c CIRCULATION Dally average distribution for tht niooUi ending Octobei 81. 1929. 10,303 Average dally net paid 9,909. Member Audit Bureau ot Circulation Capital FA IK tonight and Thursday with valley fogs Thursday morning. No change in temperature. Easterly winds. Local: Max. 52; Min. 33; rain 0; river -2.7 feet; clear; northwest wind. 42nd YEAR, No. 277 Entered aa ocood claaa ma iter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TKAIN8 AN1 M KTANKH I'lVK CI.MI MR W jyiyJulv . MifeinirTnial m JNJ BANKS CONFER OVERPAYMENT OF BACK TAXES Secret Session Held With County Court Trying To Reach Agreement County May Deny Banks Further Deposits of Public Funds At a secret session In the pri vate offices of the county court Wednesday morning between Joseph J. Kcber, Bank of Mt. Angel; M. O. Gunderson, Coolldge & McClame Bank of Silver ion; Keith Powell, Bank of Woodburn, and members of the county court once more the throe banks endeavored to see how far they could get in not paying the 1927 and 1928 taxes which are assessed against them on the tax roils of the county. During this session c transaction of public business in private Iron clad agreement was reached among the six present that nothing should be said to the public of what transpired at the meeting. Regardless, It is known that the county court sat tight and refused to do much talking, assuming the same attitude that they have in the past that the move should come from the banks, while the bankers endeavored to get the county court to make some sort of proposition with no proposition forthcoming. The three bankers represented three of six state banks which haven't paid their taxes for two years, the balance of the state " (Concluded on paite 9. column S) BROAD UPWARD MOVEMENT ON STOCKMARKET i New York tP) Stocks staged a broad rally in Wednesday's market, but encountered considerable prof - it-taking in the last half hour of trading, cancelling part of the day's maximum gains, which extended from (2 to more than $20 a share. Total sales on the New York stock exchange for the three hour session were 2.829.000 shares, com pared with 2.718.101 Tuesday. New York uP) A brood upward movement reminiscent of the prc October bull market was set in mo tion by a rush of buying in Wed nesday's stock market. Scores of leading shares rose $1 to $15 i share, with a Jew comparatively in active Issues selling up as much as $20. U. S. Steel, after faltering In the early transactions, quickly rose to $169.25, up $2.75, and Gen eral Electric touched $316, up $15. New developments during the day were largely of a character to aid the upturn. Directors of National Biscuit recommended a 2 '.a lor l split up and the ftock quickly surged up $11.50 to $180. Although the United States steel corpora tion's plants were reported oper- ting at 73 per cent of rated ca pacity, against 75 per cent last week, reports from the steel trade were generally optimistic, stating that the confidence of buyers was returning. Trading was in comparatively moderate volume, but considerably heavier than Tuesday. Total sales during the first two hours of the session were 1,902.000 snares as compared with 1.559.000 Tuesday The ticker fell nearly 20 minutes behind the market for a time in the morning, but was only 12 min utes in arrears by early afternoon. " seekdateTor DOHENY TRIAL Washington opi A motion was tiled with the District of Columbia supreme court Wednesday asking that January 13 be set as the date for trying Edward L. Doheny, weal thy oil roan, on the bribery charge pending against him. It was expected that Prank Ho- gan, Daheny's counsel, would oppose the January date because of other court assignments and would ask that the trial be postponed unti March. The Indictment charges Doheny paid Fall $100000 to grant to one of Doheny'a companies a lease on the naval oil reserve at Elk Hills, Calif. Fall was found guilty recent- ly of accepting the bribe, and was fined 1100.000 and sentenced to year in jail Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN COUNCILMAN'S CHOICE One thousand bridge players arc gathering in Chicago for a big tour nament. Some are concrete and some are wood. GREAT QUANTITY MARKET A sudden spurt in the hop market disposed of 1538 bales sold at from 10 to 13 cents. It Is figured that it costs about 15 cents a pound to produce the hops. This means that a vaH quantity of hops must move, because if any money is made a heck of a Jot of hops that are pro duced at 15 cents has to b? sold at 13 cents to get much of a profit out ol them. Everybody knows Billy Taylor who runs the Maiion county booth