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5 -U fV - V . SERVICE r.X , ' v We guarantee oar carrier ' service. H your paper does " not arrive by 0:15, call 101 and copy will be delivered at once. ... THE WEATHER Unsettled with rains , to-v day, rain Wednesday; Max. Temp. Monday 47, Min. 89, ' rain .OO Inch, river -1.2 feet, ' sonthesst wind. FOUNDED 1851 : EIGIITY-THIRD XEAR No. 217 Hand - Little Sisterly Advice To Old City of Brotherly Love to Roll Tide L iquor ire 1 - 1 1 .Vandevort Leads In Lonely Fight Upon Legalizing : Of 'Beano Games Supreme Court Decision Is : Cited In Protest but k Without Avail - ' The city council last night (disregarded roclferous complaints from Alderman H. H. Vanderort that the city bad no legal "right to license gambling' and on roll call to ted 10 to 2 -to approve an ordinance; Imposing a ISO semi annual license fee on dart and beano games. .- 1 ' I aak yon. Mr. City Attorney." Vandevort spoke up, pointing to City Attorney Chris J. Kowitv"if the city has a right to license ' gambling. ?'.. ".v Kowits replied In the negative. "The 1 supreme court holds a beano game to be gambling." de clared Vanderort. "We're no right to go ahead and license gambling." Alderman Walter Fuhrer took the challenge, asking: "Can you prove it's gambling? What Is life If it Isn't a gamble anyway?" Potato Out Benefit From Saperrialoa The license measure will give police supervision over the games, explained Dr. O. A. Olson, who as license committee chairman, spon sored the bill. "There are gambling derices all orer this town." Interjected Alder man S. A. Hughes. "I see boys and girls playing them, punch boards and snch. Ton can't throw one out and not the other.'' . Alderman Frank E. Needham asserted that the dart games run ning here had no blanks, that there wa "no more gambling in this than going to Alderman Yan devort and buying sheep." Aldermen Vanderort and Hen derson Toted against1 the- license bill; rotlng aye were Aldermen Armpriest. Boatwright, Dane, Fuh rer, Hughes, Knhn, Needham, Ol son, 0Hara and Townsend. Alder man Paul Hendricks refused to rote. r Renovating City Hall Is Approved Another roll call was' required to determine' whether or not the council should appropriate $30 to buy blankets for Hotel de Minto. The- motion carried despite Alder man O'Hara's statement that the emergency fund was exhausted. A suggestion by Alderman Needham f haf each councilman and the mayor contribute the money was dropped. The council quickly approved a proposal, suggested by Mayor Mc Kay, that the city apply for CWA aid to renorate the interior of the city halL The application will In clude a plan by Alderman Olson to re-arrange firemen's sleeping quarters. - (Turn to Page 2, Col. S) Miiinscious ; INDEPENDENCE. Dee. 4. (Special) Mrs. Sarah Irvine, 85, was improving today from in juries sustained Sunday 'when she was struck by an automobile . driven by Fred Hyde. Jlrs. Irrlne, bady . bruised, still was uncons . clous Monday afternoon but at- tending physicians announced she was recovering. -' Mrs; 'Irrlne,' accompanied by Mrs.- Seeley,-was on her way -to church Sunday night when she was ' struck .while crossing Mon mouth street. Mrs. Seeley, who Is partially deaf, gained the opposite i side of the street before she real ; ized Mrs. Irvine was not at her tide. Hyde was moving slowly at the time of the crashaccording to re i ports. He was helped In taking ! Mrs. Irvine to her home by mem : ,Vrs of. the church congregation. - BUY . CHRISTMAS SEAtS f SEOPPIPJG DASfS U TO CHRISTMAS WOMAN STDUGK BY Members of the Philadelphia Leo tore Assembly criticised Era Le Galliense for falling to keep a lecture date, whereupon both she and Ethel Barrymore told the girls a few things. "You didn't hare any faith.' said Era. "I don't sec why we bother to speak to yon. Yon hare no appreciation. Yon don't know anything," stormed! EtheL And those innocent bystanders who i hare little use for "lion bjint- era" chuckled In their sleeves. - Central Press Photos. CHICAGO, Dec. 4 A Sas katchewan farmer today was de clared wheat king of North Am erica for growing superlative grain of the hard red spring variety. The 1933 winner is Frank Is akson, whose farm at Elfros, is a thousand miles north of Winni peg. He was awarded the title by Judges of the -international live stock exposition. O. W. Carroll of Rlckreall. first place in purebred