Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, October 26, 1929, Page 1, Image 1

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    CapitalJJ
oiiraal
C1KCUI-ATI0N
Dally average distribution lot the
mania ending SeptemDei SO, 12
10,281
Average dally net paid 9.883
Member Audit Bureau at Circulation
FAIR
Tonight and Sunday, local valley
fogs tonight; gentle variable wind.
Local: Max., (7: Min., 53; rain, ;
river, -3.1 teet; cloudy; calm.
42nd YEAR, No. 256
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929
STANDS riVl CKNTS)
PAE9TAI
JRfSI
THAL
ILL 111
$100,000,000
ALLOCATED FOR
GRAINHRS
Federal Farm Board
Places Fund To Be
Loaned
Amount to be Immedia
tely Available to En
able Crop Holding
Chicago yP) A $100,000,000 fund
Saturday was placed at the disposal
of the American wheat farmer to be
loaned out by the federal farm
board through the newly organized
farmers' national grain corporation.
Climaxing its session here this
week, the farm board, through its
chairman Alexander Legge, an
nounced its plans for making im
mediately available this fund to aid
wheat farmers who Mr. Legge said
at present were getting too low a
price for their grain. Under this
plan, the grain farmers will be able
to hold back their crop until pices
were more satisfactory in the mean
time borrowing from the national
grain corporation for funds needed
to meet obligations.
The board, Mr. Legge's statement
said, placed no limit on the amount
of money the government would loan
to the wheat farmers. He said near
ly $100,000,000 was available now and
If necessary the board would ask
congress to appropriate more.
STORM REVEALS
FATE OF VESSEL
LOST 8 YEARS
Detroit. Mich, (& The tumul
t Ais water of Lake Michigan
which eliminated the Milwaukee
from the shipping lists of the
Great Lakes yielded up the story
I another tragedy this week.
Out of the lake h-ve come bits
of wreckage of the House of Da-
Yid schooner Rasa belle, unreported
since It set out for a cruise eight
years ago. The Rosabella carried
a crew of 11 men and was on Its
way from High island with a cargo
of potatoes raised there when it
disappeared in a storm. Wreckage
of the vessel was found on the
beach near Racine, Wis., by search
crs for a trace of the Milwaukee.
The Rosa belle's crew consisted of
Captain Erhart Oliese, first mate
Charles Anderson, second mate
Waldemar Fredenckson and sea
men Alvin Wider, Edgar Marshall,
Jake Vonmoulken, Robert Dauley,
C. Daley, L. Nye, Cecil Claudel and
Edwin Wilson.
High island, in the northern part
of Lake Michigan, is the property
of the House of David, which is lo
cated at Benton harbor.
SOUTH RULED
BY TERRORISM
Memphis, Term. (LP) Civil govern
ment has come to an end in the
textile centers of Elizabethton, Gas
tonia and Marion and a "regime of
official terrorism has taken its
place," John R. Neal, defense attor
ney for the textile strikers, charged
tn an exclusive interview with the
United Press here Saturday.
Neal at the same tune made public
through the United Press exclusively,
a letter to Burton K. Wheeler, Unit
ed States senator, Montana, In
which he asserted the workers "have
been denied every civil right guar
anteed them by the constitution of
the United States and the constitu
tions of their respective states.
The letter, Neal said, was written
Senator Wheeler so the senator
might have all the facts in fighting
for a senatorial investigation of
conditions in the textile district of
the south.
ITALIANS WELCOME
CROWN PRINCE HOME
Milan, Italy iP drown Prince
Humbert was given an enthusiastic
ovation when he arrived here Fri
day from Brussels. He was accom
panied br an undersecretary who
had met him at the frontier to con
gratulate him personally on behalf
of Premier Mussolini.
The station and square were dee
orated with the national colors and
wen crowded with spectators. The
prince went to the royal palace and
later appeared on the balcony re
sulting in another patriotic demon
stration, i
Fall To Hear
Sentence On
Next Friday
Washington (IP) Former Secre
tary of the Interior Albert B. Pal,
probably will be sentenced next Fri
day to Imprisonment, fine and dis
qualification from public office for
his conviction on charges of accept
ing a $100,000 bribe while a member
of the Harding cabinet.
