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ELKS PUT CHRISTMAS CHEER DRIVE CIRCULATION Dally average distribution lot month ending NOvembei SO, 9960 Average dally net paid 9,533 Member Audit Bureau of Clrculationa FIFTIETH YEAR, No. 304 Cheer Fund $2100 STg BSl'BW 8 Poor To Be Happy jsa gso a - ssj s. bb a Results Best Yet With more than $2,100 assured for the Cheer Fund, an mount adequate to cope with distress among Salem's poor, Elk-Journal workers for Christmas relief Friday followed the suggestion of Frank Durbin, Jr., exalted ruler of the Elks, and announced that the fund will be" closed Saturday afternoon. The total, greatly in excess of those of former years, reached a sufficiency Fricay when $1,000 was placed t'n the fund by the Ella. The CHEER FVND TODAY The Capital Journal 25.00 HaJera Engraving Co. .. 8.00 U. A. Harrla S.00 F. O. IMCkebach 5.SO Mr. F. B. Lamport .... 1S40 Holdener ConatructloQ Co M-oo Burghardt s Bollnger .. 10.00 A Friend 5.00 Capital Monumental Works '.. S OU A Friend 3.00 Unruh Printing Co. .... Curlla B. Croaa 10.011 A Friend 800 Callfornlan soo Henry Jaquet 3.00 Cherneketa Camp Fire Ulna n oa Employea of the U. 8. National Bank, Balem 26.00 Margaret P. LeFurgy ... 5.00 A. x. Freeman 5.00 A Friend 10.00 John Huchea, Blue Bird 5.00 E. T. B. Hill 5.00 Carl E. Nelson 25.00 Don Fount- 5.00 A. C. Haag & Co 13.00 Bell Crest Memorial Park 10.00 B. A. Beer 1.00 MM. Alfred Montgomery 1.00 C. w. Cook 1.00 Employes of White Houae Kestaurant H-00 Dan J. Fry. Sr. 15 00 W. H. Harris 5.00 Anonymous 1.00 Capital Journal Employea 45.00 Plumbers' Colon 5.00 Mrs. Ueo. E. Waters .... 10.00 Little Barbara Hope Hathaway 100 A Friend 25.00 H. P. Anderson 5.00 Anonymous 5.00 Ciroltal Journal Currier Boys 9.60 State Bridge Dept. em- ployes 37. SO A Bntarlan 5.00 A Friend 2.50 Selma II. Oehler 5.00 A Friend 2JM1 Employes Bonus Com. . . 9.15 C. H. Evans 5.00 Mrs. f :eo. Kodrers 5.00 Mrs. Ruth Lorkwood ... 3.00 Leone Spauldlnr 2.00 Trade Street Store 5.00 Hawkins, Roberts Jt Dyer 23.00 Salem Boxing Commis sion (Harry Plant. matchmaker) 50.00 C. 8. Hamilton and em ployes 50.00 Salem Klwanla 135.00 A Friend 5.00 Subscriber 1.00 A Friend l.oo Peter Daly 2.00 Dr. C. H. schenk 2.00 A Friend 10.00 Mrs. M. B. Wagstaff .... 2.00 sundln. the Tailor .... 3.00 A Friend 1.00 Employes Public service Commission .7.00 Salem Fire Department 22.00 Blllle Desouza 1.00 Wallace DeSouza 100 A Friend l oo C. K. Russell 2.50 Ladd & Bush employea. 31.00 W. H. Steuslofr 15.00 Mrs. W. C. O'Nell 1O0 Sublimity Friend 2.00 Woodburn Friend 2.00 Charles Friday 5.00 Amity Friend 10.00 A. T. Klett 5.00 Miscellaneous 4.28 Central Pharmacy and employes 16.25 Reserve officers' Corps of Marlon County . .' 7.50 I). A. White 5.00 Radio Headquarters and Employes 7.00 State Ind. Ace Com. Employea 21.00 P. M. Hill 1.00 Harry Mills (Capital Beauty Hhoppe) 9.00 Secretary oi Slate employea 9.33 Mrs. H. W. Meters 5.00 J. C. Hlrgmund 10.00 A Friend l.oo II. il. Auman 5o A Scout l.oo Anonymoua 1-00 A Friend 100 lluilklns Sanford .... 5.00 Capital City Laundry and employes 20.00 State Engineering Dept. employes 6.50 Corporation Dept. em ployes ..w I Friend 1.00 Emma Murphy Hrown. Elks Christmas Tree ... Chandler Brown Werner Brown A Friend z.nu 35.110 o.oo 5.00 5.00 The Salem Elks Lodge 1,000.00 Total .-. S2.119.SJ ' Woman Gives Clue To Solution of $500,000 Mail Robbery on Ship Berlin (LP) A revengeful woman, abandoned by her lover, ha told police a story that they believe would lead to solution of the $500,. 