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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1929)
PAOE TWELVE THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. ORE(5()N TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929 GRAVE CHARGE AWAITS YOUKG WALTER FiNKE Portland, Ore. OB Police pre pared Tuesday to tile charges of first degree murder against Walter J. Finite. It year old high school boy, who murdered Herbert Beem, 18, his rival, In a corridor of the Jefferson high school here Monday afternoon. Pinke, who shot himself through the chest, puncturing one lung, was given a good chance for recovery by ospltal attendants Tuesday. Overcome by Jealousy because Mildred Knott, II, "threw him over" for Merbert Beem, young Pinke went to the school shortly after noon and asked to have the girl summoned to the office of the principal, saying he was her cousin. Be handed her an bundle of letters when she appeared but when the girl admitted he was not a cousin, a woman teacher refused to allow them to converse further. The youth stayed around the school, however, and at the end of the next period, he espied Mildred and Herbert conversing in the cor ridor. Without a word he drew an automatic revolver and pumped three bullets Into Beem's body, then one through his chest. Hundreds of students heard and saw the shooting and for a time pandemonium reigned. Teacers ordered them all In the auditorium however, and police arrived to take ine situation in nana. Beem died Instantly and Pinke was so dangerously wounded that police surgeons would not allow him to be questioned. Miss Knott and other students told of the quarrel and Mildred said that Walter had threatened to kill Beem and her also "but I didn't dream he would really do It," she said. Police believe only the presence of the teacher and an assistant principal stopped the boy from slaying the girl also. TEACHERS PICNIC AT HAGERS, JUNE 4 The first teachers' picnic to be sponsored by the 8alem Teachers' association will be held at Hager's grove alter school on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 4, announces Miss Dorothy Taylor, president of the association. Mrs. Grace Wolgamott has been appointed In general charge. Games of all kinds, baseball, soccer, and volley ball are being planned. Mrs. L. L. Jensen, head of the domestic science department at Salem high school will be In charge of the sup per. Plans for transportation will be announced later. Salem public school system in cludes 1S2 teachers and the picnio Is the first all-teacher affair to be given. A BASKET OF BISHOPS bishops are to oe raised In baskets to Mount Athos for a conclave next year. They will come from every unit of the eastern orthodox church. The monastery on Mount Athos, for centuries a citadel of theology, can be reached only by baskets drawn up by block and tackle. WORK BEGINS ON 4 MARKET ROAD PROJECTS Work on four market road pro jects is underway in Marlon county and two more market road Jobs will be opened within a few days, ac cording to Prank O. Johnson, as sistant county roadmaster. The power shovel started work Monday morning on the Killen bridge road;. W. W. Westlnghouse was superintending a new crew starting on the Shaw-Aumsvilte road; and work was being continued on the 8a!em-Independence road and on the Brooks-Mt. Angel road. Three miles of the Shaw-Aums-ville road are slated for Improve ment to market road specifications this season and the Westlnghouse crew will be increased to speed up the work. The power shovel will be sent to the Million Dollar highway, the Brooks-Mt. Angel road Tuesday and will be read for work Wednes day morning, according to John son. One of the biggest Jobs to be tackled by county crews- this sea son, building a new grade on the Ankeny hill between Bosedale and Buena Vista, will be started later this week. An entirely new grade will be built and the new road will be approximately one half mile lon ger than the present steep incline. One of the eight bridges across Butte creek and Pudding river which Marion county owns Jointly with Clackamas county, will be roofed this week, Peter Schmidt will build a new roof on the Ross bridge, the only bridge between Monitor and Jack's bridge over Butte creek. The other seven bridges In which Marlon shares ownership with Clac kamas are the east of Hubbard bridge, the Killen bridge, the Bar low bridge, the Morris, the Mintor, the Scotts Mills, and Jack's bridges. COUGAR ATTACK COW AND MAN Marshfleld, Ore. VP) The Inter ference of a stray dog and the power behind severbl well-placed kicks In the face of a six-foot cougar, Sunday, saved W. J. Ochel tree, Mlddlefork rancher, a severs mauling by a young cougar. The cougar leaped from the bush onto the back of a cow that was being led down the open Coos Bay highway by Elmer Ocheltree, 13 years old. The boy screamed and his father, working In a field near by, ran to his rescue. Temporarily frightened by the boy's screams, the cougar ran back Into the bush. When the elder Ocheltree arrived, the cougar snar led and