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jV . I 1 v '. ; . - . .I--.::;: r F n i -. . V it ,5 i ,?r v .. , --r -. 4-,.. - 1 . 4 1" : , THE WEATHER - -Uasettled: toda jr with total T i morning showers (Friday ; cloudy. Max. Temp. Tester. ' day SO, mln. 40; aontliwesU -rrly winds, tlondy. (l T ; Three? , tines , week; The j Statesman canrfei' Interest ing bridge lessons by lira.'. ' ; WiIUm H.' Qulmu Colbert son associate Instructor. 1 Salem Oregon, Thursday, BIorniiigtvJantiary J.l, 1934 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Nq. 249 ' - - vi c ! jr- i i i.i T a r-i ill i i i i i i i . i "Y-; v- V . 'I 1 V ... 4T yuuHibiuiLt r fe-fl IIP I BowermanrNeunerWatkms : In Closing Arguments r - Before Lewellmg : r'. f 4- -1 , r y , Judge Asks Bnefs; Early - . Decision is.Hoped torso. v . . : . Hpucdi may uc nciu-. , - l i -ifwV- -". . : -: e .-' - " . i . - - ':-jr.'' - Final. artnmeats-on tne: Knox - lienor commissJoit V.iaw :- -were y. - , heard yesterday ;by. Jodxe It.: G. iTV XewelUns wW at 1:15 p.m. ad- juumea xuurt ua iwk iu case under adrisement. Appearing yes terday for the state were George Nenner, ' llqnor commission , eoan sel, r and Jay Bowermas, special representative - for the - eommis sion. f Elton - Watklns represented Klamath : Falls -while City Attor ney Leritr of &amath Falls de tained by Illness, wired the court tht he wonld submit a written Arrnments centered around the home-rale amendment to the state constitution and! whether or not it waa not in effect. Mr. Watkins also raised the Question of incom plete title to the Knox act, claim ing .the legislature had .not fol lowed, the constitution's mandate in proridlng a title which stated that all city charters and ordin ances were repealed. Watklns also asserted tffat the act, being a tax raising 'measure, could not ' con tain the emergency clause. ' , Bowermaa Says Knox Law Act of Sovereignty ,' Mr. Bowennan, opening for the state, held the home rule amend ment was invalidated when the state passed constitutional prohi bition. Insofar as the right of mu nicipalities to license liquor sell ing was concerned. He also con tended that the state'a sovereign police power was exercised in the Knox act and that in no sense could a city pass ordinances i io conflicl with this power." " All forms of llnnor control f w'1 tried in Oregon hatrt.failedv'Bow JKJL - erman averred. -Ha' declared the cltlscins of the State now demand the Knox nlan and ha eon ten dad 4 f the courts should not obstruct the 7.: expressed will of the people. Bow T . erman : contended the . licensing features of the act did not make it a tax measure. Numerous cases were cited by Bowennan- on the Taricns points, ."The people don't go backward, ther always go further,- Bower man continued, "and a return to the city, power of licensing with the right of establishing saloons would be a ste? backward." The (Tarn to page 2, col. 2) iisus TIED IIP III Bl OLTMPIA. I Wash.. Jan. 10. (ff-The time of adjournment of the special session of the Wash ington legislature was made more nueertaln late today when the Steele liquor control bill was or dered to a conference committee after the senate and house were unable to agree oq 101 amend ments. 1 Appointment of the eonferenes to iron oat the , controrersial changes , wTitten f Into the state monopoly liquor control act by ,. I.d .1.nV. j Jl1 A . natil tomorrow when both houses adjourned ontfl : morning the sonate In respect to K B. Benn, a former state senator who died today, and the house in respect to 11 rs. P. R. Holcomb, wife of Jus- r . . Wt UVWVUIU WUV WW UiCU uua tm. TT.I..V Va .1.. JttiA VI. i arternoon. S. IU Holcomb, a son. "ls the chief clerk: of the house. ; The principal objections in the senate against the. house amend- S ' .ments were directed at a reduc- members of - the liquor control board,' the division of profits, and tie restricted search 'warrant procedure, leaders said. Everything Sei to llcb Bcaiits-Only AlzmJIct Sounded KANSAS CTTT, Jmn 10 (By-JUter the National Bank and Trnst company of north Kansas City : had . been robbed twice, ': the ; eltlaens decided something . had to ' ,be done. A vigilante system was organised. ' Doctors, dentists, grocers 'and others were gives rifles with a range of 8000 feet. National guardsmen trained the vigilantes to marksman , hip. . , . . " , : A siren was installed atop the city hall to serve as . snmmonsw :. Today three robbers en tered the bank. Threatening customers and bank officials with pistols, the robbers seized. $3000. Then they re entered motor car and sped away safely. - - ; In the excitement soroe- bodv forgot to sound the: sooxjd ilren. '. ' v. r -A" Congress 'XTacksDowrf VfithTax : Additions on