pi oa -d n
CIRCULATION
Dally averags distribution 'Of tlM
month - ding Februarj 29, 1928
RAIN
tdihslil iwl Tiluiotlxy,
mild. Southerly winds.
ijourasui
OOOttBUMt
10,137
Local Max. 60, mln. 50. River 4.4.
Rain .45. Cloudy. Southeast wind.
Average dailj net paid 9727
Uembei Audit Bureau of Olrcultttont
FIFTIETH YEAR, No. 69
SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928
PRICE THREE CENTS
Yl
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COUNTY CASH .
RECEIPTS 1927
$2,568644.42
udit for Year Completed
Shows Record Busi
ness; No Delinquencies
Seneral Fund Shows De
ficit But Other Funds
Contain Surplusses
Marlon county did a two and a
halt million dollar cash business
during 1927, according to the com-
pleted audit of the county's books
which J. H. Roland ot Jefferson,
and L. S. Covert, of Salem, official
auditors, turned over to the county
judge this morning. All of the
county books were In good condi
tion at the beginning of this year
and no deficiencies or delinquen
cies were found In any of the of-
flees according to the statement of
the auditors.
Actual cash receipts of Marion
county during the year of 1937 to
talled $2,568,644.42, according to
the auditors' statement. The total
cash disbursements of the county
during the year amounted to $2,
416,447.26, leaving a cash balance on
January 1, 1928, of $938,859.06. On
January 1. 1927, the cash balance
was $786,661.90.
On January 1 of this year Ha-
blities of the county included out
standing warrants totalling ,
842.29. and payments due special
funds amounting to $72,990.57. At
the beginning of thti year the to
tal amount of delinquent taxes due
the county from the years 1914 to
last year stood at $209,307.03.
During 1927 Marion county's
(Concluded on Paso 10, Column 9)
SINCLAIR BONDS
NOT FOUND IN
HARDING LIST
St. Louis, Mo., March 21 (P) A St.
Louis Post-Dispatch staff corrcs
pondent reported an inspection of
the record of the estate of the late
President Harding, made by him at
Marlon, Ohio, established that he
possessed none of $3,089,000 worth of
continental Trading company uoer.
ty bonds involved In the oil mvesti
gatlon.
Senator Nye. chairman of the sen
ate Teapot dome committee.
nounced In Washington Monday
that the committee would search for
Continental bonds in the estate of
the late president.
Ledgers kept by C. D. Schaffner.
executor of the estates of both Pres
ident and Mrs. Harding show, the
Post-Dispatch correspondent said.
that President Harding posse
$182,750 worth of Liberty bonds and
that Mrs. Harding possessed $65,300
worth of Liberty bonds.
The bonds bought by the Contln
ental company were of the first Lib
erty bonds, Issued In 1917, and were
all or $1,000 denomination, president
Harding possessed $41,000 worth of
the first loan bonds, but none was of
a $1,000 denomination, the corres
pondent said, and their numbers did
not correspond with the serial num
bers of any of the Continental bonds.
Two of Mrs. Harding's first loan
bonds were for $500 each, six were for
$5000 and one was for $10,000.
TAX RECEIPTS
FALL OFF BIT
Washington, March 21 UP On the
Vace of the latest treasury figures,
the pace of government receipts
from the March 15 Income tax in
stallments was i isclosed today to
have slowed down a trifle as com
pared with its previous rate.
Notwithstanding, the income tax
actually paid to date was consider
ably ahead of receipt from the
same source last year. At the close
of business March 19, the govern
ment had collected a total of 8280,-
610,893 :rom incoi .e taxation where
as on the same date last year the
total receipts were but $275,974,553
It will take two or three days be
fore the heavy payments now in the
hands of collectors of revenue are
all compiled. Treasury officials still
refuse to make definite calculations
as to what may be anticipated when
all the returns are in. The results to
last published account Indicate,
however, that there will be some at
tainment of revenue above estim
GOOD EVENING
SIPS FOR SUPPER
By Don Upjohn
O, VALENCIA!
The dispenser In the little orange
shop on State street Is disposing ol
his wares all dressed up as an
orange. The -boys on the street are
perturbed as to whether he's a naval
orange.
MARION COUNTY'S BRIGHTEST
BOY
"In an effort to entertain a group
of young ladies he attempted to per
form a trick with gasoline, which ne
had often done before with success,
by filling his mouth with gas and
spraying It out, at the same time
lighting the spray with a match.
Tills time the trick was not success
ful and a badly burned mouth and
blistered chest was the result."
