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HIE WEATHER Unsettled with rain to day and WednemlayjMax. temperature Monday 50, Mia. 43, rala J51 inch, riv er 5.a feet, south wind, 'cloudy v FOUNLDED 1851 .urtTY-FIRST YEAR SERVICE We guarantee our carrier service. If your paper does not arrive by 6: SO call 600 and a ropy will be delivered promptly. tffl nf( "Jj ) I Q ip(Ci (Oil H a .lie--1 h mumu) vivuu, 4unua; iiiuiuuig, iiiai i.u oi t . JLt. i 'S FL SHOW EOUGED Large Scale "Public Exhibit Scheduled April 18 and 19 in Local Garage - Entries Invited in Varied Classification List, An nouncement how Members of the Salem Garden club me this year for the first time expanded the early spring showing of blossoms from an in timate show in the club rooms at the chamber of commerce to a public flower show planned on a large scale to, be held April 18 and 19 in tho show rooms of the Valley Motor company at the cor ner of Center and Liberty street. The show rooms will be open to the public at 1 o'clock Satur day afternoon : and will close at nine o'clock Sunday night. Flowers to be exhibited mast do grown by the person exhibit ing; one entry In each class is al lowed each exhibitor; all .entries are to be carefully labeled, and registered when entered and this mast be done- by 10 o'clock Sat urday morning. 11 exhibitors are to furnish their own containers. Classifications ..J-l .. . List la Lengthy Only Judges will be present when the judging is In progress. The placing and changing of any entry on the tables must be done subject to the approval of the staging committee. . -Mrs. W. H. Smith Is chairman of the committee on arrange ments, and assisting her are Mrs. j. B. Van Cleve. Mrs. Marion Van Eaton, Ernest " Infer, W. C. Franklin. Following are the -classiflca-tlons: ' V ' CLASS I, TULIPS Division 1- Best three of one named rarie ty: a Early single tulips. b Early double tulips. e Darwin tulips. . e Cottage and late tulips. f Broken tulips, to Include all Blzarres, , Byblooms and Rem brandt. " Division 2 a Best artistic arrangement of . . . lunps in TWi b Best artistic arrangement of tulips in basket. e Best arrangement with other spring flowers. CLASS II NARCISSI DiTlslon I Best three of one named varie ty. .' a Yellow trumpets. b White trumpets, e Bicolors. dIncomparabUls. -- e Barrii. , f LeedsU. g Jonaulla and campernelle. h Poetas. . I Poeticus. . j Double. 5 .. k Miniature and special daffo dils. , . Division a a Best artistic arrangement of daffodils in yase. '. b Best artistic arrangement of daffodils In basket. c Best artistic arrangement ment of daffodils with other spring flower ' -.' CLASS HI . Cut Anemone Flowers a Container of best double St. f (Turn to page 2, coL 1) , MAY CHANGE RULES PORTLAND, Ore., March 80 -(AP) Thirty fruit growers from Wenatchee, Yakima, Med ford and Hood River met here today to discuss proposed changes In Washington and Oregon apple nd pear grading T rules. ' t r . '. Tentative grades were drawn np and will be submitted to associations in the growing districts. If approved, - the pro posals w ill be submitted to the r Oregon and Washington hor ticulture boards for formal ad option. TWO COMING HERE BAKER, Ore., March JO (AP) -Robert E. Stevens, San Francisco, and Dewey Marquette, a transient who said he was from Michigan, waived grand Jury in dictment, pleaded guilty to for gery charges and were sentenced to two years each in the state penitentiary here today. Stevens was sentenced within Jive boure of his arrest. BUILD TO BIEBER - KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.. March 30 (AP) Construction crews were sent out on the survey south of Klamath Falls todar to begin work on the 28 miles of new rail road the Great Northern will build to connect with its road now pushing northward from the Junction with the Western Pacif ic at Bieber, Calif, i Two steant shovels were put to work in the vicinity of Merrill, hlie another was sent to Malln. About Co men are employed now GARDEN CLUB DWER pun I - i .. : i r : "T ; ' i Salute Lieut. Colonel Priest; i Youngest Officer in the World X J By Tirtne of "his rbmmlssloa promulgated by the governor of Idaho, who; reposes "special confidence In his integrity, diligence and dis cretlon," Paul lnibert Priest (above) four month old, of Bronx- TilIe, N. Is a lieutenant-colonel, entitled to carry ml sword and