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Before the meeting was adjourned in confusion at 9:30 o'clock, however, the follow ing important matters were un tangled far enough to come to a Tote: The nine ordinances to cut sal aries ot city employes from 5 to 10 per cent tabled by unanimous Tote pending outcome of the bud get committee's plans for next year. Alderman Olson's bill for re-i pealing the charter amendment giving civil service to firemen read scond time and referred to the ordinance committee. Street Overhead Charge Submitted Ordinance passed putting city charter amendment reducing city's; cost charge on sidewalk and street; improvements from 20 down to, 5 per cent, this measure to be! voted on at the November elec4 Hon. ' Question of business houses dis-f playing their wares on sidewalk? put up in the air as;ain following heated arguments between alderf men. j When a petition from Earl Cj. Simpson, requesting that he be allowed to display farm products in front of his North Commeii cial street store, was 1 read toy Recorder Mark Poulsen. Alder man Vandevort Jumped up and moved that the petition be grant ed. Watson Townsend quickly arose, read the ordinance prohib iting sidewalk displays and mov ed that the police department bio instructed to enforce it. ' I Fanner Slighted - Vandevort Avers Retorting, Vandevort boomesd out: "Firm after firm uses the best streets. Autos and magazines are displayed everywhere. Simpson has a little business, allows the farmers to set their produce on the walks and sell for commis sions. When senne poor devil trits to eke out an existence, hop on him. hop on the farmer!" j Vandevort then charged th(U Townsend had spoken insultingly to Simpson. Townsend denied it. Vandevort moved that Simpson lie not disturbed until the matter' of undiscrlmlnatlng enforcement of the ordinance be cleared up. j. Alderman Chris Kowitz chimed in, saying the city shouldn't tacitly approve the violation Of an ordinance. W. H. Dancy die clared the ordinance- had "been . violated for years within a block of this city hall by automobile dealers." When Vandevort for a second time accused Townsend "of speak ing to Simpson about the side- ,Tinnin Held Guilty; To Get Life SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. (AP) The murder of elderly Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes for the alleged purpose of securing ' her. property, brought convictions to day by a Jury for ex-Public De fender Frank J. Egan and ex- Con vict Albert Tinnin, with recom mendation that they be lmprison er for life. Sentence will be passed Thurs day. Defense attorneys announced plans for new trial motions and appeals. The trial lasted four weeks. The jury deliberated three days. The state proved to the satis faction of the Jury that Egan, in financial difficulties, ordered Tin nin and Verne Doran, young par oled burglar, to kill Mrs. Hughes and dispose of her body in such a manner that it would appear she had been the victim of a hit-run motorist. He threatened to send them back to prison for parole violation, the evidence showed, un less they agreed. Doran confessed and testified for the state. He, too, is charged with first degree murder, but was granted a separate trial. SHORT BE S DUE L. DECOYED DK FIRE Children Toted From Beds; Owner Scorched While Saving Furniture VOLEN T BLAST TAKES LIFE OF New Wiliard Hotel Rocked By Explosion; two in Room are Killed Forest Edward Wright One Victim; no Bomb, Is Police Belief is Actress Can ; Not Explain Bern Suicide HOLLYWOOD. Calif., Sept. 8 (AP) Jean Harlow of the films assured police detectives tonight that 'she knew no reason why her husband, Paul Bern, brilliant mo tion picture executive, should T'SCOURSE i Trindle Will Proceed With Cases in Both Federal And State Courts Three small children were hur riedly grabbed out of their beds and taken t J safety in the adjoin ing field, when tne L. L. Short nine-room house, across South 12th street from the Texaco Oil company's supply depot, caught fire shortly after 11 o'clock last night. The bouse was totally des troyed. Mr. and Mrs. Short and J. B. Cummins, a neighbor, were listen ing to the radio when they noticed sparks falling from around the chimney. The whole upstairs was in flames, they found. The children, Dorothy, 8, Rob ert, 5, and Earl, 13 months, who were ,. sleeping downstairs, were quickly