4 . CapitalAJIoioLrinial CIRCULATION Daily average distribution far the mould ending September 10, 1929 10,281 Average daily net paid (883 Member Audit Bureau ol Circulation FAIR Tonight and Tuesday. Moderate northerly winds becoming Tart able. Local: Max. 71. Min. 47; Bain. M; River -2 teet; clear, south 42nd YEAR, No. 257 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 19." itmnn o jo n 8TSNIIK HVK ttMl ffi&SK STHEET PANTAGES IS FOUND GUILTY BY TRIAL JURY Jury Reaches Verdict on First Ballot, but Pon ders over Punishment Millionaire Theater Man Declares He Will Ap peal to Higher Court Los Angeles UP) Haggard from a uleepless night, Alexander Pantages, theater multi-millionaire, conviciea Bundav night of a statutory offense against Eunice Pringle, 17 year old- dancer, Monday followed county jail routine and laid plans to carry on his fight for freedom. At his request a jail hospital in terne gave him a sleeping potion Sunday night. "But I couldn't sleep just kept worrying." Pantages said Monday. "What did the jury mean by that word 'clemency,' " he asked. When told that it was an appeal for mercy. Pantages brightened, but became delected again when it was lurther explained that the court eould but send him to prison for the one to fifty years prescribed by law. "I got a raw deal." he declared "The jury shouldn't have convicted yellow dog on the evidence against me. But I'm going to ask for a new trial and I think 111 get it. Jf I don't my attorneys are going to ap neal. We will win that." During the morning the man who had made the beginning of a for tune in the resorts of the Yukon . was given a bucket and mop and told to clean up his cell. Pantages had been unable to eat jail food, he aid, and an orange and apple he Concluded on page 9. column B) CONVICTED BANK ROBBER RELATES TALESJF JOBS Golden, Colo. (IP) Ralph Fleagle, who found bank robbery a more ex citing occupation than operating a "horseless" horse ranch In Kansas, Monday discussed the ups and downs of Wall street In preference to his death sentence. Fleagle. white-haired leader of the notorious Fleagle bank bandit gang, who talks more like a banker than a criminal, was sentenced to hang by a jury In Lamar, Colo., Saturday night for the murder of A. N. Par rish, president of the First National bank of Lainar and a former state senator. In less than three weeks Juries have sentenced to the gallows, three members of the bandit gang, who killed Parrish and his son John, bank cashier, during the hold up and kidnaped a teller and a physi aician in Kansas In their mad es cape with 219.000 loot. Fleagle was taken from the jail at Lamar under heavy guard and brought here pending removal to the state penitentairy, authorities declaring they were taken no chanc. es against a possible lynching or an attempt by the convict's pals to Xree him. He cracked jokes with the guards. gave his version of the panicky Wall street upheaval, turned back the pages of his colorful and adven turous criminal career to his boy. hood days on the Kansas prairies when he stole away from his work to read the life of Jesse James and discussed bank robbery in the man ner of a business man discussing the correct procedure In some legit imate pursuit. Fleagle said the stock market always appealed to him, and strangely enough he related he was on his way back to New York when he was arrested In Illinois. EODY FOUND IN WILLAMETTE RIVER Efforts are being made by Cor oner Rtgdon to locate the relatives of a man believed to be r. an net a bout 50 years old, whose decom posed body was taken from the Willamette river near Sidney bun dav afternoon. Cards and other papers found in the clothing contained poorly scribbled names, among them that of B vine la. Becuase the body had apparently been in the water for several weeks the writing was 11 ksible. The same name appear on a bank statement of the Firs' Kauonal bank of Pittsburah. Pa. The body was fairlv well clothed. Tweet! Tweet! Chirped Canary To 200 Firemen Chicago, 7P Two hundred fireltien can be wrong, and a canary, no matter how sweet he tweet, an awful bother. The firemen one squad, three truck and four en gine companies, not to men tion the fireboat crew con Terged at Schoenhof fen's brewery and scanned the area for a fire. A nailing woman, wringing her hands, rushed forward. "Billy Boy, my Billy Boy!" she cried in anquivh. "Save my Billy Boy. She pointed. High on