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SERVICE v. : -. We gnaraatee our carrier service, if your paper does 4not .arrive . by 6:30, call -9101 and a copy will be de . livered at once. ' ' : . WEATHER.. . . - Unsettled, probably now today, Saturday cloudy Max. Temp. Thursday . 86, -Mia. 83. precipitation .28, river 5 feet. EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, January 29, 1932 No. 264 hai emesnt m - . - , - - - S s j r JFor Ara" Farley f IK Is War's Hand Touches S. Sett! Shams Council Advised, to set its Price at $695,000 as : ' Appraisal Shows ; ; New-Water - Board, Utilities ! Committee View Various 1 .-Angles of Problem i J Th elty council .Monday night wllL be asked to approve aiformal; offer of $695,000 for the plant of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company here and, also a 120,900 Bale of bonds, the first of tbe $2,500,000 issue authorized by voters of Salem December 15. This decision was reached Thurs day night by tbe public utilities committee of tbe city council which will report both proposi tions to the aldermen at the com ing meeting. a - - -Chris J. - Kowitz, chairman of tbe committee, presided at tbe meeting, the newly elected" water board sitting jointly with the committee to spend two hours dis cussing with John Cunningham of ttaar & Cunningham, the recently completed revaluation of the wat er company s Salem piani. Offer Cornea First Officials Agree a. variety of subjects were con Mered hv the men who agreed that no definite action could be taken regarding construction of a plant until the company bad ac cepted or rejected ine propueeu offer and until sale for the bonds had been secured. David O'Hara. who with Hal D. Patton and Kowitz, makes up the utilities committee, expressed the view that delay would greauy weaken the city's necessity for water plant. ' I hope lit will not take two years before we can get kikii to work." O'Hara declared. Water commissioners at the meeting were Fred Paulus, Wil liam Gablsdorf, William S. Wal ton, H. H. Olinger. Ed Rostein was absent. Mayor P. M. Gregory listened to the discussions. A .V . X f -r a:-- V f' f" - "ii .If fl. t-J r-r Hawley Joins With Maine's House Members Urging Equalized Tariff Offset for Altered Money Sought for Protection Of Lumber Interest UK MHM my enou '? --"T'v. tL- &Am.iVr; .XT.idK.,WmxiLAtd .hi ii :4 '. it ' lit It'- 1 ! ' J VESSELS SPEED Recent Grads WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 28 -(AP) Senator Steiwer's bill waiving conditions requiring lo cal contribution toward the first cost of improvement of the Wil lamette river between Oregon City and Portland was reported favorably by tbe senate commerce committee today. Carrying with them the hopes of millions of peace-loving Americans, Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia ana Dr. Mary v ooiey, pres ident of Mount Holyoke College, delegates to the Geneva disarm ament conference, are shown (top) as they sailed from New York for the international parley. Lower photo shows a trio of official representatives of the International Women's League for Peace who will also take part in the arms debate. They are left to right: Mrs. Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull, of Swarthmore, Pa., and Miss Katherine Devereux Blake, of New York. IS REDUCTION T SNOW WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (AP) Oregon and Washington house members joined with representa tives of Maine today to ask equal izing tariff charges be levied on products from countries operating on lowered monetary standards and to prevent dumping. Representative Hawley of Ore gon, the ranking republican on the ways and means committee, was among the group of about a dozen submitting identical bills seeking equalization on duties to allow for depreciated foreign cur rencies. Sponsors of the legislation said they hoped in that way ta obtain relief for the wood pulp, pulp wood and lumber interests of the Pacific northwest, Maine and oth er sections and for other indus tries against competition they contend is driving them to the wall. League of Nations Council Takes Stand; Inquiry Is Sent to Tokyo Japan and China Both Rush Reinforcements; Russia - Refuses Transport MANILA, Jan. 29 (Friday) (AP) Bound for Shanghai newest battleground in the trouble between China and Jap an, four American destroyers sailed from Manila Bay at 8 o'clock this morning (4 p. in. Thursday Pacific stand ard time) with instructions to Join the Yangtze river patrol. The fighting ships got under way