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Newspaper Page TextG aoiiaUi Journal CIRCULATION Dally arorage distribution for the mon lb ending November 30, 1921 10,226 Average daily net paid 0847 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation UNSETI1.ED With rains tonight nd Thursdty, farmer Thursday Increasing south erly winds. Local: Max., 40: Mln., 29; raji, 0; river. -2 8 feet; cloudy; calm. 42nd YEAR, No. 289 Entered ai around oim matter at 8alem. Oregon SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS ?Mr.,fJJKSS 4 HOOVER ASKS 145 MILLIONS LESSIN 1930 President Cuts Budget Estimates To Balance Tax Reduction. Expects Policy To Stim ulate Business Over . Entire Country. Washington m President Hoover Wednesday laid before congress a recommendation for tax reduction, a request for $3,830,445,231 for gov ernmental use next year, and a bright picture of the state of the nation's finances. Drawing a lesson from the low ering of taxes in the past, the Pres ident said that there was no doubt that increased revenues had always followed and that the stimulus given to business was partly responsible for these upwards Jumps in receipts. In his first budget message he es timated the treasury's outlay for the twelve months beginning next July at $4,102,938,700 and figured there would be a $122,000,000 surplus at the end of that period. The difference between appropri ations asked and expenditures fore' cast was explained as being due to the fact that the President had not included any amount for the volvlng fund of the Federal Farm Board because it had not been de (Concfudedoir page 11. column 6) $8,346,000 TO CARRY ON RECLAMATION Washington tin President Hoov er asked cogress for appropriations totaling $8,346,000 to carry on the reclamation work of the department of the interior In his first budget. submitted Wednesday to congress. Of tills total $2,000,000 would b used in developing the Owyhee project in Oregon, by far the larg est single item on the budget. The amount was $268,000 more than ap propriated for the current U930) fiscal year. The Minikoda project in Idaho was second to the Oregon Owyhee project in point of appropriations, and will receive $1,128,000. The Vale project in Oregon would get $15,000 for operation and main tenance, and $530,000 for continu ation of construction, while the Klamath project in Orecon and California was allotted $269,000. The president asked $970,000 for operation and maintenance and continuance of construction for the Klttitaj division of the Yakima, Washington, project. The Yakima project would receive $325,000 and the unexpended balances of previous (CncludedonpageJO, "coluinu BAD BOY MAYOR IS RE-ELECTED Newburyport, Mass. fT By a margin of 46 votes, Andrew J. Bossy) Gillls, "bad boy mayor," was reelected to the ott.ee Tuesday. He promptly ordered a detail ol his own choice to guard the ballot boxes. Ward five, which gave Ms op ponent, former Mayor Michael Cashman, a majority of 32 instead of an expected 200 Gillia majority, came in for his condemnation. "Brother, wait, how the old cleaver is going to swing. I've got them all tabulated," he said. Oillis received 3.119 votes and Casl.man 3,073. Cashman said he would ask for a recount. Several years ago Gillls served a brief jail sentence after a physical encounter with Cashman. CHINA WILLING TO SETTLE DISPUTE London China Wednesday communicated to the British gov ernment her reply to the British note calling attention tp her obli gations under the Kellogs-Briand pact to settle her dispute v.ith Rus sia in Manchuria peacefully. The Chinese reply was brief and friendly. It is understood that China simultaneously dispatched an iden tical note to Washington. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN We cant -help but wonder what the two new --dentist members of the council will do to the town now that gas has been injected into nearly .every street. We hope that now the Independ ents are in control they'll burn their wooden bridges behind them. From Dallas comes to us a let- ter casting a vote in our contest for button holes. The writer says she was organizer of the well known Dallas button hole club which has received some attention from our column and says she used to live in the same block with us when we graced the beautiful Polk county seat with our presence as & resident. "We certainly felt proud to have our button hole club mentioned