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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1934)
s 3 ( H r Majority of 360 to 229 is Given After Airing of , ; Pawnshop Scandal -. , (Coatlamd from u tl put down any aerioas disorders. The -chamber was unexpected ly adjourned this afternoon ay its president intn midst of boos, desk-banting and shouts that fol lowed the declarations of Deputy Jean . Ybarnegaray that "uales the country were cleaned up flalckly" It faced a dictatorship And thai the police assassinated'' Sta risky to protect officials al leged to hare had a part is the pawnshop failure. V. Chaatemps heatedly denied the charge. Waring his arms ex citedly he protested, amid pande monium, that the mysterious under-ground financier killed him self last Monday when secret serv ice men tracked him to a hideout In Chamoaix. OF B Pi Mayor Douglas McKay. Friday outllaed to the Salem Ad clab the planet the city administration for acquisition of -the water plant. He related past history of the effort 1 i obtain a government grant . for construction work, which wa; allowed, and for purchase-mosey, which has not been acted on yet. Now the city is proceeding to condemn, and hopes this may be concluded in time to receive the government loan-grant to extend tho lines to the moun tains tor a supply. While the cash price. " set by the company of 1959,009 may exceed the present valae of the property, Mayor Mc Kay said the city vas disposed to deal fairly with the investors In the bonds of the company. Speakinj of city finances, the mayor expressed confidence in the soundness of city affairs al though : at present the city has nearly 2200.000 In warrants out standing. He anticipated that tax collections this year will improve . so the total will not increase. He reiterat3d his belief In the need for a city manager plan for Sa lem, i . ED BY ICE I I Continued from pas n reported. "It Is Just Ice covered ocean. To drive the ship ahead would be taking a long risk," lie added. (A dispatch yesterday from the flagship said It was hoped a new passage into the Ross sea had been discovered. Whether the ship would continue along Its present route In view" of findings of the flight or turn back to pick anoth- passage apparently had not n determined). OPing that a hop Into Little Ametlca might be possible, Ad . inlralByrd last night requested -and received half hour weather .reports from the Lincoln Ells worth, expedition, whose ship la wnow lying in close to the bay of -Whales., ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW "JACK HOXIE la GOLD" A FAST. SXAPPY WESTERN 1 Preview Tonight 11:13 Mary Pickf ord fa "Secrete" -LUC 'White Woman" Charles Langhtton j Carol Lombard Kent Taylor . SUNDAY TWO BIG i lira bee THE. MOST PUZZLING, BEWILDERING CRIME-THRILLER OF THEM ALL! wcuon . roaring ex cftement the wildest cattle stampede erer filmed t , nivo T J j m S Sued by Duke Becaoae she rebuked him is a mags' cine article. Lady Stbell Lygoa, 23-fear-eld daojgfcter ef the Earl el Beaochamp. is being saed for dam ages in Leaden by the Duke oj Westminster, t who is her uncle. Lady Smell, who Is a Socialist abided the wealthy duke for spend tag too much money In France, while Britons are hungry. The n Doan GRAND Today t James Dunn "Jimmy and Sally." in ELSINORE Today James Cagney In "Lady Killer" plus studio preview .of new picture at, . 8:30 p. m. HOLLYWOOD Today John Wayne in "Haunted Gold," and mid- night matinee, Kay Fran- cis in "Storms at Day break." CAPITOL Today "White Woman" with Charles Laughton, plus Bob Steele in "Gal loping Romeo." STATE Today Jack "Gold." Hoxle in Blue Eagle Upon Imports Banned WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. - ca) -The federal government today barred all imports bearing NRA blue eagle emblems. The order was issued by the quest of General Hugh S. John treasury department at tho re son, recovery administrator, who declared the emblem should be a symbol of production under the recovery code Of the