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Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, November 14, 1931
No. 199
iUCEIHT is
OFFERED PM
FIRM TO BUILD
Opposition to Vacation of
Street to be Withdrawn
If Work is Started
Construction Desired Here
To Provide Jobs, is
Reason for Offer
'Possibility that construction of
tbo addition to- the Oregon Pulp
and Paper, mill on Trade street
may start soon 'is seen -in the an
nouncement by Dan J; Pry, Jr.,
that if the company will start
construction within 90 days the
Fry interests will withdraw all
opposition to the vacation of the
portion of Trade strlet in favor
of the paper company. At pres
ent the matter is in suspense
pending trial of the suit of the
paper company to quiet title to
the street area.
Sirs. Dan Fry, Sr., as title
owner of the warehouse property
at Trade and Front streets, filed
an answer in opposition to the
company's . aetion. When the
building congress and the city
council pressed the company re
cently to begin construction in
accordance with the understand
ing when the vacation ordinance
was passed, the failure to clear
the title was cited as one of the
reasons why construction could
not start at once. With the de
cision of the Fry interests to
withdraw opposition in the pend
ing suit, the matter goes square
ly up to the paper company on
whether it will proceed imme
diately or not.
Will not Contest
If Work Started
' "We do not want to appear in
the position of obstructionists.
said Dan Fry, Jr., Friday. "If
the company will start work In
90 days we will not contest its
effort to clear the title to the
street. It was the agreement
and understanding when the mat
ter was pending before the coun
cil that the company would start
Immediately to build this add!
tlon, and pne reason urged was
mat me construction work woum
help relievo unemployment and
the operation of the new unit
would provide more jobs for Sa
lem workmen. Now the company
has the opportunity to make good
on its promises."
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Man Wanted
At Klamath
Caught Here
L. L. Low, sheriff of Klamath
county, is expected -here today to
take into custody Ray McKay,
who with Rudolph Mclnturff, was
arrested last night by A. A. Win
ters ten, city policeman, and
Lieutenant McClaln and Ray Abst,
state policemen, in a raid on the
house , at 923 South Commercial
street. McKay is wanted in
Klamath county on felony
charges. Both men are charged
locally with possession of liquor.
The men admitted being guilty
of bootlegging, tbe officers said.
Mclnturff will be arraigned in
municipal court here on liquor
charges.
Officer Wintersteea discovered
the presence of the wanted man
when he noted the license number
on a coupe in front of the house
corresponded with a number list-i
ed on a bulletin at state police
headquarters in the city hall. He
called the state officers to his as
sistance and together they made
the raid.
While the lien tenant was ques
tioning Mclnturff at the front
door, Officer Wintersteen entered
at the back door and caught Mc
Kay in the act of attempting to
disconnect the trap from the sink.
Wintersteen said McKay had been
pouring gin into the sink. The
police took one-half gallon of al
leged synthetic gin as evidence.
Mclnturff lives here with his
mother, the officers Bald, while
McKay, a half-brother, for the
past several years had worked in
Klamath county as a logger.
FINISHED LINEN
SHIPPED
AT PLANT HERE
Newly Organized Company
Rushing Production,
Behind on Orders
Aii new Looms Tried out,
All Will be in Full
Use Before Long
Will START RELIEF
COLLECTION DEC. 1
Day's pay a Month Plan to
Get in Operation Then
Is Final Decision
UK
December 1, will mark the date
for the commencement of col
lection of one day's pay each
month from state officials and em
ployes for the relief of unemploy
ed, It was definitely decided yes
terday at a meeting of a commit
tee appointed by state department
heads last week.
All collections made December
1 will be based on the salary and
wage checks of state officials and
employes for the month of No
vember. Offsets will be allowed In
all cases where the officials and
employes have contributed to local
relief funds in different parts or
the state. The contributions will
continue for a period of five
months.
