CIRCULATION Dally averts distribution for the month czuliat Deccmbei 81. 1938 omraal UNSETTLED tonight and Tuesday, probably now or rains; no change In temperature. Southeast winds. 10,383 Average dally net paid MS2 klember Audit Bureau of Circulation Local: max. 34; mln. 23; rain ; river A loot; clear; calm. 43rd YEAR, No. 23 Entered u second claaa matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, JO QJIY 27, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS M.f2"Vr. fo)fnlA7 aortal is J 1 LAW STBS ffnrpfo)(g(g SAFECRACKERS BOTH AGREE TO PLEADGUILTY Two of Trio Who Attemp ted to Blow Mill Safe Waive Hearing Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Chicago la reported to be bank rupt and 40,000 public employes haven't received their last pay check. Well, it there are enough guns to go around they should be able to make It during the winter until some more bonds are sold. Second Captured in Port land; Third May Have Drowned in Mill Creek Having been asked no less than a hundred times when the present weather is going to break, we pub licly predict that we look tor a green St. Patricks day. John Miller Hoffee and James Earl West, two of the trio who at tempted to blow the safe in the office of the Cherry City Milling company early Saturday morning, waived hearing when they appeared before Judge Brazier C. Small in Justice court Monday. Ths men made a clean breast of the affair and indicated they would go before" the circuit judge later In the week and enter a plea or guilty to a charge of burglary with explosives. Bail was fixed at M.500 each. The third man, Pied Webter, has not been located. When the trio was surprised at the operations, each one fled in a different direction. Tracks leading down toward Pringle creek, back of the water plant, indicated some one had slid down the bank, while a hole large enough for a man to go through had been broken in the ice. Whether Webber went through the Ice is not known, and probably will (Concluded "on page 0, column 8) SWEET FAVORS ROOSEVELT FOR 1932 N0M1NEE New York (Pi The New York Times, Monday quoted William E. Eweet, formerly governor of Colo rado, as expressing the opinion that onvM-nor Franklin D. Roosevelt of Hew York would be acceptable to dry democrats as a presidential can didate in 1933. Mr. Sweet, who has been a leader in prohibition movements in his own state, is visiting new ior. He said it was time for the dry democrats and democrats of the south to get together; otherwise Al fred e Smith was likely to get the nomination again with no prospect of election. Praising the administration of Governor Roosevelt, Mr. Sweet said: Twice Governor Roosevelt has placed Governor Smith in nomina tion. Perhaps turn arjuui uuiu fair n'ftv " Mr. Sweet condemned decomratlc organization efforts In some parts of the south to discipline ua.- who bolted Smith. RESPITORY HYGIENE Ernie Millfe was talking to Charlie Archerd Saturday. "Do you ever play golf?" Er nie asked Charlie. -Never bave In my life," said Charlie. "I get my breathing ex- . erclses eating soup." It's a good scheme. It also tough ens up the other fellow's ear drums. What's the difference between democratic hard times and repub lican prosperity?" was a question Kenneth Baync put to us on the street. Well, that's an idea. Just what Is the difference? CENSORSHIP OF NEWS PLANNED FOR HISCHOOL Wolf Plans Publicity Bu reau to Prepare Hand outs for Newspapers Capital Journal News of Sleeping Classes and Home Room Cause We note In a current magazine, an article about a committee lor the suppression of noise. We suggest it be exercised on the Dig noise in me Salem city council. A narty called us up on the phone last evening and not revealing his name, said he wanted us to know how much his wife appreciated Sins. He said she'd been sick in bed for a month and this column had been better than her medicine. Thanks, lady. But some medicine la hard to take. , If present plans materialize the Salem high school officials will in the near future create a publicity bureau through which all news or the high 6chool will pass for final censorship before being released to the local papers. Principal Fred Wolf, when questioned Monday morning concerning the contem plated change in news sources, said that arrangements would not be made for such a change until after the close of the present school term January 31, The bureau will follow the prac tice of the Portland schools where, according to Mr. Wolf, news can be obtained only through one major source and only after being checked by a responsible person. At the pre sent time, high school news Is se cured by Interviewing the individual teachers, students, and administra tive officials. The move comes as tlie result or Concluded on page 8. column B) We have received several pomes on the MIUer-Macy-cat episode. The latest Is from Doc Haley of the Miller's Beauty shop, whose girls bought the liver for the cat. But we'd need more sand than Bert Ma cy collected to print these pomes. "Tills is the first time In 20 years I've had to take a drink of water In the pulpit," said the Rev. Payne as he feverishly gulped some aqua while preaching yesterday. Under such circumstances we think the sermon should have been a washout. FA1LST0GET COIN Bend (LP) A safe blower