The OREGON STATESMAN, SalemV Oregon, Sunday Morning, December 24, 1933
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River Drops Below 20-Foot
Mark Here; Most State
, Roads Passable
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planning to work through Sunday
and the holidays. 1
PORTLAND, Ore!, Dee. 23 UP)
Cleat, cold weather had
brought considerable relief to
Oregon" tonight from what threat
ened to be one of the most seri
ous flood conditions In Its his
tory. Trains were once more toot-
lng though with 'difficulty In
some Instances, and , most of the
highways were reopened.
The Northern ; Pacific . Railway
company managed to set through
train serrlce from Portland to Se
attle and from Seattle to Port
land: today, on a "hop, skip and
jump", basis. Working northward,
the company' put through a spe
cial train to Rainier. There the
passengers were , taken by auto
mobile across the Long view
bridge to Kelso, where they
boarded another train for Se
attle. This Berrlce will be con
tinned, the company said, until
plIe-drlTing crews working at
both ends of the Woodland
washout can cleav the tracks.
Union Pacific trains east were
operating on greatly retarded
- schedules. Southbound Southern
Pacific trains were' getting
through without difficulty. "
The Columbia - rlier highway
east was still blocked by slides,
but the high west .west was clear
ed, and traffic was going through
tb Astoria. The Oregon Coast
highway was open from Astoria
to : Tillamook. The Pacific high
way was open through Oregon
The Columbia highway east was
expected to be closed for several
days but the Evergreen highway
paralleling it on the Washington
shore of the Columbia river was
open.
Tne town or Tualatin was
flooded by the swollen Tualatin
river. Rowboats were used
through the main streets, where
automobiles were abandoned in
the swirling water.
making the trip are asked to be
at the Y. by 8:30 aan. .: n-;
The Yv building and its fadk
ties for sports and entertainment
will be open throughout the week
to schbol boys in- the fifths grade
or above. Boys, may swim any af
ternoon with the exception of
Wednesday, when the regular
classes for girls will be held. - A
holiday basketball league to exist
only this week is being organiz
ed, while ping' pong and shuffle-
board tournaments are also on
the schedule.
'Elaborate planB are being made
for the New Year's day Open
House, an annual event at the Y;
the program beginning at 2:30
will include exhibitions from the
various gymnasium, tumbling,
boxing, wrestling, swimming and
diving classes as well as compe
tition in the various sports.
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Generosity of local business
men will bring to all transfen
men In Salem Monday the oppor
tunity to partake of a special
Christmas, dinner to be prepared
for '"that afternoon at Hotel de
Mlnto, third floor of city hall
Starting at 3 o'clock the hotel
chefs will begin carving the mut
ton for the main course. Halt a
dozen dressed sheep were deliver
ed to the hotel by Warren Pohle
In the morning cigarettes
ocks and candy will be distri
buted to the men from two large
Christmas trees decorated last
week with ornaments given by
- the Lions club.
At leas. 100 men will be fed
and given the individual gifts,
,R. R. "Bob" Boardman, transi
ent relief supervisor, estimates.
C1IS1IS TO DE
WW HE
(Coattnoad trom pf 1)
on long sentence in the state peni
tentiary. The foods for tne spec
ial dinners, however, will be pro
vided by the state.
Increase in Holiday
Baying is Marked
Salem bankers yesterday said
that the total debit items against
checking accounts here exceeded
by more than one million collars
the debit items a year ago.
Many merchants said their
Christmas stocks had been com
pletely sold. Some said larger
sales could have been handled had
they stocked more Christmas
goods in anticipation of the rusn
Merchants last night generally
expressed approval of the Chrst
mas trade. Uniformly reports
were that last year's marks were
bettered. A cessation of rain yes
terday helped the last minute
trade. Stores were thronged with
shoppers. Gains in sales ranged
from 5 to 40 per cent above the
1932 mark which was the lowest
in a decade.
Good feeling prevailed among
downtown business yesterday.
