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College Football . The "major league, foot ball games are played Sat urday; the Sunday sport , page bring yon complete wore and details, hoars head.. Weather -" Cloudy ' today aad San day, probably rain today, moderate; Max. - Temp. Fri day 67, Min. .51, river -2- feet, rain .73 Inch, north wind. . POUNDOD 1651 EIGHTY -SEVENTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning:, October 30, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No. 186 araclie Mm, J Mountain Water System P 6m an Hit-ctnd-Run Or.- Second Victim Badly Injured, Istin Hospital Witness Says Car Going at High Speed ; Slows Down, Then Goes on License Number at First Reported Erroneous, Clues Are Meagre Struck down by a hit-and-run driver at the Intersection of .17th and State streets about 6: SO last eight, Mrs. Fredericka Green, 74, succumbed from Injuries sustain ed at 8:50 in the Salem General hospital. One companion, Mrs. Clara M. Swafford. 83. sustained a -broken, pelvic bone, and was reported as In a bad. but not critical "condition, by hospital at tendants. la.te last night. Still a third member of the party of three who were walking nerth On the east side of 17th street, Mrs. Alma Howe, was tak en to the Methodist Old People's - home, where she resides, suffer ing from severe shock. Driver Slows Down, Then Speeds Away The car that struck the three 'elderly women was traveling west on State street at a terrific speed according to witnesses. The driv er slowed down immediately al ter the crash, according, o Estel Benner 'who saw "thereauits of the crash Instantly after It hap pened, -and then speeded up leaving death In his wake. Mr. Benner, who lives at 17th and Cbemeketa, had just finished tiffin? Ms car in an alley ga rage and stepped out to the curb- when he heard tne crasn ana witnessed the car's departure. Both Mrs. Green and Mrs. Swafford have been living at 190 South" 17th. , . The impact of the car carried Mrs. Green across the ""width of th intersection, fully 30 feet, according totP. L. Clark,-first aid car officer who responded to the call , and transported Mrs. Green to the hospital. " The city ambulance attendants administered first aid tO Mrs. Swafford, and look her to the hospital. A. witness to the tragic colli sion took down a license that he was certain was that of tne car imniicatAd. nut it was discovered k nnlice that- the car bearing the n amber given was In Astoria and bad not leit tnere aii uay yesterday.: S dditicc ... in tHe Nevi KANSAS CITY, Oct. 21)-(Ph "Meows attracted pedestrians to a large package-type mall box on street corner here to day. A postal employe , was railed to liberate the cat whkh had apparently been "mailed' by Hallowe'en pranksters. .;' SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 29- ()-Slling snakes ha,ve repiacea sizzling steais, so u the city reptile garaen. As a boon to attendance In a country replete with rattlesnakes, officials decided to offer, free rep tile steak. To start the thing off they "bribed" two youths to vol nnteer as snake eaters on a forth coming Sunday but widespread publicity " brought hundreds of visitors who gobbled the delicacy : before the "prop" eaters got mouthful. .", X ' Now it's a Sundav institution and bovs and men scour the coun tryside for more snakes. The gar den pays 25 . cnta a . pound or them. ' v yi Ton aimnly nick your snake- fat r slim an attendant be heads it and skins it. chops it Into iie and tosses them into the frying pan and, presto, a rattle snake sandwich with mayonnaise or mustard. LONDON, Oct. ZO-itfy-Jw bm knelt beside Chinese today In Westminster abbey to pray for peace. The historic shrine echoed with the chants of both tongues an a, rronn of Japanese and Chi nese Christians gathered at Jubilee thanksgiving service in celebration of the establishment of the Anglican church In Ja pan and China. The archbishop of Canter- bury presided. Dies , of One Sustained Thrust Provides Bearcat Win; Logger Threa is Denied Beard Passes to Weisgerber in end Zone for Lone Touchdown and 7-0 Victory; Remson of CPS Almost Away Alter Succeeding Kickoff TACOMA, Oct. 29 (AP) Willamette university won its 23rd consecutive Northwest conference football game here tonight, defeating College of Puget Sound, 7 to 0. A pass from Bill "Whiskers' Beard to Dick Weisgerber into the end zone from the f oar-yard line climaxed an 11-play, 64-yard drive by Williamette