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Salem's 10,000,000 ; water system reservoir took the . city council by surprise last night, The. lowest estimate that had been made lor the project was 1130,000,' or $18,410. in ex cess of the proposal submitted by Kern & Kibbe, iPortland con tractors now engaged in construc tion of the highway undercross- ing at the north cit7 limits. The low bid and ten others re-j eeired last night ranging from! $120,740 to $154,240 were re , f erred to the water construction committee and Engineer R. E. Koon for a recommendation at Monday nighr regular council meeting. This group also will, weigh the merits, of six com panies bids to supply more than 30 lots of pipe,' valves j and; other fittings. The only bid totaled on fittings amounted to 111,762.62, If the Kern & Kibbe . bid to build the reservoir 1 found ac ceptable, It will be possible to complete the reservoir program,, Including a new, larger "water tower on Fairmount hill, for not more than $150,000, it was evi dent last night: The original esti mate for this program was. $198, 000. ; - , The Kern & Kibbe bid calls for completion - of the reservoir in 100 working days. Other time bids ranged upward to 250 lays; Several are Under Suggested Figures The ten bids for construction of the reservoir; above f that of Kern & Kibbe, ran as follows: Harold Blake, Portland, $120, 740: Warren Northwest, Inc., Portland, $124,515;- F. ij. Kep non, Portland, $126,648; Drake, Wyman & Voss, Inc., .Portland, $127,064.50; P a r k e r-Schramm , company, Portland, $128,756.50; J. C. Compton company, McMinn ville, $130,917; United Contract ing company, Portland, $147 62C.50; Malcolm & Bell, Port land, $150,510.50; Dougan-Ham-mond Construction company, Portland, $152,185; Kuckenberg Wittman, company, Portland, $154,240. j Mr. Koon announced he would hold a public meeting in the city council chambers at 10 o'clock -this morning to give bidders an opportunity to explain their pro posals or products. ! ' . Engineer Koon and members of the council i expressed them- - selves as highly ' pleased at the bids received ' last night. The most favorable proposal was in line with the low bid of $14,500 submitted by Slate Construction companyj Albany, for excavation at the freservoir site, which is sow in progress and is scheduled for completion May 31 Bupply for Three Or Fonr Days Given The new reservoir! will nave a storage capacity for emergencies (Turn to -page 5, eol. 7) Permission For Netrgent ! To Lite in West Salem, Request to Water Board . The Salem Trades and Labor council last night requested the city water commission by letter to permit Guy Newgent pump oper ator, to contlnne his residence in West Salem and! his duties of mayor of the city across the river until the new municipal building is completed. I I - . ' The letter was tiled with the ex planatlon lhat a recent order re- airinr water -denartment em- nloTea to lira' In Salem did sot become effective until May 15. - The labor organization had asked that Newgent be allowed to remain In West Salem 'for. "two or three weeks longer." . . i Earnings of Water Plant Slightly Higher ini April Gross earnings of the cliy water : department last month amounted to $13,513.83, Clscountinrapprox imately $470, hydrant rental which the city council has regulars ly declined to pay, Manager Cuyler VanPatten announced last sight. This amount represents slight Increase over March earnings.1 Total operating expense for Ap romanar rU bad not yet been ascertained Jubilation at Of Addis Ababa Starts Too Soon; Fight Looms Destroyed Sections of Highway Prove Barrier to Italians9 (Advance; Selassie Orders Every . - Available Man to Resist Invaders i MANY Italians prematurely celebrated false reports of the fall of Addis Ababa Friday even as Emperor Haile Selassie disclosed the advance on the capital would be resisted. The emperor issued a proclamation in Addis Ababa or dering every able-bodied man to march northward Saturday Dynamite; Found in Stove Wood Stick .Case Aftermath of Recent Bandon Labor Trouble, Is Current Belief BANDON. Orei,! May !