out at the state fair and it is out at the state fair Wily learned how to talk. He talks a blue streak to about 25,000 people all week. A- whlle back Billy as out with bunch in an automobile and he talked a blue streak way up Into the hills. A party on the back scat suddenly broke in on Billy's talk. "Say, Billy," he said, "you come back here. I want to get up in front and run the spreader awhile.' D. B. Jarman stood look ing at the National Book Week sign in a local bookstore win dow for awhile and then went down to the First National bank and looked over his bank book. "There," said D. B., "I've read a good book for this week." We used to think that fpinnach was something that was applied externally and to hang from the chin as an ornament. For instance Doc Mercer has been one of the great exponents of the -old-time splnnach school around here for a good many years, although not working as hard at it as he used to, or else he has had a halfway crop failure. But we ran into Doc Lebold the other day and he told us we was getting fat and we should apply this splnnach stuff internally. We used to see Gus Kehrberger chew a way at his externally applied .spin nach crop but never saw him swal low any of the stuff. In the old days Gus used to use his spinnach m whistle through. He would get a lot of foam on it and then draw In a deep breath with a noise that sounded like the city fire siren. But It seems, according to Doc Lebold. the way to reduce is to take spinnach and twallow it right down. A spinnach a day keeps the doctor away, as it were. We got a notion to go around to Doc Mercer or Gas Kehrber ger and see if they'll loan as a little to try out CABLES BROKEN BY EARTHQUAKE New York JP) Six cable repair f hips were groping the bed of the north Atlantic off the coast of Nova Scotia Wednesday for cables broken on Monday by the earth quake along the seaboard. Ten or more of the connections between America and Europe were servered by the upheaval among the hills and valleys of the ocean's floor. The repair ships arc kept In con stant readiness for emergencies of this nature and they were on their way to the apparent source of trouble soon after the breaks were detected. The cable companies. In the meantime, were striving to keep up with their business, and accepted messages subject to delay. Broadening Scope of Indian School Here As College Favored Portland (UP) Placing the Chemawa Imfian school at Salem on a basis of national scope by makinir it nn insti tution of higher learning, is indcated from conferences- Su- perintendent O. H. Lippes held with officials of the Indian service, dispatch from the Oregon Journal's Washington correspondent said. Senator McNary for some time has urged plans for placing the school higher in education affairs. Encouragement has b?en received from Assistant Commissioner of In dian Affairs Scattergood. the dis patch said. The subject is out lined in a bill to be placed before the house committee on appropria tions and officials of the budget , bureau. It was understood that no ac BIG BUSINESS COOPERATING IN PROSPERITY Hoover Sees More Opti mistic Psychology as Result of Conferences Manufacturing and In dustrial Leaders Meet President Today Washington (A1) A more optimis tic psychology. Inducted by the prospect of easier credit conditions and extensive railroad, shipyard and governmental construction, was foreseen Wednesday as the first product of president Hoover's pro gram for increasing and stabilizing American prosperity. Those close to the administration looked forward to a prompt, and beneficial reaction from the chief executive's conferences with the presidents of the great eastern rail roads and bankers from all sections of the nation and from assurances of large orders for railway and ma rine equipment that have grown out of Mr. Hoover's campaign in the few days that have elapsed since the original announcement of his plans. Laid aside that the president might pay his last respects to the late Secretary James W. uood oi the war department, the chief exr ecutlve's schedule of conferences with the leaders of American eco nomic endeavor was resumed Wed nesday with a discu-ssion of what the manufacturing and industrial field can do to advance his plans, attended by a group of men prom- ) Concluded on page 10, column 7) UTAH SHIPPERS URGE BUILDING OFHILL LINE San Francisco OP) Considerable expansion of Utah's coal and iron induatrks was forecast Wednesday by spokesmen for the state in testl- Sony here before an interstate com ercs commission examiner should their intervention in the Great Nor thern-Western