after, a night of hurried preparations during which the sailors on shore leave were rounded up and rushed aboard their craft. Willamette in Midst Shanghai Tr o ub les Margaret and Betty Lewis Teachers at College In .war Torn City Probably Safe in Foreign Settlement now BETTY AND MARGARET LEWIS, both graduates of Willamette university, are teachers in a Presbyterian college at Shanghai and are now there in the midst of the Japanese-Chinese conflict. Anxiety is felt for the girls, though they can doubtless find protection in the foreign section of the city if condi- . otions become critical. Margaret Lewis graduated at CHINESE FORCE Or nnriip hi nirti DDIHIVd m Dull SOON REPULSED Fire in International Area Caused by Poorly Aimed" '1 Bomb From Plane QUOTA OF TRAFFIC ARRESTS MM Fourteen Face City's Judge Thursday as Renewed Checkup Goes on mrrnn pmrnnrn rvnrnTrn mnnvl HLtUa OinUOLU HArLUILU lUUHI Si,.! Aid II JIVMA At. XAM Dr. Dorothy Read Speaker Roads Still Open Despite I o llPTlied tO Moore Child At Fraternis Session; Cites Heavy Costs Heavy Fall; Salem's Streets Sloppy GENEVA. Jan. 28 (AP) Twelve members of the council of the League of Nations la secret session tonight adopted a declar atlon that the league will not rec ognize any Sino-Japanese agree ment imposed by Japan's military invasion. This position ranged the coun cil alongside the United States. The declaration was adopted at a meeting not attended by the Jap anese and Chinese delegates. World-wide organization for world-wide reduction of armameilts by inter national PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 28 (AP) More snow fell in Oregon today, central and southern parts agreement and world-wide educa-jof the state reporting the heavl- tlon for peace are the oDjectives i esi precipitation. Salem went on the air last night by virtue of its work promo tion p.lan Over the NBC coast ra dio network, the Richfield report er, 10 o'clock news feature, broad cast the word that the civic or ganizations here had in two weeks' time obtained $110,000 in promises to provide employment of all sorts. He added that the Jobs created would be for Salem persons only. The broadcast which gave Sa lem the coast-wide publicity was tbe result of a telegram explain ing the plan, which Ray Stumbo and L. R. Schoettler of the promo tion committee sent to KPO, San Francisco radio station and point of nrizln for the news feature. Although the work promotion Arii i near to the close. $6,935 in pledges yesterday were turned in hr the solicitors. The day's sum fcrnueht the total to $117,781. Canvass of remaining districts will "be continued until no part of the city rests unsolicited, accora ing to-Secretary L. R. Schoettler. with th helaht of the cam- Ttaim hurelv a week past, small results in the way of an Increas rf number of building permits are tifttpd. This is as the committee Tiwwtftd. Activity resulting from the promotion plan Is forecast to begin within the next iew weew miFfiOX NATIVE DIES mat! swiriELD. Ore.. Jan. 28 ap John Kronholm, 81 Marshfleld business man, died tiftr todav. He was a native of nuriHnAr. Ore.. but had lived here for the past 30 years. of the National Council for Pre vention of War, Dr. Dorothy Read, representative for that or ganization, told members of Fra ternis club last night. The world disarmament confer ence opening at Geneva next week would better be called a confer ence for reduction and limitation of armaments, she said, and de clared that "no sane-thinking per son and no nation except Russia is going to advocate complete elimination of arms. ' Reduction of world armaments is necessary for two reasons, ac cording to Dr. Read. One is tne Versailles treaty "In which the (Turn to page 10, col. 2) All roads were reported open. Snow plows were at work all day on the Waplnitia cut-off, al though one-way traffic already was possible. Grants Pass reports said from one to 12 inches of snow, fell in that district Wednesday night. Eight inches covered the high way over the Siskiyous and Green Springs mountains. HARRY GODSEY IS SENTENCED TLIUXI D ADA! I7rlaD0Te degrees and kept rather lrlUlN rARULLU I even with a minimum of 83 de- Thursday passed Into weather history with a precipitation of .28 inch. To pedestrians who had holes In galoshes, dr shoe soles that needed attention the amount of rain seemed more. The wind which was called "southerly" was cold even so, and alternately bore vigorous rainfall or faltering snowflakes. The thermometer did not register NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (AP) The