the brewery roof was Billy Boy, tweeting. Battalion Chief Thomas Geary confesses to no es pecial love of birds, but he Is broad minded. He ordered the ladders us. The nimble fire laddies began risking their necks, leaping and div ing and sliding about the Schoenhofen roof. The can ary thcught It was a game, or something. He kept one hop ahead, not forgetting to tweet. Finallv the firemen saw the futility of it all. They got down and put the lad ders back on the trucks. The trucks, home bound, went clang-clang. The canary went tweet tweet. HI SCHOOL BUS TURNS OVER BUT PUPILS UNHURT The first accident to any of the 11 Salem busses being operated this year to adjoining school dis tricts, occurred Monday morning when the Claxtar-Quinaby bus tip ped over In loose gravel a short distance north of Claxtar station. The bus was traveling slowly at the time and none of the dor-en boys and girls were hurt or scratched. The bus was pulled back on the road and returned to Salem unaer Its own power. John Puutio was driving the bus at the time of the accident. T. E. McClean, owner and manager ol the 6chool basses operating under a contract with the Salem school board, says Puutio Is one of his best drivers and he has absolved him from blame In the accident. The bus was one of the new Ford machines. Drivers of school bus ses are reouired to operate a sched ule keeping their speed oown w 25 miles an hour. Principal Fred Wolf of Salem high, motored out to Investigate the accident as soon as word reach, ed him. According to Wolf a tour ing car tipped at this same spot Saturday anernoon. CHURCH WEALTH FOUNDJNJIGSTY MnoAw ioh sixtv nounds of sold and silver coins ol tne uzansi per ,i anrf . ian, nuantitv of silver pHunth Araamentjt and articles stud ded with pearls and other precious jewels were discovered Monaay oy the secret police in a pig-sty of a rirh neasant named Pantelelv, In ihp villas of Maskino. near Moscow it,, authorities said the articles were seized during a famine when the government ordered confisca tion of valuable church properties. The pastor of a local church took them and upon dying handed the hidden treasurer over to the peas ant. He faces a long prison term for his part in the aiiair. Ma y or And Engineer Both Seeking Audit City Bridge Account With Mayor Livesley asking for detailed figures as to credits due the bridge fund for expenditures temporarily, or otherwise made from that fund for items chargable to the street improvement or other funds, and with the city's system of ac-' $8,000 tor further construction, counting unequal to the task of The expenditures from the fund thus searfgatlni charges. City En-1 will then total approximately $342, eineer Hugh Rogers Monday an-1 000. nounccd that he plans at the next meeting of the city council to ask for a real audit ol tne onoge lunu. pa,t have not been properly cnarge r u u.'mat. of the statu, of I able to that fund. In the opinion of ;he fund Indicate that when all ex- j Mayor Livesley and other city of ,.,! tr.-,i have been com- flclals. Included In these Items .nH ih. North Commercial street viaduct finished there will ,reniln out cf Ihe 350 0O0 bond la ne untircrned bv the people about HOOVER ASKED TO TELL STAND ON TARIFF BILL Republicans and Demo crats Request Presi dent Make Statement Senator Reed Sees No Hope of Bill and Says Measure Dead Washington (Demands that President Hoover make known his position on the tariff bill as it now stands in order to save time were made In the senate Monday by both republicans and democrats a friends of the administration ral lied to support of the measure. Calling attention to the suc cess of the coalition of democrats and western republicans In placing the export debenture plan in the bill and also of revising the flex ible provisions, Senator Reed, re publican, Pennsylvania, said It was evident that a majority of the sen ate was opposed to a majority of the house on those propositions and that a hopeless deadlock was in sight. Even though he was opposed to both actions, he asserted, if he were chosen a conferee he would insist on the senate's position on both unless the senate Instructed the conferees otherwise. Reed's statement was prompted by a demand from Senator John son republican, California, that those in charge of the tariff bill tell the senate "where we are at 01 this question." Johnson said he had read news paper accounts that the coalition (Concluded on page 8. column 1) JEFFERSON MAN IN RUNNING FOR LOAN BOARD JOB Directors of the Federal Farm Loan association of Oregon and Ida ho will be called upon by the fed eral farm loan board at Washington D. C. to make a selection between E. E. Dent, of Jefferson, a member of the Oregon state grange, and i stockholder in the Marion-Polk Fed eral Farm Loan association and Hugh Sproat, of Boise, Idaho, for di visional director for the Federal Land bank of Spokane. Sproat Is incumbent. In a recent primary vote by the associations of the two states Dent received 37,783 votes while Sproat received 39,749. The term of office Is three years. George A. Palm Iter, of Hood Riv er, master of the state grange, with drew from the final election In fa vor of Dent, giving as a reason that Oregon should be represented on the bank board and that Idaho now has more than its share, as three of the directors, chairman of the board of directors, president and secretary of the Spokane bank are all resi dents of that state. TRIES TO MURDER JAPANESE PREMIER Tokyo iff) An apparently weak minded Japanese was arrested Mon day after an attempt which police believed was directed against the li'e of Premier Hamaguchl. b( many of the expenditures from the bridge fund made In the ' are sums paid for property con demned In opening streets, fills made to connect bridges, and num- (Concluded oh PMe 7, column 6) Defends Self Hiram Bingham, U. S. Senator CHEAP POLICIES NO PROTECTION TO MOTORISTS Insurance policies offered motor ists for "full coverage" for two years for $29 an dsome odd cents are of no more value to the motorists than to the holder of similar policies giv en by newspapers in an effort to increase their circulation and cost ing 80 cents each, J. E. Shelton. gen eral manager and secretary of the Oregon State Motor association, told the chamber of commerce Monaay noon. Shelton was formerly editor and manager of the Eugene Guard. Service rendered by the motor as sociation was emphasized by the speaker, who said that the associa tion stood between motorists and freak legislation and insurance ag encies. Through affiliation with 157 similar associations, the state is be ing advertised in all of the offices maintained by the associations. Re wards are also paid for the appre hension of hit-and-run motorists. Tourists are becoming familiar with the AAA signs fh all parts of the country and the Oregon asso ciation to date has completed the erection of signs in three counties, and partially com pie td four more. In the Salem distrcit more than 800 road signs have already been placed. The value of the tourist to Ore gon was set at $25,000,000 this year by Shelton. or with 80 per cent of the business in four months, around $4,000,000 a month and $1.33 for every man, woman and child In the state. The amount four years ago was estimated at only $7,000,000. Through the work of the national association the excise tax was re moved from automobiles, saving Oregon la ns $6,000,000. The national association is now sponsoring legis lation that means an additional $1.- 500,000 to the state from federal road funds If adopted by congress and the passage appears favorable. Shelton said. SEVEN ARE LOST IN PLANE WRECK Genoa. Italv, IIP) Two bodies, those of the pilot and a passenger, of the City of Rome, Imperial Air ways Indian air liner which was lost near Spezla Saturday, have been recovered. The wreck of Uie plane Is be lleved to have taken place Satur day night resulting In the deaths of seven persons. Including a wom an, who were aboard. The steamer Famiglla sighted the plane which had landed because of a storm about fifty miles off Viaiegglo and took It In tow to a point ten miles southwest of Tino island. As night leu tne weamer grew worse and the Famiglla's tow line broke. Finally the Famiglla lost touch with the plane and de cided to make for Spezla where the authorities arranged rescue measures sending three destroyers, one torpedo boat, one auxiliary and hydro-airplanes. Search for the City of Rome was carried on all day Sunday and was being continued Monday. COUNT KAROLYI TO BE ADMITTED Washington Secretary Stlm- son Monday announced that Count and Countess Karolyl have been granted visas to enter the United States on the basis of a new appli cation made through the American consulate in Paris. The department s decision is a complete reversal of the policy fol lowed