rating a salute from majors down to the lowliest bock private in . ; kitchen police. ' : . u -; ' : ! :;:" STATE BESTS CASE AGIST BROTHERS No Attempt Made to Show Motive, nor Revelation Of Gang Activities CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING. Chicago, March 30. (AP) The state rested its murder case against Leo Brothers today, con fident it had proved who killed Jake Lingle,' Tribune crime , re porter. Prosecutors made no at tempt to show a motive. , With sensational abruptness States's Attorney Wyland Brooks announced calmly "The state rests." None of the startling rev elations of gangland activities so confidently expected by many, no hint of the mysterious, life of the Tribune reporter, no reason" why anyone should want to kllMitm; had been disclosed. Prosecution Takes Up Only Five Days , The prosecution took but five days to present its case. One wit ness identified Brothers" as the man he saw in the Randolph street pedestrian tunnel when, Lingle was killed last June 9, and said Brothers tossed a pistol near the reporter's body. Six other per sons saw a man run from the tun nel. Some chased him a short dis tance, and Identified Brothers as "fitting the description," "looking like the manA or positively being the same man. " ' The remainder of the state's case was made up of routine tes timony, proving Lingle was kill ed and tracing the bullet and the plstoL . : ; -- Picking up the state's story today where the other seven wit nesses left off. Albert W. Kelf ktrom, a middle-aged trunk buy er, said he saw the defendant five minutes after the assassination. YOUNG McADOO FIXED BEVERLY HILLS. CaL. March JO (AP) William Glbbs-Mc-Adoo, Jr., son of the former se cretary of the' treasurery. today pleaded guilty to a charge of be ing drunk and paid a. fine of 1 10. Fruitgrowers Talk Grades Forger Sentenced Quickly Railroad Work is Started Organize State' Sportsmen and engineers said, the number of workers probably would reach 100 by the end of the week. BAKER STARTS MOVE BAKER Ore., March 80 (AP) The Baker county Rod and Gun rfnb'a executive com- - mittee announced today It was making plans for tho organiz ation of a state sportsmen's as- -sociatlon. ' " : The purpose of the associa tion, which would ba composed of representatives from the 30 local sportsmen's organizations In Oregon, would be to corre- , late the various recommenda tions made i to the legislature relative to wild life protection. . The announcement suggest- ' ed an organization meeting be held at The Dalles May 15 and PIN IS DISLODGED PORTLAND, Ore.. March SO (AP) Jackie Yeast, three month's old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Yeast; Portland, awoke on his hospital cot tonight, yawned and went bck to sleep,-unaware of a three-week fight to save his life. -. ; ' V'v Three weeks ago the.JSaby swallowed an open safety pin. Day by day the movements of the pin were traced by x-ray photo graphs. ; 4 Physicians,' fearing the pin might puncture delicate organs with fatal results, operated, but were not able to remove the pin. Ths operation, however, : ap peared to dislodge the pin." It passed normally from the Infant's body today. ,' - 1 V " CUSTOMS 11 IS CRITICIZED AGAIN Methods of Germany Such As to ; Arouse General U j Suspicion, Claim H LONDON. Mareh 30. (AP) The methods by which Germany and Austria announced their pro-t jected trade union were described in commons by Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson today as calcu lated to arouse suspicion. J He said the nature of their ne gotiations had nullified the ad vantages of the frank exchange of ideas afforded by international meetings at Geneva and $ else where. . j ' The question will be raised be fore the next meeting of the coun cil of the 'League of Nations, he said. to determine whether the ae cord violates Austria's treaty -obligations, particularly the Geneva protocol of 1922. If the council so desires; the matter will be re ferred to the court of international Justice at The ; Hague for opinion.; ' i . an BERLIN, March SO. (AP) Foreign Minister Julius Curtius will reply in the relchstrat to morrow to the arguments of For eign Minister Aristide Brland and Foreign Secretary Arthur Hender son against consummation of the Austro - German customs agree ment. : ' ; - y The spirit In which he will make his addresa can hardly leave room tor doubt. Official cirdles here hold that Germany has a perfect .replyio virtually; all of Briand's charges. 