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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1929)
A C apitsdJUfoMTiiail FAIR tonight and Sunday, colder cut por tion tonight. Gentl easterly wind. Local: max. lit; mln. 42; rain river -2 8 feet; partly cloudy, north ClRCUlJVTION Dally average distribution for the mouth ending October 81, 1929. 10,303 Average daily net paid 9,900 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation 42nd YEAR, No. 262 Entered aa second elaea natter at Snlem, Oregon - SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY, .2. L 'ZV,?-1929 PRICE THREE CENTS VJSS.iVSSSi ... . . " 1 a rvi II FUfflT fr ipi LI COMMISSION OF CAUF0RM1A AIDS HILL Li Good Evening! COLLEAGUES TO VOTE CENSURE BINGHAM CASE Utility Regulating Body Smashes Precedent by Taking Up Rail Fight Now that prunes have been dis posed of we have advices from the front that weather conditions have been Ideal for the Little Algae crop during the past summer and we hope that the water company will hurry up with its filter plans. Declares It In Interest of State to Permit Exten sion of Great Northern San Francisco UP) The state railroad commission Saturday an nounced it had Hied a petition with the interstate commerce commis- lon asking permission to intervene In favor of the application of r the Great Northern Railway company and the western Pacific Railroad eomnanv for a certificate of public convenience and public necessity for the construction of their pro posed lines in southern and north ern California. The Orrat Northern's applica tions for the construction of a line in Klamath county, Oregon, and Siskiyou and Klamath counties in California and the Western Pacific seeks to construct a line in Plumas, Lassen and Modoc counties, Cali fornia, to connect with the Great Northern, linking that system with Niles and San Francisco bay over (Concluded on page 10, column 4) YALE DEFEATS DARTMOUTH AND CHICAGO TIGERS vol. Bowl. New Haven. Conn. (IP) In a game of thrills not furnished exclusively by Albie Booth and Al Marsters as had been forecast, Yale defeated Dartmouth Saturday, 16 to 12, the winning touchdown com ing late in the game when Hoot Ellis, one of the fastest men on the field, Intercepted a Dartmouth pass and ran 75 yards lor tne last toucn down of the game. Booth was away to a great running start but was stopped later. Marsters never am et awav but he passed the green to one touchdown and scored the other. DON UHJOH.V OFFERS Sips for Supper Maybe folks have forgotten just how the water tasted last winter but if Little Algie Is getting ready through a summer of underground golf and exercise and good food to descent on us again this winter let's hope that something be done about it in a hurry. We realize that the water company boys don't like to bear us talk about Little Algie but this is just a gentle reminder that Algie time is In the offing and steps taken to kill him off now will save a lot of talk next winter. A TRUE SCOTCH STORY "A famous Scot, Harry Lauder, stopped at Garlands Barbacue en route to Salem. Harry was smok ing his briar pipe and had a wee bit of a smile on his countenance, when asked If he wished lunch. 'No,' replied Harry, 'I neyer get hungry in Oregon. I had a real feast out of your scenery Ida tried to sell Harry a cigar but the boy from the highlands refused saying. 'I had a seat right near a man who smoked wonderful Hab anas and could Inhale the aroma nicely.' "Hubbard Enterprise. Republicans to Change . Condemnation to Dis approval and Pass It Senate Ignores Hoover's Request for Speed on Tariff and Recesses Washington (LP) Senator repub lican colleagues of Senator Hiram Bingham, republican, Connecticut, have generally decided to support the Norrls resolution censuring the senator's tariff activities if the word "condemn" in the resolution is changed to "disapprove." An amendment proposing to soften thus the tone of the censure probably will be offered Monday by Senator Simeon D. Fess, republican, Ohio, and then the resolution prob ably will be passed by an ' over whelming majority," according to present plans. Washington iP) Because of the absence of many members and the unwillingness of those on hand to proceed with the tariff bill with the small attendance, the senate shortly before noon Saturday voted itself a reces until Monday. Be- Concluded on page 10. column 1) "Sign on Undertaker's Window- Why Walk Around