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' rr Jk FAIR Tonight and Wednesday with mor ning valley loss. Moderate southerly winds. CIRCULATION Dmllf ftrtras distribution for tht month coding Novambu 90 1928 10,226 Average daltj net paid 984? Uemoer Audit Bureau ol Circulation Local: Max., 50; Mln, 33; rain, J5: river. 14 feet;, overcait; fog; north wind. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECLJ 7 o fl 42nd YEAR, No. 300 Entered m second claaa ir.at'er at Saltm, Oregon PRICE THREE CENTS ffASE5,SySEB ' rui ji Ml JV 0 0. mm A fVX 1 umuJOiiiraai Tr , . ' .... . SMS mm LACK OF WORK CALLS FOR CUT CITY PAYROLL Dancy Calls Attention To Salary Payments Out of Street Fund. Engineer, Attorney and Others Threatened by Revelation. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Well, well, the Statesman Inti mating that Judge Slegmund show ed discrimination in building a coun ty road up past his old father's house and then one of the coun cil's first actions under the new Statesman regime is to put E. A. Rhoten on the council. E. A. Rhot en who worked on the Statesman for years. ASK INCREASE IN FOREST ROAD EXPENDITURE County Court Wires Ore- gon Delegation to Work for Program And then the council made a stop street out of the Fairgrounds road. What, with Becke Hendricks own. lng an apartment on that street And Paul Hendricks' father used to own the Statesman I Naughty doggie 1 Alderman Jack Dancy, chairman of the street committee of the city council Monday night threw a scare into all city officials and employes, from City Attorney Williams down to the perdlem employes whose com pensation, or any part of it, is paid from the street Improvement fund. What he said was that these sal aries and wages are going to be cut off at the end of the year unless some more street improvement work shows up before that time. The veteran alderman said he was making the announcement now as a warning just to soften the shock of the blow when It falls. But his approach to the subject wasn't at all soothing. "I have a story." Dancy said "I don't like to tell it, because it's a sad story. But well, It must be told." The telling of it reveals that if what Dancy says comes to pass Cir Engineer Hugh R. Rogers will (ConcludedonpaBe10JLcolumn 3) STARTS FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO SOUTH AFRICA Cranwewll Airdrome. Lincoln shire. Eng., UP) A royal air force mnnnninnp niloted by squadron leader A. O. Jones-Williams which left here Tuesday morning in an effort to establish a long distance non-stop flight record to South Africa, crossed the French coast t Marseilles this afternoon. The next point on the flier's Itinerary was Sardinia. The weather was perfect as the ivn nirmen crawled into the ma chine loaded with a thousand gal lons of petrol. Nothing was left to chance, The cabin was painted inside a dull color to soften the glare during their three days in it. They car shiriert knives to cut a path ried snorting guns and curiously through the jungles, in the event nf n forced landing. Specially prepared food which thev had along would enable them to exist many weeks if necessary. The machine carried a remark able little wireless set which dur inir the trials recently over North holt transmitted signals to Carlo. it was stated later the mono plane took off with 1.200 gallons gasoline, which was 200 gallons more than It had been believed It would be necessary to take. It was hopfU the additional luel would enable the two airmen certainly to reach their destination, Capetown. KIDDER BACK IN PENITENTIARY Eugene Kidder, companion of Tom Murray in the latter's first escape from the penitentiary here in Au gust, 1924, is back in the state pri son. He arrived Monday after an ab sence of five and a half years, dur ing which time he served a term in the Deer Lodge prison in Montana, being arrested upon his release there to flnkh out his nine-year sentence here. Kidder was committed to the Oregon prison from Jackson county to serve 10 years for larceny. Murray was re-captured within a day or two after his escape with Kidder. In a subsequent break Mur ray and his companions, Ellsworth Kelley and James Willos, killed two guards, and when .caught were sen tenced to hang. Murray cheated the gallows by hanging himself in his cell. HERE'S GREAT NEWS Filberts Now Grow on Trees in This Valley," Head In Albany Dem ocrat-Herald. In the Joseph case It appeared from some of the testimony that Mannlx made