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i 2 - CIRCULATION Distribution . February, '32 he paid, daily, Sunday 6636 '"' MTMBEB A. B. 0. av 7001 FOUMDCO 1651 , . WEATHEB I' ,". Cloody today and Sunday, occaaknud rains, moderate temperature; Max. Temp. Friday 80, Min. 28, rlTer 64 feet, rain J01 inch, cloudy. : EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, March 5, 1932 No.' '235 - i 't I " ' " : ' i . : ' T il : : RUSSIA ADMITS AGAINST JAPAN if"' ' " Salem Has Kidnap T(l Looks Like Daddy Here Reveals That is Reason for Concentrating Troops In East Siberia Case Also; Boswors To be Brouaht Back Arrest Made in South Revives Complaint That Dates Back 2J4 Years; Talbott Claims $30,000 Paid for his Ransom "M"ARION county has a kidnaping case of its own. True BE N N DEATH CASE Information From "Poison Wells Being Used is Soviet Statement First Degree Murder Com plaint Filed After the Lloyd Eddy Death the alleged kidnaping occurred two-and-one-half years 1 ago, but only now has one of the men charged with the of- Defendant Says he Doesn't held in San Diego, California, pending extradition to this state on a warrant issued out of the Marion county office of . oJnstlce of the Peace Miller Hay- Remember Anything of Shooting Affray 10 LIFERS HIE HT STATES 1 Convicted Recently are Dressed in MOSCOW, Mar. 4 (AP) So Tlet Russia admitted today she was concentrating an army nar the far eastern Siberian border to defend herself "against a Japan ese attack." The admission, made in the gov ernment Organ Izvestia, was in- iZ'gZVX!lk Reed and Beckley, Slayers published here- the foreign office statement quoted the Japanese consul ! In Vladiyostock as paying SoTiet S Russia was concentrating large bodies of troops and muni tions there and predicting a "col llsion"t soon between Japan and Russia; Asserting that the Japanese in formation was obtained from "foreigners" in Vladlvostock, the newspaper said the Japanese re port clfearly showed "specific pro vocative aims" and that it was un necessary to deny the prediction of a collision. A averts Japanese Use "Poisoned Wells" "It is much more interesting to I . i,)..,,!.. thm tn Aeterm note that Japanese politicians are lne what Jlne of work they are trying io use uugcatumv.uvm adapted to, 'poisoned wells' Instead of being I more attentive to facts as exem plified I in our consecutive (con sistentt) peace policy,'' Isvestia With life terms ahead of them, Cecil Beckley, Glide farmer and murder of his wife and stepdaugh ter, and Albert W. Reed, Denver, slayer of an Ashland policeman, were dressed in at the state peni tentiary here last night along with four other criminals of lesser calibre. Beckley was numbered 12,037 and Reed 12,040. In which part of the institution they will be confined and at what tasks they will work will not be decided until penitentiary officials den. He was going under the name of Thomas. Boswors, with one James Bor don, is wanted on a complaint sworn to by Edward Talbott, sheepman of McMlnnville, who asserts mat ne was held in re straint by these men and forced to deliver $30,000 to them for his ransom and release, tlon for extradition of has been made through the office of District Attorney Carson, and if granted Deputy Sheriff Mc Queen of Yamhill county will go to San Diego to bring the man to Oregon. Yamhill county officers have been working on the case at the Insistence of Talbott every since the reported offense occurred. The story is a lurid one rival ing the yarns of detective maga gines. Boswors and Bordon back in 1929 got acquainted with Tal (Turn to page 2, col. 1) LOWW RESIGN said. 'We have no reason to conceal ROSEBURO. Ore.. March 4 (AP) Cecil Beckley, 43, Glide farmer, was sentenced to life im prisonment todav for tne muraer of hi wife. Alma Beckley. ana the fact that conditions in the far hl. .teodauehter. Margaret Clut east, emphasized by such facts, ter compel the Soviet union to Tne two women, were shot to strengthen its defensive capacity death last July 2 and Beckley was and the safety of its border. The conTicted of the murder of Miss ILL IS SjETOEF Oldest Official In Service To City; Changes In Setup Talked most we can do is to adopt all possible measures to guard our frontier! against outside attacks." This first official admission that Russia is engaged in defen sive maneuvers was also inspired by documents attributed to high Japanese military officials. These documents, the newspaper said, proposed not only, the invasion of Siberia but also a