Capital journal., March 21, 1929, Image 1

WEATHER MAN SMILES ON SPRING OPENING HERE
C apitalAlpiirEal
CIRCULATION
Dally average distribution tor the
month ending February 28, 1929
CLOUDY
tonight and Friday, cooler tonight
Fresh northwesterly winds,
10,252
Local Max. 0, Mln. 46; rain .
river 2.0" leet; part cloudy; wot
wind. - :
Average dally net paid 9,644.
Utmtxr Audit Bureau of Circulation
,42nd YEAR, No.
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929
PRICE THREE CENTS SSU553
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CLOUDY SKIES
BUT DRY SAYS
FORECASTER
Treasure Hunt Staged
By Over 100 Merchants
Is Feature Event
Drapes Over Best Win
dows Ever Shown To
Drop At 7:30 o'clock
Prospects for satisfactory weather
conditions for the annual spring
opening, with more than 100 retail
firms participating, rose Thursday
morning with the weather man's
prediction of a dry but cloudy eve
ning. Windows that have "-been dark
ened for the last day or two will
remain so until the curtains
throughout the business district
are simultaneously unveiled at 7:30
o'clock Thursday evening and the
treasure hunt started in full blast.
Hundreds of dollars worth ol
valuable merchandise is being of
fered this year with distribution of
tickets under way for four days.
Each merchant who is listed below
will have a number prominently
displayed on some article of mer
chandise In his window which, if
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HIP DiCKERSON
Corvallls, (LP) Lanza Bryant, con
fessed slayer of Lewis "Hip" Dicker
son, assistant football coach of
Oregon state college, who will go to
trial here Monday, will not be
brought here until the opening day
or the trial, It was announced here.
Since Bryant fatally wounded
Dickerson in a quarrel . over Mae
Troxel last December, he has been
held in the Multnomah county jail
at Portland and the Polk county
jail at Dallas, to prevent violence on
the part of students of the college,
The trial was originally set for
January 21, but owing to illness in
Miss Troxers family, It was post
poned until March '25. Miss Troxel
will be the chief witness at the trial
which, it is believed, will not last
more than two or three days.
Bryant is willing to converse, but
has refused to say anything regard
ing his acquaintance yith Dicker
son or the girl in the case. Reports
from Dallas, where he is now con
fined, say that he has been a model
prisoner.
With the coming of the trial, this
college town's Interest In the case
has been revived. Friends of the
slain coach and the slayer arc ex
pected to crowd the court room,
Bryant stabbed Dickerson while
the latter was escorting Miss Troxel
to her home. Complications set in
after, the coach was taken to the
hospital, which caused his death
during the Christmas holidays.
FULLER TO SUCCEED
HERRICK IS REPORT
Boston () The Boston Herald
says in a copyrighted story that
Its Washington correspondent has
learned that Alvan T. Fuller, for
mer governor of Massachusetts, has
b m tentatively picked to succeed
Myron T. Herrick as this country's
ambassador to France.
Fuller, long regarded as possible
choice for the post, will arrive In
Washington Saturday afternoon
and, the Herald adds, It Is "hardly
by accident" that his arrival will
coincide with that of Henry L
Stimson, the new secretary of state.
The former governor has been in
Palm Beach and is motoring north,
Survivors Compelled
To Look Helplessly On
As Crash Victims Burn
Parry Sound, Ont. (AP) Survivors of the wreck of
two Canadian National express trains near here told how
they were forced to stand helplessly by while men, women
and children burned to death. Nineteen dead were accounted
lor and a score or more were in
jured. Wrecking crews were search
ing the debris for other bodies,
The wreck occurred when trains
number three, eastbound, and num
ber four, westbound, collided head
on near Drocourt, a riding 46 miles
noi-thwest of here shortly before
dawn Wednesday.
The greatest loss ot life was in a
colonists' coach near the head end
m
FUNERAL FOR
FOCH SET FOR
NEXT TUESDAY
Body Of Allied Leader
During War To Lie In
State Under Arch
Pershing Among Scores
To View Remains Of
Great Warrior
Paris (P) The funeral of Marshal
Foch has been set for Tuesday next.
