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i te r-f : 4 2 e. I i -i i I l) 1 I; n i J ': A - - MCIRCULATION: i - Average Daily; and Sunday - r lor January, 1934": Distribution 7412 Y- 'i Net ' Paid 7016 Member of X B. C EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR c Kidnaper of Boettcher and Bohn, Suicide on Eve of Court Appearance Alcorn to Plead; Leader's Act Surprise; Neckties Made into Noose SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. 8.-(A")-Verne Sankey, klndnper and gangster, called "America's pub lie enemy, Nd; 1" cheated the law tonight by committing suicide. He banged himself with two necktie In his cell at the South Dakota state penitentiary here, where he was held on federal charges of conspiracy- to kidnap for $(0,000 ransom last February, Charles Boettcher II. Denver broker. His body was found by a guard stationed - in a corridor nearby. The nntnrlnm nntlaw after fa shioning a crude noose with the ties, knotted It to a bar, then step ped off his cot. V,. r Tfeelr. denntr United States marshal!, one of the two guards assigned to Sankey'g cell block, discovered the body. Al though be bad been in tne corri dor at the time, he was out of sight of Sankey. -Thn ended the law's nlan to tend Sankey to prison for a term op to life imprisonment. HIa coua al - n n 'T.milra. rMnvcr.4: kad ri!ar'.oi Ranker bad Blanhed to plead guilty tomorrow to a charge - of conspiracy to kidnap ior ran som In the Boettcher case. With his comnanion. Gordon Alcorn, Sankey was to bare gone Into court tomorrow to pieaa Both. Sankey and Alcorn were ar rested last week at Chicago. Find No Connection With Mndberch Case Sankey was long suspected of Implication In the fatal abduction cf the Lindbergh baby, but after lengthy grilling following his ar rest In Chicago, federal officials said they had been unable to con sect him with the case. Michael Kinkead, county attor ev of Ramsay county, Minne iota. In charge of the Bohn In vestigation, who made a search of the Sankey ranch Baid he discov ered a complete account of the Lindbergh kidnaping there. Sankey steadfastly maintained Innocence of any connection with the case, however, and It was fi n decided to extradite him to enih naVnta to stand trial for the Boettcher abduction. He f aeed life Imprisonment on conviction. An alleged plot to abduct for (Turn to page , col ty World News at a Glance n the Associated Press) 8T. PATJIV Minn. Edward G. v..v MlsaaAd bV kld- napera after payment of $200,- . SlOint FALLS, S. D. Verne Sankey, eonressea aianaper, cum nits aulclde in cell by hanglnj. w ottivnTON President Rooserett seeks to protect rising commodity ana sioc v v " - against tog mucn specmauuu. w i eirrwr!"mv Senate TOtes $960,000,000 additional tor cirll Works ana OlSiresn lencM Jectlng oemana ior i,ouw,vww, 00. " a cnTMHTftN tT. 8. has BO -air defense, compared with Ear- ope, William Miteneu teiia con gress. r. r-- WASHINGTON - Regulations tightened against lobbyists angl lng for gOTernment contracts. ' NEW TORK rSeerelary Ickea, replying to Ogdea .L. Mffls cri ticism of admlnlstraUon, declares country has been restored to ar eraga man. WASHINGTON House com mittee favors repeal of bank check tax, lower postage In iec ond class brackets. . . Foreign: '?Z''r? r,- . ' PARIS : - Riots 1 lubslda U Doumerguo begins moulding new sTOTernment, r :: ' VIENNA Marxist plot dis covered . in police, raids; thous nonn CLOSES CASE AGAINST VERNE SANKEY ands of bombs seized. Enemy Reunited After -Abductors Paid - ' i , t Edward G. Bremer aad the wife who had faith that he was still live despite strong evidence to the contrary shortly after he was kidnaped January 17. be Era s That is, if He Pays Large Fine; No Privileges Given at Island McNeil island federal PRISON, Wash., Feb. 9.-VP)-Ralph Capone, brother of Scarface Al, the gangster, leaves the "beautiful prison without walls" February 27, after an Illuminat ing experience in one of Amer ica's most remarkable .peniten tiaries. . That is, Capone gets out on the 27th after serving a sentence for income tax violation, if he pays a fine of $10,000, Warden Finch R. Archer said today. "If he does hot pay this fine and can take the pauper's oath," said the warden of McNeil, he will, of course, have to serve SO days longer for the fine, bat un der the law this fine still holds good as long as the man lives, providing he acquires any prop erty." McNeil Island prison Is unus ual because it has no walls, near ly 1,000 men are allowed to work at improving prison facilities and studying with few guards, few re strictions, "no attempts to break their spirit" and extraordinarily cheerful conditions under which to lire and better their education. "These men are happy because they have hope," said Warden Archer. "They are trained, but not cod dled. Ralph Capone is an exam ple. Shortly after he was convict (Turn to page 2, col. 2) m I ekes Hits Back at Mills For Quest ioning Program NEW YORK, Feb. S.