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' , - - - .. . - ' - ' 1 , - I, . . '. "" -1 ' I: . -c-: .... SERVICE Jf-ir ' - V . : t :. 'I'll t f:lTI3 A TTtI?T i ..' TT" VTe TKwiriatee our carrier y erTic If foar paper does ;" ; liot "'.arrive, i by 8:15, call 0101 aad copy wOJ be de-. : 'i Ctoedril Mmnrlui wiMrt . w today and : Sunday; Max. ' Temp. Friday 54, Mia. 8, . riTer 9 feet, rata 09 lach, northerly winds. EIGIITY-TIIIRD TEAR Salem, . Oregon, Saturday Morning, January. 6, 1933 1 v i 1.. V F -7 . V - v: 'K t- -isa a M i i . J -i : i GOfiST BRIDGES :allE APPROVED rcnralnarySWprki Advised : To Be Started Now, Is r Attorney's! Report ' V More Approvals Slated For i Today;B6nheviHeDam :Z LockstudSiaoVg : VASHlNGtONijanI-.:r(ff; Funds for the construction bt fire bridges on tbe Oregon coast bigb way will be provided" by" tie pub lic works administration, .J.' M. Devers. counsel for the Oregon state highway. commission,7said today he has been! assured. -. " The Oregon attbrney,..who has been here for some time in the interest of the proposed spans, said he "was told that any prelim inary work which; might Jbe nec essary before actual construction is started, should be undertaken at once. ' I x ' Devers stated that public works officials told him ja list of approv ed projects, with) allotments, will be Issued tomorrow, and a second list will be issued Mondays He said the officials ; did r hot . say whether or not the bridges are to be included on either list. - . . . - - PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. .5. W A special Washington dispatch to the Oregonian I tonight said the board of army engineers was di rected today to make a survey of the Columbia river from the mouth of the "Willamette river to " the Bonneville dam, with a view to proTiding a suitable aaTigable channel for ships idra wins' SO feet ct water. r ; - The survey will be made look ing forward to the time when commerce on the) upper Columbia river will warrant sea-going ves sels, it was stated. In discussing he f requests , of Oregon groups .for, sea,-locks aod channel for the jBonneTilleaam, the engineers have roughly esti mated . a 30-foot channel from Vancouver, Wash., to the dam would cost 15,000,000, and re quire three years to dredge.; . The house committee on rivers and harbors approved Represen tative C. H. MarUn'a' resolution requesting the survey. No other approTal is necessary, the report - stated. ! CEHL CHECKUP OF CODES n "WASHINGTON JaB. S. tfV A general shake-down of the big eode structure erected by NRA will be undertaken by Hugh 8. Johnson next month to correct In consistencies and Injustices dls eoTered doling 1 the several months of operating experience. ' I He plans to call la the nearly '300 code authorities, industry's ' own governing groups, for a thor ough airing of difficulties, both , within and between coded indus tries. From what! is learned then, " he hopes to achieve a. degree of - consistency throughout the Indus trial machinery which was im possible as long as the experi mental phases of code creation : dominated NRA activities.. - . . While Johnsonj was announcing ' this broad program, President Roosevelt reaffirmed the admin istration's intention to see the . federal trade commission for en t orcement of the: anti-trust laws where violations i develop under NRA. The industrial law suspends ' most i ant! trust I law provisions, ' but only to permit f such agree ments as are expressly sanctioned by the governmeht through codes. - The statutes remain In full effect otherwise, , r Usual Expenses Must be Curbed : , Says Roosevelt t WASHINGTON; Jan. i () ' Democratic members of the house ' appropriations committee t were t called to the White House today and were told by President Roo : serelt the Importance "of keeping next year's budget for the regular ' departments ; within the narrow limitations he has laid down... . Although the 1135 budget, ap . proximates $ 1,0 00,0 00,0 00, only. '$2.,100 is provided for the re gular government departments. . Included tn the Tegular budget for im, however, is 1780,000,000 for the farm adjustment adminls- tratloa but this . organization Is . one created by emergency legisla tion, v V- . -. ;; . v i - --1 - - - -1 - CREDTT 'OFFICB STATS .'" WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (Jfy ; Governor Myers of the Farm Cre dit administration, Informed Ben . ator Steiwer (R-Ore) that the Regional Agricultural Credit cor poration office would be con tin - ned at - Portland!; until the new rroduce Credit association liss perfected ta erp.nlzatlon,.