carried outside, the baby . still in his crib. Then the Shorts and Cummins threw out about a fourth of the furnishings of the house. The remainder was burned. While carrying furniture from near the blazing building, Mr. Short was burned about the anas. Loss was estimated at $1500 on the furnishings and $2000 on the (Turn to page 2, col. 1) PORTLAND. Sept. 8. -(AP) One: man was killed and another fatally injured in a mysterious ex plosion in a room on the fifth floor of the New Wiliard hotel here late today. The man killed outright was so badly mutilated positive identifi cation was Impossible. An Oregon driver's license, found In a vest pocket, however, bore the name Forest Edward. Wright and a Portland address. Friends of Wright, who formerly lived at SI1 verton, and formerly was a stu dent at the University of Oregon, viewed the body and said it re sembled Wright. The other man, who died soon after lie had been removed to a hospital, was identified by papers found in his clothes as M. O. Bar ton. No address was found. C. B. McClellan, manager of the hotel, said the room in which the explo sion occured, was rented to M. G. Barton, August 30. Believe Men Were Making Explosives Police and firemen, after an examination of the room, said they doubted a bomb had been planted or thrown into the room. They ex pressed the theory the men might have been manufacturing explo sives. The blast completely wreck ed that section of the' fifth floor have killed himself. "I simply can't understand it. the officers quoted the distraught star as saying. " Nor could she un derstand the farewell message found near the bodyaddressed to "Dearest Dear'' and declaring that suklde was "the only way to make pnoJneero fiat lntrPtpri good the frightful wrong i have c,ymecr mieresiea done you and to wipe out my ab ject humiliation." Chief of Detectives Joseph Tay lor and his aides were .shaking their heads when they emerged from the home of Miss Harlow's mother, Mrs. Marino Bello, where the conference took place. They said they had but one explanation left for the newest ot the motion picture colony's death mysterious that Bern simply killed himself in one of the spells of melancholia to which his associates said he was subject. DSerr Appointed Chancellor Oi Higher Education in Oregon; Accepts arid Starts New Tasks In Possible Contract Under U. S. Loan 1 E BROWERS TO GATHER I Report on Interviews With Cannerymen due; Price In South is Eyed in which it occured. The explosion was the fifth to occur in Portland since March. Two took place in alleged gambl ing halls, one in the residence of a minister, and another in a room ing house! MAYOR OH CUTS 01 SALARY NEW YORK, Sept. 6. (AP) Joseph V. McKee, who succeeded James J. Walker, announced to night he was cutting his own sal ary immediately from $40,000 to $25,000 a year He slashed the salaries of all city commissioners who received $15,000 a year and hold their jobs his finger excitedly at Vandevort b7TTaP?,ilmfi1 A-.'12'lf. and branded the statement r lie. Vandevort finally withdrew his motion and Alderman Hughes moved that the city attorney and a committee draw up an ordin nce permitting displays between the sidewalk line and the curb ing. None of the aldermen ex septing HnghesC voted. The council referred to the city attorney Mrs. Ida Budlong's claim for-$125 for loss of wages result ing from injuries she suffered when she fell through a hole In the Bellevue street sidewalk. The street committee's recom mendation that no foot bridge be built on Howard street between Berry , and 12th, as petitioned, was approved. The council also ordered the city engineer to proceed with lay ing a sewer on 17th street be tween Oak and Turner road; changed the name of NEWS OF HELTZEL IS STILL LACKING Outcome of a grower commit tee's Interviews with cannerymen and report of the California prune price and bearing it will have on the local situation, will be among major matters to be discussed at the meeting of prune growers at the chamber of commerce tonight at 8 o'clock. The meeting follows the big mass gathering held a week aga. when growers banded and agreed to hold for $10 a ton on fresh prunes. At that time W. C. Wins low was named chairman, and he will preside tonight. California pool prices, which It was thought would be announced Tuesday, will not be known until today, according to Associated Press word received late last night from San. Francisco . by The Statesman. Leaders urge that as many prune growers as possible come Immediate action in the City of Salem's effort to test the legality of the December 15. 