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PAGE TWO" .J the OREGON! STATESMAN Salen Oregon, Saturday JMornlng, January 181936 r British Mourn Beloved Poet Flans For Funeral Wait ; a Family Worn Out -by Lengthy Vigil : (Continued from Pass 1) the British empire rattling like loose change in bis trouser pock ets. He took oat s coin and spun ' It and with a conjurer's patter he caught It and cover 1 it up with a dishcloth, -and when he raised! the dishcloth the night of full meoa in the Jungle among quest ing "beasts spread among us. "Noting the least like it had been seen, before, and the critics, whose business It was to preserve tb public from being taken In by flash! flummery, warned them that this young man from a newspaper office in India was nothing more than a journalist with no sense of style." But whaterer the critics said, the public - from "the colonel's lady to Judy O'Grady contin ued to buy his works year after . year, at a rate of more than 200,00 annually, glad to come under the supreme spell of the born story-teller and rhymer, with or without benefit of critics. -' Youths and grownups alike rel ished the tang of such Kipling phrases as "you squidgy-nosed . old idol. Gnnga Din!" and al though the tormal honor of poet laureate never came to him, he was hailed everywhere as "the poet of empire." Moreover, he was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel prize for literature, which he was awarded in 1907. The selection came as a bombshell to those critics who had accused him of everything from Jingoism to hack journalistic assaults on the hal lowed heights of Parnassus. . School Pays in England Bora December 30, 1S65, in Bombay, India. Kipling was the son of John Lockwood Kipling, then newly arrived from London to take a position as professor of anchrtectural sculpture in the Bri tish School of Art at Bombay, and of Alice Macdonald Kipling, one of four brilliant daughters of a Wesley an clergyman. Sent home to school ia Eng land when he was six, young Kudyard had his childhood school ing st Portsmouth and then at tended Westward Ho college, which later served as the back ground for his "Stalky & Com pany." His eyesight failed him at 10 due to over-strain, enforcing- the use of thick spectacles with divided lenses, but even with these he was unable to see clearly and his constant stumbling won him the name of "Beetle, " after the insect -given to blundering lato everything in its path. In 18S2. he returned to India, and for seven years was an ink splashed sub-editor on papers at Lahore 1 and Allahabad, gaining fame In the country by writing on . the aide army ballads and tales of British life In India. Then he palled up stakes and tried Am elias. 1 He landed' in San Francisco in 1889 and for the next two years made-his way slowly across the continent, trying to find ia place on American newspapers. He lat- ep'sald he always was rebuffed ithont a chance to state his ualiflcations. In 1891 he sailed ' for England and almost starved in a London garret until he found a publisher for a new edi tion of "Plain Tales From the Hills." It and his trunkful of India pamphlets, books and poems sold like hotcakes. Money permitted him to in dalge the wanderlust that had flriren him from India and in 1S91 he roamed Ceylon, Au tral'a and the United States. His, Home in Vermont for a Time la New York -he looked up WoScott Balestier, a young New York author, with whom he had shared chambers on the Thames Embankment and fell in love with Balestier's sister, Caroline. They were married, and after a wedding trip in Japan, Kipling and his wife settled in Brattle boro, Vt where he wrote more than 20 volumef. The Call Board GRAND Today "King of Buries- que" with Warner Baxter. s . . '"V" ELSINORE Today Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" with Ronald Coleman. " CAPITOL ' Today D o u b 1 e bill, "The Murder of Dr. "Harrjgan" with Rlcardo Cortes and Buck Jones in "Sunset of Power". - HOLLYWOOD Today Ken Maynard In "Western Courage" and Our Gang in "Beginner's Luck.". . STATE Today only - Frankle Dar- 1 ro in "Men of Action. BIG FAREWELL ffi) of Harry Wesely's Orchestra Closing the Dancing " - Season at r KentiHall Saturday ' Admission 25e Wire Neivs Associated Press Seventh Body From Iowa is Recovered . ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 17.-F-The Pacific yielded the body of the seventh victim, of the steamship Iowa today. Coroner Hoi lis Ransom said tentative identification indicated it was'thai of George Marr, of Atlanta, Georgia, employed as a wiper. He said fingerprints would be taken to confirm the identification, how ever. ' . ; '' ; ' "' ' ' '"7" Thirteen Believed Killed in Airplane Crash LA PAZ,. Bolivia, Jan. ll.