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PAGE FOURTEEN' THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929 BUTTER TONE EASIER: FIRST SMELT ARRIVE Portland IP There has been no change In the local egg prices gen erally since Monday when the two cent drop took effect Generally easy tone is shown In the market for nutter. Further shading of prices Is Indicated. But terfat market is depressed even more than butter because o( the out look lor lower prices in the latter. Fair demand is reported for live chickens as a result of the greatly decreased supply arriving during the ast few days. Prices are practically unchanged. While the entire country killed meat trade Is quiet, a slight im provement Is noted In demand for calves as a result of greatly de creased offerings. Prices no better. Because most of the trade is loyal to the home product, the demand for home grown cranberries Is hold ing up quite fair with quality gen erally above that of eastern offer ings even though high prices are asked for the latter. Those that brought eastern supplies here are reported as being badly stung. First commercial offerings of Co lumbia river smelt are reported. First sales 30c pound.' Rather liberal shipments of spin ach are reported made from Port land to other north coast points dur ing the last few days. Local quality is unusually good since the rains. With practically the only avail able supplies for the northwest lo cated here, the market for cabbage Is showing a more active tone and a firmer price is indicated. Sweet potatoes of good quality but sales slow. Potatoes continue very dull. Onions remain weak. Cauliflower sales to northwest points around 90c to $1.15 for real firsts. Borne fancy green broccoli Is of fering and finding good sale. Hothouse tomatoes moving well on account of absence of good outdoor stuff. CROWDS OF KIDDIES TO MEET SANTA (Continued from page 1) fore Christmas," when fine spoke right up: "Oh, Mr. Santa Claus, I know that piece' "Will you speak it here, dear?" I asked. "Sure, Mr. Santa Claus, she re plied. I And with that Ruth stood on a chair in the front of the theater be fore that big crowd of boys and girls and gave the entire poem from memory, so loud and clear that even those In the rear of the theater could hear every word. I thought that waa lovely, and Mr. Gould also thought it nice of her to add to the program. This afternoon I am in Indepen dence, where the boys and girls of that city will be the guests of Ross Nelson at the Isls theater for a spe cial moving picture show. Mr. Nel son has promised some comedy pic tures while of course I am showing the pictures taken at the North Pole of my home, toy factory and how I watch all the little boys and girls throughout the entire world, writing down the names of the good ones and crossing out of my big book those who have been naughty. Before I start north I must visit the children in the northern part of Marlon county and Saturday af ternoon Is the best time for those living In Hubbard, Monitor, St. Paul, Gervals and through the country to come to town and meet me at the Bungalow theater lu Woodburn at 2:30 o'clock. I almost was unnble to visit Woodburn, and when IYed Evenden, of the Evenden Drug store and C. P. Hansen, of the Hansen Motor com pany, heard that the Woodburn boys and girls might not see me they called me on the telephone. "Hello, Mr. Santa Claus," they said. "What is this we hear about you not coming to Woodburn? We can't allow this. Woodburn children are very good friends of yours and you must visit them before you leave ine vauey. I told them that I had no place to meet them and they replied that they would look after things there and lor me to come right up ai soon as I could. Of course I had al ready promised Alfred Adams, of Silverton; Mr. Gould, of Dallas and Mr. Nelson of lidependence, thot 1 would be at their theaters, so Sat urday was the only day left. "That will be fine," Mr. Evenden and Mr. Hansen said. "We will see that the theater is nice and war for the children and If you will be there promptly at 2:30 o'clock with the moving pictures of jour reindeer and polar bears, you will find nun dreds of Woodburn children waiting you. We will also see to it that a comedy reel or two la shown in ad dition to your pictures and all the youngsters admitted free of chance.' So I expect to get a good night s Jeep rrmay and be on hand Sat urday. The boys and girls need not tell Mr. Evenden or Mr. Hansen, but i win oe in front of the theater a little early and shake hands with the little guests as they arrive. TOO BAD FOR HUNTER MARAUDER'S IDENTITY Missoula, Mont. (IP) "Help! Heipr J. C. Dalton, deer hunter, turned sharply around. At first he noticed nothing unusual, but then his roving eye espied a tree swaying violently back and forth. Could Jt be his companion, Fred Thorpe, whom he had left few minutes before? It could he was In the tree, but not swaying it. That Job was being accomplished by a very a nary bear who had ignored puny -caliber bullets and chased the frightened hunter up the trunk. Dalton's high-powered rifle Quick ly killed the animal. MARKET QUOTATIONS PORTHNO LIVESTOCK Portland CatUt and raUet: Quotably steady. Receipt. catUt 35; Calves 10. Steers. 