Woodburn news item.
GARDENING GAMBLES
The day of miracles' not o'er,
Strange things, perchance, befall;
The cabbage seed you plant today,
May be a squash by fall;
The radish that so round and red,
Adorns the seed pack now.
May prove to be a turnip blue,
When July makes its oow;
The watermelon's pictured pride,
whose seed you plant in glee,
May prove a portly pumpkin plant,
Or. nerchance. a sugar pea;
So garden on, dear neighbors all,
And till each teeming row;
No matter what the seeds you plant,
The weeds are sure to grow.
7
A "FOR TO" WEEK END
Stavton. Mar. 21 Henry Smith
and wife were pleased to have their
three sons, who all live In saiem.
Lester. William and Bo, home for
to spend Sunday with them. News
item.
A Nonny Muss letter came to our
house yesterday purporting to bo
from a Turner Miss and asking us
when we expected to make our long
deferred visit to that beautiful,
waiting city at the bend In the turn
pike. Have patience, our visiting
list Is getting so long it will require
some careful engineering.
However, we ask all misses, Tur
ner and otherwise, to hereafter send
their Invitations to the office and
not to our home. We can't get any
column out or make any visits.
either, if we have to sit up half the
night explaining away these letters
from misses.
Yea. It delays things miserably
when we sit down for to write our
column and find out we sat down
for to explain away these letters. In
stead.
Anvwav. we were in Turner not
long ago. went Into the palatial city
confectionery and bought a 20-cent
drink, to show our speed, and two
or three Turner misses standing by
didn't even look at us. That's what
we call downright discouraging.
Maybe If they had looked at us that
Invitation of yesterday would be the
mteive that never came.
WORDS AND MUSIC
By Stoddard King
A problem every man must (ace
In re bis Intimate attire
Is how to wear with proper grace
The coat he first Rave closet .space
The year before the lire.
It Is. while not at all an fait,
Still much too good to throw away.
A man should purchase every year
An overcoat of latest cut,
If in his conscientious ear
The call of style rings load and clear
And cautions him: '"tut, tail"
In which case he. If yet alive,
Will some day have no less than five
Five overcoats, all neatly hung,
All trimly brushed and cleaned
and pressed,
Allows him, be he old or young.
To hear his praises sweetly sung
As well and truly dressed.
No yokel he. no rustle clown,
But a proud man about the town.
Of course, a fellow will not care,
Unless he Is a perfect dunce,
To carry on his arm a spare
Ir. chilly weather, or to wear
Five overcoats at nee.
But If he can look, on passing by,
His Merchant Taylor in the eye!
Little Boy Runs
Escape Facing Mother After
Running Bills About Town
The story of a lltle boy who ran
away from home rather than face a
dls-illusioned mother was slowly un
folded lo Salem police officers last
night and today.
It had Its local beginning about 10
o'clock last night when officers
found the flaxen-haired youngster,
roaming aimlessly about the streets.
He was taken to the police station
where he obstinately refused to
make known his name or the where
nhnuL of his home.
The sole bit of information gleaned
was that his age was nine years, and
SMITH DENIES
SINCLAIR GIFT
TO CAMPAIGN
Brands Statement as 'ln
famous Insinuation,'
'Demogogic Slander'
Records Show Oil Man
Never Contributed to
Smith's Campaigns
Albany, N. S.. Mar. (IB-Gov
ernor Smith sent a letter to Senator
Gerald P. Nye, who is conducting
part of the Teapot Dome investiga
tions, denying tnat Harry t. Bin
clair, oil man, contributed to his
campaign fund In 1920.
The letter says: "My dear sena
tor Nye: You are quoted In the
dally papers this morning (March
20) as having said yesterday on the
floor of the senate, 'X do understand
that In the campaign of 1920 at
which Governor Smith was elected,
Mr. Sinclair was a very liberal con
tributor to his cause and that fol
lowing the election he was made a
member of the racing commission
of the state of New York."
Senator Robinson of Indiana
made a similar statement. Your
information, wherever you got It,
Is In every respect false and these
statements were recklessly made.
A careful search of the official
records made at my request today
confirms my recollection that Mr.
Sinclair never contributed to my
campaign fund, either in 1920, or
at any other time that I ran for
office; in fact, I failed In election
as governor in 1920 and Mr. Sin
clair had been appointed to the
(Concluded on rago 11. column g)
SOVIET POLICY
WORST MENACE
TO DISARMING
Geneva. Mar. 21. (IP) After tlx
days of silence, the United 8tates
joined today with six othei nations
in calling the Soviet ogram for
Immediate abolition 01 all arma
ments Impractical.
