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. ' . v . - .. - , .. v. ;- r - ;t.: , ., .-, v :--.V..-.- '. t .. : ;V . : ' ., .: ' -.."' ' : : ; . . . THE WEATHER . Fair today -and Wrtinea- '. day but with much low rlouda and for: Ma. Temp. Monday CO, Mt. SI, rirer a fet; clear, no rain. SERVICE I "i All statesmait carriers are little merchant;, you are patronizing' one ill your., neighborhood jwhen you v take Tho Statesman. No. 268 EIGHTIETH YEAR i i - - . i . tiaiem, uregon, xuesaay niornui, jreuujr i 1 - - , " .... "" ! " i ' ! PRAHIRITIIlf 'S Ue,rn,,oe f FfiCF n AKF MifHi FRIENDS IP, ROCKS NAPIER nv Tunuc unc y . V I uqiv mnav 3mP , II I ' 1 Illlll.llllUll.rt III III 1 1 I 1 I II 111 I I v i ' L 4. -- llllllllllll U LI L.: 1 1 ) I aM 1 1 W h I Stand of two Legislators From This County is - Protested i Armory Filled to Capacity and Overflow urowa. ; Meets at Church Resolatlom protesting Marion county legislators' Totei on-the Manninc. prohibition referendum amendment last week, and prais ing prohibition as beneficial to the "moral and econoniie Inter ests of enr nation" wete passed Sunday night by an (audience numbered about 2500 people in a city-wide church rally on the occasion of the 13th annirersary of national prohibition. ! "We pledge our support to public officials, federal, state. county and city, who ate trying honestly and Intelligently to en force onr laws." read the resolu tions. "We shall glTe burs el Tea with new deyotlon to a campaign of education that the generation now coming to maturity under prohibition may know the back Ground of facts against which to SiTpSt temptsby in- terested parties to discredit pro hibition by a propoganda of lies." : I , The resolutions - expressed ap preciation to Leo McAllister, "our one representative to op pose this move" to submit the .rni,ihitlnn amendments! to the tate constitution to a Vote. The resolutions committee consistea of B. B ' Parker D. JL riqwe. Elirabeth Gallaher, Hugh Fouke, Jr.. C. A. Kells. Overflow Crowd la Acrommodated The meeting was addressea Dy former Justice Oliver P.jCoshow. Preceding the Judge's (remarks, mass singing : was led iby ; Rev. Earl Cochran. Several ' special vocal numbers were given. The armory was packed at 7 o'clock, a half hour before the formal nrnmm began.- if overflow meeting was held in the! Calvary I Baptist chuTcn. i : 'The problem of Uw ; enforce ment and of the prohibition amendment lis complex and dlffl- it aald the former justice in opening his address, i "t remind toii that we have had a I conflict between the right and wrong of the evils of liquor since j tne oe rlnnlnr of time. In 5 our rown ontrr- the whiskey insurrec tion In the '90's, after the- for mation of the union, wa$ one of th moat vexlnr nroblems eon- fronting the new government. Yet in the move a century or more later for absolute national prohibition, many of the I patrons of the saloon Joined wjith the temnersnee neoole to put that Institution out of business. Th, nVr declared it would I be a mistake for the- Irlenas 01 " V - j- I (Turn to page 2. 4) : ! :: FIRST DAY FIGURE IS Li Registration In 1 the Salem ntxvnla fni tha first dSV of the Dvuw.a v. . " " i . spring semester was short ot tne figure for the same perioa m 1930, when ngures were com piled Monday, in me; . graae schools. 2121 pupils - registered vesterdav as compared toi215S a year ago and In the Junior highs and senior mgn tne . proponum seemed to run a little I nearer rn: At the senior hlxh 112$ pupils rere in actual attendance, while cars of at least 40 more students who will return today or! tomor mv vera held, bringing the to tal to about 1170. At the Jun inr, hi.h, S8S had enrolled at Leslie yesterday and 871. at Far riah. Rezlstration f or - the ! grade schools yesterday follows: Gar fiid. 2xi: McKinler. 181: Lin coin. 185: Grant' 260; High land, 293; Park, 214; Washing ton. 207; Richmond, 215; and Enslewood. 