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'ably with rala; llaz. Temp.
Wednesday min. 47; rata '
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EIGHTY-FOURTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning:, February 21, 1935
No. 284
10101 and a copy will be de- I ij; V - , r - - I i(W1Vi , Mi
llvercd at once - FOUMD.EP Ifil J '
rf
hoover urges
SSent
More Men Would Go to Work
Former Chief Executive
Declares at Tucson
End Devaluation Threat and
Make Dollar Payable in
Gold, Suggests
TUCSON, ArU.. Teh. 2HV
tmmediate resumption of gold
payments by the United States
and stabilization of the dollar
at -its present Taloe were adro
eated by former President Her
bert Hoorer In a statement 'here
tonifht commenting on the su
preme court's gold case decision.
The former president said this
course would "put more men to
work ont of the 12.000,000 who
still remain unemployed than any
ether single action."
Mr. Hoover said there was "no
need to wait on foreign nations
before we re-establish the gold
standard and restore confidence
In our currency."
Foreign Nations Ercell
M "Managed Currency"
Foreign nations, he said, "are
more afraid of our doing Just
this than they are of any Amerl
min 'managed currency,' at
which game they hare us at a
disadvantage."
The statement was one of the
few public pronouncements made
y Mr. Hoover since leaving the
White House in March, 1933.
The former president declared
that all threat of further deval
uation should now 4e removed
and the dollar should Immediate
ly be made convertible at the
present 59 cents of gold, "pay
able, in gold bullion."
In a prepared statement to
the Tucson Dally Citizen, Mr.
Hoover said in part:
"There is no need to wait on
foreign nations before v we re
establish the gold standard . and
restore confldajuje ia our jeur
rency. This would be .bound . to
follow sometime. They are far
more afraid of our doing Just
this than they are of any Ameri
can 'managed currency,' at which
game they have us at a disad
vantage." -
Wonld Revive Capital
fionds Industries. Savs
"There are five compelling
reasons for this action:
"1. It would put more men .to
work out of the twelve million
who still remain unemployed
than any other single action. Un
rmnlovment rests todav largely In
the canltai Roods or construction
industries. These Industries are
. dependent largely upon long term
capital. The people are hesitant
to Invest their savines and take
long term risks because there
is uncertainty in what value
ther will be reDaid.
Tha rnrnmnt'a nrnrrim
of stimulating the capital geods
and giving employment througn
public works can never result In
25 ner cent of the lobs which can
be provided by recovery of nor-
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SI, BUS FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Feb., 20 -(P)-
House democratic leaders today
declared "hands off" the $2,
000,000.000 bonus pay-off fight
when they learned that backers
of the Patman new currency plan
tomorrow wpuld take two steps
to force consideration of their
bill.
Representative Patman (D-
Tex) notified all house members
be would file tomorrow - a pet
tJon making tt possible to take
his bill away from the house
ways and means committee and
bring it to a house vote. Repre
sentative Blanton (4-Tex) said
he would start a petition per
mittlnr a' vote on whether the
Patman bill could be added as a
rider to the legislative appro
priation measure, which pays the
'salaries of representatives and
senators. -
r Speaker Byrns and other lead
ers lmmedlatelv let It be known
that they .'had no intention, of
asking members not to sign those
petitions. Their position was that
the dispute was up to the house
to settle,
1000 Jack Rabbit
Shipment to Ohio
Made by Kansas
GOODLAND.. Kas., Feb. 20-ff)
-Sherman county , will, furnish a
thousand ' live jack . rabbits to
Ohio for distribution In that state
by the game.;eommiBsJpn.-i -; .t
2 The Qoodland Daily- News an
nounced ; today .. that v It ,uiad an
erder from the game commission
ef Ohio for the rabbits; to be fur?
'nished at only. the cost of catch
' fng . and shipping .them,' and the
county committee that ' has been
conducting hunts In the county
promised cooperation, In secur
ing tht rabbits, .
IB
Two DoomedSp ies May
Receive Clemency, Is
In dication A t Berl in
Sensation Caused by Beheading of 2 Women
Likely to Lead Hitler to Spare
2 Men From Headsman's Ax
BERLIN, Feb. 20 (AP) Two more German spies doom
ed to death, may be spared the headman's ax. it was
indicated tonight.