Remittances may be in the form
Caraway Job
In Senate is
Given Widow
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 13
(AP) Mrs. Hattie Caraway
waj appointed by Governor Har
vey Parnell today. as the tempor
ary successor of her husband, the
she will serve more than a month,
way, who died here last week, and
by virtue of that, she will become
the second woman In history to sit
as a member of the senate.
She will occupy the seat until
a successor for the unexpired term
is chosen at a special election
January 12. The governor said
also would seek her election for
the remainder of the term, which
ends March, 1933.
She will take her. seat when
congress convenes . December 7,
and thus, even if she is not elect
ed for the remainder of the term,
she will serve more than a month.
Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton
of Georgia was the first woman
senator, but her appointment was
Shipments of finished articles
are now daily leaving the plant
of the newly organized Oregon
Linen Mills. They are jroine as
fast as they can be supplied from
the looms anA aRHAmhl a1 anri
packed, and even so the speed of solely complimentary. She merely
operations Is not sufficient to fill wok tne oatn ana reureo in ia
readilv all nrders from th trade, vor of Senator Walter F. George
A considerable " shipment going Therefore, Mrs. Caraway will be
forward today to a wholesale the first woman actually to serve
house had. to be made is incom- in the senate.
plete. with the balance of the ar- Mrs. Caraway's appointment
tides to be made up and packed again created a tie between aem
ocrats and republicans at 47 each,
and restored democratic . hopes
tor organizing the senate
COUNTIES URGED TO
within the next few days
Several of the leading Salem
stores are now supplied with lin
ens from this mill, and the same
is true In Portland, Seattle and
other coast cities.
An especially fine line suitable
for the holiday trade is going out,
in toweling. One of the packages
contains a luncheon cloth and
four napkins to match, in a beau
tiful small box and on each box
Is lettered the fact that it contains
ArtfolAa mil frnm Drftrnn vrnwn
flax, and that they are manufac- DeVerS SayS State CannO
turea oy me saiem Liinen juuis.
Various kinds of toweling are be
ing shipped, some of them being
made on special orders.
All of Looms to
Be Operated Soon
All the new looms have been tried
out, and they are now all in oper
ation excepting two or three,
which will be going shortly.
The operating force now con
tains 60 to CO people. It will
SIDE RELIEF LOAD
Do it all; Asks Road
Budgets not cut
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. IS.
(AP) Oregon counties must as
isume responsibility in the unem
ployment emergency and not at
tempt to pass this responsibility to
the state highway commission, the
state or federal government. J. M
likely remain at about that point Devers, state highway commission
for some time, until various im- attorney, toia county juages. com
provements can be made and a
balanced sequence of operation
secured in all departments. Also,
a good deal of training muBt be
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TO RECLAIM PEIf
(Copyright, 1931, By The Asso
ciated Press.)
S. S. CONTE GRANDE, Nov.
13 When DIno Grand! was in
the United States in 1926 he
threw a penny into the Potomac
river because omebody told him
that would ensure his return.
When he got home he impart
ed a great deal of his enthusiasm
for America to Signora Grand!,
but now on ship half way across
the ocean she is of two minds
about the experiences which will
be hers.
She Is keen to see the country
which excited her husband's vol
able admiration, but she dreads
.the publicity which she has been
told will be unavoidable.
Donna Antoneita Grand! is
herself a combination of the old
and the new a woman in whom
there is blended the conservatism
of the old fashioned mother and
the inquiring, mind of the modern
fascist.
Her 'trunks are filled with
gowns of the newest mode and
she is ready for numerous public
appearances.
BRAND ISLAND UP
on n
missioners, recorders, clerks and
engineers in session here today
Devers said there were about
40.000 unemployed persons in
Oregon and that for each unem
jloyeL wage earner there are an
atwagrer inree dependents. He
said that counties must help to re
lieve this situation and that "this
is certainly no time for any coun
ty to slash Its budget for road
work, construction or improve
ments of any kind."