United States and that foreign "bine eagles" constituted a "fraud upon the Am erican people. " Husky End Given Chance in Films HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 12. -(-William Smith, the Univer sity of Washington's outstanding end during the past two seasons, was in Hollywood today and was given a screen test for a forth coming production by Paramount studios. He is being sponsored by Norman McLebd. a director who used to play quarterback for the Huskies In the days when Gil Do bie was coach at the university. McCormick Free; Tlimrc DfCatrfV JUiUlS Ulbdgree ST. HELENS, Ore.,Jan. 12-(ff) -Circuit Judge H. K. Zimmerman tonight ordered a directed verdict of not guilty when a hung Jury resulted in the embezzlement case against H. F. McCormick, presi dent of the St. Helens ship com pany. The Jury retired at 11:80 sm. and reported ft was unable to agree at 11 o'clock tonight. LAST TIMES TODAY TWO FEATURES BOB STEELE in u Galloping Romeo" - MONDAY FEATURES MARY BRIAN DONALD COOK: REGINALD DENNY Prwm tka m)t wnl mi AND-i.. 1 . 7 15c I F 1 STATTON. Jan. 12. - Four-H club work was begun in the grade school this week. So far the- num ber signing up has been most en couraging. Mrs. O. S. Foster will have charge of division 1 sewing; and those to take up the work are Virginia Bordune, Leona Burm es ter, Zelpha Carter, Catherine Champ, Doris Crabtree, Marian Follis, Betty Anne Goode, Helen Hughes, Anita Humphreys, Phyl lis Jordan, Dollie Martin, ' Alice and Rose Neimeyer, Cleo Schaefer, Margaret Shtnkle, Bette Korinek, Margery Knight, Alice Davenport, Shirley Lamb, Louena Sandner, Virginia Shelton and Lucille Spl cer. Mrs. Hal Shelton will, have charge of division 2 sewing. Victor Phelps, grade school principal, has charge of the camp cookery class and will be assisted by Miss Jean Ingiis. Enrolled are Val Dare Sloper, Richard McRae, Anne Foster, June Mais el. Bobby Ingiis, Darrel Lewis, Willie and Eddie Kreltzer, Baddy Marvin, Alvin , and Lawrence Schmltt, Leonard Walters, Raymond Fery and Ronald Holford. Miss Doris Neirelter, also grade teacher,, will have the class in handwork and in this class are Margaret Hughes, .Betty Hunt, Margaret Fair, Beulah Maisel, Dena Champ. Lela Sandner, Alice Stephens and Dorothy Titus. Home Craft Radio Broadcasts Start On KOAC Friday To help Oregon homemakers overcome some of the handicaps of the depression by "'creating beauty with home crafts, a series of IS radio broadcasts under that title hat been arranged by KOAC. the state-owned station on the state college campus at Corvallls The program is being broadcast each Friday starting at S o'clock, The series of lectures will be given by Cecile McAlister, experi enced home craft worker and former instructor In the Portland extension center. Supplementary material is supplied weekly with out charge to all who enroll In the course by sending In their names to KOAC. All-Day Clinic to Be Held Thursday For Stayton Area STAYTON, Jan. 1 2 -Thursday, January 12, Dr. Vernon A. Doug las, assisted by a county nurse, will hold a clinic at the grade school for examination of all first grade students and all new students in the Stayton schools In the morning only. In the after noon, students of the surround ing district. Fern Ridge. Howell, Independence, Oak Glen and Tri umph, who are entitled to be ex amined are requested to be at the grade school here for such examination. A parent who desires to have a child examined, even though they are not beginning students or new ones, may do so. Vaccination and immunization is Included as a part of the examination. Dr. Douglas Js anxious that parents be present when their children are examined. Filipinos Riot . On Waterfront SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. 12.