1100-1300 IDS. HO N to U - 35; medium W 75 to 10.50; common 7 to aa .75. Heifers, good 0 50 to olO; Kood $G 50 to 50. Cows, good W to $8.50: common to medium 5 to $8; low cutters $3 to S5; bulls, good to choice 7.50 to lb; cutters to medium 16 50 to (7.50. Calves, meal urn to choire 8 to Sfl.SO; cull to common M 50 to 16; vealers, milk fed, good to choice 9-U; medium to choice 17 to tV: cull to common $5 to W. Hoks. uuotame steady. Keceipta 3uu Including 217 on contract. Heavy weight an do io aiu. Meaium weight $9 to 10.25; light weight 110 to 10 .35; light lights, .25 to (1035. Pricking sows, 7 to W 25; slaughter pigs SH 25 to 10.25; feeder and Mocker Diiza ati.&o to at 25. SoIt or oily hoga and roasting pigs excluded In above quotations) . bneep ana i a in us, quoiauiy icany. Receipts 225. Lambs. M ids. aown, gooa to cnoice 10 to ll; medium SU to $10; all weights, cull to common 97 to 90; yearling wethers, 11 lbs. down, med ium to choice tfl.50 to 48.50; ewes. 120 lbs. down, medium to choice 43.75 to 5; 120-125 lbs. medium to choice 43 to 44-50; all weignis, common PORTLAND PltOIH CB PnrMnn.l i UP ( Butter : Cube ex tras 3c; standards 38c; prime firsts 37c; firsts 35c. Ekks: Foul try producers prices: Fresh extras 41c; standards 40c; fresh mediums 38c; medium lirsts Joe; fresh pullets 32c; firsts, pullets 30c; price to reiaucrs is two um nighr. Butterfat: Direct shippers track price No. 1 grade 39-40c; No. 2, 34 35c; station prices: No. 1, 38-3t)c; No. a, 33-34c; I'oruana aenvery pnres. No. 1 butterfat 40-4lc; No. 3, 35-30C. Milk: B living price luur peiwui. 42.50 to 42.65. Cheese: Belllnn price to retailers: Tillamook county triplets 29c; loaf 30c; Tillamook f ob. selling prices: triplets yc; toai zoc Live poultry: Heavy hens over 4 lbs. 23-24c; 3', to 4'A lbs. 18-20c; under 3'a lbs. 18-17c; broilers, light 30-38c; colored 19-20c; old roosters. 12c; stans iuc; qucks jb-c. Turkeys: Buying prices from pro ducers: Fancy dressed hens ya-2c; young toms 2U-2c; oia loms zu-uu. No. 2 grade 20c; live 19-20c. Fresh fruits: Oranges. Navels 45.50 to 40 50; Valenclas 44 25 to 48 25; Japanese 42 to 4:4-15 bundle. Grit pe rm It. Texas 44.50 to 45.50; Florida 47; limes 5 uoz. carton 42-50; ban anas 7c lb. Cranberries: Late Howes 46; Cape Cod 45 50 bushel box; eastern 420 to Lemons.' California 411 50-413.50. ruriimhprii hothouse S1.50 42 tlOZ. Brussels sprouts, local 15c lb. To matoes, local hothouse 20-aoc lb.; California 43 to 43 50 lug rpeacked. Unions, selling prices to retailers: sets 8-9C lb.; Yakima globe 4140; Oregon 41-60 to 41.76. Fresh vegetables: Belling price, let tuce, Imperial valley 45-46.25; fhnas 43 75-44.50 crate; cabbage, local 2 to 2c lb.; string beans 22 -35c; peas, llCirapcs: Emperors fl-loc lb. Enirplant 7-8c lb. Rhubarb, California 43 per 20-lb. box. Cauliflower, local 41-41-25. Huckleberries, fancy 13-14c; Table potatoes, Deschutes gems 42-75 to 43 25; Yaklmas 42.75 to 42.85 cwt. Western Oregon 42.25 to 42.50. Sweet potatoes. California oc ID. southern yams 42 50 to 43 crate. Fresh dates, California 20c lb. Country meats: belling price to re tailers: country killed hogs best but chers under 10 lbs. 14',i to 15c; yeal 75 tO BO IDS., 14-lot., iwuiua havy mutton 15c. PORTLAND KASTNIliK MARKET -..iii,,. n.itinpN the chief offer ing on the Eastslde Farmers' Market aside from root vegetables. All prices are unchanged. ... u ,-. i Carrol ana oeew ioc u. wyv turnips 40 to 45c; potatoes. 41 50 to 42 orange no; 9. .. c, if kh ai -K oralf rptl. 11.25 to 41.50 cantaloupe crate. Tomatoes 7c5 to 41 box. Squash, Danish, 41-25 cantaloupe crate- . mV, on- Celery, aozen Duncum. jwmv No. 1 75 to 80c; No. d, ooc; iieari $1CauiSl?ier,'No. 1 85c to 41: No. 2. 55 to eoc. Spinach, fimcy 4125; or dinary 41 to 41.15 ornnge box; Brus sels sprouts, iuuijt 41.15 peach box. HAY MARKET nn.nii jfi Hhv. steady. Buying prices: eastern Oregon timothy. 420 50 to 421.: Do., valley 1 to Alfalfa, sib to hay 416; straw 47 to 48 ton; selling priced 42 more. SAN FBANrlSrO POl l.TRV ann vr.nrl.cn un (Feil.