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1 CaBitaJLflybiBniia C1KCLI.ATI0N Dally average distribution far Um month tiiUlus Octobci 81 1929. 10,303 Average dally net paid 9.900. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation UNSti'lTLfclU tonight and Tuesday, probably rain. Warmer tonight. Moderate souther ly winds. Local: max. 48; mln. 31; rain .08; river -2.1 teet; hazy; southwest wind 42nd YEAR, No. 281 - Entered as eecoud elaea inmtter at Salem. Oregon SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS fiV?!tiZ0Kl. TO Hit? 0 JilruK " x3 xjwQn o : n n5)r Mm GAIN IS SHOWN JN VALUATIONS AS ASSESSED Property Values for 1929 Taxation over Billion, Increase 3 Millions Public Utility Valuations Increased Over Four And a Half Millions Oregon's total assessed property valuation for 1929, on which will be based the tax levy for 1930, Is $1, 124,988.691.82. This was announced Monday by the tate tax commis sion. The total figure Is a combination of $944,789,311.47 In local assess ments reported by the county as sessors and $180,199,380.35 assessed valuation of public utility properties as fixed by the slate tax commission The total is 2.656,511.39 more than the 1928 total of $1,122,232, 280.43. Local assessments this year are $1,843,704.53 less than the 1928 figure of $946,633,016,000 and the utility assessments are $4,500,215.92 In excess of the 1928 total of $175, fi99.164.43. The commission accounts for the Increase in public utility assessed valuations, by newdeveiep ier.t SUA expansion of utility companies. Changes in local assessment fig ures are spotted. Multnomah coun ty's assessment this year is $331, 380.310, against $326330.083 last ' Concluded on page 11, column 7) VALUATION OF COUNTY PUT AT $48,401,639 The total assessed property valu ation in Marion county on which the tax levy for 1930 will be levied Is $48,401,639.36. This figure, in cluded in the grand -total of the state's assessed property valuation announced Monday by the state tax commission, is a combination of the $41,794,470 county assessment. announced tome time ago by Coun ty Assessor steelhammer. and $6, 607,169.36 in public utility property valuation fixed by the state tax commission. Marion county's total Is $61,858.71 greater than last year, accounted for by the fact that while the local assessment is $44,100 less than the $41,838,570 of a year ago. the utility assessment is $105,908.71 greater than the $6,501,200.65 last year. Exclusive of Multnomah county I Marlon county has the tnird high est total assessed property valuation In the state, Umatilla being first and Lane second. For local valua tion Umatilla Is first, Marlon sec ond and Lane third. h Polk county's total assessed valu ation this year Is $14,123,966.67. a decrease of $49,419.15 compared with the I14.173J85.82 ot a year ago. Polk's local assessed valuation this year Is . $12305.640 against $12, 543.910 last year, and Its utility val uation this year is $1,618,326.67 against $1,629,475.82 a year ago. NAVY TO REMOVE HIGHWAY SIGNS Bend, Ore. (IP) No more United States navy recruiting advertise ments will be placed within sight of Oregon's highways, and navy signs now in place along the high ways in this state will be removed, according to Information received by Robert W. Sawyer, member of the state highway commfcsion. Com mander C. L. Best, in charge of the navy recruiting offices In Portland. has notified Sawyer that he will (end a man early In December to remove or obliterate recruiting signs along the Columbia river highway. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary ot Interior, with whom Sawyer has communicated regarding defacement of Oregon's highways, wrote that he had been informed by the sec retary of navy that Instructions to discontinue the practice of placing navy recruiting signs on highway rights of way In Oregon had been Issued to the responsible recruiting officers. TRIAL Illl.AVKD New York iP The trial of George McManus for the murder of Arnold Rothstein was resumed Monday, but was Immediately adjourned until Tuesday because of the lack of a full Jury box, caused by the Illness of a Juror, Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN We Invite Your Help Toward making Sips a better column. What do you read in your Sips? To what part of Sips do you turn first when delivered? Which department would you like enlarged? 