4 VOU'O IS QUIET. REPORT BT RADIO PORTLAND, Ore., March 3 0. (AP) The Pavloft voclano on the mainland of the Alaska pen insula was quiet tonight, said a short-wave radio message picked up here by C H. Watson, ama teur operator. The message was signed by Lilly Osterback, radio amateur at Unga, Alaska, SO miles from the volcano. ' i ; "The Pavlof f volcano Is now quiet after, throwing great clouds of smoke and flame. said the message. "It started at 8 p. m.. March 29 and lasted until 8 a. m. today. Onlookers estimated that the , smoke and ; flames were thrown 2000 feet above the top of the mountain. ? :u .-The southeast face of Pavloff, for a space of 12 i tiles wide, is now black from the peak to the water. The crater Is filled; with hot lava." -i Watson picked up a message Sunday night from the . same source which brought; the first news cf the eruption. j r " NEW YORK, March SO. (AP) The federal government today started suit to dissolve the sugar Institute, charging It has violated the Sherman anti-trust law by maintaining 1 a - comprehensive scheme to enforce oppressive and uniform prices. - ? Members of the Institute, which Includes the leading sugar pro ducers, manufacture 8$ per cent of the product used in this coun try, obtaining their raw material at abnormally low prices." the government charges, from Porto Rico, Hawaii. Cuba and the Phil ippines."." ".:' " - ' The American Sugar Refining company and the National Sugar Refining company of New Jersey together produced about 41 per cent of the sugar made in the United States, the government says in Its complaint, and their profits liava been enormous, : SUGAR INSTITUTES DEEMED VIOLATOR CHOIGE FOUGHT Br DELEGATION Clatsop Farmers File Warm Protest in "t-Audience - With M&er Here , Political Ring Prevails in i- Coast County, Charge; c - . Agent Criticized Thirty-ffve farmers, represent ing virtually every section of Clatsop county, appeared before Governor Meier here Monday and protested against ' consideration of A. E. Engebretson, at the head of the Clatsop county experiment station, for the office of director of the new state agricultural de partment created by an act of the recent legislature. L. B. Wilson, spokesman for the group, declared that . Enge bretson had not given ' satisfac tory service although he receives a salary of approximately 85600 a year. Wilson charged that there is a political ring in Clat sop county, which has prevented the farmers from receiving an adequate voice in the affairs of local government. Special reference was made-by Wilson to the alleged action of the county court In Increasing the salary of E. A. McMindes, county agent, after the voters at a bud get meeting had rejected the pro posal. -,- Mrs. Rose Johnson charged that the activIUes of both the. ex periment station "and county agent were unsatisfactory, and that some action should be taken to curtail the expenses of the two departments. She suggested that the county agent's office be abol ished." Other speakers pointed out that EngebreUon's time was tak en up in private affairs, and that he had not given the experiment station the attention that it deserved.- r "It would be unfair and unjust to appoint any man connected with the Oregon State college to the office of director of the new agricultural- department'. de clared j one of the speakers. "Ninety per cent of the farmers are opposed to Engebretson. The Clatsop county experiment sta tion is too near the college." . David Tweedle. owner of a (Turn to page 2, col. 3) cifSgTisks WIFE BE TiDt HELD KLAMATH FALLS. Ore:, March 30 (AP)-While his lips framed a message of love for his wife, Joseph Swindler, Chiloquln chief of police, died in a hospital here today after declaring the woman had fired the bullet into his body. Mrs. Swindler, was in a Chilo quln hospital suffering from a bullet wound in her head, inflict ed, her husband said, after she had shot him through the side. She was under an anesthetic and police had obtained no statement from her. I love her as' much as I ever did." Swindler told hospital at tendants shortly before he died. "I dont want her to be locked up or -anything unpleasant to hap pen to her." He told police he reached home at 5 a. m., and found his young wife waiting- for him, a revolver In -her hand, r f.