Defaulting Importers f - ' - " - "!' ' y' .SB va. M,y 'Vs ; w V . : ::;: :;:::: ;.::.::: :;: : : KiPKavffT French WiKBj gEwviftWE.gocviai r Congressional sentiment on war Yesterday the wpper house tacked an added excise tax to liquors Imported from nations in default tative Fred Britten earlier called France a "nation of cheaters and defaulting misers. Above, left, French wine shown coming into port In Xew York; upper right: Britten; lower left, Senator Borah. Walters Quits His Job; Political Fracas Seen; To Tell Views to Chief . Home Owners Loan Going to Run for Congress; Says He Spoke at Lipscomb's Request PORTLAND, Ore., Jan, 10 (AP) Horace E. Walters, ' of Portland, assistant manager of the Oregon branch office of the Home Owners' Loan corporation, today tele graphed his resignation to Washington, D. C. He also sent word he would fly to Washington and re port Friday to John H. Fahey, chairman of the HOLC. It was Fahey who assertedly instructed J. L. Lipscomb, Oregon HOLC manager, to fire Mr. Walters or any other person in the organization who was not doing as Lipscomb thought he should. m - The Instructions particularly O- , referred to reports that Walters was subordinating duties of the! office to public appearances and publicity work. I "I am going, back there in an effort to get this Oregon Home Loan office straightened ont so it can give the people the service they , are entitled to," said Wal ters. Bolt From Bine As Far As Lipscomb Knows Later Manager Lipscomb said 1 don't know what he was talk ing about. It came so suddenly that I haven't had time to give It much thought i yet . Before his departure Walters commented on his public appear ances, i . I have made most of these speeches about the actual work of the HOLC at chambers of com merce and civic clubs, and many at the direct Invitation of Man ager Lipscomb who, when, called npon to speak, would ust take a (Torn to page 3, col. 4 ) Utilitiesl to Push Bills Under Doors PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10. H"P) The Portland Water company announced today It will have mes sengers slip water bills under doors and then ting door- belts, since the postmaster - general has ruled that unmalled matter may not be placed In mail boxes. Simi lar .orders were given Portland General Electric company offi cials, they said. Officials of the Portland Gas it Coke company and: the Northwestern' Electric eompany also are planning to have their companies' bills placed un der doors. . ' ' .."! Burner of LEIPZIG Germany, Jan. 10. (ATna beheading of stolid Mari nas Van der Lubbe today tor the burning of the reichstag last Feb ruary closed one' chapter of .that sensational case, -and brought to the tore the probable fate of his four fellow defendants. The emotionless yonng Dutch mason was executed at 7:30 o'clock after j refusing, as In a coma, to reply to final questions whether he had anything to say and whether v he ' had any t last wishes." ' , " - In two or three days the Ger man government is due to decide what to do with three Bulgarians, who "hav been, in jail since De Germany 1ST Mt- debts became evident this week. to the United States. Represen Assistant Denies He is CHICAGO, Jan. lO-tipy-The matriarch of Wynekoop house, charged by the state with mur der, goes on trial Thursday. It is the premiere of that mystery drama, the murder in an operating room of Rheta Gard ner Wynekoop a story steeped in the love of mother and son. of that son and his slain wife: pervaded With the odor of chloro form and the familiar flavor of a physician's office. . Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, a wisp of a woman is the charac ter about whom the drama re volves. .The state says that on the af ternoon of November 21, in the basement office where she and her late husband had1 practiced medicine 40 years or more, she fired a pistol bullet Into 'the' nak ed back of Rheta,' 2 3 - year old wife of her son. Earl e, and that Rheta was already unconscious, smothered by chloroform forced against her month, when ; that shot- was fired. "j . I: . Why should this ' woman of high medical reputation take the life of a dauhgter-in-law she professed to lovet - i f . Tho .state will ask i Jury In Judge Joseph B. David's criminal court to believe the 62-year-old woman who ruled the Wynekoop household on West Monroe street plotted the death ' to solve the domestic problems of a philander ing son Earie, who was driving io Kansas city when . his wife came to her. tragic end. ' its Reichstag cember 23, when the supreme court convicted Van der Lubbe and acquitted the other four. Poland indicated today to the soviet government it would grant the Bulgarians Geo rgi Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blaglo