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FIFTY MILLION MORE FOI TO BE ASKED FOR Washington (A) Chairman Dow- ell of the house roads committee announced Monday he would seek an increase from S75.00O.000 to $125,000,000 in the annual authori zation for federal highway aid for the fiscal years 1931 anl 1932 in response to a general movement over the country for expansion of road building programs. Conferences with officials of the bureau of roads, members of state highway commissions and associa tions sponsoring highways, had fhown him, Dowell said, that the country as a whole desires to ex tend and improve the highway ys terns. Since the war, he said, $75,000,000 had been sufficient to meet the annual demands of states which match the federal money dollar for dollar in the construction of ar terial highways. Dowell fatd in many parts of the country, particularly in the western states, there was an urgent demand to build roads to connect links which would afford complete high ways which were now only improved in sections. State Funeral Will Be Held In Honor Of Senator F.E. Warren Washington (AP) Death has taken Senator Francis R. Warren of Wvominir. a veteran of the rugged, pioneering days of the west, who came in the united suites senate man any man In history. With his wife. his son. Fred, and his son-in-law. Oeneral Jol.n J. Pershing, at his bedside, the elderly legislator died Sunday morning from an attack of pneumonl aand bronchitis. He was 85 years of age. The senate will honor the man who was one of its members con tinuously lor 35 years with a state funeral Tuesday In the senate chamber and afterward delegations from both Louses of congress will FRENCH HEAR 101 GUNS FOR CLEMENCEA1) Cannon of Armistice Boom Out Last Tribute To War Leader Burial Beside Father in Rural Cemetery Sim ple Ceremony Mochamps, Vendee, France (A) Former Premier Georges Clemen ceau was buried shortly after noon Monday, as he had wished, without pomp or ceremony. The body of the "father of vic tory" was placed beside that of his father in a little plot in Col om bier just outside the village, to rest for ever in his beloved Vendeean home. Only members of the family and about twentv of his most intimate friends were present at the inter' ment, gendarmes keeping at a dis tance villagers and other spectators. Rain which had been persistent all morning ceased as the little cor- tege entered the burial place, but the sky remainded gray and misty. Although the premier's closest friends had announced he would be bulled standing upright, the lamily decided at the last moment that the grave should be dug as usual because solid rock crops out at the burial place to within a yard of the surface. Paris "The .. cannon of . the armistice at noon began the 101 gun salute which was notification Concjuded on page 4. column 5) SOUND CITIES MUST CURTAIL WASTED POWER Washington (fl) Seattle and Ta- coma must cut their consumption of electric power to an absolute minimum if they want the navy to consider loaning them the aircraft carrier Lexington as an auxiliary power plant, Secretary Adams in formed a delegation from the two cities. Senator Jones and Representa tive Johnson, republicans of Wash ington, and representatives of the two cities, said the mayors of Seat tle and Tacoma would be called by long distance telephone immediate ly and asked to furnish the navy wun assurance that all unnecessary ugnting would be discontinued. Jones asserted the secretary felt the navy should not be called upon to make the sacrifice Involved in tying up the Lexington unless the cities did their part. At present the navy believes that not sufficient reduction in consumption has been achieved. DERANGED WOMAN SHOOTS AT PRELATE Vatican City iJT) A Swedish wo man named Marguerite Gudum at' tempted to shoot Mgr. Smith, titular archbishop of Paralo and formpr apostolic vicar of Norway, In St. Peter's cathedral Sunday. The woman, who seemed to be mentally deranged, was disarmed by gendarmes. This was the first attempt at series crime In the newly formed Vatican city. to Washington to serve longer escort the body to Wyoming where It will be Interred. Death came after an Illness of three weeks. Several times, the aged senator rallied and seemed on his way to recovery, but a turn for the worse on Saturday night so weak ened his condition that he sank rap Idly thereafter. In spite of his years. Senator War ren had the reputation of being one of the senate's hardest workers, and "("Concluded on pi?e 11. column 61 Warren Dies ' , T?"'V '1 I ntwmr um mmu iin Francis . Warren. So, republican from Wyoming, oldest senator in the United States in point of serv ice, died Sunday morning at his home In Washington, D. C. RUSSIANS FIRE EVACATED CITY ALONG BORDER Harbin. Manchuria (JP) The dty of Khailar, in northwestern Man churia, was described as being In flames in messages received here Monday. All Chinese officials and soldiers have evacuated the city, which fell late Sunday before a force, ol Soviet .cavalry and- tanks. The Chinese Eastern railway con tinued to operate trains, evacuating Chinese and Russians from the dis trict but all of the refugees cannot be accommodated and many of them are camping by the side of the track. The situation at both the eastern and western ends of the Chinese Eastern railway was described as precarious, the Russian troops ap parently seeking control not only of the Dalainor mines but also the mines on the eastern front as well. The Jupanese consul here has ad vised Japanese subjects both on the east and west branches of the rail way to come to Harbin as quickly as possible. He is understood to have Information that the Soviet author ities are willing to evacuate Japa nese from Manchuli through Vladi vostok.. ROCK ISLAND PLANS TO SPEND FIFTY MILLIONS Chicago WP) President Hoover's business program found support Monday In the announcement that the 1930 Improvement budget of the Rock Lsland lines will total about $50,000,000. the largest In the his tory of the company. This amount, J. E. Gorman, presi dent of the road, announced, will exceed by slightly more than $10. 