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Newspaper Page TextCI apitalmJoiiimal CIRCULATION Pallr avrs dlatrlbuttoa for ths month udin December 31, 1823 FAIR Tonight and Wednesday but be coming cloudy Wednesday, colder tonight. Gentle variable winds. 10,383 Averast daily net paid 9953 Member Audit Bureau of circulation Local: Mix. M: Mln. 34; Rain. 0; River, 4 feet; clear, north wind. 43rd YEAR, No. 6 Entered aa aacond class matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS OS TKAIN8 AND NV.U TMMl ,'IVB CCNTS OVER HA (g o) CXD A7A J" I 4 X3 XJBJO.H O JO n f l SPHERULES FAIRNESS OF INSURGENTS Townsend Rewarded for Faithful Service by Being Ignored Defiance of Wreckers And Fight on Kowitz Wins Rebuke By HARRY N. CBAIN The "eminent fairness'' with which the council insurgents Mon day night dealt out the committee assignments for the coming year, after having stripped the mayor of that traditional perogative stood mirrored in a pool of shining transparency In analysis of the treatment accorded Alderman Wat son Townsend. probably the most ardently consistent of the council men who have stood pat behind Mayor Livcsley and his policies and the most determined opponent of the destructive tactics of the late born insurgent majority. Townsend. alone of the little group who have stood with the mayor, was stripped bare of all im portant committee assignments and so far as the committee system is concerned is left In the role of an Innocent bystander. Aldermen Dancy and OUara, the other two who stood with the mayor In the face of insurgent on slaught, were Jreated jther gen- Concluded oil page 10. column 6) STORM HALTS FLIERS SEEKING LOST AVIATORS Nome. Alaska Fliers at live points in Alaska and Siberia were waiting Tuesday lor favorable weather conditions to allow them to continue the search for five mis sing fellow aviators. Until three days ago all of them. Including three of the missing men, were occupied in the search for Carl Ben Etelson and Earl Borland, who disappeared when they set out on a 500 mile flight from Teller, Alaska, to North Cape, Siberia, two months ago. Pilot Pat Reid, William Hughes and Jum Hutchinson have not been heard from since leaving Fairbanks for here on Saturday in a big cabin plane and up to Tuesday only one aerial scouting trip over the 400 mile route the trio set out upon has been possible. Frank Dorbandt, who made that flight, was held Monday at Solo mon. 36 miles west of here, by stormy weather. After scouting over 200 miles to the westward of here the day before he was forced to land at Solomon because of en countering fog on returning to the coast. Besides Dorbandt, Matt Niemenen, at Nulato, and Captain H. E. Oaks and Gilford Swartman, at Fair banks, were planning a search Tues day for Reid and his comrades. Niemenen. veteran Alaskan pilot, accompanied by Major H. C. Deck ard and Sam McAuley, left Fair banks Saturday In a sister plane to the one the Canadian, Reid, was flying. They were both headed for bre but lost each other in a bliz zard and Niemenen made a safe landing at Nulato, a trading post on the Yukon, after a 250 mile hop from Fairbanks. GASOLINE TAX DEDUCTIBLE Portland 'V-Clyde G. Huntley, collector of Internal revenue for the Oregon district, said Tuesday that the tax paid the state on gasoline Is properly deductible from Income tax compilations. Since In Oregon the state tax on gasoline during 1929 was three cents, the proper method, he said, to to deduct from the Income tax three cent for each gallon used during the year. Huntley pointed out that the de duction, except in cases where huge amounts of gasoline was used, would be very email, but he said he expected this would not discourage any taxpayer from figuring it in h returns. Tills is the first year any men tlon had been made of the gasoline tax In the Income tax gymnastics because. Huntley said, not many states had such taxes until IS?. Good Evening Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Well we batted 1003 per cent at the council last evening on the slate we put up recently for city officers. Not a darned one we recommended was appointed. Most of our slate can stand it but we feel kind of sorry for Sheldon Sackett not going over. Not that we den't like Myra 6hank and don't congratulate her on becoming police matron again. But It's kind of tough on Sheldon, young and interested in politics as he is. But he'll come back. No man's ever a really good politician