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1 , ' I - , . . ' . Ik 4 "vv I". ! CIRCULATION WEATHER J Fair, today bat becoming wnaettled, Thnnday rlondyf probably rala; Mx. Temp. -Tms. 43, Ml. 29, Htct S feet, rata lach. S W U . 7427 Distribotlpa -Average ' Oct, a ' Net paid, dally Sunday, 6837 - .: KZMSXS A, B. O. ... . EIGHTY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morninjr, Norember 23, 1932 No. 208 BEER HANOLING State Budget Cut Redskins Play ROOSEVELT NOT ay in TAr qmni . . - . : . aw x i . i ram -n- 'otv - nimnniirn uni n Salem High Thursd 5 -KV a a a m. am A U. bbb aaaa a a av aaaa fl frHlifMiiiiiiic I llllllllUU I i I II u Five District Services in Sa lem arid one in West ; . Salem 10:30 a. mv'- Puritan r Fathers' .. Spirit To be Revived With i ; Music, Sermons' ? Arrangements for the union ThanksgiTing lerrleei In flTe lee- i Uona of Salem and in west Salem hare keen completed, Including musical . numbers and , Thursday morning from 10:30. to 11:30 o'clock, the truest spirit of the Puritan fathers' returning of thanks will preTalL For the central part of town, senrlces will be held at ; the first Presbyterian church, with Rot. QroTer C. Birtchet, pastor, presiding, and Rev. H. N. Mc Callum of the Court Street Chris tian church datlrerlng the mes sage. "The Fine Art of Grumbl ing;." Miss Josephine Albert will sing 'Thanks be to God" and the church choir will sing a Thanks giTing antbem. On the east side, the program will be at the Knight Memorial church. 19th and Ferry streets, with Dr. Britton Ross of the First Baptist church speaking on "Three Reasons to be Thankful in a Depression." A women's Quartet and women's trio will Bing two se lections by Kreret Truette, "Au tumn and "Father We Thank Thee." . North Salem will worship in union serrice at the Highland Friends church, with Pastor C. G. Rlnard presiding and Rer. E. W. Petticord, Evangelical minister, speaking on "Fellowship with Christ" Mrs. Bertha Edmond son. Mrs. Mary Farmer, Mrs. Ha zel Rlckard and Mrs. C. Arm strong will sing a number, and the choir will sing "O Magnify the Lord." ' In the south end of town. Rev. H. Q. Humphrey of .the Jason Lee church will preach at Uh. South Salem ' Friends - church, with the pastor,1 Rev. C. C. Haworth, pre siding. A solo. "Thanks be to God" (Dickson) by W. C. Jones; ladles' quartet, "The Redeemers Praise" by Miss Pemberton, Miss Towns end, Mrs. Cunningham and Mrs. ' Cooper: and an anthem, Abide With Me" by the Leslie junior choir, will be musical se lections. Ret. Humphrey's 1 sub ject will be "ThanksgiTing of the United Heart." Ret. R. V. Wilson, speaking on "Out of Dead Hopes: A Vision of the Golden Age," will address the worshippers at tbe Ford Memor ial church. in West Salem where C. L. Dark! pastor, will preside. A quartet, ''Praise Te the Father" (Gounod) will be the jmuBical feature. A thank offering will he taken at each service, the proceeds to go to relief work in Salm. f 8ereral other churches are ar ranging their own services, with hours so .that they will not' con flict with the union enterprise, which Is sponsored by the min isterial association. ThanksgiTing i err Ices will be held at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow at tbe American Lutheran church, Church street near Chemeketa, with Rev. P. W. ISrickson, pastor, speaking on "Our Part in Thanks giving day." There will be special music by the choir and reading of the pro clamations by President Hoover and Governor Meier. - Milwaitkie High Runners Win Out In Harrier Race - PORTLAND. Or. Nor it (AP) The runners of MOwaukle high school today won the an nual invitational Harrier race at Hill Military academy . .Washington high ? school t. of Portland - - finished second ' and Grant high of Portland, came in third. . Clasper, Washington high run ner, won the hill and dale event, about two , miles, ta 11:49, bet . terlng the previous fastest time of 11: IT. Walker of Ullwauxle fin ished second and Hoyes of Wash- mi ton third. Ten runners started for', each of the ll schools en tered, but only the first five to finish were counted in the final statistics. -a- l:;-' i Salenv- high school . entered a team In the Invitational race hut did . not place. Truck Lands on Sidewalk, Driver Said Intoxicated One mustn't attempt crowding pedestrians out of their vested righu to the sidewalks, Roy C. Rowland. . 