-State Market New. nervlcel : Net prlcra paid ...n.i.i..r fnr live umiltry. delivered l ban rrHiiL-iom. ucun. ii lb. IlO'Vc: coioreu ". " uti.r.' rjhnm under 17 lbs. per dozen a:l-27c; 17-aa lb. Ir ??cu.j':)- ni... .....n mlnml linfler S1 108.. a7-jnc: roasters, louiis a ii lbs. and up 27-2BC. rANI'AKA HAnK Portlnnd Caacara bark, steady! i j to 7c. lit! IT. HOP . V...-I.' .. ITviinnrated aPDlCS .tealv: cliolee 14'i to ISC; lancy 17 17laC. ITUne.. ."-."J. -"." tn 131, e: ureuon w. io u.,".. Apricots, steady, standnrd H'i to 15c; to 22c. Pcaihea. aleacly. standard 14'4 i. pi,..icn i-i tn lfii.c: extra cn. ,ii in i'hi.p UnlitliiM steady, loose Mua- . u... l.nli. tn fnill'V Sl'Cd- caieia oj "-. " ' 1,' ed 8l. to 8i. e; seedless 6 to J- u, iu-111 IB to 20e: loan nominal. Pacific coaat 12 IS to iuc; la28, la to iic. ii va u.iill HOPS Portlnnd tUPl Nuts. Oreuon al- n,,t. 'Vli'. to 28c: California 2U-2HC; pennuts. raw 10c; Bralls new crop 22-24C: almonds 34-ssc; filberts 1S- 20c: pcans 24-25C. Hops: nominal. 1928 crop ll-ia'SC. Wool. 1028 crop nominal Willam ette valley 28-33c; eastern Oreon 18 27',,c lb. n-.ni .VII 111 ll.H. ri.OI'R n ., i .ii r'ani, .iiunr (sacked hn.i.1 lane, fruit or berry, S5.40 cwt. Beet sunar !t25 cwt. .iniiiprv m-lces: steady. Family patents. 4lls S7 80: whole wheat .a'ui' iriliim 16.70: bakers' hard .!.. on. a7 SO: bakera' Bluestem, patents D8s. 87.40; pastry flour, 48a, 8 1.30. N IRANCISIO IHTTKRKAT San Kranclsco lal Butterfat 10.0. San r'ranclsco 43c. 8 VRAM IMO APriTrl Pan Krnnclsco il (Fed. -State Market News servu-et : Applea. boxea northwestrn. Rome Beauties. C grade S1.75 to S2: Dellt'Ioua fancy 82 50 to S3: Wlnesapa, ettra fancy 12.75 to S3; fancy 1250 to 2 75. T1RKKV MARKIT Portland lU. 8. D A I Hi The tur key market here Frldsy was steady and Inclined toward firmness. There was a ood demand outside and the local demand wa .Improving. Prices on dressed basis were: Young toma 2!-30c: hens 28c: old toma 22c with continued shortage; No. 2 stock 20c. WINMPKIl IIKtT Winnipeg il'I'i Wheat range: IX. open 81 high 81 :tl 5-B; low 81- 29'.: close 81 20 3-8. May. open, high SI 38; low 81 3.V.; c!oe 81.35'.. July, open 81 38; high 81.38'); low, 81. 36',; closa 81 36',. f'HH'Atlll i.miv Thlcago I'l BlllMUPI.Tl,OD t'hlcsgo tsl Oraln futures. Dec. open 81 18: high l.m'.: low 81 .16',; closa 81.16 to . March, open 81. 24', to i,; high 8124',: low 8121-5-8; rloae 8122 to '. May. open 81 28'. to '-: high 812814: low SI 25S: Close 8138 to ', July, open 81 284 to si 2V: nign si 2V: low 81.20 8-s. close 81 261, to 6-8 tun grain: wneav, no. a mura at. flii. New corn No. 8 mixed 78', e: No. a white 88i, c. Old corn. No. a. fellow 85c; No. i whua 4c. Oats, No. 9 white 5'i to 4Jc: No. 4. white 43'4c to f. Rye. no sales. Barley, quotable range 60 to 68c. Timothy seed 45.40 to 46 35. Clover seed 410 50 to 418. Lard $1U; ribs 410.50; bellies 411-62. PORTLAND VlIEAT Portland w Wheat futures: Deo. open 41 20 3-8; high 41-20 3-8; low, close 41.19. March, open, hgih 41.26; low. close 41-24S- Muy. open, high 41 27 3-8; low, close 41-26. July, open high 41271,; low, close 41-281.. Cash wheat: Big Bend Blues tern, hard white 4132; soft white, western white 4120; hard winter, northern spring, western red 41. 18: Oats. No. 2 38-lb. white 435.50. Today's car receipts, wheat 71, flour 11, com 4, oats 2, hay 1. niK AI.O l.lKSTO( K Chicago U. 8. D. A.J Hogs, receipts 23,000, including 8000 di rect; top 19.1)0; late bulk 49.50 to 49 65; butchers, medium to choice 49. 35 to 49.00. Cuttle receipts 3500; calves 1000; early trading unevent. Steers good and choice 412.50 to 415 25; fed year lings, good and choice 412 65 to 416. 25; vealers. milk fed, good and choice 412 to 415.50. Sheep receipts 8000: opened steady to strong. Bulk fat lambs 413 to 413 -25; early top 413.40; fat ewes 45.25 to 45.50; lambs. good and choice 412.50 to 413.60; feeder lambs, good una choice 411-75 to 412.G5. STILL WAIT FOR BANK . TAXTO BE PAID (Continued from page 1) tlonal banks In the county and when the others paid more taxes his bank would meet them. The bank has $2599.58 chalked up on the ax rolls, although It paid Its taxes up to the time when the federal court In Portland held that national banks did not need to fur ther pay taxes on their capital. In other words It paid one more half than any other national bank in the county and probably in the state. It was pointed out that the United States National pays pretty heavy taxes as it is, rerrardlais of the tax on its capital. On the 1926 roll it paid $5464.80; on the 1927 roll it paid $5633 and on the 