V CIRCULATION - iVVV. , .WEATHER Average Distribution ' April, '32 . 7293 u rfr I 1 I " Fair! today and Sunday, mild; 3 lax. Temp. Thursday. W, Mra. 47, river 4. feet, partly ?. ekmdy, '. northwewt , -Triad. ; i r . .; ; : 5 Net paid, daily Sunday :Ik:::'-..i':MEMBEE A. B. O. V POUNLDPO V 183! EIGHTY-FIRST ;Y EAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Jlorninj, May 14, 1932 - No. 355 COS' Arguments Under way, .Case M Cannot f Reach ' Jurors Until 'NiiK-Weelc::S:c.- Stockman- Next Defendant, I ' 1 1 ", 1 1 r mi o i Jl " f " ; ': I j Mai V 11 ill oidi i may 1 8;' Judge Rules? DALLAS. May W-r(Spclal)-- It waa definitely known, after to day's court sessions tnat. tfie ease against Judge O. P Coshow, fori Jner president of the Emplre'Hold ' log corporation,1 on a 'charge of de mising a scheme to defraud will go to the Jury late Monday afternoon' cr Tuesday' morning. Harnett Goldstein, special, prosecutor, be gan his first closing argument to day and will finish tomorrow morning. , . I After the Jury had been excused this afternoon. Judge Walker stat ed that the trial of.Jay Stockman, former counsellor for the Em pire Holding corporation, on the same charge of demising a scheme to defraud had. been set for Wed nesday, May 18. Stockman will be defended by Lars BergsTig of Sa 4m and Dexter Rice, of Roseburg. Hugh O. Black, Polk county clerk, was instructed by Judge Walker ta draw a soecial Tenire of 17 ' Jurymen and Instruct ' these and the 15 Jurors left on the lastsspe- - - . I HaI Tenlra to renort weanesaay. Mat 18 ; Judge Coshow was on the stand when court opened this morning and was being cross-examined by Goldstein. The morning session was taken up by the examination of Judge Coshow by defense and state attorneys and rebuttal wit nesses were nqt brought In until the afternoon session. On cross examination. Judge Coshow ex plained why his subscription note was made tor fire years when the ethers were for three years. Be said that he had asked that jit run for five years so he could meet the obligation. He stated that he did not know for some time that the other officers bad paid for their stock with notes. Devoted Most of - - - Time to Company i Goldstein asked Coshow if he demoted his time to the Empfre Holding corporation and he re- plleded "substantially so." Goldstein also asked if he meant cash or securities by his statement in a letter of "I hare 820,000 invested." Judge Coshow replied, "No, or the sentence re ferring to the rate of 7 per cent In terest would not have been includ ed." iThe defense introduced Co- show's testimony that he had $7000 In some buildtir and loan company and that at one time he had tried to withdraw this to pay on his note to the Empire. This was Introduced to show his good - faith In his subscription, but Co show said that, owing to the hard times at that particular time, he had been unable to get this tooney. j Coshow was questioned by both ' state and defense attorneys re garding bis salary contract and the contracts of the others but bis testimony on this was the same as In his direct examination. He al so told of the practice of having bis secretary listen In on phone alls until certain that he had fteard them. Coshow said that he thought he had the letters taken from the files in November, 1931, and not after he had learned of the grand Jury Investigation, MeJadl Denies Any Balance Sheet Seen Fred Melndle. investigator for the state corporation commission, was the first state rebuttal wit - aess. He stated that he had never seen any balance sheet from the! Empire group before the permit to sell stock was granted. He also iu ui me application ior a permit was in his possession un til the permit was granted. ; When cross-examined by Oscar Hayter. Melndl admitted that the application could have been ta ken from hfs of f ii with ant hi knowledge. He also admitted thai be did not see the files after his recommendation bad been made regarding the application and did sot know what might have been cone after that time. r Charles Goodwin, auditor - for the state corporation commission, waa .1.. ..Tl.l - .Km1 v - aess. He