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-"t. - :'-'-- ; Sessioa j New jl ; The SUtcauaa U giving" -thorongb. ' new coverage ; ot .each day's events at the leg islature. Follow the session ' la The Statesman. . THE WEATHER . Unsettled t d r aid Thursday, i occasional 'rami ? ; Mlav; SI, e titer r 2.2 feet,) rlit .15 ia southwest wtad. EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, November 29, 1933 i . r i - r i. I I I i i r ; ; r t i r- (; I : n yoking Rampant; Hanged; Mobs Battle Confessed Assailant of Girl is Strung Up by 7000 Extreme : Disorder in : Salisbury Marks Men's Arrest I ST. JOSEPH. Mo , Not. 2. (JP) Uoyd Warner, 19, negro who confessed attacking a white girl, was hanged and burned across the street from the courthouse lawn tonight by mob which battled peace officers and national guardsmen to seize him in the Buchanan county JaiL - Shooting broke out as the crowd surged through the jail to sub due a defense force of 40 officers. No casualties were reported, how erer. - Sheriff Otto Thiesen estimated 7000 persons made up the crowd -which battered down the jail doors, regardles of tear gas, and swarmed through the building seeking the negro. "I'm , ready to plead guilty," Warner said today, asking an early arraignment on a charge of a tucking the girl, 21, member of a prominent family. Criminal Judge J. V. Gaddy, howerer, directed the case be taken up tomorrow. The mob began forming at . dusk. Stones . were hurled at the jail. A small group seized a five Inch pipe and rammed it tenta tiTely against the front door. As the door held and the group, teemingly leaderless, desisted. Goyernor Guy B. Park ordered out the 35th tank company, Mis , souri national ' guard, stationed here. Tanks pnffed to the jail. ' A tankJIriTer who failed to lock himself In was removed frottt the machine and it was put eut of action. Only a few troops were mobilized. State highway patrol men were ordered in also. But the crowd was too power ful. Hundreds crashed in througn the unprotected rear door of the Jail. Others' smashed down the barriers of an areaway from the courthouse to the Jail in the quest for the accused man. SALISBURY, Md., Not. 28. (JP) A mob of more than a thous and men stormed the state armory ' here today in'an unsuccessful ef fort to free four men accused of participating in last month's lynching at Princess Anne. . Beaten back by tear gas and bayonets, the mob dispersed only after state troopers, sent by Got ernor Albert C. Ritchie to arrest the alleged Blayers of George Armwood, a . negro, - abandoned their headquarters in the armory, and 'returned to Baltimore with their prisoners. . Cries Of TLynch Ritchie and "Lynch Lane' could -be heard as the'' crowd ; burled stones at the soldiers surrounding the armory. : William Preston Lane, Jr., is the ' state attorney general and it was , during . his investigation of the lynching of Armwood last month that the names of . nine alleged participants were obtained. His requests that the state's at torney of Somerset county, John B. Robins, order the nine men ar rested were refused by the state's attorney, who contended a grand jury Investigation was the- proper procedure.. . Even ' after, the ' state troopers, . under the. leadership of Lane and Brig. "Gen. Milton ' A. Raekord. state ad jntant general, had with drawn from Sallf bury, . the mob ' continued its activities and for a time beleaguered reporters In the city's principal hotel. A movie sound , truck was captured and sunk In the Wicomico river. STOUT . - SPOKANE, Wash., Not. 28 (JP Lily Banka Gaines was acquit- lilt Bine FID k - ted on a charge of murdering hef : husband, Dr. James I. Gaines, by a superior court Jury of 4 wom- en and 8 men after one hour-and 1 0 minutes of deliberation to night. , - - - H. IL Ewlng, foreman of the Jury, said cnly - one ballot was : necessary : to decide ; the a ttr ac tive young .widoT.waanot gnUty of shooting her well-to-do sanl- practor husband last August-15. - The v state : contended ; Mrs. r Gaines - shot ner husband three times with a pistol because be In tended forsaking her for another : woman.' JAra. Gaines did not ut- ter 'word la her own ' defense . during the trial, but Iter counsel - Insisted she loved her husband and - that t some mysterious man who was seen to drive away from the scene