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FOUNDED 1851 EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning January 15, 1932 .No. 252 T DAY HAS Pledges of , Employment in Amount of $15,820 are Reported at Night Enthusiasm Marks Meeting Of Solicitors; are to Continue-on Drive FIRS ICCE5S FIRST DAY RESULTS In" WORK PROMOTION PLAN ARE TABULATED Teams Salem Woman's club . 9 5O0.O0 Klwanis dub 25.00 Rotary club 2023.00 Lions club 1800.00 Women's Greater Oregon associ- tion and Bus., Prof, women 75.00 Ore, Bldg. cong. 0O2O.75 American Legion 1000.00 Parent Teachers ' district 12 ...... 070.00 Total 915,820.75 With less than half of the sol icitors reporting, the canvass for .the Work Promotion plan yester day brought in $15,820 promised expenditures for the purpose of creating Jobs for Salem's uem ployed. Enthusiasm ran high at the reoortinsr meeting at the chamber of commerce at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon as the re turns of the canvassers were re ported. The team captain making the best showing for the day was Fred Erixon of the Building Congress. Promised construction of a house netted him $9000 cre dit in the drive. Estimates running as high as $20,000 were made on, the re sults of the day's work, if all solicitors who began their under taking had reportedV Fifty-three of the team members attended the meeting. Much of the -first day's canvassing remained to be done last night. Exchange of Work Will Be Acceptable During the 2 5-minute session of solicitors, reports were made and suggestions offered. It was announced that the exchange of one type of work for another would, be accepted in place of promise of a definite expenditure of money. ' To the question raised as to funds spent in promoting the job creation plan, the answer was "exactly"" nothing." All supplies were donated by Salem firms, in cluding paper, printing and bind ing for the canvassers' blank books. The teams will set out in their respective districts again today, Identified by their Salem Work Promotion plan blanks, with the Intention of showing to each per son interviewed how that person ' may benefit both himself and un employed persons by stirring up as large and as many Jobs as pos sible within the next 60 days. Sidewalk Building Is Lions Suggestion Seeking to open up a new. ave nue of employment, the Lions club ' at Its luncheonyesterday toted to urge the city council to (Turn to page z, col. -4) liefs WANT TAXES PAID ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 14 (AP) Astoria school teachers are to be enlisted in a campaign to collect delinquent taxes to In sure continued operation of the city's-schools. At a special meeting of the school board, today a school holi day was authorized for next Mon day in order that teachers might make personal visits to delinquent taxpayers and urge them to pay all or part of their taxes. Lack fit funds forced the school district to pay the teachers in warrants last month. ASSOCIATION ELECTS PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. .14 (AP William F. Woodward of Portland was elected president of the Northwest Oregon Develop- . ment association at the first meet ing of the organization bere to night. - - .V ' The association, which Includes Clatsop. - ColambIar Washington. Tillamook and Mnltnomah conn ties, has for Its major purposes. It was announced tonignt, in early development of highway sys tems and the promotion ot tour ist travel. ' " .... . - ' . -" . MILLION IS MLNTMUM ; PENDLETON, O Jan. 14 (AP) A group of Umatilla coun tr citizens, meeting with ; ,th county court hero last night, ad opted a resolution favoring sale ot not less than 11.000,000 in bonds by tne state highway com mission for further unemployment relief throughout the state. Salem Has So Do Other Cities; Oregon Feels Quake Half Inch White Covering Comes at Night Here; Longview Hardest hit by Tremor Noted Along Columbia, in Portland ON the wings of an icy breeze came the snow half an inch of it last night in four hours. By 11 o'clock the white feathers had ceased their falling. At midnight the wet flakes were freezing in the same breeze that brought them. With the official forecast EIGHT IE KILLED 1ST F nnrt EnnannerShOOUWnen - I Levee Breaks; Navajo Indians Snowbound (By The Associated Press) Winter and spring broke the weather laws yesterday, but the nation paid the penalty. The wrath of floods, common to coming spring, descended in I full force on the Tippo basin, en dangering 