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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1929)
II ..nnrt. CIRCULATION C apita . UNSET U.LD probably rain tonight and Tuesday, no change In temperature. Moder ate to fresh southerly winds. Local: Max., 57; Mln., 37; rain. .12; river, 1 leet; cloudy; south wind. Dally iTemt distribution lor the month ndiua November 30, IMS 10,226 Average dally net paid 9841 Member Audit Bureau ul Circulation 42nd YEAR, No. 299 Entered a second citus SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1929 PRICE THREE CENTS S?SK2RfS.55SS matter at Salem. Oregon i - : : : ' , PROSECUTION MJUMX TRIAL FINISHES CASE Judge Corliss Responsible For Inserting Wemme Co. Name as Plaintiff Mannix Started Suit ' Week Before He Was Authorized The disbarment trial of Thomas E. Mannix will be brought to close probably Tuesday afternoon. The prosecution had about conclud ed Its case and all defense testi mony was expected to be in by time of adjournment this evening. Most of Tuesday will be free for the hearing of arguments on both sides. Thomas Mannix actually started suit in the federal court to recover certain assets of the E. Henry Wemme endowment fund a week before he was authorized to do so by the E. Henry Wemme company. according to testimony in the Man nix disbarment trial Monday by Dow V. Walker of Portland, former secretary of the company. Reading from the minutes of a meeting of the company's directors December 6, 1922, Walker showed that Mannix appeared at the meet' ing and requested that he be al lowed to use the company as a plain tiff in the circuit court. He was in structed, the minutes showed, to prepare a letter, which was to be the basis of a telegram to the property custodian, asking for this author ity. Mannix and Walker together prepared the telegram, but it was never answered Walker said. . On December 15, 1925, Walker testified, a letter came to the com pany from the alien property cus todian, saying that he had approved a contract with Mannix for a suit "(Concluded on page 11, column 5) COURT CANCELS CONTRACT HELD BY NORTH CANAL Portland (IP A decree was signed In the federal court Monday by Judge McNary cancelling the rec lamation contract of the North Canal company in Deschutes coun ty. The government is given Judg ment for $36,000 liquidated dam ages as the sum necessary ro be spent in clearing the area and the further sum of $4,665 as damages to timber and other damages caus ed by overflow at Crane Prairie to gether with costs of the suit. Ben. Ore. (IP) Through a trus tee, Don H. Peoples of Bend, The Lone Pine Irrigation district of Crook county, the Arnold Irrigation company, and the Central Oregon Irrigation districts, both in Des chutes county, have applied to the state engineer to store 50,000 acre feet of water in the Crane prairie reservoir and to use 600 second feet of the Impounded flow for irrigation purposes. The reservoir Is In the upper Deschutes county and was acquired seven years by the North Canal company, rights of which were can celled Monday by a decree signed In federal court In Portland. Should the state grant the request of the .three districts, stor&te in the res ervoir will be started at once and water will be available for 1930 ir rigation season. M'KENZIEPASS AGAIN BLOCKED Bend. Ore. (LP McKenzie pass was again blocked by snowdrifts Monday morning and state high way department officials here were warning motorists that conditions In the hi?h country were dangerous. One automobile, which spent most of the night in a drift near Windy Point was pulled out by a highway department maintenance crew. The occupants of the machine had tak en refuge In a highway department cabin nearby. As late as 8 o'clock Sunday night the pass rosuj was open and in good condition according to Donald Mad ison of Bend who reached Bend shortly after 9 o'clock after cross ing the pass from Eugene in three hours and 45 minutes. Madison re ported only an inch of new snow on the road. During the night six or seven inches of snow fell and drift ed badly. Bends' rainfall during the present season now totals 4.01 Inches, a hew December record. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN A charming- Woodburn lady who is a great admirer ol Sips the column not the author came way up to Salem Saturday to tell us our column was getting too serious the past lew days. 