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I i - ClROJLATlON, 1 Dec 33 . ..... Net paid, dally, Sunday,7074 THE WEATHER Unsettled with rains , to. jday ud Wednesday, tem perature unchanged; Max. POUNDED 1051 . lemp. Momamj 48, Min. 87, river 8.8 feet, variable wind. J;-1;-. i a' : Is." EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 16, 1934 'I ':': i 'rWJy :'-i'";7 " Br VAA .A.. 5V.' vT".rii. I vPAT--H r,'K AA "TT K X k t J 1 tmi -. - - ' . ' . ' .a r r V t , i: I' I it 7 J il -1 i. ' -A- SB HER Pifill Council Committee Named ; Jo Investigate Other ; Cities' Systems f Architect to be Employed For Remodeling of City. - Ha!!, CWA Project Salem's city council gara unanl tnoas support Monday night to the - Initial step of Mayor Douglas Mc Kay towardr a city manager plan by adopting unanimously a mo- 1 tion hy Alderman W E. Knhn for a committee to inyestlgate and re port to the council on the feasibil ity of a manager for this munici pality.!. The committee was also empowered to submit a charter amendment ordinance to the coun cil which. If passed, would put the city managership "plan before vot ers at the city election In Hay. , Mayor McKay, before . council - adjourned, named Aldermen Kuhn.i Fuhrer and Townsend to serve with him on the commit tee. The aldermen announced that they would do extensive research Into manager plans in operation In other cities with the view of using isuch research In making their report and submitting an ordinance to tbe-entire council. Remodeling of City Ball Is Planned Another major action taken by the council lastrnight empowered a special group of its members to secure au architect to prepare tentative plans- for remodeling the city hall, the architect to be paid If and when the improvement was approved by CWA and funds allo cated. The council's eommittee'cn public i buildings, along with the city attorneyvand the mayor, will comprise the group which retains the architect. E. C Bushnell, building Inspector, said Lyle Bar tholomew, local architect, was willing to undertake such a con tract. .The council left its com mittee' free to hire tny architect It wished on a basis of payment when CWA funds are secured. Bushnell told the council no more CWA funds will be available un til February 15 and then only It congress sets aside additional moneys. Dr. , 0. A. Olson brought the building project before the coun cil, and urged that the city avail Itself of the present opportunity to modernize Its city ball. ' Alderman Kuhn moved and the council unanimously approved his proposal that the park eommls- .slon be empowered to contract with a band for next summer's concerts in Willson park. The 1934 city budget provides $1000 for these concerts. They were omitted In 1133 when the Item was stricken from the municipal budget. In former years the band directed by O s e a r Steelhammer has presented the programs. Overtime Parking . Fines Mount Up Mark Poulsen, city recorder, reported to the council that he bad collected $102 la overtime " parking tines- between December 17 and January 13. Chief of Po lice Mlnto reported that his de partment bad issued 269 tags for street i parking violations in the ten-day period January 4 to 14 Inclusive. Of these tags, 241 were for overtime parking. i,!1 (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) - Counsel for the Oregon-Washington .i Water Service company will probably ask for an extension of time for the company's answer to the city's water plant condem nation suit, ' It appeared certain here - yesterday. While ' only if days from January t , , when ' the city started its salt, are allowed the defendant company, several co-defendants, who live, or have their, place of business outside the state, are allowed SO days. The . water company thinks it equitable that its time for answer be extend ed to correspond, to that of other defendants.