1928 roll it paid $5826.50, these taxes all be ing paid on its real property and these beins paid up-to-date. The taxes on its capital are smaller due to the fact that a property offset is given against the tax on the capi tal. Due to what seems to be quite a lack of understanding as to just why the federal court held that na tional banks need not further pay taxes- on Its capital, the section of the national banking lan on which the decision was based is reprinted as follows: In case of a tax on said shares (capital stock) the tax imposed shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital In the hands of individual citizens of such state coming Into competition with the business of national banks." It was held that Investment bankers and savings and loan as sociations and similar money hand ling concerns are competing capital under the act and they are not as sessed on such capital. As a result the federal court held that nation al banks need not pay such taxes. Bankers point out that this pro vision has been In the national banking act for many years but banks paid for a great many years when they did not need to. Also local bankers state that lor a number of years the banks have paid a considerably higher rate of taxes on their real property than they, should. They state that for years real property was assessed at 100 per cent when adjacent real property was only assessed at around 60 per cent or so. A few years ago the bankers took this up with the equalization board and an adjustment was made. However, in the meantime the bankers stated they had paid their property taxes on full valuation. As far as their owing any money they state that anything on the rolls now was more than covered by the extra taxes paid over many years. But however, that may be num erous people are voicing the query as to why they should be compelled to pay their taxes and the bankers whose business are founded on prosperity of other taxpayers should escape. Salem Markets Complied from reports of Salem dealers, for the guiunnce of Capit al Journal readers, tltevlsed daily) Wheat, No. 1 white 81.08: red. i (hacked) l OO'i; feed oat 47c; mill ing oats 60c; barley S3J per ton. Meats: Hons: Top grades. 130 160 lbs. y .60; 16U-220 lbs. 810.00; at-J0-?t0 lbs. 9.a3; altiO-a&O lbs. $0.2b; sows, 6 75 to n.OP; Cattle, top alters tendy. 8U.&0 to llo; cows 5 60 to l' 5U; cults and cutters. 2 SO to 9 -60; Sheep, aprlng lauiba Q; bucks 87. Old ewes 81 to 4. Calves: Venters, live weight 140-180 lbs. 811; heavy and thins S7-88. Uressed moitU: Top veal 14 cents; No. 3 grade 13 'ic; rough aud heavy 13 and up; tup hogs UO-ISO lbs. UVic; other grades 13c down. Poultry Light to medium hen 16-lHc lb; heavy hens 22 cruta per pound; broilers, springs 18-20C; sUjf lir; old roosters 7c. Kt!g: Pullets 35c; fresh eitras 40c; DutterfHt 4lc; Print butter 41c to c; cubes, extras 39c; standard cubes JHc. WIIOl I'SAI F PRICES Presh fruit: oranges 93 60 to 87.76 caw, lemons 812.60 a ca.te; bananas 8c lb.; grapes. Emperor $2 25; wrapped and packed. XjF Jonathan apples, Yakima 82.76; face and fill 81.60; Spllrenbergs 81 50; Baldwins 81 60; cranberries, 88 60 bu.; pears 82 bu.; I'aMbas 4o lb.; pouiegrawtca, 81.10 box. fresh vegetables Tomatoe hothouse 14 60-85 25; California S3 60; Cucum bers, hot hoiine, (H)c-1.60 doe. Potatoes Yakima 82.75; Yakima Bluebird 83 25; Lettuce. Calif. Iced 84 50; I-ablth celery 8.175; heart 8136; cabbage 2c; red peppers 25c; green 25c; spin ach 8135 box; cauliflower 9135 to el 85 ciat. Artichokes 9160 dot. Bruanel sprouts 16c lb. Local 91.75 box. Bunched vegetables: Turnips 40 -hoc dor en; parsley 8Cc; carrots 40c to 90c; beets, local 40c to Sue; onions 400 to dor; radishes 40c to 6O0. Backed vegetables: Onions, local 93; Yakima 82 25; carrots 2c; rutabagas 3 So lb : game 16e lb ; sweet potatoes 8c; Uar bel head squash So lb ; Hub bard and banana lUc; pumpkins 80 lb4 turnip 3c; parsnips alio. WOOL, MOMMH Wool, fine SOc; medium 35c; eoame. Soo ier lb. lmba wool 37c: fall Clio 870. Mob air; fall clip, old 36c; kid 46c, WHEAT PRICES JOLTED AGAIN IN NEW BREAK Chicago tffiy Big Jolts- to wheat values Friday tumbled the market down to the lowest levels since No vember 18, and to about 17 cents off from the recent top figures. Announcement that the break had resulted In purchase of 1,000,000 bushels of North American wheat to be shipped overseas caused only a transient rally. After dropping to a maximum of 3'i cents under Thursday's finish wheat Friday closed unsettled at 2-H to 3'i cents a bushel net loss. Corn closed . to V cents, a one cent down, oats varying from cent decline to