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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1930)
A (C&oital m Jommal UNSETTLED Colder tonight end Tuesday with snows tonight. East to north winds. CIRCULATION Dally vrc 4Utrt button tat the , mtitxh tudloa December 31, 192 10,383 Local: mux. 3: mln. 91; rein .94.; Sunday .66; river 4-3 feet; part cloudy; east wind. Avmir dally Dt paU MM . lumber Audit Bureau of Circulation 43rd YEAR, No. 5 Entered ai second class matter at Salem, Oration SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1930 -PRICE THREE CENTS OV THISS D NKWII HTANPH HVK CKNTS) 0 1 1 t 'nnv w -m i twm i - i i mm mm NEW OFFICIALS TO BE CHOSEN THIS EVENING Contests on for City At torney's and Sewer In spector's Jobs No Fight Over Other Of fices Committee Ap pointments to be Told Battv CoDoer. who has been city sanitary Inspector under several mayorality administrations, la fight ing to retain his job. Whether he is successful or not will develop Mon day night when the city council holds Its annual election of officers. Efforts were being made to get a council caucus at 7 o'clock, but apparently it hadn't been' fully de termined early in the afternoon whether It would be held. Cooper's return to the office Is being contested by Charles Miller, who was a candidate several months ago for the office of city building Inspector, and who formerly was connected with the Marlon Automo - bile company. Never before has Cooper had any difficulty in re-election to his of fice and the fight being made aganst him now Is said to be political only. The contest was running neck and neck Monday and the Indications were that if Cooper could turn one ""(Concluded oipaBe0JMlumil41 CALL FOR BIDS ON NEW FILTER HERE NEXT WEEK Work on the new filter plant for the Oregon-Washington Water Ser vice company here will be under way by February 1, according to the announcement of J. 't . Delancy, dis trict manager for the company, who has Just returned from cauiomia. Bids will be called for on the project sometime next week," Mr. Delancy reported. "The plans and specifications arc all completed and are now being bound In our San Francisco offices for distribution a mong the bidders. I expect to have them all hole by the first of the week." Work is already going ahead in cleaning up the company's property at South Liberty and Trade streets where the plant Is to be erected. While In the south Mr. Delaney witnessed the New Year's day foot ball game between the University of Southern California and the Uni versity of Pitsburgh, and says It was one of the most thrilling games he ever watched in spite of the one tided score. "There was something doing ev ery minute in that game," said De laney. 'It was the most spectacular thing I ever saw. Some of the plays were almost superhuman In the manner of their execution." INHERITANCE TAX ON SALE VALUE Washington W Millions of dol lars and many Individuals were af fected Monday by a supreme court holding that the difference In value In securities at the tlms of death and the value at the time of sale of such Inherited property consti tuted taxable Income. The test case was brought by E. Franklin Brewster from western New York. Brewster had appealed from a ruling of the internal revenue com missioner who "had been sustained by lower courts. He Insisted the tax should be lev led only on the difference In value at the time he received the securi ties and the time of sale, holding considerable time had elapsed since Ms father's death and the time the securities actually came Into his possession. CONDITION OF KING ZOGU IS HOPELESS Vienna. i.T" The Wiener Mont tg'jlatt Monday published a re Dcrt that Vienna specialists re garded the condition of King Zogti of Albania as hooeless. The re cently crowned Albanian monarch was said to be suffering from tuberculosis of the ljng. and can cer of the throat. Good Evening Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN "Coolldge Ready to Take Good Job," says headline la the Oregon Ian. Who ever heard ol a politi cian that wasn't? "Singing . In the Bathtub" Is the name ol a song being sung over at Frank Bligh's show shop which In trigued us last evening. For not long before hearing It, Newell Wil liams, recounting his troubles run ning for alderman had laid his de feat to that very habit. That he sang In the bathtub and left the bathroom window open lor the neighbors to hear, and at that he lost by less than 300 votes. We have it all over Newell. We do the same thing