in the third quarter that O Independence and Woodburn Win out Silverton Defeated 20-0, Dallas 21-0, Both on Home Grids SILVERTON', Oct. 30 Coach Loren Mort's high-stepping Hop- pickers from Independence used their picking ability to pluck the fur from Silverton 's Silver Foxes tonight at McGinnis .field by a 20 to 0 county. Hartman, Willamette Valley Interscbolastlc league's high scorer, romped across the Silver ton goal line twice and convert ed once while Fullback Lynn scored the other. Burch convert Ing. A large crowd of loyal Inde pendence supporters followed their team to Silverton to see them bag the wary Foxes. Independence's tallies came via power drives through the Silver- ton line. One touchdown came In the second quarter, and the (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Kuhn Reports on Travels in South The people of Louisiana and particularly of New Orleans are pulling themselves out of a deep hole of public debt through' the operation of a 4 per cent sales tax plus, in New Orleans, revenue from wide open gambling and good municipal management. Mayor V. E. Kuhn mentioned in the course of an address at the Salem Realty board luncheon Frl day in which he described his ob servations while In the middle west and south recently as repre sentative of the League of Oregon Cities.. . ; Relative to the widespread gambling, Mayor Kuhn attributed it to a general feeling of uncer tainty, based in part on labor un rest and also upon ' the Question as to what the national adminis tration- is going to do.- Both In Mississippi and , In Louisiana, he was' told that Pesident Roose velt runs again he will not be supported there. 1- Mr." Kuhn stressed the courte sy .with' which, travelers are treat ed, in many of the points he visit ed, and the consideration shown to western delegates at the Am erican Municipal association con vention in Chicago. Ledford Investigation Still, on; Insurance PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct, H-UP) -Mrs. Agnes Joan Ledford, charg ed with the murder by poisoning of her 13yesr-old step-daughter. Ruth, appealed today, -through her attorney, that her friends re serve Judgment regarding her guilt or innocence "until all the facta are known." - The plea was given to the press by Roscoe Hurst. Portland attor ney, at Albany where- he Investi gated circumstances surrounding the death at Brownsville in 1932 of Mrs. 'Led ford's former hus band, John Matson. Linn county authorities delved Into ' records of Matson's demise after traces of poison were alleg ed to have been found In his body, which was exhumed during the investigation of the death of Rath Ledford and her sister, Dorothy, 15. in September. Margaret" Dunlap, owner 'of a Brownsville drug store destroyed by fire the day before Matson died, said today she did not re call having sold poison to Mrs Ledford, then Mrs. Matson. Cro $ Injury; started with recovery of a CPS fumbled lateral on the Willamette 36-yard line. Weisgerber con verted. On the kickoff followed the touchdown, Remson of CPS re turned the ball 56 yards to the Willamette 29 Tefore he was forced out of bounds. The Loggers were unable to cash in on the op portunity, however. CPS twice was repelled inside Willamette's five-yard line in the first quarter. The winners out gained the loggers, 13 first downs to 10. It was Willamette's first North west conference game and victory this season. CPS now has won threee and lost one In conference play. Willamette had won 22 con secutive games through last year. Railroads to Ask Further Increase Rates Boosting Revenues by 500 Million to Be Sought, Declared CHICAGO, Oct. 29-()-The na tion's major railroads today voted to seek increases in freight and passenger rates calculated to boost their annual income by $508,000,000. The Association of American Railroads decided to ask the in terstate commerce commission to authorize a 15 per cent hike in all freight charges except those on "coal, coke, lumber, fruits, veg etables and sugar, for which cer tain maximums will be asked in each instance. The organization of all class one carriers also elected to peti (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Community Chest Now Lacks $6,137 Only $6,137.10 remains to be raised to complete the full bud get for the Salem Community Chest. ' At the report luncheon Friday noon a total of 12.234.25 in pledges was turned in, bring ing the total to $38,862.90. Chairman Hamilton announced