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THE WEATHER ; Ckwdy todf, Hoadtj probably nnaettlerf; moder ate; Max. Temp. Saxarday 78, Mia. SS, river 4 feet, orthy wind, cloady. ri M ! EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday March 11, 1934 No. 300 , ; J . J FOUMDED I6BI . , L5S. v It II V -, I I , II II VI i i - - m i . m a mm v n i , - - s sr HM 4- t Governor :Sil Many Surprised; Republican 1 Campaign Possibilities . Taking New Angle Incumbent Gives No Hint as to Likely Support for ,V; Any Aspirant By SHELDON P. SACKETT GoTemoc Julius L- Meier -will not be a candidate to succeed him self he announced last night , at the conclusion of his radioed ad dress to the people of Oregon. His decision, kept a secret until the moment be rare It, ended specula tion which has prevailed for the last aix months about Meier's -Intentions. - i: ; In announcing his decision the governor declared he had entered the 1930 race solely with a desire to forward the principles espoused by his long-time friend, the late Senator George W. Joseph. The governor said many "of these pol icies had beeir enacted into law. Declaring himself without polit ical ambitions, the governor said he had weighed all the circum stances and decided he did not care , to continue longer as an applicant for public favor. Many of Wise Ones Totally Surprised The decision surpx-ised many listeners who were confident that Coventor Meter vrar making his .two radio' addresses, summarizing 'his accomplishments in office, as a - forerunner to announcement that he would seek renoniination and election. It Jjas- been known for weeka tleler was torn with indecision concerning his policy for this campaign. Ilis po litical family urgedhim to run. His personal family, not attracted by the political glare, have long been adverse to a second cam ps.iglt by the governor. In the end. the latter advisors prevailed and Meier, not without reluqfanee. quitted all aspirations foifi sec ond term as chief executive of the ttate. Ko tmall factor ln: hti de cision was the advice of hls'.phy 'aicians who warned Meier that a trenuous campaign, which- waa lure to come this year, would Im pair his health. While the.goyer nor has recovered from arjtt Illness in 1931, bis heatS-j has been somewhat impaircdf Meier had been encouraged in the last fortnight by favorable public responses to. the-reports that he might seek.mlwtlon. The split among the "progressives" in - the republican field thfe lack of a ; republican candidate satisfactory to a large group in, that party, added to a growing view by many persons that the Meier adminis tration had been marked by ma jor accomplishments contrasted with . comparatively minor mis takes. Indicated to the governor that he had an excellent oppor inniti tn win ihe renubliran nom ination and to make a forceful candidacy this fall. Possible Support of Another Not Hinted -U-Meier did not state whether or ; not he would back any candidate but. the presumption is that he t will take no part in the campaign, t Charles M. Thomas, utilities com j missloner, has been pointed to for . months as the successor, to the . Meier support If the latter did not choose to run. Thomas Tecently announced he would not be a can : i didate, presumably,- holding the i.vier that Meier 5rould make the - rice. Thomas may reverse him i self and announce althongh the 4 time 1 ( rowing short and the "i utilities commissioner has notr tet : np an organisation ,in his behalf. - Henry Hansen, budget director l and confidante both ot Meier and : Thomas, Is expected to play a part la the utility commissioner's .V'decUion for without Meier In the T race, Hansen has no -candidate; ; Burke and Brown both being antt I Hansen men, Lonergan an inde Z pehdent as far as Hanten'a coun- 1 sel is -concerned and Charles Hall, 7 while a friend of years standing, not considered by Hanzen a po- litical possiU'ity this year. - Meier'a withdrawal win fire the conservative republicans with the desire for another candidate al . though Frank Lonergan may be ' able to corral this support. Earl - Bnell of ArUnton has been wait- Ing on the fence, determining - which way to Jump. His friends ; will nrge him to seek the gorer-''- norship. SnelTa personal wish, it Is. thought, la to be a candidate : for secretary of state. Joe Dunne, Portland senator, has not decided (Turn to page S, eoL 1) Meier Announces He Will Not Seek President Sounds New Note in ., i New Deal as First Year Closes 1 y - His fare allowing little trace of the strain under .which he has labored for the past year, President Roosevelt is shown as he sounded the clarion call, "The NRA most stand!M at Constitution Hall, Wash ington. Beside him Is General Hugh Johnson, NRA administrator. Inset, Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky and German Am bassador Hans Luther, interested listeners. T1X U SUIT Jimmy Walker is Another of Notables Mentioned in Federal Actions WASHINGTON. March lO-UP)- Tax evasion suits against Andrew W. Mellon, former secretary or the treasury, and James J. Walk er, former msror ot New York city, are to be instituted soon by the Justice department. Attorney