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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1929)
A Journal FAIR Tonight and Saturday, no change in temperature, valley fogs Sat urday morning. Gentle variable winds. CIRCULATION Dally average distribution tor tht monUi sudlof October 81. 1030. 10,303 Averts dally net paid 0,900. Member Audtt Bureau of Circulation Local: Max., 46; mln., 24; rain, 0; river, -2.7 feet; cloudy; calm. 42nd YEAR, No. 273 Entered aa second clftaa natter at 8alera, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS ?&X?,,J2Vknw (CaoitaUs SEME TAR mm iMRRFRX GET MUCH LOOT IN RAID ON HOME Jewels Taken off Guests At Pre-Nuptial Party Valued at $400,000 Huge Rewards for Cap ture of Bandits Dead Or Alive Offered Buffalo, N. Y. UP) A reward of $35,000 If taken alive and (70,000, if dead, was offered Friday for seven men, who, armed and masked, raid ed the suburban home of John L. Carson. Jr.. Thursday night, during a pre-nuptlal dinner party in honor of a prominent young coupie. Lining the 18 guests and a half dozen sevants against a wall, the robbers stripped them of Jewelry valued by the guests at about 4O0, 000. They also obtained a small amount of cash and fur wraps from n umKr floor. The most valuable Item In the list of stolen Jewels is a triple string of matched pearls, owned by Mrs. Ban Van Chef, said by one of the guests to be worth between S250, 000 and (300.000. Mrs. Philip Metz, wife of one of the business executives of the Buf falo Evening Times and a daughter of Norman B. Mack, estimated the (Concluded on page 15, column 6) GOOD REGAINS SOME STRENGTH STILLJRITICAL Washington, (JPi For the first time since Secretary Good was taken ill. his physicians annouiiC' ed Friday they had noticed signs indicating- a slight improvement in his condition. The Secretary's physicians . said they hoped the Improvement might continue without complications but It was said that Good was still in a critical condition. J Early today he seemed to have regained strength to some extent. The principal danger, his physi cians said, was from complications, and added he would be watched closely to ward off pneumonia. The vitality and resisting power which the secretary has shown has been a source of amazement to his physicians. It was said an operation such as his ordinarily would have prov ed Immediately fatal and they were very hopeful that Mr. Good would continue to show his, resist ing qualities. ACCIDENTS DUE TO DENSE FOG Portland, Ore. (P) A dense fog which limited vision to a scant half block Friday was blamed for the collision of two switch engines In which one man was Injured seri ously and an automobile accident which sent Vera Geiger, 24, to a hospital with probable fatal Injur ies. Miss Geiger was hurrying for a trolley car and ran into the side of an automobile driven by James C. Olvens, Portland. She was uncon scious when taken to the hospital and physicians said her fkull prob ably was fractured. Samuel D. Shank, yardman for the Southern Pacific railroad, suf fered a probable fractured skull and J. A. Trollope, another yardman for the O. W. R. R. & N. railroad, was bruised and lacerated in a collision between two switch en gines. The men were riding on the front platforms of the engines. PAGE APPOINTED TO AID STIMSON Washington, iPh-Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late Walter Hines Pace, has been appointed as a personal aide to Secretary Stlm on at the forthcoming arms con ference. The White House, in announcing Page's selection, stated specifically that report that Page would be named assistant secretary of state were erroneous. The latter post, made vacant by the appointment a few days ago ol Nelson T. Jotmson as minister to China, Is regarded by the admin istration as involving much im portant work and it was said successor to Johnson doubtlessly would be made in the near future Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN HEART BALM FOR JIM7 'This case was the second that McGtlcnrtst Instituted against the Woolworth company, the first be ing a $50,000 breach of promise ac tion." Item In Statesman. Since the banks have put on their extra doors for the winter we notice that a man has to have a good pull to get into one of those financial institutions and be a man of considerable push before he can get out. THE MOUTHS OF BABES While this happened a time back we think it is too good a story to conceal. Hedda Swarfs little