CIRCULATION Daily grange distribution for the antb ending September K, IMS 10,281 Atom dairy net paid Me Member Audit Bumu of Circulation FAIR Teriighi, Wrkiay meUM wSUj rain eat portion, asscieraie . iempera ton. Moderate sou Co, and aoufe eaat wisds. Local: Max. i5; Kin. 31; Rata, -OS; River -J.1 Jtet; dear, -, . 3 42nd YEAR, No. 242' SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1929 tmtfip Tuurp fiPHTc e tatc ut TOildrH I1M Folio) WW ITLrQU o)AMP7?I MS DID OF GRAND JURY INQUIRY m III SIGHT Matron of School for Feeble Minded Called To Jury Room Rumors Say Governor And Secretary of State May Be Summoned The Marion county grand jury's Investigation into the administra tion of the state school for the fee ble minded was continuing Thurs day without indication as to when the conclusion of the inquiry might come. From members of the grand jury have come declarations that their investigations will go thoroughly into all matters pertaining to the conduct of the institution, whatever length of time may be required, and will not be confined to the charges mate by Mrs. Isabel Reif, of Eugene part of Dr. J. N. Smith, superintend that "criminal negligence'' on the ent of the school; Mrs, J. N. Smith, matron, and Dr. J. O. Matthis, phy sician, was responsible for the death ox her daughter, Georgia Marshall, an Inmate of the school up to five days prior to her death in a .Eugene hospital on September 6. Bow slow the investigation Is pro gressing was Indicated Thursday when Mrs, Smith -was called into the jury room and was kept there during the entire morning session. No information has been given out regarding the number of witnesses " Concluded on page 17 column 5) U. S. ACCEPTS INVITATION TO NAVAL MEET Washington; (P) Coinciding with the deDartun of Prime Minister MacDonald from the capital, the Amercian government Thursday formally accepted the invitation ot Oreat- Britain to participate In a five power naval limitations con ference. Secretary SUnuon made the an nouncement shortly after return ing from the station where he said good-bye to the Britich Premier. Acceptance on the part of the United States has been regarded as a foregone conclusion since con versations between London and Washington have been In progress on the question lor some time. Mr. MacDonald s visit was an outgrowth of these discussions and during his stay here he went over the situation in detail with Presi dent Hoover. Both regard further naval limi tations as a step toward world peace. votOIlayed ON FARM BOARD Washington (in The senate agri cultural committee met Thursday to vote on members of the farm board but postponed action until Friday. An attempt by members of the com mittee to delay the vote until next session was unsuccessful. The committee did not vote on nominations because Senator Smith, democrat. South Carolina, who has opposed Carl Will isms, the cotton member, bad an appointment at the White House.' . Two members of the committee whose names were not made public, sponsored the suggestion that action on the nominations be delayed until the regular session of congress next winter. They said by that time mem- ben of the board would have dem onstrated their fitness. & Chairman McNary explained the xaajorlty of the committee felt such delay should not be allowed. No formal vote was taken, however, HENDRICKS CHOSEN TO CONDUCT CENSUS Washington iP) Supervisors for the 1130 census, their districts and headquarters announced by direct or of census Included: Robert Hendricks. Salem, Ore., for Marlon, Polk, Tillamook, YamhllL with readquarters at Salem. MRS. WILSON DINED Tokyo MV-Prince and Princess Chichi bu Thursday rare a dinner at their Omotecho palace In honor of Mrs. Wood row Wilson, who m now Watting her. Oil Field Sinks, Forms Deep Lake Beaumont, Texas MV-Loss - of hifndreds ot thousands of dollars in oil land was threatened Thursday through the unexplained sinking of about seven acres of land In the Sour lake oil field, 25 miles west of here, which has created a deep lake where only Wednesday stretched an expanse of waving marsh grass and small trees. Sides of the pit were still crumbling Thursday as the fall of earth continued,' Derricks and storage tanks were being removed from the edge of the great hole, estimated at from SO to ISO feet deep, which filled with wa ter Wednesday as