of the shooting In an nnlighted automobile must Itare been the murderer, - Epidemic is Youn ! gWegro Alfred Read is Held Guilty of Petty Thievery LOS ANGELES, Not. 28. (JP) Alfred C. Read, Jr., handsome Oakland broker, whose former wife won a $75,000 heart balm Judgment from Claire Windsor, blonde stage and screen - actress wan conricted tonight by a munic ipal jury on a charge of stealing $11 from the actress' purse last October 14.' Read made an oraT motion for a new trial and the municipal judge set December 7 as the date to hearwthe motion and impose sentence. Playground on Property of School District in North End Asked With 174 men now employed on CWA school and playground projects in the city, the Salem school board last night heard a report from Dr. B. F. Pound, building and grounds- chairman, suggesting further projects esti mated to cost around $8400 In CWA money. The directors at the same time officially approred the initial application, for the com prehensive $43,233 playground development. The tentative new CWA pro gram would include improvement of the district's five acres on Sil vertoa road for playground pur poses, employing ten men, and re pairing, refinlshing school build ings and improving grounds by a rotating crew of eight or, more men under supervision ot G. W. Smaller, head Janitor. On this crew would be at least one paint er and one carpenter. It was intimated at the meeting that some arrangement might be reached with the city park board to combine the school projects with a general improvement ot the municipal auto camp grounds, probably through the Salem Com munity and Park Project commit tee which Dr. Pound lieads. The auto park grounds would be lev elled, steps taken to prevent over flows from Pringle creek and playground layouts arranged. Jailer is Slain ByThornbrugh in Escape Attempt TOPEKA. Kans.. Nov 28 UP) Cecil Thornbrugh 20, surviyor of two brothers who turned from farming to crime this year, kill ed B. J. Davidson negro, Shaw nee county night jailer, In an unsuccessful attempt to escape to night, officers said. Reactions to the slaying were swift. A crowd Immediately gath ered outside the jail and. the ac cused pos 'office robber was hur ried away by motor car to the state penitentiary at Lansing. Hearing of the shooting, the Kan sas house of . representatives, holding a night session, approved a measure for the return. of cap ital puilshment to Kansas providing-fjr hangings at the -peni tentiary. . NO ROADS BLOCKED PORTLAND, Not. 28. UP) While Portland was enjoying crisp but sunshiny weather today, other parts of Oregon reported snow and lowered temperatures. -Government Camp, on the slope of ML Hood, reported a four-Inch fall of snow, the storm extending as far as Welches, 13 miles away. The McKenzie highway, con necting. Eugene and Bend,' re mained open despite a six-inch fall of snow along the Cascade divide. SPURS IN DEMAND . i JOHN DAT, Not. 28. JP) Is Old Dobbin staging a comeback? Dkk .Heise of , the , Middle ; Fork section near here recently traded seTeral turkeys for a pair ot spurs. " " CHANGES HIS MIND ' PORTLAND, Not. 28. Q. B. -Snider, Jr., 32, of Portland. Walked 'into .the aheriffa '.office here today and denied the reports pthia death. ;? ; : ; w . ;: " Snlder's overcoat was found n the Interstate bridge between here and Vancouver, Wash., last Thurs day. - Police expressed the belief he had leaped into the Columbia river and drowned. WE CI TASKS K SUGGESTED FIRSTDEFEAT CASES OCCU S Touhy Gang Members Freed Of Hamm Charge but Face Factor Case New Abducton Occurs but Victim Soon Released; Big Ransom Asked CHICAGO, Nor 28 fPf George Graham, 35, friend of the faiaily of Thomas E. Maloy, cxar" of the motion .picture operators onion here, was ab ducted by two men tonight and released shortly after Maloy. said he received a mysterious telephone call seeking 20, OOO ransom. ST. PAUL, Not. 28 (IP) The federal government encountered its first defeat in a major kid naping prosecution since passage of the so-called Lindbergh law to day with acquittal of four Chi cagoans of the $100,000 abduc tion of William Hamm, Jr. The string of convictions num bering the McElroy, Urschel, Luer, and Boettcher cases, was broken when a federal court jury of 10 men and two women ex onerated Roged Touhy, Eddie "Father" McFadden, G u s t a