girl was taken over to the coast and she noticed the odd names on various cottages such as "Cozy Inn," "Do- dropin," and similar vagaries. After returning to Salem she came home one day with a nuge armiiu 01 flowers. And where did you get those?" her mother asked. "Why down here at "Keep Out" cottage," she said. Just so he won't forget we wish to remind "Scotty" the circulation man, it Is about time he was getting out the glycerine for his radiator. We understand this will be the fifth year for Scotty's glycerine and we hope it takes him through the per ils of another winter. EMBALMING JOB NEEDED Judge Slegmund gave us a smell of the water which comes out of ibe faucet in the county judge's office today and from it we are convinced we won't be bothered much with Little Algle this year. We think Utile Algie must be dead. We overheard a conversation at the postoffice stamp window yes terday when a woman shoved in i parcel post package. Is tnwe anything fragile In It?' asked Jack Wright, the clerk 01 duty. "No, only a dress," said the wo man. . Most of the dresses we see around look pretty fragile to us. And at a shirt sale in a local de partment store today a woman shoved in ahead of us. She had her husband by the coatsleeve. Fran tically she began to paw over a pile of shirts and picked out two. "Here's what you want," she said to her husband, as she handed the shirts to a clerk. "Pay her." "But here's one I sort of like, said the husband timidly. "Maybe you do but these are the two you are going to take," said the woman. "Pay her." And he paid. Gosh, it made us almost homesick. CUTTER SAILS TO FIND FLEET Juneau, Alaska, (IP) The coast guard cutter Unalga sailed Friday morning to patrol the . fishing banks as fears were expressed for the safety of the halibut fishing fleet returning with the season catch, while the Alaskan coast line was lashed by the most destructiv southeast "gale in many years. No definite word of any casual ties has been received here as yet although many small boats were reported to have capsized since the outbreak of the storm wednes day. A barge loaded with supplies for a new mining camp on the Taku river turned turtle when the fury of the gale struck the coast. Small boats were swamped in the harbor as gigantic waves rol led in from the open sea and other craft hastily scurried for shelter to escape the grip of the storm. New Era of Public and Private Construction Work Looming Ahead New York (UP) Construction work in the United States public and private is destined for a sharp increase soon, according to reliable information in banking and build ing circles. The easing of Interest rates will soon attract public and private construction projects, thus giving a fresh impetus to national prosperity, it is said. Estimates to the amount of new construction due- to be started when better Interest rates prevail range from $1,000,000,000 to $3 000.000 000. "It ha been the experience of the past that building has improved several months al'.er improvement of money rate in the stock mar ket," Thomas 8. Holden, vice-presi HILL EXTENSION HELD BENEFIT TO FRUIT Western Pacific Official Contends Fruit Grow ers Will Save Millions Southern Pacific Strikes Back Vigorously. Claims Good Service San Francisco (IP) A contention that fruit growers of the far west will save thousands of dollars an nually If the Great Northern and Western Pacific are permitted to connect their lines, was brought be fore the interstate commerce com mission hearing here Friday. E. W. Mason, vice-president of the Western Pacific, testified that a line from the Western Pacific at Keddie, Calif., connecting with the Great Northern at Klamath Falls, Ore., would permit free movement fo cars which would relieve freignt congestion during peak periods. Mason stressed the importance of keeping cars in service because so much of the Pacific coast's produce destined for eastern markets is perishable. The proposed 200 mile connection between the two lines would permit refrigeration cars to move back and forth without delay. Mason said. On this, the third day of the hearing, - the Southern Pacific (Concluded on Pgge. IS column 7) U. S. CRUISER COLLIDES WITH VESSEL IN FOG Boston fJP) Radio messages re ceived athe local navy yard Fri day from the cruiser Marblehead said that the MarbTefiead and the freighter Evansville had collided In a fog 25 '3 miles off Nantucket early Friday morning. Messages received from the Mar