000.000 the improvement budget for 1929 and will be expended for new equipment, new lines, general im provements and miscelUnejus con- aructlon. New equipment to be purchased at a cost of about $20,000,000 Includes 41 locomotives, 5.000 freight cars, 24 passenger coaches and 62 work cars, according to the announce ment. Provision is also made for 57.000 tons of new tteel rail and the Installation of 126 miles of dispatcher's control and automatic block signal system between Her rlngton, Kan., and Pratt, Kan. Following Mr. Gorman's state ment, A. D. Martin, general pas senger agent, announced In Omaha that the expansion program may Include the extenfion of the road's double track system from Iowa City to Omaha. Trains now operate on a double track between Chicago and Iowa City. MANCHURIAN WAR SITUATION SERIOUS Washington ory-Secretary Stim son said Monday he regarded the renewed warlike activities between the Chinese and Russia as serious and in the event any suggestions on the part of trie United Slates might be thought of v,alue in bearing up the situation, it would be made by the American government. He added the activities in the far east were being watrhed closely. It was made clear at the state depart ment, hoa-ever, that many of the reports of the situation there were ixhtved to be exaggerated. SEEK REPEAL OF HOMESTEAD, POWER ACTS Garfield Asserts Present Laws Have Outlived Usefulness to Nation Change Sought as Nec essary if Domain is Turned Over to States Washington m Repeal of the federal water power act and of the homestead law was suggested Mon day by Chairman Garfield of Pres ident Hoover's public lands commis sion In a statement. The question was raised as to the field the commission should enter In Its consideration of a possible turning over of public domain to the eleven western states within which most of the public land lies. Garfield said President Hoover had asked a complete report on public lands and added, in his opin ion, a recommendation on the home stead and water power acts might properly come within the commis sion's province. The water power act, he said, is not at present In a satisfactory state of operation, its appropriation hav ing been Insufficient for the proper carrying on of its work in disposing of power sites. He asserted homestead and tim ber laws appeared to have outlived their usetulness. and that the homestead law, especially In Its sol dier's preference phase, had worked actual hardship. Nothing Is worse than to give land preference to a man who Is Concluded on page 11, column 7) TAX ON GIFTS HELD LEGAL BY HIGHEST COURT Washington, Wi Girt taxes Im posed under the federal revenue law were held valid Monday by the supreme court in a case brought by Josepn H. Bromiey 01 fnna delphia who was required to pay I a tax of $20,598 on gifts totaling $568,300. 1 The court parsed upon the gift tax imposed under the 1924 revenue act and amended under the 1026 tax law, Bromley contended the gifts were not made in contemplation of death and that the tax was illegal because direct and not ayportioned, and fur ther because it lacked uniformity. Government argued congress had authority to make disposition of property by gift subject to taxation, like any other method of transfer. Justices Sutherland, Butler and Van Devanter dissented in the opin ion. They took the position the tax was a direct one, and that it had been in validly imposed because not apportioned as required by the con stitution in imposing direct taxes. The gift tax applies to all classes of property given away. One rea son it was enacted was to prevent persons from escaping payment ol the federal inheritance tax by giv ing away cash, securities or other things of value shortly before death-. DOG TEAMS SEARCH FOR ARCTIC FLIER Seattle, (A) Four dog tam par ties searching the Siberian coast near North Cape for the veteran arctic flyer, Carl Ben Eiclson, and his mechanic. Earl Borland, miss ing since early in November when they set out to rescue the crew of the Icebound ship Nanuk had not reported early Monday. Pilot Frank Dorbandt, who had made one flight with Eielson taking six persons and furs off the trading ship, was reported from Nome yesterday as having repair ed his plane and ready to make a search by air for his fellow air man. BUILDING PROGRAM FOR WILMINGTON Wilmington. Del. UP) An expen diture over the next 12 months of more than 425.000.000 is involved In building projects, either under way or authorised, by the DuPont com pany and Its mrjMdlartes. officials have announced. The building pro gram Is planned to meet the needs of the company's virled manufac turing ac'.iviu-s. PROSECUTORS FOR XS 83 . Eg ES jrg sfg 5.