Popoff a transit visa la case Germany decided to deport them to Russia. i The fourth. Ernst Torgler. one time communist whip in the par liament, also Is In Jail while the government Is considering ' filing treason charges against him and other commanist leaders. ' v.. Van der - Lnbbe'a body was- at the anatomical, mortuary .tonlgh t, a waiting word from relatives In Polland concerning its disposition,. IN U IP GOES IflTfl COURT HIGHER TUX ON : : E TlS Senate Views on Foreigners Who Won't Pay Shown; -Bill in Conference House Opens Debate on Ini tial .Appropriation Bill . . V For 16 Bureaus WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-(ff)r-War debts lighted a colorful flare of congresslonaL debate today to lead disputants toward penalising backward debtors, . . Close behind, 'with -fate yet .to be settled, was President Roose velt's recommendation of today, backed by the federal power com mission, for ratification of the St. Lawrence treaty with Canada un der which a gigantic power and navigation' system would.be built. . An impending dispute over rec ognition of Russia was disclosed by the refusal of two members of the senate foreign relations committee to vote for. committee approval of William C. Bullitt of Pennsylvania as ambassador to the soviet union of republics. The war debt penalty was at tached to the liquor tax bill pend ing In the senate. An amendment was adopted, in the face of an argent request by Chairman Har rison of the, finance committee that the revenue measure not be loaded down with controversial matters, calling for imposition of an excise tax as well as the usual tariff duties on liquors from countries In default on their war debts. RFC to Give One More Year Under Present Plan Before the house banking com mittee, Chairman Jones of the re construction corporation was tell- (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Altar Trials No Bogey For Walska Quest PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 10. -flPk To Ganna Walska, her four mat rimonial experiences have all been part of the search for the perfect man." Rehearsinar for a eoncert an. nearance in this eltv. the noted Polish soprano paused in her wore today long enough to ex pound eraeiouslv her nhilnsnnh- of woman's love, explaining in aer tneory that "mistakes" In marriage do not daunt a woman In her search for marital happi ness. "Three or four mistakes don't make a woman feel there urn nn happy marriages," -she said. "She jusi aeeps looking for the one perfect man for her. A woman ean lora nnT-r nn man in her life, and If aha naa several unfortunate marri ages, it is becansa sha thanrht she had fonnd her perfect mate ana then discovered her mistake." . Men. Miss Walska believes, are inclined to be "tyrants" ther wantthelr wives to be Just wives, not searchers for careers. "Marriara and a earAe tnr women do not often work ont well," Miss Walska contends.. World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: SAN FRANCISCO. - Six naw planes start 2400-mile mass flight to Honolulu. - WASHINGTON. - Senate ap proves heavy taxes on liquor im ports from nations defaulting war aeots. . . WASHINGTON.-Roosevelt asks St. ; Lawrence waterway treaty; guarantee or iarm loan bona prtn dpal. CHICAGO.-Milk blockade end ed by trace; end of interference with interstate shipments sought. WASmNGTON.-Senate witness testified former Postmaster Gen eral Brown asked air line official not to bid on mail route; commit tee . told Lindbergh received 1250,000 in air stock. ' - NEW YORKV-August Heekscher sues Rockefeller center for $10 000,000, charging nnfair solicita tion of tenants. , . . WASHINGTON Code authori ties to consider reduction of work ing hours below 40 hours a week. Foreign " ' VIENNA. Two naxls killed, sev eral wounded, 500 Jailed in na tion-wide anti-government demon stration. , ; , . HONGKQNG.-Natlonallst forces not to attack Fbochow. says re port; .six American missionaries believed safe, , v LONDONs-Creek foreign minis ter says Samuel Insnll most leave connjbjjjinnaryjtl;, JTD 71 2V aw. ' -,m " af These Men T 1: ; ; With the naval base. Pearl Harbor, air force, comprising six sea the planes are attempting la the " - ' - . ;. -; ... . JMMBmmmmmMSBMmmMMMMBMBBBBBBBBBM ' mmmmmmm " , i , , , '--. 