The body is to lie in state under
the Arch de Trlomphe for 24 hours
previously. It has not yet been de
cided whether the rengous cere
mony shall be held in Notre Dame
cathedral or in the Chapel oi the
Invalides.
To the home where the general
Issimo of the mighty allied hosts of
1918 died at sunset wednesaay, an
unendinsr succession of distin
guished personages, messengers and
messaffes began to arrive before
dawn and continued throughout
the day.
General John J. Pershing, com
mander of the American expedi
tionary forces, and Marshal Petain
who commanded the French under
Foch, walked with slow steps to the
bed where the marshal lay.
Representing all of France in his
sorrowful mission, aaston uou-
mergue, president of the republic,
was one of the early callers. He was
escorted to the bed where the mar
shal rested and then expressed to
the marshal's widow the grief ot
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OCEAN VOYAGE
IN TINY CRAFT
UNSUCCESSFUL
New York (ff) The long odyssey
of Capt. Jacob P. Schuttevaer, 70-
year-old sea captain who sought to
cross the broad Atlantic in a jsu-
foot "unslnkable" life boat, has
come to an end and the determined
old salt is en route to San Juan,
Porto Rico aboard the steamship
Marques dc Comillas which picked
him up in mid-Atlantic Monday,
Details of the rescue of the cap
tain and his crew of two were re
ceived by the Associated Press from
Captain Miranda of the Spanish
steamer who picked them up,
When the men were rescued they
told Captain Miranda they would
have starved or died of thirst soon
if the ship had not happened along.
The Schuttevaer, as the life boat
was named, left Lisbon February 8
and had not since been heard of.
It started originally from Rotter
dam on February 26, 1928, but was
tied up in European ports for al
most a year.
Captain Miranda said the Schut
tevaer was hoisted aboard his ship,
notwithstanding its crew of threi1
stated they were abandoning the
vessel.
WARY WARDEN
Richmond, Va. (P) The game
warden of Rockingham county has
decided bounty is being paid too
frequently In his territory for the
heads of weasels and goshawks.
He believes heads are being ship
ped in from states where no boun
ty is given.
of the west bound train, which
caught fire Immediately after the
crash. The flames held "rescuers at
bay while passengers trapped In the
wreckage of the oar perished.
The colonists' coach was of wood
construction and was provided with
a stove. It Is believed the overturn
ing the stove set fire to the car.
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Levee Gives
Way Before
High Water
Quincy, III., (PI Unable longer
to withstand the onslaught of the
torrent of water which had reached
the levee crown, the Indian Grave
leveo on the Mississippi river about
five miles north of Quincy gave way,
pouring a great flood over 20,000
acres of improved farm land in the
district.
The break Is below the Rock creek
levee which divides the district, but
little hope was entertained that the
north end could be saved now with
the angry waters attacking both
sides of the embankment. The levee
on the north side of the creek was
strengthened, but with the great
volume of water eddying and swirl
ing through the district, it was ex
pected to go out at any moment.
IN OREGON PAY
Portland (LP1 Approximately
$40,000 has been donated to the cof
fers of the United States treasury
in payment of income tax by Ore
gon bootleggers during the last four
years, Clyde G. Huntley, collector
of internal revenue, says.
"Bootleggers don't like to admit
they are in the liquor business,"
Huntley said, "but they usually
are willing to pay their tax and
penalty when we go after, them,
especially when they know that
all we want is to collect the tax
and not send them to jail.
"Most of them list themselves as
'salesmen and sometimes as 'manu
facturers.' We get on their trail as
a rule when they are arrested and
boast of what they made in liquor
operations. Sometimes they admit
their earnings for several years
past.
"There are few bootleggers who
can be classed as 'honest.' Clerks
in the office sometimes spot a man
they know to be engaged in the
liquor business who is paying his
tax. Of course we must take their
word for the amount paid since we
have no way of checking up.
Huntley is not allowed by oath of
office to reveal who the bootleggers
are who filed returns for 1928, nor
Is he allowed to tell how much
they earned.