attacked him. "I backed off and kicked him in the face a half dozen times before a stray dog ran between , me and the animal," Ocheltree said. The cougar attacked the dog but It soon escaped. The my hound came up and treed the cougar. We shot and killed It a few minutes later." Injury to one leg was thought by Ocheltree to have prevented the animal from hunting and to have brought on the hunger which resulted In the daring attack on the open highway. MALICE or IGNORANCE? In an article published in one of Portland's newspapers under the signature of Kenneth G. Harlan an attempt is made to show that PORTLAND ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY has is sued and outstanding millions of dollars of securities represent ing no value. The article states: "The annual report of the Portland Electric Power company shows that it had stocks and bonds outstanding on December 31, 1927, in the amount of $112,064,000.79, with a total property valuation of only $80,179,058." The clear inference to be drawn from the quoted statement was that on December 31, 1927, this. company had outstanding ob ligations of $112,064,000.79, or approximately $32,000,000 more than the property valuation. ' ' The annual report of this company for the year 1927, filed with the Public Service Commission and to which Mr. Harlan refers, did not state that on December 31, 1927, there were outstanding stocks and bonds in the amount of $112,064,000.79. The said report listed: "Total stocks or ownership liability $34,688,196. "Long-term debt $77,375,804.79." The same report, on the same page, listed the following securi ties owned by the company; Sinking funds $ 8,444,449.11 Reacquired securities 343,300.00 Treasury securities 23,910,000.00 $32,697,749.11 The item of $8,444,449.11 represented the par value of bonds purchased by the company in the market under the Sinking Fund provisions of its mortgages and no longer constituted a liability. The item of Reacquired Securities, $343,300, represented stock of the company reacquired and owned by the company. The item of $23,910,000 of Treasury Securities represented the par value of unsold bonds of the company on which not one 'cent of interest had ever been accrued or paid. The three items, aggregating $32,697,749.11, constituted 'and were a part of the $112,064,000.7 9 referred to by Mr. Harlan. The par value of capital stock and bonds of this company actually outstanding on December 31, 1927, therefore, amounted to $79,366,251.68 instead of $112,064,000.79, as stated by Mr. Harlan. At the time of writing the article referred to, and for a long: time prior thereto, Mr. Harlan had possession of the reports detailing the facts, as above stated. He was either incompetent to read and understand the reports, or willfully misrepresented the facts. In the same article Mr. Harlan quoted an unidentified auditor as authority for a statement made in 1924 as follows: "He said the company had more than $90,000,000 of borrowed capital on which it was carrying on its business at that time." rAt no time since the organization of this company has its liabil ity for borrowed capital ever exceeded $46,000,000. There is a universally accepted maxim that a witness found to be false in one part of his testimony is to be distrusted in all. FRANKLIN T. GRIFFITH, President Portland Electric Power Co. ACTIVITY WORK USED IN SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA Outstanding activity work, the same type of work which has been done tn Washington school here, Is being done in the California schools which they visited, says Miss Char lotte Crowley, elementary super visor in Salem schools, who return ed Sunday afternoon from a ten day survey trip to San Francisco, Oakland. Berkeley, and Stockton schools. Making the trip with Miss Crowley were Mrs. Minnie Duncan, principal at Washington school, and Mrs. Clara T. Pomeroy, supervisor of writing and spelling in the local scnoois. The Salem teachers spent one day at Ashland normal school, one day in the John Mulr grade school and one day in the Raphael Weill school In San Francisco. They spent a day in the Thousand Oaks school at Berkeley and at the McChesney school In Oakland. They visited the Stanford University campus, and San Jose Normal school and spent a day in the Stockton public schools and a day at Chlco Normal where they visited Miss Anne Simpson, former supervisor of health educa tion in Marion county who Is now supervisor of health education for all the normal schools In Califor nia. Under the dlrectio nof Julia Leh- eld Hahn, the Son Francisco grade schools are doing activity work of the highest type, says Miss Crowley. At Berkeley where Principal Har- well is tn charge, the pupils were doing outstanding work In a nature study project. The Salem teachers were interested also In the work at the Raphael Weill school where all types of foreign children are en rolled. The elementary supervisor at Stockton, Miss Myrtle Carries, was formerly a lecturer at Monmouin Normal. 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