my, -VSERYICE U; !; 1 We guarantee our carrier service. If your paper does . not arrive by 6:So rail 9101 and a copy will b delivered promptly. . WEATHER - UT Cloody with light" rata today, Hwadajr-mostly -eloa- -dy; Max. Temp. Friday CO, -311m. 40, rlTer 2L8 feet, raia J&S Inch. "j EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR V- . v. mm. 1 i - p mm 7 V i a tm ff 1 V- DIG Rnncouelt Rnn Q tn l.fivar r:,-- iivwvvivii iui IO V IW. I WIVI In Close Battle Deizell Ahead; Steiwer is Safely Elected; Dana ! Behind Watkins PORTLAND, Ore., May 21 (AP) (Saturday) Congress man Hawley moved Into a alight lead over James Mott, hla nearest opponent for the re publican nomination early this morning, latest tabulations giv ing; blm 11,572 votes to Mott's 11,403. Another Important shift la thai trend occurred In the dem ocratic senatorial race, Walter B. Gleason moving ahead of El ton; Watkins. Figures gave Gleason C511, Watkins 5344, Marshall Dana 4771. R. R. Hewitt still held second place behind Judge Bean for supremo court position No. 2, Bean having 17,501, Hewitt 0431, James T. Brand 8270. Other candidates were hold ing about the same positions as previously announced. . PORTLAND, Ore., May 20 (AP) A lead of nearly two to one over President Hoover in tbe Oregon presidential preference election today was maintained by Joseph Irwin France of Maryland as returns were received tonight France's was the only name on the republican ticket, and the votes Hoover received were writ- . ten to. .The state nomination carries the pledge of 13 votes la the na tional - convention In Chicago. The democratic nomination car ries 10 pledged votes. With 637 precincts out of 1, 783 - counted, the vote stood France 10,423; Hoover 5,563. Franklin D. Roosevelt held a three-to-one lead over William H. Murray for the state democratic nomination, receiving in 477 pre cincts 7,240 to Murray's 2,086. Alfred E. Smith was written in 103 times. Congressman W. C. Hawley was In a bitter fight for renominatlon In "the first district, with James W. Mott, state corporation com missioner racing him neck and neck.! The vote, with 150 pre cincts out of the 802 in the dis trict reporting, stood Hawley 5, $92, and Mott 5,87. Mott moved ' ahead on a later tabulation. Two other candidates were far be hind. For the democratic congres sional nomination from this dis trict William A. Deizell had 1. 518 totes to 1.064 for Harvey Starkweather. In ! the second district Con gressman R. R. Butler was far ahead of J. M. Richards tor the republican nomination, and ex Governor Walter M. Pierce -had , a lead over Francis V. Gallcfcray. Tbe vote there was Pierce 961. and Galloway 568. with 60 pre cinct out of the 441 In the dis trict counted. Senator Frederick Steiwer con tinued to lead two to one his . closest rival, ex-Senator Robert N. .Stan field. The vote was Stei wer 17.043; Stanfleld 8,483. with 575 precincts in. On the democra tic side Elton Watkins had a small lead over Marshall N. Dana, Portland newspaperman. This congressional race stood 2,607 for Watkins. and 2,133 for Dana. Figures for 58 precincts from all over tbe state at 12:10 a. m. showed: Republican President: France 11610 Hoover 5805 - Republican Senator: Clerk 8189 .Duncan 2501 Harlan 8006 Stanfleld 9534 Steiwer 19239 - (Turn to page 1, col. 1) DELZElI LEMS IN POLK COM VOTE DALLAS. May 2 Twelve completed Polk county precincts on . the ' democratic ticket gave Roosevelt 404 ballots for presi dent, compared to 91 for Murray. Watkias took the lead for sena tor and Delxell got a two to one rote over Starkweather. , ' ,: Tbo democratic Tote on these preclneta aa: . . . ' Senator Dana, 156; Gleason, 182; and Watkins, 213. Repre s en tat It e Deliell, 311; and Starkweather, 206. Judge, district two-Bean. 657; Brand. 253; Hewitt, 385; McCul loch, 171 Position three Bail ey. 1 4; Brown, 179; and Gra- ' ham, 83 J: - - v ," ID . Men Vie - In Close Race - 4 vT wp?ryw J ' ..