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County CIRCULATION Dtltr avera diminution tor the mooto DdiD Not em be 30. J 023 10,226 Average dallj nt paid 9847 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation 42nd YEAR, No. 297 FEDERAL FUND FOR HIGHWAY TO BE MATCHED County Court Offers $100,000 for Building North Santiam Road Agree to Spend Any Amount Up to Total Government Puts Up The Marlon county court Friday through the state highway commis sion made an offer to federal for est officials of $100,000 of county money for the proposed new North Santiam highway to b3 spent in 1930. The offer is contingent on a similar amount being put up from the federal lurcst road funds by the government. The offer is so couched that the county court agrees to expend any amount up to $100,000 on the work during 1930 to meet what funds are ex pended up to that amount by the government. The offer was made Friday as the slate highway commission and federal forest officials were meet ing In Portland allotting the use of forest funds on various roads durimr the comine vear. By tills offer it is believed the cause of the Detroit to Sisters road, so earnestly worked for by Marion county and Salem during the past few years has taken its (Concluded on page 4. column 5) NATIONALISTS THREE FRONTS Shanghai UPh-Forces of the na tionalist government Friday appar ently had fought to a stanasun three rebellious armies in widely separated parts of China but the threat of widespread revolt, aimed at the overthrow of Nanking, still remained. Probably the most outstanding Tictory was that over the insurgent forces which were beaten back from the gates of Canton with h:avy losses. Reports from the southern metropolis indicated that the "Iron sides" division of General Chang Fak-Wei and Insurgents from Kwangsl province which several weeks ago cooperated in an advance upon Canton, still were retreating. These rebels were whipped in a bloody three-day battl?, Just out side the city. Half of the insurgents were said to have been numbered among the casualties. Including cap tured. Nationalist losses were not mentioned. Another unit of the nationalist army was credited with having stop ped the advance upon Nanking, the nationalist capital, of the pukow mutineers at Chuchow, 5 miles north of the rebel objective. Some 30,000 rebels were involved In this en counter. Troops drawn by the gov ernment from the less rebclllou6ly Inclined areas were whipped Into an army to stop the mutineers and were reported to be holding the line as the fighting subsided. GRUNDY TAKES SEAT IN SENATE Washlntrton Pv 7ne smiling and affable lace cf Joseph R. Grundy. the new senator from Pennsylvania was one of the first sen in the enate chambers and it presence resulted in the senate having its full membership of 96 members for the first time in three years. Grundy apparently was giving no thouRht to the turmoil of less than 84 hours ago when a group of sena tors spoke out in protest against his taking a seat because they said he had been connected with the now famous Pennsylvania senator ial campaign of 1926. Grundy s colleague, Senator Reer, was standing by to snow him such matters of procedure as he was not acquainted with after his many mor'.hs in the gaiiery observing the tariff debate. More friendly than yesterday. number of senators shook hands With him ai they passed. Senator Blaine, republican. Wis consin. one of Mr. Grundy's sever est examiners on the lobby com mittee, erased tho chamber to greet hiai. Court Offers $100,000 Entered u second elus matter at ttaiem. Oreiton o) frOo) Good Evening llGRILLMAHHIX Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Friday, the thirteenth! And the county court offers $100,- 000 to start off the North Santiam read. Not such an unlucky day after all. We're guessing pretty keen that It will be lucky enough to get the road under way. If we bit our breakfast Instead of sipping our supper we'd say that the time would come when 50,000 people traveled over the road, yes, a hundred thousand, a million, yes hundred million people would travel over the road every day. But we do say it will be the big gest thing that ever happened to Salem and Marlon county when the first cars pass over that highway from Central Oregon into the Wil lamette valley. And that $100,000 offer will do more than all the speeches ever spooched. Money talks. How deep should tulips and hyacinths be planted? asks an inquirer of the magazine Better Flowers. From eight to 10 inch es answers the magazine. We think the magazine made a slight error. The L-fluirer was arking aliaut tulips and .hya cinths not telephone conduits and gas mains. Joe Dunne slapped a chap up at a milk hearing in Portland. 