The OREGON ST ATESilANj -Salem, Ortjciv Scada- orns Jaxmarr-19;-1935. Hydroelectric Gefe Limelight as Hearings Are-H&ld PAGHTWO PubKcUtility Issue to Fore ----- WA -. ' . - ,7-- . A-;-'l-si--j!.- Free Power Devotees in jTlieirClprf Though ! . .Results AreNiL .Continued from pace I) mooies -wth power to make life miserable for any department which does not answer to Its find ings. The? making -out of the nine pares' of monthly .jmdget -estl mates will be a man-sized Job for most of the departments and the budget department 7UI need more personnel if it does anything but make the most eursory surrey of the reports turned into its hands for: approval or for change. Un less we mistake the omens, bud getary eontrol as it will soon be started at the statehouse, will bog down, .with irrelevert detail and will mean little in savings to the - state.; At the same time it will in- - volve -each department la. a vast amount, of report imaklng which -ni' w mrHnnm unit -Yiaelosa job.-? . ' - - ' .. - Leave It to Rnf us Holman to keep his ear close to the political grounds Knowing the unpopular ity of the sales tax In Oregon, the state treasurer -was quick jto in form j Senator Byron Carney of Clackamas eduhty, la a public let ten that . he jwas opposed to the tar Proposed January ti. Old-age peiijslons, saj-s Mr. Holman; are a federal concern, '"totally overlooking?-the Tact that Oregon' passed aiteldVege pension act long before the --social security .program 'as introduced to -congress by .Presi dent. - RadsWeifvYet that's a con venient way to dodge the perplex ing pro&fem ef how to raise money forvOregon's, agedT : not f 200 a month but the average jU' a month the 36 counties hare been Paying the last year. The state treasurer is feeling better about his candidacy as the race; develops; P. J. Stadelmanof The. Dalles has about given up thoughts of running, preferring to run for - state senator against "Jim" Harlett of Hood River. William. McGilchrist of Salem will not contest. Rutus may loaf into the, republican nomination with out much trouble; Senator Burke of Yamhill county would contest against the incumbent if he had the money for a camnaizn but Burke baa an orchard and not a srreat snm of cash and on a poor ly financed race would not have much chance of defeating his old political compatriot, Mr. Holman. Townltend- Leaden I1h Amona; Selves TheTownsend elub movement shows- signs of weakenhir as lead ers clasa among themselves. s. C Williams, -youth"? leader of the movement' who jangled' 'last fan with etate leaders, 'came to Salem during the week; hut received only a small, attendance at his meet ing. Some of theKmost ardent Townsendites- here said Williams meeting was unauthorised and re fused to attend.- - - It is this dissension in the ranks which la. most likely to rend asun der the Townsend camp. Oppor tunists - attach themselves to the movement tor power and money. The men and women of the ranks in time become disgusted and quit the organization. - i - ' 5 Willis Mahoney, who so drama tically came out for United States senator a week ago with; Warren Irwin of Portland. as. his beer leader, had a "red face this week when the Oregonian very, effect ively demolished the sincerity of his Townsend support. Mahoney's letter supporting the Townsend plan, written to one Russell Ho gan of "Portland, was shown to have -bees pre-dated to make it appear Mahoney had boarded the Townsend " bandwagon in 1934. Uhfortunately for JIahoney, Ho gan released the : accompanying note wherein Mahoney told Ho- ' - "J UAV VUBliUUlCU enrejope- in- which the letter was sent and to make the missive ap pear old and tattered. ' vltahoney's scheme did not impress-- Townsend ; followers . mtny of 'Whom see through the ardor of his. "support" and find a Klamath Falls opportunist, eager to use any means or any bloc to get rotes. ' - ' : ', , Mahoney's quest for the demo cratic nomination for United States senator has a chance of auccesa but he never can beat Sen ator. Charles H. McNary for the .highest federal office Oregon has to confer. Prominent democrats are willing to let Mahoney go aft er the nomination bat Maho ney's nomination and a race against McNary would bring them out strongly for the incumbent. Governor Martin would never fol low Mahoney K-ther latter should " a" w avwM j a vsuuier m li vember. Nor would the long-time, outstanding democrats of Marlon county. Bert Haney knew the strength of McNary when he took J tn.e tederal judgeship; knew Mc Nary would be the hardest man In Oregon to defeat ior any office. . : i