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ffiUDED ; GREATEST It! : " ! Changed: Living "Habits for Host . of World; his : ESS inning Humble (Coottnoed from pf l j t Veleped. He earn from Dutch etock, his people arriving in Now I York in 1730. He was bora la ' Milan, Ohio, on - February 11. ' If 4T. Fortunately for him his J mother who was Mlaa Mary Elr ' llett. had been a-teacher ht high schools in Canada. For Edison r waa backward In school and soon Vtlred of it, and it wU f torn her he learned much as a child. At 11 " be was the proud owner of a lab- oratory in the basement of his - home, which was then in Bratiot, "Mich., and to make sure no one ' would tamper with it he marked ': "POISON" on each of ZOO hot 1 The first employment of the toy wno was to become tne grea J est Inventor of all time was ag a ...K. on IhA UriOQ xiuu ' m ran between Port. Huron 'fand Detroit. His time off la De- ,-troit was went in tne puouc , 1 brary. On the tram no prmieu ,:i ..irr ki. h.h1' sometimes tsei- i lins as many as 400 copies. When i! the CiTli , war bepau Edison p bribed telegraph operators to give hint bits or important a" wi . he hurriedly , set UP and ran off a. ': hand press. His price for his pa- er varied with the importance of tne news u cohiaihcu. The budding genius had a lab ' oratory on the train, also, and one day a sue or pnospnoruo on the floor and started a fire. -The conductor put him off aft boxing his . ears hard enough to cause, the deafness irom wnic Edison was to suffer for the rest of his life. v" la 1863 he became an operator i K at the Grand Trunk etatfon at Stratford Junction Canada. There was little to do all night except to telegraph the word 'Sis" every hour to show he was - not asleep. Edison invented a ' . contrivance to do this for him. One night he let the train get by ' him and he left hurriedly, becom ing an Itinerant operator. Drift ing Into Boston in ' he Invent , :d a stock ticker but .business i generally became bad and he "'Went to New York, ; , While sitting in the office of f the Gold and Stock Telegraph Co.. the Instrument stopped. Edi son fixed itand was made man ager with a salary of $300 a . month. He Improved the instru ment and formed Pope,. Edison and Co., electrical engineers and general, telegraph agency. With the proceeds from a 'pat ent sold: to the Western Union ." Telegraph Co., Edison set up a ' plant of his earliest Inventions tras themutomatic teleraph which could send and - receive 3.000 worda' an hour. He took the type- j writer and made the practical : S Remington out of it. In 187 J he 1 vent t England and sold his . 'automatic and quadruple tele-' t graph aystem. He had 45 lnven l ions to his credit and five plants i operating in New Jersey. 5 Devoting all his time to In dentions Edison neglected to P&T ! his bills until the sheriff came to .-collect them, but this dignitary ' always got the money. Edison's carbon telep hone r transmitter was sold for 1100,000 " to the Western Union,, which was !. la bitter competition with the Bell company. He tested 8.000 .' vegetable growths before ' he found the proper filament for 'incandescent light and the bam- boo he adopted was eventually l discarded for metal. - In 1833 he built the first elec , trie railway at his plant at Menlo Park, N. J.. and at the same time invented! and Installed an elec- trical power plant there, the first t its kind In the world. Edison spent five years and $2,000,000 on a plan and plant -at Edison. N. J., to extract one from powdered rock by magnets. - only to lose It all by the discovery 1 of great quantities of high grade v: re la -the Masaba Tange, which Tendered his process profitless. ', His fortune was gone and he was ' heavily In debt, but Edison took ! the blow philosophically. -I can always get a job as a I . telegraph operator at $75 a . month and that Is enough to take care of all my personal requlre-..