1230 North - Fourth street, truck driver, learned last Bight. City police reported they had arrested Rowland on a charge of operating truck while in toil eated after ho had. driven hia ma chine onto the curouf at state aad Liberty streets. ; He was lodged a the City Jail. 1 A careful glance at this amy of sturdy gridatea wil 1 explain why the Chemawa Iadiaa school football team, which will make ita only appearance of the aeasoa in Salem Thursday night against Salem high, . was up In the running a a state ,1 from the picture, net only a strong first team but plentty of reserves. above the team, .Asftlftant Manager Orals; Bird, Manager Dominie Dogeagle. Top row, from th left: Cook, Arlee, Emmoas, Olaey, Coach Lavelle, Win la, Andrews, Whlteman, Beauvais. Middle raw: F. Dogeagle, Churchin, Bel garde, DePoe, John, lay ail, Hoptowlt, Bill. Bottom row: Monroe, Teehee, ..-Walters, Pratt, Meache m, Birdblll, Baker, Badgu n, Bruno, ViTCtte. KenneU-Ellla Photo. L PASSES AT DALLAS j Was Prominent Merchant, Army man, Legislator, Mayor, Alderman DALLAS, Xov. 22 Colonel Conrad Stafrin, 56. passed away at his home in Dallas at 2:25 Tuesday afternoon after suffering for several weeks from paralytic strokes. Colonel Stafrin was a well hjiown and liked resident of Dal las for the past 32 years. He was a charter member of Carl B. Fen ton Post, No. 20, of the American Legion and was also a trustee of the local Presbyterian church. lie was born la Sundsvall, Swe den, April S, 1876. He moved te America with his parents, E. J. and Martha Stafrin In 1883 and settled at York, Nebr. When he was 14, his urge to see the coun try overcame him and he left his parents and started a tour which took Mm into 47 of the 48 states. During his travels he worked as a cowboy, an employe in the pine apple fields in Florida, a clerk in a drug store, and at various other occupations. He returned to Ne braska in 1899 and soon started (west, finally came to Dallas to lire with his uncle, John Olin. He had lived in Dallas since that time. Worked up to Store Ownership He started work in Dallas In a merchandise store and later bo- came a clerk in a drug store here. The store was operated by A, K. Wilson and was In the same build ing where the Stafrin's Drug store is located at the present time. He worked for Wilson until 1902 when be and Dr. Gary bought the store. In 1906 he bought out Dr. Cary and had operated the store independently since that time. His military career began with the Spanish-American war at the age of 21. He enlisted in 1898 and was in the war only six weeks when it terminated. . He was in recruit at Fort Omaha, Neb. Colonel Stafrin helped organ (Turn to page 2, col. 4) oaon riefs PETTIGBEW HONORED BEND, Ore.. Nov. 22 (AP) Old-time residents of this section today paid tribute to M. W. Pettl grew, editor who operated sever-, al weekly newspapers on western frontiers, when funeral services for the pioneer Journalist were held here today. h;l Nearly half a century ago Pet tigrew published the Sundance Gazette at! Sundance, Wyd short ly after creation of Crook county In that state. In those days -Sundance was 250 miles from the nearest railroad. Fifteen years ago Pettlgrew was publisher of the Redmond Spokesman in Cen tral Oregon. ., ; HARRY BAUGHMAN DUBS ' -PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 12 (AP) Captain Harry O. Baugh- man, 61, veteran steamboat man of the Columbia, Snake and Yu kon rivers, died at his home here today. The funeral will be held tomorrow in ' - Lewlston, . Idaho where ho lived for many i years. Captain Baughman was the son of the late Captain S. W. Baugh man,' pioneer rirerboatmanr Ion the Willamette and Columbia. : : Ho began his career on steam boats with his father when he was 12 years old and received his pilot's license for the Snake and Columbia when he was 2 L. : r Captain v Baughman served as matter of the Almota, Lewlston, the new and old Spokane, the Norma and other boats. He spent 29 years .on - the upper l Yukon river asd when "that stream was closed by Ice in the winter he piloted on boats out of Lewlston. 