-OVSeo- retary Harold L. Ickes of the in terior department tonight took issue with Ogden L. Mills for rais ing his "faint voice" to charge that "whatever the administration was doing was wrong." The "faint voice" came last week, Ickes laid, from the Hoov er secretary of the treasury as he "wended his lugubrious way to Topeka, Kan., to tell the free thinking, hard-hitting farmers of the middle west that It were far better lor them to starve by strict constitutional methods than to live by a liberalised interpreta tion of that fundamental docu ment" -The federal public works ad ministrator addressed a dinner meeting of the Surrey Associates, Ine. His speech was broadcast. . "With black band on arm and hat at half-mast he mourned the Noil Hangs Self in BREMER FREED AFTER RANSOM IS Kidnapers Given $200,000; Details of Negotiation Partly Revealed Physician is Sent to Treat Wounds While Banker Still is Captive (Copyright. 1934. by The Asso ciated Press) ST. PAUL, Feb. 8 .--Free dom, bought and paid for with a fortune in money was Edward G. Bremer's again today when he re turned from 22 days in a kidnap ers' lair, wounded and exhausted. The full $200,000 ransom, $85,000 in $5 bills and the rest In $10 bills, was delivered by Walter Magee Tuesday night after a hitch in previous plans for payment had thwarted arrangements, arousing fresh anxiety among the family that Bremer might never return. Magee, wealthy contractor friend who received the first ran som note January 17 when the banker was seized, was sworn to secrecy and would not reveal de tails of the ransom payment. It was learned, however, that sometime prior to last Saturday Magee received instructions from the gang. He was to take a bus from SI. Paul at a specific hour, go to a certain Des Moines, la., hotel and register under an as sumed name, having in his pos session the money. The gang sup plied the name he was to use. Date Not Kept as Money Is Locked Up There he was told to await fur ther word. However, when Magee received the communication, the money was under a time lock In a St. Paul bank and the plan could not be carried out. Several days passed without further signs from the captors. prompting Adolph Bremer, father of the banker, to Issue his appeal and offer of last Saturday for three days and three nights in which to negotiate secretly with out police Interference. (Turn to page 2, col. 1) L .0. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. Purses will be held up until Sat urday on the Ted Cox -Howard Cantonwine "metal hand" wres tling match here last night, the- Portland boxing commission an nounced today. Cox. of Lodl, Cal.. had sheet lead taped to his hand when he took the deciding fall from the Des Moines, la., grappler, a po lice report showed. Blows from that hand apparently decided the bout. In his report to headquarters Traffic Officer George Phillips de scribed the post-bout "free-for- alL" Cox was holding the band age, Phillips reported. "I asked him to give it to me and he said he wouldn't and that If I didn't get out of the ring, he would Doke me in the Jaw. He swung; at me once and missed." Phillips retrieved the bandage, which his report said contained "a piece of sheet lead about one eighth of an Inch thick and about four inches long." glories of the departed past." said Ickes of Mills criticism, of the Roosevelt policies. "Initiative was stricken with palsy. Liberty was dead. The good old days of govern ment of the rich and powerful tor the rich and powerful at the ex pense of the great mass of the people were gone forever. , "Those days are gone, let us hope, forever. I believe we are at the dawn of a new era when the average man, woman and child in the United States will have an op portunity for a happier and richer Ufa." Secretary Ickes said that "a bloodless revolution" occurred in the election of November 8. 1932, and in his Judgment "we. .have turned our backs definitely and finally upon an era that history will appraise as at once sordid, ruthless and glorious." NOT m USED N MAT K Salem, Oregon, Friday Horning, February 9, 1934 SUCCESSOR 3fi f , . . Confesses He Wrecked Train A1 ;iV..vV.i?..y i tf "A At AV X " A. . f -(. A 4 A. .4 Frank Hoyt, 32, of Vancouver, Hull., confessed aner his ar rest the other day that he at tempted to wreck an S. P. . train and that he had caused a wreck at Wishrara which cost two lives last August. He partly confessed, but later denied, It was said, getting fires in several cities incloding Salem. Inter national Illustrated News photo. Boeing Company Tops List With 90 Per Cent Gain for 1932 Program (Copyright," 1934, by Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.