- : Walter E. Keyes, attorney for the water concern here, said yes terday ; he had not determined whether be would file a demurrer . to the city's complaint or whether he would answer. ? Keyes said E. " C. Elliott, president of the Ore gon Washington; Water Service company; had asked him to repre sent the concern in the condem nation suit, whenever the latter came to court.. ' :. Probably a change of venue win be asked for the suit Inasmuch as all taxpayers in the eUy of Salem would be disqualified for jury serriee. , SEoni One Feature of Wynekoop Trial Jurors Are Not Allowed to See in v . II H St s j i H il 1 1 if H ' H i! ?f If 11 ii ill! il i ) ft Enfeebled by the illness which followed tier accusation and arrest, Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, noted Chicago physician on trial for murder of her daughter-in-law. Is transported to and from the courtroom In a wheel chair, bnt strict orders from the bench re quire that this be done while the Jury is not in the room, lest the sceae prejudice them. International Illustrated News Photo. p KILLED FOB GREED New insurance Policy Taken On Rheta Just Few Dayr,r Before Her Death CRIMINAL COURTS BUILD ING, Chicago, Jan. 15.-(P)-Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop eat without visible: quiver of emotion today and .heard nerseir descriDea oy prosecutors as a woman who kill ed for greed and by her own at torneys as a kindly physician who devoted her whole life to the do ing of good. Not even when she faced Bur- dine H. Gardner, father of the tal ented 'young daughter-in-law she is accused of murdering, did Dr. Alice show any sign of emotional stress. Gardner has been one of her most bitter accusers. Summoned as the state's first witness, Gardner testified his first wife, the mother of Rheta, tiled In an - Indianapolis insane asylum. He testified that a few hours after Rheta's - death Dr. Wynekoop cautioned him to say only that the cause was tubercu- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Number Jobless Reduced by Half ASTORIA, Jan. IS.--About half of the unemployed here has been remedied by the civil works administration - program, figures at the federal re-employment of fice Indicate. The CWA has employed ap proximately 1200, but more than 1,300 are still ' registered as un employed." The re-employment of fice here has placed more than 2000 persons on Jobs since last August. PRODUCER DEFENDED PORTLAND, -Ore, Jan. li.-m -Cuts in the Portland milk and cream prices set by the state milk board and larger margin of prof it for the dairy farmer were rec ommended .today by the con sumers' committee appointed by Mayor Joe Carson. The committee was expected to lay its recommendations before the milk control board soon. , SUSPECT INCENDIARY ! TILLAMOOK, Ore., Jan. 15.-(V-Investlgat!on of attempted incendiarism : at the Tillamook armory Is being made here by lo cal and state police officers. 1 Sunday night biases were ex tinguished in two separate por tions of the armory. A-third pile of inflammable material bad been set fire, but was not burning . Mrs. Henry Gerdes, wife of the armory caretaker,- discovered the Bra, ;.; V! q ; ; ; YOUTH EXONERATED : ST. HELENS, Orew Jan. 15.-(-A coroner's Jury today re n v-f n , si I I I ."VV i f W V ft V OLD-AGE PENS! Those With 'A' InitiaL to Report Today; 900 Are Expected in All Applicants for old age pensions In Marion county whose last names begin with "A" should make their formal requests for pensions at the courthouse today. Tomorrow applicants with names beginning with "B" will be handled. Offi ces have been set up by the coun ty court for its Investigators on the fourth floor of the courthouse where the wheat production of fices have been maintained. Six girls who will receive the applica tions are being provided for under a CWA allotment. They were be ing trained for their task yester day. Wednesday the county court will announce the days on which other applicants for pensions should make applications to the county. No pensions will be grant ed until all applications have been taken and checked. Children of applicants for pen sions will have to make a state ment under oath that they are unable to provide for their par ents or parent before the latter will be considered eligible for pen sions. The court estimates that 900 applications will be received. How much will be paid each month by the court to the pensions' recipi ents depends on how far the $40, 000 budgeted by the county for this purpose In 1934 can be spread. The court anticipates that some additional money will be provided by savings in the $50, 000 indigent fund, persons being transferred from support by this fund to the old-age pension list Mrs. Mary Stewart of Silverton will have charge-of receiving pen sion applications. Milk Price Cuts Asked Tillamook Armory Afire Homicide Held Justified 400-Pound Safe Removed turned a verdict of Justifiable homicide, freeing Edward Wag ner, 23, - Rainier, of blame for the fatal shooting of bis father, Carl Wagner, 63. The jury was told that the el der Wagner bad abused bis wife repeatedly and bad threatened Mrs. Martha Wagner, wife of his son. , , '-; JOB'S PROFIT flMALL ASTORIA. Ore., Jan. 15.