1931, charter amendment providing a $2,500. 000 bond issue for buying and adding to a water plant here, is contemplated. City Attorney Wil liam H. Trtndle announced last night. The matter was not men tioned at the council session. Trindle's course of action will be two-fold: 1. He will file an amended com plaint In the city's test suit in cir cuit court here, which was lost on Angnst 23 when Judge L. O. Lew- elllng sustained the Oregon Washington Water Service com pany's demurrer. The amended complaint, Trindle hopes, will clear up the objections to the in itial suit. It will be filed this week if his stenographers can complete the necessary documents in tine. 2. Trindle filso will file an an swer to the test suit brought in January In federal court before Judge James Alger Gee by the water company with the City of Salem as defendant. The city's motion to dismiss this complaint was, lost when the city's own suit was thrown ort of circuit court. This answer will be fl'ed at once. Trindle said. Company Attitude May Be Important An attitude of -cooperation on the part of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company would make it possible to settle the val idity of the water bonds in a short time, according to the city attorney. If no action Is taken by way of delay, ho said, the case in circuit court here could soon be ruled on, with Judge Levelling already familiar with the suit, then speedily carried to the state supreme court for final determin ation. Slow-moving litigation would lessen the city s opportunity to Oregon Man First Chancellor of State's Higher Education System f V'V "VV'V y v - - N NTS E FOR THIS YEAR IS HIS ADVICE ft- Suggests That he Live on Eugene Campus; Salary Is set at $12,000 Long Controversy at end;. Board Vote Unreported After Secret Meet DR. W. J. KERR T 10 DECREASE IN MILK AND BIESY STARTS PRICES EXPLAINED He also said, after a conference with the city budget director, he was insistent on a "deep cut ' into the $425,000,000 budget items for salaries, The cut of his own salary, he explained, was his first step in slashing the budget. McKee indicated he would ad vocate that no salary cuts shall affect city employes earning less than $2000 a year. Anxious speculation of Salem friends over the possible fate of James G. HeUzel, local attorney who was reported missing from the liner Admiral Farragut last Saturday,-found no new clues to work upon Tuesday, although there was by that time no doubt remaining that misfortune of some sort had overtaken Mr. Helt- zel or he would have made knowj his whereabouts by that time. John Heltrel, his oldest son who had departed for San Francisco to attempt to trace'down the mys tery,' had not, up to Tuesday night communicated with San Francis co police, an Associated Pres3 message revealed. The liner had not yet reached San Diego, it was further re ported. A report was received in Salem Thursday that Heltrel's topcoat, hat and traveling bag were found in his stateroom after the boat cleared San Francisco bay for San Diego. ; Friends of Heltzel said he had suffered from insomina for sev eral years and might have fallen from the boat while walking on the deck during the night. Mem bers of the crew of the Farragut reported having seen Heltzel walking on the deck shortly after three a. m. Saturday. At that time he wore no coat nor hat. SMSJfJLSSSaSiSffWS F- JBSSSBS Jury Selected, Taking of Attempts to Steal Market sented. SAN JOSE. Calif., Sept. (AP) Directors of the newly es tablished united prune growers of (Turn to page 2, col. 6) THE ARRESTED III MURDER Finance corporation to acquire the present water system and con struct a mountain water supply line. The city already has applied for $1,800,000 of these funds for this purpose. Engineering firms are begin ning to look toward Salem with an eye to the business of obtain ing the federal money. City Re corder Poulsen yesterday received a form letter from Gannett, See lye and Fleming, Harrisburg, Pa., engineers, who want the job of preparing the city's application for these funds. Testimony Will Start Today Before Wilson With selection of the jury com pleted yesterday afternoon, open ing statements