LAJouraal
Capita:
CIKCUI-ATION
Dally average distribution for tht
month tad lug OciotMi SI 1939.
10,303
Average dally ott paid 9.009.
Member Audit Bureau ol Circulation
UNSETTLED
Wet portion tonight and Friday.
Gentle variable wind
Loral: Max. S3; Mln. 34; Rain,
01.; River -3.1 feet; cloudy, north
west wind. .
42nd YEAR, No. 284
Entered as second elaaa
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929
PRICE THREE CENTS ffAlirS,SSJ2a
matter at Salem, Oregon
MM mkfwm ISEfl LEER
FIVE HURT IN
ACCIDENT ON
DALLAS ROAD
Skidding Car Smashes
Into Light Truck on
Slick Pavement
Monmouth Woman May
Have Both Legs Brok
en; Others Bruised
A light roadster carromed off a
small roadster type delivery truck
and nosedived from the highway
Into a little creek 25 feet below with
Injuries to several persons about
10:30 o'clock Thursday morning. The
accident occurred near the R. W.
Hogg property three miles west of
Salem on the Dallas highway.
Mrs. A. J. Shipley of Monmouth,
was brought to Salem by ambulance
and is being X-rayed to determine
whether or not both her legs are
broken. She received bruises as did
Miss Nettie Griffiths, of Ballston.
The machine In which they were
riding was driven by Jim Du For,
ol Balls torn, who is working for
Shipley. Wayne Shrunk, one of the
three occupants of the other ma
chine, is in a Salem hospital. He and
his two companions were badly cut
by glass and - the extent of their
Injuries has not yet been determin
ed. According to Du For, he was com
ing towards Salem with the two wo-
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GROUP MEETS
ARE URGED BY
BANJNG MEN
Portland, Ore. fP) Conferences in
sections distantly removed from
Washington, D. C, to supplement
President Hoover's meetings in the
national capital with leaders of bus
iness and industry were advocated
Thursday by Edgar H. Sensenich,
president of the West Coast Na
tional bank.
Sensenich, in accord with other
Portland bankers, said the Hoover
conferences brought substantial ben
efits for American business, but as
serted that the Pacific Northwest
and other parts of the west may
experience delay in feeling the full
force of the Washington meetings.
To rectify this situation, Sensen
ich said governors of northwest
states should call similar confer
ences of business leaders to ftimu
late immediate action on building
and expansion programs.
"The important thing to do Is sus
tain the public's buying power,''
the president said. "Mr. Hoover's
conferences already have inspired
confidence that the country can
avoid serious business depression as
an after-effect of the stock mraket
panic."
BODIES ELUDE
LONG SEARCH
Klamath Falls, Ore. UT) Hope of
Inding the bodies of two Klamath
Falls men, Ed Syfertand 8. E. Burt,
has nearly been abandoned by the
party that for the past two days has
been dragging through the deep mud
of upper Klamath lake at the point
irhere the men are believed to have
drowned while hunting. ducks last
Sunday.
The searchers said they were able
to push 20 feet down into the slime
mud deposit of the lake bed at the
point where the men are believed to
have left their boat when its sides
were caved in by ice.
It is certain the hunters never
gamed shore because of the quick
sand action of the mud.
The search was to continue
Thursday.
GIRL STOWAWAYS
ARE SET ASHORE
San Francisco flP Three pretty
fir is stowed away on a tteamer,
Honolulu-bound. Three pretty girls
found themselves back In San Fran
cisco three hours later when they
were discovered and the unsympa
thetic captain of the Matson liner
Manoa put bark and set them
ashore. June Ware. 18, New York;
Helen Reid, 20, Vallejo, and Jeanne
Saul, 19. Denver, are the three
mls-'es disappointed by the failure
of thfir escapade.
Good Evening HUATIQN GIVES
Sips for Supper
By DON UPJOHN
Vour Best Friends
Will tell you of your faults.
