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' A GOOD GIFT - A Christmas rift THE WEATHER , Cloudy today, occasional rains; Wind in south. Maxi-O mun temperature yesterday, 54 degrees, minimum 46. . nred , by folks ? away from .borne is The Statesman; a, . dally menage : from Salem which brings them, the news they enjoy. .(.. t POUNDED 1851 EIGHTY.THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, December 21, 1933 No, 231 SB Mahoney Orders Atforney to File Anti-Knox Plan Action Locally Home-Rule Violation Point To Be Crux of Pending Test Litigation , - A court attack on the consti tutionality ot the Knox liquor control act, will be launched here today iu the Marion county cir cuit court. Mayor Willis Mahoney ef Klamath Falls announced last night. The court action will take the form ot a request for an in junction, against enforcement of the Knox act which limits sale of hard liquors to state owned stores. , Mahoney expressed the opinion that if the circuit court issues the injunction, the case will go direct to the supreme court and the question of the constitutionality of the law will be settled within a ween, tie saia ne woum as other cities to Join with- Klamath Falls in the test case. Meier, Pray and LIqnor Hoard to be Defendants The m&yor of the southern Ore- gon city yesterday wired A. L. Leavitt, city attorney, to prepare a complaint in the case of Klam ath Falls versus Governor Julius L. Meier, George H. McMorran, James D. Burns and Alex G. Barry, members of the state li quor control commission, and Charles P. Pray, superintendent of state police, enjoining them from enforcing the Knox law. He said he should receive the papers early today. Meanwhile, the liquor control commission mef ir. Portland Wed nesday and one of its first moves was to ban the window display or other advertising of liquor by re tail dealers. Until the establish ment of state stores, expected to oe aoout a monuujrom nqwine commission has indicated a pol icy of leniency in the matter of retail sale of hard, liquor by pri vate concerns., Mahoney said, the . injunction will be sought on the grounds that the Knox- law violates the! home rule amendments: of" the' state constitution, giving cities the right to license and regulate liquor. 121 TO STERILIZE BERLIN, Dec. 20. UP) Last minute preparations were under way today for executing one of the most significant features of Chancellor Hitler's program to make Germany physically fit the sterilization of persons suffering Incurable diseases. On January 1, 1700 "eugenic courts" will - begin functioning. These will pass Judgment on at least 400,000 men and women considered "hereditary defectives' Depriving these people of re1 productive power will take at least two years, it was estimated. Instructions have been issued hospital, and sanitarium officials, as well as heads of penitentiaries and prisons, to' get a list of Incur ables and habitual criminals ready by January 1. The sterilization operations will be performed under court order, after a system of ehecks from which there will be no ooneal. The cost of the aftion has been estimated at about' 14,000,000 marks (now about $,800,000). This the government considers trifling compared to the 350.000, 000 marks ($132,000,000) which persona Buffering incurable dis eases cost the German taxpayers annually. The sterilization law is appli cable, among others, to feeble mindedness. Insanity, blindness, and serious physical deformities. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS '3 SHOPPING DAYS tO CHRISTMAS 110 INCURABLES No More Men to go on CWA Pro jects Pending Check Qlenn Niles, Relief Administrator, Thinks 1411 Total Already Reached; Chambers Seeks Quota Increase; 4844 Men Listed BELIEVING Marion county's present quota of civil works jobs had been more than filled, Administrator Glenn C. Niles yesterday afternoon directed. Manager E. T. Barnes of the national re-employment agency not to place any more men on CWA projects. Niles said the txact number of men cif CWA crews, in the county could not be ascertained until Saturday's payroll is made out. The quota is 1411 men. Exactly 60 more men register-Q-... ed for work at the re-employment office yesterday, bringing total registrations to 4844 persons. , "The state civil works commit tee is doing everything it can to get the state quota increased," declared J. N. Chambers, Marion county civil works chairman, when asked what was to be done for the remaining unemployed men on the registration list. "From advices through the press it looks as though we're go- i ing to get another allotment." Chambers predicted. "If we could get our quota increased to 3000 men, I believe that would handle the relief situation