5000 Mississippi bot toms folk. The main Tallahatch ie river levee across from Glen dora. Miss., broke under the strain of weeks of high water and fresh rainfall. An urgent call for boats Went forth. A tornado, usually another harbinger of April, descended on two little settlements near Tren ton, in northwestern Tennessee, and killed at least eight persons. Many more were injured. Only Wednesday tornadoes had raked Mississippi and Alabama towns. taking twelve lives. The far southwest felt another cruel hand, that of winter, wnen i Navalo Indians were snowbound in the northwestern uplands of I New Mexico. Tney were neia iast i oy a storm wmca iiau. iuiticucu i m A 1 southern caiuormas citrus crop i 1 TS and spread moderately com wea-iers ther through the midwest. COLOMBIA OIL DEAL OF WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (AP) -Assertions that Secretary Mel- Ion. in his private capacity as a capitalist, intervened last Jane In negotiations to extend a loan to . . . x I cotumma were neara anu aomw today before committees of con- ress. A charge that the treasury se- cretary wm - Columbia oil concession during tne loan awcubwous w uim u, Representative Patman, . Texas democrat, before the house com mittee hearing .his plea that Mel lon be impeached. The acusation was based largely on newspaper aispatcnes ana a unnamed citizen of Colombia. State department officials, ap pearing before a senate commit tee investigating foreign loans, denied there was any connection between the Colombian credit and any oil discussions which may have taken place. Tomorrow Mel lon's own representatives will re ply to Patman before .the house committee. MELLON BED Teachers Would Collect : Woodward Booster Head More Road Bonds Afiked , Mannix Wins Suit Again The . expression of sentiment was asked by J. M. Devers, high- Chinchow, were killed in an en way commission attorney, who I gagement which ended with th has been authorized to poll the counties to determine their at- titude. LIBEL AWARD 133,000 PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14. (AP) A verdict of $33,000 was awarded by a circuit court Jury here today, to Thomas Mannix, Portland attorney. In his f 100,000 damage action against the Portland Telegram. Mannix baaed bis action on mm auegcu mw.wms i printed in the October a. 19S8, edition of the newspaper. At JES1 A 1 WW mm sivaums Oregon supreme court ordered a retrial. - MOLTZNER CONVICTED PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan 14 (AP) Jay S. Moltrner, manag ing director of the Guardian Building and Loan association, was convicted by a circuit court jury here today ot a charge of unlawfully lending funds of a building and loan association without security. - ... . Mottsner is to be sentenced by Judge" Walker tomorrow. ThelBrland. announced they would la- conviction carries a maximum nenaltv of twarveara im orison menrin the sUte penitentiary. . ' UAltvnaii i rliirMit with nn- lawfullT-lendlne- I10.O0O of the Gnardlan Building and Loan as- (AP) Snow, frost, ice and rain ganiiaUon of the association made sociatlon's funds to the Mortgage visited California and the general necessary because of its severance Investment company. Its holding coastal uplands last nlgbt and to- from the control of the Proden corporation, without security. T 'day. ' ' " :- : Itial BancorporaUoo, - t ) ; Snow and of unsettled weather and osnow, the half inch may be only a start toward a heavier blanket- ling of the city before the cool spell is past. PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 14 - (AP) A slight tremor, believed to have been an earthquake. shook the mid- and lower-Colum bia valley today. - Lonrview. Wash., resorted tha most severe shock. There grocer . kl.j a cb iuuiureu lruui siure tenetves, a warehouse door was torn from its hinges and some plaster was dislodged from walls. In the downtown district, reports said, many persons ran from buildings thinking truck had smashed into the structures. At Kelso and Vancouver. Wash., windows and dishes were rattled. Similar reports came (Turn to page 1, coL 1) Local Attitude Will Awai Engineers' Report on Right-of-way Cost a meeting was held in the chamber of commerce rnnmo last night attended .by members of the board of directors, the hih - . . . . way committee, tne county court. senator C K. Spauldlng and oth Interested in the Improve- ment of the road between Salem and Oregon City. There was a general discussion oi proposed plans and it was I voted