- , ., I ROCKET DEVISED FOR STRATOSHERE FLIGHT !? ' : " ? ' I I i'--' : ... )j'S. V- ' - Ui :-v - ::mm imm r . i mmii rmm -mm;- Imm pi" fl 'V'i -:. . - 'y:i:'-:i :?js iritis IttmS I' I ' fe'iv':"? ::.:: ;'":. : .:: ' .: i :: . :i--":::'y; . . . f : .:::.. - v( f?-' , , . v:--v:;:5fr;'v.r.- .x-Si- . y:i'Ah- : '' -4 ic -:: : ; ' ' y '-: 'y-y -x-y-; , .y .y-yy-yy I m-mk I,- . y ,::ynyfy-y- .. i--KHS;5:S-S ! What is said to be the first snccessfnl test of a stratosphere rocket motor Is shown in progress at Eirt ; i land, Ohio, where Ernest LoebeD, German scientist, is building a rocket that he hopes will travel 15 . miles into the stratosphere, carrying no passenger but scientlficstruments that win make records automatically. Loebell Is at right above, while his assistant, Robert Hayes, Is at left. The Washinston Spotlisht (Bt the Associated Press) House nassed bill tn 1470,000,000 annually in liquor taxes. - ' President Roosevelt announced he would ask congress to guaran tee nrineinal as well Interest of farm and home loan bonds. Hugh 8. Johnson planned to call in nearly; 200 code authori ties next month for corrections and revisions. The president disclosed plans for a permanent public works pro gram to: follow emergency nro- jecta. v - Senator Thomas, inflation lead er, postponed drafting of a- mone tary program in the senate to await presidential action. . ' Seccretary Henry Morgenthau. Jr., announced a campaign to col lect J300.000.000 in delinquent taxes, during the next 18 months. REBELS inn MICE F1OT urday) Nationalist' government infantry along th south Chekiang border attacked Fukien province rebels over a, wide front today. said reports from Nanking and Hangchow. J FOOCHOWl Fukien Province, Jan. 6 () Fukien revolutionary leaders massed all their available troops In the northern part of the province today in ' anticipation of a counter movement by Nanking nationalist i forces.. - ; i ClTillac leaders of the rebellion, meanwhile, were apparently los ing the enthusiasm they exhibited a month ago, when they launched a "people s independent govern ment" opposed to the Nanking re gime, because of failure of other factions to join the revolt, as an ticipated, f ifiimitTT' SALVAGE IS DOUBTFUL THE DALLES, Jan. 5. (ff) sternwheeler Hercules turned over on its side late today after, atrik lag a submerged rock and sinking in the Columbia river here earlier la the. day. The crew of 12 es caped uninjured and not even wet, Captain Lynn Logan, reported. Those who, saw the packet on Its fide expressed, little hope of salvaging either., the boat or the cargo from the; swollen stream. The up-river cargo Included '203 barrels of ciK and - two. " tons of paint, Rlrermen picked up boxes and(equipment that floated down the river; . r-i The rUmatilla, wrecked In the same vicinity - last . summer,, was later raised, repaired and return ed to service, ' . . - ... ' - rr. - j " -' j KLIMCfATB OXB STATION -'t :A WASHINGTON, Jan S. (ff) A breakdown of the budget, tor agriculture 4 experlnjent stations showed ; today that one Oregon station 'at Uermiston had been eliminated and-three others eon slderabry reduced.' , , . i Cpor thelpendleton station 15500 was cQt from the budget, eliminating research activities in dry land farming. The budget provided $3470 for research crops and diseases. " . , Provisions for $5000 for agri culture engineering at the Med ford station were removed,' leav ing a budget of $22,400 for the bureau of entomology and $2848 for the bureau of plant Industry. !' yuftsetjoj $he Uoia fta- nil to BE SELECTED S General Creed Hammond is Latest Name Heard Jn Lobby Conjecture : PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. j 