Mahoney's letter to Hogan the Cheap tactics used therein tot gain the Townsend bloc is a forceful j Quick Relief for Atonic Indigestion 1 Ds yoa m! taa-cava, IuUk, with eat . appetite far too ar xm for n. fed Kaay paapla 4m bacaosa atonic 4Bliraim aaa paUaaa km tfcair arataaa -which aisht aaail Vm ralwred at m raa mil laiativa. taaia. aila itomichie itiaa. an n awaus. rum aunt tor ui kia- 5JTti' ; k w.4aa t Wli,i s. K. Fmk.Tkt iiiii SMtla gift, TrYnt r aua7 l-mck. WiUaaw B. UK. Tnasl U coo?ua4 d from tka praaniptioa at a, fame army 4aetor wka aa4 it ta prtvata p-.ae-iea bust yaara. Kaw UU valaabla mati--Saa is arailaala ta jom mm aat mt aalr ' ta mmr. Try a kattte aadar oMylKk Kvanatea aa4 aaa haw Bach .hettcr yaa tact. Baiag a BqnJa alra4 ;otTe4 - WlUiaaia K- VarmL r.arta;ta wark ahocrt tamadiatalyr k 4 Campaign 4r mmmmmmmmmlmaimmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmlmmmmmmmKmmmi if - imiiiiimiiMM MMIIMMMM MM ' itTt H lMMtiaMMMM Dclegatio-s froia varioas cities o the Pacific Highway No. 09 met recently at Salem to outline plans for a permanent organization and definite drive for state highway, funds for Oregon's main arterial road through the state. A two-fold program calling for moderniza tion f Highway No. 99 and for attracting tourists over this highway was outlined at this meeting. Among those attending were, left to right: I M. pper, Portland Eastside Chamber of Commerce; Fred S. Perrine, Oregon City Chamber of Commerce; C. H. De maray, (Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce president- and president of the Oregon Pacific Highway association; Dr. Gerald B. Smith, Woodborn, chairman of the finance committee; Oscar Olson. Salem Chamber of Commerce president. Back row: J. I Harvey Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce secretary: Colonel Tierner. Eoarene: C. A. Arre. secretarr-manacer. Oregon JPacifie Hiahwav association. Salem; W. Chadwick, Salem ciauon. incident to convince the voters of Oregon, the .H5of political ad venturer represented- - by the Klamath Falls mayor. Mahoney's quest is power, not reform, and he will take the platform stand which will get him the most votes. Bits about the capltol: Beau tiful velvet blue drapes adorn the governor's office and that of his private secretary. . . . . Goss- lin has a fine new rag, an ele gant desk and a fine leather chair to make bis office comfort able .... expect Miss Harriet Long, state librarian, to leave no stone unturned in her quest for adequate housing for the state lib rary . . . . she saw to it that Mrs. Carl G. Gould, wife of the super visor of the architectural contest, was made comfortable upon her initial visit to Salem The less aesthetic souls in Salem see no harm in destroying many trees in Willson park to make way for a capitol; they see instead larger payrolls and a decrease in the cost of park upkeep . . . . democrats are being generously favored in filling jobs in the unemployment insurance department ...... photographs or copies of the pic tures of all of Oregon's governors have been assembled by Photo grapher Stuard at the statehouse . .... he wishes to have them enlarged and painted In portraits for the new capitol .... the old paintings went up in flames . . tne photographs are truer repre sentations of the governors than were the hand-drawn portraits . . . Governor Martin still reveals resentment' when he thinks of the state senate's action at the spe cial session in November . . . the state engineer's department la ceedingly busy with the accum ulated work caused by the seven utility district hearings being con ducted throughout the state. . . Charles A. Howard, state super intendent of schools who recently returned from Washington, was more impressed by President Roosevelt than by "Eleanor1 both were met at an education conference in the capitol . . . , Ralph Moody is almost immersed in legal work .... in addition to routine office duties he has the Marion county gambling case, the t'aeinc Telephone company rate trial and the special gambling in vestlgation in Marion county . . Pater Zimmerman of Yamhill county considers an Independent candidacy for congress in this dis trict . . . , and Senator Stringer from Lebanon, a democrat, would like to run but he lacks the 12500 which he thinks indispensible for a contest,- . , - 1 Willamette Play Artistic Success (Continued from Page 1) Dorothy Lipps gave an excellent portrayal of Mrs. Midget, char woman. The play was the best of recent performances by Willamette uni versity players here and was well received by the