335. There were 11 beginners at Englewood. ; .11 Regular class schedule in uiar Class scueuuw hools will he resumed to- m-- a . i,.h.. been given over In the high and Junior highs to purchase of text - hooka : . SCHOOL DINER The Legislative Calendar. SENATE YESTERDAY Repealed law providing for certificate ot conven ience and necessity for all utilities. . I . Bill to ' introduce indus trial accident commission and replacement by a com missioner, one of 13 Intro duced. ..' ' ".:- , ..j ; HOUSE YESTERDAx . Fifty - two new measures Introduced in house,' one calling tor tax supervising and conservation' commis sion. . -. I Governor Meier tells press his public utilities- measure conforms with his platform. Committee of 11 named to confer with Washington J V Janet 'BrlgK (above) of Santa - Anna. California, is the only sjlri to take courte In mining englneerlnir at Stanford mnlver iltr. President lloow's Alma Mater. Sh la a senior, has Phi -Beta Kappa scholastic re cord, and is a licensed pilot. She. plans to go to China In Marcn to take up her duties In an Eng lish ; engineering project. EvilS and Dangers Told by Mrs. Honey man at Meet i Of Garden Club : j ! . According to a recent state ment made by John av. K.eiiy. Oregon has the leadership of all the states of the ? Facinc nonn- west la beautirui nignways sana In tho up-keep of its highways, said Mrs. Jessie Honeyman, state chairman of the roadside plant ing committee of the state feder ation of garden clubs, at the Monday night meeting or tne 6a lem Garden club in which the moot question of ,4bIllboards on the public highways" was under tire. 1 . ""j In the audience were repre sentatives from the highway commission, the forestry depart ment of the state. Mrs. 4, ,s. randera of : Moamoutn, sutie president of the federation or garden clubs; airs, iiemea row- ler. chairman of roaasiae ana billboard committee ijine roTV (Turn to page z, cou t CLIICDK! OF BNiK KLAMATH FALLS, JOre., Feb. z-MAPJ Sheriff Lloyd Low an nounce today J. C. Nichols, casn- ier of i the Chlloquin siaie oana, and D. B. Stout, manager of the nrornn Woolen Mills ! store at rvnn!Ti had rnnfessed to the w o . v"4 S3000 State bank roooery lasi Friday. ' Nichols had toia omcers urday an unmasked oanait naa forced! him Into the bank vault from which he later was reieaseu by Stout. i Authorities are seeking two other men, whose names were not announced, who were oeiievea im plicated in the robbery.' j The alleged coniession Dy !.- A auvvu ,w MMA M.?a In tho rtFOKAnra Al V19 fV A3 UiaUV tts y himself and V. G. Klock. local re- " f-& a. utuig . . . BILLBOARD ISSUE ; DISCUSSED HERE bill ROBBERY resentative of the Burns Detec-lkept tjTe agency, Low said r-.U Z 1713 LteeCtl IS V i , - ; ajfl OCllO T . f"V r III XT ZfiP'erJf? ! O Julia ; Creech. Salem . high school graduate, now j i-ttenaing University ot Oregonj was j re ported late last nignt senouiy 111 at Eugene. Her parents, :Mr. and Mrs. T. W. creecn. South; 14th street, and brother. John, i left for Eugene! to do ai her bedside-last night.! mm t She was said to do suiierina from an acute attack of appendi citis, i Her condition was report ed to be critical. j . ' waivr anwa Y aTattTC WnnWB. CJ Feb. 2- 1 api .Vancouver went back! m- : i v v v -mr - w - - w- , m I - - t 7 . .. .in, to first place in the Facific coast iniv iMrn bv trouncing ron- land 5 to 1 here tonight. Tn.loaa lleft Portland in last place lnthe uree-ietm circuiu legislature committee on Columbia river fishing regu lation. .. , ; . . h -. SENATE TODAY;' TTparlnrs tonight on free- textbooks and tunnel hill, j Hydro-electric bill hearing postponed ontU Wednesday. Third reaamg nouso i 42 and 20. ;;.-; ) :':;:d ! HOUSE TODAY - Rogue river closing mil up for debate and vote. j Third reading house bill. 2, 21, 22; 26. 28, 1. it. $3,! 100; 104. - . ! , , j -Third reading house Joint memorial 7. ! - " i Third reading senat; bills 33. 