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i i SESSION SERVICE mmm THE WEATHER r . ' -, i . ; Cloudy weather Sunday and Monday. Wind in south j occasional rains. Max. yes terday 44 ; mlm. 82. " A fall newt service on the coming session of the Oregon legislature will be m daily t eatare ia yonr Oregon Statesman. i .3 FOUNDJED 1831 1 EIGHTIETH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, January 11, 1931 No. 213 f a r ar a i .- rv. r i i i i v in i . i i l i i i.i I i f : , . . .,. ., '. i .;! ." , ; ; -i - '. i 1 : : ' :. ' ' 4 BALKS OJRETUiflF Senate Promptly I Places its Consideration t of Power -Men on Calendar, ; : . .. 1 Senator Wheeler Announces He'll try to Block Pay-; ing Salaries - ' .WASHINGTON. Jan. 10-(AP) President Hoover, today refused the senates request tor return of the- nominations of-three of the five:, members of the new power commission. The senate promptly Toted to replace their names on Its calen dar of unfinished business. . - Just how the "impasse is to be settled was uncertain tonight. In the eyes of the senate there Is no power commission. President HooTer gave notice the three com missioners in dispute Chairman Smith, Marcel Garsaud and Claude . L. Draper wonld carry on tinder their previous confirmation by the senate.' " - Senator" Wheeler, democrat. Montana, notified the senate af ter Mr. Hoover's message had been read that he wonld oppose any appropriation- for salaries for the three commissioners when the sup ply bill carrying these funds is taken up by the - senate. , Hoover Scores Attack j On His Own Prerogative Mr. Hoover followed his brief formal notice to the senate of de clination to return the nomina ' tions with a statement to the press asserting he was resting by his ac tion an encroachment by the leg islative upon the executive branch of the government. He also scor ed any attempt to symbolize him as "the defender, of power Inter e3ts if I refuse to sacrifice three outstanding public servants, or tor allow the senate to dictate to an administrative board, the appoint ment of its subordinates, and if I ' refuse to allow fundamental en croachment by the senate npon the constitutional independence of the executive' " 1 . i Till itatemept lUrretf, another , row in the senate where Senator Wheeler Insisted no one had ae ' Icused the president of defending the "power trust,- - "But," he added, "It would seem now by his actions today that he was attempting to protect . those who are defending the pow er Interests and punishing .those who are diligently fighting for the peoples rights.' Senator Shortridge, republican, California, heatedly retorted that "no fact exists" for accusing the president of such an attitude. " 'Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon tana, moved -that the senate in struct its executive clerk to re place the names of the three nom inees on the senate's calendar. He said toe senate in voting yester day to reconsider the nominees necessitated such action . regard less of the decision of the presi dent.! However, he said it would be "entirely futile" in view of Mr. Hoover's position In the row to seek to reject formally the nom ' lnees. Walsh's motion carried ! 5 to 2S. . ' The president in his message to the senate simply stated he had been advised that the appoint ments were constitutionally made and the consent of the senate for mally given, and that reconsidera tion by the senate would not dis turb the commissioners In their offices. . ; v-j, . ' : I "I regret that X must refuse .to s accede to the requests." he said. Hoover Think Time Improper for Discnseion In his later statement to the press, the president gave his views at greater length and- con cluded: - : "I regret that the government should be absorbed upon such questions as the action of the pow er commission in employment of two subordinate officials , at a time when the condition of the country requires every construc tive energy." : Gregory rfames Livesley to be At Social Fete -Mayor P. M. Gregory has des- lgnated t ex-Mayor r Livesley to represent the city of. Salem at the reception 'and ball to be held in compliment to Governor-elect and Mrs. Julius Meier Monday niht in the armory. ' " Mayor Gfegory gave as . his reason that Mr. Livesley -had in stigated tho plans for - the 1 ball, -appointed committees and; was v familiar with the plans s and therefore It was the new mayor's wish that ' he continue : in the scheme of things, i Further plans have been an nounced by the committee to the effect that Ferry street has-, been set apart by the council ! to re - main clear of traffic Monday night from South Commercial : streeWo-High street with the ex ception of the south side of Fer : ry between South Commercial I street and South Liberty street.; Liberty street will be closed ! after. 