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PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 13, 1934 Havoc Wrought by P ugei Sound Hurricane L Belgian Rulers at Te Deum r i ' - . CM PUB .B S CEB'S RECORD PRDg Fllffi - ' I - Schoolmates are Selected as Pallbearers for Slough Victims little girls brought about the most " ; extensive and determined search - Ter conducted In this Tietnltr tor lost Individuals. It proved the oc casion for the -first general em v ergency mobilization of -war ret erans. for which plana were laid nearly a year ago. Laura EL r "Betty" Savage was - the daughter .of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Savage, 196 West Wilson street, She is survived in addition by a sister, Mary, 9. Betty was 4 bora at Tampa, Fla., is 1921 and ' came to Oregon with her parents in 121. The family lived four miles east of Shaw, later at Rick " ey and last September moved to . Salem: .Betty was in .the fifth grade at Lincoln school. Anabel Lee Tooley was a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Amon Tooley. 16 West Wilson street, and a sister of Doris, 5, and Patsy, 2. She was born In the Rosedale dls- - trict near here In 1924. She was In the fourth grade at Lincoln vschooL PIoneer residents of Salem yes terday recalled that in 1879 two boys, AHie Jory, 10, and Ralph Jory, 5, were drowned near the same place where the two girls drowned last week. They were younger, brothers of Oliver Jory of Salem. WASHINGTON, March l.-J?y-A list of the curtailed schedules which the army will fly when its mail planes go aloft again was made public today at the post of fice department along with the as sertion the army had said it was prepared to fly the mails at the time the private contracts were canceled. The new schedule, as made pub lic by postoffice officials, in cludes: . Boston to New York: New York to San Francisco, via Chicago and EaKLake City; New York to Jack sonville; Washington to Atlanta: Chicago to Dallas, via Kansas City and St Louis; Salt Lake to Se attle: Salt Lake to San Diego, via Los Angeles; Cheyenne to Denver and Chicago to St. Paul. The, postoffice department in the Controversy over whether the army .was consulted before the postmaster general canceled the - contracts of private companies and : gave. their Job to the service was mailt by Harlee Branch, assistant postmaster general. WASHINGTON, March 12.-(;p) Representative- Rogers, (D-NH) today made public a letter writ ten February 20, from Major Howard C. French, of the army air corps reserves, Portland. Ore.. In which the condition of the army air defenses was de scribed as "deplorable.'! Major , French's letter, urging upbuilding of the army air force, aid In part: "The condition of the army air defenses Is. deplorable. 'Today the army starts to fly the air mall. I, as an army flier, except to be embarrassed at the pooridemonstratlon they are sure to make. "In this section of the coun try we are about to see- mostly young graduates of the army air school start to fly the mall. These young men bad, had Insufficient flying time for the job. All their flying time has been " in fair weather in Texas and California. They have bad virtually no night flying experience and will be en tirely unfamiliar with mountain ous coiary. FACES COURT TEST OLYMPIA, Wash., March 12 (ify-Ths) first court bearing on a suit attacking the constitutional ity of the new state liquor con ' trol act opened here-today before Judge John, M. Wilson of the Thurston county superior court. The Question before the court was whether to sustain or over rule the Washington liquor con- . trol board s general demurrer-to a ..suit seeking an order perma nently enjoining the board from carrying out the provisions of the act, A ruling either way will be appealed to the supreme court of the state.' The hearing is expected to be concluded : some time tomorrow. Only attorneys representing the groups of druggists and hotel op erator who brought the action were heard today.