The sentence may be from one day
(o three years.
The Jury which found the 68 year
old defendant guilty of accepting
the $100,000 in a little brown satchel
from E. L. Doheny, oil millionaire,
unanmlously recommended mercy
and there Is little likelihood there
for that the maximum sentence of
three years and $300,000 triple the
amount of the bribe will be impos-
(Concluded on page 10, column 4)
COOKE TRUSTEE
SEEKS RECOVERY
OF RUM MONEY
Portland. Ore., (P) J. O. Gilling
ham, trustee in bankrupty for the
defunct brokerage firm of Over
Beck and Cooke, filed an amend
ed complaint in circuit court Sat
urday seeking the recovery of $27,
729 from Prank Hoch field, profes
sional bondsman, alleged to have
been paid for liquor unlawfully
delivered to officers of the firm.
At the same time amended com
plaints seeking judgment for an
aggregate of $57,836.24 from three
defendants also were filed.
The liquor deliveries, according
to the complaint, were made be
tween November 1, 1923 and De
cember 1, 1927. The original ac
tion was for $31,253, which, it was
alleged, Hoch field owed the firm
on money advanced in the pur
chase of stocks between May, 1926
and December, 1927.
The complaint sets forth that
Hochfield had made the liquor
deliveries In violation of the law
for the personal use of the officers
and not for "any lawful corporate
purpose." It Is further contended
that officers took money belonging
to tne lirra to pay lor the liquor.
The Overbeck and Cooke com
pany went bankrupt here several
months ago with high losses to pa
trons. Both omcers received pri
son sentences.
ONTARIO MAN
ON LAND BOARD
Ontario, Ore., (IP) E. C. Van
Petten, Ontario, "father of the
Owyhee Irrigation project,' has
been named by President Hoover as
the Oregon representative on the
public land commission, it was an
nounced here Saturday.
Governor Patterson recommend
ed to President Hoover that Van
Petten be appointed after the Ore
gon reclamation congress and
others had indorsed him.
"I shall go at this matter with
an open mind and an Intention, to
the best of my ability, to serve
the interest of the state of Oregon
and also protect western reclama
tion," Van Petten declared Satur
day. He has long been associated not
only with Oregon, but also with
Pacific Northwest irrigation ad
van cement and his persistent and
effective campaigning for the Owy
hee vale department in Malheur
county is chiefly credited with
adoption of the $22,000,000 enter
prise by the government. Con
struction of the project Is now well
advanced. The Owyhee dam will
be the highest built for reclamation
purposes until Boulder Dam Is
lini&ned.
Cities Ask Highway
Board, Counties And
Colleges To Give Aid
The state highway commission, the county judges and
the state board of higher education will be waited upon dur
ing the next year by committees from the Oregon League of
ni .t ..U.J n Jnn TmUtsc 4C
.r'.,, ' .v,. 7it Z aolvimison City, was re-elected secretary:
some of their problems.
These a'.id other committees were
provided for at the closing session
of the League's convention here
Friday.
With the exception that Fred A.
Williams, city attorney of Salem,
was elected vice-president to suc
ceed A. A. Hall of Tillamook, the
league re-elected It officers. Chris
Schuebel, elty attorney for Oregon
City was re-elected president: H.
A Ftansen, city manager of Ore-
PROBE FASCIST
ACTIVITIES IN
UNITEDSTATES
Interference of Italian
Consuls and Drafting
Of Americans Charged
Senate Resolution Asks
Investigation of Mus
solini's Program
Washington! LP) Publication of
charges alleging subtle fascist inva-
sio nof the United States under
direction of Premier Mussolini has
aroused interest at the state depart
ment and it was intimated Satur
day inquiries may be made into some
phases of the situation, following
the offering of a senate resolution
of investigation by Senator Heflin.
Legitimate official interest, it was
believed, would be in alleged inter
ference of some Italian consular
officers in the training of Italo-
American children in this country
and in impressment of American
citizens for service In the Italian
army.