-iJPf-Xn. airplane with 13 persons aboard was reported to hare crashed at Cordillera, and all those on the planer were believed to hare been killed. The airplane, named the Choroloque, said to have been enrouto from Cocha Bamba to La Paz, capital of Bolivia. - Butte City Flooded as Sacramento River Rages COLUSA, Calif., Jan. 17.-(ff)-The rampaging Sacramento river flooded Butte City and spread a muddy lake over more - than ?0,000 acres as it crumbled levees along a 15-mlle front north of here today. Three levee breaks on the east side of the river, swollen by heavy rains of the last week, were reported by weary crews of relief workers recruited to battle the surging water. Hall Wins Fight to Obtain Records of His Trial OLYMPIA. Jan. 17 .-(JPy-Leo Hall, 33, sentenced to hang In connection with the Erland's Point mass murders, won bis fight today to force Kitsap county to bear the costs of his appeal to the state supreme court. The supreme court, granting the request of Everett O. Butts. Hall's counsel, ordered Superior Judge H. O. Sutton of Port Orchard to furnish the records of the trial at which Hall was convicted of first degree murder for the death pf Eugene Chenevert, one of six slain at Erland's Point. Jurors to Try Weston Chosen, View Death Scene PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 17.-P)-The Jury chosen for the trial ; of A. Ferdinand Weston on charges of slaying Deputy Sheriff ' Ernest Loll visited the scene of the asserted shooting today. The panel was completed shortly after noon. Offering statements by attorneys and testimony by two witnesses concluded the hearing until next week. Portland Physician Charged With Narcotic Saler PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 17. --United States Marshal J. T. SummervQle arrested Dr. W. D. Lockwood tonight on a charge of illegal sale of narcotics. Dr. Lockwood is a Portland physi cian. ' Former Southern Oregon District Attorney Dies MEDFORD. Ore., Jan. 1 7. -JPf-William M. Colvig, 91, for mer district attorney of Jackson and Josephine counties and pio neer resident of southern Oregon, died here today after an ill ness of three months. Missing Boomer Hill Man Returns Home ROSEBURG. Ore.. Jan. 17.-;P-George Tompkins, 16, res ident of Boomer Hill 25 miles south of Roseburg. returned home early today a few minutes before a searching party was to start looking for him. He said he became confused while re turning home through the forest last evening and was unable to find his way out until this morning. There his two children - were born, and seemingly e was des tined to make his permanent home In America. But too lavish attention from autograph seekers sent him fleeing in 1897 to the peaceful solitude of the Sussex Downs. In England great bitterness came to him, for his son, Lieut. John. Kipling, only 18, was killed in the world war battle at Loos. The sorrowing father endowed a perpetual fund for sounding at Loos "last post." the British equivalent of "taps," and he nev er forgave the Germans. In August. 1935, he drew wrath from official nazi newspa pers which described him as a "fanatic hater of Germans and one of the bitterest enemies of Germany." The outburst resulted from a letter Kipling had written to Henry Bordeaux, French nov elist, saying: "The Boche .has learned noth ing from the last war, and he has suffered comparatively little from it.' Surveys For High School Are Begun Engineers for- the Hoffman Construction company yesterday began laying out survey lines for the new senior high school build ing at 14th and D streets here with G. L. Hannaman, construc tion superintendent in charge. While school authorities hoped that PWA permission to start con struction would be granted hy Monday at the latest, the archi tects, Knighton it Howell, advised Superintendent S. Gaiser by long distance telephone yesterday that they had been unable to gain any new information as to the start ing date. PWA officials at Portland yes terday called for added informa tion of a nature which Gaiser said he coald not reveal in con nection with grade school build ing plans. The successful bidders. Drake, Wyman it Voss, and the grade school architect, Frank H. Struble, are still working on terms of the contract for this proct. Construction activities at Les lie junior tlgh school have been delayed by the wet weather. h AUowdvtwlTWer f OtLYVOOlJ Continuous