- mmti" he said. . Edison's "personal require ments" were meagre. In 1890 he . was measured by a tailor -and an '-' hta suits thereafter were made from measurement. He eared little for the honors showered on him by governments ' and scientific associations. One diplomat who called at his plant i. with a medal found him covered with crease and in -his under- ; shirt. He refused to go to Eng land to accept an LL. D. degree k offered bv a great university.) . EdtMn'i friendship With Jcfhn Bnrronghs, Henry Ford, and Har ' vejr Firestone was one f of the "greatest -things In his life. Each " summer they met at , Sudbury, ' f . Mass.. and at Fort r Myers. Fla., ' each winter. During the last years of hit , life. Edison was busy with scheme for extracting rubber from sroldenrod at his place in - Fort Myers. , His death was the , culmination of years of diabetes. . ' Bright's disease and . stomach ul- cere, which necessitated the 84 year-old Inventor remaining on - an almost excluslTe milk diet. ' The great Inventor was mar ried his second time la 1888 to - Miss Mlna M. MUler. He had five ' children, Thomas A. Edison, Jr.. Charles Edison, Theodore Edi ton Mrs. M. B. : Oser and Mrs . -JoaaTS. Sloane. - Never Again for z-. Wilis Auto Thief 1 PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 1T. ' (AP) This automobile t h 1 e -changed his mind. ' r ': In - an abandoned automobile -found here today was a note read "lng: stolen. 808 Terry avenue, Seattle, Wash. My first and last. Berry."- The car was rsgisterti to H. S, tiMh, Status Found Guilty of Defrauding U. S .-I -- - f J) ALPHONSE CAPONE LIVESTOCK JUDGES . hike ijos n j Smith-Hughes Teams Gel " ting Ready for Interna tiona! Show, Portland SILVERTON, Oct. 17 The biggest tour of Smith-Hughes livestock judging teams and the last one before the Pacific Inter national show at Portland was held today, with 81 boys and 12 instructors participating from SUverton, WoodburnT Canby, Cor vallls, Newberg, Amity, Lebanon, McMinnvillo, Independence, Mo- lalla. Stayton and Albany. ' Warren Crabtree, local Instruc tor, led the tour, at the close of which he announced names of the three boys which will, represent Silverton at the livestock judging contests. They are Dwight Foot, Victor Hadley and Ernest Erick- son; Clifford Mauiamg u alter nate. The youthful v stock Judgers, members of high school vocation al education classes, visited the. Mt. Angel dairy, judged two clas ses of Jerseys at the Victor Mad sen farm south of Silverton. and also judged at. the Frank Riches and the A. N. Doerfler farms in the Waldo Hills sectlnn. The Sll yerton boys spent some time going over Doerfler's farm, where his famous Ioka Duroe Jersey hogs were judged, j Silverton Smith-Hughes boys who participated were: Sanford Davis, Ernest ! Armstrong, Bob Haggerty. Harold, Overlund, El mer Thompson, Sam Wilson. Cfc-de Parsons, Clifton Strom, Tom Miller., Herbert Jones, Dwight Foot. Victor Hadley, Wil liam 'Leatsch. f Ernest Erickson and Clifford Maulding. ID AL CAPONE euELTY. n f Continued from page 1) I not only can assure you of that, your honor" Fink said "but can assure you I will conTlncei your honor that you should ar rest the Judgment and that 70a will do so." All other motions will be argued Tuesday also the court said. UHAIiTFUI Receipt of $8 TOO from the fed eral government as payment for the Oregon and California land grant fund tax rebate for 1930 is expected soon by Marlon county. None of the moneys will be avail able for new , expenditure since they have been estimated and ap portioned in the budget under which the county Is now operat ing. : - Under the provisions ef the Stanf ield act, the federal govern ment returns to the counties an nually "ST set percentage of the proceeds from O. & C. land and timber during each year. When the act was enacted six years ago It was. retroactive to 1918. When Marion county ; recetred Its first check the total was nearly $110,- 000. ' f SAYS WIFE CAUSED HI TO: LOSE JOBS His wife caused him to lose two good jobs because she step ped out with his bosses, whose wives complained so that he had to give up the jobs and remove his wife from the towns. That. La. part, la answer and cross com plaint filed by Earl A. Thomp son In divorce action brought against htm . by Thelma Thomp son. . - - .. j : ... - . , In further claim for thro win? out her plea, tor divorce and granting same to him. Thompson says she has treated him cruelly. haa a violent temper, falsely accuse aim of association with otner women, . He says he Is a disabled veter an and not' now workinr. that he has no car now and that he has not enough te support a minor child by another marriage, 5 AURORA' WINNER LIBERTY; Oct. 17- The Lib erty boys football squad received Its secead " defeat Friday after noon. This time they were trim med with a $0-42 score by Au rora, wne