very well. Relief Burden in County Present Stationary The burden of relief to unem ployed in the county, which rose sharply last month, is now about stationary, according to Cham bers, who also is chairman of the county relief committee. He de clared the relief foil probably would have more than doubled had it not been for the aid through cfvil works projects. Mr. Chambers opined that the money from CWA payrolls would speedily be felt in various bus iness lines, thereby enabling pri vate employers to hire-more men and women. R.W. Niles Named Lord Gov . ernor Wood; Banquet Date January 9 The Salem Cherrians last night elected George L. Arbuckle as King Bing .for 1934, succeeding Frank G. Deckebach, Jr. Arbuckle will be installed at the annual banquet January 9. Other new officers are: R. W. Niles, Lord Governor Wood; C. E. Wilson, chancellor of the rolls; John R. Caughell, keeper of the orchard; Chief of Police Frank A. Minto, king's , jester; William Schlitt, Duke of Lambert; T. A. Windishar, Queen Anne's consort; Dr. W. A. Johnson, Archbishop of Rickreall; Kenneth Willson, Mar quis of Maraschino, and Charles S. McElhinny, Earl of Waldo. The annual banquet of the Cherrians will be held Tuesday night, January 9, for which details will be drawn shortly. 20 New Members Enter as Year Starts V Highlights of Cherrian activi ties for the year just closed in clude the annual dinner January 10, 1933, when 20 new members were accepted; a joint meeting with the Silverton chamber of commerce April 19, with Salem at tendance of more than 125 per (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Huey's Star Wanes As Partisans Take Up Anti-Long Tilt NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 UP) Political uprising against the dictatorship of Senator Huey P. Long has swept the state of Lou isiana. The senator, better known as "Huey the Klngfish", had his back to the wall tonight full of fight and venom for his enemies whom he says he will crush. In New Orleans today Mayor T. Semes Walmsley and his old regular democratic organization broke definitely with Senator Long. and his Louisiana democra tic association over the approach ing city election. Out in the country pansnes, open uprising against Longism have been held in the form ot public mass meetings with others organized for later in the month. Auto Workers Just Miss Injury When Gas Tank Explodes , Elmer E. Wetsel, proprietor of the Mission Street service station, Mission and South 12 th streets. and Louis Eitelgeorge,- his as sistant, miraculously escaped in jury at 6 o'clock last night when an automobile gasoline tank they were soldering exploded into sev eral pieces and sent a sheet of flame to the ceiling. The two men shoved the burn ing tank off a work bench onto the floor and put out the fire lust as firemen arrived from central station. GO rauriE h lie on Quota L im ii WILLIAMS. 66, HIT Trindle Orders Probe of Mis hap; King Held 9 Times By Local Police Seth Williams, 65, 296 South 15th street, was struck down and dragged 3 6 feet by an automo bile driven by Edgar R. King, route six, at State and Church streets earlv last night, city po lice reported. He was taken to Deaconess hospital for treatment of a fractured collarbone and an kle and scalp wounds. Mrs. Williams, who attempted to pull her husband out of the car's path wau not hurt. District Attorney W. H. Trin die ordered an Investigation ot the accident and stated that the charge to be filed against King probably would be detetrmlned today. Meanwhile the youthful driver is free on his own recog nizance. King, turning from east on State to north on Church street, cut inside of a car driven by G W. Dedient, route six, who was turning in the same direction, police stated. Dedient estimated King's speed at 35 miles per hour. City officers hate arrested King nine times during the past year on charges of violating traf fic laws, they declared, and In all he' has paid 310 in fines. Late last night Williams con dition was reported as good. PRICES TO HOLD IN PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 20. UP) The probability that minimum prices for lumber, as established by the NRA lumber code, will remain unchanged throughout the divisions of the Industry was seen here today when the' national control committee of the code re ceived requests for only a few, mi nor "changes. The committee, in session here since December 12, indicated that the original price schedule would be continued as no significant re visions had been sought. One of the most important tasks of the national committee, the al location of operating hours to producers to conform to the pro duction allotment announced yes terday, will be undertaken by the committee