and we bet we could lose over 600 votes If we ran out In our ward. Newell and us could be great pol iticians if they counted votes like they count the score in golf. The guv that gets the least wins. We bet under those conditions we could be elected councilman with a hole in one. J. D. Winn, whose column "Sips for the Thirsty" in the Albany Democrat-Herald we referred to the other evening, has written us saying he used to know us when he was justice of the peace at Inde pendence, when we used to try to practice law over In Polk county and we appeared before him sev eral times both as a lawyer and in other capacities. We thought he named his column - faips ior me Thirsty" after ours, but since find ing out he used to be justice oi tne peace at Indepsndence we know different. The other day the Statesman ran a column and a half article boost ing the Albany-Cascadia route over the Cascade mountains while the county court and citizens of Marion county are making every effort to secure the Salem . route from De troit to Sisters. This probably re veals in a good measure the animus behind the Statesman's attack on the county court. The Albany-Cascadia route will be a big boost to Corvallls and It indicates as many people have for some time suspected that while the new editor of the Statesman lives in Salem his heart is In Corvallls. DEEP CHANNEL Washington MV-Secretary Hurley Monday recommended to congress the creation of an 18-foot entrance channel at Tillamook bay, Oregon, at an estimated cost of 1672.000, with $45,000 annually for mainten ance. The recommendation provides for the extension of the north Jetty to full project length, 5,700 feet. This extension with some necessr.'y dredging will provide a channel depth of 18 feet compared with the present 12 feet. The report recommended that lo cal interests should not be called upon to assume the cost of Interior channels until the entrance chan nel of full project dimensions had been assured. It stated that no Improvement of bay and entrance, other than as authorized by the existing project and that the timber resources of the Tillamook area are of great ex tent and value. The locality, ac cording to the report has large po tentialities and the channel im provement should be maintained at project dimensions. Salem Water Supply System Reviewed By Fire Underwriters Extensive improvement ply by the Oregon-Washington Water Service company are pointed out in 'a report just completed on fire fighting con dltlons In Salem made by the com- mittee on fire prevention and standards of the national board of fire underwriters. The report has Just been completed with B. M. Cul ver and chairman of the commit tee and George W. Booth as chief engineer and is made to supp:e- ment a general report made the board on Salem In 1924. nurnoi'.ntr nronosed Imorovements by the water company In 1930 the -roort savs' "The v.at.r company 18 planning HEFNER SAYS GIRL SLAYER OF PRODUCER Motion Picture Actress Named as Murdered of William D. Taylor Identity Kept Secret After Interview Signed By Key Witness Ey FRANK 11. BARTIIOLMEW United Prm Staff Correspondent (Copyrliht. 1930, bj United PreM San Francisco (LP Otis Hefner, mLFsinir kev witnes in the Wil liam Desmond Taylor murder mys tery, was found Monday by tne United Press. Hefner is the man who former Governor Friend William Richard son said had revealed to him the the name of the person who mur dered the famous motion picture director in February, 1922. He is believed to be the man to whom Buron Fitts, Los Angeles dis trict attorney, referred to two weeks a 2:0 when he said: "We have reconstructed the scene of the killing and we have built an almost perfect case. Only one link remains to be filled. Found by George E. Powers, a reporter for the United Press, Hef ner repeated and amplified the dis closures made to the governor end the state prison board secretly in 1926, which resulted in his release from Folsom penitentiary to save Ills life. These disclosures, intended by tn governor for presentation to the Los (Concluded on page 11, column 6) TARIFF ABSORBS CONGRESS AFTER HOLIDAY RECESS Washington W-With the democratic-western republican coalition failing to hold its opposition for ces in line, the senate Monday voted further increases in tariffs on processed worn. Washington Faced with the Incompleted tariff bill, the controv ersy over prohibition and a host of other questions that may necesslttae their remaining at work until sum mer, the house and senate recon vened