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RELIEF BROKEN Twenty Million Dollars to Loan for Agricultural Rehabilitation,- Plan Tension at Capital Reduced As President, Congress - Reach Peace Basis Bf P. M. STEPHENSON WASHINGTON. Feb. 6-(AP The deadlock on relief legisla tion was broken tonight with an agreement between the adminls tratlon and the democrats for ap propriation of an additional $20.- 000,090 drought loan land to be available for "agricultural; reha bilitation." . It takes the place of the dis pute 1X5,000,000 Red Cross ap propriation, j ! A rapid succession of confer eneea late today between the con gressional chieftains brought the settlement and it was stated Pre sident Hoover approved it. He was consulted frequently daring the negotiations. Approval of the $20,000,000 fund U expected to lead to early disposition of the stack of appro priation measures which piled up during the dispute and to remove the threat of an extra session of the new congress after the March 4 adjournment- j Word of Agreement ' i Relieves Tension j Announcement -of the agree ment late in the day brought a no ticeable break in the tension at the capital. Senator Robinson, of (Turn to page 2, col. 3) DECIDED BY COURT One Ordered Established, Other Petitions: are Considered The county court had a big ses sion in Its road department yes terday, acting upon petitions in 12 matters. Three petitions! were continued, fire roads were or dered surveyed, two relocations of market roads were ordered, one petition was disallowed and one county road was ordered es tablished. Final hearing on , court's res olution for relocation of the Sil-Terton-Hullt market road. In dis trict 45, was up, with the view ers report approved and the road ordered established. Relocation was also ordered in the resolu (Turn to page 2, col. 3) f10n BILL UP FOR IT Representative James Motfs House Joint Resolution S will be up for public hearing again next Monday night at 7:30 p, in. in Room 134 at the state capitol. The resolution provides that the state shall abolish the direct ad valorem tax on real property as a means of raising all state rev enues, j At the hearing held last jweek. virtually an the people whjo ap peared - favored the resolution. Opponents of the bill are new ex pected to appear to show; why they feel It should not pass. Mott would include the i state Institutions of higher learning In his resolution, making them de pend on other revenues j than those provided by the present millage .tax. 1 ? S S Ell Ml The Legislative Calendar SENATE MONDAY Third reading senate bill , 6. 7. 113, 117, lis; 110, 121, 122, 125. 12, 127, 128, 129, 150. 131, 132. 133, 134, 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. liO. 141. 150. 173. Third reading house joint resolution 5. I Third reading house bill . 10. 15, 24. 49. 73. f. Port of Portland commis sion bill introduced by Rep resentative Angell and pass ed by house, now amended by senate, up on final pas sage. Group ot bill Introduced by Senator Carsner. many of which relate to changes in election doe, upon final! pas sage. ' - Bill by Senator Schuliner- Ich authorising sale' of pledged collateral without judicial proceedings. j i '' 1 SENATE YESTERDAY - Disabled soldiers exempt ed from property assessment ip to 100 under Senator Booth bill which passed. Senator Woodward loses fight to repeal law restrict ing: Toters at school elections - z I': Aiovr, city of Kapler before the ! deatnsi which number more than ; by portions of Xew Zealand , miles from Xapler. Saint xuit Sinner Struck Down Impartially in Napier Horror ClMARRDfJ GIVEN B1G-UP OPEIJG LOS ANGELES. Feb. CAP) - An explosion of gas catapulted a manhole cover through the bot tom of a taxicab in front of the Orpheum theater here tonight, in juring 30 persons, five seriously. The picture "Cimarron" was having its premier run inside the theater ,and a huge crowdj Includ ing many film celebrities, was in attendance. The two most serious injured were the driver and passenger of the cab. whose names were not learned before they were taken to hostipals. The other injured in cluded those standing on the curb awaiting cabs. They were blown through a plate glass window. The blast was heard tor blocks. and panic seised those In the the ater. The cast of characters and other celebrities were making per sonal appearances. : Sensing the situation as the au dience arose at the sound of the explosion, Robert McWade, veter an stage actor then being intro duced, shouted, "Keep your seats, folks. This is Just part of the cele bration for me." At his words the crowd again was seated. to citlsens paying taxes. Final rOte on Port of Portland commission I bill postponed until Monday. New tunnel bill Introduc ed by Senator Woodward providing for special tnnnel commission of three to su- , pervise the construction and maintenance of tunnel. HOUSE MONDAY Third reading house' bills 133, 14S, 150. 