blehead indicated that the had not uffered severe damage but that the bow of the Evansville was bent in. No one on either vessel was injured, the message said, and no assistance was needed. It was pre sumed that both were proceeding under their own power. The Marblehead arrived In the harbor about 12:30 p. m., an hour and a half late. New York iPf The H. and J. Racy Steamship company, owners of the steamer Evansville, which was in collision off Nantucket with the United States cruiser Marble head, Friday said they had received radio from the ship saying she was proceeding to New York. The Evansville was enroute here from Boston in Ballast. She carries i crew of 36. She is due here Sat urday. HANGAR CONTRACT AT ALBANY IS AWARDED Albany Fred A. Erixon of Salem was among the bidders placing bids before the Albany city council to build an airplane hangar on the Albany airport, with U. G. Hayne, whose bid was the lowest, being the successful bidder. Hayne, who is an Albany contractor, bid $7,435. Other bidders were S. O. Griffith. Tangent; J. W. Hammell, Albany; John McChesney, Albany. dent of the F. W. Dodge corpora tion. told the United Press. It always takes some time. I wouldn't expect the improvement Immedi ately but certan.ly next year. According to I'gures furnished by the Dodire corporation, contract totaling M45.402.300 were awarded in Sptmbcr tn th 37 Mates eaM of the Rockies, consi.it tiling about 01 per cert of the n? ion's total ThL: mas mn pr rent than the iCoik iuclf d oil 14, cul'tmu Ring Lost Year Found Circling Big Rat's Neck Limoges. France, (LP) A year ag Madam Jeanne Luconjaraa dropped her wed ding ring and saw It roll down a rat hole. Thursday she caught a full grown mouse in a trap. Around the mouse's neck was the missing wedding rirtjj. Apparently the ring had slipped In some manner around the v rodent's neck when It was young. WILBUR NAMES COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS Washington, (M Secretary Wil bur Friday made public the full list of the president's commission on conservation and administration of public lands. They were: James R. Garfield, chairman, Cleveland; Elwood Mead, commis sioner of reclamation, Washington, D. C; I. M. Brandjord, Helena, Mont.; R. K. Tiffany, Olympia, Wash.; Rudolph Kuchler, Phoenix, Ariz.; Charles J. Moynihan, Mont rose, Colo.; George W. Malone, Carson City, Nev.; William Peter son. Logan, Utah; I. H. Nash. Boise, Idaho; Perry Jenkins, Big Piney, Wyo.; E. C. Van Petten, Ontario, Oregon; Wallace Town send, Little Rock, Ark.; H. O. Bursum, Socorro, N. M.; George Horace Lonmer, editor of the Sat urday Evening Post, Philadelphia; James P. Goodrich, Winchester, Ind.; Gardner Cowles. Des Moines, Iowa; Huntley Spaulding, Roches ter, New Hampshire; Colonel W. B. Greeley, Seattle, Wash; and Mary Roberts Rinehart, Washing ton, D. C. Secretary Wilbur and Secretary Hvdi will hp ex-offlcio member of1 the commission. For the present the group will operate upon the basis of voluntary sen-ice. Con gress, however, will be asked to provide funds and congressional authority as early in December as possible. The commission will have before it as one of the first problems for consideration a proposal made by both President Hoover and Secretary Wilbur that the public domain be turned over for man agement to the public land states. ROCK HURLED AT AUDITOR WHILE SEEKING FRAUD Portland UPi C. M. Lockwood, ac countant, in charge of auditing the books of S. G. Herlinger, discharged city water bureau clerk who Is in jail, charged with embezzling more than $10,000 of bureau funds, told police an unidentified person hurled a three-pound rock through the w ter bureau office window Thursday night narrowly missing his head. Lockwood s hand was lacerated by flying as he sat at a desk por ing over Herlinger's accounts which attaches of the George Black com pany, accountants, said would show a shortage of near $20,000. Police saijl they were positive the rock was thrown with malicious in tent, but John M. Mann, city com missioner in charge of the water bureau, and L. S. Kaiser, superin tendant of the bureau, were reluc tant to corroborate police state ments. Mann said he was positive no employe of the water bureau would make an attempt to retard the accountant. Lockwood said he and the build ing janitor searched the floors, but could find no trace of the rock thrower. STRIKE LEADEHS IN TRIAL WIN POINT Marion, N. C. (Testimony up on which the state relies