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CIRCULATION
Dally Hum distribution for the
month ending September 90, l3
10,281
Average dally net paid i.883
Member Audit Bureau at Circulation
Capital
FAIR
And mild tonight and Tueaday.
Oentle east and southeast wind..
Loral: Max. 70: Mln. 41; Rain 0;
River 3.1 feet; hazy; calm.
42nd YEAR, No. 251
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOB a' 2t,
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SBM
HEALTH BUDGET
ASKS $41,600
COMING YEAR
Tentative Proposal Work
out by Demonstration
. Not Yet Approved
Fund to Provide $7,400,
County $10,650, City
$8,750, School $7,100
Expenditures of t'1,600 during
the year 1930 for maintenance of
the Marion county health organi
zation as built up during the
past five years by the Child Health
Demonstration are estimated In the
tentative budget proposal worked
out by Dr. Estella Ford Warner,
head of the demonstration, for
consideration by the county health
unit committee as the estimated
financing required when the
health organization Is turned over
to the county, city and school dis
tricts for administration.
At the end of this year it was
presumed that the Commonwealth
r rid, under which the local or
ganization has been built up
through a cooperative arrange
ment, would withdraw entirely
from the picture and turn . the
perfected health organization over
to the local governmental agen
cies. But under a revised plan the
Commonwealth Fund officials have
decided to continue a modified
narticinatlon In work during the
transition period, and for two
years willconttnuetoshare the
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CHICAGO BOOZE
KING SHOT DOWN
IN CARD ROOM
Cleveland, Ohio UP) Frank ton
ardo, one time corn sugar baron
Irho "got out of the racket" when
his brothers. Big Joe and Jonn,
were killed two years ago In a gang
land battle for supremacy, was
dead Monday the victim of a fus
illade of revolver shots which roar
ed out as he hunched over a card
table in the back room of a down
town barber shop Sunday night.
Lonardo, silent partner In the
business which made millionaires
ot his brothers, was understood to
have abandoned the game when
Big Joe and John were shot down
aide bv side, but nevertheless po
lice worked on the theory that his
.death was in reprisal for the slay
lne of Sam Blackjack" Todaro,
rival bootleg car, credited with
having plotted the death of the
Lonardos.
Sunday night's slaying left onlj
Dominic, last reported In San Fran
cisco, alive of the four Lonardo
brothers. Dominic was indicted here
In the Sly-Fanner payroll robbery
and murders, but evaded extradi
tlon and trial. Mrs. Conceitta Lon
ardo. common law wife of Big Joe,
and her oldest son, Angelo, 20, were
Indicted for first degree murder In
Todaro's death. Angelo Is at lib.
erty, but his mother Is out on bond
awaiting trial.
WILBUR ALLOCATES
BOULDER POWER
Washington (IP Secretary of In.
terior Wilbur Monday formally al
located Boulder Dam power, giv
ing 60 per cent to the metropolitan
water department of southern Cal
ifornia, 23 per cent to Los Angeles
nd 25 per cent to the Southern
California Edison and associated
companies. The allotments were
made subject to deductions which
may be made later for Nevada.
Arizona and certain cities whose
applications have not yet been re
ceived. BRITISH PREMIER
VISITING MONTREAL
Montreal, IP) Premier Ramsey
Vac Don aid of Great Britain, and
ftila daughter. Miss Ishbell Mac
Donald, arrived In Montreal Mon
day from Ottawa at 9 a. m. Rep
resentatives of the civic govern
ment greeted the prime Minister
and his party at Bona venture sta
tion. Mac Donald had several morning
appointments, Including one with
B. W. Beatty, president of the
Canadian Pacific railway.
Rebuke For
Party Chiefs
In Florida
Washington (AV-President Hoover
in reply to a protest from Florida
over the appointment ot a federal
attorney has announced It la the
duty ol the chief executive to make
selections on the basis of public ser
vice and not for political reasons.
The letter, made public at the
White House, was in reply to a
communication from Fred E. Brit
ten, secretary of the republican par
ty In Florida, on the appointment
of Federal District Attorney Hughes.
It asserted the Florida secretary and
other republican leaders In that
state had overlooked the "primary
responsibility" Incumbent on the
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STRIKE LEADERS
AT GASTONIA
FOUND GUILTY
Charlotte, N. C. m Seven Na
tional Textile Workers' union lead
ers and members accused of the
murder of O. P. Aderholt, chief of
police of Gastonia, and assault in
various degrees on three other po
licement, were iouiid guiUy in su
perior court here Monday on sec
ond degree murder.