Petitions asking clemency
been presented to Adolf Hitler, it is understood, and fa
vorable action was regarded as likely because of the sensa-
I
PLEDGES WAR 1
Adequate Supplies Promised
as 4000 Troops Sail
Toward Ethiopia
ROME, Feb. Se.-i-IUly's su
preme defense, council tonight
promised the nation the wells of
war supplies will not run dry as
4,000 Italian! troops steamed
across the Mediterranean to Af
rica in consequence of Halo-Ethiopian
tension.
Many times 4,000 soldiers are
ready to embark at Naples and
Sicilian ports.
The council, over which Benito
Mussolini himself presides, con
cluded Its fifth session in recent
days with this statement:
"Italy can rest assured that the
council has done its duty in pre
paring in time! those indispensa
ble measures so that an eventual
warUte effort Can be carried out
in conditions which will assure
victory." .
General Italy Balbo,. former air
minister and now governor of
Libya in Africa and undersecre
tary of war Baistrocchl attended
the sessions of the council, , which
government circles said were In
spired by the Ethiopian situation
and Italy's watchful attitude to
ward possible developments in
Austria.
The Fascist government has lib
erated the nation from "the bon
dages of war" and any future
campaign can be fought in the
knowledge that war supplies will
be adequate, the council said in
its statement. ;
Lee Tracy Gets
Real News Yarn;
Home Roof Burns
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 20.-
(jp)-A mysterious fire in which
one fireman lost his life burned
the top off the fashionable Vol
talre apartment building at dawn
today, drove several movie colon
lsts to the street from it and ad
joining buildings and made a real-
life reporter of Lee Tracy, who
has played several newspaper
roles on the screen.
Two firemen were injured, one
seriously.
Before 11 fire companies could
extinguish the blaze, damage esti
mated at nearly S 150,000 was
done to the $400,000 seven-story
building, situated on a West Hol
lywood hillslope, 1428 Crescent
Heights boulefard. The roof was
burned away and upper stories
ruined.
(MlMCiClfiTl Crater Park Head Named
JJ M1- Protest Fish Price Cuts
rjt V2"VTO Carter Olds' Successor
LJLWiliJ Pendleton Gets Downpour
CROUGH APFOIXTED
MEDFORD, Ore., Feb. 20.-(P-Superintendent
D. H. Canfield to
day announced: appointment of J.
Carlyle Crougb, chief ranger of
Mesa Verde park, to the chief
rangership of Crater Lake nation
al park. r
The Crater Lake position was
held formerly by Canfield, nam
ed acting superintendent on sus
pension and subsequent dismissal
of Superintendent E. C. Sollnsky
to face trial Jn Portland next
month on a charge of Juggling
government funds. -
Crough will arrive within a
month. !:
: 1;
NAMED MILL FKKSIDEXT
PORTLAND, " Ore., Feb. 20.-(JP)
-Charles H. Carter today was
named president of the Portland
woolen mills, succeeding the late
W. P. Olds. 1
Carter, who has worked for the
mills since the start of their op
eration SS years ago, .has been
vice-president ;and general man
ager since 1927. He will continue
those duties, until the board of
director!, nam a successor
V u "...
NO STRIKE ACTION TAKEN
, ASTORIA, Ore.; Feb. tO.PH
A I formal protest '' against 'price
cuts made by -buyers was made
today by ; lower Columbia river
a&linon fishermen.
-Although a strike was hreat-j
for the two, both men, have
Otlon that greeted the execution of
Benlta von ralkennayn and Ke
nate von Natimer, noblewomen
beheaded Monday.
spokesman for the minister
of Justice, meanwhile, denied the
two men, who are prisoners In
the death cells of grim pietsensee
prison from which tradition has
it none emerges alive and free.
had any connection with the
women.
An official In the propaganda
ministry, meanwhile, denied re
ports published abroad that 14
German spies had been trapped
in foreign countries through the
activities of Baron Georges von
Sosnowskl, Polish nobleman sen
tenced to life Imprisonment aa
ringleader In the espionage.