to convict Alfred Hoffman, organizer for the United Textile Workers of America and four others of rebellion against the stale as the result of textile and strike disorders Friday was un der limitations which the proftecu tion said would prevent the calling of many of the witnesses they had planned to offer. Judge O. V. Cow per has held that All testimony not dealing directly with an attack upon or interference with an officer was irrelevant to the ca.se in view 1 the state'.; charges. The Jury for the trial was not completed until late Thursday alter ,'lr.vs.i three days effort. GRANGE GRILLS REDUCTION OF INCOME TAXES Resolution Asks Use of Surplus Funds for Ru ral School Help Debenture Plan Held Es sential for Any Suc cessful Farm Relief Seattle, OP) Condemning the ac tion of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon for recommending a $16,000,000 Income tax cut, one of four resolutions introduced on the convention floor of the national Orange Friday advocated the use of such a surplus for rural school development. The amendments were held over as future business. Such money, Grange officials argued, should be apportioned ac cording to population throughout the rural school district of the union for school purposes. This plan would not only relieve the farmer of a considerable portion of his taxation, but would also place the cost of education partially on the national government, they as serted. The plan, as proposed by the Grangers, would bring the federal government into educational work in a manner similar to activities in road construction. Tax reduction has been the main theme of the convention since H opened- Wednesday, having occu t Concluded on page 15, column 7) HOOVER CALLS CONFERENCE TO HELP BUSINESS Washington JPh Leaders of in dustry, labor and agriculture will be called into conference by Pres ident Hoover next week to lay pre liminary plans for the concerted ac tion for business progress. The president revealed Friday that he had been conferring with such leaders and believes that in case of economic disturbance, ac tion is more effective than the re peated Issuance of statements of confidence. The conference will undertake to lay broad plans for business prog ress, stimiratton of exports and expansion and to correlate these in such a way that agriculture as well as industry and labor will be benefited. Mr. Hoover said American busi ness conditions are fundamentally good and that market booms are often the result of unjustified clr cumstances. Market booms, he continued, de velop acute optimism but there is always a corresponding acute pes simism and he believes both fre quently are not based upon the facts as they exist In the economic af fairs of the tountry. The unhappy phase of such booms, the president said. Is that they frequently draw unfortunate people Into their vortexes. LOST PHILOMATH WOMAN IS FOUND Corvallis, Ore. Mn Missing In the coat range of mountains since Tuesday. Mrs. A. J. Robinson, 60. Philomath, Ore., was in her home Friday recovering from exhaustion and hunger. Mrs, Robinson, who was found by a searching parly late Thursday night, said she left her home Tues day to go to a field to see her son, John Robinson and became con fused, losing her way. The aged woman said she wan dered throughout the night and days and suffered from cold when snow struck the upper mountains. INCOME TAX FIXER FACES SECOND TRIAL Los Angeles f4V-Miss J. Marjorle Berger, Hollywood income tax couneellor who was jentenced Wed net-day to serve a two and one half years federal penitentiary term for fnLsifvtng income tax returns of Dorothy Mackaill, film actress Fri day, was orderrd to trial Janu ary 28 on charges of similarly aid tng Tom Mix. film cowboy, and Eleanor Boardman Vldor, also of ihe movies. LONG BOUND OVER SS HH 831 W8 HT! KB 88 KB KS For Attack Upon Girl 888 ES 8 S8 88 &BC KB K29 Sfi TO GRAND JURY Dr. John E. Lone, chiropractic physician, operating a sanitarium at Cottage and Ferry streets, was bound over to await the action of the Marion county grand jury after a hearing on a statutory charge be- fore Judge Brazier E. Small in justice court Friday. Bail was al lowed to stand at $2,500. Hattie Hanson. 