-()-A thorough inspection of all recent shipments of wood from the Moore Mill and Lumber company began today after a housewife found a piece of dynamite in a stick of stove wood. The mill recently was the scene of picketing. and re-opened only a few days ago when both sides in labor controversy agreed to ar bitrate differences.! Mrs. Erwin Jacobs was about to toss the "loaded" I wood into a itove wheji she noticed the dyna mite. Sheriff William Howell said. Officials were unable to explain why the dynamite; had not ex ploded when the wood was cut into short lengths. Location of the remaining portions of the dyna mite stick was unknown'. The explosive was still wrapped in a readable label when Mrs. Jacobs reported the incident. It (Turn to page 5, col 8) Record For April Bank Debits Made Previous April bank clearings for Salem, including the pre-de- pression year of 1929, wre best ed by almost a cool two million dollars in the current report of clearings compiled by the Salem chamber of commerce. For the month Just passed, the clearings reached $14,071,330. For the same montn, 1929, tne total was $12,181,471, which gives last month an increase of $1,889,859 over that period, i The April report for this year is also ahead of; last year by $809,258, and is nearly double the lowest April.! that ot 1933 when debit checks totaled only $7,695,066. , ! The bank figures obtained by the chamber are: supplied by the Babson service. iThe April show ings since 1929 are as follows: 1929 .-.$12,181,471 1930 ,.U. 12,617,817 1931 J. 10,068,615 1932 8,343,836 1933 7,695,066 1934 10.002.164 1935 . .; 13,262,072 1936 .:. 14,071,330 Mrs. Strahorn Dies SAN FRANCISCO, May l-OSV Mrs. Ruby Garland Strahorn, wife of Robert E. Strahorn. 'Pacific northwest railroad ' builder and power and irrigation developer, died here tonight. livo 1 hpusqnd i .I"--- County Share, Pension Cost Marion county! will pay "out $20(8.21 per month beginning this month as its one-quarter share in old ale assistance ap proved for 443 residents ot the county, it was Announced at re lief headquarters; here yesterday. The total county-state-federal payment monthly, will be $8, 273.64, or an average of. $18.68 per person on the old age assist ance rolls. i . One-quarter of the .payments will be made directly by the coun ty clerk's office; ithe first; 25 per cent of names on the old-age as sistance rolls bejng cared tor by county warrants.! The remaining names on the list will be sent state relief committee checks. This practice will be followed un til a test case pending in supreme court Is decided.! This case asks the court to declare whether or i not the county has a right to pay Capture Oto try to hurl back the advancing fascist columns. ; Destroyed sections of roads the work of retreating Ethiopians held up the progress of-a main motorized Italian column upon the capital. Headquartera-of Mar shal Pietro Badoglio, Italian commander-in-chief, have been moved 62.5 miles south of Dessye along the road to Addis Ababa, The fascist organization in Italy has prepared for a gigantic civilian rally, or "adunata," when ; word comes that Addis Ababa! has fallen. Premature re ports led to celebrations in a number of cities Friday night. Officials, however,1 cautioned that it might be at least a week before the city is occupied. Heavy fighting on the south ern front, with pome 6000, fallen on both sides in recent engage ments, was reported in a Rome communique. The strong south ern Ethiopian army was said to be in flight as the Italians ad vance toward Harar. r The League of Nations releas ed statistics showing that both Italy's exports and imports fell sharply in February, of this year from the figures of the preced ing February. Submitting Water Issue Again, Plea Ordinance Asks Advisory Vote on Four Sources ! ill of Future Supply Aldermen Jack Minto and Fred Williams injected a threat of delay in the city's water workers con struction program when they In troduced ordinances at last night's adjourned meeting of the council providing for another advisory vote as to source of supply and for a vote on a charter amendment at the November 3 general elec tion, i . The advisory vote wouldbe as to four ehoices: Wells, theLittle North Fork of the Santiam river, the North fork of the Santiam river; and the Willamette river. When a similar problem was sub mitted to the voters December 15. 