5. (JF) Appointment of a sUte liquor administrator was believed Immi nent with the state liquor com mission unofficially understood to have narrowed their . considera tions today to four candidates. . The commission continued in terviews and deliberations, but did not find time to give at tention, to the question of setting up permanent headquarters. Chairman George H. McMorran reiterated that the matter had been scarcely considered as yet. He found time to praise the Work of his associates. . "I am particularly Impressed with the sincerity of my. two as sociates on the commission," Mc Morran stated. "I have never be fore seen more earnest work than that being done by them on the liquor question. For myself, I hare nerer been so earnest on any duty before.' Commission members would not reveal any favored candidates, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) . Ex-Manager of Loan Office is Arrested Here R. E. ' Gheer, until recent months manager of the State Loan company here, was in the c?rnty Jail last night, charged with larceny, by embexzlement of funds from the State Loan com pany, 't Complaint against Gheer was made by C. K. Benfeldt, from the Loan headquarters office In Port land, and. charges embezzlement of $58 last June 37. Ball was set at $1,000. Gheer will probably be taken before Jus tice of the Peace Miller Hayden this morning or Monday to enter Plea.. : )U. - ; i m Hirer .Vessel Capsizes , Experiment Funds Cat ; : !J Fogitive Found. Insane , Counterfeiter is Held tion - was practically ' unchanged at $5385. LEBANON MAN HELD ' , PORTLAND,' Jan. 5. .- Clarence Boggle, 4 1, was recom mended to the state hospital for insane la circuit .court here to day, after adjudged insane, by Dr. Robert P. Smith and Dr. J. F. Calbralth. ' Boggle ' was arrested here as a fugitive from the county Jail and held for questioning re garding a Spokane, Wash-i mur der case. -. - ir. : :' . I The complaint - against ; Boggle was signed by -his. father,' Ed Li Boggle of Lebanon, Ore. .it u it;;. ! . Boggia had served in the state hospital before., being sent there while serving, a j sentence In the Oregon penitentiary ior bank rob bery at LebanbnJ testimony at the hearing today related. . ROSS PLEADS CdLTT -, ; DENVER, Jan.' sitty-rS Ray mond E, Rose of Milton. Ore., pleaded guilty to passing counter felt coins before U. S. Commis sioner Leo J. Crowley today. : . Crowley ordered Ross" placed in the county Jail when he was tin able to make $1500 bond and or dered the release of his wife on her personal recognizance, in or der that she might care for her. four, children. ; - ; . . ; 1 :;S - Rowland K. Goddard, head ef the secret service here said Ross admitted manufacturing and pass inr $250 worth of the . colna in order to paTor bringing his fami ly from ' Milton i to Longmont, World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: WASHINGTON Hons e ap proves . $470,000,000 liquor tax bill by vote of 885 to 5. ask congress to guarantee $4, 000,000,000 .. principal of farm and home loan bonds. WASHINGTON Treasury plans drive to collect $300000,000 In delinquent taxes in next 18 months. PHILADELPHIA Chairman Weir of national steel corpora tion pledged unqualified support to recorery program. WASHINGTON Administrator Johnson to call in nearly 200 code authorities for. revisions and corrections. CHICAGO 18,000 dairy farm ers supplying Chicago with milk vote to strike Saturday. Foreign: PARIS Overthrow of cabinet threatened by $40,000,000 pawn- snop scandal. NEVERS, France Evelyn G. Frost, St. Louis society woman, burned to death In plane after crash. GENEVA United States leads world-wide Improvement In em ployment, International labor of fice reports. I NEW. YORK, Jan. I. (ff) Francis Scott Key's original manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner" changed hands twice to day within thirty minutes. Dr. A. 8. W. Rosenbach, noted Philadelphia blblophile, bought It at public auction today tor $24, 000. ' "It's priceless," he said, and cheap at any price." -. Immediately after the sale Dr. Rosenbach walked from the auc tions rooms to his office where he