-:i''?yii':v EditoZWFaceM Contempt Case FRANKFORT. Kv.. Mareh'lt ' fcP-A motion Co dismiss the com- . plaint against Vance - Armentrout, acting editor of the ' Louisville Courier-Journal charged 'with eon tempt of the house of representa tives. was overruled tonight by Chairman Fred Gnau of the spe cial committee hearing erilene jti the ca. . COJSTIIILTO GOliE IS WORD I FICE IS POOR SSfSHGOlIM ...,,1 -a- - ' M it jjij J.a"W,W"PjJ'' '-v ' Thi9 pliuto was taken fifteen minutes after a 60 ml le an hoar wind raged and roared across the Paget Sound area, near Seattle, leaving a veritable sham bles to Its wake. Nearly mile of telephone poles were tumbled to the highway In quick succession. The highway shown la the picture Is the main road ' to Boeing field airport. Note how each pole was snapped off at its base wader the terrific pressure of the wind. Bliraculously no one was injured by the toppling poles with their high voltage wires en dangering life and property. International TRus trated News Photo. The Call Board . . . GRAND Today "Devil Tiger" and Walt Disney's newest silly symphony, "China Shop". Thursday Will James' "Smoky" with Victor Jory. ELSINORE Today Ramon Navarro In "The Cat and the Fiddle" and T-nnrpl sni) HriTr in "Dirty Work". Wednesday Cecil B. De " Mille's "Four Frightened People" with Claudette Col- bert. Friday Double bill. Wheeler and Woolsey in "Hips, Hips Hooray!" and "Ninth Guest" with Donald Cook. CAPITOL Today Dorothea Wieck in "Cradle Song". Thursday W. S. VanDyke's "Eskimo". HOLLYWOOD Today Double bill. George Arliss in "The Working Man" and Tim McCoy in "Rusty Rides Alone". Wednesday Ginger Rogers in "Professional Sweet- heart". Friday Double bill, all star cast in "Night Flight" and Ed Wynn in "The Chief". STATE Today Katharine Hepburn la "Morning Glory" and Walt Disney color cartoon, "Lullaby Land". Wednesday only "Saturday's Millions" with Robert Young. Thursday Ronald Coleman in -Arrowsmith". Saturday only Bela Lugosl in "Night of Terror". E HAVANA, March 12-(VA vic tory was claimed by government officials tonight in long standing strikes which have paralysed vital services and caused disorders which today resulted in one death and injuries to five persons. The cabinet ordered dissolution of all syndicates, but specified employers must respect all agree ments and contracts effected dur ing the hltsory of. syndicalism. -A palace spokesman said this action was agreeable to dock workers and a check by an As sociated. Press representative showed many were returning to their jobs today and tomorrow. The new rnlinr allows reorgan isation of the syndicates as trade unions. The graphic arts group called the measure satisfactory and nrenared to resume nnblica- tion- of newspapers after several ears in wnicb Havana had no pa pers. - 40 Woodcutters Are Called ior The largest call tor workmen in many weeks, aside from federally aided projects, was received at the national re-employment agen cy her yesterday. Manager D. D. Dotson. received requests for 20 men each for two woodcutting Jobs and- Immediately, began re ferring likely applicants to the employers.-One of the Jobs, seven miles west of : Salem, will pay 21.50 a cord, peeled; the other, near Dallas, $1 a cord, unpeeled ash. IS Expected to Live BOISB, Idaho, ifarcb 12.CffV Arthar Silvia. IS. aJfia Johnson, who attempted an es cape rrom t prison early Bun day morning, today showed signs of Improvement from the bullet wound Inflicted by a guard who surprised him and lis was con sidered likely to recover. His companion in the attempt ed break, Francis Foster, II, is In solitary confinement. 60 ML STRIKE IN CIMDSCLOS THE mm to BE SENT BY SOVIET (Copyright, 1934, by the Associ ated Press) MOSCOW, March 1 2. -j5P)-A so viet trade mission will be sent to the United StaJ.es soon to Inves tigate possibilities for Increased commerce between the two coun tries offered by the new American export-import bank, recently char tered at Washington to facilitate Russian trade, it was learned to day. Official circles made It plain, however, the expected trade re vival will be based on terms which communist leaders consider fa vorable to the Soviets. Russia will require, it was said, purchases here keep pace with sales of United States products in the soviet union. One fair-sized sale of 1 250,000 worth of linen goods just has been made here by a New York firm, but there has been little other major com mercial activity. Trade talks will be held, also, between William C. Bullitt, new American ambassador, and soviet leaders here. Bullitt is convinced if the United States expects to get many orders from Russia in the future, American purchases of Russian products must be In creased. 1 FULL-TIME en ALBANY. Ore.. March 1 t fSA- Joe Mack, under whose leadership Albany college enjoyed its most successful basketball season in a number of years, has been select ed head coach at Albany eollere. President Thomas W. Bibb an nounced today. The Pirates won their last six basketball eames indudinr a vic tory over Oregon Normal. Mack is a former stndent of Oregon State college where he was a three-year letterman in baseball. He recently was assist ant coach of freshman football and basketball at the state col lege. Here he will occupy a full time position as instructor in nhv- sical education and supervisor of intramural sports. 