-x-v V James Mott, above, and W. O. Hawley, Incumbent, below, were engaged In a close race for the republican nomination for ran. gressmaa from tbe first district on the face of returns up to late Friday night.. Mott. was several hundred votes in the lead bnt Hawley's friends were counting on the up-country vote to pull him ahead today. Mott was ahead in Marion county. IKE IEM IN POLK Denmanlias big Lead Over Buchanan In Senator Race, Announced DALLAS, May 20 (Special) Complete republican returns on 11 Polk county precincts at mid night gave Mott and Steiwer good leads for congressmen: Pal miter four votes more than Hoss for secretary of state; and Hoi man almost three to one for treasurer. In the more local voting. Den- man had a big lead over Buchan an for senator from this district; and Dean Walker was far ahead of Stella Henry, his nearest op ponent for state representative from this district. G. W. Curtis was in the lead on this county for - county commli sloiier; T. B. Hooker, Incumbent. had a big lead for sheriff; Carl S. Graves was leading for county (Turn to page 2, col. 3) MOTT AND STEIWER New Vague Clues Noted In Lindbergh Mystery By FRANCIS A. JAMIESON HOPEWELL; ,N. J., May 20. (AP) The hunt for the Lind bergh; baby killers revolved about a pair of vague police clues and the aid of the white-haired "Jaf sie" tonight after authorities once more absolved John Hughes Curtis, hoax negotiator, of sus picion in their main Quest. The official attitude toward Curtis, moot subject of a two day series of statements, finally appeared definite when CoL H. Norman Sehwankopf, state po lice superintendent, announced the Norfolk,- Va., boat builder was la a New York hotel the night of April 2 and "his actions are accounted for. : CoL Schwarzkopf then employ ed virtually his : exact words of yesterday in saying "there . Is nothing that would Indicate that Curtis was connected either with the kidnaping or the collection of the ransom." It was the night of April 2 that Dr. John F. Con don (Jafale) tossed a packet of 150,000 In currency to an extor tionist In a New -Tork cemetery. In between- these assertions, however, the police head had told of continuing his checkup of Cur tis' whereabouts saying it would not b' completed and corroborat ed until next week, j - Salient among the other results of the day were these: - (1) 'Gladly" signing f , .waTf. SUPPORT III1G0ITY Joseph France ' Backed for President; Mottl Gets ; Lead Over Hawley Scherping Leads Holman by Small Margin; Hoss is Well Supported BULLETIN! Returns from 48 complete out of 70 precincts In Marlon county at 2:45 a.m. today show ed the following returns President: France 8548. Hoover 404. Senator: Steiwer 188. Stanfleld 1621. Clark 1378. Harlan 288. Duncan 201. Congress: Mott 2805. Hawley 1711. Hnlet 882. Howard 803. Secretary State: Hoss 8482. Palnxlter 1010. Treasurer: Holman 2810. Scherping 1910. Attorney-General : Van Winkle 3751: Bronaugh 1814. Joseph Irwin France appeared to have carried Marlon county more than two to one over Herbert Hoover as presidential primary choice as the returns kept coming in at midnight Friday. Hoover, with the disadvantage of having to have his name written into the ballot, had received 637 votes while France had polled 1613. For united States senator, Fred erick Steiwer appeared certain to be victor In this county. In 39 precincts out of 79,' Incomplete, Steiwer was comfortably ahead. Ha had 1839 votes to 1399 for Stanfleld. his nearest opponent. Alfred E. Clark, supported by Governor Meier, was a close third with 1286 Robert "Wildcat" Dun can and Kenneth Harlan were out of the race. Duncan having 128 votes and Harlan 196. James W. Mott appeared at midnight to have carried Marlon county against the veteran Willis Clark Hawley. In 39 Incomplete precincts he had run up 2465 otes while Hawley was gaining 1578. C. C. Hulet came far to the rear with a total of 496 and Em- mett Howard of Lane county was a poor fourth with a total of 247 votes. Hal IS. Hoss won the county's vote for secretary of state by a (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Prunes Moving From Portland To Italy Marts PORTLAND, May 20.UP) Although the .prune "season" Is long