Generally the outlook for the
1934 year was held to be good
Merchants said they anticipated
maternl gains over the disheart
ening first six months of 1933.
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Police Committee
Backing Chief in
Liquor Check-Up
"The council police committee
is definitely backing up Chief of
Police Minto in the Iatter's re
cent order that provisions of
the Knox law relating to sale of
liquor to minors and drunken
persons should be enforced in Sa
lem," declared. Alderman O. A.
Olson, member of the committee,
yesterday. He warned that re
ports of illegal liquor sales would
also be kept in mind for the time
when the state liquor commission
receives applications for vendors'
licenses.
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OIIKMM FILED
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Both Mahoney and Watklns in
dicated the case would be carried
to the state supreme court' so
matter which way it was aeciaea.
They said the suit should be wel
comed by all sides to the Knox
bill controversy since it would
determine the legal status of the
measure.
Earlier In the day Watklns had
announced in Portland that he
would seek a referendum on the
Knox bill if- the home-rule test
failed. He declared the measure
could not lawfully contain the
emergency clause since it provid
ed a means of raising revenue.
Watklns said if this test failed
he would seek an initiative peti
tion to repeal the Knox act and
substitute a system of private li
quor sales therefor. In the pend
ing case, he said, his fees were
paid by the city of Klamath
Falls. He denied that he repre
sented any private Interests.
Law Would Cost
Klamath f 10,000
Mayor Mahoney said the Knox
plan would cost his city a 310,-
000 revenue loss if it became op
erative. He held this sum would
be received by Klamath Falls
from licenses and stamp taxes
on liquor and had already been
provided for in the city's budget
tor 1934. The state legislature
cannot take this tax income away
from the city, he contended.
Mahoney said hard ,liquor was
being sold by druggists In Klam
ath Falls for 1 250 licenses each
a year. Four out of 12 druggists
have taken out licenses, the may
or said. He admitted the south
ern Oregon city had an agreement
with the druggists to refund
their license moneys . ratable if
the state succeeded with the
Knox liquor plan. He said wines
and beers up to 22 per cent al
coholic content as well as mixed
drinks, could be sold in restau
rants, confectioneries and hotels.
Grocery stores can sell liquors,
in bottles, up to 22 per cent al
coholic content.
Mahoney said he thought the
sttate should not regulate the
traffic in liquor. Cities like Klam
ath Falls have a vastly differ
ent problem than cities like Eu
Eene, he contended. He averred
that the state also should leave
the cities the revenues liquor
sales will bring.
ElksPlavSanta
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Temple at 2 pan:
Santa Claus will hold forth in
Salem today at the Elks temple
where lodge members will distrib
ute toys, clothing, candy and nuts
to all needy children who come
at 2 p. m. Robert Cole is again
in charge of the Christmas fund.
The large collection of toys to
be given away were reconditioned
by city firemen to whom they
were given by the citizenry.
WnH6Tl, NORTH
1010 FLOODS RAGE
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away. Pavement torn up. Thous
ands of acres Inundated.
Southwest Washington: Lohg-
view-Kelso Worst situation in
state. Rivers seven feet over
flood stage; dikes weakened.
Kelso covered by water to depth
of six feet in some places.
Puget Sound: Tacoma Riv
ers receding, conditions better.
Auburn, Kent, Renton Flood
ed. Rescue work progressing. La
Conner Under water.
British Columbia Condi
tions Improved after heavy damage.
clfieationa for the proposed re
modeling ot the Marlon county
court house. Manager E. T.
Barnes announced. These will in
clude five architectural Arnrhtm.
men, one mechanical engineer and
two structural engineers. In ad
dition there will be a general su
pervisor, W. C. Knighton of the
roruana una of Knighton &
Howell, and a dranrhtinr
seer. Cuyler VanPatten of Salem.
'ine job wui cost approximately
33000 Of rwhich th eonntv will
pay $309.
Turner Suffers
From High Water
TURNER, Dec 23. Turner
people encountered higher water
than for some years this week. A
few families south of town were
unable to get -antra milk truck
had difficulty in getting through.