a shade advance, and provisions unchanged to a set back of 20 cents. Wheat dropped early to more than 16 cents a bushel below prices recently obtainable, with export demand meager, general bearish sentiment prevailed, and there was considerable selling out of future delivery holdings In order to stop losses. Opening U to : down wheat later continued to fall. Corn, oats and provisions were relatively steady, with corn starting V to off to Id up, and subsequently holding near to the initial range. ENJOY XMAS MARKET RUSH New York UP) "Bear" traders en joyed their first Christmas market in several years Friday when prices on the New York stock exchange tumbled $2 to $18 a share, with sev eral Issues training through the low prices established in the drastic break last month. Total sales crossed the 5,000,000 share mark for the first time In nearly two weeks. More general liquidation followed the stiffening of call money to Xive per cent In the last hour and blocks of 10.000 shares and larger were sold: Many important shares touch ed their lowest prices in some time. United States Steel went to 161, Standard oil of New Jersey 60 and Montgomery ward 44. Columbian Carbon was down 16 points, Ameri can Machine and Foundry 14, Sim mons 12, R. H. Maty 10; Sears Roe buck 9'i, and Atchison and Western Union 7. The close was weak. New York (LP) A terrific wave of selling swept prices down one to more than 12 points on the stock exchange Friday. Support came from time to time but it was Insuf ficient to stay the avalanche of of ferings. Steel common broke more than six points and merchandising shares dropped 7 to 12 points. This weak ness undermined confidence and brought out heavy unloading. Tickers fell behind and sales swelled la volume. Indicating that the bears were again getting control of the list. Call money renewed at 4!4 per cent and near the close rose to S per cent for the first time in several weeks. This firming up In credit togeth er with heavy shipments of gold out of the country accelerated the sell ing which was started by the bear ish element. The offerings of stock were thrown over In much the same reckless abandon that prevailed' in the crash of October. DANCES TO STEP CHEER FUND UP (Continued from page 1) benefit dance Friday evening ai Crystal Garden, which the Elks are sponsoring and for which two or chestras, the Elsinore and Thomas Bros., will combine their efforts In furnishing music. Here the public will be given the opportunity of Utterly "stepping" tne uneer rund toward its goal. Members of the committee in charge of the dance arrangements say that It wll be the biggest af fair of its kind during the winter season, and that every dollar over and above incidental expenses will go in tne Cheer Fund. Meanwhile the committee In charge of seeing that Christmas gifts are provided for all of the kiddles continue with their work of seeking out those for whom they must substitute lor Santa Claus. "Never has the public been so slow in responding to the call of these children tor a taste of the Joys which rightfully belong to them on Christmas." said Robert Cole, chairman of the Cheer Fund committee. "And in all of the years I have been connected with the Cheer movement I have never found so much need for It. "The regular charitable organiza tions are doing wonderfully well In providing the everyday necessities for most of the destitute, of which there Is an unprecedented number this year, and the demand upon our fund for such things as cloth ing, shoes, fuel, and the like la per haps no greater than In former years. "Our big problem lies In the num ber of children dependent upon the Cheer Fund for the things that really make Christmas for the chil dren. nd to which they are all en titled. "As near as we ean estimate from our Investigations so far there are nearly 400 boys and girls In and about Salem who will be greeted by empty stockings on Christmas moraine unless the dolls, toys, games, nuts, candy and the like to fill them art provided by the Cheer Fund. -It will take at least 11,000 to pro vide the clothing, shoes and staple foodstuffs for the families we hare found In need of them," RUSSIA'S FIRST Wlf .A Associated Press Photo Helen Polyakova U the first woman graduate of tho Moscow Aeronautlo Institute. In one of her recent practical flights In an aerostat she mastered tho air for nearly eight hours. She is shown with her assistant, Travkin, prepared for an endurance flight. $125,000 ASKED FOR CHAMPDEG PARK (Continued from page 1) The preamble to Senator Mc- Nary's latest Joint resolution reads as follows: 'Authorizing the erection of a memorial building to commemorate the winning of the Oregon country for the United Stutes. 