Romney ram and first place in purebred Romney ewe. McCaleb brothers of Mon mouth, third place in purebred Romney ram. C. E. Grelie of Portland, sec ond place In purebred Romney ewe. Asks City to Pay For Tire Damage The price Of a new tire casing, tube and wheel was asl:ed of the city in a claim presented to the city couneil last night by Os car B. Nelson, Seattle motorist. The claim stated Nelson had run into an open manhole at Miller and High streets. He asked for $19.45. The claim was referred to the city attorney.' WOOL HI Shipping Prospects Upon Willamette to be Probed Prospects of increased shlp nfnv inn thn Willamette river here are to be Investigated by a" com mittee of aldermen and other ci tizens to be nam ad by Mayor rvtnclai McKar as the result of a motion passed at the council session last night after that body had approved a resolution auth orizing the city attorney to sub-r-it a new application for a f 95, 000 PWA municipal dock loan. The council overrode Alderman H. H. Vanderort's protest In pass ing the resolution but acceded to the wlrbes of the fiery represen tatire from the first ward when it instructed th utilities com mittee to cooperate with the city attorney in attempting to collect rent from the Salem" Navigation company for use c ' the city prop erty or. ; which Its present dock stands. - i. ' ( ; Vanderort charged the , elty stood to lose its waterfront prop erty , through probable : foreclos ure if the new dock were built and loan payments not met He declared the city had paid S100, 000 for this property and had collected but (1 rent for its use. City Attorney Kowitz seated the city might be able to collect rent LINDBERGHS HELD U RIVER m Surface Tension Blamed for Failure of Heavy Load To Lift Off Water BATHURST, Gambia, Dec. 4. (A) Their big red monoplane held in the Gambia rlrer by an al most dead calm, Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh waited to night for the first fresh wind to lift them on a flight to South America. or long the calm will con tinue could only be guessed at. That such conditions often last many days along the West Afri can coast is known to the sorrow of many mariners. Repeatedly Colonel Lindbergh has tried to lift the heavy plane from the unruffled surface of the lower river. With a loaf of fuel sufficient to carry them across nearly 1900 miles of open sea the craft refused to rise. Surface ten sion held the pontoons as In a groove. From November to March Is the season for what Is known as the "harmattan," a hot, dry desert wind which comes from the rast interior region. The "harmattan" blows Intermittently. The colonel spent the morning overhauling the monoplane after failure of repeated attempts to take off last night. Mrs. Lindbergh helped him. Later she slept a short time while additional gaso line was jettisoned to lighten the load. Previously 40 gallons of fuel and considerable baggage was un loaded but the craft still was too heavy to overcome a lack of head wind for a takeoff. , Overtime Fines Reach High Mark Municipal Judge Poulsen col lected 147 fifty cent fines from motorists whose cars were tagged the past two weeks for riola ting parking regulations, he reported to the city council last night. He stated he had returned 314 tags that had not been acknowledged, to city police. During the same period, city officers tagged 439 cars,, Chief Frank A. Minto In formed the council in writing. from Aucust 1930 on, the time the navigation company's five- year SI lease ran out. The aldermen, tiring of. rehash ing the municipal water system negotiations at every session, Tot ed to dispense with reports from the city attorney along this line at each session. A modi-led proposal, reported as having been formulated Sun day and submitted to E. C. Elli ott, president of the Oregon Washington Water Service com pany, for purchase 'of Its plant here, is not likely to be accepted, Kowits told the aldermen. The plan consists of the city's paying the company $3 00,000 In PWA money, if it can be obtained, $300,000 worth of city bonds and the remainder, or : upwards : of $300,000 from the ' sale of city bonds. This scheme was suggest ed by District Attorney William H. Trlndle, formerly city attor ney, It Is understood. No word has bees received rel ative to the city's latest applica tion for a $900,000 PWA loan for turohasing or building a wa ter system. Kowits