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. f- TT FAIR Tonight and Wednesday. Moder ate temperature. Gentle winds, mostly southerly. CIRCULATION Dally average distribution for ths month ending October 31, 1939. 10,303 Average daily net paid B.909. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation omnia Local: Max., 64; Min., 32; rain, 0; river, -2.7 feet; clear; calm. 42nd YEAR, No. 264 Entered as second clua matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929 PRKJK THREE CENTS !!S?,tr.KS M1HET ETT3 "P U LIT SENA EMS IF lri " - Mm BERRY PACKS CLEANED OUT Prunes Only Fruit Left In Warehouses Here, Packers Report Time at Hand for Care ful Expansion of Pro duction Acreage . Berry growers of this section who constitute one of the main brigades in the army of fruit growers in the Salem district are facing one of the most Interesting situations in their history, fraught wltn numerous pos sibilities. The complete canned pack of ber. ties from the 1929 crop has passed on out of the canners' hands and as an interesting sidelight on the situation so has every other fruit but canned prunes. Of this latter a large pack was made and there isn't any question but It will readily pass on into consumption along with the shorter pack of other fruits from the below normal crop of 1929. Bare shelves in cannery ware houses at this time of the year are m good omen in themselves, but in addition a new big cannery, Reid, Murdoch & company, serving one of the largest wholesale grocery cll- Concluded on page 10. column 6t COOPER NAMES OHIO SENATOR Columbus, Ohio IP Governor Meyers Y. Cooper Tuesday appoint ed Roscoe C. McCulloch, republi can. Canton, United States senator succeeding the late Senator Theo dore E. Burton of Cleveland. McCulloch, 49, son of a farmer. former congressman, lawyer and once special assistant United States attorney general, will resign his present post as chairman of the state public utilities commission and will leave for Washington at once. He will serve until December 15, 1930, and under state law in order to complete Senator Burton's term which expires on March 4, 1933, muse run for election next year. McCulloch to the father of two children, a daughter 21, and a son, 17. He was born on a farm in Holmes county, was educated in the Millersburg public schools. Wooster preparatory school, Ohio State university and Western Re serve university law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1903. He served three terms in congress from 1915 to 1921. He first ran for the lower house in 1912, but was defeated. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the republican guber natorial in 1920. Shortly after the war McCulloch was appointed spe cial assistant United States at torney general to prosecute and col lect claims against war-time con tractors. He was appointed to his present .utilities commission post shortly after Governor Cooper as sumed office. 6AST0NIA LEADER RELEASED ON BOND Charlotte, N. C. (LP) Fred Irwin Beal, one of seven national textile union workers convicted of second degree murder for the death of Police Ciiief O. F. Aderholt at Gas- tonia last June, was released on $5,000 cash bond here Tuesday and Immediately left Mecklenburg coun ty Jail to prepare for a trip home to lAwrence, Mass. Later he will make a national speaking tour. Five other co-defendants in the trial, he said, probably will be re leased Wednesday. LOSE INJUNCTION AGAINST WOODMEN Lincoln. Neb. (U Lltleation to enjoin the Modern Woodmen of America from enforcing new rates of Insurance, was ended Tuesday fai this state with the dismissal of the injunction suit brought by the Hastings Camp. The suit was dismissed Monday by Federal Judge T. C. Mungcr when he over-ruled a motion to remand the Injunction suit to the Adams district court and fllsmts ed the petition. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Gloria Swanson says there's only one beauty In the movies and It isn't hersell. We could have told her that about herself years ago. How many we wont say because we don't want people to know we're that old. A dispatch tells of an eastern man who has 13 cars and a wife for each car. Unlucky in cars and un lucky in love. Short skirts have brought an an nual increase of $43,000,000 to the value of full-fashioned hosiery pro duction in America says a survey made by the University of Pennsyl vania. And probably that much to optometrists as well in treating eye strain. No wonder there s such rush among the youth of the coun try to get Into colleges If that's the kind of surveys they are making. A similar survey is made every afternoon out In front of the United States National bank and not by college boys either. A good lady sends us word through the society editor that she's glad to see us back at work at our column and that she missed It even though she doesn't like it. Probably even if it was good she wouldn't like it. We wish to congratulate Judce P, H. D'Arcy on his 70 productive years in Salem and wish him 70 more. To those who know him well the Judge has a heart as