combination with other nations In an attack en the Soviet union. One of them as quoted by Isvestia read: "I (person unidentified) con sider it necessary to assume a firm policy with relation to the Soviet Union and to be ready to Walter S. Low, veteran street commissioner, will resign his of fice effective April 1 , he advised The Statesman yesterday. Low has served In this capacity for 16 years and 3 months, being the old est official In the city employ. He plans to retire from active work he stated, and enjoy a rest from his labors. Familiar with every corner of the city whose growth he ku observed and slaved a The bull snake on the asphalt I WTt jn nis knowledge of city didn't wiggle Its way there. streets and conditions has been of Its last wiggle was made some- great value to the city for many where east of Salem. years. But that wasn i me ia Thl -BT0intment of a successor (Turn to page 2, coL 1) SNAKE DIDN'T DIE HERE IFIER Mi Today or Monday Harry Eroeld- ing, alias Bob Coleman, will be arraigned on a charge of murder In the first degree. District Attor ney John H. Carson announced last night. Criminal Information. in connection with the fatal shoot ing of Lloyd Eddy. 19. during a drunken brawl at the Eddy resi- Appllca- dence, 1335 Hlnes street, early Boswors Wednesday morning, was filed agaist Brpelding in justice court yesterday afternoon. Jess Eddy, father of Lloyd, who was shot at the same time, still was in critical condition at Salem Deaconess hospital last night, the attending physician reported. A second information filed by Carson charges Erpeldlng and Archie Eddy, 24, brother of the dead youth, with burglary not In a dwelling. Bail was set at $3000 each, which they were unable to raise. The district atttorney also said that he probably would Institute proceedings today to hold Alvin Eddy, 28, another brother, as materia witness. Alvin was being held in the city Jail yesterday, along with Erpeldlng and Archie. An autopsy performed on the body of Lloyd Eddy yesterday af ternoon by Dr. W. B. Morse and Dr. Verden E. Hockett, on orders from Carson, Indicated that death was the result of Internal hemor rhages caused by puncture of the abdomen, liver and a lung. The .32 calibre bullet, which entered below the right breast and emerg ed near the center of the back. (Turn to page 2, col. 1) ' , ' i. - ': N ; - . ' '' - ' v"' J"'-. ' ' ' - : i . x Wif..'' . -.: :;: , i , '-i . V Cs'-i ' ' ' ;?'' ' ,. . 7l V ( 'Ssi. J' Xjjs.4 FATHER HES'TO HARTFORD WHERE JOHNSON IS HELD i i Friend of Baby's Nurse Held on "Strength of his owrt Story" Says Prosecutor; had two "Dates Just Befortf Abduction and was to Have met Miss Gow That Night; Letters Mailed From Same City Suspected car is Seized, Contains Milk Bottle, Also Believe Significant; Question of Filing Charges to Await Conferences With New Jersey Officers; Suspect Was Formerly Sailor, Reported R. ic. Jnhh. a Marion notei re-i... . . tv v.-- f W I . . 7 m XV. j. I Will UO IU LUC UUIU Wl U1V VW start war at any moment. The "went, piea council, but as yet there has been first purpose of sueh a warljnust out in tne county o; no agreement as to who will be ee not i only to protect" Japan It into town to WioM named. There was talk of combin agalnst communism but to occupy ?u hte friends It was JnJ J ,,, tne Office of engineer and the Soviet far east and. eastern I 5l One of the most recent pictures of Cbaries A. Undbergh, Jr. Photo by Hearst Metro tone News, transmitted to west coast by telepboto. Secret Police Help In Lindbergh Search Entire Squad of Undercover men Assigned to Ferret out Underworld Gossip Which May Lead to Solving of Case NEW YORK, Mar. 4 (Ar) Browsing around tne aim riflnntfi nf the underworld. 80 younar men who look like Cuts Of From MV2 tO 20 high school boys were trying tonight to pump from tight- Per Cent in Effect for all lipped gangsters some clue that wouia end the hunt lor tne LdnaDercn oaoy. They are members of Hew xork's famous undercover squad a secret service force that MM MB DIED Commission Staff Siberia.'! teraay. ineruM.aa-v-.w. t-.