'Whereas, the region west of the Rocky mountains known as the Oregon country including the ter ritory of the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and part of the state of Wyoming was settled principally by Er.glisrt In traders who laid claim to the whole of this vast territory of nearly three hundred thousand square miles as a part of the British Empire; and Whereas, alter much controver sy this great empire was held In joint occupancy by the United States and England; and Whereas in 1843 one hundred and two men assembled at Cham poeg in what is now Marion coun ty, Oregon, and after deliberation decided by the narrow margin of two votes that the Oregon country should become a part of the United States; and "Whereas, James K. Polk was elected president in 1844 on a plat form demanding the recognition of the title of the United States, to this territory; and Whereas, after a long contro- versey and contention this vast ter ritory was ceded to the United States by England without war or bloodshed under a treaty signed in June 1846.' The resolution then coes on with the enacting part authorizing the secretary of war with approval of the board of control of the state of Oregon to select a site on lands owned by the state at Champoeg. The plans for the proposed memor ial building, the resolution pro- viaes, snau oe suoiect to the ap proval of the National Commission of Pine Arts. FRENCH ESTABLISH POPULATION PRIZES Paris (LP) To encourage the re population of France, the govern ment Is considering setting aside five crosses of the Legion of Honor each year to be awarded to veteran Frenchmen and Frenchwomen who can count at least one hundred descendants, living or dead on the field of honor. Even with those unusual conditions, there are al ready dozens of French who can qualify. In the two departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calats there are six candidates for recognition, and In the south where large families are the rule there should be many more. PHILIPPINE FREEDOM HELD ONLY POLITICS Los Angeles (tP) Philippine Inde pendence Is merely a political move ment and Is neither desired nor un derstood by 95 per cent of the pop ulation o fthe island, according to captain E. C. Worlck. who has re turned to the United States for I brief vit after spending 31 years In the Islands. Worick. who Is engaged In the lumber business and the growing of cocoanuts, declared that every In dustry in the Islands would be wrecked by the tariffs that would be Imposed on copra, tobacco, hemp. mahogany and other products now being developed and shipped Into tne United States. "The politicians are behind the move," Worick said. "And when a party of congressm.cn visit the Islands, they get out the native who wave flags and shout. With the marchers It Is Just holiday per formance and they are having a good time, but they don t know what It s all about." Worlrk's home Is on the Island of Luton, about 100 miles from Manila, REAL GIN TALE Corcoran. Cfcl. (UV-Corcoran b a Main street town, but 33 000 bales of cotton ginned In the seven gins here this season already has brought In about (2,300,000. WOMAN PILOT TIME EXTENDED ON LONGVIEW BRIDGE Washington W The war depart ment Thursday approved pians of the Columbia river Longview bridge company, assignee of W. D. Comer and Wesley Vandercook for fenders around piers 2, 3 and 4 of the bridge across the river between Longview and Rainier, Ore. A bill introduced by Senator Jones, republican of Washington, granting an extension of four months to next June 1, for com pleting the Columbia river bridge between Longview; Wash, and Rain ier, Ore., was passed by the senate and sent to the house. ENGLISH PRISONERS GIYEN NO TOBACCO London UP Edgar Wallace, the writer of mystery thrillers, got one of the biggest surprises of his life when he visited Sing Sing prison in New York and saw convicts smok ing cigars. "Convicts and wardens In a great American prison are Just boys to gether," he told the ships news re porters on his return here. "The prisoners come out in the exercise yard smoking cigars and doing much as they like." To an Englishman who knows his prisons this is indeed a surprising confirmation of the tales told of 'coddling" convicts in America. For in England a Judge takes away more than a man's liberty when he sen tences him to prison he takes away his cigarettes, his cigars, his pipe and his chewing tobacco. Tobacco is smoked and chewed in English prisons nevertheless, but most of It Is smuggled in. Only long term convicts