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CIRCULATION
DiUy average distribution for the
month ending Januarj 91, 1928
10,086
Average dally net paid, 9,609.
Member Audit Burttu of Circulation
RAIN
Tonight and Wednesday. KontuU
temperature. .. Fresh, south to vest
wlnd.
.Local: Max. 41, Min. 36; River 1.4
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feet, falling; Rainfall, .02;
cloudy; Wind southeast.
FIFTIETH YEAR, No. 44
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928
PRICE THREE CENTS
ON TBAINf) AND NEWS
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WIDOW TELLS
OF SHOOTING
OF DRUGGIST
Mrs. Thorns Identifies
Hickman and Hunt as
Shooting Bandits
Hickman Fired Several
Shots While Hunt Was
Battling Policeman
Hall of Justice, Los Angeles, Cal,
Feb. 21. ff) Mrs. C. Ivy Thorns,
widow of the slain druggist, whom
William Edward Hickman and Wei'
by Hunt are accused of murdering,
told from the witness stand today of
the fatal shooting.
The widow Identified the youths
as the bandits who entered the store
with drawn pistols and forced her
husband and a customer back be
hind the prescription counter with
hands up, Into the arms of James
Oliver, a policeman, who was behind
the prescription counter with Mrs.
Thorns, repairing his flashlight. A
general scramble followed and
Thorns fell mortally wounded.
"Get his gun." Mrs. Thorns testi
fied Hunt said to Hickman as Oliver
reached for his gun.
Hickman, according to her testi
mony, began firing while Hunt kept
his gun on her. Bhe moved and her
husband dived for the gun trying to
protect her. During the fight, her
husband slumped to the floor and
dragged himself to a rear door.
Mrs. Thorns said she did not know
who actually fired the fatal shot,
but testified that Hickman Ilred sov.
eral shots at her husband and then
started running out of the store as
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MRS. APPLEBY
KNOCKED DOWN
BY M'MILLAN
Hall of Justice, Los Angeles, Cal.
Feb. 21 (P The story ol a violent
quarrel between Dr. Charles Mc
Millan and his wealthy employer,
Mrs. Amelia Appleby was one of the
closing blows of the state today In
the murder trial of the gray-haired
physician.
The quarrel as recounted from the
witness stand by Mrs. J. A. Evans,
a neighbor of Mrs. Appleby, cli
maxed In the doctor shouting:"
you. keep still, or I'll knock out of
you."
Then said Mrs. Evans, the widow
"was knocked or fell" out the door
of her 'home flat upon the porch.
Mrs. Evans testified that she had
lived In one half of a duplex bunga
low In the other side of which re
sided Mrs. Appleby.
On December 17, 1027, nine days
before the body of Mrs. Appleby
was found trussed In a sack beside
a roadway, Mrs. Evans said she
heard the woman and Dr. McMil
lan quarreling in the driveway.
They entered the other side of
the duplex and Mrs. Evans said she
heard Mrs. Appleby continuing to
talk, interrupted at times by shouts
of the doctor to "keep quiet."
It was then that the doctor cursed
and the widow came falling out the
door, Mrs. uvans sat a.
Mrs. Evans was the "surprise wit
ness long promised by the prosecu
tion.
ASTORIA LOSES
TAX REFUND
The city of Astoria Is entitled,
under the fire relief act of 1923, only
to a refund of general state property
taxes. It Is not entitled to a refur.i
of Income, motor vehicle, gasoline
Inheritance and corporation license
taxes.
This Is the Interpretation given
the relief act by the state supreme
court In an opinion today, written
by Justice cosnow.
The case was an original proceed'
lng in mandamus by the city against
the state tax commission, demand'
lng a remission of the above enum
erated taxes for the last five years.
The legislature of 1923, following
Astoria's 110,000,000 fire, passed an
act whereby the city's state taxes on
general property would be refunded.
This passed as a sort of compromise
measure after attempts had been
made to have the legislature make
direct lelief appropriation. The tax
refund during the last five years has
averaged about SO,000 year.
GOOD EVENING
SIPS FOR SUPPER
By Don Upjohn
We had some pleasant Instructions
from home yesterday. We were told
to look around town until we saw a
nice looking shank from the knee
down and then bring It home. We
went over to that well known con
noisseur of shanks from the knee
down, Harry Levy, and he picked us
out a nice one, without much fat on
It.
Beirut modest and retiring our
selves we brought home the shank
of an evening.
We are glad to report that there
were born at the Salem hospital last
week nine children. The matron ad
vises halt of them were girls and
half of them boys.