Genersl Cummings made this announcement tonight, adding that similar suits also would be. brought against Thomas g.'Lamont, member of a promin ent KeWvYork banking firm, and Thomas Sidlo, law partner of Newton D. Baker, ' ; Candidates to be Queried for Tax League, Decided Th; Marion County Tax Equal ization league's executive commit tee met Saturday afternoon at the chamber of commerce here and discussed political issues and can didates but made no move to en dorse any particular candidates. The league is on record against the sales tax. The executive com mittee decided it would interview different candidates and that its members might work for some of the candidates. Formal endorse ment of aspirants for office is un likely. The next meeting of the execu tire committee of the league will be held here March tl. Henry Zorn, president, was in charge yesterday and A. A. Geer was sec retary. B Ml Meier to Retire Satisfied Of Duty Fulfilled, Avers "l have given my best efforts to administering the affairs of the state ef Oregon in a business like manner without political fear or favor," declared Governor Jul ius L. Meier last night in the concluding radio address sum marizing his administration ef state affairs. "In common with all other business enterprises, the state during the past four years, has experienced the most precarious and distressing times in its his tory. We have emerged from this critical period with the state's credit strengthened, its tax bur den reduced, with its institutions and departments functioning ef ficiently on drastically reduced budgets and with assurance that the state's magnificent potential water power resources will be preserved and developed." This summary by the governor of hla-years in office proved the valedictory to the people of the state for it was at the conclusion ot this prepared address last night that Mr. Meier announced his decision not to run again for office. In bis second address, delivered over two Portland, radio stations vv- is:- ..:5i-: ?-1 7X? The Washington Spotlight (By the Associated Press) President Roosevelt curtailed army mail flying to avert -further fatalities. The war department obtained Charles A. Lindbergh's ideas for strengthening the army air corps House committeemen approved two bills for the purchase of sil ver with new silver certificates. The treasury reported money In circulation Increased during Feb ruary. Jay N. Darling, newspaper car toonist, was appointed chief of the biological survey. President Roosevelt signed the $40,000,000 crop loan bill. Restrictioni were lifted on liquor imports from May 1 to June 30. . The president ordered consoli dation of executive agencies en forcing internal revenue laws. A Renatn inmmlttp annroved 163. 380. 70S for exnensea of the agricultural department in the next iiscai year. Dry cleaners in many cities were ordered to surrender blue eagles. The senate passed the $97,688, 000 supply bill for the state. Jus tice, commerce and labor depart ments. POSTMASTER NAMED WASHINGTON, March Acting postmasters appointed to day by Postmaster General Far ley included: Oregon: Lester H. Bungey, Scappoose. at 9:3.i p.m., the governor took issue with "propaganda spread by political sources" that the state's business has been neglected. He said he had kept constantly in touch with affairs ot hfs own office through a private telephone line, installed at his own expense. He pointed to the savings ot in stitutions administered by the board as a refutation to charges that affairB of state had suffered and contended infrequent meet ings of the board last year were due to the illness of the late Hal E. Hos8. : " Moving swiftly over the vari ous fields ot state .business, Meier pointed with pride to the world war veterans commission where not a "single mortgage has been foreclosed against a veteran with a chance of redeeming his equity in the property" and with costs reduced nine per cent In adminis tration; to the consolodatlon of 17 boards and offices into the state department of agriculture; to the sound financial basis on which the Oregon state fair had been continued. . ' The governor landed i the Ore- gon state police. ARMY AIRMAIL CURTAILED 1 Sharp Letter Addressed to Secretary Dern; Death Toll is Deplored Action Follows Fatalities Which Bring Toll to Ten in 20 Days OTTUMWA. Ia.. March 10.-(P) -Second Lieut. W. A. Colin, fly ing the air mail from Chicago to Cheyenne, made a forced landing In a garden patch on the lahk of the Des Moines river tonight after losing his way in a fog. WASHINGTON, March 10.-(P) -With the declaration that "the ratio of accidents has been far too high during the past three weeks," President Roosevelt to day ordered curtailment -of the army air mail service. His command followed the tenth death in twenty days of the army mall flying operations, in stituted after the wholesale priv ate contract cancellation order of a month ago. To Secretary Dern he addressed a pointed letter: "This action," the president said referring to his original or der for the army to fly the mail, "was taken on the definite assur ance given me that the Army air corps could carry the mall. "tnce that tlme.tenaxmim- en nave lost meir lives, i ap preciate that only four of these were actually flying the mail. But the others were training or were proceeding to the mail route. . . "Because military lessons have been taught us during the past few weeks I request that you con sult immediately with the post master general and the secretary of commerce in order that addi tional training may be given t o army pilots through cooperation with private companies who later on will fly the mails." JAPANESE IRKED 81 SHANGHAI, March 10.