In some parts of the country
bootleggers openly list themselves
as "liquor dealers," Huntley said,
but said he had never found any In
Oregon so bold.
RETAIL GASOLINE
WAR STILL RAGES
San Franacisco, (P) Although all
but one of the large oil companies
have advanced the wholesale price
of gasoline here from 10 to 16 cents
a gallon, retailers still were at log
gerheads over the price of fuel at
service stations.
The Retail Service Station Deal
ers association Wednesday night
voted to fix the price at 20 cents a
gallon, retail, beginning Thursday.
It was decided that if other retail
dealers do not conform to that quot
ation, the price is (o be cut to 17
cents. The garage owners stations,
which had been underselling the
service station dealers, was under
stood to have failed to make up the
retail price along with the others.
Garage owners started out to set
the price at 19 cents Wednesday, but
in some instances gasoline was be
ing sold at 13 cents before sundown.
4 AUTO ACCIDENTS
IN FEBRUARY FATAL
Four persons were killed and 207
were injured In traffic accident in
Oregon durnvg February, says the
monthly report ot T. A. Baffety,
chief state traffic inspector. The
total number of accidents reported
was 1803.
Collision was Involved in 1765
accidents, injuring 108 persons and
killing three. Of the total number
of collisions 1523 were one motor
vehicle with another. Non-collision
accidents totaled 38, with nine In.
Juries.
Of the numerous causes of accl-
dents 288 were due to a vehicle not
having right-of-way, 145 to failure
to give signals, 238 to skidding.
Drunkeness was responsible for 18.
Arrests totaled 319, fines (2,194.20
and fees collected $8,000.75. Stolen
cars recovered had a value ot 04,-
ooo and motorcylcles (225.
REBEL CHIEF
CAPTURED IN
BATTLE SHOT
General Aguirre Court
Martialed, Executed At
La Magras
Federals Confident Of
Holding Mazatlan And
Other Points
Mexico City (P) General Jesus
M. Aguirre, chief Tebel comman
der in the province of Vera Cruz,
was executed at La Magras, Vera
Cruz province, at 7 a. m. alter
court marital. The presidential cast
le did not state whether the body
would be brought to Mexico City for
burial.
Aguirre was captured Wednesday
after a short fight between federals
and his few followers in which two
generals were killed, it was an
nounced at Chapultepec castle.
The excitement manifest Wednes
day night In government offices at
the castle was abated Thursday.
The government is convinced that
the federal -garrison at Mazatlan
will be able to hold that Important
Sinaloa seaport.
The commander of the Mazatlan
garrison telegraphed Mie government
at 2:15 a. m. that rebels had fired a
few shots but had not then begun
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OF EVANGELIST
Sacramento, Calif. Having def
initely linked the kidnaping oi
Aimee Semple McPherson with the
trial of Judge Carlos S. Hardy oi
Los Angeles, the state senate stood
adjourned as a court of Impeach
ment until April 8 when the taking
oi testimony win proceed.
Senate officials estimate the
trial will require 14 days, and will
cost the state $15,000. It also may
result in extending the legislative
session as late as June 1,
Judge Hardy lost the second legal
fight of his preliminary hearing
Wednesday night when the senate
after four hours of debate behind
locked doors, voted to amend its
rules to admit the testimony of
Mrs. Mcpnerson's mother. Mrs.
Minnie "Ma" Kennedy.
Important new evidence in the
alleged kidnaping of Mrs. McPher
son, involving a new check for $250
said to have been paid by the
evangelist to Judge Hardy for hir
ing Burns detectives to shadow
witnesses will be laid before the
senate by the assembly prosecu
tors, tney promised.
This check, according to Assem
blyman William B. Homblower of
San Francisco, member of the as
sembly board of managers, was Is
sued to Judge Hardy but was voided
ana never appeared on the Ange
lus Temple's books.
Other facts that will bo brought
out by Mrs, Kennedy were listed by
Hornbiower as follows:
That Mrs. McPherson frequently
asked Judge Hardy if he were per
mitted to give her legal advice
while sitting on the bench, and he
replied "Yes."