unanimously to continue the campaign for a 30-foot naved road with the understanding that it be designed so it could be ex , panded into a four-lane highway wnen conditions demanded Th nrnhlomi nnnoAl .!), rieht-of-war worn ilisingui ho nn -r-tfnn ' t.V aT'Z KtnA nf octim-if. ki- pUed by the highway department w wo vviuft wvua - I Fftnnm ntinnit - VVlVDOl widening the road to 100 feet as tne commission's engineers recommend Suggestions that the navement be iid 30 feet' in the present CO ieei ngnt-or-way with drainage tile to do away with open ditches ana Wiaenin at curves were con. sidered, but decision wan hplrt up. pending cost figures from the aepartment. The matter will come nn at the highway commission meeting next weeK. E (By The Associated Press) PerBlstent rumors that collapse ox tne uninese government is lm- minent because ot its financial difficulties received some Impetus with the resignation of Huang Han-Liang, minister of finance. It was followed quickly by the res ignation of the assistant minister From Manchuria came renorts that ZOO Japanese soldiers de fending the railway junction at Tahushan. 70-miles nnrthat f Chinese volunteer militia In con- trol of to the town. x-eipmg was agitated bv the suaaen ana iniormal declaration oi marriai law because of an un - continued report that the Japan- HIGHWAY WIDENING PROJECT UP II CHINES mm MI ese legislation guard planned to I Ordering Richardson to Hono-1 The two other arrests were: K. I out of the depression is not gen hold night maneuvers outside the lulu Immediately, Attorney Gen- H. Madsen, route one, charged I erally known," Joe E. Dunn, state legation quarter. The city gates were closed. The Japanese auth - orities denied contemplated. maneuvers were i mm a SOCiailStS Will . , 1" . Provide Worries ForN ew Cabinet PARIS. Jan. 14 (AP) Pre- mler Pierre Laval launched his - j new cabinet Into the work ot pre- I paring for the critical conferences l on reparations and disarmament I tonight - with the possibility of trouble from the left wing ot the I rrencn chamber. SocUllst eepnties. ardent sup- I porters ot the peace, policies of retiring Foregln Minister ArisUde I terpeiiate tne premier on nis ior- - 1 elrn nolicv as soon as possible. i I , . ; - I KTrSTWY CAJm. FREEZES BAN FRANCISCO. Jan 14 II 0 EAST TO FIGHT ER BATTLE Reconsideration Sought for Engineers' Report on Columbia Project Argument of no Market is Absurd Says Governor; Cites Boulder dam PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 14 (AP) Governor Julius L. Meier announced tonight he will leave for Washington late this month to appear before the United States board of army engineers at a hearing set for February 1 -to urge reconsideration of the board's adverse report with re spect to power development on the Columbia river." The governor said he had asked Senator B. L. Eddy, chair man of the state power commis sion, to Join him and that he expected a favorable reply from Eddy. Governor Meier pointed that the army engineers spent pproximately a million dollars In a survey of the Columbia river and then reported adverse- ly on all development of the stream on the ground there was a lack of market for the power which would be generated. This is the same old stock argument urged by power inter- est to defeat the Boulder dam project," he said. "I had thought POW that . . .the rapidity with which reached on the North Dakota pri the power was seised upon in the Imary of March 15, which Senators Boulder dam had forever silenced Nye and Frailer of that state, are this stock argument. This argu- urging Hiram Johnson, of Calif or ment Is as absurd and ridiculous n,a to enter, as to the Columbia river now as I Brown Forward as it was when made against Boul- Campaign Manager der dam." Brown's announcement brought The chief executive said Henry him forward " as the campaign Hanzen, state budget director, manager of the president, with would also make the Journey to wasningxon. ELIZABETH HULLT ;IS SILVERTON, Jan. 14 (Spe- clal) Elizabeth Yost Hullt. plo- nf ia eil.uitn Atjt I early Thursday morning at the Minma nf h. rionir).!.. u rn mt Oaherlv at irnnmniifi. whn. a f . ; " 1 1 . 1 , v .1 L.ii - ua wvs v aava, auauo IftlB U U fS- I day evening. relaUves here thmirht anrvloa vnnU t,.M u A " " ItVO ffl VUIU iD UC1U 1 Saturday afternoon from the Jack and Ekman chapel. xtr Tr,,m a.. .1 Adam and Lvdla Fldr Tout bom July 12, 1846, at Potts'vllle. Pa. In 1874 she was married to C. J. Hullt in Stockton. California, Hr. -Hull HJpiI in m.