the surface stead ily fell through hour after hour. Thirteen wells were shut down and and an abandoned derrick, a boiler and six settling tanks were engulfed. Geologists of all the large oil com panics operating in this section t Concluded on page 14, column ft) ATHEISTS OPEN ANTI-RELIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES Leningrad, Russia fJP) The first anti-religious university in the world was opened here Thursday with elaborate ceremonies in the huge building of the house of cul ture. Named after Stepanoff Skvort- soff, pioneer Atheist in Russia, the anniversary ol . whose death was Thursday, the new university be gan its session with 390 student, 4? of whom were women. The institution, its founder say. is intended to prepare a large body of anti-religionists and active prop agandists or militant atheism. rruicssor iu suru ox uie Russian academy of science, de clared that at ibe present time "When the church la attempting to regain Its lost power in Russia" a relentless struggle based upon strict science must be carried on against religion. , Moscow (JPl FoUofing the action of Leningrad In creating the anti religious universities, the society of militant Atheists Thursday opened similar Institute In Moscow. The students who number more than 400 will have as their Instruc tors Madame Lenin, Commissar of Health Semashko and other Soviet leaders. In opening the Institute. Kmelain Yaroaslavsky, president of the so ciety ot militant Atheist, said Athe ism was a factor of great cultural importance and was part of the class struggle. SOVIET FLIERS TO HOP FRIDAY Seattle, -Wash. (IP) Four Russian filers of the plane Land of the Soviets probably will be ready to take off on a flight that win bring them to the United States Friday, the coast guard announced. In stallation ot new motor was ex pected to be completed by then. The craft was forced down las; week near Craig, Alaska, on tha flight from Sitka, They are bound from Moscow to New York, and Seattle Is the next city to be vis lted. The new motor was taken to the plane by the coast guard cut ter Crygan and members of tht crew were aiding In the Installs tlon. Explosives Used To Snuff Out 100 Foot Oklahoma City, Okla. (API Two men crouched behind metal shields continued Thursday to pit their skill against gigantic roaring torch flaming high in the air over what once was the Sinclair Oil and Gax tomanpy'a number three stamper wen. In the Oklahoma city oil field. Trundling loads of high explosive near the lot foot pillar of fire, and directing final connections ot a bat tery ot approximately 20 steam boilers. Is. M. "Mack" Kinley and his brother, P. T. Kinley, prepared to snuff out, in one giant puff, the flame which ted by 50,000,000 feet of gas a day, has whipped and writhed over the Sinclair tease since shortly before Ian. Thursday, Hardly mora than five miles from the downtown business district, the LOWER BASIS of to;;;iage arrived at 30,000 ton Cruisers Elim inated From Parity Minimums MacDonald Leaves Capi tal After Issuing State ment With Hoover . Philadelnhia. Pa. J. Ramsey MacDonald. labor prime minister of England, arrived here Thursday. He came to pay his appreciation to me physicians and nurses wno atterw ed him during his Illness here two and a half years ago, and to meet again the many mends he and his daughter. Ishbel. met at that time. The MacDonald special arrived here at 13 soon. Washington iif More was achieved during the good will mis sion' of Prime Minister MacDonald than has been officially revealed, according to information In au thoritative quarters Thursday. Xt is understood here President Hoover and the prime minister have reached a lower basis of cruiser tonnage than had been thought possible before MacDonald left Lon don. Details are not known de finitely but it is understood the 30, 000 tonsoi cruisers in dispute may be eliminated from the parity mini mums suggested in negotiations be fore MacDonald came to the united States. This, if it develops, will be in the direction of actual reduction of authorised building programs (Concluded op page 14, column I) SENATE REJECTS INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINES Washington ) The senate Thursday rejected the Broussard amendment to the tariff bill which would have declared this country's Intention to grant independence