teemed to have the euge on weight. ; However, it twa a good game. WHVESOI OVER OflE ftL . CUT FORECAST Change in Financing ! Fire Protection Principal item of Saving ; C Continued from :pae X held cannot be used for anything but fire equipment purposes. Te merge thia item In the general budget and yet to hold the! latter within the six per cent limit has required the ways and means com 4 mittee to reduce the other expense Items In the budget by $31,000. Special Items showing reduc tions include (fire department salary totals lowered $7500, piv lice salary reductions of $3000, $1000 reduction in the emergency fund. $2135 drop in the moneys appropriated for city parks, reduc tion of $1265 in the incinerator fund and a $2000 reduction la the funds, appropriated for the Marlon county health unit, t , j , ;. The tentative budget icontem- plates a one-mill leryi for fire de partment equipment instead " of the two-mill levy last year. Of the $17,500 raised slightly more than $8000 is to be used -to complete payment on the large fire- pumper purchased this year and but part ly paid' tor. The remaining funds of the $17,500 will be used for hose and other fire fighting equip ment, A reduction of $13,500 shows V In the amount of money needed for bond retirements and for Interest, a $20,000 special item which was raised in the 1931 bud get haying been eliminated. L Oth er retirements are slightly higher this year but the total interest and principal required will be $11,500 less. The wayi and means commit tee. will report favorably on con tinuing the one and one-half mill special tax which is used tor street repairs and upkeep in thai city. Thus the total reduction on all Items, including the two! special mlllage taxes, the general budget and the bond principal and inter est payments will be $20,00 If the pending budget is adopted. On the estimated basis of $1,750 of revenue constituting one-mill on the assessed value of the city, the reduction proposed by the coun cil will be slightly more than one mill or virtually 21 1 mills instead Of the 22 mills levied last year. This amounts to virtually a, five per cent tax reduction on city of Salem costs for 1932, RAIDS AT DETROIT CAUSE S ARRESTS Six state, county and federal pro hibition officers swooped down on Detroit Friday night andjdestroy- the peace of a quintet of alleg ed violators of the 18th amend ment. Four of the fire appeared before federal commissioner j Lars Bergsvik here yesterday morning and were bound over to j the fed eral grand jury, f 1 Four of the men were held In the city jail: K. C. Golnes and Rollle Morris, charged . with de livering 10 gallons of liquor to federal officers who confiscated their car; Berle V. Davis, found in possession of three 3 0-gallon stills, none of which were In operation; and Frank R. SteenhoutJ also ar rested on sale to federal officers. The fifth man, Harry Christian, was held La the county jail and his case will come before Commis sioner tsergsTiK Monday. He! was arrested on charge of sale. Indian School Officer Badly Hurt in Crash CHEMAWA. Oct. ! 17-1 Charles E. Larsen, disbursing officer! at the. Salem Indian school,, suffered a multiple fractured left arm Sat urday afternoon as a result of the automobile which he waa driving in accompanying a number of offi cials of the Indian Bureau from Washington, D. C. to Silets, j Ore gon, overturning near Burnt wood. some distance west of Corrallls. Mr. Larsen waa moved to the -general hospital In Corrallls, being semi-conscious following the ac cident as a result of the shock and loss of blood. : j ' f - His arm was-so badly broken. it is doubtful at this time whether it can be Bared without amputa tion. Mr. Larsen has been a loyal and efficient employee in the In dian service for some 20 years, and his many friends will be griev ed to learn of this serious acci dent. !.-,:' Billingsley To r End Work Here As Bus Manager !''. " 1 " ij " ' The sale of the Salem bus lines by the Pacific Greyhound corpor ation to Oregon Stages, ; Inc., which was announced ! In The Statesman . Saturday, will mean the retirement of T. L. Billingsley as manager of the lines, a posi tion he has held ever since the bus lines were started. Before that he was manager of the Sa lem street railway system, serv ing as director of transportation In Salem for a total of If rears. "M. A. Reed, one of the incor porators or tne new proprietary corporation, will be the manager of the system. Mr. Billingsley will continue with the, Southern Pacific which was the owner- of the street railway and bus lines here. - He expects to continue bis residence in Salem. 