a bar out of his of fice and now it is to be determined whether Mannlx can still practice before the bar. How Interesting. We dropped In with Bill Burg. hardt and Ralph Cooley yesterday fn. for a cup of coffee and social chat on the matters of moment of the day and had some of life's little problems solved for us.; For Instance when Bill got his coffee he ordered a soup spoon along with it. "Always drink cof fee with a soup spoon," said Bill between soups. "It s a family trait. That's why I am always at work in the morning when you fellows are still trying to cool yours off I can get away with a cup of cor fee with a soup spoon while the av erage man Is watching the steam vaporize. It's things like that that count for efficiency In this world And," added Bill, "I've solved the problems of garters for my golf socks. Yea. I got me a nice lav- ender girdle which I strap right around here." said Bill, Indicating the place. "I found a pair of long garters at home in a closet that belonged to somebody, hooked them onto the girdle and my golf socks, and I've cut down my score from up in the hundreds to somewhere in the eighties." Is that ?" said Cooley. "Too ought to have legs like mine. 1 don't need any garters," And that's that. CENTENARIAN CHINESE DEAD GRILL MANNLX FOR PART IN ME CASE Arthur Clark as Prosecu tor Demands Disbar ment in Closing If Pending Measure En acted, Chances Good For Santiam Highway Sheridan. Ore. MV-Old Louie Loy bowed to the gods who kept him aliye 100 years and Tuesday the aged Chinese, who for more than 54 years kept the California gold rush fresh In the minds of residents here, was buried quietly in a Portland cemetery. Old Louie, who didn't know his exact age, came to San Francisco from China during the height of the colorful days and finally retired to the comfort of a hut in the Pike district, near here. Old Louie" never forgot his boyhood days In China and surrounded him self with many reminders. He cook ed his herbs over a five gallon oil can that served as a stove and made his own sandels from boards and strands of rope. The county oc casional-" gave him a few dollars for food and clothing. Old Louie wasknown to virtually every resident of Sheridan and his stories of San Francisco inina. town when ths Orientals worship ed the strange gods they canea their own were strange and true. Undeterred by failures of forest officials to accept their offer of $100,000 made recently to match fed eral funds for starting on the North Santiam cross-mountain .road, the county court Tuesday sent dispatch es to all the members of the Oregon delegation in congress urging their support for larger forest road ap propriation. The telegram follows: - "Marion county court has offered to forest road officials one hundred thousand dollars to match forest funds on fifty-fifty basis, to start construction North Santiam road to central Oregon, Find all of stand lng forest road appropriation for next year already allotted but chance for going ahead with our highway If bill now before congress increasing forest road appropriation to ten million dollars enacted. We earnestly urge your support of 6uch Increased appropriation as people this section believe North Santiam iconcltided on page 10. column 7) SAY STATE TAX ON INTANGIBLES TO NET $900,000 Portland (IP) The state tax com mission estimated Tuesday that the excise tax and tax on intangibles will yield approximately $900,000. Of the total. t350.000 Is attribut ed to the tax on intangible Income as interest, dividends and income derived from money and credits. ADoroximaUly $1,500,000 will be received from the excise tax, computation showed. The commission has estimated that the intangible tax for 1929 will yield approximately $1,400,000. "No one knows," John H. Carkln, Mcdford. member of the- commts slon. said, "what the taxes will raise until we have nad actual ex perience. It is all a guess as we have little on which to form a judg ment. We have compromised estimates by figuring on $900,000. We may be above or below tne mark. Alter the first of the year we will know mere about It." MOB DEMANDS WORK AT UNION SCALE Vancouver, B. C. Several hundred unemployed men stormed the city relief office here, demand lng free food and free beds or work at union pay. The mob wu driven off by a company of policemen. 