C apilBOaUouLnial CIRCULATION Dally average distribution for the month ending May 31, 1829 10,284 Average daily net paid 9,913 Mrmbtt Audit Bureau of Circulations FAIR with some cloudiness tonight and Friday, warmer tonight Gentle rar lable winds. Local: max. 69; min, 50: win 0: river 3.5 feet; part clear; west wind 42nd YEAR, No. 147 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS S?5?.S?.4WS turn man meate IElL MAN HUNT FOR ESCAPED TEXAS PRISONERS ON Three Guards at Prison Farm Kidnaped and Barracks Unlocked . Five Recaptured Early, Balance Scatter Along Brazos River Bottoms Brazoria, Tex. (JPh-Twenty-nine of the 43 convicts who kidnapped three guards and escaped from the demons prison farm here Thurs day were still at large this after noon. Five were captured shortly after the break, two of them being shot. seven were taken near Retrieve farm, east of here, and two were takn Into custody near Sweeney. Brazoria, Tex. (fPt Five of the 43 convicts who kidnapped three guards and escaped at the demons state prison farm, early Thursday, had been recaptured at noon. Two of them were shot by a cattle man who had been aroused by a negro whose car had been confis cated by the convicts. They were not badly hurt and were returned to the i 'son farm. Posses with bloodhounds were ran Kin tt through the Brazos bottom lands Thursday afternoon, on the trail of the fugitives. Brazoria, Tex., (ffh Forty four convicts kidnaped three guards at the Clements state prison farm near here early Thursday and escaped. A few hours later three of them had ben recaptured, two of them after they had been bhot by a cat tleman living In this vicinity of the farm. The others are believed to (Concluded on page 11, column 6) FIRE THREATENS OIL TANKS NEAR STATE SCHOOL The acroech of lire truck sirens and clouds of black smoke rolling skyward drew a crowd of several hundred people to the oil storage plant or the Willamette on Bur ner company In North Salem. Jus! south and west of the state school for the deaf at 1:30 o clock Thurs day afternoon. As near as the firemen could de termine the blaze started from i flame under a boiler used to heat the oil In pumping It from the tank cars Into the storage tanks, or from the tanks Into the tank trucks. The attendant, firemen reported, had Just lit the fire under the boiler and went out to turn the flow of oil on. When he returned to the pump house it was a mass of flames. The damage was confined to the pump house. The plant Is operated by the Cap Ital City Transfer Co. HELD IN SLAVERY Athens. Oa (IB W. D. Arnold, owner of a peanut plantation, was held under 10,000 bond on peonage charges, here Thursday, after Claude King, 28, father of four children, had told officers an amazing story of being held several years on Ar- nolds plantation, virtually as i slave. King declared that on one occa sion, he rsn away from the planta tion an tried to arrange for the escape of his family. He was caught by two negros in Arnolds employ, according to his story, brought back to the plantation and beaten with a strap for punishment. King and three of the plantation negroes are held as material wit nesses. John Vanover, one of the negroes, said he was flogged by a white man while Arnold held a gun upon him. generaTpetTlTn ELECTED JOACADEMY Paris. IP Marshall Henri Phll rppe Petain, commander-in-chief of the French armies in 1917, was elected Thursday to the French aca demy by unanimous vote. His election among "the immor tals'' fills the gap In military repre sentation In the academy caused by the death of Marshall Foch. Mar shal Petain will occupy the chair of Marshal Foch. Good Evening! DON UPJOHN OFFERS Sips for Supper Wa nntifp thov hav xnirtal men ingitis in jail in Portland. Now if he can only be kept there. When the call went out for every visitor to take something to the luncheon at the Scotch picnic our old friend John Marr decided to take his brother, according to ad vices we have from Damon, the food peddler. The Rev. Stover spoke to the local Lions recently on "The Human Atmosphere." It seems that the old halitosis auestion will not down. We wu rstand a. rush has start ed on local hardware stores for 300 foot tape lines, so a man will know how far to move his car under the new downtown parking ordinance. Under the new plan business Is already stagnated, as now a man must rush out every hour, and drive his car y around the block be fore going back and completing his purchase