9 o'clock from State street to Trade In order to allow for crs of the inaugural ball guests to be parked near the armory. ; All parking and traffic will be I in charge of state and municipal ' traffic officers.- One More Day; He'll be Chief Gorei-nor-Elect JaUus L. Meier of . Portland who tomorrow after noon will take his oath of office -j m govenior f Oregon. f , 1 MEIER'S SPEECH IS Governor-Elect Taboos Putting Rest of Cere- j mony on air; The Inaugural address, of Jul ius L. Meier will be the only part of . the ; inauguration ceremonies which will be broadcast : over KEX Monday. The radiq. broad cast, which ts by remote control, using the Portland station with Its high power for broadcasting over the state, has been the sub ject of sharp controversy at the state house the past week. Effort was made to have. the radio carry the whole inaugural proceedings, but Mr. Meier, who is paying half of the $400 charge for the special wire to KEX, re fused to permit this. He is quoted s saying that he wanted nothing else to go out to the people, save his speech. Even when; it, vaj proposed that a part, of j the ex pense of the broadcast be carried by the regular fund for legislative expenses, Meier demurred. Governor Norblad's Speech To be Kept Off Air - This of course has the effect of shutting out the message1 of Gov ernor Norblad from the broadcast, and other parts of the proceedings which attend an Inaugural. ! V The question was raised wheth er Mr. Meier, who is still plain Mr. Meier, until he takes the oath of office, would be permitted to string the radio wires in the capi tol; and sharp controversy is said to have arisen, over . whether to have radio or not to have radio. (Turn 'to page 12, coL 2) T HELD OREGON HEED ' : ' f ' -j i . -w! i! I - PORTLAND. Ore., Jan.! 10 (AP) Unless Oregon will stand ardise her farm and orchard pro ducts she cannot expect to com-: pete in foreign market l! with neighboring states, speakers told a meeting of farmers, orchardists and shippers here today. ' '. The meeting was called by the state chamber of r commerce to discuss uniform standardization laws. : . George f K. Aiken; i editor; of the Ontario Argus, presided at the meeting. i I 'M; ' j.j Aiken was given power to name a committee of 15 to work out plans to have the needs of grow-: ers and shippers Drought before the state legislature. The com mittee shall consist of one editor,: one banker and 13 men engaged, in growing, packing and distribut ing Oregon products. ; ; r j j STANDARD Little Group Wavers o Loner gaii- Gordon Contest By C. A. SPRAGUE l i Only one thing is certain about the house fight over the ppeakeri ship, and that Ts that there will be enlarged, memberships of- the Ananias club, the Double Crossers club and a substantial charter list; for the Triple XXX league. Dis traught legislators have I promis ed, backed up. wavered, deserted gone back, , pledged,- repudiated crawled through loop holes and switched In most every? conceiv-T able way until it is hard to tell how long they will stay put. ; This does not apply to the ma jority of the legislature; I but t the smaller group who have had difficulty' in making up t their minds. Pressure of all kinds front every conceivable source has been employed to line up members ltd support one candidate or another. Each candidate, Frank Lonergan and Herbert : Gordon, i i : makes claims of victory. Lonergan has published his list of supporters, while Gorden has claimed all the others and some of those on Lon ergan's list. Each Camp Diligent Trrlnar to Nab Votes - The contest over the speaker chip was the absorbing I Interest at Portland Saturday where many S IM l PEN GET THE GUT . ' . 