAIRYMEN TO FACE TESTIOOBLENI Seek to Iron out Dispute Between Veterinarians and County Court Members of the Salem Dairy men 8 Cooperative association meet tonight at the chamber of commerce to try to work out a peace pact between the Marion county court and the veterinar ians of the county. In order that these milk pro ducers may receive a grade of B or better on their product, their herds must be tuberculin tested at least once a year. J. E. Blinkhorn, city sanitary inspect or, recently notified all milk producers to comply with this provision. The difficulty which the milk men will try to iron out at to- (Turn to page 2, col. 7) POWER VOTE BILL Signature by Mayor T. A. Lives- ley of the council's resolution sub mitting the question of Salem's proposed filing on Marion lake and North Santiam water and pow er rights, assures the question be ing on the ballot. City Recorder Poulsen said Monday that Mayor Livesley had signed the resolu tion. The vote will be advisory In character, the city already having made the first steps toward filing. City Attorney Trindle sought the general vote, holding that the peo ple s favorable expression on the measure, would be of great assist ance In obtaining the water and power rights from the Btate rec lamation commission. While the Northwest Power company has rights to the lake and river water for power pur poses, the city of Salem seeks to claim priority on the basis that a municipal claim is more to the In terests of the state's welfare than any private claim. Abyssinia Will Crown Emperor; Notables Gather ADIS ABABA, Abyssiania, Oct. 27 (AP) This ancient seat of Ethopian power today was in the midst of state and religious prep aration for the coronation No vember 2 of Ras Tafarl as em peror. With the arrival of several more foreing deputations the ranks of the delegates of 14 countries were filling up rap idly. Today was the day of French envoys. Yesterday the Japanese, Polish, Egyptian and Dutch visit ors arrived. To each was given a truly roy al reception in which the gaily decorated capital took part en thusiastically. Stock Brokerage Firm Insolvent PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17 (AP) The stock brokerage firm of C. Clothier Jones and company with offices in Philadelphia, New York, and several smaller cities In New Jersey and Pennsylvania, went Into the hands cf receivers here today after being suspended from the New York and Phila delphia stock exchanges for In solvency. MAYOR Relieve Unemployment President Hoover's special committee Jobs, not Bread, Proper Goal Says Director .Wood; Situation not as bad as in 1 92 I ; East Hardest hit NEW YORK, Oct. 27. ( AP) Programs to combat un employment already undertaken by 15 large cities were held up today as models for the rest of the country by Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of the president's emergency com mittee. He urged other cities to study the programs already worKea out Dy ew lorn, bo8-?- ton, Philadelphia, Chicago, De troit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh. Toledo, Salt Lake City, Flint, Mich.; St. Paul, Minn.; Seattle, Milwaukee and Hartford, Conn., In the belief that they might find in one of tbem the plan that would best meet local conditions. The outstanding leature of the programs he outlined was the principle that the unemployed man should be given a job in stead of merely a loaf of bread. Until the time every man com petent to work has a job there must be relief, he said, but the real problem is to find the job. lie suggested, it ougnt to be a job that really needs to be done. not one that is artifically cre ated. Col. Woods is not pessimistic about the outlook. He believes conditions are better now, taking the country as a whole, than they were in 1921 when he head ed President Harding's employ ment commission. But in spots, conditions are worse, he believes. He considers the middle western lake states, New York and Penn sylvania to be the hardest hit. He said figures furnished him in Washington showed an esti mater 3,500,000 persons out .of work. Ill STORM J! SEA SOFIA, Oct. 27 (AP) The Bulgarian royal yacht Czar Fer dinand, bringing home King Bor is and Queen Giovanna of Bul garia after their marriage last week at Assist, has been caught in a great storm In the Mediter ranean and officials here tonight were unable to communicate with the yacht. The government has telegraphed the news to the port of Piraeus, Greece. Previously messages had been received from Greece saying that storm in the eastern Mediter ranean had greatly delayed the royal yacht, which had passed through the canal of Corinth with great difficulty. Then it was reported the yacht had taken refuge near shqre. Her situation since then Is unknown. The yacht set sail from Brlnd- isl, Italy, yesterday with its roy al passengers. Highway Board Will Open Bids On State Bonds PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 27. (AP) The Oreon state highway commission will open bids on a 11,600,000 Issue of 4 per cent state of Oregon bonds at a meet ing Thursday. The bond issue is to be used to match federal funds for road construction during the year. Bandit Suspect Wounds Officer LOS ANGELES. Oct. 27 (AP) C. A. Dickey, police detective, was wounded in a duel with an al' leged burglar ho attempted to ar rest. The burglar after tiring ten shots, one of which, struck Dickey n the -fide, escaped. HIS MID QUEEN start to deal with problems of Plans UFFERING CAUSED BY LICKJF WORK Makes Appearance in East Industrial Centers, Hoover is Told WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. (AP) President Hoover was told to ny that human suffering