bv former Secretary Kdlogg during the Coolidge administration. Karolvi. who formerly headed a so cialist Hungarian government, and who Is opposed to the regime or Admiral Horthy. the 'present refill of Hungary, was barred by ,'-rni'i Secretary Kellogg. BINGHAM HITS ACCUSERS IN SENATE PROBE Senator Says Lobby Probers Unfair and Framed Against Him Police Court Methods Al legedSays Evidence Tortured and Twisted Washington W) Striking back at his accusers, Senator Bingham, re publican. Connecticut, contended in the senate Monday the lobby inves tigating committee was "unfair and had used "police court methods" in examining him regarding his em ployment of an officer of the Con necticut manufacturers association to assist him in tariff matters. The Connecticut senator asserted the committee was "framed against a friend of the administration." He said one member of the com mittee had used a member of the capitol police force as a chauffeur to drive him home while the police man was still drawing government pay. Senator Blaine, republican, Wis consin, a former member of the committee leaped to his feet and insisted that Bingham name the senator. It was the senator from Wiscon sin," Bingham replied. "I'll reply in my turn Blaine shouted as Bingham continued his speech. Referring to the senate speech Saturday by Chairman Caraway of the lobby committee, Bingham said Tconcluded on page 9, column 8) 8 AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS HERE OVER WEEK END Eight automobile accidents, none of them having serious results, were reported to the police Sunday. One of the crashes resulted In a motorist receiving a bad cut on the nose, while a second accident broke an electric light pole off several feet above the ground when the machine struck It and then turned over. Richard Johnson, Linnton, Ore. received a cut on the nose which was closed only after three stitches had been taken, when he was struck by flying glass after his machine and one driven by E. M. rtuinson, Route 8. Salem had collided at North. Commercial and Gaines. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Rutherford, 1925 Fir street were thrown from the front seat Into the rear of their machine when It struck a pole at Fir and Superior after having col lided with a machine driven by C B. Ross, 1173 Fir street. The Ruth erford car overturned, but neither occupant was hurt. Rutherford had the right of way. Ohter accidents Included: J. R. Benton, 555 Cross street and Albert Fabry, 770 Bellevue at Lib erty and Trade streets. Virgil Harrison, 1888 North Com mercial and Kenneth Pugh. Route 4, at Superior and South Commer cial. Frances Pierce, Jefferson, and Walt W. Wlnnes, 1431 North Cot tage, at Winter and South street Earl C. Orcggs, 252 Cottage and Pullen, at Cottage and Fairgrounds road. Spencer R. Greene and Clarence Moffenller at 12th and Mission. Charles Needham, 1073 Second street, and Harold Sedan, 1112 Mill street, on Church street. FLORIDA FRUIT FLY BATTLE NOW WON Washington ilP) The government virtually has won Us battle against the Mediterranean fruit fly In Flor ida, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde was advised Monday by special committee whose members Inves tigated the situation. Infestation Is not apparent now, the committee reported. Horever, continuation of the eradication pro gram by the agriculture department was recommended. VOBTI AMll MAS KNOW Portland P The first fall of snow of the year was experienced K ,,rvn. mtrionLltl rtlOIUL BUn- r.-y when the mercury dropped to 9 fp-trces. A heavy rain, wnicn :.-.-?::r.ir"iled the snow, later turned SOVIET EXECUTES ict S7i jrsa (g3 cm aa as 63 In Last Four Days R8 SKI Bit TOO tfg JTV. 88 M BY FIRING SQUAD Moscow (AP) Two prominent Jewish diamond mer chants, Kleiner and Teitz, were executed by a firing squad Monday for smuggling diamonds out of Soviet Russia. Their deaths brought to a total of 63 known executions in Soviet Russia in the last four days for various alleged offenses, most of them political. The two Jews were charged with Betting tie diamonds out through officials of the legation and importing illicit rubles purchased abroad at reduced rates. The presidium of the central ex ecutive committee, the highest ex ecutive body of the soviet union, rejected the prisoners' plea for clemency. Opposition to government policies has cost 28 kulaks, or rich peasants, in various parts of Soviet