while under the old sys tem he could move It a couple of feet. All this takes time and en ergy and is exasperating to the clerks. Us and Roy Burton almost had a tmashup this morning, starting our cars around the block together and both trying to make for the same parking hole a block away. Mayor Tom Livesley would have made a hole in one out at the golf course yesterday if he hadn't made it in two. Only 5200 bales of hops left in the state, boys. Better hurry up and buy your bale now if you vant to get on another batch before hop picking time. Leave it to us to be always boost ing our home industries. Now that Mrs. Hoover has served tea to the wife of a colored con gressman no doubt the south will swing back solid for the democrats at next election. Perhaps Charlie McNary will re fuse to cut his Commercial street wild oat crop to keep the market stabilized. BOULDER DAM ORDER EXPECTED Washington (JP) Information at the White Kouse Thursday indicated President Hoover Friday would is sue the necessary order to place the Swing-Johnson Boulder Can yon dam act in full effect. Under terms of the act a six months' period was provided to per mit negotiations with a view of Colorado river basin states forming a seven-state compact. This lime will expire Friday. No agreement has been reached and the law now provides that the states may proceed with a view of estab lishing a sir-state compact. Arizona has been the dissenting state. Recent conferences in Wash ington failed to work out a plan acceptable to it. 400 CANDIDATES FOR FARM BOARD Washington (Pi More than 400 names have been tubmltted to President Hoover for the eight places on the federal farm board Some members of congress have suggested as many as four names each, while large numbers have been received from farm organizations and individuals. The l esident is giving coiv itera tion to all and he has arranged to take Secretary Hyde to Virginia for a week end fishing trip to discuss the situation. Heflin, Jr., Denies Use of Drugs Caused Crash; Was Drinking Washington (UP) James Thomas Heflin, Jr., son of the democratic senator from Alabama, denied to the United Press Thursday he had used narcotics as chanted by Wash irrgton police. Heflin, waiting in the bondsman's office to be callerd next door to police court to face the charge, said: "I drank about a Dint of grain alcohol mixed with two part of ginger ale at a party with some boys and girls In an apartment Wednesday and that's all that was wroni with me when I ran into RECESS TAKEN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS Only Senate Finance Committer Handling Tariff on Guard Vigorous Debate on Pro hibition and Debenture Closes Special Session Washington VP) The Senate finance committee stood guard in the heat of a Washington summer at the deserted capitol Thursday to toil over the mass of figures in volved In the pending tariff meas ure while the other members of congress enjoy a vocation. For two months the committee with hear witnesses and work over the voluminous tariff measure pass ed by the house and then the sen ate will return August 19 to be gin sonsideration of this last rec ommendation of President Hoover, remaining to be acted upon at the special session. The .ecess was taken last night after a day of vigorous debate in the senate revolving principally about prohibition and a few hours of discussion in the house over the adbinistratlon proposal to postpone the maturity date of the $400,000 French war supplies debt.. The lat ter was approver by both chambers before adjournment. The senate prohibition debate hinged on the resolution of Senator Jones, republican, Washington, pro posing appointment ox a joint con gressional committee, as requested (Concluded on page 10. column 4) YOUTHS FOUND DEAD IN AUTO; KILLED BY GAS Klamath Falls, Ore., (flV-MIlford McMillan, 21, and James Parkinson, 21, were found dead Thursday in the back seat of their sedan. Physi cians who examined the bodies said the youths were victims of carbon monoxide gas. The engine of the car was running when the pair was iound. The weather was unseasonably cold last night and the two men apparently decided to close the win dows of the car and leave the motor running to obtain warmth. The poi sonous fumes from the engine over came them as they slept. McMillan operated a trucking business In the Bly region and was prominently Identified with the log ging industry. The couple had come to