"We don't have that many
spies," he said. "Sosnowskl, In
any ease, was engaged In espion
age In factories and the relchs
wehr (regular army.)"
"The court books have been
definitely closed on the whole
unfortunate complex of cases
Identified with the name 808
nowski." T
LONDON, Feb. 20.-H3ret
Britain will oppose any German
effort to pull the proposed west
ern air alliance out of the close
knit fabric of the recent Anglo
French security proposals.
That was the British position
outlined seml-otflclally today as
the cabinet, meeting to study
Adolf Hitler's reply to the London
proposals, reportedly considered
the advisability of sending British
cabinet ministers to Berlin for
conferences during March.
Despite official denials that any
decision had been made to send
Sir John Simon, foreign secretary,
and possibly Capt. Anthony Eden,
disarmament expert, to the Ger
man capital as the Hitler govern
ment desires, it was known some
government quarters strongly ad
vocated this action.
The full Anglo-French exchange
of -views on Germany's reply to
the proposals has not yet been
completed, it was authoritatively
stated.
Plot to Overthrow
Portugal Revealed
MADRID, Feb. 20. -(-Recent
sensational disclosures involving
a plot hatched in the early days
of the Spanish republic to finance
a revolt in Portugal and Join the
two countries broke wide open to
day in the Spanish parliament.
Congressional minorities totaling
amajority of deputies in the Cor
tes demanded a sweeping investi
gation into the activities of Man
uel Axana, first premier of the re
public, and Santiago Casares Qni-
roga, his minister of the Interior.
ened, no action has been taken.
Not more than 15 or 20 boats
are operating for the fresh fish
market. The season closes March
1st.
Buyers said that with the Port
land market loaded and Califor
nia uninterested, the buying price
for chinooks has dropped to 10
cents a pound from IS cents, and
tor steelheads, to six cents from
nine cents.
SNOW DISAPPEARS
PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 20.-
(A3) The first real downpour in
several weeks fell here today in
a steady patter of rain.
All the snow on the west slopes
of the Blue mountains had dis
appeared this afternoon after the
temperature rose from 33 degrees
last night.
CENTNER, WAS MARKSMAN
GRANTS PASS. Ore.; Feb. 20.
-()-Lawrence C. "Larry. Gent-
ner, i, wno uiea ox seir-lnlllcted
wounds m Portland last nlzht
won ' national recognition as t
marksman on the Grants Pass na
tional "guard rifle team. He was
the first person west of the
Rockies, ever to win the famous
Wimbledon tronhr .In 7 the rifle
sharpshodtlng matches conducted
oy tne national American asso
ciation. -
In 1930 at Cams Perry. Ohio.
Gentner hit the bullseye 20 timet
at 1000 yards. 10 of the ballets
I striking dead centefr
ra
0 OPPOSE
GERMAN 1 MOVES
II EXTENSION
;0i,
Would Retain Provisions on
Wages, Hours, Codes,
Labor Bargaining
Vote on Wage Amendment
to Relief Bill Likely
Today in Senate
WASHINGTON. Feb, 20.-UP)-
A presidential recommendation
tor a new NRA today caused
congress to relegate relief, gold,
security and other pending ques
tions to secondary positions while
it scanned the message.
Both republicans and demo
crats praised In particular Mr.
Roosevelt' eall for stronger pro
visions to protect little business
and prevent monopoly.
In general. Mr. Roosevelt's
communication followed lines pre
viously Indicated. He advocated
minimum wage and maximum
hour provisions; retention of
codes and reassertion of labor's
right to collective bargaining.
Senate Committee
Investigating Codes
The senate finance committee.
however, went ahead with plans
to investigate code administra
tion. Chairman Harrison of . the
committee said the Inquiry would
go hand in hand with the draft
ing of a new bill to replace the
NRA which expires in June.
The senate expected today to
vote on the McCarran prevailing
wage amendment to the adminis
tration's 14,380,000,000 work-relief
bill but the debate crackled
over the chamber until hope for
the ballot was abandoned till to
morrow or later.
Among the speeches was one
by Senator Byrd (D-Va) urging
defeat of the bilL Byrd broke
with the administration last year
on the proposed amendments to
the agricultural adjustment act.
