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i.CmCULATlbN THE WEATHER . TnSHOM with rains today -and MBtUjr. normal temper- f attire; MaxJ Temp. Saturday 48, Mln. 89, river 7.6 feet, rain ,70 lacV, south wind. - ' Distribution 1 Dec 'S3 - Net paid, daijy, SandaT,7074 POUNDED 1&51 L. . . 1 w EICiHTY-THlRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. January 21, 1934 .58 f I 111 I r fa II U MM III 1 1 I I rI I-! I -Jk 7TT:tr-?- " nZIV 1 III' I II I II lil v 7 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 111 II Illiri X I, I , I F I I T 1 . I -III lpV 4 HI; T r l" I n 1 1 Oil Vlllli'-s II I ) I I I I 1 l ii ill i I ii Kt-" f - v i I tri ji II i-i -- t.r iik. H l i ti r-l i J I - ft-1 ft.-1 lii j 1 1 ST I 1 1 I I I .l 'BI I VII I L - ; a. N.J I V! J I V.I T v. 1 ViS Jv sm A H I X F V. I Xa I I a I V J VJ V. I V" I V. I II I 1 I 1 JH r 3ifds,l lbwers oliticians rly Left Wing Bull-Frogs Lack Unity; Brown v And Burke Out N 'Spaulding May Decide $'j '-P Demos to v r : Be Aggressive By gfiELDQN P. SACKETT .' vRr-1" The lIrda.r trees, flowers - aad V- f the politicians point to n early spring. Th sap of ambition welled C last week in the veins of numerous V candidataes; a few buds unfolded ' A.tnto full public gaie. .' Sam Brown pushed aside the --,r, clods which hare covered his wln N - ter hibernation and revealed that Sv the Gerrais sauBagemaker was to , seek the gubernatorial nomination 'come' May. Brawn's candidacy is rf proof posIUve that the left wingers w who In '30 sapporte Jftllcs Meier I are not united on their, favorite 'r this spring. For last week from Newberg came word that Senator ' CsW.'E.' Burke Also win blom into v. , sgubernatorm flowed i-'Here in T"" .-.Salem., Senator Charles; K. Spanl K ding Is mulling over the situation, convinced that neither Brown nor Burke can via and that Salem really needs a candidate of its own. " N ' There will be a merry melee it vi-.X the Burke and Spaulding ambi- ttons come to fruition in an an , nouncement. for they will bump " into Ray Gill's rather definite Crf vC.-plans to take the field himself as t a candidate lor chief executive. Jf Probably Gill would be supported -by Rufus Holman, The latter is re C treating more and more from the V V political race as a candidate him- ws nf i tn h ' hit1-medi- ilft,'fli oici " " ntit ity nresent -.v governor. Holman's rage at Meier W s"- knows no bounds: be is relzine ef ery jBpporiuniiy vo iww m -- -public the opprobrium in which be f holds Ma erstwhile political tilll- cam. Sj, Meier's Bpokesman . . -Tr- m"nr TIta Time ! iTi rnvarnnr'l nolitic&l snok'S- f v":"- man, Henry Hanxen, shronds the f. y. i.iuiinni nf til candidate with i the mystery wnicn aways t I opes Hansen's political brooding. 'V ..TT.fin prefers to watch and wait. I v 'V' feeling assured the more Imna f ir-v tlent candidacies to flower, the i ' v5t..4. tarrf announcement I - - intonttAn tn run by Meier. V .Senator Brown, It is reliably if stated, eipects to put about $50. 'V Into a car expense fund for his junket of the state. It that runs - out. Brown will walk,, a la Mr. ,t Murray of Oklahoma; Brown styles his candidacy one for the , -common people" byi-avman-who lirTlntlmately acquainted with the needs of the common ioi aMaAM r - - Senator Joe Dunne f Multno- Sm-n" eonntv is not adverse to be ting talked as a candidate for governor. He figures nelLi strong .nil tn dairvmen. with the sUte iV-jaotorisU associations and has a - .' inn i veu-nowB y mi eould roll op thousands of vote. " " s h (a tot afraid to ontest against" Meier, provided the field is not too crowded. tit funeral 3Urtl ,ta -.' rallng Democrat , - Talk to democrats and you fina "ithat General Martin Is the most s v aiscnssea ,ttireiuw -- M94in-while little known per- 2 ona Ur outside of Portia n d . ap "VytT pears to have convinced his par- r-tisans that he is a forthrignt, rug ged lellow who would make. a "-; rrA mernor. So the democrats . are - making' no aanouncemenu until Martin-maks np. hls mind. Ex-Senator Ed Bailey of Eogene Hkes to talk over the situation s y. and would not be adverse to run ning If the setup was more fa "I vorable than In 1930 when Bailey t j v voraoie uua in w wucu a.