tomorrow, after which adjournment of the Portland meeting is expected. Organized opposition to the minimum prices for the Industry failed to develop today despite the fact that those prices are based on the absolute production average cost in the entire United States. Committee members said that the Industry, In accepting the price schedules, really joined with the control committee and the NRA In stabilizing the produc tion and sale of lumber. Japs May Convert Puppet Ruler Into Emperor, is Rumor SHANGHAI, Dec. 20. UP) Ru mors that Japan plans to make an emperor out of Henry Pu Yi, 28- year old executive of the Japanese-advised state of -Mancbukuo, were current here today. Once the "boy emperor" of China, last of the Manchus, Fu Yl was made the nominal ruler ot the former three eastern provin ces (Manchuria) when Japan took the area from China during the recent campaign. Japanese officials dismissed the reports as "dreams without the basis of the reality of a situation." SCHOOL GIRL HACKED B03TON, Dec. 20. MPH-Edlth Zuperman, 18, a recent graduate of Boston girl's high school, was found dead tonight in a bakeshop in which she was employed. A cross cut In her forehead and a breadknife driven through her throat and into the floor. The bakeshop Is on the edge of China town.- - - ' ' 1 umh CODE Will AIMEE STIES AGAINST DAVE Pastor Says Tubby Hubby Kept Her Awake Begging. For More Funds Hutton Wanted to Be King of Temple, Plea Made in Counter-Suit LOS ANGELES, Dec, 20. (JP) Scantily dressed show girls and a breach-of promise suit which Da vid L. Hutton lost to an attractive nurse were mentioned prominent ly today by Aimee Semple Mc pherson, the evangelist, who sued her baritone-voiced husband for a divorce. Her request for a severance of the marital ties was contained In a cross complaint and answer to the divorce action Hutton brought against her several months ago while she was in a Paris hospital. Aimee's nine page cross com plaint, filed by E. A. Adams, her attorney, a few hours before a train bringing her home from the east for Christmas arrived here, cited a long list of mental cruel ties and martial shortcomings, particularly his association with "scantily dressed show girls whom he permitted to caress and kiss bim." Claiming that Hutton caused her "mental anguish and humllia-' tlon" by insisting that she pay the $5000 breach of promise judg ment awarded Myrtle St. Pierre, a Pasadena nurse, Mrs. Hutton's complaint was rushed here by mail plane from Cleveland where she signed the papers last Sunday. Asks for Restoration of Her Original Name She explained she was forced to file the cross complaint for "immediate relief" and asked that her true name, Aimee Semple McPherson, be restored to her so she may carry on her religious work "without the disrepute that Hutton has caused to his name." The evangelist, who has been on an extended preaching tour, charged that Hutton abandoned his promise to further religion and entered Into various vaudeville engagements. He is now a master of ceremonies at a Hollywood night club. "He used his vehicle as a means of obtaining publicity for him self," the complaint stated, "and ridiculing the cross complaint by undignified acts. He allowed him self to be photographed with scantily dressed show girls whom he permitted to caress and kiss him. He showed by this an utter disregard of the marital status of the parties and disclosed a marked attitude of indifference toward bis wife's ideals, wishes and desires." Mite of Baby Dies; Called Doll, Granny FIND LAY, O.. Dec. 20. UP) The "doll baby" Is dead. Born Saturday, four months be fore she was expected, the pound and a quarter child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carmen succumbed at 10:30 p. m. tonight. Only today the "doll baby" that's the only name she had, and it was given to her by her mater nal grandmother, Mrs. Charles Finerd had gained a quarter ot a pound and the child's mother expressed the hope she would live. She said she wouldn't give her girl a name until she lived a wck The "doll baby- died In her basket-crib next to the family's old fashioned coal stove. She had been kept alive since Saturday with milk fed through a medicine dropper or with a doll's nursing bottle. Her mother's wedding ring, small as it is, could have served as a bracelet for the child. WALSH OUT AT ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20 UP) Charles F. (Chile) Walsh, head football coach at St. Louis uni rersity for the last four years announced tonight that he had resigned. The faculty board of the university stated Joe Max well, 'line coach, would take charge ot the football situation. Elks to Play Santa Next . Sunday, Delighting, Kids Salem Elks club