Huge Reed Loan
Bill la Signed
President Roosevelt today
signed a 160,000,000 feed loan
bill but in doing so he asked that
the money be taken from relief
funds contained in the pending
work-relief measure.
Among other developments
were:
The house ways and means
committee today fixed the tax on
payrolls contained in the admin
istration's social security tax at
one per cent for 1936; two per
cent in 1937 and three per cent
in 1938.
William B. Shearer, big navy
propagandist, Interrupted a ses
sion of the senate munitions com
mittee to deny testimony that he
had threatened shipbuilders with
death and scandal for failure to
pay him money he sought.
ohsmp of m
OF GOLD'S SETTLED
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 20.-()-The
"mystery" as to the owner
ship of 3650,144.14 kicking
around the central post office was
straightened out tonight.
Bolivia was sending the money
to London, postal authorities
learned- The mix-up occurred be
cause the routine documents for
the shipment were slightly diver
gent from the usual form. It will
continue to London on the first
steamer.
A sealous postal employe dis
covered the apparently ownerless
fortune when one of four ordin
ary mail sacks from Bolivia broke
open and gold spilled out. Their
eyes bulging, officials inspected
the sacks and found 126 kilos of
gold bullion In addition to $500.
000 in paper currency.
The bags bore tags reading "to
Buenos Aires bank of Boston,"
but officials there denied knowl
edge of any shipment consigned
to them.
71 -Year-Old One
Time Millionaire
Reported Missing
. NEWTON, Mass., Feb. 20.-(flV'
Moses H. Gulesian, 71-year-old
former millionaire, was missing
tonight under mysterious circum
stances. -
The department of Justice Join
ed In a search for the erstwhile
Armenian Immigrant boy who fre
quently had been threatened, but
failed to produce a single clue, v
Gulesian' dropped out of sight
last night alter attending a din
ner at the University club of Bos
ton given by the Sons of the Am
erican"; Revolution,- of which" he
was an honorary member. - - :
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LIBEL BILL DISFAVORED
, The . house Judiciary committee
yesterday reported out ; unfavor
ably a bill by Senator Duncan re-
latiag to the presumption of lhno-
cence in libel cases. The measure
I previously was approved in - the
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Worth Close to
Billion in 1931
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ANDREW W. MELLON
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TOLorame
Government Charges Former
Treasury Secretary,
Tax Evasion
PITTSBURGH, ; Feb. 20. -JPf
From the Hps of one of Andrew
W. Mellon's closest confidantes
there came today a statement that
a personal wealth of the interna
tionally known banker in 1931
was carried on his books at 197,-
603,005.
Howard M. Johnson, Mellon's
financial secretary for 20 years.
made the disclosure before the
board of tax appeals InTestigating
the government's charge that the
three-timeB secretary of the trea
sury wilfully evaded income tax
payments.
Under cross - examination, he
read the figures as of December
81, 1931, and quickly added:
"I want to call attention that
tfiir does net necessarily reflect
true value."
He explained the sum Included
a "book listing" of a huge "Joint
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TOLL CONFAB SET
TODAY BT WIN
A conference between Governor
Martin and the ; state highway
commission has been called for
this morning at the capital with
the question of free bridges along
the Oregon coast highway, one of
the matters understood to be up
for discussion. Other legislative
matters affecting the commission
will be considered.
Governor Martin is known to
favor free bridges but thus far he
has not asked the legislature di
rectly to provide: the commission
with authority to take tolls from
the coast structures.
The commission is said to con
sider the matter of tolls a matter
for the legislature to decide and
not one which should be left for
the commission's only decision.
C.-W. Company
Declares Dividend
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.-JP)
-Crown - Willamette paper com
pany declared a , dividend today
of 31 a share on the first pre
ferred 7 per cent stock, payable
April 1 to stockholders of record
March 13. The dividend will leave
the stock 311 in arrears. The Is
sue and the company's 8 per cent
preferred stock, on which no di
vidends have been paid for some
time, are traded on the San Fran
Cisco curb exchange.