-lnrlfl-handed fisht for ?!T the executive position and strain-.-bA hta nersonal finances: so much , y - so that he has avowed he will not . 't make the race this year without outside help. ' ' "Two supreme court Judgeships - must be filled by the voters In Tv J May. Position four now held . by "T ""'Chler Justice John I Rand and - position, seven held by "Justice - - George Rossman are to be filled for. the next six years. It Is un " derstood both, IncumbenU will tH f-Jfceek reelection. Circuit Judge JSGeort - Bagley of Washington . county VIII seek elevation to the , supreme bench, he announced this week, contesting against Justice a-i--Ttand. Bagley first took the bench V k- U 1015 and haa Ikeld his position ftir three' . consecutive six-tear terms. He would Jike to round out his career br service on the high- MhW . H aaaaa,. . -j"- . a ' "Judgeship election stare non-par-r tlsan; it a man, gets a majority of , . 'the totes In May he la elected; If no candidate wins a majority, the ' 'jftwo candidates -with the, 'highest Z?,-. plurality run Jn the fall election. ivT Politlca la CtonntyB - & VVv Also to Bloom Early'' ..: - ' '. , The poUtlcal situation Ini Ma. v afT . .. . mil ' l i adaT - aMr rnnnnai . in ma kixi k. . Ann rion county pouucs aiso snows vldences - of; spring i awakening. r Point Spring Here World News at- a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: ST. PAUL. Negotiations ready to start with kndnapers tor re lease of abductedi bank president. LANSING. Kas. Escaped con victs free kidnaped teacher; search veers to northern Okla homa. CHICAGO. Dr. Alice Wyne- koop insists trial resume Monday Foreign: TOKYO Overtures to United States foreseen in foreign minis ter's address. GENEVA. League of nations appoints .committee to study pro tection Saar basin residents. HAVANA. Disorder flares as 25,600 physicians and nurses strike to force college into medi cal federation. Pioneer Silverton Dentist Dies; Born There and Practiced 48 Years SILVERTON, Jan. 20. Dr. A. F. Blackeby, pioneer in dentistry at Silverton, died at his home here Friday following an Illness of sev eral 1 months. He was bprn , June 30, 1853, at Drift Creek, three miles irom Silverton, a son of J. M. and Cassandra Blackerby, who. came to Silverton tn 1S4S with ox teams. The older Blackerby was a physician and was the first doctor to locate In Silverton, where he re mained in 'practice until a few years prior to hisdeath. He car ried his own medicines and was compelled to ride horseback in making most of his calls, often times fording and swimming the streams before the highways and bridges were built. ' Dr. A. F. Blackerby entered the dental office of Dr. L. S. Skiff of Salem and later took post-graduate work In dental colleges at Philadelphia and Los Angeles. He remained with Dr. Sklf until 1886 in which year he was li censed to practice dentistry. In (Turn to Page 3. Col. 2) Damages of $3000 Awarded in Case Of Fatal Crash A Marlon, county Jury late Sat urday awarded damages of $3500 to H. M. Mead, administrator of the estate of son John Arthur Mead, 12, who died July 22, 1S33, In an auto-truck collision one and one - half miles north of Wood burn. Defendant liable for the damages was the Silver Wheel,, Motor Truck line. Jointly named with Henry Kunz, . truck driver, the plaintiff sued for $10,000. Robert Mead, 8, also died In the accident, the motnprof the lads befnr the driver. Mead, a minis ter, has filed suit for $10,000 for th; estate of the other, boy and the second case is on the January court docket. here. Judge L. H. McMahan heard the case which lasted five days. . CONFERENCE ENDS EUGENE, Jan. td(Jf)-T. J. Wheeler of the Milton Eagle was elected president of the Oregon Press conference for 193 5 at the closing luncheon of the annual ed itors' meeting on the university campus today. Mr. Wheeler suc eeceds Harris Ellsworth of Rose burg, who has served for the past two years. The editors declared themselves unfavorable to a reauest of the Oregon motor bus eode authority that they accept advertising front only those motor bus companies which were observing the code regulations. GET' EIGHT, MONTHS PORTLAND, Jan, 20.