Pacific railway link ing project win the commission's approval for the proposed line. Representatives of various Utah shipping organizations told of the imroved rates they expected to get over the proposed route from Ked die, Cal., to Klamath Falls. Ore.. and added that the recent purchase by the United States Steel corpora tion of the Columbia Steel proper ties in Utah would contribute to de velopment of the state's resources. H. W. Prickett. representing the Utah shippers and traffic associa tion and the Utah Coal Producers' association after much of his testi mony had been thrown out because of its argumentative nature, .flatly asserted that granting the petition to build the 200 mile railroad would be In the best interest of the people of Utah because it would open new markets for Utah producers and similary Serve Utah buyers. For the producers In the Tronton region there are estimated to be 30,000.000 tons of high grade Iron ore and 90 000.000 tons of coking coal, he said, saying the estimates were made by Columbia Steel en gineers. Better transportation was expected fr6m the new line, he ex plained, to stimulate development of these resources. tional legislation is needed, but sub stantial increase In appropriations for Chemawa would b required to provide enlarged faciliti and for an increase in the school's faculty. Should the plan be adopted. Che mawa mill be advanced to a distinc tive place In educational affairs, assuming somewhat the same posi tion in the west that Carlisle once occupied in the tvt. Chemawa wouid become an educational cen ter for the Indians of Alaska and of all the far nes'ern states. Valley Day Bargains Ready For Thursday Bargains In nearly 99 dif ferent lines are attractively displayed by the 44 merchants of the city participating with both the Salem papers In In troducing to the public the first "All Valley Day. Formal notice of cooperation Is given by special window display cards. "AH Valley Day will be observed Thursday. With assurance of favorable weather conditions and fug dispelled, the merchants are anticipating a n unusually large crowd of mid-week shop pers, taking advantage of the specially priced merchan dise. Paved roads have caused Salem to become more and more the center of trade In a large and thickly populated district, and It Is to Intro duce their merchandise to residents of the entire dis trict that "All Valley Day" Is being offered by the mer chants, the Capital Journal and the Oregon Statesman. Retail district callers Thursday are advised to come early before the large stocks are depleted or elim inated and to take advantage of their low-priced commo dities and stock up for the winter. ASK GRANGE TO LEND SUPPORT TO FARM BOARD Seattle UP) A plea for support for the federal farm board was ad dressed to members of the national grange Wednesday by Charles 8. Wilson, of the board, who said they could be of great assistance by do ing all possible to encourage the cooperative marketing movement. 'We believe that the farm organi zations, and particularly the grange with its long history of service to agriculture, can be of greal assist ance," Wilson said, suggesting that the local, county and state granges give support and guidance to the cooperative associations . within their territory. He also suggested that the local granges devote much time to a study of the farmers' marketing problems. In addition, Wilson discussed In a general way .the policies of the farm board and told of what had already been done to assist the grain, wool, mohair, livestock and other groups of cooperative associ ations to organize the national com modity marketing agencies. ."The time is past when coopera tive market ins can be based on propaganda.' he said, "it Is time now for frank and informed discus- sion of the farmers' marketing problems and of necessity of. the farmers becoming able to under stand and meet these problems upon their own initiative." QUAKE ROCKS LINERJLYMPIC New York (JPh-The earthquake which was felt along the coast from New York to Halifax Monday, shook the liner Olympic. 