-flV A big Job brought comparatively small return to burglars here. They toted away the 400-pound safe from the Abraham ton Plumbing shop. . The-: proprietor said the safe contained about $20 In cash. . A' HITS AT TWO-lIMIXa - PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. lS.-fff) -City officials here who aspire to other elective offices would be re quired to resign when their, new campaigns start, a cha rter amend ment Mayor Joe Carson plana to submit to Tote of the people pro vides. - ' v VOTERS FAVOR BUILDING PLAN FOR 3 SCHOOLS Light Ballot on Change in Use of Bonds Permits Big CWA Project Leslie Gymnasium Wing and Englewood, Highland Additions Likely Salem school district voters yesterday cross -marked on the ballot their approval of the di rectors' plans for erecting addi tions to Leslie Junior high school. Highland and Englewood grade schools. Polls Interest in the pro ject was light. The final tally was 281 for and 7 against the build ing program. By the voters' expressed will, 326,000 of an old $40,000 bond issue, originally designated for ex penditure at Highland and Engle wood, will be transferred to Les lie. Of the remaining $15,000 worth, $7500 each will go to the Englewood and Highland Jobs. The school directors, when they called the election, declared they felt almost certain that were fur ther civil works funds provided by congress, the Oregon CWA board would approve of spending $60,000 of that money, matched with the district's $40,000 from bond sale, for the proposed ad ditions. All three additions are badly needed to relieve congestion at all three schools. The direc tors promised not to sell the bonds unless the $60,000 match money is obtained from the CWA. If the CWA project is approv ed, the following improvements will be made at each school: LesVe Junior high 68 by, 108 foot east wing, full-sized, gymna sium equipped with removable bleachers, balcony and disappear ing stage for auditorium use, folding doors in gym auditorium dividing it for use of boys and girls simultaneously; four class rooms; basement with lockers and shower rooms. Englewood 32 by 74 foot ad dition at south end of present structure containing three extra classrooms, assembly hall with seating capacity of 455 persons, folding doors in assembly provid ing reserve classrooms; concrete floor playroom in basement. Highland 32 by 74 foot addi tion at north end, essentially as at Englewood. At both Highland and Engle wood plans call also for rearrang ing stairways In the present build ings to eliminate existing serious fire hazards. IS QUOTA IS 10 Disappointment faces between 55 and 65 laborers now employed on Marion county CWA projects. That many will have to be laid off to keep the county within its quo ta of 1411 jobs, it was determined yesterday after Ivan White, state relief and CWA representative, an nounced here that one-half of the workmen on the airport improve ment project and the county's old age pension clerks must be includ ed within the quota. Registration at the national re employment agency here reached 5796 persons yesterday .indicating that protests being made daily by men who have not received CWA jobs were likely to heighten. Amplifying the shortage of Jobs In comparison with the number of applicants was a communica tion received yesterday by Mayor Douglas McKay from Herman Kehrll, executive seccretary of the League of Oregon-cities, declaring that a crisis exists because present CWA funds will be exhausted In February. McKay agreed that the situation is alarming. Double Murder And Suicide in South Reported SANTA ROSA, Cat, Jan. ,15. (APVThree persons, a man and his wife and their landlord, were found dead in the flaming ruins of a gasoline service station near, here tonight and police - said ev idence indicated a double murder and suicide. . The dead are George lleeks, 55, proprietor of the service sta tion, his wife, Maude, about the same age, and Jack Larnerr about 50, -owner of the property. ? ' - Sheriff Flohr said he had learn ed that Lamer had threatened 'to eject the couple' from, the prop erty today, for ' failure' to pay back rentaL H JOBS SI I The Washington Spotlight (By the Associated Press) President Roosevelt proposed to " congress a devalued dollar and that the federal government take title of