Yes, yes, the crowbar, Watson.
The rest of those pumpkins are get
ting on our nerves. No town can
exist half hick and half city,
Must It bo down In the annals
that we started a reform we couldn't
finish? Must It be recorded we failed
with a mission half performed?
These here pumpkins must go, and
we'll fight It out on this line If It
takes all summer.
That toad walled up In a Texas
courthouse for 31 years got walled
up there about the same time they
walled up Nick Haas In the Oregon
state house.
"Your portrait free exactly as
shown above," says a sign In a local
drug store window under a picture
of Governor Cavalcade Patterson.
They'll never get us looking like that,
We know a good thing when we see
and Billy Murray singing that
merry-go-round song is by far the
funniest c ever heard, unless our
memory is falling fast. We rise to
remark that those eight Victor boys
are as good in their line as we are in
ours.
We hear Newell Williams Is about
to start another vicious fight against
the new incinerator site. If he makes
it vicious enough, maybe he can
move it over still another nail
block.
The state grange has gone
record as opposed to the $3 license
fee for automobiles. That's about
the hardest blow the opposition to
the bill has had to encounter so far.
testtnal Qualifications today by re
scinding the county law library
order. Congratulations, court.
WORDS AND MUSIC
BETTER THAN VITAMINS
By Stoddard King
Gulneu pigs placed in light-colored
compartments become fat, and those
in dark-colored compartments thin.
Laboratory report.
Choose carefully the paper
Yon put upon your wall.
Or else your weight may taper
To nothing mncb at all;
Be careful what the tint la
That decks your house or flat,
Lest, so the latest hint Is,
you get unduly fat.
Wall pape. Is quite able
To make one small or big
So proves the modern fable
About the guinea pig;
And, If the paper changes
Our various weights anJ shapes.
What of our kitchen ranges,
Our furniture and drapes!
I have It! I'll decide on
A good, convenient weight,
One that can be relied on,
And give dull care the gate.
Not diet-fad haranguers
Shall spoil my day's routine
A corps of paper-hangers-
Will keep me fit though lean:
Salem Can Have Regular
Air Transport Service If
Class A Airport Provided
The aviation committee of Capi
tal post, American Legion has re
ceived important Information that
indicates Salem may have air mall
service and through passenger plane
service providing they can get air
port accommodations that will pass
department of commerce spcclll
catlons. The committee is made up ot three
aviators, one from each branch of
the service. Justice Brazier O. Small
is chairman. He was a naval avia
tion pilot during the war at San
Diego and Pensacola, Florida. John
Elliott with the firm of Nicholson
and Wiper Is another member. El
liott was an army officer during the
war. Carl Nelson of Salem, a bond
salesman. Is the third member. He
was a marine corps aviator during
the war and saw service with bomb
ing planes.
This committee met Monday fol
I lowing the aviation luncheon at the
REED PLEADS
DEMOCRATIC
PARTY UNITY
"Turn The Rascals Out"
is Battle Cry of Miss
ourian in Texas
Calls For Prompt Punish
ment Public Plunderers
And Bribe Givers
Dallas. Texas. Feb. 21 UP) In the
fight for the "united and militant
democracy," which he demanded
here last night to bring about "the
return of honesty in government,"
Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri,
set out today for Tulsa, Okla., to
continue to spread his doctrino oi
harmony.
Opening nls western campaign,
the Missouri democratic presiden
tial candidate told his party that
first of all It must be united. He
set out the platform on which he
believed the democratic party can
unite and win. -
"The most important question be
fore the American people." he said,
"is to drive the republican party
from power; to take tnis govern
ment out of the hands of boodlers,
grafters and lobbyists and to place
Its control once more in the hands
of the American people."
Emphasizing the necessity for
party harmony, tho Mlssourian de
clined to discuss presidential can
didacies "Including my own," as he
talked here with some of the Texas
democratic leaders yesterday. 'With
the award of their 40 votes In tho
democratic convention still In doubt
and Involved in factional strife,
most of the Texans who streamed
into the senator's hotel room were
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ASKS FEDERAL
RESERVES BE
GIVEN STATES
Washington, Feb. 21 UP) The ced
ing of 208,000,000 acres of federal
public lands to western states was
advocated by Representative winter,
republican, Wyoming, In an address
prepared for delivery today In the
house.