warm as summer and a host of people know him well throughout the valley and Oregon. We figure we're pretty good at seeing through jokes but when "Cocoanuts" was here awhile back and a wisecrack was made about a Florida subdivision being "the biggest development since Sophie Tucker, it went right by us and we've pondered It like an English man ever since. Until we went over Frank Bligh's place last night and we see it all now. According to the Statesman speaker at the Garden club last night warned against chrysanthe mum bulbs being allowed to be froz en out and advised that "bulbs be lifted on top of the group for the winter." Once more Salem leads the world growing chrysanthe mums from bulbs. We notice where six boys were born at a family in South Africa all on one occasion. And it took us 17 years to get a fam ily like that. Some people have all the lurk. 'S WOUNDS GIRL Chicago (A1) An actor's sword jostled from his hand as he fell was revealed Tuesday as the weapon which caused the serious injury of Miss Jean Stevens, a debutante of last season. The point of the sword penetrated Just above the heart. Neither the management of the Goodman theater, where the acci dent occurred, nor Miss Stevens would reveal the name of the actor. It was explained that the accident was unavoidable and that the actor involved "feels so badly about it, that it would hardly be fair to have his name mentioned." Miss Stevens was watching a re hearsal from the front row. At the close of a Shakespearean sketch the actor Jumped from the stage. He slipped and fell into the orchestra pit, the sword hurtlmg against Miss Stevens. The point had been blunt ed for stage use, and this probably saved the young woman's life, Mannix Says Joseph Trumped Up Charges To Intimidate Court That George V. Joseph, bring to trial the ca.se of Elvin C. Condit against Thomas Mannix and A. Neppach in the prediction made by Mannix in his answer. Wed Monday, to Joseph's debarment proceedings against him. Joseph Is Condit's attorufy in a .suit acalait Mannix and Neppach for $165,000 damages, alleging that they fraudulently deprived him of his business and his property. The reason Mannix predicts it will never go to trial is, according to his an swer, that the suit is -trumped up" as a pretext "to blacken the name of Justice McBrlde." Joseph's purpose In this case, Mannix al leges, and also In his charge of Improper business relations among HILL LINES TO BE REGROUPED STATESJAMES f Merger Sanctioned- Burlington to Line-Up With Western Pacific Burlington -Will Reach Coast and Western Pacific East Outlet St. Paul. Minn. (LP) In the event the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways are consolidated by consent of the Interstate commerce commission, the Burlington may be divorced from them and grouped with the Western Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, New York rail lead- indicated here Tuesday. James, director of the Great Northern and reputed to be the heaviest individual holder of rail road securities In the world, enroute with other railway officials to San Francisco, said he was unable to voice a direct opinion on such ac tion, but be believed the move to be "logical." With the Burlington, which owns the Denver and Rio Grande, making a connection with the Western Pacific at Salt Lake through the Moffat tunnel and the Denver and Salt Lake route, such grouping," he said, would give the Western Pacific an eastern out let and the Burlington a chance to reach the Pacific coast. It was for the purpose of attend ing a hearing on the latter appli cation that James was enroute to California. BE PUT ON LIST Portland, Ore. iP) A resolution asking President Hoover to Include development of the Columbia river In his national waterways program was adopted Tuesday after a meet ing of the state committee appoint ed by Governor Patterson. t. committee of three others were named to devise ways and means of bringing the resolution -before the president. The special committee of the Hoover resolution Is composed of J. E. Bennett. John B. McCourt, Portland and James E. Akey. Pen dleton. Another resolution, presented by Akey, looking toward a traffic sur vey of the Columbia river also was adopted. The survey would be con ducted by the port or dock com mittee or both. Othe-,-s who attended the meet ing Included E. O. Potter, Eugene; L. Barnum, The Dalles; W. W. Harrah, Pendleton, and Arthur Parmer, manager of the maritime commerce department of the Port land chamber of commerce. RUSSIAN FLIERS TO CROSS ATLANTIC New York The four Russian aviators; members of the crew of the Land of the Soviets which flew from Moscow to New York, have wired Soviet officials for permission to fly across the Atlantic ocean to England. They hoped to leave in two weeks from Harbor Grace, New foundland. Portland attorney, will never Mannix, E. W. Wickey and Justice John L. Rand of the supreme court, is to discredit and intlmi date the court with reference to litigation in which Joseph is In tercted. Joseph and Mannix have each filed disbarment proceedings against