stated that he never saw the balance sheet and - did not know of its existence. Hayter got the witness to ad er any balance sheet was made or not. Goodwin stated that to vi. vnowiA,. tn. rerardlna MAf inw- hv him nrtor to the gxand Jury Investigation and that v. m,m i v MJtn taken" out of the office He later admitted that these files ?. r.... m thm f- flee to " have copies made ; that Mi,H.h in h nawsDaoers ...a .. n nm Mellon h had . ron to a newspaper office to getl f TGPnrA - - J." E. P. Allison,1 secretory of Gwelda Thatcher, Jean Rowland, the Marion ? county grand Jury Lillian Oliver, t Bud : Stevenson, - Vhlch returned the indictments Teddy? Harp, Eldon Lappin, Es ini the Rmnlre officers, told ther Lets, t Bobby -Ouer. Nancy nf nnnhnw and ; -u.Aiii.tA hrnr. m md Inrv. He elated that his records show (Turn to Dag 8. eoL 1) : Reichers Drops Into. 1 Ocean New Ireland;: WResmed 0ySteWBer Famous Officers of Oner .Rresideht Roosevelt ' Have Part in: Saving TransAtlantic ' r. Flier; Injuries ' SufTerecl By CAPTAIN GEORGE FRIED (Commander of the Liner President Roosevelt) . C ; S. PRSIDENT ROOSEVELT, May 13 (AP) Lou KJ Reichers. the trans-oceanic turbulent "Atlantic off the southern tip of Ireland tonight by a lifeboat crew fmm h Pr.ifmf Pw1f v - v; V - JV buffeted' monoplane into the ocean near the liner because of mm CLUB FOB K IB Membership of 250 is Upon Rolls Already; Reports Encourage Workers Friends of Frederick Steiwer In- Marlon county met Friday night and organized an enthusiastic Marion county "Steiwer for Sena tor club." This is In keeping with organizations of similar charac ter being formed all orer the state. The club Is composed of citizens generally, without any distinction as to their connection with other organizations. While the ex-serrice men hare their own Aeelas(lAna vm m m wt avm iU"J k"w bers united with this general or ganization to support the candi dacy of Frederick Steiwer for re election to the United States sen ate. The' club was organised by the election of .William McGilchrlst, Sr., as president and W. W, Mc- Klnney as secretary. An executive (Turn to. page 2, col. 4) Balloon Goes 185 Miles to Lake County Managers of the Fred Meyer store here were surprised here yesterday at receipt of a letter saying one of the toy gas bal loons they sent aloft as an adver Using stunt early last week had landed near Fort Rock. Lake county. In south central Oregon 9. B. Cornuell wrote that he had found the balloon on bis ranch. The airline distance from Salem to ' Fort Rock Is approximately 155 miles. Cornuell Inclosed in the letter the coupon attached to the bal loon, entitling him. to a pound of coffee. . Over 250 . of these balloons were set loose oyer a period of four days, c Seven miles vraa the record distance reported traveled previous to receipt of the letter from Cornuell. 1ST IMl Three affidavits of prejudice aralnst Judge L. H. McMahan were filed late- Friday In circuit court here by Robin Day, Salem attorney. Day asks that the state sunreme court send a durerent Judge here to try -the cases of Und vs. G. W. Laflar. Joseph I nrhr n. E. Anderson, and Unit- I ed States Rubber Co. vs. Kimney 1 Tin Shoo. Day represents the I plaintiffs in all these actions. t m. Affidavit. Dav save" he I iu.ii.vai Jndsr. McMahan is suf- J ficiently prejudiced to-him that i vi. i.nHffa nnnt seenre a iair trial. During the last month, Allan Carson of the firm of Carson and Carson, has filed numerous am- davits of prejudice, against Judge McMahan. Eighty Four CLAIMS-PREJUDICE Are " Heralds of Health Eighty-four of , the 212 pnpils si jtm : v i . vk. flafa aa w ma tti sari the -Herald of Heaitn aware. The fifth, grade was ; highest the six classes with 17 members receiving the health but ton ' - ' ; . Health honor pupils ;are as fot- lows: First ? grade Jimmle McChim- ber. Edgeworth ' Olsson, ix I eholson. Kenneth Debut, fJffi S loiese, Jimmle Bndlon. Jimmls Mahney. Blllie Halseth. David Shade. Robert Gosser, Henrietta I Miles. Margaret Harnar, Beryl I Ferruson and Bernlce Rentsthler. r Grades 1A and.JB Jack Pas- I lev. Helen Calkins, Ruth Nelson, I Brawn and Carol Croxier I 'Grades 2A and -3B Quentin I Nelson, Virginia Young, Carl Hul- Barton, and Billy Barbae. flier.