Declaring that the states in and
west of the Rocky mountains were
denied equal rights with other states
in land possession, the Wyoming
representative voiced his opposition
to pending legislation which would
place 200.000 acres under a grazing
lease system as "a perpetual federal
posture" requiring the payment of
grazing fees.
"If this Is done, 450,000,000 acres
amounting to 55 per cent of the en
tire areas of the states," he said
"will remain forever taxfree, deny
ing new homes settlements, develop
ment and taxation."
"We wish to know whether we are
to be states or provinces, he said
"When we secure the land we Will
develop our own resources and make
our own Improvements, asking then
only Just proportion of the benefits
of federal aid wnicn are given to an
the states under uniform practices ol
national Internal Improvements.
Western states, so long as the gov
ernment controls taxe-free, more
than half of their lands are com
polled and have a right to ask the
federal government for special aid
and benefits."
chamber of commerce and reiterated
their stand on a class A airport
for Salem regardless of development
of the state fair board on their Held
If the fair grounds field will get
a rating from department of com
merce Inspectors as a potential class
A airport they will back tnat neia
for Salem's municipal airport. But
If It cannot qualify they will es
tablish one elsewhere, but establish
one they will.
In a bulletin from the department
of commerce, aeronautics branch, on
the construction and rating of air
ports, a class A fie d must be:
Firm and approximately level with
suitable approaches, well drained,
and without obstructions or depres
sions presenting hazards In taking
off or landing. Landing strips must
permit safe landing under ordinary
weather conditions. If tne soa
turf is not sufficiently tough and
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Lindy Lands,
Smashing All Records
For Air Mail Cargoes
St. Louis. Mo., Feb. 31. (ff) Flying
big Douglas mall plane ahead of
schedule, Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh landed at Lambert-St Louis
field at 9 a. m. today, completing a
round-trin over his old air mall
route between St. Louis and Chicago
in an effort to advertise the postal
service.
The response of the public to his
appeal was far beyond the fondest
dreams of air-llne operators. From
St. Louis alone yesterday Lindbergh
and five other filers carried 1997
pounds and 10 ounces of mall mat
ter. Approximately halt a ton ad
ditional was picked up at Spring
field and Peoria. -
After a quiet night with his fel
low pilots In the apartment of a
flier at Chicago, Lindbergh was at
the Chicago flying field shortly after
m. today. At 6:12 with the
cockpit of his plane filled to the
top with mall, the flying colonel
took the air.
SMITH LIKELY
TO STAY AWAY
FROM HOUSTON
Albany. N. Y Feb. 21; (LP) Gov.
Al Smith's biggest trouble Just now
involves the question of whether he
should attend the democratic na
tional convention next June In
Houston.
He wants to go, but feels that be
cause he unquestionably will be one
of the subjects of discussion It might
be best for him to remain away.
Smith hasn't missed a national
convention in a long time. He de
rives great personal enjoyment out
of them regardless of political
maneuvers. He likes to meet people,
mix with them and talk with tliein,
but he Is afraid this year that he
will not be able to do so.
That Is his chief regret, according
to those who are closest to him. His
second regret is that he will not be
on the scene to direct personally
the forces which may line up for his
nomination for the presidency,
Political friends believe the New
York governor has one of the most
acute brains for political strategy
within the democratic ranks and
that his absence from the conven
tion city may be a serious handicap
to him.
FOUR MILLION
OUT OF WORK
Washlneton. Feb. 21 (IP) The un
employment situation was called to
the attention oi congress roany hi
a resolution Introduced In the house
by Representative Ccllcr, democrat,
New York.
"This unemployment." cencr saw,
In his resolution, "is most keenly
felt In New York, New Jersey, New
England, the middle Atlantic states
and the coal regions of Pennsyl
vania, Ohio and Illinois, and is be
ing registered to an alarming degree
It the boot and shoe, textile, auto
mobile and lumber industries and in
the hulldng and out of door trades.
Declaring estimates snow 4,uuu,uuu
out of work, the resolution calls
upon President Coolldgc to author
ize government departments to
speed up nubile building construc
tion so that unemployment may gei
work. It also asks that Governors
of states be encouraged to start
contemplated public works.
shootWreyeals
WORLD WIDE RING
New York, Feb. 21 P The opera
lions of what police believe to be an
international ring of lawbreakers
have been disclosed by the shooting
to death of an alleged member of the
gang.
The victim of the snooting was
found dvlng in the hallway of an
elaborate furnished apartment In the
Bronx, Investigation of which dis
closed drills and other paraphernalia
of safe crackers, letters, telegrams
and cables from Russia, France and
several cities in this country.