until he gets a good trim ming. We hope Myra and Sheldon will shake hands and coopzrate the coming year. POOR OLD FRED "Many dogs have been sent to the happy hunting grounds the past ten days by the poison route, Pred Den hem being among the unfortunate. Walt lost his dog also but not by poison; somebody shot him. Aumsville Star. That's what Pred gets for running around nights. NEW YEAR'S MOKN IN RENO! A friend of ours has handed us a clipping from a Reno newspaper printed New Year's morning. The following excerpt tells the story: "Here and there a broken bottle, a lost glove, a hat or cap were found on the streets. A woman's shoe, one of those dainty slippers with a high heel that once was coated with sil ver, was picked up by a street sweeper this morning. Ke tossed it to one side and wondered." Evidently the lady looked like September Morn on New Year's morn. Ha, ha. Willamette university bas ketball team gave the U. of O. bas ketball team a good trimming. It is up to Oregon now to fire her basket ball coach. A LOCAL RIDDLE "Why did Dick O'Lcary, when he left here, go to Santa Ana?" asked a male voice of us over the phone the other night. "We give up, you tell it," we re sponded. "Because OLeary and Santa Ana both ran away from a bunch of Am ericans," said the voice, and the phone was hung up. And who says a man Isn't remem bered In his home town? BADLY BURKED WHEN FLAMES DAMAGE HOUSE Forrest Fulton, an employe of the Valley Motor company and living at 160 West Meyers street, received burns early Tuesday morning which may result fatally when his home was badly damaged by a fire which is believed to have been str.rtcd from an ovcr-heatcd stove. Mrs. Fulton, although burned, was saved from serious injuries, when she was thrown from a window by her hus band. The window was six feet from the ground and Mrs. Fulton was somewhat .mired from the fall. A 18-monthc-o!d bey came through virtually unscathed. The Fultons retired Monday nisht after filling a small heating stove witn fuel. They were awr.-cned by the flames which had spread be yond control. Neighbors turned in a fire alarm when they saw the flames bursting throuph the room. Although Fulton succeeded in saving his wife and son from seri ous burns, he a as badly scared from the waist t. The Fultons were taken to the P. E. Ackerman home nearby, where medical attention Is being given them. Idaho Wetter Than New York Declares La Guardia In House Washington (AP) The capital's prohibition contro versy fiarcd ui) I'.rain Tuesday with a declaration prepared for the house by Representative Ijft-ardia, republican. New York, who said there was "more rtrtnkin. r ,;,mt in itst of Idaho than th?rc Is in fern York." he city of Idaho Is t:.e hw, state of Srna - tor Borah, one of the Maunchest of the dry.s, vha bar, brrn most e tive recently en the enforcement 'iti'.st.cn. L.i7it?ri;.a rplte of "the b'ocdy murder'' of tL.c members of th? I "rev of the E'.acs Duck r?cntiv wie New Er.gjtna cm t by crsl i PEAVEY READY TOTELL STORY TO GRAND JURY Witness In Taylor Mur der Case Silenced At Coroner's Inquest Former Valet of Film Di rector Says Actress Was Slayer (Copyright. 1630, by United Preu) Sin Francisco IP Henry Peavey, witness in the William Desmond Taylor murder care, nave his ver sion of the case Tuesday to the United Pros. "I cm rilling to return to Los Angeles immediately and tell the grand Jury all I know," the young negro said. "I'll tell them more than the district attorney let me tell the first time." "Do you know who killed Taylor?" he was as!:ed. "I'll tell that to the grand Jury," he said, nervously. He had been awakened from a sound sleep. He arose and wrapped a robe around himself. "Did you not confide In Dr. Thomas Filben that a motion picture celebrity was named) killed Taylor?" "Yes. I did." "Will you repeat it to the grand Concluded on pig"e if, column 5) WORK CLEARING The big new snow ptow which ar rived in Salem Monday for the De troit road district was put on truck here Tucrday morning and County Roadmaster Frank Johnson went up into the district after the plow to get it started under way at Gates. The snow plow arrived Just In the nick of time as Roadmaster Bewley ot the district telephoned Tuesday morning urging that it get under way as he reported seven Inches of snow fell up there during the night and work will be needed on the roads at once. It Is probable that the road may be cleared enough for traffic after this downfall