right dab on the front page of the best paper In the whole country,'' she writes us, and who could over look a letter like that? And, she continues, "if you need some new button holes worked in the pink bloomers send them over and we'll have a club champion to do them for you." Hot dog. It's sure great to find you have friends in the world like that. Maybe a rich man can't enter the kingdom of heaven, but that extra $20,000,000 promised by Henry Ford in wages should take the place of a lot of psalm singing. Personally we feel that St. Peter will at least shake hands with Henry for those kind words about the twenty million. THE ETERNAL FEMININE As a general rule we don't try to eavesdrop, on ladies in particu lar. But two girls we happened to follow up State street a ways this morning were talking so loud wc couldn't help but listen to the broadcasting. "He tells me he was going to be there at 8 o'clock," said one. "And he never shows." "Yea," said the other, "i.nd he tells me he's going to be there at 8 o'clock, the big pain in the neck." "And who do you suppose the big fluff was he did have at the dance?" asked the third. And we passed on. Just one of life's little tragedies. But we wouldn't want to be "he" when the two got hold of him. SHIPPING BOARD CANCELSRATES Washington JP) The shipping board Wednesday held illegal the practice of giving full carload rates on shipments to be divided among two or more consignees. It ordered the practice discontinued in dis posing of cases involving 16 ship ping companies. Tl.e cases grew out of a com plaint filed by associated jobbers and manufacturers of Los Angeles, and supporting petitions of inter vention by chambers of commerce of San Francisco. Seattle and Ta coma, the Western Confectioneries Traffic association and others. The c cm plaints alleged that the practice was carried on in ship ments from the Atlantic to between two and six Pacific coast ports at the same rates as were charged on otl.er carload shipments or on those delivered altogether at one port. Sl'ICIOE ATTEMPT FAILS Grants Pass, iP) Martin Conger. 55, was recovering from a 40-foot plunge into the cold, deep waters of the Rogue river of a railroad bridge Tuesday when he attempted to end his life. Section workers pulled him from the river. Employment Of Paid Secretary Justified By Head Of Charities "1 agree with Mr. Zerzan that the county should handle all of the charity work and every cent of it should be raised by taxation," said Harry Levy, president of the Associated Chanties in answering a state- ment by Charts J. Zerzan. grand knight of the Knights of Columbus in regard to overhead in handling funds of th? organization. "I mUh that such could be ac complished. But Mr. Zerzan should make a more careful invest Uratlon of what the Associated Chanties is doing and the class of work it accomplishes before criticising the organization. I am surprised that acting as nurs- in many cases; If an attorney should make such state- he stands ready to answer calls at ments based on hearsay evidence. I any time for a less wag? than that I have never met Mr. Zerzan, do I mentioned then he will accomplish not recall that he ever attended more for less than any attorney iny meetings of the Associated I have yet met Charities or contributed to it. I "The secretary of the oraanlza- For his benefit I wtah to ayonciuaed on pe 10, column 3" SOVIET FEELS INTERFERENCE NOTTRIENDLY Sharp Reply Given To Note Reminding Russia OF Kellogg Pact Moscow Amazed That United States Should Seek to Advise Moscow UP) The Soviet govern-; ment notified the United States Wednesday it could not consider the ! American note reminding the Rus-! slan and Chinese governments of their Kellogg pact obligations as "a friendly act." In a memorandum handed the French ambassador, Maurice Her bette, by Maxim Lltvinoff, acting commisar for foreign affairs, the Soviet government expressed "am azement that the government of the United States, which by its own will has no official relations with the Soviet, deems it passible to ap ply to it with advice and counsel." In another place the memoran dum said: "The Soviet government states further that the pact of Paris does not give any single state or group of states the function of protector of this pact. The Soviet at any rate, never expressed con sent that any state themselves, or "(Concluded onpnKelb, Column 4 $30,500,000 TO CARRY ON NEWBUILDING