-CflV Loss of "face," that mysterious something looming large among far eastern people caused a rift tonight among Japanese emissar ies in China. Colonel Shibayama, military at' tache of the Japanese legation, In his capacity as a diplomatic of ficial, severely condemned the mysterious visit of a Japanese "agent" by the name of Araki to American mission properties In North China. Colonel Shibayama declared "the unwarranted meddling of the Japanese army in the affairs ot the, legation has caused needless alarm that the Japanese army is on the verge of again Invading the north of China." The military attache said that Arakl bad been expelled from the legation in Peiping by the lega tion guard because his presence was "annoying and embarrass ing." Previous to Shlbayama's action, the American legation at Peiping began an investigation of the in quiries, made by Araki, concern ing mission properties. The mis sionaries were told to report any further questioning by Japanese agents. If Phone Doesn't Answer There is No News oi Girls Telephone operators will go on duty at The Statesman office to day if any definite news develops regording the whereabouts ot An- abel Tooley and Betty Savage, Lincoln school pupils who disap peared Thursday afternoon. A call to 9101. The Statesman, will indicate the status of the search for the two children. It there Is no answer at,, this number, the girls have not yet been iouna. Both phone trunk lines into The Statesman office bussed con tinuously yesterday afternoon and night as citizens asked: "Have the two girls been found yet? A check between 1:5 5 p. m. and 12:45. a. m. gave a count of ex actly 140 telephone inquiries about the case answered, in addi tion to numerous queries from i persons who came to the office. ORDER OF F 111 AGENT S ACT World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: LOS ANGELES William Ran dolph Hearst charges NRA "posi tively delayed recovery." LIMA, O. Harry Pierpont, Dil- linger partner, denies killing sher iff. BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Three million-dollar fire threatens en tire business block. CHICAGO Banghart trial wit ness admits part in 1110,000 mail robbery. Foreign : ATHENS Samuel Insull gets final ultimatum to leave Greece by Thursday. HAVANA General strike wav ers -as president orders workers back to Jobs. BERLIN German B'nai Brith vice-president reported under. ar rest by secret police HONG KONG Factional lead ers negotiate secretly for new Chinese unity. PARIS Deputies committee approves $63,000,000 fund for war aircraft. VIENNA Heimwehr orders ouster of politicians in fascist clean-up. MADRID Government guards public works projects against strike sabotage. COUNCIL TO SECT E City Officials Confer With Hockley on Next Move in Water Quest Mayor McKay, City Attorney Kowiti, Sam Hughes of the util ities committee and Dave O'Hara of the finance and utilities com mittee spent Saturday afternoon in Portland conferring with En gineer C. C. Hockley of PWA about Immediate cooperation to comply with federal requirements on the water loan-grant. As a result a special meeting of the city council will be held Tues day night for the purpose of hir ing engineers to prepare plans and specifications. Proposals will be received from any engineers interested in submitting bids; and the engineers will be required to give an estimate ot the length of time required to prepare the plans. When this proceeding has been completed the engineers will be gin actively to prepare the plans and estimates which PWA re quire. This, said Mr. Hockley is most urgent, because PWA con templates putting men at work immediately and delay endangers the loan. No word has been received by the city direct from PWA at Washington respecting terms of the new grant. Until this informa tion is received the council can do nothing toward settling the question of buying or building a distributing system. . Estranged Wife Slags Husband ; Claims Threats PORTLAND, March 10. - () -George Hamilton. 64, was killed tonight by his estranged wife, po lice said she admitted, when he menaced her and Percy Lee Scbel ter, 41, with whom she went for a ride today. The woman said she fired when Hamilton turned on her after breaking a window glass in Schel- ter's car as he attempted to drive away. Mrs. Hamilton and Schelter were held tor questioning. Late Sports La GRANDE, Ore., March 10.