196, : 231, 240. ! Third reading senate bills 9, 55. 93. Senate bill 55 relating to butter substitute regulation made special order ot busi ness at 2 p. m. I '" i Bill to aUow cities to tax residents, where, municipali ties are more than 200,000 in sixe. tor the support of art. up on final passage. HOUSE YESTERDAY ; . Bin abolishing state judi cial council passes and; goes now to governor. I Repeal of bus transporta tion law for school children, kUled when bouse accepts i majority report that bill do not pass. " 1 V s yj: r. .- -.; ::: ' '::.'v earthquakes of this week which laid ISO ana nave been estimated las ueiow, MU Mgaurnhoe, largest active Old Men's Home, School, Jail, Cathedral and Hospital are Visited by Death's Sword;. Recovery of Bodies Goes on NAPIER, New Zealand, Feb. 6. (AP) (Saturday) With her usual impartiality nature dealt death in Tuesday's earthquake without regard to rank, age, sex or other classification. Among 100 bodies so far ery category. Young girls just met the same fate as It menO living out their last tired years in an old men's home. Convicts in jail died at the ' tme moment as .men and . worn n kneeling in communion serv ice at the cathedral and nurses tending the sick in a hospital. Almost half the identified dead are women and girls, and the complete list runs the "whole scale of human classification. Poor and rich, good and bad, young and old, men and women, boys and girls, wise and impru dent death reached out blindly and mowed them down with in discriminate hands. While sailors continued . pa trolling the streets of the rav aged towns today to prevent looting,- reinforcements to ' the squads of rescuer? risked theif jives among the leaning -walls and tottering ruins reaping the sad harvest of the disaster. . The known dead totals slight ly more than 150 but the full list, if Indeed It ever is knowjj, will, in the opinion of the relief workers, be considerably greater. FAMILIES SEEKING " I OF CHARITIES Already this month six new families have appealed to the As sociated Charities for assistance, Mrs. Mae Carson, secretary, said last night. This does not include, of eourse, the many new 1 indi vidual cases that come before the association week in and week out, nor the transient assistance. With new families reporting all the time for aid. it is almost im possible for the office to keep on band a peat supply of clothing or- foodstuffs, which means ' that any donation is welcome at any time. . , . i Many of the 'churches of the city are now working directly with the Charities, Mrs. Carson reports, and because of this co operation, the burdens on the or ganization are much lighter. The regular bi-monthly meet ing of the Charities will be held Monday night at the chamber of commerce, when several matters of special interest are scheduled to come before the board. Harry Levy is president of the group. t waste its buildings and caused high as 10OO in the city and near- Tolcano In New Zealand, OS identified are persons of ev entering a life of usefulness SPK WEATHER STILL PREVAILING Sunshine and wind flowers and frost and Dame Nature smiles at her waiting world with a promise of spring that has all the caprice of the fair sex. I For aU the aeemlng variation.! In temperature for the past tew days Salem has really been hav ing genuine spring weather. Tem peratures for .yesterday read at t o'clock, 12 o'clock and ;C:0 o'clock at night were respectively 43, 51 and 44 degrees. - Friday there was a bit of cbange with frost, and the : tem perature for the same hours were 34, 45 and 44 degrees. When the sun comes out there seems to be real spring at baud but with the early morning fog and frost and the late , evening wind from the north the populace gets fooled into believing; tb weather to be variable whereas figures prove it quite constant. Session Will Beyond With four weeks of the 3th session ot the legislature ended, speculation is on at the capitol to . determine when the two houses will adjourn and call their legislative enactments for this year finished.' i Technically, the 40 days for which the senators and represen tatives receive pay ends Friday night, February 20, for then 40 days will have elapsed since the session began. Under the count adopted by the secretary of state, holidays and Sundays are Includ ed in the days for which the state pays legislators three dollars per diem. - :."....