the other. Each was ordered by the supreme court to file his an swer Monday. Joseph's answer came In before noon and Mannix' late in the day. It is presumed the court will consider the answers at (Conclurtrd on p.igc 7, column Only One Voter To Cast Ballot In N. Y. Precinct New York, (P) George Schroder, an engineer living at 228 West 38th street, was quite an important person in Tuesday's city election. He was the lone voter' registered In the 38th election district of the 10th assembly district of Manhattan. Four election board mem bers and a policeman were appointed to receive Schra der's vote. They have all day to count it as they must re main at their posts until 6 p. m. But Schrader took his time about voting. He approached the polls about 9 o'clock, peered In and walked away without saying a work, which was a break for the news paper photographers who were not on the job so early. Scbrader then sent word that he would pose for pic tures and vote late in the Afternoon. RASKOB DENIES SPECULATION IN WALL STREET Washington (IP) Answering charges that as a "lucky stock mar ket plunger" he led thousands into stock market speculation, helping to precipitate the recent crash, John J. Raskob, in a letter to Senator Harrison. democrat, Mississippi, branded the allegations "political" and without foundation. Senator Harrison as one of the i two democratic senators who spoke in Raskob's defense Friday, when Senator Robinson, republican, In diana, chareed that the chairman of the democratic national commit tee by his example as a market gambler was in a large measure re sponsible for tne collapse 01 secur ity values. "The answer Is that I do not gamble in the stock market," Ras kob wrote Harrison, wno preseniea the letter before the senate. "I have always purchased stocks outright, Investing in the securities of those companies that I thought had an attractive future and have neid the stocks until such time as I felt they were selling for all they were worth." Raskob accused RoDinson 01 de liberately trying to "confuse the public" concerning his plan lor or ganizing a securities company that will put at the disposal 01 men and women in all walks of me oppor tunity to Invest intelligently in real estate and safe common stocks. STRIVE TO SPEED UP TARIFF BILL Washington (LP In a further ef fort to reach an agreement for early disposition of the tariff bill, independent republicans and demo crats promised privately Tuesday to appoint a committee to confer with some of the rejubllcan leaders who want to work out such an ar rangement. The negotiations are being car ried on over the heads of rome re publican leadrs who are unwilling to forfeit their right to conduct a losing fight for .certain industrial schedules in the pending bill. The committee for the coalition ists to be selected by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, who has been leading the coalition fight. It will meet with Chairman. Smoot of the senate finance committee to agree on what amendments can be ac cepted without contest, thus short ening debate. The asrreement may speed up consideration of the bill consider ably but, in the opinion of all fac tions, it can not possibly bring i vote within the two weeks' time demanded by Pre!Ident Hooer. STATE STRIKES AT HAMILTON DEFENSE Weatherford. Texas (LP) State counsel struck at the heart of the defense of former Judge Robert H. Hamilton Tuesday. It introduced a handwriting ex pert apparently to question the gen uineness of letters from which the judge read alleged threats which prompted him to kill his son-in-law, Tom Walton. The witness. W. H. Weaver, Dal las, stated positively that pens used to write feveral letters to Hamil ton from his wife, warning htm that young Walton was out to "get" him, were npt the same pens used to address envelopes which con tained them. He added In one case the handwriting in the letter and on the envelope was not the same. VIRGINIA VOTE TO DETERMINE SOUTOTAKD Election Expected to Re veal Whether South Has Gone Republican Mayorality Elections in New York, Boston, De troia and Other Cities By Tne Associated Press While election contest drew the voters of a dozen states to the polls Tuesday, the eyes of the na tion were fixed primarily upon Vir ginia, watchful for any Indication of what might be expected of tne old dominion in future campaigns. Mayoralty elections in New York Boston, and other cities attracted attention but Tuesday's balloting in Virginia was considered1 ft crucial test for the democratic organization there, and the efforts of the repub lican party to solidify its gains of last year's presidential election un der the leadership of Herbert hoov cr. With a coalition candidate. Wil Ham Moseley Brown, sponsored by the republicans and those elements of the democratic party which sup ported President Hoover, opposing the candidate of the regular demo cratic machine, John Garland Pol lard, it was Inevitable that the re suits of the balloting should be compared with the Hoover majority (Concluded on page 11, column 8) Y MACDONALD OF NAVAL PACT