' "" Basketball
J..DDy the entries, for the:
j- state tournament aro being
f. ; determined in district meet
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UsketbeJT news-Orst,
'The Weather
Increasing cloudiness" and
cooler followed by rain to-
. day, WedMdtr fair; . Mar.'
.Tern. Moaday 63, Mia. 41;
river 8 feet,' variable winds.
EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 3, 1938
Price 3c; Newsstands 5c
Five ConiKci
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Self Defense
Story Is Told
By John Kyle
Battle in Dark, Demands
. t Unknown Visitor
. Related to Jury
Drinking Recalled; Case
is Nearing Close in
Circuit Court
Waiving constitutional rights,
John Kyle took the stand here
yesterday as the major defense
witness in overcoming the state's
f i r st -degree murder charges
against the thin, pecunious Broad
acres farmer who admitted he
killed his "best friend.
Stubbornly resisting efforts of
the state to break down his story
o! self-defense for the shooting of
Hugh Jean Sloan. Kyle waivered
only slightly in declaring to the
Jury in Judge, L. H. McMahan'a
crowded courtroom that "I didn't
know it was Jean."
Until neighbors had been called
In, Kyle declared, he did not know
whom he had shot early on the
morning following a New Year's
celebration in Salem.
Memory not Clear
Cn Some of Events
Kyle amltted, under penetra
ting cross-examination, that his
memory had not been clear on
some events of the fateful night
when he was first questioned by
officers. In conflict with testimony
of Farley Mogan. state policeman,
and Joe Smith, neighbor at Broad
acres, Kyle denied he had ' re
a ragged the covers on the bed
where Sloan died. Once under vig
or us questioning he spoke of
"turning to the bed where Jean
was" only to explain to the jury
that he did not tflo'w' Itwis his
neighbor there, and that he nsed
the reference in the light of later
discovered facts.
The state contends Kyle shot
Sloan, knew he did so. rea ranged
the dead man's position on the
bed. then went for "help. A blood
soaked handkerchief under Sloan's
mouth, found by police, was not
put there by Kyle, the defendant
declared, as the district attorney
son eh t to break down his story.
Kyle declared he had been
sound asleep when he was awaken
ed by someone choking him and
saying "Come across, you - .'
"Quit choking me; I'll give you
anything I've got," Kyle asserted
he answered. He then reached for
his gun, and allegedly while
Sloan's hands were on his throat,
fired the fatal shots.
4 Defense Expected
To Wind up Today
. Paul Burris, defense council,
will put his final witnesses on the
stand today. The bulk of their
testimony will be to show thai
Sloan was subject to fits of intox
ication, and that be was frequent
ly violent when drank. Kyle fin
ished "his story late yesterday.
In his direct story to the jury,
Kyle said Jean Sloan had come
to his house in the morning, that
the two had mixed some Tom and
Jerries to- drink and estimated
that they consumed two lints of
liquor. Sloan left, reappearing at
about 1:30 to go with- Kyle to the
fights fn Salem.
On cross examination. District
Attorney Trindle demanded to
know where Kyle got the liquor,
tut objection of the defense at
torney on this was sustained and
the question was unanswered.
KCTeral Drinks are
Recalled, by Kyle
Kyle's story went ahead to tell
of their start for Salem, of the
breakdown of Sloan's car and. re
turn to get Kyle'a machine; of
Sloan's producing whiskey after
they left Woodburn and of each
man taking two drinks before
arriving at Salem. After ihe tights
h-: said, the two ate at a Chinese
place, then went back to Wood
burn, stopped at Broadacres at
Jone'g stor where Sloan and Kyle
drank a glass of beer, and then
went on to Kyle's place, reaching
there sometime between 8:30 and
9:30 o'clock. He described their
entry to the house, and said they
car down an drank some whiskey,
estimated at a half pint, or what
Kyle said with a smile said "must
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Salem Is Omitted
In Gas Price Gut
SAN FRANCISCO. March 2.