'hotostat Copies from Washington Show Joseph Got Wire DALLAS, INDEPENDENCE KB 6Q8 WW KB KB 95t WS S3 88 89 83 . BP 8 WOODBURN ON SCHEDULE WORKMAN BURIED IN SAWDUST DIES Portland (IP) Morris Long, 40, was killed Monday night and his stepson. Leon Hill. 24, was Injured, when they were buried under an avalanche of sawdust. Long and Hill were sacking the sawdust to sell for fuel. Police learned that the two men had re moved a large quantity from the side of the pile and had made a dugout of filled sacks to facilitate the work of sacking the material. While both were in the dugout the nile started to slip, burying both I men under six feet of sawdust. Thomas Mannlx, defendant In disbarment proceedings on charges brought against him by oeorge w. Joseph of Portland, was bitterly as sailed by Attorney Arthur Clark of Corvallis who made the opening argument for the prosecution Tues day. Argument began after a few minutes had been given to testl- money Tuesday morning. Clark was the only attorney heard prior to the noon adjournment. Clark declared that a chain of evidence had been produced against Mannlx "from which ho cannot escape, and that evidence is irora his own records." He said that Mannlx' course of conduct in the state and the federal courts had been "deceitful, selfish and without Justification, and he has no right to continue to dishonor the profession of which he is a member." Appearance of the name of the E. Henry Wcmme company in the appeal of the first Wemrae suit to the supreme court, Clark deciarea. was deliberately engineered by Mannix to deceive the state su preme court. 'Then he deceived the federal court." ttt- attorney said, "by tell ing that court, In order to get It to accept Jurisdiction, that the Wem me company had not been a party in the state court, but had been brought into the case without Us consent, and this notwithstanding the fact that his own briefs and his expense account said the company was a party to the litigation. He asked the state court to allow him $1500 expense money for obtaining the consent of the alien property cutsodian to Join the E. Henry i Concluded on page 10, column g 62 PERISH IN ' COLLIERY BLAST IN OKLAHOMA McAlester, Okla. VPh-Bodies of miners who met death Tuesday In an explosion that trapped 62 em ployes of the Old Town Coal com pany's mine In North McAlester were being assembled Tuesday aft ernoon at the bottom of the sloping shaft leading to the surfac. Sixty bodies had been recovered late Tuesday afternoon. Rescue workers were concentrat ing on an effort to determine whether any of the miners survived and. If so, to effect their rescue. It was said the mine was not badly damaged by the blast, and hope was held that not all of the workers had perished. The recovered bodies were not brought to the surface presumably because of the large crowd of rela tives and spectators crowded atout the mine property. It was planned to take the bodies to a morgue be fore attempting Identification. Explorers Are Shown Xmas Tree Forest And Home of Easter Bunny By CAPT. KLEINSCHMIDT Santa's next surprise for us was the proposal of a visit to the Easter Bunny at his home, and when we awoke on the morning after our visit to Jack frost we saw three sleds harnessed with six or Santa's strong- est and fastest reindeer pawing the I . ground and eager to bo off on the I Council Acts To Ban Accident Trap; Stop Street Bill Passed Though both the North Salem aldermen, O'Hara and Wilkinson, were personally opposed to it, ana iiH.rnie.i KosebrauKh and Townsena were 01 ne khuiuciu, tne council nrriinanci bill other through street protected by stop signs In that part of the elty and thereby acted to remove the traffic menaces at Hood and North Fifth. Hood and North Church and other dangerous street intersections along the newly established through traffic route. This was done after an agree ment was reached, as a sort of com promise, that the bill be later In corporated In the general traffic ordinance together with all other traffic ordinances that have been prSESTK sn- impendent of th, general There was no compromise, now- ever, about the new ordinance. In fact the city council went into com mittee of the whole and made It more extensive than the original bill Drovided. The condition giving rise to the bill was mainly that at the lnter .ections of Hood and Fifth and Hood and Church streets. The original measure provided that Fairgrounds Road from Capitol to Hood and iCGuciuCed on p:ue lO.column 4) HOOVER NAMES I. C. C. MEMBERS Washington WP Joseph B. East man of Massachusetts and Robert M. Jones of Tennessee, were nomi nated by President Hoover Tuesday to be members of the interstate commerce commission. The president also sent to the senate the nomination of Ethelbert Stewart of Illinois to be commis sioner of labor statistics. Annabel Matthews of Gaines ville. Ga., wu appointed a member of the United. States board of tax anneals. Eastman now Is a member of the commission this Is a reappointment for another full term. Jones, whose home Is In Nashville succeeds Commissioner Ricnard Taylor of Alabama. SANTA tRl'Z IIOTKl BIRNS Santa Crux. Calif. 