The men convicted were Fred Er-
win Bet J, Lawrence, Mass., former
ly southern organizer for the Na
tional Textile Workers' union; Clar
ence Miller, New York, communist
educator; George Carter, Mizpah, N.
J., union member; Joseph Harrison,
Passaic, N. J., union organizer, and
W. M. McGinnis, K. Y. Hendricks
and Louis McLaughlin, Gastonla.
union members.
The verdict carries a sentence of
from two to thirty years in prison
at the discretion of the Judge.
The jury had been out but one
hour. The Jury, submitting its ver
dict to the court through Foreman
John h. Todd, found Fred Erwin
Beal, George Carter. William Mc
Ginnis, Louis McLaughlin, Clarence
Miller, K. Y. Hendricks and Joseph
Harrison guilty as charged. When
asked their verdicts on the two re
maining charges assault and con
spiracythe Jury became ambiguous
in answers and Judge M. V. Barnhill
ordered It back to return a specific
verdict on those two counts.
Fred Erwin Beale, organizer of
the National Textile Workers union
and his fellow defendants had been
on trial for weeks and the verdict
climaxed on outstanding chapter in
radical labor's effort to unionize the
them.
PRINCE HUMBERT
TO WED MARIE JOSE
Rome JP) The engagement of
Crown Prince Humbert of Italy to
Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, will
be officially announced on October
24, the anniversary of the marriage
of the King and Queen of Italy.
The weddinrg Is expected to be
held at the end of November or
the beginning of December, because
it Is a tradition of the House of
Savoy that the marriages of its
members be celebrated within forty
days from the announcement of
the engagement.
The crown prince, who is now at
Vercelll, will leave Monday night
for Brussels incognito, in order to
be present with Princess Marie Jose
when the formal announcement of
the engagement Is made in the
Belgian capital.
APARTMENT BL'RNS
Portland IP Fire Friday night
caused an estimated loss of between
$10,000 and $15,000 to the Admiral
apartments here. The blaze started
between two walls and swept
through four stories of the building.
Canned Heat Fatal
To Itineran t Found
Dead In The Jungles
Clyde V. Barger, 34, Tacoma, Wash., itinerant machin
ist, was found dead early Monday morning in the "jungles"
ilong the slough at the foot of Bellevue street. Although
death Is believed to have resulted
from a prolonged canned neat
drunk, an autopsy will probably be
made to determine the exact cause.
Barger's body was found lying
across two large rocks by Charles
A. Wilson, Route 1, Independence.
An officer was summoned and
Oeorge Edwards of the Salem traf
fic squad Investigated the affair.
Edwards reports that Barger's coat
and hat were found about 30 feet
TRACE LEAKS
ON TARIFF BILL
TO LOBBYIST
Memorandum Shows Ac
tion Committee Known
To Manufacturers
Officials of Association
Evasive Under Probe
Of Senators
Washington (VP) An office me
morandum of the Connecticut man
ufacturers' association showing in
formation on the secret tariff rate
making sessions of the senate fi
nance committee was produced
Monday at the senate lobby Investi
gating committee hearing.
The memorandum was written by
J. E. Wuichet, an official of the as
sociation, to Charles I. Eyanson,
assistant to the association presi
dent, who aided Senator Bingham,
republican, Connecticut, a member
of the finance committee, during its
deliberations on the tariff measure.
The paper was produced by Sena
tor Walsh, democrat, Montana, as
Eyanson was recalled by the com
mittee. It related the opposition of
Chairman Smoot and Senators Edge
and Reed, republican, members of
the finance committee in the secret
sessions of the committee, to the
10 per cent duty on rough bored
shot gun barrels.
Eyanson on being shown a pho-
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POINCARE AGAIN
OPERATED ON;
RESTING EASY
Paris, (Jft Raymond Poincare,
former French president and pre
mier, underwent an operation for
a pelvic disorder Monday, the sec
ond he has had In recent months
for his trouble.
The former president was rest
ing tranquilly, It was said at noon
at the clinic, and his condition
was most satisfactory.
The former premier was In the
best of spirits when he was taken
to the operating room. He laughed
as he told his doctors he did not
want all the bedside details of his
illness broadcast.
"I don't want the newspapers
discussion tne color ox my pajamas,
or the form of my bedsocks," he
told them.
The first visitor to Inquire the
result of the operation and In
scribe his name in the new visi
tor's book was Aristide Briand. who
followed M. Poincare as head of
the French government. Other
members of the government and
notables came after him.