-was reamed from the - V:" ... -.i- cracked -wing, damaged fuselage ana raei mortage. h smiered a broken nose and lacerated face in alighting. The lookout on the bridge I sighted the plane flattering to the surface at 9:10 p. m. Greenwich I mean time (4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time), and Chief Offl- cer Harry Manning Immediately prepared to take aboard the occu- nant of the shiD desnlte hirh seas and a dangerous southwest wind. The liner was maneurered as near to the monoplane as possible and lifeboat No. 10, with Chief Officer Manning in command, was lowered. The lifeboat made for the mon oplane and after dangerous circ ling made fast long enough to lift out the exhausted Reichers from the pilot seat. The . Roosevelt meanwhile was (Turn to page 2, col. 5) MEETS, COllilS Waldport Bridge, use of Wood are Topics for Highway Meeting CORVALLIS, Ore., May 18 (AP) The proposed Waldport bridge across Alsea bay on the Oregon coast highway probably will be one of the most beautiful bridges of its kind ever construct ed, C. B. McCullough, state bridge engineer, predicted tn an address before the West Side Pacific Highway association here tonight. The Waldport bridge, he said, under present plans will have span of 1800 feet and will have a total length of 3200 feet It will be constructed of concrete and wood. Discussing use of wood in bridge building, McCullough said the highway department now uses about 10,000,000 feet of lumber a year and that if all bridges were built of wood the " consumption would be increased only to about 15.000,000 feet. He said 8.0 00,- 000 feet of timber were used in the construction of the new - Ro gue river bridge on the Oregon coast highway. -The real value of wood in bridge construction, he said, lies In the advertising value which will stimulate foreign lumber mar kets. The association adopted a res olution, that the proposed Wald port bridge be dedicated to C. B. McCullough, who had designed it The next meeting will be held in Amity. Wall oi Cement Blocks Encloses T rtT DlSCOVerV Place - HOPEWELL, N. J., May IS (AP) A wall if cement blocks. two feet high, lodaj enclosed the spot where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr was found. - - Three "state troopers were sta tioned around the wall, which presumably was built to preserve any. evidence that might be there, and prevented sightseers from ap proaching too near. Other troopers beat through the tangled underbrush .in the vi cinity, searching for clues. Park Pupils J J uraaes a ana a xsaaeen r . a. M MW ' - airaw, aiicb - wan. nuuieiia Am - 5 ll."t Blundell. Betty - Childs, Beulah Harp, Mary Prime, Warren Bar- rette, Edith Nelson, Millard, Elf- berg and Edith Nelson. Grade 4 A Kenneth Mohney, Henry Tanaka, Warren Catkin. John McCumber, Juanlta Hlnkle, . W waass aaaiSMWf uahu - rniv.1 thimti . ftinndAit YTonne Curtis, Jimmle Arnold. now TvwvtV TT.i.t. TtmttL vi. ah valla - nArdan wineheomb-Joel Bonche. Billie r..v- nunti prima. Mariana T.lahjk -TVu1 . AndrMWfl EllsaTieth Vinrlnla Polk. r 1 ? Rirth rii4v Rnth Banev Rn - hv Raner. Martin Barber. - Rich ard Barton,f John i Belton, Curtis Blundell; Carol -Ferguson, Therl Howard. Jean Moore, Robert Wsl - llnr and Marlon; Zwtckw., ' 1 tlOTESEMII. MUCH OF CASE Proof Baby was Kidnaped by Group That flqt Money ; -Deemed Absolute - Condon Pleaded to be Talceh UUnWWI neaueu 10 D6 l aKen To. Baby; Much Caution Used in Parleys NEW YORK.. May 18 (API The notes exchanged between Dr. John .F. Condon and the supposed kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby were published by. the . Bronx Home News today in a copyrighted article, It was in this newspaper that many of the "Jafsie" communlca- tions addressed to the kidnapers appeared in tne rorm or eiassniea advertisements. The symbol slgnaturized in the letters to Dr. Condon, according to the copyrighted stoiTt 'was three circles, two overlapping each other and a third In the over lapped space. The third was in red. There were