'Dillinger Aids Others to Flee But He Remains OKLAHOM CITY. March It. (iP)-A big dog called "Dilllnger" let fourteen "cellmates" out of the dog pound here but couldn't escape nimseit. "Dilllnxer" ana wed thronr board and pushed It out ct place. Fourteen other dogs squeezed out ana got away. "DiUinger" was too big to get through the bole. FORGER SENTENCED NEW YORK, March lt.-m Philip M. Kahler, SI, native of Portland, Ore., who pleaded guil ty to indictments charging him with stewing, forging and passing money orders, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by Fed eral Jndge William Bondy today. Ask nothor She Knows Mother took this medlcioe be fore and after the babies earner It gave her snore strength aod eoergy when ah was ner bbs and rundown t s : kept her oa the job all through the Change; No wonder sac reo CMBsoeadsit. LYDIA E. PIUKtlAU'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND See J. Lyman Steed as -: f "Straforer la ; 'The Romancers" Nelsoa ; 9 c -Liberty a Auditorium sWC Chemeketa Curtain 8:15 J0EMK1MED - ( ' - The Washington Spotlight (By the Associated Press) The house voted 295 to 125 for immediate cash payment of the $2,200,000,000 soldiers' bonus. Resumption of army mail-flying over nine routes was announced by the post office department. Ferdinand P e c o r a objected strongly to relaxation of margin requirements in the Flejtcher-Ray burn stock exchange bill. The senate, voted to extend for one year the temporary deposit Insurance of the 1933 banking act. J. P. Morgan and company de nied that the firm had advance information of airmail contract cancellations. Representative Kelly fR-Pa) said proposed permanent air mail legislation would continue former evils. Constitutionality of reciorocal tariff powers wanted by President Roosevelt was defended by a state department spokesman. The senate heard last-minute appeals for ratification of the St Lawrence waterway treaty. President Roosevelt and Secre tary Roper drafted ship subsidy legislation. The supreme court uoheld a merger designed to give the pub lie lower coats and to maintain employment Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) pro posed government purchase of 60,000,000 ounces of silver a monjh. Inquest Called Over Death of Roscoe Howard MEDFORD, Ore., March 12.-(iF)-An Inauest will be held here tomorrow over the death of Ros coe Howard, owner of the Dixie hop ranch near Grants Pass, who was killed when his automobile was struck by a Southern Pacific train at Rogue river. Eye-witnesses heard the train whistle and saw Howard's ma chine jerk forward across the rails after coming to a virtual stop. The train does not stop at Rogue river. The car was demolished anil hurled from the track. The body was thrown clear of the car when it was flipped off the locomotive by a mail hook set la the right-of- way. Chess Expert to Be Here Tonight Arthur Daks, Internationally known chess expert. Is scheduled to play 25 games simultaneously and two blindfold games tonight at St Paul's parish house. Play will begin at 7 o'clock. Sake will also lecture on chess, master openings and strategic positions. A small charge will be made to defray expenses; the meeting is opened to all Interested. - Last Times Today KATHARINE HEPBURN in "MORNING GLORY" ALSO CHICAGO, March 12.-UPV-A, Cow of gold from Public Utilities company vaults into the pockets of Chicago office holders and pol iticians, through the medium of a junk dealers as "pay off man," was pictured today la a posthum ously disclosed statement of Met Rosenberg, west side political boss. Koaenberr died last Jannarr In the midst of a federal investiga tion of his income tax navmenta. Just before his fatal illness he vis ited Washington with hia attor ney. The statement was reputed to be his explanation of why no return was made on somefSOO, 000 he received in two years from utilities company junk contracts. i ne money, Kosenberg said, did not remain lona in his hands but went to other politicians, several whom he named Included in his list was the late Mayor Anton J. cermak, who was down for 195.