SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON
PAGE SEVEN
RIVER THAMES
WREAKS HAVOC
IN WIDE AREA
London (IP London prepared for
the onslaught ot the tloodd river
Thames Saturday wnue me en
tire countryside of England count
ed its damage In thousands of
homes wrecked and crops destroyed
by floods from a week ot rains and
gales.
Although there still were Isolated
reports of ship disasters the weath
er In the channel and along the
western coast appeared to nave Im
nroved.
Barriers were strengthened along
a distance ot 20 miles where the
Thames passed from Hommersmlth
through the heart of London. Work
crews were ordered to work night
and day to prepare for the high
tide expected to continue for four
days beginning Monday morning.
A new concrete barrier was be
ing constructed a quarter of a mile
along the Shelsea embankment
where only an iron railing separates
the road from the river. Other
sections were being bolstered with
cand bags. The entire area was con
stantlv under patrol ot guards.
Flooding of London depends large
ly upon the -spring tides from the
North sea which at present are full.
No immediate rains were forecast
and authorities were hopeful that
the floods had reached their peak
The Thames Friday flowed
through Teddington at a rate of
10.700 million gallons per day com-
nared to the rate ot. 10 billion gal
Ions per day registered during the
disastrous floods of January, ivn.
Floods were subsiding In west
county leaving a trail ot havoc.
Property damage was estimated at
1.500.000 pounds sterling- (ji.500.oooi
Thousands of homes were destroyed.
Unemployment was intensified by
the damaging of many industrial
plants by the floods which It was
believed could not open for several
weeks.
The steamship Aba arrived In
Queenstown In tow after a six day
battle to reach shore. During the
entire time the steamer was within
150 miles of its gaol but rendered
rudderless by the gale, was unable
to manipulate its engines.
SLAYER HELD
BY OFFICERS
Muncle, Ind. Jf A quartet of
Muncie officers is driving through
Kentucky and Ohio with James
Wood, confessed slayer of Mr. and
Mrs. George F. Heath, whose skuu
crushed bodies were found in their
farm home near here Thursday
morning.
The crime was committed some
time Tuesday night. Wood, about 3
years old, was captured late Friday
night at his home near Albany. Ky.
He recently had been employed at
the Heath dairy farm. The fact that
the Dernetrator of the double mur
der was able to quiet a vicious police
dog which guarded the place, seem
ed to point directly to Wood. In ad
ditlon Wood had been seen in the
vicinity of the Heath home on the
nlcht of the crime.
The Indiana officers, with their
prisoner expected to reach Middle
town, Ohio, Saturday morning where
wood said tnev would find an auto
mobile he recently stole from the
Heath farm.
CHRISTMAS BUYING
EQUAL TO LAST YEAR
Washington lPy Reports rectlved
by President Hoover from the de
partment of commerce and other
agencie were said at the White
House to indicate that Christmas
buying Is fully as good this year as
It was in 1928.
The reports were said to show that
In some sections the volume or Duy
lng was much better than last year.
The comparison for various sections
of the country Is uneven, it was said
with some localities showing up Dei
ter than others.
President Hoover considers these
reports as a fair index of the general
situation in the United States.
Santa And Jack Frost Neighbors And Chums
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MURDER CASE
STILL SHORT
OF SOLUTION
One ot the frisky little friends that Santa Clans has la the far north euatry of Santalaa is Jack
Front, with whom he posed tor this picture for Captain Kteinsehmldt, chief ot the Capital Journal's expedition.
SANTA ENTERTAINS
JOURNAL PARTY
(Continued from page 1)
Artist won't get a chance to paint
his name on your faces."
"Oh. it's Jack Frost, we ex
claimed.
It was bright and early when
Santa shouted "Get into your
sleighs and bring the motion pic
ture camera along.
He laughed and played with the
gnomes, slapped the reindeer on
their flanks and made everybody
happy.
You'll admire tills great Artist,
Jack Frost," Santa told Mrs. K.
"He is the greatest sculptor ana
painter In the world. Have you ever
seen a snownaKe tnrougn a micru-
scope. or wnen you went to scnooi
caught it on your slate? It is a
wonderful lormation oi uny ice
crystals in Intricate designs of the
finest lacework. You have seen his
pictures on your window pane oh
cola morning ana muvuer una
said, "Look, Jack Frost nas Deen
here." But there are wondcrlul
sights in store for you if he invites
you Into his crystal palace. Jack
has decorated my castle witn spires
and cupoms. but as we have to
work with metal and wood and
have to have fires and heat he
could not do anything inside for
me. You should see the Interior of
his crystal palace. Words cannot
describe it. I have often passed by
Niagara Falls at Christmas, just
after Jack had touched the cataract
with his magic wand ahd have seen
hundreds of people gaze in aston
ishment and admire it, but wait
until you see his own palace."
Thn onnmes hitched up the rein-
Hr and the nartv climbed Into
sMchs. Soon we were speeding
across the glistening ice and snow
toward the edge ot tne roiar oca.
We saw great glaciers puea n m.
mountains and these huge icepeaks
were brilliant in the moonlight.