Hugh S. Gibson, United - States
ambassador in Brussels, expressed
the conviction that a treaty for the
outlawry of war, such as Secretary
of State Prank B. Kellogg has pro
posed, would be Jf greater value now
in promoting peace than any pro
ject of complete disarmament.
Gibson, the American delegate to
the League of Nations' preparatory
disarmament commission, sa' ' the
United States would support fully a
multi-lateral project for non-ag
gression and outlawry of war treat
ies, but could not logically and sin
cerely support any project which
would abolish all armaments imme
diately.
In making tnis statement ne
found himself In line with the ex
pressions of chief c 'gates from
England, France, itaiy, japan, Hoi-
land and Sweden.
Rutgers of .ioliand today cnar-
acterlzed the Soviet project as lder l
Istlc and lmposijle In the present
state of humanity. ' ne league must
seek to limit armaments and pre
vent competitive building rather
than to abolish them entirely, he
said.
With this statement Hennlngs of
Sweden was in complete accord.
The most direct anc emphatic ob
jection came from Lrrd Cushcndun
of England, who, using plain, flinty
language, charged th So'Mets had
tried to sabotage the league, had
tried to foment civil war In every
nation of Europe.
Until the Soviets che iged their
political policy they, themselves,
would be the greatest obstacle to
security and disarmament, Cush
cndun said.
Away To
that he had "bummed" his way from
Portland to Salem on the back end
of a stage. He was given a cell In the
city Jail overnight.
Early this morning threats of in
carceration In the reform school
failed to break the lad's silence.
"What s a reform school?" he ques
tioned.
When told that It was a place
where bad boys were kept until they
became 21 years old, he asserted
bravely that he'd rather go there
Cor,eludcd on Pace 11, Column 7)
Escapes Gallows
DORIS PARKER McDONALD
DEATH PENALTY
COMMUTED TO
LIFE SENTENCE
Montreal, March 21 (IP) Doris
McDonald faced a new life today a
life behind prison bars.
While her husband, George, must
go to the gallows Friday for the
murder of Adelard Bouchard, she
has been saved that fate. In Ottawa
last night her death sentence was
commuted to life improsonment.
The young American woman was
in the women's prison here today
still preparing for her death." The
commutation of sentence came sud
denly. It had been rumored but there
had been little basis for the rumor,
In prayer she had prepared for
the climb up the brilliantly painted
gallows at Valley Field Friday to
Join her young husband In their
last tryst one with death.
Now that tryst Is gone. Only
George, the young Nova Scotian lad,
will go to the gallows Friday morn
ing. The official board In Quebec
did not give him a commutation of
sentence.
Only this week an affidavit be
came :ublic in which McDonald
sought to spare his wife from death.
The affidavit said she had no part
in the killing of Bouchard, that
confession she made in Denver was
wrong and that he alone should be
punished.
$369,190,259
FOR NEW SHIPS
Washington, March 21 (IP) The
largest expenditure for the naval
establishment since before the
Washington arms conference in 1822
13 provided In the annual navy ap
propriation bill reported to the
house today by Its appropriations
committee.
The amount, $369,190,259, includes
funds for continuing construction of
10 vessels now being bunt; modern
izing of two others, including gun
elevation; beginning work on two
new dirigibles; building two more
submarine salvage vessels and addi
tional airplanes; and maintaining
the marine corps In Its activities at
home and on foreign neifls in Hica
ragua and China.
Pointing out this Increased
penditure, the committee says fur
ther it can see 'no prospect of de
dining naval costs In the immedi
ate future,'' but that "all Indications
point to an appreciable upward
trend."
SENATORS PLAN
TO VISIT FALL
Washington, Mar. 21. (LP)
special meeting of the senate Tea
pot dome committee was hurriedly
called by Senator Walsh ol Mon
tana today upon receipt ot a united
Press dispatch from El Paso, lexas,
stating that former Secretary of the
Interior Fall ann ranced he wns now
ready to tell the whole story of
Teapot Dome,
Walsh sa d the committee or
sub-committee world probably be
authorized to go to fcl Paso Imme
diately to take Fan testimony,
Walsh at first considered con
suiting Owen r .berU, government
oil counsel and attempted to reach
him In Philadelphia by long distance
telephone. Roberts, however, was not
available and Walsh Immediately
asked Chairman Nye to get the
committee together In Hve's office
to consider the United Prc.-s dis
patch.