'At Fire de stroved the Capltola hotel, located on Monterey bay south of here, a loss estimated by E. V. Wood house, owner of the hotel, at $200, That Childhood May Be Served That the frulU of sbiftlesuieM and Indolence In their parents, or the penalties f mlarartunes beyond human control may not be visited wpen the Innocent children mt the community of Salem Lodfr of Elks and the Capital Journal sponsor this, their seventh annnal Christmas Cheer Movement, It is dedicated to the maintenance of childhood's faith in the spirit of Christmas and in the unselfishness of mankind. - Through it b given the opportunity to the warm hearted people of the community to participate In spreading the traditional cheer of the season among all of the children. There are, according to the records of the Investigators for the welfare committee of the Elks, more than 300 boys and girls In Sa lem and the Immediate vicinity to whom Christmas, without finan cial assistance from outside their own home circle, wilt be just -another day in lives that drab and dull. To the Elks and the Capital Journal Christmas la childhood'! own day to the enjoyment of which all are entitled. . That there may be toys and games, and books and dolb: cloth ing and shoes, and food for those who need it at this season of re joicing for all of those 300 and for such others as may be discovered during the remaining week before Christmas the Elks and the Cap ital Journal invite your cooperation and your assistance in making the seventh annual Cheer Movement a full success. Send your contributions of money, be it dimes or dollars, to the Capital Journal and your packages of articles which might make tome little boy or girl happy to the Elks Temple. Theater Operators and Merchants Help Spon sor Film Showings. Journey to Easter Egg Valley. II imomes were mmiiug me onrua ith our cameras and presents for Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny. As Santa had told us the trip to the south would be a long one plen ty of lunch was taken along. A pro cession of gnomes each bearing a shining axe over his shoulder and carrying a basket of electric lights and colored bulbs and tinsel. They stowed everything away and then hopped Into two sleds. It was a com ical sight to see the little men tnus arrayed, sitting cocked up with their peaked taps and axes, 20 in each sleigh. "We are going to stop on our way to Easter Egg Valley, at my Christ mas -Tree Forest," Santa surprised us again. "I am taking 40 extra workers along." We rode In the big sleigh, Santa driving. Gnomes jumped on the backs of the other deer and in a flash we w'ere off, speeding over the tundra. Mile after mile, and Santa's great castle was soon left far be hind. Then the deer climbed a great mountain range dotted with conl cal peaks which revealed them selves into volcanoes, emitting steam and clouds of smoke. Going down hill on the other side a large valley spread before us covered with a for est of snow covered pine and fir trees. Passing the timber line we were soon among the trees, where sled trails zigzagged In every direction. Soon we saw a familiar sight. It looked Just Ike a logging camp in the United States. There were stumps of trees, great and small and In a clearing stood tiny toyiixe log cabins grouped around a large ar tistic one crowned witn a tower oi church bells. Gnomes by the thou sands were hurrying into this build ing as we heard clear bells ringing out In a melodious chime of Christ mas music, "That's the dinner bell," cried Santa. "We are Just In time for lunch." As we drew near this build ing It emitted a swarm of gnomes. buzzing like excited bees, and then a great shout went up, "Welcome, Santa Claus, Welcome." Every win dow, balcony, roof and even the bell tower were packed with lime men shouting a welcome to Santa and waving their caps, knives and forks and dinner palls, which they had taken along in the hurry call. Our 40 gnomea