Half Dead When We Bury You for $37.50," says a line on tne classified page, or probably only $18.75 with one foot in the grave.. Maybe by the time Harry Sin clair, Pantages and a few others get through with it, some large trust funds will be left for the im provement of conditions in county jails. Palmer Stadium, Princeton. N. J. yp) A sturdy Chicago eleven with occasional flashes of brilliance, soundly trounced a desperate Prince ton team 15 to 7 Saturday in the resumption of a famous intersec tional rivalry- Van Nice threw one pass for Chicago's first touchdown and ran 80 yards for the second score after the mia-westerners scored on a safety in the second period. Wittmer passed to Lea for Princeton's lone touchdown. PENN DEFEATS NAVY 7 TO 2 Franklin Field, Philadelphia (IP) With Walt Masters, 165 pound half back, showing the way, Penn defeat ed the Navy 1 to 2 before a capacity crowd of 75,000 on Franklin field Saturday. All of the scoring came in the second period, Penn counting on Wilncr's 30 yard dash to the goal following a long pass from Masters. Masters then place-kicked goal. Na vy scored a safety late in the same quarter when Gettcs punt was blocked back of the goal line and recovered by a Penn backfleld man. Masters' long and well placed punts kept the Navy in trouble during the remainder of the game. ASKS SURVEY OF C0QU1LLE RIVER SLAIN IN FIGHT ASSERTS TEXAN Weatherford, Tex., Jf Nervous and his voice quavering, R. H. Hamilton testified in his murder trial here Saturday that his son-in- law, Tom Walton, Jr., 21, was slain last May 4 in Hamilton's of lice "in a mortal battle" over i 44 caliber pistol. Hamilton said he was In his of fice when Walton entered. Walk ing to the door of the reception room, he said he saw Walton, husband of his 17-year-old daugh ter, standing there with his hand in his right coat pocket. He moved his right hand and I immediately grabbed for my pis tol," Hamilton said. Hamilton had testified he bought a pistol from his law partner, Harry G. Hen dricks. April 24, and carried it all the time because he feared for his life. "When I grabbed for the gun. he made a dash toward me," the former member of the Texas school commission of appeals told the jury. "I pulled tne gun out, and he jerked it out of my hand and caught hold of it and it discharg ed right over my shoulder. Prom mat time until Tom Walton leu to the floor, there was a mortal battle over the pistol. He was doing everything to shoot me and I was doing everything to shoot him. Hamilton did cot say he had the the pistol in his hands when the lour snots wrucn struck waiton were fired. NINE MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY DIE IN CRASH Elkhart, Ind. (IP) A train-auto- mobile accident cost the lives of nine members of the eame family at Osceola, Ind., six miles west of here Friday night and a 10th was critically injured. The dead are: John Flatt, 50, and Mrs. Flatt, 47, both of Newcastle, Ind. Their daughter, Mary Flatt, IT, Dewey Brennan, 23, and Mrs. Brennan, 20, both of newcastle, son-in-law and daughter 01 Mrs. Flatt. Three Brennan children, Virgie, five: Florence, three, and Robert, 10 months. Richard Vaughn, aged seven months, son of Ray Vaughn, Osce ola, Ind.. and grandson of Mrs. Flatt. A daughter of Ray Vaughn, Betty Bell, aged four, received a fractured skull and head lacerations and was in a critical condition in a Mtsha waka, Ind., hospital. Two school girls, the only wltnes ses, said although the crossing bell was ringing and they screamed warning at the driver, he drove his car directly in front of the west bound New York Central passen ger train. BODY OF DAY OLD BABE ON DOORSTEP Portland W The body of a day old boy, wrapped in tattered news papers and left at the apartment door of Mr. and Mrs. Frame Kauma, Portland, was buried Saturday but police remained as mystified as ever. Kalima, middle aged real estate dealer here, found" the baby at bis doorstep when he investigated foot steps which entered the apartment hall then receded. He told police that as he opened the door he heard an automobile drive away. Al Capone Says Wall Street Too Crooked to Play Philadelphia, Pa, (IP) Al Capone doesn't play the stock market because "those .guys are crooked." The Chicago gang leader who is serving a sentence in the Eastern Pennsylvania pentltentiary, was ask Sat urday by the United Press whether be had any money in the market during the