-(3VFed-erar Judge Fee today sentenced nine persons to eight months In federal prison and fined' them $100 each, when they pleaded guilty to selling liquor to Indians, v Th08e sentenced; were: Jesse Tonng, .Fred Bahite, Sevrln J. Holness, Fred Jeske, Eugene Ro lie, Presidio Conception. Jin: Flan nery, George Ward and Jack .Knowlton. BE BURIED MONDAY RELEASE GIVEN BATTLES Sheriff Understood Judge McMahan Dkeh Accorded Good Time for Work War on Chicken thieves' is Cited in Explanation Of Mileage Costs In an extended statement- is sued late resterday, Sheriff A. C, Burk explained his position in the Edward Battles Jail release case, a matter Judge L. H. Mc Mahan earlier in the week laid before the fraud ury for inves tigation. Burk, back from return ing a prisoner to the state from Los Angeles, expressed regret that the matter had occurred dur ing his absence and said Battles' release was through' a misunder standing in Judge McMahan's In structions. "My impression from an out growth of a conversation with Judge McMahan, Burk stated, "was that a prisoner serving time in the county Jail should be al lowed a day's good time for every- day that he had been work ing for the county, provided of course that the man was not a vicious prisoner." Burk said his deputy, Newell Williams, 'had been apprised of the conversation with. Judge Mc Mahan and that the policy of re leasing prisoners in less than halt the sentenced time dated back to Burk's conversation with the court. " Mixup Ocean While " Sheriff is Away Burk's statement, which also referred to mileage costs brought on by an ; Intensive campaign ' to round up chicken v thieves,, fol lows: "Upon my return to Salem Sat urday morning from Los Angeles, where I had gone to -'return - a prisoner from that state, X was naturally very much surprised to find the situation that seems to have developed in my absence, in the Everett Battles' ease. -1 Im mediately went into - conference with my chief deputy, Newell Williams, who has been charged with the responsibility of the office during my absences In at tempt to ascertain what the true situation was, and wherein lay the difficulty. "About the first or second week after I had taken office, I made it a special point so that there would be cooperation be (Turn to Page 3, Col. 1) EDMUND IV. SIMON FUNERAL MONDAY Edmund N. Simon, 54, senior member of the Salem Hardware company, died at his home, 1077 North Summer street, early Sat urday morning, following an Ill ness of several months. Simon was born in. Altura, Minn., and came to Salem 35 years ago, but later returned to spend several years in the east. He was a director in the Northern Hardware company of Portland and in the Oregon Hardware Men's association. He was a mem ber of the Knights of Columbus. He is survived by his widow. Eva Simon; by three brothers, L. N., W. N., and F. N. Simon; a sister, Mrs. Mary Hinges and his father, John Simon, all of Salem. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 a. m. from SL Vincent de Paul Catholic church. Father Thomas V. Keenan offi ciating. Wheeler Heads Editors Liquor Sellers Fined Storm Warnings Are Up I Social Worker is Hurt Frank Wade, indicted on the same charge, pleaded not guilty and his case was set for January 29. A plea of not. guilty was en tered by Dewey Ostby, charged with selling liquor to aa Indian. His case was set for January $1. 31 -MILE WIND BLOWS -PORTLAND, Jan. 2 0. - iJP) -Storm warnings were ordered up tonight at all coast guard stations from the mouth of the Columbia river to the northern extremity of the Washington coast, - ' The sea was 'rough, rain was falling and a 31-mile wind was re corded at the southern end of the promised coastal Btortn. - ft THROWN FROM HORSE f BEND, Jan. 20.