1 ' - End Chinese Tongmenl Receive Reduction of Term To 25 Yearsf Vk ' Robert Leece and James H. Anthony are Pardoned; Other Cases Wait Three commutations fof sen tence and two additional;; pardons were granted latei yesterday aft' ernoon by Governor - Norblad as one of his latest official;' acts be fore leaving office) herei ( Two of the commutations of sentence Involve Harry Chin and Suey Fong, Chinese, : who are serving life terms in the! peniten tiary for first-degree murder committed In Multnomah county. In both of these eases the sen tences were commuted to 25 years. Records here Indicate that Chin and Fong were participants In tong activities in Portland. Chin was received at the pris on April 13, 1922. and has served approximately 8 years.' j. He has been employed as a trusty most Of this time. Chin's commutation Of sentence was recommended by the state pardon board, prison of ficials, state parole board and Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, j Suey Fong was received at the penitentiary January 20, 1918 and has served 13 1 years. He also has served as 4 trusty for many years. The commutation: of sen tence in the Fong; case also was recommended by the state par don board, prison! officials, pa role board and Mr. Hoss. Linn Officials Join In Pardon Recommendation i The 15 years sentence: Imposed on Clarence Boggle was commut ed to 10 years by Governor Nor (Turn to page 12, cel. 1) SPURIOUS TICKETS FOR RACES SEIZED SAN DIEGO, CiU Jan. 10 (AP) seizure of! Agual Callente sweepstake tickets! having a face value of $350,000 and f declared to be spurious, was made today by operatives of the! district attor ney's office at two San Diego print shops. . f One of the. printers told Inves tigators that he had already de livered $50,000 worth of tickets, and District - Attorney Thomas Whelan immediately issued a warning to the public to beware of purchasing any) of the tickets. Counterfeits are (utterly worth less; the law prohibits sale of any lottery tickets. In jwbichji class he said sweepstake tickets fall. The tickets which have been delivered bear nd slmlliarity to the genuine, which are water marked with the words "Agua Callente and sell for $ 1 each, marked to sell The imitations are for $2 each, Razor, Clippers , In Big Demand For Abyssinia ADDIS ABABA, A by Mini. (AP) Wanted: razor; nd cllpK per salesmen for Abyssinia. In this dark and remote Afri can highland the! natives often can be seen shaving themselves with & piece of broken glass or a sharp Jack knife. ' The barkers use horsecllppers to shear the kinky heads of the Ethiopian tribesmen. The price ia three cents, including the tip. legislators gathered before com ing to Salem. Each eam$ was dili gent in nabbing j each; legislator who came to-townj trying not only to convert him but to jkeep him properly herded. ; "j; ' The final caucus will come Sun day night at the (Marlon; hoteL The candidates and their lieuten ants will be on hand and there will be a definite showdown. Or there may not be;! the pivotal few may bold from definite commit ment making the actual voting en Monday .the only way ibf; telling the actual result. t i ; ' Sideline observers jseem to agree that Lonergan has the bet ter chance. While his strength has been reduced , through !one cause and another from the ST claimed a few months ago; his nucleus of 30 to 12 has stayed with him according to? report of his friends. While . certain sur prise elements may come In at the last moment; such as some def inite public stand; by the new gov ernor, this seems doubtful. Gor don's chance continues ito' depend on -his ability to make? last min ute switches from the Lonergan group. T : "I ' Gordon got into Saleut " late (Turn to page 12,. o .4) DRBLAD Here's Latest Plan to Defeat 18th Amendment ' WASHINGTON. , J anl :i0. (AP) A plan under which -he said liquor 'might be manufac tured and sold without repealing the 18th amendment hinging upon the oath of each purchaser that he would not become intox icated was , ' proposed today .. by Dr. J. J. Seelman of Milwaukee, a director of ; the ' association against : the prohibition amend ment. ; ' . Seelman argued the 1 8th amendment "does not prohibit alcoholic Honors for beverage purposes when not intoxicating and that liquor Is not "Intoxicat ing .when moderately consumed. He contended Its sale therefore wonld not be Illegal It used mod erately. - - - SET FREE FROM TU1EL Hero Saves Lives by Means Of "Kid Trick"; Dares Falling Debris SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11. (AP) (Sunday) Newspaper men at Camp Mitchell, where 20 men were entrapped in the Hetch Hetchy water project tun nel 800. feet under ground by a cave-in late Friday, reported five men had "been taken from the workings shortly after mid night, and that the others were expected at the surface within 'a few minutes. The Chronicle an nounced all the workers had been rescued. OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 10. (AP) Through an opening too small . to accom-nodate his com panions one of the 20 men Im prisoned In Camp Mitchell tun nel crawled to safety tonight. The other 19 were safe and could be . tauched by rescuers. Hope of getting all the men out immediately led to the erron eous report that the 20 were freed. " . 