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BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS AU the: Fight Against Tuberculosis ' THE WEATHER Fai 'and cold today aad . Monday Mu, Temp. 8atw . , day 42, Mmw 22j variable winds noriJt to cast, river FOUNDED 1631 EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, November 29, 1931 No. 212 " "ijh . i TUSKQ IS GONE BUTDEPARTI1RE UNDER PROTEST Farewell, Tusko! You Enlivened A Dull Indian Summer For Salem Loyalty to Salem Revealed In Great Struggle to Resist Removal Two Hour Fight Waged ere He Boards Trailer and Heads for Portland Tnsko's gone! This, 10-ton, 42 year old pachy derm orphan, left on Salem's and the state fair board's doorstep two months ago, bid a swaying farewell to this city shortly after noon Saturday,, sateiy cnamea to a trailer built for one, Tusko raised his huge trunk in arching farewell and the big trek to Port land was on. Late yesterday a3 Tusko, truck, trailer, keepers and hay bales, neared the metropolis, a caravan came out to meet them. Portland photographers were in the van guard and Portland today will know it has a larger, older, crankier visitor than Ethelbert, Its late, lamented whale. Habitation Will be Boiler Works now Tnsko's habitat in Portland is to be the East Side Boiler works on East Main street where his owners will begin exhibiting the big fellow today. Ten cents for admission will be charged. Tus i, ko's new quarters will serve him this winter and with the spring Gray and O'Orady plan to start east with their charge after ac , cumulating sufficient funds from Portland exhibit s to keep Sa lem's pet In hay and apples throughout the coming summer. It's true Tusko left the Cherry City yt he left unwillingly. Tns ko's owners and keepers, Jack O'Grady and B. Grady; began their lob of loading Tusko for his 50-mile junket at 9:30 a. m. but it was noon by the time the huge captive had been stepped five feet to the truck, boostored 100 feet out of his goat shed headquarters and started towards the state fairgrounds exit, i Every step of the way Tusko protested. He curled his long trunk in rage and blew the white vapor of Oregon's frosts at his Intruders. He swayed danger ously from one tide to the other of his small wooden platform. He lunged at his disturbers as they started to circle him with chains and cable. Slowly and cautiously the web about Tusko was closed. First, O'Grady and Gray loosened long cable from its winch on the truck pulling the trailed which had been backed up close to Tns ko's stand. Then they started the (Turn to page 2, col. 1) . - ' Ljff !rv$ 1 1 i t, J if iT "r l II Lai: 4 r- 'i .- ; GLANCY OPENS FIRE ON OTHER E i HEADS Seeks to Enjoin Voting of Assertedly Unpaid Stock At Impending Meeting Grand Jury to Start Work Tomorrow on Prove of Company's Tactics Saturday's outstanding devel opment In the fast-moving de nouncement of the Empire Hold lng corporation came with an un expected legal thrust on the part of R. W. Clancy, company secre tary, who filed suit in the Mult nomah county circuit court asking a court Injunction to prevent oth er officers of the corporation from voting stock In the stockholders' meeting called for December 7. By this move Clancy carries into the courts opposition which has been brewing since last July when the former Medford doctor agreed to purchase 120,000 of Empire stock. He did pay $5000 in cash and later loaned the company 15000, thereby appearing as the largest subscriber in actual cash for Empire's securities. Saturday also brought further office Investigation of Empire by District Attorney John H. Carson and Barnett H. Goldstein, special prosecutor. Carson consulted with several legal friends on the pend ing grand jury investigation and said he was going to make a care ful study of all Oregon statutes which might have been violated in connection with Empire's connec tions. Carson said he was perus (Turn to page 2, col. 8) Not Equality But Bruises, Woman's Lot MORATE DE TAJtJNA. Spain. Nov. 28.- (AP) Womenfolk of this Tillage today nursed black eyes and broken heads, adminis tered by angry husbands after the women attempted to assert for the first time their equlity under the new Spanish constitution. The husbands went to work yes terday in the nearby fields, con fidently believing they had ousted Mayor Antonio de la Torre, the village's perrenlel "boss," in favor of a republican candidate. Upon returning at night they learned that their wives had organized a mass meeting during the day in protest against their spouses' ac tion. The husbands thereupon agreed to a general chastisement which was administered in homes and on the streets. Civil guards restored order. T m NOTE OP His Disclaimer Soothes Japan SATISFACTORY Didn't say Things Japanese Objected to; Dispatch Wrongly Attributed Secretary Accused of Rash Statements in Note by Tokyo Official By JAMES P. HOWE TOKYO, Nov. 29 (Sunday) (AP) An explanation by Secre tary of