That is why Jack Hughes and
Lou Olsen waited on us personally
last night and told us a big block
of readers are up in arms because
we failed to Include the forest fire
fighters in our list to vote on.
We're sorry boys but we knew of
the wide interest In the fire fight
ers and figured they didn't need
any votes.
While we have received some
criticisms, we are getting many
bouquets, so don t forget your pre
ferences. When bigger and better
Sips are made our readers will
make them.
EVERYBODY BE THANKFUL
There's no reason why evervone
shouldn't pause and be thankful
on this Thanksgiving day. The
rich because they have all they
need and the poor because ther
don't need to worry about taking
care of their money; the lender
because he doesn't need to puzzle
his head about how to pay back
what he has borrowed, and the
borrower because he needn't puzzle
about when he will get paid back;
the well fed need have no worry
about the next meal and the hun
gry no worry about diet or reduc
ing; the Judge may be thankful he
has to prepare no legal arguments
and the lawyer that he doesn't
have to listen to them; the ugly
may be thankful that there are cos
metics to make them beautiful
and the beautiful that they need
no cosmetics; our readers may be
thankful that they don't have to
produce this column every day.
and we doubly thankful that we
don't have to read it.
Yea, boys and girls, it's a great
old world. Let's all be happy.
Yet, at the same time, we won
der what Dick OXearx has to be
thankful for?
Our managing editor savs we can
be thankful for "The Gold Diggers
of Broadway," and we are that
one of them hasn't got us in her
clutches.
HIGHWAY NOTES
The telephone company and
the gas company are tearing up
the Salem streets. And wc are
advised that a man down by
Chemawa was tearing up the
county road yesterday a bull
was after him.
And, do we believe in necking?
Well you should see us go after it
at a inner uns p. m.
Yes. folks. lp irr oHv'effl liiet
before leaving home today that
be fatter and cooked more tender
uian lor many years.
Which goes to show we are loved
at home, as well as by our countless
readers.
Y
CAUSES SCARE
..San Francisco (JP) Fire starting
with a boiler explosion in the Sing
Lee laundry at Webster and McCal
lister street early Thuriday spread
rapidly to other buildings, sent sev
eral score people rushing to the
streets In their ni?ht clothing and
for a time threatened the entire
district.
Among the buildings In the path
of the fire were the Temple Ken
eseth Israel, where 15 worshipper
were forced to flee, a four story
apartment house and a three story
flat.
The synagogue was badly dam
aged. Stained glass windows buckl
ed from the heat and the floor or
the temple was water.
High School Tuition
Cost Held Mandatory;
Cripples Other Funds
It was Indicated Wednesday by members of the Marion
county court that they will adhere to the opinion of the at
torney general given to the Douglas county court holding
tnai me payment 01 nign. scnooi?
tuition Is mandatory and comes un
der the 6 per cent constitutional
limitation. While in Douglas county
it was stated the opinion slapped
the Douglas county court so hard
that it is apt to make them forfeit
their road fund to meet school obli
gations, no such condition will exist
here although unquestionably it will
make the court in Marion county
veer very close to the wind to keep
inside the constitutional limitation.
Around $31,200 Li estimated as the
expense for the high school tuition
fund while around $32,000 will be
charged to transportation cents. The
high school tuition fund will be an
THANKS OVER
RICH TABLES
Plentiful Supply Puts
Turkeys for Feast in
Reach of All
President Hoover And
Family Observe Day
Quietly at Home
JAIL POPULAR WITH
TURKEY FEED ON BILL
Portland, (JF) City jail at
tendance swelled noticeably
during the night.
The reason:
It was announced Wed
nesday that the Thanksgiving
nv-nu would consist el roast
pork and dressing, gravy,
mashed potatoes, celery, mince
pie, apple dumplings and
coffee.
The usual menu Is roast
pork or beef and coffee.
By United Press
Thanksgiving cheer spread over
the nation Wednesday with turkey
feast on hand for rich and poor
alike.