38, J. 44, 47, 19. t. I Loss of Life Believed to Be Great but Figures Are not Reported Stone .Buildings air Down, Fires Raging; Meagre News Telephoned- -WELLINGTON. N- Z.t Feb. mm Tuesday) earthquake a .city of th'e wegt coast of Nortn Island t 8:51 o'clock this morning caused reports of a great loss of life. Messages broadcast by his majesty's sloop Veronica said that a great toll was feared and that some deaths were . certain, although It gave no figures. - The ship's messages added' that nearly every stone building in the town was destroyed and that tires were raging in the cen ter of the city. A man who witnessed the quake In 'Napier rushed to Dan- neTirke. an inland town about 70 miles southwest of the stricken j city, and telephoned to Welling- 4 !.. .v . i- nr. ).. i been considerable. if - casualties in the town, which looked as If It had undergone ,a i k -I great bombardment. All the large buildings In the center of the 'town were razed and the postoffice was largely in ruins. OF FORD SAID FAILURE DETROIT. Feb. z. (AP) A "gigantic gamble." with the stakes so great as to be difficult of com prehension was the characteriza tion in many quarters when Henry .Ford announced In 1927 that he intended to establish a huge rub ber plantation la the Amazon val ley of BrazlL Reports that the project In which Ford already has-Invested many millions 01 aoiiars was about to be abandoned brought neither denial nor confirmation from authorised spokesmen at the Ford offices here toflay. Although the project had been praised' in many quarters as an undertaking that would bring to the Amazon valley a civilization ri valing that of the great Mississip pi valley In North America, it aiso came In for criticism. The terms of the grant that gave to Ford some 4.000.000 acres of land on the Piquatuba plateau, state of Para, were criticized by some Brazilian newspapers. Senator Brown Painfully 111; Misses Session Sam Brown of Gervais, senior Marion county senator, was un able to attend legislative sessions i - . a a I VAflterdfiY DPCaUSe Of a PainiUI at- I - " r . f tack of sciatic rneumatism wiucu I . A. Ufa V M aa Cm Sm Ann A him to nis nea ai nxs nomo, . . , , - When he will be able to return to take part in the legislature is uncertain. The first attack came upon, the weiK known legislator saturaay evening and he has been confined I to oea since awuius . - received from Gervais last night to oea since. Accurals i I . .vi. tn Mtnrn tn the sessions here within a day or two." However, a member of his family stated he might not bo able to do so for tome time. Three Sailing -North Pacific In Small Boat ALAMEDA, Cal., Feb. (API Two men and a oman ire sailing for Alaska in ahome i p s..& i. vw . m i "nasun mA 45.foot boat on a "health cruise" friends revealed here to day. " , : 5 ' The trio Is Mr. and Mrs. Hen rlk Henrlksen and 5 Ed Marks. They left here Friday and expect to reach Ketchikan, Alaska, a vef -v. nhtr .hft wtT-ntTl t;o years ago. buUt hi. own craftiand powered It with a Diesel engine. It is christened Saga. Third of Depew Estate Goes to : Yale University NEW YORK, Feb. 2. (AP) One-third ot the estate of Chaun cey. M. Depew, Jr., . goes to - Yale university under terms ot his will filed fpprSbate today. ; ; iUtfder tha wHl, Yale will re ceive more than $1,000,000 hut the exact amount has sot been de termined. This will bo in addition t si us. ADO left to the unl- t nia th will of tha elder rpew. : " GAMBLE Dads anal Draught Relief Aldermen Take Sides, To Wire Congress, t I As Seems fTlHE city council hurried through a small amount wrou- I jm.. u...rnA.a 1niimA Yrr Q n't&ftrlc lant nieht .but not until Aldermen. Dancy, Vandevort, nugnes ana ruxyine had expressed themselves on and TpVmf finhiilrl tw done about "Whenever a poor mari fights he butts his head against rOa stona walL I fa useless," said www DULY FRIGHTHJED Couldn't Have Missed That Shadow, in Salem for Sun did his Best Not content.klike humair mor- tals sometimes are. to leave well enough alone, the groundhog nt i a-scontlnir yesterday. And, much to some mortals chagrin, ne saw - fnis snaaow. in iract. if ne naa lasen a no- Ulon to be bold and W out or minutes, he would have been able iio gase iyn "a I AeToutlr. For; the sun, as If in defiance to the traditional O. H.. shone and shone. And who's going to think that the ground hog will change the course of the! extra-balmy ; days that Salem Is enjoying In the dead of winter? NEW YORK,' Feb. 2 (AP,) -The marmota monax to give it Its official name waddled forth today, put on Its spectacles, look ed around for its shadow, and rawloi hack- into its hole. whether or not he saw it, and whether or not it makes any dif ference, depends on where you