State Henry L. Stlmson that he never said some things which it had been assumed In Ja pan he had said was received In official circles here today with much satisfaction In view of a previous misconception of dis patches from Washington. The American secretary of state had been accused by the Ja panese foreign office, on the basis of statement attributed tft him. Application for Mandamus of -losing his head" and -fiymg io uusx bauanan nu IfTT WINS BATTLE M Hi ?r jitn Jfx-v--' T I 3 if HENRT ti. STIMSON SHIP OF STATE- STILL LAGfflC E HAND ON H 1 Governor has Made Couple, Of Visits to Capitol But is Away Again Numerous Storms Appearing Upon Winter Horizon; Road Board Fumes S OUT mm 'Si PLEA FOR KIEV RELEASE LO0M6 SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif., Not. 28 (AP) James J. Walk er, mayor of New York, "but only a lawyer today" he said, met Tom Mooney for the first time in a grey prison, trimmed with flow ers. The mayor, after a brief con versation with the prisoner in an aster bordered quadrangle retired with other counsel to a captain's office where a 40 minute confer ence was held. After the lawyers and prisoner had talked, the New York mayor said he was more than ever con vinced of Mooney's innocence. Tuesday morning Walker, Frank P. Walsh and Aaron Saplro will present to Governor James Rolph, Jr., a petition for the pardon of Mooney, who has served 15 years f . 'J v v,rr- ID LANDS SAFELY PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28 (AP) The Caterpillar club, re served for aviators who cheat death with parachutes, tonight had a new member, air mail pilot Melvin C. Garlow of Suburban Homestead Park. Garlow, flying a Pittsburgh Cleveland ship, today went over the side of his spinning craft at 400 feet and landed virtually ua hurt In his first parachute Jump. The plane sliced off a corner of the old exposition building, a landmark, and crashed in a heap of debris. A man working on a loading platform was slightly in Jured when struck by flying frag ments of the ship. Thousands of downtown shop pers were treated to the spectacle. Five mail sacks in the plane's cargo were undamaged. Carlow twisted an ankle as he was unable to guide the parachute sufficient ly and was thrown against the side of the building. By Ekwall Ruling PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 28 (AP) Presiding Circuit Judge Ekwall today granted a motion striking the application of C. A. DeGrace and Carl H. Johnston for a writ of mandamus to oust J. R. Callahan, state supervisor of Sav ings and Loan associations, and Oscar Pederson, examiner for the state corporation department. The motion was brought by James W. Mott, corporation com missioner, against Callahan and Pederson. DeGrace and Johnston were riven until December 4 to file an amended petition. DeGrace is nresident and John ston vice president of tne Pruden tial Bancorporatlon, holding com pany for the Prudential Savings and Loan association, the Union Savings and Loan association, and Federal Union Savings and Loan association, all three of which are in the hands of Mott as statutory receiver. Mott and his aides, through Barnett H. Goldstein, attorney for the state corporation department, alleged the petition filed by De- Grace and Johnston as "sham, fri volous and irrelevant. The peti tion charged Callahan and Peder son had in March, 1929, made an (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Uppvr picture ahowa Tusko as he starts to bend the knee rather than break out one side of big goat -shed home. Second picture shows Tnsko's O-wheel buggy being pulled Into place behind truck with steel cable and winch. Third picture shows Tusko leaning back on his hind legs and looking over audience with two keen, steely eyes. Bottom picture shows 10-ton giant in repose and ready to have lunch as truck and trailer head for fairgrounds and exit and Portland. Mulert Denies German Cities Spend Lavishly BERLIN. Nov. 28 (AP) Dr. Oscar Mulert, considered to be of a life sentence imposed when Germany's best informed special- he was convicted of bombing a San Francisco parade in July, 191ft. When Walker, his fellow law- Premier Laval of France that yen, and a score of newspaper- German municipalities are guilty men reached San Quentin by boat I of lavish expenditures. 1st on municipal problems, today protected against accusations by from San Francisco, Mooney met them in the "garden beautiful" of the prison, with every walk or namented by bright flowers. Shippers Oppose Any Changes in Railroad Relief lower but "Nobody is more ready than I to admit individual cases of pro digal municipal expenditure," he said, "but it is unfair to general tie from those instances. Instead of needing 5,000,000,000 marks a r. a before 1930. our cities operate now on a budget of 4,- 000.000,900 ana uui sum woam Hit-Run Crash Proves Fatal; Driver Sought PENDLETON, Nor. 28. (AP) Mrs. Minnie Longley. 