a revision, of plans for the final drive to reach the goal of $45, 000. Headquarters will make a recheck on all prospect carls and new committees will be organ ized to press for the. sum need ed to fill the chest, J -Yesterday's colonels with larg est reports were Van Welder, Carl H. Cover and Tom Wlndi shar. - Angle Queried David Bennett, Columbia, coun ty, prosecutor," refused to com ment today on the progress of further Investigations into the deaths of the Ledford girls. ' He reiterated, however, that a $1000 insurance policy on Ruth's life, naming her step-mother as beneficiary,- existed. . P. J. McNeil, local Insurance agent who has been .adjusting claims on policies covering the lives of Dorothy and Ruth Led ford, girls who died in September and are buried In Salem, express ed doubt yesterday, of the exist ence of - policies on the . girls In which, their v step-mother, Mrs. Agnes- Joan Ledford, was the beneficiary. Mrs. Ledford is now in jail In Portland on charges of poisoning the girls with arsenic, and collection ot insurance money has been given as a possible motive. - The policies which McNeil is adjusting were taken, out in March of this year by Mrs. Pearl (Tnrn to page 2, coL 4) Use of Power Of Bonneville At Coulee Aim Ross Believes Linking of Big Federal Projects Advisahle Move Leaves for Oregon Today, Will Inspect Work on Platte River Job WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. -()- Administrator J. D. Ross express ed determination tonight to get Bonneville dam power to the Grand Coulee project, farther up the Columbia river, as quickly as possible. He said he expected contractors for the giant dam in central Washington to be bis first big customers for Bonneville energy. "It sems to me." he said, "the business-like thing to do is. to link these two government pro jects just as soon as we can. Eventually, the administration hopes to place Grand Coulee and Bonneville under one authority, Ross estimated Coulee con struction requirements at 10,000 kilowatts. In addition, he said he eipects to sell power to other communities, public power dis tricts and power companies in the Grand Coulee region. "Xot Worried" About Sales of Energy Ross, who recently quit the se curities com mis 8 ion to accept the $10,000-a-year job of selling Bonneville energy, will leave to morrow for Oregon. He said he probably would stop at Chicago and North Platte, Neb., and at the latter place Inspect the tri- county reclamation and power project on the Platte river. Ross said he was not worried about selling power which soon would be produced at the $75,- 000,000 Columbia river plant 60 miles east of Portland. "I am convinced there is a mar (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Another Raid by Lewis Announced WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-(J'P)- John L. Lewis announced another CIO raid upon the membership of the AFL today, when peace neg otiations between the rival labor organizations already were near collapse. The chairman of the CIO called a "national unity conference" of all unions in the furniture, bed ding and allied trades "for the purpose, of uniting all furniture workers into a single industrial union affiliated, with the CIO.M William Green, president of the AFL, immediately commented: "This move can only bo interp reted by us as another war-like gesture by the CIO. It is bound to have a disturbing effect upon the pending peace negotiations It seems to us indicative of the insincerity of the CIO position." Rogue Pollution Case Is Dropped GOLD BEACH, Oct. 29-(ff)- Jay Moltxner, attorney, said Judge Allen Bolce dismissed an injunction suit brought by Rogue River : property owners to halt alleged stream pollution by min ers upon - assurance from Gover nor Martin , the asserted practice would cease and he would foster legislation' to prevent Its recur rnce. The out of court settlement was reached at a conference of county officials and representa tives of the interested parties, at which the governor was repre sented by W. L. Gosslin, his sec retary. Limiting Acreage - Only; Is Proposal WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.HP)- Strong sentiment developed , in tne house agriculture committee to day for controlling the acreage a farmer plants, but leaving wra free to raise and market as much as he can on this limited acreage. -v Chairman Jones (D-Tex) re ported the committee "generally understood" benefit payments