That Judge Hardy paid $000 to
Attorney McKlnley of Long Beach
for legal services to Mrs. McPher
son. That Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sei
laff, or the mysterious "Miss X."
was questioned by Judge Hardy in
his chambers and as a result she
made a public statement that she,
and not Mrs. McPherson, occupied
the bungalow at Carmel with Ken
neth G. Ormiston, radio operator.
This statement was later repudi
ated. That Judge Hardy advised Mrs.
McPherson over the protests of her
mother to appear In person before
the grand jury to give her testi
mony. NEW TRIAL ORDERED
Dallas Order for new trial has
been handed down In Polk county
circuit court in the cose of Schrunk
vs. Hawkins & Roberts, of Salem.
Schrunk, Independence constable,
sued the Salem firm for $30,850
damages for Injuries which he re
ceived when his car collided with a
band of horses owned by Hawkins
& Roberts. The accident occurred
,near the Independence city limits
Executed
GENERAL JESUS AGIIIRKK
s
Chicago, (LP) "Scarf ace Al" Ca
pone, a king to gangsters and a
hoodlum to the government, came,
saw, was conquered and must return
for more questioning- by a federal
grand jury about a liquor ring in
Chicago Heights.
The date of his second grand en
try into the grand jury room was
indefinite Thursday but probably it
will be next Tuesday,
It will be sooner than that If
Capone's lawyers have their way
because they fear the gangster
chief may become a target of Moran
gangster machine guns, Just as seven
Moran gangsters provided bulls
eyes for rivals on St. Valentine's
day.
Capone was in seclusion following
his melodramatic appearance Wed
nesday at the federal building at
the stroke of 10 a. m. Just as he and
his attorneys hod predicted. His body
guard of pistol secretaries so far
hasn't put in its appearance, the
police having signified their inten
tion of jailing them on sight.
The gangster leader, who bears
the reputation of controlling liquor,
vice and gambling rackets in Cook
county, was closeted with the grand
jury about two hours.
CHINESE AGAIN
EXPECTING WAR
Nanking, China OH War be
tween the nationalist government
and the faction controlling the Wu
han cities of Hankhow, Wuchang
and Hanyang Is believed here to be
Inevitable,
Hankow, China (P) The opin
ion here is that war with the na
tionalist government is lneviable.
$12,000,000 TIMBER
MERGER ON SOUND
Seattle, (LP) The northwest
Thursday hailed one of the greatest
mergers the lumber Industry has
known and looked forward for much
development in the Puget Sound
district as a result of the forma
tion of the $12,000,000 Puget Sound
Pulp and Timber company.
Vast resources directly affecting
Bell Ingham, Everett and Anacor-
tes were brought together in the
transaction which was confirmed at
a meeting of officials of Interested
companies in Seattle late Wednes
day. The principal organisations in
volved In the deal were the Fidalgo
Pulp company; the San Juan Pulp
Mfg. company: the Skagit Valley
Lumber company and the Puget
Sound and Cascade Railway com
pany, .
CONCERTS TO BEGIN
LAST WEEK IN JUNE
Salem, whose music lovers run
into many thousands, had its first
intimation of the coming season's
band concerts Thursday morning,
Oscar Steelhammer, veteran di
rector of the Salem band, anriounced
that the first concerts will begin
during the last week in June.
The concerts, as usual, will be
held in Willson park. Each concert
finds the park jammed with music
lovers and tho curbs surrounding
the park packed with automobiles.
ALLIES OFFER
GERMANY CUT
IN WAR DEBT
Proposal Reduces Repar
ations Annuites Nearly
Quarter Billion
Schacht Carries Scheme
To Berlin For Confer
ence Of Leaders
Paris (ff) HJalmar Schacht,
president of the Helclishank, win
take with him to Berlin Thursday
night, It is learned, the offer of the
allied experts on reparations to
accept 1,760,000,000 marks (about
$420,000,000) as the figure for the
German reparations annuities.
The allies' offer carried with It
various other conditions which were
not revealed.