past, European markets con tinue to demand this fruit In large quantities. The Libera line motor- ship Rialto, due here Monday, will load a large shipment of dried prunes for delivery at Ital ian ports. of immunity. Dr. Condon spent two hours and a quarter telling a grand Jury details of his entire connection with the fantastic drama. IZ) Two mystery clues were pursued from the police head Quarters here. One was the state ment of a"known gangster while passing through Maryland" that he had Information about the kid naping and his further assertion Just before the child's body was found that the Infant was dead. The second clue was possible con nection between the abduction and another case described vague ly as the "attempted King kid napmg. (3) An official offer, imme diately rejected, to reimburse Dean H. Dobson-Peaeock for tra veling expenses if he would come here from Norfolk, va to con front Curtis, his one-time asso ciate. The clergyman said he would stand on hla willingness to meet la - Norfolk any accredited police representative. : ' (4) A police disclaimer of any significance in an advertisement in a New York. morning news paper saying) "Citizen Guar an tee absolute confidence. Jimmy.' The New York Evening Post said It had learned Mayor James J Walker had ' received!" a letter promising Lindbergh information if a guarantee of safety would be writer.- - - - Oregon Voters ; ' Like This Pair Above, Senator Fred Steiwer; be low, Governor Franklin D. Roo sevelt of New York; two mea who had things largely their own way in. the Oregon primary election yesterday. Steiwer was far ahead in tbe race for repub lic nnomlnatloa for the office he now holds; Governor Roose velt had no opposition worth mentioning for the democratic presidential choice. WILL QUIT COUNCIL Resignation due Soon, Made Necessary by Policies Of Highway Board Watson Townsend, city council man from the sixth ward for the last six years, will resign his po sition probably this weekend. It became known here Friday. Townsend's withdrawal from city politics was necessitated by the state highway department, for whom he has worked for ten years, who requested that he no longer engage in city or other po litical affairs. R. H. Baldock. state highway engineer, last night confirmed the report that Townsend bad been asked to give up his work as city councilman. He said the new com mission had made a rule that em ployes of the department must take no part In affairs of a polit ical or semi-political nature. Townsend yesterday confirmed the report but stated that he was uncertain of the exact date of his resignation as city alderman. Townsend la known to have worked ardently against Mayor P. M. Gregory's plan for getting mountain water. While Town- send favored a mountain water supply he thought the mayor's (Turn to page 3, col. S) FAIRBANKS, Alaska. May 10 -(AP) Huge black letters writ ten In the snow, "O and S safe," informed Pilot Jerry Jones In a Bight over tbe Muldrow glacier camp of the Carpe expedition to day that" a long-missing member had been found. The "S." he said, confirmed his belief after seeing three men at the camping spot that Nicholas Spadevecckla, unreported for 11 days on a return by foot through the wilderness here, had returned safely to his starting point. In addition, the plane flown to the camp yesterday by Pilot S. .E. Robbins, was lying on the snow, Jones added, ' apparently having broken an axle la attempting to take off from the rough surface of the glacier. Fears were felt when It failed to return here last night. - ; V Pilot's. E. Robbins made the flight yesterday to return Percy T. Olton, Jr., who was left on the Glacier when a eick member was flown out last week, back- to Fair banks. The "O" on the snow re ferred to him. - . 