- ITfnllta amA n e!1w4 i icon and settled at the place later known as Hullt in the Hills ahov siivnrton . Seven children were horn to the Hullts. and two of whom snrvlvA. These are Mrs. Coberly of Mon mouth and Alford Hullt of San Diego. Her nine surviving grand children are C. H. Dlckerson,' Fay A. Bragg. Frances Coberlr. Charles Hunt, Jaye Bleakney. Ben I Bleakney, Helen Dlckerson". Lena Hullt and Robert Hullt There are also four great grandchildren, Colin Braxton Bragg, Vades La- Verne Dlckerson, Vayle Harding I Dlckerson. Clifton Richard rtiov. I erson. PROBE III HAWAII WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (AP) Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Seth W. Richardson tonight was given direct command of a sweeoing lnvesticatlon hv th I justice department Into law en - 1 forcement In the Hawaiian 1st - ands. eral Mitchell made public a sag - I gested program for the Inquiry, I which was ordered by the senate. Mitchell proposed investigation of the operations of federal courts in prohibition and narcot ics cases in the Islands, and of the law and administration of Hawaiian courts, police. Jury system and parole board. Mlltital SsairintTC lUUlUiil OaVingS rnmnanv KsOmpany SlUUPlS "t v r Vnangeu trOllCy The adjourned annual meeting ORDERS SWEEPING of the Untnai Ravin and IjubIm. if mm association was held at Its of ficee Jlasrnlght and amendments la the S la the constitution and by-laws adopted reconstituting the association as istncuy mutual company. I The previous action or tne a . e ii . a. i stocxnoiaers in retMocuBK xne I DOara OI urectors was uaewise ra- traeo, tnus eompieung xno reor- Nation Both HOOVER ENTRY BUTTLE FOR Postmaster General Brown Makes Statement of President's Aims North Dakota, Ohio Among First Battlegrounds In G. 0. P. Primary By F. M. STEPHENSON WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (AP) The name of Herbert Hoover wis Informally put into the re- Jnb"cn Presidential field today 7 JT'- w "or .v.' J "m' In in? rac r 1 hrtened challenges from the """i""""" nonn- west ln & statement. Brown said the president "wfll stand for renom- ination" and whateyer is neces- 8aiT to get convention delegates tor him will be undertaken, Brown said no decision has been whom he conferred later In the aay. He is expected to take over the chairmanship of the national committee If Mr. Hoover Is re nominated in June. Mr. Hoover himself is expected to make his own announcement, when It becomes necessary for him to declare his intentions under the Ohio primary law. Among other states holding pri maries is California, home state of both President Hoover and Sen- ator Johnson, should Johnson en tar ttia onntoet tlisra aaf& t expected to become the first Im- nnrtint nnl1t!al hattlo rrnnn the eamnalen. m?t- iRnt cmaii Minrw One thing worrying the antl- a Aa.aaavaaaw Hoaver rrnnn thA fit (ha iIaI. kgates to the convention BVa 0 bUV aV V V to be chosen by primaries number only thnni inn nf tv & i mn ftti fr short of a maiorltv even should U be won. "The only way the president can be re-nominated." Brown said. "Is to ret delegates to the con I vpntlnn ThAra ira ohnnt 9lt nr 90 different methods by which these delegates are selected and the nre- !dAnf friAnd. win Pnnfni-m tn these methods In the different states 111 CITY GOES ON Motorists again were taken to task Yesterday hr Ht nolice. Flva arrests were made for traffle vl- nlatlnna Allered fanltr brake bronent ri..r t iati rlson of roHte nine. Police were informil that h hail fall! t stop his car in attempting to park on SUte street and nearly crash- a tntn tn ThnmninnJiiiidKii tlcal shop. When an officer over- hauled Morrison, he again was unable to stop and crashed into a tree, it was reported, Eaton M. Williams, 1110 South Liberty street and Frank Lane. I Salem, who were arreateri on 1 charge of speeding, were fined 115.00 apiece by Mark Poulsen, municipal Judge. 1 with tallins- to ston. and R. K. I Taylor Salem, charged with speeding. Motilities Again Follow Trail ot . Demented Slayer I AKLAVIK. N. W. T.. Jan. 14 (AP) Mnshtnr through the twUlght of ,the Arctic's six U,h. tnt th a mined sanad of red coated moan ties was believed on the trail to- day for a third attempt to dls- lodge a mad hermit tranoer from Twice the Jtrapper, who Is well sunnlled with : ammunition and supplied rifles-and pistols, has withstood a the attack of police. J , r... Aihf Tnhnann accused ot shooting. and wound - lng ConsUble A, M. King of the Rami Canadian mnnntad sail. when Klnr and Constable R. McDowell trekked to his : eabia tM auMlln. him ' iinpnitnr com - plaints ot Indians that their trsp llnes were being, robbed. . - mm N CHECKUP Camp al Parties Enter Presidential Politics Warming Up; These Men Are in Limelight :0f '" v H V I i ' ' jY V :r.