(jpyStandard Oil company an
nounced cuts et cent? to 3 cents
in gasoline prices at Tar to at
points In Pacific territory today.
The reductions were made to
meet competition, the company
said In an official statement an
nouncing the new prices would be
effective tomorrow.
Some of the cuts include: Pre
mium and regular grades, Med
ford, Portland. Walla Walla, Ta
coma. Seattle, Spokane and Ket
chikan 2 cents. : . v F : :
- Third grade down 2 H cents
at Medford. Portland, Walla
Walla, Tacoma, Seattle and .Spo
kane. .'
Two More Burglaries
Solved in Confession
As Staples Sentenced
Store Robbery- Three Years Ago, Theft of Church
Collection Money Admitted; Youth Waives
Indictment, Gets One - Year Term
IGHT was shed on at least two burglaries which had
I j previously never been solved when Arthur Arley Staples,
22, 1145 Hoyt street, admitted at the county jail last
night that he had been implicated three years ago in the
robbery of the 20th Century store, then on High street,
and in the theft of a collection from the St. Joseph's Cath
. O olle church.
Burke to Run For
Treasurer's Post
Yamhill Senator to Enter
Fight Against Former
Ally, Ruf us Holman
State Senator W. E. Burke of
Newberg yesterday announced his
candidacy for the position of state
treasurer. In seeking this office,
j he will oppose Rufus Holman, in
cumbent, in the state republican
primaries.
It had been predicted for sev
eral days that the Yamhill county
senator, recognized as a liberal,
would seek the office of state
treasurer, which carries with it a
position on the state board of
control, and it bad been known
for some time that he would seek
some important state office.
I Senator Burke, an advocate of
public ownership, had long been a
supporter of Holman, but broke
with the state treasurer several
months ago. He has favored the
Townsend old age pension plan
and when Dr. F. E. Townsend
spoke in this state last summer,
he appeared with him on the plat
form. Ruhl Appointed,
Education Board
Robert W. Ruhl. editor of the
Medford Mail-Tribune, yesterday
was named to the state board of
higher education, succeeding Leif
Finsetb of Dallas whose term ex
pired. Ruhl, a supporter of Governor
Martin in the campaign of 1934,
was said to be reluctant to take
the position but to have consented
at the governor's urging.
He is a graduate of Harvard
university. He came to Medford
In 1911 and has been continuously
in newspaper work since that
time. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer
prize for his editorial fight against
the Good Government league In
Jackson county where civic disor
der had resulted from the inflam
matory writings of L. A. Banks.
Ruhl has been in California the
last week but the governor's office
said it had been assured Mr. Ruhl
would accept the appointment.
Nine members comprise the board
of higher education. W 1 1 1 a r d
Marks of Albany is chairman.
Ruhl's appointment is for a nine
year term.
P. O.'Sets Record
BAKER. Ore.. March t.-UPf
Postma8ter "Sanford Adler said to
day Baker's postbffice receipts in
February exceeded those of any
previous month in the unit's history.
Progress in Raising Funds
To Aid Mill City Reported
One thousand dollars in sub
scriptions to preferred and Com
mon stock in the Mill City Lum
ber company were lined up here
yesterday In the first day's can
vass of Salem business men for
support of the new milling opera
tion in the Mill City community.
With the help of chamber of com
merce members, five men from
MiU City, divided into two teams,
solicited a sizeable portion of the
business community in their first
day of work. The drive to seU
$5000 In stock will be continued
today.
'We were well pleased by the
first day's response." J. F. Potter,
who will be manager of the new
mill, said' late yesterday. We
think the mill's operations. Is go
ing to be of decided benefit" to Sa
lem. Naturally the people of our
community will be Inclined to the
support of Salem merchants who
believe In this institution we are
founding." , . . .
Hammond Company
Cooperating, Word
. .Potter reported that 48-hour a
week shifts are being worked to
Staples admitted his guilt after
extended questioning by Sheriff
A. C. Burk, his deputies, and rep
resentatives of the district attor
ney's office.