Performance Today, 1:30 to 5 P. M. 10c First Showing Salem fflt,-n,. (P. Also Oar Gang Comedy. - BUCK JOXES in Serial, -ROAUIXG WEST Carteoa and News Sunday, Monday and Tuesday lbld Briefly Leased Wire Service Aspinwalls Win in Insurance Action Ellen Aspinwall of Salem and Harold Aspinwall of Mill City were awarded a verdict in feder al court in Portland Friday in their suit inTolving the war risk insurance policy of Kenneth Asp inwall, who died in Memphis, Tenn.. in 1920. it was learned here last night. Kenneth was a victim of spinal meningitis and it was contended by the plaintiffs that this was contracted during war service. As a result of the verdict, beneficiar ies of the policy will receive about $13,000. This was one of the first "cases of its type in which the govern ment has been defeated in recent years, it was pointed out by George Rhoten and Raymond Bas sett, local attorneys who repre sented the Aspinwalls. A num ber of Salem people including J. C. Nelson and Merritt Davis of the high school faculty. Dr. George R. Vehrs, Dr. B. H. White and Malcolm Smith, were witness es. Bonds Acceptable to Veterans, Stated Here The majority of American war veterans will be pleased with pay ment of their adjusted service cer tificates in small denomination, three per cent bonds, prominent members of the American Legion stated here yesterday. The bonds, if not cashed, will bear three per cent interest to 1945. By far the greatest majority of ex-service men will cash their bonds, legion men here aver, putting the per centage to cash their "bonus" at 75 to 85 per cent. THE VOICE OF -EXPERIENCE CARTOON FOX NEWS TJTTTT,'l"lll " "' 111 M,W"'ll mil Hi I. p i ...This Brxy ( '? OowetyDoywho ' Made la Million on Droadway! Pension Group Wl Support Townsend Organization to Have Candidate, Williams Avers (Continued from Page 1) plans for the salvation of the country were discussed, with the r e e e a t democratic gatherings where, worthy feats of the dim past were eulogized. "Recently a citizen of Oregon made a speech at a political gath ering in Portland," Williams said. "The gathering was in memory of one who accomplished worthy feats In government la a day In the dim past. Another citizen of Oregon arose and said. We have heard -the voice of a Moses! "Now my friends, I fear .the gentleman was mistaken. He doesn't. know the voice of Hoses as perhaps some others do. More than likely he heard the braying of one of the laBt asses of Kish in the wilderness near Sinai for the golden voice which was Moses. Plan Antithesis of New Deal, Asserts "Moses never countenanced even the thought of -compromise. The gentleman whose voice was thus mistaken said 'I am for the Townsend plan and also for the New DeaV. No man can be sin cere and acclaim in the same breath his allegiance to both the Townsend plan and the New Deal. The New Deal, in its various rami fications sinking the nation deep er and deeper into bended and ir retrievable debt, is the perfect antithesis of the Townsend plan. "What is there to offer hope or produce optimism In this nation of ours today unless it is the Townsend plan? Eliminate this plan and the people will have to return to the dark deep gloom of when the plan was given to the people. "These facts have not been suc cessfully disputed and cannot be successfully disputed." The meeting last night was called by Bessie M. Richards, president of the Salem Young People's Townsend club. The meeting was opened by musical selections by Ruthyn Thomas, Robert Hutcheon and Ronald Ad ams. Relief Laborers Refuse to Leave FORT SCOTT, Kan.. Jan. 17. -!P)-The arrest of their leader, a tear gas barrage and threaten ed troop action tonight failed to dislodge a handful of relief work ers entrenched in the Bourbon county courthouse since Tuesday protesting relief wages. Temporarily routed by tear gas last night, 30 of the original .100 demonstrators returned to roam the courthouse corridors today. Most of them left, however, as police took into custody their lader, John L. Babbitt, secretary of the farmer-labor union. He was accused of resisting last night's tear gas attack. A controversy over relief allot ments, based on a charge the county is being deprived of its WPA apportionment, was waged over the heads of the idle work ers. Tlrfegroup began its court house vigil in protest against pay of $1 a day offered on a county project. The workers demand 30 cents an hour. Tonight by the Big Fireplace Mellow Moon West Salem and I No High Water BEckey Mouse -Oub Notes WHAT a week! Swimming and boating to school