193 lj the North fork of the San tiam river was not Included in the list of choices. .. The other ordinance would amend the section of the charter setting up the municipal water program to provide that construc tion in connection with a new source of water suply should be undertaken only after the voters had expressed their ' choice. As submitted last night, this measure takes no cognizance of the ordi nance recently adopted by the council designating the North San tiam f river above Stayton as the source. With but 38 per cent ot the registered voters going to the polls, the advisory ballot In 1931 gave! the Little North fork 2181 (Turn to page2, col. 2) v Per Month is i its .old-age pensions funds to the relief committee in one lump sum warrant. Warrants Drawn For County Share Warrants for the county's share of the pension payments had been drawn late yesterday by the county clerk's office, ready for j distribution ' today through the malls. The county will tinder direct tlon of the state , committee make the full Individual assistance pay ments monthly to the clients up to its one-quarter share of the program's - total cost. The re maining three-quarters will be paid by the' state committee. All state and county warrants will be mailed directly to the persons eligible to receive them. , The list ot 443 eligible persons approved here represents a dif- :(Turn to vase S. coL C) Convict Makes Confession He Killed Farmer Armed McManus ' Will Be Takeirto Modesto to Face Charges Statement Not Released i by Officers; DeRaas Slaying is Solved Only an hour's questioning was needed late yesterday to bring from , William L. McManus, 25, one-armed Oregon-convict, a con fession that he had shot and kill ed Elies De Raas, California farm er and ski champion, near Modes to on March 16, District Attornev Lpslie A. Cieary and Sheriff Grant M. Ho gin of Stanislaus county, Califor nia, conducted the questioning of McManus at the state penitentiary and secured a full confession from him. McManus, imprisoned here last Sunday on a charge of assault with attempt to rob, at Vale, Ore gon, made a detailed statement but the investigating officers said it would not be released until he was taken back to Modesto. The prisoner here waived extradition although papers for his legal re moval from the state are now en route to Salem from Sacramento. Small Footprints Point to McManus Hogin said that DeRaas was killed on a lonely road after he had picked up a hitch-hiker the night of March 15. The body of the victim was found the next morning after he had been dead five hours. McManus, who had come to Mo desto last tall after he was re leased from San Quentin where he served time for a Los Angeles rob bery, was suspected when he left suddenly Modesto about the same time. Footprints on De Raas' au tomobile were those of a small shoe. McManus, a small man, wore a Number 3, Hogin said. The bullet taken from the vic tim's head was a .38 calibre, the same size as that of a gun Mc Manus had purchased in Modesto. The sheriff said he had learned McManus was "anxious to use the gun,", because he had several (Tirrn to page 5, col. 6) Funds For First Aid Car Come In More than $100 in contribu tions to the Salem first aid car fund was reported from state de partments and the city school fac ulties yesterday by Salem Trades and Labor council solicitors. The campaign tor 2 $2000 to buy and equip the car,' which the fire de partment will use in answering all types of first aid calls, is progres sing steadily though quietly, the labor group reported. Mayor V. E. Kuhn yesterday requested Portland authorities to lend the George L. Baker first aid car there for display purposes here to Inform the public as to the type of equipment carried and free ser vice offered by Such a car. He was advised that so many calls were being received for the car that the Portland fire department could not gt along without it at thl8 time. . Yesterday's contribution reports were as follows: School teachers, $29.47, .and state departments, $95.05. Outcome Pleases Parents of Walp parents of ; Harry Walp, now serving a life sentence, in the state penitentiary, yesterday expressed themselves as pleased that Walp had escaped the possibility ot hanging for his slaying; of Martha Neal Walp nere, March 31. I Mrs.! Walp said she could not nave endured the agony of the trial and the strain which would have ensued had Walp been found guilty and sentenced to hang. I She said her son had always been a problem . for bis parents and that : repeated troubles in which he found hlmself-he had been In jail 13 times-appeared to have no affect upon him. . i Mr. and Mrs. walp have re turned to their home In Eugene after being here for the fore part of tne week when Walp'a trial was started. He pleaded gnllty to seeond degree murder ; Tuesday and was sentenced to life lm , prisonment. ' Get Limelight . 