sold the three- items to the Walters gallery of Baltimore, rep resented by its trustee; Philip B. Perlman, a lawyer.' - . The city of Baltimore lost the previous manuscript ' for only thirty minutes, too, for the ori ginal sale was an action ordered by the . estate of the late Henry Walter : of Baltimore. - With the manuscript, which is on a sheet of ordinary note pa per, went the first printed . form of the anthem and a portrait of Judge Joseph "H. Nicholson, of Baltimore,, who was responsible for' its publication. Both these items went hack to the Maryland city through the Walters gallery aale.. . City Ownership League.Changes 1 Name Slightly "4 Changing ita name from' Salem Municipal Ownership : league , to Salem Public I Ownership, league was .onlyjone of the pieces of re organisation business -carried through bythat body last night at the chamber of commerce rooms. A constlttttlep and "by-laws were accepted and r. p. Beddaway was elected treasurer. Reddaway with the, previously, elected president, Douglas McKay, rVlce President P. M. Gregory and Secretary Fred X Toose, Jr., will serve on the board of directors. A. U. Church, H. E. Barker and Roy R. Hewitt were elected to the directorate at last night's meeting. k K The group voted ', to .afflliato with the Public Ownership League of America and approved an active membership campaign to be un- ri noon. '-;v- ' ' . . MEM 0111 : BRINGS BIB PRICE HOUSE ADOPTS LIQUOR TAKING BILL SPEEDILY Only Five Dissenting Votes Heard; Senate Will Act Early Next Week Over 30 Amendments Urged, One For Stamp Plan is ; ' Given; Approval; : - WASHINGTON. Jan. . UPi Quick and almost unanimous ac quiescence was given by the house, today to the $470,000,000 liquor tax bill winnowed by ItsTwiys and" means committee from the recommendations' of the v presi dent's committee that had studied the problem. - - " - - - First bill to be acted upon at this assembly, the measure was passed and sent to the senate by the vote of 388 to 5, with one member voting present. Early action next week by the senate was forecast by democra tic leaders in view of the admin istration's desire to get it finally enacted as quickly as possible In order to benefit from-the $2 a gallon rate on. distilled spirits, now taxed $1.10. ... ' To speed the measure. Chair man Harrison called a meeting of the finance 'committee for Mon day. Indications were that the tax would be held at about the same figure approved by the house.. - More than' 30 amendments were offered to the liquor, wine and beer rates In the house, but an were beaten down by the pow erful democratic majority. An amendment by Chairman Dough ton (D-NC) of the ways and means committee and approved by the treasury, creating a stamp system to show that the tax has been paid, was adopted without opposition. Otherwise, the measure was passed as reported by the ways and means -committee, but not 4Tarn towage J, CoL ,1) : A registration of 88 persons was chalked up last night In the first three of the Civil Works Service classes to open In the Salem high school bunding, and this in spite of the tact that lateness of . arrangements made pubUcity difficult. At least six others are expected to open Mon day night if approval of the plans tor them can be obtained In time, T. T. MacKenzle, vocational edu cation instructor in charge of CWS classes here said last night All classes are scheduled to meet from 7 to p. m. on Mon days, Wednesdays and Thursdays and will "be offered. In one-month units. Present plans call for a new and continuing utlt to be or ganised in February. Among subjects offered last night mining proved most pop ular with a registration or so students; salesmanship attracted 27 and landscaping 21. Registra tion wni be held open at least throuah Monday night's session of these classes for any interest ed young people or adults. There has been popular demand for several subjects which can not be offered now because neither- adequate equipment nor suffi cient funds are available. Includ ed on this list are cooking, diesel engineering, typing, farm me chanics and advanced accounting. Cooperation of local profession