1 7 TO v IK r if: tnampionablp c ontender. Coach Stinnette Bound To Grand Jury on Hit - Run Charge DALLAS, Nov. 23 Ettrick C Stinnette, 19, of Dallas, appeared in Justice court before Judge Gregory here today, when he was scheduled to enter plea to a hit and run charge evolving from the accident In which he allegedly struck and killed James Lynn, mill worker of Dallas, with his automobile and then fled. His at torney Oscar Hayter said defense would waive examination, and Stinnette was bound over to the grand Jury. Unless District Attorney Barn hart calls a special session the grand Jury will not meet until the first week in January. BE MA1EE EVENT December 6, in Afternoon, Time for Considering School Finances As a result of a slip-up in ad vertising eopy submitted to the newspapers, the Salem district school meeting for discussing the 1932-33 budget will be held at the unprecedented hour of 3 o'clock lu the afternoon, December 3, in stead of the usual hour, 8 o'clock. It developed at last night's board meeting. Since the mistaken hour had already been published, the directors decided the meeting should be held as advertised. The directors transacted only a small grist of business an ad journed at I o'clock. T. T. Mackensle, vocational di rector, presented a proposition to acqnire replacement lathes for the high school machine slfbp by ob taining the machines from un heeded stocks at the Bremerton, Wash., navy yard. The machines are available, he said, for only the cost of transportation, .which would be relatively slight. The di- (Turn to page 2, col. 1) BUDGET SESSION TO Pioneer Publisher Dies Veteran of River Called Railroad to be Revived Creswell Woman Killed He lived in Lewlston and Clarks ton. .Wash- for many years. He came to Portland three years ago from Clarkston, JULIUS MEIER AIDS THE DALLES, Ore., Nov. 22 (AP) Formation of a new com pany to take over the interests of John G. Heimrlch of The i Dalles in the Great Southern railroad was announced today by Stephen A.- Hull of Portland. Hull Is president of the com pany; Governor Julius L. Meier is vice president, and Earl Bron- augh is secretary-treasurer. Hull said the company will ex tend the line into the timber re servo." erect a sawmill and box factory" to employ 250 men, and spend 325.009 repairing the road bed for resumption of service soon. --. PINNED BENEATH CAR EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 22 -(AP) Mrs. William McGee of Cres well was fatally injured Tuesday afternoon when a car. in' which she was riding overturned in ditch about two miles east of Creswell. She sustained a severed artery in the Tight leg and bled to death before her husband and Frank J. Woodard could extricate her from under the car. ' ' - Woodard "was to - have -been Thanksgiving guest at the McGee homo and the three had maue trip, to the. Woodard ranch near Cloverdalo to get a turkey.' They were making the return trip when the steering gear of the wood ard car broke, causing the wreck. The,' men . escaped t with, minor cats and bruises. ' . - -t' Lsa LaveUe has, as may b la the picture are: la "clvries" THREAT AT HOOyER TBMFOUHIX fblicity Seeker Shot Self After Putting Dynamite Near Espee Track SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 22 (AP) Dan O'Connell, chief of the special agents of the Southern Pacific company, said tonight that Charles E. Fish, railroad watch man, had admitted his story of being attacked and shot while he was guarding the right . of way near Palisade, Nev., during Pres ident Hoover's trip to Palo Alto, was a hoax. O'Connell said Fish, after much Questioning", admitted he had shot himself and made up the story "to obtain notoriety.- He said Fish had obtained the dynamite from an old abandoned mine nearby and scattered it near the bridge on which he had declared he was attacked and shot. 