American says doctors of the Neurological Institute have deter? mined that medical science is helpless to save 13-months-old Di ane Moore from a life of idiocy. The institute, it says, has in formed the infant's mother, Mrs. Lillian Moore, 19, it will not con sent to an operation which it had been hoped would relieve a condi tion which made development of the baby's brain impossible. X-ray photographs have shown that the child has a "general lack of brain tissues" and that the maximum mental age it can attain is that of a 2-year old. Diane, the paper says, probably will never walk or talk. TOKYO, Jan. 28 (AP) The United States government asked today for an explanation of just what Japan purposes to do ia dealing with the controversy with the Chinese at Shanghai. The Inquiry contained in a note from Secretary of State Stimson, (Turn to page 10, col. 3) T CLAIMS STORY ILL FUSE INTEREST IN D i 1 IS n DALLAS, Ore., Jan. 28 The case or winegar vs. rvraus, iu which Winegar was suing to col lect a bill for goods which he had sold Kraus, will be held over in circuit court till tomorrow. Os car Hayter is representing wme- Harry Godsey, arraignea ior larceny of a drag say, was sen tenced to 18 months in tne peni tentiary, but was paroled to his Godsey. alter ais- grees. By Thursday evening much of the snow and slushy ice gathered on lawns and protected places during the snow of Wednesday night had been melted and at a late hour the landscape presented an Oregon soaked, familiar ap pearance. The weather forecast for today Indicates snow for Oregon with continued cold and fresh, change able winds off shore. The fore cast makes so bold as to venture "Take a personal interest in blind persons and spread the gos pel of prevention of blindness," Walter R. Dry, superintendent of the state school for the blind, urged upon members of the Lions club yesterday noon, after explain ing methods of Instruction- used in that institution. Aid to the blind is a main objective of the Lions International. Blindness of half of the 62 per sons in the state employment In stitution for the blind at Portland could have been prevented, Mr. Charles Ratcliff, candidate for sheriff, branded as totally false the Insinuations made in a local newspaper "column" Thursday that he had opposed the health appropriation in the county bud get but was now asking the coun ty court to pave the 12th street cutoff "in front of his house." In the first place the 12th street extension doesn't run past Ratcliff's house, he says; he made no mention of the health appropriation when he talked at the county budget meeting, and he hasn't asked and doesn't want the county to pave that road: When the matter of extending 12th street was first brought up a couple of years ago, Ratcliff says, he attempted to induce the highway commission to do the work rather than the county. Since then he has taken so ac tive part in the matter. Determined to lower the grow ing daily list of automobile acci dents in the city. Police Chief Frank Minto yesterday ordered his traffic officers to renew their drive on law-breaking motorists. The result was the arrest of 14 drivers, four of whom went to municipal court an were penal ized. "Just started," the chief de clared when asked what were his plans for continuing the drive. Two motorists were sentenced by Municipal Judge Mark Poul sen: for falling to stop at through traffic streets: Claud Rlcketts, 975 North Fifth street driver's li cense suspended for one week, and E. W. Persey of Monitor. fined- $2.50. Francis Lane. 828 Marion street, paid a $5.00 pen alty for speeding through a school zone and O. Umemoto, route one, a like amount for speeding. The remaining 10 persons ar rested and charges against them were as follows: Falling to stop Bertha Carl. 1085 North Fifth street; Albert Brown of Portland, C. W. Harps, 890 Hoyt street; Mrs. Walter Mtnthorn, J5& Union street; Charles Vick, route seven. Failing to stop, and no driver's li cense Howard King, 1770 South Liberty street, and Mildred Har din, 2199 Broadway street. No muffler on ear Elmer Kessel, 1940 North Capitol street. Fall ing to observe right of way John Hughes, 867 North Winter street. Speeding John Wilson, 843 South Commercial street. Willamette university in 1928 and taught high school one year at Goldendale before going to the Orient. While in school she was a member of Delta Phi so rority where she was treasurer. She was also vice-president of the Y. W. C. A.' and senior scholar In history. Betty Lewis graduated in 1931 