-p)-A horse back ride resulted in painful hut not serious injuries here today for Miss Marion Bowen, formerly with the University of Oregon social service staff, who now heads so cial work in Desohutes county. ' Miss Bowen lost control of her horse and was thrown into a pile of rocks. She was taking an eve ning Jaunt east of Bend, when her horse bolted. .;.vft' Baby Figuring in To Hospital The baby heroine of the flight from Texas to Baltimore, iu., tnruuK4 a raging blizzard with Jimmy Wedell, racing aviator, five-months-old Sue Trammell is pictured as she left Johns Hopkins Hospital, . Baltimore, following recovery from the brain operation that savel ber life. Norse Anne Swlnson is holding the mite. Mrs. W. B. Trammell, Sue's mother, is at right. MM M M E Appreciation of Fine Arts Is Purpose; 25 Charter Members at Meet Organization of the Oregon State Art Museum association was formally begun here last night when a constitution and by-laws were adopted by 25 charter mem bers meeting at -the state -office building. The object of the asso ciation, according to its constitu tion, will be "to increase and dif fuse knowledge and appreciation of the fine arts." Nearly 60 local citizens have Already become members of the association and a number of Port landers have indicated their sup port of the museum plan. Chair man of the Portland group of supporters for the association is Mrs. Harold Dickson Marsh. Oth er members include Senator Wil liam F. Woodward, Thomas Bil yeu and Miss Helen Calbreath. Antone Piers, Portland painter, was an interested out-of-town at tendant at last night's gathering. Members will be classed &3 act ive, contributing, sustaining, do nors, patrons and honorary. Annu al payments for active members will be $1, for contributing mem bers $5; for sustaining members $10. Contributions of $100 make one eligible for election as a donor; of $200 for election as a patron. Members of the state board of control will be ex-officio members of the museum association.' Con trol of the organization will be vested in a director, subject to the executive committee which is to be elected -annually and to Include the officers of the association. (Turn to Page 3, Col. 3) Cheered by higher prices for fox pelts which have prevailed since last fall, 60 members of the Oregon State Fox Breeder's as sociation gathered here Saturday for their annual statewide meet ing.' Professor B. T. Lewis of the state college at Corvallis outlined the work of the experimental sta tions in Oregon and pledged the beginning of a station for fox ex periments next summer. The association voted to send a resolution to Oregon's congres sional delegation, opposing any reduction In funds for the federal biological survey and asking that the federal division of fur resour ces in the agricultural department be maintained. . - Officers of the association were reelected for 1934: E. N. Walker of Gresham succeeding as pres ident; K. F. Brown of Indepen dence as vice-president and Eu gene Finlay of Jefferson as secretary-treasurer. Frank Glaser of Jefferson and James O'Hara of Lebanon were elected directors for three year terms.. ,The association voted to eon duct summer schools in fox rais ing throughout the state and also to sponsor divisional meetings under the auspices of the associ ation. Resumption of a state fox show was discussed but no final decision was reached at the meet ing. Members considered at some length. a cooperative plan for sell ing, fox pelts each, winter. ,F6x pelts of good quality were reported to have brought from $30 to $50 last fall although breeding pairs have fallen to as low as $250. MB FOX PELT nDUSTRY Airplane Race s Entirely Well Now cream mm E Higher Price to Farmer for Cream Required; Gehlhar Issues Regulations The entire ice cream industry in Oregon, both wholesale and re tall, was placed -under the code, the first industry thus affected by the legislative act passed by the special session of the legislature last month. The code was issued Saturday by Max Gehlhar, stale code director. As a condition manufacturers hare been ordered to increase the price paid the farmers for cream. Prices to be paid farmers for sweet cream, which need not be from B grade milk, are fixed on a sliding scale from 35 cents per pound butterfat to 62 cents per pound butterfat, based upon the price of butter, with the mini mum of 35 cents per