1 : DEBT CUT FAVORED NEW YORK, Oct. !17-4AP) The New York Post said ! today responses of , 3 senators i to 1 questionnaire Indicated the ' sen ate 'would listen favorably; to a proposal for reductloa . of war debts, ft coupled with a corres ponding cut In armaments. Tentative City Budget io Sukniitted to ity Council Monday Night - -1? ...Item' - Afrpori L Attorney. City Auditing City Books.. Band concerts ........ Bonding . inspection . Charities;: Salem boards Comfort station ' -" Emerjrency fund Engineer, city Fire department, 'salaries Gas, repairs, t. . , Hydrants, water , Health service Incidental expense Incinerator JaiL -expenses Library, Public Lighting, streets Parks Planning and zoning. Playgrounds L....... Police chief Matron Police force Expenses - Printing - - , , , , . Public Bldgs Main Fuel City Hall Recorder, salary Exp. Stenographer . Sanitary inspector btreet cleaning, sweep.. Flusher. water. etc Truck. Maint. Street commissioner . Treasurer, assistant Water rights ;... 3 Yi M. C. EmDlovment Of Estimated Misc. Receipts.. Tax levy within 6. ..$173,956 $184,394 1 In 1931 virtually one-half irom special two-miu tax at least one-half of which wUl be eliminated this year. All salaries are paid out of the general budget. Represents increase. ' JERSEY CLUB WILL DIVIDE PRIZE FUNDS 1 1 - ' ' ' ! t ; : Membership Campaign now j Planned by Group In. I j County, 1$ Word As a preliminary lo working up greater membership for the Mar ion county Jersey eattle club, an other meeting -will be called here shortly. It was decided at an en thusiastic gathering held yester day afternoon at the. chamber of commerce rooms. Victor Madsen, Silrerton. Is president and was in the chair yesterday. Discussion .felatlre to the $75 which the jersey club - recelred for placing second la county herds at the state fair resulted in action allotting each member ex hibiting at the fair a sum of mon ey, and allocation of the remain der to the club treasury. Mi O. Gunderson. Silrerton banker and psomlnent member of the Jersey club, gave a resume of farming and business conditions as he found them on a recent trip east. Gunderson was recently ap pointed a member of the state farm bureau. Announcement waa made that the annual Oregon ; state Jersey Cattle association banquet will be held ' at the Multnomah hotel in Portland, Thursday, October 2J, at 7 p. m. This Is during the Pa cific International Lire itook show. i OFFICIALS VISIT I CHEMAWA. Oct IT Super intendent J. T. Ryan of the Che- mawa Indian school returned to Chemawa Saturday morning af ter attending the Conference of Indian Serrice Officials held at the Davenport hotel, Spokane. The following people from the In dian Bureaja. Washington, D. C, accompanied Ryan to Chemawa, for a brief Inspection of the school: Dr. W. Carson Ryan, Jr., director of Indian education; Ro bert T. Lansdale, assistant, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs ; H. E. Hammond, formerly district Superintendent from Phoenix, Arizona; George T. Thompson, su pervisor, secondary education; James Arentsoa. supervisor trad and industrial training; Mr. Me Caskill and Mr. Gordon, members of the Institute of Government Re search. Former Superintendent Llpps of Chemawa, now located at Sacramento, California, also ac companied this party to Chemawa, and spent the day renewing friendships t among the students) and employes. The party left Chemawa on the night train, enroute to Wins low, Arizona, where another con ference will be held with the Indian Serrice school and Agency Superintendents of that district. TJX MBS -1 wis mura Rufus C. Holman. atato treas urer, Saturday announced that he had succeeded la obtaining loan of one million dollars tor the stato of Oregon, with Interest at the rat of 4 U per cent. In order to save interest, only 1400,000 will bo borrowed at this time. The money will bo used la reloading payments under the unconstitutional 1129 Intangibles tax law. HI r - Decrease ; ; -or : Increase $750 1031 Budget, 1,200 1532 Budget 45a. 3,145 350 ; 1,000 : 2,250 0 1,500 2,000 2,650 65,520 1,500 . , ; 8,000 6,000 1,700 5,000 ; : 800 -12,500 2569 400 150 1)60 2,400 1,320 27,900 5,000 600 1,500 . 