BY DEBATE
IN SENATE ON
TEAPOT DOME
Robinson Takes Smith to
Task for Keeping Sin
clair on Racing Board
Admits he is Attorney
For Convicted Indiana
Klan Dragon
Washington, Mar. 21. IPs The
Teapot Dome scandal bulged out of
the oil committee onto the floor or
the senate where it again revoked
bitter debate with Senator Robin
son, of Indiana, bearing the brunt,
of a battle, with half a dozen or
more of his colleagues.
Taking the flooi to reply to the
strictures of Governor Alfred E.
Smith, of New York, who roundly
denounced the Indianan and Chair
man Nye of the oil committee, for
bringing his name into tl discus
sions, Robinson charged that "men
in both parties betrayed their trust"
anl that men "like Harry F. Sin
clair don't confine their activities
to one party." He said he would cite
case where senator Walsh, 01
Montana, had approved of some ac
tivities of E. L. Doheny, who leased
the Elk Hills naval reserve, at a
later time.
The debate centered largely about
the appointment of Sinclair to the
New York racing commission and
completely over-shadowed today's
session of the oil committee at
which Wilbur larsh. former demo
cratic national treasurer, denied
having made an r Ttrwuu with
Fred W. Upham the late republican
treasurer, to destroy campaign fund
records ior mes.
The Indiana senator was inter
rupted at one point by Senator
(Concluded on Page 9. Column 3)
BLACKMER TO
LOSE $100,000
HOLDS. COURT
Washington, taarcli 21 UP) Up
holding the Walsh act aimed at
fugitive witnesses, Justice P. L. Sim
mons in supreme court of the Dist
rict of Columbia today overruled a
motion by attorneys for H, M.
Blackmer to dismiss the contempt
charges against him.
Blackmer, a missing witness in
the Teapot dome case, had com-
batted the law passed at the instance
of Senator Walsh of Montana pro
viding confiscation of $100,000 from
estates of persons who refused to
return to this cou-itry to testify. He
has been cited for contempt and
$100,000 in Liberty bonds have been
taken by the government.
Justice Siddons ruled that every
citizen of the United States owed to
the government an allegiance even
though living In a foreign land. This
allegiance he said included the duty
of obedlance to the laws of
sovereignty to which the allegiance
is due.
"Indeed, without such obedlance
uleglance would be an empty name,
the court said.
TAX CUT MEASURE
TAKEN UP APRIL 3
Washington, Mar. 21 (IP) The
house tax reduction bill will be
taken up by the senate finance
committee April 3, Chairman Bmoot
announced to the senate today.
Bmoot said the committee would
then decide if hearings should be
held on the measure and would hear
treasury department officials report
the amounts of revenue received
from the March 15 income tax pay
ments.
Senator Fat Harrison of Missis
sippi, protested that the committee
should meet earlier and asiceu
Smoot to arrange it.
Smoot replied there was no doubt
that a tax revision bill should be
passed at this session of con
gress, RUMOR OF PLANE
PROVES UNFOUNDED
Bangor, Me., Mar. 21. (JP) Intense
excitement was caused today by cir
culation of a rumor that the plane
in which Cant. Walter HlnchMIc
and the Hon. Elsie Mackay began a
proposed trans-Atlantic flight from
England last Tuesday has been
found, with their bodies, near Pat
ten, Me. Careful investigation, how
ever, by the Associated Prcis, failcci
to confirm the rumor.
Fall Near To Death
Willing To Tell Story
Of Teapot Oil Deal
El Paso, Mar. 21 (IP) Doctors
have informed Albert 5. Fall, form.
er secretary of the Interior, that he
has only six or seven months more
to live and he Is ready to tell the
entire story of the le; :o of Teapot
Dome to the Sinclair interests, he
told the El Paso Post, a Scrlpps
Howard paper here today.
some of my doctors tell me X
have only six or seven months to
live," he said. "I may fool some
of the persons who h-we been ex
pecting me to die.
I want the public to know my
story. I want to tell the whole story
and not just part of It.
"1 will make no objections to giv
ing an answer to any question the
government may care to ask me,"
he said.
"I always intended to testify
TWO GIGANTIC
DIRIGIBLES FOR
Washington, March 21 (Pi Navy
plans for two new dirigibles each
two and one half times as large as
the Los Angeles, and with a maxi
mum cruising radius of 11,200 nau
tical cruising miles, were disclosed by
Rear Admiral Moffett, naval air
chief, in testimony on the annual
navy department bill reported today
to the house.