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" The Nanking dispatch did not specifically mention .the Amer icans, workers of the Methodist Episcopal church, - whose head quarters are in New Tork, but ob servers believed a change in the nationalists drive , toward Foo chow would enable! them to leave the danger area, (Turn to page, 2, eoL S) Enlarged plans for courthouse remodeling were being prepared yesterday by architects on the fourth floor of the present struc ture although the resignation of Raymond B. Wilcox as state' re lief director admittedly had cast a cloud on Marion" county's pros pects of obtaining the Job as a CWA project. . ' ' Wflcc had orally promised members, of the Court recently that. he. would approve the court house remodeling: Job it the de tailed, plans proved satisfactory. A change of administrators might block the , Job, court members reasoned yesterday. In the enlarged plans now be ing drafted, stories one to four. inclusive, would have much addi tional space provided by building out : the existing depressions in the walls. These additions would not be carried beyond the fourth floor,, the proposed fifth floor for the Jail being the same size as the present building.. - ' Plans must be ready for CWA Inspection. by February 15. v T-- - Wheat Stocks Are I LowestjSince 27 i WASHINGTON, JanV; 10.-(ff)-Farm stocks of wheat on January 1 were reported today by the de partment of agriculture at 14.- 131,000 bushels, tao smauest amount since 132T, when tt be gan collecting such oata, ri -The January 1 total compares with 272,022,000 bushels on Jan uary 1, 1133, and the five-year average of 235,188,000 bushels. ' Disappearance of wheat during tho- quarter, October 1 to Jan uary 1, was 115,515,000 bushels compared with 142,444,000 . bu shels in the corresponding quar ter of 1332, and the five-year average o 153,158,000 bushels, COURT MS HELD man .ri- . -" -.- iJNavylane Toward l Hawaii, as Its' goal, VP squadron planes, left San Francisco tt 2 p. longest non-stop air voyage ever Trooper is Hoodwinked By Vagrants How two 14-year old runaway boys hoodwinked a state police man and outran a Salem officer was being told at downtown head quarters yesterday. Picked up north of Canby by state officer, who patrols out of the Oregon City office, the boys, Elder Scott and Verne Street, who escaped Monday from the Sha ver home in t Portland, told the trooper they lived at Canby. The officer thereupon drove the pair into Canby and proceeded to fol low their directions as to the lo cation of their, home. "We live there," the boys told the officer, pointing to a house where no one appeared to be home. "Our dad isn't home; he's working on a relief crew. Do you want to wait until he comes home tonfcht?" ; .The state officer, having other duties to attend to, let the boys out and went -his way. Later he found out that they did not Uve at the house in question and -had crawled Into; the blinds of Southern Pacific passenger train and ridden : to Salem. - Wednesday: morning a Salem policeman tried to catch the boys near the Southern Pacific depot hut they outran him. That afternoon city police took the runaways into custody, and state police relayed them back to Portland. -.? . J ' Asked where they were bound. when caught, the boys said, "to California to pick oranges." WATERBURV APPOINTED PORTLAND, Jan. 10. -OP)-A. special Washington ' dispatch' to night to the Oregonlan said H. E. Waterbnry of Portland was ap pointed acting district manager of domestic and foreign commerce of the department of commerce. . He succeeds Frank Messinger, who has been transferred to the NRA. Prince Flits Away Again; J ' 1 Vfiil I Meet Bride in Japan VANCOUVER, B. C Jan. 10-(iT)-Nothlng more nor less than princely curiosity .waa the reason given here today by Alexis, young est of the rmarrying Mdlvanis," for ! his; nocturnal "sneak" from Seattle where he had reserved a. suite aboard the liner Hiwaka Maru for brideleas voyage to Yokohama.- i'---,s f-';f '-Prince Udfranrs 140,009,000 bride, the former Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth riches. meanwhile was enjoying the social whirl in San Francisco while wait ing to sail groomless, on the Tat suta Maru tomorrow, also to Yo kohama. :- j. :-vr ;. t. .- Separated by a California proc ess server who was more Interest ed in getting Prince Alexis as a witness In his elder brothers' trial on grand theft charges tn Los An geles than In the Mdlvanis' honey moon, tho Georgian nobleman and Mid ten of the United States naval m. yesterday afternoon. Toe fligbt attempted in mass formation. The E F.D.R. Wants Farm Loans Underwritten; McNary Noncommittal WASHINGTON, Jan. lOHtfV A congress that had its ear at tuned to White House recommen dations today prepared to write Mr. Roosevelt's proposal that the government guarantee the princi pal of 32,000.000.000 in farm bonds into law without wasting time. Within an honr after the honse had heard the first special mes aara sent to eonrresa this session by the president. Chairman Jones of the house agricultural commit tee introduced a bill to carry out his wishes. He said hearings would begin tomorrow. "I expect it will go