's V ' ' 1 .;m v ,; ' : : WATSON TOKEND SPHCCKIl IS BELIEVED FOUND LEADS I TIGHT RACE Pauius, Martin, Abrams and ' Gouley Ahead k County Legislative Clash H. E. King Gains Lead, Court Scramble; Bower and Trindle Prevail BULLETIN Returns from 46 complete pre cincts out of 79 In the county at 2:15 a. m. this morning gave the following returns: District Attorney: William m Trindle 2665 Allan Carson 2186 Sheriff: Oscar D. Bower 224S Ratdlff 1942 Coroner: L. E. Barrick 2788 Lloyd Bigdoa 2817 Representative : Hannah Martin 2852 Carle Abrams 2389 Otto K. Paulas 2327 Romeo Gouley 2072 Frank Settlemeier 2021 Ronald E. Jones 1942 Tables had been turned in the Marlon county race for district attorney at 3:30 a. m. today with William H. Trindle 49 S votes ahead of Allan Carson for the republican nomination. Early Fri day night as the Incomplete re turns came In, Carson forged ahead and at one time had a 300 vote lead over his opponent. At midnight the two men were run ning neck and neck, Trindle go ing into the lead as the country precincts began to file full re turns, t Theounf on 44 complete pre cincts out of 79 In the county gave Trindle 3491 and Carson 1896 at 2:30 a. m. Sixteen out of 34 precincts In the city had not as yet reported complete returns. Otto K. Paulus. Hannah Mar tin, Carle Abrams and Romeo Gouley were leading for the coun ty nomination as state representa tive In the order named. Tbe to tals on all 10 candidates for the legislature in 44 precincts com pleter stood this morning as fol lows: Paulus 2274; Martin 2225; Abrams 2189; Gouley 1948; Set tlemler 1939; Jones 1833; Davey 1712; Pugh 1847; Harris 1504; Pettyjohn 1154. H. E. King, on the face of re turns from the rural districts, was ahead In the race for county com missioner with a total of 1288 votes. W. A. Heater of Sublimity (Turn to page 3, col. 1) Frederick Steiwer and James W. Mott carried West Salem pre cinct, by wide margins for the re publican nominations for United States senator and representative, respectively, in yesterday's ' pri mary election. Steiwer 99. Stan field 47; Mott 105. Hawley 78. Joseph Irwin France received 98 votes to Herbert Hoover's 58, for republican nomination for presi dent. Democratic nominating races: Franklin D. Roosevelt 84; Wil liam H. Murray 41, for president; Walter B. Gleason 43, Elton Wat kins 31, for U. S. senator; Wil liam A. Delxell 72. Harvey G. Starkweather 12, tor U. S. repre sentative. State republican nominating races: Hal E. Hoss for secretary of state, Rufus Holman for treas urer, I. H. Van Winkle tor attor ney general, and George W. Den man for state senator all received good margins oyer competitors. For state representative: Stella J. Henry 90, Dean H. Walker 38. Roy R. Hewitt received 135 votes to 90 for Henry J. Bean in supreme court nominations, posi tion two, while George M. Brown secured 183 to J. O. Bailey's 97, position three. Big Relief Plan Offered Senate; -J Ask Bond Issue WASHINGTON, May 10 -(AP) A 22,300,000 federal unemploy ment relief program was proposed today by the special democratic relief committee of the senate. The counter offer to President Hoover's compromise called tor a 1500,000,000 bond issue for pub lic construction. It accepted pro posals ' for-f 300,009,000 for di rect relief loans to the states and 11.500.000,000 for public and pri vate loans, both to be administer ed by the reconstruction finance corporation."- - STEIWER AIM! CARRY WEST SALEM Downtown Candidate Leads Race For Honor oi Salem Mayoralty DOUGLAS No Word Received as Radio Not Carried; Believed N earing England HARBOR GRACE, Newfound land. May 21 Saturday) (AP) Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, who took off at 4:51 p.m. (eastern standard time) yesterday for Par is, attempting the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, was unreported at 2 a.m. (eastern standard time) today. No alarm was felt, for her plane has no radio. If all went well, she was n earing the British Isles, rid ing favorable winds. HARBOR GRACE, N. F., May 20 Amelia Earhart Putnam, smiling and confident, took oft from Harbor Grace tonight In her crimson, gold striped plane, with Paris her destination. Fire years to theday after Col onel Charles A. Lindbergh sped out from New York on the first flight to Europe, Mrs. Putnam took off at 4:51 p.m., (eastern standard time) determined to be the first