'Whv don't von nut. ftnmethinfi- funny in it for a change?" she asked. Goodness, it must be she wants' us to nut our nicture in the column. In addition to advising Mayor Livesley he'll not accept appoint ment as a councilman Doc Carl Miller made his rejection official by formally advising us of his ac tion as well. "It is my Job to build gold bridges, not wooden bridges." said Doc in his formal notice of re jection to us. It Is our opinion that Doc Miller showed he was the most astute poli tician of all by refusing to accept a political job instead of by taking one. Especially a political Job which would Inject him Into the councilmanic mess. In fact we think any citizen of the seventh or any other ward who takes a Job at the hands of the present bosses in the council is biting off a good sized chunk of hot lead. Here In town a doctor and a lawyer have both been mentioned as state senatorial possibilities both for the same seat. The other day the doctor met the lawyer: 'They tell me-you are figuring on running for the senate," said the doctor. "Not on your life," sa!d the law yer, "I'm too busy.' "By, George," remarked the doc tor, "I've always said you'd make a line Judge." We sec where the Statesman says It Is no longer going to be a "nice doggie." We presume by that it will snarl and growl and snap at people's heels. But we are glad to see that it calls itself a "doggie" whether a nice one or a mean one. We thought the same thing at least that It s mostly bologny. We saw P. L. Waters talking to Jim Nicholson in front of the First National bank Saturday. What, is Jim going to rent out his standing room for a sign board? GIANT BRITISH DIRIGIBLE DONE Card lng ton. Eng. (&) The R-100, Great Britain's newest giant dirig ible which took four years to build, made her maiden flight from How den, Yorkshire, Monday and was hitched to the mooring ma6t here. Launched from her Howden han gar at dawn, the great air vessel under command of Captain Scott, got well into the air about eight o'clock and maneuvered around the district. Crowds which had waited patiently since dawn cheered the ship enthusiastically. Although Captain Scott had an nounced he would make a slow trip ship's first time out, and that many in view of the fact that it was the of the crew were making the flight. the R-100 flew from New York to Cardington, about 140 miles, In two hours. Her average of 70 miles an hour was well up to her specifica tions. CHICAGO RIVER OPENED Chicago iPh-Unkinked at a cost of $9,000,000, the straightened south branch of the Chicago river was open to traffic Monday. The freight er McFarland steamed through the new channel Sunday and tolled the passing of the sweeping eastward curve that had caused tedious navi gation for many a sailor.. Murder And Robbery Charged Against Man Living Double Life St. Joseph, Mich. (AP) ionable Lake Shore drive home from the Farmers' & Merchants' bank at Jefferson, Wis., was found after he had shot and fatally wounded a traffic officer Saturday evening, was declared Monday by police to have been In volved in the St. Va'.-ntine's day massacre In Chicago last February. The assertion was made after lo cal officers had examined pictures sent here by Chicago police. The pictures were described as those of a "master gangster" known under a dozen aliases for whom rewards totaling 141.000 had been posted. Among the aliases were Fred Burke, John Burke, Thomas Brook and also Kemo. Osmr. and Kemner. ALASKA LINER GOES ON ROCKS NEAR TATOOSH Steamer Skagway Piles On Reef and Crew Takes to Life Boats Vessel Pounded by Heavy Surf Doomed. Fire Reported in Hold Seattle (P) Laden with a cargo of gasoline, alcohol and oil, the steamer Skagway was aground and afire between two rocks known as Fuca's Pillars, two miles south of Cape Flattery Monday, The cap tain, whose name was not learned in early dispatches, was still aboard, but the crew of more than 20 men were reported taken ashore safely. The Skagway will be a total loss. advices from the radio compass station at Tatoosh, a few miles north of the wreck, predicted. The fire was in the boiler room. Patrols of the coast guard on Tatoosh is land saw the distressed ship appar ently out of control, at 5 a. m. Mon day. Three hours later she had piled up in the rocks In what was regarded as a dangerous position. Heavy suri was pounding the ship, although she was protected rrom the wind by her position be tween the rocks. The crew Immediately