-(V-Police reserves, ambulances and patrol wagons were ordered to the lower waterfront district here at midnight In answer to what police reported as a "Fili pino riot" Details were not Im mediately available. EYE ADULT CLASSES STAYTON, Jan. 12 An effort Is being made here to start class es in adult education, along with other communities - under ' the CWA. H. E. Tobie. principal ot the schools here hare blanks available for those interested and shouM a ntnt number be signed up. the school will pro- ably soon be started. MAWowOtTTteter hKp NEW PRICE 1 J IOC POLICY IDC ' SPECIAL MATINEE TODAY 10c A Four Star Western Laurel & Hardy "ME AND m PAL" News, Cartoon and Last Episode of- "THE THREE MUSKETEERS'' Matinee Saturday 10c mm I ADDED , . I SUNDAY, MONDAY and TUESDAY Coatlanoiis Performance Sunday - 9 to 11 A Picture That Has the Whole Country Talking By the Author of "State Fair" AU Sdem 7U1 Be TcUdng Abort It Monday Vtmi? V ) U L24Li 7 lAKUSjP. -- W but iinir BOSTON. Jan. 12. (VP) -The Commercial ' Bulletin of ' Boston will say tomorrow: "The wool market continues dull but nnder the Influence of a low stock of wool and steadily rising prices abroad, prices here are distolnctly firm and, if any thing, against the buyer. "Reports from the piecegoods centers are of a slow demand still. although the outlook, for the fu ture Is considered promising. Jan uary retail clothing sales at re duced prices suggested less buy ing on the part ot the consuming public than had been, expected. "Foreign markets are distinctly stronger tor the week, Australia showing a five to ten per cent rise over the preceding week, and other markets being more or less in line. Some recession in prices at Sydney at the week end Indi cates a tendency to go too far In the advance. "Mohair still Is slow but prices are firm." The Commercial Bulletin will publish the following quotations: Scoured basis: Oregon: Fine and F. M. staple. 84-81: fine and F. M. Fr. combing, 80-13; fine and F..M. clothing, TO-76; Valley No. 1. 7T-80. Mohair: Oregon.-40-4S. Do mestic graded: first combing 60 2: second combing,-50-55; third combing. 45-60i fourth combing, 40-45; good carding; 40-45; first Kid, 75-78; second kid, 65-68. Power and Gas Firms Seek to Avoid City Tax WASHINGTON, Jan. lt.-Pf- Declarlng the existence of the Pu- get Sound Power and Light com pany and the Seattle Gas company were at stake, counsel for the concerns urged the supreme court todav to declare Invalid the 11 cense or occupation tax Imposed on them by the city of Seattle. Wash. The attack on the validity ot the taxing statute was directed principally on the ground the city was in the electric light business and although an active compet itor of both concerns, was free from the three per cent tax it imposed on their gross revenues. Card Parties in Favor With Many Of Stayton Folks STAYTONJan. 12. A caad party, that for attendance broke all records, was the one given by the Lady Foresters at the Forest er hall Tuesday night. There were 22 tables of 500 in play. Hostesses were Misses Elizabeth Mearts, Katherine Brand, Mildred. Gass- ner. Mrs. Broun Ruef. Mrs. Gil bert Wourms and Mrs. John Fery. Ernest Dosler and Mrs. Ambrose Doclier had high score. The fourth in a series ot the Woman's club benefit bridge par ties was held at the culbhouse Wednesday night with 12 tables, one of the largest groups of the series. Mrs. G. F. Korinek and O. E. Gardner won prizes for high score. Hostesses were Mrs. Ed ward J. Bel. Mrs. Lawrence Smith, Mrs. Sim Etzel and Mrs. Nellie Jones. 600 CLUB MEETS 8CIO, Jan. 12 The Misses Elsie and Rose Hetzendorf were hostesses for the regular meeting of the high school girls "500' club Wednesday evening at their home. Three tables ot "500". were in play, for which Audrle Bartu had high score. Present were Nor ma Mumper and Dolphie- Jorgen- son, special guests, and Geraldine Rodgera. Audrle Bartu, Sylvia ; Bartu, Irene Palon, Velma Pa- Ion, Angeline Wesaly, Edris Thay er, Edna Purdy, Emma Jaquith, and Lorene Trollinger. PHYSICIAN GUILTY PORTLAND. Jan. 12.