Klamath Falls to attend a car nival. About 2 ajn. they drove up to Bunnell s auto camp ground and stopped. It is thought they intended to have a short sleep before start ing out on the long drive to Bly. PAY $4000 FOR SHOTS ON SUSPICION Noblesvllle, Ind. (IP) Firing at three men they thought were rum runners, cost Charles Gooding, for mer sheriff, and his deputies 4,- 000. The money was paid as damages to the three men wounded by the officers. Harry Butterworth re ceived $2,000 and Herbert Ncwlin and Wendell Hessong $1,000 each. Hefsong now is serving a prison term for writing threatening letters to wealthy persons here. Suits against the former officers were filed by the three men and settlement made out of court. truck at Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue. "I was driving across Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue when the cop flashed a stop sign against me," young H?llln said. a1" (Concluded on pin 11. "column 7 Mrs. Gann Wins Place at Head Of Esme9 8 Table Washington, (jP Mrs. Ed ward Everett Gann, the offi cial Wee-presidential hostess, whose social rank was dis puted several - weeks ago, Thursday Bight will be hon-' red guest of the dean of the diploma tie corps. She will be seated on the right of her host. Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassa dor. She will outrank diplo mats, cabinet members and senators. Sir Esme baa Invit ed about 40 guests. In honor of Vice-President Curtis, Mrs. Gann and Mr. Gann, to the last entertainment at the em bassy this summer. A social secretary at the embassy said that the am bassador baa not yet made known any decision as to where Mr. Gann shall be placed. Vice President Curtis will have the place of honor beside the hostess. Lady Isa bella. WEALTHIEST OF EX-BACHELORS DIES AT RESORT Yonkers. N. Y. 0P Alexander Smith Cochran, chief owner of the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet company, In Yonkers, died at 2 o clock Thursday morning at Saranac lake, where he went last Friday to regain hU health. j Mr. Cochran, once regarded the richest bachelor in America, was a philanthropist and his benefac tions were many, rie was a yacnt ing enthusiast and fifteen years ago built the Vanltie, a contender for the honors of racing S.r Thomas Upton's Shamrock. He was the husband of Ganna Walska, whom he divorced. Mr. Cochran was about. S3 years old. He had a residence in New York city, a winter home In Calif ornia, and In 1916 purchased a mil lion dollar estate in Colorado, in former years he spent much time in Europe, mostly in Paris. Wide publicity came to Mr. cocn- ran through 4its short-lived romance with Oana Walska, piisn prima donna, who later became the wife of Harold F. McCormlck of Chicago. Mr. Cochran and the singer were married secretly In Paris in 1920. The wedding was a great surprise on both sides of the Atlantic tar Mr. Cochran, the former, "most eligible bachelor" had become known as a "confirmed bachelor." In less than a year there were rumors that the romance had been shattered, with stories of prospec tive divorce suits by both. The pro ceedings finally were instituted by Mr. Cochran and he was granted a decree by the Paris courts in June, 1922 . The grounds upon which the divorce was granted were not made known tefinltely, nor was the finan cial settlement made by Mr. Coch ran to the singer. RUMRUNNERS VESSELSOUGHT Windsor, Ont., Wj United States customs officials Thursday were seeking a gang of rum runners from east side Detroit whom they accuse of attacking a customs patrol boat No. 4104, off the downtown water, front of Detroit Wednesday morn ing. Several shots struck the prow of the patrol boat but none of Its crew was nit. Running fight ensued as tlx cus- toma men returned the fire and started In pursuit. The rum-runners, keeping up their fire, escaped Into Canadian waters when tile patrol boat abandoned the chase at tne in ternational line. The ram boat was described as a mahogany-colored craft with a wide white stripe above the water line. "This particular boat Is the most dangerous on the river," Walter 8. Petty, acting collector of customs at Detroit, said. "Once we have cap tured It a lot of our troubles will be over. We have enough men and our boats are fast enough to do that, SINCLAIR LOSES $200,000 DAMAGES Denver. Colo. U" Upton Sinclair widely known socialistic novelist, has lost the first case ever brought in a United States court where the tubject