with the regular graders if any trouble ts experienced getting the new ma chine under way. But Johnson stated he believed the plow would be in operation by seme time this afternoon and slinking snow off the grade between Niagara and De troit. F. J. Bruckman, proprietor of the Breitrnbush Hot Springs, was be fore the county court Tuesday aft ernoon relative to the proposal to take over the Breitenbush springs. Further action on the matter has been delayed pending a chance for all parties concerned to have conference with District Attorney Carson. R0SEBURG BOXER TO FACE MURDER CHARGE George Pankey, 20, a Rosebura boxer, must go to California to answer to a charge of murder. Governor Norblad Monday granted his extradition on requisition from California where he is wanted near Corcoran on accusation of killing Billie Dran, colored, November 21. last. Panfcey is under arrest at Roscburg. Norblad also granted the extradition of R. A. Wilson, held at Medford, and wanted in Los An epics on a child-stealing charge. ! Piardmien en-aged in a rum run .lTne ca of t,e BIak Duck," he I. said, "is but another Dirneranh in hh sliamelrss annals of prohibition. "The treasury department rushes into print to Justify the slaying of thpf.e three men." he continued. 'Yet the rrcord li bare o( any fears fhow'ng that the Black Duck had reftid to heave to or was tn anel flieht. The canst guard of- Conrlurt'd' on prge 4. column t StigarExpert Is Utilized By White House Washington M A document read Tuesday before the senate lobby committee said R. L. Purdon, sugar expert of the department of com merce had been asked by the White House and Senator Smoot oi Utah to work out a sliding scale (or su- ear duties. The document was contained in letter from W. H. Baldwin, pub licitv man employed to work for lower sugar rates In the tariff bill, to Junior Owens, secretary of the American bottlers of carbonated be verages. The letter said: "I am enclosing a highly confidential memorandum on the eliding scale which you may be interested in seeing." The memorandum said Purdon had been "asked by the White House i Concluded on page 11. column 8) ' EWAN BACK RESUME WORK Eueene. Ore. (IP) Captain John 3. McEwan slipped Into the city In the wee hours of Tuesday morning irom Portland, cn route to Eugene from New York, where he attended the intercollegiate athletic association of coaches meeting. McEwan plans to resume his duties as football coach at the University of Oregon, although he was informed several weeks ago that his services were no longer desired, unless he is paid in full his salary for the year of 1930, which is (8500. When asked If he had any state ment to make, McEwan smiled, In forming that he had one: "I bear no ill will to anyone." That was the only statement McEwan would make officially. How about the salary adjustment at the university, he was asked. But the captain refused to com ment on that. "I haven't returned to Eugene to make statements, nor to quarrel, and besides, it's Just a pri vate matter between the associated students and myself." "My future p.ans if I return to New York, I expect to start a school for line coaches there. -In all the years I have coached football, I never had a finer line than at Oregon this season. No army line had even approached that. Col bert, Chrlstensen, Shields, Stadel man, Forske, LUlie, Archer, Ardley, they don't make them any better." In case the university desired Mc Ewan to work out the portion' of his contract that calls for teaching English, he said, he would be glad to do so. PERSONNEL OF BOARD REDUCED Tne death of Representative A. G. Rushlight of Portland and the recent death of Governor Patterson reduces the membership of the state emergency board from seven to five. Rushlight was a member of the board by reason of being chairman of the house ways and means com mittee at the 1929 legislature. Gov ernor Norblad, Patterson's successor, was a member by virtue of being president of the senate and contin ues on the board while governor as an ex-o'ficio member. It Is prob able that the emergency board will meet several times during the com ing year. MRS. WADSWORTH SUED BY LAWYER Portland (flf Paul Childers, an attorney of The Dalles, brought suit Tuesday against Mrs. Mercedes E. Wadsworth, also of The Dalles, seeking to collect $1,165.40 attorney fees alleged due for le?al service given Mrs. Wadsworin in the noted John R. Briham will cast. When Bricham died in Portland June 12, 1925 he left an estate val ued at $50,000 and willed it to a number of relatives. Mrs. Wads worth brought suit to establish her self as a daughter of Brieham, born out of wcalock. A Multnomah county court brought in a verdict in her favor. Chudfrs filed a Hen on Mrs. Wads worth's property. PACIFIC HIGHWAY IS NOW ENTIRELY OPEN Roy A. Klein, state highway i pinr, rrports that snow has been cleared from the Pacliie highway in the so'ithrrn part of the rtate rnd ih ht'hvny is now open th.