received Just warm a welcome from their fellow gnomes and workers and there was hand shaking all around. The main dining room was the only place we could really enter and be comfortable. Everything was In proportion and in accordance with the size of the little men. What a funny lunch we had. Tie tables were about high enough to use for a little stool to ait on and we held our plates In our lap. It took a whole kettle to fill up one soup plate which we brought In from our sleighs, and a teapot full to fill one cup. I was afraid we were eating thrm out of house and home, but hospi tality Is a great virtue among woodsmen In our country and these Christmas Cheer Fund Capital Journal $25.00 Henry Jarquet 6.00 Curtis Cross 10.00 Receipts, Elks Shows. .485.00 A Rotarian 5.00 Mrs. Margaret Lefurgy 5.00 Bert Hill 5.00 Cain 1.00 Mr. & Mrs. T. B. Kay 5.00 Mrs. Demarrst . . 5.00 Mrs. N. E. 0 3.00 Hawkins & Roberts ... 25.00 A Christian Friend ... ZOO U. S. Bank Employees . 11.90 A Friend 1.00 A Friend 5.00 Hubbard Friend 100 Salem Engraving Co 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Lamport 50.00 A Friend IM Phil w. Barrett 1.04 Margaret M. Barrett ,, 1.N Associated Oil Employee 15.0S Dan J. Fry 1500 O. P. Coshow 5.00 Total $692.90 Volunteer fire f lithters were j re woodmen of the finest type. 000. hecrulted during the blaze to pre vent flames from spreading to sur rounding buildings. I would have liked to visit with them for a year to learn their wood- tconcluded on p?ge 11 column'7 Cheer Fund Short; Elks Plan Dance Faced with the prospect of not having half enouRh money in the fund with which to provide Christ mas gifts for the 300 unfortunate children already on its list, the Elks Tuesday were making preparations for a benefit dance at Crystal Oar dens on Friday evening; to bolster up the Cheer Fund. A year a (to on December 17 the Cheer Fund total stood at (453.75, with, less than half the demands for Its use in prospect. At noon Tuesday total contribu tions for this year amounted to "Concludfd on pnc 9. column 6) OZARK TORCH SLAYERS TRIED Mountain View, Ark. fVP) A Jury of mountain farmers was completed Tuesday to try four men on charges of murdering Connie Franklin, farm laborer, near here last March. In calling the list of state witness es, Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Wil liamson revealed that Alex Fulks. one of the five men charged with murdering Franklin but not being tried with the other four was to be a witness for the state. He Is charged with the name crime as the others, but U named la a separate indictment. On the lit of defense witnesses called appealed the name of "Con nie Franklin," the man who says he is the person the four men are accused of murdering. Pictures Also Slated for Exhibition at State Institutions Through the cooperation of thea ter owners and others In Sllverton, Wood burn. Dallas, Independence and perhaps one or two other near by points practically every child within a radius 6f 30 miles of Sa lem Is to be given an opportunity to view the Capital Journal's mov ing picture story of Santa Claus and his home In the for north. The remainder of the week Is to be a busy one for Santa, for aside from his work with the Elks In see ing that every kiddie is on the list for a present on Christmas, he is to accompany the film at each of its showings in these theaters as well as several of the state Insti tutions. Tuesday afternoon Alfred Adams, proprietor of the Palace Theater at ConciUat1 on page 8. column 6) MEXICO STRIKES BACK AT LARDEO CLOSING PORT Mexico. City (JP) The Mexican government Tuesday struck back at Lardeo, Texas border city, for the attitude taken by John Valla, dis trict attorney there, toward Oeneral Plutarco Elias Calles, former Mexl- can president. j The foreign office announced that effective Tuesday the Mexican con sulate at Lardeo would be closed. The department of Interior an nounced that permission granted to the Lardeo chamber of commerce to issue tourist cards for entry into Mexico would be rescinded. Inasmuch as Lardeo Is the princi pal port of entry of American prod ucts Into Mexico and of American tourists into Mexico, it was expect ed here the action might serve to divert some traffic hitherto through the city to other ports of entry- Closing of the consulate meant that merchandise entering Mexico through Lardeo must be approved by the consulate at some other point, possibly Corpus Christ!, San Antonio, or