al groups and individuals is being solicited in selecting instructors and laying out courses of study.. Late: Sports PORTLAND, Ore Jan. 5. (ff) The Portland Buckaroos con tinued their strong hold on sec ond place in the northwest hockey league tonight by aeieaung me Vancouver Lions, 4 to 2 in a rousing; battle, c fia'tf FRANCISCO. Jan. 8. UPi On the short end of the score for more - than half ? the ; game, the University of California Bears forged ahead with a dosing rally to swamp the University of Utah 4S to 22 here tonight. . . : ? BAN FRANCISCO. ; Jan. . (ff The fast - breaking offense and deadtr basket shooting . of the Utah State Agricultural college basketball team proved too much for Stanford 'university's slower five here tonitnt and the Aggies passed and shot' their-way to a 48 to $S victory. ; . WES T PALM BEACH, Tla., Jan. 5. (ff Rain for the second straight . night caused postpone ment tonight of the Uaxle Rosen- bloom Bob Godwin light heavy weight non-title match here. The boat .was postponed, nnullnext MANY NOLL FOB K CUSSES HERE U t il ity Czar-s Power T6mmsmmsum Filed by Salary, and Budget Reductions Ordered by Thorns Protested : Constitution is ,. .. ! Gited, Also Interstate Angle PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 5.-(AP) A suit to restrain cfr eration of salary and budget reductions ordered, by, Ore gon Utilities Commissioner CM; Thomas was filed in fed eral district court here today by the' Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. . ... ,- -. - : - Commissioner Thomas. . order - of December . 30. ; 1933. lowered ' 1 S 3 4 'budget items toro upper bracket salaries of the'eom- panys Oregon officers and struck from the budget a contract hold ing company payment, to the Am erican Telephone &" Telegraph company. , ; : Coincident with the order the Oregon commissioner also . rec ommended like reductions for up- per, bracket officials of the com pany in San Francisco and Seattle and elimination of the payment of Holding company fees to the American, Telephone, and' Tele graph company. The. company's complaint cited constitutional grounds for the Is suance of a restraining order and contended that the commissioner was attempting to confer upon himself the power of regulating the utility's !af fairs, of substltut- XTurn to Page "2, CoL 5 ) Government May be Tangled In Case; Stavisky Has Mysterious "Pull" i ii PARIS, Jan. 5. (ff) The flee ing Serge Stavisky, whose mon umental pawnshop scandal threat ens trouble! for the government. was disclosed today as a myster iously powerful person. -Premier j Camilla Chautemps, sensing the danger to his govern ment as a result of the collapse of the Bayonne pawnshop and the. estimated loss of $40,000,000 to investors through its alleged bogus bonds, summoned Albert Dallmier, colonial minister, and demanded a clear statement of his connection with the affair. Lobbies of the chamber of dep uties seethed with rumors that "Handsome 1 Alex" Stavisky held a card as inspector In the French secret service. ' His acquaintance with cabinet (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) LOS ANGELES, Jan. E. (ff) Indications Were found by inves tigators today that the breaking of check dams small flood con. trol structures effective in ordin ary storms and the sudden loosing of (clogged - up debris and boulders, probably caused most of the havoe wrought by the disastrous New Year's ere flood around Los Angeles. . : - Finding no' basis for rumors that a dam I had been dynamited in the hills back of the main flood area Sunday night, the Investiga tors reported .. late today that every check dam for tt our miles up Pickens and Earl canyons had been broken by flood waters. , The Investigation was made by Captain Norrls Stensland of the sheriff's office and county flood control engineers. Stenslandj expressed belief that some of the repeated torrents of water' that! almost deluged La Crescenta, Montrose and North Glendale were. caused also by huge piles of debris breaking loose and releasing . dammed-up water be hind. , j ' v;V " PAWOOPSCMDAL CHECK DAMS BREAK BUT HO DYpilTlNG Salem to Insist