woman to fly over the At lantic alone. Like Lindbergh, she chose Paris for her goal. "To all my friends, far and near, yon will bear from me In 1 6 hours, she said. "I hare sufficient fuel for 20 hours and I will go further it my gas holds out and I find X am not too fatigued. Her decision to start today came suddenly, influenced by favorable weather reports. Arriving here from St. John, N. B., at 11:21 a.ra., (eastern standard time) she previously bad retired, announc ing she hoped to leave early to morrow. Man Wanted in Jewelry Theft, In Brazil Jail PERNAMBUCO. Brazil. May 20 (AP) Captain William Bar rett, formerly of Hills boro, Ore., wanted for tbe alleged larceny by bailee of about Vl 2 5.0 00 worth of jewelry from Mrs. John D. Spreckles. Jr., daughter-in-law of the San Francisco sugar king, in 1920, now is serving six years in federal prison here for counter feiting. He was convicted ana sen tenced in October, 1931. AMELIA PIMM IS HEADED FOB PARIS Biaaest Crowd on Record Listens to A crowd said to be the largest ever to congregate downtown In Salem for election, returns, gath ered at Ferry and Commercial streets Friday night and early this morning to hear the county and state service given Jointly by Tbe Capital Journal and The Ore gon Statesman. With tbe .staffs of both papers cooperating, in complete and later complete re turns were broadcast to' thous ands of people through the use of, the public address system of the Cherry City Baking company, Gardner Knapp announcing. - Special telephone ; announcers relayed - the news on - to other thousands of people' In answer to telephone calls which began at t p. m. and continued Into the ear ly hours of-the morning. - McKAY KFf LT C OF MAffi COUNTY Deizell has Easy Victory, Gleason Tops Watkins And Dana Totals Franklin D. Roosevelt was the tonr to one choice of Marion county democrats as presidential timber for the June convention. totals from 30 precincts In tbe county showed at 1:30 a. m. Sat urday. Roosevelt at that time had 720 votes to 170 for "Alfalfa Bill Murray, bis only opponent. For United States senator. Walter B. Gleason was In first place with Elton Watkins run ning second and Marshall Dana third. The count stood Gleason 321. Watkins 292, Dana 250. W. A. Deizell had won an easy victory In this county over Har vey Starkweather, his opponent. for the democratic nomination for the first congressional dis trict, Delsell's total In 30 dis tricts in the county was 809 to Starkweather's 239. The only other democratic can didates were unopposed. Two Men Die As Result of Car Accidents PORTLAND. Ore., May 20 (AP) Two persons were killed In automobile accidents today. one in Portland and one a mile east of Greaham on the Mount Hood loon highway. William Beilstein. 72. of Greah am, was killed when bis auto mobile collided with one driven by G. L. Dickerson, of Rldgefield, Wash. Dickerson was uninjured. Battllega was killed when his machine crashed Into a power line pole. No one saw the acci dent but police said they believed he lost control of the car. Weather Delays Flight lo Tokyo SEATTLE. May 20 (AP) Delav until Monday or Tuesday today faced Nathan C. Browne. New York filer, waiting here for Mill nletion of details for his pro posed Seattle to Tokyo flight, as three low pressure areas, were re ported on his planned route to the Orient. Election News Bt 1:29 p.m. Friday the first returns were la the offices ot The Statesman and In' periods of not to exceed five minutes continuous and new returns were announced by the staffs ot the two papers cov ered every si minutes each ot the 24 precincts In the city. More than 49 rural correspondents of the newspapers took part In gathering the returns front the 15 rural and municipal precincts outside ot 4a- By keeping cumulative records, the returns were added as they eame la and voters were afforded up-to-the-minute reports. .