- "You're smart, aren't you. he quoted her as saying- as she lift ed the revolver. "Don't do that honey!- Swind ler. shouted. But the weapon dis charged. A bullet tore through his left arm, entering . the left side under the heart, and lodging near the spine. He- died nine hOurs later. -. :- Ml MESTHETIC INDIANAPOLIS, March SO (AP) Drugs producing hypnotic sleep as a substitute for anaesthe tics in operations were described to the American Chemical society today. The chemists were In formed, of more than 1,000 suc cessful operations already per formed in this sleep. The hyp nosis still Is quite limited, but there is hope of a sleep deep enough for any kind of operation. The prospect .in this pioneer field was reported in a paper by H. A- Shonle of Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, . released by the chemical society as part of its general scientific program. The drug now used is a com bination of acids related to bana na oil, grain alcohol and barbi turic acid, a synthetic substance not translatable into any familiar terms. .. v-.. FREIGHTER ON BAR VANCOUVER. B. C. March 30 (AP) The tug Salvage King of Victoria will attempt to pull the British freighter, Elmworth oft the sand bar in the Fraser river, near Stevenston, at 4 a.m. tomor row, . . Red 'Child of Ai Born Tkile Plait : Is in Fell Flight THE PAS. Manitoba, March SQ. (AP) Master Miller came down here out of the sky today, possibly the first child born unex pectedly in- an "airplane la fuU flight. The plane, which takes Its place with elevators, taxi- : eaba, steamboats and trains which hare figured In similar emergencies, . started here from Mile 214. Mrs. Alex Miller was being rushed to a hospital' by Flight Lieuten ant A. L. McFbee of the Royal Canadian air . force. Fifteen minutes after the takeoff iter son made his ap-' pearance in the cabin mono plane at a height of 4000 feet. . Both were reported doing :WelL-" --I .-..--r v.. . ... WHISKEY FOR - ALL . .. , 4 Mayor of Reno Hits Back at "Longhairs"; Opponents In Race Silent RENO, Nev., March SO. (AP) As defender of the fair name of Reno from attacks of alleged "long-haired reformers Mayor E. E. Roberts will have to go It alone as far as the other two can didates for mayor, Howard S. Doyle and Milburn R. Gregory are concerned, they indicated today. The mayor opened bis campaign for reelection in public speeches replying to a statement given to the press by Dr. Clarence True Wilson, national director of the Methodist board of temperance and public morals in which the Methodist minister said Nevada is a combination of Sodom, Gom morah and perdition. Speaking from the pulpit of the Methodist church last night, the Reno mayor, who once served In congress and who is one of the city's most active divorce lawyers, declared that Dr. Wilson's views are all wrong, and based on a mis conception of the aims of Reno to alleviate the suffering of many kinds by dealing in the open with social problems and evils. hv Ha'advocatea'the-plaetnr of" barrel of corn whiskey on every .corner In the elty with a dipper attached and a sign directing all who cared to, to dring as much as they pleased but not to carry any away. The liquor, according to the mayor's plan, would come from a municipal still operated at public expense and would be "good corn whlskey. The , other two candidates for mayor have refused to be drawn in the liquor, gambling and. div orce law discussions. Doyle, who is one of the city's most promin ent business men. says he Intends to make no public statement of any character except to state be will give the city a business ad ministration If elected. Gregory says he Is devoting his campaign activities to pointing outfit is necessary for Reno to capitalize its scenic attractions to make the city a great tourist center. Governor Julius L. Meier yes terday denied the truth of re ports circulated locally last week to the : effect that a drastic shakeup in the personnel of the board of , higher . education was Impending. - The report carried in a locals paper indicated that the governor was wroth because the board. had opposed the $500, 000 cut in Its i budget which Meier made. It indicated that C L. Starr, E. C. Sammons and C. C. Colt were- slated for the scrap heap. '-..'."