The dead man was Identified from
fingerprints as William Boll, alias
William Doyle, an ex-convict.
SECURED $6000 IN
POSTOFFICE ROBBERY
Yreka. Cal., Feb. 21 W Roy Mar
tin, 23, and Frank Edwards, 32, were
held for trial yesterday on charges
of robing the Mt. Hebron postolllcc
In Siskiyou county Saturday
St. Louis
Ke landed at Peoria at MS a. m
Within five minutes the Peoria
sacks had been unloadedtand he'
was on his way again. He landed at
Springfield, his second stop, at 8:05
and took off again within the five
minutes provided by the postal
schedule.
Just SO minutes later he landed
in front of the national guard han
gar here.
In reply to questions as to his
future plans, he said he intended to
fly to Albany, N. Y., next week for
a conference on February 29, at
which a state aeronautical code
would be discussed.
Thomas P. Nelson. Cleveland-New
York air mall route ."Her, and an
old-time flying mate of Lindbergh,
left Chicago at 9:25 a. m. with an
other load of mall and arrived here
at 9:20 a.m. Other pilots were held
at Chicago awaiting mall from New
York and the Pacific coast.
POLICE PATROL
SYSTEM CHANGE
STARTS TONITE
Commencing tonight Salem's busi
ness district will bo protected by one
additional patrolman, and all of the
outlying residence sections will be
under patrol by officers mounted In
"prowler cars," Chief of Police
Frank Mlnto announced this morn
ing as a result of the council's ac
tion last night In authorizing the
employment of two additional pa
trolmen and the purchase of an
other automobile for the depart
ment. The addition of another man to
the downtown force will mean the
reduction of the length ot beats now
covered by foot patrolmen by a third
and will speed up the frequency oi
their rounds by a corresponding
time. As reorganization plans are
further worked out It Is hoped to
supply the business district with still
another patrolman, cmei Minto
said.
By Wednesday or Thursday It Is
expected that tne newly autnonzed
emergency rider, who will be on con
stant duty at the police station dur
ing the night, will have been sworn
in and put to work.
For the "prowler car" patrols ar
rangements are being made for tele
phone stations In all parts of the
city to enable each car to report to
headquarters at 15-mlnute Intervals,
which will mean one car reporting
every five minutes for emergencies
during the night.
GOLD MEDAL
GIVENHOOVER
New York. Feb. 21. (m Herbert
Hoover will speak over tho radio to
night as a fellow-engineer when he
is presented with the Saunders gold
medal for achievements In engineer
ing.
The presentation, wnicn is to oe
broadcast by the WJZ network,
starting at 9 p. m., will be made at
the annual banquet of the American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgi
cal Engineers at the Waldorf-Asto
ria hotel.
Simultaneous gatherings of eng
ineers In 16 other cities will listen
In on the program.
Accompanying the award to Mr.
Hoover is a brief tribute to his work
mining engineer in this and
other countries.
To others Hoovers is the econom
ist, administrator and executive,"
says the citation, "but to miners and
engineers he Is the professional asso
ciate who by his Insight and skill
has made a brilliant technical and
business success of mines, mills and
smelters."
6 DEAD. 7 MISSING
IN KINLOCK MINE
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 21. B The
known death toll as a consequence
of a double accident in the KlnlocK
mine cf the Valley Camp Cool com
pany today mounted to six, with
seven other miners unaccounted for.
Four of the bodies were found In
the main workings, where a dis
astrous explosion occurred last
night. Two others were located In
an Isolated section of the mine
where five miners, uninformed of
tho blast went to work this morning
and were overcome by gas. Three
of the five, rendered unconscious,
were brought to the surface by a
mine mule which pulled out the car
on which the victims were lying,
HOLD SINCLAIR
IN CONTEMPT
FOR ESPIONAGE
Oil Magnate, Burns and
Assistant Found Guilty
By Justice Siddons
Sinclair Gets 6 Months,
Burns 15 Days, His
Son $1000 Fine
Washington, Feb. 21. UP) Ad
judged guilty of criminal contempt
for shadowing the Fall-Sinclair-eon-spiracy
trial Jury, Harry F. Sinclair
was sentenced today to serve six
months In Jail.
Justice Siddons in the District of
Columbia supreme court sentenced
W. J. Burns, internationally known
detective to serve 15 days In Jail.
Henry Mason. Day, a business as
sociate of Sinclair, was sentenced to
serve four months in jail. He hired
the Burns detectives to shadow the
Jury.