to the Philippines soon and called an international conference to agree to respect that Independence. The vote was 53 to 18. - As on Wednesday when the senate rejected the 1 King amendment to grant Independence after the is-, lands had formulated a constitution, opponents Thursday said the vote could not be Interpreted as a test on the independence question. Some ot them said that while fav oring Independence, they voted against the amendment because they did not believe such an Import ant matter should become Involved in consideration of the tariff. The senate Immediately after wards rejected without a record vote the Broussard proposal to levy tariff on Philippine imports. The amendment first voted upon, offered by Senator Broussard, dem ocrat, Loulsana, originally provided only for an International conference to agree to respect the freedom of the Pacific Islands, Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts, suggested a "whereas" to the proposal declar ing congress intention to grant ear ly independence. Opposing the Walsh-Broussard amendment. Chairman Borah, ot the foreign relations committee, said those favoring independence, of whom he Is one, would do well to defer the matter until the tariff out of the way. Pillar Of Flame fire hss cast a wierd glow over the city's streets at night, and in the southern section of the city, three miles from the well, has made street lights almost unnecessary at night Some time early Thursday the Kinley brothers were reticent re garding the exact time one man, crouched low behind a metal shield that grows sizzling hot despite streams ot water which constantly drench it, will creep toward the plume ot flame which has reared "(Concluded onst 147colum& 4 1 Fashion Dictates Sending Women Back in Bondage New York, OF Whew wo mn pat as lent skirts this yak awl bowed to the JU maism at. Paris designers, they west bates IBM bead age, aecsrwiag to Faaaie Barst, evillat aaa short story writer. - "In the last seven years," Miss Barst saU, "We have legs and wBeerseted eat torsos. New indmtrr, with a qabk at lis hand, reaches out and attempts to pat back again. The leg is becom ing nasty again with its Jong silken covering of skirts. "The new faaoiee Indicate a mental -let down. Maybe we want backslide mentally' jest may be, kwt why should we take the ehaaeef Women mast walk sat at their dressmakers when they can not get what they want," BRIBERY TRIAL OF FALL HALTED UNTIL FRIDAY Washington mJatUoe William Hits Thursday recessed the bribery trial of Albert B. Fall until Friday after a physician appointed by the court had reported his examination of Fall was not completed but that the former Interior secretary was unable to get up and probably could not stand trial at this tune. The court said Dr. Thomas' A. ClaytoT, who made the examination, was not satisfied and Rvommeaded further examination, adding that he had named Dr. Frank Leech, Dr. John Thomas and Dr. h. O. Tewks- bury to assist. . Dr. Claytor and another physi cian were" named to call upon Pall Wednesday alter the lormer cabi net member had refused to let Dr. Sterling Ruffia, who attended the late President Wilson, see him. Fall, one of a - delegation ot senators named to call upon President Wilson in an enort to learn the extent of the chief executive's Illness after the question of his physical fitness to hold office had been raised, said he would not let Run In examine him because of personal reasons. The doctor named to assist Claytor was unable to accompany him to Fall. Harry . M. Daugherty, attorney general during the Harding admin istration, and s government witness. was la court. JOSEPH SEEKS TOM MANNIX' DISBARRMENT Portland (PV-George W. Joseph, former state senator and a Portland attorney, Thursday filed charges with the Multnomah county oar soeiation against Thomas Mannix, another Portland lawyer, asking that the association's grievance committee bold a public hearing to determine whether Mannix should be disbarred. Among the charges incorporated in Joseph's complaint is the allega tion that Mannix held a tsrjo.ooo op tion on Justice John L. Rand's min ing property during the pendency of the so-called Wemme suit and that during the pendency of the suit of Condit versus Condit, Man nix, and Neppaeh furnished Bquor to Justice Thomas McBrlde from supply kept by Condit Joseph's charges In connection with the Condit, Mannix and Hep- sach suit followed the suit filed by W. A. Condit, Portland auto dealer, last week. In which he sought 1164. 