Awards Presented
Various Officials
Commissioner R. A. Wright,
Clackamas county, won the con
test for the oldest Judge or com
CHINESE FORGE
TAKES VICTORY
I ill AREA
Yankee Soldiers on Guard Near
Center of Trouble in Orient
Repulses Japanese Attack
With aid of Russian
Brigade, Claims
Tokyo Sends new Ultimatum
Requiring General Man
To Evacuate Field
LONDON. Nov. 14 (Satur
day) (AP) A desperate battle
for capture of the Nonnl bridge
in Manchuria Is In progress, a
Harbin dispatch to the Daily Her
ald said this morning.
The dispatch sent Friday mid
night, stated the Japanese started
the attack with an aerial bomb
ing and then employed cavalry in
a flanking movement.
Aided by a Russian brigade, the
Chinese repulsed the attackers
and hurled their own lnfan
try Into the enemy lines, the
Herald correspondent said. He re
ported the Japanese right wing
was gravely imperiled.
Both sides put up a fierce ar
tillery bombardment, the dispatch
said.
TOKYO. Nov. 14 (Saturday)
(AP) The war office an
nounced today that General Honjo
has been instructed to Inform the
Chinese General Mah Chan-Shan
he must evacuate his position in
the Nonnl river area by Novem
ber 25 or Japan "will take effec
tive steps."
The following conditions of
evacuation were stipulated: Gen
eral Mah shall withdraw to Tsltsi
har; such Chinese forces are now
are concentrated at Tsitsihar and
Anganchl must be returned to
their original posts.
MO WILL LEAVE
SALEM NEXT WEEK
Exhibition IrfTortland foi
Present is Arranged
By new Owners
Despite or rather because of
it the recent vote that supposed-
nf individual rhek currency, or 'y placed Grand Island in the new missloner present. He was born
a blanket check covering the Amity union high school district, October 9, 1856. Judge D. T. Tem
whole department. Collections will Grand Island is still up in the air pleton, Washington county, was
. j.'S it- i .. a. over hi ?h nrhrwil mattftri. Sn mnrh tha vnnno-Aat iniintT official nres-
De maue oy iu vanu ua o wlo uc- i " I j r -f '
partment heads, who will turn the 1 80 that the battle has been carried ent. He was bom November 17,
n.nnT nr in William Elnilr. lee- to the Yamhill courts, in an in- 1904.
f tw. atatA hoard f eon- Junction suit filed by Roy E. Will Commissioner Jay Dunn. Lin
May be Allocated ""i
AmOU Counties oviuv umuu I9ia yvuyio UI
No definite derision was reacn- i " 1U " a" UUJ"
one; oiners warn 10 see li in me
Dayton union high school. And
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Cavalry detachment of tbe 15th U. S. Infantry, statloBcd at TienUim,
China, In shown la forma tioa before the gate of the foreign ctm
eefialoB, where It is on Koard to prevent disturbances. Above,
Henry Pn-YL China's deposed "boy emperor," who waa reported
Friday to have been taken to Manchuria by Japanese who plan to
set him np as a pro-Japanese monarch.
HEATED TALKED FOR
T
UNIT
Prominent Farmer may run
For Commissionership
Now Held by Porter
(Turn to page 5, col. S)
ed relative to how the relief fund
shall be distributed, but this is
being considered by the commit- o tne battle wages.