la the trial of B. F. Oiesy and Zeno Schwab charged From Organized Group Related by Henry Explanation of the August 14 drop in the association milk quo tation and resnm ot the work done during the first year of the PORTLAND. Sept. 6. (AP) Dr. William Jasper Kerr, presi dent of Oregon State college, was named chancellor ot higher edu cation in Oregon at a meeting of the state board of education here today. Dr. Kerr was notified ot his ap pointment and accepted the posi tion. His salary will be $12,994 a year. Selection of the state coliege president for the important pmt eame only after the board had spent months in irterviewing na tionally known educators. The board, announcing Dr. Kerr's acceptance, said his term as chancellor began with his ac ceptance. His tenure of office H indefinite. Following an executive se!on which had lasted all afternnoo. Dr. Kerr was called before the board. Seek Cooperation Of All Concerned "The board has asked me," said C. L. Starr, board president, "to tell you that you have been elected chancellor of the state's educational structure, at Indcfla Ite tenure and at a salary ef Hi. 000 a year." Preliminary to announcing hla acceptance Dr. Kerr said: "I have been In eollege work In Oregon long enough to real ize the responsibilities of sack, a position. I labor ander no deia slons as to the task confronting the man who may occupy that position. But there are a oiokr of things of which there should be an understanding before tal Queen tor State Fair's Rodeo Will be Selected PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 6 (AP) Police tonight announced the arrest of three men on charges-1 of first degree murder in connec tion with the fatal shooting early today of Merle O. Barr, 31, al leged beer garden operator. The three men under arrest gave their names as George Har wood, William Pasch and Tony Camillo. Police said Harwood had been identified aa the men who shot Barr when he refused to tell two holdup men where his money was kept. Pasch confessed, police said. that he was the second man par ticipating In the holdup and he named Harwood as the slayer. Three men and a woman who wit nessed the shooting also identified Harwood in a police lineup. Camillo, police said, admitted he drove the automobile which carried the other two men to and from the scene ot the murder. SORELL WILL FACE 1 0 E Melvin Sorell, 21, was bound over to the Marion county grand jury yesterday morning when he appeared in justice court on a charge of first degree murder filed that morning. He waived preliminary hearing, and was lodged in the county jail. Be cause of the first degree charge, he could not be admitted to ball. laws in connection with operation of the defunct Aurora State bank, will be made this morning and testimony started before Circuit Judge Fred W. Wilson of The Dalles, sitting In plaee of Judge L. H. MeMahan. The case will be resumed at t o'clock, The Jury which will decide the case numbers 13 persons. Includ ing the alternate, of which four are women. Beth prosecution and defense exhausted every challenge in selecting th jury, business of which got under way about 1:30 o'clock and continued until about 5:30 o'clock. The Jury, selected to try the ex-bankers Includes four house wives, a clerk, two retired men, rruuman, a fur breeder, a eon- tractor, a real estate man and two farmers. They are Laura Ditmars, Fairfield, Flor ence E. Cole, Rosedale. Pearl M, Klnier, Salem, and Ruth M Crary, Salem, all housewives; Sorell is accused of fatally shoot ing hi. father. Leon D Sorell 41 U ' v7 Bookers. BrVitenbu' street to East avenue, as peti-1 tioned; referred petition of S. B. Millard and others tor opening North 18th street between D and C streets to the street committee. Who will be queen of the state fair rodeo? Director Vax Gehlhar wants some young woman of.Sa- Frlckey lem or vicinity to be queen . of FOREST GROVE MAN DIES AFTER CRASH PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. Si ( AP) One man was killed, n other severely cut and bruised and a third held without bail .un der charges of Involuntary man slaughter and driving while drunk as the result of a wild automo bile ride here tonight. The dead man was identified . by police as Gus Window, of Fpr- est Grove. Monroe. Millard, ' also of Porest Grove, waa cut nd bruised, and Monte Vaughn, who refused to give hie address, was arrested