Monday after a recess over the Christmas-New Year holiday season. This tariff 'bill was the unfin ished business in the senate and leaders apparently were determined to press its consideration at every opportunity. In the house, a few minutes alter speaker Long worth's gavel cailed the chamber to order, the appropria tions committee formally reported the annual army supply bill pro posing maintenance for the next fiscal year of the present standing army which has an tils Led strength qf 118.700 men. The house then received the res ignation of Representative John Carew, for years leader in the house of the New York Tammany dele gation, who has accepted appoint ment by Oovemor Roosevelt to the New York state supreme bench. In 14 minutes from the time it convened, the house adjourned out of ref set to the late Representative Leatherwood, republican, Utah. LAND OFFICIAL NAMED Washington The following reg isters of land officers were nomi nated by the president: A. Canaday, Roseburg, Oregon; Dr. James W. Donnelly, The Dalles, Oregon. plans for the Salem water sup the construction durinx 1930 of concrete intake tower and low-lift pumping station on the Willamette river side of Minto's Island. The Initial installation will consist of two 2.600.000 and one 3.600.000-gal Ions a day centrifugal pumps, drlv- for'en by 3i- and 40-hp. edectrlc mo- Itors. A 5.760 000 gallons a day pump and 75-hp. motor will be add. cd at a later date. Pumps will be located below lowest known rtage conduced on pace 3, column Hearse Parked Before City Hall Worries Officials Various persona on the city payroll were wondering Mon day whether there u any connection between a hearse walrh trove ap and parked In front of th city hall dur ing the day and the council meeting scheduled for Mon day night. After much cran ing of neck It was discover ed the hearse was from Portland and when the ma chine drove away there was a sigh of relief. . MONOXIDE GAS FROM AUTOS TO BE ELIMINATED Baltimore (JP) A practical means of eliminating carbon monoxide, the gas that takes an annual toll of hundreds of lives when automo bile engines are left running In closed garages, is claimed in the discovery of a John Hopkins Uni versity professor announced Mon day. Dr. J. C. W. Frazer. the B. N. Baker professor of chemistry at the university, made the an nouncement that tests had shown a motor equipped with his device could run Indefinitely in a closed garage without liberating carbon monoxide. Offensive odors from automobile exhausts, which abound in heavy traffic can be suppressed by the chemical action-and smoke also will be entirely consumed, Prof. Frazer added. Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion, and the scientist's discovery is a chemical catalyst which, when the exhaust vapors pass over it mixed with- all converts the monoxide to harmless carbon dioxide. A device to ac complish this has bsen made and operated successfully in road tests under all kinds of driving condi tions, he said, but the present ob pective is to simplify .the appara tus and Prof. Frazer believes ac complishment to this end Is in sight. Dr. Frazer's discovery resulted from his work in the chemical war fare service during the world war to protect operating guns in clos ed turrets. STOP SWEARING OVER THE RADIO Washington (IP) The federal ra dio commission and the attorney general were asked in the senate Monday by Senator Dill of Wash ington to stop the broadcasting of "obscene language by Station KWKH at Shreveport. La. Dill had read a telegram from L. J. Watrous of Minneapolis, Minn., m which a complaint against the station was made, and then ex pressed the opinion that If the radio commission believed it had no authority to prosecute, the attorney general had such power under the penal provisions of the radio act. "It would seem," the Washington senator said, "that public interest alone would justify the stopping of this broadcasting. The law makes it a crime to use profanity on the air." The station is operated by W. K. Henderson, who is an outspoken op ponent of chain stores. 