Late Sports
PORTLAND, Feb. 20.P)-Ted
Cox. 220. Lodl, Cal., forgot all
about wrestling land with hair-
yanking and fisticuffs battered
two out of three falls from Hal
Romberg, 228, Spokane, .Wash.,
here tonight. i - --
. Rumberg took the second fall In
short 'order- when his shoulder
butts were working. . .
The crowdTs hero was I Jules
Strongbow; 275-pound Oklahoma
Indian, who clubbed two straight
falls from "Jack .Washburn, 240
Boston ' bad boy. ' Washburn's
knees, elbows and fists failed to
dent; the giant Strongbow, who
cuffed him Into helplessness and
then tell on him,? : - ?
SEATTLE. Feb 20.-PV-Neeo-
tiations which would brina the
Santa Clara "Bronchos here next.'
u ior a iooioaii game with Vfle
University of Washington, Oc
tober 5,"were reported Mder way
today. , The game wCrfrfd eomni
the Huskies', schedule, giving them
five games jome out of eight to
bepjlaveij- , '
MELLON S WEALTH
BE AVOIDED IN
11. MIDGET
Double Budget, "Ordinary,"
"Extraordinary," to Be
Set Up, Believed
May Permit General Fund's
Deficit to Rise to
Million, Biennium
A .plan for handling Oregon's
relief program for 1935 and 1936
and for meeting the "normal" ex
penditures of state government
for the biennium, without new
taxes, had been fairly well worked
out yesterday, it was learned from
official sources at the statebouse.
In such a plan the administra
tion and the . joint ways and
means committee may agree to let
the general fund deficit of the
state increase at least 31,090,000
In the coming two years.
No provision in the p 1 a n is
made for the "social security"
program presently to be enacted
by .the federal government, it be
ing the thought of the Martin ad
ministration that no sound legis
lation on such a program can be
made until congress has outlined
its plans.
Here is the apparent manner in
which state finances will be shap
ed by the end of the week:
$11,000,000 for "Ordinary"
Outlays is Likely
1. "Ordinary" outlays for the
state will be kept to a total of
311.000.000 to 111,500,000, an
increase of $1,000,000 to $1,500,
000 over the $10,000,000 biennial
budget proposed by the former
administration through Henry
Hansen.
2. 'Extraordinary' expenses
will be set at $7,000,000 of which
$5,000,000 would be the state's
estimated outlay in two years In
matching federal relief funds. The
remaining $2,000,000 will be
blocked out by the state to aid
counties in meeting old-age pen
sions and providing for the care
of unemployable persons.
3. No new taxes will be sought
or favored by the Martin adminis
tration for either "normal" or
extraordinary" state expendi
tures.
4. The "ordinary" expenditures
will be readily covered by t h e
state's estimated total normal
revenue of $13,300,000 for the
biennium. An estimated $1,800,
000 surplus of normal income
over normal expenditures would
be placed with $4,000,000 antici
pated liquor revenue receipts for
the biennium to make a total of
$5,800,000 of the $7,000,000 "ex
traordinary" budget.
5. The remaining $1,200,000
will be handled by an increase by
that amount in the state's general
fund budget deficit.
Several variations from the pre
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Rioters Elicit
Condemnation by
Yugoslavian Head
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb.
20.-(J)-Violence in the kingdom
of Little Peter II today caused
Prince Paul, chief regent and de
fender of Yugoslavia, to break a
rigid rule and lash out publicly in
condemnation of rioting which
has taken 10 lives in two days.
For years the young and re
served Prince Paul has refused
to give out press interviews. To
day, in an exclusive interview, he
expressed fervent hope that his
people "will see the folly of
bloodshed and bullets to gain
their ends." C f-. ;. ..
Lee Ransom Note Hoax, Say;
FederalChargeMay Be Made
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 20
(-Charges of violation of the
federal extortion statutes were
placed today against Louis Lee,
19, of St. Paul, Ore., who was
accused of making a planned
disappearance and then mailing
his father a demand for $30,
OOO ransom for bis son's re
lease. Carl C Donaugh, United
State attorney here, filed the
federal charge and set Lee's
ball at $3,000.
