CIRCULATION Dally average distribution for the month ending October 31, 1829. 10,303 Average dally net paid 0,909. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation FAIR tonight and Saturday. Warmer to night. Moderate aouth to meat wind. jouraa Local Max. 61; Min. 26; .rain 0; river -2.7 feet; clear; calm. 42nd YEAR, No. 267 Entered u second clue matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TKAtNS AMI NMt Ml 4MIH fr lVK 4.N IH u itr-u Capit ImLLS VMM WALL STREET DEALS RETURN TO NORMALCY Trading Slackens Up To Average Proportions. Slump Follows Rally Stock Exchange to Close At 1 p. m. During All Of Coming Week New York, (P) Wallstreet had a breathing spell Friday as trading on the stock market slackened up to normal proportions, 3,214,600 hares changing hands in the three hour session, less than half yester day's turnover of 7,184,060. Prices rallied further at the opening, but were repressed by moderate profit taking and week end selling, ana leading shares closed with net losses of $1 to nearly 10 a share. Prices sagged throughout the list In the final minutes of trading but liquidation was in moderate vol ume. U. S. Steel closed at 171, off 3'; General Motors at 43, off l; Radio at off 2. National Cash Register was a strong point. closing up 2'z points, and several of the oils, including Barnsdall and Atlantic Refining, closed with small gains. The casing was easy. The board ot governors of the New York stock exchange Friday (Concluded on page 14 column 4) NEW RACKET DRY REFORMER Chicago (JP) The government be lleved Frilay It had uncovered i new racket under the name of the South Side Business Men's Law and Order league. Among members ar rested by prohibition officers Thurs day were William Payne, organizer; and Mrs. Lena Wichrowski, 60-year-old widow It ted as president. Daniel Anderson, assistant Unit ed States attorney, said the league's purpose apparently was three-edg ed: It served to punish those it opposed; it rewarded ''customers," and it collected money for law and order, "using the money for the overthrow of law and order. Anderson said the government was informed that the league sold alcohol and provided a degree of protection to its customers. To saloonkeepers who refused to buy alcohol from it, the league is al leged to have retorted with raids, An office was maintained at which subscriptions were received from persons interested in prohibition few enforcement. Payne, known as a professional reformer, called the arrest a frame up. "I've been fighting liquor and ice for 10 years," he said. Mrs. Wichrowski was surprised at the charges and federal men were convinced she was made president as a blind. She said the believed the league was all that its name Implied, and told of having written many letters herself asking funds for the league's work. BANK ROBBERS GET SI 05,000 Jefferson, Wis. UP Authorities today had nothing more tangible than license number of Incomplete descriptions on which to base their search for five men who robbed the Fanners and Merchants bank Thursday of approximately $105,000 rn cash and securities. The robbery was so well executed that the men slipped easily through a hastily formed vigilante cordon In southern Wisconsin. The burglar alarm at the Farm ers and Merchants bank was set off about once a week for test purposes. William 8. Kishert. as-'totant cash ier, said Friday. Another bank Just across the street, Kishert said, sounded Its alarm almost every day at 3 p. m. when the bank closed. Consequently, police paid no atten tion when Its clangor actually sig nalled a robbery- Only a few pas- sersby and a neighboring grocer realized that the tank was being robbed and they were held at bay bv a sun in the hands of one of th sang. KTORM WARNINGS I P Seattle 'LP) Warning to small rraft has been displayed along the Washington coast and at the mouth of the Columbia river, the Seattle weather bureau was advised Friday. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN THE RETORT COURTEOUS They ware a couple frbra the east on some sort of business at the courthouse which seemed to take them from office to office and from floor to floor. Up and down the elevator they had ridden all the morning. Each time they as cended the man made uncompli mentary remarks about the lack of speed of the elevator. Little Miss Theresa Kersch, the operator, was getting rather tired of the asper sions of her elevator. On his final trip up the man became quite im patient. What an elevator!" he said "I'd hate to think of trying to get to heaven in this elevator.' "I suppose If you were going to hell," remarked the exasperated op erator, "youd get out and run. ' The couple went up and down stairs several times after that, but they walked. Just the same we wish the presi dent of the elevator company had to spend a morning riding up and down in the snail chariot and he'd fend up his best man to speed it up a bit. While the Statesman Insists the Capital Journal has been dictating to the city council we rise to remark there's only been once in the history when the Journal dictated to council members and that's when it made them pay back what they illegally secured through con tracts with the city. TRYING TO STIMULATE BUSINESS? Win Clark. Salem morticician and nephew ot Lloyd Rlgdcn, took his first solo flight in an airplane yesterday. ONE THAT ALWAYS WORKS "Tlie'e guys are always talking about their lighters." said Heinie Cornoyer as he pulled his out in the lobby of Ladd & Bush bank today while talking with H. K. Jones. "But they cant fool me. I got the one that really works." So saying he tried to work It and it wouldn't light. "Which is au right," continued Heinie. "because I have a patent attachment on mine." and pulling out a match he scratched it on a corrugated sur face on the lighter. "See. thats the way she works," he remarked as he walked out puffing. INTER STATE POWER PROBED Washington P) Information a- bout the amount of electrical ener By transmitted between states, was sought in a resolution adopted Frl day by the senate as a means of obtaining data for an investigation of the question of federal govern ment control over interstate trans mission of power. The resolution, offered by Chair man Couzens of the interstate com merce committee, directed the fed' eral trade commission to obtain the information as soon as possible. Couzens has a bill pending to give the federal government control over interstate transmission of power and his committee is considering it as a part of its Investigation of the whole field of radio, telegraph, tele phone and cable communication. JEWELS STOLEN AS WOMAN HEARS OPERA Chicago (ifp) Mrs. Clara Dunham returned from the opera early Fri day to find her roof bungalow had been robbed during her absence. Ten thousand dollars worth of Jew els were missing, the told police. A valuable fur coat also was taken by the thieves, who forced a rear door. Bowman To Face Mann Act Charge On Girl's Evidence The unsuccessful recent attempt of 17 year old Vera Pack to end her life with a bullet from a small calibre rifle will likely lead Earl Bowman into the federal district court at Portland on a Mann act charge. it was indicated Friday by District Attorney John Carson. Miss Pack is recovering from the effects of her self indicted wound and Bowman, arrested when he tried to visit the girl in a local hos pital. Is held in the county Jail in default of $1,000 bail while waiting a hearing before the Marion county grand Jury on a charge of commit ting an act manifestly contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Miss PLAN UNIFORM ASSESSMENTS FOR TAXATION Galloway Presents As sessors Idea of Stand ardizing Assessments Counties No Longer Laws to Themselves. Demands Cooperation A tentative plan of the state tax commission for standardizing tax ation In Oregon and reaching a uniform system of taxation for all counties was presented to the con vention or asssesors here rnaay Dy Charles V. Galloway, commission member who has been assigned to local tax questions. The convention this year is significant for the reason that it is the first under tne administra tion of the new full-time state tax commission provided by the 1929 legislature. . "The program for improvement of assessment and taxation meth ods in Oregon," Galloway said, "is not one of theories looking to some form of taxation other than we now have, but it is one that ac cepts facts as they are that real property and other tangible pro perties will continue to bear a11 heavy tax load until such time as evolution may bring other iorms of taxation. We don't know when that will be. "Our task now is equalization the -liaising of the low spots and Concluded on page 14. column 1) HOTEL MANA TO TELL ABOUT BOOZE PARTY Washington fP Frank S. Hight, manager of the Willard hotel, where the dinner referred to by Senator Brookhart as the "Wall Street booze party' took place in December, 1926, has been requested bv District Attorney Rover to ap oear Monday beforethe grand Jury. Rover said he had requested Hight to bring with him all records relating to the dinner about which Senator Brookhart, who attended testified before the grand Jury this week. Hight is the second person con nected with the dinner, given by Walter Fahy, New York broker for new members of the senate, who has been requested to testify before the grand jury. Edward E. Loomis, president of the Lehigh Valley rail road, was asked by Rover to appear Monday and has accepted the invi tation. Senator Brookhart said on the floor of the senate that he saw Loomis pour some "alcoholic stuff" from a flask and drink It. YOUTHFUL SLAYER AGAIN SENTENCED Ea'tland, Tex. (A3 Clyde Thomp son Friday was assessed the death penalty for the second time by a jury here for the slaying of Lucian Shook near the la t tor's oil field home at Leray, Texas, in Septem ber, 1928. Thompson was accused of slaying Leon and Luclen. Shook, oil field workers, in September of 1928. The senate contends he was 18 years old at the time, while defense wit nes.sei declared he was 17. Pack told officers that she accom panied Doxman on an overnight visit to Portland. An officers piece the sory togeth er Miss pack triPd to end her life when he learned that Bowman had gone to Seattle with another girl, Oct a via Hjalmson, whom it was re ported Bowman had married. Thursday Miss Hja!mon. who had told hr paten's :ie had been (Concluded ua p;ie 15, (.olumn 7j Sends $2 For - Knife Stolen 20 Year 8 Ago "Some twenty years ago when in your hardware store I took a pocket knife and never paid for it. The knife -mast have been worth $2. "Am sending it to yon." And out dropped a $2 bill from the above letter received by Lot L. Pearce. There was no