who used nitro-glycerlne failed to show a profit on his operations here Sun day morning when the safe In the Trov laundry was blown for the fourth time within three years. A combination lock on the inner -door of the safe baffled the safeb'.ower. Officers here believe the four at tempts on the sate, two of which were successful, are the work of the same p?rson. The comDinauun " the inner door of the safe was in stalled after the third robbery. at tempt, and little money was in the safe Sunday morning when the fourth attempt was made. The safe blower entered the laun dry after prying the lock off the front door. He used nothing to deaden the shock of the nitro. blow ing the safe door about 20 feet into the main laundry room. MEXICAN PEONS BET $250,000 ON RACE Leon. Guanajuato, Mexico OPV- The residents of Leon bet a quarter of million dollars on a horse race, and the backers of Jesus Ramos American-bred pony. Volcano, were liu ooo richer as a result. This was no ordinary running race. General Juan Antonla Acosta had a thoroughbred named Lior.l. He thoucht Lionel was the fastest thing on four legs In the state of Ouanajuato. When the townspeople heard the teneral had wagerea 10.000 pesos on Lionel, they divided In two ramps, staked their money, and waited for the first good Sun day, LIMITATION OF BOND ELECTIONS HELD ILLEGAL Portland liPi A question as to the constitutionality of the law passed by the last legislature al lowing only property owners and taxpayers to vote on bond issues was raised here Monday by the Multnomah county commissioners. District Attorney Myers stated that in his opinion there was a very grave doubt" as to the law's constitutionality. The question was put to Myers by the commissioners when the pro Dosed new Fremcnt bridge was dis cussed. A delegation waited upon the commissioners last week asking that the bond issue for this im provement be put on the ballot at the May primary election. Myers in a lengthy written opin ion filed with the commissioners Monday advised that "before any proposition for a bond issue or a special tax levy is submitted for a vote in the county a test case be arranged to obtain a supreme court decision as to whether the power to vote on such questions is reserved by the constitution to the" legal voters of the county or whether the legislature may by statute limit such power to the taxpayers as is attempted by said law. ' The district attorney declared that such a decision would be ne cessary, "before any bond attorney of standing would pass on the va lidity of any bond issue authorized. BRIEF FILED BY HILL RAILROAD FOR EXTENSION Washlnirton. HP) The Great Northern and Western Pacific rail roads Monday filed their joint brief with the Interstate Com merce Commission, seeking per mission to build a 200-mne rail road to unite the rails of the two systems. Greater service to west- em America over more than 38,000 miles of rails is claimed by the curriers to be their aim. In Investment only one nair oi one percent of the capital already tied up in the two systems will be required, the brief states, In unlt fn the lines bv building the road from Kedie. Calif,- to Klamath Falls, Ore. The brief continues: "While we do not know what the future has in store we do know that there is a huge volume of traffic movlna over the Southern Pacific's north and south coast routes. We know that this traffic Is regularly and rapidly increasing, first, because of natural growth of the territory and Its enterprises, second, because of Increasing pro duction, and consumption of Cali fornia nirishables and third, be cause of rapid shift of manufacture and distribution from eastern pclnts to the Pacific coast. "It is conceded that this traffic will necessitate double tracking of the Southern Pacific line with in 12 or 15 years, and we think It is shown that the double track ing will be required at a much earlier date. The cosfof this double tracking would be more than three time that of the pro posed new line and would not furnish many of the latters ad vantages. The new line would be of particular benefit in times of war. regarded merely as an added facility, and because of Its great er distance from the coast, would be better protected from enemy raids. These conditions establish public convenience and necessity of the highest order and in them selves alone Justify the construc tion of the proposed line." Prisoner Saws Way From Jail; Sheriff Waiting La Grande, (JPitL M. Ba ker, 27, in jail here on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, spent Saturday and Sunday nif hts patiently sawing bis way from bis celL Early Monday after severing the last bar he was a free man for the moment It took him to drop from the window Into the waiting; arms of Sheriff Jesse Brefihcars. The sheriff heard him saw ing during the night and went around to the cell window where he also wait ed with patience. Police here say Baker Is wanted In Portland on while slave charges, and is wanted In Pendleton and Walla Walla. He has served two terms In McNeil Island. BRITAIN STOPS CONSTRUCTION TWO CRUISERS Cancels Building of Lat est Designed Warships As Example of Faith PHONE TRUST PROBE ASKED Limitation of Fleets and Settlement of Italian Contention Debated Washington (IP) A plea for a na tionwide