..I , '-;. "I have never given the . mat ter any consideration and ,have no .idea where the report orig inated,' said Mr. Meier. "Cer tainly I have no intention to dis rupt that board or fire anybody unless I feel that such action Is absolutely necessary In the inter est . of. the ' economical and ; efficient-administration of the state's business. ; -. i HOOVER GIVES FEE RECESS SELECT! I .WASHINGTON, March 30 (AP) Invigorated by bis Carib bean vacation. President - Hoover today plunged into the task of disposing of problems that, ac cumulated during .his .absence. : v The : chief T executive gave re cess appointments to three feder al Judges. The White House let it be known the president felt the farm board was well able to' de fine and defend its own policies. In the face of opposition from Senator Schall. republican, Minne sota, the president : appointed Gunnar H. Nordbye to be Judge of the United States district court for that state." Schall announced he would oppose confirmation. At the same time Mr. Hoover appointed James A. Fee to be United States Judge -for Oregon and John Knight to be judge of t the western district of New York HS BARREL OF SHAKEUP DESIGNS . 09 DOARD DENIED BROOKS SLAYER DROUE THROUGH mi REPORT Avoided Main Thoroughfare Here or in Eugene is ; Hiker's Report . Told Passengers of Driving Ail day arid Wight From California -City - - t . PORTLAND, Ore., March 30. (AP) Police tonight ' were con sidering the possibility i that the slayer of Virginia Brooks, 10-year-old San Diego schoolgirl, passed through ; Portland March 10, the day the child's mutilated body was found on a lonely mesa near San Diego.. . A letter "signed by lY J. GUI. Bunker hotel. Kellogg, Idaho, and ' received by police tonight said that GUI and another man had hitch-hiked from Oakland, Cal., to Spokane, Wash. March 9 they were picked up at Redding by a man who answered the general description of those sought in con nection with the Brooks slaying. The man told Gill and his com panion he had left San Diego the day before and that he had driven all day and all night. The back of his car, the letter said, was filled with clothing, grips and camping outfit. When, passing through Salem or Eugene, GUI did not remember which, the man avoided the main thoroughfare. The same, was true when they reached Portland, the letter said. GIU said he read about the find ing of the girl's body the next day. - While detectives here had little to say about the letter they recall ed that it was a' somewhat similar clew that a few years ago led to the capture in Oregon of William Edward Hickman, California child murderer. - - BIDS CALLED FOR II. SAHTIi IRK Will be Opened April ,10 in i Portland, job to Open .. Late Same Month T ; "Members of the county court and the roadmasters office let broad grins creep over their faces yesterday. Nor did they care who might know the reason: bids for the first construction on the North Santlam highway had been called from the public roads bu reau in Portland. The bids will be opened Fri day, April 10, which means that work wUl probably be under way on the construction late in the month. I The can Is for bids on 10.172 miles, or more than two mUes longer than anticipated. The court and "federal road bu reau had put up 1100.000 each for. construction for at least the first eight miles of the highway. Work will proceed eastward from Detroit. - v : ; " Work outlined' In the bids In cludes clearing 70 acres, grub bing SS acres,, making 201,500 cubic yards of unclassified exca ratio n; overhauUng, 110,000 yards; removing : 100 dangerous trees and as many snags; clean ing up 26 acres; putting in 110 cubic - yards : of concrete work, class A; putting in 800 cubic yards of cement rubble masonry; building 1830 lineal feet of cul verts; and laying by hand 300 yards of rip rap.. Vancouver Lions Champions Third Time in 3 Years VANCOUVER, B. C March 30. (AP) The Vancouver Li ons won their third consecutive Pacific coast league hockey title here tonight by beating the Seat tle Eskimos 1 to 0. Gandhi Proposals Given India Congress KARACHI. India, March 30. (AP) Despite fierce opposition from the extremist wing, Mahat ma Gandhi's truce 'with Viceroy Irwin : was : approved today by unanimous rote of delegates to the All-India congress. After series of fiery speech es. Gandhi himself took the stand to support passage of the resolution. When he finished the gathering broke Into resound ing cheers. There was not a single dissenting rote when Pres ident Vallabhal' Patel put the question. ':.: ; .