- No one, however, expects ad Jornment by that time. It is gen erally expected that at least three more weeks remain for the legis lators to be at their desks, with good chance that the session will carry oyer Into the fourth week. FREE FOR EL FIGHT Row Over London Treaty Cause of Brawl; two Members Injured Minister Shidehara Draws Bitter Criticism for lndiscretons" j, TOKYO. Febj 6 (AP) Bit terness over the London naval treaty caused" free for all fight today in the anteroom or tne aien, during which a dozen persons,' Including two diet members, were Injured. I ' t The fighting started when a member of the Seiyukal (opposi tion) party wielded a dagger dor lng hot criticism: of Foreign Min ister Shldehara's- explanation in the diet that Emperor HirohHo by approving the treaty had proved it did not endanger security ef Japan. The explanation was re garded by government opponents as an effort to : throw the onus upon the emperor for any defect in the treaty. Dagger Wield er : Not Diet Member j Fifty men milled About the ante-room, wielding , clubs I and burling ash trays and anything else they could lay their Hands on. Several were cut about heads and hands. Others , were bruised and cut by crashing glass. The dagger wlelder was arrest ed. He was not a member of the diet. . I ---'.t. Baron Shidehara, acting i head of the government sincet Premier Hamaguchi was severely shot in November by a fanatical patriot, was in another room of the diet building during the fighting. Heavily guarded, he left the building immediately. The fracas followed two days of discussions ef the budget which several times nearly caused riots. The opposition blocked action on the budget and accused Shidehara of 'Indiscreet' utterances 'when he was pointedly questioned as to the empire's security as a result of the London treaty. I I MEDFORD, Ore., Feb. ! (AP) James E Klngsley.i alias J. C. Adams on trial here for the first degree murder of Sam Pres eott, Ashland policeman, begged a circuit court Jury today to "give me life imprisonment." ' j . If he were given life impris onment, Kingsley said from the witness stand, "1 might be able to help others avoid the mistakes I made. It will do no good to take my life that's all I have Kingsley is accused of . shoot ing Prescott to death when the policeman stopped him at Ash land recently to question him about ownership of the automo bile he was driving. L The defendant was on the stand two hours today. He told ja story of a life of crime dating back to the time he was 12 years old. He admitted . shooting- Pres cott. He claimed the first shot he fired was intended to cripple the officer while the next two were fired in self defense. I Closing . arguments will be heard tomorrow; Cases Set For i Trial in Local Circuit Court The1 following -cases were set yesterday for trial la department one of the circuit eourt, presided orer by Judge L. H. McMahanc i Monday. February 9, Rice Director; Tuesday, Reistag tj. Hansen; "Wednesday, Rhodes vs. Yarnell; Friday, Associated Oil company rs. LaBranch; Saturday, Ransom vs. Frame; Monday, Feb ruary 16, May field vs. Stewart. Extend 40 Day Limit A group ot newspapermen this week formed a pool of guesses on the day the session will, cloie. Predictions ranged from! Febru ary 2 to March S. ' ; '.''! To date virtually no rltal leg islation has been enacted. The Rogue river closing bill, the only statewide matter of importance is through both bouses but not until Monday will It bej before the governor for bis decision, i None of the administration's bills providing for powerj control, and utility regulation, have -been voted upon la either house. Nor hare any highway measures or tax legislative matters been put to the.roll call test. . ! j f ' Committee work, however, has been in progress for at least three weeks-and many bills are about ready to stand their baptism Of fir under debate in both houses. BLLYi BEGS, FOR LIFE iiuirnur Marks of Flood Found Upon Walls of Old City t TWI... yA4Ulu ifiuscum uipcauiQn uncarins ',raiacei I KJt oassaman Lynasty, rirst Discovered; j Ancient History is Augmented j fXXFOUD, Eng., Feb. 6. -(AP) -A city so ; ancient its iV ruins show watermarks reen discovered a lew miles east of Babylon by the Oxford university Field museum expedition in Mesopotamia. ; vrix. wu ui iir is iue iirsL Sassanian dynasty of Persian aiscovery oi ine palace . waiQ largely accidental. . ... i I Prof. Stephen Langdon, Amer-icari-born director of the expedi tion, . explained it to the Asso ciated Press today. The field director,, he said, waiting to begin excavations on the main hill over the site of the ancient city, set his Arab work men to levelling the mounds of earth nearby. They had not been at work a week before one wall K and two gateways of the royal Persian palace had been laid bare. Prof. Langbow esti mates its date at