investigation of the Amer- lean Telephone & Telegraph com pany with a view to setting up iea eral regulation of rates and pro cedure was presented to the senate interstate commerce committee Monday. The specific situation lor which the Inquiry was asked is on the Pacific coast, but the western representatives agreed that congress should go into tne investigation on a national scale. Dion R. Holm, retained Dy me city and county of San Francisco as the rate attorney to represent can Francisco before the state railroad commission In the telephone dispute, and Charles L. Smith, city attorney of Seattle, were the witnesses. Smith and Holm also represented the telephone investigation league of America, embracing the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Oregon City, Ta coma, Oakland and Fresno. All of these cities are served by the Pacific Telephone tc Telegraph company, controlled by the Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph com pany, and all maintain inai tele phone rates should be investigated In a manner which state commis sions have found Impossible because the A. T. Sc T. is not required to submit its statistics to states. The league of California munic ipalities also joined the fight with a letter from Milton Bryan, chair man of the special committeeon cbnclud'eqJhpage8."C0luinn 7 London M") As the naval powers moved toward compromise Monday on two of their most troublesome problems the physical methods of limiting fleets and Italy's demand for parity with France Great Bri tain made a new gesture of faith in the naval conference success by announcing that construction of her two newest cruisers has been can celled. The British announcement co incided with a meeting of the "Big Five" in Downing street at which further progress was said to have been made toward a compromise on a tonnage plan designed to settle the perennial argument on this tech nical phase of naval limitation. At the same time it was disclosed that serious consideration was being given by several delegations to a DroDosal that the Italian parity problem be met by a treaty declara tion in which all powers would Join. This would state that the sovereign right of every nation to build an adequate fleet was fully recognized but that the signatories voluntarily agree not to exceed a certain con- (Conchided on page fl, column 7) BIG BUSINESS TO DICTATE IN CHICAGO MESS Double Minimum Charges for Water Multiply Profits By HARRY N". GRAIN How many hundreds or, perhaps, thousands of dollars the Oregon-Washington Water Service company is collecting in "unearned" revenues from the people of Salem through the assessment of "double" or "triple"minimum charges upon meter service would be pertinent matter for investiga tion by the public service commission particularly in view of the fact that it is under the com- ' pany's application of the rules and regulations of the commission that these charges are imposed and col lected. The theory upon which imposi tion of these multiplied minimum charges lor meter service Is au thorized is that of preventing some water users from connecting mul tiple sets of plumbing equipment to a slngla meter, permitting two or more consumers to split a single minimum charge in discrimination against other person who were compelled to pay the same mini mum charge alone. But the theory, like most other theories, is susceptible to strange Concludedon page 8,column 8) THAWSTARTSAS MERCURY RISES TO 40 DEGREES FORMER KAISER 71 YEARS OF AGE Hog Fuel Price Jumps To $6; Company Loses 38 Cents on New Basis Tho Snmildint? Loco-inff company Monday morning an nounced increase in hog fuel price from $5 to $ 6 a unit with the statement that at that price the company is furnishing the fuel at a loaf. With over 250 hog fuel and sawdust burners oper ating In the city in addition to In dustrial plants the situation has beccme ad acute one for a large number of families, Oliver Meyers, city manager of the plant, stated that hog fuel now being furnished at a M price is costing the company S3t to pro duce and deliver to the customer and that the past two weeks the mill has been operating at a decid ed loss in furnishing the hog fuel on a 15 basis. Wood is now being shipped ID from Lebanon to be cut into bog fuel, "This fuel costs us 3.50 a cord on board the cars in Salem," staled Meyers. "It costs us W cents a cord tn haul this from the cars to the convevor. having to be handled twice by man power. Doom, Holland (m Former Kais er Wllhelm, for more than eleven years in exile, celebrated the 71st anniversary of his birthday quietly Monday. He attended divine service witn his family in the morning. His staff and servants ako were preesnt and later he received their congratula tions. During the day the Hohen zollcrn flag floated on the castle and over the entrance gate. The former monarch then occu pied the time reading hundreds of telegrams and letters from admir ers while flowers arrived in pro fusion from many sources. The former crown prince and princess. Princess Adelbert, Prince August Wilhelm and the Duke and Duchess of Hease, who arrived Sat urday night for the birthday festi val, took lunch and dinner Sunday with the former kaiser. There were no other guests. SPENT $50,000 ON FORMERWAITRESS Muncle, Ind. W