640 miles at sea. from stem to stern, her com mander reported Wednesday on ar rival here from Southampton and Cherbourg. Officers of the Olympic did not know what happened and for a time feared the ship had hit a sub merged wreck and perhaps dam aged her hull. Captain W. H. Parker, the com mander, said he was in the chart room when the ship started to trem ble. I immediately went to the bridge." he said. "Nothing had been sighted anead and nothing seen astern. For a moment I thought we had cast a propeller blade. But the engines continued to work smoothly so I began to fear we had struck a submerged wreck, wnen the vibration ceased I went aft to examine the wake of the ship for signs of wreckage but there was none.' KIPLING, DOYLE " SUFFER ILL HEALTH London run 111 health has over taken two of Britain's most noted writers. Rurvard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it was an nounced here Wednesday. Kipling has been ordered abroad for hl health, the British Broaa casting corporation announced In ran'-elllng an address he was ached ultd to broadcast. FINAL HONORS PAID GOOD AT WHITEKOUSE Funeral of Late Secre tary of War Held in Historic East poom Services Marked by Sim ple Dignity President And Officials Present Washington in Flags at half staff throughout the land Wednes day signalled the cessation of gov ernmental affairs as President Hoover and other officials of both the American and foreign govern ments assembled in the historic East room of the White House and paid final tribute at the funeral of James W. Good, the late secretary of war. The services of the Presbyterian church were conducted with simple dignity. Around the room. In which many, epochal events of American history have taken place, were floral tributes from personal irleinds, for eign governments, and many or ganlzations. The metal casket was placed be fore the east tier of windows which were draped In heavy gold brocade. Two soldiers at either end of the casket stood at rigid attention. Elsewhere in the room, the gold braid on the uniforms of high of ficers of the army and the bright decorations on the uniforms of dip lomats and military attaches ox foreign powers appeared in sharp contrast to the somber clothes of governmental officials. Before the services started and anyone had arrived. Mr. and Hrs. (Concluded on pagell. column Jy BANK MONEY USED TO BEAT SUGAR TARIFF Bv PAUL R. MALLON Washington (LP) The National Citv Bank of New York spent "coUDle hundred thousand dollars a vear minimum" on a monthly bul letin opposing increases in the su gar tariff. Gordon S. Kentscnier, president, told the senate lobby In vestigation committee Wednesday. Rentschler said reports that the bank was involved in the Cuban sugar industry to the extent of $100,000,000 were "greatly exagger ated", however. The bank president refused to express an opinion concerning the charge that the independent republican-democratic coalition in the senate was responsible for the re cent deflation of stock prices be cause of its efforts to reduce tariff rates. "Frankly I haven't thought that question out to where I could ex press an opinion about it." he told the coalition members of the Inves tigating committee who nave been aroused by assertions that their tariff activities were to Diame. Asked by Senator Walsh, demo crat, Montana, to ascribe a cause for the stock deflation, Rentschler said: "It's all too near to me to have an opinion about it yet." ROCKIElGRIPPED BY COLD WAVE Denver, Colo., m Zero and freezing - temperatures were the rule throughout the Rocky moun tain region Wednesday after a Tuesday snowstorm had covered most of the area. Low temperatures ranging from jero In Montana to freezing weath er In southern Colorado and north ern New Mexico, followed in the wake of the storm, but there was little added precipitation. Sub-zero temperatures were re ported in the Judith Basin, Mont., area early Wednesday, and at Livingston it was three degrees above zero with no let-up In the cold spell indicated. At Cheyenne three Inches of snow lay on the ground, and Ispnver experienced a similar fall, the seventh snow lall of the season. MRS. GERLINGER TO SUPERVISE CENSUS Washington. W Supervisors of of the 1630 census, their districts and headquarters, announced by the director of ceruus, included Irene H. Oerllnger. i Mrs ) of Port land, for Multnomah county, with headquarter at Portland. RECEIPT XM S3 PS f3 Dry Congressman For as 8 bs a 88 as xs s m BOOZE LADEN GRIP Washington (AP) District Attorney Rover disclosed Wednesday that lie had a receipt signed by Representative Edward E. Denison of Illinois for the liquor laden trunk on which an indictment of the Illinois representative on liquor charges was based.. The indictment of a member of the house one who voted for the 18th amendment, the Volstead act and the Jones law on charge of posses sion of intoxicating liquor height ened and intensified Wednesday the current furore over prohibition en forcement conditions in the nation's capital. The accused legislator, asserted that the charges were based upon the delivery, by mistake, of a trunk containing