Dr. Schacht has given no indica
tion that the German government
will accept the allies' offer. He has
telegraphed Dr. Rudolf Hilferding,
minister of finance, to call a meet
ing at Berlin of the great provincial
industrialists and heads of the
German institutions so that he may
explain the present situation of the
reparations negotiations.
The German banker asked this
meeting deliberately, it was under
stood i so that responsibility for ac
ceptance or conditional refusal
would be widely shared not only by
the government, but by the great
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INHAN SEEKING
DIVORCE, SAYS
WIFE RAN WILD
Reno, Uev. W Reno's Divorce
colony has Interested itself in the
sensational fight of Walker P. In
man, heir to a portion of the James
B. Duke tobacco millions, to obtain
a divorce from Mrs. Helen Garnet
Patton Inman, daughter of a Ko
komo, Ind., minister.
Mrs. Inman, who came here to
fight the case and to seek the -setting
aside of a financial agreement
by which she Is said to have re
ceived (150,000 and valuable per
sonal property at the time they
separated.
After a Jury had been chosen to
hear the testimony, Harlan Hew
ard, attorney for Inman, made his
opening- statement, declaring he
would produce evidence to show
that Mrs. Inman "literally ran wild
and lost all sense of decency" Just
before tho couple separated, in Au
gust, 1927.
. Heward also told the Jury he
would prove that Mrs. Inman had
been Intimate with John Steele, a
vaudeville actor, and another man
whom he referred to as "Bill" Grant.
The attorney also alleged that Mrs.
Inman had been in the habit of
using liquor excessively.
Inman's attorney mentioned trips
which he said Mrs. Inman had
made between New York and south
ern points declaring that on at
least 12 occasions she had become
so Intoxicated that her chauffeur
had been obliged to act as her
maid and put her to bed.
OREGON'S INCOME
TAX TOTAL GAINS
Portland (LP) The 1928 Income
tax returns for Oregon totals $1,
2f4.032.04, an increase of $127,595.01
over the previous year, according to
announcement oi Clyde G. Huntley,
collector of internal revenue.
The tax is distributed among 30,
275 residents of the state who made
returns on 1028 Incomes, This Is
an increase of 640 over the total
of the previous year.
Huntley forwarded the report of
the local office to Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon Wednesday night.
STIMSON WILL MEET
HOOVER AT CAPITOL
San Francisco (IP) Col. H. L.
Stimson, the new secretary of
state, was en route to Washington
Thursday to confer with President
Hoover and to assume his new
duties.
Colonel Stimson arrived here
Wednesday aboard the liner Presi
dent Pierce from the Philippines
where he held the post of governor
general. He and his party left for
the raw vrwKWKS&y night,
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Girl Forgives
Sweetheart
For Shooting
Aurora, III, (LP) In dying whisp
ers 22 year old Margaret Wlnsmil-
ler, forgave her jealous sweetheart
who fatally wounded-her and then
began a race with death to a hos
pital. A weak "I do", in answer to a
plea for forgiveness brought little
relief to Theodore Freeman, 23, who
shot Margaret, because she refused
to say those same words a few
hours earlier when he proposed
marriage.
Freeman accosted his sweetheart
as she returned from a dance with
Dean Perry. He fired several shots
into her body and then turned on
Perry. Perry fell seriously wound
ed. Freeman picked up Margaret's
body and ordered an autoist to
drive him .to a nearby hospital.
Margaret died before reaching the
hospital but not until she had for
given her lover.
BIG SIGNBOARD
TO TELL STORY
OF POST DRIVE
Permission to erect a sign board
sufficiently large to permit the
posting of all men who have paid
their 1029 American Legion dues at
some prominent point along State
street wm be asked by. the execu
tive committee of Capital Post No.
9 following action taken Wednes
day night when plans for an inten
sive membership drive were out
lined. The board would be illum
inated at night.