Washington (IP) An expenditure of $30,500,000 to carry forward tne government's huge public building construction program in 1031 was recommended to congress Wednes day by President Hoover. In addition to this amount, Mr. Hoover said in his annual budget message that he would submit supplemental estimate for other construction calling for an addition al $5,000,000. Congress had previous ly approved the program totaling approximately $265,000,000 and has appropriated $175,000,000 of that amount. No new rojects are called for In the budget, but continuation and completion of present projects were provided. New projects under the present program will be submitted to congress shortly aftir the first of the new year. The construction provided for In the president's request for $30,500, 000 in 1931, no individual amounts being specified, includes: Corvallis, Ore., postoffice, etc, continuation. Klamath Falls, Ore., postoffice, etc., continuation. Portland, Ore., courthouse, etc., continuation. GARMENT WORKERS STRIKE AUTHORIZED Cleveland. iAf Strike of approxi mately 45.000 members of the International Ladies Garment workers union in New York City was authorized by unanimous vote of 200 delegates of the union in convention hall Wednesday. that it is true that we employ a worker with the title of secretary at a wage of $100 a month during the winter and ISO a month during the summer. If Mr. Zerzan Is will ing to gather, sort and distribute several thousand articles of second hand clothing: handle a ton or two of vegetables and foodstuffs. along m-ith Investigating cases and Don't Kiss Santa Or Shake Hands Warns Craster Newark, N. J., (JP) No mat ter how antiseptic Santa Claua may be. children whe meet him on the street or In the stores should not shake hands with him, and mut never, never, kis him. Health Officer Charted V. Craster warned lu an official paper issued from hb office. Dr. Craster, who gained wide notice some time ago when he warned against promiscuous kissing, and particularly the kissing of babies who have no means of avoiding the oscilla tory embraces, foresaw- that the health department was attempting to break down a sentimental custom, but said the campaign would be carried on In the name of sanitation and disease prevention. ASK $100,000 FOR MEMORIAL AT CHAMPOEG Washington (LP) Senator Mc- Nary'a bill to provide for election of a memorial to pioneers of the Ore gon country at Champoeg, which passed the senate in the last con gress, was re-introduced by him Wednesday. The bill calls for an appropriation of $100,000 contingent upon like ac tion by the state alter deductions for sums already spent by the state. Other bills introduced by McNary, the dispatch said, included: To reconvey of title of Sand Is land in the Columbia river to the state of Oregon, retaining only the right to use lor military purposes. To establish a Branch home Toi disabled volunteer soldiers at Rose burg; to increase the portion of re ceipts from national forests payable to the states from 25 to 50 per cent. To authorize sale of timber on lands of class three, the agricultur al lands, of the Oregon and Califor nia and Coos Bay wagon road grants. To make fire trespass regulations of the secretary of agriculture in control of national forests applic able to the revested land grants. MEXICO TO GET ANOTHER WAR Nogales. Ariz. (LP Hint ' of an other revolution In Mexico was giv en by Jose Va.sc on eel as, defeated candidate for president of the re public who was enroute to ar unannounced destination by auto mobile Wednesday after a short visit here. "If I return to Mexico.' he said it will be when I get armed forces to support my rights." I have not been defeated, vas- concelos declared in discussing the recent elections. "I have been cheated. However, I shall engage in no political activities while in the United States." Vasconcelos denied any Intention of personally leading an armrd re volt, but added that if the Mexican people rise up in arms and call him, he will return. - The defeated candidate crossed the border at this point Monday after having been In hiding in So- nora. He is believed to have gone to Los Angeles to Join his family. GE RIVERIA CALLS GENERAL ELECTION Madrid, Spain (LP Premier Pri mo de Rivera, dictator of Spain, In tends to hold general elections pre paratory to abandoning the dista torship and returning to normal constitutional government, it was said in