intoxicants to his office here last January. The Indictment was returned Tuesday by the grand Jury which heard Senator Biookhart describe the celebrated "Wan Street booze party" for members of the senate, in the course of a general Inquiry into liquor conditions here. A bill to forbid any one to tap telephoneortelegraph wires, "to iConcIuclcd on'page 10. column 4) OIL MAGNATE LEAVES PRISON ATMIDNIGHT Washington. (An Harry P. Sin clair, oil Croesus, tinkered witfi the phials and retort of the District of Columbia Jail pharmacy Wed nesday for the last time. At mid night he will leave all that behind, his sentence for contempt of court and contempt of senate conpleted. After six and one-half months of confinement, the multi-millionaire is expected to go at once to his luxurious Long Island home. Sinclair entered the Jail May 6 to serve terms of three months for refusing to answer questions of the senate committee investigating the oil scandals and of six montlis for contempt of the District of Col umbia supreme court in connection with the shadowing of the jury when he was on trial with Albert B. Fall for conspiracy to defraud Uie government through the cele brated lease on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Portions of the two sentences ran concurrently and with allow ances of five days off each month for good behavior, his stay In the jail was reduced to six montlis and fourteen days. Drug store experience gained In the early days of his career led to his assignment as Jail pharmacist and assistant to the Jail, physician. A storm or criticism was aroused when it was discovered that his duties took him beyond the walls of the Jail and Included frequent rides In the Washington water front. These were discontinued bv War den William L. Pmke at the di rection of his superior officers. ALASKAN FLIER HEARD IN FOG Nome, Alaska (TP) Word that Pi lot Carl Ben Eielson who, assisted by Pilot Frank Dorbandt is attempt ing to rescue passengers on two ships Icebound near North Cape, Siberia, had been seen by natives. flying within sixty miles of the Na uuk, one of the vessels, was received Tuesday night. Information was al so received that his motor had been heard within fifty miles of the ship by a Russian trapper. It was foggy, however, that the trapper did not see the plane, the report said. The fliers are attempting to bring those aboard the Nanuk and Soviet ship Stavropol, Icebound near the Nanuk, to Nome. They are also endeavoring to bring a quantity of valuable furs from the Nanuk, trading ship, own ed by Swensan Trading company. They made one tr p to the Nanuk and returned here aith six passen gers and a quantity of furs. PORTLAND MAN IS HIT-RUN VICTIM Portland. Ore. '4V-J. L. Nichols 57. Portland, died In a hospital here early Wednesday after he had been struck by two automobiles, one driven by a hit and run motorist and the otb?r by L. B. Brown, whose car stuck Nichols while he was reeling across the pavement suf fering injuries received from the first crash. GIVEN BY m 4GR 83 KB Kg REPARATIONS CONFERENCE TO BE POSTPONED Paris (IP) The extremist swing In the German municipal elections seemed Wednesday to have con vinced France that the second Hague reparations conference should not be held before January, notwithstanding Germany's insist-1 ent plea that It convene in Decern-! ber. At a conference with Leopold Von Hoesch, German ambassador to Paris, Foreign Minister Arlstide Briand Tuesday indicated France's stand for the later meeting. In answer to Von Hoesch's expressions, pointing out the advantages which a December meeting would mean to his government in dealing with domestic problems, Briand assert ed that preliminary work of the conference was as yet incomplete and with the eastern reparations conference in a deadlock there ap peared little prospect of completion before January 1. The German government has de sired to open The Hague meeting Deiore December 22 when the Gcr man people vote on the nationalist referendum opposing acceptance of the Young plan. But France is not willing to accept the belief that nationalist referendum can have no effect on Germany's acceptance of the Young plan and refuses to consider sinning a reparations agreement until the referendum is completed. In addition to this fear, which was greatly accentuated by the re sults of Sunday's elections through out Germany, there Is growing anx iety over me iaiiure or the non German reparations conference to break the deadlock which followed difference over the avparations of Bulgaria and Hungary. BANKERS PLAN MARCH MEETING Portland, Ore. Wi-Heralded