was ap pearing In the large Industrial cen ters where the hands of willing workmen were idle in the unem- loyment crisis. After a country-wide study of the situation, Allen Burns, exec utive director of the National As sociation of Community Chests and Councils, reported to the chief executive that steps were being taken to prevent anyone freezing or starving during the rigorous winter months. Already," he told Mr. Hoover, 'there is much human suffering in large industrial centers. Through the efforts of the several govern ments and relief organizations no one is going to freeze or starve this winter." Financial programs of'220 cities having- community chests have been increased about seven per cent to care for the larger num ber of the needy, Burns -said. About $55,000,000 is to be raised, and he explained collections indi cated the campaign would be suc cessful. Burns made his report as the president's emergency committee for employment began i"s regional work of securing jobs and urging industry to assist in finding work. The war department gave im petus to the relief measures by approving the plan of the Milwau kee Electric Railway and Light company to deepen the lower reaches of Sauk river and Port Washington harbor on the west shore of Lake Michigan in Wis consin. The entire project calls for an outlay of about $25,000,000 in construction. Naval Competition Ends As London (By the Associated Press) The end of competition be tween nations in naval construc tion was foreseen yesterday by President Hoover, Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain and Premier Hamaguchl of Japan in a world wide broadcast marking tho beginning of effectiveness of the London naval treaty. The three spoke from the cap itals of the signatory powers shortly after the Instruments of ratification had been deposited in London. Asserting thafc the treaty, which tor the first time binds three major naval powers to lim itation of all types of fighting vessels, marked a step forward In International cordiality, the three spokesmen of their countries ex pressed hops France and Italy, which left the London conference after they were unable to agree upon a tonnage ratio, soon would join in signing the pact "Relinquishment of competi GREW IS TRAPPED IN MINE One Killed, Fate of 28 not Known; Explosion Blocks Mouth of Shaft at Coal Plant in Oklahoma Trained Rescue Crews are On Hand but Debris to Prevent Entry for Five or Six Hours McALESTER, Okla., Oct. 27. (AP) Twenty-eight men were trapped and one instaly killed te night by a violent eiplosion near the mouth of the Wheatley No. 4 coal mine of the Samples Coal company in North McAleeter. The dead man was William Donley. The mouth of the mine, a 6lopo pit, was blocked by debris freta the blast and rescue crews were baffled in their first attempts to reach the imprisoned men, whose fate was unknown. The cause of the explosion was a mystery. It's detonation was heard in McAlester, two miles from the scene. The entombed men were mem bers of a crew that went on duty at 7 o'clock tonight. Trained rescue crews of miners gathered at the mine soon after the explosion, but had not ben able to enter the wrecked shaft late tonight. A group of American Legion members who were called from- a relief committee meeting by news of the explosion, took charge o it side the mine and held back the anxious crowd of relatives and friends. Workers estimated it ouldbe five or six hours before thfy could clear away the wreekae' in the shaft sufficiently to enter the mire. METSCHAN ACTIVE IN CLOSING WEEK rtTRTLAND. Oct. 27 Cftrrj ing -his campaign directly to the voters, Phil Metschan, republican candidate for governor, will ro into the final week of the cam paign with a series of mass meetings which will keep Mm busy up to election day. He started the week In Baker county speaking at several com munity meetings during the day and addressing a mass meeting in the city of Baker at night. Tuesday he will campaign in Washington county. He will be in Portland ";uring the day Wednesday to visit sev eral communities, leaving in time to appear at a mass meet ing at the armory in McMinn- ville in the evening. Thursday noon he speaks before the Ki wanis club at Oregon City and then goes on to Dallas for an evening mass meeting at the courthouse. Friday evening he will be a gue9t at a precinct meeting four miles south of Newberg. going there after a day of campaigning in Tillamook county. Saturday noon he speaks before the Civie league in Portland and then goes to Hood River for an evenisg rally. ADVEXTISTS MEET OMAHA, Neb.. Oct. 27 (AP) The fall conference of the Sev enth Day Adventlst church, third Af a tertel nt mc.lln,, Viftra will open tomorrow morning with 500 delegates attending. Treaty Filed tive building among the great three naval powers with its conse quent contributions to the secur ity of the world Is the greatest significance of this treaty," Presl- ( dent Hoover said. "If the limitations now estab lished ean be maintained we may look forward with assurance to the fact that future conferences will find It easier to bring about further steps in reduction. Never again must a race in naval arma ments be allowed to develop. The treaty was described by the president as "fair to all and dan gerous to none" and substituting mutual trust, goodwill and confi dence for suspicion and competi tion. "It is my most earnest hope," Prime Minister MacDonald said, "that the negotiations which have recently been proceeding be tween France and Italy to enable i them to come into this part of , the treaty which limits naval i -strength may before long -res , - j- - .- i " . . ' -4.