holes In the center of each circle. These signa tures corresponded to the signa ture on the ransom note, the newspaper said. Gang's 'Program' Given to Condon After Dr. Condon bad conferred first with his man presenting two safety pins of peculiar design which the man identified as safe ty pins used to pin the baby's blanket to the crib mattress he received a note outlining a pro gram which in part said: "We will not allow our man to confer In a way like before. Cir cumstances will note allow ng -to make transfare like you wish. It Is impossibly for us. Why could we move me oaoy ana iace danger to take another person to plas is en tirely out of question. Now we will send you the sleeping suit from the baby be sides It means 8d extra expenses because we have to. pay another one. Please tell Mrs. Lindbergh note to worry the baby is well we only have to give him more food as the diet says. You are willing to pay the 70000 note 850,000 without see- (Turn to page 2, col. I) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May IS (AP) The intended child victim of a 830.000 kidnaping plot was safe today because one of the conspirators lost his nerve as he read in a newspaper that the Lindbergh baby had been slain. , .. ...... Tipped off by an unidentified person who was approached to act as a "go-between in a con spiracy to abduct the six year old daughter of Dr. David M. Gardner, general chairman of the Southern. Baptist convention meet ing here, police arrested Edgar "Shine Mote, 25, and Jerry Mets, 85. The officers are seeking three other persons they believe were implicated In the plot to kidnap little Edith Marie Gardner and bold her for 820,000 ransom to be made up by delegates to the convention. Mote, officers said, confessed I uis part m tne pioi. sua St r old feet" as he read about I the Lindbergh baby's death in to his part in the plot. He said be newspapers he was selling on the street tonight. Police blamed Mets. who lden tif led himself as a former West Virginia police officer, with orig inating the plot L SUNNYVALE, CaL, May IS (AP) Escaping the ill-luck and tragedy that has dogged ber on I her air voyage across the conti nent, the dirigible Akron was moored to her mast here tonight at 7;0K it. m wlthnnt . IiiMi1 1 " m-mm mmmm-m.vmmm, imtmr nn itmit hmt 1 a. .i.ntln -bone on her allvered sidM. the Akron nosed down to the field shortly after- t o'clock for the first mooring' attempt sines morn ing. At . about 290 feet elevation. with the ground erew ready to .. . a, m . - I - She returned 'again and her w,1dro;Ie K " I to the waiting hands ef two crews, I totalling about 109 men. They I fwntted her to a portable mart and the cable was attached. I I BABY GIRL DROWNS . GLENDALE", Ore., May IS I (AP) Ellseth Stewart; 22 - 1 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William: Stewart. Wolf Creek J ranebers, was drowned today. The 1 body waa, found in a small water ; hole ear the family heme. KIDNAPER WEAKENS DUE TO LIT CASE IS MOORED AT WESTERN 60A ! i mm "I ., t --- 1-.,.'. .: " V. : : t a -.- SLAYER SEARCH IS Federal Enforcement Group And Secret Service to Follow Lindy Case WASHINGTON, May 18 (AP) A man hunt second to none in the nation's history, a search that will not end until the murderers of little Charles Augustus Lind bergh, Jr., have paid in kind was ordered in vehement words today by President 'Hoover. "I have directed the law en forcement agencies and the sev eral secret services of the federal government te make the kidnap ing and murder of the Lindbergh baby a live and never-to-be-for gotten case, never to be relaxed until these criminals are in placab ly brought to Justice," the chief executive said. "The federal government does not have police authority in such enmea, but its agencies will be unceasingly alert to assist the New Jersey police in every pos sible way until this end has been accomplished." Even as the president spoke, bis words were being flashed to the nation'a law enforcement of ficers. Attorney General Mitchell announced a few minutes later that he bad relayed the orders to the men nnder his eommand. Feeling