each, morning. Everything Las calmed down In Eugene, but If the s t o r m re peats, and It's entirely a river between here and Salem. Chuck" will act as M. C. M.M.C. .WHY the storm raged so that on several occasions I'd holds sheet over my head and sail to school. Not to mention the fact X it y A. im jLa ZeUe that many times the entrance to different buildings would be com pletely turned around. M.M.C. SINCE reading Don Upjohn's column in some afternoon paper, I'm getting to be a terrible bluff er. M.M.C. FIFTY words or less! "Who Is your favorite athlete?" It's sim ple to do, and wait until this after noon when you're told about the swell prizes. Have your essay in by February 1. M.M.C. ONLY two more "chapters of "Tallspln Tommy's Great Air Mys tery," and then "The Advent ures of Frank Merriwell." A story of a great athlete, and hero. M.M.C. EACH Saturday, five photo graphs in folders, will be awarded to the same amount of Mickey Mouse members during the mat inee. These are your pictures that were taken recently by Ken-nell-EUis and the Oregon States man. Nothing to do, nothing to buy we'll announce the winners. M.M.C. MAYBE it's because the audi ence is so receptive! Then per haps it's because the "gang" is gaining valuable experience. How ever, the programs are improving considerably. Last week's con tained Evelyn Rosen, Vivian Wil liams, Jean Du Vail, Ruthella Amundsen, Dorothy Lane, Shirley Jean Adamson, Betty June Kelly, Lawrence Alley, Donna Savage, The Goiman Band, Ruthy Lane Holtzman, Leo Ayres, Ed Lais. Helen Smith, "The Stooges," and Shirley Madelyn Bier. M.M.C. ' DOORS open 12:15 stage con test specialty broadcast serial Joe E. Brown in "Six Day Bike Rider" and "Tale of Two Cit ies," the famous Charles Dickens story. M.M.C. COME early. So long, ZOLLIE. Locatelli Defeated NEW YORK, Jan. 11. -Wf BobBy Pacho, Los Angeles light weight scored a technical knock out over Cleto Locatelli of Italy in the eighth round of what was to have been a 10 round fight in Madison Square Garden tonight. 500 Seats I 25c NOW PLAYING Its romantic realism ... Its superb spectacle . . . Its emotional ecstacy ... will enthall the entire world!!! HI 1 1 1 IVJ I 1 1 1 f -iw uuuuuu in Charles A TALE' OF mill "a-iAf 111111 v II Added El Brendel Comedy (Mickey Mouse Matinee Special Chap. 11 . Stage I Today - 1 P. M. Feature. 7 Serial Show 1 . 1111 1 1 I Contin- aons Sat.-Strn. 2 to 11 SUNDAY AND MONDAY ITS A COMEDY RIOT! Prune Selling Co-op Planned " Corporation Take Place of Program Voided by High State .Coarf (Continued from page 1) lac, the state Is to be divided Into seven districts in each of these districts two directors to a state executive committee of 14 will be elected.- In addition one commit teeman will be elected "In each dis trict to serve with the two state directors as an executive board for that especial district. " Mr. Chapman said yesterday that thus far growers who had discussed the new plan were very much in favor of it. Growers of Douglas county are to meet there next Wednesday night to consider the new prune arrangement and its effect on prune growing on that area. Subsequently meetings will be held here and in other prune raising districts in the state. Proposed seven districts In which the new cooperative group would operate include the follow ing: first, Yamhill county; sec ond: Marion county; third, Polk county; fourth, Lincoln, Lane, Linn, Benton counties; fifth: Douglas county; sixth: Washing ton county; seventh: Columbia, Clatsop, Tillamook, Clackamas and remaining counties of Oregon. Rossman Is Again Red Cross Leader (Continued from Page 1) 19S9 to 2100 members in 1935 as an example of what active leader ship can do. Since its establish ment by international treaty in 1864 and its chartering in the United States in 1905 by the na tional congress, the Red Cross had depended for its support solely on roll call contributions and the good will of the general public. First Aid Station At Saanyside, Plan The most recent peace time pro ject to be undertaken is the five year or more program to establish 15.000 emergency highway first aid stations with trained operat ors. The first of these near Salem will be at Sunnyslde. Local chap ter funds by the equipment and a conrse in first aid is taught the attendants at the station. Through this emergency service to those injured in automobile accidents, the Red Cross hopes to broaden its program of giving first aid to the injured. Gonzaga Is Drubbed PULLMAN; Wash., Jan. 17. (JP) - Washington State college staged a scoring splurge here to night for a 60 to 