T "Gloomy Gus" Schafer, and Wil lie Sharkey. None of the defendants betray ed any emotion when the verdict was read byiss Margaret Mul lane, clerk in the court of Judge M. M. Joyce, or afterward .when the government announced it would take steps for removal of the defendants to Chicago. There they have been indicted on charges accusing them of hav ing abducted John "Jake the Bar ber" Factor, wealthy market speculator, who paid $70,000 ransom to kidnapers last July. He has reportedly identified some of the defendants in the Hamm case, as his abductors. - The verdict was- returned while Touhy and his companion- sat under the alert eyes of armed officers posted at strategic places in a crowded courtroom. Outside, deputy sheriffs patrolled the cor ridors with shotguns ready. B FlfJDS MEIER PLEA State Must Be in Position Also to Buy Power, is Message to Soions If Oregon Is to receive Its full share of benefits from the Bon neville dam project It is lmpera- tive that the Btate shall, press with all the vigor and agressive ness at its command a demand for ample federal funds to devel op .the dam to full capacity. as originally recommended by the army engineers and also be in a position to purchase and acquire the power to be developed and make it available for distribu tion. This, in brief, was the high light of a letter prepared Tues day by Governor - Meier for the conesideration of members of the house public utilities committee. The letter was addressed to Re presentative Lewis, chairman of the house committee. . ' "Since my special message to the legislature on November 23 recommending legislation 'author izing state cooperation In con nection with the Bonneville dam . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) - Eastern Oregon Has Snow Dobbin Seen in. Comeback Denies Report He's Dead University Probe Starts Deputy Sheriff Stephen Church said Snider told him today that he had intended to end his life In the Columbia, but after removing his coat on the bridge changed his mind and caught a ride to Seattle, where he had, been since. The dep uty sheriff quoted Snider as say ing he had read In a Seattle paper the-report that he had taken his own life and decided to return to Portland to take care - ot . his mother. - - - ; . .- V EDUCATORS ARRIVE ' : EUGENE, Not. 28. UP) An !n? restigatlon jnto the affairs of the University . ot Oregon, which reached climactic proportions. re cently when Dean Wayne L. Morse demanded the resignation ol Chancellor W. J. Kerr, was to be launched here today following the arrival today ot C. B. Taylor, Stan ford biologist, and O. P. Adams. California sniTersity philosopher. Titer were to be joined by Dr. F.M Psddelford. dean of .tlw graduate school ot the UniTersity of Washington, the third member of the committee appointed by the American Association of Univer sity Professors to make the InTes tigatiom . - - . - - ADDED Start and Finish oi Stra tosphere journey Which Set Altitude Mark '' ' J v; ' rA ; ffc4 - v '' i ' ) J V v ' ' - , . v c i'hj0'j0l 'tax ssaawaesBslBslsssssssPfaFi s - if , I 1 fk :;"-3 i --i a , I . v - 4 Above, the start of tbe stratosphere flight which took 1A. Commander T. G. W. Settle (left la inset) and Major Chester Fordney 11 miles aboTe the earth's surface. Settle Is showm inspecting his instru ments inside the gondola. Lower pictures, after tbe landing Lt. Commander Settle hands his barograph' to W. B. Engart of the National Aeronavtical assoclatlosu Settle Is shown la the bottom picture, riding a prosaic duck boat out of the swamp in which the stratosphere balloon alighted. EARfJifibS TAX BILL E The whereabouts and status of GoTernor Julius L;. Meier's pro posed gross earnings tax on utili ties continued a mystery . late Tuesday. The measure, devised to aid elementary education In .its present plight, lacks definite form as the session ends its first 10 days. Commissioner Charles M. Thom as, who heads the public utilities department, denies that he Is fath ering the bill. State Superintend ent Charles M. Howard declares he has been consulted on the allot ment features of the bill distribut ing the money to schools. There is legislative talk that the measure will be broadened to include all public utilities and banks have been mentioned as . a possible source of tax revenue. Unless the measure is forthcom