-t comml8.ioner when the "i" , he threw U out 01 nis .eurm- i meetinsr for annointments I PORTLAND, March 4. (AP) Salary reductions Tanging from 12 y to 20 per cent were ordered today by the Oregon state high way commission for ail its em- BULLETINS nnnr wlntlflW. "Tell them," he said, "the li quor here is so bad It makes you see snakes big enough to throw out of windows." The snake, four feet long, was lata TI7ArinAltdfl.V nlrht In Kin lian rCP in the middle of North Commer- And, incldenuiiy, eaiem ns President Will Be Represented of officers was under considera tion. The matter was postponed and no action was taken, as it was reported that Low planned to retire this spring. At present the drift of senti ment seems to be against consol- (Turn to page 2. col. 4) i . - I i . ia.na.ir. oecause accouut ULUL IU UL. UU IL. KID1PIK SENSED .. . iv. nrvu. I nnnllsnea in lions, we preBmens iu iw i th radlo. House and Mrs. Hoover in tne south waited prayerfully tonight . , to hear that the tiny son of Mr. Dphntfi Team Of . " I m-w T . ' W, u. is veaien yer to be present at tomorrow's The wuiameue women s au.t, conference in the governor's of- team lost a 2-to-l Udon to the flee on the case brought an im- Washington SUte college debate mediate replay that J. Edgar Hoc- team here Friday night er. thief of the federal bureau of Virginia Durkee and Dorrls Ross had been found unharmed. A request from Governor Moore of New Jersey for President Hoo- ROCKFORD, Ills., Mar. 4 (AP) Two men and a boy who abandoned a stolen automobile here late today and fled after stealing another ear were sought tonight on the possibility the boy Investigation, would be on nana, represenveu - old on o a Nllea 0nlo con. Salaries above 1200 a month were cut 20 per eent, those be tween $200 and $150 a month were reduced IS per cent and all below $150 a month were cut 12 per cent. The reductions will be effective April 1. The commission expressed fear that emergency highway work, which Is being carried on now at a cost of $10,000 a day in an ef fort to relieve unemployment, can not be continued unless additional funds can' be obtained. The com mission yesterday offered for sale $1,000,000 worth of 6 per cent bonds but received no bids except for a block of $50,000. The bonds were ordered readvertlsed. (Tnrn to page 2, col. 4) DEW PEACE PARLEY v rw rw Vnrir office I bate which was another on f the bureau also will attend. 'series of Nevada divorce laws. Japanese Shanghai Army Of Occupation Increased) tractor. Witnesses told police the lad answered the description of the DeJute boy. The ear they abandoned, the entire Vehicle showing signs of continued hard driving, had been reported stolen from Max E. Blel SOUGHT D i (Copyright, 132. the Associated t Press) 8HANGHAI, March 5 (Satur day) The Japanese army of oc cupation 'in control of a wide area about Shanghai was Increas ed today fcy 10,000 reinforce ments. :.;'. :;-:--i-.ri:j . . - As the men were landed from their transports the battle : area wa reneralljr qniet althotfgli there were reports of an action at Taltsang, 26 miles! northwest of Shanghai but thlsl war-weary ci ty was disturbed by Chinese government announcement 'p that the latest Japanese peace terms bad been rejected, i , i . , i Army units totaling 8,000 men were landed dnrlne the last ". 24 hours at Liuho om the southern bank of the TangUe and 2,000 aore weref But ashore it Woo-' f Copyright, 1922 the Associated press, - GENEVA, March 4 The as- er of Wllmette. Ills., a suburb of sembly of the League oLNations Chicago. unanimously called on China ana Residents of the neighborhood Japan, tonight to negotiate a ces nnr. Tt u understood hlnelaek-1 where the car was abandoned told satlon of hostilities around Shang eta who bad been on duty in those J police two men about 27 years old thai Including withdrawal of Jap a r a a vara retnrnlnr to their I and a hoy about 12 years old were lanese forces. fcina I In tne automobile. Tne dot. tnev r Tne assemoiy spose in me lurm . . - . . I T "7 . ' . I . V I.t. Official Chinese advices irom i said, evidently was unaer compui-1 oi a inree-pomt naomua .WU1?" Taltsang late in the day said thelslon of the men. also, provided for assistance in tne Japanese eleventh division had I A few minutes after the car negotiations from representatives attacked the Chinese forces there was abandoned, another automo-Jof the great powers. . ..A that a aavAre hat tie was anlfill u atolen In the nelrhbor-1 iracea wun cenam aeiei uy jarwir.. - I hood. It bore Iowa license nlates. I determined concert of ll states, . Low wen Kan, r an king xoreign i Later reports said the car wasinaowEe ow, pmw nnr mlnlster, was authority tor rejee-igeen speeding west towards Iowa. Late Sports tlon of the new Japanese series of demands, which 'bare been char acterised by the Chinese as mean- Is r eomnlete surrender. Japanese military and naval of- tala AanloA f tchtilUT Wll taking place around Taltsang