500 ' 2,400 300 1300 11,450 1.400 -; 700 2,400 1,800 1,000 300 -3,143 470 1,500 3,200 ; 1,865 3,000 2,900 36,660 3,500 .7,667 8,000 1,750 120 50Q .. V' 950 r 200 tS65 ; 1,000 250 28360 , 2,000' 333 2,000 , 50 : 165 r 390 714 ,831 .2,135 100 140 . 0 0 . 3,000 1,650 600 125 150 s O 0 300 375 0 325 600 2,000 0 $6,558 6,265 1,190 13,214 28,000. 6,635 250, 1.20O 2,400 1,320 SO 900 , 6,650 300 1,625 650 : 2,400 3,300 2,100 10,075 1,025 -2,400 2.400 000 300 $204,156 $210,714 30,200 2(5,320 of this salary item waa paid ' Neither Holman nor his chief deputy would ! divulge the source of tho loan. ' Officials said the rata of in terest was satisfactory, consider ing that 4 per cent liberty bonds are selling at par. Tho re fund warrants aro now being pre pared by tho secretary of state. - A total of 19,00 of these war rants wU bo Issued, ranging from a few cents to more than $5000. ISSUE UP AT AMITY AMITT, Oct. 17 With but two weeks remaining before legal voters hero are called j upon to roto la the matter of a union high school. Interest is growing more evident, and each side of the question has ; its staunch sup porters. The proposition is to unit In to a union high school district tho following districts. Amity, Fair view, Hopewell,! Wheatland, Patty and Island district No. 94. At the election, five members of the un ion high school board of directors will bo chosen, and such other hualness as Incident to the for mation, If any, transacted. , The election will be held at the schoolhouse Monday, Nov. 9, at X o'clock.' Polls will bo open on hour. The vote will be taken by ballot. , . i 1 ! ' ' M. T. Henderson Is chairman of tho board of directors and Mary E. Breeding Is clerk of the, Amity school district. . TAIN PIONEER IS BELIEVED SLAIN MKDFORD, Or., Oct. 17 (AP) Loria Martin, CO, moun taineer and pioneer, found dead in th TJmpq.aa divide country Fri day, probably was shot by an un identified hunter, authorities said today after an investigation. Martin was shot within a mile of the placo where he shot and killed, Arthur Hubbard. - gam ward from Ashland, 1C year ago. Martin pleaded aelf defense In tho shooting; and he was . ac quitted... '. ... , .-a.!' .. .'-v Martin's gun, knapsack and hat were found 7 a feet front' the trail In to UmpQua divid country whero his body was discovered Friday by Joe Roe. Sheriff Jen nings said h believed an uniden tified hunter had fired the shot from th opposite side of tho gul ly. - Martin, apparently had stag gered to the trail before ho died. Tho ballot had passed through his left side near th heart. " Sheriff Jennings said a full in vestigation would be made. - Sullivan Found Guilty, Slaying Homer Bidwell LA GRANDE. Ore.. Oct. '17 (AP) WUlard Sulllvaa was con victed by a circuS court Jury to nfght for. tho murder of Homer Bidwell, Union rancher, near North Powder last June. Tho Jury recommended llf imprison ment. , Sentence will ho passed Monday. -:- -' v -j - v-r - , Bidwell was found dead in a field near his homo Juno IT. At first it was believed ho had boon Injured fatally whea hi team ran away. Examination, however, revealed . ho had ' beea - shot through on eye. , : Sullivan, who had been em ployed by Bidwell, fled after th shoottas. ' -' 1 '. ' : - 'i " MOON PROPERTY LEW 10 Tit CUIILI Three Mills Will be Enough " Next Year, Commission - - Members Predict (ConUnued from page 1) from th. intangibles, excise and personal income tax laws will not be available until th second-half payment are receipted, members of the tax commission estimated that the returns 'for 1931. based on incomes for 1930, would ex ceed f2.25,00. f "i The li31 acta provide that re ceipts from these taxes shall he applied, toward property relief, and ehalL not b used! fori oy other purposos. With the return of -' normal - conditions. . officials said it probably would be possi ble to wl out th state property tax within, the next three years. ; WhIU it may bo" possible to re duce thi state property taxi levy to tare mills, or from $4,500,000 to ll.2S0.000, xeluiv of I th elementary school tax, this 1 will ia no way rolloro tho present ua satisfactory coadltloa of the state's finances. I. Records la th state treasury department Indicate that there is an existing elastic deficit in the general fund of between si.f uv, 000 and $1,500,000, with pros pect of an even larger deficit be fore th end of th year. Intangibles Ruling Another Problem addlnr.to th worries of th de stat treasurer was the Tecent clsioa of th united - states su preme court, fa which it refused to review tho 1929 intangibles tax Uv case. This law previously waa declared unconstitutional by tho state supreme court, -with !th result that it is now necessary to refund payments aider the act aggregating $890,000. together with Interest estimated at $38,- 000. : Tn order to make these refund it has been necessary for the stat treasurer to go into th open fi nancial market and borrow $1. 