ing shortly, there seems a likeli hood that it will never get out of committee, even if It is Introduced. Affections of his . former wife, 1T!thAi"V Rhprmnn. ara rained at $15,000, according- to the com plaint charging alienation, mea in circuit court yesterday by A. D. Sherman. The cojnplalnt is direct ed against Tragmand -Harrington. According to the complaint the Shermans were1 married in "1923 but In January, 1932, the affec tions of the wife turned cold, be cause of the advances of the de fendant. The period of the alleged Infidelity extended from January 1, 1932, to December 1, .1932, Attrtnw wtilrti "tlma thA ftafetidant maliciously alienated and diverted the affections of the wife or tne plaintiff, the pleadings allege. -The Shermans were divorced In December.-1932. ; . The nlaintift asks $10,000 com pensatory and $5000 punitive damages -.'-""" - - m mm n STOCK YARDS IDLE BECAUSE OF STRIKE CHICAGO, .tor. 2$. UP) Wil liam Collins, national organizer of the Livestock Handlers union, or ganization of union stockyard em ployes, whose strike had tied np activities at the yards, said to night Chicago local -517 had re jected' the mediation plan proposed by NRA officials and the strike would continue until the company signs the wage, agreement de manded by the men. ' Rejection of -the peace plan made more probable the suspen sion of all trading in' the stock yards tomorrow at 3 p. m. (Cen tral Standard time). The livestock exchange, neutral in the dispute of the employes and the Union Stockyards & Transit company, had ordered earlier in the day suspension tomorrow If the strike was not settled by'that time. Exchange officials said tneir action was necessary to avert heaTy losses to shippers, railroads, packing plants and other Interests affected by the strike. UNDBER6U ALTERS PUNSiWDN'TTEll PORTO PRALUl Cape Verde Islands, Not. 28 UP) Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Linanergn re Tealed v tonight they expect to take off early, tomorrow 1 morn ing from Porto Praia. They did not disclose their . destination. w DAKAR, ' Senegal, Nor, It (JP) Col.- Charles. A. Lindbergh tonight- abandoned a plan to fly from Porto Praia, Cape Verde Islands, to Dakar, but be did not disclose .his "next destination. I la a wireless message to auth orities here be thanked officials for making preparations "for v hi arrival and accepted, their sug gestionto avoid Dakar , because of presence of yellow ferer. ; , i :. He did not indicate whether he planned to fly. to EL Louis, Sene gal, .farther, np the coast,' as med ical authorities had suggested. THANKSGIVING S ARE Five Churches Designated For Union Gatherings; Others Announced Knight Memorial Concert One Event; Dallas: to - Have Union Meet Salem churches are nrenarine special services for Thursday rn recognition of the Thanksgiving spirit, with these centering in the customary union worshin arrang ed by the Ministerial association. The union eervices will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning in five designated churches in dif ferent sections of town. - Several other special worship programs hare been arranred. in cluding the annual Thanksgiving cnoir concert ac me oaignt Mem orial church at 7:30 o'clock that night and services at the St. Paul's Episcopal church at 10 o'clock in the morning featuring the choral Eucharist. The Christ Lutheran church has arranged a special program for 7 o'clock in tne evening. . The Union Thanks services, to last one hour, are scheduled as follows: North section at Jason Lee M. E. church with Dr. Carl Greesr Doney, president of Willamette university, speaking. Rev. H. G. Humphrey, Jason Lee pastor, will preside and has arranged the mu sic. East section at. Nazarn church, with Rev. G. T. Neal of the First church of God bringing the message and Rev. Fletcher Galloway, host pastor. South section at Leslie Mem orial church, with Rev. Grover C. Birtchet Of the Preshvtprlan church speaking and Rev. S.'Dar- iow jonnson, nost pastor, present ing this musical program:' Central section at First. Chris tian church, TteT. Dean Vermil lion, assistant Presbyterian Tina. tor.