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WEATHER
Fair and continued rold
today and Wednesday; Max.
Temp. Monday 82, MJn. 5;
rain 0, river 2 feet, atmos
phere clear, northerly winds.
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EIGHTY-SECOND YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 13, 1932
No. 223
WEATHER N'T
SO SEVERE BUT
STILL FREEZING
Mercury's dip Monday Night
Is More Gradual; River
Traffic Hampered
Willamette Filled With ice
Cakes, Steamers not
Able to Come up
TEMPERATURES
Max. Min.
(Sunday 29
Monday . . . . 32
6
5
.23
.22
.21
.21
.21
.20
HOURLY, MONDAY
2 p. m 32
8 p. m. . ,
9 p.m.,
10 p. m.. ,
11 p. m..
Midnight ,
li. m.,
S p. m.
4 p. m.
I p. m.
p. m.
7 p. m.
32
....32
....27
....25
24
Rising sharply from a five-degree
minimum temperature early
yesterday to a 3 2 -degree maxi
mum in the afternoon, then fall
ing slowly, the weather last night
was the warmest since last Wed
nesday night, yet cold enough to
make winter a reality. At mid
night the official thermometer
stood at 21 degrees for the third
hourly reading but by 1 a. m. to
day dropped to 20 degrees.
Hopes for the moderation in
temperatures predicted by the
weather bureau Saturday waned
yesterday as the wind continued
from the north, the sky remained
dear and a thaw failed to mater
ialize. The forecast for today and
Wednesday still is "fair and con
tinued cold".
Mixed pleasure and trouble de
rived from the prolonged cold
spell over the weekend. While Ice
skaters enjoyed their sport, rare
here, and merchants did an un
usually lively trading in blankets
and ice skates, home owners and
water company workmen contin
ued having to thaw pipes and re
pair breaks.
Steamer is Unable
To Come Up River
The Willamette river waters,
chilled with below-freezing tem
peratures for six dayB, yesterday
filled with bobbing crunching ice
cakes, which prevented,tbe freight
steamer Northwestern from mak
ing her usual Monday trip up
stream from Portland, carried
away a float from the Oregon
Washington Water Service com
pany's Intake on Minto island, and
forced the company to place three
eight-hour shifts of men on guard
to ward off the ice and keep the
pump Intakes and outflows open.
A large barge was towed to the
Intake point to ward oft the ice
floes.
Minto slough was frozen solid,
the eddy at its mouth was a spin
ning mass of ice cakes.and down
stream near Newberg an ice Jam
was forming. Manager Arnold S.
Johnson, of Salem Navigation
company, reported.
The water company was forced
to employ a dozen men working
three eight-hour shifts daily,
Manager J. T. Delaney reported.
The regular crew was rushed re
pairing bursting mains and met
ers, clearing the mill stream of
Ice to prevent its overflowing, and
breaking up Ice packs at the In
verted siphons and at the genera
tor plant intake.
Skating Continues
Leading Diversion
Skating enthusiasts found many
good sites for their sport. One of
the best developed at the upper
end of Minto slough where a wide
atrip of smooth Ice, approximately
a mile long, had formed. Other
skating ponds were found near
Hazelau station on the Oregon
Electric line, on north Mill creek
east of the 21st Street bridge, and
in the vicinity of the state school
for the deaf, and Painters woods.
Coach Roy S. Keene, of Wlllam-
ettte university, still was undecta
ed last night as to flooding Sweet
land field, as he hoped to do If
the weather gave promise of re
maining cold. If this were done.
good night skating under the
floodlights would be available.
Added discomfort caused by the
north wind was less yesterday. At
I p. m. the velocity was only 10
miles per hour and by midnight
was varying from two to six miles.
Senate at Last
Falls Prey to
Yen ior Probes
, WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (AP)
The senate flair for Investiga
tions strangely missing hereto
fore this season made itself felt
today with proposals for Inquiries
Into the bonjis riots of last sum
mer and labor conditions on Mis
sissippi flood control projects.