15 year old com-1 plalnant, taking the itand against; the doctor, told In detail In a low voice of her relations with the physician. Her spine was injured an automobile accident last March, which resulted in the fatal injury of her mother, she testified, coming to Salem later In the year, she and her older sister, Dora, went to Dr. Long s place and arranged for a series of treatments which were to adjust Hattie's injuries. nothing untoward happened dur ing the series of manipulations which com is ted of light treatments, stomach massage and treatments calculated to adjust the spine. The (Concluded on page 14, column 3) BOMB SHATTERS HOME OF BREEN, CITY ATTORNEY Chicago (LP) A bomb wrecked the home of James W. Breen, first assistant corporation counsel, re publican committeeman of the 14th ward and an adviser of Mayor William Hale Thompson, early Fri day, hurling Breen and his wife from their beds. Patients in the German Deacon ess hospital, a short distance away, were terrified and nurses were a roused in their home nearby. The blast blew In the front door. tore a hole in the front wall of the brick bungalow, smashed fur niture throughout the hoiu'e and shattered windows of adjoining homes. Damage to the Breen home was estimated at $5,000. Breen was unable to give a mo tive for the bombing, nor could police find any clue to the identity of the terrorists. Breen has led campaign against suspected gambling resorts and he said the attack might have been an out growth of that activity. He had received no threats. It was recalled Breen had been the central figure several years ago In an investigation of the police pension fund after charges were made it had been looted. THRIFT STOCK BUYERS BROKE New York (P) The North Amer ican Thrift association of 578 Mad ison avenue which sold stocks and bonds on an installment basis, Fri day filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy In the United States district court. The petition, signed by Albert G Anderson, president of the associa tion, set forth that the concern had been in business about two years. Schedules of liabilities and assets were not filed but were promised within ten days. The association's attorneys ex plained that It had operated on i "perfectly straight" basis, purchas ing shares of stock when first pay- menu were made on account by pat rons. In many Instances patrons who had paid ten or twenty per cent or more on shares which had dropped during the market slump, did not want to pay the full amount due under the tern.s of their or ders, even though the association had been obliged to pay it or bind itself to pay It, It was explained. TARIFF ON FISH UPHELD BY SENATE Washington, (LP) Recommends tiorut of the senate finance com mittee for retention generally of the duties on fish were adopted Friday by the senate. Duties on halibut, salmon and markerel were left at two cents pound and on other fiAh at one cent a pound. The duty on fileted fish was raised from one cent to 2'i cents a pound, an Increase of 1M) percent over exUting law. Dried cod and haddock were boosted from one and one quarter to two and one half cents a pound. Increases pro poned for pickled and salted cod and haddock were re I used and prenent duties were retained. WALL STREET STOCK PRICES CLIMB HIGHER New York ( Heavy profit-taking swept over the New York stock exchange In the last half hour of trading Friday and carried scores of issues $L to $10 below their ear lier high levels, whtcn ran as high as $35 a share above Thursday s fin al quotations. United States Steel common which had sold as high as $167.25, fell back to $164.25, a net gain for the day of $4.25. General Electric fell from $201 to $198, up $8; Johns Manville from $119.25 to $117, up $12; and American Telephone xrom $222 to $219.87, Up $2.63 net. Closing quotations of some other leading shares follow: Standard of New Jersey ex. divi dend $60.75, up $2.75; New York Central, ex. rights $171, up $8; Am erican Can $105.50, ex. dividend, up $4; Radio $32.50, off 50 cents; Gen eral Motors $41.25, up $3.25; Ana conda Copper $83.37, up $8.12; Un ion Pacific $218, up $4.12; Westing house Electric $123, up $4.50; Sears Roebuck $93, up $6.12; Columbia Gas $65.50, up 2.75, and Bethlehem Steel $86.37, up $1.81. Governors of the New York stock exchange Friday voted to continue the abrcviated trading schedule next week in order to permit mem bers first to eaten up with the large accumulation of work piled up this week. The exchange will be open from 10 ajn. to 1 p.m., from Monday to Friday inclusive and closed all day Saturday. CONVICT HANGS HIMSELF IN CELL Jack Porter, 25, prisoner at the state penitentiary, committed sui cide In his cell at the prison