Two feet of watercovered the
highway north of town, near the
Ahrens place. Two boys in a ear
dropped off the pavement into a
deen ditch at that nolnt Wnr
daylight Friday, but managed to
crawi out.
EIGHT TO WDM ON
COQMUSE PUNS
The national re-employment
agency here yesterday received
orders to employ eight profession
al men tc draw up plans and spe-
CHAUTEMPS WINS OUT
PARIS, Dec. 24 (Sunday)
UP) Premier Camilla Chan
budget balancing program to safe-
guara tne iranc was passed, early
today in parliament over the
stormy protest of taxnaverk n
civil government employes at the
ena oi a year of political fighting
which has been fatal to three cab
inets.
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able for officers operating outside
of Incorporated towns and cities,
makes it possible to arrest,-tor
drunkenness when the person, arrested-
la bosterpua or uses jrM
fane or Indecent language., 'f
'Police operating outside of in
eorporated towns and cities were
In a quandary Saturday night
when It was discovered that pas
sage of the so-called Knox liquor
control law at the recent special
legislative session, repealed sec
tion 15-705 of the Oregon code.
1)30, which related to the crime
of drunkenness.
The section of the 1930 code
which was said to have been re
pealed by section 51 of the Knox
Honor control law referred par
ticularly to drunkenness on any
highway, street or in any public
place or building, disturbing
others and drunkenness In or up
on any engine, car, train, boat
landing, wharf or depot, or in
any common carrier.
Discovery of the alleged over
sight or omission by the special
legislative session was reported to
the police Saturday by attorneys
who mode an exhaustive analysis
of the Knox liquor law. Officers
said that no difficulty would be
encountered in the municipalities
which have ordinances covering
the crime of drunkenness. The
law prohibiting the operation of
motor vehicles by drunken driv
ers also remains intact and was
not disturbed or repealed by the
Knox act.
Another statute, which Is avail-
EDUCAUL TRIPS
1 PLMIED BY Y.
Among the activities which
will keep Salem boys busy during
the holidays the educational trips
sponsored by the Y. M. C. A.
loom large. Each morning at 9
o'clock a gToup will leave the Y.
building and will include in its
ininerary industrial firms or
sttate institutions. Tuesday, De
cember 26 the lads will be con
ducted through the Valley Pack
ing company plant and the Miles
Linen mill. Boys Interested in
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ratings
For you and yours we
express the sentiments
of the season in all sin
cerity. We wish to con
tinue to serve you.
Standard Feed Co.
X228 Ferry St. - Phone 6858
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ffpSS" MEMBER
PAGEAXT CANCELLED
The pageant program of the
Presbyterian church school, orig
inally scheduled for 5 o'clock this
afternoon, has been cancelled.
The mam event at the church to
day will be the Christmas cantata
by the church choir directed by
Prof. F. E. Churchill, at 11 a. m.
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State Tire Service
235 S. Commercial
Wishes Salem
a
Merry Christmas
See Us For
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Good cheer . . . good health . .
good spirits are our Christmas
wish for you to extend all
through the year.
Square Deal
New and Second Hand
Store
Wolf Cohen
263 Chemektta Tel. 3924
OUR entire personnel join in wishing you a very
Merry Christmas and bountiful Good Cheer in
all the days to come.
And Always .
'Happy Landings
Service Store. Inc.
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QQriT RATED HIGH
A Marlon county turkey raiser
won a large number of honors
with her entries at the Oakland
Turkey show that ended last
Thursday, it was ' learned here
today. She is Mrs. L, M. Longs
dorf, who raises Bourbon Red
gobblers on her Red Acres farm
far back in SUrerton hills.
Awards won by Mrs. Longs-
dorrs turkeys are:
Live birds First and cham
pion, yearling toms; first and
third, young toms: first and
third, old .hens; second and
sixth, young bens.
Dressed birds third and
eighth, toms; eighth, ninth, tenth
and 11th, bens.