The creation of a special senate
committee of five to investigate
the eviction of bonus marchers
was proposed in a resolution by
Senator McKellar (D.,Tenn.), just
as a noticeable dearth of those
senate inquiries which have pro
Tided fireworks in past years was
becoming the subject of comment.
TWO ARB SENTENCED
PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec 12.
(AP) Tony C. Camlllo, 25. was
sentenced ta five years In the
state penitentiary sad Theologes
Plzanls, 23, to four years on
eharge eC assault with Intent to
yob.
Queer Crew oi Landlubbers on
Yacht When Wanderwell Slain
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Much stranger than the actual shooting of Captain Walter Wander-
well, globe trotter and adventurer de luxe, on board his yacht
Carina at Long Beach, Cal was the revelation that the crew of
the craft was composed of landlubbers, O women and 7 men.
ranging from a housewife to the son of a British duke. The bizarre
crew, questioned as material witnesses following the slaying of
the colorful captain, told of a mysterious man in grey who visited
the yacht In search of Wanderwell. Several have 6ince then identi
fied William James Guy, seaman
well previously, as this man. Among the crew were Lord Edward
Montagu, second son of the Duke
wife, who was Helen Zimmerman of Cincinnati, and Mary M.
Parks, of Boston, an authoress.
ordinary seaman on board the
!ie South Seas. All the crew were
ML GOES
TO lUf BRAVE
Formal Burial Takes Place
15 Miles at sea; Case
Still Under Probe
LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 12
(AP) Completing a personal
investigation which brought him
here from Los Angeles, District
Attorney Buron Fitts announced
tonight that a murder complaint
will be filed tomorrow against
William James Guy, youthful
adventurer, for the killing of
Capt. Walter Wanderwell, profes
sional traveler.
LONG BEACH. Cal., Dec. 12
(AP) The body of the slain
Walter Wanderwell, traveler of
the world's long trails, went to
an ocean grave today nnder a
brooding storm.
Cold rain fell, thick fog was
wraith-like over the harbor, chill
wind furrowed the waters as the
little schooner yacht, on which
the adventurer was mysteriously
shot In the back a week ago,
put out to a sullen sea.
Aboard the ship a little band
of wanderers, seekers after the
glamor of strange and distant
places, huddled about the widow.
Aloha Wanderwell. Beside the
yacht as it drifted ghost-like
through the mist, a water taxi
carrying newspaper men chugged
rretfuly. Reporters were not per
mitted aboard the Carma. bat
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PAIR FLEE ON FOOT
McMINNVILLE, Ore., Dec. 12
(AP) Two men who held up
the store and postoffice at Buell,
near Sheridan, tonight escaped
with an undetermined amount of
stamps and cash taken from the
postoffice and $30 taken from
J. L. Surpry. Deputy sheriffs
launched a search soon after
wards, but eould find no trace of
the pair, who apparently escaped
on foot toward Dallas.
- HUSBAND TRIES RESCUE
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore., Dec
12 (AP) Mrs. H. R. Godard.
85, of Cottage Grove died from
burns suffered last night when
her clothing caught fire from a
heating stove in her home.
Her husband, 92, crippled Civil
war veteran, tried to save the
voman by ripping off her flaming
clothes, but was unable to remove
them or to extinguish the flames
In time. Godard was painfully
burned in the attempt to save his
wife.
The couple would have observed
their 86th wedding anniversary
Christmas day. They were la the
house alone at the time.
LEARN ABOUT COURTS
PORTLAND. Ore.. Dee. II
(AP) Chief of Police Leon V.
Jenkins announces - tonight that
he will send the Portland polk
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who had a quarrel with Wander
of Manchester and his former
Lord Edward said that he was an
Carina, signed on for a cruise to
released after questioning.
LOSES ON APPEAL!
Trunk Slayer'S Attorneys
Plan Further Moves to
Dodge the Gallows
PHOENIX. Ariz., Dec. 12.