- 000. State legislators and Chica go aldermen were others to whom Rosenberg said he distributed the largess of the utilities. Many of the officials named by Rosenberg hastened to make em. phatlc denials. Others admitted receiving money, but Insisted it was not as much as indicated by the junk dealer and that it was purely for. campaign purposes. FAILS: 01 KILLED (Continued from Pag 1J shop. Miller was knocked A own and the convicts, then tied up three other prisoners. McNab re moved Miller's uniform and don ned It As he was helping to tie the other men up, McNab's gun went on ana fatally wounded Arbuckla Wearing the guard's uniform ana seemingly neraing tne con vlcts. Barlev. Downs and Frd ericks before him, McNab ap- proacnea Guard E. L. Williamson, who was patrolling the prison wan. "Ernie, give me and these elec tricians a band In getting this wire over the wall," McNab called out. Indicating the convicts carrying a laaaer and wire. Not recoeniiine- McVuh in thm guard's uniform, Williamson be came suspicious and then opened lire. MIKES COURT BUSY (Continued from Pag 1) 25 and court eosts and operat ing without a driver license caused Jack Wood to leave $2.50 and costs with the court R. H. Rhoten waa tinA ra for driving with one headlight, but the fine was remitted. On this same count, Frank Rokos ana uasei Pickens, were fined a dollar and the fine remitted anil case of Arnold Muck for one neaaiight was continued. O. W. Shaw will appear March 4 at 1:30 for drlvin without a tail light Halt Billion in Farm Loans Being Sought, Reports Applications for near! half million dollars In farm loans from Marion and Polk county farmers have passed through the office of E. K. Piaseckl, secretary-treasurer of the National Farm Loan as sociation, since January 1, a check shows. From the first of tha ! to March t, 81 applications have oeen maae ior a total of $411,350, from the two counties. This federal loan group also covers five other counties. Re quests for loans go through the Federal Land bank at Snnkana. with the money distributed through the local office. r?jscacsiDS Two Men and a CUrl 1 battle for life midst the fo ri es of the Jungle -IN 1 SMX UV" SM QUENTIM BREAK STATE POLICE fll 1m& O M3bA llrSfQ ...... 1 f I coaTanrous show .t . n y. nr. j J ' M mi :" The first photograph of King Leopold. Ill and Queen Astrid of Belgium since their accession to the throne shows the royal couple leaving the Cathedral of St Gudule in Brussels after a Te Deum service in their honor. Queen Astrid wears moaning veil in tribute to memory of UteEg Albert Late Sports VANCOUVER, B. C. March 12. -Jpy-S napping out of a bad slump in which they lost two games by overwhelming scores last week, the Vancouver Lions raced to a 4 to 3 win tonight over the Edmonton Eskimos in the first game of the semi-final play - of fs of the Northwestern Hockey league. PORTLAND, Ore., March 12.-(Jpy-Walter Achiu, 162, Dayton, O., used flying tackles to ad vantage in winning two out of three falls here tonight from Ken Hollis, 168, New Orleans. One fall apiece was gained by Red Lyons, 174, Joplin, Mo., and Cowboy Dude Chick, 175, Chey enne, In a one-hour draw. Art Perkins, 157, Detroit, won the odd fall from Joe Kirk, 158, Boston. INDIANAPOLIS. March 12.-(P)-The United States traveling professional tennis team of Wil liam T. Tilden and Ellsworth Vines scored another victory here tonight in the series with Henri Cochet and Martin Plaa when Vines defeated Plaa in a singles match, 6-3, 5-7, 6-0, 6-3. Both Vines and Tilden had won singles matches last night, while the French scored a victory In the doubles. HOLTOKE, Mass., March 12. (JP) - Vines Dundee, middleweight champion, subdued Joe Kamln ski. Nantlcoke, Pa., puncher in the Valley arena's feature bout tonight Dundee weighed-161 and Kaminskl 164. ORLANDO, Fla., March 12.-(iT-Maxie Rosenbloom, 181, world's light heavyweight cham pion, outpointed Gordon Forten- berry, 17$, Cocoa, here tonight in a none-title ten round fight Car Wimberly To Oppose Eddy For Bench Job ROSEBURO. Ore.. March 12.