as the driver of the tar which killed : Winslow when; it crashed into . a telephone polel Police said , witnesses told them Vaughn was driving at a speed ef SO to 60 miles an hour when i he lot control ot the ear. the Strawberry Roan Rodeo which is the entertainment feature of the state fair. And the Salem Ad club la sponsoring a popularity contest by which a queen will be selected. The contest will start immediately and the winner will be announced the night of Fall Opening, September $2. Nominating ballots are to be printed in the daily papers and then balloting for candidates will start Tickets goo,d for' 100 votes each may be obtained from Salem stores and will be deposited In a ballot box Tdown town. Day-by day count ot the ballots will be announced in ' the papers. - The tickets will be distributed by Ad club members to the stores In the next tew days, and the names of candidates printed, so people will know whom they want to vote tor. The event is planned to stimulate interest in Salem's Fall Opening and to create in terest In the rodeo at the state fair. Director ; Gehlhar suggests one desirable qualification for the queen, in addition to grace" and beauty, and that Is ability to ride. because the queen will be ex pected to take part in the formal mounted parades of Rodeo week. ' Here la a nomination coupon, good for 10,000 votes. Pick out someone you think would make an attractive queen of the Rodeo. Write her . name on this ballot and forward it to Queen Contest Manager Salem Ad club, Salem. Ore. Do ao at once; so balloting may start." i . Boise Also Has Secret Society 1187 Union street, last Friday night. In justice court, young Sor ell presented a sober face and listened Impassively when Judge Miller B. Hayden read the in formation filed by the state. The only time he spoke was to an swer the query ef Lyle J. Paige, assistant district' attorney, as to tired minister, Salem; Basil H Zell, Salem fruitman. J. M. Co burn. Ptlngle, farmer; Clarenc W. 8tacey, Liberty fur breeder; Mark D. Ellis, Salem, retired; Thomas EL Cole, Salem contract or; and Fred O. Delano, real es tate. Salem. Roma C. Hunter, Salem meat r v m r. -: " I man, u alternate, .bom siaes zcnooi i rouDie r .aouid . -rr- M n T TT.. J.V. I - - It Is probable his case will come before the grand Jury, which convenes today. riven by Will W. Henry of Port land, general manager of the as sociation, at a meeting of Salem shed members at the chamber of commerce last night. The price was lowered from $1.80 to $1.50 August 18 to stop attempts to steal the market from the organized producer, Henry said, showing that even the or ganized producer cannot sit still and let the unorganized groups take the market. This situation is in turn a part of the present economic condition. Henry explained, although be de clared that producers are car rying on in a losing market on the present quotations. Pointing to the recent Los Angeles milk war, Henry said that if produc ers and distributors not affiliated cannot be educated to bearing their share of the load on the milk surplus, the result may be a war between organized and un organized milk men. He added. however, that there was high hope that this condition would not be reached here. The drop in association prices He then called attention to the fact the fall terms of the higher educational institutions will ope shortly and that a great amount of work would confront the ehaa (Turn to page 2, col. 1) STEEL FIRM SAYS T lO'l GMiS PITTSBURGH. Sept. C (AP) The Carnegie Steel company re ported today it was operating at 1$ per cent of capacity, compared with 11 per. cent at the first ef last week and 15 per cent at the end of the week. CHICAGO. Sept. (AP) L. C. HarbUon. president of ;be Household Finance corporation, said a survey ot loans made by his company through its Chieae and branch offices in 91 other cit- has been reflected to advantage I let showed that during the Erst of the consumer, however, for in I six months ot 1932 the number Salem the cash-ln-advance price was lowered to seven cents Sep tember 1 by all big distributors. Earlier In the summer eight eeats had prevailed on cash and nine cents a quart on credit business. Henry quoted figures to show what the association and organ ization has done for dairymen of borrowers, the total loaned, and the average loan were all smaller than during the same per iod In 1981. I NEW YORK. Sept. (AP) Steel works and railroads have appreciated approximately $2.