3 FEET OF SNOW BLOCKS HIGHWAY Portland (IP The Pacific high way between Canyonville and Med ford was blocked Monday by three feet of snow, the Oregon State Mo tor association here reported. Automobiles In the district were reported to have been trapped by the heavy fall of snow. The association advised motorists planning a trip to California to go via the Roosevelt highway. This road was reported to be in good condition. Heavy snow has fallen on high ways going over the Siskiyou moun tains and Green rjpring mountains between Med ford, Ashland and, Klamain rails, me association wa advised. RUSHLIGHT DIES FROM HEART ATTACK Portland (IP) A. O. Rushlight, former mavor of Portland and state legislator, died at 1:15 Monday af ternoon at the Portland sanitarium. Mr. r.ushliirht was stricken with a heart attack several weks azo while en route to Salem to the f in cral of the la'.e Govern r PatUr:o.. ALASKA FLIERS STILL PURSUED BY MISFORTUNE One of Three New Rescue Planes Smashed, One Lost, One Storm Held Storms Render Efforts to Find Eielson Futile Planes in Siberia Down Fairbanks. Alaska UP) Adverse luck, running hand In hand with Alaskan storms, Monday continued to mock the efforts of northern av iators to stage an aerial hunt for thctr lost comrades, Carl Bea Eiei- son and Earl Borland, wno nave been missing for nearly two montns. Three powerful cabin planes, rushed here from Seattle and put at the disposal of Arctic-hardened Ca nadian pilots, were down, one wrecked, one apparently lost and the other weather bound at Nulato, half wav noint between here and Nome. Two oocn cockpit planes operated by Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, American filers, who man aged to reach North Cape, Siberia, from Nome recently, also were held down because the weather of north eastern Siberia made flying Impos sible. Eielson and Borland disappeared last November 9 while flying from Teller to the fur trading ship Na nuk. The Nanuk Is frozen In the Ice near North Cape and now serves as the Siberian base for rescue opera tions. With one of the cabin nlanes al ready smashed up as the result of (Concluded on pagemllcolumn8) LABOR STARTS UNION DRIVE IN THE SOUTH Charlotte, N. C. (IP) Labor chief tains of the nation met here Mon day with leaders of the movement In Dixie to launch the long heralded southern labor drive. By vote of the last annual session of the American federation of labor, intensive organisation of southern labor, especially in the textile belt ot North Carolina, was ordered. President William Green of A. P. O. L. led the national leaders Into Charlotte, while President T. A. Wilson of the North Carolina fed eration, was In charge of the state delegation. Throughout the textile belt for nr. hs there have been sporadic In stances of disallectlon among me workers, countered by assertion of mill operates that radical organ izations were responsible, and not the existing labor conditions. Bitterness leading even to blood shed has been engendered. Six tex tile unionists were slain In a clash with deputy sheriffs at the gates of the Marion Manufacturing company in October. Two other fatal clashes occurred at GaGtonla. The purpose of the conference, according to a statement issued by President Green In Washington, Is to "map out a plan for organizating the wage earners of the south," through a campaign expected to be "the most extensive of its kind ever inaugurated by the American Fed eration of labor. SHEARER TIRES OF BIG NAVY EFFORTS New York Wf William B. Shear er is tired of his big navy propa eanda. He said so himself in a lec ture at Carnegie hall Sunday nigh.t adding that he had waged a battle for ten years and wanted to forget it. He Is not going to London for the naval parley. Introduced by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Flske, Shearer spoke be fore some 300 persons In a hall that seats 2830. Ticket ranged from $1 to $3. There were many complimen- lai-lc,g FOR POOR GIRLS Rome W King Victor Emman uel, In honor of his sen s approach ing marriage, Monday gave the governor ot Rome S.0O0 0O0 lire or about 126.000 to be used as a fund for wedding dowera for poor girls. This adds to another sum the kng neve for the r-.me purpose on the iTW-sion of the wedtt ng of the rown pri:i-fi elder i:stcr, Yolanda.the supreme court. Doughton To Sell City No Supplies Mayor Okehs Pay ' The claims against the city Sherwin, of which Alderman I. M. Doughton is a member, for supplies furnished the city are to be paid without furth er controversy, Mayor T. A. Livesley announced Monday morning. Mayor Livesley said rants for payment of the claims, which h? had vetoed subsequent to approval of the claims by the coun cil at Its last meeting, when advised that Alderman Doughton had an nounced that so long as he is a member of the council he and his firm wiU do no more business with the city. "While I accepted a place on the council with the understanding that the