Capital journal., February 21, 1929, Image 1

BILL FOR ONE BOARD OF REGENTS NOW PASSED
CIRCULATION
Daily average distribution for the
month ending January 31, 1D2U
10,026
Average dally net paid 9,000 "
Member Audit Bureau ot Circulation
FIFTY-FIRST YEAR,
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SCHOOL ACT
NOW TABLED
AT CAPITOL
Much Is Talked, Little Is
Done On Plan To Con
' solidate Units
Measure Now Expected
To Be On Calendar By
Next Friday
The senate Thursday after
noon passed the Bcll-Schul-merich
bill for the consolidation-
of the boards of regents
of the University of Oregon,
the Oregon Agricultural col
lege and the Oregon ormal
schools, by a vote of 25 to 5.
hose voting no on the mea
sure were Bailey of Lane,
Billingsley, Hall, Kiddle and
Klepper.
The Bell-Schulmcrlch bill, pro
viding that one board of legents
administer affairs of the University
of Oregon, Oregon State college
and the three state normal schools,
considered one of the most import
ant measures before the legislature,
was tabled by the senate after a
long debate Thursday in which it
was presumed the measure was go
ing to be voted on. It is expected
to be on the calendar Friday.
The senate passed Senator Fish
er's bill authorizing the creation of
tunnel districts, and Bynon's bill
extending the authority of the cor
poration commissioner over building
and loan associations. Senator Moser
aided Fisher in tue floor support of
' his tunnel bill, explaining that ob
jectionable features of a former tun
nel district bill relative to voting
power had been removed. Senator
Dunne opposed the bill on the ad
vice, he said, of W. C. North of
Portland, head of the Building Own
ers' association. Senator Staples op
posed it because, he said, "We al
ready are head over heels in debt."
Senator Bell, defending the bill
to consolidate the regent boards of
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STUDENT WHO
KILLED FOR HIS
HONORIS FREE
El Centra, Oal. tfP) Martin Ray
Kllgore, 22-year-old Stanford uni
versity graduate, who killed F. A.
Bartley, Imperial Valley rancher, in
defense "of my lamiry's nonor" was
free Thursday. Acquitvcd by a Jury
after four hours deliberation, he
was believed to be the first de
fendant ever freed on a .murder
charge in southern California on the
plea of "unwritten law." -
Kllgore charged Bartley with at
tempting to "wreck" his home. He
shot the rancher, he said, after his
mother had confessed to him an il
licit love affair with the middle
aged dairy man, the details of
which Mrs. Kllgore related from the
witness stand. After the shooting,
which occurred Deo. 23, Kllgore
surrendered to the sheriff, saying
that he had "to do it."
Pele, Fire Goddess,
Returns To Hawaii,
True To Folk Lore
Hilo, T. H. (UP) Madame Pele, goddess of fire, has
returned to Hawaii, true to native .folk lore. The slopes of
Mamaloa mountain are heavy with snow and native super
stition details that always when those slopes are" covered
deepest with snow, Madame peie-
comes forth to stage one of her ex
hibitions of power.
The physical exhibition of the
goddess' control over fire is per
formed by the volcano Kilauea,
which erupted and poured tons of
molten rock into Halekaumau pit.
Throughout the night, hundreds
of tourists and natives gathered on
the side of Mamaloa to gaze down
into the pit, visible in the distance,
through clear moonlight. Tongues of
flame shot high in the air from the
molten lava, Illuminating the sky
No. 45
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Consolidation Big
Issue For Solons
After Long Battle
By HARRY N. CRAIN
. The movement toward consolidation of departments,
institutions and functions of the state government is for the
first time receiving serious consideration from the legisla
ture at this session. Scoffed at, dodged and buried under
the avalanche of bDuosition of the office holders, whom it
. . $
Good Evening!
DON UPJOHN
OFFERS
Sips for Supper
A chap named Gene Tunney, a
name we think we have heard
somewhere before, says he refuses to
talk to newspaper reporters or to be
talked to by them, and incidentally
knocked down a French newspaper
photographer who tried to take .his
picture. We assume from this, this
Tunney chap wishes his name kept
out of the papers. In our humble
way we will accede to his wishes
from now on and never mention it
again. We hope all other newspaper
persons do likewise.