- (AV-An Interesting contest for el ection of a circuit ludce of the second judicial district was fore cast today when Attorney Carl E. Wimberly of Roseburg announced nis candidacy. B. L. Eddy who was annointed to fill the unexpired term at the aeatn of Judge James W. Hamil ton last July also will be a can didate. Governor Julius L. Meier ap pointed Eddv after members o f the Douglas County Bar associa tion enaorsea wimberly. M A Mow Otrncd Theater D Now Playing Two Features 15c and A coumiia ricrstt Wednesday and Thursday 10c s a .ot wvr V? , tixru risiii fUt MTTS Urn .tiiii IU Itaklss irtfiri tstsll Cigar Istssi la" fwifoB -i i DALLAS, March 12. A few hours after they received notice of a robbery, officers from the sheriff's office had Ralph Sharp In the jail here and had obtained a confession from him. He con fessed to stealing a 225-pound sack of mohair from Jim Lewis at Lewisrllle Saturday and taking it to Oregon City where he sold it for $44.10. He confessed to the theft shortly after his arrest and Is In jail here awaiting a prelim inary bearing. Lawrence Elliott, arrested last week for larceny, waived all pre liminaries and will be taken be fore Judge Arlie G. Walker for sentence this week. Elliott was paroled about two years ago on another charge of larceny. The State Trust & Savings bank of Illinois tiled a foreclosure com plaint here Saturday against Wil liam A. Asbury, et ux, in which they seek to collect on a promis sory note. The plaintiff asks a judgment for $242 with interest, and $75 attorney fees, and that a chattel mortgage be foreclosed and the property sold to satisfy their claim. Right-of-Way on Gates-Mill City Section Acquired Marion county sow has posses sion of the right-of-way section of the Northern Santiam from near Gates to near Mill City, County Engineer Hedda Swart reported last night following a trip to Mill City yesterday. Swart and Mark D. MeCallister went up to confer with officials of the Hammond Lumber company to come to agreement with that concern on some of the needed land owned by the lumber com pany. This agreement was reach ed, thus finishing the work which has. been In progress for some months. Ife' 3ntfiTU Today Wed. - SOO Seats 15c s Sweet Mystery of Life . Men sense it t4 and wonder! Wom en feel It and know! jJototliea WIECK In CRADLE S ONG - PLUS Edgar Kennedy Comedy THURS. - FRL SAT. "ESKIMO" A Spot Cash For a Lats 1930 or 1931 Ford or Cher. Track FRANK DOOLITTLE 395 N. Commercial : Telephone 4523 n i 1 (Continued from pace 1) Yesterday's protest did not sur prise elrtt works officers here. In-' dividual complaints against the wage curtailment hare been num erous, especially among the rural crewt, who work but IB hours a week In contrast with those in the city on a 24 hour week basis, according to Frank Hrubetx, field man. U "None of the protests had been organised," Hrubets said yester day afternoon. "But a number of workmen on the rural crews those who did not need work so badly had Quit their jobs. This, actually helped us out because we had orders to reduce the number of men working for us in the county." j The wage recommended to the. state board for the Marion county area was based on 1929 union levels with a five day week. Com mon labor, for instance, would be raised to 50 from the present 40 cents an hour. Local officials believe that If the proposed In creases are approved, they will be made retroactive to March 5, when the reductions became effective. VARIETY 0 TASKS GIUEfJ TO FIREMEN (Continued from Page 1) into the room in clouds'. Fire men called for their hook and ladder truck which they used to reach the roof of the building where they found a piece of tin lying over the chimney top. Shortly after six o'clock Sun day night firemen were called out to shut off ,a leaky ammonia re frigeration system at the Produc ers' Milk company plant, 171 South Liberty street The job required the use of gas masks. Sunday, afternoon, C. M. Charl ton, Jr., and Hanlon Hunt last of a relay of firemen who had as sisted in grappling for the bodies of Anabel Tooley and Betty Sav age in Minto slough, brought the bodies to the surface, ending a three-day search. Firemen also extinguished chimney blazes at 163 South Commercial and 1526 North Cot tage streets Sunday night T E (Continued from Page 1) and 5 1 republicans voting against On the motion to discharge, 246 democrats, 62 republicans and 5 farmer-laborites, voted for, and 55 democrats and 49 repub licans against Representatives Pierce ( D Ore.) and Mott (R-Ore.) voted for the bill on final passage. Rep resentative Martin (D-Ore.) voted against the bill. LICENSED TO WED SEATTLE, March 12 .-() -A marriage license was issued here today to Lowell E. Drullenger, 23, Portland, Ore., and Greek Riley, 23, Monmouth, Ore. Last Times Today Love Was In Their Hearts MAC DONALD the . FIDDLE - PLUS - , Laurel & Hardy Comedy Wed.-Thurs. . . . They shed civilization as they shed their clothes! . . . mighty ' drama of Male and Female! t . V C.B C I L B. De MULE'S FOURtU M0MENED PEQPLB'n :-y- - wist' -.--. U CLAUDETTE; COLBERT BERIi H S SEEK COM MIS W1 tAMON NOVARRO N X JIAMITTI ERT MARSHALL