all gold. He also asked that congress create a $2, 000,000,000 fund to deal in for eign exchange and government se curities. Democratic leaders In house and senate promised prompt pas sage of the president's plans. Both house of congress passed a bill to extend the lending life of the RFC one year and Increase Its capital by $850,000,000. Jefferson Caffery, American en voy in Havana, was Instructed to protest seisure of American owned electric plants by the Cu ban government. ' Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Harvard professor, told a house commit tee he feared the Roosevelt monetary plans would impede re covery. Senator Lewis (D-Ill) told the senate that Great Britain wants the St. Lawrence waterway for "a military avenue through the United States." John L. Lewis, president of the United mine workers, was ap pointed as a member of the na tional bituminous coal Industrial board. Margaret Sanger pleaded for federal birth control legislation. Ten Dead as Giant 3-Motor Plane Burns on Return From Long Flight CORBIGNT, France, Jan. 15. -(JP)-FlYe high French officials and five other persons were burn ed to death when the giant trt motored airplane, the Emeraude. the pride of the French commer cial fleet, fell In flames and ex ploded near here tonight on a re turn flight from French Indo china. The big four-ton plane caught fire apparently from a leaky gas line while battling a violent wind and hail storm over Neivre de partment, not far from Nerers where an American woman, Miss Evelyn O. Frost of New York and St. Louis, lost her life In a plane crash a week ago. The victims were: Piere Pasquier, governor gen eral of Indo-Chlna; Emmanual Chaumle, director of civil avia tion in the air ministry; Mme. Chaumle; M. Balasuc, director of technical services in the ai min istry; M. Nogues, traffic manager of the Air France company; M. Lanieu, attache of the air min istry; Captain Bussault, military aid of M. Pasquier; Pilot Launay, Wireless Operator Queyrel, and mechanic, Campbell. The plane and the passengers were burned completely before villagers were able to approach because of the intense heat. (By the Associated Press) The Insulls Samuel and Mar tin lost ground yesterday In widely separated countries in their tights to escape return to Chicago for trial on criminal charges resulting from the smash up of their utility empire. A Canadian court denied Mar tin Insult's motion tor discharge from custody, ending his liberty under $10,000 bond. While his attorneys planned an appeal. In sult went to Jail. In Turkey the minister of in terior issued an order barring Samuel Insull, Sr., brother of Martin, from that country should he seek refuge there. Insull must leave Greece by January 211 Editor Puts Up Baily Charge of Criminal Libel PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15.-(ff) -Bail of $1000 was posted In cir cuit court here today by Jack.R. Still, east ' side Post editor who was indicted .Saturday by the grand jury for publishing an al legedly libelous article about Mayor Joe Carson. . ' The article said it was rumored that criminal elements had con tributed a sum for the mayor's trio to the orient i LOSING III EH1H GOLD PLAN OF PRESENT TO Speedy Passage is Forecast As Treasury Corner on Metal is Sought Not Really Inflation Says Roosevelt; Would Issue Some Baby Bonds WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-(jpy Party leaders tonight freely pre dicted a tremendous vote of con fidence in President Roosevelt's monetary program when congress acts on the chief executive's re quested legislation for a minimum cut of 40 per cent in the dollar's gold value and bringing into the treasury the country's entire stock of monetary gold. Preparations went forward for speeding his proposals through the legislative mill, while even senate minority leaders conceded they would be able to muster not more than 27 votes in opposition, including five defections by con servative members of the presi dent's own party. The huge demo cratic majority in the house as sured approval by a large margin there. Mr. Roosevelt's request went to the capital today in a carefully and forcefully worded special message, which, reduced to its es sentials, asked congress for three things: To give the government, "by specific enactment,' 'title to "all supplies of American Owned monetary gold, with provision for the payment therefor in gold cer tificates." To "fii the upper limit of per missible revaluation" of the dol lar at 60 per cent of its present gold content, noting that "careful study" had led him to a belief "that any reraluation at more than 60 per cent of the present statutory (gold) value would not be in the public interest." To give the secretary of the treasury express authority to pur chase foreign exchange as well as to buy and sell gold at home and abroad and to establish from any profits on gold stocks derived from devaluation of the dollar a "fund of two billion dollars" with which to make such purchases. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Greta Garbo May Be Wed To Director WILLIAMS, Arts., Jan. 15.-(ff) -Greta Garbo and Reuben Ma moulian, their Incognito of "Mary Jones" and "Robert Bonjl hav ing failed them at Grand Can yon, where they deserted a suite of rooms soon after having regis tered, whirled .through Williams without stopping tonight. Their car sped out on U. S. highway 66, headed west. They entered Arizona at To pock, on the same highway, last Thursday, apparently crossed the state and entered New Mexico, and were on their way back to day when they were discovered, first at Holbrook, 115 miles east of here, where they spent the night in a little hotel owned by a man who turned out to be a movie fan. He recognized Miss Garbo. Whether they had been mar ried, still were seeking a quiet place to have the marital knot tied, or were merely, as the pseudo "Robert Bonjl" told a park official at Grand Canyon, "on a vacatlo n," no one but themselves knew. 1 Hevia Becomes President Of C uba; Affairs Chaotic HAVANA, Jan. 15.-A?-Carlos Hevia, S3 year old graduate of the United States naval academy, accepted the ' presidency of Cuba tonight after a chaotic day during which nobody knew who was run ning the country. - While bullets of guardsmen whined outside the presidential palace and three supporters of the retiring executive, Ramon Gran San' Martin, feu dead in the street, the quiet, swart former agriculture secretary decided to take over the office, after he had previously refused. - Between the time Gran, . San Martin submitted his resignation to a revolutionary Junta and the cabinet and Hevla's decision the utmost political confusion. pro Tailed, with rumors of an army rift, fears of another revolution. Boyer And Peavy Are Acting Executives at Schools; Drop Probe High Mark Made By Henderson in Aptitude Tests Winthrop Henderson of Port land was announced Monday by Willamette university officials as the member of the freshman class receiving the highest mark in the aptitude test recently con ducted by the university. Hender son received a mark of 329 com pared to the 157 median mark re ceived by 12,757 college freshmen throughout the nation who took the test. Only 26 other students in the recent examination excell ed Henderson. He is a graduate of Washington high school, Port land, in the class of 1933 and is enrolled In the liberal arts school of the university here. He is a member of Sigma Tau fraternity. CALLEDjy DEATH Headed Company With Larg Holdings Here; Active Until Near End SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15-JP-Andrew B. Hammond, 85, lumber magnate died at his home here today. He had been ill since May, but had continued active in varied business affairs in California, Ore gon and Montana until only a few weeks ago. He was president of the lumber company bearing his name, which had offices here, in Portland, Ore., Los Angeles, and mills in California and the north west. At his death he still retained a share of ownership in the Missou la Mercantile company of Monta na, which he organized many years ago, associated with C. H. Mc Leod, now of Missoula. His home was In Portland In the late '90's, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) FOOCHOW, China, Jan. 1. -(Tuesday) - (JP) - As the climax of the Chinese government's ef forst to quell an anti-nationalist revolt in Fukien province, nation alist sailors entered Foochow to day while the last of the 19 th route army retreated southward. The sailors took over control of the city and nationalist flags flew once more. Heavy firing from Chinese gun boats accompanied the entry of the marines. It caused some alarm which turned to a feeling of relief when Us nature was learned. No established authority existed within the city other than the leaderless police force, whose chief fled along with other rebels when the enemy threatened. A body of 30 United