sit. cy night fall he was back in his bole asleep. The marmota mon-m-m ta n nt the sleeolest mem bers of the anlmaHrtngdom. Th little creature! he i measures about 18 inches in length, as ev rrbodv knows, and like other marmota is a burrower - sleeps mutt all winter. At any rate,: me marmout uuu sx emerged. It is an old mar mot monaxlan; custom, cherished In the countryside and respected by the sophisticates ot tne pave ments, who never taw a marmota monax in their lives, and never want to. I . : - Groundhog, ; woodchuck, mar mota monax call it what you will spent only a short time in the open today, according to com paratively reliable statistics col lected from hither and yon. 1 ' COAST GETS SHARE OF INI BUILDINGS SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2 (AP) Near three million dol lars worth of public "building funds were allocated to three Pa I a,u.sM T I Matiti mtnt&m ttAa tnV SAOTA- I Willi j - tary Mellon's report to congress I . a ant. A on national construction The to tal was $2,935,000 virtually an for nost offices. Twelve ( projects in California were allotted tho greatest lump J Btate-$2.475,000.-r Three Ore-1 rninr to anv one Facmc coast Tro1eets drew $315,000 ana two Washington state postoffices wm-a awarded S145.0OO0. ' Idaho drew $130,000 for build ings at Weiser and Focateu.o. The three Oregon projects are at Marshfleld. i $140,000: Oregon rMtv. 1 115.000 and St. Johns. . tec nan Pasco's new postoffice will cost-$5.000 and that at-Colfax $80,000. River's Lowest In Many Years Says W. Gerth ' While nV oredlctlons are made for the forthcoming two months, waiter Gerth. i who for the past 25 rears has held a pilot's li cense for the I Willamette river. doeTsaV that within the scope of hi. memory the river ha. never been so continuously ,iow as it has been during the past winter months The aeven foot level has been reached twice this winter, the water then receding as quickly as it ; ma- in cruising along river between here and Independence Mr. ' Gerth state, there te much evidence" from growth on the bottom , ot the stream that It ha. fni ainrrfsh and low for many months, i - l i . PlIIUF HALE DIESV ; BOSTON, Feb. 2- ( AP ) Phll- Id L. Hale. 8 artist and art cTU 1c, died in a hospital loaay. was the son of Edward Everett I Hale, who wrote -"The nan I Without A Country. Consider fro blems Then Authorize Mayor Urging Such aid u : Feasible . . the matter or drought reneii it. Mr. Vandevort, in protesting against .sending telegrams to Ore-1 gon's Washington representatives, urging action in benair 01 me un- emnloved and needy. - "it's just wast of money. - Don't mo that communication , asking for help. Throw if In the wast basket."! v Vandevort' s remarks ! followed the reading of a letter ! from the People's Lobby, national organiza tion headed by John Dewey, with Benjamin B. Marsh executive sec retary. Alderman Hughes, who sits next to Vandevort In council the cham bers; hurried to reply. Condition Serious, , Hushes Declares "It's a deplorable condition we face in the middle west,' said the alderman. "Here in the west we don't realize how bad It 4s. I think we are .parsimonious not to send this message. Congress has too much wheat on its hands with (Turn to page 2. coL 2) j i L STILL ON DISABLED While endorsing the principle of immediate .-cash payment ot adjusted service certificates to veterans, the national jexecutlve committee of the American Le gion, in session last week at In dianapolis, Ind., went on record as one man to continue the Le gion's legislative emphasis on the disabled veteran, his depen dents, widows and war orphans. That. In substance, is the re- port-4t VU ..MaeKanilo pt Salenv national -. committeeman from Oregon, who returned late last week from tho session at In dianapolis. ; The national committee, while not opposed to legislation which would ask ' for this immediate bonus, does not favor any action of the Legion seeking such legis lation. . This action, MacKenne explained, is entirely: t keep from sidestepping the program or the disabled. 