We suggest on behalf of news
papers in general that this gentle
man be relegated to the oblivion
from which he never should have
emerged in the first place and that
he be allowed to enjoy in peace the
million or so trie newspapers made
for him.
A man whose general idea of
meeting a situation is summed up
in knocking somebody down, reveals
his own inherent qualities to such
an extent that no further comment
is needed.
There Is one ray of hope in the
bill in the legislature providing
for change in school text books
every 10 years instead of a part of
them every two years. Maybe after
this bill passes folks can afford to
have children.
Now that it's all over, we wish to
call the attention of the high
school dramatic club that it missed
a big bet during the recent cold
snap. It should have put on Uncle
Tom's Cabin with an outdoor set
ting. '
Out of deference to this column a
large department store here has oN
fered a pair of genuine silk pink
bloomers as one of the prizes at the
policemen's and Firemen's ball to
be held Monday, March 4, in the
third floor of the city hall. This
ought to make ticket selling easy for
that big event.
Hurrah, only one more day to
Washington's birthday I
NAVAL PROTECTION
IS ASKED BY CHINA
Washington, (IP) Naval protec
tion for Americans in northern
Shantung province has been re
quested by Consul Leroy Webber at
Chefoo, China, following the rais
ing of the old republican flag over
Hwanghsien by rebellious provin
cial troops, it was learned Thurs
day. and staging a brilliant spectacle for
their benefit.
The natives gathered in awe
struck groups, speaking in low
tones of how the tales handed down
by their ancestors were borne out
by this eruption. Tourists had come
in motor cars to the mountain, lo
cated northwest of Kilauda, lights
on their motor cars resembling
Japanese lantern parade as they
proceeded over the highway.
The glow within Halekaumau In
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threatens, in former sessions, the
movement has gained by me very
weight of Its soundness and econ
omy forced itself right up into the
foreground of important proposals
before the present session,
Two important moves toward this
consolidation were registered In the
legislature Thursday morning, The
consolidation resolution, which
would submit to the people a plan
of reorganizing all of the state de
partments in a cabinet appointed
by the governor, was returnpd to
the house by the committee on res
olutions with a unanimous report
that it "do pass." It has already
been adopted by the senate.
In the upper house debate openea
on the Bell-Schulmcrich bill to
consolidate the boards of regents
of the University of Oregon, Ore'
gon Agricultural college and the
normal schools into a single board
of higher education to be composed
of nine directors to be appointed by
the governor with the consent of
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Because "unending contention be
tween commercial and sport fish
ermen in the state, brings a grave
danger that the supply of fish in
tliis state for both commercial and
sport purposes will be depleted to
an injurious extent," Chllds of Linn
county has introdupced a resolution
to the house that a commission be
appointed to formulate uniform
laws governing both sport and com
mercial fishing to assure an ade
quate supply of fish in the streams
of this state for all purposes.
The resolution provides that this
commission shall include two house
members appointed by the -speaker,
and a senator appointed by the
president of the senate, to repre
sent the state at large; three mem
bers appointed by the governor
from a list of nine or more sub
mitted by the Oregon State Game
Protective association; one appoint
ed by the governor from a list or
three or more submitted by the
commercial fishing Interests of dis
trict one. one from a list of three
or more submitted by the commer
cial fishing interests of district two
and one from a list of three or more
submitted by the Oregon sta :o
council of fishermen.
The commission, according to the
resolution, will be empowered to
Issue subpoenas for the Durnose of
holding hearings or public meet inns
and to formulate legislation for pre
sentation at the next legislature.
KIDNAPER YET
COPS' TARGET
San Francisco, UFi The long
search for baby Doris Smith-Mur
phy believed to be in the clutches of
a kidnaper since her disappearance
last I'Tiday was renewed Thurs
day with police following half i
dozen trails. Thus far the greatest
cnim-nunc this city has known,
conducted by police, press and pub
lic has failed to lift the veil of
mystery, resulting only in a maize
of theories and futile pursuits.