The complaint asks that the re
cent election, in which Grand Isl
and was the only one of six dis
tricts voting against unionization
with Amity, be set aside, and
points to a number of alleged Ir
regularities in the election.
m . . if i Hearing on me injunction suu
AttaCk Isiiarge will be held before Judge Arlie G.
waiter oi JucrainnTiue louaj,
The complaint also seeks re-
(Turn to page 6, col. 4)
Meyers Pleads
Not Guilty to
TTannr TC Vf DTftri TtlAAitful Tint
istralnlnr order against Lester Al
a charge of assault and battery "on Ross Rogers, Eugene Fields ter last July J
BECKLEK EXPLAINS
CAUSE OF SLAVING
ROSEDURG, Ore., Nov. 15
(AP) Cecil Beckley, 42, Glide
farmer, took the stand In his
own defense at his murder trial
here today. He is accused of
slaying his wife and step-daugh-
by F. J. Gilbr&ith following an
altercation In the lobby of the
and R. F. Kldd, designated as
members of the new union high
n.fofflA WAdiiMdav. scnooi ooara ai Amuy, irom laa
. . 1 1
No time for tne case was sei oy "e
Judxe Hayden because of conflict
in the time lawyers who will de
fend the parties involved could be Pa2S PrOgreSS
It is 'said the argument which ?Qf Solicitation
statements maid by Gllbraith in a
recent talk before the Rotary club
Beckley told of his life from
the time he could remember un
til the day of the alleged mur
ders. He said he had been married
three times - before he married
Alma Clutter in 1929. He said
soon after their marriage his
wife discovered pictures and let
ters of his former wives and fre-
O Pa7fi JPlinlQ nent Quarrels resulted. He tes
VI MSMllCl r Uiillo titled his step-daughter Joinet
Steiwer for tax Boost
Home Site map Ordered
Much Wheat Sold at top
City Employes Gfae pay
SAYS "LOGICAL PLAN"
. THE DALLES, Not. 13. (AP)
Increasing the income tax In the
higher brackets was advanced "to
day by United States Senator
Frederick Steiwer as the "logical
pL.n" for Increasing federal reve
nue. "An Increase in corporation or
capital tax simply meant passing
It along to the consumer, said
Senator Steiwer in addressing the
Eastern Oregon Wheat league,
which opened a two-day session
here today.
EUGENE JOIXS PLAN
EUG2NE, Not. 13. (AP)
City Recorder R. S. Bryson an
nounced today Eugene city em
ployes had Toted to donate one
day's pay monthly for five month
(or relief of the unemployed. The
plan will. become effective Jann
.sry 1. - ."- .
i IRVING GETS JOB
ROSEBURG, Nov. 13. (AP)
Ben B. Irving, Roseburg engineer.
recived word today his bid for
preparation of a topographical
map of the 407 acre northwest na
Printed materials for mall so
licitation of workers in Salem
business houses, offices and or
ganizations, for winter relief
funds will come off the press on
Monday and the drive set in high
gear, R. A. Harris, who is serv
ing as secretary for the financial
committee of the Community
Service charity-coordinating
group, yesterday announced. At
least $10,000 will be sought in
the campaign. The funds will be
distributed to the various chari
ties through the executive com
mittee of Community Service.
T. A. WIndlshar Is head of the
financial committee and has as
his assistants, J. T. Delaney and
William McGllchrlst, Jr.
Tusko will bid goodby to Salem
next Tuesday or Wednesday, Jack
oGrady, who with Bayard Gray
last Tuesday purchased the ani
mal from Harry Plant, said yes
terday on returning from Port
land. The heavy tusker will be
transported to the Rose city on a
truck trailer, there to be placed
on exhibition in a suitable build
ing until spring. The owners
plan to take Tusko on an exhibi
tion tour beginning next April.
Salem will lose probably the
largest resident it ever had, for
Tusko weights over 10 tons and
stands 10 feet, six inches high. Of
his 45 years, 35 have been spent
in the United States, mostly with
circuses. He was brought to this
country from India.
Beginning with his appearance
here with the circus last spring,
this largest of elephants in capti
vity. It is claimed, continually has
held the attention of the public.
During the summer he was pur
chased by T. H. Eslick ot Port
land and returned here for exhi
bition at the state fair this fall.