SHIP'S OFFICER
HELD FOR CRIME
New York () John McOouldrlck,
second officer of the steamship Cre
ole, was taken into custody Monday
by police In connection with the
murder on Oct. 11 of Jack Kraft,
former New York newspaper em
ploye, n the liner's last trip from
New Y.rk to New Orleans.
Polict were uncommunicative
about the case. They had received
telegraphic orders from the New Or
leans police to hold McGouldrick
and to search the ship for possible
evidence concerning the murder.
They were also asked to question a
member of the crew, whose name
was not made public.
f;
from his body and that the ground
thereabouts Indicated there might
have been a struggle, although there
were no marks on Barger's body. He
had been dead two or three hours
when found at 8:45 Monday morn
ing. One of two men who had spent
the night In the "Jungles" with
Barger said he was awakened In
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La Follett To
Spend 6 Months
In County Jail
Portland, Ore., (IP) Char
les R. LaFollett, former state
legislator from Washington
county Monday was senten
ced to serve six months In
the Multnomah county Jail
for contempt of court.
LaFollett refused to obey
an edict of Circuit Judge
Evans when the Jurist or
dered that the former legis
lator pay his wife $75 month
ly and the sum of $100 for
the support of his family.
LaFollett was given a three
day stay of execution, by Cir
cuit Judge Tucker, who pas
sed the sentence.
EMPLOYES OF
PANTAGES HELP
IN HIS DEFENSE
Los. Angeles (IP) Two persons
who worked for Alexander Pan-
tages until he sold his theater
string a few months ago for ap
proximately $20,000,000 came to the
showman's defense Monday at his
trial on charges of assaulting Eu
nice Pringle, 17 year old dancer.
The witnesses were Mrs. Rose
Fowler, who as Pantages' private
secretary knew many intimate de
talis of the millionaire's dally life,
and Mickey O'Neill, who picked a
number of acts Pantages used on
his vaudeville circuit.
Mm. Fowler gave valuable testi
mony for Pantages when she de
clared that 25 minutes elapsed be
tween the time the showman left
his office for a barber shop until
he returned after the Interview
with Miss Pringle. The attack al
legedly occurred at the time of the
interview.
"Mr. Pantages left the main of
fice for the barbershop about &
o'clock that afternoon," Mrs. Fow
ler said. "I next saw him at his
private office on the second floor
about 5:25.
Mrs. Fowler also contradicted the
testimony of Roy Keene, who several
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SENATE VOTES
AGAINST RETURN
OF TARIFF BILL
Washington WV-The senate Mon
day refused to send the tariff bill
back to Its finance committee with
instructions to revise the measure
and limits-ate changes to farm pro
ducts only.
Washington Iff) A motion to re
turn the tariff bill to the finance
committee wltn Instructions to lim
It revision to farm products was
made in the senate Monday by
senator Tnomas, democrat, Okla
homa, The proposal would Instruct the
committee to strike out all rate
changes except those relating to
agriculture In general, sugar and
tobacco.
It would leave the way open
however, for Individual senators to
offer amendments to the Industrial
schedules when the measure again
came up on the floor.
Discussion started at once.
The senate approved an amend
ment to the tariff bill to except
companies operating ships as com
mon carriers from liability for
opium smuggling It the owner, mas
ter or other officers could establish
before a court their Ignorance of
smuggling.
ESCAPED CON
TAKEN AT BAKER
Baker, Ore. JP Abbott IMah, es
caped four years ago from the flax
farm at the state prison in 8alem,
to which he was sentenced to 20
years on ft statutory charge, was
captured on a ranch near Welser
Sunday, by Lance Stout, deputy
sheriff of Baker, and Frank Smith,
deputy sheriff of Weiser.
Islah was formerly a resident of
Huntington. He is about 60 years old
and was being held In the county
jaU here.
An officer from the state peniten
tiary will leave Tuesday for Baker
where he will take Into custody and
return to the state prison Abbott
Islah, who escaped from the prison
July 31, 1825. Superintendent Henry
W. Meyers said efforts to capture
Islah have been underway for over
two years. He was under sentence to
serve 30 years on a statutory charge.
CLEMENCEAU
NEAR TO DEATH
FROM STROKE
War Premier and Grand
Old Man of France in
Shadow of Death
Kept Alive by Continuous
Injections of Oxygen
Tiger Fights Hard
Paris (IP) Georges Clemenceau,
war premier and "Grand old Tiger"
of France, was lying within the sha
dow of death Monday. Seized with
a heart attack in his flat last night,
the Tiger was kept alive through
the night and the early hours of the
morning by continuous Injections ol
oxygen.