-()-A federal court Jury today found Dr. Richard Neubauer guilty of illegally prescribing narcotics. Federal Judge set Tuesday as the date for pronouncing sentence. Attend Our 9 O'clock Show Tonight and Re main for Our 11:15 Midnite Matinee FREE (NOTES Good morninsr folks! Hare you had your breakfast and Is everything O. K.T Weil, there's nothing like starting the morning rirfct-&nd of course tnat in cludes this marvelous column. . M M C Watt a minute stick: arhund I haven't told you who's .writ ing the column this morning, xou bet it's "Bootsie woo tale" and when it eomes to column Writing I'm right there. - MM C You see, "Zollie" asked me to take care of the column this morning as he can't type. He . cut his typing finger peeling a bana na. M M C I see in the paper that in about 20 years "Zollie's". gonna run for mayor. They should make it 100- years from now and then he'll be dead. And if he eveH does run for mayor yours truly wilt surely leave this once great city. M M C Hey, I hear there's going to be a contest to see who's got the biggest mouth, this afternoon. It's a good thing "Zollie" can't enter It. M M C As the Latins say in Rome Non P o n s u s monstus: ucus. How'nv I doin"? M M C We looked around, oh, It was terrible such a screeching sound boisterous howl. Some people walked out, but we couldn't he's our boss. Yes, you guessed it 'Zollie" was singing & Russian folk song "Inka Dinka Due." Beside that bad spot, the rest of the program was great. On it were Jerry Cattew, Ada Jean Lama, Harold Jepson, Lyle Heck- inger, Ruth Foregaurd, Art Stub- belfield and Marie Statesman. M M C The special feature today is The Wyoming Whirlwind." M M C As "Zollie" would say I'll see you this aff. So what, "Bootsie Wootsie." L0f GROUPS ASKED (OrattaM frra pr 1) tion is to be set Up as a saf egnard. but the old members will hare whaterer salrare there is In "re corery fund" assets. Commissioner Carey will sub mit the plan with his recommen dation and with the endorsement ot many clrlc leaders in the state, to the 18,000 shareholders by mall, and they will cast their bal lots faroring- or disapproving of the plan. The report of the ad visory commission reviewed alter native plans, such as continued liquidation by the corporation commissioner, sale of the business to possible purchasers; and Indi vidual reorganization of the com panies. After study these were re jected as offering less ultimate realization to the shareholders than the one of consolidation and reorganisation. (Coathraad from pas 1) "The young states are much more interesting to the historian as well as the scientist, as they are a frontier that has not yet been pioneered. Middle-west and east ern states hare been catalogued for so many years that there is no thrill ot discovery such as the specimen seeker gets while explor ing an Oregon desert or marsn zor a new species," the author con cluded. TOMORROW GLORIA EDWARD 7 mm 1 - . ai. lii ill I Tats ' 1 Bsr Ccnfa;sosi5iooDc3jr--J p. cu foil p. n. STILL MB Despite ! federal orders against freight train riding and highway thumbing:" by .transients, a con siderable number of men are still wandering about, according to R. R. Boardman, federal transient re lief supervisor here, Yesterday he said 47 ot these men received breakfast, dinner and 45 sup per at Hotel de Mlnto. "They're wary now, though, and travel mostly at night, when they can crawl into a boxcar and keep out ot sight," Boardman stated. "We are Interviewing as many as 15 men a day to determine It they have a home to which we can send them. There are a lot of boys com ing. We're buying railway tickets for several each week." Yesterday Boardman investigat ed complaints of farmers near Pratum that men from a "Jungle near there were stealing chickens and other provender. He discov ered that as many as six tran sients at a time were using an old boxcar for a rendezvous and being supplied with food by a Pratum resident, who said be had not had to split any wood for two years. The men he fed remedied his fuel problem. Boardman said he in structed the transients there to re port to him in Salem and expected there- would, not be any further complaints. A regional conference