-talking-and Rev. Guy Drill arranging the music. West Salem at the Ford Mem orial church, with Rev. n v Wilson of the Englewood United rom to rage 7, Col. 1) E DEMAND EXTENSIVE Figures Not Given Out as Some W.U. Students are . Not Yet on Record Failure of 103 student nf Wil lamette university to cast their ballots in the poll to ascertain the stand ot the campus on the no- dancing edict resulted last night In the decision to keep the polls open again today. Indications last night were that the ballot In favor of eliminating the no-dancing regulation from tne campus would win by a far greater majority than at first an ticipated. It is a conceded fact on the campus that the majority of stndents desire dancing as part of the campus social life. Unofficial reports of the ballot ting yesterday indicated the Tote was. running approximately 5 to 1 for the "new deal" with 60 the greatest number of ballots cast against any ot the- anti-dance propositions. Earl Carroll, producer of the Earl Carroll's Vanities, prominent New York girl show, requested, in a letter received here yesterday, a (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Polit icql Pull UN ED HERE VOTE SHOWS DAi I hGW A; Time is Wasted Through personal and political "pull", many persons dally are impeding the work ot the'foder al re-employment agency in this county In attempts to arrange for some friend to get a job under the civil -works program, Mana ger E. T. Barnes declared yes terday coincident with receiving a letter from A.'C. Johnson, Ore gon re-employment director, in regard to such actions. ; "All sorts of influence are be ing brought to bear to place cer tain men," Mr Barnes declared. "They're pestcriag the life out of na and If they only knew it, they are only hindering their own cause. We're so rushed here reg istering men that these persons are seriously wasting our .time." $No kind of Influence is to be tolerated in choosing men for civil works ; jobs, Mrr 7 Johnson wrote to Mr. Barnes; .. r -s -:i "1 wish to - call your attention to the fact that yon Are 'a feder al official,'', be, wrote, ."and that no Influence, political7 or other wise, la o be brought to-bear in the - placement of . workers. Any interferences with the normal discharge of your duties "will not be tolerated and an inrestlgation TO BE RESTORED TO 1 932 FIGURES i . ;' i Budget of $692,333.60 Officially Passed; Is in Excess Of 1933 Levy Because of Compulsory Items but Does Not Include Provision for Old Age Pension Cost ot r Which is Deemed Prohibitory Several Groups of Taxpayers Contend for Keeping Pay Of County Employes on Reduced Basis but Showing is Made That Only $6000 is Involved While Living Wage Probably Will Be Required by NRA MARION, county employes are to be returned to the 1932 salary basis next year, according to the action of the budget committee in approving the final estimates for 1934 expenditures, made by the various department heads. The budget was officially passed yesterday after an all day session, during which time several county groups attacked one or more items in the estimates. 1 The budget of $692,333.60, which is approximately $92,-; 000 in excess of the levy last year because of the addition of certain compulsory items, does not contain a levy for the old age pension or for the estimated $67,000 for transpor tation and tuition for non high school district students. One of the compulsory items is SALARY OF ELLIOTT Only $72648 of That Paid By Water Users Here, Report Reveals E. C. Elliott, president of the Oregon-Washington "Water v Ser vice company, draws an annual salary ot $18,000, it was revealed yesterday in dispatches from Olyxipla, Wash., where the public u till lies commissioner Is scanning all utility budgets with the view of reducing high salaries paid of ficials. Under special scrutiny were salaries paid to Paul B. Mc- Kee, president of the Pacific Gas & Light company, and. Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Port land General Electric company. Elliott'i salary, inrestlgation further showed, is drawn jointly from the O r e g o n-Washington (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Processing Tax Upon Timber is Argument Basis Passage of the so-called timber processing tax bill 'would rob many counties of substantial prop erty tax assessments, upset the budgets and otherwise operate to the dlsadrantage of a large ma jority of taxpayers, Senator Fran- ciscovich told members of the joint forestry committee Tuesday night . . The, proposed law also was op posed by Representative Oleen who said it was unfair and would operate against the mills now sup plying the state's largest payrolls. Senator Spauldlng declared that the timber owners were in a des perate condition and that relief should be provided. He said the processing tax provided a fair and equitable method of coping with the present unsatisfactory situa tion. Unavailing will follow any reported practices of the type mentioned above." Koperson is to be placed on a civil works job, Mr. Johnson ex plained, unless - he can meet re sidential quauiications ana- is deemed "the 1 best person regis tered for that particular type of work." Although six men and three women were registering job ap plicants at the Salem re-employ ment office yesterday, they could not accommodate the crowds of men who assembled. Some ' had waited their turns to register as long as three days.- Mr. - Barnes said ' an additional clerk would go on duty today. ' .. With 20 ' due to be sent out on civil works , projects ' in this county ., by December 16, Mr. Barnes and his staff A are - faced with' a perplexing problem in' se lecting the workers from the reg istration list which : he yesterday estimated at between S 190 'and 2200- persons. Over 70 1 Polk county men also are registered. Neither Mr. Barnes nor Glenn C. Niles, locaf CWA administra tor, bad yesterday been notified regarding bow. to select men for the next job enota.. 51B.000 ANNUALLY that or a state tax estimated at j $145,000. The $67,000 levy for the stu dents is being made In a special assessment by the county school board against property in non high school districts. Last year the levy was made by the county court but due to the new law the zone directors this year assess the tax. The budget yesterday survived the attacks of the Farmers Un ion, Grange and Tax league, and was approved by the committee as It was originally published. Opponents of some ot the Items were led by Ed Porter of Silver ton, Will Jones of Macleay and E. B. Cochrane of Sydney. The taxpayers who attended the morning session of the com mittee were strong in their de mands that salaries of the county employes, which had been volun tarily reduced 10 per cent in a temporary measure last year, be permitted to remain tbe same" next year. It was the contention of the group that an Increase In wages at this, time would nrve a hardship on the taxpayers ef. the county. Decision to restore salaries to the 1932 level, however, . wa reached by the budget committee after an appeal by Sheldoa FV Sackett, managing editor of The ?. Statesman, that the employs be -paid a living .wage. ; "There are at least six reasons why salaries ef county empjyes should be restored to their for mer asls," Sackett told the com mittee. ' I . " A " "First, ' the reduction, which was voluntary, was a temporary, measure. Second, the basic ,cost of living has increased fully It per cent. It salaries are restored. to 'the former -level, and prices' of commodities . increased to the 192$ basis, the salary restoration wUl net increase the jump is the living cost.. - Third, the increase in the, bud (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: Salisbury;, Md. Mob storms . armory but falls to take four, lynching suspects from troop; suspects rushed to Baltimore jail. New York. Alfred E. Smith denies Father Coughlin's atase ment that he discussed loan with J. P. Morgan; chancellor of Catho lic archdiocese calls priest's attack; on Smith nwarranted. St. Paul, Minn. - Four CU cagoans plan living cost surrey to aid in shaping monetary program. . Decatur, Ala. Heywood Pat terson, one of Scottsboro defeat- -ants, denies attacking Mrs, Price; state completes testimony. Chicago. Pneumonia threat ens Dr. Alice Wynekoop; prose , cutors to ask her indictment Wed nesday for daughter-in-law'a slay- . ; Washington. -'Civil works ai rector estimates 2,000,000 men on reUef. -November-:..1 will be at work before. week ends. New Orleans. Woman leader asks . "Is United States "'. senate, . afraid of Hney P. Long?" as Long ' testifies at election bearing. " . Foreign: Berlin. Leader of Nasi Ger- . man Christians and legaleounsel- V lor resign under pressure from :. church cabinet. . - : Dakar, Senegal..' Lindberghs give up plans to fl here fresn . Cape Terde. Islands; next desttaao , tlou unannounced. ,1 't