With a paid up membership of
937 reported by R. H. Bassett, post
adjutant, and March 31, the final
date to count towards alloting del
egates for the state convention of
the American Legion here in Aug
ust, efforts are bing made to line
up delinquent members. Capital
Post is allowed two delegates as a
post anfl an adnittraial delegate lor
every major portion of 100 members
in good standing. Last year the post
had a membership of 1112 and had
13 delegates at the Medford con
vention. A membership of -1200
members will' give 14 delegates a
voice in the convention. Newell
Williams, vice commander of the
post, suggested that some dlsting-
uisning colors lor markers were
worn with the Legion emblem be
adopted, each color to denote the
number of years the wearer has
been in good standing. The sug
gestion Is under consideration.
The intensive membershlD drive
will be launched In connection with
tho regular meeting of tho post in
Joint session with tho American
Legion auxiliary next Tuesday night.
FLOOD WATER LAPS
CRESUF DYKES
Quincy, Ills., (LP) Flood waters
of the Mississippi lapped at tho top
of the Lima Lake drainage district
levee here, forcing the evacuation
of some 1500 persons.
With the river at 20.3 feet, barely
under the record mark of 1903,
government engineers predicted the
flood waters would reach a still
higher level and probably overflow
tne levees and dikes.
Residents of the Lima Lake dis
trict began moving household arti
cles, stock and farm equipment to
nigncr ground, preparing for the
overflow which threatens 30,000
acres of fertile soil.
Marion, Polk Folk
Bilked Out Of Coin
By "Service" People
Gullible residents of Murion and Polk counties, along
with other citizens of Oreiron. have been mulcted, bilked and
duped to no small extent by nn organization which calls it
self the U. S. Auto Service club and whose agents, according
to mtormation in the hands of
got In some effective work here
Mr. Carson's belief being based on
a number of complaints from per
sons who say they surrendered the
sum of $32.50 for each car for which
tho "service" club said It would
stand responsible as regards the
affording of legal talent to protect
the automobile.
l Howev, during liectnt viv
FIRE AIID GAS
HALT RESCUE
OPERATIONS
Explosion Traps Nearly
300 Miners In Pit Of
Coal Shaft
Reports Say 170 Escaped
Thru Distant Entry; 2
Known Dead
Parnassus, Pa. (Fh-More than
100 coal miners were unaccounted
for six hours after an explosion hi
the Kinloch mine of the Valley
Camp Coal company. One hundred
and seventy men came up out of
the pit in small groups, while rescue .
crews were endeavoring to learn
the fate of the entombed.
Two bodies were reported seen oy
rescue men who pushed into the
mine as soon as entry was possible.
Flames raged about the Kinloch
entry into the main heading and
dangerous gas and after-damp was
reported in the pit.
Mine officials could not say defi
nitely how many men were at work
In the mine. The day shift had
gone into the workings, but a few :
nours oeiore me mast ana unacr
normal conditions 392 men were
employed there. However, estimates
of the number at work this mom-
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LINDY-MORROW
WEDDING TO BE
IN COMING JUNE
Mexico City ftK Miss Anne Mor
row and Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh will be married some time in
June, it was said in official circles
here Thursday.
Lindbergh is expected to make
one or two flights to Mexico City
before June in order, it is said, to
fix the exact date and place of the
ceremony. Meanwhile Miss Morrow's
trousseau is being prepared and It
Is understood it will be ready by
tho end of May.
Friends of the couple believe that
the colonel and his future wife favor
Mexico, probably Cuernavaca, as a
wedding place in preference to the
United States. The Morrow borne Is
at Cuernavaca.
RISE IN WAGES
WILL BE ASKED
Sacramento, Cal. (ff) Southern
Pacific labor leaders have been
called to meet In San Francisco on
March 25 to draft a request for wage
increases, it was indicated in Sac
ramento last night.
The request will be presented to
Southern Pacific officials at a con
ference in San Francisco, April 1,
ramento, chairman of the negotia
tion committee of the railroad's
shopcraft association.
More than 2,000 machinists, boil
ermakers, sheet metal workers and
car men in Sacramento will be af
fected. They are now getting a basic
wage of 76 cents an hour.
J. H. Carson, district attorney,
f-
salesmen for the organization have
assiduously avoided Salem.
The following letter, in the hands
of Mr. Cm-son, makes the reason
fairly obvious:
"To all Salesmen:
"From this date on (January 1,
1020) it Is imperative, on account of