A plentiful supply of turkeys had
brought a reduction of from 10 a
12 cents per pound and in cases
where even then the price was pro
hibitive, cl.arltable organizations,
churches and civic societies were
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ZITO'S GUN IS
SUDDEN DEATH
FOR CRIMINAL
Chicago (LP) An ex-convict was
dead Thursday, and police were
searching for another man who was
believed to have been wounded by
Samuel S. Zito, 33, after the two
bandits and a companion had rob
bed Zitos wife of three rings valued
at $6000.
Zito told police he knew George
Stober, whom he killed and Jimmy
Ruvmondi, whom he believed he
had wounded. Stober served a five
year prison sentence after robbing
a bank in 1917.
Stober and his two companions
were fleeing to a waiting automo
bile when Zito opened fire.
Chicago (IP) Work of an early
morning shift turning out pumpkin
and mince pies for Thanksgiving at
the Case and Martin Pie company
was interrupted for three hours
Thursday while six bandits blew the
safe and escaped with more than
$15,000.
The bandits herded the bakers
and other employes to the basement,
bound and gagged them and then
worked away in peace.
STEAMER SINKS AT
PENSAGQLA WHARF
Pensacola, Fla. (LP) The Italian
steamer Escambia sank at the wharf
side here at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday.
No casualties reported.
While lumber was being loaded
on the ship. It listed first to star
board and then to port, sinking In
32 feet of water.
increase of nearly 18000 over last
year and the 132.000 entirely new
money to be raided, or in the neigh
borhood of $40,000 to draw upon.
lThe ""rt had some leeway under
the 6 percent limit last year. It
always has succeeded In handling
the funds to keep well under the
limit and there Is not much doubt
expressed but what they can keep
nithin the limit this year.
The question is of added interest
here as there had been a doubt as
to whether the high school tuition
fund, being not assessed directly
acainst the county, but Just against
j tccmci-oa'oa p 10. co;un.n l
END HEARING
ON PROPOSAL
TO LINK LINES
Great Northern Plan to
Invade California Up
To Commission
Decision on Extension
Opposed by Espee Not
Expected for Year
San Francisco (LP) The cautious
process of the interstate commerce
commission in determining the mer
its of an application by the Great
Northern to enter California over
Western Pacific lines was started
Thursday.
While Charles D. Mahaffle, exam
iner of the commission, traveled
eastward, he began to pander over
the report he must prepare on Is
sues advanced by the applicants to
construct a 200 mile connection of
their lines from Klamath Falls, Ore.
to Keddie, Calif. Included in that
report will be points raised by the
Southern Pacific in opposition to
the application. '
Mahaffie adjourned the hearing
here Wednesday night.
When the last legal shot had been
fired by the Southern Pacific in its
bitter fight to prevent construction
of the 200 miles of new track, nearly
200 exhibits lay on the commission
er's desk, and a record containing
750.000 words had accumulated.
Both exhibits and record will ac
company Mahaffie back to Wash
ington lor guidance to the commis
sion In arriving at a decision.
After opponent of the proposed
$13,000,000 connection rested their
case at noon, the Great Northern
and Western Pacific consumed the
final five hours in presenting a
stream of witnesses to rebut testi
mony advanced by the Southern
Pacific.
Chief among these witnesses was
H. M. Adams, president of the West
ern Pacific, who broadened the scope
of his previous testimony concern
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CRUEL DEATH
IS METED OUT
TO GIANT WOLF
Toronto, Ont. (P) A large grey
woir, which for months has ter
rorized the large herds of deer which
roam through Algonquin park, is
dead. The manner in which he
died won for him the admiration
of the government foresters at the
park who were formerly his bit
terest enemies.
