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THE WEATHER
Unsettled and showery
today, probably Thursday;
Max. Temp. Tnes. 78, Min.
i 50, river -.8 ft., rain trace,
cloqdy, variable winds.
FOUNDED 1831
EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, June 19, 1935
No. 72
DEATH
OCCURS
N 11 TANK,
OUie FIELD
Rex Howard, 7, Victim of
First Serious Accident
at Playground Here
Not Seen Falling Into Deep
End of Tank; Efforts
to Revive Fail
Tragedy marred Salem's ex
panded playground program,
started last year, for the first
time yesterday afternoon when
the dead body of Rex Howard,
7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray W. Howard, 1910 McCoy av
enue, was brought up from the
deep end of Olinger swimming
pool by Maynard Clark, life
guard, at 3:15 p.m.
Pool guards, city firemen, and
a county health nurse worked
over the body for two hours in a
futile effort to restore breathing
and heart action while the grief
torn young parents looked on.
They were assisted by Miss Lillian
McDonald, superintendent of Sa
lem General hospital with the
hospital's modern resuscitation
equipment.
"Unquestionably it was an accl
dentaf drowning." Dr. L. E. Bar
rick, county coroner, who arrived
at the pool a 'few minutes after
the lad's body was lecovered, an
nounced lasfnight. lie gave little
credence to reports the boy had
been seriously injured, resulting
in his drowning.
Mystery shrouded the manner
In which the boy disappeared be
neath the surface of the murky
pool.
Small Girl Bumps
Into Submerged Body
The body was discovered by an
unidentified small girl who bump
ed into it when she jumped Into
the water. She returned to the
surface and shouted for help.
Clark, who had gone off duty
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VANCOUVER, B. C, June 18
(iiPHBlood flowed freely in the
streets adjoining Vancouver's wa
terfront today as striking long
shoremen and their sympathiz
ers, including women, battled po
lice for three hours following an
unsuccessful attempt to. storm
Ballantyne pier where members
of another union worked deepsea
vessels.
Eight policemen and at least
nine civilians were admitted to
hospitals and scores of .others
suffered minor Injuries as police
repelled the attackers with tear
gas and clubs and strikers show
ered the uniformed ranks with
missiles of al' kinds. Thirteen
men were arrested.
Longhoremen had demanded
permission to send a delegation to
the docks to talk to men working
the ships. This was refused and,
pursuing their announced inten
tion of forcing their way onto the
docks, longshoremen marched to
Ballantyne pier at 1:30 p.m. They
were joined by some 800 of their
comrades and their sympathizers.
Police had been guarding the
pier since the longshore Btrike be
gan June 6 at which time a dis
pute arose with the shipping fed
eration of British Columbia over
the working of vessels loaded at
Powell River, B. C, which had
been declared an "unfair" port.
EARHART PLANE IS
EUGENE, June lt.-JP)-Tr.
Donald Baxter, head of the Bai
ter laboratories at Glendale,
Cilaf., was rushed to the Glendale
hospital in Amelia Earhart's fa
mous plane this afternoon.
Dr. Baxter who was vacationing
at his summer home on the Mc
Kensie river, was stricken with
hemorrhage of the brain Monday.
Dr. Harry G. Talbot of Eugene
was called to attend him Monday.
Last evening Dr. Chapman and
Dr. Turnbull of San Diego were
called.
The two California doctors
rushed here in the Earhart plane,
making the trip in five hours.
They -arrived at Eugene at S:30
a.-m. today, accompanied by Dr.
Beardsley, a brother of Mrs. Bax
ter. Mrs. Baxter and Mr." Beardsley
left hy another plane from Med
ford Tuesday night.
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BANDIT GETS YEAR
PORTLAND. June 18.-()-En-gene
T. Montgomery, 20, whom
, a voluble taxi driver talked ' out
of hlsun In an attempted hold
up, today was sentenced to a
year In the state penitentiary by
Circuit Judge James . W. Craw
ford. . r.
RIOTING UIS Oil
MERGY
HQ
State Police Handle Situation
When Pickets Ref use to Disband
C ,- - - 1
cT i hi
You can't tell whether that club is about to bounce off the picket's
head, or is just being waved as a threat, but the general impres
sion gained from this picture is that it doesn't pay to monkey with
Oregon's state police. Pictnre taken at the Stimson mill near For
est Grove during recent picketing disturbance incident to the lum
ber strike, International Illustrated News photo.
FILTERS NEEDED AT
$6000 Cost Previously Held
Prohibitive; Tragedy
Revives Proposal
Lack of funds has nrevented in
stallation of a filter system to
keep the water in the two Salem
Dlaveround swimming nnnh flonr
- O .u.j .
witn good visibility throughout, 1
members of the school board ex
plained last night following the
drowning of Rex Howard, 7, in
the Olinger tank.
The accident, however, revived
talk of securing the filter equip
ment, estimated to cost $3000 for
each pool. Provision was made in
the piping system for such instal
lations.
A school director who did not
wish to be quoted by name said
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TO
SPEAK ON FOURTH
Governor Charles H. Martin
will be asked to deliver the ad
dress at the patriotic exercises to
be held at tin state fairgrounds
in conjunction with the American
Legion's July 4 celebration next
month, the celebration committee
announced last night. The exer
cises will be held at 11 a.m. in
front of the grandstand.
The day's program as now out
lined will be as follows:
9 a.m., children's sports; 11
a.m., patriotic program; 1:15
p.m., auto race time trials start;
2:30 p.m., races begin; 5:30-7:30
p.m., concert by Rose City post
25-piecp Legion band from Port
land; 8 p.m., 11-act vaudeville
show, grandstand; 9:15 p.m.,
fireworks; 10 p.m., dance with
music by Rose City post eight
piece orchestra; all day, refresh
ment and rides concessions.
In addition to six acts of pro
fessional vaudeville there will be
one each- from Vancouver, Wash..
Dallas, Albany, Salem, and a
group of Swiss yodelers.
Bankers Urge
SWIM POOLS
MADl
ASKED
Before Bank Act Passage
Selection of Eugene Courtney,
former Marion county banker but
now at The Dalles, as president
of the Oregon State Bankers' as
sociation, and adoption of a reso
lution disapproving title 2 of the
national banking act now before
congress featured the closing ses
sions of the bankers' association
here early yesterday afternoon.
The resolution concludes: "As
a general statement of opipion,
we believe there is no emergency
at the present time which neces
sitates such drastic revision of
our banking laws as is proposed
and we recommend an indepen
dent and disinterested study of
the entire nation's banking struc
ture and that -congress defer ac
tios of title 2 until this -study
has been completed."
The resolution expresses sym
pathy with the general purposes
of titles 1 and 3 of the t, bat
holds that the mandatory assess
ment of of one per cent car
ried In title 1 can, with present
low earning, bring banka which
would otherwise be stable to be
come liaibilities of the federal
deposit insurance corporations,
i Relative to title 2, the resolu
RASPBERRY RECIPE
III
Prizes Offered; Additional
Gooseberry Methods
are Made Known
Raspberry recipes of all kinds
will be welcome at the Round Ta
ble this week. Send in as many
as you like but be sure that they
"arrive at The Statesman office
by Thursday noon to be in time
for judging.
The Round Tale contest is
open to everyone. The rules are
very simple. Select one or more
of your best recipes for the cur
rent topics. Jot down the ingred
ients, the directions for making
including baking time and how
many it serves, and sign with
your name and address. One of
your entries may win a cash prize.
Gooseberry recipes follow:
Gooseberry Pie
cups gooseberries
4 tablespoons water
l'i cups sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon butter
The night before clean the ber
ries. Mix sugar and cornstarch
thoroughly and stir this into the
washed berries with 4 tablespoons
water. Let stand over night. In
the morning place in an unbaked
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Change of Venue
Writ Refused to
Arrested Picket
PORTLAND, Ore., June U.JF)
-circuit Judge James w. Craw
ford today refused to issue a man
damus writ ordering a change of
venue for the trial of Alf Johnson
on charges of disorderly conduct
on picket lines.
The court held there was no
showing that Justice of Peace
O. A. Eastman of Gresham was
prejudiced against unions, as
Johnson charged. Johnson's trial
was set for Friday.
He was to be the first of 237
pickets arrested at the Bridal Veil
Lumber company tried. Chris
Boesen, Johnson's attorney, in A
cated he might appeal Jufce
Crawford's ruling.
More Study
tion says in part: "We believe
that the Federal Reserve board
should be a supreme court of
banking, independent of political
domination and controlled to the
same extent that the supreme
court of the United States is in
dependent in its interpretation of
the law. We believe sections of
titles 1 and 2 . . . dealing with
reserves and open market trans
actions, place an unwarranted
proportion of the banking re
sources of the country in control
of one body of men . . . which
would be a political body . . .
Further resolutions, presented
by A. K. Parker, committee
chairman, commended action ot
the state planning board in Its
planned use of forest land, in
which sustained yield and con
tiuous production are major ob
jectives; and endorsed action of
the executive board for a pro
gram for old age pensions for
member banks.
Other officers elected yester
day were: Vice-president, B. F.
Harder of Medford; treasurer,
George D. Brodie, Dufur; execu
tive committee, A. K. Parker,
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en LIFTING
FROM OREGON
LUMBER ILLS
Shingle Mills Resume and
Negotiations Reported
Closing at Others
Both Sides Give Evidence
Strike May Be Ended;
Workers Invited
PORTLAND, Ore., June 1S-JF
-A somewhat brighter picture
presented itself in the Portland
area's lumber strike tonight. Sev
eral shingle mills already have
been opened, negotiations at other
unnamed plants have been an
nounced! as near completion and
call for men has been issued by
nine leading operators.
More hopeful than since May 6
when the first of about 35,000
workers in the two northwestern
states walked out, Frank John
son, secretary of the Portland
Sawmill and Timber Workers' un
ion, today declared: "We are ne
gotiating right along and the sit
uation looks pretty good."
Three shingle mills opened in
Portland today under union
agreement. The B. P. John Furni
ture company, closed because of
a shortage of materials, reopened
yesterday.
An unofficial estimate of the
number of men who already have
returned to their jobs in the
lumber industry approximates
3500, including furniture work
ers, those in plywood plants and
employes of sawmills and camps.
The number includes principally
those in Vancouver, Wash., and
Portland.
No blanket basis of settlement
such as advocated by A. W. Muir,
vice president of the Brotherhood
of - Carpenters and Joiners, has
been accepted but indications are
that individual agreements are in
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(By The Associated Press)
Heavy rains spread havoc anew
through the west and south yes
terday. Turbulent waters burst levees,
drove thousands of persons from
lowlands, inundated huge tracts
of agricultural land, washed out
bridges and rail lines, disrupted
highway traffic and inflicted un
estimated losses upon many farm
ers and merchants. But only two
new deaths were recorded as Jup
iter Pluvius turned on the show
ers full force.
The Askansas river forced out
two levees and spilled over anoth
er, raising fear that 50,000 acres
of land would be covered in Con
way county, Arkansas. Burdened
by torrential rain, it reached 31.2
feet at Fort Smith the highest
since 1929 and more than nine
feet above flood level. Road and
rail travel was interrupted. About
300 persons near Fort Smith evac
uated. The Poteau river surged to
the highest stage in 31 years.
Telephone service was hampered
by tornadic wind. Approximately
one third of the state was cut off
after reporting a destructive
storm.
Flood water moved out of Tex
as, leaving 14 known dead, 30,
000 flooded acres Of corn and cot
ton, and a 14,500,000 loss at
Austin, and moved into Arkansas
and Oklahoma.
CHI CIS IN TO
(Copyright. 1935, br Assoriited Press)
TIENTSIN, China, June 18.
China, yielding again to Japanese
army demands, today ousted Gen.
Sung Cheh-Yuan as governor of
Chahar province and ordered the
132nd Chinese division to evacu
ate Chahar.
That was the price the Iron
fisted Japanese demanded in set
tlement of the "Changpei inci
dent," the detention last week at
Changpei of iour Japanese whose
papers, Chinese officials asserted,
were not in order.
Japanese spokesmen also hint
ed that liquidation of the Chahar
issue brought all phases of the
three-weeks-ld North China cris
is "to the stlge of amicable settle
ment." Maj.-Gen. Kenjl Doihara, di
rector of the special service divi
sion of Japan's Kwantnng army
and the "Lawrence ot Manchur
ia," announced the "principal
terms" of -the Chahar settlement.
saying the final and formal agree
ment would be reached at Kalgan
near the scene of the incident.
To replace the dismissed Gen
Sung as Chahar governor, the na
tional government at Nanking
named Civil Commissioner Chin
Teh-Chuan who Japanese army
spokesmen praised highly for his
work as negotiator on behalf of
Sung in the Changpei issue.
FLOOD
OR
MIDWEST HEN
WED
Ml
World News at
a Glance
(By the Associated Press)
Domestic:
Lansing, K a s. Beleaguered
convicts fire mule barns in mine
shaft, hold 11 guards hostages in
mutiny.
Washington Senate pre 3 of
commerce department called,
prompted by charges of "corrup
tion" and "treasury looting" from
ousted aide.
Omaha, Neb. T r o 1 1 e y s run
again under martial law.
Washington AAA amendments
voted by house to hedge adminis
tration farm program against su
preme court NRA ruling.
PojughKeepsle, w. i. Califor
nia wins historic regatta.
Washington Senate vote on
social security bill blocked by de
bate.
Washington New taxes to
boost revenues bob up in senate.
Tacoma1, Wash. G - men dis
close discovery of kidnap pits.
Washington Wagner labor dis
putes bill tops house "must" list.
Foreijrn:
London Anglo - German naval
agreement makes London boss of
nazi navy building program.
Tientsin, China China yields
again to Japanese demands, ousts
Chahar governor.
Vancouver, B. C. Canadian
"mounties" charge 1,000 striking
longshoremen, many injured in
street rioting.
Praha, Czechoslovakia "Un
derstanding" with Germany cited
principal aim by Foreign MinLfer
Benes.
Oslo, Norway Leon Trotzky
comes to Norway, drops from
sight.
LOGANBERRY CODE
Vote Unanimous by Growers
at Meeting Here; Will
Talk Price Soon
Unanimous approval of the pro
posed loganberry code was voiced
at the hearing held here yester
day and attended by more than
200 loganberry growers and co
operative representatives from all
interested sections of the state.
The ,heatia,. was held at the
chamber of commerce, -with A
Reed, chief of the state division
of market enforcement, presiding.
Directors named to the control
board by the growers yesterday
were:
First district, Multnomah,
Washington and Clackamas coun
ties, Tom O'Brien, route two, box
8, Estacada.
Second district, Marion coun
ty, Frank Hrubetz, Liberty sec
tion south of Salem, O. L. Davis,
Woodburn, and Harry Hugill,
Hubbard.
Third district. Polk and Yam
hill counties, C. H. Lowerman
route 2, Dallas.
Fourth district, Benton, Linn
and Lane counties, H. G. Rum
baugh, route four, Albany.
Cooperative members, George
Smith of Stayton co-op at Stay-
ton; Joe Fisher of Gresham Ber
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I
L
IT
TACOMA, June 18.-(;p)-Nine
Tacoma lumber, door and ply
wood plants will reopen for op
eration tomorrow morning, the
employe-employer committee rep
resenting the group, announced
late tonight after their return
from Olympia where Governor
Clarence D. Martin assured them
full state assistance in protecting
workers in returning to their
jobs.
In addition it Is expected two
plants which also submitted ma
Jority petitions of employes to
the governor will open at the
same time.
The men will be offered em
ployment under open shop con
ditions with the new 4-L wage
scale setting the minimum at 50
cents an hour in force, the em
ployer committee representing the
nine mills announced.
Former employes of the sev
eral mills who present themselves
for work Friday morning will be
given their old Jobs without ques
tion, the announcement stated,
while those who report for work
later than Friday will be hired
at the discretion of the operators.
Sudden Write-in
Flurry Success,
School Election
ROSEBURG. Ore., June H.-Cfl3)
A sudden avalanche of votes en
abled a write-in candidate to beat
out a veteran schel board mem
ber in an election here yesterday,
Most of the votes came the last
two hours the polls were open
and write-in Candidate Roy O.
Young, realtor and prominent war
veteran, led the field with 134.
Dr. G. C.rFinlay, a member for
nine years, was second with 103
votes, Just one more than Carlos
Page, another write-in candidate
who was ahead of B. R. Shoemak
er, another member of nine years
standing. The top two were
elected. v
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TACOMA
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Loss in Building Alone is
$15,000; Equipment and
Stock Also is Lost
Cause is .Unknown; Firemen
Hampered by Lack of
Water in Vicinity
The B. E. Edwards & Son
wholesale meat plant at 25th
street and Turner road was de
stroyed early last night by fire
the origin of which firemen said
could not be determined. The
loss on the brick and tile build
ing was set at $15,000 while that
on boiler, office and refrigeration
equipment and the large quantity
of meat ruined was not estimated
by B. E. Edwards. Only a small
amount of insurance was carried,
he said.
City firemen arrived a few min
utes after smoke was noticed ris
ing from the roof but lack of wa
ter prevented their making any
headway against the flames,
which threw out Intense heat.
They attempted to battle the
flames with the small amount of
water available from the small
pipeline leading to the city Incin
erator, by connecting the line to
a pressure tank on the South Sa
lem pumper truck. There is no
fire hydrant in the vicinity.
The alarm was sounded at 5:20
p. m. by John Ray, nearby resi
dent who heard a small boy yel
ling "fire!" When Norval E. Ed
wards, son and partner, left the
plant around 5 o'clock, he noted
nothing unusual, his father said.
The Edwards firm erected the
plant destroyed last night about
three years ago. The elder part
ner said he had no definite plans
for reconstruction.
11 BELIEVED KEPT
IN SUBMERGED PIT
Weyerhaeuser Kidnap Three
Years in Planning, is
Theory at Tacoma
(Copyright. 1935. by Associated Presn
TACOMA, Wash.. June 18.-WP)
-Department of Justice agents.
preparing to lay secret evidence
before a federal grand jury tomor
row, refused today to reveal the
location of a pit near here in
which the department director, J.
Edgar Hoover, revealed nine-
year-old George Weyerhaeuser
was held captive immediately aft
er his kidnaping May 24.
Also they refused to divulge, In
advance of tomorrow's effort to
obtain indictments against Mr.
and Mrs. Harmon M. Waley and
William Mahan, the whereabouts
of a leanto, apparently near Issa-
quah, Wash., at which George was
released June 1 after his parents
bought him back for $200,000.
But Hoover's statement that
Mahan dug a kidnap pit, discover
ed by hunters near Spirit Lake,
Idaho, in June, 1934, indicated
the "snatch" had long been plan
ned. Hoover, in Washington,
D. C, said he did not know for
whom the Spirit Lake pit was pre
pared but his agents have charg
ed that Mahan and the Waleys
took George to Spirit Lake and
Blanchard, Idaho, during ransom
negotiations, thus coming within
the Lindbergh law provisions by
crossing a state line with their
hostage.
It was believed today, and
agents refused to confirm or deny
it, that the curly haired little heir
to the enormous Weyerhaeuser
lumber and logging enterprises,
had identified the Spirit Lake pit,
the-similar and mysterious pit
near here and the lean-to. during
the period he was mysteriously
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Governor s Salary Limit
Argued in Circuit Court
A $3975 pay cut for Governor
Charles H. Martin was argued in
circuit court here yesterday be
fore Judge L. O. Lewelling.
The action was the suit ot Ed
Jory, local taxpayer, who con
tends that Article 13, section one,
of the state constitution, prohib
its the state legally paying its
chief executive more than $1500
annually, the amount fixed in the
constitution when Oregon was ad
mitted to the anion in 1859.
Not only the governor would be
affected by the courts holding
with Jory, but the secretary of
state and the state treasurer
would be subjected to suits be
cause the constitution set their
base pay originally at $1500 and
$800 a year, respectively.
Appearing for Jory was Rodney
Alden, editor of the Woodburn
Independent and member of the
bar, who first raised the question
through the editorial columns of
his paper, then took Jory's case
when the latter desired to make a
test case ot Alden's contention
that $1500 was the largest
amount which could be paid any
in
COUNTER
Guards Armed With Guns and Tear Gas Descend Behind
Improvised Smoke Screen After Convicts Engaged in
Mutiny Against Treatment Set Shaft Ablaze; Two of
Hostages are Sent to Surface
Plea That Smoke From Reversed Ventilators Be Drawn
Out Ignored by Warden; Hostages Not Harmed So Far
but Mine Partly Wrecked; Threat to Ignite Gasoline
in Case of Attack, Made by Besieged Mob
LANSING, Kas., June 10-(Wednesday)-(')-Squads of
Kansas penitentiary guards, armed with gang and tear gas de
scended into the strike-locked prison coal mine early today
behind a smoke screen blown by reversed ventilator fans to rush
347 mutinous convicts.
One of the besieged prisoners telephoned the surface as
the downward attack started, urging that the smoke be drawn
out. He declared the imprisoned guards and loyal convicts
would be suffocated if this were not done.
Warden Lacey Simpson disregarded the plea, however, and
ordered the attack to continue.
LANSING, Kas., June 19 (Wednesday) (AP) A mad
dened mob of 347 mutinous convicts sent up word early
today from the Kansas penitentiary coal mine where they
struck for a new prison physician and better food that "well
stick it out until we die, if we have to but these nine guards
must die with us."
Pausing in the midst of spreading fires and tumbling
timber supports, the mutineers released two of 11 guards
held as hostages to carry the word that "we can stay here
until Friday or Mondav for that matter."
"The mine Is almost a wreckO
right now," Will T. Beck, mem-
ber of the board of administration
which met to consider the con
victs' demands, was told by Ro
bert Murray, mine superinten
dent. Murray was one of the two hos
tages released.
"The rock has fallen down In
the tunnels and almost complete
ly covered 60 cars."
Murray said some of the con
victs were armed with knives.
Asked what steps should be
taken, Murray replied:
"As long as the men are wreck
ing the mine, the only thing to do
is to go down there after them.
We will have to go down to res
cue the guards and extinguish the
fire."
Murray and Joe St'.ddard, a
guard, were permitted to emerge
by way of the main shaft con
trolled by the rioters, but the
convicts placed gasoline at the
bottom and told them if attempts
were made to send guards down
that shaft the fuel would be ig
nited. The guards released said the
convicts had secreted food in the
mine in preparation for the strike
but found that the meat had
spoiled.
"The guards haven't been
harmed so far," Murray report
ed. Before Murray and Studdard
were sent up the shaft, the con
victs ignited a small portion of
the gasoline. Then they extin
guished it "just to show we
mean what we say."
R. D. Payne, secretary to the
warden, said an attempt would be
made to rush the i strikers and
rescue the guards.
Hose was lowered down the air
shaft for nse in fighting the fires.
CRASH VICTIM DIES
PORTLAND, June 18-;P)-JohD
Stahl, 67, died here tonight from
Injuries suffered Saturday morn
ing in an automobile accident
on Broadway bridge. His death
was the 40th traffic accident fa
tality here since December 1.
governor constitutionally each
year.-
For the state, appeared Ralph
Moody of the attorney-general's
office.
After oral presentations lasting
one and one-half hours, the court
gave the defendant a fortnight in
which to file a reply brief to the
22-page discussion filed by Moo
dy. The latter will be given five
days in which to answer Alden's
brief.
Because ths plaintiff did, not
wish to provide bond, no tempo
rary injunction to restrain the sec
retary of state from paying the
governor's salary, was applied for.
As a consequence Governor Mar
tin's drawings have already ex
ceeded $1500 which the. plaintiff
claims is the full amount the chief
executive can draw In 1935.
Mr. Moody, in defending the
present law which-makes the
governor's salary $7500, subject
to a salary reduction of $2700,
contending the constitutional pro
vision that $1500 be the govern
or'g salary, was In no sense a liml
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ME
ATTACK
Bulletin
LANSING, Kan., Jane 19.
(Satnrday)-i?VWarden Lacey
Simpson emerged from the
Kansas penitentiary mine at
3:30 o'clock this morning (C.
S. T.) and announced that the
mutiny of 347 -convicts who
had set fires in the 6haft, was
over. -I
BASIS OF CHEST
There will be no sharp contest
for the position of school board
chairman here when the directors
meet and swear in newly-elected
members at the regular meeting
next Tuesday night, a poll of the
directors yesterday indicated. Per
cy A. Cupper and Mrs. David
Wright, present chairman, will of
ficially begin three-year terms at
that time.
The state law provides that the
director who has served longest in
his present term shall be chair
man unless he elects to waive the
privilege. This would place Wal
ter B. Minier and E. A. Bradfield
in the running.
Bradfield said he considered
Minier, who received the largest
vote of the two in 1933, as the
logical man tor chairman. Minier
wanted to hear Bradfleld's wish
es before saying whether or not
he desired the chairmanship.
The three holdover directers,
Minier. Bradfield and Frank Neer,
praised Mrs. Wright for her work
as chairman the past year. Cup
per said his "thought would be to
follow the law."
MISIDFJ1STIB
CAUSE OF TRAGEDY
SEATTLE, June 18. -(-Misinterpreting
the meaning of her
employer's statement that she
would be "placed under band,"
Mrs. Esther Avery, 34, secretary
of a Seattle investment house fir
nearly 14 years, drove to her
home here tonight, closed the gar
age doors, left the motor running'
and ended her life by inhaling
fumes from the exhaust.
- A note addressed to her hps
band said her employer ''talked
of bonding me today" and added
"I can't take that from him after
nearly 14 years of faithful and
honest, service." v
Shocked by the misinterpreta
tion of his gtatemett, George E.
Morford, president of the invest
ment company, explained he was
taking an association Into the
firm and was bonding Mrs. Av
ery as a routine xnttter. r " x
Sh ronldn't Iiiti jBiw
stood," he said. "She was .the
most trusted and loyal employe I
ever had. .-"
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