000 mall robbery aboard the United Btatet liner Leviathan last June. It revealed an amazing plot whereby a gang boarded the Levi athan as members of her crew, and rifled the mall sacks while she was at sea. The clue to the mystery, which occupied the attention of pollcs In New York, Berlin, Antwerp and Vienna, as well as Scotland Yard the Wi amount, contributed by hundreds of generous Salem resident, will be used to buy lood. ciotmng ana toys for worthy families which have been visited by misfortune. Never before did Salem offer such a generous response to an ap peal," Mr. Durbin said Friday ait ernoon. "Salem has ffiven in an unprecented manner. Undoubtedly, bv Drolonging the campaign much more money would be taken in, but we are convinced tnar, we al ready have enough to take care of the many cases. I am, naturally, agreeably surprised to find that Salem has, for the first time in its history, made it possible for us to close the fund two days ahead of time." Contributions, it was pointed out, will be gratefully received and ac knowledged up until Saturday eve ning. Those persons who wish to be Identified with the cneer runa to feel that they have had a part in making poor folks happy hould send or bring their contributions to the office of the Capital journal. "On behalf of Salem Elks," Mr. Durbin said, "I wish to thank every person who has given to the Cheer Fund. And I believe that every contributor, Christinas morning. (Concluded on Page 13. Column 3) TAX PROBERS SIFT SCHEMES - Committe Accepts Some Plans for Reduction of Property Levies Portland (LP) Out of the maze of proposals for the relief of property taxpayers which have come before the Carkln property tax relief commission at its hearings this week, a number of definite legisla tive proposals stood adopted Friday. Thus far, however, the two major problems facing the commission an Income tax and a tax on intangi bles remain unsolved and were to be tackled in sessions today and Saturday. One of the most radical recom mendatlons of the commission will be a tax on personal property, such as household goods, wearing ap parel and the like In excess of 1300 of assessed valuation. Repeal of the super-road district law will oe recommended. Other recommendations include: Amendment of the state market road law so that counties will not have to match state market road funds with county funds to enjoy (Concluded on Page 14, Column 8) Huge Sum Given By Motor 8 Head For "High Time" New York. Uft Charles T. Fisher, vice president of Gen eral Motors corporation, has purchased High Time, aire of Saraaen, High Strang and other great turf thorough breds, for a price reported to be between $400,000 and 1500. 00. The sale was made by a syndicate headed by Phil Chinn. High Time rates as the leading aire In the country, 1 of his gets having accounted for 43 stakes and parses with an aggregate value of $222,435. and the United 8tates and German federal postal inspection amices, was furnished by a woman in Antwerp, Belgium. She said that for three years she had been the sweetheart of Walter Ringer, alias Long, recently a stoker on the Leviathan. He deserted her. she said, and she told the story In revenge. Police accused Ringer of being the leader of a gang which looted the Leviathan's mall while she was at sea and disposed of stolen bonds and securities in Europe. IB I' 1' Ml' I Boulder Dam Project Appro vedlcff., GIANT POWER BILL SIGHED BY C00L1DGE Cost of Project Placed at $165,000,000; To Be Repaid from Revenues Flood Control, Irrigation And Power Develop ment Triple Purpose Washington (IP) President Cool- ldge signed the Boulder Dam bill at 10:20 a. m. today. With this act the famous measure carrying $163,000,000 became a law. Under It, there will be construction of a giant dam on the Colorado to water the valleys of the far south west, control floods and create power. The bill provides for construction of a 550 foot dam at either Black or Boulder canyon in the Colorado river as an irrigation, flood contiol and hydro-electric project. signature oi tne oiu oy rresiaent Coolidge ends a fight which has proceeded In congress - for eight years. Arizona has been trie principal opponent of the legislation, claim ing that California would receive more than a fair share of the bene. fits at the expense of states further up the river. By terms oi tne out, tne secretary of Interior Is given authority to pro. ceed with construction oi tne dam as soon as he obtains contracts lor sale of water . and hydro-electric power rights sufficient to assure amortization in 50 years and soon after a period of six months as six Interested states rauiy tne Col orado river compact. This compact provides for distri bution