32 was killed instantly here tonight by a hit-and-run driver. City police and sheriff's officers Immediately began a search for the driver of the car. Mrs. Longley, a stenographer for the Grain Growers' associa tion here, is survived by a 12-year-old son and two brothers. Robert and Leo Sussman. WASHINGTON. Nov. 28 (API Shippers today objected to any I Duhlit ff&arincr chant In the Interstate commerce UUHU IA COl JJJ commission's plan for assisting I?nrm needy railroads by pooling reve- Vii T 3.1111 OUai U nne from new purcbarges. This opposition developed as the roads told the commission why they wanted the scheme altered. Through Alfred P. Thorn, gen eral counsel for the Association of Railway Executives, and J. M, Souby. representing the Union Pa cific, the carriers claimed parts of the commission plan were illegal. METHODISTS CHAMPS FORT WORTH. Tat.. Not. 28 (AP) Mud slowed down the board's operations which have re- Is Terminated WASHINGTON, Nor. 28 fAP) Public hearings to deter mine the future status of the farm board were completed by the senate agricultural commit tee today, but it left the way onen for further Investigation Members of the committee pre dicted a new inquiry into the gallop tog Mustangs of Southern Methodist university to a walk here today but they traveled fast enough to play a 0-to-Q tie with Texas Christian and win the 1931 southwest conference football Championship. suited in a paper loss of $185, 000.000 Chairman McNary, who called the hearings, said they had "de termined the usefulness of the marketing act" and "disclosed some errors in administration.' FREE SPEECH FOR COLLEGES UPHELD CHICAGO, Nov. 28 (AP) The American association of University Professors voted to day to boycott colleges and universities that curb the right to free speech. The professors adopted a res olutlon setting forth that institu tions found guilty by the associa tion of violating Its standards of academic freedom and security of tenure would be placed on a non recommended list and association members advised against accept ing positions on their staffs. The institutions would remain on the non-recommended list un til they again reached the stan dards of the organisation. Helps Officers Load His Beer And Drops Dead PORTLAND. Nov. 28. (AP) D. M. Kliewer, 70. dropped dead at his home here tonight while helping two police officers place 130 bottles of his Illegal beer in boxes following his arrest. Patrolmen Floyd Marshland Rov Thompson, of the St. Johns oolice precinct, entered Kliewer's home and bought beer there, they re ported. They then identified them selves and told Kliewer he was un aer. arrest. He died a moment later. The coroner reported death was due to natural causes. PIONEER CALLED , WRANGELL, Alaska, Nov. 28 (AP) Pneumonia last night ended at the age of 96 the long career of E. P. -Lynch, one-time pony express rider In the Pacific southwest, who sought a new frontier and came to Alaska near ly B0 years ago. The secretary of state Friday made public portions of an ex change of notes on the Manchur- ian situation between Japan and the United States. Japan had dis claimed any Intention of attack ing Chinchow and In view of this Secretary stimson said It was dif ficult for him to understand press reports that the Japanese were ad vancing toward Chinchow. Other statements were misconstrued in Japan as coming from him. Portions of Story Not From Stimson Official quarters expressed their satisfaction on the basis of press reports of Secretary Stlm- (Turn to page 2, col. 4) STATE TAX TO BE HALF 1831 FIGURE Will not Exceed 3 Mills, Definite Report ,From Tax Commission SNOW FALLS AGAIN N MOUNTAIN FJ P DE ETAT IS TRIED IN HUNGARY BUDAPEST, Hungary. Nov. 28 (AP) A plot to overthrow the Hungarian government was re vealed today with the dramatic suicide of one of the alleged lead ers, who was among 32 persons arrested. The conspiracy, aimed at the establishment of a dictatorship, was announced officially by the Hungarian press bureau. General Raice of the Hungar ian army committed suicide In the Budapest police station while he was being questioned tonignt in connection with the plot. Police had been Investigating the conspiracy for more than a week, the communique said but nothing else was made public. Ap parently the plot was Intended to overthrow the government ot Pre mier Count Julius Karolyi. De tails were withheld until Monday, the statement said, "In order not to prejudice completion of the investigations." The state tax for 1932 will be half of that cf 1931, and will not exceed three mills, including the elementary school levy, based on property valuations for the year 1931. This was determined defin itely by members of the state tax commission Saturday. The records show that the state tax levy for the year 1931, based on tne property valuations in 1930, exceeded sixmllls. The prop erty valuations for this year are now being compiled by the state tax commission, and the 1932 tax levy probably will