Marcus Duf field, writing in Har
per's Magazine on "Mussolini's Am
erican Empire," alleges existence ol
a fascist campaign of Italianization
(Concluded on page 10, columii3)
CAPTAIN AND 30
SAFE ON ISLAND
Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich.. W
The cold northern dawn spreading
over the white-capped waves of
Lake Superior Saturday found
Captain P. O. Farrell of the pack
age freighter Chicago and 30 mem
bers of his crew huddled about
their campfires on the rocky shore
at the western end of Mlchiplcoten
island where they have been
marooned without food or shelter
since Tuesday night.
Michiplcoten is a wooded and
mountainous island 100 miles
northwest of Sault Ste. Marie. Its
highest rocks rise a thousand feet
above lake level. The only inhabi
tants are a few Indian fishermen
living at Quebec harbor In the
southeastern part of the island.
One member of the crew of the
Chicago succeeded in making his
way across the nine miles of
desolate coast to Quebec harbor
last night and reported that other
members of tne crew might at
tempt to get across today.
Radio reports from the tug
Whalen last night said the Wha
len, the freighter John Henderson
and the coast guard boat 119 were
standing by and would attempt to
take off the Chicago's crew today
if weather permitted.
PLAN PORT DISTRICT
FOR CRESCENT CITY
Grants Pass, Ore. UP) Formation
of a port district to Include all of
Del Notre county, Calif., has been
perfected at a conference held In
Crescent Cut In which city and
county officials from Grants Pass
participated. The board of United
States engineers, represented at the
conference, was Instructed to pro
ceed with a re-survey of the Cres
cent City harbor. When completed
the projected deep sea port will have
cost 12.000,000.
sod Laura D. Harlow, mayor of
Troutdale, was re-elected treasur
er. The committees provided for to
wait upon the highway commission,
county courts and board of edu
cation were not provided for by res
olution, but authority to appoint
tVra was asked by President Schue
bel. Those visiting the highway
and county fHas will ask for a
more equitable adjustment of gas
"(Concludrd boVMre nTcoiumn 7
BINGHAM'S ACT
CONDEMNED BY
LOBBYREPORT
Relations Between Sena
tor and Manufactur
ers Shakes Confidence
Departments Called on
To Give List of Dollar
a Year Men
Washington The relations be
tween Senator Bingham, republican.
Connecticut and the Connecticut
manufacturers' association were
condemned before the senate Satur
day by Chairman Caraway of the
lobby committee as tending to
shake the confidence of the Amer
ican public in the Integrity of legis
lation." Caraway made his statement af
ter presenting a report to the senate
from the committee detailing cir
cumstances of the "loan" by the
Connecticut manufacturers associa
tion of Charles L. Eyanson to assist
Senator Bingham In his ork on the
finance committee In framing the
tariff bill.
'In view of the extraordinary cir
cumstances attending this-transac-tlon,"
the Arkansas senator said, "it
was felt by the committee that it
was Its duty to call to the atten
tion of the senate Immediately the
information obtained.
"It seemed to the committee that
the transaction was beneath' the
dignity of the senate and that it
would tend to shake the confidence
of the American public In the Integ
rity of the legislation."
Caraway also disclosed for the
first time that the committee had
reason to believe Bingham was first
approached by the association rela
tive to their giving him assistance
although the records show Bingham
(Concluded on page 10,columnl)
CLARK ELECTED
TO CLUB POST
Charles S. Clark, of Ausmvllle,
was elected secretary of the Marl'
on County Federation of Com
munlty clubs at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms Friday night to
succeed Dr, Henry E. Morris, of
Salem, who resigned. Other offi
cers of the federation were reelected
and are Dr. P. O. Riley, Hubbard,
president, and George W. Hubbs,
Sllverton, vice president. Five dt
rectors will be named at the No-
vember meeting when work for the
winter wiU be outlined.