Jim Shields, city park ranger,
finally outwitted the wolf by plac
ing a cunningly laid trap fastened
to a four-inch pole. VWting this
snare one day. Shields found the
trap gone and evidences of a
mighty struggle. The wolf had
gnawed through the thick pole and
taken the trap with him. Shields
and assistants then followed the
trail and after 27 miles of tramp
ing came upon the body of the
wolf with the trap still clinging to
his foreleg.
John- Miller, superintendent of
the park, visiting William Finlay
son, Ontario minister of lands and
fure&ls, told the story of the wolf s
valiant struggle for liberty.
MAUDE M'BRIDE
IS ACQUITTED
Dublin. Ireland UK) Mrs. Maud
Gonne MacBrlde, noted Irish re
publican leader, was asqultted
Thursday on a charge of sedilton
growing out of a speech which she
made recently regarding the gov
ernment's Juries protection bil l
Mrs. MacBrlde has Ion gplayed a
prominent part in the Irlih repub
lican movement and for many years
has been known as (he "lhish Joan
of Arc."
Mrs, 8. Skepplngton, another
leader in the movement who ap
peared In court representing a re
publican newspaper, was among
those excluded from the court
room which was cleared for the
trial. As she left she exclaimed to
Jiwtlee Hanna: "This Is freedom
of the press."
CATTLE KTOIiiV
St. Joseph. Mo. Cattle rust
lers Thursday stole 16 head of
cattle from the Plattsburg, Mo.,
stockyards, and after a gun fight
with officers escaped but abandon
ed the stock south of town.
Crash On
lite MJrtPi
In a collision on the Pacific highway two miles north of Jefferson
ovum oi uiwocin, nun, (reii) was lorcea irno uie alien and badly
Laflar, Salem, (right) was nearly demolished when It turned over in the
'"'" irom irnciurea nonea ana dislocations to severe cuts and bruises.
up.
SPECTRE OF WANT MARS DA Y
KB B3 E8 B35 IBS K8 TOO trai W P5S 3H9 SSI
FOOD AND CLOTHES NEEDED
Thanksgiving was a meager and almost barren th'ng Thursday In a score or more of l.omea In Um Salem
community. Out of the dwindling treasury of Associated Charities most of them had been jjitided with,
enough la be thankful for, but hovering over the tables about wUch they gathered was the ever menacing
'peine vl unemployment, BicKness,
nunger ana ouauy suuering 10 De
endured as winter closes down upon
their makeshift, Inadequately heat
ed homes and their scantily clad
bodies.
They were the unfortunates, vic
tims of one adverse circumstance
or another for the care of whom
the Associated Charities Is asking
$3000 as its annual budget.
The $3000 would be ample to meet
the demands of a serious situation
of poverty and want, says Mrs.
Mae Young, who ha3 managed the
relief work of the charities through
many a winter, when it Is avail
able. But what of the hungry, the sick
and the cold while that $3000 is
being raised? What of the delay
attached to the present plan of
consolidating the drive Into a com
munity chest campaign?
What of the widow and five chil
dren under Mrs. Young's care who
are living on $25 a month and the
clothes and charities are able to
supply?
What of the two old men, both
well past 65, who seek day after
day for odd Jobs about Salem homes
that they may pay for the bread
and soup upon which the subsist?
What of another family, a fath
er who is sick, a mother who is
preparing for the arrival soon of
another baby and six children
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DIVORCEE HELD
FOR EXTORTION
San Francisco OW Mrs. Anne
Denning, divorcee from Los An
geles, was arrested here on charges
of extortion as a result of attempts
she is alleged to have made to ob
tain $50,000 from Dr. Frederick H.
Had ley, prominent San Francisco
physician, on a threat to file charg
es against him before the state
board of medical examiners.
Detectives who had waited for an
hour with the aid of a listening de
vice In an ante-room, arrested Mrs.
Denning as she emerged from the
physician's office. She was alleged
to Lave had in her possession a
check written by Dr. Hadley for
$1,000. Police said the trap had
been laid following a complaint
received from Dr. Hadley that at
tempts were being made to "shake
him down.