(AP) The Arizona supreme
court today denied the "trunk
murder" case appeal of comely,
blond Winnie Ruth Judd and de
creed that she should hang next
February 17.
Defense counsel immediately
considered plsns for further fight
for the life of the young wife of
a physician who admitted killing
her friends, Agnes Anne Leroi and
Hedvlg Samuelson and sending
their bodies to Los Angeles in
trunks.
Despite the ruling of the high
court, attorneys said their final
chance to prevent Mrs. Judd from
becoming the second woman to
die on an Arizona scaffold, has not
been exhausted.
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hanged was Eva Dugan
Arthur C. Verge, of Los Angel
es, one of her attorneys, said ap
plication for a rehearing before
the Arizonla supreme court will
be filed Immediately. In the event
a hearing is denied, he stated, a
writ of error will be filed with the
United States supreme court
There remained also the re
courses of an appeal to the state
board of pardons and parole, or
a sanity hearing before a county
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WI MJUDD
Buell Postoffice Robbed
Police To Attend School
Woman's Barns Are Fatal
Bank Cashier Is "Short"
force to school this week.
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The courses will be special
how to obtain competent evidence
and how to testify dearly and to
the noint In eoart. And th nrn.
S7u JSL J? Jensen dep"
The chiefs decision came after
he had received a letter of com'
r:.;r.;::
In the department were lax in
obtaining sufficient evidence and
in presenting that evidence, par
tlcularly In cases involving char
ges of drunken driving.
LOSS IS PROTECTED
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Dec.
12-(AP) Shortage of $4,727-
97 In the accounts of John M
Glover, assistant cashier of the
First National bank of this city.
was announced today by Pres
ident J. A. Gordon. The shortage
was disclosed during the regular
semi-annual audit being made by
bank examiners and Examiner
Leo Shapirer confirmed the state
ment and said that he had re
ported It to the head of the 12th
federal reserve examiner's office
fa San Francisco
There will be ne loss to the
hank- which is nroteeted br a
heavy blanket bond of 150,000 on
each employe. Gordon sUted.
HERHlflT CIS
BACKING, PLAN
TO PAY DEBTS
Reservations to be Listed
In Next Communication.
To U. S. Uncertain
Premier Says Hoover is to
Blame for Mixing Into
Reparations Mess
PARIS, Dec. 12 (AP) As-
sailing the Hoover moratorium as
ine cause oi an Europe s aeot
troubles. Premier Herriot told the
chamber of deputies today he pro-
poses to pay, with reservations,
the 120.000.000 due the United
States next Thursdav.
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ing that before doing so he want
ed to consult the chambers for
eign affairs and finance commit
tees. Presumably he plans to
make the payment with the stip
ulation It will be the last nnder
the present debt system, pending
negotiation of a new arrangement.
This evening he and Louis Ger
main-Martin, finance minister.
met with the two committees, but
the premier said It would be ad
visable, before making a final de-
ei; 'nn. ta await complete infor-
m-ion from London as to what
me riw5ii government intends iu
do. The British cabinet meets to
morrow morning.
It was a straightforward, un
compromising speech he made in
the chamber of deputies, and the
members liked it, bursting into
applause time and again. He talk
ed more than two hours and when
the chamber adjourned until to
morrow there was a general opin
ion he had won over many of
thosA who had onnofied navment
nf th Decemher installment with
or without reservations.
The debts holiday which Pres
ident Hoover declared last year
was the cause of all the troubles
In which America's debtors are
now Involved, he said.
That Is my interpretation of
the Hoover moratorium," he de-
clared. "If the United States did
not want to concern itself with
the problem of reparations, Mr.
Hoover should not have become
Involved In It. He should have al
lowed Germany to ask for the
moratorium provided for in the
Young plan.
Bnt, he insisted, America did
become Involved In the repara
tions issue when it allowed
Charles G. Dawes and Owen D.
Young to frame the reparetlons
plans under which the German
payments were carried out np to
the time of the Lausanne confer
ence a few months ago.