Earlier in the day Staples bad
pleaded guilty to theft of six
women's wrist watches from the
Jewel Box, 173 North Liberty
street, in a brazen robbery here
shortly before midnight Saturday
Waiving indictment, he stood
sentence before Judge L. H. Mc-
Mahan and was ordered to serve
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Debit Checks Are
Highest Since '30
Almost Equal to Total of
1929; Good Business
Here Reflected
Debit checks on the three Sa
lem banking institutions during
February hit the highest mark
Bince the record year of 1930 and
fell less than $56,000 short of the
boom year of 1929, according to
figures released yesterday through
the Salem chamber of commerce.
The figures almost doubled Feb
ruary, 1933.
The announcement came Just
three years after banking activity
in Salem had been paralyzed by
the state and then the nation-wide
moratorium on banking activities.
Then not a bank was open for
business in the city, payrolls were
met in currency or with uncash
able checks and the city waited
for word from Washington on the
method of bank reopenings.
The bank clearings for Feb
ruary, this year, totaled $10,444,
241. which is $886,320 above the
$9,557,921 for the debit check to
tal year ago. The debit checks
for February, 1930, total $11,
012,424 and for the corresponding
month in 1929, $10, 496,829.
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Tinegan' Cavorts
At Sea-Lion Cave
MARSHFIELD, Ore., March 2.
-py-Tbe land-going sea-lion cap
tured in the, middle of a grain
field south of Portland last week,
apparently ia alive and thriving.
Attorney L. A. Liljeqvist said
today.
Liljeqvist said he was told by
keepers at the sea-lion cave on
the Oregon Coast highway, that
the mammal, commonly known as
"Mrs. Finegan," arrived there
Saturday. The sea-lion was freed
by a state game commission crew
at Nelscott, 75 miles north of
the caves, earlier in the week.
"Mrs. Finegan" was recognised
by rope marks and an injured
eye, incurred when she was shot
by a fisherman at Oregon City,
Liljeqvist said. The sea-lion ar
rived in Portland by way of the
Columbia and Willamette rivers.
get the new mill constructed and
into operation by May 1. Yester
day bricking in of the boilers at
the mill began. The first floor of
the mill has already! been con
structed and all the construction
lumber obtained for ; the' entire
Plant.
The Hammond Lumber com
pany is cooperating with the new
company In getting started, Pot
ter reported. Timber at $2 a
thousand is a favorable bny, he
said, especially with the Ham
mond company furnishing the
railroad getting Into the Umber
as well as 25 cars and an engine.
Salem purchasers of stock have
an option to purchase either pre
ferred or common stock. Most of
the subscriptions thus far 'have
been to the preferred stock which
Is at a six pe cent, cumulative, di
vidend , rate. Mill Cltys invest
ment has been entirely in common
stock, $15,000 having been sub
scribed in cash and 110,000 In la
bor. Mill City considers the mill
proposition so sound It Is willing
to make its stock second in claim
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Second Death
Noted in New
Gang Flareup
DeMory, Half-Brother of
McGura, Assassinated
in Billiard Room
Method Duplicated When
Holdup is Announced,
Guns Bark Chorus
CHICAGO, March 2-JP)-An-thony
DeMory, 24, a half-brother
of machine gun Jack McGurn,
was assassinated in a pool room
tonight by three gunmen whose
methods resembled those of the
bowling alley killers of McGurn.
DeMory, who used the name
Anthony Gebardi (McGurn's real
name was Vincent Gebardi) was
singled out of four men in a card
game. He stood with the others
at the masked gunmen's com
mand, witnesses said, and was
shot four times.
Two ballets struck him in the
arm, one in the head, one near the
heart. An hour later, without hav
ing regained complete conscious
ness, he died in a hospital.