Representatives of 16 community
clubs attended the meeting with re
ports In the various districts being
given by Mrs. M. M. Magee, Rick
ey; Howard Zlnser, Salem Heights;
George W. Hubbs, Silverton; Mrs.
Slg Harris, Brooks; Charles Mar
tin, Aumsvtlle. Mrs. A. L. Collins,
Waconda, and V. L. Larson of the
Sllverton Hills district.
Dr. David Bennett Hill, of Salem,
was given a vote of appreciation
for his appearances before the clubs
with his special moving pictures.
CHECK ARTISTS
BUSY JN OREGON
Portland (IP) Police here revealed
that five boys were arrested this
week charged with distributing
$1000 worth of forged checks stolen
from the L, B. Menefee Lumber
company. At the same time It was
revealed that nine Portland busi
ness bouses were burglarized In re
cent months and pads of blank
checks stolen. The burglaries were
concealed, police said. In the hope
of arresting the thieves.
Four hundred dollars In Insur
ance claims have been paid for
checks stolen from the Portland
hotel, officers said, and the claims
represent only ten per cent of the
forgeries circulated.
Inspector Tom Swennea, head of
the Portland police check detail,
Mid bad check writers were claim
ing thousands of dollars dally from
Oregon business men. t
The blank checks stolen were
said to be "as good as greenbacks,
owing to the standing of the com
panies Involved. In most cases
check protectors were stolen with
the checks.
Newport A body believed to have
been Art Robinson, fisherman
drowned when the craft Rustler
capsized, was washed up on the
beach here
Kiddies Provide
Mildred Tallon (left) and Eva
and discarded toys that were the price of admission to the special matinee
and the theater Saturday morning.
men to be renovated lor distribution among unfortunate children of
HOOVER LAUDS
ROOSEVELT If
BIRTHDAY NOTE
Washington (JPy Commemorating
Theodore Roosevelt's birthday Sun
day, President Hoover issued a
statement Saturday saying the an
niversary "brings a reminder ol the
driving power of stalwart character
and vigorous ideals."
The president said that not the
least of Roosevelt'a labors were those
of upbuilding the navy.
Because Roosevelt a birthday falls
on Sunday, navy day, which has
been associated with this event, will
be observed Monday.
The president's statement follows:
"The birthday of Theodore Roose
velt annually brings a reminder of
the driving power of stalwart char
acter and vigorous ideals. These are
embodied In hia person, and they
gave force and substance to the dis
tinctive charm with which he pro
jected his verile personality upon
our national life.
His contributions to our history
are many, not the least being his
labors in upbuilding the navy, which
has chosen his birthday as the occa
sion for yearly commemoration of
its services to country.. Americans
should make the anniversary of this
great Americans birthday an occa
slon of general and public apprecia
tion ox his me."
DEATH FOLLOWS
MURDER PROBE
Los Angeles (IP) The William
Desmond Taylor murder mystery
had one of 1U spasmodic returns to
print Saturday when friends of
Earl Boruff, 41, Long Beach detec
tive who was found shot tn death on
October 18, told the sheriff's office
that he "knew too much about the
Taylor business. - , . ad
Boruff, according to the reports
worked on the famous motion pic
ture slaying, and recently tola
friends he would have solved the
mystery of Taylor's death If he had
not been told to "lay off."
Taylor, then a leading screen di
rector, was shot to death in 1823.
Mabel Normand and Mary Miles
Mlnter were questioned regarding
certain phases of One case. Boruff
then was with the department of
Justice, according to friends.
When Borufls body was found
his own gun was beside It, indicat
ing a possible suicide but later his
pocketbood, minus its contents, was
found a considerable distance from
the body.
HOOYER CRITICIZED
FOR CRIME WAVE
Washington (U President Hook
er was severely criticized in the sen
ate Saturday by Senator Blease.
democrat. South Carolina, for his
alleged failure to stem the District
of Columbia crime wave.
"If report had eome to me when
I was governor of South Carolina,
like those which have come to him
about the three District of Colum
bia commissioners and the chief of
police, I would have fired every one
of them, even If any one had been
my best friend." Blease said.