A mysterious "Mm. Rosenthal"
was being sought as the alleged ac
complice of Mrs. Denning In what
police described as an organized ex
tortion campaign against prominent
San Franciscans.
COLLEGE GIRL DEAD
IN TRAFFIC CRASH
Baton Rouge. La. UP) A freshman
co-ed at Louisiana State university
was dead and two other persons
were seriously injured Thursday as
a result of six traffic accidents
which occurred as thousands pushed
into the elty for the L S. U.-Tulanc
Thanksgiving day football game.
Eunice Denham, 18, of Baton
RouRe, first year student at the
university, died from Injuries suf
fercd In an automobile collision.
Highway Wrecks
BENEFIT MATINEE SATURDAY
A jar of fruit, a loaf of bread, a can of vegetables,
a sack of any other kind of food, or a warm coat, an old
suit, a discarded dress, pair of shoes, or any kind of
wearing apparel for children or adults will be the price
of admission to a special matinee for children at Bligh's
Capitol Theater at 10 o'clock Saturday morning.
The clothing and food collected will be turned over
to the Associated Charities to tide that organization
over in its welfare work until its annual budget can be
sollected.
TEACHER SLAYS
LIGHTFOOT IN
SCHOOL FISHT
Carrier Mills. 111. JFi Grief and
unhappiness supplanted the spirit
of the holiday in two Carrier Mills
homes Thursday the aftermath of
an argument over when to hold a
school Thanksgiving program.
Leslie LighUoot, 33, school district
director and teacher, was dead and
Dwlght Organ, 28, teacher, w as held
in the Saline county jail at Harris
burg, charged with slaying Light
foot. Llghtfoot and two other directors
of the school district decided the
Thanksgiving program should be
given Friday evening. Mrs. Llghtfoot
was asked to convey this decision
to Organ.
Organ discredited the message
from Llghtfoot and called a meet
ing of the school district directors
in a cafe Tuesday night. At the
meeting. Light foot is said to have
asked Organ why he questioned the
message; an argument followed, in
which Llghtfoot, witnesses said,
struck Organ who Jn turn drew a
revolver and fired twice into Light
foot's body.
GIRL AVIATORS
STILL SOARING
Metropolitan Airport, Los Angel
es, Cal. P) Surpassing their pre
vious mark of 18 hours 26 minutes
In the air. Bobble Trout, Los An
geles, and Elinor Smith, New York,
girl fliers, completed their 20th hour
aloft at 5:40 a. m. Thursday In
their second attempt to establish
a new world record for refueling
endurance airplane flight.
The 18 hour, 26 minute mark was
set la-'t Monday when the fliers
were forced to land when their
gasoline supply gave out and they
were unable to refuel in the dark.
Marking the end of Its first night
in the air the endurance plane was
contacted by the relueler, "Car
rier Pigeon' at 0 30 a. m., at which
time 100 gallons of gasoline and
four gallon of oil were transferred.
Two Cars
Pantlal Intirn.l fll.ff Dhntn
HUnnHir lh i-jir drlvrn In Vrrn
damaged, and that driven by G. W.
road. Eight people suffered Injuries
Two others escaped with a shaking
TURKEY DAY
FROST BITES
IDDLE WEST
Chicago (ft) Thanksgiving day
brought a fresh visitation of winter
weather to the middle western states
with temperatures in the zero re
gion through the upper iMssissippi
valley. Duluth, Minn., was the cold
est spot on the country's weather
map with a minimum of 14 degrees
below zero, while the mercury
touched the day's bottom, 24 below,
at White River, Ontario.
Brisk northwest winds accentuat
ed the cold on the Great lakes, but
storm warnings were removed on
Lake Erie Thursday morning and
were dropped from Lake Ontario at
2 p.m.