-(-A governmental audit showing that private contractors had made prof its as much as 90 per cent on army airplane orders was submit ted to members of congress today for their study. The 90 per cent profit was cred ited to the Boeing Airplane com pany for Its 1932 contract work And from 1928 through eight months of 1933, the auditors fig ured Boeing's total army airplane sales were $4,529,208, and its av erage profit 32 per eent. The house military affairs com mlttee will investigate these fig ures. The house naval committee already is making a similar in qulry. Detailed figures on army contract profits did not become available until today. The audit showed that the Pratt - Whitney company from 1927 through the first four months of 1933 collected $12, 080,222 from the army for air plane engines, making a 23 per cent profit. In 1927 the army bought $326,- 78 worth of "Hornet"' engines from Pratt-Whitney, on which the- contractor was shown to have made 73 per cent; in 1928 the army paid Pratt-WMtney $220,- 139 for "Wasp" engines on which the company's profit was placed at 48 per cent. Gubernatorial Race 12 Years Hence Planned PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. Z.-1P-Something new in Oregon polit ical strategy a gubernatorial can dldate for the 1946 democratic primaries. "Why 1946?" Due to state laws no person under 34 mar hold this executive position," Thomas L. Traylor, 22, of Port land, naively explains on election cards. The cards also list his headquarters and campaign-chair man. Would Organize Grocers in Polk DALLAS, Feb. 8. A meeting for organizing food and grocery dealers in Polk county, except West tSalem, will be held Friday night, February 9, at the court house here. The purpose Is to se lect a food and grocery code auth ority for Polk county and the meeting Is being called at the re quest of Theodore Roth of Salem, state grocery code Authority. The meeting was called by Iran War ner of Dallas and it is expected that Mr. Roth wiU attend the meeting. HUGE PROFIT IDE 1 ARMY'S PLANES FOUNDEP 1651 H I SKI 9fc 3fc 3fi 9 x-President's Selection is Expected to Result in Peace Restoration Delay in Cabinet Naming is Explained by Desire to Please All Groups (Copyright, 1934. by the Asso ciated Fress) PARIS. Feb. 8 The aged and venerated Gaston Doumergue led anxious France alopg the path to peace today after 48 hours of violence, but the pre mier-elect met difficulties as he sought a "cabinet of political truce." A veteran of political strife as former minister, premier and president. Doumergue worked to perfect his "salvation govern ment" in an atmosphere of saa ness, with flags everywhere at half staff in honor of victims in T u e s d a y's and Wednesday's nights of terror. His smiling arrival from bis peaceful country home this morning brought a happy rush of affection by a greatly-relieved ci tizenry, who acclaimed him witn shouts of "vlve Doumergue!" and followed his automobile almost worshipfully. He hoped to build his "minis try tf premiers' in 12 hours, but his secretary tonight admitted that tbe task would have to con tinue tomorrow. Policemen and guards, mean while, got a breathing spell to night from what the French press itself described as "Insur rection" or "civil war" that took a toll officially set at 12 dead and thousands injured, with heavy property damage. There was one minor riot near the Madeleine church this even ing. This the police quickly broke up. The general run of (Turn to page 5, col. 3) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-V The Crown Zellerbacb -corpora tion of San Francisco was charg ed with violating the Clayton anti-trust act In a formal com plaint filed by the federal trade commission here today. Through an agreement in con nection with acquisition of the Crown Willamette Paper com pany, the commission charged the Crown Zellerbacb corpora tion illegally acquired all capital stock of subssldlary competing concerns. The commission declared the stock arrangement gave the Crown Zellerbach control of the manufacture and sale of 80 per cent of newsprint produced in Pacific coast states. It charged that as a result interstate sale of paper has been restrained. Under the acquisition agree ment completed March 30, 1928, the commission asserted, all com mon stock o' the Crown Willam ette Paper company passed to ownership of the Crown Zeller bach corporation. Mania Cited in Killing at L. A. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8-(jFr-.V sudden fit of homicidal mania suf fered -Jjy Clarence Walter, 41, former Montana wheat field work er, was blamed by a coroner's Jury today for the death of his knife victim, Charles Edwin Woolver ton, 21, radio announcer of Grand Junction, Colo., who was fatally stabbed in the head at radio sta tion KHJ here last Monday. Late Sports TACOMA. Feb. 8.