reported. He said city officials were at a loss to know what to do next. - " Shots Fired as Truck Said To Be Carrying Ballots Evades Angry Crowd Long Hanged in Effigy and Plans Made to Uphold - Orders of Court BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 4 (P) Shots were exchanged to night on the Amite river bridge between a group of Livingston citizens and occupants of a truck, believed by the men to be haul ing new ballots from Baton Rouge to replace ballots burned earlier In the night on the main street of Denham Springs. The truck ran oft the bridge and swerved Into a swamp road and escaped from the 25 armed citizens angered over the calling of an election in the sixth dis trict without holding a democra tic primary. No one was injured in the ex change of some 20 shots, but the shooting added to the grave fears of bloodshed held by offi cials. Earlier in the evening, men traveling In IS automobiles had seized the ballots and tally sheets fpr Livingston parish from a storehouse at Centrevllle, the parrish seat, and had taken them to the main street of Denham Springs, the largest town In the parish, and burned them in a pnblic bonfire. BATON ROUGE. La., Dec. 4 (JP) Senator Huey P. Long's po litical dynasty in Louisiana ran up against open revolution in the sixth congressional district to night as the state administration ordered a proposed district elec tion to proceed tomorrow and forces opposing the election se cured court injunctions to pre vent the balloting. " Set en days of citizens' demon strations against the administra tion reachel a crescendo In Ham mond' this afternoon when a laughing, hooting crowd hanged effigies of Senator Long and Chairman Lee Ponder of the dis trict democratic committee -on the courthouse square and then burned the figures at the stake. In three parishes of the district a district judge swore In 300 spe cial deputies to Bee' that the court's order against the holding of the election was not violated. Earlier the town of Hammond, with others in the area had de fled the state by seizing and burning ballots prepared for to morrow's election, in which the administration hoped to send Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, Senator Long's candidate to congress without opposition and without a party primary. 1 MADE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. An indictment charging Harry Voller, Morris Cohen and Edward H. Friedman, who police said were eastern racketeers, with rob bing Mae West, film actress, of $20,400 In money and jewels more than one year ago was returned today by the county grand jury. The indictment, charging rob bery, was returned after Miss West and her manager, James Ti- mony, appeared before the grand jury, and told of the September 1932, holdup in which the actress tossed from an automobile a purse containing $3400 in cash and jew els she rained at $17,000. Just before the actress and Tl- mony went before the grand jury after risking the district attor ney's office where. Police Chief James E. Davis said, she Identi fied Friedman as one of the three men who robbed her. He announ ced that Friedman had confessed his part in the holdup and had ln- rolTed Voller and Cohen, f Police in Chicago and Detroit, hare been asked by Chief Davis to arrest Voller and Cohen. Voller Is believed to be In Chicago and Cohen in Detroit Flax Loan Wins Approval, Word Announcement that the cham ber of commerce had been in formed by Senator- McNary that the-three and a half .million dollar loan for the flax industry In the Willamette ralley had been ap proved by President Rooserelt was made at the chamber Monday noon. . ROSENBLOOM WINS TORT WORTH, Tex.; Dec 4. (JP) M a x I e Rosenbloom, New York, light heavyweight boxing champion, won a ten round deci sion ovc Wilson Dunn, the wild Oklahoma City Indian, here to night. Both judges roted the scrap a. draw. Referee Sully Montgom ery ballotted for Rosenbloom. . MAE WEST HOLDUP CONFESS TATE LD IS Utah, Pennsylvania, Ohio To Ratify Amendment, End Prohibition 25 Commonwealths Remain Dry; Washington Solons Speed Legislation (By the Associated Press) Under the watchful eyes of state and federal officials, plans went forward last night for reviving the legal sale of liquor in 23 states of the Union. The formal ratification by three additional states, transmission by them of word to the state depart ment they had approved repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, and the proclamation by President Rooserelt of the adoption of the repealing amendment were the le gal steps that remained to be ta ken today to break down national prohibition. Twenty - fire states, however, will remain dry under state laws, although some of these permit the importation of whiskey from other Btates. " In Pennsylvania, Ohio and Utah thef three-states that hold rati- , (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) E !TJ SECRET SESSION Aldermen Go Into Huddle on Finances; Purpose is To Satisfy Banks With a scant four weeks re maining in the rear. Salem's al dermen last night suddenly took a notion to discuss ways to econ omize. To this end ther remained after their regular meeting in a session barred to the public. Jnst what concrete plans, u any, they considered in order to save thA Htv monpv and remedr the immediate situation wherein city employes are having difficulty in cashing warrants, none of the al dermen would state. Ther talked over rarlous matters for upwards of half an hour, then decided, Mayor McKay facetiously re marked, to turn oat the council chamber lights "to save elec tricity." The secret session was called by tha mavor after Alderman 8. A. Hughes requested it Hughes asked for the discussion following a declaration by Alderman Darld n'Hara that "if the exnenses of the city can be reduced, we ought to reduce them. O'Hara pointed out that 48.8 ner cent of taxes due last month from the last lery were delin quent No definite answer was forthcoming when Alderman V. E. Kuhn asked for specific sugges tions toward retrenchment In city expenditures, c In mortar that- the council be requested to gather for the econ omy talkfest, Hughes saia: "We don't want notoriety; the aldermen don't want to see their ideas In print. We want to satisfy the banks we re doing tne nest we can." Mosquito Relief Program Slated For Early Start PORTLAND. Dec. 4. UP A to tal of 1700 men In Oregon and Washington will be hired imme diately for. mosquito elimination and control In the two states, H. H. Stage, In charge of the federal bureau of entomology headquar ters here, informed the Portland chamber of commerce today. The civil works administration has allocated $100,000 for Oregon and 177,100 for Washington to carry on this work, which will be largely diking, draining and brush eutttng. Workers will be hired from the regular relief rolls. Stage aald. Bogus Dollars Circulate Here Bogus dollars, reported preva lent in northern California a few days ago. apparently have trav eled north,, for at one local restau rant Sunday a-counterfeit sllrer dollar was detected-but not until it had been accepted from some unknown person. If TOPIC U tah Insists on Honor OfMak ingNat ion Wet; Ratify About 7 :30 P.M. - -. Impressive Ceremonies Planned; Nation to Go Moist Immediately Though Proclamation By President Will Be Made Later SALT LAKE CITY, Dec 4- ( AP) Utah was ready to night to drive home the thirty-sixth and final nail in the coffin of federal prohibition, and had plans completed to do it with pomp and ceremony. With members of Utah's original constitutional con vention of 1895 present as guests of honor, together with - pother state and civic notables. IES H'M RELIEF Water Commission Applies For Additional Work To Hire 140 Men SILVERTON, Dec. 4 (Spe cial) That the water commis sion is making application for a further relief program to he car ried out under the C. W. A. was discussed at the city council meeting Monday night. Should the new program go through it will care for 140 unemployed men. Further city work was dis cussed but was left to the various committees. Installing tennis courts for the city met with hearty approval from the coun cil, if further C.