W. Sherman Burns, son of W. J.
Burns, and head of the Burns de
tective agency, was let off with a
$100 fine.
Washington, Feb. 21. (IP) Justice
F. L. Siddons ruled today that
Harry F. Sinclair, W. J. Burns, W.
Sherman Burns and Henry Mason
Day were in contempt of court for
their part In the shadowing of Fall
Sinclair jurors.
Siddons did not pronounce sen
tence at the some time he adjudged
the men guilty, He went on reading
more of his decision, In which earlier
he had overruled a motion to dis
miss the criminal charge.
An appeal to the district of Co
lumbia court of appeals was to be
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CYCLOPS TELLS
KLAN PLAN TO
SEIZE POWER
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21. UP) A
picture of tho Ku Klux Klan as
power grabbing octopus, reaching
across the state and nation to seize
political control has been drawn for
Attorney General Gilllom in a de
position by Hugh F. Emmons, for
mer klan cyclops In a deposition,
which required eight hours In the
taking.
A union of the klan, the Indiana
Anti-Saloon league and horso thief
detective associations in efforts to
elect candidates satisfactory to all
of then, was charged by Emmons.
Emmons testified that at a South
Bend klan meeting he was told by
E. S. Shumaker, superintendent Oi'
the Indiana An.i-Saloon league,
the klan and the horso thief detec
tive associations must "go down the
line together" for Arthur Robinson
who was elected united States sen
ator In 1926.
Shumaker last night said he could
not recall making Lch a statement.
He said the Anti-saloon league was
never identified with the klan;
W. Lee Smith of Indianapolis, un
til recently grand dragon, told Em
mons the klan was fo-med for the
intention of getting political con
trol of the United States, the deposi
tion said. Emmons was associated
with Valley Klan No. 63 of South
Bend at the time, bct.feen 1923 and
1020. .
Emmons charged the klan made
lavish expenditures, held orgies al
road houses, ordsred hate-Inspiring
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TO ASK WRIT IN
STATE BLOCK CASE
Portland. Feb. 21 (IP) A writ of
error will be filed with the state
supreme court within a few days in
which the court s decision that tne
state may uso workmen's compensa
tion funds in constructing a new
state bullomg, according to James
O. Wilson, attorney.
: Wilson represents the Eastern
and Western Lumber company, one
of the complainants, and Thomas
Kay, state treasurer.
Declaring that the present pro
posal to borrow $600,000 for building
purposes did not carry with It the
obligation to pay it back into the
workmen's compensation fund, wu
son said:
"We do not propose to allow this
to be done and will take the case
to the highest court In the land In
an effort to prevent It."
Episcopalian
Clergy Vote
On Dry Issue
New York, Feb. 21 (LP) A new na
tionwide prohibition poll ot Protest
ant Episcopal clergymen has been
completed by the church temperance
society of that denomination.
The majority of replies recevied
favored modification of the Volstead
act. Questionnaires were sent to
5,301 ministers and 2,980 responded.
Sample questions and answers fol
low:
Should the Volstead act be modi
fied? Yes. 1.389: no. 673.
Is prohibition a success in your
locality? Yes, 501; no, 1,304.
FULL DINNER
PAIL ISSUE AT
FARM HEARING
Washington, Feb. 21 UP) A clash
between committee members over
the full dinner pall or lack of it,
marked the house agriculture com
mittee's hearings today on farm re
lief. -
While Edgar Wallace of the
American Federation of Labor was
endorsing equalization fee princi
ple, Representatives. Ketcham of
Michigan, republican, and Klnche
loe of Kentucky, democrat, engaged
in a political encounter.
The exchango was precipitated
when Wallace asserted 40 per cent
of labor in the United States was
unemployed.
"Then you don't believe there Is
a full dinner pall at present?" asked
Kincheloe.
"No, there aren't full dinner pails
now," Wallace replied. .
Ketcham remonstrated that poli
tics were being Interjected into the
hearing.
."Not politics but economics," said
Kincheloe.
Wallace then, under questioning
by Kincheloe, declared the textile
Industry workers were "miserably
paid" and many were unemployed.
He said 200,000 coal miners were
Jobless. Kincheloe said the textile
Industry was "highly protected by
the tariff."
The tariff has not helped much,"
declared the labor man.
PLAN TO DEPORT
SALVATION LASSIE
Portland, Ore., Feu. 21 VP) Cross
ing the border from Canada In 1924
In a covered wagon. May Shipley
came to this country with her fath
er, four brothers and two sisters.