The ships would be 782 feet In
length, 13214 feet in diameter and
designed to carry a crew of 16 offic
ers and 45 men. They woul . have a
maximum speed of 75 knots.
The committee allotted $2,000,000
to start construction of the air liners
which will cost a total of $8,000,000,
It is expected that the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber company of Akron,
Ohio, will build the vessels.
"In an emergency such as arose
recently in Nicaragua, where marine
reinforcements were needed in a
hurry," the admiral said, "one of
these large airships could easily have
transported 100 or more marines and
"iade the trip in a fraction of the
,lne taken by surface vessels.
They would be of great value in
acting as convoys," he continued,
explaining that "submarines fear
them more than they do any other
type of ship."
MARINES FAIL
TO FIND REBELS
Managua, Nlc, Mar. 21. (A1) The
region near Murra, raked with ma
chine gun fire and bombed from
American marine planes, yielded no
trace of rebels today.
Planes flying over this district,
which is 20 miles southeast of
Jalapa, could find no clues as to
where the followers of General
Augustino Sandino disappeared after
firing upon two marine planes and
wounding one flyer. They saw two
columns of marines which had been
sent into the area from Jalapa. It
was assumed from this that the
rebels had taken to cover.
After the attack on the planes.
other aircraft fired upon and
bombed rebels three times. The
S-ndino men scattered under fire
and the marines could not deter
mine the number of casualties,
Near -Telpaneca, a pack-train en
countered a small band of insurg
ents. Two rebels were killed In i
clash which followed.
BIG SLUSH FUND
SEEN BY JOHNSON
Washington, Mar. 21. (P The as
sertion that efforts had been made
to collect a "slush fund" to Influence
public utilities legislation which
he said "would beggar" anything of
its kind ever disclosed in the his
tory of the country, was made in the
senate today by B:na Johnson
republican. California.
At the same time Senator Walsh
democrat, Montana, charged that
public utilities associations were
"subsidizing lecturers and professors
in colleges to instill in the minds
of the youth of the land their pecu
liar views of public questions."
COMPROMISE BILL
ON MUSCLE SHOALS
Washington, Mar. 21. (IP Draft
ing of compromise Muscle Shoals
legislation was placed in the hands
of a sub-committee today by the
house military affairs committee
vhich yesterday rejected all pend-
.ng measures.
when the case came to trial. I
still nave that Intention. I never
have been a liar but I never have
been In a position yet where I
could go on the stand and tell the
whole story every word of it.
"Doctors say I can't go to Wash
ington. But I can sit here In my
home for a half hour or so at a
time and submit to questioning and
cross-examination If they will take
it easy.
"I have seriously considered ask
ing the so-called Teapot Dome In
vestigating committee to come here
and take my testimony. But the:-e
Is no reason for doing this if my de.
position Is taken," he added.
Fall ended the Interview by say
ing the committee was not investi
gating Teapot Dome. He declined
to elaborate on Ills statement,
CONGRESSIONAL
MEDAL OF HONOR
Washington, Mar. 21 UP) Presi
dent CoolicVje today placed person
ally about the shoulders of Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh the blue rib
bon of the congressional medal of
honor, rarest of American tributes
to courage and initiative.
Surrounded by the highest public
oinciais in tne executive depart
ment and by republican and demo
cratic congressional leaders Presi
dent Coolidge conferred the decora
tion for "heroic courage and great
skill" in the Lindbergh flight from
New York to Pans.
"I offer you my heartiest congrat
ulations," the president said after
conferring the medal.
He added that in his flight Llnd
bergh had "not only achieved the
greatest personal triumph of any
American citizen, but had shown
that trans-Atlantic flight was pos
sible."
Among the notables gathered at
the White House to witness the
ceremony were Vice - president
Dawes and Speaker Long worth,
Senators Curtis of Kansas and
Robinson of Arkansas, majority
and minority leaders, respectively,
in the senate: Representatives Til-
son of Connecticut and Garrett of
Tennessee, majority and minority
leaders in the house. Secretaries
Wilbur and Hoover, Postmaster
General New, Assistant Secretary
Warner, in charge of naval aero
nautics, Rear Admiral Moffett,
chief of the bureau of naval aero
nautics, Major General Charles P.
SummcraU, chief of the staff, Sec
retary Davis, Assistant Secretary
Maccracken of the commerce de
partment, and others.