despite re- ; High school basketball at Port ports from travelers they . had land: . r heard the rumble of arUllery. The . Uncoln 5$; Roosevelt IT, same authorlU'es said they did not : Grant 24 r Commerco II. care to discuss the rejection , f Washington 23 ; FrankUa-21. Japanese demands by the Chinese, Benson $2; Jefferson 24. Utlve. joined In ' supporting the resolution and smilingly abandon ed an effort to nut' the "move ments of Chinese forces within the terms of the proposed negotia tions. The assembly's action came af ter the Chinese delegate. W. W. Ten, had delivered an Impassioned appeal for measures' to halt the Javanese military advance around Shanghai, which be declared was continuing. CHICAGO. March 5. (AP) The police and the Secret Six agents said today a man who Identified himself as Charles Knnds signed a sworn state ment In which he said the Lind bergh baby was being held at 2810 South avenue, Niagara Falls, N. Y.. by a woman named Mary Konner, who lived at that address. acts without orders and has an uncanny faculty for "getting its man." All 30 rarely work on th same case, and only one or two police officials ever know their whereabouts or anything about their activities, but It was learned today the whole squad has been enlisted In what is de veloping into the most spectacn lar man hunt this section has ever known. 'The Lindbergh ease' W ATinrnRXi. Conn.. Mar. K f KtnrdTl f AP) State's At torney Hugh M. Alcorn told newspaper men at 2 a. m. today thai Henry (Red) Johnson of Englewood, N. J., detained for question ing in the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh's son, would be "held on the strength of his own story. "This man, Alcorn said, "Is going to he neid on tne strengtn of his own story. , Alcorn declined to amplify the statement ana immediately re entered his office in the county building where Johnson, friend of Miss Betty Gow, the baby's nurse, was being questioned. Alcorn said he would not discuss wnetner iormai cnarge would be lodged against Johnson until he had conferred with New Jersey police officers. TRENTON. N. J.. Mar. B (Saturday) (AP) Werner New- hause, manager of the Princeton airport said he saw Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh take off wltn a puoc irom a smaii iieia awar Hopewell, N. J early today for Hartford, Conn. Newhanse said the ship Lindbergh used was brought from Valley Stream, L I., two days ago and kept in readiness for any eventuality. . Newhanse said Karl Kali, an aavancea puoi ui me v uru Wright flying service who had been staying at an inn near Prince ton, ready to pilot the plane when needed, flew with Lindbergh. Newhanse said he had been Informed by a relative the trip was planned, and had gone to the Held to witness the takeoff as he knew the plane was there. The ship is Cessna rea monoplane ucveiopinj; w power and bear the number 631. Rv FRED B. MARBUT , HARTFORD, Conn., Mar. 4 (AP) Henry (Red) John- friend of the nursemaid to the kidnaped Lindbergh babv. was taken into custody here tonight coincident with the discovery oi a letter ana a posicaru ui me naruwu postoff ice addressed to Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh. Jnhnsnn. a. sailor, was taken into custody at 7 p. m. at the request of New Jersey officials. In front of the home of his brother, John jonnson, was iouna a green coup (Chrysler) whlcn auuvonues aescnuea as emmar u uic ui 0"n near the Lindbergh home the night of the kidnaping, March L, County Detective Edward J H4akey, who became nationally known for his - Investigation tn the ease of Gerald Chapman. banged for murder, questioned Johnson while waiting for the New Jersey officers and an nounced he believed he bad ob tained "a very Important clue." The special delivery letter, mail- Anne Bearing up Bravely Despite Anxious Waiting BOSTON. March 5. (Satur day) (AP) Massachusetts state police headquarters radio ed all barracks early today to stop "a roadster carrying three men and a baby. They said they were asked to halt the car by Hartford, Conn., police. Mas sachusetts authorities did not know the make of the car nor the registration- number but were advised It was "headed for Springfield after changing reg istration plates at. Weathers-field." all the Instructions the 30 youths got. They know what is expected of them and what to do, for their procedure - Is an art they have developed to high perfee- i tlon an art that has already re sulted In many remarkable cap tures. ' Few In the underworld know they are on the