Same Device Used
As in McGurn Case
His assailants .announcing a
"stickup," employed the same de
vice used by the killers of Mc
Gurn, once the chief terrorist of
Al Capone's late mob. McGurn
was felled by bullets In a bowling
alley early Feb. 15, an hour after
the anniversary of the St. Valen-
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Mott Excoriates
F. R. Brain Trust
Professors Kept Recovery
Still Around Corner,
Avers Over Radio
WASHINGTON, March t.-iJPf
A "weird crowd of professors and
sub-professors' were charged to
night by Representative Mott
(R.-Ore.) with keeping industrial
recovery and farm solvency "Just
where they were when the new
deal came into power."
The president and his "brain
trust" Mott asserted, "have sub
stituted executive dictatorship for
representative government and re
gard the constitution merely as
a necessary evil."
Indnsrtial Recovery,
Agriculture are Problems
In a radio address (Columbia
Broadcasting system) under the
auspices of the national republi
can congressional committee, Mott
said two major problems indus
trial recovery and the destiny of
agriculture faced the Roosevelt
administration at the outset.
The NRA was the solution to
the first and the AAA to the sec
ond; he said.
"But with the NRA held in
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Baldock Named to
Survey Committee
SALT LAKE CITY, March ' 2.-
(Jf)-A committee of highway plan
ning standards of the Western
association of state highway offi
cials was appointed today by Pres
ton G. Peterson, president
Members Include:
K. C. Wright, chief engineer of
the Utah highway commission;
T. S. O'Connell, Arizona; Lacey
Murrow, Washington; Charles D.
Vail, Colorado; R. H. Baldock,
Oregon state highway engineer.
The committee will investigate
uniform practices In highway
planning' surreys and will report
to the association convention at
Phoenix, Ariz., April 29 and 30.
Postal Receipts
Gam m Jbebruary
Postal ' receipts, one recognized
business index, scored a siseable
gain again here last month. Post
master H. R. Crawford announced
last nibU February. 1S36, re
ceipts totaled $lt,34S.S4 as
against $16,399.78 for the same
monta last year.
The Increase to date this year
amounts to $9000, Crawford said.
$500 in Gold Coin Found
in Basement9 St. Helen
rt. HELENS. Ore March 2.-
(p-Deputy Sheriff Calhoun un
Aarthed SS00 in 320 KOld coins
and $680 la gold certificates ; In
the basement of the home or
George Worrell, recluse, who died
last woek. The search was under
taken at the Instance of - Henry
MorrelL brother of the deceased,
who said his relative confided the
location of the money just before
Anti-Burglar
Device Okeh;
Errors Human
HOLLYWOOD, Cillf.,
March 3-TVTwo Phoenix,
Ariz bankers visited a
branch I of the Bank of Am
erica here Just before cloa
. log time today to examine a
newly ' installed device to
make the bank "hold op
proof."
"Yon press a button and
all the money in the. tellers'
cages slides down into the
vault which is closed auto
matically and the time lock
set for 30 minutes," Robert
L. Gordon, district Bank of
America vice president, ex
plained to his guests. t ,
At this moment three rob
bers, two of them carrying
machine guns, entered, lin
ed np Gordon, his guests, 80
customers and 14 employes
against the walls, scooped
np (41,100 and escaped.
Somebody remembered to
press the button about the
time the robbers left.
Hearing Delayed,
Vacation of Park
Seaplane Base Here, WPA
Project Proposal Put
Before Aldermen
The scheduled hearing on the
vacation of a portion of Willson
park for use by the state as land
for the new capitol was postponed
by the City council last night
when it was discovered that insuf
ficient notice of the hearing had
been possible.' The hearing was
deferred until the night of April .
A communications night" ap
peared to be In effect at last
night's meeting from the tariety
of requests received.
From the national aeronautical
J-chamberof ctmnnerce came a sug
gestion that the city construct a
seaplane base as a WPA project.
A seaplane landing float would
cost $3166, or a marine railway
storage base $25,569, the cham
ber's letter stated. The letter was
jokingly referred to the water con
struction committee.