pounds goin into effect immediately. Reports have come in of butter fat going into ice cream now be ing purchased from farmers as flow as 18 cents per pound, Geh lhar said. AH manufacturers will be placed under a license and will be required to file reports giving the name of farmers from whom they have purchased cream, and the number of pounds purchased, together with the amount of ice cream manufactured. The order fixes the wholesale selling price of bulk ice cream at $1 to $1.10 a gallon in different sections of the tsate, and the re tail price of 20 cents per pint. Catering ice cream and specialties will carry a slightly higher rate. The order enacting the code covering the industry prohibits the continuation of a large variety of unfair practices and trade abuses, and the administration of the code is placed in the hands of a committee from the industry it self. Director Gehlhar named, to sit On the ice cream board, George Fullenwider, Carlton, president of the Oregon Dairymen's asocia tlon; J. J. VanCleek, Scholls; Mark Johnson, Astoria; C. . L. Starr, Portland, and John Car cock, Prlneville. 56 CENTS PI ON STATE TAX DOLLAR On the total tax bill sent Ore gon real property taxpayers last year, Old Man Oregon and his political subdivisions counties, cities, school districts collected only 56 cents on the dollar In 1933, the state tax commission announced yesterday. Last year's total tax rolls amounted to $41, 993.878; of these $18,379,999 re mained unpaid when - the taxes becani past due November i, 1933. The state and its subdivisions' were more than a year behind in average tax. payments; the com mission showed, $45,906,000 be ing due and uncollected Novem ber 5. This Included taxes for 1932 and former years. On taxes collectible in 1932,'15 per cent were still unpaid; on taxes collec tible, in 1932, 2-8 per cent were unpaid. Marion county with a delin quency of only 3 7 per cent : was considerably above . the average, Multnomah county 'being lowest with 33 per cent delinquencies and Wheeler highest with 82 per cent of the eurrent taxes unpaid. The ,1930 tax roll totalled $50,161,000, the commisrioa re ported. The 1932 tax roll, collec tible last year, had been reduced to $ 4 2,0 0 0,00 0. VrsS : , 1 STATE Virtual Agreement on All Details ; of Courthouse T Reached, Reported New and; Faster Elevator For Passengers is One Feature Arranged . Substantial agreement has been made; between architects work ing on . the enlarged courthouse plans and county officials on the location ?of Una tarious office, their size and the general plan tor remodeling the bulling. Drawings now being made and planned for completion by Febru ary 15, call for a marked enlarge ment of the structure. Additions 25 ;by 38 feet in size will be placed on the north and south sides of the. building, filling in the recesses now existing in the structure.. These additions will be carried' four stories high, adding 1900 feet of square root floor cpaee on each floor. This total of 7600 square feet of additional space, is 200,0 square feet more than the footage on one floor of the .present ; courthouse, meaning that the equivalent of one and one-half floors will be added to the old building under the new plans. Main Entrance to Be 6n Ground Floor The present steps on the east and west will be done away. with. Main entrance will be placed on the ground floor on the west side with another entrance placed on the ground floor on the east side of the building. The corri dor running throughout the build ing will remain on the main first floor but on each floor above that the interior corridor will be shorteneC and narrowed .to gain u;ace for the effiees. Light will be filtered into the corridors through glass windows into each office, the latter being lighted from the numerous windows on each floor. The outside posts and ornamentation of the additions to the structure will conform ex actly to the present courthouse exterior. A description of eich proposed floor follows: First floor: (present baserymt floor): This will contain offices for the sheriff and for the tat collectors. Unassigned space will