will take the rote of Santa Clans next Sunday afternoon and distribute, toys, nuts, candy and clothing to all needy children who come to the lodge temple, State and Church streets,, at 2 p. m., Robert Cole, Elks Christmas committha chair man, announced yesterday. Cole is being assisted by Harry Mohr and Lou Thomas. The collection of toys, provided by the city fire department,' is sizeable' though not as large as fh past years. It Includes 32 dolls, all sorts of mechanical toys such He Flies South . With Rich Girl - . -.. I --wit , ' 3 S-'' St ' L Russell Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw, who was In Kogales, Ariz., recently on the first leg of his flight with Mrs. E. A. Guggenheim, copper heiress, to South America and possibly Eu rope. Young Thaw's plane is equipped for 2000 miles flying. Thaw Is pictured beside nis plane before it left Uurbank, Cal., for Phoenix, Ariz., to pick tip Mrs. Guggenheim for the Buenos Aires trip. With lively, tuneful music pre dominating, the Elks' annual charity show presented Wednes day night at the Capitol theatre lived up to the high standard set by these entertainments in the past. That Salem people knew what to expect was evidenced by the near-capacity audience which greeted the first performance. A smaller crowd at the second per formance witnessed Just a little more finished presentation as the chorus and featured performers became more accustomed to ap pearing before a crowd. The entire Bhow was so excel lent that it was difficult to pick out any outstanding number but the Alpha Phi Alpha trio and the always popular Haywire orchestra drew perhaps the most strenuous applause, the musicians' "classi cal" number proving the most en joyable. Jesse Savage and Everett Ru (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Young Insull Held For Embezzlement CROWN POINT. Ind., Dec. 20. UP) Warrants charging Samuel Insull, Jr., and six others with conspiracy to commit a felony and embezzlement and larceny from the 1100,000,000 Northern In diana Public Service company were in the possession of deputy sheriffs for service tonight. Indictments against the, seven charged, in effect, that they loot ed the formerly Insnll-eontrolled utility In order to bolster the fi nances of certain financing and holding companies in the Insull system. Under Indiana law, the indictments will not be made pub lic until all the defendants have been apprehended. Authorities did not disclose the amounts ot the alleged peculations. ' as trucks, tractors, steamshovels and fire engines, balls, smaU chairs and games. Over 1000 pounds of candy will be sacked today by lodge mem bers for Santa Clans' use there Sunday. The clothing consists of assorted garments of many types. "We are limiting our Christmas cheer activities this year to the children and hope to make them happy," Cole commented. "We will welcome all boys and girls who will hare no Christmas on less we give it to them. Those who will receive gifta elsewhere seed not eome.V raw GETS AUDIENCE'S PISE Joyous Celebrations Mark Last Two Days Before Week of Vacation Kiddies Do Part by Gifts of Food, Candy, Toys to Needy of City While Christmas trees and Christmas greens have been a part of the atmosphere of Salem public schools air week, the real holiday programs in most of the grammar schools begin today. At Lincoln special assemblies have been held each morning in the main hall with each room in charge of one assembly. Carols are sung and a special number given by the room responsible for the morning's pro gram. Food and clothing as well as toys furnished by Lincoln school children will be distributed through the Salvation Army. Each grade will hare its own program In its classroom Friday afternoon. Park school's annual Christmas concert is slated for Friday after noon at 2 o'clock. The Christmas story will be told by biblical read ings and appropriate songs. Gifts brought by the children will be given to the Salvation Army. The Christmas story in shadow pictures and carols with every child taking part will constitute Englewood's special program Fri day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Stage Scenery Bought As Gift to School A group of programs is on the calendar Friday for Garfield, while classroom programs held at Highland during the week will be topped by an all-school program Friday given by the sixth grade to dedicate the Christmas stage scen ery the class has bought for the school. Two programs, one for the two younger classes and one for the four upper grades will be given Thursday and Friday at Grant. At McKinley a cast of 40 and a chor us of 15 from the primary grades will present the Christmas story In readings and carols Thursday for the