Federal post officials and state
narcotics 'Investigators joined with
city authorities in the search when
circumstances of the case' indicated
kidnaping might have some con:
nection with a drug ring, and when
letters were sent through the mails
purporting to have been from the
abductor,
A poignant plea to those reespora
ible for the disappearance of her
child was made Wednesday by Mrs.
Helen Murphy, mother of Doris,
CARDINAL NO BETTER
Vatican City. UP) Cardinal Vico,
prefect of the sacred congregation of
rites, who has been seriously ill,
has made no progress and his condi
tlon Is regarded as serious. He is 82
years old. Cardinal Fruhwirth
Archbishop of Florence, who has
been ill, is now improving and no
fears are entertained for him.
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929
City Gets Quarter Million
P.E.P. PEOPLE
ARE TO BUILD
DURING 1929
Many Improvements And
Extensions Are Due,
Hamilton Says
New Warehouse Costing
$40,000 Listed Among
. Other Plans
Approximately a quarter of
million dollars will be expended in
improvements and extensions by
the Portland Electric Power com
pany in Salem and vicinity during
the year 1929, according to an
nouncement made Thursday morn
ing by W. M. Hamilton, Willamette
valley manager for the company,
Of this amount $40,000 will be spent
in the construction of a new ware
house to take care of the line de
partment office and shops. This
structure will be erected on North
Liberty street near Mill creek. This
structure which will be of pleasing
appearance, will be built of rein
forced concrete with stucco finish
and will harmonize with the sur
roundings. The building will be CO
feet wide and 80 feet deep, with two
floors and a bull basement for auto
truck storage. It will be so designed,
both from a construction standpoint
and architecturally, that a third
floor may be added at a later date.
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FLIERS MAPPING
OUT NEW LANDS
FOUND BY BYRD
New York, (fp The New York
Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and their associated newspapers an
nounced Thursday that Command
ed Richard E. Byrd, in an extensive
airplane flight with two planes on
Monday last, discovered and mapped
in part a vast new territory" in the
Antarctic, which he has claimed for
the United States and has named
for his wife, Marie Byrd land.
Commander . Byrd has also re
ported a range discovered by him
recently and named the Rockefeller
range. The range Is within territory
claimed by the British and known
as the Ross dependency.
The new range discovered on Mon
day Is larger than the first and
contains peaks between eight and
10 thousand feet high. It is out
side the limit of the British claims
and is in the new Marie Byrd land,
which lies between Rosy sea and
Graham land.
About 40,000 square miles of Ant
arctic have now been explored from
the air by the Byrd expedition. In
the last flight the Rockefeller range
was mapped by aero camera, the
entire new nection was sketched
and the uncharted coastline east of
the Bay of Whales was mapped by
Captain Ashley McKinley of the
army, air service, who was in the
second of the two airplanes that
made the flight.
CHAUFFEUR BILL
DEAD IN HOUSE
Senator Ed Bailey's bill to repeal
the chauffeurs license fee ctf $2
per year was killed in the house
Thursday morning by the indefinite
postponement route. The automo
biles and roads committee of the
house returned an adverse report on
the bill on the claim that such re
peal would deprive the state high
way department of approximately
2B,00G anuual revenue.
Two fish bills, .house bills 335 and
475, both Introduced by Roblson,
were also killed by the Indefinite
postponer nt route. Substitute bills
nave been Introduced to the senate,
said Robinson.
The Wilkes and Tompkins bill
providing that in any trial, failure
to testify - against himself by the
part of the accused person, may be
commented upon by the district at
torney to the Jury, was also killed
by indefinite postponement. Haz-
lett and Robison spoke against the
1 bill.
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P. E. P. Plans To Build
New warehouse to cost 540,000,
In vicinity during coming year. Structure to be erected on North Liberty.