-flVonege of Puget Sound Cagers evened np their two-game series with the Montana Grizzlies here tonight, winning by a 42-39 count. Mon tana won last night, 40 to 34. ELLENS BURG, Wash., Feb. I. -GP)-Driving to its fifth win this season over a college five, the trnnr Kllensbnrsr normal basket ball team tonight won from the Whitman Missionaries, 28 to 22. after the visitors had led by one point at the half, x to . PARIS QUIETER AS CALL CIV EN TO D0UMER6UE ZELLERBACH Hi DEEMED VIATOR South Dakota Hundreds Attend Rites For Popular Official; Funeral is Impressive Hall of Representatives Crowds Wishing to Procession is EARTHLY remains of the late Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, were laid to rest Thursday afternoon in Belcrest Memorial park here as the sun of a warm February day filtered through scattering clouds. Graveside services were in charge of the local Christian Science church as were rites at the hall of representatives, state capitol, where the funeral was conducted by Walter q M. Smith, Christian Science read er. Friends from all parts of the state as well as Salem more than filled tbe representatives' cham ber and stood in the rotunda of the capitol as the services pro ceeded. Mr. Smith read numerous passages from the scriptures with correlative passages from "Sci ence and Health With Key to Scripture" by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science. Lena Belle Tartar sang two so los: "O Gentle Presence" and "Eternal Mind, the Potter Is." Previous. to the service the Sa lem Cherrian band played two numbers in the first floor of the rotunda of the statehouse. Profuse and beautiful funeral flowers were banked about tbe white trtid gold-trimmed casket, along the speaker's desk and high (Turn to page 5, col. 7) FIDE DRILLS IE McKinley Ranks High Practice Session, Report Shows In Test fire drills conducted in the 12 Salem public schools dur ing the past two weeks by the city fire department revealed that each of the buildings can be emptied in less than two minutes, it was an nounced yesterday. The drills were ordered by Dr. O. A, Olson, chairman of the city council fire department committee. While size of the buildings and enrollments makes comparison of exit times difficult, firemen point ed out McKinley as outstanding for Its time of SO seconds in evacuating the building, and the senior high school especially, which with 1410 students present was emptied in one minute and 60 seconds. The slowest grade school time, one minute and 40 seconds at Richmond, was In part due to ar (Turn to page 2, col. S) - Forgotten Bill Is Finally Paid PORTLAND,. Ore Feb, -A bill incurred so long ago that It was not even In record, was paid today to the Good Samari tan hospital. "I believe it was , $113, but I'll pay you 8114 anyway, calmly re marked the 70-year-old man who said it was 29 years ago that he was a patient there. He said he had been in Alaska the past few years. Big Sum For And Relief WASHINGTON, Feb. .-&)-The senate tonight passed the ad ministration bill appropriating 8950,000,000 additional for civil works and relief grants to the states after administration forces had defeated overwhelmingly re nnhlican independent efforts to boost the total. It now goes to conference with the house. The decision was reached with out a roll-call after Senator Cut ting (R., N.M.) had lost 57 to 10 an amendment to raise tne iuna to 12,500,000,000 $2,000,000, 000 of It for civil works and Senator LaFollette (R., Wis.) had been defeated 52 to 14 In an ef fort to Increase the total to 11,500,000,000. Seven and a half hours of spir ited debate preceded passage, members being held several hours after dinner so as to leave tomor row free for a special aviation contempt trial. Senator McCarran (D., Nev.) won by 42 to 19 an amendment requiring all state relief and civil works directors 'to be appointed by the president and confirmed by IT SCHOOLS I U Ini ej 3 Not Large Enough for Honor Hal E. Hoss; Lengthy One EGUL1T NEED WOE TOLD Bill to Carry Out Ideas of Roosevelt to Re Filed Following Message WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-()-President Roosevelt will tell con gress In another of his special messages tomorrow why he wants a lew enacted to give the federal government power to regulate the nation's speculative markets and protect the present commod ity price rise which tbe adminis tration Is hoping may lead the country out of depression. Almost as soon as the com munication is read to the senate, Chairman Fletcher will introduce a carefully prepared bill to carry out the chief executive's Ideas, a measure 'based upon the Infor mation gleaned from the com mittee's extensive Investigation of. Wall street practices and drafted by its counsel, Ferdinand Pecora. A switch in plans late In the day led to abandonment of the idea of including commodity mar kets as well as stock exchanges In the measure. Although Presi dent Roosevelt preferred that this be done, it was found im (Turn to page 2, col. 3) GIRL RETURNS BUT IS E TACOMA, Wash., Feb. Eleanor Durnell, 15-year-old niece of Capt. and Mrs. Charles Perfect, missing from their home at Fort Lewis since Sunday afternoon, re turned tonight, Major Victor L. Taylor, adjutant at Fort Lewis, announced late tonight She explained her mysterious absence, during which hundreds