charter provisions against elec tive officers selling supplies to the city applied only to materials on which bids were asked, I have since Investigated the matter further and am assured by attorneys that the restriction applies legally to all purchases made by the city," said Mr. Doughton. "I will not have It thought that I would use vy position on the (Concluded on page 10, column 1) DISTRICT VOTES DETROIT ROAD! Seventeen taxpayers of the De- trolt mad district at a special meeting voted unanimously to ac cept the proposal of the forest ser vice asking that the Breitenbu&h road be turned over to the county and maintained as a county road and also that $3000 be put on the road for graveling by the county along with $1000 from Breitenbush Hot Springs company and $2000 from the federal government. This is a greater number of taxpayers of the di&trict. Inasmuch as the maintenance of the road and cant of the graveling would come from district funds It is likely the county court will ac cede to the proposition although the court will broach to P. J. Bruck man, head of the Breitenbush Hot Springs company that the company enter into an agreement to assist with some annual allowance for maintenance to assist the district. The forest service above the $2000 offered for gravel agreed to give an additional $450 the first year for maintenance but evidently de sires to be rid in the future of any cost of maintenance on the road. It is hoped by the court that the hot springs company will donate something every year for mainten ance in lieu of what the forest ser vice would otherwise put up. The road cost around $50,000 to con struct, the forest service spending $40,000 and the hot springs company the other $10,003. Last year It accommodated thou sands of travelers going into the hot springs and people of the dis trict especially In Detroit have found local business greatly en hanced since the road was improved. KILLED IN FIOHT Browpwood. Texas fT") A man who was killed Monday in a gun fight with officers near Santa Anna,, was later identified by W. P. Roberts, Jr., cashier of the Lohn state bank, as one of two men who held up the bank Monday morning and escaped with more than $1,500. The dead man's name Is believed to be Wright. Roberts went to Santa Anna where the body was held In an un dertaking establishment, and posi tively identified the man as one of two who broke in a rear window and made him open the vault this morning. The man was killed after officers had found hia car with some of the stolen money In it. Two other men, under arrest at Coleman, were believed to be ac complices as owners of the car in hlch the robbers escaped. They protested their inncc?nce. declaring the car was stolen from them. WIVES CAN ATTACK HUBBYS' DEPOSITS Washington wn The New York law giving deserted wives the right to attach the bank deposits of their hiwbands Monday was sustained by of the firm of Doughton & that he would sign the war " LINDY INSPECTS NEW SECRETLY BUILT PLANE Los Angeles tVP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Monday will inspect his new, and secretly built, Lockheed monoplane, which has been equip ped with fuel tanks with 450-gallon capacity so the plane can "stay up all night." Colonel and Mrs. Lind bergh arrived here Sunday from Kingman, Ariz., on the last stage of a leisurely trans-continental flight, on 'which the flying colonel 1 n s e c t e d Trans-continental Air Transport routes and airports. Rumors that Lindbergh's new monoplane recently built here would be used for tentative non-stop flights were laid at rest when the mlnnd KnfH tlm ovtrn. rnrmcltv fuol I tanks were provided for the purpose of "staying up over night" or for overnight trips to out-of-the-way places. "We; land In unexpected places wmeumes. you Know,- wnaoergn soid, The new plane Is of tha open cockpit type, Is fitted with dual controls to accommodate Mrs. Lind bergh, who also is a licensed pilot. and has an estimated cruising speed of 140 miles an hour. The color scheme, black fuselage and orange wings, is not the result of the fem inine touch, the colonel said, ex plaining that orange is "an easy co lor to sight in case a plane is down." The Lindberghs plan to remain here about two weeks before continuing to San Francisco to inspect the bay city's T, A. T. terminal. DENATURING VARNISH RUM Washington UP) Instructions that alcohol used in making varnishes and lacquers must be further de natured were issued Monday by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. It