of the Oregon Mutual Life insurance company was hold at the Marion hotel here Thursday and Friday, with about" 40 agents from all over Oregon, except Portland, at tending. The yearly report showed a 51 per cent Increase In the Salem ag ency, which includes offices out side of Portland, and there was a general expression of very bright prospects tor 1934. Perry H. Wal bridge of the Salem office re ported 25 new men added to the agency forces. Officers from the Portland headquarters here for the educa tional conference were W. C. Schuppl, executive vice-president, Edwin A. Phillips, agency secre tary, J. S. Williams, assistant su perintendent of agencies, and W. P. Stalmaker, treasurer. The re gional banquet was held Thursday, with 50 persons attending. Re covery colors and decorative scheme was used. C. S. McEIhinney, Salem was awarded the prize for the great est amount of continuous business during 1933. He has been with the company 15 years. SEATTLE, Jan. 12.-JP)-Ship-pfng board vessels possibly some of those rushed to completion pn the west coast during tho hectic world war days may soon be ply ing the north Pacific to the land of the Soviets. On the trade lanes to Vladivos tok, as well as to Japan and to the lonely Isles of the Aleutians, the plans of a Seattle shipping com pany would send vessels on twtce-a-month sailings. No such service has erer been maintained. "So far as we know, it will be the first American line on this range (to Vladivostok) by any American company," said George F. Thorn dyke today. He is the president of the Thorndyke ship ping company. For many weeks, even before the recognition of Russia was granted by the United States, he said, the project has been worked upon, and it bad now been cli maxed by an application to the 1 RUTH ETTING STUART DAYIO DARNERS A2KCLD YBEE TEASDALE LAST TIMES TODAY 31 iffinanffiie r AND Wt WITH I f ' i 3 r . ii- i itinninr tinrAAu ef the department At commerce for the allocation -of shipping board vessels to the serv ice. - Tha cargo to be shipped .ter uti tn Tt inula, will consist largely of products and supplies needed in a new and mue aereiopea couauy like Siberian SEEK US III EXTORTION AFFAIR PASADENA, Cal., Jan. 12-SV Flvo Pasadena Junior college stu dents, two of them girls, were being sought tonight by the dis trict attorney's office, investiga tor Blarney Matthews said, for questioning In connection with a series- ot extortion notes injected into the investigation of the Dr. Leonard Siever murder case. Three of these students, Matthews said, are known to have written threats to-residents recently and another young man is known to have- tossed a home made bomb on the lawn ot an expensive home. The investigator said he was anxious to know if the five stu dents - were connected with twe other young men, William Olson and Robert Smith, who confessed to detectives they had written an extortion note to Mrs. Frances Ceen Cooke, divorcee and friend lot the slain dentist. JURY IS SELECTED III HOOP C1SE CRIMINAL COURTS BUILD ING, Chicago, Jan. ll.-(P) A jury or craitsmen ana clerks. salesmen and CWA workers, was selected today to decide whether Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop killed her daughter-in-law, Rheta, and If so what the penalty should be. The Jurors immediately were locked up for the week end. Dr. Wynekoop, frail and heavily bur dened by her 02 years, was car ried back to the county Jail in firmary to wait until Monday be fore again facing the 12 men who have the power to forfeit her life. The Jury had been completed in a day and a half of court, and at torneys predicted there would be two weeks of testimony, climaxed by the appearance ot the gaunt, shrewd defendant herself on the witness stand. "Oh, I hope not; I'm so tired and ill," Dr. Wynekoop, called "mother" by all who know her in the court said when Informed the case might last until the end of the month. Question Boggie Is Slaying Case SPOKANE. Jan. 1 2.