Russia, their lives. Tass, official news agency, Mon day said that a number had been executed after investigation of gov ernment agents into enormous dif ficulties in gathering grain from the peasantry and converting small (Concluded on pne 8. column 3) SEWER FUNDS DEPLETED FOR OTHER PURPOSES ,,. .. .... That Salem's sewer reconstruc tion fund, for which $500,000 bonds were authorized by vote of the people, has been allowed to become depleted by an exceedingly heavy expenditure on work, materials and maintenance entirely ouisiae tne purposes of the fund is shown in a report by Flank R. Kellogg, ac countant, who has completed an audit of the fund. That this state of affairs In the sewer fund existed was first called to the attendance of the public sev eral weeks ago by the Capital Jour nal, and following this Alderman H. H. Vandevort, chairman of the sewer committee of the city coun cil, asked for an audit of the fund The total amount of bonds au thorized by the people was $500,000. which was to be used in recon structing the sewer system and making extensions Dy wnicn me system later enn be tied In to a a sewage disposal scneme, tnougn not under the present authorized fund. Of the S500.000 authorized by the people S330.000 has been issued. Of this amount $100,802.25, 31 per cent has been used for purposes not contemplated under the bond act. The items going into this amount are: payment of a deficit existing prior to the bond Issue. $11,366.72; materials, $39,116.07; labor on old sewer system and maintenance. $5,174.96; miscellaneaus, $14451. This has left for expenditure on the new work only $229,107.75 of the fund so far derived from the sale of bonds. The amount actually spent on new work, however. Is $236,985.28, hence there is an over draft of $7787.53. The actual ex penditures for new work are: Labor on new sewer system. $80,17441; material, $121,532.56; en gineers' and attorneys' fees, $9,914. 97; miscellaneous, $386.02: items chargeable to other funds, $1833.79; equipment, $24,143.63. TURNS OVER IN AUTO UNINJURED Skidding, turning over two three times and then coming to rest on the Southern Pacific tracks, headed the opposite direction from a,hlrh Via aa t.rnvellnff. and escan- ing uninjured was the unusual ex perience of W. P. Doward, Portland, Saturday evening. rvornarrf i,i traveling toward Salem near Holman pars' on ne Dallas-Salem road, uespne tne raci the navement was dry Downard'S car started skidding. It struck a power pole a glancing blow, rolled down an embankment and then rglhted itself between the rails of the track, headlights still burning The car had a rear wheel torn oil and badly bent fenders, but very little glass was broken. Downard opened the door, taking his travel lng bag with him and was looking up and down the track in an appre hensive manner when several mo torists stopped and assisted in lilt ing the car from the tracks. The machine was towed to Salem for repairs. Tampa, Fla. (tP The case of Sydney J. Catts, wartime governor of Florida eharaed with counter- teitlnr. went to a federal courrl Jury at 11:18 a. m. Monday after opposing counsel waived final arguments. FEDERAL LOAN CAUSES RISE IN WHEAT PRICES Washington (PI The federal farm loan board said in a statement late Monday that the shrinkage in stock values in the last few days had had an unwarranted effect upon wheat prices and proposed a series of loans to aid farmers to hold their crops. Chicago IIP) Spurred by the re lease of $100,000,000 In government loans to the grain farmers through the new Farmers National Grain corporation, wheat prices jumped 2Ti to 4-H cents a bushel at the opening of the market Monday and then receded to a level about three cents over Saturday's final prices. The advance had been anticipated. since the federal farm board had made the big loan fund available to grain cooperatives after the close of the market Saturday. Opening prices-were $1.27 to $1.28'i for December wheat, which had an extreme advance of 41 cents; $1.35 to IS for March and $1.38 to $1.39 for May. The Farmers National Grain cor poration completed Its preliminary organization Saturday with the elec tion of officers headed by 8. J. Cottlngton of Stanhope, Iowa, as president. A general manager will be sought this week. DITEMAN HELD $40,000 POLICY Kansas City (TP) Disappearance of Urban P. Diteman, Jr., on his attempted trans-Atlantic flight has presented a difficult