took to two lifeboats and reached shore safely, but the master of the ship remained aboard. The coast guard cutter Snohom ish was dispatched from Port An geles and expected to reach the Skagway by noon. Patrol boat 270 from Neah bay was due at the ship by 10:30 a. m. No wireless messages were re ceived by any of the Puget Sound stations from the ship, leading to tne oener mat sne had no radio. Fuca's Pillars are only a short distance north of the spot known among mariners as the devil's graveyard. These rocks are only a short distance off the mainland and are swept by the full force of Concluded on page 11, coiumn 8) WOMEN OF PARIS BAN LONG SKIRTS SAYS COUTURIER New York LP) All the excitement over the long skirts now appears to have been unnecessary. Jacques Worth, French couturier here from Paris, is amazed at the way the American women have in terpreted the new styles and says the result is all wrong. "Nowhere In Paris during daytime hours have I seen such exaggera tion of skirt lengths as I have seen in New York," he said. "American women think It ever so much more fashionable to outdo their neighbors ana wear bkitw to tne anicies, you have never seen a French gentle woman with her skirts above her knees, nor do you see her now with her skirts touching the streets and bringing home dust and germs. "The perfect length for the street, business or sports dress is two 'Scotch fingers'." It may be explain ed for those whodon'tknowi is the distance covered by extending the first and fourth fingers of the hand instead of two adjoining fingers, or the method popularly supposed to be the one used by Scotsmen In I measuring two fingers of whisky. Frederick Dane, in whose fash f 31 9,850 in securities stolen Police said a woman under arrest here as Dane's wife had confirmed the identification and added that she had admitted she was not mar ried to Dane. Seven Chicago gangsters were shot to death after being lined up against the wall of a garage in what become known as the "St. Valentine's Day massacre." The bank loot was discovered be cause Dane did not want to rfek an appearance at police headquarters for a traffic accident. He shot and iCVncJrtd on Dr 4 rr'nmn I POPE CREATES SIX CARDINALS AT CONSISTORY Three of New Prelates Italians, Three Non Italians. 63 in College Pontiff Stresses Solu tion of Roman Ques tion. Ceremony Simple Vatican City (P)-iSix new cardi nals were created by Pope Pius XI Monday In a secret consistory. In his allocution read to the assembled college of cardinals at the begin ning of the ceremony of creation he stressed the recent happy solu tion of the "Roman question." He emphasized that the Lateran pacts "recognised publicly the civil prlnceship of the Roman ponun. and safeguard our dignity and yours. Three of the new cardinals are non-Italians and three Italians. bringing the sacred college up to a strength of 63 out of a possible 70. After Mondays ceremony tne so called foreign cardinals were still in a majority, their numbers being 33 against the Italians' 30. The six thus elected to the sacred college were Archbishop Cerejelra of Lisbon, who has the title of pa- (Concluded on page 10, column 1) SENATE AGREES TO DEVOTE TIME TO TARIFF BILL Washington (P An agreement was reached in the senate Monday among factional leaders to devote the full time of the senate after tne Christmas recess to the passage of the tariff bill. Senator Watson of Indiana, the republican leader, entered into this agreement with leaders of the democratic-republican independent coal ition during a discussion of the program on the senate floor. Fresh from a conference with President Hoover during which congressional program was discus sed, the rejubllcan leader Joined in a promise, not to ask consideration of any legislation, even of appro priation bills after the holiday re cess until the long pending meas ure is disposed of. Senator LaFollett or Wisconsin, one of the republican Independents, had given notice during the discus sion that after the recess he would object to legislation except the tar iff. ' Senator Borah, of Idaho, another of the independents, asked Sena tor Watson If he would agree not to propose or vote for considera tion of any other legislation this week. Senator Watson replied that such a program was Just what he was proposing. TERRIFIC GALE RAGES ON COAST Toledo, Ore. (IF) A terrific wind and rain storm pounded the Lincoln county coast