Friday forenoon by hanging himself with a bed sheet. Porter was sent up from Marion county to serve two years for bur glarizing the McDonald meat mar ket, and was received at the peni tentiary October 4, 1928. He had four months of his sentence to serve. The suicide occurred shortly af ter 20 o'clock. Ordinarily all pris oners are out of their cells at that time of day, but during the foggy weather they are not released. This is a precaution against escapes. Porter was a native of mi&souri His parents livb in Idaho. CUSTOM GUARDS HELD FOR SLAYING Ogdensburg, N. Y. (IP) Charges of manslaughter, second degree; were made Friday against H. J. Whitman and E. F. Watrous, the two customs agents involved In the fatal shooting Thursday of Ernest Fabrey, Brasher Falls iron worker, who was shot allegedly when he at tempted to elude the federal men with an automobile load of liquor. Slow Signs And Hood Crashes; With automobile collisions piling up in number ever since Fairgrounds Kad and Hood street were opened up to through traffic from the north city limits to the downtown section until they now average at least two a weeK at the intersection of Hood and North Filth streets. residents In that vicinity are de manding that action be taken to make Hood a through "stop" street at least at that one Intersection. The frequency with which the ac cidents occur and the manner In which cars are piling on the curbs and parking strips, and even invad ing private yards to the injury of lawns and shrubbery constitutes a real menace to children and grown INCREASE DUTY ON CHERRIES TO HELP INDUSTRY Senate Elevates Tariff Rates from 1 to 200 Percent on Cherries Maraschino Duty Wel comed by Local Grow ers of Royal Annes Washington W) Increase in the tariff rates on cherries ranging from one to over 200 per cent were approved Friday by the senate. Finance committee amendment recommending increases over pres ent rates on cherries, sulphured or In brine, and on the smaller vari eties imported from Italy and used extensively by eastern manufactur ers were rejected and the higher house rates adopted. The house provided a duty of five and one-half cents a pound on these with stems and pits as against two cents in existing law and a rate of 9 Is cents a pound on cherries with sterna and pits removed as compared with three cents now in effect. Senator Dill, democrat, Washing ton, said small cherries could be grown on the Pacific coast but at present this was not profitable. The higher tariff, he argued, would raise the price and make domestic pro- Concluded on page 14. column 4 HOUSE TO PASS TAX REDUCTION BEFORE XMAS Washington, ffl Representative Tilson of Connecticut, the republi can house leader, predicted after call at the White House Friday that the treasury tax reduction proposal would be passed by the house before the Christmas holi days. TILson said he canvassed the possibility of early passage of a tax bill with the president and was . confident no 'objection would be interposed In the house to this course. The treasury proposal Is for a one per cent reduction in the In dividual and corporation rates. The house leader said he had held conferences with various groups In the senate and felt little difficulty would be met there. The plan of the secretary of treasury is simple and Involves no material changes in trie revenue laws and should be passed quickly, he said. He added a resolution to carry out the reduction would be refer red to the ways and means com mittee as soon as the December session convened. FREAK FROG FOUND BURIED IN GROUND Marshfleld. Ore., ifrj A trog of unusual type which was found alive 50 feet under ground In the Sixes mountains. Curry county, u enroute to the University ol Oregon todya lor observation alter 8. A. Lawrence removed It from a tunnel in a mining claim. Instead of webfeet, the frog hat claws and its color is that of the clay in which It was buried. The head Is twice the size of an ordi nary frog and much out of propor tion to the body. A t Fifth Stimulate Seek Stops neonle on the sidewalks, and makes this corner a hazardous one for au tomobile drivers. Slow iIkiu placed to the east and west of the Intersection on Hood street by the street commute of the city council upon complaint ol the nearby tr idents three months ago have done nothing to rellev the danger, and the cars continue to pile up. As el ewhere, the "slow signs here have proved to be inad "(ConcUUed in pan 14. column )