900 damages from Neppaeh and Mannix and charged that liquor was furnished Justice McBrlde during the pendency of Condlt's trial for divorce In supreme court. 8 HOUR DAY FOB SAILORS SOUGHT Geneva (in An eight hour day for sailors Is the principal item ot agenda ot a special maritime session ot the International labor confer ence that convened here Thursday. Delegates were present from vir tually every maritime and shipping eountrv in the world. The conference la the third on devoted exclusively to the interests of sea workers lines the creation of the international labour bureau In Kit. The first was held at Oenoe in 120 and the second at Geneva m ma. PORMDERS INVOLVED 111 CULTSCAIM 'dice Search for Bodies Of Four Others Secret ly Buried Portland Pianist and Prosperous East Sid? Couple Missing Portland (Pt While Los Angeles city and county authorities contin ued their Investigation into the mysterious doings of the Divine Or der ot the Royal Arm of the Great Eleven, wierd cult which nourished in the Santa Susana hills, Portland newspapers Thursday unearthed new revelations here in connection with the cult, exposure of which al ready has Involved dozens of former Portland residents. Major new sensations brought to ?ht here within the past M hours are as follows: Harlena 8a. torts, former Portland pianist, and daughter ot a Fayette, Idaho couple, is the second gin whose death while a member of the cult has aroused Los Angeles au thorities. A prosperous aged e side business man and his wife, par ents of the cult leader, disappeared after the cult was rounded. Mrs. May Otis-Blackburn, , seer- ess, promoted one ot the first Portland-made motion pictures, placing her daughter, Mrs. Bum weuana Rizxie, in a leading role. Mother and daughter an under $5000 bond in Los Angeles on a sraud charge. Ward Blackburn, so called "White (Concluded on jags 14, optusta s? SENATE PROBE OF LOBBIES TO OPEN TUESDAY Washington. WS The senate lob by Investigating committee decided Thursday to begin its public hear ings Tuesday, . Chairman Caraway of the com mittee was authorised to issue su bootless for witnesses but no de cision was reached as to the first persons to be called. Caraway . has saw ne deal Joseph R. Grundy, Washington representative of the American Tariff League, a the first witness. "We are going first Into the looter on the tariff bill." Caraway said. "We are going to get a list of those gentlemen wno sat areuno so close that no one could get his tjreeth while the tariff roeas was being framed." cars war added that Charles L. Branson, a representative of the Connecticut Manufacturers Asso ciation, who was employed by Sena tor Bmsftam of Connecticut, I republican member ot the finance committee, to assist him on tariff matters, would be given "full op portunity to expiain his double salary." Asked If Evan son could be pro secuted for drawing a private sal ary while on the government pay roll Senator Caraway said there i a law providing for a fine and Imprisonment for any govern ment employe accepting private pay "but I ant not passing judg ment on this case." Irony Seen As Cupola Is Burned Milwaukee, Wis. of) Like a great torch standing out against a dark sky, the cupola at Milwaukee's city hail, 400 feet above the . street, burned to its steel framework Wed nesday night while firemen watched helplessly. More Una tSo.OOO damage 1 done by the fire which was too high to be reached by hose lines. While the top portion of the huge tower burned, showering embers to Water and Well streets, the clock, is a frame eg fire, kept running. giving the exact tune. Defective wiring was blamed tor the fire. While It raged a large electric sign on tile tower portion of the tower flashed this mesage to convention delegates: "Welcome, electrical inspectors.' ' ntfMT AT LA OEANDK La Orandev Ore. VP The first severe frost ef faS hit La Grande Wednesday night and was accom panied by to dear above sere wea ther. GOLD FROM LEAD 9 tRT 53 !9 - . ff3t S3 fS 38 By German SUSPECTED FRAUD Munich, Germany (AP) plumber and known widely as a professed alchemist, claimed here Wednesday to produce a tenth of a gram of gold from 1 T centigrams