and departed immediately for China. Betty was May queen here last spring and one of the most popular women on the cam pus. She was also vice-president of the student body and president of the Y. W. C. A. The parents of Betty and Mar garet live in Portland. The fath er, John H. Lewis, is a member of the state legislature and for mer state engineer. Sorority sisters of Betty had word from her recently that the college where they taught had' been closed for several weeks as the students were on a strike. Members of the Delta Phi soror ity and others in town are watch ing the news closely, having anxiety for the twoFaith Sher ber, a cousin of Betty and Mar garet, is in attendance at Wil lamette now and is also affi liated with the Delta Phi. Home Troops Recapture Rati Station; Lull Occurs As Help Awaited GEXEYA, Switzerland, Jan. rtT(APiT(Fr,dr The Chinese delegation to tbe Lea gue of Nations decided today to invoke articles ten and fifteen of the league covenant whkh require the league to take dras tic action to preserve the ter ritorial Integrity of China against military aggression. SHANGHAI, Jan. j(Fri day)(AP) Chinese troop broke into the interuatieaal settlement today, threatening Its security, but were drivem out by British defense troop. The Chinese broke through the defense lines around the foreign settlement from out side the western residential sec tion. After a short skirmish with " British troops manning t lines, the Intruders were driven out. mm is Bi' COLONEL Mi SHANGHAI. Jan. 29 (AP) Fire broke out in the Interna tional settlement this afternoon, when a badly aimed bomb from a Jaoanese simian fn street in the northern section. mere were no casualties, but considerable damage was done bnortiy afterward another fell is residential area lust outside the settlement, near the Japanese. headquarters and as a result of It many foreigners were leavinf their homes and retiring within the settlement borders. UK DELAYS JUDD CASE brother. Earl trlct tt07 B"n hat weather will be like by Dry sald. Foolish stunts causing MarkS TakeS UD leniency on the grounds that b" Saturday savine that there will Limi '"aiVO A anco U.y confederates in the case naa re- h cltmda -nfl -tin more -now ln the southeast. But remember, Thursday was predicted clear and cold! Seemingly there is many a slip in figuring the -weather this year. ceived verdicts of not guilty. God- rpv also nleaded enllty to a charge of larceny of live stock, and was sentenced to four months In the county JaiL He will be giv en credit for 16 days which he has already served awaiting developments. s OQdn riefe Gilbraith is Honored State Police Shifted 1 Pure Food Case Filed Oregon Hero Mentioned HAWLEY FILES SIUSLAW AREA BOUNDARY BILL .1 i MANUFACTURERS ELECT PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28 r (AP)The Oregon manufactur ers association, holding its 16th annual convention i here today, elected four new directors- tor three-year-terms. : They were: Paul Hlrsh, Sperry flour company; WY R. Lake, Portland Envelope company; Frank J. Gilbraith, Salem Linen mills; and Charles Carter, Port land Woolen mills. .'V DAVIS IS SERGEANT BEND. Ore., Jan. 1 (AP) rt D. Davis, state policeman sta tioned here since- the resignation two " , weeks ago of Sergeant r.harlea Davin. has been promot m in' the rank of sergeant and transferred . to Klamath Falls to replace Lieutenant C. Nichols. Da tI received, his commission, to- It was understood hero Nlch ' ols is to be transferred to Med lord. . . . , . . - OLEO USE CHARGED GRANTS PASS, Ore., Jan. 28 (AP) Charges of Tiolatlng the state pure food laws have been filed against Mrs. Jean Atchison Jensen, superintendent of the Josephine General hospi tal. She has been cited for a court hearing. The complaint, signed by L. S. Leach, deputy dairy and food commissioner, cuaxges use I ten im trii r oleomargarine in the hospital I nUODAllU IV1L.L.O without posting notice of Its use. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (AP) A resolution to put teeth into the Kellogg-Brland pact by auth orizing President Hoover to place a boycott on a' belligerent viola tor of the treaty was Introduced today by Representative Hill (R., m.) Other house bills Included: Representative Hawley, repub lican, Oregon, to adjust the boun daries of the Siuslaw national forest, Oregon; to confer jurisdic tion on the conrt of claims to hear claims of the To-To-Tin Indians, Oregon. mechanical injury to the eye con stitute a leading cause of blind ness, he declared. .He recommend ed that persons having even a slight infection in their eyes should consult a specialist at once. "The real curse of blindness as I see it Is not that they can no longer see the sunset, and the flowers. Those who bad sight for awhile, can still see sunsets. The Others don't miss seeing things, can't conceive of them. The real curse la economic. That is be cause the public does not know about blind people." Governor's Task In His Absence PETITIONS FOR REPEAL OF DRY LAW ARE FILED FATHER GETS MEDAL PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28 (AP) t Laurence S. Case, 48, of Hepp- ner. Ore.. .who gave his life at tempting to save another, today Joined the roll of Carnegie heroes. The Carnegie hero fund com mission today awarded a bronxe medal to Martin L. Case, father of the boy, at Its 28th annual meeting. - - Laurence, a laborers died at tempting to sate Williamina M. Bowen. It. from drowning at WIFE AND SELF OVER JEALOUSY PORTLAND, - Ore., Jan. 28. (AP) Timothy Donovan Jr., 23, in a moment of Insane jealousy, police said, shot and killed his 22-year-old wife, Ida here tonight and then wounded himself fatally. ! He was dead when police arrived. THE DALLES, Ore., Jan. 28. (AP) Petitions calling for the repeal of Orego- s prohibition law were filed 7ednesday in the coun ty clerk's office here. The peti tions bore the - natures of more than 250 registered voters in southern Wasco county precincts and in The Dalles. The petitions were circulated for the purpose of placing on the ballot a repeal statute proposed by Harry B. Critchlow. Willard Marks of Albany ar rived at the state capltol shortly before noon Thursday to preside over the . executive department, pending the return of Governor Meier who is enroute to Washing ton, In connection with the Co lumbia river power development program. Marks, by virtue of being pres ident of the state senate. Is acting governor. He spent Thursday con ferring with state officials, sign ing routine official documents, and presiding at a meeting of the state land board. Marks is not expected at the of fice today or Saturday. He will return to Salem on Monday. PHOENIX, Arts., Jan. 28 (AP) Running what she com plained was "a temperature" be cause Sheriff J. R. McFadden would not send a hairdresser to her, Winnie Ruth Judd made a morose court appearance today to observe the legal battle for life teeter on the brink of mistrial. One Juror of the thirteen in the box is confined to his bed by order of his physician. Another is fighting off a cold. A third to night was indisposed. Superior Judge Howard C. Speakman, convening his court briefly 'for survey of the situation, recessed it again until tomorrow morning, when he hoped to be able to determine whether the two least ill of the three indis posed jurors will be able to carry on. Oregon's national guard forces contribute a splendid strength to the defense of the United States, says Col. D. W. Hand. In charge of National guard affairs for the Ninth Corps area at the Presidio. San Francisco, who was here yes terday. CoL Hand, in army service for the past 34 years, has been in Washington state for the 41st division conference. He stopped here yesterday and remains un til this morning to visit General George A. White and Brigadier I General T. E. Rilea of the Ore gon National guard. Col. Hand visited In this state last September, and has been on duty In California and Washing ton posts at various times during his long period of service. Oregon he likes, he admits, though he has never been stationed here. He had no comment to make on the turn of affairs in the Japanese-Chinese situation, pleading that he has been out of touch with developments since leaving the Presidio. He returns there today. SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 29 (Friday) (AP) Chinese troope recaptured the Nanking railroa station here this morning wit the aid of an armored train. Japanese forces at the station, were weakened when some at their units were withdrawn te help hard-presesd comradeselse where in the city. Wright : Head Of Parole Board C. F. Wrat of Portland yes terday was elected chairman of the state parole board to succeed Father Thomaa V. Keen an. Father IKeenan has served as chairman of the board for the past year. The election took place at the board's regular annual meeting. SHANGHAI, Jan. 29 (AP) Japanese airplanes were cru&ins; over the city shortly before noon today, apparently waiting for a dense mist to clear before bomb-' ing the Chapel district and the area north of the Shanghai-Nanking railway