Tusko was abandoned by his own
er and liens subsequently were
filed upon him by the Marine
(Turn to page 5, col. 4)
Yielding to the solicitation of
many friends, W. A. Heater, well
nown farmer living on the Silver
Creek Falls road, eight miles
northeast ot Stayton, Is seriously
considering becoming a candidate
for tliu at flie vl ueamty commis
sloner. Heater is a registered re
publican, and would contest for
the office now held by John Por
ter of Silverton.
"I have not definitely decided
whether I will run or not." said
Heater, who was In town Friday
I have had strong urging from
my own neighborhood and from
other parts of the county and am
figuring on malng the race. I will
make an announcement as to my
decision before long."
Heater is a native of the county
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BA1
FAILS
tlonal soldiers' home site here bad
been accepted.
Bids for preparation of the map
were called for recently by Colo
nel William Radcilff, San Francis
co, United States board of hospi
talization engineer.
FARMERS CASH IN
SPOKANE. Wash., Nov. 13.
(AP) Henry W. Collins, Port
ers National Grain corporation, IgJenipSey DOOeO
farmers had sold approximately And C266r6u JJ2
s,vuu,vuu ousneis oi waeai in w
last 10 days.
Most of it brought peak prices.
he said. Including recent sales, he
added, about SO per cent of the
Pacific northwest crop has been
sold.
joined
his wife in the "abuse."
Beckley said he was compelled
to prepare his own meals. Last
July 2 he prepared his own
breakfast and went out to cut
hay. He took with him a small
rifle to shoot rodents. During the
afternoon he came upon the two
women picking berries and they
told him, he said, they were go
ing to leave him. A quarrel en
sued and he shot them, he tes
tified.
Bout at Moline
KLAMATH HAS SNOW
KLAMATH FALLS, Not. 13.
(AP) The first heavy snow of
the year began fairing here to
night
The snow started at ; 1:20
o'clock and at 8 o'clock was an
Inch deep.
MOLINE, 111., Nov. 13 (AP)
Jack Dempsey drew a crowd ot
4,500 spectators Into Moline field
house tonight bat boos and cheers
mingled equally as he fought two
round' no-decision bouts with
Husking Wizard
Aged 18, Takes
National Title
GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa, Not.
13 (AP) Orville Welch, II
year old cornhnsklng wizard
from Monticello, Ills., today
turned back the challenge of ri
vals from seven other states to
win the eighth annual eornhusk-
Ing tournament and maintain
the hold on the title which his
home state and neighboring Iowa
have held since the annual fall
agricultural classic was Inaug
urated. -
Welch in 80 minutes of in ten-
DOT m ESCAPES
SOUTH BEND, Wash., Nov. IS.
(AP) A day-long search In
this vicinity was unsuccessful to
day for a lone bandit who tied up
five persons, compelled a clerk to
open a safe, and then escaped
without obtaining any money from
tne Pacific state bank. .
The search was conducted by a
posse of 50 men, but the man got
away safely into wooded country
oacs: oi me oanx.
The bandit, entering the build
lng through store rooms in the
rear before 8 a. m.. In succession
tied up four bank employes.
A clerk was ordered to open
the safe, but the time clock on
the Inner door had been set for
8:30 and would not work.
Finally, Lester W. Horns n, 83,
cashier, arrived and became suspi
cious when he saw the shades were
not drawn. He telephoned from
another building and no one an
swered. He summoned the sheriff.
By that time, the bandit had
left, being seen disappearing In
brush on a nearby hill.
Georxe Neron. billed as "Cham
pion of Greece, and Pete Wistorf I slve bangboard hammering load
1 of Chicago, a couple of heavy-1 ed 2,255 pounds of the golden
weights.
There were no knockdowns
and the former heavyweight
I champion was not extended.
cereal for a net of 3,198.4
pounds after deductions for ears
left In the field and for husks
on corn gathered.
Portland Man is
Killed at S.F.
' '
SAN FRANCISCO, Not. 13.
(AP) Joseph Lincoln, former
Portland mill hand, was struck
and killed by an oil truck here to
night while attempting to cross a
street. He was 44 years old and
leaves a wife and child In Port
land, police said.