- 500.000 in the recent rise In scrap BOISE. Idaho. Sept. 8 (AP) Boise high school students signed up today apparently with little disturbance in agreement with the edict of the city board xf educa tion that they must not belong to clubs during the coming school year. The order against the clubs was made public by the board of edu cation on the eve ot opening of school ' and immediately started marmurings ot discord among groups of students at the school. The board charged the clubs were a "baneful influence at the In stitution and responsible for scan dalous, parties. The prospective Jurors excused I In its year of existence. He said steel prices, the magazine "Steer GOOD FOR 10,000 VOTES I desire to nominate Nomination Coupon Name Albin Question Not Talked at Council's Meet As C. E. Albln. alderman-elect from the fifth ward, has not sub mitted his resignation, the city I council last night took no action toward filling the vacancy which 1 will occur in January unless Albln should return to the city. The ex- mayor has moved to Portland. Aldermen last night said, after the meeting, that unless Albln Uf I Dorri7 I submits his resignation before the WtM.ll UC a UitU I NntMnSar WMati tfea eonnell will undoubtedly name the man to take his place. from duty through challenge la $80,000 reserve had been built were: John Cation, A. B. Kelsay, I from the deduction not to exceed Merele F. Ramp, Helen E. Asplu- I per cent on all milk, this re- (Turn to page 2, eol. 1) . (Turn to page 2, eoL 3) said today, pointing out that about 2.000,000 tons of scrap arw held by sueh establishments. ffi&cjcin. Prinerille Has Blaze Postofflce Is Robbed Transient Badly Hurt Setting Fires Charge Cherry Avenue Her Address . For Queen ot Strawberry Roan Rodeo, of Oregon State Fair Septemb er 2 8-October 1. Fill .out coupon, clip and mail to Quisen Contest Manager, Salem Ad Club, Salem, pre. .. ........; . Nomination Coupon . . . . . Good for 10.000 Votee ' After disagreeing over the type and width of pavement to be laid. i the city council last night accept ed- the petition of Cherry avenue residents for paving ot the street from Highland to Locust avenues. The petitioner's request tor a 21 foot street, with two-Inch surfac ing ot asphalt was adopted, alter the council first had decided oft a ae-foot street. ' AUTO FIRM LOSER PRINEYILLB, Ore.. Sept. (AP) The Inland Auto company building 'waa destroyed here today by fire of undetermined origin. . Owners estimated . the loss at between $12,000 and $1S,000 with $5000 insurance. . PARAGUAYANS ATTACK LA PAZ, Bolivia, Sept, 0 (AP) An official communique .those today said strong Paraguayan pat- rols had attacked a defense post protecting, a small . fort in 'the southern tone1' and were repulsed . and pursued by Bolivian treopa. MAUPTX IS SCENE THE DALLES. Ore.', Sept. ( AP) Mid-Columbia . authorities today sought two er more men as who robbed the Maupln postofflce ot . $75 la cash last night - The rear door ot the postofflce i had ' been forced open ' and "the money taken from the cash box. FALLS FROM TRAIN ROSEBURO, Ore. .Sept. 0 (AP) Livingston Shanley, 79. a transient, waa injured critically last nigbt when he tell from a freight car la the Southern Pa title yarda here. He suffered a broken arm aad hip. ' TRACKED BY OFFICERS ROSEBURO, Ore., Sept. f TOLEDO, Ohio. Sept. 8 (AP) Labor here went back to work today in tore. The Willys-Over land plant reopened, giving worm to 4S00 men, and numerous smeJ er factories, resumed operatJeas. Girl Struck by 1 Dr. Beechler at Tillamook Dies l TILLAMOOK. Ore., Sept, 8 AP) Jane Klnnamon, 8. daugh ter ot Mr. and Mrs. Clyde KJaaa-- saon. who was struck Monoay ey an automobile police said waa jrtrn at Dr. Dale Beechler. et (AP) Owen Tiller, 17, of Camas Salem, died at a hospital here t- alley, waa brought to the county day. - - jail here yesterday, charged with The girl was struck starting . three tires in timber got eut et a, ear parked la&est along the Wildcat-creek. Forest patrol officers who made the ar rest said they . found TUier s tracks in the vicinity of the fires and that they followed hint to his home. t her heme four miles north et , lamook. .- District Attorney C.XW. Baltic; said he was leaving the cane epea - and will decide later what actte , to take. . 'x-rli '