Firemen With Toys To Repair
tv?ii1 Tit
Gaff (right), usherettes at BUch's
The toys, half a truck load of them
.
Show Nets
Half Truck
Load Toys
Christmas may be two months
waay but the firemen of the East
Salem station are not taking any
chance that Santa Clans might
overlook any little boy or girl in
the city and with the assistance of
the Capitol theater and the Capital
Journal, acquired a half a truca
load of assorted toys that will be
distributed here for the holidays in
connection with the Elks-Capital
Journal annual cheer movement.
Toys that appeared none the
worse for wear; toys that have out
grown their usefulness; toys in
need of repair; toys for boys and
toys for girls; mechanical toys,
books, games, dolls, roller skates,
'Concluded onpage'lo7"colurhn 1)
GOES INSANE ON
STAGE COACH
Woodburn The passengers
the northbound stage, which ar
rived at Wcodbun: at 4. o'clock a.
m. Saturday were treated to an ex
hibition which was quit unexpect
ed when a woman, about 30 years
of age, suddenly went raving crazy
and began to scream. The woman
had appeared nervous but made no
disturbance until tne stage leu ea-
lem when she began her screaming
and three men were required to
hold her until Woodburn was
reached.
At Woodburn a message was sent
to the marshal who came after the
passenger and with the help of
two men from the stage took her to
the city Jail where It was necessary
to place her In a cell. When the
stale stoDned at Woodburn the
woman succeeded In kicking out
one of the windows of heavy glass.
It was later learned that her name
was Mrs. Margaret Lackey or 1338,
E. 48th street, Los Angeles, and that
she was on her way to visit her
mother In Seattle. The mother was
reached by telephone and Is ex
pected to arrive In Woodburn Sat
urday night to care for her daugh-
ter.
DALADIER TO
FORM CABINET
Paris (P) Edouard Daladler, lead
er of the radical-socialist party, no
tified President Doumergue Satur
day of his acceptance of the task of
forming a cabinet. He added tnat ne
hoped to be able to give the presi
dent his cabinet list Sunday.
The name of Arislide Brland, who
has held the portfolio for foreign
affairs in the French government
off and on for the past fifteen years
and has guided most of Frances
post-war foreign relations, may not
appear In the new French ministry.
II the socialists accept participa
tion, Paul Boncour, former French
representative at the league of na
tions, Is most likely for the foreign
affairs portfolio. His selection would
not mean any great change In
French foreign policy as he has been
a partisan of most of M. Brland's
foreign policies, including concilia-
tlon with Germany, a United States
of Europe and disarmament "with
safety' for francs.
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Klanslc Shop Photo
Canltol theater, collecting the broken
sponsored by the Capital Journal
were turned over to the Salem fire
the city at Christmas.
NOTRE DAME
BEATS CARNEGIE
YALE VICTORIOUS
Pitt Stadium, Pltsburgh (Rt For
the first time in three years a pow
erful Notre Dame eleven managed
to beat the Scotchmen of Carnegie
Tech Saturday, winning by the nar
row margin of 7 to 0 before 70,000
fans in the huge stadium. Joe Savold
scored on a short line plunge for
Notre Dame in the third period of a
game marred by frequent fumbles.
Yale Bowl, New Haven, Conn. (IP)
With Albie Booth, sensational back,
leading the attack, the Yale eleven
surprised the undefeated Army team
here Saturday afternoon, scoring
two touchdowns In the third period
and winning the game, 21 to 13.
Princeton (ffiy-In a wild game in
which long runs and intercepted
passes brought spectators to their
feet throughout, Navy and Prince
ton played a 13 to 13 tie. Spring
ran 60 yards, for the first touch
down. The last Princeton coun
ter was on a pass of 27 yards. The
penalties in the game were frequent
and severe.
SCHOOL TEAM
TANGLE AIRED
Portland, Ore. IIP) An avalanche
of testimony and reams of evidence
which members of the Oregon High
School Athletic association ruled
out as immaterial left the La
Orande-Baker-Corvallls high school
football tangle without decision
Saturday after association board
members postponed the hearing un
til late afternoon for further testi
mony. The tangle appeared when the
La Grande high school officials
fll-d a potcst with the association
against Baker and five members of
the football team of that city. H.