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BAKER, Ore., Dec. 12 (AP)
A mother and her infant son
were fata.y burned and her nus-
"4 eIr mar
serlouslv burned when tire de-
stroyed their home IS miles
northwest of Baker Saturday,
Michael. 23 months, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Werner, was
burned to death and Mrs. Wer-
ner died from burns before she
could be given hospital attention. I
The 4-weeks-old baby and the
father were brought to a hospi
tal here.
Werner was cutting wood some
distance from the house when he
noticed the structure in flames
Running to the residence, he
found Mrs. Werner standing In
the doorway, her clothing afire.
He aulckly smothered out the
fire in his wife's clothing, and
carried the baby to safety.
Then the desperate father re-
turned and attempted to rescue
Michael from the blazing house,
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lug" flame, ahim.' howl he waspiayTng Man iong with a gr. Entries in the livs bird dlri
ever. and finally he was forced to fjoup of friends in the NIng Kue " ? th"
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Jump through a window to save
his own life.
second Victim
Of Crash Dies
eugenb. ore.. dm. 12 ap)
day from injuries suffered in an
automobile accident near Coburg
Friday night.
Mrs. Simmons was walking
with Curt Peterson, also of Co
burg, along the highway when the
two were struck by an automobile
driven by Claude McKlbben of
Rarrlsburg. Peterson died shortly
after reaching the hospital here.
Noted Zoologist
Called by Death
PITTSBURGH, Dee. It (AP)
Dr. W. J. Holland, 84, Interna
tionally known soologist and di
rector emeritus of the Camegia
musoum of Pittsburgh, died at his
home earlv today. He held decora -
I tions from a number of foreism
I governments for his research In
insect life.
Attempt to
Kill Former
Kaiser Seen
DOORN, The Netherlands, Dee.
12 (AP) Mystery enshrouds
an unidentified man, captured
this afternoon with a pistol and
a large dagger as he crouched
in a tower of the castle of for-
mer Kaiser Wilhelm II of Ger
many. The man stubbornly refuses to
say who he is or explain the
reasons why he sneaked into the
Police authorities learned the
man, a German, had been loiter
ing about the streets of Doorn
since Saturday. Unseen by any
one he had scaled the high
wall which surrounds the castle.
Tf 9i fnnnd In a tnwAr near
tha studv in which the former
kaiser usually reads in the after-
nftn
Efforts of the Doorn police
have failed to clarify the lnten-
tions of the man captured today
whather his was the deed of
a mentaUy deranged nerson.
wnetner ne was a nurKiar or
wneiner ne reany piannea tin ai-
tempt on the life of the former
kaiser.
caTolvn Jensen Named vice
President at Annual Din
ner Last Night
J. F. Weisser, credit manager
of the Portland General Electric
company, was elected president of
the Salem Retail Credit associa
tion for the new year at the an
nual dinner meeting, held last
night at the Masonic temple. Oth-
er Oincers are: aroiyn Jensen,
vice-president; F. M. White, R. D.
Woodrow. Harold Grim, Laura
Cheney and Carold Ford, direct
ors. Erma Wilcox continues as
secretary.
A review of the past year's ac-
tlvlty. given by the retiring pres-
ident,3eor JiTerett. showed ar-
coxnplis'hments as follows: Spou-
sorshlp of the bad check ordln-
ance; entertainment of the state
bureau managers' annual meeting
and of a field representative of
the national association; sponsor
ship of the Credit Women s
Breakfast club; assistance in or
ganizing local bureaus at Mc-
Minnville, Corvallls, Albany and
Oregon City. The year closes with
40 paid-up members of the asso
ciation.
Program for the dinner meet
ing, included solos by Herbert
Hobson, accompanied by Emory
Hobson; and an address about
China by Roy R. Hewitt.
Mr. Hewitt indicated China as
one place where America can ex
tend her markets under the mass
production of today. He pointed
to the 8000-year-old Chinese civ
ilization as the one of greatest en
durance, sketched reasons for its
continuance and predicted that
the next civilization in North
America will be an Oriental one.