of water among the seven states which adjoin the river. The financial plan upon which the bill is based, is that sale of (Concluded on "Page 16. Column t) MURDERER DIES AS SNOW FALLS UPONGALLOWS Parry Sound, oM., fP) John Burowskl. convicted of the murder of Thomas Jackson, a farmer, after a mail car holdup near here last August IB, was hanged In a snow storm in the courtyard of the dist rict jail Friday. A biting wind whirled snow down on the courtyard as Burowskl walk ed up the steps to the platform lighted by a single bulb. He objected momentarily to the black cap, but yielded to the hangman's Insistence and murmured a short prayer as the trap was sprung. Burowskl rnd a companion, flee ing In a stolen automobile after the holdup, ran into a ditch. They hired Jackson to pull them out. As he and his son were doing so with a team of horses a posse hunting the robbers arrived on the scene. The robbers opened fire, killing Jackson. Burowskl a companion escaped. but owskl had $1,715 when caught. THINK AFGHAN CHIEF WOUNDED Berlin (IP) A telegram to the foreign office from the German legation In Kabul, Afghanistan, said that the leader of the Afghanistan rebels had been wounded. His name was reported to be Batcha 8ao.ua. The Herman legation expressed the hope that the conflict soon would end. The government still was negotiating with the rebel, the message said, adding, however, that the situation continued to be ser ious. The message confirmed news that fighting had occurred near the British legation, which still was In the path of -stray bullets. A United Press dispatch from Allahabad, India. Thursday said that King Amanullah of Afghani stan recently had placed a price of 30.000 rupees on the head of Batcha Saoua. rebel leader, and that the latter retaliated by placing a larger price on the head of the king. SALEM, OREGON, FUlDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928 WW Good Evening! DON UPJOHN offers Sips for Supper A soldier of the legion. Lay dying In Algiers: There was no wound upon him. Though bis face was bathed In tears; "I once," he said, "was strong and ' brave, . As any youth who walked, And when they called for volunteers I was not one who balked: Yet I never reached the battle line, Nor heard a shot nor shell: I took a drink of Salem water And I couldn't stand the smell." Gosh. If he'd tasted it. he'd never had the strength to pull a speech like that. . ' It we'd only thought In time, we'd taken a tank car of that water to New York and made a fortune sell ing it to the Chrstmas trade as syn thetic gin. Our old friend. D. R. Tal madge told ns the other day he didn't believe In Infant damna tion. Has he ever had to walk with one at 2 a. m. in the morn ing? We serve notice on Santa Claus right now. If he nuts anything smaller than a grand piano in our sock it's going to drop through the toe and scratch up the hearth. SOME HUBBARD ENTERPRISE "Those Maxwell House people got us all worked up with that slogan of theirs: 'Good to the last drop. What do you suppose is wrong with that last drop, anyway?" Habbard Enterprise. WE GET BAWLED OUT Haw I Haw I Haw!" was the comment of Young Sips on read ing our pome on building a pedestal for our Christmas tree. "That shows that culture has reached the peak In our family, me making a pedest al for the Christmas tree and set ting It up, and dad writng a pome saying he did It. That's what I coll poetic license." TABLOID INTERVIEW TJ. O. Boyer, county clerk, just returning from county officers' con ventions In Portland: "Dave Drager la altogether too young a man for me to go to Portland with." This Is the shortest day In the year Which makes a lot of the boys happy to think that It will also be the longest night in the year. As far as a lot of purses are con cerned this Is also the shortest time of the year. QUAKE SHAKES MINDANAO ISLE Manila, UP) Manila learned Frt day that a violent earthquake shook the greater part of Mindanao Island Wednesday night. One person was killed at Cotabato, provincial capit al. Many houses collapsed and fire broke out but It was quickly con trolled. An undetermined