Cigarette Sample
Distribution Protected
To the utilities committee the
council referred a letter from the
Salem Women's council of church
es protesting the recent distribu
tion of sample cigarettes by tele
graph messenger. The council
branded this type of tobacco ad
vertising "an affront to decency."
The police committee was asked
to study a resolution suggested by
Commissioner Ralph C. Clyde of
Portland condemning Los Angeles
authorities for turning back from
the California state lines' "people
lacking in worldjy wealth and vic
tims of the depression." Seasonal
laborers are wrongly being kept
from traveling from state to state,
Clyde charged.
In another letter, the Salem
Business Men's league requested
the council to grant the Dollar
stage lines an extension of time
in using the street in front of a lo
cal hotel as a loading tone. This
letter and a similar one from the
stage company were referred to
the police committee;
Other council actions were as
follows:
Fire sone.ot block bouif ltd by
13 th, 14 th, State and Court streets
changed from No. 2 to No. mak
ing building regulations less strin
gent; school board authorized to
use wood lath, contrary to the
building code, in he new senior
high school building on condition;
the first floor and corridors be of
concrete construction; granted'
Mrs. C. G. Wain $25 damages for
injuries sustained In fall on a de
fective sidewalk.
Approved sanitary sewer for
north side of Chemeketa street be
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VANCOUVER, B. C. March 2.-(A)-Edmonton's
battling Eskimos
outplayed the Vancouver : Lions
3-2 here tonight to move into
fourth place in the northwestern
hockey league standings.
PORTLAND. March 2.-i?V-Er-nie
Piluso, 165-pound Portlander,
tossed Jack Lipscomb, 16 4,. Indi
anapolis, in 2:03 with a body slam
tonight to win the one-lall main
event of a mat card here.
r TACOMA, March l.-VPyChM
Little Wolf. 218. of Trinidad.
Colo., and Paul Boesch, 220, of
Brooklyn, wrestled eight rounds
to draw here tonight Each took
one f alL . . -
r 8AN FRANCISCO, March i.-CTT-Art
Sykes of Chicago and Joe
Bauer of Cleveland, heavyweights,
fought 10 rounds to a draw, here
tonight la. a boat so uninteresting
many of the spectators walked out
before: it was over. ; ? -?...-
Buddy Baer, younger brother ot
tie former - heavyweight .cham
pion. Max, scored a four-round de
cision over Millionaire Murphy,
Hollywood. " ' , - , ', ...
Late Sports
Elevators Are
Idle, Gotham's
Tall Buildings
MayoP f Declares State oi
! Emergency; Necessary;
: f Trips WiU Be Made- '
Many Other Centers are
Afflicted With Labor
Tronhle, Revealed
(By the Associated Press)
r Strikes afflicted more than half
a dozen cities of the nation last
nlgbt, the most spectacular a
walkout of New York building
employes which crippled residen
tial and business skyscrapers in
many parts of the metropolis.
A proclamation of emergency
was Issued by Mayor Fiorello H.
LaGaardia of New Tork as the
strike stopped elevators, curtail
ed telephone service end beat in
the affected buildings.
Under the declared "state of
emergency" the health, depart
ment was called upon by the
mayor to see that beat was sup
plied and necessary elevator trips
made in buildings higher than six
stories.
A deadlock In negotiations to
end the two weeks' old walkout
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Fifteen Killed in
Railroad Tragedy
Runaway , Tender Collides
With Locomotive Near
Rerelstoke, B. C
REVELSTOKE. B. C March 2.
-p)-Flfteen men were killed to
day by a runaway locomotive
tender . on - the Canadian Pacific
main line east of here, crushed to
death in a collision between the
tender and the i derailed locomo
tive In a snow cnt
The men, who had been clear
ing snow slides from the tracks,
were working near Downie, 26
miles from here. They were caught
between 15 - foot snow - banked
walls. Some were in the engine
cab. '
All railway service east was
tied up.
The slide came down yesterday.
about 100 yards long and 15 feet
deep.