about 350 A. D. Below it. In layers represent ing the various stages of civiliza tion, are the ruins of buildings which preceded the palace., Ver tical shafts in the great hill where ancient rulers built tem ples to the mother goddess show buildings dating back to the Su merlans. the first known civi lized race. ' The discovery is regarded as one of the greatest Importance for the light it will throw on the history it concerned. Citizens Believe Affairs may , Be Worked put so no Great Patrons' Loss Although bank officials declin ed to make' any statement as to conditions of the Aurora, state state bank which was closed Thursday, residents of the town and ; vicinity seemed hopeful that affairs of the Institution could be worked out until no great loss would be suffered. Officials of the state banking department were checking the In stitution books but declined to make any statement until the work was finished. The Willamette Valley Mort gage Loan company went into the hands of a receiver Friday but officials still maintained that there was no connection between the loan company and the bank so far as financial conditions were concerned. S. M. Laws, employe of the state banking department, Friday was placed in charge of the li quidation of the Aurora State bank, which closed its doors Thursday. The December state ment showed that the bank bad deposits of 3352,756. A. A. Schramm, state superin tendent of banks, said the liquida tion proceedings would be rushed as fast as possible. The bank was taken oyer by1 the state superin tendent of banks in compliance with a resolution adopted by the board of directors. UNIFORM TRAFFIC MS EXPLAINED PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. (AP) Uniform motor traffic regulations recommended by the national traffic conference were outlined by , Allen Davis, secre tary of the conference, at a pre liminary meeting ' ot the Pacific coast motor vehicle conference here tonlghtJ Members of the roads and high way committees Of both bouses of the Oregon, Washington and 'Cal ifornia state legislatures attend ed the conference tonight. The conference proper will be held tomorrow. Uniformity in the examination of drivers, placing of responsibil ity, speed . Jaws, right-of-way. overtaking and passing automo biles, and discipline and control of drunken drivers were among the regulations discussed tonight. Chinese is Held Without Bail in Murder Mystery PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. (AP) Acting' upon a coroner's jury's recommendation, - the dis trict attorney tonight ordered Jack Young, . Chinese restaurant proprietor, be held, without ball In connection with 'the 'death ot Mrs. Rose Soon, prominent Port land Chinese. . The Jury, which returned a ver dict saying Mrs. Soon came to her death by strangulation as the hands of persons unknown, re commended that Young bo held for the grand Jury. AURORA IS HOPEFUL ON B1K SITUATION Biblical I T: D1VJ left bv the biblical flood has weu-Dreservea naiace or tne kings ever fountL And the IWCOT OUT TWO OF Saving Money to County and Relieving Farmers of Jury Duty,. Plan i The February and May 'terms of circuit court here would be eliminated if a bill introduced yesterday In the senate is carried through both houses and signed by the governor. , i , The bill bears the names' of all the Marion county delegation ex cept that ot Representative James Mott. . The bill is sail to have been Instigated through the behest of Circuit Judge McMahan who urged the elimination of the two terms to save court expense and to relieve farmers' who are busy at this period of the year. The Marion county bar asso ciation is - understood to be di vided upon the matter. A com mittee was appointed to Investi gate the matter but as yet 'is said to have made no decision. On the committee . are Walter Keyes, James O. Heltzel, W. W. McKinney, John Baye and Johu H. Carson. In addition to eliminating the two terms of court, the bill pro poses to start the January, April and October terms ot court on the second Monday Instead of the first Monday of each month. STOLTESPEAKER AT DENTAL MEET Thirty members of the Mar-lon-Polk-Yamhlll County Dental society attended a nee ting held here last night at the Spa when Dr. C. L. Stolte of Portland was the special guest and gave an excellent paper on "Baked Porce lain Technique and Satining". ' The dentists completed - final pre-clinlc plans for the annual meeting to be held here Febru ary 20 and 21. All dentists In Oregon are Invited to attend the meeting later in the month, the affair being strictly educational in nature. The next meeting ot the tri county group has been set for March 6 in the local . Elks tem pi j. Dr.'O. F. Willing of Port land, known