1 Campus Breakfast First rent Today; Queen's - Coronation at 2:30 Jjinior Plav "Mr. Pim" to iClbse Program; Many I JHxz Occasion The traditional Y.W.C.A. cam pus breakfast; held at Chresto cottage between 7 and 10 o'clock this morning, will mark the be ginning of today's events in con nection with tbe 27th - annual clowning of, a May Queen at Wil lamette university. : Townspeople, alumni; and stu dents will all be guests of the university for the breakfast efent j Highlight of the day's program is to be the crowning! of Queen Winifred. Promptly! at 2:30 o'clock the queen and her attend ants. Princesses Esther Black and Etither Gibbard, will form a pro cession going to the new Grecian theatre especially erected on the campus for the May day exer cises. Baxter to Preside Over Coronation Dr. Bruce R. Baxter,: president of the university, will , preside over the coronation exercises with Miss Frances Stewart, May Queen last year, placing the crown on tie head of Queen Winifred. Heralds of the queen's ap proach will- be the university quartet: Earl Potter,; Maurice Dean, Ralph Barber and Ross Gladden. The officially chosen "king" is Galen Dean. Escorts fr the qjqeen . will be D wight Aden and K e n n e t h Manning. Lynn Lockenour, daughter of Dean and Mrs. Roy Lockenour, will be the crown bearer for the queen. I Flower girls for Queen Wini fred will be Alcetta Gilbert and Beverly Beakey while the six of ficial members of her court will be Peggy Haight, William Thome, Margaret Hagg, Bert Rusk, Mar garet Nunn, Max Taggert. f A feature ot the May Day dances performed in ! honor of Queen Winifred will be an "ode to the Olympics" in which a spear dance from Finland and a sword dance from England will be given. I More, than a score of boys and girls from the student; body will take part in the dance when the May pole will be wound, j A second high spot in the day's program will be the Jun ior class play: "Mr. Pim Passes By," presented at Salem high school auditorium under the di rection of Miss Genevieve Thayer. Sport events today will include tennis matches between women players of Pacific university and Willamette staged at 9:30 a. m. today on the Willamette courts. At 9:30 o'clock this morning a Willamette valley high school t (Turn to page 2, cpL 1) . Board Hits Back At Council Stand The Salem Water Commission last night cracked back at the city council for the latter body's month to month refusal to pay fire hydrant rental for water ser vice. On the motion Of William pahlsdorf, the ' commission de clined to pay a bill Of 411 for services and use of city sewer de partment equipment in cleaning Out a pipeline on Minto s island. Instead tbe commission wiU credit the 111 against the delinquetnt hydrant rental account Nearly a ton of roots were re moved from the 24-inch concrete pipe connecting 'the island '.filter beds. Manager VanPatten report ed. The commission last night authorized expenditure: of $2000 in the next two weeks for cleaning ind rebuilding the filter beds so they will provide an adequate sup ply of water during the summer months. Total eost of the Job Is Estimated at $5000. ( I The state board of control must arrange to supply all state build ings with city water through one meter after the -new. i capjtol Is completed or the water depart ment will bill at the less favorable rate for separate smaller meters how in use, 'the commission ruled. Karpit Plane Heads For West Coast, Airport Man At Indianapolis Claims INDIANAPOLIS, Mayt.-fSat- hrday)-(P)-An attendant at the municipal airport here said the plane carrying Alvin j Karpis is jf'headed for the west! coast. , I He said the plane stopped here lor a tew minutes while en route to St. Louis from New Orleans where Karpis was arrested. Public Enemy No. 1 is By G-Men Without Mys te ry Flight Made With Captured Outlaw Plane Lands at St. Louis Early Today , Takes Off Again Without Hint of. Destination; "Old Creepy" Lawbreaker Since Age 16 ST. LOUIS, May 2. (Saturday) (AP) A special plane bearing Alvin Karpis and department of justice agents left Lambert-St. Louis municipal airport at 12 :35- a. m. today. .1 . Airport attendants, who refused to be quoted, said Kar pis was not taken out of the plane. i O Its destination was not disclosed. Truck Lines Tied Up in New Strike 80 Union Drivers Go Out; Claim Companies Have Violated Agreement Seven truck lines, operating be tween Salem and Portland,; were tied up yesterday when 80 union drivers went out on a strike, ask ing an increase in wages from $4.50 to $4.75 a day. Union lead ers said late last night that no settlement of the controversy