W. Adams, principal of the Corval-
lis high school, to which at least
two of the five protested players
once attended, entered another pro
test against Baker along the same
lines.
Stock Traders Take
Heart In President's
Business Optimism
Vt . V-1. T T" Wall Qt foof TLQ a
new iuis (ui ii .'..vw J. -
n ' l A. TT ...III nn nittlinifi that ! mUtHK
in stock market circles, had said fundamental bminesa of th
country was on a souna oasis wnn-j-
nroducUon and distribution well
maintained.
That was the sort of expression
traders had been waiting for for
l. Th.v hal an the market
soar to new highs on September 3
when ine uhiuauim nvri.no
381.17. From that day with only
Intermittent rallies of short dura
tion, the decline has been continu
ous. Thursday that brought out nearly
13,000,000 snares on tne swea mar
J MILLIONAIRE
UNDER GUARD
AWAITS FATE
Pantages Held in Prison
ers' Room As Jurors
Debate Case
Jury Out Since Friday
Afternoon Locked.
Up During Night -
Los Angeles (IV-Under a watch
ful guard the Jury deliberating the
fate of Alexander Pantages, theater
multimillionaire, accused of a sta
tutory offense against Eunice Prin
gle, youthful dancer, resumed its
session Saturday. The case went to
the Jury late Friday.
Pantages was held In a nearby
prisoner's room while the Jury de
bated. He was under constant
guard, a deputy sheriff attending
him every minute following the de
livery of the case to the Jury and
eating and sleeping In the same
room with him.
A current of wild rumors swept
about the hall of Justice although
there was no Indication, whatso
ever, from the jury or court at
taches on the course of balloting.
A flurry of excitement was caused
shortly after 10:30 a. m. when the
buzzer attached to the Jury's cham
bers rang in tne courtroom. It de
veloped, however, that a Juror had
desired some personal belongings
not In any way connected with the
case. -
The Jury had been out It hours
and had deliberated five hours
when it resumed Its task Saturday.
The Jury adjourned at noon for
lunch without having reached a
verdict and was expected to recon
vene at 2 o'clock.
The wealthy showman, who until
his fate was placed In the hands of
the Jury was at liberty under bail,
was remanded to the custody of
the sheriff pending a verdict, and
was sent to his home under guard
Concluded on page 10. column 71
SHOOTS SELF ON
ORDER OF CULT
LEADER, CLAIM
El Paso, Texas VP) Strapped to
an operating table, James Clifford,
28 year old self styled scion of a
wealthy Oakland, Calif., family, de
:lared Saturday he shot himself on
order of a secret cult whose heads
gave him a pistol and demanded he
commit suicide because he had fal
len in love with the wife of another
cult member.
Police were forced to handcuff the
injured man and he was strapped
to the operating table while physi
cians worked because of violent at
tempts to complete what he said was
an attempt to kill himself. He was
not wounded dangerously, one of
two shots going wild and the other
inflicting a surface abdominal
wound.
Neither Clifford nor two young
men with him. Ben Powers, 19, and
Paul Harper, 21, both of Oakland,
would describe the cult other than
to say it was known as the "O. ft,
T. P. T." All questions were greeted
with silence.
Police said the suicide attempt
was Clifford's second In the last
week. Wednesday night, while riding
with the woman for love of whom
Clifford said he was condemned,
Mrs. Gladys Hunter, he was prevent
ed from shooting himself by Mrs.
Hunter.
ket and nearly 1.000.000 on the curb,
and millions more on other exchan
ges throughout the country. Selling
was to severe that only billionaire
bankers could stay it.
During this drastic shake out of
the small traders and the ptnek
a - hlv nnM the nrMlilent was
silent. When he' spoke Friday night
alter tne close, tne nnancuu com
munity paid close attention.
IVulan bnM ttut .ItiiatlnfL iTte
were almost sure that twlneea had
(Concluded on pie 11, column I)