Work gangs cut through It,
railway officials said, and then
attempted to put the derailed en
gine back on the tracks. The tend
er was uncoupled and started back
to Illeclllewaet, attached "by cables
to an auxiliary crane. '
A mile up the heavy grade, an
other slide, was heard. The en
gineer halted the locomotive and
the tender pulled loose, breaking
the cable and starting backward
down the grade. It crashed into
the cut .
Over the weekend, a chinook
wind caused upwards of 100 slides
Along the line.
Feeding of Birds Added
lExpente of Cold Period
!
(The recent cold weather placed
more than the nnraen or in
creased fuel consumption ot Sa
lem taxpayers, it was .revealed
last night -when the council vot
ed; the monthly statement of ac
counts and current expenses. The
statement showed that $1 had
been spent by . the parks depart
ment to feed the Willson park
squirrels while snow and Ice cov
ered the ground. The food con
sisted, pf corn. -
Construction Committee to
Be
Mayor V. E, Kahn not later than
today will appoint the four conn
ellmen who with himself win con
stitute the ' water construction
committee created by the council
last night, he said after the meet
ing. ' : - ' . ' -
Two aldermen were considered
certain to be named by the mayor,
Braxier S. Small, who took the
lead in designating the North San
tiam river as the city's "moun
tain" supply, ahd-E. B. Perrlne.
Alderman Merrill D. Ohling was
believed likely to be a third ap
pointee. The mayor will serve as
chairman. ; , . '
Water Commlsskm v""-':'.
Members Approve , v -T
The council's designation ot a
committee from its own member
ship to push construction of the
new waterworks met with the ap
proval ot the water commission.
-The main thing la to get a
good water supply for Salem,"
Chairman Edward Rostein of the
Selected byKuhn loday
'Most Eligible9
Bachelor Falls
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Mrs. McCaultoyJf
,,
Richard Mellon 1 i
America's most eligible bache
lor," Richard K. Mellon, Pitts
burgh banker nephew of An
drew Mellon and one of the
richest young men in America,
was eUmlaaied from the Mleap
year competition' when his en
gagement to Mrs. Constance Mo
Caolley, New York widow, was
anweunced.
Fund For Armory
Promised, Report
Additional Grant Looming
For Similar Projects, ;
Legion Informed
President Roosevelt has prom
ised to have additional funds pro
vided for armory projects such as
has been proposed for Salem, Bri
gadier General Thomas E. Rilea
of jthe national guard told mem
bers of Capital Post No. 9, Ameri
can Legion, last night in report
ing on his recent trip to Washing
ton, D. C. Present armory funds,
however, have become so bound
by restrictions that construction
of a new armory here, for ex
ample, is impossible until new
money Is made available, he
added.
The post has gone "over the
top'' in its membership drive with
468 veterans nowV paid np -for
1936. Adjutant William Bliven
announced. The quota for the year
is 600. Membership stars, for ob
taining ten or more members,
were presented by O. E. Mose"
Palmateer to Herman Brown, W.
A. Merrlott, C. K. Logan,' George
Arerett, R. H. Bassett, Hans Hof
stetter, Irl S. MeSherryv William
Bliven; Jerrold Owen, J. H. Brady,
George Edwards, Dr. V. E. Hock
ett and R. p. Woodrow.
First prise in the "big mo
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Coomes Candidate
PORTLAND, Ore., March 2.-(JPy-J.
A." Coomes of Trail an
nounced today he will be an In
dependent candidate for Oregon
congressman . from , the first dis
trict. He said he advocated the
Townsend plan and managed cur
rency.. ' ,: '
commission commented. "All we
want Is to get some action. If the
charter , is interpreted to prevent
the commission, from doing the
Job, that Is the way It should be.