1 N After Oscar Nelson, smallest member of the trapped crew crawled 12trough, another tried to follow through the small opening, but failed. Some obstacle, which the res cuers could not cut through, ne cessitated a detour of the four foot rescue tunnel and delayed releasing the other 19 who had been imprisoned more than 24 hours tonight. "Kid Trick" may Save Men's Lives The men, part of a crew dig ging a tunnel for San Francls (Turn to page 12, col. 4) ' ' Whipping Post Again Used For Cure of Crime ; .1' i WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 10. (AP) While some states en act ever-stricted laws as deter rents to crime, Delaware retains an institution which goes hack to her own beginnings the whip ping posL- A cat-o'-nine-talls laid on the bare back carefully, so as not to break the skin humiliates a criminal, makes him low caste In his own society and keeps him out of Delaware, lawmakers of the state believe. Just a week ago five men con victed of larceny were marched out into the courtyard of Newcas tle county courthouse and public ly whipped in accordance with the law and the sentence of the court. Columbia River Shipments Reach Highest Record PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10. (AP) Columbia liver lumber and log shipments to Atlantic and gulf ports during 1930 measured 400 1C5,45S feet, a new high mark, the Merchants Exchange yearly summary revealed today. ; The 1929 movement to these lo calities was 350,841.062 feet. The combined offshort and do mestic lumber exports during 1930 was 1,263,854.928 feet, against; 1,543,601,697 feet In 1929."! .; Wheat exported from the Col umbia river in all trades during the first half of the 1930-31 cer eal year showed an Increase of 529,362 bushels over the corres ponding period of the 1929-30 season, the exchange reported; Flour exports showed a decrease of about 125,000 barrels. 7 8 SKATERS DIE t SUPERIOR, Wls.t: Jan. 10. (AP) Three children; were drowned today when they crash ed through lee while skating on Allones bay. They are Doris Mur ray, If, her brother John, 14, and Claire x Roding, 14. ; Mrs. Cecil Murry, mother of two of the child ren, skating close behind, made futile atemptsi to reach them. GOLFER, 15, TS SEMI-FINALS MIAMI. Fla., Jan. 10. (AP) Win - Day, 15-year-old golfing sharpshooter from Chicago, putt ed his way to a. sensational recov ery for a one-up victory over Jim West, defending champion at At lanta : and Miami, in semi-final matches of the' Miami mind-winter amateur golf tournament to day. mm ME! SLAVERY HELD EXISTENT HOW IH OLD AFRICA Liberia,; Supposedly Free, Show in Pititul state By Commission j ! Relatives and Women Given As Pawns to Secure j Indebtedness " WASHINGTON. Jan. 10 (AP) Liberia, founded as a. refuge for freed men upon whom the scars of bondage still were seen, was pictured to the world today as a nation in which slavery Is Impos ed by whip and chains. Piteous anneals from Ignorant black natives ran: through the pages of a report of an investiga tion commission sent; there at the request , of the state department. The department made the report public tonight, i j i The commission; consisted of Cuthbert Christy; chairman, ap pointed by the league of nations; Charles Spurgeon Johnson, ap pointed by the United States, and Arthur Barclay, appointed by Lib eria. The commission recommended radical changes in various govern ment Institutions to bring to an end the conditions.; ' ' Severe pressure has been brought to bear by the United States . upon Liberia to meet the commission's recommendations, bat so far the department consid ers the steps taken inappropriate and inadequate. : Llberlan Leader Resign ' When Action is Demanded President. King and Vice-President Yancy, both Of whom were mentioned in the testimony, re signed early In iDecember when the state department first lnsist (Turn to page 12, col. 4 ) 84-Year Old Man Found Late, Night Riding His Bike There are endurance contests and endurance records, hut' Sa lem police V louhd what' 1 they thought , a r unique : example 1 near midnight, Friday. An unknown old man of 84 years was discover ed by the south prowler toi lack lights on his bicycle. When the officers inquired as to where he was from and what he was doing the old man declared that he was just taking a ride.? ! . It was learned that he had trav eled the whole distance from Al bany, 24 miles