had been reported to the com missioner that ethyl alcohol used in the manufacture of varniM.es and lacquer was being converted by bootleggers and used for beverages Durnoses. The new orders provide that to every 100 gallons of ethyl alcohol there must be added Com gallons of denatured wood alcohol and ten gallons of normal butyl alcohol, or refined fusel oil or amyi aiconoi. Doran said he thought the new Ingredient would end the conver sion. BROOKHART BILL BANS SHORT SELLING Washington. ' Bills to create a new federal reserve cooperative banking system, to prohibit short selling on stock and grain exchang es and to license corporations en gaged in interstate commerce, were introduced Monday by Sena tor Brookhart, republican. Iowa. Charles B. Moores Pioneer Of Salem Dies At Portland Portland (AP) Charles Bruce Moores, 80, Oregon pio r, nnrl fnr mnrp than n hulf centurv active in political, his torical and educational circles residence at Portland Sunday. He was born In Benton county. Missouri, August D, 1849 and was brought to Oregon In a covered wagon by his father, John H. Moores, In 1853. Moores was graduated from Wil lamette university In 1870 and then studied law at the University of Michigan where he received his de gree of bachelor law. He returned to Salem to practice and became a trustee of the Willamette univer sity, a position he held 53 years. SNOW MANTLE COVERS MOST OF NORTHWEST Winter Romps into Ore gon From. Snow Cov ered Cascades Unsettled and Colder4. Weather Forecasted Wires Down in South By the Associated Press Winter romped Into Oregon off the snow ladened Cascades Sunday and Monday frolicked In virtually every section of Oregon, sending mercury in tTiermometers down to new low levels for the season and hindered workmen from repairing damage to telephone and telegraph, wires in southern Oregon and de layra stage ana ran iraiiaportauun. Snow and rain swept Into the state on the heels of a hl?h, cold wind and by nightfall Sunday a heavy blanket of snow had been laid on the highlands, mercury had plunged as much as 27 degrees and communication had been interrupt ed as far south as the California line. The district between Glfflfflale and Grants Pass, Ore., apparently suffered the brunt of the storm. Weather observers said Monday the state would be treated to a taste of real winter with the mer- jConcluded on page 11. column 7) FIRST SNOW OF SEASON MELTS AFTER FALLING Light flurries of wet snow that melted as it fell and a heavier fall during l:ic night which left the ground thinly mantled Monday morning gave Salem Its first touch of white this winter. Before noon all trace of snow had disappeared. The minimum temperature during the night was 31 above. Salem suffered from the storm which swept the coast only to the extent of interruption of long dis tance tc'i phone service. Heavy snow was reported In the foothills east and west of here by motor stage drivers and ice coated the pavements in some places early In the morning, they reported. More than a foot of snow was reported at Black Rock, In western Polk county. The snow plow for the district maintaining the road from Detroit to Niagara landed In Salem Monday morning and efforts were being made to hurry up the delivery, of the plow to the district. While no definite word had been received by the county court Monday as to conditions up there it was certain from what happened in tne vauey Sunday night that a fairly heavy fall of snow must have hit the road and the new snow plow could ba put to Immediate use. While the plow was purchased a few weeks aso it had to be shipped from the middle west and several trace had been sent out for It, as It dis appeared until heard from Mon day on the tracks In this city. SHIP NEARINti PORT Seattle (IP) The freighter Cali fornia, escorted by coast guard cut ters after losing her steering gear In a gale 350 miles off shore Thurs day Is scheduled to arrive In Seat tle at 2 p.m. The ship waa en route irom I'oriiana vo losonmim witu cargo of lumber when forced to put back. of the state, died at the family He was chairman of the repub lican central committee from 1812 until 19U and during that time was manager of President Tail's campaign in Oregon. In 1880 he served as chief clerk in the Oregon house of representatives and two years laier was appointed private rerretary to Oovernor Moody. In 1895 he was speaker of the house and In 1918 a candidate for the republican nomination as secretary of state. (Concluded on'p.ga 10, column e