W. P. Noffslng er, a former preacher and secretary ofthe Trl-County Mutual Protective association, was held in jail here Monday, pending a grand Jury In vestigation of charges that he spent more than S50.0O0 of the associa tion's funds on lavish gifts to Mrs. Margaret Shaffer, formerly a wait ress In a restaurant at Indianapolis. He has a wife and five children. NoffslnEer Is alleged to have pur chased for Mrs. 8haf fer, a restaurant, a home and two automobiles. The restaurant was the one where she was employed when she met Noff-singer. Chicago (IP) Big business, it ap- peared Monday, will dictate when and how the red ink on Chicago's ledgers Is erased. Confronted with a -rescue com mittee's" take-lt-or-leave-lt attitude in regard to the $20,000,000 pool to relieve one bankrupt condition of the city, county and schools, poli ticians foresaw the day probably this week when they will acquiesce to outside dictation on how to ad minister the money affairs of the city. One counter move to the "rescue committee'' headed by Silas Strawn was underway. H. Wauace Caldwell, president of the school board and an appointee of Mayor William Hale Thompson, advanced a plan to oust the Strawn committee with one made up of four public officials, himself Included, and the same number of citizens "to supervise ex penditures of the Strawn commit tee." Caldwell nominated James Simp son, head of Marshall Field & com pany, as chairman. Simpson, already a member of the Strawn commit tee, refused to comment. Caldwell gave as his reason for the "ouster" committee that public officials "never will cooperate with the Strawn committee." MOSES CHARGED WITH HELPING GERMAN DYERS EHFORCOU HELD FOOTBALL OF POLITICIANS Wheeler and Borah De mand Removal of Idaho-Montana Chief DR. HITCHINS DEAD Ann Harbor, Mich. P Funeral services for Dr. Harry Bums Hut chins, president emeritus of the University of Michigan, will be held here Tuesday. Burial will be In Forest Hills cem-.ury here. Dr. ti mat to l Hutchlns. t.tn v.'C" CJ. CV4 S:.tur- "concluded onVrV. column 7, laay followln, a ,',.:.c ct cpxy. PANTAGES FILES BRIEFS FOR APPEAL Los Angeles (IP) Hie appeal of Alexander Pantages to hts convic tion on a charge of having assault ed 17 year old Eunice Pringle, a co-ed dancer, was submitted to the second district court of appeals Monday. Briefs In the case will be filed later. No oral arguments will be given to support the appeal. The millionaire theater man asked for a reversal of the Jury's verdict which ordered him to 8an QuentJn for from 1 to 50 years. The Jury found him guilty of at tacking the minor rirl and the sentence was automatic. Attorneys for Pantages said that the opening briefs in the case will be filed before February 29. PRINCESS ILEANA TO MARRY COUNT Bucharest, Rumania (AV-Officlal announcement of the engaRement of Princess Ileana, daughter of DowageT Queen Marie, to Count Alexander of Hochberg, second son of the Prince of Pless, is expected next aturaay. The. approaching engagement was celebrated at a family gathering at Predcai Sunday. The thaw, for which Salem and the entire central section of the valley has been praying since sub- freezing temperatures settled down on the community three weeks ago. was definitely under way Monday afternoon with the temperature hovering around 40 above and the sun shining brightly. At noon the official thermome ter registered 38 degrees, the high est point reached hi a month, and Instruments in the downtown sec tion were recording as high as 42 degrees. Snow in the streets and on house and building roofs was melting off in swelling streams that filled the sewers and sent creeks soaring to ward the flood stage. In Mte busi ness section, where most of the snow had been scraped and hauled away, the paving was becoming ex posed In ever-increasing patches. The streets were sloppy, but the sidewrlks were drying rapidly. From some quarters reports came of flooding basements, due to frozen roof gutters and drains so blocked with ice that they could not carry off the water that gath ered under the eaves on the ground. With the thawing also came added reports oifrozen water pipes dis covered. The forecast for southerly winds, jf3oncudedon PRfte 8. column 3) AD CLUBS OF COAST MEETING Portland, (-T) Barber P. Davis of Spokane, executive secretary of the Pacific advertising clubs asso ciation, said Monday at the open ing of the three-day convention of the organization, that "radio ad vertising has not cut into the reve nue of other mediums to as great an extent as alarmists declare." Instead of cutting down expendi tures on other branches of adver tising, Davis said, tho business man has increased his budget to take care of radio publicity. The sensational tpe of adver tising copy, featuring cut-rate bar gains, Davis said, is disappearing in favor of pubilicity that sets forth the general merits of the products of the company. Among tho.se who attended the morning meeting of directors were: Raymond P. Kcllcy, Spokane, president; Mrs. Josephine Wlce, Los Angeles; Arthur Burch, Spo kane, secretary-treasurer; J. V. Cundiff, Walla Walla, and H. B Robinson, Portland. Representatives of 24 Pacific coast advertising clubs will at tend the convention. New York (r) Francis P. Gar- van, president of the Chemical