signature on the letter which carried a Portland postmark. The letter and $2 bill pleas ed Lot a plenty until he took the same in to show It to Ray Farmer. Ray laughed a min ute, then stopped lost In thought. "Say, I owned some of that store 20 years ago and part of that S2 bill belongs to me," remarked Ray. "Maybe you did" came bark Lot, "but you don't get any of the S2." So there the matter stands. T IN PHONE RATES IN CAUFORNIA San Francisco OP) Dion R. Holm, assistant city attorney of San Fran cisco, said Friday that bay cities were expected to appeal to the state supreme court against the railraod commission's order granting the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph increase in rates. Holm said he would call a meet ing of legal representatives of bay region communities for next Wed nesday to study the commission's or der and discuss plans for an appeal. By application of the so-called ceiling rule," the commission in creased telephone rates in the San Francisco bay area by $2,100,000 a year and ordered a reduction In rates for the Los Angeles territory of approximately $2,310,000. The new rates become effective January 1, 1930. In its order, the commission ex plained it had not increased the revenue of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company as a cor poration doing business throughout the state, but simply had invoked the "ceiling rule," to equalize the revenue between the northern and southern parts of California to yield the company a return of 7 per cent on Its Investment, as set by the commission. AUTO TRIES TO J E Seemingly on a perfect balance, a coupe driven by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tom, Corvallis, teetered back and forth on the edge of the Inside curve of the Marion-Polk county bridge early Friday morning, while the occupants held their breath, not daring to try to leave the ma chine for fear it woula plunge to the ground below. MorotfcU ar riving on the scene gra-'ped the rear weels of the cr and held it while the occupants climbed out, The narrow escape of the Toms was caused by frost on the west approach of the brid. The car started to skid, with the front, wheels climbing the pedestrian walk and the rear ones dragging" the curbing. The machine finally brof.e cut two panels of the protecting fence and then hung suspended. A rear wheel was crushed but the machine was dragged back into the roadway, after the occupants had alighted. This was the second accident of the kind to occur on the bridge during the past two weeks, a car driven by R. W. Hogg having plung ed through the fence and onto the ground some time ago. CRUSHING TRAIN The keys were about the only parts of John Shafer automobile which were not broke nor twisted as the result of a crash between the car and a Southern Pacific tram at the Madison strpet crossing Thurs day afternoon. Shafer escaped from the wreck with a few bruises and scratches. How he escaped he was unable to say. Although there is ample clearance at the crossing Rharrf, who had Just drr cn away from Oregon Linen mill plant, failed to see the ap proaching train until it was nearly on top of him. Sergeant Walter Thompson who vbited the scene of the accident shortly after it occurred, say sev eral persons who were near the crossing told him that the engineer of the train gave the usual warn ing signal?. GLASS SEEKS CURB GN STOCK SPECULATION Proposes Amendment to Federal Reserve Act To Stop Gambling Says Financiers Must Be Disciplined by Ade quate Punishment Washington (A) Amendment of the federal reserve act to make it mandatory upon the federal reserve board to assert Its authority and "to prevent by penalization such dis asters in stock gambling operations as have recently disgraced the country" was advocated Friday by Senator Glass, of Virginia. Senator Glass last spring called upon the federal reserve board to dismiss Charles E. Mitcneii. presi- dent of the National City bank of New York, as a member of the board of directors of the New York federal reserve bank on the ground that he had defied the board in offering call money to the market at a critical time in the market operations. In a letter Friday to tne meeting of the association of member banks of the Boston federal reserve dis trict, the senator wrote: If there are men in the financial world, as I think undoubtedly there are, who imagine themselves su perior to the existing governmental banking system and who are totally indifferent to the real commercial and industrial Interests of the na tion, the sooner such men are re strained and severely disciplined by (Concluded on page 15, column 7) INSULL PLANS ACQUISITION OF FOSHAY POWER Minneapolis p The Jounal Fri day said it had learned from reput able financial circles that the Insull public utilities interests of Chica go had started preliminary negotia tions for purchase of the W. B. Foshay company properties. Examination of affairs here of the Foshay company, which went into receivership last week, has been made by representatives of the In sull interests, the Journal said, add ing that indications were reports of the preliminary investigation would be favorable. The Journal understands the pro jected deal would involve all or a majority of the properties owned by the Public Utilities Consolidated corporation, a subsidiary of the Fo shay company. It was considered