23 victory over Gonzaga'a hoopsters. The Cou gars ran up 19 points before Gon zaga was able to score. The half time score was 36 to 9 for W.S.C. Midnlte Show Tonite 11:30 Dickens' 1 with ELIZABETH ALLAN EDNA MAY OLIVER BASIL RATHBONE J Midniie Preme Tonite 11:80 ROARING ROMANCE OF THE WIDE OPEN RANGE!! fSUlGltIG I Yk ANN RUTHERFORD JJ I 2 to 5 P3Li 6-11 POL J; 15c 1 20c Spring Comet -Early $ PussyuUlous Appear ' Heavy rains ct last weekend gone, weather balmy with, the thermometer up to 46, the breath of sprint; was In Salem yester day Especially noticeable : were the longer days with street lights not on until after 6 p.m. and full darkness not here until nearly C p.m. Pussywillows are" reported quite plentiful in the country with large groups being brought into town for Interior decoration. Eaniing of Water Plant Announced (Continued from Page 1) iod. Of this sum 1451 as accru ed on the bonds between the time they were sold and were deliver ed. Reservoir Plans Are Nearly Ready The commission heard a report from Stevens and Koon, consult ing engineers, on the new water reservoir. Plans are nearly com pleted. VanPatten said last night that bids could be called for In a short time if authority was grant ed by the council. Stevens and Koon are keeping seren men busy on the survey they are making of the North San tiam as a source of supply. Re port on this survey is expected by March 1. The commission last night com pleted purchase of a new site for the reservoir on Falrmount hill. Five and one-half acres were pur chased for 4000. The property Is bounded on one side by Rural street and on another by John street. Current earnings, not bond funds were used for-the purchase. The reservoir will be useful what ever source of supply is ultimately adopted by the city. Oxygen Tent For King Is Ordered (Continued from Pa;e 1) his condition "must be regarded with some disquiet." His personal physician. Lord Dawson of Penn. went to Sand rlngham to spend the night. The Prince of Wales also left London for Sandrlngham. but his visit was described: at the palace as an "ordinary" one. It was stated the prince would return to London Sunday. The official bulletin tonight said: "The bronchial catarrh from which his majesty the king Is suffering is not severe, but there hare appeared signs of cardiac weakness which must be regarded with some disquiet. (Signed) Frederick Willans, Stanley Hew ett. Dawson of Penn. The king at first bad been re ported suffering with a cold. SUNDAY - MONDAY It's Red-Blooded Adventure ! I f '$V A A McflKnnville Paper Wins State Honor (Continued from page 1) tempts' to exploit the public and the press. - Henry N. Fowler I tue ena Rulterin udi. E. and Earl Voor- hles of the Grants Pass Courier explained offset printing, and tna operation of engraving plants. " Hoffinaii Ansiivers Severe Criticism (Continued from page 1) prleve was regretted by him. Tfeia rahlerram answered one from Condon containing an offer to return voluntarily In view of the governor's recent expression of a desire to have him examined further. Coin New Officer Of Orchard Firm S. H. Goto of Jefferson will fill the vacancy In managership- of Lamberta Orchards. Inc. as re sult elections of the annual meet ing recently. W. W. Chadwick of Salem was elected president of the board, with Coin vice-presi- aeni. jonn uerceiaou 01 oaicm was continued as secretary-treasurer. Lambert orchards, located east of Salem, is the largest cherry orchard on record, with slightly mor ethan 224 acres planted solely to cherries. The first crop was harvested last year, though weather conditions played havoc with marketing the pick. Other Lewis Wins ST. LOTJIS, Jan. 17.-r-John Henry Lewis, chocolate champion of light heavyweight boxers, won a technical knockout over Al Still- man tonight when the former St. Louis truck driver was unable -to answer the fourth round bell. West Linn Winner SILVERTON, Jan. 17. - (Spe cial) -The Sllverton high school basketball team suffered Its first defeat tonight. losing to West Linn 2S to 29 at West Linn. Schwab scored 12 points for Sll verton. Court St. Christian Church Court and 17th SO. Hear These Messages! 11 A. M. "The Old-Time Religion.'' 7:30 P. M A Message to Parents. Sunday Night's Special Feature by a Family . . A Real Treat! WE MAKE YOU FEEL AT HOME TODAY ONLY ! First Run in Salem! A Swell Action Picture . . Loaded with Everything to Make Good Entertainment! RKdnight Show Tonight 11:15 p.m. A. MlltKt C;ueotOndl 1 v 1 s a pic LAST THE MURDER TIMES OF DR. TODAY HARRIG AN . BUCK JONES la "Sunset of Power"