-flPV-PolIce Detective Arthur Aikman believes Clarence Boggie to be insane, he said tonight npon his return from St Maries, Idaho, where he Inter viewed Boggie, who was released recently from the Oregon sjate hospital at Salem. Aikman and Detective Harry Alderson sought Ho obtain a con fession from Boggle that he killed Morets Peterson here June 2 s. Yeggs Visit Two Safes; No Money Teggs, making their first visit to Salem In several months, some time Thursday night broke into the Union oil depot on the Fair grounds road and the Richfield oil plant on the Portland high way, but obtained nothing for their trobule. They ransacked the offices and opened the safes by knocking off the combinations and punching the locks in both cases. Mickey Mouse Matinee Today, 1 P.M. Special Festare, First Bn Salem, Lane Chandler In "Wyoming: Whirlwind" also Back Jones Chapter No. 8 Stage Acts with Boots Grant and Band ... ENDS TONIGHT SCREEN'S FIRST SENSATIONAL TRUE STORY OF A STAR! .. . . See how this hed-headed kid from the depths of HELL'S KITCHEN smashed his way to HOLLYWOOD and became the screen's most dangerous ... 'LADY KILLER' with IAMPQ r ivfft.w - . . MAE CLARKE MARGARET LINDSAY MIDNITE SHOW TONIGHT AT 1 1 :30 AND SUNDAY. MONDAY, TUESDAY its. 1111 ll'lfAl A (Cf.M itm Selected BEER GEGIMTII GOES 10 EFFECT The new city ordinance licens ing and regulating the sale ot beer and wine went Into effect yester day with its eventual validity un determined. Whether or not the city1 can continue to collect license fees and taxes from beer and wine dealers will depend on the state supreme court's ' ruling on the Knox law test suit. Although the new ordinance provides that all beer and wine containers shall bear city tax stamps, only two sales of the stick ers were made ey City Hecoraer Paulsen yesterday, one to. a whole saler and one to a retailer. Sales Included SS 12-cent stamps for beer cases, five 30-cent ones tor quarter barrels and ten 55-cent stamps for half barrels. Because of question regarding wine con tent, stamps for this ' beverage have not yet been printed. - Dealers will be permitted to op erate without licenses until after Monday night's -council session, Al derman P. E. Needham, council li cense committee chairman, stated . yesterday. All license applications will be passed on by the commit tee Monday. Only those marked "under protest" will be subject to refund of fees if the- ordinance IS held invalid, he added. Milwaukie Road Route Hearing to Be on January 30 Arguments for and against three proposed routes of tbe super-highway In Milwaukie will be heard by the state highway com mission at a meeting there Jan uary 30, It was announced Fri day by Herbert Glaisyer, secre tary of the commission. The bu-per-highway extends from Oregon City to Portland. The city officially favors the route now being used, on Front street on which are located the street car tracks. A group of bus iness men, it was stated, favors use of a street one block east, go ing through the main section. The department was known to favor a new route along the railroad tracks further east of the present highway. Class Plays are Next On School Calendar SCIO, Jan. 12 Both the sen ior and Junior classes held meet ings Thursday to discuss the an nual class plays. Elrin Gallegly, senior president, appointed Mar jory Moses. El don Todd, and him self to assist Miss Bernlce New house, class advisor. In choosing a play, to be presented sometime in ApriL The class also voted "Going Higher as the class mot to, white rose as the class flower, and silver and green, the class colors. The Juniors decided to present their play, as soon as pos sible after basketball season closes, which Is March 2. Francis T. Keltner, class' advisor, will coach the play. TnedicoteeL Ingredients of Vkks VapeRub m Convenient Candy Form VICKS COUGH DROP Jbics Own PbylVoc6flsr TONIGHT "Heart Exchange" A 3-Act Comedy Admission 25c - Curtain 8:13 NELSON AUDITORIUM Liberty at Chemeketa - ............... rjl I If A 1 1 1 Yv f'-'? to SmbiecU t X S' b yjA st i .T