000,000. This loan wiU probably run tor approximately SO days, with interest estimated at 4 per cont. ' . . 'U , "i -,;'"S ' 1. Ia addition to tho intangibles tax refunds, tho stat treasurer also will b called noon this month to pay out approximately $1.09i;ooo to tne counties through distribution of the motor fees for the three months ending October 1. one-third of tneso fees go to the' counties, with ' two thirds to th state highway com mission. . . : - ! I Tho records show that on Oc tober 10 the state treasurer had 92.790.000 in cash on hand.! of which amount $1,000,000 com prised trust funds which cannot be used for current expenses. With th nnnsuallv heaw drain on tho : state's finances, officials are looking -anead to December 1, when the second halt taxes jfor the year 1931 ar due. These tax es agregate $2,290,312.88, I of which $M 52,433.4 2 will go Into tho general fund. The work of preparing refund warrants under the unconstitu tional Intanrihlea ta-r law. started Thursday, under the direction; of the, secretary of state. There are approximately 19.000 of these warrants to be issued, ranging from a tew cents to mor than $5,000. ; - - - I Complete list of the persons who pald tho unconstitutional tax. ' their Addresses, and ; the amounts paid by each, has been turned over to tne state depart ment by tho state tax commission. Interest fiarmenta on thesa ra funds will be completed by the secretary or state. - Young Designer s Franklin Enters Engineer School l. ; . Paul Franklin, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Franklin, left Saturday for Etascadero, CaL, where h will enter school la the Etascadero school of engineering. j Two visits were mad by mem bers of th school staff asking young Franklin to come to this school. This was tho result of the prominenc gained byjth young man ia tho prize , winning coach made by hint and which won him a trip east this summer. Franklin will be ia tho school two years and plans to take, up arenautical engineering. He plans to build another coach this winter. Dresses Tkat ar. nnugtufy veil racketed POPULAR ; Pit ice q $13.75 $15.75 $17.75 $19.75 : $24.75 " D tvm MASONIC BUILDING US If. Cra Sk French Shop Elks Leadet To -Be Salem Guest JOHN R. COEN T EXALTED MB OF Coen Will Make Salem one ' Of Only two Visits; Many Will Come honoring tne visit or Grand Exalted Ruler John R. Coen, Sa lem Elks will be hosts tomorrow night at the lodge temple to Elks from -many points of the Willam ette valley! and other sections of Oregon, j . " . Mr. Coen is coming from a vis-, it through! the southern part of the country, and will make stops In only two Oregon cities. Salem and Portland. .Salem Elks have sent out word to all parts of the state, inviting in ; any fellow lodgemen who care to come. I Tho grand exalted ruled will he honor guest at a 8 o'clock dinner to be held Monday ; night at the Elks temple. For this event, about 70 invitations have been Issued to past exalted rulers of Salem and; . elsewhere and other special guests. The .reception committee for Mr. Coen Is T. A. Livesley and Dr. H. H. dinger. IHK00I1 WILL Th rock crusher operating on this end of th 4 asylum f arm- Aumsvlll road, brok down, yes terday and probably will - not be in operation until Tuesday or Wednesday. County .Roadmaster Frank Johnson found on a trip to this crusher and the Aumsrille plant yesterday. Commissioner John PortOr accompanied John-Bon.