problem to of ficials of the Kansas City Life In surance company with which the flier carried $40,000 life insurance. The officials said Monday they had not heard from the beneficiaries of Diteman who is believed to have lo't his life and that no decision had been reached as to payment of the insurance. It was said there was no precedent to guide the company in the case. The Insurance was written before Diteman learned to fly. Company officials, in denying that Diteman purchased the policies several months before he started his ocean attempt, said that the Insurance had been in force for three years or more. SOVIET FLIERS REACHJETROIT Detroit. (fP) The plane "Land of the Soviets" arrived at Ford air port at 11:45 a. m. from Chicago. The crowd which turned out to greet the Russian fliers was s great that airport guards and po lice exerienced considerable dif ficulty in keeping order. London Police Keep Mob of Communists FromU. S. Embassy London (AP) Communists and London police Sunday night fought for more than a half hour outside the Ameri can embaRsy when several hundred paraders attempted to P:eMinl.Tc textlli workers' the Oastonla, N. C, textile workers trials. The parade of communists, num bering several hundred, formed at Trafalgar Square, and moved to ward the American embassy when itji wav was barred bv a cordon of nnllce who informed Its leaders they could not be received at the embassy. Free for all flihling ensued, in the course of which some of the communists smashed windows o! passing vehicles and Involved In-, nocent passers-by. The clash la,led FIVE BILLIONS WIPED OFF OF STCCKVALUES Panic of Thursday Re sumed With Efforts to Check a Failure Sales Total 9,212,800 With Leading Issues On Toboggan. WALL STREET CRASH Five billion stock Tahiea wiped out. Sales total 8.212.800, second largest day In history. Leading Issues drop from li to 50 points. Including U. 8. Steel and General Motors. Support of bank group fails to check slump. Big traders routed and market closes at lowest prices of day. Curb. Chicago and other exchanges react in sympathy. New York VP) The stock market went into another terrific nose dive Monday, breaking through the Ion levels established in last Thursday's record breaking session, as prices of scores of leading Issues crashed (10 to nearly 150 a share, with final quotations around the low levels of the day. Net declines in- the active issues were the largest ince the selling movement started about a week ago. The repercussion of the break on the New York stock exchange waa felt in all other leading securities markets, and In the prices of secur ities traded in "over the counter." Total sales on the New York curb market were 4,152,900 shares, the second largest on record. Many traders, large and small, who held on last week in the ex pectation that bankers would sup port the market until It had be come stabilized, were forced to throw their holdings overboard be cause of their inability f supply additional margin to protect their rapidly dwindling accounts. "Bear" traders, sensing the market's weak ness, hammered unmercifully at the high priced stocks which dropped ConcrTidedon pit ye 8column 6f" WALL STREET BANKERS CONFER New York A) Leading partici pants in the banking pool believed to have been formed to fupport the stock market, conferred with part ners of J. P. Morgan and Company this afternoon after another disast rous break In stock prices, even sharper than lait Thursday's. The conferees included A H. Wig gin, chairman of the Chase Na tional bank, and William C. Potter, president of the Guaranty Trust company. Special meetings were also held of the busine&s conduct committees on both the New York .stock and curb exchanges. BROTHERS KILLED IN STOCKTON CRACK-UP Stockton, Cal.. IIP) Floyd W id man, 16. and his brother, Oscar, both of Terminus, were killed to an airplane crash that seriously In jured the pilot, E. W. Botkin, Stockton, at the municipal air port. for more than half hour before .,.,hhln., h- mounted police and a number of arrests quelled the red spirit. The communists carried such banners as "Mac Donald gorges In Washtnston." and "Textile workers starved and murdered In Oaston- The people In the neighborhood lepst concerned about the whole nffalt were the members of the American embassy. Police had drawn their -cordon far enough aav from the building to Insure Ls inmates not being disturbed