Touching briefly upon the Man-
cuunau situation, uo Qnreu
that the militarism of Japan will
churlan situation, he declared
not be of true avail. 'Tor the mn-
itarlstlc nation only destroys It-
sen Japan must ronow tne
counsel of her greatest leaders of
today and curtail her birthrate,
rather than seek more territory,
Mr. Hewitt believes.
Dancing and cards followed the
dinner and program.
Police Seeking
Chinese Slayer;
Said Identified
PORTX ND. Ore.. Dec. 12
(AP) Harry Chin, Portland
Chinese, proprietor of a restau
ram. was snoi io aeam oy an
I nthr Pfilnaa Mrl tnrfav whtla
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Rung Wul association clubrooms.
Police said the slayer was
Chin Hlng, 55, who walked casu
ally into the room, apparently
to watch the game, suddenly
drew a revolver, aimed over
the shoulder of another player,
fired and fled. He has not been
apprehended.
Late Sports
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 12
(AP) Des Anderson of Seattle
took two falls out. of three from
Joe Kirk of New Haven, Conn., to
win the main event of tonight's
nestling card here. Anderson
weighed 154 and Kirk 153.
Anderson won the first fall in
a little more than I minutes with
an airplane spin and body slam.
The second fall went to Kirk 11
minutes later with a Boston crab
i hold. In less t aan two minutes
Anderson took the deciding fall
with a body press.
Walter Aehln, 155, Dayton, O.,
Chinese wrestler, took two
straight falls from Jimmy Pow -
ers. 154. Des Moines. Ia.: In the
1 seml-winduo. In the 3-minute
I onener Art O'Reilly. 147. Eugene.
defeated Bearcat Arnold, 145,
Boston, la two straight fails.
1ST
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IN POLICE CASE
Hartwell and Others Given
Opportunity to Tell
What They Know
LclAliy m Cniorcemeni aflQ
Other Charges Will be
Sifted Thoroughly
Charges voiced against the city
PHce department by James D.
" i council session
November 21. will be aired and
Investigated publicly at a meeting
,a lD council cnamner, city hall,
at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night.
Aiaerman O. A. Olson. Chairman
i "e new mvesugaung commit-
""u".w ii unm. r . c
announced last night. F
Needham and David 0"Hara are
tn other members of the special
committee.
The accusers of the police will
be called in, along with Police
Chief Frank Minto, and other of
ficers whose presence may be re
quired at that time, according to
Dr. Olson. City Attorney William
H. Trindle has been asked to at
tend to give legal advice to the
committee. Alderman Watson
Townsend, chairman of the coun
cil police committee, also prob
ably will be present.
We want the accusers to pre
sent their evidence," explained
Dr. Olson. "We are not going at
things in a hurry; we will make
as thorough and Impartial an in
vestigation as possible. The results
there will decide whether or not
there will be further investiga
tion
If the committee can complete
Its Investigation this week, it will
report to the council at the regu
lar meeting next Monday night.
Individual investigation will be
made by the committeemen If the
evidence presented at the hearing
makes that necessary, stated Dr.
Olson.
Among the charges read by
Hartwell at the council session
last month were that gambling is
permitted to go on in at least
three cardrooms in the city, that
certain policemen owe numerous
large bills which they refuse to
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (AP)
A score of women dry leaders
gave back blow for blow to advo
cates of legalized beer today in a
dramatic and emotional appear
ance before the house ways and
means committee.
One after another they deluged
the committee with appeals to kill
the Collier beer bill now pending
and presented testimony Intended
to refute the assertions of repre
sentatives of the brewing indus
try who Indorsed the legislation
in hearings last week.
They brought with them an ex
hibition of baby shoes, milk.
bmd d t d Do!nted to
them m iorwmrtSrS the
stability and welfare of the Amer
ican home than beer.