Houston. Similarly tourists would have to seek entry cards at some other city. The foreign office announcement said: "The department rl foreign relations has sent instructions for closing of the Mexican consulate at Lardeo effective Tuesday, Decem ber 17. as protest against the acts of District Attorney Vails." WRECK PLANE BY CRASHING III COASTFOREST Airship Destroyed, Challe; Slightly Injured But Larre-Borges Escapes; Successfully Span South' Atlantic But Fail to Reach Goal at Natal CABINET MAKER HEIR TO $500,000 Portland. Ore.. Leo Lenhart, 36. a cabinet maker, last seen in Portland. Is heir to a lialf million dollars, Kennedy and Kennedy, De troit. Mich., attorneys, announced Tuesday. They were endeavorinR to locate Lenhart. He was last seen here. The attorneys said the money s-as a part of an estate willed Lenhart by a relative. By UNITED PRESS Aviation Jumped to the front rank of world interest Tuesday with a ser ies of spectacular adventures of the air. Lieutenant Colonel Tadeo Larre Borges and Captain Leon Challe, attempting to fly from Spain to Uruguay, were forced down In forest on the Brazilian coast. Gov ernment officials were rushing aid. to the fliers who were reported In jured In the crash of their plan near Santo Antonio, Brazil. The famous French flier Dieu donne Ooste and countryman,' Paul Coda, established a new world's . record for distance flying over closed course, having flown 4761 miles without a landing. Aiming at the straightaway dis tance record held by Coste and Mau rice Bellonte (4876 miles) A. O. Jones-Williams and N. H. Jenkins of the Royal Air Force took oft from London with South Africa as their objective. ( By CARLOS SPINOLA Bahla (LP) The trans-Atlantis flight of Lieut. CoL Tadeo Larre Boraes and Captain Leon Challs ended in a crash in the Brazilian coastal forests which entirely . de stroyed their airplane. Challe waa slightly injured when the plane was lConcludedon page 11. column 7) INCOME TAXES SLASHED BUT FOR THIS YEAR ONLY Washington OP) Federal Income taxes have been reduced. The re duction amounts to 66 2-3 per cent to the smallest Income taxpayer and will save individuals about 170,000, 000 and corporations approximately $90,000,000. Administration officii and leg islators, who rushed the one per cent rate reduction through to fin al enactment in the record time of 14 days, expect the "Christmas gift to stimulate business considerably, particularly since It has been passed before the 1930 budgets of Individ uals and corporations are com pleted. President Hoover signed the Haw ley -Smoot resolution directing Sec retary of the Treasury Mellon to collect one per cent less than the regular rates on normal individual and corpora t ion Incomes, late Mon day. The -resolution applies only to 1929 Incomes, returns on which, together with first payments, art due next March 15. It is the first , what President Hoover and Secretary Mellon hope will be an annual series of tax cut under a flexible plan. The $160,000,000 tax reduction dif fers from all previous revenue re ductions in the nation's history, in that it shaves taxes only on incomes of 1929. Unless congress acts again next year the rates now In effect will automatically be restored. ' Barnes Says Farm Board; Stimulating Surplus Of Wheat Washington (AP) Julius Barnes, chairman of the board of the United States chamber of commerce, and (train exporter, testified Tuesday before the senate lobby commit tee that the activities of the tarm- board were tending to over stimu late the production of wheat. Bames said he was sorry that farm board policies had to be dis- cuMed because "business waa willing to give the board m chance to tct started.' He said he objected at a confer ence with Chairman Lcgge of the farm board to the boards plan of loaning money to wheat coopera tives at the current grain price with the understanding that the pro ducers were to share In any subse quent Increase. Barnes was called by the lobby committee after reports that he had protested the boards grain policies to President Hoover. This was sub sequently denied at the Whits House and Tuesday Barnes testi fied that he had never discussed the board with Hoover and that he had only one conference with Legge. He said he arranged this because of "growing bitterners," among grain men and that at the meet ing there were three Minneapolis grain dealers. As a result, he testified, the board announced a policy under which iCoucluued on pnse 11, column 0)"