force. Powerful gang leaders and snarling "plug- uglies" call them "Pete" and Al," and in their presence, thinking them "pals." often talk more than Is good for themselves HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 4 (AP) Anne Lindbergh, her thoughts focused on an empty , ln 11 eiuD 'a 'L'S'-S 64 l corner box, was addressed that la spartan fortitude for those who to Mr Lindbergh and forwarded await the return of her stolen son. If anything, she Is bolstering nn her riving nusDana, woo knows how to deal with the ter ror of dark oceans but Is baffled by a foe with whlch.be cannot grapple. Both are suffering from heavy colds. "Anna la remarkable," such Is the consensus of the household and of the few intimates that visit It, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, her mother, Colonel and Mrs. Henry Breckinridge, lawyer and wife; L. Jl L f. Showing How Dumb but lndbergll VllieS Good Hearted People Are I a 1 1 When Hearts Are Deeply Ad Absurdum . . Tu (By the Associated Press) NEW YORK PREACHER, an other man and a woman waited all day yesterday at the barrier of the Lindbergh estate..The state troopers on guard barred them. The preacher said the woman was a clairvoyant and he wanted ber to "lay hands on the crib of the kidnaped baby so that she could establish clairvoy ant contact with the abductors. ALBANY, N. March 4. (AP) A general call from an unknown station, stating "Lind bergh baby safe, was picked out of the air tonight by Wil liam Garrett, a radio operator for American Airways at the AlKaLnv alrDort. Mate noUce began m search of the countryside in the hope of locating the station from which the message originated. NEWARK. N. J March 4- tAP. The description of the postcard addressed to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh found ta 'the Hartford poetoffiee la aim- liar to that of cards mailed Tuesday in Newark and yester day in East Orange. AO. uiree cards were addressed to MChaa Liaberc Princeton. N. J, with the J? of the MN. J. reversed. WASHINGTON, March 41 A telephone operator In Roeh (AP) The senate today ordered I eatsr, NY, had a wholesale con a thorough lnvestigaUonof etock fecUoa)r arrested because be put for Colonel Lindbergh, gantio Usk Tuesday. ... ... The man only wanted to help. Two women in Centralis, UL, dreamed that they witnessed the kidnaping; . one even observed the street and house number to which the baby was taken" ia Newark, X. M. They cotmnwal eated the dreams to New Jersey PoUee. - ' . i -,.? A young woman of Brooklyn recalled that on last Saturday evening, before the kidnaping, she overheard two men and a woman talking on a IcTiagton avenue subway, one sayings "The baby sleeps on the second floor. A man arrested tor an alleged holdup at Peterson, N. J., told deputy sheriffs he had been In a Yonkers, N. Y speakeasy and beard a man say: "We'll get the girl and she can take earn of the eaglet. A cigar store proprietor of Jersey City, N. J, called the po lice because ho heard a man in a telephone booth sayt I see the papers are fall of it. Let me know If I can do anything for you. Donl worry. Lindbergh and forwarded to Hopewell. The postcard, printed similarly to the first one received by the colonel earlier in the week, read: "Baby still safe. . Get thiaga quiet. The address read: "Chas Lin berg, Princeton, N. J." The J. waa reversed, as it was on the first card. The word quiet was under lined. Hlckey and State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn refused to make public any further details of their examination of Johnson, who told newspapermen he had been oat ef work and had come here to visit his brother. - He said he bad known Miss Gow for about three years, and had been "going with ber" oft and on. Meanwhile Alcorn notified John J. Toohey, secretary to Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey: "We've got the ear, and we're got a milk bottle found In the ear. Johnson's brother refused to see newspaper men, and would not say when the sailor arrived in Hart ford. ,; Johnson was formerly employed on the yacht of Thomas W. La mont of the Morgan banking firm police announced. Casey Trial to : :. Be Ended Today ASTORIA, -1 Ore., March 4 , (AP) Defense testimony In the murder trial of James Casey, OI ney logger was completed In cir cuit court hero today, dosing ar-: mmcnts will begin Saturday ; e... .Cti.M tn ail n&rts of I moraine and K la expected the the country, "saw" the missing ( case will reach the Jury diirtn baby in automobilesC v. thaday. r -