- ;- !:.; ; I I i Whether; a boxing or a bearing was broken was not known, but If tho latter, operations, cannot be resumed until sometime Tuesday, j Th Aumsvllle plant Is grind ing out rock regularly. Both jblants are furnishing gravel, to the same road, one working from each ond. I - j The plants will have 'another three Weeks or month's work, probably not closing down until November l. -:; : ,- . -; -jj Johnson and Porter also in spected a plec of newly graveled road in dl strict 80, Macleay, yes terday. ! . -H More Activity . In Building Is Noted in Week - i ! - Building activities in Salem last week were trebled over the pre vious week. Permits issued at the building inspector's office showed construction works amounting to $0279. i! Tho beginning of erection of a 15000 houft accounted for the in crease. ' Other new construction amounted to -$890. The cost of re roof lng jobs totalled $281; re pairs, $140,! and alterations, 85. Helpful Hint Healthful Living: i05 SUtt M ROAD WORK J. H. Wfflett T GALL EDISOO SOiDS '" 1 mm - Passes Away Early Today After Long Illness; . Family Present (Continued from par 1) was interpreted as a "very bad" sign. - On the previous day, although his " "mental drowsiness" still caused concern, ho ate two meals and , enjoyed , milk toast and stewed fruit, at night. Until strength tailed, he kept at tho work that made him tho most prolific Inventor of his time. Receiving reporters at Fort Mey ers. Fla.. on his 84th birthday, he disclosed that he had obtained 6 per cent rubber out of a gigantic golden rod with which he was ex perimenting. He was working for. 8 per cent, he said, adding a pre diction that in 24 years a plant would be. built tor commercial production of such rubber. He had undertaken his rubber experi ments at the behlest ot his old friend, Henry Ford, who , ex pressed fear tho foreign aupply would be insufficient. He also revealed that he was working on an anti-fog device in an attempt to make aircraft saf er; He continued to take a strong ' Interest In world affairs. The keynote of his life, his friends believed, was contained ' in a speech ho made in 1929 over an enormous ' radio ' network when tho whole world paid trib ute to him on the fiftieth anniver sary of his electric light. f I have spurred men to' great efforts." he said, "and it our work has widened the horizon of man's understanding even -a little and given a measure of happiness in the world, I am content." . (Continued from j pas 1 such a : procedure would not be objectionable to (the court. 1 . Graham has attacked the "val idity of the la- on the ground that it raises taxes In excess ot those permitted under the six per pent limitation amendment. He Informed the court that he desir ed to proceed squarely on that- is sue.'.'.; . r i l, 'Jj r j - . Custer Ross, representing the lntervenors; declared that Hob son and Porter were taxpayers on real property, and that invalida tion of the intangibles tax law would increase their ad valorem tax. . He denied that 'his clients were attempting to escape taxa tion. ! ;- -H. ! I ; i , : . , .1 Graham replied that If ' tho present petition for ! Intervention was allowed, then every other taxpayer, in the state would have a right to i intervene and there would be no end ot the record In the case. 1 -'.;. - Assistant Attorney General Moore said his office would wel come outside assistance. He made it plain, however, that la accept ing assistance bis office was not bound to accept all of tho Con tentions set up In the Interven tion.1 - .- Li! jj!! ( !, !'.-: . I' : - " 1 i ' ! ' : -: ie ITS GOAL 'iX:- '111 M .11- The Salem T.M.CA. Uat nfrhfc had reached within $3911 ot lta 91S.&00 membership enrollment drive which began last Thuradar morning, according to figure tabulated by the association sec retary. The total of fnnrfa nlerf. ed by 261 renewal members wa ii,u9s.z&, ana by 69 new mem bers,. $400, ; as Saturday is dull day for solicitation, it waa expected the returns made at the enrollment workers' luncheon -i yesterday would be smaller than on tha two previous days of tho drive. The enrollment effort will be carried on oeginning tomorrow with re newed effort. Prsent plans are to bring it to a clos next Friday. LIS llER VEil! OiJ 11 ''''' CASE IS OPPOSED r. m. Efiran fiEAl T T m rni.D.i.ni.1. n . n n. ' mimta-u ul Whittling Assures , Happiness Whea your boy comes home front school whistling you may know he la happy and also welL i It that whistle is gone watch out' there must be something wrong. r. Check his health and if ia doubt ask tho advice of your physician. -: If he give yoa a prescription bring It la and we will fill It for you... r Oar Frescrlptioa Service ia th Rest Service Wo Render , . )i?G3niOGbr?o! Phoao SlS 1' Sf".'i t--ft--?'.''- -