over the week-end, causing damage amounting to sev eral thousand dollars. The huge refuse burner and one of the smoke stacks. of the Pacific Spruce plants were wrecked and a large industrial crane was upset In the Yaquina bay. All telephone and telegraph lines were torn down and Newport, To ledo and Woldport were In darkness with all power and light lines out. The wind velocity was more than 50 miles an hour. Many windows were broken and large sections of paper roofing were torn off In To ledo. The weather was moderate Mon day. SENATE RATIFIES FRENCH DEBT PACT Washington m The senate Monday ratified the French war debt settlement providing for the funding of the $4,025,000,000 over a 62 vear period. It Is the last of the settlements of war debt arranged by the debt commission to be approved. Prance ratified the agreement last July. The vote on ratification was 53 to tl. SILVERTON TO SEE SANTA FREE MATINEE TUESDAY Not Yet On Santa's List From unsng the hundred of letters received by Santa Clans In care of the Capital Journal and the welfare committee of the Elks here to another ene of dozens which explain the, Christmas Cheer Movement It Is from a little girl. Dear Santa Clans: I want to wk you If you will please come to my place Christ mas eve and leave all us children something. Mourn tells ut that Santa wont come becawse we havent any money to send to you and there Is eight of us children. I have 4 brothers and three sisters. My little brother Is S years old and he wants a truck and a tractor, and my baby gLitrr wants a doll burr and a rocking chair. I and sister .... are and 7 years old. We want a set of dishes and a doll. I dont know what my older brother and sister wants I didnt ask ihem. They are at school yet. I am In third grade now. If you please ceme dear Santa 1 and abler will save all the money we earn picking berries next summer and give te you next Christmas. Well that all from, Bessie Santa Claus Reveals How He Keeps Tab On Good And Bad Kiddies By CAPT. RLEINSCHMIDT Santa Claus has a surprising and very efficient way'of keeping track of whether little bad. He explained it all to us him to Jack Frost. On this trip we left our reindeer at the foot ol mountain near Santa's castle and climbed a stairway cut into the sheer wall of ice. It was a. long slippery and dangerous climb. We were soon puffing from the exer tion, but Santa Claus was neither puffing or panting when we arrived at the top. Here stood a large dome-shaped building. In its center was a mirror like pool of mercury, out of which rose a great base supporting a huge telescope. A stairway led to an ob servation platform on one end of the telescope. I looked from the platform along the range of the telescope, but saw nothing but the vast expanse of Ice fields, jagged mountain peaks, miles of tundra and far to the North a long line of Icebergs. Near me on the table lay a gigan tic book, on which entires of the land were made, the state, town and names cf children, and on the margin remarks regarding the be havior and gifts. Here Is where I spend most or my time during the year, when I (Concluded on pane 7, column 3) WEEK OF RAIN TOTALSJJNCHES Following a day and night of heavy showers which brought the total rainfall up to 7.74 inches, at 7:45 o'clock and 8 inches by noon local barometers had risen to the "fine weather" area Monday, In dicating a near break in the storm conditions that had prevailed al most continuously since rain be gan to fall eight days ago, early Sunday, December 8. Rainfall for the 24 hour period ending at 7:45 o'clock Monday totalled .72 inches, while for the previous 24 hour per iod the fall was .22. Total rise in the river level was 12.8 feet, reached at 10 o'clock Sunday morning when the water reached the 10 foot mark on the official range, according to Mrs. J. W. Ritchie, official rain and river observer. By Monday morning the river had dropped to the 9 foot mark. Forecasts from the office of E. L. Wells, official government weather observer at Portland, indicated unsettled weather for Salem and vicinity, with probable rains Mon day night and Tuesday. HOOVERSlGNS TAXCUT BILL Washington 0P The $160,000,000 Income tax reduction resolution was signed Monday by President Hoover. His action assured the income tax paying public a one percent reduc tion In personal and corporation levies to be paid next year. It was the first bill of the new congress to be