station. Otherwiae the Japanese activity had lulled, probably to await reinforcements SHANGHAI, China. Jan. 2 (AP) American Consul General Edwin S. Cunningham expressed indignation today at the Japan ese actions in Shanghai. He -said he was at a complete) loss to understand - the Japaaee actions, which he said were con trary to their statements made te foreign officials during the past several days. 4 The Japanese consul general assured the entire consular body at a meeting last night, Mrs. Cun ningham said, that the Japanese did not plan to use force, at least during yesterday or today. Developments during the night had increased the serionsness of the situation tremendously, th American consul general added. He said he was concerned wKfc the safety of all Americans In out lying areas and would again urge them to come within the is tern ac tional settlement for safety. Fire at W. U. Incendiary Investigation Indicates The fire at Willamette univer sity early Thursday morning, was evidently of incendiary origin, believes C. C. Clark, supervisor of the buildings. The fire was discovered shortly after 5 a. nv by Clark and Roscoe Plowman, student Janitor who came extra uri tn ha mr and ret a balky IS THREATENED Uurnace started in ample time for tne scnooi uay, CLOSING PART OF UNIVERSITY PORTLAND, Ore:, Jan. 28. (API A special Eugene dispatch to the Oregonian today said that approximately "one-fifth or tne work of the.University of Oregon will have to be abandoned Decem- h t nnlAa financial re- SLIDE BLOCKS by legislative action Is taken NEHALEM ROAD 7 This means," the dispatch con- Itlnued. "that either the medical ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 28 school In Portland with its ucern fAPl A rot slide blocked the I becher hospital and out-patient Nehalem road today about 17 I clinic, or a considerable portion Th tflniir wlfa nnllra Raid. i.r irt. Am -mm K I miioi fmm aatAri hut one-way I of work belnr done on the campus cause of his extreme jealousy traffic had been established by j proper at Eugene, will have to he which caused him to threaten her 1 night Deep snow hampered the discontinued. in the belief of those Brewster, Wash, June 80, 1222. 'and her friends. v worlr, . - I close to tne SHuauon. .. , The fire was soon extinguished in about 15 minutes and causea damage amounting to about U00. , . , Two V shaped burned spots which were anart from the main burned portion, tell the story of Incendiarism. One was made on the stair casing directly beneath a Heht switch with the obvious intent of tivlnr appearance that K . VI A a anon naa causea tav utuv. and the other was about two feet from tbe switch and totally sep arate from any of the other tmrnad nortlon. - Investiratlon also showed that In both of these placet the. fire o had been applied from tbe out side and was not from an inner draft. Clark stated that a blow torch must have been used In those places, but since the boards were plain, they would not Ignite speedily enough. Then evidently the name was applied to some Tarnished wood, which would ig nite at once. The tire was set ' under the stairway going from the first to the second floor of Eaton hall, the administration building. which contains practically all of Ask Removal of Road Patrolman For District 15 A petition urging the abolition of tbe office of road patrolman im district IS was filed late yester day with the county court by T. D. Kaser and 27 others. W. M Kuen- st Is the present patrolman in the district. At a prior time a petition favoring the retention of the pres ent patrolman had been tiled with the court. The court has announ ced a policy of abiding by-the wishes of the majority of eitiaema in each road district in regard to the question of retainia- or -abolishing road patrolmen. LOSES TO BAIN tS ramnt rMnr(ta anA la vain All at 2500.000. In a short time the KIM ALBERTSON tire would nave gamea consid erable headway and soon have been out of controL . An Insurance adjuster ex pressed the opinion that the fire might have been caused from a short In the wiring- and firemen were not of the opinion that the fire had been Intentionally set. However- a thorough TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 28. (APV Les Bain, Tacoma. llt pounder, won a decision over Kim Albertaon, Detroit, in the six round main event of the box lag program here tonight. Baia'a lnvestiga-1 steady punching wore down A- tlon of the "torch marks' was i bertson in the final three roumea not made until later ta the day. and entitled him to tne aeeiaien.