who have won the privilege by good behavior over a period of years are permitted to have tobacco. The others get it somehow if they can and treasure it so highly that an inch of plug tobacco Is as good as money; better, in fact for money is not worth much to a prisoner until tt can be converted Into tobacco. Even if he does not use the weed himself, he tries to get it, for to bacco is the currency of the convict community. When cards are played for high stakes in an English prison the stakes are bits of tobacco. RUSSIAN CHURCHES PUT TO ODD USES Moscow (LP) Another use has been found for discarded churches In Moscow. Two of them will soon be transformed Into lunch rooms. The muslcipal government has already appropriated funds for the purpose. More and more churches are fall ing Into disuse In this city of ten thousand church-domes. With all governmental subsidies and immun ities removed, the support of a church by a religious community has become a serious problem and often believers abandon the hard struggle. Joining some better-to-doy group nearby. -Borne of the unused churches are torn down, especially if they are situated where they Interfere with traffic. A good many are permitted to surAve because of their historic or artistic value, sometimes as is the case with the famous St. Basil's being tunied Into museums. The others may end up as worker's clubs, as atheist headquarters, as ordinary office buildings or as restaurants. MONTANA TO BE HOST TO BIG PLANE FLEET Great Falls, Mont. LP) Montana will be host during January to the largest airplane fleet ever to visit the state. Exact date of arrival has not been announced. Led by Major Ralph Joyce, group commander of the air corps at Mt. Clemens, Mich, 18 pursuit planes and one transport plane will roar across Montana en route to Spokane. Wash. The air flotilla's itinerary calls for a day's stop In Great Fate, and Major Joyce has written city authorities requesting that neces vary accommodations be made for the visitors. XMAS DEMAND BRINGS ACTIVE APPLE TRADE Portland ..P) Reviewing the fruit and vegetable situation, the Port land bureau of the United States department of agrclulture says: "Demand for extra fancy apples, mostly Delicious and Spitzenberg, for the Christmas trade, is showing greater activity than has prevailed all season, prior to the current week. Unclassified stocks, selling at cheap prices are also in good de mand. Intermediate grades, as fancy C-grade and combination grades, are slow in moving, being high priced in comparison to the ungrad ed lots, and hardly fine enough for Christmas gift purposes. The "give a box of apples for Christmas" idea seems to be gaining in popularity in Portland, as in eastern markets, probably due in part to the active advertising campaign sponsored by the northwest's boxed apple bureau. "Final production estimates of potatoes for this year, of 357.451,000 bushels, for the entire United States. shows an increase of 3,500,000 bush els over the November 1 estimate. Although the actual percentage of Increase is very slight, a certain psychological effect is noticed promptly, in which lack of buying activity predominates. Both carlot and jobbing activity in potato and onion lines Is extremely light this weex. "Western cranberries, which have held steady at $0.50 per 1-3 barrel crate, were dropped to $6 this week by some Jobbers, on account of large supplies, and slow movement. East ern cranberries, in barrels, have un dergone a similar 10 per cent re duction, from former $20 levels." HOOVER SEEN BY SUGARIOBBYIST (Continued from page 1) Sugar company, was called to he stand. He said the Great ivjttrn re duced 45 to 50 Der cent at th hot sugar in the United State and that nis company paid his expenses here. Questioned about by the company, .Petrikcn said tne dividend had averaged 15 to 20 per cent curing tne 33 years. "Besides naYrrip V, in on you have laid by enoujh additional money so mat now $30,000,000 placed in the comnanv has hen in creased to 865,000,000," Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, asked. res.- retriken replied. Petriken said he hart Hlcvccpri the sliding scale with Chairman Smoot of the senate finance com mittee. "Did vou discuss it with Pru dent Hoover?" Walsh asked. 