authoritative quarters Wed nesday. De Rivera has prepared a mani festo to the country announcing his decision. AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO SUPPLY POWER Washington Oil Assurances were given by Secretary Adams Wednes day that the naval aircraft carrier Lexington would be permitted to furnish power to Tacoma and Seat tle, Washington, if an administra tor were appointed by Governor Hartley to allocate the supply from the ship's generators. RAIN AT C.OI.I) 11 BACH Gold Beach, iT An overnight rain, whlrh quenched fire and j aided materially in fall farming activities was welcomed here by rantners. The ram was general a.ong the southwestern Oregon coaU. I MOTHER-IN-LAW AND WIFE SHOT, K1LLSHIMSELF Devitt Rancher Rejected By Wife He Had Left Runs Amuck with Gun Sharp Quarrel Precedes Shooting Woman is Dying From Wounds Corvallis, Ore. (n rejected seven times by hi 23 year old wife from tiom he had been separated a week, Theodore Holmes, 30, Devitt, Ore., farmer, Tuesday night climax ed his pleadings for a reconciliation with bullets and Wednesday he was dead, his wife was recovering from wounds and Sis mother-la-law lay dying in a hospital here. Holmes, with a rifle for which he traded his dog and $3, called at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lillian May Minton, 40, where his wife had taken refuge, and demand ed to see Mrs. Holmes. Benton county authorities said a sharp quarrel ensued and Holmes began shooting. Charles Minton, 43, his father-in-law, intervened and narrowly escaped from two shots Holmes fired in his direction. Mrs. Minton protested, authorities said. and Holmes fired two shots at her, one of which shattered her left arm and another plowed through her lungs. The enraged farmer continued in to the house where he found Mrs. Holmes in the front room. He fired .'..JoncluCfd" on piiae 9,coiumn 3) LINDY OFFERS TO JOIN HUNT FORJUR PILOT Clarion, "Penn (At Colonel Char les A. Lindbergh Wednesday offer ed to aid in the search for Thomas P. Nelson, of Plainfleld, N. J., air mail pilot on the New York to Cleveland route, who disappeared while flying from Bellefonte, Penn. to Cleveland, earv Monday. Colonel Lindbergh telephoned from the home of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, his father-in-law, at Englewood, N. J. He ten tered his services to W. L. Smith, division superintendent of the Na tional Air Transport company, in the hunt for Nelson, who was as sociated with Lindbergh in carry ing mail from St. Louis when the ' ntoed aviator was an airmail pilot. Superintendent Smith said he told Lindbergh everything possible was being done to find Nelson and that while his offer was apprecia ted "it would be futile for him to join in the search." "It it ponsible that he may fly out to Cleveland later If our hunt continues unsucccssrul,' Smith added. CAMP KEARNY DIRIGIBLE BASE Washington (Secretary Adams Wednesday recommended Camp Kearney, California, as the west coast naval dirigible base in a com munication to congrer.5, Adams In his report said that ei ther Sunnyvale, Cal.. or Camp Kear ney, which is near San Diego, mould in his opinion, be satisfactory for the base. "In accordance with your instruc tions," Secretary Adams said. "I recommend the Camp Kearney base because It is probably somewhat better strategically and because it will allow a closer contact and bet ter cooperation with the fleet." In the report it was estimated that the cost to the government for the Sunnyvale base would be $652600 while the estimated cost of the Camp Kearney hue would be $291,- lf9. Woman Marries Seventh Husband In Fifteen Years Macatine, la. ipv She who IS year ago wai Mis IJtle Mesne had become Wednesday through her seventh mar riage, Mr. LMe llrwie -I.ar-fti -Smith -rrnvdey -See-man -Ivord -Flehr. Two previous husband died and divorce nrparalrd her from the other. Married to Fleher Tuesday, the gave her age a 33. BUSINESS iQt KB lUi II HI In City During Fall mj is bus ms i Ka t xx es MERCHANTS SA Y Any Salem merchant who show a plus mark over last year by December 31," was the response of a leading Salem merchant to the question of how s business : And while the interrogatory was not put to all of them it was put to a considerable num- ber or leading lines of trade and summed up the same answer was gleaned from most of them. There Is little question that the volume of business this fall in retail lines has run up along well with the past few years and is way ahead of a few years ago. There seems little question that most Salem merchants are looking for a Decem ber which will be rich with returns and will swell the volume of the year very materially. In fact a decidedly heavy holiday trade Is looked ahead to. However, there is one thing that is true, that the heavy volume does n't bring the profit of a few yearB ago. Overhead Is higher, prices are marked closer, buying costs of the merchants are higher and competi- Concluded on puge 4. column. 