--. -; - '- "Do not accept: tVs 'truce merely because ,1 made it,' Gan dhi said. V Yon are free to re ject it and appoint another work ing committee. ; I give you no promise I will 1 bring back com plete independence from the sec ond round table conference but I do give you my pledge I will not bring back greater bondage than exists, & India J.odar."- Doxies Tried Cost " Over $50,000 Says: Offhand Estimate ' ' PORTLAND, Ore., March SO. (AP) Estimates com piled by observers here to day Indicated that the - Bowles-Loucks trial, which ended last Saturday at HlUs boro, cost Blultnomah coun ty more than $50,000. County Andltor Sweeney refused to make an estimate and said it was not likely the exact cost of the trial ever would be known. - Cost of the court report ing alone amounted to about 2800. ' Jury pay, it was es timated, wUl exceed f2OO0 The jurors, 13 of them, drew 96 a day because they were locked in their quarters. : In addition to the Jurors pay the county must pay their, board bUL , :. - ..;.. ' , AT EUGENE Grease Boiling Over Cause Of Costly Blaze; Is Fought two Hours EUGENE Ore., March 30 (AP)-Fire believed to have or iginated from grease boiling over from a doughnut fryer gutted the Graham building here 4 today. Damage, partly covered by insur ance, was estimated tonight - at 1125.000. v- The fire spread to half a dozen business establishments in the building and drove tenants 'froni second-floor apartments. Despite the 'combined efforts of all avail able, fire apparatus from Eugene, augmented by apparatus from Junction City, Cottage Grove and Springfield, the fire burned' for more than two hours.' Damage to the buUding. owned by David' M. Graham, was esti mated at 150,000. Other losses Included the George C. Stanley grocery, $20, C00; Rosebud bakery. 120,000; Valley Printing company, $25, 000; Burroughs Adding Machine agency, 32500; Long's Meat mar ket, $1500; furniture and cloth ing of apartment tenants, about $10,000. Several women In the apart ments on the second floor escaped by firemen's ladders. MICKEY MOUSE OUT TD LOS ANGELES, March 30. (AP) Enter Mickey Mouse into the courts. Mickey, through his produc tion company, Walt Disney Pro ductions, Ltd., filed suit against Pathe Exchange, Inc., and the Van Beuren corporation, : New York,; for an Injunction . to pre-' vent , the defendant companies from 1 further use of animated cartoon characters "in any va riation so nearly . similar as to be mistaken" for the original Mickey and his side kick, Minnie. : Further, the company demand ed an accounting, damages and surrender of all profits made on the alleged imitations. Mickey contended his alleged double is doing all sorts of things he (Mickey) wouldn't think of doing, and has brought down on the bewildered creators of Mickey a flood of irate letters and complaints. . Discrepancy in Gasoline Price : Still Prevails With ' a three-cent range in gasoline prices still " prevailing yesterday, the company - owned stations that . were , displaying 18 M -cent signs, were doing little pumping. ....--.;!" s Wholesale prices were declared to be-at the same level as the middle of last week, and dealers declare the stations selling for 15 cents are making no profit. However, rumor of "bootleg" gas was fairly persistent, hinting that after all there Is profit to be had at 15 cents. The oppositionists declared in effect that the Delhi pact was in adequate in that it represented victory for England rather than for the nationalists, and that it was not conformity with the La hore resolution declaring for out right independence. ' "Despite the- brave words in the resolution," one leader said, "there Is not a ghost of a chance that the proposals embodied In the resolution will be accepted by England. The British' are made of sterner stuff than this. We - can achieve our - demands only by fighting."