probably be used by welfare agen cies. There will be a room suitable for storage of election materials and a large vault for the use of the sheriff. Space has been pro vided for a telephone exchange on this floor. Both elevators will start on this floor, the new one. for passengers, being of greater speed than the present courthouse elevator which will be reserved for freight use and for the use of the sheriff in taking prisoners to the top floor of the courthouse. The new elevator will have an (Turn to Page 3, Col. 3) Aubrey C. Crawford was sen tenced to two years in the state penitentiary yesterday morning by Judge L. H. McMahan and im mediately paroled to Bert Smith, deputy sheriff. Crawford recently was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a circuit court, jury. He drove a car early morn ing last August which struck the machine of Ray Gilbert, night watchman of the Valley Motof company. Gilbert died! - The Judge revoked Crawford's driver's license during the period of the parole. " CRAWFORD EN 1 m m Speclacu lar Rise in Bond Market Marks Past Week (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 20. - OP) -President -Roosevelt's project to define more closely the value of the dollar prompted one Of the largest buying waves in corporate bonds in Wall street this week ever experienced In any financial market in the world. Advances in corporate bonds were the most sweeping since the investment market registered its depression low in the summer of 1911, and on the basis of available records, the week's upswing was probably the sharpest, tor any like period of time In the history of the New iTork . mark et,"" ! 1 s The" turnover la bonds In the stock; exchange for the week ex ceeded $120,000,000 par value, the-; largest 'for any i week J since June, 1924, or in nearly 10 years. The only week on record exceed ing this week by a substantial margin was the last week of 1919, when a huge; turnover in Liberty bonds. ', boosted the. total . ovef $150,000,000. Corporate Issues ac-i eounted, lor. the n bulk.xot; this Smothering Vote of 360 to 40 Accorded Measure Asked .' "By President; Democratic Strength Virtually Shuts Off Debate; Despite Republican Protests" and Claims ; . Measure's Backers Don'tKnow Its Provisions Opposition Concentrates on Move.'to Have Expenditure " Controlled by Board but Gets Nowhere; Two Billions In Stabilization Fund; Huge Borrowing Plan is Told to Federal Reserve Officers by Morgenthau WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (AP) The Roosevelt dollar devaluation bill tonight swept through the house to passage by a smothering.rnajority of 360 to 40. A noisy impatient membership rushed the measure through the final stages; with debate almost entirely shnf 'off at the motion of democratic leaders, backed by their huge voting strength, j Republican leaders complained time and again of "gag rule," and charged the democrats with ignorance of tha measure they were passing. One, Beedy of Maine, went so far as to assert that "not 12 men" of the 435, in the house could explain its provisions to their constituents. The Washington Spotlight (By the Associated Press) The house passed President Roosevelt's bill to reduce the gold content of the dollar, trans fer federal reserve gold to the treasury and set up a $2,000, 000,000 stabilization fund. - President Roosevelt empowered the federal trade commission to hear complaints dissatisfied with decisions of the NRA. Joseph B. Eastman, coordina tor of transportation, advised congress that public ownership of railroads seemed best in the long run but unwise now. Carl L. Ristine, Missouri attor ney, wag appointed to investigate ocean wnd air mail contracts for the department of justice. Chamber of commerce repre sentatives urged congress to fix the gold content of the dollar and remove presidential power to change it, Secretary Ickes signed a mar keting agreement for the oil in dustry. Fedeial reserve officials prom ised to help the government bor row 310,000,000,000 in the next five and one-half months. The lepartoaent of justiice dis closed that Albert Bates and Har vey