children and Thursday night at 8 'o'clock for the parents. Students at McKinley are also taking part in the Salvation Army fruit drive. Friday afternoon's special as sembly at Richmond will be fol lowed by classroom programs. Washington students are singing carols each morning In an assem bly at the opening hour. Grades will have their own separate pro grams and sixth grade students will be guests at a party given by their mothers. Mind's Blank For 24 Hours Avers Jesse NEW YORK, Dec. 20. UP) Jesse L. Llvermore, noted stock market operator who became the object ot an Intensive 4-hour search when his wife reported him missing, walked to the pri vate door of his Parke avenue apartment at 6:20 o'clock and rang the doorbell. Once inside , he told detectives he found there with hi3 wife, that he remembered nothing from 5:30 p. m., yesterday until he woke up late this afternoon in a downtown hotel with a headache and read reports ot his disap pearance in a newspaper. Llvermore, on of the most spectacular plungers In Wall street's history, then went to bed while detectives pieced together the story of the 24-hours he said were blank in his mind. Heaviest Mist in Memory Holds Old EnglandFogbQund LONDON, Dec 20. (JP) Eng land and Wales were in the grip tonight of a fog that was called the most dense within memory. Traffic in the midlands and northward was brought to a vir tual standstill while at Hull in spectors walked ahead of street cars and war fled other traffic. Reports from Antwerp said river navigation had ceased be cause ot the fdg. Shipping was seriously hamper ed at LiverDOOl and along the English channel where two steam ers struck rocks. One of them was later disengaged. Air traffic was paralyzed. HOTELS MAY WIN OLYMPIA, Wash.. Dec. 20. UP) A chance that drinking of li quor by the glass in hotel dining rooms and restaurants will be per mltted under the terms of liquor control legislation to be adopted by t h e Washington legislature, was seen today when Governor Martin let It be known that he would not oppose such an amend ment to the Steele state stores bill which has passed the -senate. Crack Liner on Rocks Hit Alaska StormHere Rioting Begins in Cuba Again When SnipersOpen Fire HAVANA. Dec 20 UP) Wide spread shooting broke out in Havana tonight. Snipers peached on roofs and gunmen in speeding t , i i i A auHimoDiiea oegan snooting at soldiers. The soldiers fnswered the fjre and pedestrians and automobile traffic fled from the streets. The shooting was particularly heavy around the presidential palace, and witnesses said was directed first at men erecting signs inviting the public to a demonstration scheduled tomor row against the Piatt amendment. Robert Switze Claimed One Of Soviet Workers; Wife Is Also in Prison PARIS," Dec. 20 UP) A young American, accused by police of serving a great international band of spies with Soviet Rus sian connections, and his wife were held in separate prisons to night while authorities investi gated what they called a wide network of military tipsters. The man, who said he was Robert Switze, aged 29, and a native of East Orange, N. J., was charged with espionage, his wife. known to police as the former Marjorie Tilley, who was born in New York in 1911, was accused of complicity in an espionage service reaching even into the ministry of -aarlne. They were arrested as they were about to flee, police said, before a series of swift raids net ting eight other men and women including a man said to be a Canadian merchant and his wife -clandestine radio apparatus, military documents, communist books, photographic equipment, large sums o: money, and papers indicating communist affiliations. Authoritie s said a'l indications were that the band worked for the benefit of Soviet Russia. Heads of Network Said To Have Fled in July The real chiefs of the organi zation were suspected by police to be two Russians whom Switze was reported to hrve met fre quently and- who fled from France in July when they were replaced by two others still at large. Switze, who police said was al ways followed by two body guards, was first suspected in March. He was called "the avia tor." Three hundred French opera tives under Commissioner Gian velti trailed him and the other alleged members of the band for eight months after they learned of the wide ramifications through Switze s movements. Uncle Sam Sicks 750 Agents on to Booze Violators WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. UP) The treasury augmented its boot leg combat unit today by borrow ing from the justice department 760 prohibition agents. The decision to loan the servi ces of the prohibition agents to the treasury's bureau of internal revenue was reached at a con ference between