--JEz7. V:;- : -'' -'- - -. . .'-XvOi:-.'.-: v-Xr : Q 1 mm FIINFlLJSTODAf Pioneer of . 1852 Dies at Polk County Home Where Lived 66 Years MONMOUTH. Jan. 14. Funer al services will be held Friday afternoon at ItSft o'clock at the Smith chapel for Mrs. Amanda Tetherow, 79, who died Wednes day at her home southwest of Monmouth. She was one of the oldest remaining pioneers. Dr. H. Charles Dunsmore of In dependence will officiate at the service, and burial.wiU,.be In the Knights of Pythias cemetery here. Amanda Crosley was born May 1, 1852, in Missouri, and with her parents crossed the plains at the age of two months. Enroute, her u,ulucr ' mother contracted cholera and lh.e c11. was aken c.ar ofbT inenas in anotner tram, SO Sne went to uregon city ana ner par- ents settled In Scio SeTeral months later, her fatn I - . x m "!nn'" f .om -,v w ""S"" "Jr uu cricu the child back with him Amanda came to the vicinity of Monmouth to make her home w1.th .h" tster when her father joined the gold rush to Callfor- nia. She was married September 1, 1866, to Solomon T. Tetherow, pioneer of 1845. In the old Teth erow farm home built 70 years f- Sne "T?d ..the Bme n0U86 . ' lu"e' " UUUM- built of hand hewn beams which nave never Deen disturbed, is a landmark here. Mrs. Tetherow tended her gar den, cared for her ehiekens and did other work about her farm home until three months ago, and handled her business affairs up until late last week. Several years ago she made a unique braided quilt, nine by five feet, dyeing all the material Of wool and making a novel design. She used CO spools of linen thread to.ew tt tpgether, the entire Job uklBf tnree years. Sho refused I cuiuiaenittig Bums iur lu I " Surviving are a daughter and "on: Mrs. Laura Mathews ot T? Ari:i d A' E Terow i onmoum: iour granacniioren ndvone W"hUr- Mr uie She was a member of the Carts "an church. Sales Tax, Cancellation Ot Debt Dunne's Advice "The fact that we are coming senator from Mnltnomah. Clacka- I mas and Columbia counties, de- elared at the Fraternis club meet ing at the Spa last night. "After a 40 to CO-day period, ot stagna tion, progress -.will return," be maintained. The senator backed np his de claration by saying that the aver age Increase in stocks and bonds In the last six months has been Points, the i highest ia the past Ave years. 'I think we'rs now un- oergoing a verr worougn aevw onment,- be said. - 1 Characterising tne nara times ot the past two years a the nat- ural finish of a 8-year cyele, Sea- ator Dunne declared that netmer lof the solltleal parties was re- sponsible for ths depression, "Poi- mcsr ne saw, rnever w I world can remedy economis aiirt. iwu-a talto remedy by providing work.' 1 A series of remedies lor v tne country's eondltloa were ttvsa by I tne senator as ibuowi: - - - O. I - Get away from political maalpw- I tauon oi insutnuona. stt. wwnf 1 and dty. ' Speed op and eliminate insffl- . cleney consolidate. Op aign Leap year is always presidential year, and the lid was torn off Thursday in the ramps of both major parties. President Hoover, npper left, was formally entered for renomlnation by the repub licans. He is sure to bave oppo sition, bat Just where It will center has not been! revealed clearly. Not much but support for FTanklin D. Roosevelt, op- per right, was heard at a gath ering of democrats In New York. Ex-Governor Harry F. Byra, snown below, was en- tered as a "favorite son by the Virginia general assembly by unanimous vote, for democratic choice. E E WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (AP) The leaders of President Hoover's economic proposals to night were only a few legislative steps from the White House door. Two others started through the senate with prospects for early action. The bouse agreed to vote to morrow on the 12,000.000,000 reconstruction corporation meas ure which already has passed the senate. A house amendment today set aside $200,000,000 of the bill's funds to bo used for farm loans. This and other, differences be tween the two houses will be settled In conference. Nearer to Its final goal Is the . ln a. m . . . a J"1 .?mZ.SlV.l tr . w tnem to list pressure rrom nara pressed farmers. It reached the house today from the senate. . 