3) CHINESE REBELS VICTORIOUS IN CANTON DRIVE London (IP) The revolutionary Ironsides division of Oeneral Chang Fa-Kwel and the Kwangsi rebels italned an initial victory Wednesday In their concentrated drive against Canton, dispatches received here said. An Exchange Telegraph report from Hongkong said that It was learned on reliable authority that the mutiny at Pukow was part oi a coup d'etat planned against the nationalist government In which trusted nationalist troops were scheduled to Join. The outbreak at Pukow was believed to have been premature and to have worked against the revolutionary plot by enabling General Chiang Kai-Shek to adopt suppressive measures be fore the mutiny spread. After a day . and night of fight ing both to the north and west of the Canton river, along with the revolutionary traps invav.1 Kwang- tun c;.nce from the western side of Kwangsi, the Cantonese troops yielded the gorges below the city of Shaminshu. west of Canton, to the Kwangsiites, retreating toward Canton without offering any resist ance an Exchange Telegraph re port from Hongkong said. PAT SULLIVAN NEW SENATOR Cheyenne. Wyo.. T) Patrick J, Sullivan, prominent oil and sheep man of Casper, and for 20 years the Wyoming member of the re publican national committee, will temporarily succeed the late Fran cis E. Warren in the United Slates senate. Governor Frank C. Emerson an nounced Sullivan's appointment Tuesday night, stipulating the new senator would nerve until a suc cessor is cliosen at a special sena torial election to be held next month. The announcement was made at the close of a special meeting of the central republican committee here at which Sullivan received the endorsement of the i body. Informed of his selection at his home In Casper, Mr. Sullivan ac cepted, adding he would come to Cheyenne Thurday for his creden tials, leaving the same day for Wa:Jilnglon, D. C. RUSSlTNlLiERS" TO SEEK EIELSON Juneau, Alaska (IP) While Joe Crosson, Alaska Airways pilot, chaf ed impatiently as bad weather de layed his hop from Teller to search for his comrade, Carl Ben Eleison. lost with his machine in Siberia since mid-November two Soviet fli ers announced that they would pro ceed with another rescue expedition. The Russian pilots were aboard the icebreaker Litke and planned to proceed as far ai possible by boat and then un-ship their planes and take to the air, it was believed. It had previously been reported that they had abandoned their projected flight. Eieson was lost while on a flight to the fur trading ship Nanuk, tee' lb.mnd near North Cape. IS GOODMi ISSUES S Ml K2 SS tends to his business should TAX CUTTING BILL ENDORSED BY COMMITTEE Washington The administra tion's $160,000,000 Income tax re duction plan was approved Wed nesday by the house ways and means committee and will be brought before the house for ac tion Thursday. The reduction will be effected by a cut of one per cent In the rata of Individual and corporation in come rates, ' The committee placed its approv al upon a resolution to provide for the reduction a short time after under Secretary Mills of the treas ury had appeared before it and gicn details on the proposal. A few minutes later the house, which had convened in the mean time, gave Chairman Hawley of the committee until midnight to re port the resolution formally. This will enable the measure to go to the . printers late Wednesday night and enable its consideration on the house floor first thing Thursday. Representative Ramseyer of Io wa, a republican committee mem- ber, announced he proposed to file a minority report opposing the tax measure. He said that according to his figures it would run us into the red. His opposition is the first that has been announced to the tax rcduc tlon plan. ARMY AVIATOR KILLED AS PLANE EXPLODES IN AIR Goodwater, Ala. fh Lieutenant E. Q. Schmidt was killed and three companions Tumped to safety