of officers and men. had searched the entire Fort Lewis area and au thorities in numerous cities were watching for her, fort officers de clared, by saying: "I went to Seattle and walked the streets all the time I was away." , The girl was questioned at length in the presence of her uncle but no further details were an nounced tonight. At Seattle, however, Capt W. K. Bowling, special agent for the division of Investigation of ,the de partment of Justice, declared he Intended to go to Fort Lewis to morrow to question the girt Civil Works Has Approval the senate and obtained a prom ise from Senator McKellar (D., Tenn.), In charge of the bill, that the senate conferees would come back to the floor for another vote before giving in on the proposal in conference. McCarran said he offered tbe amendment in view of the wide publicity given charges of "scan dal and fraud" in connection with administration of the two relief projects. LaFollette opposed the amend ment on the ground that some of the relief grants of states have to be matched by state funds and he did not believe presidential ap pointees ahould be permitted to dispense state moneys. After Cutting's amendment was voted down LaFollette gained four more, votes for his proposal with a statement which went vir tually unchallenged, that failure of his amendment would mean that "beginning tomorrow 250. 000 eiril works members would be demobilized each week until the first of May when none would 1 be employed. STOCK I) I MM THE WEATHER Cloudy today becoming an. settled with rain Saturday; Max. Temp. Thursday 54, Mia. 83, river 1.6 feet, rala JSSt Inch, aoatherry wind. No. 27 Prison OF THE DALLES MEIER'S CHOICE New Secretary of State to Be Sworn in Today at Statehouse, Plan Appointee Has Only Brief Statement; Betrays No Political Ambition PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 8.-IV P. J. Stadelman. business so&n and ex-mayor of The Dalles, was appointed secretary of state to night by Governor Julius L. Meier. He was named to fill the va cancy occasioned by the death of Hal E. Hoss. who was laid to rest at Salem today. The new secretary said he would hold a conference with the governor tomorrow morning and then take the oath of office at Salem. He will serve until after a successor is elected at the nexA general election. In his first conference with newspapermen Stadelman betray ed no political ambitions. The term Hoss was elected to serve ex pires January 4, 1937. However a constitutional provision states that any state elective office tilled by appointment must come up at the next general election, unless the vacancy' occurs within 20 days of election day. Stadelman was called os the telephone this afternoon and ask ed to come to Portland. After a conference with Governor Meier the latter announced the appoint ment Stadelman said he knew noth ing' of the appointment until Gov ernor Meier talked with him this afternoon. The Wasco county re publican, who is (52 years old. is sued the following brief state ment. "My sole objective is to be of service to my state. I hope to con tinue the efficient work of an ef ficient office, and to that end will direct my energies." Appointment of Peter J. Sta delman of The Dalles to he Ore gon's 12th secretary of state took political leaders here by surprise-' last night. His name had not been mentioned as a possible ap pointee. He is not known to have been a member of the gov- ernor's official circle: Stadelman is known as a buI ness and financial leader in hist home city. He has served as raaf or of The Dalles. He has show a keen Interest, also. In the poli tical affairs of his district H was defeated for the stale sen atorship in the 1932 campaign by James Hazlett of Hood River, (Turn to page 2, cot S) ' The Washington Spotlight f Br the Associated Prutl Administration forces la thm senate defeated a proposal to in crease the civil works administra- tlon from 8450,000,00 to $2,000,000,000. Then naased tha appropriation measure to provide S960.ooo.ooo more for CWA and -relief. Secretary . Morgenthaa and a federal grand Jury moved to pre vent lobbying in the treasury and war departments. Congressional investigators stu died an audit showing profits as high as 90 per cent on army air plane orders. Department of Justice officials directed a relentless hunt far the kidnaper of Edward G. Bremer, St Paul brewer's son. Senator Robinson (D-Ark) left a White House conference wjth work of another administration compromise on veterans benefit. The house 'ways and means) committee decided to take the Us off bank checks and reduce post? age on printed matter. President Roosevelt proposed a 8,452,000 ton limit on sugar pre ductlon and benefit payments to cooperating producers. President Roosevelt planned a special message to congress os stock and commodity exchange regulation. Two new investigations, of m- ; nltions and electrical rates, were considered by the senate. ' HER MAYOR