audience. Profes sor Herbert E. Rahe was director. assisted by Genevieve Thayer. Housewives Who Are Dusiness If you are toabtuy ; to attend daytime Cookery classes we wffl hold an' evening class to help you with(your .electric cookery problems. We will try to make the program both interesting and instructive If you are interested, fill in and send this coupon or telephone Miss Walton, 4144. f vi -Thfr forrnmg'of.this class depends upon your interest. . Eoi?llflbEi Planned to Modernize U; S. Pacific Highway 99 Chamber of Commerce highway Entire Nation Watches News Cardiac Difficulty More Serious, Declared in Latest Bulletin (Continned from Page 1) night but it was explained that this is a modern treatment for a catarrhal condition. Men and women outside the royal residence knelt on thick mantle of snow to murmur pray ers for the recovery of the strick en monarch, the small, bearded man with deep-set. tired eyes whose reign of more than a quar ter of a century has captured the devotion of his 450,000,040 sub jects. " " As lights of the residence twin kled on, the slender figure of the Prince -of Wales, the king's only bachelor son and next in line of succession to the throne, was seen passing nervously backhand forth in front of an upper window. He arrived from London yesterday. The Princess Royal, the Count ess of Harewood, the king's only daughter and one of his favorite companions, arrived at Sandring- ham House late today and went immediately to her mother, Queen Mary. The two had a long talk. The departure of the king'a two little granddaughters, the Princesses- Elisabeth and Mar garet Rose, for London empha sized the concern felt. They had been informed their grandfather is "not feeling very good" and must have quiet and rest. They were markedly sub dued when they boarded a train, with Elizabeth hugging her pet Welsh terrier, "Yorky," close in her arms. Body Is Sent South ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 18.-(1!P- ine ooay or ueorge Marr, one of the34 men who lost their lives when the steamship Iowa crashed on the southern' Washing ton coast in last Sunday's storm, was sent to Savannah, Ga., to night Marr,' employed in the en gine room, resided at Atlanta. Roosevelt on "Air ' NEW YORK, Jan. 18. - (P) -President Roosevelt Is , to be heard on the air Sunday after WATCH STUDEBAKER BACKED BY Confidence of 19 Years of Continuous Dealing in Automobiles in Salem Bonesteele BroSe, Inc. Corner. Libert j and Chemeketa Sts. w omen e iGeiniGpafl Eflej2tli?03i 5. 237 N. LIBERTY STREET' committee; J. N. Chambers, treasurer, Oregon Pacific Highway asso- noon. He win participate in tne dedication of New Yors state's memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, to be broadcast at 2 o clock, E. S. T.. by WJZ-NBC and WABC CBS. Idalina Ski Course Ready, Announced Snow, covered grounds at De troit yesterday gave indication (hat Salem ski fans will find the new ski slides at Idanha ready for use today. J. F. Bewley, road patrolman at Detroit, brought word yesterday that when he left Detroit at 10 a. m. three inches of snow whitened the ground at Detroit, with a probable five inches on the ground at Idanha. Snow was falling thick when he left. Bewley reports roads to that district may be traveled easily. A few spots, soft due to the recent heavy rains, have been staked off or marked with flags bo traTeleiw will encounter no difficulty, he' said. Damaged sections of all roads in the county have been fixed, at least temporarily, County Engin eer N. C. Hubbs said yesterday. No additional reports for dam ages to road were received by the engineer yesterday. Gambling Inquiry Resumes Monday Grand Jury investigation of gambling is slated to start here again tomorrow, Ralph Moody. deputy attorney-general and spe cial prosecutor in the gambling cases for Marion -county, said yes terday. Moody has been out of the city the bulk of last week, argu lng the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company's rate appeal In Portland. Moody has considerable addi tional evidence to present to the grand Jury. Eleven indictments involving gambling were returned In December but thus far none of the cases have been set for trial. Warren Powers Insurance 202 Oregon Building Phone 5522 t7 Also Bonus Vote Laid Aside to Monday (Continued from Page 1) adjusted service certificates. Sen ator Borah (R.