'Jack Frost nas seen us iij
and Is coming to meet us ooma
shouted.
Santa pointed to a high Jagged
(rphenr on which we could see
ri,im The figure came running at
great speed ana as ii, iuav"t
it semeea 10 oe a uvy wu
old.
His face was young ana rosy ra
his eyes were dark and shining
with mischief and glee. Jack Frost,
for it was Jack, was dressed in a
white fur parka, the Eskimos call It
an Ar-te-ga and covers the body
wthout being open In the front. On
th3 head of his parka wiggled two
cr of the Artie Hare, and his feet
attracted attention. The shoes look
ed like the stufled heads of the
Artie hare with eyes and long wag
gling ears. The soles were of fee.
The artie Hare is the fastest an
imal In the North, hence Jack wore
its symbols. ...
"Meet Jack Frost" Santa intro
duced us. Jack bowed politely and
-hnolt hand-; but we nulrklr drew
our hands away for Jack's fingers
were colder than ice. Santa was
wiser; he kept his gloves on.
"I might nave missed you" Jack
said, "For I am Just about to start
on my winter tour of beautifying
the world with my ice pictures. I
have some beautiful new ice de
signs this year." Mck seemed to
be utterly carefree and sublimely
happy.
"That's right, Jack," said Santa,
"Let's have an old-fashioned white
Christmas this year." I am sure the
boys and girls in Salem will enjoy
the sleighs and skates I am going
to bring them.
Jack seemed to have the secret of
perpetual youth for although he
has been working at his trade for
centuries he is still a boy, and even
though he has been pinching noses
and ears and nipping fingers and
toes for hundreds of years, he still
wears his mischevlous boyish smile.
Mrs. K. took quite a fancy to
him and her heart warmed up to
the cold boy.
I had set up my movie camera
when we saw Jack and while we
were talking I cranked the camera
to record our meeting.
Jack invited us to his Ice palace
and we started off. but because of
the Artie Hare shoes he wears, he
is such a swift traveler, he could
not go slow enough to keep up with
his guests, so he picked up the
movie camera and tnppea wmcn
slowed him down.
Jack's palace is surely a wonder
ful place. It looked like a gigantic
cave In a mountain of ice. crystal
clear and shimmering like diamonds
and decorations as delicate as the
finest lacework. We passed through
gardens of ice floweps in the mot
beautiful iorms and varieties, simi
lar to the ones you see on window
panes. Wonderfully caned icicles
hung down like vines. The shining
columns that supported the roof
were ornamented with lovely and
Intricate patterns of ivy and vines.
It was of almost impossible and
unbelievable beauty and everything
shone and sparkled with great rad
iance. Jack was delighted with our ex
rlamatlona of delight as we beheld
his marvelous art. and then left
us for a moment. When he return
mi he carried his magic wand.
"Before you go Jack, show these
neoDle how vou perform your won
derful work" suggested Santa. "The
CsDtain, no doubt, would like to
take a motion mciure ot it..
I ouickly set up my camera and
then secured a marvelous picture.
You have often seen on a cold mor
ninar a vanor or fog rise from i
river, and the nearby trees and
bushes covered with a hoary frost
frnm t.hlc vanOT.
Well. Jack stepped to a crevice
In
AMERICAN GREEKS
GIVE TO MONUMENT
Athena (If) Stones on which are
carved the names of various Greek
cities have been received for the
foundation of the "Heroes' Monu
ment." which will be erected in
Athens as part ot the .celebration
of the centennial of Greek Inde
pendence next spring.
American Greeks are contribut
ing to a fund to build an historical
and ethnological museum on land
given by the Greek government. All
sections ot Greece are planning
contributions to the observance.
The city of Hermopolls on the
island of Syra, which was founded
by refugees Irom Chios after the
massacre of 1822, is building
-library and a museum, while the Is
land of Mykonos will erect a bust of
Its local heroine, Manto Mavro-
genous, the Greek Joan of Arc.
Corfu will have an Industrial,
ethnological, historical and artistic
exhibition which will become a per-
manent museum In the old Palace
of Saints Michael and George.
The practical province of the
river Hebros, the modern Maritza,
will found an anti-tuberculosis sta
tion as its contribution.
Rockford, 111. IU New clues dis
placed old ones In the Cordelia
Qummersheimer murder mystery
Saturday but its solution still await
ed some master stroke ot detective
genius.
A woman, who promised "import
ant Information concerning the
guilty man" in return for keeping
her identity secret, communicated
with authorities from Madison,- wis.
they announced. Fear for her life
had kept the-unnamed woman silent
thus far. investigators said.
Rockford officials interviewed her
and revealed that an arrest was ex
pected soon.
Miss Gummersneimer, pretty 3D
year old language teacner in tne
Rockford high school was clubbed
to death In her apartment here last
Sunday. A length of gas pipe be
side the bed on which her body was
found indicated how the murder
had been committed, and an open
window indicated how the slayer en
tered. But countless suspects, many
ot them men admirers, have all
proved alibis.