gyrations this week. "Nope," he anspered, "those stock market guys are crook ed. I won't play with them. I know lots better ways of investing my small change,' FOSHAY CRASH CAUSES GLOOM IN MINNESOTA Minneapolis, Minn., An atmos phere of depression prevailed in thousands of homes in the west after the falure of the W B Fos- hay company, Minneapolis, which operated public utilities, invest ment companies, steamship lines, banks and real estate firms from Alaska to Central America. The huge organization, headed by Wilbur B. Foshal, and with properties estimated at more than $20,000,000, went into the hands of receiver today. Financiers and bankers who were at a loss to advance reasons for the failure, said the collapse was perhaps the most serious ever suffered in this region. Foshay, the directing genius of the widespread organisation, who came here 15 years ago and whose name is blazoned in electric lights atop his recently completed 32 story office tower building here, may have told tne cause or tne collapse but he was silent. l have nothing to say at tne present time," he declared, "we did all we could." There were those, however, who believed that a contributory cause to the rapidly developed firm's failure was the lavish dedicatory celebration provided by Foshay when his tower "The Washington monument of the west" was thrown open to the public. A large amount of money was spent on the monster celebration at which Secretary of War Good was a principal speaker and sousa s band gave a series of concerts. There were those also who look ed upon the imposing tower, sup posedly financed largely by large sales to working people as an un wise investment considering the tremendous rental value of the land on which the tower was built. MRS. FALL TO CARRY ON Ft VINOiCATIOH Wife of Convicted Briber Thinks History Will Call Him Patriot Family Now Supported By Her Inheritance. To Write Whole Story SIMERAL DESERTS (F& rrt 7? crs ijrs S3 sw Livesley Group As em gsa km can b k a a INSURGENTS PLOT By HARRY N. CRAIN L, J. Simeral, alderman from the first ward and one of the five supporting Mayor Livesley, has removed himself from the path of the "insurgent" group on the council seek ing to wrest administrative control of the city from Mayor uvesiey ay removing nimscii iruni f Washington (P Mrs. Albert B. Fall, said Saturday she was going back home with her husband next week as confident in their future as she was the day they were married nearly 50 years ago. Buoyed by a fervent belief that history will Identify him as "a pa triot," she said Saturday that "the white flag of surrender shall never float over me and mine," and with eager assurance she told of plans to "work In all directions' toward his vindication. They will return to the home in El Paso, Texas, which she owns in her own name, she said, and after a brief rest, she will go to the New Mexico ranch to manage there "whatever her husband's failing health will not permit him to ac complish. The ranch will be their home until It Is sold, and Edward 1. Doheny is paid back the sum of about $300,000 covering his pur chase of the ranch at a sheriff's. sale as well as the $10,000 loan In 1921. The ranch. Mrs. Fall is-confident. will net them something over the (Concluded en pane 10, column 1 the ward, thus automatically relin quishing his sett on the council and conferring upon the insurgent ma jority the privilege of naming a successor who will cooperate in de feating the policies of the mayor. simultaneously it is announced that Mr. Simeral will accept the superintendency of the municipal Incinerator at an understood salary of $150 a month. The retirement of Simeral gives to the insurgents the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the pend ing resolution which would deprive the mayor of the right to name the council committees and vest this power in a committee on commit tees to be selected by the council. RAIDER: KILLED Homecoming Draws Scores Of Old Grads Back To Willamette SQUEAL ON HOST Wahlngton (IP) Prohibition con ditions in the nation's capital arc expected to be placed before a grand jury here next week when senator Smith W. Brookhart, republican, Iowa, appears to tell of a senator ial dinner at which, he says, guests were provided with private hip flasks. Brookhart recently said he would "tell all" if District Attorney Rover summoned him before the inquisi torial body. He reiterated this