was immediately in sight. Operators conferred yesterday afternoon at the chamber of com merce rooms. i i, A. E..' Rosser, executive secre tary of the council of drivers, said la Portland that the unions held the employers had not lived: up to an agreement with their em ployees. Employers denied that such was the case. Truck lines affected Included the Silver Wheel company, the Sa lem Navigation company, the Wil lamette Valley Transfer company, the Paul Traglio line, the Larmer Transfer company, the A. C. An derson Truck company and the Capital City Transfer company. Lines which operated yesterday afternoon include the Rocque and Shryder firms. No truck service within the city was tied up by the strike, the strikers asking for an increase in scale only on lines operating be tween the two cities. Decision on Fehl Is Due Next Week No decision in the habeas cor pus proceedings brought in be half of Earl H. Fehl, former judge of Jackson county and now an Inmate of the state penitentiary, will be handed down until some time next week, Judge L. H. Mc Mahan announced yesterday. The Fehl ca8e was . argued before Judge McMahan last Saturday. He asked Ralph Moody, representing the state in opposing Fehl's re lease, and George Rhoten, Fehl's attorney, to submit briefs I - Fehl contends he is entitled to release from prison as a matter of right, having served 32 months of a 48 months' term and being eligible for 16 months good time allowance. The state contends the good time only accelerates the date when Fehl can be granted a parole. ' The former Judge refused to accept a parole when one was offered him contingent on his re maining out of Jackson county for the next 18 months. Nelson Not Endorsed, Word Of lownsend Headquarters PORTLAND, Ore.. May l Towasend headquarters said to day "We have no endorsements or recommendations" when litera ture t appeased there, supporting the candidacy ot Theodore O. Nel son, alem, for republican nomin ation for United States senator and claiming endorsement of state and district Town-end boards. . BALTIMORE, May l.-(ff)-The directors of the To wnsend old age pension movement 'said after their; meeting today that the na tional convention of the 1 move ment lni Kansaa City would be "the answer of the Townsend clubs and the national legion to the) congressional investigation--- This !!'answer" was on bf the fife objectives set up by the di rectors. The others were q " To put the full strength of the! move ment into the coming elections; toi give 'final endorsement j "in a non-partisan way," to ' congres sional candidates; tp exsand the although the crew was said to have asked reports of flying con-, ditions between Columbus and In dianapolis. ST. LOUIS, Minn., May l.-(Jfy-The capture of Alvin Karpis in New Orleans tonight ended a man hunt as extensive as that of his predecessor as public enemy No. 1 John Dillinger. Karpis His real name is Ray mond Karpavicz gained the title of the most wanted man in Amer ica after the slayings of Dillinger and George "Baby Face" Nelson. Known to his pals as "Slim" and "Old Creepy," Karpis embark ed on his career of crime at the age of 16 and spent his years, from then on, either in penitentiaries or in wild flights across the coun try. "Old Creepy" he won that so briquet because he got on the nerves of his henchmen .was hated and feared by members, of his mob. -Rise la Rapid in Chosen Profession Karpis started out as a petty thief and rapidly "graduated" as one of the nation's big time , bur glars, bank robber, killer and kid naper. He was sought widely aft er spectacular bank raids in which blood flowed freely, but the hunt was intensified after the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer, (Turn to page 5, col. 7) First of Kidnaper Executions Noted Dugger Goes to Gallows; Two Others Held For ' Similar Fates SAN QUENTIN. Calif.. May 1. -P)-A kidnaper died on the gal lows here today to become -the first of his ilk to pay the supreme penalty under the various new laws designed to end "snatching" in this country. He was Thomas E. Dugger, 31, dubbed an "ape man" by the po lice of Los Angeles, where he was convicted of abducting and as saulting women. - ! In at least one . instance Dug ger forced his victim to accom pany him from one room to an other in her house, and thus subjected himself to the new-state law permitting Infliction of the death penalty on a kidnaper who harms his captive. He admitted assaulting three women. j In nearby cells' j Alexander Mackay and Joe Kristy awaited the same fate for kidnaping members of the California prison board In. a sensational, escape from San Quentin more than a year ago, I - Mackay, Kristy and ; two other convicts slugged Warden James B. Hplohan and sped out ot tbe (Turn to page 5, cot 7) 1 movement branches more qulck-3 ly; and to give support to Dr. Francis Townsend; head ot the movement. LOS ANGELES, May l.