of a biography based a suit against a newspaper on a review of the book. Sinclair-ful the Rocky Mountain News of this city for 2O0,0OO. claim ing that Rs review of a book by Floyd Bell entitled "Upton Sinclair, a study In social protest," had in jured him to that extent. SEVEREST HEAT WAVE IN YEARS SIZZLES LAND From Coast to Coast, Ex cept Northwest, Hot test June Weather Fatal Electrical Storms Fail to Bring Relief- Many Prostrations New York (JP) From coast to coast, virtually the entire country Thursday continued in the grip of the severest June heat wave in years. In the east, disastrous electric al storms that caused many deaths brought a drop of 20 degrees In tem perature at some points but the mercury again began a steady climb. On tl.e Pacific coast, from San Francisco south, and In the mid west the highest temperatures for June in years were experienced. In New York the temperature rose to 92 degrees, the Highest in the weather bureau's annals for the date, and but flight relief was af forded in the late afternoon by a brief thunder shower. The electrical storm was espec ially severe in Pennsylvania where lightning bolts killed four persons, put power lines out of commission and damaged barns and trees. Temperatures In the storm area dropped ten to twenty degrees but alter a few hours started to rise again. At Reading the temperature dropped from 97 degrees to 65 but in the next two hours climbed again to 74. The temperature at Newark, N, J., rose to 94 degrees. In upper (Concluded on page 11, column 7) CHOLERA BREAKS OUT IN FLOOD STRICKEN INDIA Syhlet, Assam, British India (IP) Acute distress prevailed today through the Syhlet and Cachar dis tricts where flood waters were ris ing two feet daily and communi cation with the tea gardens was cut off. The suddenness of the floods created a panic among the villag ers living along the riversides, they being forced to abandon their cat tle and property and flee to the hills. The Dhalabt valley was flood ed and at Bhanugach the trolley line was broken and a number of deaths were reported. To add to the terrors or tne flood cholera has broken out over an area of 5.500 square miles pop ulated by 1,750.000 people. Thou sands were starving in Kan man -ganj where an area of 1,068 square miles was affected and cholera was at Its worst. The resources of Syhlet were al most exhausted with its women making house to house collections and even servants contributing. The relief committee operating from ten centers needed as a minimum ten lakhs rupee (about $2,000. Sir Laurie Hammond, governor of As sam wired his personal contribu tion. CONTRACTS LET FOR 162 PLANES Washington (P) Contracts for 12 new airplanes for the army air corps. Involving an expenditure of approximately $3,000,000 were a warded Thursday by the war de partment. Nineteen of 'the planes, of new pursuit type, were ordered from the Boeing Airplane company 01 Seat tle, Wash. Of the remaining 12 planes, 42 will be Curtlss observation planes and 28 will be Curtlss attack planes. Two others, bl-motored three-seated monoplanea of the observation type, will be manufactured by tne Pokker company of Ha'brouck Heights, N. J. The remaining plane will be a two-seater pursuit type manufactured by the Berliner-Joyce Aircraft corporation of Baltimore. The war department al'o announ ced award of a contract to the Douglas corporation of Santa Mon ica- California, tgor tne construe tlon of 20 army advance training airplane to cost 260.000 for use of national guard units. The planes will be equipped with Liberty motors and one plane will be assigned to each national guard aviation unit to be slavered early n the fall. BISHOP CLEANED 8EK ROB K Gambling gta KB 9 IN BUCKET SHOP New York (AP) New printed lengthy accounts of James Cannon, Jr., bf the Methodist Episcopal church, south, leader or tne anti-amim lorces chairman oi tne Anu-aaioon league' legislative committee at Washing ton. The transactions were with the now bankrupt brokerage firm of Kabie and Co., the oil leers of wnich are under Indictment for using the malls to defraud. The firm's books indicate that between August 14, 1927, and April 30, 1928, Bishop Cannon with an Investment of $2, 500 bought and sold stocks at prices running into five and six figures. Had he closed his account before the firm's books were seized he would have made $6,100. So far he has made nothing and is out his $3,500. The ledger shows purchase of $158,254.92 