8cem3 all kinds of milk was considered there but the milk of human kind' ness. YEA, WE'VE BEEN THERE Asahel Bush has passed onto us a poera clipped from the Baltimore Sun. It has such an appeal to all the menlolks under the yoke we can't refrain from reprinting, with all due thank3 to the Sun: A REGULAR GUY He stood upon a busy street Where shoppers gayly thronged And plainly, plainly it was seen 'Twas not where he belonged. He had an aspect wholly grim, No Joy was in his face; Among the merry shoppers there He surely had no place. The windows bright and colorful In Christmas time array Stirred not that poor, despondent soul. Indeed, we're forced to say He 'only loked at them to scowl And wear a sadder mien As if his spirit were disturbed By such a gladsome scene. Some racked waif and penniless Was tms. do you suppose. Who grieved because he had, alas! No money in his clothes? You're wrong. Twas juct a normal Buy, A husband, maybe pop, Who told his wife he'd wait outside While she went in to shop. SOVIET CONTINUES WAR IN MANCHURIA Mukden, Manchuria (VP? An offi cial statement Friday said that the Soviet was continuing its military operations In western Manchuria. The Russians were said to have bombed Chinese positions In Poko to, or Ebukedu, In the Khingan mountains. Joseph Case In Hands Of Referees; Defense Pleads Justification Declaring, n effect, that the son for the prosecution in the was a boomerang against his referees to assume that the states own witnesses didn't tell the truth Defease Attorney John C. Veatch replied sharply in the final hours of the trial Thursday afternoon. He had reference to the testimony of C. H. Brockhagen, publisher of the Portland Telegram, who testi fied that Joseph had nothing to do with the articles published in that paper attacking Chief Justice John L. Rand, and the testimony of Hen ry M. Han?en, political writer, who said the articles had been published against the advice of Joseph and his associates. Both newspapermen C apit alii JBmM FOR ACTIONS IN E CASE Disbarment Trial of Port land Attorney Under way at Statehouse Efforts to Commit Fraud In Will Case Alleged by Prosecutor Thomas Mannix' connection with the series of court cases involving the E. Henry Wemme endowment fund will produce a greater amount of evidence than is required by law for the disbarment of an attorney, Arthur K. McMahan, one of the Mannix prosecutors, told the ref erees Friday in his opening state ment as the Mannix disbarment case went to trial. The case against Mannix was started by George Jo seph, also a Portland attorney. Trial of Mannix disbarment action against Joseph was concluded late Thursday. Resorting to a claim that a "mis take" was responsible for the seem ingly serious predicament from which he was trying to extricate himself on the witness stand Fri day, Thomas Mannix, defendant in disbarment proceedings started by George Joseph, was under a merci less grilling by Attorney Evan Reames at the noon adjournment. (Concluded on page 15. column 7) SAYS HOOVER TOLD LOBBYIST TO SEE SMOOT Washington (A) A letter from H. C. La kin, of the Cuba .company, to President Machado of Cuba, which said President Hoover had instruct-! ed E. P. Shattuck, attorney, and Chairman Smoot of the senate fi nance committee, "to confer to gether" was read into the record Friday at the senate lobby commit tee hearing. Shattuck, a New York attorney, was employed by La kin to work for lower tariff rates and the Cuba company official had previously testified that Shattuck was em ployed partly because of his friend ship for the president. The letter to Machado said that Shat tuck's connection with Presi dent Hoover "is our strongest weap on except your efforts and those of your ambassador." Shattuck has denied that he has attempted to influence President Hoover in connection with the tar iff bill. The letter Lakln wrote Machado said the Cuba company president "had obeyed your instructions to work in cooperation, with your am bassador." PATTERSON DIES Portland IP Captain William H. Patterson, president of the Oregon state board of pilot commissioners, died at his home here late Thurs day. He was taken ill with influenza last Friday and physicians said that developed into pneumonia. He was 71 years of age. argument of W. Lair Thomp George Joseph disbarment trial own cause in that he asked the were subpoenaed as witnesses by the prosecution. ThompSbn, In his morning argument, had stressed the assertion that Hanzen had been forced to admit that Joseph had been consulted, and that the testi mony of a former city editor of the Telegram In another case was con tradictory to both, because he had said that he called Joseph by tele phone nearly every day. Bert E. Haney, who also spoke In Joseph's defense, scouted as unim portant the e,ue;:on whether Jds- (0':r.cl-irt! o:i ju'c 12, colu.r.n ) " SALEM, OREGON, FRIDa 1 , tz. j"""! o 1929 SANTA CLAUS STARTS FOR SALEM S&8 B S3 ' 69 SB B ' USA QI S i , 18 - JOS BX US TO BE HONOR GUEST AT MATINEE Explorers Left Behind at Nome for Fear of Over loading Plane- Captain Continues Story of Visit To Toy Shops of Great Palace. By CAPTAIN KLEINSCHMIDT Nome, Alaska With Capital Journal Expedition) Santa Claus is on his way to Salem, but we are left behind to follow by a slower means of transportation, a steam ship, when we can get to one and when the ship can get out of the Ice bound Alaskan harbor. Baron Strutsky, piloting the Capital Journal's relief airplane,1 arrived here late Thursday