number of persons were Injured. Damage was estimated at $100,000. The quake also was felt In Zam boanga and Davao, two other pro vinces of Mindanao, but little dam age was done In those areas. The weather bureau estimated that the quake was centered In the Celebes sea, 1,000 kilometers south of Manila. - I'm Coming for Christmas mm ti in TI OFAITCHISOII ISSANCTIONED Gives Favorable Report On Confirmation of Appointment Coolidge. Economy Edict Blamed for Delay in Making Valuations Washington UPi The nomination of Clyde B. Aitchlson of Oregon to be a member of the interstate com- cnerce commission, was approved by the senate interstate commerce committee after objections to his confirmation had been withdrawn. The committee also gave its ap proval to the conllrmation of Claude R. Porter of Iowa and Pat rick J. Farrell of the District of Columbia, to be members of the commission. senator wneeier, democrat, Mon tana, who was instrumental in de laying a vote in the committee Ait chlson's nomination, announced after a meeting of the committee that his complaints had been satis- (Concluded on Page 14, Column 8)" HUBBS READY TO HEAR PLEA Budget Board Member Is Willing To Reconsider Health Item Oeorge W. Hubbs, member of the county budget committee which assisted the county court In fram ing the budget and was one of the members to approve its stand In regard to not granting the increase asked for the health unit, volun teered to County Commissioner Porter Thursday to attend the tax payers meeting to pass on the bud' get on uecemDer 28. It Is likely that the court will ask the other members of the committee to be present at that meeting, which will settle the matter put up to the court by Dr. Estella Ford Warner, as to whether or not tne court could recall the budget committee to go over that portion of the document relating to health work. The court refused to comment further on the situation Friday and what Its eventual action in the matter will be remains as cloudy as ever. Indications are that the taxpay ers meeting, as a result of the health unit controversy, will be the first taxpayers' meeting for years at least in which any Interest has been evidenced. For a numoer oi years these meetings have been but a mere formality with no one at all in attendance, and not a protest or suggestion made from anyone as to (Concluded on Page 14, Column B) CHICAGO HELD IN WINTER GRIP Chicago (IP) winter came to Chicago and the middle west Frt day both by the calendar and by the weather. Friday was the official beginning of winter and In keeping with the date the mercury slid down to five above here with sub-aero tempera tures recorded In North Dakota Minnesota and Western Canada. Winnipeg reported 10 below and the Pas. Manitoba, recorded as low as 30 below on spirit thermometers. Astronomically, winter begins here it 1:04 a m. although sun rise was scheduled at 7:15 a. m and was to set at 4:21, the shortest day of the year measuring only nine hours and seven minutes. A woman was killed and a factory wrecked partly as a renult of the cold wave, Mrs. Mary Kllngenberg, tl, wan suffocated when her home burned An Iron works also was destroyed by fire. The cold hampered firemen in fighting the biases. ' ;x3 AJUjq,-, o JO Ruth Is Recalled SHI . tm 9 Kg SSB 1B 881 Has Friends Here xra erg sjgi gx gj wa trail Queer. Likes Told ' Several hundred women, now ' living in all parts of the United States, who were pupils at Mt. Angel academy and normal 10 or 11 yeajrs ago, have been reading the news stor ies of the transcontinental 'girl chase" during the last few davs with particular interest. In their minds there is no doubt but that the "Ruth McCon-- nell" who has been pursued from New York to San Francisco by the Rochester physician, is the same Ruth McConnell that they knew at Mt. Angel years ago. It Is just the kind of thing that would happen to Ruth. Most boarding school companions are forgotten after a ten year period. Even names become hazy but Ruth McConnell was one girl and one name that her companions haven't forgotten. The chances are 100 to one that the nuns at tne academy remember her perfectly also. It wasn't that Ruth was a bad girl or a ring leader in boarding school escapades. It'a because she was cut on a pattern so dllierent that even after several years asso ciation she was still an enigma to the nuns and to the girls. At Mt. Angel she never had a chum but she had pets of all kinds, dogs, cats, and snakes, anything she could find. Boarding school rules, neces sary to keep order when several hundred girls must live together, never bound Ruth. Admonitions, scoldings, punishments, never nlerced the shell or her Diune un concern. 