1 V - Mackenzie savs the concensus of opinion- on business condition over ' the country developed, at the session pointed strongly to ward optimism, and that In the Industrial section leaaers saia thra was renewed- signs of life. Conditions should be. according to present Indications, marxeaiy btter at the end 01 ineyear. the delegates from all parts ot the county said, with things ma terially better than three or iour months ago.- L MaeKenzie traveled east over the Union Pacific and back over the Union P facinc ana oaca the Great Northern, and tner route was evidence, he said, weatner con ditions in the .east are Weal; for this time oi year. i Workless Men Present Pit fas OREGON CITY, Ore., Feb. 2. (AP) Sixty-four unempioyeo men from the Mllwauklo district Hed on the county coun waay asking j that the county proT work for them. They presented a petition signed by 83 unempioyeu persons. ' ; . The court wssurea - in some plan would be worked out to help them. i L ' Day in Washington , ' (By the Associated Press) ' Senators Borah- and Cara way i assailed opponent, of f 25,000,000 . relief proposaL Secretary Adams announc ed court martial of S medley D. Butler would be held at. Philadelphia on February" Charles E. Mitchell, New York financier, opposed bond issue to cash veteran, compensation certlfi e a t e . and strged repeal of capital, gains tax. , - Senate voted down pro posal to give .Washington phjsiicans unlimited author ity to issue llqnor prescript tlons. . ' ;" House passed Wagner ad vance planning bill. ' Supreme court recessed nntil Februanr 25, after handing; down -several de cisions. Senate committee approv ed administration proposal to increase by $100,000,000 the public building program. President Hoover asked congress for 53,742,0S9 to cover defjeiency awpple mental expenditures in pre. ent fiscal year. Bed Cross drought relief fnnd passed $3,000,000 mark. : 6 EMPHASS ALL PREFERRED STOCK GALLED BY 1LES FIRM I Capital Reduced to Common Stock- of $200,000; lift Dlfl " uonipctny Manes uunsisicni; Earning Record Over Last few Months The Miles Linen Mill company will call all of Its preferred stock consisting of-a i $0,000 of eight percent cumulative issue 5 made four years ago, as of February 2IY 1931,V according to announce ment made by mill officials here yesterday. Payment will be at the par value of the stock, as pro vided in each certificate. . ; With the retirement of the pre ferred stock, the Miles Linen company, 'control of which was acquired by the Barbour I Flax Spinning ' company of Pateraon, N. J.. a year ago, will have only common stock outstanding to the extent of $290,000. There! Is no bond issue and no other prefer red stock Issue, than the oae-be ing called.; Announcement Forth comlne Today - Call for the stock will be re ceived . locally today by I each stockholder; In a letter sent out in blocks of $500 or urger Since the purchase of control Of the mill a year ago by the Bar bour Interests, a consistent! earn ing record : has been noticeable, following a similar record for the immediate months proceeding the Barbour purchase. Last July a fOur per cent dividend was paid on the common stock but One is not looked for this winter, due to the fact that earnings will be used to retire the preferred stock. The latter has paid) divi dends since the sale of the secur ity, officials of the company said yesterday. WHEAT SURPLUS IS BLAMED OH OREGOil PORTLAND. ; Ore.. Feb. . 2 (AP)- Oregon, .Washington and Idaho produce a burdehsotn surplus" of wheat, in the j opin ion of George 8.' MHner, presi dent ot the grain stabilization corporation.-:. '' -I" Milner, together with . u. E. Huff, president of the Farmers' national grain corporation; was in Portland today to confer-with representatives of the organiza tions.. - 'I :- Milner said Pacific northwest grain growers are the least af fected by present economic con ditions ot any group but that they face greater problem, tha any similar group in the country. Two possible solution, to north west grain growers' difficulties were seen by Milner: one was to 1 decrease production of wheat and LJ othex to find a new use for it. u. ..! if ,nln -rowers would He salt, If grain raiaa . i ore bogs and feed their wheat t ey would be able to real ize a ac greater profit. - j fQrnp is Held up But Bandits Are Cantured Later BEND. Ore., Feb. 2. (AP) Ray Sutton, 1, and Arden Gage, 17. both of St. Helens, were in the Deschutes county jail ; eoday following a holdup here sunaay. The two bor. allegedly! have confessed they held up a service station here Sunday morning, s. V. - Ramp, proprietor, reported they stole $18. 