ONE COMPANY DROPS ITS
GAS HERE ONE MORE CENT;
WAR ON COAST IS GENERAL
With the exception of the Gen
eral Petroleum corporation of Cali
fornia which has reduced the price
of gasoline to 18 cents a gallon, all
other local companies are maintain
ing a retail price of 19 cents. How
ever, the majority of local officials
said they would meet the lowered
price when the reduction became
more general.
Portland, firs tJPi After nn n
tire morning of argument, the
soclation announced Thursday that
memoers would meet the General
STATE RULE IN
CHICAGO, PLAN
Springfield, 111., (JF A bill to take
control of the Chicago police depart- j
ment from the city's hands and give
It to the state has been placed be
fore the Illinois senate. '
The measure, introduced by Sen
ator Adolph Marks of Chicago,
would replace police Commissioner
William. E. Russell and his deputies
with a commission appointed by
Governor Emmcrson.
In presenting the bill Senator
Marks declared the Chicago police
force "needs a housecleaning."
Under the system now effective
by which the north, south and west
park boards of Chicago are state
operated, that city at present has
large area policed under staic
direction.
TO TEACH OR NOT TO
TEACH IS PROBLEM
Numerous inquiries were received
Thursday by Mrs. Fulkerson, county
superintendent, from various school
districts in the county asking for
permission to teach school, Friday,
Washington's birthday. She merely
referred the inquirers to the law
which provides that there shall be
an hour and a half program in the
morning appropriate to the day and
that school shall be dismissed for
the balance of the day.
"I have no authority one way
or another in the matter and can
not say that they shall be permitted
to teach on Washington's birthday,
nnlrl Mr Piillmrontt "The Inw 1ft
1 explicit."
part of quarter million Portland Electric Power company plans to roend
Petroleum corporation's reduction
of gasoline to 16 & cents a gallon.
The association has more than 500
members in the state.
Vancouver, Wash. (ff) Gasoline
dropped to 11 cents at two service
stations here Thursday. One pump
was a General gasoline station,
while the other, just across the
street at 21st and Main( was sell
ing Richfield products.
Portland, Ore., (IP) Hostilities in
the Portland gas war were renewed
early Thursday when the General
Petroleum Corporation of Califonia
announced through A. J. Donnelly,
UPRISING SEEN,
CRUISER TO GO
Manila, M) The light cruiser
Trenton left Manila Thursday under
order to proceed to Chefoo, as the
result of a reported uprising In
Shantung. It was understood that
the Trenton was moving under
forced draft.
Reports from Chefoo ten days ago
said that 3,000 former Peking sol
diers who had been mustered into
the nationalist army had revolted
at Ltingkow, Shantung. There was
fear -then that the mutiny would
spread to other towns and garri
sons. Later reports Indicated that this
may have happened and that a
battle was Imminent west of Chefoo
between loyal nationalists and reb
els, BORAH REFUSES
JOB IN CABINET
Washington, (IP) Senator William
E. Borah has been tendered the at
torney generalship in the Hoover
cabinet and has declined to accept
it, the United Press learned Thurs
day. The Invitation to the chairman of
the senate foreign relations com
mittee is understood to have been
offered by President-Elect Hoover
in a conference with Borah here
Wednesday night. While both
Hoover and Borah declined to dls-
cues anything that transpired ' be
tween them, information developed
in authoritative quarters that Borah
declined to relinquish his present
position In the senate.
PRICE THREE
In Salem
assistant division manager, that
petrol wodld be sold here Thurs
day for cents, the third cut
within two weeks.
Donnelly announced that a cor
responding reduction would be gen
eral throughout Oregon and Wash
ington. Officials of the Associated Oil
company said they were of the
opinion the new figure set by the
General would not be met, while
Shell Oil officials, as yet undecided,
expected to make the cut.
San Francisco, (TO A variety of
prices for gasoline was offered to
motorists of the Pacific coast
Thursday as the result of the entry
of the larger companies into the
"gas war". Companies except Rich
field were selling it wholesale at 11
cents a gallon.
There were few signs of a settle
ment of the price squabble here.
The Texas company had a ten cent
quotation on wholesale gasoline
while other major companies pegged
it at 11 cents with the exception of
General Petroleum. The latter con
cern fixed a retail price ot 17
cents and the wholesale quotation
at 13 cents.