Much colder weather was fore
cast for Thursday night over the
entire northern Mississippi-Missouri
valley and Great takes states,
with clear skies predicted along the
Canadian border and snowfall in
Illinois, Indiana, Io ti, Missouri,
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
Wards Of State Feast
On Chicken, Turkey
And Are En tertained
The largest population in the history of the Oregon atate
penitentiary was inside the prinon walla to partake of an
elnWale Thankntfivino; dinner and special motion picture en
tertainment provided by Frank
Bllgh of the Capitol theater, In the
afternoon. The walls of the Oregon
prison can no longer be referred to
as grim and gray, for they are now
painted a cheerful red, and on
Thanksgiving holidays the convicts
fare not nearly so badly as many
folk on the outside who have no
prospect whatever of going to Jail.
The prison population reached a
record breaking high level Wednes
day when the register showed 780
inmates.
When the commissary was asked
what the prisoners were going to
have for Thanksgiving dinner he
said "Plenty,'' and named a few of
MAURETANIA
BACK AT DOCK
AFTERCRASH
Failure of Captain of.
Float To Heed Signal
Causes Collision
870 Passengers on Big
Cunarder at Time of
Night Crash
New York (7Because of a colli
sion with a car float which made
a hole in her bow the trans-Atlantic
voyage of the giant Cunant
steamship Mauretanla was Inter
rupted Thursday. From the quar
antine station, at the entrance, she
put back for her pier 10 miles away.
Representatives of the line expres
sed hope that repairs could be made
quickly.
Captain O. McNeil of the Maure
tanla in a report to the marine po
lice said the float struck the liner
on the port side making a hole four
feet wide and ten feet long 34 feet
above the water line. He blamed
the collision on the float which he
said failed to give him the right
of way. One blast indicates a de
sire of a ship to pass to port; two
to starboard.
The collision occurred off Rob
bins Reef, shortly after the liner
Concluded on page 11. columiT7p
ARTIST BANDIT.
SUSPECT HOLDS
FIRM IN DENIAL
Cheyenne, Wyo., tlP) With Chey
enne's artist bandit suspect holding:
firm in his denial of any connec
tion with the Union Pacific train
robbery near here Monday night
police Thursday rechecked the evi
dence they had uncovered to link -him
with the crime.
When officers raided the man's
home, they found his own pencilled
sketch of himself in the role of an
armed bandit, with the words,
"Stick 'em up'' written underneath.
7 hey also found a blue sweater,
rjray ctp, and a workman's over
all, arte lies of clothing similar to
these worn by the bandit who rob
bed passengers on the Portland
Limited of the Union Pacific rail
road after derailing it.
Officers said the suspect answer
ed closely in height, build and the
usual deepness and gruffness of
voice to description of the bandit
given by passengers.
Denver, Colo., (LP) A man who
gave his name as Clifford Steven
son, 26, was taken into custody by
police here for questioning in con
nection with the robbery of a
Union Pacific train near Cheyenee,
Wyo., Monday night.
Detectives said the man's de
scription tallied in some respects
to that of the bandit who derailed
the train and robbed Its passengers
of $500, and that a revolver was in
his possession.
HONEST HOBO YIELDS
MONEY TO ROBBERS
Alameda, Calif. (LP) Even an
honest hobo Isn't safe from crooks
these days. Several of the "gentle
men of the road," reported to Sher
iff Becker that road agents entered
their "side door Pullman" on a
freight train near here and robbed
nil hanriA at nlatnl-nnfnt. The im
fount of the haul was not stated.
the things on the menu. About 250
chickens have been slaughtered for
the dinner table. Two and a half
barrels of cranberries have been
made Into sauce, and eight or 10
crates of sweet potatoes prepared
the serving. There will be fruit
rake galore and enough pumpkin
pie to furnish every inmate a gen
erous cut. Walnuts and some other
delicacies will be served.
Chicken has supplanted turkey
this year on the Thanksgiving
tables of most of the state institu
tion. Since chicken Is at a high
er price, the reason for this ap
Concludcd on page "17 column 6)