statement after receiving his sub poena. The grand Jury also Is expected to Inquire into the arrect Thursday of George Cassldy, dapper "man-ln-the-green-hat" on the steps of the senate office building on a charge of . violation of liquor law. Arresting officers trailed Cafsldy from his home to the senate office building, they said, saw him enter and return to his automobile, take from It a package and prepare to re-enter the building. The package, they said, contained liquor, Cassldy refused to tell po lice where he was delivering It. Chandler, Okla. (IP) Jeff D. Har ris, deputized -.irohibitlon enforce ment officer, was convicted of first degree manslaughter by a jury in district court here Saturday for the killing of Oscar Lowery, Pottawa tomie county farmer, In an Inde pendence Day raid. Punishment was left to the court. Judge Hal Johnston, who presided over the trial, set November 12 for sentenc ing. Harris was charged with murder in connection with Lowery s death. He also faces a murder charge in connection with the slaying of James C. Harris, Lowery's brother- in-law, on whose farm the shootings accurred. Jeff Harris was one of four men headed by W. W. Thomason, feder al prohibition enforcement officer, who participated In the raid. Har ris and Tom Little and John Wll lalms, other raiders, were specially deputized by Thomason to assist him. No liquor was found. Harris, who is 65, can be sen tenced to from four to 99 years in the state penitentiary on the manslaughter charge. Portland (IP) Senator McNary Jate Friday introduced an amend' ment to the forthcoming war de partment appropriation bill to direct a comprehensive survey by army en gineers of Coquille river, with a view to its fullest utilization for naviga tlon, power, lrrigatcn and other sons and daughters of Jason Lee Willamette students of former years, a few of whom had reached the city Friday evening, continued the influx Saturday and by the time the Bearcat football team took the field early m tne afternoon to Root and Boot the Badgers," the purposes, a dispatch from thf Ore ion Journal's Washington corres pondent said. Portland (IP) Senator McNary in troduced a bill for the relief of Oeorge Press, The Dalies. Spanish was veteran, late Friday, a dispatch from the Oregon Journal', Wash ington correspondent, said. who were drawn to the old Insti tution through the call of the sev enth homecoming, were In large numbers. The big event of the linal day of the homecoming celebration was the football struggle between Wil lamette and it yearly rival. Pacific. A special chapel program, arrang ed by the students, was called at 10:30 am., with a large number of alumni In attendance. Following the football game, old grads of Willamette were scheduled to meet at the Y. M. C. A. where President Averill of the alumni as sociation was to preside at the busi ness session and dinner. The events of Friday and Satur day will be rllmaxed at 8:15 when the play. "It Pays to Advertise," will (Concluded on p.ve 11, column 7 CHINESE RETIEE AFTER BATTLE Tokyo, IIP) A telegram from Harbin. Manchuria, said there had been severe fighting between Chin ese and Souet Russian troops at Fnchinhslfn, and that the Cnlnesc had retired sixty miles In the di rection of Huachuan. Further reports indicate th-re has been a revival of Soviet acilv ity on the northern and eastern Manchurlan front. Chinese sources report that Soviet troops ettirlfd Tunpilng lar.u week out rrrrc pelled. Rumor.-, wcie current Ihnt Mukden a.urnrltica are m.v-Vlfr-Ing the on-mint cf npjcthtini. with the Soviet government Inde pendent of the Nsnkini srovcm- ment. BURTON ESTATE VALUE $750,000 Cleveland, (IP) The late Sena tor Theodore E. Burton's will, dis posing of an estate estimated at $750,000 was filed in probate court here Saturday. The bulk tf the estate, accord ing to the will, la to be divided in 14 parts to be held In trust for nieces and nephews of the senator. The largest single bequest among the relatives goes to Miss Grace Burton, who was in constant at. tendance at the bedside of the senator during his last illness in Washington. The following educational In stitutions received beauests: sio.ooo to Obcrlln college where Senator Burton was graduated SIO.OOO to the College of Bham si, China; $500 to the Canton Christian college of Canton, China $2,000 to Orlnnell college; $1,000 to the Tuskegce Institute of Tus kegce, Ala. COLORADO FLIERS