Another possibility holding the
attention of the police was that a
maniac, hatless and costless, who
attacked a young farm hand with
club, might have beaten Miss
Oummershelmer to death.
George Meredith, the farm hand,
appeared at police headquarters,
blood running from a gash In his
forehead. He told how his assailant,
a light haired, powerfully built
young fellow with a wild look in
his eyes" bad leaped onto the run
ning board ot his truck and struck
him.
A $500 reward for Information
leading to the capture of the mur
derer was posted Friday by Mayor
J. H. Hallstrom and Chief of Police
A. E. Balgren.
The names of Professor Hugo
Broeker, professor ot German at
Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, and
R. B. Howe, Chicago business man,
were eliminated in the investigation
when It was learned they were only
casual acquaintances of Miss Gum
mersneimer. Letters from them were
found in her apartment
ot a difficult role. Putting spirit and
feeling into the character.
MUs Pollard and tne inimitable
Fetctut, dark laughmaker of the
screen, furnish the comedy.
Miss Dunn portrays the role oi
the other woman," Gloria, who
lead the hooter a merry chase.
away from his wife, then drops him
hen luck turns.
The cast is food and the story Is
appealing.
a vapor from the water underneath.
Jack waved his wand and in the
intense cold the Darticles of mois
ture were built up Into flowers and
ferns a foot high.
In a twinkling of bed of roses,
chrysanthemums, lilies, dahlias and
carnations of the most beautiful
nattems and Interwoven with ferns
and lacework, rose before our eyes
and the lens of the camera.
I was delighted with tne marvel
ous pictures I was taking to show
folks at come, wnen jacx, seizea
with a sudden Impulse cried,
"Whizz, I am off. goodbye." Before
we had time to say Jack Kanmt ne
was gone and for a tew minutes we
could see his figure waring his
wand, speeding swiftly and grace
fullv over the ice.
"Jack is a mischevlous boy" said
Santa. "Boys as a rule need watch
ing, but nobody can watch over
that boy."
Yes, you are tight Santa," re
plied Mrs. K. ruefully, "he is mis
chevlous and I did not watch him.
Even while we were standing here
he nipped my fingers and nose."
As If it were In answer to her
words we heard a silvery mocking
laugh floating over the Ice from
the Ice frnm which arow such the distant figure.
NEW FACES AND OLD
APPEAR IN TALKIE
Both new and old faces are seen
in "Big Time," the Fox Movietone
all talking comedy drama ot back
stage and behind movie sets, which
is the current attraction at uiign
Capitol theater ending Saturday,
Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke and Jose
phine Dunn, who enact the leading
roles, make their first screen ap
pearance in this picture. They are
supported by others whose names
and faces are more familiar, Includ
ing Daphne Pollard and Stephln
Fetchlt.
Tracy, who was the stage star of
"Broadway" for nearly three sea
sons and who played the lead In
"The Front Page" and made more
stage history, portrays the role of
a "small time" and conceited hoofer,
while Miss Clarke appears as his
wife. They both repeat their stage
successes in the picture. Tracy gives
a most satisfactory Interpretation
KNEES BANNED
BY CLUBWOMEN
New York (LP) After a busy sum
mer on the hem-line front, women
of America have moved into the
winter campaign on the trouble
some matter of skirts. The long
and short ot It seems to be a de
termination to throw off the yoke
of foreign dictatorship In styles.
Some BOO women clamored for
chances to express opinions pro and
con at the debate sponsored by the
New York state federation ot Wom
en's clubs. The results were a bit
difficult to analyze, for the engage
ment was brisk and without a de
cisive result. While a great many
women object to being "meal tickets
to the foreign style-monger" the
new long skirts have found favor
with more than a few.
IC appeared Friday that the real
skirt have been put definitely out
of consideration. Knees must
longer be seen except In' bathing
suits. Also skirts draistmg on the
ground can not be tolerated.
BANKER FEARS
DEATH, TELLS
OF SHORTAGE
Wichita Kas. (IP When Ernest
Sunqutst was on his "death bed"
last April and had been told by his
physician that his chances of re
covering were feeble, he decided to
die with a clear conscience. Now he
faces a long penitentiary term.
Sunqutst called T. C. Morrison,
bank director, and told him of
loans he had made to his father.
C. W. Sunqutst, Holslngton real
estate dealer, and of false entries
he had made In his books while
cashier of the Susank. Kans. Mer
chant's Bute bank. The defalca
tions totalled more than 16.000.
Then Sunqulsv recovered from
his Illness and was able to face the
ordeal of a long trial. He was
arrested early this month, said be
was ready to take his "medicine,"
and made no effort to refute his
concessions.
Bunqulst said he couldent refuse
hla father. He made 40 alterations
to the bank's books to cover up bis
shortages, he said. His father, be
said, quit borrowing Irom turn alter
he told him of his transactions.
MRS. HUTCHINSON LEAVES
Jefferson Mrs. Qerald Hutchin
son left Wednesday night lor Los
Angeles, Calif- to visit her mother.
who Is seriously Hi.
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