enacted into law. Previous to the signing of the measure, which was in the form of a Joint congressional resolution Secretary Mellon had examined the legislation and had given it his ap proval. MISSIONARY captured Hankow WThe Rev. H. K. W, Sandy, a representative of the Bri tish Wesleyan mission at Tayeh, In south-eastern Hupeh province. has ben captured by bandits, boys and girls are good or the day after our visit with HEFLIN BARRED FROM PRIMARY BY DEMOCRATS Montgomery, Ala. (LP) The Demo cratic state executive committee voted to bar Senator Thomas Hef- lin from the next party primary. The committee's action was on the ground Senator Heflin had fail ed to support the democratic can didate for president last year, gov eror Alfred E. Smith. Hugh Locke, candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, was al so barred. The vote was 27 to 21. The sena tor had already announced he would be candidate for reelection. It was Relieved probable that Hef lin and Locke will run as independ ents In the next election. Senator Heflin had been opposed for the democratic nomination by John H. Bankhead of Jasper, Ala a relative of the former Senator Bankhead. The two barred candidates sup ported Hoover In the 1928 election. Heflin speaking throughout the state in support of the democratic na tional ticket with the exception of the candidate for president, whom he foresok for Hoover. The vote came on a resolution, directed at Heflin and Locke, call ing for barring from places on the democratic ticket all persons who supported the republican presiden tial candidate In 1928. CRUISERS SENT HAITI RECALLED Washington. The cruiser Galveston, which was ordered Haiti at the outbreak of the re cent disturbance is to be withdrawn from Haitian waters Tuesday. The state department announc ed today that Brigadier General John H. Russell, American high commissioner of Haiti, had re ported the situation in Haiti was quiet and had requested the Gal veston, now at Port Au Prince, be sent this afternoon to Oonalvrs and returned to her regular duties from that port tomorrow. The aircraft tender Wright, which was sent with about 500 ad ditional marines toward Haiti but which was diverted to Guantanamo Bay. Cuba, Is scheduled to return to Hampton Roads about Decem ber 20. It Is possible that marines will return aboard the Wright, but final derision rests with the state department. SENATE SPEEDS UP DRY BUREAU ACTION Washington wy A resolution to carry out President Hoover's request for appointment of a joint congres sional committee to consider the re organization and concentration of prohibition enforcement agencies was adopted Monday by the senate and sent to the house. Palace Theater Owner Helps Journal Present St. Nicholas Old Fellow Kept Busy Checking Up on Boys And Girls Missed Christmas Cheer Fund Capital Journal ..$25.90 Henry Jacquet 5.00 Curtis Cross .... 10.00 Receipts "The Gypsy Rover" (I nighU) ... 455.00 A Rotarian 5.00 Mrs. Margaret Lefurgy 5.00 Bert Hill 5.00 Cash 1.00 Mr. Mrs. T. a Kay 5.00 Mrs. Demarest 5.00 Mrs. N. E. G 1.00 Hawkins Roberts ... 25.00 A Christian Friend ... 2.00 U. S. Bank Employees . 11.90 A Friend 1.00 A Friend 5.00 Hubbard Friend 1.00 Salem Engraving So. ,. 5.00 Mr. Mrs. Frederick Lamport 50.00 A Friend 1.00 Phil W. Barrett 1.00 Mr.rgaret M. Barrett .. 1.00 Total 5657.90 With every minute of the time between now and Christmas that he is to spend In Salem filled with engagements to appear at various picture theaters for the showing of his films, and at state Institutions, Santa claus Is having a hard time to keep up with his schedule. Prom now until 4 o'clock Tues day afternoon, when he will Jour ney to Sllverton to show the pic tures to the kiddles or tnat city at the Palace theater. Santa will spend every spare minute he has with members of the Elks welfare com mittee looking Into the needs of of little boys and girls in the com munity whom he has discovered were not on his list for presents. "You cannot Imagine how many little boys and girls I have found whose names were not on my big book the Elks tell me that they have found more this year than (Concluded on page 10, column 3 RAINS DRENCH ALL OF OREGON Portland. tlP) Unsettled weath er conditions for the Northwest were forecast by the United States weather bureau here Monaay. Rains were general over the northwest for the week-end. with .48 of an Inch recorded here dur ing the 24 hour period