Meanwhile, the senate jndiciary
committee shuffled off onto a sub
committee, headed by Senator
Blaine, (R.,Wis.), the task of
drawing np a resolution to repeal
the eighteenth amendment. Blaine
is an anti-prohibitionist.
At the same time, dry leaders
in the house held ranks and with
the assistance of some wets de
feated an effort to reduce the
coast guard's annual appropria
tlon and forbid it to engage In
PronlDltJon enforcement activities.
TURKEY SHOW OPENS
ROSEBURG. Ore., Dec. 12
(AP) The annual northwestern
turkey show, the largest exclusive
exhibit of its kind in the world,
was being held today at Oakland,
..min, flaTlawjt last
mor qispiayeq last year
HEARING
SETT1 I
HEN SEE PERIL
IN O A
$3 License tor Autos is
Recommendation otHoss
PORTLAND, Ore Dec. 12
(AP) Secretary of state Hal X.
Hoes in an address today before
the annual convention here of
eounty Judges and eommlsloners
of Oregon declared that this state
can reduce its automobile license
fees to a flat rate of 13 for each
private passenger ear and small
private truck and still be able
to raise enongh money to carry
on iu highway program and pay
its highway debts.
The secretary presented a ten
fold plan which he said he pre
pared from his experience as
administrator of the motor ve
hicle registration act and the
gasoline tax laws. His plan.
I briefly la:
I Registration fee ea private
I passenger cars and small private
I trucks of IS each, wlta no nan
1 year discount.
No increase in gasoline taxes.
I License of tracks en weight
I basis
Adjusti ent of additional fees
now charged to common earners.
Voluntary
Farm Relief Measure
Adoption is Forecast
Power Sites Are
Withdrawn, Road
Program Helped
WASHDXGTON. Dec. 12
(AP) An order clearing the
way for construction of the pro
posed highway from Roseburg
to Diamond Lake along the
North Cmpqua river was an
nounced by the federal power
commission today.
This order In effect approved
withdrawal from the power site
reservation of acreage previously
applied for by the California
Oregon Power company.
Three power sites were involv
ed. Rook Creek, Hogback and
Boundary. The power company
consented io the exclusion of
these sites from its application.
TAX EXPERTS WILL
Commission has Measures
In Shape for Drafting
Upon Short Notice
Tax measures submitted to the
legislature at its special session
here January 3, will be drafted
by the stato tax commission. It
was indicated yesterday at the
statehouse. The commission al
ready has several tentative meas
ures which it could have ready
for presentation in a short time.
Formal proclamation of the
session was Issued Monday by
Governor Meier and copies were
sent Hal E. Hos3, secretary of
state, and the 90 members of the
legislature. The session will con
vene Tuesday, January 3, at
10:30 a.m.
This will be the seventh i pe
dal assembly held since Oregon
became a state in 1859. Two
special sessions were held dur
ing territorial days. The last ex
traordinary session was called
December 19, 1931, in connec
tion with a proposed world's fair
in Portland.
The proclamation issued by
the governor asked the legisla
ture to consider new means of
taxation as well as methods of
providing relief for neetly peo
ple in the state.
0'
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TO (ME RECALL
PORTLAND. Ore., Dec 12
(AP) W. S. U'Ren. Portland at
torney, and one of the sponsors
of the Initiative, referendum and
recall laws in Oregon, assailed
what he called "cold-storage re
calls' in an address today before
the 20th annual convention of
county clerks and recorders of
Oregon.
"Experience proves that the di
rect primary law and laws for op
eration of the initiative, referen
dum snd recall can be very great
ly improved," he declared. "It is
my opinion that no recall petition
should be. in circulation longer
than 0 days. The public treas
urer of the state, county or city
should be the treasurer for all po
litical organizations and candi
dates, and his account should be
a public record so that people
may know from day to day who is
contributing the funds and to
whom and for what service the
money is paid."
A separate session was held by
eounty engineers of Oregon.