unlikely how ever, the Journal said, that any transaction involving sale of the properties would reach the final stage until completion of the inven tory, work on which has been start ed by Joseph Chapman, receiver. Valuation of the Foshay company properties, has been estimated to be in the neighborhood of $20,000,000 or more. The company operated utilities throughout the United States, Can ada and Central America. $35,000 FIRE AT THE DALLES The Dalles, Ore. (IP) More than fifty families were homeless here and four business establishments were without quarters as the result of the second disastrous fire in The Dalles this week at the Commodore Apartments at two o'clock Friday morning. The fire broke out In the upper part of the building. Breaking through the roof, the blaze was qukkly out of control, and within two hours, had gutted the fourth story of the large apartment build ing. The lower three floors were not burned, but were so soaked with wa ter that they will require complete renovation. Among the firms driven out by the fire were the Pacific Power and Light company. The dnmage will probably be in excess Of $35,000. Many families lost most of their beionpintrs, being forced flee from the blazing building in their night clothes when the alarm was sound ed. A nrtmber sought refuge in the Elks temple, directly across from the apartment building while others went to hotels or were taken into private homes. Council To Spank Capital Journal For Disobedience By HARRY The Capital Journal, for venturing to suggest that the certain members of the city council have not always been for the public good, is to be chastized. Riding high in the saddle reason of their recent success In relegating Alderman Stmeral to the municipal garbage burner the of fended city dads are preparing to hand down the ultimatum that the Capital Journal shall no longer sit at the city pie counter that here after the business of publishing street improvement and other legal notices shall be given exclusively to the morning paper. Thus are the faithful to be re warded. The ultimatum has not yet been officially handed down. Consistent with past procedure of the insur gents gentle hints of the brewing conspiracy Just happened to leak out. There may be some slgniflcence in the manner in which news of the impending' chastizement "leak- (Concludcd on page 13. column 6 EXPOSURE ON BEACH FATAL TO SALEM WOMAN The death of Vella Chapman, 33, at Newport Thursday midnight was being investigated by police of the coast town in an effort to clear mysterious circumstances surround ing the discovery of the young wo man on the Y a q u 1 n a beach Thursday. The girl was taken to a hospital in a serious condition and died later in the evening from the effects of shock and exposure with out giving authorities any informa tion. She apparently had been on the beach all night, for when found her face and wearing apparel were covered with wet sand. Miss Chapman had been making her home with her sister, Mrs. C. L. McLin, of the Cozy confectionery, 1272 State street. She left Salem a week ago for a vacation at Newport, and her sister had but little news from her since arriving there. De tails of the tragedy had not been learned by Salem relatives. Mrs. McLin and Miss Chapman's other sister living in Salem, Mrs. M. L. Ponte, were prostrate by the shock. Besides her sisters in Salem, Miss Chapman is survived by her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Chapman of Roseville, Calif., a sister, Mrs. C. Scandler of Padlock, Wash.; and two brothers, R. F. of Walla Walla and Lloyd of Salem. Funeral ar rangements will be announced later by Clough-Taylor company. AUTO TARIFF CUT BV SENATE Washington' f-T) The senate Fri day approved without debate a re duction on the tariff on automobiles and motorcycles from 25 to 10 per cent ad valorem. The coalition was successful in eliminating proposed increases In duties on embossed metal buttons, iron or steel pins, metalic pens and cheap pen knives. Committee amendments were ap proved eliminating house increases and restoring present rates on all articles suitable for producing and distributing electrical energy; sur gical and dental Instruments and pliers. The senate aLo approved an in crease from forty to sixty per cent in duty on drawing Instruments. 14 RIOTERS HELD FOR STRIKE MURDER Oastonia N. C. Pr-The inquiry being conducted by Judge P. A. Mc Elroy, sitting as a committing mag istrate, into the death of Mrs. Etla May Within during strike disor der here came to an abrupt close Friday when the prosecution closed its case and the defense" announced it would offer no evidence. Roy Carver and Howard West, two of the 10 defendants charged with murder in connection with the death, were released. The M others held in the case were ordered placed under bond for their appearance before the grand jury at the January term of superior court. N. CRAIN its presumption at times in actions and fettvintrieui of of authority on the council bv BLIZZARD PILES SNOW HIGH OVER KANSAS PLAINS Kansas City, Mo., (LP) Blizzards whipped snow into northern Kan sas Thursday and Friday and car ried temperatures to their lowest seasonal point as far east as Kan sas City. Goodland, Kansas, was heaviest hit with residents shoveling away a b'anket of almost two feet of snow and the forecast for continued un settled