London (LP Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald reported to the house of commons Tuesday on the naval understanding he had reached with President Hoover on his trip to the United States. MacDonali formally thanked both President Hjsver and his cabinet and both houses of congress for his reception. He then quoted tcxtually the joint Hoover-MacDonald state ment issued alter their conferences. The statement, Issued October 9 at the White Hotise, said the two gov ernments declared that war between them is unthinkable and that old historical problems were to be ap proached from a new angle and in a new atmosphere. MacDonald then proceeded to elaborate on the conversations and matters discussed. "During the course of our conver sation,' he said at one point, "Pres ident Hoover raised the question of belligerent rights, fortifications, bas- ctcetra. We agreed to examine them in the hope or reaching an un derstanding." MacDonald said he had discussed with President Hoover the future naval building program of the two nations, recognizing both the prin ciples of parity in strength, and variety in the use of the tonnage allotted. The way for his conversations with Hoover was paved, the premier said, by his preliminary conversa tions with Ambassador Charles Dawes, "which already had removed the fear that at the international conference, unabridged differences between the United States and our selves would doom such a conference to failure." Fledgling Cranes Bring Good Luck To Jap Mikado Tokio, (LP) Two flMcHng cranes have bren hatched In the plum tree grove of the Kanko artmr and rejolrtng abounds In the Imperial Chiyoda raMle. According to Japanese Ir grnd, the ftacred crane In the vast garden of the Imperial rriidrnre lives to an age of 1,000 yearn. The presence of a bird In one's garden means good fortune and to have a fledgling crane hatched is taken to indicate double happiness. Such a phenomenon a the appearance of two fledgling of the sacred crane In the same garden they were hatched onder a day and night guard of palace gen darmes ran mean only that Emperor II iron I to of Japan hi aiHared of a long and healthy life. FOR GOVERNOR . V f-.: -. ;J ij ' "' - j Associated FrtSM Photo Dr. William Moseley Brown (left), anti-Smith democrat and re publican coalition candidate, opposes Dr. John Garland Pollard, democratic gubernatorial nominee. In tht coming Virginia election INSURGENTS GULP xm sm not m w sti gar ' xm una Gag And Hold Noses m sx am ixuf fetx xsc tsf xdo ten BUT PA Y Even the insurgent majority of tHe city council blushed Monday night. It admitted sat, looking down his nose, waiting for some other to say the word that would complete the deal with L. J. Simeral, who, until the last week, was a supporter of Mayor Livesley. But the Insurgents acted. And tney gagged as they swallowed their i own brew. In the deal thus consummated they delivered over to Simeral a neat berth as superintendent of the I municipal incinerator in return for Simeral's resigning from the coun cil so the insurgents might have I complete control of that body, even ! to overriding vetoes. Simeral himself didn't appear in the council chamber. Tne meeting had gone along almost to the end of routine business In fact to the third reading of ordinance bills. At this point Alderman Purvlne, In furgent generalissimo, arose and asked Recorder Poulscn if he hadn't overlooked some papers that had been left on his desk. These proved to be Simeral's letter of rcsigna- (Concluded on ptute 1 1. column 6) M'NAB DRAFTS DRYSTATUTE San Francisco f-P) The complet ed statute transfer! ng the federal prohibition bureau from the treas ury department to the department of justice will be in the hands of President Hcrbrrt Hoover late this month, John L. McNab, an Francis co attorney recently authorized to draft the statute, revealed Tuesday. McNab said there are only a few points still to be taken into consid eration and he hopes to complete his work as planned so that the presi dent may take the matter up when congress eocenes December 10. McNab's statute does not jovide for any change in the Volstead act or any other enforcement laws. Change of administration to the de partment of justice Is part oi the program announced by President Hoover. 21 BODIES FOUND IN VOLCANIC DEBRIS Guatr mala City, tAf Twenty one bodies have rx'en recovered from dfbris left with eruption of the Cnlcano Santa Maria, 70 miles northwest of here. More than 300 others have lost their homes and have had to evacuate the affected ajva. An airplane flying ; over the volcano district fcodfiy reported stream of lava moving toward the sea down the course of the Sama lea river. A new crater has opened on the mountain, releasing another stream of mva. BANDIT SHOT IN HOLDING UP BANX Ban Francbico 'Hi One of two handltx who attempted to hold up the American Trust branch at Hacramento atreet and Prraldio avenue here Tuesday as shot and believed killed in ft sun duel with policeman. Aloyalua Hicks, who frustrated the hold-up. OF VIRGINIA SIMERAL its shame when every member