The Longsdorf entries also
were adjudged the best display.
There were 697 live and 346
dressed birds entered in the
show.
CftOUGH ARRESTED
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CHICAGO, Dec. 23. UP) Hil
ton 6. Crouch, 29, member of the
notorious Indiana gang beaded by
John Dillinger, was arrested here
today and confessed, Police Cap
tain John Stege said, to partici
pation in the robbeifot: the Ms-.
sachusetts Avenue Bank of In-
diananolls along with Dillingfr
and Harry Copeland, another
member of the band, in whkb
"about $2i,000' was taken.
Stege said the confession fol
lowed less than an hour after
Crouch's apprehtasion in front
of an apartments the "Dilling
er squad" of police, detailed with
orders to kill or capture the gacg,
closed in.
Also seized for questioning was
a woman giving the name of Miss -Violet
Barretta.
In Crouch's possession, Stese
said, was a .45 calibre pistol and
a $10 counterfeit bill on the Kew
York Federal Reserve bank.
Dillinger, paroled from the In
diana prison oa a robbery eharge,
is one of the most bunted mr in
the nation.
Enprt3-Sritain
WORLD
CWJS
The 11th Annual World Cruise, con
ducted by the the VtrU't Cnatati
TranlSjstm, satis from New York'
on January 4th, 1934. A tuw inpmtd ,
iliaeran of 24 countries and 33 ports.
including BALL A wonder journey of
130 days, covering 30,000 miles. FUn
U i ibii u 'mttr! Ship cruise only,'
-SljfeOOUp;,
standard
shore pro
gramme, $300.
Sail around the wod4 oa dw finest, large
f cruise ship, The Emprtu tf Briuit, Tna-Atua.
tic giaatesa. Sptcioos paraneaa (oot cabta);
i eleven lounges and dining rooms; huge stage;
r two swimming pools; gymnasium; full size ten
nis coon - 0Mnttmtna aid tmidm equalled OsW
Lby the finest hotels. Ship's pUn. licencurt and
' complete information at our local others, w.
! H. Deacon, General Agent. Passenger Detri
ment, 626 S.W. Bdwy., Am. Bank
Bldg., Portland. BRoadway 0637.
'CANADIAN PACIFIC
Merry
Christmas
To All Our Friends
Salem Bargain
House
Salem Junk Co.
L. SAFFRON S. KLINE
HO A Merry
kG$p&a Christmas
to All
from
F. W. WOOLWORTH CO.
and EMPLOYES
e Best for You !
. That's pur Wish to
You This Holiday
Season ...
Walker's Market
178 S. COMMERCIAL
MAY sweet harmony
be yours during the
holiday season. Alf the
good things you hope for
during 1934 shall come
true!
SHOE DOCTORS
184 S. COMMERCIAL
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j APPLIANCE STORE
Wishes You a Very
Merry Christmas
Good Cheer
For this Christmas and the New Year, may
joy surround you and those you love Is our
earnest wish to all our friends and patrons.
Douglas McKay
Chevrolet Company
430 N. COMMERCIAL ST.
lift
Greetings . .
May the joys of this
Christmas increase
throughout the scorning
year.
SMART SHOP
115 N. LIBERTY
WITH THE TRUE
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
With the world deep in the
joy of Christmastide, let
us add our greeting to the
others ...
We wish you a
MERRY, MERRY
CHRISTMAS
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GOODRICH SILVERTOWN INC.
WALTER H. ZOSEL
198 S. Commercial
The Season9 s Greetings
.TT7E are happy to take this occasion to
YV wish you a very merry Christmas. May
happiness, health and prosperity be yours,
. not only . on this day, but every day through
out the 'coming year.
METROPOLITAN
5 and lOc Store
14fr N. LIBERTY ST.
rE thank you for an-
v omer year ui your
kind patronage. Christ
mas greetings to you all
from, all of us.
ahlsdorrs.
DINNERWARC, GLASSWARE. ELECTRIC RANGES
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