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