-3 Kg MS Joseph And Mannix at 30 (&aj - Ka K-a K2C Kaf Kb V3a KB CASES ARE PICKED At the suggestion of Judge gene, presiding referee of the board of referees that will hear the disbarment cases involving George Joseph and Thomas Mannix of Portland, the two accused attorneys will be prose- cuted by different groups of at torneys representing the state. I This win meet the protest iued by Joseph against the supreme court's appointment of W. Lair Thompson of Portland as one of the prosecutors to fierve against Mannix. Chief Justice Coshow said Monday that Arthur Clark of Cor vallis, Evan A. Ream'es of Medford and Arthur K. McMahan of Al bany had been appointed prosecu tors In the Mannix case. The court previously appointed V. Lair Thompson of Portland, Oe- car Hayter of Dallas and John H. Carson of Salem to prosecute both (Concluded on page 11, column 6) ESPEE EXPERTS UNDER FIRE AT RAIL HEARING San Francisco IPi Cross exam ination of Southern Pacific expert witnesses consumed the early hours of the interstate commerce commis sion hearing in the Great North em-Western Pacific railroad case here Monday... It appeared likely that President Paul Shoup of the Southern Pa cific might go on the stand Mon day afternoon. He Is expected to be the "big gun" of the forces op posing the plan to build a line from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Keddle, Cal. Shoup Is expected to outline steps the Southern Pacific Is willing to take to make unnecessary the spending of millions of dollars to provide a rail link between the Western Pacific and the Great Northern systems. Max Thelen, one of the Inter Tenon' attorneys, sought to under mine testimony of Dr. George Barr, Southern Pacific agricultural expert. Monday morning. The doctor ob tained his degree last year, Thelen learned. He also found that Dr. Barr had never farmed In Calif ornia or the region traversed by the proposed line and consequently testified about this territory without a practical working knowledge of Its productive capacity. He drew from the doctor admis sions that several transportation factors which would be changed by the coming of the new line had been left out of his computations as to whether the Big valley and Pall River valley might be made more productive. AUTO BUS TAX DECLARED LECAL Washington (IP) The California tax of five per cent of the gross re ceipts of automobile buses and truck lines, imposed under ai amendment to the state constitu tion was held valid by the supreme court Monday In a case appealed by the Beklns Van Lines, Inc., of San Francisco and other similarly in terested parties. The Beklns company appealed for an Injunction restraining the state officials from collecting the tax. They argued the tax was discrimi natory in that other vehicles oper ated on the highways for hire were not similarly taxed. The tax ap plied only to vehicles operated be tween fixed termini. Lower courts upheld the tax. Washington IP) California's three cent a gallon gasoline tax was held valid by the supreme court Monday In a case appealed by Oeorge B. Williams, William J. Finn and other motor vehicle oper ators of Los Angeles. UNION PACIFIC TO 'BUILD 400 CARS Portland OPi Tl.e Union Pacific railroad announced Monday that 400 freight refrigerator cars will be built by the Pacific Car & Foundry company here. More than 400 Port land workers will be employed in January constructing these cars, ta be built lor the Paciuc rruu tx-pri-ss company. Buyers of the com pany are now purchasing 3,500.000 fet of timber, chiefly along tl.e Union Pacific lines in Oregon, for u.se In construction of the cars. George F. SMpworth of Eu LIE DETECTER'S TIP FOLLOWED BY SHOVELLERS fieattle, Wash., (JF) Following leads supposedly supplied by the "lie detector" squads of men arm ed with shovels were cheduled to renew the search in the vicinity of Bothell, Wash, Monday for the body of James E. Bassett of Anna polis, Md., who disappeared here in September, 1928. Decasto Earl Mayer, who was suspected of doing away with Bass ett and who Is now confined In the King county jail awaiting the out come of an appeal from conviction and sentence to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal, obtained an injunction - Saturday restraining Prosecuting Attorney Ewing D. Colvin and others from subjecting him to further tests with the "He detector." Colvin Claimed the search had been directed to the vicinity of Bothell where Mayer once rent ed a house, by information derived through use of the machine. He expressed confidence that the body would be found, although the search so far has been futile. Three small cemeteries in the Bothell area were to hold the cen ter of attention. Arrangements were made pre