ARCTIC AVIATORS
SAFE AT PL BARROW
Seward, Alaska, March 21 MV-
Captain George H. Wilkins, Austra
lian aviator explorer, and Lieuten
ant Carl Ben Elelson, his Alaskan
pilot, are safe at Point Barrow, pre
paring for their contemplated flight
into tho Arctic "blind spot"
route to Spitzbcrgcn on the other
side of the north pole.
Fears that they had met with
disaster Monday at the end of their
hazardous 500 mile hop from Fair
banks to Point Barrow, were allayed
when Wilkins re-established com
munlcatlon with Seward last night.
Steusloff To Construct
$30,000 Concrete Building
On North Liberty Street
A new concrete and brick struc-!
ture, two stories in height, and cost
ing between $25,000 and $30,000, will
be erected on North Liberty street
between Court and Chemcketa, next
to tho proposed Curtis B. Cross
building , It was announced yester
day by W, W. Steusloff, who owns
that property, Working plnns havR
not yet been completed by the arch
itect, but It wilt be possible to let
contracts within a few days, Mr.
Steusloff said.
Excavation was started this morn
ing In conjunction with that for the
Cross building. The two residences
on the joint properties have been
vacated and removed.
The building will be planned to
provide for two store spaces on the
bottom floor and office rooms above.
Several applications for the space
have already been filed, according to
Mr. Steusloff. He expects the build
ENGINEER ON
STAND ADMITS
CONDITION BAD
We Certainly Must Have
Overlooked Something'
Says Mulholland
As Tears Course Down
His Face, Builder En
vies Those Dead
Los Angeles, Cai., March 21 (IP) 1
William Mulholland, who testified
today at the coroner's Inquest over
St. Francis dam victims, and who
was engineer in charge of construc
tion of the dam, said that leak con
ditions 11 hours before its collapse
were "bad, very bad."
Mulholland, veteran chief en
gineer of the Los Angeles bureau of
water and power, with tears cours
ing down his cheeks, moaned "tho
only ones I envy are those who are
dead. We certainly must have over
looked something."
After telling Coroner Frank Nance
that he and his assistant, H. A. Van
Norman had seen the dam 11 hours
before the break March 13, In which
278 liver were lost and 17 are report
ed missing, examination of Mul
holland continued:
Q Did the St. Francis dam leak
badly?
A or all the dams I have ever
seen in every section of the country,
it was the driest.
Q How did you happen to visit
the dam on Monday, the day before
the flood? J
A I went there because Tony
Harhelger, the keeper who waa
Concluded on Pageli7 "dofumn T)
MARSH DENIES
ANY COMPACT
WITH UPHAM
Washington, Mar. 21. UP) Wilbur
W. Marsh, treasurer of the demo
crat' c national committee from
1916 to January, 1S24, reiterated to
day before the senate Teapot Dome
committee that he had not entered
into any agreement with the late
Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the re
publican national committee, under
which the two parties made no re
port of contributions In 1923.
"There never was any such agree
ment." he said, In reply to question
by Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon
tana, "There never was any con
versation relating to It In any way."
Marsh s statement was In reply to
testimony given before the commit
tee at Chicago by Irl G. Hlpsley, and
A. V. Leonard, that Upham had
told them Marsh had suggested that
no reports be filed withr congress be
cause the democrats had received
some contributions they wanted to
cover up.
"All contributions made to the
democratic party in 1023 are a mat
ter of record," Marsh said.
"Did you ever visit Mr. Upham?'
asked Senator Walsh.
"Our relations were very cordial
and frank," Marsh replied. "I nevet
was in his office in my life. I ha
no recollection of ever talking wit
him on the phone. I would meet
him in hotel lobbies, but our con
versations were casual."
"Can you think of any unusual con-
'Concluded on Pok li, Column 1 "
ing will be completed by August 1 at
the latest.
Not inclined to wait until the one-
stoiy Curtis Cross building has been
completed, the Montgomery-Ward
concern will open a temporary store
at 487 Center street in the J. B,
Young building. Workmen are put
ting In fixtures this week under the
filiation of F. Laws, construction
engineer for the mail order firm, and
merchandise will be moved in before
April 1.
A line of automobile accessories,
bicycles, washing machines, paint,
hwn mowers, and sporting goods will
be carried in the temporary store.
The local manager has not been
appointed as yet. He probably will
be sent here from the Portland
store. Six loeal people will be em
ployed, according to Laws. Applica
tions for tba employment are beinf
received by T. R. Alexander, assist
ant construction engineer.