1 j After the holdup hero sunaay the boy. tried to get over tb, Mc- Kehtie Pass but the Pass was snow blocked. They tried The Dalles-Calif ornta highwa but were ( stopped by , ranchers! with drawn guns near , Willowdale.. The youths were driving a stolen car, authorities said. ; ... ; Joe Savoldi to ; Try Wrestling L03 - ANGELES. Feb. 2. ( AP - Jumping Joe avoIdl, who went places with a football a. fullback for Notre Dame,- will do his future tackling on m mat, with rones marking the sidelines. Savoldi is in training, nere to become a wrestler, he said tonight.- He cites the, case of one Ed Don George, former Michigan ntii,r-itltT athlete, who in a short month advanced to claim ant to- . the world heavyweight wrestling title; Religious Riot I Leaders Hanged t ISTANBUL. Turkey, Feb. J- (Tuesday) (AP) Twenty eight religious reactlonalre., con victed jot participation In the abortive , revolutionary outbreak ot December at Menemen, were hanged there at dawn today. She'll beStar In Own Picture Carmen Barnes, who, at 15, wrote a startling novel of life In a pri vate school for girls, is to be come a fUm star. In the movie colony, where she has been for three months. It ha been de cided that she star In her own plays. She Is a daughter or Wellington Barnes,! manufac turer, of Chattanooga, Tenn. RELIEF PLAN FOES I Declares Opposition to aid For Drought Victims is I National Disgrace I WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 (AP) With a fever seldom exhibited In senate debate leaders of the senate coalition today assailed the . "no compromise" stand of the. houiA republicans against the 125.000.000 Red Cross relief fund. . ' " ' ' ; Senator Borah of Idaho, .poses man of the republican indepen- dnU. drew a roar ot applause from the determined democratic forces and from the gallery as he shouted an acceptance . ot the house challenge, and declared tor an all summer fight it necessary on the relief Issue against the ad ministration.' It wa. a scene un parallelled in recent history of the dignified senate as Borah brought the democratic leaders across tho aisle to shake his hand amid applause from the gallery tee. ' . - - -: r '. ' .' G. O. P. Leaders Bide Their Time Silent throughout the assault by the Idahoan. and during a more personal attack upon Pres ident Hoover and the house re publican leader, by Senator Car away, . democrat, , of Arkansas, the senate republican leadership bided Its time tonight, awaiting a break in the tense deadlock. It was generally agreed that a com promise wa. the only way to avoid an extra session after (Turn to page 2. col. 4) , . i: x r . LEADERSHIP CLASS . . ... j . Thlrtv-six men. interested in Boy Scouts and in proper leader ship for- the boys, attended the first session of Ihe 12-weeks train ing school held last night at the Willamette university gymnasium. O. P. West, scout executive for Marion and Polk counties, acted as scoutmaster, starting the men Itt the drill of sc,out work, i . , Two regular scout troop forma tions : were organised,1 and work conducted on the patrol plan. T, Douglas Halway Is assistant scout master; F. Howard Zinser, senior patrol leader, and William Towne, scribe. . i Men were present from Dallas. Monmouth. West Salem, Salem, siiverton: Stavton and Brooks. A large attendance is expected next tim-j. The rrouD will meet each Monday night at 7 o'clock at the campus gymnasium. p ,. i LAMBASTES IS WELL ATTENDED Convicts Back in Pen; Captured at Jefferson Robbery- of a Jefferson store and tobacco odor In the . school house basement proved j.tbe downfall ot Dan Flynn and i Lee Duncan; escaped convicts, who were late Sunday morning I ap prehended in the basement of the '-ffersOn Khoolhouse. Yes terday they were back In , the state penitentiary, secure In the bull pen. , i Three men, J. T. Jones, Jef ferson constable, George Vale and