to farmers under new legislation asked by President R o o s e v e 1 1 wonld be made on a basis of tilled acreage- British Bitter Over Slayings Of 4 Soldiers Apology May Be Deemed Insufficient; Three Others Are Hurt American Mission Afire and US Freighter Is Target, Reported LONDON, Oct. 29-iPHlncreas- ing bitterness against Japan was evident In Informed circles to night as a result of the mounting list of British casualties attribut ed to . Japanese attacks In the battle for Shanghai. Official quarters showed great indignation at the killing of three soldiers of the Royal Ulster rifles today while guarding the international settlement. Informed sources said these deaths, coming so soon after a British sentry was machine gunned to death October 24, in creased the resentment at the con tinuance of incidents despite Japanese assertions they were taking steps to prevent them. The Japanese apology and offer of compensation lor sunday s at tack had Jurt been received. Re liable sources took the position a mere repetition of such an apol ogy might not be satisfactory this time. SHANGHAI. Oct. 29-iP)-Three British soldiers were killed end three seriously wounded; tonight as Japanese bombardments west (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Mystery Thriller Is Well Enacted Spectators v Invoiuntarily Testify to Reality of Illusion on Stage By RALPH C. CURTIS When the ghost appeared, peo ple in the audience screamed and that was perhaps the best of numerous compliments received by the Salem Civic Players in con nection with their presentation of the strong mystery drama, "A Murder Has Been Arranged, ' Fri day night in the Leslie junior high school auditorium. For the ghost was not partic ularly fearsome to behold he was merely the ghost of a char acter who was supposed to be dead, whom the audience had seen die. And so when spectators screamed, it meant that the il lusion back of the footlights had been successful; that the people in front of the footlights had been living the storyValong with the actors, not merely watching clev er amateur players perform. And the creation of such an illusion is so uncommon a thing In am ateur dramatics that it Is worthy of note. Credit for a performance so smooth, so natural that, such an illusion could be created, must extend to all members of the cast for if .one had dropped from character for a moment. It would have been destroyed; and it be longs also to the director. Miss Beulah Graham. An extremely realistic job of dying -was done by Herbert Rick in the role of Sir Charles Jasper. Ruth . Versteeg In the opening scene inducted the audience Into the atmosphere of expectant terror which prevailed through out; Dorothy Renhard was equal ly impressive in some of the more emotional scenes. Guy Tucker (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Finds 400 Fund In new Pajamas RIYERSIDE, Calif.,- Oct. -29.-()-The Rer. ; .G. R.' McNay' un wrapped a - new pair of pajamas and a small . package fell to the flOOr. - - . . "On examining it, I dldnt know whether I was crazy or dreaming, he told police! i-. The package contained $400 in currency and checks. It had been mislaid by an employe of the store where the pajamas were purch ased. . Late Sports 1 PORTLAND, Oct. 29-flVDrlv-Ing hard in the fourth quarter for three touehdowns, the. Uni versity of Washington Freshmen football'. team defeated , the Uni versity of Oregon Frosh, 26 to 0, here tonight Score by periods: " U of W Frosh..7 0. 0 19 2 U of O Frosh . ; . 0 0 0 0 0 f TJof W Frosh scoring 1 Touch downs,: Monkus, . 2, - McAdams. Snow; point from try after touch down, Vannl, 2, (place kick). , Mayor tQ Speak At Water Fete VARNUM E. KUHN Payme nt of Taxes Is Best in Years 75.7 per Cent of Current Levy Already in Says Department Chief Tax collections in Marion coun ty this year indicate 1937 will be the best in many years, T. J. Bra bee, deputy in charge of Sheriff A. C. Burk's tax department pre dicted yesterday. Of the $1,584, 603.72 1937 tax roll alone, 75.7 per cent has been paid in addition to aproxlmately $275,000 on back taxes. With aproxlmately $1,475,000 in current and delinquent taxes already paid In this year, Brabec believes the county's collections will .reach $1,800,000 after the lait quarterly payment date, De- cemDer la nas passed. - Despite the rapid payment of delinquent taxes, however, Bra bee declared, hundreds of taxpay ers ere in danger of losing their property at tax foreclosures next year. He pointed out that under the 193 5 delinquent tax law as amended early this year, the county will be required to insti tute foreclosure proceed I n g s against all property on which the 1937 tax has not been paid in full and one-half the oldest back tax also paid. In an effort to save property owners from facing foreclosure, the tax department in recent weeks mailed more than 2300 no tices to taxpayers whose delin quencies would make them liable to action by the county. Relief Case Load Reported Higher PORTLAND, Oct. 29.