away, without lights or accident with motor ve hicles, much to the surprise f the officers, is the report. ' ' Radio listeners say that radio stations of Portland reported the old man's disappearance earlier In the evening. The bicyclist thought h was .till inside Albanv's' city limits and was somewhat confus ed. He was sent back home. Col gates Bring Injunction Suit Against? Rinso 99 HAMM.OND, InL. Jan. 10 (AP) The Colgate-Palmollve- Peet Co. filed suit in federal court today against the Lever Brothers Soap company, that it be restrain ed from the manufacture of "Rln so," a soap-flake preparation. The Colgate company likewise demanded monetary damages, saying It had, long held patent and manufacturing rights of a product similar! tor "Rinso. In fringement of patent was charged and the court was asked for an, accounting and! payment of "all unlawful . gains' profits and ad vantages. ' I jr . ' , ,!. BUSINESS HELD . BETTER" : NEW YORK. Jan. 10. (AP) CoL Walter J. Crafts of the national headquarters - of the volunteers of America ' said to day the economic situation in the United States seemed to be improving. : The j increase In available work ( in the motor In dustry, on the railroads and In public improvements he believed to be the chief, contributing fac tor. :'i l ' Special Line To Store fo Serve Meier l Governor-elect -Julius Meier Is having a private telephone line built from Salem to the Meier and Frank store la Portland. The ar rangement Is such; that when the receiver in the governors office Is taken down the call goes directly to the p.b.r. board in the store, with no Intervention of either Sa lem or Portland operators. The got ernoreieet was so anx ious to have this line complete when he assumed office that tele phone workmen were Instructed to install the, j special telephone just behind the desk In the gover nor's office this week..-; , , Governor I Norhfad . declared, however, that the installation work. would be "a ! disturbance in his. office, so the telephone will be Installed next week.' Salem Ready as Host For 36th Session of State's Egislctfure AH Details Worked out for Opening Sessions r ! - Tomorrow; Inaugural Expected i i " Jn Afternoon ' Salem awakens this morning; with the knowledge that tomorrow begins her biennial 40-day entertainment of Ore gon's legislative assembly. ( i From, all parts of the state, .autos and trains were bringing: the I delegates to the! 36th ! session of the Oregon legislature which bids fair to make history. . ' ; '; ., . ED; TO INSTALL MEIER Judge, McMahan Though! Choice to Give Oath To nevv Chief That no Justice of the supreme court will be invited to adminis ter the oath of office to Governor elect Julius I Meier, but that a circuit Judge would officiate was a report at the state house Sat urday. From time immemorial the oath has been administered by the ) chief Justice. Chief Justice Bean last night stated that he had. not been requested to officiate. The Statesman was unable to ver ify the report. The further elaboration of the stery Is that Mr. Meier carries his feeling against the supreme court because of the action of the court in the disbarment proceedings against the late George W. Jo seph. It was when the three cir cuit Judges named as referees by the i supreme . court returned a finding recommending his per manent disbarment that Joseph announced his candidacy for the governorship on a platform .the initial plank of which was "free dom of speech. '" In his primary campaign Jo seph refrained from openly at tacking the supreme court. When Meier became a candidate follow ing Joseph's death he espoused the same platform as his late associate.-.- . , . ' La.t Saturday 'night, a report was obtained i that Judge It. H. McMahan would swear Meier in. McMahan could not be reached to confirm or deny the 1 report which' came through a I friend close to McMahan. Meier and McMahan conferred here earlier In the week and It is known that McMahan was an ardent advocate of Joseph. All the facts Indicated that Judge McMahan would be the first - circuit court Jurist to swear in a chief executive of Ore .1 gon, i Friendly Boxing Brings Death to Portland Youth PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10 (AP) David. William Smith. 