through." said Representative Snell (R-, N. T.). the minority leader, al though he continued: Ttil. adds 22.000.000.000 to the mounting indebtedness of this government." , Moral Obligation Cited . La President's Message . Tha mMuam Itself, f olio win C the brief and pointed Roosevelt' nattern. said It waa tecnnicauv true that government responsibiU- , (Turn to page a, col j Extortion Demand Doubted by Police 1 PASADENA, Cal., Jan. 10ff) A second $5000 extortion let ter written to Mrs. Frances Coen Cooke, wealthy divorcee, was re garded skeptically today by inves tigators in the mysterious Slever murder case. Like the one she re ceived last -week, the second ot tered to deliver the .32 ealiber pistol with which Dr.. Leonard Slever, socially prominent dentist and music patron, was killed at the door of his automobile the night of December 12. : his American dollar princess thus wBl be united In Japan. - i , Alexis eluded the process server by tho simple expedient of staying but of California. He flew from Reno, Nev to Portland. Ho left even his valet behind on his secret trip ;; to Vancouver during the night. ' "f" I' ;-i.W''-i-"",V".r- i "I had Intended sailing en the Hiwaka Maru from Seattle," he said on his arrival here, but de cided I would like to see Vancou ver so came here to await her sail ing at noon tomorrow, . r "My wife win said from San Francisco tomorrow almost at tho same time as I sail from Vancou ver. My ship win reach Yokohama two days before hers, but I will see her In about 10 days. ', ' . v "We ar going to China after a visit tn Japan and thence to Paris. We will make our homo In Parts and New York." , v ' UNCLE SAM TO TAK DH2 BILLIONS MORE ceam . !" ' t. ' t -.1 i PERFECT LIE KEPT; SMOOTH Takeoff Retarded 2 Hours zi .PIahe HeId Back by:;; ,: Lackof Wind Vv ' 6 Officers, 24 Men Aboard; Destroyers Stationed . " " EVery 300 Miles : NAVY FLIGH T LOG S pv m 4.1 nautical miles off the Golden Gate. 4 p. in. 11 7. miles off the Golden Gate. 5 p. m. 104 miles off the Golden Gate. 5:23 p. in. Passed over Minesweeper Sandpiper SOO miles oat of Saa Francisco. 7 p. m. 124 miles oat of San Francisco. 8 p. in. 490 miles in di rect line from Golden Gate. 0:15 p. m. Passed over Destroyer Schenck, ap proximately 600 miles from San Francisco. 10 p. m. 663 miles tn line of flight rom the Gold en i Gate. 11 p. m. 775 miles direct line from the - Golden Gate. 12 midnight 660 miles from the Golden Gate. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. lO-iffy -Breexing In the darkness over the Pacific, the six American cavy planes carrying 30 men on a mass flight from the mainland to Ha waii , were well oa their way to night and had almost ideal weath er ahead.; j At midnight, Pacific Standard time, they, had been flying seats westward over the ocean for about i hours and were 860 nautical miles (about 950 land miles)! from the Golden Gate. The squad ron reported it was on the direct line of flight. Navy headquarters here sent a (Turn to page t, col. 4) WEATHER SEErS' Gas Price Cuts To Be Probed; 20c Price is Reported PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. lsW A gasoline price reduction here) today from 22 to 20 cents a gal Ion brought expressions front some dealers that NRA principle were thereby violated, but com petition would be met, Harry W. Brown, secretary of the Oregon state petroleum com? mlttee code authority her Io -the Industry .replied that "A few cases of price-cutting havo been reported and many of theoa corrected,' , All reports of chiseling on the code price, by selling below tho . figure displayed on the service station corner or on the gas pump - . . or by going below actual cost havo been sent to Washington, D. C, for prosecution, he said. ' ; ' The Washinston Spotlisht . By the Associated Press Heavy.1 taxes npon liquor Ism ports from debt-defaulting na tions were approved-fey the ate. jit: President Roosevelt asked gress to guarantee the principal on farm loan bonds. - w - . . . " i The' president urged immedialo ratification of the Ck. Lawrence -waterway treaty. r , , Senate investigators heard thai CoL Charles A,-- Lindbergh re . eeived 250.000 In stock front -Transcontinental Air Transport in addition to his salary. J ' ' The senate foreign relations! committee approved William C Bullitt as ambassador to Russia President Roosevelt advised;; railroads r and utUIUes to esUb llsh mortgage-retirement sinking funds.'.: - :": . '," - Unrestricted I to portatlon of" American type whiskies was an : nounced for the next 3 0 days: ;- , President Roosevelt agreed Uiaf' home loan-bonds should bexunrd anteed fully by the government. , ' Hugh S. ' Johnson announced aj conference to consider further rt ductlon working hours, ,