It's all right with naV
The construction committee as
created last night has wide pow
ers,' City Attorney Paul R. Hen
dricks declared. He believed this
committee would have full author
ity to order necessary engineering
work done and to call for bids on
nnlts of the big water project
Excavation for the new 12,000,
000 gallon reservoir, estimated to
cost approximately $20,000, will
require three months time, .en
gineers for the water commission
hare estimated. Removal ot 42,
000 cubic yards of earth and soft
stone will be necessary- -f
Since neither the city nor the
water department, has adequate
heavy excavation machinery. It is
considered likely that the Job will
be let tothe lowest private bidder.
Authorize Ue3
OfBond Funds
For Reservoir
Taxpayer League Request
.' for Further Test of
Wells is Filed
Committee for Handling
Project Essential,
Memhers Decide
HOW COUNCIL ACTED
ON WATER PROBLEMS
Created five-man conusJCtee
to initiate, and supervise reser
voir and pipeline coastroctlasv
Authorized nse of f 460 in
bond fund for reerroir cb
Tation, engineering, right f
way and water rights.
Filed Salem Taxpayers
league petition urging further
iarcstigatioB of wells.
Salem's city council last night
forged ahead with its plans U
obtain a "permanent moaataia
water supply from the North
Santiam river by authorizing the
appointment of a five-man "wa
ter construction committee ef
aldermen headed by the mayor
and by turning over to this cess
mittee $46,303 remaining in Ue
water bond fund. - - -
Creation of the special commit
tee was authorized by an oral
vote but a standing vote, as Sol
lows, was required on the Alder
man Brasier C. Small's motion ta
turn the $46,303 over to tke
committee:
Aye Armprist. Goodman.. Oh
ling, dinger, Perrlne, ' Smalt
Wieder and Young.
NoDane, Fuhrer, Minto asd
Williams. -
Absent, Evans and O'Hara.- -
Taxpayer League
Request is Filed
Without! comment the council
shoved aside via the "received
and placed on file" route a peti
tion from the Taxpayers' Leagse
of Salem which urged 'that the
city attempt first to secure- a
water supply from wells.
The league petition, signed by
Frank W. Durbin, president and
Carl T. Pope, secretary, declared
that Frank Knowles, geologist,
had held that it was possible -to
obtain a sufficient quantity of
water for the city's needs from
the test drilling site near Turner
and asserted that this aore
would cost $500,000 less than the
North Santiam supply.
Mayor Kuhn was designated
chairman of the water construc
tion committee, in a resolution
introduced by Alderman Merrill
D. Ohling, and directed to name
four other councilmen to rve
with him. The resolution provid
ed that the Salem water commis
sion should serve with this spe
cial committee in an advisory en
paeity. i . r
Coaacll Reqmlred .
to Take Responsibility
"From a very exhaustive study
of the charter by the city attor
ney, it appears .that in spite of
what we might want to the
council must shoulder the respon
sibility of constructing . the new
water system," Alderman Small,
the only speaker on the resolu
tion, explained. "It Is -felt that if
a committee can be appointed to
work in harmony with the water
commission, we can carry em this
work almost as effectively as the
water commission itself.
The council appropriates! for
the special committee's nse Vbe
$46,303 remaining unspent from
the $1,100,000 raised by sale of
water bonds last summer tor, tour
purposes: . .
1. ;To proceed , with excaTaGon
for " the new reservoir on Fair-,
mount hill,, at Rural avenue and:
John street . :;
2. sTo employ engineers aa may
be necessary.
S. To designate and recommend
property to be purchased for pipe
line and filtration plant right of
way. : '-L . : ' .
: 4. To secure and protect the
water rights for the city on the
North Santiam river. t
The council last night did not
receive the proposed ordinance to
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Tuna Fish Is
Current Topic
For Recipes ;
fish. - the rret
Bond Table topic, s as
TersaUle as chicken when it
comes to different ways in
which It may be prepared.
Cold or bot,aloBe or com
bined withiother fkh or ve
getables, tuna fish is always
good and always on hand.
Send fn as many recipes
as yon like this week to The
Statesmaa bat be rare that
they reach ; the office y
Thursday noon. Cash prises
totaling $2 are awarded
weekly. '" . - ' - '