-Idaho) called at tention to the hqur and remarked that since the 'bill was to be passed anyway nothing would be lost by putting off a final vote. Democratic leaders conferred hurriedly and the signal "no de cision today" was given when Majority Leader Robinson of Ar kansas asked for an open execu tive session to pass on nomina tions, customary last-mlaute busi ness of a legislative day. , Packed galleries, sprinkled with ex-soldiers in uniforms that betrayed their age, saw the de bate start at noon, then halt for another harking back to world war policies, and resume again only to send the issue to a third day for decision. The new currency amendment. proposed by Senator Thomas (D. Okla:) was rejected 64 to 27, with many senators who previ ously had favored a similar meth od of payment in last session's vetoed Patman bill, including Senator Borah, voting in opposi tion. Obituary Robinson At a local hospital, January 17, Milnor B. Robinson, aged 54. Sur vived by sister, Mrs. C. A. Dun ham, Glencoe, 111. Remains in care of TerwilHger funeral home Pending shipment of body. Pj -ear M "T lSM k tow rAj g. Velio , - mgi, im iff- V sorV - Am, Big Crowd For Power Hearing Courtroom Is Crowded; Fear of Heavy Debt Opponents Point (Continued from page 1) : was not uppermost. Bonneviite was pointed to as a development which meant another TYA" this time for Oregon. Privately owned utilities were held to be ex tremely difficult to obtain ade quate service from and rates were criticized. L. B. Smith of Portland, re presenting property owners of the seven counties, led the opposition to the proposed district. Smith said all property would be affect ed since bonds imposing a gener al obligation np to ten per cent on real estate could be Issued. Smith declared that 80 per cent of the real estate in Polk county would be included in the district, and held the potential bond issue on the county would exceed $1, 000,000. Irrigation History Pointed as Warning Smith pointed to the irrigation district experience of Oregon as typical of what might happen if the state embarked upon a utility district program. Smith said the state's bill for interest alone on defaulted. irrigation district "bonds would be J O.Ofrfi, He. saidTiie ! .am. mT ' . . m - . Lr entire i oisincis naa oeen prov ed financially unsound. Smith cri ticised the utility district .pro posal as a vague one, with .lack of experienced men to guide it and with utter lack of facts and fig ures to attest its worth W. L. Soehren, manager of the water system at Dallas, then pre sented a number of speakers in opposition to the utilities district plan. "No one can deny that the ob jectives of power for all homes are good; the only question is the cost," Dr. A. B. Starbuck con tended. The cost, item is very vague in the proposal. We think the proposal is premature; Bonne ville is not finished, the cost of power at Bonneville 1s unknown, how far the government will go In constructing transmission lines Is uncertain.'.' Dr. Starbuck said the commercial elub at Dallas was entirely opposed to the utilities district proposal. Business Interests Of Dallas Opposed Mayor Lief Finseth said bus! ness Interests In the city did not look with favor on the power district proposal. He said farmers who had difficulty getting exten sions of their electrical service should protest to the utilities com missloner at Salem, rather than propose a competing system. Fin seth said many of the proponents of the power district plan were his friends and he did not question their integrity but he opined that the utilities district plan was shqrt of specific data on costs. Finseth said he thought the fed eral government ultimately would provide transmission lines from Bonneville. Paul Wallace, Polk county pear grower, said he was active in co operative farmer organizations but in these, farmers owned stock and shared the loss or gains of the cooperative. He said ; h did: not favor a utility district which had the power. to sell bonds and; make them a claim against the real) property in the district. Wallace said he did not favor a coopera- tire In which members were forc ed to participate; he said mem bership in a cooperative , must be a- voluntary action by -the person whom the cooperative was to ben-4 eflL. 