KILLED IN CRASH Colorado Springs. Colo. IIP) Charles Peterson, flying Instructor for Pikes' Peak Air Commerce, Inc., and Lamont Htoltenberg. student flier, were i lied Saturday In a crash near Granfield, Kan., tele graph Information reaching here -aid. PANTAGES TO REMAIN IN JAIL 'TILL SENTENCE (Concluded on page 9. column 3) JOTRE DAME WHIPS GEORGIA SCORE 12 TO 6 Atlanta yp) The ramblers of No tre Dame and the Golden Tornado ot Georgia Tech met on Orant field here Saturday afternoon for their last football clash for at least two years. The first period was scoreless. A punting duel opened the sec ond period with both sides appar ently waiting for a break. A fum ble gave the southerners tne oau nthe Notre Dame 29 yard line. A pass netted nine yards and Thom ason added a yard for first down Notre Dame's line held and Dunlap hurled a 31 yard pass to Misell and the ball was on the irun one yard line. Thomason crashed through for the touchdown. Thomason failed to kick goal. Score: Georgia Tech o: Notre Dame 0. The advantage was short lived, Ou the second play after the kick, Jack Elder, Notre Dame flash shook off half a dozen Tech tack- lers and dashed around left tackle for 53 yards and a score. The try for extra point failed. Carideo took a bad pass from center and tried to run across the line with it. Score: Georgia Tech 6; Notre Dame 6. The visitors hopped Into the lead near the end of the half. Carideo shot a 26 yard pass to Conley and Mullins hit the center of the line for the needed one yard and touch down. The try for point iaiiea. Score: Notre Dame 12; Georgia Tech 6. ARABS STRIKE IN PALESTINE Jerusalem m All Arabs In Pales tine were in mourning Saturday un der a gen;al strike proclaimed on the anniversary of the Balfour dec laratlon pledging British support in establishment of the Jewish home land. Nearly all shops were closed and black flags were flying from Arab residences and minarets of mosques. Jaffa, Haifa and other towns pre sented the same appearance. The streets were orderly, however, and no trouble was expected. BISSEfflltl royal family causesflig.it Dowager Queen of Ru mania Also Reported To Have Been Ejected Los Angeles (IP) Alexander Pan tages, multimillionaire showman, must remain in the county jail at least until November 9, the date set by Superior Judge Charles Fricke for arguments on his motion for a new trial and pronouncement of the sentence of from one to 50 years in prison, which the theater magnate faces as the result of his conviction on charges of a criminal attack brought by Eunice Pringle, co-ed dancer. Reports of private detectives and members of the family that anony mous telephone calls and letters had been received by Carmen Pan tages, is year old daughter of the convicted man, resulted in an armed guard being thrown about the Pantages home. Private oper atlves investigating oineof the mivam:iiuu& me&baKes. eaia mev na. lieved an attempt was being made to kidnap the girl. One letter, written in a feminine hand, urged Miss Pantages to come to a cer tain address where she would re ceive Information of great value. Investigators said the address was fictitious. A statement of District Attorney Buron Flits that his investigators had discovered that Pantages had planned to escape into Mexico by airplane, brought forth an em phatic denial from the theater man. 'There is not a word of truth In It." Pantages said. "It Is Just an other sample of the propaganda that has created a storm of nreiu- dlce against me since the day I was arrested prejudice that followed me into the court room and, In my opinion, went a long way to Influ ence the Jury In its verdict. "Let me tell you something I would rather be sent to prison for tne rest 01 my nie than to desert my wife and family now admit guilt, when I feel I am innocent," Princess Helenc Re quests Departure irt Name of Child King Berlin (IP) A report received her Saturday from authoritative sources in Bucharest said that Dowager Queen Marie of Roumanla bad fled from the royal palace at Balchut because of dissension in the royal family. Rumors of strife between tha dowager queen and others of tha family have been current for soma time. It was declared that several of the family were opposed to her inclination to Interfere with ths regency which presides over Rou mania on behalf of her grandson, the boy king, Michael L Only Friday, Princess Deans, 20 year old daughter of the