be announced during the first week In Decern ber. In calculating the state tax levy for the year 1932, the state tax commission has taken into con sideraion receipts from the 1931 intangibles, personal income and excise tax laws, and the elimina tion of certain fixed levies which (Turn to page 2, col. 3) N AT MUKDEN KANSAS CITY, Nov. 28. (AP) Fresh snow fell In the Rocky Mountain region and chill rains and fog were widespread else where over the nation today as un settled early winter weather held sway. Conditions were getting back more or less to seasonal normalcy I i n i j following the severe storms of ClCctf 3361 COiU earlier In the week. No especially low temperatures were reportd. Several Inches of snow In the Indian country of New Mexico on top of the already heavy deposits which marooned Navao and Zunl tribesmen on high mesas made the work of rescue parties more diffi cult. A threat of frost in southern California caused warnings to cit rus fruit growers that they might be forced to resume smudging in their orchards tonight. (Copyright, 1931. by the Associated Press) MUKDEN. Manchuria, Nov. 28 (AP) The Japanese army that started for Chinchow yesterday to smash the last stand of China In Manchuria as on its way back today. . Accompanied by a fleet of air planes, the army got within 6 miles of Chinchow when its orders to advance were suddenly coun termanded. At the headquarters here of General Honjo, commander of Is Forecast For S1irtrl H7 IVplflPr the Japanese forces In Manchuria, " it was said the change in plans resulted from improvement of the r-iaoi- on, alitor i. tha weniViPr situation at Tientsin, but It was forecast for today, with no break learned the General had received in the spell of frigid weather in sight. Mufflers, wool mittens, heavy overcoats along with red noses, bitten by north winds, con strong orders' from Tokyo that he arrest the thrust aimed at Chin chow. Exactly what high sources By SHELDON F. SACKETT Bright, scintillating 3unshin east its spell over the state cap itol this week and the busy hive of workers and officials under! the dome seemed to catch up the radiance of the days. Peace an J quietude reigned. But as December storms follow the lovely exit of fall, so the state house calm, which has allowed Tusko, Empire, football and even, the Japanese to preempt page one may be but a passing lull before the gale. December lies ahead andr December, or one of the succeed ing winter months, will bring dis quietude along upper State and Court streets. For one thing, there's the gov ernor. Mr. Meier came back to Sa lem nearly two weeks ago and was more royally welcomed -than the richest graduate at an alumni homecoming. But his visit wast short and he looked longer at the flowers than at official matters. The chit-chat of statehouse news received fully as much notice as pressing affairs of policy. Simil arly, Thursday, November 19, the governor's last visit to the cap itol, was the time for a perfunc tory visit and a hurried return to" Portland. Another Ten Days Without Executive For ten days now the governor, has been at the Benson hotel,' dressing-gown attired, heavfcr itt" weight than three months ago. in cheerful spirits but apparently lit tie concerned with Salem affairs, He will not be back here Monday, In fact no date has been set for his return to Salem. Rumor about the capitol during the week indi cated Governor Meier would go" south to California in mid-Decf m ber for a vacation although the excutive office indicated it knew nothing of such plans and Senator Wlllard Marks of Albany said he had not been informed of such a trip. In any event, Governor Meier is not now, nor has he been for three months, the dynamic, ener getic, aggressive leader and exec utive at the capital. Things are muddling through, for better or, for worse, and signs are beginning to appear that the state's ship wiU not continue Indefinitely on an even keel without Pilot Meier's more careful attention. Highway Board Is SUU Not Peaceful One shoal Is the Ainsworthy- Hanley vs. Spaulding feud. The matter is an open political sore which political medicine makers have not cured In the least. Aint worth who went into the fray, when Van Duzer tossed down nis portfolio, was supposed to be able to tame "Wild Charley" Spauld ing but the Portland banker-chair man finds himself In the same po sition as Van Duzer. Hanley sides in with Alnsworth before the case is even stated but Spaulding con tinues to fuliminate about the state and the political significance (Turn to page 7, col. 5) Relief Workers Of Coming Week Will Number 66 Sixty-six men will go out to morrow morning on reiler em ployment, reported Sim Phillips, manager of the employment of fice, Saturday. Two erews will work on roads south of town, and one in Polk county. Last week 72 men registered for work and 61 were placed, 49 obtaining work on the highways. Women did not fare so well la the week, of the 21 registering