-W.A. programs could be carried on at Silverton. The Judiciary committee was instructed to prepare ordinances to be in readiness tor the city Srla be ready to meet the situation when the state liquor laws are adopted. M. J. Dalon was Instructed to count the loads of gravel used in the street work of the C.W.A. and report this to Sylvan Mc Cleary, time keeper. Dalon re ported that 26 loads had been hauled for Welch street and 6 loads for Chad wick street. A communication from the aeronautic board suggesting that the city apply for Improvements on the local airport in case the government passes on laws al lowing this improvement. The (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Two cents out of each five col lected on gasoline taxes by the state would go to a school fund, distributed ratably to all districts, a bill introduced late Monday in the house provides. Representative Johnson of Washington county sponsored the measure which is understood to hare the backing of the state grange. State labor Is said to fav or a diversion of one cent for schools. Johnson avers the measure will relieve existing distress among schools. The measure was drawn by the attorney-general's effice. The at torney - general held that gasoline tax could not be diverted from the highway commission without en acting entirely new legislation which will repeal all existing sta tutes on gasoline taxation. The rate of tax fire cents a rallon and the method of col lection, remain the Bams as under existing laws. HSU TIX FOB school i, rum Bill to Authorize Coast Bridges Faces Final Vole War for the approval of the bill authorising and financing fre coast bridges, was pared by the committee on roads and highways last night when decision was made to report the bill out to the sen ate this morning. Senator Joe Dunne, chairman of the commit tee, . reported he would ask. for suspension of the roles so the measure might be puj on for final passage. The clearing of the route for the Important legislation followed the house action in passing the measure yesterday. The house acted, by taking the bill out of Its regular order, after Storey, Thorn dyke, Palmer ft Dodge, Boston bond attorneys, withdrew their objections to certain phases of the bill. One of the main objections of the Boston attorneys was to au thorising federal funds to be ad- ranced to finance construction of the fire spans. the convention will be called to order at noon by Governor Henry H. Blood, officers of the Utah national guard will act as ushers. The delegates are expected to complete their duties at 7:30 p.m. Immediately after meeting at noon they will organize and appointment of resolutions and credentials committees will be named. A recess until 7 o'clock will then be taken. Upon reas sembling they anticipate comple tion of their task in half an hour. "We are determined no other state shall take this glory away from Utah," said Franklin Riter, president of the Utah League for Prohibition repeal and a con vention delegate, in commenting upon Utah's lately apparent de termination to await ratification (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) MORTGAGE RELIEF IS Which Home Loan bonds are Ketused Denied Execution Home owners of Salem who are faced with the loss of tbeir homes by pressing mortgagees, are to be given consideration by Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling. Precedent was established yes terday when the court refused to issue an execution to E. F. and Florence Whelan, calling for the sale of a house and store building in foreclosure of a $3000 mort gage on the property owned by Sarah Kelley. The mortgagees re fused to accept home loan bonds In payment of the debt. Any rental obtained from the place, however, shall go to the mortgagee, the court ruled. The opinion, handed down yes terday by Judge Lewelling, makes it a responsibility of the mort gagee together with the mortgagor to sustain a portion of the loss felt by property owners due to the economic depression. Fixing of an upset ralue on the property after testimony has been taken will be the future action of the court In case it becomes nec essary that the execution sball Is sue, Judge Lewelling announced last night. ."I cannot force these mort gagees to accept the home loan bonds, but I can establish an up set ralue on the property, on my own motion, after testimony has been taken, so that the property owner is not left out In the cold," Judge Lewelling said. "The mort gagees - come into this court of equity on an equity basis, expect ing equity and equity is going to be done. ..." "-.v "If this property was of suffi cient ralue four years ago to loan $3000 on it, the true worth of the place was greatly in excess of that figure. True, we hare had an econ omic depression since then but ralues hare not dropped to that extent. By fixing an upset ralue, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) The Boston firm, last Saturday, advised the highway commission this measure