After five Injections administered
within two hours by a family physi
cian, Clemenceau battled through
the first stage of the attack, but be
continued to struggle for breath and
show signs of pain.
Dr. Carlos Laubry, noted heart
specialist who attended Marshal
Ferdinand FOch, In the latter's last
hours, then was summoned. The spe
cialist found the premier on the
verge of death. Further oxygen In
jections followed, after which the
aged statesman seemed to breath
more easily.
With an expression of grim defi
ance so characteristic of him, he
raised his eyes to the doctor and
whispered:. - -
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FALL ABLE TO
WALK IN COURT
AS CASE ENDS
Washington (ff) Final arguments
in the bribery trial of Albert B.
Fall were started Monday when
Altee Pomerene, special government
counsel, told the Jury which will
determine Fall's guilt or lnocence
that they must determine whether
the (100.000 obtained by the de
fendant from Edward L. Doheny
was a loan or not.
Fall, who arrived a few minutes
before court opened, walked Into
the room and to his chair. For the
last week he had been wheeled to
his place In an invalid chair. lit
was supported by attendants but
appeared stronger than at the start
of the trial In which the govern
ment charges he received $100,000
from Doheny for awarding the lat
ter Company a lease to the Elk
Hills Naval OH reserve In Califor
nia.
MURDER TAKES
STATE WITNESS
Chicago (IF) The slaying of Shel
by McDougal, negTo, Sunday, has
taken from the state one of the
principal witnesses In Its case
against Police Lieut. Philip Carrall
four members of his squad and
four other men, all charged with
murder.
McDougal was one -of three per
sons who had Identified Lieut. Car
roll and the policemen as having
been present when Octavius Gran-
ady, a negro lawyer, was killed.
Granady' was a candidate for Ward
committeeman agaiast Norris El-
ler, city collector, and he was slain
shortly before the polls closed pri
mary election day, April 10, 1928.
Fails To Open
Parachute and
Falls To Death
BfllinKham, Wash (At
Panle stricken an he stood
ready to start a parachute
Jump here Monday, Ed Millt,
a Blaine contra-tor, plunged
1500 fept to his drath despite
the efforts of Herb Buroker.
the pilot and Oud Dudt, a
passenger to haul him back
Into the pit A rope from the
parachute to the plane broke
and Mills fell, gran ping the
chute In surh a manner as
to preTtnt ttm opening.
Buroker was about 2000
feet Bp when Mills made
ready to Jump, but lost about
500 feet altitude flying with
one hand on the control
while they tried to rescue
Mills.
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COMMITTEES GRAB
By HARRY
Having already done what
tions of the city charter, ordinances and the rules of the coun
cil to block Mayor Livesley in his efforts to carry out the
program of civic development upon which he was elected and
which program was specmcaiiy ap-
proved by the people in authorizing
the issuance of bonds for bridges
and seweis, the insurgent group on
the city council now propose to
complete Its disruption of the may
or's program by stripping him of hlA
authority to appoint the commmit-
tees of the council.
Their grievance has to do with the
mayor's executive policy of naming
on those committees having to do
with the execution of his policies,
such members of the council as have
demonstrated a full accord with his
ideas and who have demonstrated a
spirit of complete cooperation in
carrying out his plans.
The mayor takes the position that
he was elected to accomplish certain
specific stated things, and that the
large majorities given him at the
time of his election and re-election
constitute an expression of faith by
the people and an authorization to
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JAP HUNTER
KILLS HIMSELF
Marion county's first hunting fa
tality this season occurred Sunday
when Hrrossl Kusachl, 23, a Japan
ese living at Dee near Hood River
and visiting relatives In the Lake
Labish country, caught the trigger
of his gun on the running board as
he was leaving his car In the Keizer
bottom district about eleven o clock
Sunday morning.
The shot emered the young Jap
anese' right arm and passed through
the body and punctured his right
lung and heart. He was rushed to
the Willamette sanitarium where he
died At six o'clock Sunday evening.
KuAachl and his father Eiklcht
Kusachl. were visiting relatives In
Lake Lablsh. Jim Yadi is the elder
Kusachl s son- in-law. Hrrossl and
three companions started on a hunt
ing trip near S pong's Landing when
the accident occurred.
Kusachl was married three years
ago.
The body will be shipped to Port
land where services will be held at
the Tenth Buddlst church. The body
will then be taken to the Poflland
crematorium.
RCANI.IN APPOINTED
Portland tA') O. J. Brister, aAslftt
ant vice president of the New York
Central Lines In Chicago, Monday
announced appointment of J. F.