8he went her solitary way, studying when she was forced to, one month standing at the head of her class, the next at tne foot. One of the few times during her residence at Mt Angel academy when Ruth really showed emotion was after a tragedy occurred to one of her pet mice. This mouse, one of the common field variety, was tied to a water pipe at the edge of the tennis courts on the school grounds (Concluded on Page 14, Column 7) DEATH THREATS HANG LOW OVER KIDNAPING CASE Chicago, (LP) The blackhand threat of Impending death bangs over the Ranlerl trial. The judge, star witness of the state, prosecuting attorneys and police officials all have been warned that death will result If they go ahead with the trial of three Ital ians, charged with kidnaping Billy Ranlerl and demanding 160,000 ransom. Judge Robert Oentzel. presiding at the trial, received a crudely printed note through the mail tell lng him, "you I e too late. You are to die. Quit our case." A. Frank Ranlerl, father of Billy, was warned that his home would be bombed Saturday night unless the prosecution Is stoppeed. Ten Important witnesses for the state have fled the city or are in hiding because they heard threat ening whispers that bombs would be tossed Into their homes or their children kldnsped If they aided in the prosecution of Angelo Pettltl accused head of an extortion ring and on trial for the kidnaping of Billy. Two assistant state's attorneys have sent their wives and families out of Chicago until the trial is over. Mike Devlto. a state witness who Thursday said Everybody knew Pettltl was the head of a blackhand extortion ring," Is scheduled along with Judge Oentzel as the next to die. He received a death threat say ing he was to be killed. Despite the threat Devito testified that Pettltl had blackmailed him out of 1300 on threat of bombing his home and abducting his child ren. Ole Scully, a relative of the Ranleris and a witness the state had counted on to enmesh Petltti further In the Mafia, was slain in a saloon early in the week by five men who inquired for him by name and then clubbed and shot him to death. OVER fl PRICE THREE Old Man 111 In Shack Is Given Help County officials are trying to penetrate the mystery of a middle aged man who has been brought In from about two and a half miles from Aumsville where for the past two weeks he has been living In an abandoned shack with scarcely any food or fuel. The man Is suffering from a cancer of the face. He re fuses to divulge his name, where he came from or why he took up his lodgings In the old, deserted shack. He was in bad physical condition when discovered through a com bination of his Illness and exposure. County Probation Officer Mrs. Nona White says she believes the man escaped from some county hospital or some private home, as evidently he had been having care and medical attention before taking up his hermit home in the lonely shack. LEAD OF HOOVER LESS THAN THAT GIVEN COOLIDGE (Copyright 1928 by The Associat ed Press). Washington Herbert Hoov er's plurality over Governor Smith in the November election was 6, 432,812. Figures gathered by the Associat ed Press from the election "of flclals of the 48 states show these totals: Hoover 21,429.109. Smith 15.005,497. The votes not accounted for In the Hoover and Smith columns went to minor parties. Norman Thomas, the socialist candidate, received the majority of these votes, polling 267,835. Foster, workers party candidate, got 48.228 and Reynolds, soctalist-laoor 21.181. Varney, prohibitionist candidate, got almost as many