George Thomason of the state traffic office, participated in the actual capture. f Whether the $50 award offered for re capture ot each convict will be divided among all these men. or even to include other., had not been determined yesterday. - The store .at - Jefferson was robbed early Snndsy morning, among the missing articles be in Mleta' clothing outfits. food and reT-lver and .hells. This wa. the flrrt definite clue. LEFT IIJB OF JOSEPH PMW: STILL IffiS'i Meier Utility Biil Doesn't Suit Despite Message ' Upholding it Harlan P!cks Flaws but is s Steadfast . In Support - 'Of Governor By SHELDON F. SACKETT Striking back. . at well-niah unanimous press reports that the administration's power conserva--tlon and utility regulation pro- - gram waf being split upon reers within the governors ,ewn sup posedly smooth sea of supporters, -Mr. Meier issued a pointed state ment Monday morning declaring that "recent statements . . . are erroneous" and - the Lawrenco "measure Is fully in accord with the principles expressed la my platform. and enunciated In my opening radio speech in the guber natorial campaign." Kenneth Harlan, leader of the "left-wing" of the utility change party, was not so sanguine when Interviewed regarding the gover nor's program. Harlan was quirk to add, however, that he was m harmony with the governor that he would not block Meier's legls- lation program ;' in the house. Utility legislation and i control must proceed from tne governor, said Harlan. He declared that l any going-over the Meier utility program would be done within the office ot the executive and must not be a repair Job under taken before the somewhat criti cal eyes of certain legislators. Harlan's Ideas Xot Carried Out Despite Governor Meier s pro nouncement that all was well with his utility program and the bill introduced by Mr. Lawrence to carry it out. Harlan cited specific departures from his own views in Turn to page 2. col. 1) DAISY'S LAST If E IS PROBATION PLEA LOS ANGELES. Feb. 2 (AP) With a atoic acceptance of de feat in a fight for a new trial. Daisy DeBoe threw herseir on the mercy of the court today at the end of her fight to escape a conviction of stealing $S2tlrom Clara Bow. A hope she might gain anotner chance to tight the grand theft charge filed against her by the flapper film star, i whom sne served .two years ; as secretary, disappeared In a decision by Su perior Judge William Doran, de nying her a new trial. Judee Doran's decision follow ed two hours of argument by her . counsel, . William Bierne. sn which he tried unsuccessfully to show that the verdict was reach ed by "lot or chance." The de fence, prepared for an aaere ruling, immediately sought per mission to file an application for probation which was granted and a hearing seti for February 10. - : 1 ,. Pioneer Pageant To be Repeated, j Plan at Eugene ' i EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 2 (AP) The Eugene Pageant associa tion, at Its annual meeting here tonight, decided to hold another pioneer pageant In tho summer of 1932. The last pageant, the Sunset Trail, was held In 1929 and at that time It was planned to bold the pageant every three years. The Washington bi-centenoial may be. linked; with the 113 2 pageant. '", ' A. A. Rogers was , re-elected president of the association and the old board of directors was re elected. Then Jones,, walking into the basement of the schoolhouse, sniffed about and ; discovers! that someone had been smoking in there. He called Officer Tho mason and George Yale, j Jones and Vale entered the basement, and found feet of the convicts showing from a woodpile The convicts made not effort to resist the officers. According to Officer Thomason, real credit for the capture is due to Jones and Vale, who caught vFlynn and Duncan In the woodpile, Thoma son having gone to the rear of the building to guard there. The convict, were, as earlier supposed, the pair who held up Otto Muellhauptj' Salem plumber, Thursday evening on which tho prison break occurred. Duncan had on, at tlm of capture, the overcoat he bad taken from Muellhaupt. The convict, made their Azsfi from the prison walls about 6:15 o'clock last Thursday evening.