-(ffy-The La Grande, high basket ball team won the right to play in the state basketball tourna ment by defeating Baker Sf to 19 in the district tournament finals here tonight. Scoring was well divided among the winners with Stltt leading with nine points. On the all-tour nament team Stitt was named a forward, Bean of La Grande cen ter, and Debodle of La Grande a guard. " : ' " ' v ' """" ENGINEERS TIJ Reelection DILLINGER PAL Harry Pierpont Must Die in Electric Chair; Found Sheriffs Slayer Maintains Calmness After Sentence Read: Blames Officer for Plight LIMA, O., March lO-Har-ry Pierpont, member of the no torious John Dillinger gang, was found guilty tonight on a charge of first degree murder in the slaying of Sheriff Jess Sarber. The Jury of 10 men and two women failed to recommend mer cy for Pierpont and thereby made mandatory a sentence of death in the electric chair. It took the Jury just 55 min utes to decide on the verdict af ter leaving the court room at 11:11 p.m. only two ballots were taken. Difficulty in getting at torneys in the case and returning the prisoner from county jail held up the verdict. Pierpont, his hands manacled. his feet in chains, looked down at the counsel table where he sat and grinned while the bailiff read the Jury's decision. It was the same grin he had worn much of the time since the trial started. Common Pleas Judge E. E. Ev erett said he would not sentence Pierpont until after Charles Mak ley, another member ' of the Dil linger outfit Bad "been brought to trial. Makley is scheduled to go on trial Monday morning. Asked if he had anything to say, Pierpont, dry eyed and col lected, said, "No, not a word." Botkin s earnest demand for the death penalty was interupted once when Pierpont, red eyed and angry, shouted: "If you'd never heard of Matt Leach of the Indi ana state police, you'd never heard of me." Botkin said in his argument that Pierpont owed his present predicament to John Dillinger, the smooth, imaginative Jail breaker, to free whom three men broke Into the Jail here last Oc tober. Arthur Miller, a prisoner in the Jail, had testified that Dillinger told him be was wait ing for an effort of his friends to liberate him. Pierpont himself had said in court earlier that he was the ring leader In the prison break at Michigan City last fall and inti mated that he had paid money to some one to insure the suc cess of the break. Central Point Tourney Champ MEDFORD. March 10. -(P)-Central Point defeated Sam's Val ley 33 to 22 tonight, to win top honors in the southern Oregon in vitational basketball tournament, held at Ashland under the auspi ces of the southern Oregon nor mal school. Beedsport defeated Rogue river in the consolation series, and Chlloqnln won third place by de feating Madras. CONVICTED ON MURDER COUNT Home Loan A pprovals Here Behind; to Speed Up Soon Only a sudden burst of speed on the part of local Oregon Home Owners' Loan corporation repre sentatives can bring the home loan situation in Marion county out of the bog of applications into which it has fallen, reports from the various offices handling home loan affairs indicate. The local officials, however, all ex press hopes that the closing of loans can be accelerated soon. To date 31 loans have been closed while approximately 151 properties hare been appraised, of which many are expected to he eligible for loans. At the same time new applications are being received at the rate of at least hajf a dozen daily. John Bayne, Marlon county at torney for the corporation, yester day reported he had closed 14 loans and bad others about ready to close. He declared he thought that, with recent improvement in the handling ot application mat ters at the main office in Port land, closings wouldjsoon be more numerous. Eight other loans were closed by J. P. Ulrich, home, loan ap- praiser, last -December, and fire" GRAPPLERS TAKE' OUT BOTH BODIES THIS AFTERNOON DROWNED in the Willamette sloagh that is the answer to the riddle as to the fate of Anabel Tooley, 9, and Betty Savage, 12, whose mysterious disappearance Thurs day afternoon has occupied the attention of all Salem and caused hundreds of Salem citizens to join in a widespread search. The bodies were found shortly before 3 o'clock, side by side in the vicinity of the log raft where the girls had been State Police Raid Resorts To the North State police under the direction of Captain W. H. McClain marie a concerted drive on night resorts north of Salem and around Silver ton early this morning and made five arrests on charpes of selling liquor to minors and to a drunk en person, of owning and oper ating slot machines, ard ot using indecent and obscene lancuge in a public place. Those arrested and charges po lice said would be filed against them: George Foster, at Broadarres store selling beer to James A. Txjnff, 17, and WllHam-roller. IT. both of Donald. John Sternberg, at Silverton r using Indecent and obscene lan guage in a public place and on a public thoroughfare. C. H. Kelly, at Silverton possession and operation of a slot machine. Lawrence Lamers. at Silverton selling beer to a drunken per son. Mr. McKee, proprietor, at Play more park owning and oper ating two slot machines. Foster, arrested before mid night, was taken before Justice of the Peace Overton at Wood burn, vihere he posted SI 50 bail. He was cited to appear in court at 10 a. m. Tuesday. The other