1 . T1 "u $125,000,000. It goes to eon- WAAWaMA aetiflfiw wamvaa aw a Kvaa . .v " .mc-w.c of the two houses. Sales tax The solution of our problems. There should be an ade quate plan ot sales tax to replace the mfilage levies." Abolishment ot foreign debts- while debts stand and Interest sroes unsaid, we will never be able to adjust the business of the country, vtihiih an me sort of sliver ra- "STCEL :bVftu"' VUL tjUlUSt. M1W A mw-- tries and In Urge part. Canada. A better education system Every step In education should leave the child ready for. some thing to do If that becomes neces sary, "We need leaders, not rrom politics, bat from ordinary busk ness. The greatest leader la the country Is Charles Dawes but I donbt if be would '.accept the nation's leadership." Confidence in th nation as whole. Thus summlnr up what he be lieved to ha the remedies for the nation. Senator Dunne urged the young men to study the govern ment to make It more erxiaeni ani ta "make Tour new nlans for the future. Now is the time ): . 11 MOV S balld. This la the time to fnend.ltown and killed lot persons last ens DEMOS LAUNCH BIG DRIVE FOR Dinners in 50 Cities Held To Plan for $1,500,000 Financial Support Roosevelt Pleads for Clean Fight; Smith Silent on Personal Ambitions (By The Associated Press) Political firecrackers hnmtlna in all sections of the country last night reminded the nation that a campaign year had arrived. In some fifty cities the demo crats held a series of simultane ous dinners, launching their "vic tory campaign" for $1,500,000 te erase the party deficit and put It In position for a flying start after the Chicago convention. Several thousand demnmiu leaders gathered at the dinner in xsew York and heard Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, potential candidate for the presidency, say the party "can never tolerate abuse heaped upon the person" of the president. Clean Campaign l Roosevelt's Desire "Hand in hand with the cam paign to spread knowledge and thereby In the long run eliminate prejudice," he said, "we have a further task as a party so to conduct ourselves that vt shall never be made the object of the accusation that we have dealt our opponents a blow below the belt." Roosevelt was endorsed yester day as the party's presidential canaiaate by the resolutions com- mittee at the North Dakota state aemocratic convention At Boston. Alfred E. Smith the 1928 nominee, had the plat form for an extemporaneous ad dress. Before hand he exires-Ad a Tew similar to that of Davis. ASKea ir he Intended to announce nIs stand on becoming a presi dential candidate, he said: No sir! That Issue is not be fore the house tonight. This hi a fund raising campaign." Smith Declared In Receptive Mood The New York Eveninz Post said yesterday that Smith would have no objection to the use of his name in - state nreferontfat presidential primaries. S house sounded a warntnr against over-confidence In a speech at Chicago, at the same time predicting victory in next wovemDers election. At Richmond, the Virginia as sembly formally endorsed former Governor Harry F. Byrd for tha democratic presidential nomina tion. . Some $300 worth of groceries, i damaged in the fire at the Bu- llck- Court 8treet 8tore on Wed. nesday night, was carried away Dy needy folk yesterday morning. ' Invitation of William J. Uusick, one of the proprietors. I " K Tne groceries, consisting ot cer- eals. spices and soaps, were shov eled out onto the sidewalk by the firemen in their effort to dear the burning mass from the build ing. One woman, who drove to the store in a large automobile, car ried away a Quantity ot the arti cles even before the proprietor had given permission, It was re ported. Loss of merchandise in the store was estimated at $1200 and damage to the building, at $500. It was covered by insurance. As far as could be ascertained yesterday, a defective flue was the cause ot the tire. Calls Solons to Slash Salaries SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Jan. 14 (AP) Governor Louis L. .Emer son lata-today issued a call for a special session ot tho 'legislature to consider salary reductions for isiai ana municipal omciaia, rota elective ana appointive. I : Iftoi Piniofa a iuv. vwwui.u DAMAGED GROC En ES ; . t On Anniversary I MEXICO CITX. Jan. i tArj - ! A slight earthquake shook the I city, or uaxaca at i:t a.m to- day on the anniversary of an to I earthquake that damaged bait the .