'Fish has a fluent Imagina tion," O'Connell declared, "be has spent much of his time writing but so far as I can learn has never had anything published. After he accidentally shot himself, he Just made up the story, and I suppose believed he could cash in on the publicity he received." O'Connell said he did not know what action the railroad would take against Fish for halting the train and delaying its westward trip but assumed Fish would be discharged. Fish lives at Ogden, Utah. Man Convicted In Liquor Case Z ISC&UilC leUUctI HILLSBORO, Ore., Nov. 22 (AP) A circuit court Jury here today convicted .Joe Curtis on a charge of possession of liquor. The verdict was returned after Judge W. R. Bagley refused to dismiss the case on the grounds that possession of liquor Is no longer an offense under Oregon law. The state prohibition enforce ment act was repealed at the No vember 8 election, and defense attorneys pointed out there is no state law now making possession of liquor a crime. Curtis was ar rested September 22 with 899 gal lons of liquor. His attorneys said they would appeal the case to the state supreme court. 2 Salem Hunters Put in Jail for Having Elk Meat LA GRANDE. Ore., Nov. 22. (AP) Conviction on charges of Illegal possession of elk meat, Frank Evans and his son-in-law. Ersell Akoll, both of Salem, were sentenced to three months in the Wallowa county Jail at Enterprise, and fined $509 each when they ap- ynucu umuo wu.iuk .niiti . Knowles. Monday Judge Knowles said that if tbe fines and costs were paid, the de fendants would bo paroled from jalL They were tried by a Jury, who returned a verdict of guilty lata Friday after considering the ease 20 minutes. : Federal Forest Jobs Help Many PORTLAND, Ore- Nov. 21 (AP) Figures released today by the Portland regional office of the forest servic disclosed that more than 10,000 men were given em ployment in the 22 national for ests of Oregon aad Washington from July 15 to November 1. - Approximately. JOO.OOO cords of fuel wood from national forests were made available - for, the needy. . . Gangsters Will Seek Right To Sell, Machine Guns May Still be Used Brewers and Congressmen Battle Behind Scenes On Bill's Details - ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AP) How beer will be distributed if congress makes the beverage le gal is the subject of a dispute be tween some brewers and propon ents of legislation to modify the Volstead law. . Old time advocates of beer de clare the problem Is serious. They regard it as Involving the price at which it is to be sold and the amount of revenue It will give the treasury. Big brewers preparing for a re sumption of business in coming months have expressed fears te Dr. James M. Doran, director of Industrial alcohol that gangsters will seek to "muscle-In" on their business. Reports have reached the brew ers the gangsters plan to obtain permits to manufacture bter. The brewers have expressed concern over whether their salesmen can compete with machine guns. Representative O'Conncr (D., N. Y.), co-author of the O'Connor-Hull bill rejected by the house last session, said today "there is a big fight going on be hind the scenes between the brew ers and members of congress on how beer Is to be distributed." Returning to Washington to prepare for the coming session. Speaker John N. Garner, the vice president elect, reiterated his pre option tnat this congress would legalise beer of "about 2.71 or S per cent," alcoholic content He "guessed" that beer revenue would net $230,000,000 to $300,- v 99,9 09 annually. r JTMiaani-eiect. Roosevelt was repryirawa autnoTitativeiy as anxious for the present congress to enact beer legislation. A close associate said "he wants to put the party's platform in effect as soon as possible and he wants the treasury to receive revenue from beer." ! j Roosevelt and Hoover Parley Sans Witnesses WASHINGTON. Nov. 22-fAP) Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, nresident and nres- laent-eiect, talked for ten min utes alone tonight behind the closed doors of the White House red room. Shortly before six p. m.. after the two of them with Secretary Mills and Professor Raymond Mo- haa discussed war debts and allied subjects for more than two i . . ..... nours, me two aavisers lert tne room. What Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roos evelt discussed during their time alone whether war debts or merely matters personal to them selves could not be ascertained tonight and possibly never will be Known. Loner gan Names Seat Committee F o r Legislature Governor Lonergan, as speaker of the house of representatives, Tuesday appointed representative Romeo Gouley of Marlon county aad Representatives Frank An drews and John McCort of Mult nomah county, as members of committee .to make the seating arrangements In the house for ht"!8 ,11tn? Members of the committee probably will meet here within the next 19 days. Hal B. Hoss, secretary of state. will take care of the seating ar rangements in the senate. Lawyer JUmDS tO am f ueaxn, ii ozones NEW YORE.