-oughoMt is lrnith. The prrf. ttood hihwav below Grant Pa:. rar, to be cleared early Tuesday ROGUE RIVER VALLEY HARD KITBYSTORM Southern Oregon Digging Out of Snow Reports Heavy Damage Cold Snap Grips Entire Coast; Temperature of 24 Registered Here TODAY'S TEMPERATURES Vale , Baker 0 Grant's Pass Bend 12 Hoed Biver 12 Pendleton 13 The Dalles 10 Medford 18 Eugene 24 Portland 26 Marehfield 2G Astoria S8 Roseburg 28 (By Associated Press) Oregon experienced its first taste cf real winter temperatures Tues day with virtually every city re porting low records for the season. Portland's minimum temperature for the 24 hours was 24 degrees. With the Pacific highway re opened to traffic and promise given that the Redwood highway would be opened early Tuesday, conditions In Grants Pass assumed a normal stage after having been visited by the heaviest snowfall in 20 years. The storm, according to semi-official estimates, will cost the high way department and power and (Concluded on page 10, column 3T ROYAL COUPLE PAY VISIT TO POPE PIUS xi Vatican City W) Princess Marie Jose of Belgium,-who Wednesday becomes the bride of Humbert, Prince of Piedmont and heir to the Italian throne, was received in' pri vate audience Tuesday forenoon by Pope Pius XI. With her were her father. King Albert, her mother, Queen Eliza beth, Prince Leopold and his wife. Princess Astrid and Prince Charles, her other brother, whose title Is Count of Flanders. It was the first visit of the Bel gian royal family to the Pope since 1922, and it was accompanied by the same elaborate ceremony which ma.d the welcome of the Holy See King Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena of Italy December 6. The Swiss guards band played the Belgian national anthem and other papal armed bodies presented arms. St. Peter's Square was clear ed completely of people. pope Pius chatted twenty min utes with the King and Queen alone and then the young people were introduced and he talked with them for ten minutes or more. The queen and Princess Marie Jose were in black with black mantillas while the men were In khaki uniform. His Holiness imparted a special blessing on Princess Marie In be half of her wedding Wednesday. He also made her a gift of a re ligious character. The Pope recalled the prince.s previous visit when she was only 15 years old and said he knew she would be happy with Humbert. He remarked that he looked forward to seeing her and her husband again after the wedding. SAYS WASHINGTON REEKS WITH VICE Washington JP A charge that th city of Washington was "reek ing with vice and corruption,' was made in the senate Tuesday by Sen a tor B lease, democrat, of South Carolina. Blease began his address by saying that the "question of pro hibition rests entirely with President Hoover and the republican party in congress." "Let's see what they are going to do about It, he exclaimed. The South Carolinian said he had been ridiculed for "expoilng" con ditions In the national capltol but said If this city could not have an improvement In enforcement "then God have mercy on those who be Ueve in law and order," JONKS REAPPOINTED Washington P) John M. Jones ass nominated Tuesday to be post-ms-'.er at Portland, Ore. Mayor Again Cites New Charter Need Backs Public Dock Urging once more upon tlic of the city charter along lines adequate and efficient form of mending careful study of the council-manager form for sub mission to the people. Mayor Livealey carried his adminis tration into Its fourth year Monday night with his annual message to the aldermen. Revision of the cliaratcr is the one plank in ths platform of poli cies upon which the mayor was first elected which remains to be carried out. Completion of the bidge pro gram under the bond issue au-1 thorized by the people and a con- i tinuance of permanent bridge pol- icy hi future years through utili zation of money from the special tax levy; resumption of construc tion work on the sewer system, in terrupted