'i '- - f R. L. Chapman, prominent, fruitgrower, said he didn't want; district created which could is-; sue -more bonds. He said for small ; expense rural residents could get; electrical power. He said that as a rule public business was not as well conducted as private busi ness. Thiessen Attacks Companies' Claims The president has said it is time to start little TVA's to use power," counselled S. W. Thies sen or jnuwausie. xniessen at tacked statements of power com-' panies. said their debt load was excessive, accused them of having much watered stock. R. W. Hogg of Eola presented a resolution irom tne rota coun ty agricultural conference, held in Dallas this week, in which the conference endorsed the policy of publie ownership of power. : Hogg lauded' the work of the late George W. Joseph and said Dallas and the surrounding community was strongly behind power devel opment. He said the five per cent: required to sign the petitions were obtained in one day. He cited for eign countries where the cooper ative movement has flourished and. said cooperatives in this coun try were making good. He said the eooperatlTe sales of; gasoline -had proved successful in Polk eounty. Thomas H. Gentle of Monmouth said gross earnings of the utility company there, investment consid ered, were high. Declaring that the Monmouth: city' council had gone on record for the utilities district development. Dr. Gentle said: "The people are going to organize to take back what has always belonged to them control of corporations." He declared cor porations are a "menace" and must be . dealt with. - He urged utilities, if they wished to contin ue as private institutions, to re duce rates else a "super-cooperative" rural district will be formed. Farmers Union Is For it. Declared Favoring extensive of cooper ative business which he said had worked well in handling milk pro duction and in sale of gasoline, J. J. Sechrist of Ballston reported that the Farmers Union organis ation of Polk county favored the utilities district plan I. O. Dodson. living out Irom Monmouth, complained that he had been asked as much as S1150 mile for installation of tight line to his house. Subsequently this charge has been reduced but it la atill too high to permit mm to have electricity. Dodson de clared. 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"My bowels were in a horrible condi tion and actually felt, raw inside. Every night- I had ' to j take a strong physic My stomach was upset, in fact, for 20 years it felt like I was carrying around a, big stone inside my stomach and bowels. I had sluggish i kidneys for seyen years and had to get np 14 or IS. t(mes every night. This broke np my sleep com pletely and made me feel terrible. I was full of poison from by con stipated .bowels and sluggish kid neys and es a result my body would breaJC out all over with pmple, and my feet would per spire so much that it embarrass ed me. I believe this was' due to my kidneys not acting properly. . STOPS NIGHT RISING Tlfow, as I said, thii trouble had been going on with me for years, rand I .didnt. know if I would ever find anything to help me, bat one day my wife read in the , paper about Van-Tage and what wonders: it was working for Tfi many 'people. Well,'-4 1 didnt thlni'muen'ahout'lt-at'the time, but' two weeks-later f as down town one day and happened to run across The VAN-TAGE Mao at the Drag Store, and I remem bered then what my wife had read. In the paper. So I talked with The Van-Tage' Man and he waa ao earnest that Z thought, 'Maybe this is what I need.' Any way, something told me to get this medicine, so I bought two bottler and started1 taking Ihat rery night, "Will say that tit was Ira E. Ray of AlrUe and W. C. Dennis of the Alsea country sup ported the proposal for a publicly owned district because they con tended the cost of extending rural lines under private management was too high. ...J ' Glenn G. Adams. Brash Col lege, master of Pomona, grange for Polk county, said he was sroud of the grange and proud thai it stood for the development of the utility district plan. i T. J. Prlmult and W. J. Stock holm added their testimony that extension of light wires to farms in Polk county was too expensive and asked that a publicly-owned district be formed. " High interest rates and poor prices paid for farm products are the bogies of the farming business not high taxes. Gustave Selan- der told the hydroelectric com mission. Selander said he did not hold with the opponents of public ownership who declared that tak ing present utility property from the tax roll would be a disaster to each county. P. O. Powell declared he was satisfied more farms would be served under a cooperative sys tem of distribution rather than through a privately owned elec trical utility system. . f , ' . New Ribbons for Your Typewriter We Supply Ribbons For Any Make Typewriter Over Different type writer and add ing mach i n e ribbons avail able at Need ham's ! 65 Headquarters for Add ing Machine Ribbons . . 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