- Under the terms of the truce, the nationalists definitely com mit themselves to the Idea of a federated India; . Indian -responsi bility with reservations or safe guards for problems of defense, finance and foreign affairs; pro tection of minorities and dis charge of the.country'a financial obligations, ,- LICK IMITATORS Approval iinTrn nnn r iiiitnniiiizi REACHESPOim ofucheeliEO' City Gains Some Points in Negotiations to buy ' Company's Plant ,11 . r Matter due to Come Before Council Next Week if Data all Ready ' Salem advanced one step on ' , Its tig-zag path towards' munici pal ownership of its water 'sys tem when representatives of the city ' council and of the Oregon- Washington Water Service com- ' pany came to a virtual meeting of the minds on a contract be tween these two parties.. v ' As a result E. C. Elliott, com- . pany president, took the train Sunday night for San Francisco to go over details in the agree ment with his engineers while another copy was left with the public utilities committee of the council and Cltv Attornev Tria ble and ' Consulting1 Engineer Baar for their additional study. May be Before Council In Week If necessary engineering data to be included In the contract can be obtained this week, the bargain . will be laid before tb copncil at Its meeting next Mon day and providing the group ef eight which voted to offer the water company $1,100,000 eight days ago, can be held together, . the1 agreement is slated for ap proval. The gist of the contract coin cides with the resolution pasned by the council March 23. The city agrees to drop its appeal to the supreme court on the May 16. 1930, charter amendment.' The company agrees to proceed' at i once to complete its filter plant. The company agrees that all of its additional expenditures , on the filter plant shall be sub ject to scrutiny and approval of j the city. City Gains Some Points In Parley . . , The actual purchase price of the plant, exclusive of accounts receivable, materials and sup plies on hand, is to be il.ioe, 000 as of February 1. 1931, this figure and method of financing the plant's purchase to be. sub mitted to the people at a regular or special election. The city's conferees gained several points in their negotia tions over the weekend. The water company officials conceded that the ' price of February 1. 1931, should be subject to depre ciation, making the figure de crease each month the city' did not exercise Its option. The scale of -depreciation is as yet unde cided upon, conferees for the dry preferring to leave this to the council, f -Engineer Baar has asked that the figure stand at A one. per cent' on the depreciable e property for one year after the completion of the filter plant and at two per cent for. the fol lowing year. Will Guarantee Filter Efficacy The company also consented to provide exilicltly In the eon- tract that it would assume full liability that the. filter plant would furnish potable water free from any bad odor or taste. Prior, to the commencement of work on the fUter plant the com pany agrees to furnish the city's engineer with plans for the work and an estimate of cost. When the work is done, if the filter plant Is unsatisfactory, the water company agrees o make it sat isfactory, and to bear ths addi tional, cost. The company ; also agreed te include in the contract a state ment on the annual operating ex pense for. the filter plant, co venanting that the charges would not exceed that each year. Injunction Salt Deemed Likely ' J Considerable dissatlsfa c 1 1 o n was expressed about town yes terday by citizens. One group is said to have approached Fred -Williams, attorney, and to have asked him to enjoin the consum mation of a contract between the council and the water company.-. WilUams said last night that he had not yet . been re tained for such an action. He said he would not start suit on his own account but admitted that a number of citizens bad talked to him protesting against the; "deal" with the company; One group of objectors are those who believe the establish ment of a price of $1,100,009 for the ' water company's . plant here is excessive.' These men claim the pending suit in the su- . preme court should be complet ed, and It the charter amend ment is found valid, condemna tion proceedings should be be- gun. : Another group of residents hold that mountain water Is the source of supply needed for F-a v lem. They claim that for net more than $600,000 than the . present plant, which a filter sys tem will cost, mountain water could be brought 34 miles froca the North Santlam river, at th same time making it unnecessary to- spend virtually $40,000 an nuaUy on the pumping systert now required land to be required when the new' filter plant is cper ating.