after- j noon after battling a fierce storm all the way north from Vancouver, B. C. At times, he said, he was afraid he could not keep on and much of the time he was flying high above the clouds with nothing but his compass to guide him. Rain and snow freezing on the plane weighted it down until he feared that he would not be able to keep sufficient altitude to keep from crashing into one of the high mountains he had to cross. But he made it and about 4 o'clock came roaring down through, the gathering dusk to a perfect land ing here. Immediately he was sur rounded by members of our party and rushed into the big cabin where we have been lounging about while waaiting his arrival. We all began plying him with questions about his trip and how soon he could get us back to Sa lem, while he ate the warm food the cooks had prepared and the mechanics wree busy oiling and checking over his plane and re fueling it for the return trip. Then we got our big disappointment. "When do you get back to Sa lem?" he said. "You are not go ing back to Salem with me. I'm going to have all the load I can carry with Santa Claus. After the (Concluded on page 11. "column 1) STORM SIGNALS HERALD COMING OF REAL BLOW Portland, Ore. (LP) Storm warn ings were posted at all stations from Marahfield to Tatoosh island Friday afternoon, the weather bureau here said. At noon a 60 mile southerly wind, the first real "blow" of the season, was blowing at North Head at the mouth of the Columbia river. From a period of calm prevailing at 7:45 o'clock Friday morning when official weather readings were tak' en at the Salem airport, southerly winds bearing a driving rain had mounted to 20 miles an hour ve locity at X o'clock, and increasing in intensity. Rainfall during the preceding 24 hours totalled .65 inches, making a total of 4.44 Inches since the rain commenced early Sunday. While there was some water standing about on low spots In and around the city, most of the present rainfall has been absorbed almost as rapidly It has fallen, with storm sewers in various parts of the city carrying off the surplus without trouble. That the ground was particularly dry was evidenced by the level of Prlngle and North and south Mill creeks which have risen but little In comparison to the amount of pre cipitation. The Willamette river, which, up to Thursday morning had shone a steady rise approximating nve Jee since Sunday, dropped a 10th of a foot during the past 24 hours, and Friday stood at the 19 foot level above the low water mark. SANTA CLAUS ASKED TO BRING NEW NOSE Sparta. Wis. (A Eight -year-old Doris Oraw, whose mother Is dead and father missing, wants Santa Claus to bring her a new nose. She wrote a letter to Santa which appeared In the Sparta Herald and nh.ch asked for only one gift a nose. Doris lost her nose several I months aito when a cupboard tipped ever c;i iivr. For North1 Santiam Highway . - Santa Might Have Missed Him Here Is one of the little girls In the Salem community that Santa Claus might have missed this year, except for the vig Hence of those In charge of the Christmas Cheer movement. Her letter to Santa read: Dear Santa Claus: We just seen your announcement In the Capital Journal for letters so I am sending you one. Hope yon enjoy your trip here to our city, but suppose you would like to see snow Instead of rain. Now dear Santa, as we just moved here from .... a short time ago, our Daddy Is out of work, and Mamma and him tell us we can not have a real Xmas this year like we always had before for it Is too hard a time. So we hope you will remember us. There are three of us, two girls and our brother. He was hurt in an auful wreck last winter and Mama had an operation the same time. Our brother is now 13 years old and my oldest sister Is. 11 and I am 9 years old. We don't care much what we get fust so you don't forget us. Us girls like embordry work if we could afford the goods and thread or dolls or anything. Our brother likes building sets or erector sets or anything. He has got a good tool chest but he Is not cholcie either. Us girls did not get any new coats this year. Maby someone has a couple second hand coats mother could get some way. Mama and daddy used to have plenty of money to help others but now they tell us others may have to help us. So Santa we may get down to see you Sat. and may not but hope so. We wish you lots and lots of good luck In your trip back home. ORDER SWOPE COMMITTED TO STATE ASYLUM C. A. Swope. until recently presi dent of the Lions club, an officer in the Elks and one of the best known and best liked young at torneys of Salem was committed to the state hospital Friday after noon after an examination of over two hours by Drs. W. Carleton Smith and L. P. Griffith, the lat ter of the state hospital staff. It also developed that 4 few days ago a warrant charging larceny by embezzlement of W0O0 was sworn out in Justice Brazier Small's court against Swope by John Moruz, son of a local woman upon whom it was charged the main part of the embezzlement was committed. While no definite figures nave been revealed it is thought that the accounts