of lead. Officials of the mint watched him carefully, but still are not convinced he actually obtained the gold froml- - AliIlt-. the lead. Indeed, feeling grew Thursday that be had hoodwinked' even the high officials ot the state mist, who Issued a statement reading: After experimenting for two hours Tauaend produced a grate ot the purest gold, weighing one-tenth of a gram, which was smelted from 1.67 grams of lead. Experts de scribe the result as surprisingly fa vorable and contradictory to scien tific knowledge. The director of the mint, however, is unable' to suppress doubts as to whether Tausend-was able to smuggle the gold into the test In spite of all precaution It was generally conceded the former plumber, who has been in Concluded on page 14. column g EQUITY BROUGHT INTO PANTAGES ASSAULT TRIAL Ux Angeles Wh K battle of tech nicalities in which both aides felt the sting of court reprimands, came Thursday m ths trial of Alexander Pantages, mulU-milllortaire theater owner, on a statutory charge, a the defense struggled to minima the strong testimony of prosecution wit- Memories of other hectic struggles than the one being fought la the small courtroom between the busi ness magnate, and a 11 year old co-ed dancer, Eunice Pringle, were revived in the cross examina tion of W. C, Kale, a motion picture bit player on the recent contest between actors' equity ssseeiatiea. and the motion picture, producers. The relation of that affray to the Pantaces case, reposed In the de fense's desire to show that cor roborative testimony of the state witness might have seen influenced by his association with the split be tween the- cetera and their employ ers. Three former employes of Pan tages are to be called to give their version of event before and after the alleged attack in the conference room of a downtown theater build ing. Witnesses are Tiiiie Russo, form er usherette at the Pantages thea ter; Roy Keene, one time assistant manager at the theater and Wil liam Jobleman, former publicity man tor Pantages. All three, said Pitts, were to testify that following the incident In the "cubby hole" office, Pantages Instructed them to color their stories in his behalf. SALEM BENEFITS BY POWER CUT Portland, Ore. tTV-Cities and towns in the territory adjacent to Portland will profit by reduction to power rates which have been an nounced tentatively bv newer com- panies am tne public service corn- mi ion, members of the commis sion said Thursday, When the new schedules are made effective the cities of Vancouver, Qresham, 8alem, Oregon City and other towns wilt have much Sewer power rates than are enjoyed by small cities and towns In the Paget sound district. The last few details of the seed- ules were In the hands of P. T, Oriffith, president of the Portland Electric Power company, and O. W. Talbot, president of 'the North western Electric. Engineers of the power eom- paraea were still studying the new schedules. KANSAS CITY SLUES DEFEAT ROCHESTER Rochester, N. 7, 3PI The Kansas City Blue of the American assecla- uon advanced further in their saeet for ilt'Js world series Sartors Thurs day when they defeated Rochester, International league champions, 9 to I. Todays victory lays Kansas City four victories against three for Ro chester with five necessary for the champtonship. v Alcltemist Frank Tausend, a former ttUHU oillNULt REVEALED OF WIDEEXTENT Portisnd apt A bood fraud, rxss- Jiblv at nationwide scope, was re- vessKi sere xnursaay as the district attorneys office started a search for an unidentified mas who is be lieved to have assisted Howard Pol ly, former ehlei engineer of the American Bank building here, is circulating and issue of Interstate Utilities company, of Washington and Idaho, bonds. The aorta issue was believed to have been destroyed in the furnace of the American bank building June 24, eat last week bonds from this old aeries appeared is Des Moines, lows, ana san Franesscov A search for Poll was mad, re. suiting in his arrest at Eugene, Ore, Wednesday. Kii bond was set at I20O0. Oeerge Mowry, chief deputy dis trict attorney, in explaining the inula, iio was tns interstate Util ities company made a gl.soc.ooo bond Siiue. which was underwritten by the Lumberman's Trust company no, wiw me axjuitaoie Trust com pany. About 75O,00O of the issue ht been sold and the remainder held here at the Equitable Trust com pany. The utilities company, with head quarters at Spokane, decided to man s larger issue through anoth er company and called in the eld Issue. Money was sent here to re deem the outstanding bonds and they were cancelled. ' The company had bonds of ?