U. O. Boyer of Marion county Is
president of the county clerks and
recorders.
contract haulers and commercial
carriers.
Counties to raise their share
of income by property tax on
cars.
Equalization of tax on distil
late and gasoline, all motor ve
hicle fuel to be taxed at 4 cents
a gallon.
Repeal of the refund provision
of the fuel tax law, abolishing
the department handling that
work, or enactment of strict re
gulations, increasing the appro
priation for Investigation and
field work.
Discontinuing of the registra
tion of tourists, abolishing the
department handling that work.
Patting Into effect automati
cally savings In administration
of registration and police depart
ments.
Change of registration .year
from Jaly 1 back to January 1
making the first registration
period extend from Jnly 1, 1933
to Janaarr 1. 1935, tor which
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1 LEGISLATION
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Allotment
Jones Bill, Stripped
vOf Local Committee
Item, is Backed
Conference is Leaning
In That Direction
At Night Meet
By FRANK I. WELLER
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 (AP)
A "decided turn" toward the
voluntary domestic allotment plan
at 11:30 o'clock tonight con
vinced leaders of the national
farm relief conference that the
Jones bill would be enacted at the
short session of congress.
As Chairman Jones of the
bouse agricultural committee out
lined the proposal on which he
hopes to win concerted farm sup
port before its introduction, the
voluntary allotment plan would
he stripped of state and county
committees set up to regulate lo
cal acreages.
For the 1933 crop It would em
ploy provisions of the old Nor-beck-Ralney
bill under which pro
ducers would be issued redeem
able treasury certificates approx
imating the tariff on the domestic
con8umotion percentage of the
commoditv served.
Measure Effective
For Onlv Two Years
For the following crop, certif
icates would be issued only when
70 per cent of the producers en
tered voluntary contracts to
scale their acreage to supply ainl
demand requirements as stipu
lated by the department of agri
culture. Onlv those who did enter
into the contract and did not sub
sequently abrogate it would be in
cluded. The measure would be ef
fective but for two years.
The house committee will meet
tomorrow to receive the report
of the farm leaders.
L. J. Taber, master of the na
tional grange, said the conference
would continue all r'ght if neces
sary but that an s greement might
be reached during the night.
If submitted for the stabiliza
tion clause of the agricultural
marketing act the allotment plan
would require the department of
agriculture to estimate the 1938
production of wheat, cotton and
tobacco, and the probable domes
tic consumption and fix percent
ages for home use and for ex
port.
Certificate Would be
Funded by Rxcnse
The percentages would be car
ried on down to the individual
producer who would receive nego
tiable treasury certificates ap
proximating the amount of the
tariff on his domestic allotment
In addition to the market price.
under the current draft of the
plan the certificates would be
paid out of a fund ereated by a
processor's excise tax equal to the
tariff on wheat, cotton and to
bacco manufactured for domestic
consumption. The tax would be
passed on the public in slightly
higher costs of living.
Bakery Employe
Killed in Mixer
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 12
(AP) Michael Erndt. SC. of
Portland, died in a hospital here
today from injuries suffered when
he was caught last night in aa
electric bread-mixing machine at
a bakery here.
The revolving knives of the
mixer lacerated his face, shoulders
and arms before he eould be freed.
The Day in
Washington
By The Associated Press
Measures were introdacrd In
senate and house to set aside
President Hoover's recent gov
ernmental regrouping orders
and other opposition voiced.
Women dry leaders opposed be
fore bouse ways and means com
mittee legislation to legalize beer,
and senate judiciary sub-committee
was appointed to draw up- re
peal resolution.
Senate Beared veto on Phil
ippine Independence after di
viding on length of trial per
iod. Anti-saloon league concluded
"resist repeal" convention with
pleas to battle against repeal or
modification of anti-liquor stat
utes. Senator McKellar (D Tens.) ,
proposed special committee to
investigate eviction of bonus
marchers from Washington last
summer.
Farm and commodity organis
ation representatives reconvened
to discuss crops relief legislation
at short session.