-qp)-The. elderly persons who first came to believe in Dr. Francis E. Townsend and his $200 a month pension plan surveyed their lead er and hi subordinates today in the light of . congressional sub committee disclosures. There were sharp reactions. In the wake of the Buocommit tee members, who took an air plane today for Washington. D. C, one group of Townsend support ers in this birthplace of the move ment launched a relay-type of pension plan "march" to the na tional capital. Ten automobiles of club mem bers, said Walter Warm bold. Townsend "nation legion direct ing manager, will go from here to Arizona tarrying petitions to " tTurn to page 6. col. 7) Nabbed ShMFiredl Kidnanins vo : v. 1; .... V Counts g ers Hoover Department Head Figures in Capture of " Much-Sought Man . Fred Hunter Held Along With jFormer Chief of : Most-Feared Gang NEW ORLEANS, May 1 Alvin Karpis. ,No. 1 bad man at the Uniteid States, wks captured tonight wHthout resistance by of-i ficers ledj by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal I bureau investigation. 1 . I A few hours later, the man who succeeded John Dillinger as the country's j most wanted criminal was placed aboard an j airplane heavily guarded and 'manacled and taken from the c.ty with the destination unannounced. Without a shot, Karpis was taken intio custody along with Fred Hunter, 37, a suspect in the $34,000 (jarretsville, p., mail rob bery and la woman known only as "Ruth" as they emerged from a apartment building about half a mile from the center! of the busi ness district. j i Hoover made the announce ment of ihe capture with (he sim ple statement, "We're capture Alvin Karpis, generally known. a public efiemy No. l--but not ta us." Hamm and Bremer Kidnapings Charged Then he added "they were tai--en without the firing of a shot. Karpis jnever bad a chance. There were too many guns on himV j . j 'Karpis' is under indictment for the $104,000 Wdnaping of Wil liam A. ! Hamm, Jr., j wealthy St, Paul brewer on June 15, 1933. and the $200,000- kidnaping ot Edward j G. Bremerj, SU Paul banker, ion Jan. 17, 1934. He was wanted on! a charge of murder in connection with ta slaying of Sheriff C. R. Kelley at West Plains, Mo., 04 December 19, i93t. j ; i The three-year hunt from coast ' to coasts and beyond tor Karpia was as textensjf as that tor hit predecessor as ablic enemy No 1, Dillinger, who wasUhdt in Chi cago, j , j He was the last of the original Karpis-Barker gang.) Seven that band of bank jrobbera a4 kidnapers are now dead and tke rest have been captured. Price oik Hts Head i Recently Boosted j j Within the past two weeks, the justice department placed a $5000 price upon Karpis' head, and added a $"2500 price tor In formation leading to the capture of his pjal. Harry Campbell. Four days ago, the postal ta (Trn to page 2 col. S) j Postal Receipts Continue to Cain Continuing the noteworthy ad vance In postal receipts of . the first quarter of 1936, April totals went 20 per cent ahead of the lo cal postof fice income for that month jin 1935, Henry Crawford, postmaster, announced yesterday. Gross income here the last 39 days was $23,954, Crawford de clared,! compared to $20,192 ia April, 1935. Income for the first quarter ot 1936 was the largest for any three months in thef local of f ice's history, exceeding the totals for the last quarter of 1935 which in eluded ; tbe heavy Chrlstmastide. -The j local postof business at 4 - . ice's ' income runs considerably ahead - ot Its costs, Crawford pointed oat. Tbe semi-monthly payroll for office workers and carried totals $5189 while between $1500 and $2000 month! additional i spent for rural mail carrier's salaries and expenses. r otto j fice Plant to Be Ready by June 19 Expect " Completion of plans for tbe sew -postoffice here is expected by June 1, Henfy R. Crawford, postmaster, announced yesterday, Mr. Craw ford shid the plant, being pre pared iln the supervising archi tect's Office at Washington, wonld probably not come west before bids were called for en the work. Federal appropriation for the new structure here la $215,000. Faced I'