The $50,000 ransom note re
ceived early this week by Jimmy
Lee," St. Paul, apparently turns
out to be a hoax perpetrated by
Louis Lee, 19, son of the St.
Paul man. Lonia. Lee, taken , into
custody near 'Roberts yesterday
by. Deputy Sheriffs Newell ;Wll
liamswas held In - the "county
Jail last night for the department
of Justice, following questioning
yesterday by T A." GrimsdaU,
justice agent from Portland. c i
1 1nformation from the sheriffs
office lata yesterday was that
fTali'.J Cim.m Ttfatvl IftATTOT
r..t iv... ,.. vnrtini' wonld
v1 place eTtoftlon chjrgej rlnt
Senate S
Voting
County Unit System
World News at
a
vjiance
(By the Associated Press)
Domestic: J
WASHINGTON President's
call for anti-monopoly safeguards
and extension. of. NRA hailed by
congress leaders.
WASHINGTON Proposals for
expansion of the currency seen
approaching- on. heels of gold
clause decision.
WASHINGTON Fresh attack
en work-relief bill postpones sen
ate . vote on ' prevailing' wage
amendment.
WASHINGTON JP- Christagaa
resigns from TAXAt as aftermath
of shake-up.
PITTSBURGH",- Mellon secre
tary alleges short sales In 1931
while still treasury head, puts
1931 wealth at 97 million.
WASHINGTON Bonus issue
now centers on question of pay
ing off in new (expanded) cur
rency. PAWNEE, Okla. Both sides
sum up in Kennamer murder
trial.
LOS ANGELES Testimony
that two wealthy couples ex
changed mates informally offered
in sensational case.
CHICAGO Hogs continue to
pre-depression prices; $9.10 top
is highest in over four years.
WILLIAMSPQRT. Pa. Five
year old slashes baby brother
in "hex" rite.
Foreign:
ROME 4000 troops embark
for Ethiopia: many more stand
ready.
BERLIN Two more spies.
doomed to headsman's ax. may
be spared.
MOSCOW Soviet tells Eng
land and France she agrees with
European peace pact proposals.
VIENNA. Chancellor Schus-
chnlgK and foreign minister off
'for Paris and Londan, probably
to discuss pan-Europetn security
pact. j
LONDON Queen Mary shops
at fair, has king's long under
wear sent to the palace on ap
proval.
VADNAGAR. India Past
race of Pygmy men and cows
Inches high seen in fossil re
mains.
REACH JM TODAY
PAWNEE, Okla., Feb. 20.-(i5J)
-The state painted Phil Kenna
mer as a cold blooded killer and
the defense as a gallant defend
er of womanhood during a day
of arguments which brought near
a close his trial for the murder
of John Gorrell.
The 19-year-old defendant, son
of Federal Judge Franklin E.
Kennamer, sat stolidly through
the longest day of the trial, poker
faced and silent.
The case is expected to reach
the -Jury tomorrow.
Kennamer heard the prosecu
tion demand his Incarceration,
and point out that the -Instructions
of Judge Thurman Hurst
permit, the assessment of the
death penalty for his crime.
"You may order Phil Kenna
mer's death in the electric chair,"
said the veteran Tom Wallace, as
sistant Tulsa county attorney.
A moment later Wallace quali
fied his argument by asserting the
state does' not insist on such a
verdict.
the youth, son of a Chinese man
The youth was picked np at
the C. A. Pickering farm, roufe
three, shortly after Mrs. Nona
White, county, probation officer,
Informed - Deputy Sheriff Wil
liams "she had received a note
from Lee this week in which Lee
asked ' that she help him get
placed In a CCO camp. Strangely
enough, - both" the 'ransom ' note
and the plea to Mrs. White bore
date of February 18.
Handwriting In .the two notes
is said to be Identical,' though
in the ransom note directed' to
the father, the Initials signed
were "H. o. B. and H. C O.? To
Mrs. White, who - has had pre
vious contact with the youth and
the family,' Louis, wrote that he
had left 'home because oi conai
Uons which he did not like He
rare the Plckerinsr address,
Pickering told -.William that
he picked Louis up near Donald
snndav nisht and - brought him
bzack.to his farm home to give
him employment.' The young man
gave Pickering a hard-luck story.
Pickering had ' heard nothing of
the so-called ransom note until
Informed gesterday. mornJs
KEIIMSEfflf
Favorably cii
Minority Report Okeh
Said to Indicate
Passage Today
"People Don't Went
This Bill," Says
Senator McKay , -
Approval of the county -school
unit requested by Governor Matt-
tin the second day of the session
was given late Wednesday after
noon by the state senate which'
adopted a minority report that '
the measure pass. .In accepting
the favorable report the -senate)
upset statements x by leaders la
titat house that the measure, wast
certain of defeat. The vote stood
18 to 13 to accept the minority,
report, President Corbett voting;
with the majority. Senator Burke
who fought the measure bitterly, '
changed his vote to aye to permit
reconsideration, the final count
being 17 to 12.
Advocates of the county unit1
play lacked sufficient votes yes-'
terday to suspend rules and push .
the bill through on fnlal passage.!
Last night opponents of the meas-'
ure were trying to switch enough.!
votes to defeat the bill on final;
passage but 'there was little likelf-'
hood that the vote on the com
mittee reports Wednesday would
be upset.
All But 5 Counties
Would Vote on Plan
As the measure stands it- ha(
already passed . the house all
counties in the state in 1933, with.1
five exceptions, must vote oa
whether or not they wish to ad-t
opt the county nnlt plan for oper
ating schools. .Klamath, Hood
River, Lincoln, and Gilliam coun
ties, who now have the system,
are exempted from voting next
year as in Lane county which
voted last November' and turned "
the plan down by a large major
ity. The roll call:
Aye A 1 1 k e n, Allen, Best,
Burke, Bynon. Chlnnock, Dick
son, Duncan. Dunn, Fisher, Has-'
lett, Lee, Lessard, Pearson, Stet
wer, Wallace, Corbett.
Nay Carney, Franciscovich,
Hess, McCornack, McKay, Spa eld
ins. Staples, Strayer, Stringer,
Walker, Wheeler, Zimmerman.
Excused Goss.
Senator Hailett, chairman of
the senate committee which re
ported the bill out unfavorably,
supported the county unit system,
as one coducive to greater teach
er efficiency and to economy. "Ia
these days of specialization yoa
can't expect the best, results from
a teacher who conducts all
grades," Hazlett declared. "As for
economy, a salesman told me in
our county that he used to be
able to go to a school district and
sell inferior goods at a high
price; in Hood River county ha
said the county unit heads would
buy only what was needed and at
a fair price."
Unit System's Economy
Questioned by McKay
I question whether this bill la
the most efficient method of
handling . schools," declared Sen- '
ator Douglas McKay, of this coun
ty, in opposing the bill. "Of t&e '
four counties which have-It, two
are higher than Marlon county ia
costs, one Is lower and the other
-Lincoln has been in operation
less than a year and has a short
school year.
"When the people doat want
this bill I am not going to .try to
make them take it. Waresent
very much being forced to vote on
this. If we want to Vote on the
plan, the existing law provides a
means to put it on the ballot.
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ID
New : York, Feb. 2 HSVTw
favored players were eliminated "
today In the quarter-final. round
of the women's nationay-- Indoor
singles -tennis championship. It
saw the and of the reign of Nor
ma Tanbele as champion and the
defeat of Mme Sylvia Henrotin of
France. .- - . " ,
The red-haired Miss Tanbele
went down to a fast and derisive
defeat at the hands of 18-year-old
MlUIcent HiTEh, -l, 3-2. -Urns
Henrotin was outlasted in
a thrilling two-hour struggle- by
Helen Pedersen of Stamford, -Conn.,
national girl's champion,
i-T 3-4 3-2. : "
Miss Hlrth and Miss Pedersen;
will meet tomorrow In the serai-,
final. v-" - - -' . " f
..Tha bthe players who won '
their way: to the ; penultimate
round were Mrs. Dorothy. Andras
of New York, the top-seeded play
er and now the outstanding .fa
vorite, and Jane Sharp of Paaa-.
den a, Calif., who appeareatly as
recovered N from a bovherjw
het lL-., ..- -