Bailey, kidnapers, have gone on hunger strikes in Leavenworth prison. Secretary Wallace proposed a referendum upon licensing of cot ton gins. INDICT BANK EMPLOYE PORTLAND, Jan. ZO-i-Lloyd E. Burbridge was indicted here to day by a federal grand Jury, tor embezzlement of funds from the First National bank of Portland. Burbridge was, formerly a savings teller at the bank here. week's huge trading, however, and activity In those issues probably came close to anything ever ex perienced in any week in the stock exchange. . In each full day, transfers' ex ceeded $20,000,000, although In no single day did the volume equal that : 330,000,000 day of March 20, 1930. : While the plan to restrict tbe fluctuations of the dollar to be tween CO and 50 per cent of its old parity served to quell the In flationary, fears of holding fixed Income securities, growing bant deposits and an Increasing convic tion that Business recovery was at last on theVway were also said to be prime- factors for -'the renewed demand la the Investment market, it was notable that buying con verged la a large degree in ; the semi , - speculative Issues, as in vestors were Inclined to look for high yields, for protection, against any rise In Interest .rates which may, result from'the treasury's huge financing program,' but gilt edged Issues and U. - S-Gq? era ments maintained a firn tone, -:- ljjl j 1 But the democrats, relying con- fidently on the leadership of Pres ident Roosevelt, shouted down all amendments except those of fered on behalf of the adminis tration and demanded a roll call vote to put all, republicans an4 democrats alike, on record as op posing or supporting the pres ident. Realizing they fought a hope less cause from the start and hii not the slightest chance of de feating the bill, the opposition concentrated 'upon an effort to put a board In charge of expen ditures from the two billion dol lar stabilization fund. The bill specified that it be administer--d by the secretary of the treasury When the question was put to an oral vote, the proponents of the amendment shouted their loudest. The confident democrats laugh ed when they demanded a rising vote and were borne out when th. count showed 168 against the amendment to 73 in favor of It. While the house was consider ing the bill. Secretary Morgen thau explained government fi nancing plans to the high officers of the federal reserve system an 1 received assurances ' of their sup port. The conference extended over several hours and gave op portunity for a thorough review, of the financial situation. , A total of $10,000,000,000 musr be borrowed in the next fire ani one-half months. A treasury amendment ..voted into the bill was designed to facilitate this. ' huge operation. Standard Wage For Hop Field WorkDifficult SANTA ROSA, Cal.. Jan. 20 (JP) - Efforts to fix a standard wage In California for hop field workers disclosed such varying la bor conditions that no agreement was reached at a meeting of growers here -today, Dan L. Steele, Santa Rosa, who presided at the meeting of grow ers from Sonoma. Mendocino, anj Sacramento counties, said it' was decided to let the matter rest for the time being. The average wa-?e In most sections now seems to be 20 cents an hour, he said. Injury Escaped In 20-Foot Fall Apparently the victim of a 20 foot fall from a stairway, Russeh Crosson, 875 Oak street, wav found by police in an uncon scious condition at 170 South Liberty about 9 o'clock Saturday night. At the Salem General hvv : pital where Crosson was taken lif ambulance, no broken bones nor ! other indication of serious injury were found. tint he wUl rema?n there until this afternoon for ob- 4 servation. ' - Insanity Claim Of Son's Slayer DENVER, Colo Jan. 20-Wi -Donald K. Smith, Littleton farm er. Who, ; authorities said, - con' fessed. he. stomped' hn baby son. Donald, to death, appeared Ut district .court rat JLIttletoa . toda v,; and changed his, plea to a mur-, der -charge from" not guilty to' nt : guilty by reason ,f insanity. Ke'i was ordered committed to. the ; Colorado psychopathie hospital tot observation during :,the nes t ten days, - - - I A i