In Los Angeles all the major oil
companies followed the lead of
General Petroleum by fixing the
wholesale price at 12',& cents. The
retail price there ranged from 13 to
146 cents.
Ways, Means Body
Out To Lower Taxes;
Reports Are Adverse
The ways and means
saving mood Wednesday night
various appropriation bills.
Among those that went
Corbett bill providing for an
bo matched by a federal $125,000
appropriation, for the construction
of a memorial building at Cham
pocg. This was done after Milton
A. Miller of Portland, H. O. Stark
weather of Mllwauklo and P. H.
D'Arcy had eloquently presented
the cause to the committee.
Another measuro that was dis
allowed was one providing for $35,
000 annually for three years for the
agricultural promotion campaign of
the atato Chamber of Commerce.
This was bitterly attacked by Sen
ator Strayor after Senator Kiddle
KAIR
tonight, Friday cloudy, rain, moder
ate temperature. Moderate couUa
erly winds. . .
- local: Max. 62; min. 40; rain .01;
river 0.8 feet; partly cloudy, south
winds.
CENTS
UN 1KAINS ANU Hf.VtlJ .
STA.MIH riVK I'tNIB
o)n
FLAMES KILL
WOMAN WITH
HER CHILDREN
Mrs. Mangold Is Carried
To Safety But Burns
For Youngsters
Parent Breaks From Her
Rescuers, Perishes Jn
Razed Dwelling
By UNITED PRESS
Two mothers and 13 children
perished in fires which destroyed
their homes in Pennsylvania and
Illinois Thursday.
At Carrolltown, ' Pa., Mrs. Leo
Mangold and her " five . children,
ranging in age from six years to
eight months, were burned to
death. The father and a neighbor
were badly burned. They had suc
ceeded in rescuing Mrs. Mangold
when she broke away from them,
;.nd ran back into the house, per
ishing with her children.
Mrs..Zenas Berkey and her three
children died in flames when their
home was set afire by an over
heated stove, at Millsboro, Pa. The
father, who had tried to rescue his
family, fell in the snow unconscious
outside the house and did not re
vive until his wife and children had
perished.
At Lansing, Ills., John Ooms
dropped a kettle of hot lard which
his wife had been rendering, on an
oil stove. It burst Into flames
which swept through the entire
house, killing five of the six Ooms
children who were asleep In a front
room. When firemen arrived they
found Ooms and his wife un
conscious on the front lawn.
AIMEE NEARS
E; TRIAL
IS
Sacramento, Calif. (IP) Aimco
Semple Mcpherson neared Los
Angeles Thursday as members of
the California legislature here pre
pared for an impeachment trial of
Judge Carlos Hardy of the superior
court, because the judge accepted
a $2,500 check from the evangelist.
The charge against Judge Hardy
is that he obstructed Justice at the
time an investigation was conduct- .
ed into Mrs. McPherson's asserted
kidnaping. An investigation com
mittee eclared its opinion was that
the check was given Judge Hardy
by Mrs. McPherson so that pub
licity attending her disappearance
would be ended.
The decision to try Judge Hardy ;
followed a month's investigation by
an assembly special committee.
Members of the assembly de
nounced Mrs. McPherson. E. O,
Adams said he would vote freely to
impeach or imprison "the woman
at the bottom of this filthy mess
Aimee Semple McPherson."
"I hate to hear altars and shrines
discussed in the same breath with
those money grabbing hypocrites of
Angclus temple," Representative
Henry McGuiness shouted during
debate in the assembly.
committee was in a grim, tax-
and voted adverse reports on
into the discard was the Moser-
appropriation of $100,000, to
-
had moved that It be approved.
Straycr said he thought It was Just
about on a par with tho state's
model farm experience.
"I think It does a great deal ot
good," said Senator Staples.
"If you want to start mother
foolish, wild-cat venture." eald Mr.
Stroyer, "Just get busy on tills. It
Is economically unsound and fcol
ish." Representative Collier defended
the measure and cited statistics.
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