DEATH CAD DRIVER
PLEADS HOT GUILTY
J. O. Herron was arraigned be
fore Judge Miller Hayden Friday
on a eharge of involuntary man
slaughter following the death of
Miss Loretta Wilson ot Stayton
who was injured in an automo
bile accident Wednesday. Her
ron was the driver of the car.
To the eharge Herron pleaded
not guilty". No definite time
waa set' for the ease to be heard
because of the condition of the
two other people who made up
the party of four in the car at
the time of the accident. It pos
Bible it is desired that these two
appear either In person or by
deposition. Both are in the Stay
ton hospital. Miss Marie Lovak
one of the four, received a frac
tured skull and Linn Goodwin
suffered a fractured arm and
bruises which left him uncon
scions and from which stupor he
had not rallied at the last report.
Young Herron is in the county
Jail through failure to raise
33000 ball.
1
RUSSIA 1
TO
CONFLICT
REPORTS AVEfl
Communists From Siberia
Said Aiding Chinese;
Charges Hurled
Former boy Emperor Sent
To Manchuria, Plan
Pro-Japan Rule
MOSCOW, Nov. 14. (Satur.
day) (AP) Moscow newspapers
toaay puousned dispatches from
Pelping saying a white guardist '
named Ushakov had been arrested
on his arrival from Harbin and .
documents In his possession were
proof that provocative action
against Russia was being prepared
by Japanese military authorities.
White Russians are cooperative
with the Japanese in these pur
ported preparations, the dispatch
es said.
10 JODS DAILY
Twelve Thousand a Month
To be Aided With Rotat
ing System, Indicated
PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 13
(AP) The Oregon State High
way commission today outlined a
tentative emergency unemploy
ment relief plan which will pro
vide 3000 jobs a day through the
winter moatas Under -U
tlon system of one week s work
In four the commission expects
to furnish work for 12,000 men
a month.
The program contemplates the
expenditure of about 31,250.000.
the amount to be spent in each
county to be decided by unem
ployment relief requirements.
Through sale of a special block
of bonds the highway department
will contribute $1,600,000, while
the 8250,000 will be federal aid
money.
Three proposals for an east
and west arterial route through
Washington county was advocat
ed by as many delegations. The
delegations agreed on one point,
that the present route is inade
quate and that traffic congestion
will grow more acute with the
building of the Wilson river road
to the sea.
Most of the day was devoted
to discussion between the com
mission and county courts of the
completion of the secondary
highway system. Agreements
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Education Week
Success Pleases
School Leaders
Observance of National Educa
tion week In the Salem schools
this year was well worth while
Superintendent George Hug de
clared yesterday. More persons
got acquainted with the school
buildings and instructors than in
previous open house periods.
The week's program ended yes
terday with a tea given by the
teachers for school patrons at
the Washington grade building
and with visiting periods and as
semblies at the other grade
schools.
(Copyright, 1931, by Associated
Press)
TIENTSIN, China. Nov. 13.
(AP) An expeditionary force de
scribed as communists from Si
beria was reported in white Rus
sian circles today to have descend
ed on Japanese troops in the Non
nl river sector and driven them
back beyond the bridgehead.
A brigade, composed of Chi
nese, Koreans and Buriats from
the vieinlty of Blagovaschensk oa
the Manchurian border, was said
to hare swept from the north into
the highway near Tsitsihar and at
tacked the Japanese with machine
gun fire, demoralizing them and
forcing them to retreat. Several
Japanese airplanes were said te
have been captured.
Boy Emporer" oa
Way to Manchuria
At the same time. Henry Pu-Ti,
China's former boy-em porer, waa
represented by Chinese sources to
be on his way to Manchuria with
the former empress to be Installed
by the Japanese as the ruler of
h e Independent government
which they set up several days ago
fter deposing Governor Chang
Hsueh-LIang.