- Compilation ot the final, com plete returns will be continued this morning by the capital Jour nal which will augment the par tial, tables carried In Tbe States man this morning. i THREEHUNDRED GREGORY oulsen and Rice to .Retain' Present Offices; Both f Measures Carrying Doughton, Rostein, Gahls- dorf, Odom, Gabriel For Water Board DonglM McKay with 3233 votes to 2512 for P. M. Gregory was far ahwPcT MCTaitrt' ta the race fcj-jgayTaRy of Salem at 8 a-loday srtaea 15 precincts olf S4 had. reported complete In Salem aad eight had reported incomplete. Douglas McKay has been chosen mayor of Salem to succeed P. M. Gregory, incumbent, it appeared certain at 1 a.m. today, when 17 incomplete precincts out of 24 In the city gave McKay 1338 votes to Gregory 1085. McKay's own pre cinct, NO. 24 in south Salem, had not reported and was expected to increase his lead. McKay was well ahead In 12 of the 17 precincts reporting. Greg ory appeared on the face of tbe In complete returns. to have carried precincts 8, 7, 8, 14 and 21. Complete returns were made impossible by the heavy vote cast in the city and the fact that four sets of ballots were being counted by each election board. In soma precincts the city ballots were put aside until the republican and de mocratic contests could be determ ined and in these districts no vote returns will be available until this morning. Poalsen Ahead For Position Ttow Held ' Mark Poulsen appeared to be the winner for city recorder. Ho had 1028 ballots to 818 for H. S. Bosshard, the runner-up. Lester Jones was third with 472 votes. At 1 a.m. today C. O. Rice, la. cumbent, running for reelection as city treasurer, had established a comfortable lead over Howard M. Perry, his sole opponent. Rice had 1413 votes to 862 for Perry. Civil service for the Salem fire department was assured by a large majority. On the Incomplete re turns from 17 precincts, the meas ure was leading four to one, the 'yes" votes totallnr 1691 to 402 Irf opposition. The fire-depart ment millage tax also carried by a large majority. "Yes" votes on tha millage tax were 1188 to 537 "no votes. The measure authorises a general city levy ot two mills for the payment of fire department salaries and maintenance. For the four-year term as water commissioner, leaders in the elec tion In which three commissioners are to be chosen are . 1C Dough ton. Edward Rostein and WlUlara Gahlsdorf. Thomas Cole comes fourth. Gahlsdorf leads with 1536 votes. Doughton Is second with 1406 and Rostein third with 1389 rotes. Cole had 1047 votes on the total ot tbe Incomplete returns. F. L. Odom and E. B. Gabriel appeared to be the winners In tbe race for two two-year term water -commissioners although the full report on tbe Voters ballots on T. G. Delano was not available at 1 IB. Henry Vandevort appeared to bare been reelected alderman from his first ward. He had 105 votes In the early returns ta 78 for C L. Parmenter and 72 tor Phil Elker. Walter Furber aad Frank Marshall were In a close race In the second ward with Furber having 4 1 and Marshall 47. A. C Page bad' 20 votes In the early and Incomplete returns. The early reports In the city showed W. H. Dancy. long-time councilman, running far behind Earl Dane In the third ward. Dan cy's count stood at 65: Earl Dane had 137 votes on the Incomplete returns. . Ia the fourth ward, with two candidates-to be elected tbe vote on the Incomplete returns showed Averett 116; Boatwright 193 Evans 169; Henderson 134. Former Mayor Albin and 2L A. Bradfleld were running neck aad neck In the race tor alderman ta the fifth ward, Bradfleld having 144 votes In the Incomplete re turns to 13 Sfor Albln. - - Alderman Chris Kowlts ap peared to have been' reelected tn the sixth ward In a field of four. Ho bad 111 votes on the Incom plete returns while Carl Arm-. priest eame second with 113 Votes. Ralph Kletxlng was tktrd with 98 votes and Henry Morris fourth with 61 votes, H. C Leavenworth was - ran hlng far ahead In -the seventh ward. On the incomplete returns he bad 2S4 rotes to 111 for Paul R. Hendricks, runner-up. E. H. Kennedy with' 69 rotes ; eame third. In the wards where no candi date has a majority a runoff of the two highest men In, the ticket must be made tn the general elec tlons this falL - v. -