'I called on Mr. Hnnvpr in tin in formal way and he asked me -hat I thought of it. I told him I thought It was surrounded with a good deal of hazard." Eugene. Ore. iJPt Edwin p Rhn. tuck. lobbyist and lawver. friend of President Hoover, who is attract ing nationwide attention In the na tional capitol in the sugar tariff Investigation. Is a former university of Oregon student, having been a member of the class of 1837. MERGER PLANS DECIDED UPON (Continued from page I) trolled by the Van Sweringens. would be augmented by the addition of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the Bessemer and Lake Erie. The New York Central would re ceive the Virginian and the Rut land railway. In New England, the New Haven and the Boston and Maine would be considered as two separate units. The Boston and Maine would re ceive the Delaware and Hudson, while the important New England Bridge lines around the metropoli tan area of New York the Lehigh and Ne wEngland and the Lehigh and Hudson river would go to the New Haven. The three main systems In the south would be the Couthern, the Atlantic Coast line and the Illinois Central. In the west, the outstanding pro vision is the exclusion of the Bur lington from the northern group and its use as the basis of a sepa rate system. The various systems would be based on the Burlington. GiteAMts that GROW What 6ner, more distinct. re Kifts than living, growing things, which will bring more beauty and pleasure into the daily lives of loved one and friends? Trees, plants, shrub and hardy flowers are arowini; in favor each year as Christmas Kifts becaun they are so uni versally admired and desired, We pack for shipment free, Pick yssr shrubs now. Pearcy Bros. Nursery 241 N. Liberty Phone 3513 he St. Paul, the Atchison, the Rock Island, the Southern Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pa cific the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Great Northern and North ern Pacific taken as one. The Fris co would go to the Rock Island, while the two U. S. 6teel roads, the Duluth St Iron Range and Duluth. Messabe & Northern, would go to the St. Paul. The Chicago Great Western, mould go to the Atchison, and the Illinois Central would get the Minneapolis and St. Louis. The Missouri Pacifis would get the Western Pacilic, Denver and Rio Grande, Denver and Salt Lake, and Kansas City, Oklahoma and Gulf. IS CAPTURED IN PORTLAND Portland. (IP) Two youthful bandits. Alfred K. Abbott, 18, and Kenneth Seaman, 19, and Mrs. Cora Landinpham, are in custody here, charged with more than 20 robberies in Portland. Included In the youths string of rcbb?nes and hold-ups wan the $2,000 jewelry robbery from the Mrs. William Marshall Grlswold. residence here Wednesday night Abbott was In the Good Samara tin ho.spitnl with a bullet wound in his thl;h received after hs attemp ted to escape frcm police. Seaman and Mrs. Landingham are in Uie city jail. Polire Inspectors said they re covered all cf the Jewels stolen from the Grisv.old home at the home of Mrs. Landingham. Both youth? confessed, police said, to numerous holdups, auto mobile thefis and home robberies, numbering more than twenty. "We have been hitting it heavy the last week." said Seaman. "Guess we must have 'made about 20 or 25 spots in that time. Well, it's all over now.' Posing as officers as a ruse fn one of their holdups, police said the youths stopped an automobile here the other night and told the occupants they were officers look ing for boo7e. Police inspectors said the two bandit were believed to have car ried on activities in Seattle antf. Ca'lfornia cities. MARKET STEADIER WITH Boston W) The Commercial Bul letin says: There Is more activity In worsted wools of fine and fine medium qual ity, especially for topmajcers' ac counts on the clean basis of 15-J0 cents for fair to choice French combing lots of territory wooL Scoured wools are steadier on the lower basis. "The manufacturing outlook Is considered reasonably good, vith low Inventories the big constructive facort. "Mohair Is dull and hardly changed." The Commercial Bulletin publish es the following quotations: Scoured basis: Oregon: Fine and F. M. staple, 80-81; fine and F. M. Fr. combing, 75-77; fine and F. M. clothing, 72-73; Valley No. 1, 80-82. Mohair: Oregon. 48-50. Domestic grading, first combine, 00-62; good carding 65-67. DOG A TRAVELER London (LP Binks, a white bull terrier, owned by Colonel and Mrs. S. Gregson, of Cob Orchard, Plax tol, Kent, Is said to be the only do; that has ever passed through the pass of Karacoram. In 1927 the dog walked over the pass between China and India and Included a mere 1,700 miles In his return trip, according to statements of his mas ter and mistress who have recently returned from China. So nlitic...(o mw... yew ciptrinc m thrill of plcMw (m yo kcar every lon coim to yo NN-cotormi nd undiilortcd BOSCH RADIO Headquarters for Be sch Radios nam t t.i.jxi;ti, j 347 COURT ST. 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