as Reynolds, 20,101, and Webb, farmer-labor, 0,391. Mr. Hoovers plurality did not reach the figures registered for President Coolidge In 1924, although the former secretary of commerce polled a much larger vote. In that year Mr. Coolidge received 15,729,- 010 votes, giving him a lead of 7,338.513 over John W. Davis, dem ocratic nominee. The LaFollette- Wheeler independent ticket, how ever, had 4,822,850 votes. Distraction Mounts in Further Explosions of Gas Mains in London London (IP) Additional explo sions of gag mains In the West End and central London district early PYlday did further damage and en dangered the foundations of build ings In the district. Seventeen persons. Including sev en who were gassed, were injured In the explosions which began Thurs day and continued intermittently for 20 hours after the first main burst An explosion of an electric dyna mo on which repairmen re work ing in a man hole caused the first main to explode. At 10 p. m. Thursday officials an nounced that all mains had been sealed, but another of the storage tanks beneath the streets burst Into flames at 2:30 a. m. It was feared that other tanks or mains might explode. The flames from the ex CREST . RAIN OR SNOW 'tonight and Saturday, no change In temperature. Increasing southeast winds. Local Mm. so; Min. 34; rain 0; river 0 feet; cloudy; south wind. CENTS ON TRMN8 AND NKHSS 8TANII8 WVK (U.NTK rnuiurHifu. TODICKERSOHI Complications Resulting From Recent Attack of Flu Causes Death Bryant to Face Charge Of Murder as Result of Fight Over Girl Corvallis, (y-Lewis (Hip) Dlck- eraon. assistant Oregon State colic, o athlete coach, died at 4 ocuvk Fri day morning, as the result of a atnb wound, said to have been ..-Plr'.ed last Tuesday by Lanza Br :-nt, a Corvallis youth, In an altercation over a waitress. Bryant, who was being held on an open charge, was removed to Portland by Corvallis authorities, when sentiment became strong against him. Dickerson met Miss Mae Troxall when she quit work at the Benton Hotel Coffee shop Monday night and they encountered Bryant on the street. A rough and tumble fight occurred, according to reports re ceived by local officers, and in the melee Dickerson received, a flve- (Concluded on Page 18. Column 8) ASKS PASSAGE OF M'NARY ACT Jardine Urges Enactment Of Farm Relief Bill at Short Session Washington WV-Endorsing tha new McNary farm marketing bill, secretary Jardine wrote a letter to Senator McNary, republican, Ore gon, urging Its enactment at this session in order to make It ap plicable to the 1929 crop. Senator McNary, who is chairman of the agricultural committee, an nounced Immediately upon receipt of the letter that he would press his bill for a vote at this session. He said he would seek to assemble the agriculture committee during tha Christmas recess or Immediately thereafter. "If we are going to make the pro posed farm relief applicable to tho 1929 crop." Senator McNary de clared, "we must get this bill through 'at the short session." (Concluded on Page 14. Column 5) BEAN DOES WELL AFTER OPERATION Louts E. Bean, member of th state public service commission, who underwent a major surgical opera tion at a hospital here Thursday. Is prog rawing favorably. "Mr. Bean had a good night and seems to be doing fine," was the report from the hospital. It Is understood that the opera tion did not reveal a necessarily serious condition. plosions shot 50 feet Into the air at times and firemen laid hose and . wheeled large quantities of sand into the area as a precautionary measure. Throughout the niht. the dis trict, one of the busiest traffic and business centers ol the city wis paralysed. For more than a mile the streets were shattered or bulged as though there bad been an earth quake. Storekeepers and those living In the district who have been ordered to evacuate when It was seen that buildings might collapse, mingled throughout the night with hun dreds of persons who came to view the havoc Workmen with gas masks made every effort to stop the flow of gas which leaked from, the mains and threatened to ex plode If It came In contact with any lights