of the young attorney mav be found tangled to a sum of as high as $10,000 before it Is straightened out. His father, Judge B. y. Swope. prominent Polk county attorney from Independence stat ed that a meeting will be cauea here in the near future with all claiming to be his son's creditors and an effort made to untangle the affairs. Tlie case has revealed one of the strangest instances of peculation ever recorded in local annals. Every indication points to the fact that the young attorney was a "good fellow" embezzler and so far noth ing has been found to show that he was profiting by his peculations. The embezzlement case cnargea against him In the warrant was filed bv John Mortiz. son 01 a io- cnl woman. It was charged that Swope represented he could Bet her a good loan at 8 per cent lor iwmk). She put up $4700 and the son 300. The money was given to twope oy his own admission. But tne loan never materialized. As an offshoot of this it developed that Swope took a good many ac- Concludedon page 13. column51 DOUBLE HANGING AT SAN OH San Quentln Prison, Cal. OP) George Costcllo and Antone Negri died on the gallows here Friday. Costello was the. first to hang, and about one half hour later the trap was sprung for Negra. Plans for a double execution were abandoned when Negra partially collapsed be fore the march to the gallows. The trap for Costello was sprung at 10:02 a. m. and he was pro nounced dead at 10:18. Negra fell through the trap at 10:28 and was pronounced dead at 10:40. Sobs wracked Negra's body before and during the march to the trap. Costello went to his death calmly and without speaking for the min der of William McFarlln, Oakland bank teller, during a holdup. Louis Lazarus, another of the bandit trio, will climb the 13 steps to the gallows January 3. Negra. middle aged man, died protesting his Innocence. The Los Banos sheep and cattle raiser was convicted of killing Ralph Amablle, his brother-in-law and business partner. FOREST FUNDS TOTAL $610,000 FOR HIGHWAYS Portland, Ore. (IF) Forest high way funds amounting to $610,000 was allocated to state roads Friday at a meeting of the state highway commission, forest service and fed eral bureau of roads. After deducting $35,000 mainten ance and $26,000 for surveys, the balance was appropriated as fol lows: Siuslaw highway, $30,000; Mt. Hood- loop, $30,000; Roosevelt. $71.- 500; Weston-Elgin. $30,000: Burns Canyon City, $100,000; Willamette, $36 000: Salmon river, $05,000; U-klah-Dale, $62,500; Heppner-Spray, $75,000 and Santiam (cast end), $29- 000. In addition the state will contrib ute $300,000 to the Siuslaw high way; $30,000 to the Mt. Hood loop; $83500 to the Roosevelt; $76.ouu to Willamette and $62,000 to the Ukiah- Dale project. Lane county will cooperate io the extent of $150,000 on the Siuslaw highway; Umatilla county will co operate to the extent of $75,000 on the Uklah-Dale project ana jcner son county will give $13,000 on the Santiam road. -ON MARCH 10 Washington liPt The date for the trial of Edward L. Doheny. oil mag nate, on a charge of bribery was eet for March 10, Friday by Justice Hits In the District of Columbia supreme court. Doheny's attorney, Frank Hogan, had asked that the trial begin on March 17 and government attorneys requested January 13 as the date. The Indictment against tne weal thy oil man is one of the series growing out of oil leases made dur ing the Harding administration and the charge Is that Doheny gave Al bert B. Fall, former secretary of the Interior a bribe of $100,000 In con nection with the lease to Doheny's company of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve In California. 25 MINE PICKETS JAILED AT N0K01S Nokois, 111. (ID Twenty-five pick ets were arrested on warrants charg ing disorderly conduct and attempt ing to Incite rioting, when they appeared at the entrances to coal mines near here Friday, to resume their work of spreading the south ern Illinois strike called by the na tional miners' union. , Their arrest constituted the first major offensive against mine trou bles in this region which has re sulted in presence of five compan ies of state militia. Altogether warrants for 45 alleged leaders of the rebel union have been issued In the coal fields of this dis- trict. Local: PRICE THREE CENTS VSISMSSSI MM Bligh Adds Two Special Features, Free Show Saturday. Plane Carrying St. Nick Scheduled to Arrivej at 9:30 o'Clock. Christmas Cheer Fund Capital Journal $25.00 ' Henry Jacquet 5.00 Curtis Cross 10.00 Kerelpts First Night, "The Gypsy Kover". .370.00 Mrs. Margaret Lefurgy 5.00 Bert Hill 5.00 Mrs. Drmarest 5.00 Mm N. E. G 3 00 Hawkins tc Roberta ... 