throughout the capital ran high. Sympathy mixed with determination to ran down the murderers echoed from the balls of congress to the White House cabinet room. Llfltli' ASSOCIATION Wl fight crime RICHMOND. Vs., May IS (AP) A friend of Col. Lindbergh today proposed the organisation of a Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., as sociation "A spiritual monument to the bapy who has Become a symbol of the effect of lawlessness In America. "Let it be said in tbe future that Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., gave his life for the advancement of a great cause," said Charles C Reed, of Richmond,1 who offered the proposal. . There la but one way that eaeh of ns can help, and that is by the building of a monument dedicated to the child's memory not a monument of stone or even precious metals but a spiritual monument, a monument that will outlive all physical things." . FUND O - T Turner Opposes Station Closing Residents : ef the Turner and Falls City districts have filed pro tests with the state public utili ties commissioner against the pro posed closing .of the Southern Pa- eifie stations at those places. Tne date of the hearings has not yet been set, but they probably win be held late this month. . , Santiam Bids to ' Be Opened Soon -PORTLAND, OreTTfay'lS ( AP ) W. ' H. Lynch, district en gineer, announced today. bids for clearing 11 acres of the right-of-way of tbe Santiam highway, will be opened at the office of the bu reau of public roads here May 20 BACKED BT HOOVER 1 . :.in-P' TL6PHrro N: 1'. 1 1 i 7 1 ; ''.'if,' . .w4f Above, group of men munialng the A. xasrabergh, 4T-, was found. the , discovery which brought qmest for the kidnaped infant. York city. Five Candidates Receive Support Of Hop Growers Five of Marlon county's ten candidates for the republican nomination for the house of rep resentatives were endorsed yes terday by the connty branch of the Oregon Hopgrowers' league. The men named are understood to be favorable to the prohibition views advanced by this group. canvass of all ten candidates for the house was made preliminary to the endorsement. Candidates endorsed by the league were: Romeo Goulet, Brooks; 8. A. Harris, Brooks; Ronald Jones, Lake Lablsb; W. a Pettyjohn. Salem; Frank Da vey, 811verton. Anne Lindbergh is III; Weakens HOPEWELL, N. J.. May 11 (AP) Mrs. . Charles A. Lind bergh, who has maintained a calm and composed demeanor through-, out the search "and finding of her kidnaped and slain json, was or dered to bed lata, .tonight and placed under a physician's ear. The strength of tn sum, young mother declined appreciably. It was learned, when at her own in sistence she was. told of the de tails ef the condition, of tbe body of her baby boy., j - By KATHERTNIJ BEEBE. ! HOPEWELL, N. J, May 18 (AP) For Anne Lindbergh to day there waa no more uncertain ty. Nor any hop, r - No more of the agony of won dering whether -her baby was alive and how he was being treat ed by the strangers who took him away. No reason any more to start np eagerly at the ringing ef the telephone. ... ' if ,Ti..-.;.-'J T spot where the body of Charlea Below. Wlulam AH en, who made aa ttnhappy climax to the 72-day Both photos telephotoed from New t FARD0I1 BY MEIER Lynn Nesmith. serving a term of five years in the state peni tentiary, will be released tonight on a conditional pardon Issued by Governor Julius L. Meier. Ne smith. committed from Coos coun ty for a statutory offense, baa served approximately one year of his term. - - . The pardon is issued upon the condition that Nesmith accept employment on a boat which is to sail tonight from Portland. Nesmith served as a clerk in the state legislature during sev eral sessions. He is well known in the Willamette valley. In Coos county he was In the state fire patrol service. Under Strain Gone was even the slight con- fort, to b derived. from things that kept her busy yesterday aft ernoon and last night running; upstairs to the nursery for a lit tle shirt that helped to Identify the dead child as her son, calling again and again on th telephone to try to reaca am xauer. - . Her friends said today she was being very brave, wandering about th long. . nngni uving room, eulet and forlorn. She could not even see little Charles.'