Scanlln, general freight agent, and
C. J. Barry, general passenger agent
of the New York Central for the
Oregon territory. Portland offices
will be opened November l.j
Of Death
premier of France, wba suffers from
N. CHAIN
they could under the limita
;
ROBINSON AND
REED ON NAVAL
PARLEY BOARD
Washington (fih-Secretary Slim
son announced Monday on behalf of
President Hoover that Senators
Reed of Pennsylvania, and Robinson
of Arkansas, have accepted posts as
members of the American delegation
to the London arms parley in Janu
ary. The secretary said Chairman
Borah of the senate foreign rela
tlons committee, had been asked by
President Hoover to serve on the
American commission but had found
it impossible to accept.
It is possible, the secretary added,
that the selection of the other mem
bers of the American delegation,
which is expecting to comprise five
or six delegates.
Commenting on the forthcoming
arrival of the Japanese delegation to
the London conference, Stimson said
he had Informed the Tokyo govern
ment he would be glad to confer
with its delegation In Washington
before they proceed to London.
The secretary explains the reason
for their trip to London by way of
the American continent was due to
delays on the trans-Siberian rail
way on account of the Chinese-So
viet difficulties In Manchuria,
Stock Prices Crash
To New Low Levels
With Record Sales
New York (AP) Powerful banking interests fought
tooth and nail to save the stock market from complete de
moralization Monday, in one of the wildest storms of gelling
In the history of the New York stocks-
exchange. Scores of leading Issues
acre swent down 4 to 145 a share.
some 12. bOO. 000.000 In paper values
disappearing during the decline, be
fore mid-aiternoon, wnen iuii
forces were able to present a firm
front, and lift several Important
shares out of the low levels to
which they had fallen.
Repeated efforts were made by
powerful Interests to support the
market, but they met with little
success until alter scores of Issues
POURING RAM
GREETS HOOVER
AT DEARBORN
President and Distin
guished People Guests
Of Ford at Celebration
Edison Honored on Fif
tieth Anniversary of
Electric Light
Detroit yp) Through a driving
vain and biting wind. President
Hoover, with the first lady beside .
him, drove for 12 miles Monday in
an open automobile from Dearborn
to this city to greet thousands of
people who jammed the plaza in
front of the city hall, to pay tribute
to Thomas A. Edison on the fif
tieth anniversary of his perfection
of the incandescent electric light.
Upon the arrival at Smith's creek
station the president and Mrs. Hoo
ver Inspected the old train which la
reproduction of the old Grand
Trunk train from which Mr. Edison
In 1862, was forcibly ejected because
chemicals with which he experi
mented in the baggage car when he
was not selling newspapers hi the
other cars, spilled on the floor ot
the car, set it on fire and incensed
the train crew.
The locomotive with its bulging
smoke stack and two enormous driv
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MAN, HORSE,
JERSEY COW
SHOT AS DEER
Baker, Ore. VP) Mistaken for
deer while puihlng through thick
brush, Charles Sharp, 53, logging
company employe, was shot through
the left hip by John Sharp, his
brother, 8unday on Antony creek.
The Injured man was brought to
a hospital. His condition was not
considered serious although a part
ot the lead from the 35-3S bullet
was still embedded In his hip.
Another nunter dismounted from
his white horse In the mountains
near here Sunday, beat his way
through the brush, circled around
a hill, saw what he thought was
a deer and fired. He killed his
own horse.
A third hunter at another point
fired at a yellow animal It felL
He did not stop to Investigate but
rushed to a nearby ranch to get
a wagon. The rancher and wagon
accompanied the hunter to the
scene of his kill. It was the ranch
er's Jersey cow.
DROPS 1000 FEET
WITH AIRMAIL
Pittsburgh, (P) Tucking his mall
bag under his arm, Harry Blevers,
pilot of the Pittsburgh-Cleveland air
mall route, leaped In his parachute
1000 feet to safety as his plane
crashed In a field near Beaver Palls,
early Monday,
Blevers was flying from Bettls
field, here, to Cleveland, when bis
motors stopped. Seizing the lone bag
of mall, he leaped. The plane was
demolished. Slevers took the mall to
the postoflice In Beaver Palls and
arrangements were made to trans
fer It to another plane.
had broken 13 to 133 a share, many
to new lows for the year. The sel
ling represented an enormous liqui
dation of weakened margin ac
counts, and unloading by discour
aged traders who have felt keenly
the sharp declines of the past six
weeks. Selling orders poured Into
tlie market from all parts of the
country and from abroad.
Auburn Auto tumbled $54 to
price of t-130 which contrasts with
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