-tf)-The Oregon relief case load rose in September for the first time since January, Elmer Goudy, state ad ministrator, Informed the state relief committee hete today. Most of the increase was In Multnomah county, he said.. The committee allowed Multno mh county's request for $11,300 for public assistance In Novem ber, an increase or. s 7,000 over November of 1936 and $13,000 more than was granted in Octo ber. A total November public assist ance budget for the state of $195, 309 was approved, of which $127,- 188 will be provided by the atate " Jack Luihn, chairman, said the state probably could aid Multno mah county through the balance of the year in providing relief, but was prevented by law from increa sing its contribution toward old age pensions. . . ' ',. ?..' Russ ian -Germa Blocking Withdrawal Plans LONDON, Oct. 29-fl3y-The sub committee on nonintervention ended- another bitter, five-hour session tonight with deadlock be tween communist Russia and the naxl-fascist front of Germany, Italy and Portugal blocking agree ment on Great Britain's plan to withdraw" loreign volunteers from Spain. - The plan was accepted in UU entirety by Britain, France; Bel gium, Chechoslovakia and Swe den at today's session. Russia accepted it with reservations on the granting of belligerent rights to the Spanish warring parties. Germany," Italy and Portugal ac cepted without reservations, but on condition of unanimity, v The .deadlock was on "the ques tion unanimity. . The plan envisages, besides the withdrawal v of 5 foreign soldiers from the. Spanish armies, the granting of belligerent rights and Visiting Officials Will Have Part in Salem Celebration Luncheon Addressed by Governor and I- Senator McNary Will Be Followed , by Parade out to Reservoir . Mayor to Speak at Dedicating Gravity Setup; Trip to Stayton Island Planned Salem's improved $2,200,000 municipal waterworks will stand parade today as officials and citizens join in dedicating the new system with a three-hour celebration. A score of mayors and waterworks officers rom other Oregon cities will join local officials in opening the celebra tion with a luncheon at the Marion hotel at 12:15 p. m. at which Senator Douglas McKay will be toastmaster and United States Senator Charles L. McNary and Governor Charles H. Martin will speak. The chamber of commerce water Committee, celebration sponsor, has issued an "invita tion to all citizens to attend the no-host luncheon meeting. Immediately following the luncheon Salem's first and Youth Marries His Sister, Discovers Annulment Follows; Pair Fall in Love Without Knowing Blood Tie SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Oct. 29 -(iTV-Separated as infants by the deaths of their parents, a brother and sister tonight were separated again-r-this time from the bond ojt marriage by an annulment de manded when they learned for the first time of their blood relation ship. The story of their farm born romance and subsequent secret marriage was written yesterday into the court record of' Wright county when the pair applied for their annulment. Nearly . 20 years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Williams,, farmers near Chilhowee in. Johnson county, ad opted a girl,. Mary Lee, two, from a Jefferson city orphanage. About the same time Mr. and Mrs. Sod Yocum, Mountain Grove farmers, took an orphan boy, Ben nie, four, to rear. This year Ben nle, who had lived with his foster parents without being adopted, went to Johnson county to work. He became a farmhand for- Ben Williams, and fell in love with the adopted daughter, Mary Lee. On September 27 he took his fi ancee to visit with his foster par ents. - Ben told Mrs. Williams that he had been "raised up" by the Yo cums, that his real name Was Ip cock. Remembering the name of her adopted child a name that Mary Lee had never heard Mrs. Williams checked the records of the Jefferson City Institution. Wednesday she learned that her (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Insurgent Attack Declared Failure HENDAYE, Oct. 29-P)-A gov ernment communique announced today an- insurgent surprise at tack on the Guadalajara front northeast of Madrid had been beaten- and the Insurgents had suffered heavy losses. . Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's troops were driven back into their own trenches, the commun iqne said, leaving a great number dead. and wounded. ? .-;- n Dea IS restoration or . l?nd . and sea su pervision to insure ' noninterven tion . , . - . Ivan M. : Maisky, soviet - am-r bassador, abstained from voting on the belligerency Issue, in what Lord Plymouth, chairman of the subcommittee, and France's Am bassador Charles Corbln said wm a desire "not to hinder the work of. the committee." ; This, however, did not break the impasse. . - --. German Ambassador Joachim Von Ribbentrop led the nasi fascist front - in - an- unexpected about face from its stand at the last meeting and insisted, that ab stentlon from voting was tanta mount to a refusal to accept the plan and that acceptance must be unanimous or the plan, would break down -s --v-... V -1 The subcommittee adjourned until next Tuesday. The main committee of 27 nations is sched nled to meet on Wednesday. Formal Exercises vits latest fire fighting equipment will be exhibited in a parade to start from the South Liberty street bridge and proceed north to State street, east to High, north to Court, west to Commercial, south to Rural avenue and west to the new 10,000,000-gallon Fairmount reservoir. PROGRAM FOR WATER CELEBRATION TODAY 12:15 p. m. Luncheon, Ma rion hotel, open to public. J' 1 :30 Parade of oldest and latest' fire engines, water sys tem exhibits, visiting; official. 2:13 Dedication program, . Fairmount reservoir, -""R'eral venne ami John street. . 3:15. Caravan to Stayton Island if weather favorable. Forty boy scouts consented yes terday to pull the Capital Volun teer fire company's old hand-powered engine, the city's first, while a team of big black horses remi niscent of past fire department glory will draw the old Capital steam fire engine. The first gaso line fire truck, purchased in 1911, and the latest, bought early this year, will provide a contrast with the equipment of other .days. The Willamette university uni formed band will lead the parade and In the line of march in addi tion to the fire engines will be trucks exhibiting sections of the steel, concrete and cast iron pipe used In the new water supply system, a float depicting the first municipal water system the Old town pump ! and automobiles bearing the city's guests fer the day. , The dedicatory exercises will start at Fairmount reservoir. Rural- avenue and John . streets, at 2:15 p. m. with W. W. Chadwick, president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce presiding. The story of efforts to rid the capital city of the stigma Of be ing a community with an un satisfactory water supply will be told, in brief by Mayor V. E. Kuhn. The 4 mayor will then pronounce thernew supply system completed and officially turn It over to the water commission, represented by Chairman E. B. Gabriel. Last minute work' of the street and water departments yesterday provided . a broad, well-graveled street and parking space in front of the reservoir. The exercises will take place , on the concrete roof of the big storage basin. Public Is Invited To Inspect Water .:. At a signal from Mayor Kuhn water from the 18-mile Stayton Salem pipeline wQl be officially turned into the reservoir aad at that time a drinking fountain built by the water department will be ' turned on and tbe , spectators invited to sample the new water, nsinr souvenir naner enns nrlaied for the occasion. ' To bs seen at tfc rrrrir ar the overflow structure, Jn which surplus water, from the pipeline automatically is diverted from the city system to a drain, line, and the ' reservoir control house in which are located main valves controlling the Salem end ef the supply system and the two pomps serving the 100,000-gallon high level tank on the crown of Fair mount bill.. --'--..-, . , V " While-plans for the caravan to (Tnrn to page 2, col. 2) - , B ALL A D E of TODAy . By .R. a V To yearly subscribers, seme . timely advice; you can earn .ir prompt Py for to save is to ' earn and the chance won't come twice; the mail bargain period's closing today.