Now, at the age of 18, she Is a Sal
vation army lieutenant, and today
she was brought from Bend, Ore., by
Immigration officers and held for
hearing on a charge that she had
not obtained proper entry papers.
Her father died at Grants Pass In
December, 1024 and the children
drifted apart The family's migra
tion to tills country came after di
vorce separated mother from father
and children. The father had been
a carpenter In Prince Albert, where
May was born.
AUTO LIGHT TESTING
CAMPAIGN BEGUN
Portland, Ore., Feb. 21 UP) An
automobile light-testing campaign
Is under way In which all city,
county and state agencies are par
ticipating in an cnort to do away
with glaring headlights, to which
cause have been attributed a num
ber of accidents recently.
Solicitation of Money
To Get Convicts Out of
Pen Gets Dormitzer In
Paul Dormitzer, Coos county at
torney sent to tho state penitentiary
last July to serve a sentence of one
year on a charge of larceny by em
bezzlement and who was released
on parole December' 1, Is again back
inside the prison wans w scrvu uui,
lila full sentence.
During his previous residence In
the pen Dormitzer became much
Interested In the caseB of several
convicts ambitious to secure their
release. From them he secured the
names of relatives and friends who
might be expected to contribute
funds toward achievement of this
end. Dormitzer had, subsequent to
his committment to the prison, been
disbarred from further practice of
his profession In the courts ol ore
son, but this did not deter him
from soliciting these clients.
Upon his release Dormitzer start
COUNTY COURT
ANNULS ORDER
FORUBRARY
Attorneys Express Them
selves as Favorable to.
Rescinding Order
Fees Paid by Litioants
Ordered Returned; Le
gality of Act Doubted
By DON UPJOHN
The Marion county court todar
rescinded Its order of February 9
under which a county law library
was created at the expense of liti
gants. The original order was mad
under a resolution passed at the be
hest of the Marlon county bar asso
ciation. The rescinding order In a
measure was somewhat under the
same influence .A larze number of
leading attorneys appeared personal
ly before the court from time to time
and expressed their disapproval of
tne bar association's action. The
seeming unanimity for the original
resolution dwindled from a loud
noise to a whisper. Even some of the
attorneys, who under the stirring
inspiration of a bar association
ueeting, expressed their approval ol
the original resolution' told mem
bers of tho court that the;- no longer
favored the move, and that they be
lieved a rescinding order would be
the right and proper thing to adopt.
Tne court In Its order not only re
scinded the 10 per cent Increase In
fees, which would have financed the
law library. It Instructed the county
clerk to return to the litigants all
such excess fees, sucu reimbursement
to be made in each Individual case
by county warrant.
In giving its formal and official
reasons for the rescinding of Us first
order the court says the court acted
under a misapprehension, "it further
appearing that matters arising sub
sequently to the entry of said order
(Concluded on Paw Co'Jumn 6)
HOPE FADES FOR
EARLY BUILDING
OF STATE BLOCK
Whether a start on the proposed
new state office building can be made
this year la doubtful following a
conference in Portland yesterday
with State Treasurer Kay and mem- .
bers of the state industrial accident
commission on one side and repre
sentatives ot the Eastern ss Western
Lumber company and some other
lumber companies on the other side.
Tj believed he could persuade
the lumber company representatives
not to appeal the state office build
ing case, which was decided oy tne
supremo court last week In favor of
the stale But they refused to con
cede a point to Kay and It Is certain
that the case will be appealed to
the United States supreme court on
writ of error.
Counting time to file a transcript
of appeal In Washington, and other
regular delays, it Is apparent that
even should the case b3 advanced on
the docket it could not be decided
for several months. And then there
Is no certainty that It would be de
cided in favor of the state.
Even should a favorable decision
come down in the early fall con
struction would doubtless be deferred
until the spring of 1929.
ed to solicit relatives of bis convict
friends for money to iinance cam
paigns for their release. Among
others no solicited -Mexican
serving time here, asking
$150. Soon after that bad been
paid he sent a request for second
160, which aroused the suspicions
of the relative, who made a trip to
Salem to see what It was all about
His visit and tne uuormauon ua
furnished resulted In the revocation
of Dormltzer's parole.
Dormitzer was located In Lake
view a few days ago and yesterday
Guard Oscar Bradford brought him
back to Salem.
While It is not known lust how
much Dormitzer collected through
his pleas to the relatives of convicts,
prison officials have information
which leads them to believe thai
the total amounted to several nun
dred dollars.