lnternatlonr'ly as a golfer, is to be a guest at the meeting then. Out-of-town members present last night Included Dr. Mark Hayter and Dr. C. L. Foster ot Dallas; Dr. Frank Lutx of New berg; Dr. W. N. Pintler of Stay ton; Dr. Maurice Butler of Inde pendence; Dr. Vincent Para : of Sheridan. Waving of Toy Gun by Bandit Proves Unwise GLENDALE, Calif., Feb. . (AP) With a toy pistol in his hand, a robber turned on Officer Edward Orerman tonight as the policeman surprised him robbing, a theatre and was shot six times. He died almost immediately. Papers found on the boy indi cated the man .was L. J. Wright, 30, of Metxger, Ore. As the rob ber fell his weapon broke open; six cigarettes rolled out. ; Volstead Better After Operation MINNEAPOLIS,. Feb. . (AP) Andrew J. Volstead, framer of the federal prohibition enforce ment act, was In "t airly good con dition" tonight, his physicians an nounced after an emergency op eration for appendicitis here last night TEH T . DROUTH RELIEF FUND SUBSCRIPTION American Red Cross, I ! 508 First National Bank Salem, Oregon. Enclosed please find $ to the Red Cross drouth relief fond. Signed . , ' Address. dip. and fill FAITH BREACH . k nwriiin IU ULIIItblLU II If phimT nnnnr' uuuni HUHUL " i ! Judge Failed to Parole or Suspend Sentence Says Attorney for Young: me for Seeding nevi Trial Therefore ElapsedJ is . Grigsby Statement Charging that there were ir regularities and misconduct' in proceedings In Judge L. H.i Mc-. Mahan's court In connection iwit! the state trial against Urlghaci Young, charged I with a! crime against nature, iYoung, through his attorney, F. E. Grigsby. yester day filed motion for a new trial. I Grigsby has taken over defense of Young, following, he eays, rec ommendation of Judge McMahan. who declared that the previous de fense attorney "made no effort t have' the defendant acquitted." w. C. Wlnslow handled the rase of Young until just before for sentence. j "I Young, lu bis motion for tiaie WW tr(al, charges that he did not file motion for new trial when his sen tence was pronounced earlier) thi wek because he had beeU led t'i believe by the trial judge that b would be paroled. ( Judge McMahan sentenced YOung to a year in the state peni tentiary and denied application for parole. Young, unable to rah-e 33000 bail money, Is now in the county. Jail. , GriaHby Employer Of Defendant jTbe Jury returned ji verdict of guilty when the Young case hear ing .was finished; in circuit court here January 28. j Grigsby, in an affidavit attach ed to the motion, sets forth that, he, as general manager and sec retary of the John K. LeSnder company of Portland, hired Young to go to work August 1, 193. as an automobile salesman. Ho says he found Young to be capable asd efficient In the business, to Ilia ve no bad habits to knowledge, ot Grigsby and that he established a good character : and reputation With the company and with other salesmen. He says be knows ef no action by which i Young could be considered a menace to society. In the affidavit, and In another one from Rev. Lemuel EJ Esteb of Portland, an account of! Grlgs by's and Esteb's appearance be fore Judge McMahan to present Young's case Is glren, similar to the facts stated I in the motion. They consulted McMahan on rec ommendation of ! the district at torney, John Carson, to I whom they first appealed here, the; affi davit says. PolKte Cited la Claim Rights Denied In charging that the defendant was prevented from haying a fair ! (Turn to nage 2, col. 1 BOIES TIL TO BE AT HILLS PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb Iff f API Trial of Nelson C. Bowleg, millionaire, and Irma G. Loueks. his one-time secretary, probably will begin at lllHsboro Ore., some time this month, attorneys. connected with ,the"case indicated tonight. :: M i I Bowles and Miss Loucks are under indictment for, the first de gree murder of Bowies' wlfe Mrs. Leone Bowles, who died from a bread knife wound in her breast here, last November. j -v i Circuit Judge W. A. Ekwall to day granted -a defense motion for a i change ot venue and selected Washington county. Those fol lowing the case closely, however, pointed out that during i argu ments on the motion the state op posed Washington county as the place of trial, and suggested the state might ask for a change of venue. Such action, however. would' have to be brought before Circuit Judge George R. Bagley, Washington county. District At torney Lotus L. Langley decline! to comment on the matter. , BOATS FOR TARGETS MARE ISLAND, Cal.. Feb. t. ( AP) Plans of the Unitea States nary to use obsolete' de stroyers, controlled by radio, an targets during battle practice. .were revealed here today. ; Bid as my contribution out and mail Oi ,-;