rlolated the consti tutional provision prohibiting ap propriation of state funds for con struction of local roads. The ob jection was withdrawn, howeverr when the attorneys were Informed the supreme court. had held a state highway is not a local road within the meaning of the consti tutional proTision. A resolution, which will accom- f pany the bill to the senate floor today, calls upon the state high way commission to use funds, now appropriated for the use of fer ries, In the repayment of the loan to the federal gorernment. The resolution stipulates that- these funds, up to $175,000 a year, be appropriated In -this manner, In creasing; from Its present figure as terry appropriations increase. ARGUMENT FDR S Senate Committee Hearing Bombarded by Oratory For Change in Bill Friends of Prohibition are Heard in Support of Knox Control Plan The senate committee on alco holic traffic withstood for orer two hours Monday night a barrage of oratory respecting methods of liquor control for the state. Hav ing before it house bill No. 1, the Beckman bill, based on the report of the , Knox committee, which passed the house last week, most of the oratory was directed to ward modifying the bill in the di rection of permitting retail groc ers and druggists to dispense hard liquors and of allowing hotels and restaurants to serve more potent liquors than beer and wines to guests with meals. Sponsors tor the Knox plan did not appear, having previously presented their eases to the house committee. Two members of the senate committee. Upton and Staples, were members of the governor's committee head ed by Dr. Knox. Louise Palmer Weber and John i Kaste caught the gallery with their verbal thrusts. The former aimed her darts at the parsons who had recommended certain modifications in the Knox bill. She berated fresh attempts to en force rigid controls, praised the retail grocers and druggists as worthy dispensers of liquor and not men "who belong one door north of the penitentiary." She said she didn't have use for cock tails herself, but found a glass "of 3.2 as good for me as the third cup of coffee for some of these re formers." She adjured the com mittee not to take a "holier than thou attitude" and to legislate for true temperance and libralise sale enough to do away with the boot legger and racketeer. Argument Blade for Letting Down Bars John Kaste, Portland, who is at torney for the Fred Meyer stores, handed out some hot ones to tne "highway robbers, the retail drug gists." He claimed their profit margins were excessive, and that they claimed their overhead cost was 21 per cent which they want ed added if they handled the busi ness. Kaste urged sale of whiskey be made open to every store with out any fixed price "then -Fred Meyer will fixthe price for the whole state'; and said his chain offered to handle the statewide distribution at 6 cents a bottle. He denounced piling on taxes and costs ef state stores because It (Turn to Page, 1, Col. 2) 3 iheer Priced Nickle a Bottle As Cleanup Made PORTLAND, Dec. 4. (P) Sev eral Portland stores began a bat tle of the beer bottles today, and nationally known eastern brands, formerly selling here at from II cents to 20 cents a bottle, went to eager takers at a nickle each. By night most of the stores reported their stocks of 3.2 bottled brew had been cleaned out. Spokesmen for the store said that the race to rid their shelves of the "decimal drinks" was un dertaken in the anticipation that beer of stronger alcoholic con teat would make its appearance along with formal repeal of the 11th amendment, , scheduled for tomorrow. PRIVATE Trial oi Second Negro Closed in Scoitsboro Case DECATUR Ala., Dee. 4 (ff) The fate of Clarence Norris. oe -of the seren negro defendants hi the Scottsboro case, charged with attacking Mrs. Victoria Price, was given to a Morgan county Jury at S: 51 p.m. today, , v . r - Before the Jury could retire, Samuel ; S. Leibowltx, "chief of. council, filed 12 exceptions to -v the one hour and f 9 vJnlnuto '7 eharge, delaying retirement to 4:17 p.m. at theory's ; reOest V ?. deliberation wasideterred until 8:39 a.nv tomorrow, ? ; - i , - POSTMASTERS KAMED '' -V - WASHINGTON, Deciv4. (ff-' The 'postoffics department an- . nounced today the appointment of Fred S. Crowley, as postmaster, at Nappa, Ore., and Ada P. Odom, a ' postmaster at Olene, Ore. Both are fourth class offices. . 3 r