dowager queen, setting out In her yacht, ths I- trava. to visit her mother st Bal- chik, narrowly escaped disaster when the yacht struck a reef near Agrigas. The yacht was pulled off by a gunboat and towed back to (Concluded on page 10. column 8) NOT A FANATIC St. Paul. Minn. (LP) Although he has never taken a drink he is not a fanatic, Gustav fcpxon Youngquist, appointed by President Hoover to succeed Mable Walker Wlllebrandt as attorney general in charge of prohibition, told the United Press. "I am dry both politically and per sonally," said the 44 year old attor ney, a close friend of Andrew Vol stead, author of the prohibition act. Other than declaring his pleasure over the appointment was "bound less although he hated to leave Min nesota," Youngquist had nothing else to say for publication. He in dicated fanaticism would not enter his administration of the post and that he would have little to say to newspaper reporters. Volstead says: "I consider Younc- qulst a very good lawyer, a man of high caliber and a worthy successor 10 Mrs. Wlllebrandt. SELF DEFENSE PLEA OF AGED SPOUSE SLAYER Elizabeth, N. J. 7P Mrs, Laura Mathilda Titus of Summit, who slew her husband with an axe after 49 years of married life, Saturday pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder before Supreme Court Jus tice Clarence E. Case. The 70 vear old woman, partly deaf and very small, peered up al the Justice through her glasses. She stood between two burly guards. You understand thoroughly what you are charged with? the court shouted down. "Oh, yeA," she answered brightly. You see, it was a case of self de fense." No date has been set for tha trial. She confessed to police she killed her husband while he lay In drunken stupor. She said ha had abused her for years. The woman bade a cheerful fare- well to her fellow prisoners as aha left for court to be returned to Jail. "God bless you," she said, "I'm coming back to you, and I may bava to stay.' Lendon fyp) The British battle ship Ramlllles is reported in an au thoritative quarter to have been sent to Jaffa, Palestine, as an or dinary precaution In case of further trouble there. The coincidence of the Jewish Sabbath Saturday with the anni versary of the Balfour declaration fed to many unconfirmed rumors that further disorders might be ex pected in Palestine. FALLS CITY PLANS FOR ELECTION VOID Falls City Aspirations of some of the women of Palls City for posi tions on the city council received at least a temporary setback Friday evening when the present council men discovered that a 1917 statute does not allow a city election at this time of year. Until the next pri maries the present council members, J. V. Dennis, C. P. Horn and A. O. Adams, will hold their position. Tha I municipal election was officially called off. TROLLY BOMBING AROUSES PUBLIC New Orleans (IP) Aroused by a renewal of street car bombing here Saturday, Superintendent of Po lice Theodore Ray ordered all po lice on extra shifts and equipped detectives on the force with shot guns. The longer shifts will keep more men on duty during the "dan ger periods," Ray said. Two cars on streets carrying heavy traffic were blasted in the latest rise of Sabotage early Saturday. Former Presiden t Railway Trainmen Loses Cancer Fight Cleveland (AP) William G. Lee, 70, whose colorful leadership of the brotherhood of railway trainmen brought him national prominence, died at his home in Lakewood Sat urday morning after a io.ing battle si- of montlis against the ravages of cancer. Lee attained the presidency of the brotherhood in 1009 and served In this capacity until 1928 when at the age of 68 he was defeated for reelection. He was then named secretary-treasurer, but because of nine's resigned last June 1. Regarded as one of the most con servative of the "Big Four" railroad brotherhood leaders, William aran vllle Lee, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, always believed that there were better wavs of get ting things done than by going af ter them In bulldog fashion. Whllo not lacking in aggreasieneat ns was wont to believe that diplomacy would accomplish more than force, that Justice would rally to con ciliation sooner that to pugnacity. W. O. Lee Is credited with bar ing done more than any other man to prevent the threatened nation wide railroad strike In Ml, which. It was conceded, would ha para lyzed the country's program for economic reconstruction.