OECRIES STRESS ON PROHIBITION Seattle, (LP The Rev. Dr. Mark A. Mathews, nationally known cru sader, Tuesday hoped to "lead the way back to a fane America whicn will respect all laws." He told the United Press he had received scores of telegrams and p e r so n a 1 messages commending statements he made from the pul pit Sunday, Including the asser tion "we don't need anti-saloon leagues, what we need is a league to abolish such leagues." In explaining his position. Dr. Mathews, said he had been primarily interested in urging respect for all laws and had decried "the killing of 13.000 men and only punishing 100." "The American people," he said, "are confronted by a national peril which is growing graver every hour and If public opinion Is not so effectively aroused to produce some prompt and heroic remedy the day win come wnen the regularly con .'titutcd machinery for the mainten ance of law and order will break down altogether." And again, "We do not see any more, law's majesty and dignity and power because we have become en grossed in trying to enforce Just one law, that under the 18th a mendment. "We have lifted the I8th amend ment and the law under It out of all proportion. He mentioned "the spectacle of congress con-'idering a bill to pun b;h a man for buyirfg liquor." Council Completes -Job Of Hamstringing Mayor By Resolu tion By a vote of nine to three, two members beinff absent, the city council Monday niht completed the job of making the mayor a ftftirehead by stripping him of the power of appointing committees. Thl was accomplished by adoption of the Vandevort re olu'lon to put com mittee appointments Into the hands of a committee on committees. Alderman Towmend called for a record vote on the resolution. The roll call showed only Dancy. CVHara and Town.end voting asntn.st It and all the others for It. Alderman was ab'ent. and Simeral's seat "as va cant because of his resltinatlon. Alderman O Hara called attention to ft serious defect In the resolu tion, and while the Insurgent con ceded that his point was v eil taken they went ahead anyay, lioluing OOZE PARTY DETAILS TOLD BY BROOKHART Row of Silver Flasks for Guests Which They Kept as Souvenirs lowan Describes Ban quet Given Republican Senators byFinanciers Washington (LP) President Hoov er should demand the resignation of Secretary of Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, for failure to enforce prohibition "and get a Smedley Butler or some one like that," Sen ator Smith W. Brookhart, ardent Iowa dry and Independent republi can told the senate Tuesday in de- . scribing what he called a "Wall street booze party" to United States senators at a Washington hotel in 1926. Brookhart asserted there were a larga number of hip flasks on a table or bookcase in the ante chamoer of the dining room and that he and other senators had been invited to help themselves. He said the dinner was given by Walter J. Fahy, a Wall street brok er, a ndthat his position at the (Concluded on pane 10. column 4) PLAN TO USE SNQWPLOWON J. F. Bewley, road patrolman In the Detroit road district covering the road between Detroit and Nia gara and into the Brei ten bush coun try, was In Salem Tuesday and stat ed that a portion of the $4000 road tax assessed at the recent special road meeting there will be expended for the purchase of a snow plow to be used on the Detroit-Niagara road and other district roads during the coming winters. He states that It la planned to purchase a standard hy draulic snow plow to handle the sit uation which has somewhat baffled the road forces up there in the past when attempting to use a grader for the work. Bewley says that last winter the heaviest single snow fall on the road was 27 Inches but at times the snow was 30 inches deep in that section. With the snow plow he states there will be no difficulty experienced In keeping the road open to the end at any time during the winter. This road would link with the new pro posed road across the mountains through Hogg pass. Bewley also stated that the spe cial tax will also be used for main tenance of a mile of the new Brelt enbush road to mile post 17 main tenance of which will be taken over by the district and It will also be used In general maintenance of the Detroit-Niagara road. WEST VIRGINIA IN TIE WITH FORDHAM Polo Grounds, New York (JF) West Virginia with a fine defensive exhibition held Fordham to a score less tie Tuesday, before 30,000 spec tators. The final whistle blew as Fordham was stopped a scant foot from the Mountaineer goal line af ter a march of 72 yards. that the resolution could be chang ed some other time. The rcolutlon provides that the committee on committees shall be elected at the first meeting In Dr-cmber, and shall report its com mittee appointments at the first meeting in January. O'Hara point ed out that in election years this would mean that half the members of the council would have no Toic in the lelection of committees, alnco they do not take office until th first meeting In January, hence that the resolution wa contrary t'oucludeaooT pa 4, column 7)