- lov. 22 (API Blair P. Scott, Baltimore law yer and religious writer. Jumped to his death from the 17th floor of the Waldorf Astoria hotel to day, leaving behind a note tha said ho was willing to die "that self-love, self-interest. self-Justi- ncauon may not triumph ver out people" , '' Arnold Davis. - Scott's attornev. said he was a descendant of Sir Walter Scott. " 8ENOBA CALLES HX ' MEXICO CITY. Nov. 22 (AP) Senora Lednor Llorento de Cal- j les, wife of the former president of Mexico was 'reported gravely HI today and a conference of die tors has been summoned to study her ease. "She has been suffer! . from a brain tumor.- . , Be Offered Meier Will Approve 40 Henry Hanzen; Budget not to Exceed $10,000,000, Announces 1931-1932 Appropriations recommended by Governor Norblad in budget to 1931 legislature 17;444,So9 Reductions to be included in 1933-1934 budget proposed by Governor Meier to 1933 legislature 1, Market roads 12240,161 2 Higher education 1481,000 3. World war veterans iuillage 1,120480 4. Abolition of departments 819,969 5. General retrenchments 2,033,579 7,444,889 Estimated maximum 1933-1934 state budget $10,000,000 By SHELDON A STATE budget, slashed more than 40 per cent from the last bieuuium's mark, will be approved by Governor Meier and passed on to the 1933 legislature, Henry Hanzen, state budget director, announced yesterday. The 1931-1932 budget called for S17.444.889. The top limit of the 1933-1934 budget nemo BE USED in SPORTS Radical Change is Voted by A.A.U.; Applies to all Track, Field Events NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (AP) The amateur athletic union today adopted the metric system of measurement for all track and field events, ruled out all "spe cial"; bouts In amateur boxing tournaments and abandoned . an attempt to raise Olympic funds by an "Olympic taxT on admissions. The.ohaage to the, metric sys tem, universal standard In Eur opean competition, came as a sur prise. The Question, a matter of argument for years, was not on the convention program. But the motion to supersede yards and miles with meters and kilometers was passed without a single dissenting voice In the clos ing session of the Union s 44th annual convention. This move obviously was aimed to bring about a universal system of ' measurement for track and field events and, as a direct re sult, universal records. Johnny Magee, Bowdoin track coach who with A. C. Gilbert, chairman of the advisory board of athetlcs at Yale, led the discussion in favor of the change, advocated it In "fairness to American ath letes." The change will be effective January 1 so that virtually all the Indoor season's meets will be run in accordance with metric measurements. Incidentally, all record holders at yards and miles. now listed in the books, are vir tually assured of going down as all-time champions at these dis tances since they seldom will be run again. The change applies only to track and field, not to swimming or other sports. Hops Sell at 27 Cents at Yakima The highest price yet paid for hops on this coast was reported yesterday from Yakima, Wash. where Dan McDonald sold II bales to Harold Bo lan at 27 cents a pound. Jones Counters Figure 4 And Retains Title Belt . By RALPH CURTIS . - In one of the cleanest and most bitterly contested wrestling- match es Salem fans, have over witness ed, wrestling of a typo which, if It prevailed in all matches, would immeasurably elevate this some times discredited game, in publio esteem, Henry Jones retained his world -141-pound championship belt Tuesday night at the armory after it had been several times on the verge of passing to a new owner, Bobby Novak, who eould have worn it, fans agreed, , with genuine honor. - " . : In the course of a little over an hour of