when a large twin motored army plane from Langley field, Va., exploded and plunged to the earth in flames on the outskirts of Goodwater shortly before noon Wednesday. Lieutenant Schmidt's p-irachute failed to open. His companions were Lieutenant J. M. Gillespie, commander of the plane, which was being flown to Mexico City, Sergeant Bremer and Serjeant Capps. One of the motors apparently ex ploded and the plane burst into flames. The occupants Jumped from an altitude of about 500 feet, and with the exception of Smith were uninjured. The plane was a twin motored transport Curtiss plane. Schmidt was a star tackle on the West Point football team last year and was selected on a number of all- American teams by leading sports writers of the east. He entered the air service upon graduation from the military academy last June. O'HaralsIn Cross Fire In Controversy Over Through Street Alderman Dave O'Hnrn, of the fifth ward, who Monday nitfht blocked consideration on third reading of an ordinance introduced by the police committee to designate Fairgrounds road from Capitol to Hoed street and Hood street from that Junction to Broadway as a through 'stop" street, Is finding himself between a strenuous cros fire from his con stituents. In addition, O'Hara faces the op position of a large portion of the general travelling public who sup port the through street proposal as providing a shorter and more direct route into the business center fnm the north entrance of the Pacific highway, and the parents of pupils attending the Parrbit. Junior high school ho see in the plan a nutans of reducing the heavy through highway traffic that flows pa.it the school on Capital street. CHALLENGE TO ADVERSARIES Philadelphia Boss Pleads Own Case and Denies Fraud or Corruption Norris Leads Fight Against Vare Reed Asks Vote be Delayed Washington, (T) The sea ate elections committee Wed nesday voted arainst seating William B. Wilson, demo crat, in his content against Senator-elect Vare in the 1926 Pennsylvania senatorial election. Washington P William 8. Vare. for three years denied a seat in the senate Wednesday personally ap peared on the floor of that cham ber to plead his own cause and is sued a challenge to those opposing his admission to point to a "single bit of evidence of any fraud or conspiracy practiced by myself or any of my friends in my behalf in the 1923 Pennsylvania senatorial campaign. The Pennsylvanian, who received the republican nomination and later was certified as the senator-elect, is Just recovering from a long at tack of illness. He read from a pre pared statement as he placed his yT&onci v'idPdon payeib.' column"!!)"" STEIft'ER ASKS HOOVER TO BACK COLUIW PLAN Portland iV) A telegram front Senator Steiwer, Oregon, in which he announced he had conferred with President Hoover regarding the In clusion of the Columbia river pro ject In tile national waterways pro gram, was received by B. H. Kipp, executive secretary of the Columbia valley association. Steiwer's telegram stated that It was too late for Hoover to mention the Columbia project in his speech to congress. He explained the presi dent had failed to mention other projects with the exception of the Mississippi flood relief. Dr. Clark Black, president, and other officials of the valley associa tion plan to continue e: forts for for mal recognition of the Columbut project. STORM MOVING ON OREGON COAST Portland (LP) A storm of moder ate intensity was reported by the weather bureau here Wednesday to be moving eastward about 150 miles off the Ore Ron -Washing ton coast. Weather officials held hopes that the storm would bung rain to the northwest, although they modified their assertion that at other tunes that fall storms which ordinarly bring rain, have failed to do so. Ships in the storm area which la wide, reported rain. O'Hara finds hi principal sup port in a group of merchants along; Capitol street in the Hollywood dis trict, who have 10:17 fought the des ignation of Fairgrounds road as tt.rcudh street west of Capitol on the ground that It would rob them of business gained from the flow of motor vehicles no.v directed soley past their places ol b.iness. Before the council O'Hara tated that the people of hw ward were by no means unanimously in favor of tl.rout h '.4lop'' streets, and that he, perMnal!y, U opp-sej to them be c.w:? thrv ennmraee motorists U vicive the spved nriimances and an auu,ii. uii p"c U, column S)