-' - --It was said that last night. when soma member af th house hold had to go to th morgue tn Trenton to make th identinca - .. . . . . . . . . uon. sn neggea to p sjww to ro. They told her it would b bet ter if she did.not, and th nurse. Betty Cow, waa sent.' For a few moments last night, it-was learned, Mrs. Lindbergh was nearer to eollspse than she had ever been. nun Such : Is .Conclusion from : Evidence Revealed Sine : Body Discovered; Undy' Views Remains - Proof Brought to Father, at Time $50,000 was Paid indication Gang Contact ed was Right one , By FRANCIS A. JAMIESON (Copyright 1932 By The Asao- ' elated Press). HOPEWELL, N. J., May IS (AP) The picture of a father standing alone before the broken body of his slain son, a mother secluded in grief and a president calling for action Inspired the mightiest law enforcement agen-'--des of the nation tonight to catch the murderers of Baby Lindbergh.' Meantime the wide-flung man-, hunters were gripped with the growing belief .that the criminals who stole the Infant March 1 sought ransom after they had -killed him. The focal point of this school pf thought was the little white eover-all sleeping suit the child wore on the night of the kidasp Ing. This was missing when the battered body, wasted to a skeie- ton, was stumbled upon in a, -woods by a negro truckman yes- . terday leas than five miles trosa the Lindbergh home. Sleeping Garment t Returned to Lindy . And a garment purporting to be this same sleeping suit was tke -"token", by which Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his 72 year eld . agent, Dr. John F. Condon, were brought to pay 850,000 ransom" in the murky darkness of a New -York city cemetery. These were the salient facta scrutinised by New Jeresys crack detectives gathered at a distance : from th bare Trenton morgue : where the famous flier looked at his first born for the last time. t Mrs. Lindbergh, who is expect ing another child next summer, -stayed close beside her mother here, preferring to remember her ; curly haired boy as she knew hint . alive. . . , - i .'Haggard and worn, Cotonel : Lindbergh called upon his saost " totlfffato' friend. Colonel Henry : Breckenrldge, to drive him by sec- -to rear to Trenton. When he entered the reoae where the body lay. the coroner, Walter H, Swayse. Inquired: "Colonel Lindbergh "do yea positively identify this babyT A covering obscured all bat the face of the child. ' "Take that off," requested the , colonel in a low, tens tone. An attendant complied and all i? except the- colonel retired from room. toe Baby Ltndy Declare "It is positively the baby." said Colonel Lindbergh after minute inspection. - He waa Inside the morgee for half an hour. Just before he left a hearse drew ap and the body waa placed Inside for transpwr tatioir to a crematory at Linden, N. J. ' . - When the colonel arrived at th morgue a crowd of several hnn-. dred persons gathered tn the street, with a special police detail on hand to keep order. His expression was sober aad -he seemed weary as he cam from the building and sank backdate a corner of his automobile. - . When tbe ear swung out ef the -alley, the crowd,, now so large that it tied up traffic for a eea siderable distance, broke nolle lines aad followed. Haadreds of children and many (Turn to page 2, eoL I) IffifERS' .HQ' CROOKSTON, Minn-. May 18 API a. national snbsertptJon I fund raised by daily newspapers 0f the united States to nunr. ia 1 vuitrs of tbe Lindbergh baby waa proposed by the Crookston .DaEy i Times today. itavtasF the erim Is aimed not alone at CoL and Mrs. Lindbergh, but against every father, and -ther tn th United States, It wrrs "milltons. it necessary, must be I employed to capture tne unraer- 1 ers. I i ' CHARLOTTE. N. a. May 11 (AT) The Charlotte Observer, declaring the honor, of America hangs upon bringing the Lind bergh baby's murderers to Justice, baa started raising a reward fund and has asked tts readers to adl to the 8100 posted by the paper. raw n