only two being placed In jobs, as house keepers. i ' -vi .r.ol.,.o I were responsible for the return ui iue u uuy was uuciiiiuutu, FLIERS ARE FOUND McGRATH. Alaska. Nov. "28. (AP) The missing brothers J. Feltes and Martial Lapeyre. Jesuit missionaries, who had not been heard from since they left here a week ago to fly to Holy Cross, were I located today from the air, camp ed at the head of Ganes creek. The attitude of army and civilian officials indicated that Japan's of Salem streets. For the second time in as many ;i...':.:r-- ? military adventure Into Man- 4 Jt JV - j, - - X.j-. WAV A 1 M I VU 1B W U1VU S iiUUt O SV cu uacij ao,u tuvu iivi ta the wee sma' hours of Saturday morning. The coldest mark of the winter was recorded early last Monday morning when the top of the mercury column dropped to parallel the 21-degree-above-xero mark. China as well, was being material ly altered. Rumor Governor Meier May Make Europe Trip Cerro Elected Peru President LIMA, Peru. Nov. 28 (AP) Louis M. Sanchet Cerro, 41 year old soldier and former provision al president of Peru, today was announced as the victor in the presidential election held on Oc tober 11. He will be Inaugurated within 10 days, under the electoral law and Peru will be under a consti tutional government for the first time In many months. Unconfirmed reports were cur rent In Salem last night that Governor Julius L. Meier contem plates a Journey outside ot Ore gon In the hopes ot bettering bis health. A faint rumor ot the proposed trip has been In circula tion for some time but Satur day's reports were to the effect that Governor Meier would learn soon. If Oregon's chief executive, is planning on deserting bis guber natorial duties for awhile, be has not confided his plans to his sec retary. Miss Beatrice Walton, she declared last night when called by The Statesman. "It's all news to me," she said, "about any trip soon. I know that the governor has held a fond hope that he might spend Christ mas in San Francisco with bis two daughters and their families. but recently that dream has seemed far remote." First reports Indicated that Governor M-iier planned to visit Southern California for several weeks to hasfen his complete re- Roseburg Buys More Land For Soldiers? Home ROSEBURG. Nov. 28. (AP) The Roseburg city council's site committee announced today 122 additional acres had been purchas ed for the site of the northwest turn to health. TIeler is said to national soldiers' home to be lo- have denied any such proposed cated here. trip. The cltv now holds title to The latest variation Saturday I about 400 acres and is proceeding to earlier reports has It that he with other purchases as fast as tl- contemplates a Visit to Karlsbad. I ties can be brought to date and one of the most celebrated wa-1 examined. Condemnation proceed tering places In Europe. The lngs may be required on four town, located on the Tepl river tracts still to be purchased, the In Austria, Is noted for Its medi- committee announced clnal hot springs. The governor's Illness Is said nJCC ff MlV to hare left an lnflamatlon in iii "55 OI lUlX Is Complicated By Severe Cold one foot similar to gout and the report has It that attending phy sicians have suggested Karlsbad as being Ideal for the treatment of this condition. To this report of Journeying to Europe, Govern or Tbleier Is said to have made no plans public. , If the governor should leave the state, Wlllard L. Marks ot Albany, president of the senate, wonld become acting governor. Marks, who would also become governor If Meier resigns, said Friday while in Salem that he bad had no word from the gov ernor either on resignation, leav ing tor the south or tor Europe. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Not. 28 (AP) Because he has contracted a cold, Tom Mix, circus and mo tion picture i cowboy, who Is CI with peritonitis, faces a new cris is. Dr. R. N. Smith, bis chief phy sician, said late tonight. While expressing belief Mix was In no Immediate danger. Dr. Smith said bis temperature bad continued to rise and "I am not at all happy about It." Three nurses were assigned to the case. RELIEF FUND 001 Tl T N EARNEST A new concerted effort to ob tain funds for Salem's Commun ity Service will start tomorrow. Many pledge cards have been re turned, accompanied by a check, but a number are unheard frcni as yet. "Until we get back our cards along with the money, actual re lief work of the Community Ser vice cannot be started," T. A. Windlshar, finance committee . chairman, declared Saturday. "We are appealing to the eltlxens ot Salem to make this week the one big week. We hope to hare heard from all ot the pledge cards before the week ends." Headquarters for the Commun ity Service is in the Salem Cham ber of Commerce rooms. Checks made out to Community 8ervice and mailed to that address will reach the right channels, Wind lshar advises. SHOPPING DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS