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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1935)
t: i c: :zfir:.:Mmk' " A rw'-' 77 77 77" l;-'7F 77 -777) - TmV - 0 7 .:- -A'4Pll&ijbb SAWWpLV.ZW-sllp-f::: ILL Mm-,:lL-(ULlLtlL J a i..2iirananhits r2ileage Claim Charge : J lade by Sheriff fot Justified Says . . . Acting Judge (Coatinued "from Psge 1) a., lent wbicb tbe sheriff bas so ott investigated: at ablic expeiue end bis profit not only then cer- lot machine bat also ofier ate4 black lack, draw poker, atad Mker and crap.ganies. all ia open defia-nee of law; fle know, do the district attorney,, taat In . one nlace in 'Salem jebJch he bas oftea charged tor 'investigating' there was conducted for -months - draw- pokar, j;tnd .poker and crap games as -well-M elot' inacbraea- and Ae should bare known tnat the men in chars of these tames bad- a rule that the 'taka-ofr bQuld be nine dollars an hoar on each game. He knows, as does tbe district attorney, at: within th. last two months a youthful tenderfoot lest all his money ( $ 14 ) - there ln-a joker same, and el n made desperate thereby. forged- a check for lis and play ed it off la a foolish attempt to wia hack the money he had lost. H also knows that the tender toot was arrested and brought be fore me and that I refused to sen- tence him to the penitentiary. He probably knows that I ordered the district attoraeys office to prose cute tbe owners of the games and that my order was lgnorecL And yet with these, notorious facts as ' wel as others of a kindred kind. known to hundreds of people, this court pays out hundreds of dollars of the public funds entrusted to Ks care for 'Inrestigating beer halls. - "In .' the name ' of humanity. I ... protest the payment of such bills and of all others -by whomsoever presented for which I find neither legal or moral authority. This court is now, I find, refusing to firnlsTi wood tor cold and miser able women and helpless children. It refuses to purchase medicine tor some who are sick, and has re- ' fused to care for many who were I a4ck and without funds. It has re fased to buy shoes for children who had no shoes, and it allows 'many aged and destitute men and women only six dollars a month .The Call Board GRAXD Today Lew Ayres in "The i Silk Hat Kid." " Saturday "Charlie Chan in Shanghai .with . Warner ' Oland." ...x a ELSIXORE - ' - Today -i- Double bill, ; Zasu . Pitts in "Hot Tip"' and Randolph Scot In "She.- , :';.;,, CAPITOL Today Double MIL Charles Farrell in "Fight- tog .Youth" and "Oil for the Lamps of China" with - .Pat O'Brien. - . . ' - HOLLYWOOD " Today Double MU, "Air Hawks" ' with Ralph Bel- lamy and Ridiugf Wild" , with Tim McCoy. -" ; . STATE : . Today Charles Laughton in "Les Miserables". 'Saturday -Eddie Quillan in "The Gridiron Flash.- .' a a a ' Eternal youth or the woman Jie lorea . ; . this is the choice ttat Randolph S e o 1 1 must make, ln. RKO Radio's spectacular produc tion et H. Rider Haggard's "She." It opens today at the Elsinore. A prisoner in the palace of Hel ' en Gahagan, queen of the mythl "ral Kingdom of Kor, Scott la for ced to decide -between . becoming the consort of the pagan ruler and Inheriting eternal youth, or repul sing the farors of the queen. and - marrying his mortal sweetheart. Helen Mack is cast In the role ef Scott's sweetheart. . , . With the exception of the first ecenes in the picture, all the ae- tioa takes place in the fabulous - Kingdom of Kor. Vagaries of the race track and the unquenchable ferer that sur s through the veins of men who folk.w the ponies are graphically told in the new RKO Radio come dy-drama, ""Hot Tip". ZaSu Pitto end James Gleason are ' cast in titer leading roles., . It is, the sec- end Elisnore f eature. I J '-' L5" Times Today ! ; 1 -creu.:jr:'r SATURDAY ONLY! .1. N Sv "-.1 ? TTY I utT-TS lis n4 S IOtlCJ f EUrt 6:33 5 it; u ETART3 TJat SUrO)AY! show: TIsjor Bowes Amateurs the sTr.rs Wire News ' Associated Press Large, Well Equipped Ethiopian Army Heads South (Copyright, If 35 by The Associated Prtn HARAR, Ethiopia, Oct. : 5-( Friday )-TwelTe thonaand well 'eouipped Ethiopia infantry, caralryr and antl-ircrnf t troops, th 'main body of the Harar regulars, started for the southern front today after being Terlewed by Has Nasibu, who will command, rjthem la twitUe against tho Italians. - . . KinWord-Smith ! Forced Back by Bad Weatlier . ' -LONDON, Oct. 2t -iffir' Str Charles Kftrgsford-Smitlr was ' hack In Efff"t tonight after atairdaning his attempted Eng- land-to-Auatralia flight In Italy "because of bad weather. H re ported flamage to the plane from formation of Ice on the wings. : . ' fc -Third Victim of Helena Quake Dies of Shock HELENA. 3fonU Oct. .-J 4 4JaJw-tora Helena tonight " wrote ttie third name on its list ef -earthquake dead . Tictim of serTons shock a the- capital city entered its second 2 4-hour . : period free from Tiolent earth tremors. Physicians amid the death today of John Monroei 74, transient, was Hue to the shock of , -the few terrtfying moments of Friday night. - - . Negro Who Engaged in Duel Moved For Safety cera tonight spirited away Bunion White, IS. negro, from Charity . hoapiUl where he lay critically wounded. The negro shot Blanch ard IToore, 41, consUble, near Binggold, about Tour, hours ear- . Her; His Tictlm was In a critical condition in another hos pital here. ' Wife of "Schultz" Held For Questioning NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 2 4-(ff-Mrs. Prances Flegenheimer, 21, wife of Arthur (Dutch Schulti) Flegenheimer, was held by Newark police tonight as s material witness In the fatal gang shooting of her : husband and two of his bodyguards. .Deputy Police Chief John Haller said she admitted to him she was the woman who riaited Schults at the East Park street tavern. ' scene of the gun battle, an hour before the fatal shooting last - 'night. .- : ' " each to lire on. ' X know that It offers the excuse that the poor fund is exhausted, but. I inquire, is present eirilixation so decadent that men, women and .helpless children shall thus suffer because a certain fund. is exhausted? Board of Prteoaers - k Held Illegally Paid "There Is the $8.74, Illegally paid in excess of the mandatory provisions of the law for hoarding prisoners. Why has not the district attorney collected this money? It was his duty to do so. And why did the former district attorney permit it to be paid? There isthe $9009 paid districts attorneys for 'stenographer's expenses. "There is the $900 a year now being paid the district attorney In addition to the $2700 allowed by law. There is the $8,000 paid for collecting that non-exiatant thing 'delinquent dog licenses' and there is the lawless payment of $900 for killing nine hundred dogs whose owners were too poor to pay the license. There is the grafts of county commissioners of $10 for the use of their cars to go to Portland and back, charges of $10 each for at tending association meetings at Donald and. totally unrelated to county business. The old graft of' keeping" the court open nil the time in order to collect $ a day for doing nothing one-half of the. time. Graft In all totalling fully $40,000, and continuing , Tortr years ago the total tax of Marion county for county pur poses was 410,000. Boh- Hen dricks, then editor of The States man, wrote into the platform of the republican party, the pledge- that the tax would not increase above $40,000. It lias now in creased to 4100,000 a year. 1 . Let us then collect the more than $ J 0,0 00 lawlessly taken from the people by officials. Let us nave the $900 a year paid, the district attorney, without requirement of any law. -' Let us stop these hills of TONIGHT AND SAT. , 500 Seats 15c JoOTnoc! ) Today and Saturday : TWO 1C FEATURES iDV- AT TKS KSSCV C A K3ASMAri!tW j 11 with . . RALPH BELLAMY WILEY POST TALA BIRELL; And Second Feature 1 O ADDED r. 4V-C' Told. Briefly Leased Wire penrfco the sheriff for pay. to which he Is not legally entitled and use It all to feed, and clothe and. care for those who if not forgotten by God, are yet ignored by politi cians, already paid legal salaries, adequate to fully compensate them for all their work. ask that this protest be pla ced on record. "Signed: L. H. McMAHAN." Leo Hall Held as Sextuple er (Continued from Paja 1) . tire evidence" has been obtained to bolster Mrs. Poulos story. , Prosecutor Warren G. Magnu son of King county made public Mrs. Poulus alleged confession in which she told of Accompanying Hall to rob the Filed ers; of bind ing them and their g u e s t s at Hall's bidding and then running away after seeing Hall armed with knife, take one of the men into another room after coming out of Mrs. Flieder's bedroom stained with blood. . . " ;,r The reputed ; confession said Half fired one shot at Mrs. Poulos but she ran on and when, she met him several days later and de manded some of the loot, he said he bad enough only to pay a doc tor for dressing his wounds. 01 aiav 'l ' irst E: .earing On Sites Held Planning . Board Stresses : Space Requirements j Three Bins in J ; ' (Continued tram Page 1) - Section 1 creates t- state- eapi tol reconstruction commission, to be composed, of the board of eon trol, two members appointed by the speaker of the house sad two members appointed by the presi dent of the senate. The governor would act aa chairman aud ap poiat in ease ef-vacancy. This commission is to hve charge- of the actual construction of the new building. -- : . y r Members Required t . : -.: serve Without Pay J - 'r. Section Z provides that mem bers of the commission are to re ceive expenses but no salary , and may appoint a. secretary nd such assistants as they may deem He cessarx. l.- Section 3 provides that 5 mem bers shall constitute a quorum and that meetings mav t hAiit at such times as - the commission may designate or at any time upon 24 hours' notice to the mem bers. Section 4 gives the commission authority to enter into contracts and to build the new capitol at a cost not to exceed $3,500,000. It also authorizes them to accept funds from the federal govern ment, or to accept donations of funds. Section 5 ' mskea it tmlawfni for any commissioner or employe 01 me commission to be Interested either directly or indirectly In any contract for the construction of or land used in connection with the new building or site. . Section Six Place Wher-e Debate Starts Section 6 is the only section that varies In the three bills. It provides for the location of . the building on the three different sites. One bill makes an appro priation of $75,000 for the pur chase and location of the build ing on the Canadalaria site, the second, provides for the building of the capitol on the old site with whatever additions may be grant ed to the state without charge, and the third makes an appropria tion of $750,000 for the purchase of additional ground of not less than 25 acres adjoining the old site. This bill also provides for the acceptance of any grant -of land adjoining the site. Section 7 provides for the ap proval of all claims by the com mission and section 8 is an ap propriation of $1,925,000 over a three -year period' as the state's share of the building "expense. This sum will be expended In sums of $ S 5 0,0 0 0 each. year. '. clause which will make the act effective as. soon as It is approved by the governor. . -';i A v- - .... ..... 1 ? - - 1 li m w w y. w"" 1 n m j. ,4. ll)n.T Third house familiars are bV . gjanlng; to put la their appear--ance, Senace Fonts, represent' log: the slot wtacbJae rowd. Is : osr hand. Small loans lobby fists haven't showed Bp yet..- , : Guy Cordan. former district at torney for Douglas county, is hern Ing Ralph Moody: of the attorney general's off ice. "Cordon is now attorney tor tne land arant coun ties in the Oregon - Washington grant relations' with the federal government.. - ,i Frank Lonergan. former speak er, and UC E. JCeHy of Med ford, former member, 'were extended "the c o n r t e s y of - the house" Thursday. . ; t'-" X:?:' .- Ancient forms are still intoned: -'The speaker is tbont to -sign house, bill .No. pause; "the speaker has signed house bill fro. Caadalarla heights, said one critic, is a body of land sur rounded by cemeteries. The democratic house voted tor the tightest control possible in adopting resolution No. 2 which gives . the committee on legisla tion and rules power to strangle any bill not- deemed an "emer g e n c y measure; although the house reserves right to call a bill out from the committee.. Occasionally seen in the lobby is Circuit Judge McMahan, once a house m e m b e r , from Marion, whose political scent is as keen aa a -hound's on trail of a fox. ; I 1 H A I' A , at ; , .J - . AS t sk - - ' . Elbert' Bede; Weteraa ' b o n s e reading clerk; too" lost hbr place to James- Vernon at .the' last ses sion. Is back this year as read tug clerk of- the- senate ' Testerdayi Bede decided to visit his old cro nies in the bouse-but the door maa refused fcim admittance- un til Elbert solved: the TTohlem by admitting he? was a newspaper -man. At borne Bede-is editor of the Cottage- Grove, weekly. - v. FjaljtjaLH Thrfeatened ; ; (Continned"froin: Page 1) at least three expensive homes and threatening many others at Tilalrbu vista Junction. . , ; The outbreak was several miles north of the "Malibu beach film colony. . . : - .' As this unexpected new dam age was added to the $8,000,000 loss In southern California by crop damaging gales'and forest fires, of the past two days, the valuable ranch estate of Cecil B DeMJHe, tilm producer. In Little. Tnjanga canyon, was reported threatened by a fire In that region. . Although the blaze, in Kagel canyon, waa two miles away, De Mille. sent 25, men to , remove books, furnishings and film prints from .his $30,000 ranch bouse, "Paradise.! .The ' producer ' esti mated $5,000 damage had been donr already to bis orange crop by gales that ; put his electrical water pumping system out of com mission. cm:? n 1 3F Prison Sought firs jtvMectum Need is Stressed in Bill to Reach Hopper, Soon , , ; (Continued from Page 1) . '': " -v..-". ..-. i - . f J. tatlrg -of the penitentiary dining room.mevlrir' and recbnstrnetfnr the. ' prison hospital and the re modeling: of the main building so as to make it flreprooL It also calls far the Insfanafioa or a r. frigeration plant and er new sys- xem- or ; locking dericea In ' the north and setrta ingf of the old cell block. " - : - State Bakery IWarf Measmra to Appear '-z - Alao- earning mp for first read ing wiU.be a bill. Introduced by the committee on food and dairy preductsa Thte bin provides for the; creation of a state bakery board, prescribes health regula tions and standards of sixe and Quality of bakery products, estab lishes requirements: for manufac turers and distributors licenses and their , fees, prohibits certain Blatinee Dafly 2:15 TODAY AND -Hit ; TS- 'j'lilM 11 linn Mini 111 111 - - WEIRD, WONDROUS ROaiANOE ! ! -'She bathed la flame-and lived 500 years, to flsd her first j wi MawM uimx. for for Better Taste practices aad defines offenses ar the penalties involved. " Three other bills, are schedule to make their , appearance in th v house this morning. All are con- v cerned with the removal of indebt- V edness of cities Incurred for the construction: of sewers 'from' the from .within the 5 per cent debt limitation. The bills are sponsor ed by Representatives Hamilton and Taylor and Senator Duncan. It is understood that the bills are introduced to enable some 'cit ies that have reached the limit, et. their indebtedness to take ad vantage of federal funds for fur ther construction on sewer pro jects under the PWA and WPA. ' In the rotting is a new banking bill which is said to provide ror the outlawing of brasca banks la Oregon. The bill has been drawn but may not-be introduced until additional sponsers are obtained. The bill is said to be offered at the request' of some of the small bankers who feel they are being driven out by the large chain banks. There-; i also claim- of dissatisfaction en the part ef de positors in the onUyinsT territories with the realization that the bank ers in Portland are in control of their financial problems. -' These, bills must all face the scrutlny of the steering committee before they can come upon the floor or the bouse for considera tion. - SATURDAY ZASU PITTS - V-" ': does Blewfr lm Zasw and Jim my's latest comedy laff riot! v , - . And Hit No. 2- tuM- me imagination' -i . H. Rider, Haggard's Sensational Story vV- - with ' HELEN MACE RANDOLPH SCOTT HELEN GAHAGAN .. Jlsamy " ' 1 1 Gleason ' XXXJ- 5 ' A b y t bing cam . V v harroen at a bone X V'rar 1 I Amd it AND A CAST OF 5000 Mildness V 1 J News and Colored Cartoon Comedy, V" O IMS, tttorr a Urns Toaoco Co, 1 , , :