viously to obtain the services of squads of men from the naval station at Bremerton, wasn.. to augment the forces of the King county sheriff's office and volun teers. OREGON LICENSE INSURANCE TAX DECLARED VALID Washington (P) The Oregon li cense tax on Insurance agents was: sustained by the supreme court; Monday in a cate appealed by Karl Herbring, who callenged its val idity. Herbrlng wanted to be agent at Portland for the Northwestern Na tional Fire Insurance company. Companies are permitted one agent in smaller towns and two In cities of 50.000 population or more upon payment of a two dollar lee for each agent. In larger cities, how ever, $500 is required for a license for each agent In addition to the first two. The law was attacked as discrim inatory, and Herbring'a counsel as serted similar laws in Washington state and New Mexico had been held unconstitutional. Complaint was made that the law deprived Herbring of the right to follow a lawful occupation, but the supreme court topped the argument before the fttate presented ' its argument In defense of the law, taking the position that complaint had failed to sustain the contention that the law was invalid. The case of Karl Herbring against Clare A. Lee, Oregon state Insur (Concluded on pane 10. column 8) Cardinal Closes Cemetery With Grave Shrine To Pilgrims Maiden, Mass. (AP) Ending one of the creat religious demonstrations in the history of the country, Holy Cross cemetery was closed Monday of Cardinal OConnen, Roman Catholic archblshon of Boston. The third throng of 100.000 dur ing the last three weeks Journeyed Sunday to the grave of tl.e Rev. Patrick J. Power seeking miraculous cure. A week ago 200.000 visited the grave. The cardinal closed the cemetery In order to have report of cures Investigated. Lines of the devout, hundreds of yards In length again waited hours in a biting wind to pass slowly by the grave In final review. Tl.e crip pled, the blind and diseased were among the multitude who scooped uo handfuls of earth, or touched AGRICULTURE TO COOPERATE WITH BUSINESS Leaders of Farm Organ izations Pledge Assis tance to Business Export Possibilities Out lined. Governors Prom mise To Do Their Bit Washington (IP) Farm leader announced Monday they would sup port President Hoover in his efforts to stabilize business. ' This action followed a two hour conference with Secretary of Agri culture Hyde after which the farm leaders were called to meet with President Hoover. That the president should sum man even this economic invalid to do Its -bit. limited as that might be .testifies to the sweeping nature of the mobilization which Wash ington has undertaken to dispel any "foolish pes'lmlsm" resulting from the stock market depression. The secretary was able to out-, line many of the details of the sit uation to the farm leaders with particular attention to export pos sibilities as a means of disposing ot the surplus crops and thus in creasing the funds available to the farmers in preparing for the next season. Among those who came !ttra in response to the president's Invi tation wrrtrLtiu 3. Taber, of the (Concluded on piige10. column 4 LAUGHS AFTER SHOOTING DOWN BOYHOOD CHUM Chicago (VP) Melville Purves kill ed a man in the crowded club Ar lington cabaret early Sunday, waa captured" a moment later, and laughed about it. The man he shot was his boyhood chum, Edward Tracy, 31, business1 agent of the sign and bulletin board hangers' union a job Purves nun self formerly held. The cabaret was crowded and the patrons wer singing college .songs to the orches tras accompaniment. Purves and his brother, William, entered.- They waled directly to a table where Tracy sat with a man who afterward disappeared. No word was spoken. Purves thrust a gun at Tracy and fired one shot. Tracy fell with a bullet in his head. Purves Itied thrice more, each bul let entering Tracy's head. The Purves brothers strode across the floor as patrons huddled behind tables and chairs. They released the lock on the steel door guardinf the club entrance and ran out. Purves laughed, police said, when thev soimht to question him. "You'rr smart detectives," Purves said. "Find out about it. You don't get me talking." CANNOT COMPEL BUILDING OF DEPOTS Washington (LP) The Interstate commerce commission has not the power to compel railroads to build a union station rs asked by the city of Las Anaeles. the supreme court of the United States decided Monday. to all except funerals by order bottles ot water to the stone slab, or kissed the stone. Hundreds bad not left Saturday nlgl.t. A gvpsv band Ircm Cleveland, O, a Chinese family from Chelsea, It busses from Springfield bringing XtO pilprims, among them 70 crip ples, and a 75 year old captain of the U. H. navy in full uniform were among the throng. Numerous cures were reported. One gul from Adams claimed the walked and talked lor the first time in five years and left an affidavit naming seven phvsiciane who 14 declarer) her to be Incurable.