ending at five a. m. today. Medford reported a precipitation of .80 of an inch during the same period. Moderate temperatures continued to prevail In most nortnwest clues. Portland's maximum Sunday was 48. while Roseburg and Marsh- ffplrl each reuortrd maximums of 56 degrees. Seattle's high for the day was 44 and Yakima's 38 de grees. A high pressure ara extend from eastern Alaska over Canada and the central and eastern sec tions of the United States, with a trough-like depression extending from the northeastern Parlltc Ocean over the Columbia River volley through the Rocky Mountain states. Unearth Skeletons Of 10 Dawn Men In Peiping Quarries . . -,, . i t-i i l ' i I 1 t Hulion. I'OipinK, lllina t.rtt J J lllliraiuue "ru m - -w 30 miles from here, was believed by scientists Monday to have vicldcd skeletons of 10 men who probably were amonif . i a.a.tnr lf I h hlimnn race. sun nf the skeletons were head less, leading some to believe the limestone bed mignt nave been me scene of pre-Neandcrthal executions and beheadings. In such a case. since the ukulla were not found. It , nirootfH the hpal" mav have been removed for some strange pre- llisionc rue. One skull was discovered, a Chi nese geologist unearthing it. He claimed It belonged to a species of the famous "Peking man," the "Hl nanthropus Peklnensls," assoriated with the period of the Plltdown URUGUAYANS SWIFTLYSPIID OVER ATLANTIC Pass Over Cape Verde Island and Continue? Non-Stop Flight Left Seville Spain Sun day Averaging Over 100 Miles an. Hour Fernando Do Noronha, Brazil, (X) 1:40 p.m.). Major Tadeo Lam Borges, Uruguayan flier and his companion. Lieutenant Leon Chal le, French airman now flying to South American sent a wireless mes sage Monday artemoon asking for the weather conditions at Natal where they expect to land. - Paris UPt Major Tadeo Lams. Borges, Uruguayan aviator, and his French companion, Lieut. ChaUee, who hopped off from Seville, Spain. Sunday morning for Montevideo, Uruguay, Monday completed the first stage of their 6000 mile Jour ney and apparently were headed over the south Atlantic for the oc ean hop to 8outh America. The fliers were sighted over Por to Prays in the Cape Verde Island! shortly after 7:30 o'clock, Greenwich time 12:30 a.m. eastern standard time). The Prench air ministry which reported the sighting, said that all was well aboard, been in the air, the airmen had covered approximately 2000 miles at a speed of more than 100 miles an -hour. Bhould they maintain that speed they should reach Montevi deo sometime Tuesday afternoon, (Concluded on pagV10, column 4) 4 LOSE LIVES IN BALTIMORE FACTORY FIRE Baltimore iP At least four per sons died Monday In a fire in the four-story plant of the Thomas H. O'Connor Waste Paper company in the down town railroad district. Firemen recovered three bodies from . the building, and another victim whose back was broken in a leap from a third story window died In a hospital. About 50 other employs In the building fled by fire escapes ahead of the rush of flames through quan tities of old paper which converted the building Into a furnace before the first fire apparatus and ambu lances arrived. When the firemen were able to penetrate the upper stories they found three bodies which at first could not be Identified. Miss Tiny Byers died in Mercy hospital, her back broken when she chose a three story Jump in preference to death In the flames. The fire was believed to have started on the fourth floor though it burst out so suddenly firemen could get no definite Information of Its cause. Its spread through the 'upper floors was so rapid that the paper company employes there were screaming for rescue before occu pants of the lower floor knew the building was ablaze. One group of women trapped on a fire escape when the sliding lad der stuck, were saved by a negro who climbed to it and pounded the ladder loose with a hammer. i..i j . V. - n mn Manv or trie bones discovered were broken sharply, as if by human hands. The scientists in reconmruc- in- lir- nt th riLtnnt dav. UC- gested the ancient man might have done this In order to get tne mar row, probably considered a delicacy. The scientists who have worked In the limestone excavations have been sworn to secrecy, but they re gard th dLicoverles as the greatest human find of Its kind ever made. Both the skull and the ten skeleton! are In a splendid state of preeerve r:oncluGrtnnnaK 4column S) j