by the slump in tha bond market last summer; retrench ment in the matter of salaries be ing paid out of the street improve ment fund when there is no work in that department, and action to Conclutled on pae ll,column fl SMOOT CAUSES DEEPER SPLIT ING.QJJUUKS Washington (LP) A split in re publican party ranks, perhaps wider than the tariff rift, was threat ened backstage in the senate Tues day when Chairman Smoot refused to let the farm bloc applicant go on his powerful senate finance com mittee. Smoot Is understood to have threatened to resign rather than let the farm bloc have its way. Stnoot's action in a secret ses sion of the republican committee on committees caused a deadlock which forced the committee to end its labors, for the dav and ad journ until Wednesday in the hope that some way may be lound to bring about a set:lemcnt. The farm bloc applicants for two vacancies on the committee are Senators Robert M. La ,T"ol)ette, re publican, Wisconsin, and William H. McMantcr, republican, South Da kota, each of whom helped play havoc with Smoot's taritf bill in the senate. Under the senate rules of seniority, it would appear impos sible to keep one or both of them off the committee, but Smoot was adamant. Some of the other republican leaders acting as peacemakers sug gested that Senator Thomas, re publican, Idaho, be named, but Thomas was not entirely acceptable to the farm bloc, with whom he occasionally votes. PERSHING NOT SEEKING OFFICE Washington M) General John J. Pershing Tuesday announced that he would not seek to enter the sen ate from Nebraska. In a telegram to his supporters in Nebraska, General Pership said he never had and did not now seek public office, and that while he regarded the scnatorshlp as an honor, his decision was final. General Pershing's telegram was arid re fed to Mark Woods, of Lin coln, Neb., who recently started a movement tn favor of the general for next year's senatorial race for the seat now held by Senator Nor rls. MOORES' FUNERAL HELD ON TUESDAY A. N. Moores spent Tuesday In Portland vherc he attendrd final rites for his brother, the late C. B. Moores, early pioneer resident and business man and civic leader of Salem, who died in Portland Sunday. Published report appearing In Salem, Tuesday morning to the ef fect that funeral services were held Monday, were entirely erroneous, A. N. Moores said, and rites mere not held until 2 30 o'clock Tuesday aft ernoon. Committal services were private at the Portland cremator! um. MLLTNOMAII MKE Multnomah, Ore. (LP) Fire, believ ed to have been caused by a care less smoker, damaged the Capitol theater here early Tuesday. Eitlmat ed loss was placed at $1500, council the need for a revision which will give to Salem an city government, and recom R. L, NEFF, 60, AT RESIDENC After writing numerous letters to relatives nnd other persons, the tone of which would indicate that he was unbalanced mentally, R. L. Neff, 60, janitor and painter, call ed the police station early Tuesday morning that an officer be sent to his resident at 598 South 15th, and then committed sulce by cutting his throat with an old fashioned razor blade. When Officers Charl ton and Miler reached the house they found Neff's body lying face down in a pool of blood. Neff had traced the words "I love you" In blood across a door v hue many of the letters were fill ed with repetitions of the word "love. Neff, who had been working as a Sunday janitor at the Crofs market had been married three times, his third venture In mat rimony having been started about three months ago. Fear that she would be a victim of Neff's violence caused the third wife to leave him a few days ago. In a note addressed to no one In particular Neff wrote: "I have no money. I owe some bills. I wish I could of stayed and paid them but I could not stand to be humiliated. Enclosed with the note was $14.80 In cash. Neff was employed as a janitor at Miler's store at one time and worked in a similar capacity for W. W. Moore, to whom he addressed a letter. The dead man is survived by his mother, Mrs. Vredenburg, Aberdeen. Wash.; two sons. George A. of Ev erett, Wash., and Lester, present whereabouts unknown; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Peterson, Hoquiam, Wash.; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. Rogers, Salem; Mrs. G. S. Delaney, Ochelata, Okla.; Mrs. Allle Brown, Lennens, Mo., and two brothers, N. Kelley, Midwest, Wyo., and Lon Kelley, Lenners, Mo. The