28. of Portland, died here early this morning from over-exertion in a friendly boxing match. The coroner s office reported Smith was a guest at the H. F. Miller home. After dinner Smith and Wayne O'Dell, 21. went to the basement to box. Smith pres ently reported he could not see and seemed about to faint. He was put to bed and medical aid was summoned but he failed to rally. .: .i. , . ' No Inquest will be held, the coroner said. - : Mother of Dead 10-Year Old, is Given Life Term DENVER, Jan. 10. (AP) Pearl " OXaughlln. tltian haired stepmother of Leona O'Laughlin. Iain 10-yar-old child, today was denied new trial on a charge or murdering the girl by Judge Uen- leya Calvert. Formal sentence of life imprisonment was passed. The woman's only comment was: "I can still say I am Innocent. OIL CLAIMS REJECTED TULSA. Okla., Jan. 10 (AP) - Numerous heirs to Ullie Eagle; Creek Indian woman who died 2S years ago, have no legal claim to the I2S.O0O.00O worth of oil lands, according to the rulings of Judge Franklin ICennamer which upheld the findings ef John Me serve, special master in the liti gation, x j... .- ' ) ' ' ...rT' " v : ' - . i . - i STANFORD FTVE LOSES j, LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 (AP) The1 University of Cali fornia, at Los Angeles, basket ball five defeated Stanford uni versity 28 to 26 here tonight The score waa tied 20 all with 30 seconds to play when Liathi cum. Bruin; center, tossed in the winning goal. . - ' ;: . . '. : 5 -. : p. DR. HIBBEN TO RESIGX PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 10. (AP) Dr. John Grier Hlbben an nounced tonight he would resign as president of Princeton univer sity at the end of the present aca demic year.; Dr. Hlbben. in a for mal statement, added there have been no discussions by the hoard of trustees of his successor. JOT UNIT 4 ;Never has the question ef util- Ittyj . control . and state ,v develop- meht of water power been so clearly r outlined as an Issue by the people and with the leader ship of incoming Governor Mei er.! extensive legislation on the subject is expected i In preparation for the session. both the senate chamber and hoase j of representatives have been renovated. The committee rooms J have been put in ; order. and sqpplles have been assem bled and placed on the desks of the legislators. All that now re mains to get the legislative ma chinery in action is for the offi cers, .of the two bouses to call the members to order and or ganize for the transaction of business that is to follow. Hoasee Expected to be Organized at 11 a. m. In event the practice of pre vious legislative, sessions is fol lowed the two -houses will be called into action shortly after 1 If o'clock Monday morning, with temporary officers presid ium to page 12, coL S) PIHOID' FLIGHT i .... - Tl 2045 Miles , to be Covered I In i Single hop; Fine i I Weather is had ! HAMILTON," Bermuda, Jan. 10 (AP) Mrs, Beryl Hart and Lieut. William 8. "MacLaren, American aviators.headed , east ward for the Azores today In their Bellanca monoplsne on the second leg; of a commercial flight to par ish . , - - - ---t They carried a load of more than three' tons. Including , 300 gallons of gasoline, 20 gallons of oil and 250 pounds of varied-cargo, the ifirst ever carried In an ocean Jump of such magnitude. PUne Forced to Taxi , - For MUe to Get In Air The start was made at 1Z:16 p.m., local time ' (11:18 ' a.m. EST), i Weather conditions were excellent although the roughness of j the harbor waters forced) the plane totaxl for nearly a mile be fore it got up in the air. The filers expected to take about 21 hours for the flight to the Azores, arriving there jgbOut 8:15 a.m. (EST) Sunday. The distance tor the hop, the longest in their Journed toward Paris is 2.045 miles. . t i White - clad : Bermudans and winter visitors, Including many Americans, lined the harbor quays and cheered wildly as the machine skimmed the harbor waters and then mounted In the air to disap pear a few minutes later in the haze to the eastward. I ! MOORE HANDLES PROBE MEDFORD, i Ore., Jan. 10 CAP) The special grand Jury impaneled to Investigate the al leged slaying of Everett Dahack, Eagle Point, began Its work to day. Five witnesses were hear. ; ;The Jury was called a the re quest of Governor A. W. Nor blad. Willis W. Moore, assistant attorney general. Is conducting the Investigation. BtO LLOYD JOB STARTS , PORTLAND, Or., Jan. lO. j (AP) Contractors for the i construction, of a 93,000,000 j hotel; In Portland, were award : ;ed today by ! Ralph - R. Lloyd, ; of Los Angeles, to L. II. Hoff man. Portland, and W. S. Dln- wlddie, San Francisco. I Construction of the hotel: ; will begin aa moon '. as Loe Aih I gelea archltecta ran complete I the plana, Lloyd's announce I ment said, i ' ' H The hotel wfll be s 17 story structure wltht a three story crown. , j i . ...... i . - , 1 WARWICK FAST IN MUD PORTLAND. Ore , Jan. 10. ONWAY n r ii-' i CAP) Radio i experts from the Union oil tanker Warwick to the marine editor j of the Oregonian tonight, said the Warwick was still fast ln the mud about 20 miles downstream from, - Portland.