gruelling mat - work , by those masters of the art of muscle-grinding, it developed that No vak was at least the eaual of Jonea in general ' cleverness aad speed: but. there remained, . and still remains, soma doubt as . to whether Nvak la quite as tough and Invulnerable as the Provo vet eran, or Quito so facile in evolv ing a program of strategy and carrying it into execution. . . - - The fans saw that Novak held the upper hand throughout most of the bout, and not only outwit ted Jones', pet method, of acquir ing falls, hat used his . own suc cessfully. Some of them perhaps missed tha point that, Jones let Novak do about fj per sent of the - S61 CMS per Cent, !51asK,rSay8 F. SACKETT is to be $10,000,000, according1 to Mr. Hansen. Binning or tne incidence of the expense, refusal during the next two strenuous years to add a state subsidy to the world war veterans' services, continuation of huge slashes In higher education out lays, abolition or entire self-sup port of 14 separate state activi ties and a $2,000,000 reduction in ordinary state running expenses through salary reductions and lowered operating costs are to bring about this major budget re vision. If the 1933 state legislature will adopt the budget. If it wUl not yield to the cries of individ uals and departments affected by the cuts, Oregon will see its great est reduction In expenses ever ac complished by any administration, Hansen declared yesterday. Furthermore these budgeted re ductions can come, IrrespectiTe of the means a special or regular ses sion of the legislature may adopt to meet the state's needs for rev enues, Hansen averred. Intangibles, Income Taxes Drop 50 per Cent Had the states Incomes not been depleted more than 50 per cent by a sudden and continuing slump in Income, Intangibles, ex cise and inheritance taxes, the 40 per cent budget reductions would obviate either new taxes or a re stored state property tax. But de pletion of Income to Oregon has been so great, a need has arisen and must be met In 1933 and 1934 for additional, although not large, tax revenues for the state. . The 1933-1934 budget is not yet complete and ready for the printer. Several of the state In stitutions have not finished their budgets and submitted them to Hansen for revision and Incor poration in the 1933-1934 budget. Uncertainty In the state higher education situation has held back the next biennlum's budgets In that phase of state government Other budget Items have been practically completed by Hanzen and his assistants. Lament Failare of Tax Measure Hansen yesterday lamented the fact that voters of the state bad failed to adopt a higher income tax November 2. "Had this tax been passed our budget revenue and outgo program would have been accomplished with no addi tional tax needed. Moreover If the tax supervision measures on the ballot had pased the economy and business policies pursued in the state's budgetary system might well have been carried on to many counties, school districts and cities." The five major salients on which the state's budget reduction drive has been carried are: 1. Market roads. Instead of . (Turn to page 2, col. ) work, while the strawberry grow er remained. fresh and ready tor more. The whole bout centered around Novak's figure-four scissors and Jones' . whip wristlock. Novak avoided falling victim to the whlpr simply by. sitting down while Henry dragged at him, and then coming - up with : a sonnen berg. And Novak, after SI min utes, IB seconds of trying, finally fastened on his deadly figure-four for the Brat fan v - - It had , already developed that the figure-four can bo stopped by a grappler with Jonas cunning and east iron midriff. Jones with stood the pressure several, times until ho eould roll out of the ring, and once broke it by getting a counter hold which Kovak could not stand. -.