body Is being held pending Instructions from relatives. SLAYER'S BODY FOUND IN BARN Independence, Mo. '-TV The body of George Hostetter, former trapper and prospector, and alleged slayer or Mr. and Mrs. Albert wed die. farmers, was found Tuesday in a barn 12 miles northeast of here. Hosletter was alleged to have killed Mr. and Mrs. Wed die with a shotgun the night of November 3, because they opposed his intended marriage to Mrs. May June Hunt er, 42, a cousin of Mrs. Weddle. A bullet wound near the man's heart Indicated he had taken his own life. Dr. C. E. Krimmlnger, df puty county coroner, said the condition of the body indicated Hostetter had dlrd shortly after the Wrddlcs were slain. Mr. and Mrs. Weddle were slain by shotgun charges, fired through the kichen window of their farm houw. Insurgents Remove Williams To Place Trindle As A ttorney William H. Triixlle, who has offices in the United States National bunk building, is Salem's new city attorney. Trin dle received nine of the 15 votes oast by the city aldermen and the mayor at Monday night s session of the council. Fred A. Wil liams. who has served in the office for four years, received five vote and Martin F. Ferrey received one. For several weeks It has appeared that the lines of the council ma jority were pretty definitely drawn against Williams, and his defeat was all that remained for the in surgent in the council to do to wrest office and authority from all who were friendly to the Livesley administration. Williams has by no means been a "yea" man for either WORLD PEACE HINGES M mm m Naval Conference De scribed as Most Im portant Event in Years Will Bring Sense of Se curity Goodwill and, Cooperation Asked Washington 7P President Hoover Tuesday described the forthcoming naval limitations meeting at Lon don as "the most Important of in ternational conferences of a great many years, and probably the most important for many years to come. "The progress of peace for th world rests in a great measure upon the shoulders of the five delega tions" the president added. "There is good will towarrd the conference on the part of every nation, the importance and the gravity ox the occasion have been recognlxed in the dispatch to London of the lead ing men of every country. They have the will to succeed." The president's statement was made ai his regular press confer ence some hours after he had held a final breakfast conference with American delegates and their tech nical advisers. It said: "I am sure the whole nation bids Godspeed to the American delega tion that leave Wednesday fox the London naval arms conference. The t Concluded on page uTcorumh 7" LINDY AND WIFE TEST OUT LOCKHEED PLANE Los Angeles UPl The. Lindbergh have a new plaything a low-winged Lockheed monoplane with a cruis ing radius of 3300 miles. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride, tested It together, alternating at tha controls. The large crowd which gathered to witness the flight was surprised at Mrs. Lindbergh's participation in the colonel's first trial of the new uhlp. After the landing it was mora surprised at Lindbergh's declara tion, "my wife took the controls and liked the ship's performance." "We enjoyed the flight very much, and the ship comes up to expecta tions, being very light of control, Colonel Lindbergh said as he alight ed and discarded his parachute. Mrs. Lindbergh, with the colonel'a aid. removed her parachute, but said not a word. The plane is powered by 43 horsepower Wasp engine, and is equipped to carry 450 gallons of gas oline. TEX RANKIN TRIES FOR LOOP RECORD Portland (JPh With clear sklefl promising plenty of room for his stunt, Tex Rankin, prominent Pa cific coast aviator, was scheduled to attempt to break the world's rec ord for outside loops late Tuesday, at the Portland airport, Julius Meier, president of the Aero club of Oregon, said Rankin must make more than 13 outside loops to set a new record. It is considered one of the most difficult aeronautical acrobatics. - administration under which be has served. Williams doom as city attorney was sealed as soon as the council majority began to switch from pro administration to anti-adminlstxa-ticn. A year ago Chrs Kowlta was elected alderman. Five years ago Kowitz, then serving as city attor ney, was defeated for re-election by Willlcms. Kowits never ceased to feel the sting of this defeat, so, with Kowits on the council and wleldinc (Concluded on pas 4. coluaan I)