- . ! (The tanker! grounded Friday morning while Inbound from, San Francisco. Company officials here last night said' they were in formed part . of her cargo had been transferred' to a barge and she had freed herself, MUCH BUILDING PLANNED r ASTORIA, i Ore Jan. 10. ; (AP) Clatsop county build- HI - - ' ' . . .. .'. . ' '' . ' . HUNDREDS DIE AS BAB STORD SWEEPS CHIu Peiping Police Gather up . Bodies of Victims of Terrible Blizzard Vast Area South to Yanstcs Valley Buried Under,: -- Deepening Snows. . . ii : 1 SHANGHAI.' Jan. 10 (AP Sweeping down out of the barren steppes of Mongolia a blizzard that started Thursday had brought death and desolation to a wide area of north China to day. .... I . Hundreds are reported to bare died in the dust and snow storm that raged southward as far I as the Yangtse river. Temperature suddenly dropped 40 degrees j to an. average of 15 below over the region most affected. Misery and suffering came to thousands ! ef the poorer people in the stoma's path. . . . : Pelplng police today gathered from the streets the bodies of 100 persons who perished in the last 24 hours. In outlying dis tricts, IS morei bodies -were found. Penniless, these victims were unable to buy, fuel, i Salvation Army Sets , Up 1 Its Gruel Kitchens I Twenty froze to death in Tien tsin. In both Pieplng and Tientsin the Salvation Army and Chinese organizations set up gruel kitch ens which helped. They also built temporaryj shelters for many. The vast area from Pelp lng . southward to the Taagtse valley, a stretch ; of a thousand miles, is burled beneath a heavy snow. !,'!. I ; Yangtse river cities reported many deaths and intense suffer ing. In Shanghai tonight the mercury was down to zero, the coldest in years.' Snow was fall ing intermittently. Railway traf fic Is completely stalled in many places. With wires crippled er prostrated by the storm, tne number of dead can not be as certained, but it, it believed to run !far into the hundreds. North China is mostly a pla ns country. Always cold In the win ter, but not usually! bitter cold. Toward the east, river, the sea and the more irregular terrain, modify the climate somewhat. : , The people are , mostly peas ants,; many of them always poor and particularly so now because of the recent civil war and gen eral depression. I 4 Fatalities in j Oregon Industry During 7 Days There were four fatalities in Ore gon due to Industrial accidents during the week ending January 8, according to a report prepared here Saturday by the state indus trial accident commission. j The victims were William East berg. Tillamook, bucker; Harry Rucker, Llnnton, driver; Toss Cosgrove, Portland, carpenter, and J. Y. Tate, Burns, lumber tal ler. i . , There were a total of 508 acci dents reported to the commission during the week. 1 Special Jury at Work Bis Hotel job is let Oil Ship Stin Stuck Clatsop to be Active ing activities are looking wp for the coming yearjj - . Ia Astoria; the new: Sc. Mary's hospital, to cost $23eV 000, Is under construction; - -a 920.0OO addition to the Pres- ' . byterlam chcrch ' will start soon; sad a S250.000 post mt fice building Is expected to be under way here by Blay 1. The Co-operative cannery In , Warrenton plans a 920,000 ad dltlon and 830,000 re to be spent by the state at Camp Clatsop. The Rradlcj-Weod-ard Lumber company is build ing a new mill at Clifton.' ; " FELONY SELDOM TO JURT EUGENE,, Ore., Jan. 10 (AP) A crime survey of Multnomah county. Just completed by Wayne L. Morse, University of Orec-on professor of law, and Ronald II. Seattle, research fellow, says only one out of every 24 felony -eases was decided by Jury trial during 1928 and 129. ,' SO CARS TIES NEEDED ! PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10. AP) Oeorge K. Milln-, vice-president of the Coast Fir and Cedar Products company, said 'today his firm expected a contract for SO carloads of tb-s for 1 railroad construction la connection with the Boulder Dam project, . I Order for the ties, he said, will be distributed among Willamette valley sawmill. The contract has not been awarded formally but the Outs Fir and Cedar Product com pany was low bidder and U Is expected the contract will be awarded next week. It amounts to 1,200,000 feet. - -i t "iii ;I:t-