$,- ooo tnat nadn't been soid and decid ed to destroy them. SEEKS ISSUE OF FARM BONDS Washington, m Aathoritr for the secretary of the treasury to buy Ji00.oeo.000 or more of farm loan bends from federal banks to provide funds for agriculture, was asked to a Joint resolution Thurs day by senator Breskhart, repub lican, few. The Iswan in a statement said the "gambling business In Wall street was drawing large sums of money sua Kew rork from over the country, this reducing the mar ket tor farm loan bonds, whkfi pay a rats of Interest of about 5'i per cent. PRISON RIOT TOLL INCREASED TO 13 Canon City, Colo, (ty Myron! Goodwin, a guard In the Colorado state penitentiary, who was one of the first men to be shot in the riot ot a week ago, died from his wounds Thursday, Goodwin death brings the death toll ot the riot to 13, eight of the dead baring been guards. Journal To Present First Talkie Serial At Kiddies' Matinee It's movie season in Salem again for Capital Journal wottrtzsters. Arrasrementg Capital Journal and Capitol 12 wear of age or under to aee the first talkie motion pictura aerial ever made, entitled (Concluded on Page 14, Column 3 This Coupon and Five Cents WIS admit anr Batem youngster 13 years of age er younger, te the Capital Journal-Capitol Tl-fater Matine far ChUdren te see tit- ' chapter at "The Aee of Scotland October 11-13-J P. M - t M, p.rfin?mi!iTV 1 aVUlUtJUUII.1 I TO $500,000 aHtagaB r Kflf.J VI .i lit. iisiiiia iiiisiftiif s as as a villi a ft a am Jagg0Rer,Teliufide Bank President, Sentenced To 15 Years for Fraud rmaniiv Plea ihnHnno;! On Alienist's Res3orti Money Gone Sew York m Charles Bete Waggoner, Teiiuride, - Colo, bank president, was sentenced to IS years imprisonment Thursday on bis pica si guilty to mall fraud in connect jots Ktm scheme to obtain S6OO.0JO from six New York basks by means forged aulf:onzaUG-3 papers. Witnesses had been assembled from as far away as the west coast for Waggoner's trial, but when tiie case was called Thursday, defense counsel entered a plea of gut'tty United States Attorney Charles H. Tattle then moved for immediate imposition ot sentence and tho banker was sentenced to IS years in Atlantic penitentiary. in asking for a severs sentence the prosecutor accused Waggoner ot embezzlement from his own bank at connection with ids handuag et a targe estate, said' tsat thai em bezzlement furnished the motive lor the more recent crime against the New York banks, committed m des. peratieB; "when the day of reckoo icoeehaaa eg pare IS, cetaaig sp CONGESTION OF COURTS DUE TO PROM REGIME Wwehlrjston, (m Increased s propiiatlona of several ferojtirefj thotuwsd &s3fcr have bees ne&n mended to the budyei !&eMt It? the Attorney Gtnerai'a oftiee to re llve 52igtKJ in the edtrr-al court. Attorney General MJtcheB an- appropriation tt ar&s X siatfcnt District Attorneys mot aim a4difckRal clerk nd marshes. The entire appropriation, he -43?ri, prooADiy woultl be jeaa Ih&B one mili ion debars. MifcchefJ aUt &p pitoisHrtel S? per cent et the eases In federal courts hf set been touched Ms recent jean snd that additional help u fwceaaarj He &d so make public ibe div tiict lor vhiefe aid wss nqmsted, saying Vj & would fee T3eterjne?i whether th appropriation eould be obtained, -- - Recommndaift also was mtde for Increased pay ot the aaaiaUni district attorney. The Attorney Genera! said the present mlr? averaged about $3,100 and that ha hoped; tc raise the salaries to $3JKW or 3 30. He laid there was no ttae hnt inff for crtjninaJ if the federal court were net able to hand the eases adding that when the ease ere extended over it lof period of time the witnesses of tea disappear ed. Prohibition, the Attorney Gen eral said, has & good deal to do with the congeactoa of the dockets. ATHLETICS HOME PhUde'phia (JPtTh Philadelphia A'.hfiUca arrived at the North Philadelphia itattcn at 3rS p. m. from Chkafa A bi erowd gne&d; the players and shotted eaewir element for their same with the Chfrags Cnb here Friday. have feeea matfe between the theater for Salem youngster of