weather. The temperatures ranged as low as 30 degrees over much of the northern part of Kan sas and Missouri. In the southern portions of the state rain fell through the night. Farmers said the early touch of winter snows would be beneficial to wheat crops. Denver, Colo., (IP) The Rocky mountain region Friday was recov ering from the heaviest snowfall of tne season. Air transportation, virtually oar- alyzed for the last two days, was resumed in Colorado and Wyom ing and automobile traffic on high ways leading into Denver returned to normal. Eighteen Inches of snow was re ported in eastern and northern Colorado, while mor than two inches blanketed the entire state of Wyoming. The temperature in Denver. which reached 23 degrees during ine storm, climbed slowly. BILLINGS ASKS FOR PERMISSION TO SEEK PARDON Ban Francisco CP) A petition by- Warren K. Billings, asking permis sion to appeal to Governor C. C. Young for a pardon, was on file In the state supreme court Friday. Billings was convicted of participa tion in the preparedness day parade bombing here in 1916 along with Thomas J. Mooney. The petition was filed In conform' ity to a state law which provides that a person twice convicted of a felony must obtain the permission nf the supreme court before he may seek executive clemency. With the petition were offered let ters signed by Duncan Matheson, former captain of detectives here; District Attorney Matthew A. Bra dy, and three of the jurors who con victed Billings. Brady's letter contended that there had not been sufficient evi dence to convict Billings. The letter of the three Jurors, William Thomas Baker, Edward T. Franks and John T. Adcock, asserted they had based their verdict on the testimony of Es- telle Smith and John MacDonald, and they now "doubt the veracity of the testimony." Business Houses To Close For A rm is tice Da y 's Celebra tion Closinir of all business houses in the retail section of the city in observance of Armistice ized by the Salem litis. ness double week-end holiday. Celebra - tion of the signing of the Armistice will be staged on a varied scale again this year by Capttl post No. 9. American Legion, which is upon sonng the program In conjunction with other civic and patriotic or ganizations. Equipment for the carnival was being placed Friday morning on Church between State and Court while details of the annual parade were also announced. The after 1SES STIRS UP WRATH OF PROGRESSIVES Appellation of "Sons of Wild Jackasses" Pro vokes Bitter Invective. Farm Bloc Resents Slurs Of Tariff Advocates Upon West By PAUL R. MALLON Washington (IP) The appellation "sons ot wild Jacka&es," which th prominent republican Senatoi George Moses of New Hampshire applied to western rejubllcans in dinner speech here , Thuredaj night, provoked a reply from tht westerners in the senate Fridaj which senatorial historians say was without precedent for bitterness and personal invective. The dry Iowa independent. Sen ator Brookhart, started the ex change by saying with a frankness which astounded the senate, that the oratorical eloquence of Moses apparently had been unimpaired by the elimination of liquor at fuch dinners as Moses attended Thurs day night. The climax was reached when Senator George W. N orris, Neb raska, . independent rejubllcan, call- -ed Joseph R. Orundy of the Penn sylvania Manufacturer association a "robber." Likening Grundy's activities a gainst the Importers to the Chicago bootleg gang war, Norris suggested "Concluded on lpagg14." column 8). NATIONALISTS AGAINST REBELS Shanghai (P The Kuomin News agency, organ of the nationalist government, stated that national ist forces had scored a sweeping victroy against the rebelling Kuo minchun or -People's Army" along the entire battle front In Honan province paralleling . the Klnhan railway and all along the Lunghal railway. The news agency report said the nationalists had captured "fifty thousand rebels, causing a general Kuomlnchun retreat westward. The Nationalists also claim that Yen Hsi-Shan, governor of Shensi province, has begun - mobilising forces to oppose the Kuominchun. What side, if any, the powerful Shensi governor would take in the present struggle has been a matter of considerable discussion. Feng Yu-Hsiang, leader of the "People's Army" recently announced that he had opened hos tali ties against the Nationalists only after Yen had approved that course. This re port was sharply denied Thursday by Yen. THAW TO PAY ONLY $25,OOOT0 WOMAN New York an The 75.000 verdict by a Jury to Mnrcla Estardus, night club hostess. In her I100.000 suit for mistreatment asalnst Harry K. Thaw was reduced to $25,000 by Su preme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy. The verdict was returned two weeks ago after second trial of the stilt In which the Rirl charged that Thaw had bitten her and paddled her with a hairbrush ot a New Year's day party In his apartment In 1D27. day Monday has been author .Men s league which assures a - noon will be featured by a double header football name with one tick et admitting the holder to both eon tests. The first came starts at 1:15 o'clock between Salem and Eugene high schools and will be followed by the Willamette-Llnfteld game, both of which will be played on Sweet land field. Dancing and theater attraction will be the of fering rtf the evening. Tconcllitlrtoopaitt lorcolumn 7)