Acting Secretary Morgenthau and Attorney General Cammings. - A statement said "certain Im portant questions" remained to be worked out relative to liquor control and liquor tax collections, but that In the meantime the agents would assist in enforcing the internal revenue laws. The combined force would pro tect the borders and coasts against rum runners, and in com batting moonshine operations and the transporting of liquor from wet to dry states, made illegal by the repeal act Cleaners, Dyers In 30-Day Trial WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. UP) Hugh S. Johnson announced to night that difficulties in the clean ing and dyeing Industry had been settled and made public a new schedule of prices. - . The NRA administrator I so disclosed that a special blue eagle Insignia would be given cleaners who rendered services of a higher quality than the "cash and carry" operators. The new schedules are approxi mately 20 per cent nnder the pre vailing code rates. ' MM N FRENCH ;S0S Sent; Weakening Crack Prince George Aground 4 Miles FromAnyox Willamette Re ache Peak at 5 P. M. at 16.6 Feet Level VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 20. (JP) The Canadian national liner Prince George was aground on Badso Rock, four miles from Anyox, B. C, on ob servatory inlet, northern Brit ish Columbia, tonight, and was calling for immediate anoint -ance. Wireless rails from the ship were picked up here. SEATTLE, Dec. 20. UP) An SOS message, asking immediate assistance, was, picked up here to night at 11:27 j..m. from the crack Canadian national passenger liner Prince George, aground in British Columbia waters. The message was received by both the harbor radio and the coast guard. The harbor radio said the liner reported It was aground on Badso Rocks, four miles from Anyox, B. C, on the Portlana canal. The position is far up the northern coast of British Columbia, near the southern tip of Alaska. The Willamette river wa3 re ceding slowly here at midnight last night after having reached the 8eason'hpeak level of 16.6 feet at 5 p. m.Vednesday. The Saatiam river at Jefferson also was falling gradually. At 5 o'clock Wednes day it stood at 9.6 feet. With the Willamette reported falling at points south of Salem it was believed danger ot flood damage was past unless there should be continued heavy rains and snow melting in the moun tains. Occasional rains weta fore cast by the weather bureau for to day and Friday. Water in the Lake Labisa dis trict' yesterday afternoon was re ported the highest in years nd giving rise to fears that; hemes would be threatened if the down pour continued. Elsewhere la the county "nothing serious" had hap pened to roads and bridges, Coun ty Engineer Swart stated last night. Pudding River Runs Over Old Road to Silverton Pudding river was still running over the lower road between Sa lem and Silverton but the new short cut highway was open. Sil ver creek, which seldom floods, was running high through Silver ton. A small washout on the South ern Pacific main line at Clack amas yesterday afternoon was soon repaired but the southbound Klamath - Shasta passenger train arrived here over eight hours late. Espee trains out of Portland were forced to use the North Pacific bridge at St. Johns because of damage done to the Union Pacific "Steel" bridge when It was struck by a ship, the local agent re ported. Rickrrall Creek Flooding Again No damage has been done by waters along the Oregon Electric tracks north or south, J. W. Rit chie, Salem freight agent, stated. Rickreall creek was aealn (Ml of its banks yesterday afternoon and Basket slough had flooded (Turn to page 2, coL 1) , ; World News at Gl a ance By the Associated Press Domestic: . . NEty. YORKJesse L. Liver more, Wall street plunger, Ala pels kidnaps fears by returoiag home after 24 hours absence: says mind 'was a blank. WASHINGTON P resident. Roosevelt extends reemployment agreement until May 1: coordin ates whole recovery machinery under one head. CHICAGO L a b o r Secretary Perkins urges permanent limit on work hours. LOS ANGELES Aimee Senisto McPherson Hutton files cross suit for divorce. - - WASHINGTON T i g h t er in come tax laws may.be jammed through despite protests. CROWN POINT, Ind. Samuel Insull, Jr., and six others accused of looting utility firm to bolster Insull empire. I Foreign PARIS Ten persons, including American couple, netted in police drive against suspected military spies. , v . ..:- LONDON Unofficial Inquiry by International lawyers lays reichstag fire to nazis; four of fire men awaiting sentence held Innocent. A BERLIN Reich prepares ta . carry out Hitler's sterilization de , eree; 400,000 Incurably ill await Judgment of "eugenic courts." "