A Japanese official termed the
report "premature" but intimate!
that plans were under foot to ele
vate the youth to a Manchurian
throne sooner or later.
The story persisted, however.
that he and his party had been
hustled out of the Japanese eon
cession. In which he has lived
since 1924, late last night and
placed aboard a steamer for Iair
en. He was escorted to the water
front by Japanese soldiers, it was
said.
New Telephone Franchise
Plan Offered to Council
Proposal that a new 20-year
franchise be granted te the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph
company here was made by re
presentatives of that group to the
ordinance committee of the city
eonncll at an informal conference
held here Friday morning.
The proposed franchise would
replace the S 0-year franchise now
held by the eompany, a franchise
to expire In tbe spring of 1934.
Under the franchise proposed by
Vice-President Dodge ot the Port
land office and H. V. Collins, dis
trict manager here, a gross pay
ment of two per cent on tele
phone Income would be paid- to
the city. This would be In lieu
ot any tax on Income or license
fee.
The proposal comes as a coun
ter suggestion to the two per cent
tax proposed on all utility -incomes
in the city in an ordinance
now pending before the council.
Collins stated that the present
gross revenue of the eompany
here was 8225.000 aid that the
proposed franchise would net the
city 14500. Under existing ar
rangements the city receives
$59e license payment annually
and approximately $1400 of free
telephone service for the fire, po
lice and other city departments.
The ordinance committee Is to.
consider the proposal carefully
along with the ether suggestions
presented to it recently when oth
er utility representatives met with
the committee at the city hall.
The matter of a general two per
cent tax is to come before the
council Monday. The proposed
franchise payment should not be
considered a tax. telephone com
pany officials said, the payment
being In lieu of any other assess
ments.
The existing telephone eompany
franchise was granted by the city
eonncll to Georgir 8. Ladd and as
sociates Jane f, 1884. Later the
telephone eompany was known as
the Fadne States Telephone
Telegraph company, the word
"States subsequently , b e 1 a t
dropped.
NEW SHIFT TO GET
RELIEF JODS NEXT
The 43 men who have b-a
working on state and county
emergency road projects during"
the present week will go off shift
after today to make room for
others of the more than COO me
who have registered at the U. 9L
employment office, according te
Agent Sim Phillips. The shifts
will alternate weekly.
When the new shift goes oa
next Monday, 12 more men wiH
be employed than durlnr the.
present week. The Jobs In Polk
county will be Increased from 23
to 25 and on the Pacific highway
south of Salem from 20 to 3
Prospects, Phillips yesterday re
ported, are that several more
shifts will be instituted witbia
the near future.
Had the rains not forced the
men employed this week to stop
work on several occasions, their
earnings would have amounted
on state Jobs to $18 apiece. Ia
addition to cutting down their
Income, the rains caused the me
discomfort because few of these
possessed suitable clothing.
None of those sent to work
from the employment office were
fired from their Jobs for inceat
petency. "Those men want work
and are willing to work hard
when they get It," Phillips declared.
Light Work For
Veterans Asked
Light work of any sort Is need
ed by 25 disabled war veteraaa
here, Sim Phillips, agent for the
U. 9. employment bureau yester
day reported. These men have
applied to the agent for work ant
because of their being Incapaci
tated for heavy tasks, could net
go on the emergency road construction.
1 PASCO MAYOR DIES
PASCO, Wash,, Not. 13. (AP)
Mayor Alrin P. Gray, who serv
ed as ."chairman" of the group ef
American mayors . who toured
France last summer, died at a hos
pital tonight with his family at the
bedside. He was T8 years old.:
PORTLANDETt HURT
EUGENE, Ore., Not. 13. (AP)
Raleigh Stlnson, Portland, was
In the . Eugene hospital tonight
for treatment of Injuries received
In an automobile accident hear
Cottage Grove. He was hot hart
seriously. ' . .