25.00 Total $463.00 Saturday Is the day of days, ex cept one Christmas. Unless every precaution taken bv the Capital Journal to Insure his safe delivery here fails Santa Claus in person, will arrive at the munici pal airport between 9:30 and 10 o'clock in the morning, and will re main in and about Salem as the euest of the Capital Journal un un til a few hours before Christmas Eve, -when he must hasten back to Santaland to start his annual trip around the world. Just now Santa Is speeding south ward from Nome in a special plane provided for the trip by the Eyerly Aircraft corporation somewhere high above the coast north of Vancouver. B. C. Should continued rain and the soft condition of the flying field here make landing dangerous, the Jolly Old Fellow will be landed In Portland and rushed to Salem by automobile for the welcoming cere monies. And what a welcome it will be! With all of the k ddies In town out to greet him, and with police of ficers escorting him, Santa will be taken Immediately to Bllgh's Cap itol theater, where he will greet the children and be the guest of honor at a special matinee. "(Concluded on page 15. column 6 TAX CUT BILL' BEFORESENATE Washington (LP) Without a sin gle objection, the administration's $160,000,000 tax cut resolution was brought before the senate Friday. Prospects for early passngo were bright although the parliamentary situation will offer opponents of the resolution an opportunity later to block the resolution If they choose. The brief debate whlcTl preceded adoption of a unnnlmous consent agreement lu? consideration of the resolution. Indicated the opponents would let the resolution pass with out any e-crious delay. In the agreement which brought the matter before the senate, was a gentleman's understanding among the leaders that the Norrls resolu tion for optional governmental op erations of Muscle Shoals would be brought up as soon as the tariff bill is out of the way. Dallas Youths Caught Between Car Bumpers May Both Lose Limbs T)alas Crushed between the bumpers of two heavy se dans, Klmer Hayes, 23 and Irvin Holman, 21, employes of the Kord earace here, are in the Dallas hospital in a critical con dition following an accident on tne Hawthorne highway a mile from the city limits about 10:30 o'clock Thursday nisrht. Bo badly mangled was me rignt leg of Holman that amputation was necessary and he faced the pos sibility Friday morning for losing the other limb, but It was feared he might not survive the shock. It amputation Is not necessary his limb will be stiff at the Joint. Hayes' knees were so badly crush ed that It may be necessary to am putate both to save his life. It was stated at the hospital. RAIN Tonight and Saturday. Fresh south erly winds on the coast. Max. : Min. 3 Rain, v&5; River 14 feet; cloudy, UNION PACIFIC COMPELLED TO ENTEND ROAD Interstate Commerce Commission Orders Crane-Crescent Line 181 Miles to Cost $9, 000,000. Construction. To Begin in July Washington UP) The interstate commerce commission Friday for the first time asserted its power to com pel a raroad to build, against 1U will, extensive new lines, when It directed the Union Pacific System to construct 181 miles of line be . tween Crane and Crescent lake. Oregon, at an approximate cost of $9,000,000. Because of the principle Involved, the proceedings drew in all the rail roads of the Pacific northwest and in handing down the verdict the commission also ruled that It had the power to compel the railroad to undertake the work. The Oregon-Washington Railroad and Nav igation company, a subsidiary ot the Union Pacific, was directed to begin the actual construction.1 The complaint brought by the Oregon public service commission said the Central portion of the state had not been provided with tha proper rail facilities and that the "(Concluded on page 14. column 7) GRAY PREDICTS LEGAL BATTLE ON STATE LINE Portland (LP) While Carl Gray, president of the Union Pacific sys tem. Friday was predicting a legal battle over the interstate commerce commission's order tcr construction of the Crane-to-Crescent Lake line, W. C. McCulloch, attorney for the Oregon public service commission, was halllivt the decision as "one of the man important to the people and interests of the. stale ever made by the interstate commerce com missicn.'' Gray, here to attend the Pacific northwest regional advisory board meeting of the American Railway aasociation, said he would prefer to withhold comment until he had seen the commission's order in full. He dcrlnrrd, however, that the Union Pacific will doubtless be gov erned by the legal aspects of tha case." Even If the Union Pacific were not to contest the order in the courts, other railroads will do so because of the order's wide signifi cance, he said. "Railroad attorneys arc not at all cf the opinion that the interstate commerce comm sion has the pow er to order a railroad to build a line a3aln.1t lt wishes," he conclud ed. McCulloch. who has represented the state public service commission throughout its battle for the line, was jubilant. Holman Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Holman, of Cooper Hollow, while Hayes Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hayes, of North Dal las. Both families are well known through this section of the country. The Injured men ?re accompany ing Albert Voth. son of Mr. and Mrs. Heiiry Voth, to Corvallll to attend a fairs meeting of an oil company. While Voth was at tht meeting the other two were glren permission to use the machine and never thought to check the gaso Conciuat.l oif p.ujiTl. column 6)