four men, since they were arrested after midnight, were at an early hour being held without bail in the county Jail here. Nine state troopers Joined Cap tain McCiain in the drive. State police declared they meant to put, an end to riotous conduct and il legal practices at roadhouses and similar places. Marian Miller to Talk Here Monday Marian Miller, women's feature writer for The Oregonian, is to speak Monday noon to the Salem chamber of commerce at its luncheon meeting. Her subject will be "What Can be Done for th Middle-Aged Man." Mrs. Mil ler has recently written and pub lished a book called "Happy End ings." The chamber has arranged to give one of the books as an attendance prize. have recently been closed by the Salem Abstract company, which has been appointed escrow agent for the corporation. That the delay is not in prop erty appraisals is indicated by the report of Ulrich yesterday to the main office: That he had made 55 new appraisals since February 25. The abstract company is pre paring to handle all loan closings but has not yet been able to take care of many because of a require ment that an early block of loans be first cleared through other of fices. It now has two loans ready to close, four set for closing March IS and a number ot others coming: up. The home loan' applicants whose requests have been turned down by the district inspector who makes the initial and tentative appraisal, Ulrich yesterday gave the word that he had received in structions from Kirk -Reynolds, state appraiser, that " re-ap-f praisement could be obtained by giving the Portland office a guar antee that the S appraisal fee would.' be paid ' . Oseen late Thursday afternoon by a Mrs. Gamble, living nearby. The discovery was made just south of the point where West Miller street turns southward to become River road. ', Both bodies were found by Charles M. Charlton, Jr., and Hanlon "Hank" Hunt, city fire men about 30 minutes after they started to drag with an improvis ed fish-hook grappler from Hunt's rowboat. They said the spot where the bodies were fo'jnd at the end ot a log raft abutting on the slough banks at the foot of West Wilson street bad been dragged over many doz ens of times unsuccessfully. Hunt and Charlton continued dragging there after the other grappling parties had moved on toward the mouth of the slough. The Tooley girl's body was brought np first and the Savage girl's body a minute later. R. C. Gamble, 326 West Wilson, and David Stewart,' -Bellevu tret' assisted in carrying the bodies np to the Oregon Electric railway prade where they were held until the coroner arrived. The bodies were found side by side, and the theory is that one girl slipped from the logs into the water, the other Jumped in to save her and both were drowned. The bodies were taken in charge Immediately by Coroner L. E. Barrick. and taken to the Clough - Barrick mortuary where an examination showed absolutely no signs of foul play. District Attorney William T. Trindle was present at the examination. Par ents of both children were also present. They may ask for a more thorough autopsy later. Fu neral plans have not been made. The most extensive and determ ined search ever made for lost in dividuals was brought to a close with the finding of the bodies. As rapidly as possible the numerous searching parties spread In all di rections from Salem were being called in late this afternoon. More than 200 war veterans, called to service by commanders of their various organisations, and all Boy Scouts in the city were engaged in the search Sun day. Questioning and .investigation had practically dlsnroven all of the rumors of possible foul play, sometime before the bodies were discovered. In addition to the lo cal search which spread for miles in a! directions from Salem, state and local police and sheriff's of ficers throughout the Willamette valley and to the northern and southern boundaries of Oregon were watchclng for the girls on the chance that they had gone tar afield. Anabel Tooley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aman Tooley, 19 C West Wilson street, was nine years old old, having been born at Rose dale, near Salem, in June, 1924. She leaves In addition to her par ents, two sisters, Doris. 5; and Patsy, 2. She was in the fourth grade at Lincoln, school. ' Betty Savage, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Savage, lit West Miller street, leaves also a sister, Mary, aged 9. She was born Dec, 4, 1921 In Tampa, Fla and came with her parents to- Or egon in 1931. The family lived four miles east of Shaw, later at Rickey and last September moved to town. ' Both girls attended Sunday school at the South Salem Friends chnrch. . ' Fathers . Scouts Attend Banquet Father and son night was ob served by 175 Boy Scouts and "dads" at a banquet at Fraternal temple last night. Duties of a fa ther to son and son to father were discussed by . Judge Harry H. . Belt of the state supreme court themain speaker. The pro gram included invlcatlon by. Dr. S. ' Darlow Johnson, greeting by T.'C'Roake, district commission er; stunts i by troops three. IS and IS and a talk by CB. Mudd. - n J! "I . ; i ' i i