and sales of $66,000 In one month alone. The World, which printed a fac simile of the ledger sheet carrying "(Concluded on pwe"ll7"column 7) IDAHO BANDITS GET STIFF TERMS FOR KIDNAPING Lewlston, Idaho UP) Three men who pleaded guilty to abducting Lieutenant Governor W. B. Klnne, were sentenced to terms ranging from 10 to 15 years, and the fourth member of the gang, the "baby" was sentenced to serve one to 26 years. District Judge Miles Johnson ar ranged the sentences so that the five members of the band, who con fessed their part in the robbery and abduction of Klnne and two other men, would not have a chance to "get together" again for a long time. The sentences Imposed follows: Albert Reynolds, 20, Metaline Palls, Wash.. 12 to 25 years. Prank Lane, 21, Red Mound, Wis., 11 (4 to 25 years. Gnglof Snysland, 21, Tolna, N. D 10 to 25 years. Robert Livingston, 18, Alabama, one to 25 years. The fifth prisoner, George Nor man, 37, Seattle, who was said by members of the band to have been their leader, although not Involved directly In the kidnaping, was sent enced to serve one to two years as an accessory after the fact. POCKET VETO KILLSJ79 BILLS Sacramento. Cal., (JPh- At the stroke of midnight Wednesday night Governor C. C. Young dropped his pen with the termination of the bill signing period, after affixing his signature to 18 more bills, bringing the total for Wednesday to 40 and the number for the entire legisla tive session to 891. When the time limit for acting upon the measures had passed. Gov ernor Young still rjad before him 179 bills which died by pocket veto. Arrtfmg these were 53 senate bills and 126 which originated in the as sembly. A total of 1106 bills were sent to the governor by tne legisla ture, this number being one less than those submitted at the prev ious session. Governor Young signed 898 bills at the former bill-signing period, or seven more than were ratified this year. LONE MADUATE GETS CLASS HONORS Lancaster, Mass. iPt The Lan caster high school class of 1929, consisting of John Samuel Gilmore, Is to be graduated Thursday night in the town hall. Indications are for a capacity audience. The occasion of John Samuel be ing the lone star or his class is due to the fact that all hts former clas mates are graduating from other high schools principally in Leomin ster and Clinton. After an overture by an orches tra, and invocation by a local pas tor, John Samuel will read the class history. The Lancaster girls' glee club will then sing, after which Gil more will read an essay on chem istry. Later he will present the class class gift which will be accepted by the chairman of the school com mittee and then will be presented with his diploma. The exercises will conclude with a reception by the full clas mem bership, John Samuel Gilmore himself. 62? K SB . flB In Stocks fitt (&H iSfX afl? York newspapers Thursday dealings in stocks bv Bishop m the democratic party and QUIZ SKIPPER. ABOUT WRECK OFTHE LAUREL Portland. Ore.. OPV Thoroughly rested from the experiences of his more than 80 hour "last watch" aboard his charge, the wrecked steamer Laurel, Captain Louis John son today was quizzed for more than three hours in the offices of Cap tain N. H. Anderson, marine super intendent oi the uuaicer Steamship Line. After Captain Johnson emerged from the office with Captain An derson, he told newspapermen that ne was reeling fine. Captain Ander son said that no official statement concerning the wreck had been pre pared. An Investigation Into the wreck was being conducted by United States Steamboat Inspectors Edt hoffen and Wynn. The investiga tion will probably last for several days. The Laurel in the meantime has been declared a total constructive Joss by underwriters and will be abandoned as soon as such action can be undertaken. Most of the survivors of the Ill- fated craft have reported to the local office of the Quaker Steam ship Line and are ready to go back to sea, with the exception of Rob ert Haley, oiler. Haley has been wrecked on the northside of the Columbia river three times, he said and added: "I ain't going back." pigeonhf.ro ofwar dies Washington, WV-Offlclal Infor mation has been received by the war department from Fort Mon mouth. New Jersey, telling of the death there of "President Wilson," one of the army's carrier pigeon he roes. The report was of a formal char acter and was carefully filed In the archives with the birds record in Prance, which shows