as one of the most constructive move.1; In the annals of Pacific northwest banking history, between 800 and 1,000 bankers from six western and Inter-mountain states will convene here March 5 to discuss banking problems and management. Officers of the Portland clearing house section of the American Bankers' association, who Wednes day announced preliminary ar rangements for the convention, said that at least one director and one executive officer from every bank In Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Montana, Wyoming and Utah prob ably would attend. The conference, which will con tinue two days, will be a Hrlctlv business one, officials said, and will be devoted entirely to discussions of two general phases of banking, the mechanlral operation of banks and the credit administration. The conference will be patterned after the Mis issippi valley confer ence held In Chicago last March and the tri-state conference on better bank management held in Minneapolis'. Bank Robber Hanged By Infuriated Mob To Telephone Cable Ea-stlund, Texas (AP) Impatient at the law's delay and cnrafrrrl ly 'he latest violent erinie of Marshall Katliff, con demned "Santa Claus" bank robber, a mob of approximately 1.000 persons Tuesday night hangeow the condemned man irom a wie phone cable 200 yardi from the Jnil from which he was dragged. For several hours the man's nak ed body dangled from the end of a grass rope In a bluer wind, wime a crowd which Included many wom en and children stood bazing up ward In comparative silence until a Justice of the peace ordered the body cut down. Two yr-rs ago Ratllff. dressed as a Santa Claus, participated In a bank hoHup in which two offi TARIFF BILL TO GO OVER INTO NEXTSESSIOII Special Session to End Without Accomplish ing Its Purpose Babson Assailed in Sen ate for Saying Slump Caused by Tariff Cut Washington (VP) The senate Wed nesday voted to adjourn sine die at 10 o'clock Friday night, allow ing for a week's respite between the special and regular sessions. Senator Walsh of Montana, act ing democratic leader, offered the adjournment resolution at the out set of Wednesday's session. He said It was apparent It was Impos sible to pass the tariff bill before ' December 2, when the regular ses sion begins and asserted senators should be given at least a week to prepare for the winter term. The vote was 49 to 33. House leaders said they were con fident that body would offer no objection to adjournment of con gress next Friday. Roger W. Babson, business sta tistician, who charged in a newspa per article that the senate debate on the tariff was partly to blame Concluded on page 10. column 1 PILOT KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES INTO YBJILDING New York MD Charles Held, a pilot In a private airplane from Roosevelt field, was killed when the craft crashed on the roof of a Y. M. C. A. building in West 64th street Wednesday afternoon. His passen ger, Robert Bailie, landed in a nearby street in a parachute, ap parently uninjured. The airplane was almost skim ming the tops of the buildings, Mrs. Samuel Marx, an eye witness, sain, as Bailie leaped out with a para chute. He landed cn the pavement op posite the building which the air plane hit. picked himself up. and ran acrots the street into the build ing. One wing of Uie ship broke loose as It crashed on the roof and drop ped into the street. The airplane was over Central Park, flying at a rather low alti tude when Mrs. Marx first noticed it was in difficulty. It headed west and In a few seconds crashed on the roof of the Y. M. C. A. build ing. The airplane took on irom Roosevelt field where, It was said. Bailie was a student pilot. Police identified it as "airplane No. 4, privately owned, Roosevelt Field." HOOVER CANCELS SOCIAL FUNCTIONS Washington, Ml The White House Wednesday cancelled all so cial functions on the calendar for December out of respect for the memory of the late Secretary Good. Included were the diplomatic reception usually one of the mo6t brilliant of the season, which was to have been held on December 5, and the cabinet dinner, which was on the program for December 12. cers and one ot his companions were killed. Monday, alter feign ing paralsis and winning the sympathy of his keepers, he at tempted a lall break, (hooting and seriously wounding Drputy Tom Jones, veteran peace officer. Tues day night 300 men overpowered his )nller, entered Ratllff's cell, dragged him naked to a well lighted busi ness street end hnrhed him. Ratllff was held In the Eastland Jail pendln a sanity hearing. aked "TcoucluOcd' on "p.Vk 11. column 7i