Offices I f Of Liquor i Vigorous protest will be filed by - the Salem chamber of com merce and other organizations here if anyi attempt Is made by the state liquor commission to es tablish Its principal . office else where," it , was Indicated Friday after reports .that the-commission entertained I such . an idea were carried; la iThe Statesman - that morning. - - "Section four of the liquor con trol act provides specifically that the "principal office ef the com mission shall . be -located In the city of Salem. Attorneys Friday ventured tile, opinion .that 'loca tion " of the principal office Of the commission In any other part of x the state f would - be In viola tlon of the UmP'; Th es eTattorneys referred to a precedent established . in 1 S 2 8 when the circuit court .issued a mandamus against the state bank ing.: department ordering : Its" re moval front - Portland to Salem. Jhls uliiWM FM ! fieon Phone Firm .: t - -?' Row Into City to be Cut Off 90 Per Cent Today Association Claims - SALEM, WIs Jan. O. CiP (Saturday) The first violence attributed to the 'Chicago milk strike was : reported to have occurred at midnight last night when a group of 85 -pickets halted a truck load of cream and two truck loads of mflk and dumped the whole consign ment. The shipment was . being made from Lyons, Wis., to Chi cago. I . CHICAGO, Jan. 5. (P) Lead ers of 18,000 organized . dairy farmers within a 100 mile radius of Chicago tonight called a strike effective immediately in support of demands for higher prices. They said the strike would cut tomorrow's flow of ' milk into Chicago by 90 per cent and that it would be continued "until we get a fair price for our product" (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) RHEilG cm L IS PU Mayor Douglas McKay said yes. terday he would ask local archi tects immediately to make tenta tive plans for remodeling and im provement of the city hall here, CWA funds providing the money. The architects will be asked to serve on a contingent fee basis. The mayor Indicated the city hall needed extensive changes, having served since 181 C almost without any UnproTements being added. Hugh Rogers, city engi neer, said the walls of the struc ture were in good shape and ade quate to carry any Interior re modeling plan determined upon. There was some talk between the mayor and the eglneer favor ing the improvement of the third floor and the addition of a fourth floor. To date, CWA allots only 20 per cent of a project funds for materials. Any larger percentage of total cost going. to materials, would have to be provided from city funds. Five Indictments Brought Jjy Jury; 3 Remain Secret The grand Jury, reporting here late Friday, returned two Indict ments which were made public and three, which were not pub licized,' awaiting arrest of the in dicted persons. ; Edgar R. King, Salem youth, whose car struck . Seth Williams at sChurch .street December 20, was indicted for reckless driv ing. ;r;-4, :. '-!,-v,-:: W. J. Carter and William H. Street, were indicted for uttering a forged instrument. The. latter was a check for $80 drawn on Ladd A , BuSh October 6, 1132, and signed W. J.; Davis. B odrd Putnam against Frank BramwelL then serving as state superinten dent f banks. Putnam alleged, in his complaint that Salem was the seat of the state government and that the banking department had been located In Portland without aathority of law. i - - :; '. - a Judge Sklpworth, in his decree, declared t h a t -1 h e department should be maintained in Salem and ordered its removal from Portland. Bramwell later appeal ed to the state supreme court but in the meantime the administra tion ordered the offices' removed to Salem And the ease later was dismissed. . : . .