-v ; y In - the second" round, Jonea went further than that and turn ed a figure-four which Novak had acquired, into the hold by which Henry himself won a fall, and a resounding . one that - prevented Novak from coming back for mere, thus string Jonas the bout by default. - i:-- Several ; times fa . his , teal to damp on his specialty, Novak had el imbed onto Jones : shoulders while this champion was in an up " . KTurn to. para t, eoL 4 - -' u in l umwu iss Leaves hoover to Take own Steps as to war Debts, Other Problems Grave Situation Revealed; PresidentEIect Talks With Demo Leaders By W. B. RAGSDALE Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. (AP) Out of the whirl ef war debt discussions that swept tint to the White House and then to. a smoke-hazy hotel room there emerged tonight a statement, at tributed to the administratloa that England would stop making debt payments after December li, unless the United State moves to review the whole tangled prohtem. This assertion was described as having been made to President elect Roosevelt by President Hoot. er and Secretary Mills, and it was added that the suggestion had been made that the old war debt funding eommissioa be revived to re-examine the situation. Governor Roosevelt's reply wat described as a disavowal of re sponsibility for what is done be fore March 4. He was pictured as firmly against taking the position ef dictating to the present con gress and as holding to his view that the next step U for the Hoot er administration and the con gress meeting a fortnight hence to determine. Roosevelt Attend Press Clnb Dinner After spending more than tiro hours closeted with the chief exe cutive, the cabinet officer and his i economic adviser. Professor Raymond I. Moley, Governor Roosevelt attended a dinner la his honor at the National Press club and then called in his party lead ers in congress for a midnight con ference at his hotel. President Hoover will pursue the debt discussion with congree-- slonal chieftains of both carties tomorrow. With congress rests the final answer to Europe's pleas for an extension of the moratorium and a re-examlnation of the en tire debt problem. At the same time the national legislature, by formal action and by the reiter ated statements of its leaders. Is firmly opposed to further lenieney toward Europe. . . A 40 word statement that came from the White House at the end of the two hours spent by Mr. Hoover and Mr. Rooeevelt behind closed doors of the bed room, said simply that the two had discussed war debts and allied problems and that progress had been made. In his later conference with democrats, the president - elect' put before them some of the in formation that had been placed before him by President Hoover. Grave Situation Is Seea by Hoover His hearers gained the distinct Impression that Mr. Hoover aad Mills foresaw a situation of ex treme gravity should Great Brit ain s request for a renewed study of the debts be denied and a re fusal to pay further ensue. They gathered, too, that Great Britain was ready to pay the 195,000,040 owing next month. Some of them were of the opi nion that efforts to effect a com promise the re-examination ask ed by Europe but no extension of the moratorium might be the next step and one certain to en counter a barrage of opposition on Capitol hill. The president-elect told the par ty leaders he believed the budget could be balanced if sharp econ omies were made and beer legis lation approved. He expressed to them a wish that a bill providing for beer of an .alcoholic content within the limits of the constitu tion might be passed expeditious ly. Mr. Roosevelt also said he hop-. ed a farm relief program suck ss outlined in his Topeka and Souix City speeches might be passed. Among other things these called for legislation to help prevent mortgage foreclosures on farms and the development of a plan that would help to make the tariff effective on farm products. Dense Fog Here Ends Cold Spell One of the densest fogs Salem has experienced in several years hovered over the city Tuesday night, fordn motorists to pro ceed in second gear as they grop ed their-way along the streets. The fog brought relief from the cold spell which had recorded a temperature of 29 degrees Tues day morning and . again early that evening. ; ,'7,- " Green Section : Delivered Friday : ' Tbe StatesmasT Advertiser (Green Section) Will appear aa msaal on Friday morning. V Test will ; Had ft worth yonr while to watch, for this paper and. :iet tt ho ywar guide tm smrolylag - th 'wants for' your household. ; 'AH eopy for this paper should , he la today ; lion