that the pigeon was bred In Prance of unknown pedigree and was considered of great vitality ana speed. He saw his first service with the tank corps in 1918 and was later used in the Meuse-Argonne often sive. During Intensive action No vember 5, 1918, he was liberated at Grand Pre with an important mes sage. Twenty-five minutes later he arrived at his destination twenty- five miles distant with one leg shat tered, his breast pierced by a bullet, but tne message still intact on ligament of the torn leg. The bird will be stuffed and mounted for display at Port Mon mouth. MAY McAVOY TO WED Los Angeles, (LP) Wedding bells will ring next Wednesday for May McAvoy, screen actress. She will be married to Maurice G. Cleary, In vestment broker, at the church of the Good Shepherd in Hollywood, the Rev. Michael P. Mulllns, "movie chaplain," officiating. Youth, Unaware That Brother Had Drowned Finds Body in River Independence The body of Patrick Henry Flyh, four years and six months, accidentally drowned in the slough north of here, was also accidentally recovered by a brother, Henry Flyh, 15, who discovered the remains while swim ming and- in ignorance of the little fellow's death. The family, which is a large one, was engaged in the hopyard. rrf workln. In two- a Mtab. panics e" oua,u was with the other and his absence was not noted until evening. Un aware of the drowning, Henry Flyh went swimming In the slough and felt something, he first believed to be a sack or an animal, with his feet Reachlni Into the water he brought up the body of his brother. The Flyh family came to In dependence from Lincoln county CONFESSION OF KILLING MADE BY PROFESSOR Accused College Prof Makes Damaging Ad missions to Officers Admits Killed Girl Be cause She Kept Beg ging for Cocaine Columbus, Ohio IW The Colum bus Dispatch, in Its final edition Thursday, says Dr. James B. Snook, deposed state university profess sr. has confessed to the murder of. Theora Hix, co-ed in the college of medicine, whose body was found on the New York Central rifle range) here last Friday. The Columbus Citisen, in its final edition, says it is reliably under stood that officials have In their possession a complete confession Iron. Dr. Snook. Columbus, Ohio OP) A corps of Investigators continued hammering at Dr. James H. Snook Thursday, fessor. real clues to the killing of Theora Hix, co-ed in the college of in the hope of gathering from th deposed Ohio State university pro medic line. The din of questions began latv yesterday. There was a brief re spite for breakfast Thursday. Then the barrage was resumed witn tn be-spectacled Snook weakened and distraught and responding Inco herently. Miss Hix's mutilated body was found on the New York Central rifle range here last Friday. Thsj following day. Dr. Snook, who ad mitted he occupied a north; id love nest" with her, was arrested. Snook, according to investigators. has admitted he was with the girl Thursday night, the night she was killed; that he gave her a key to their room which later was found In his possession, and that on Fri day he burned some of the girl's Concluded on pag 10, column fl) . TOM MIX LOSES VALET IS HELD Portsmouth, N. H UP) Cal Fry dcndahl, valet of Tom Mix. motion picture actor, was arrested Thurs day, after Mix had reported to ths police U' a a bag containing cash and securities valued at $75,000 had been stolen from a private car in which he is traveling with the Sells Floto circus. The circus gave performances here Wednesday and Mix told the police, that on returning to the car after the night show he discovered that the bag, which was hidden In a sec ret compartment under his berth was missing. Frydcndahl was arrested after an Investigation and was held on sus picion. No trace of the missing bag or its contents was discovered. Mix told the police that the bag contain ed $7,100 In cash and $35,000 worth of Liberty bonds. $35,000 In credit slips, $4,000 in bankers checks and several thousand dollars worth of other securities. The motion picture actor said that a Jewel case contain ing diamonds valued at $65,000 was overlooked by the thieves. ,ilomst,,VM on the Kiuvr farm north of Independence. Be sides the parents there are surviv ing five brothers and one sister, Frank 17; Harry, 15; Bona Belle. 13; James, 11; Michael. 10 and Fos ter, two. Funeral services will be held trcn the Kecrry Chanel Priday morning at 10 o'clock with Interment In the I. O. O. F. cemetery.