-s - . Whether the 11 a o r control commission or the state board of control shall purchase stocks tor the state liquor stores Is another question that has - resulted in a division of opinion here.' '- ? A number ' of attArnevs. who hold with the commission, declar- ea tnat section is of the uquor ,'iTurn to Page I, CoL lfc f , incuSu 1 MED CURB ON n WANDERINGS IS PROJECT HERE Revetment on Polk Side is 1 Proposed by Chamber; Weed Said Urgent . New Channel threatened by, , Willamette; Docks Here I Jo Suffer as Result : .William P. Ellis, president of the chamber of commerce, yester-1 ' day announced that th chamber ., has taken up. the matter of river , revetment'.; opposite Salem v and i will call for a report from a Ideal ' committee on changing conditions v oi ue cnanner preparatory to ak- i : ing cooperation of the govern i ment army engineers in nrotectin ; - the present channel. ' j Conditions obBerred at the time . of and following the last flood wa- r ters are responsible for this move. t A move to get the government en glneers .Interested in river reTet- ; ment at this point was taken un i after a flood some years ago. but " was not: pushed. , I In th move now Initiated, Pre- sldent Ellis has appointed Paul B. Wallace,' County Engineer Hedda S Swart aid Senator C. RV Spauld- ing to prepare a report and May- -or Douglas McKay has appointed f Sam H. Hughes, chairman of the council public utilities committee; to serve on the committee as a re-' presentatlre of the city. - v 1 Adding further support to the : plea for revetment, the chamber ' will, with the report In hand, ask for the ' cooperation of both the Polk and ! Marion county courts t and the city of Salem tn submit? ..! ting petitions to the engineers for " the improvement. Within the past four or fire de- : cades, the river channel has done considerable cavorting, particular- i , ly cutting down Water street along the east side of the Salem river front. . The present situation threatens : especially the buildings in the vi cinity of the Mellow Moon danee hkll and the territory at tbe Polk county end of the bridge. Hedda Swart declared follow ing the recent flood which ' brought the Willamette to 21 feet, that It was . apparent the river is : making ready to cut a new chan- nel, swinging over until the main ' flow .will be where the Mellow " Moon dance pavilion now; rests 1 ; and .under the approach to the : bridge joining the two counties. : If such reality should come, the . , present docking site here would be badly hampered, and probably put out of commission when the river Is extremely low. Swart has, over a period of years, made a eonsid- ; arable study of the river channel and its restlessness here. Span- : ing and Wallace both also have kept an eye on the river condi tions. ;V". . : No estimate of how much work will be necessary, should the- fed eral engineers see necessity of the project, will be available until the committee makes a thorough re j port. ' t '.i - Since the floods of late Decem ber, several of the buildings In the flood wake along- the west side of the river across from Sa lem have come under plans . far moving to a more secure ground, according to word this week fre West Salem. FURTHER BATTLES: OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 8. (ff) i The army of house supporters of the Steele Honor control bill today again heldhe for against liberalising : amendments as , the j bitter battle neared a close. Mustering T of the votes, ; the majority organisation defeat ed an amendment - to allow the sale by the glass of mixed drinks of 22 per cent alcoholic, .content in hotels; restaurants and dab with meals,' and voted , dowa a proposal to eliminate the previ sion for the permit system f res the measure. . The main, change, adopted was one to! increase the cost of th permit Ifrom 25 to. 80 eeats s year.--.r;.i ". ' : 1 - ' i -l When the house adjourned laU In the day the supporters of the) bill drafted by Governor MarU'a state advisory: liquor. commlssWt , taeed Only one more major hurdle -that of deciding thesettleg ap . of the state llouor control board J to Tegnlate the sale of liquor by sUte retail stores,'" . Yankees Release : ; Pennockj Sewell t ' NEW.TORlC Jan. 8. 1 (flV-The , New.Trk Yankees formally con- : firmed I today : the unconditional release :et Herb Penaock, Teteran" southpaw; pitcher with a 21-yeaj , hit lea rue ' service record, but ! on ft en ed similar nouee joii j SeweR, i Veteran iaflelder. by nouncing ms re-eugaeu" Un"Iyla eoc ' COm BILL HAS wW 4-