States sailors was on guard in the for eign quarter. They were landed to day from the American gunboat Tulsa and immediately went on guard in the quarter at request of Gordon Burke, American vice-consul. British and Japanese sailors and marines also are on duty. . The city was calm but appre hensive. A belief the crisis had passed predominated. rioting, and military preparations for trouble. Hevia at first said he would accept the Junta's offer that he head the government, but he later changed his mind, only to revert to the original decision. The sta tus' of Gran Ban Martin, the while, was conJecturaL Colonel Fulgenclo Batista, the commandant of .defense 'forces and former sergeant, had his troubles too, at Camp Columbia, where Major Pablo Rodrlgues, Grau's military; aide, who went to arrest the army chief, was him self arrested and held tor several hours by Batista's troops, t Immediately after Hevla's fi nal decision, the cabinet resigned in a body, and the worn of re- banding the government was in augurated. - i Hevla's only statement was, "1 am the president. ANDREW HAMMOND HUM chol 1 Morse Investigation Is Called Off; Marks To Head Board Truce Indicated With Kerr Still Actual Head of System PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. l&.-UT -The state board of higher educa tion today dropped its investiga tion of W. L. Morse, University of Oregon law school dean who had called for resignation of the board chairman and Chancellor W. J. Kerr. In dropping the investigation the board's resolution said "an understanding has been reached in which members of the board of higher education will work to- getber in a spirit of good will and high purpose." However the resolution warned that "should the same or like oc currences appear at any of the institutions hereafter, the boar J will take such action as the facts warrant." Another truce-suggesting action of the board was creating posi tions of acting presidents for Ore gon State college and University of Oregon. Presidents Chosen At Kerr Recommendation The board named Dr. C. V. Boyer, present dean of arts and letters acting president for th university and Dean George XV. Peavy, present head of the school of forestry and chairman of the administrative council acting' president of Oregon State college. These were the two recommended by Kerr, who is still chancellor of Oregon's system of higher ed ucation. Willard Marks of Albany was elected board chairman and C.-A Brand of Roseburg vice-chairman. Marks succeeds Ex-Chairman Res coe C. Nelson who resigned after such action had been demanded by Dean Morse. The resolution dropping the Morse Inquiry declared that maay things were done and said that should not have been, but the board members were partly re sponsible: that the board an has assurances that faculty mem- oers wm cooperate In the future, and that the board rwnmi.cj the chancellor as the official rep- " reseptatlve of the board and ef the institutions. Irvine Save Peace Outlook Excellent Unanimous approval was given the resolution. At the fconeloftfoa Of the vote B. F. Irvine. Inn staunch supporter of Chancellor K.err, made a plea for future peace and said he felt better over the prospects of neace than t has at any previous time. Chancellor Kerr erniainMi Mer ges In administrative policy for the Institutions made by the ooara since its creation. He explained the board first dropped all nlana for nnwM.ni, and established inter-Institutional J deans who have carried on cross- campus functions ever (nr Next the board reestablished the positions of presidents but failed; (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) World News at Glance a (Bv the Associated PtmhiI Domestic: NEW YORK The market fol lowed th nreKlAont'a f!nnit Sk. velopment with an upward trend. The general feeling in wall street was one of satisfaction over tho end of uncertainty. SAVANNAH, Ga.-Rear Admiral James J. Raby, commander of the first merchant convov under Am erican escort in the world war, died. Foreign! ' GENEVA The League of Nations- gives Germany opportunity to come back. HAVANA Carlos Hevle, 33 year old graduate of the U. 8. Na val academy, becomes president of Cuba as Gran San Martin leaven in hope of ending turmoil. CALCUTTA Twenty-four per--sons killed in India earthquake. . -: CORBIGNT, France Ten per sons killed,- including five i high government officials, when trf-mo-tored plane crashed on retimy flight from French Indo-Chlna. H