Foundation, in. a statement pub lished Monday, charged that a con spiracy by German chemical inter ests to influence the United States tariff schedules had been aided by Senator George Moses of New Hampshire, Otto H. Khan and others. The statement was issued with copies of a deposition which he made for use in the suit brought against him as former alien proper ty custodian charging that he and others tried to defraud the govern ment of $5,553,546 in the war time disposition of these assets of the Bosch Magneto company. The suit was dismbised in a federal court in Boston Saturday, where the de position is on file. I Garvan said in his statement that during ten years he had "assembled evidence of the German penetration of American Industry, involving cab inet officers of the Harding regime and Senator Moses of New Hamp shire as allies of the German inter, ests in their attempt to regain con trol of the American situation. "The only reason I make this statement is because after this case had blown up, the fight goes on today. Some of you saw the other day that Senator Moses had ap pointed Otto Khan as treasurer for the election of new senators. You did not associate the fact that his friend and partner, Warburg, Is head of the American interest in the American Interesscn Gemein schaft in its attempt to destroy our chemical industry." Mitchell Pleads . for En actment of Changes Suggested in Laws Washington (IP) The prohibition controversy was revived Monday and spread over a wider front. The White House, the senate and Attorney General Mitchell figured In the new developments, while demo crats entered into the controversy with charges of political machina tions in prohibition enforcement personnel. As Senator Burton K. Wheeler, democrat, Montana, was asserting In the senate that prohibition Is being made a political football, W. C. Deming. civil service commis sioner, was protesting to the house expenditures committee that the pending Williamson bill would les sen the Influence of civil service on appointment of the prohibition per sonnel. Attorney General Mitchell pre ceded Deming on the stand, taking the position that more laxity should be allowed in the selection of at- Concluded on page 8. column 4)" RETALIATION IS THREATENED BY MANILA GANGS BYRD DISPELS FEARS OF ICE Long Beach, Calif. LP) A radio message picked up by an amateur short-wave operator here had dis pelled Monday fears for the safety of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, famous explorer, and his party in Little America, Antarctica. The message, caught at his home station W6AM by Don Wallace, was dictated by Rear Admiral Byrd and read : "Much ado about nothing. We cxpoct to be out of cold storage soon. Evidently there is more wor rying in the United States than here at the Pole.- We are taking all precautions. It Is true we arc not alarmed." It had been reported Byrd's par ty was Icc-lockel in tii2 South Po lar region, and faced a food shortage. Manila Anti-Filipino riots fn California, which have caused wide spread discussions In Manila, Mon day had brought threats from Man ila gangster chieftains against Am er cans. Authorities, however, gave prompt assurance that Americans were In no danger and measures would be taken to prevent any re taliatory outbreaks. Police Chief C. E. Pitts announc ed that precautions were being tak en to guard cabarets and strategic points in the city where isolated attacks were possible against indi viduals but expressed confidence that there would be no outbreaks. Labor lecders Joined In the assur j ances. The Philippine Herald, leading I nationalistic dally, reported that chief tains of Manila gangs had al ready held several "conferences and that cooperation In their "vin- dicaticn" plan had been decided upon, soldiers and sailors were to be the special object oi the gang sters' attention, the paper said. The chamber of commerce of the Philippines, a Filipino organization. adopted a resolution or protest against the recent antl-Fillplno dis turbance at Watsonville, CaJ, dur ing which a Filipino was killed. Several other student and chio groups also plan protest meeting. AEGEAN SEA ISLES DAMAGED BY QUAKE ESCAPES PRISON AT M'NEIL'S ISLAND HISIIOP WEAKKB Chicago (A The most Rev. Char les Palnierston Anderson, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church In America, who has been critically 111 since last Tuesday, from a heart at tack, wan reported in a somewhat weaker condition In a doctors oui- cp?n couiury, At'.icns. tP Many houses col lcpsed yesterday on the islands of Psara anad Anti-Psara in the Ae gean Sea during a violent earth quake. There were big cracks In other buildings. Inhabitants were panic-stricken and deserted their homes for the No loss of life was letln iisued Monday. reported. Excuses of Company Feature Water Probe By State Commission The Orrffon-Washinfrtori Water Service company came under the Burvcillance of the state public service commission I a little less thnn a year after that company toon over .c plant from the Batem Water, Ligni Pow?r company. Portland IF) Word of the escape of C. B. Klngsley, il, from the federal prison at McNeil Island Sunday night, where he was serving four-year term on a statutory charge, was received by police here Monday. A reward Is ollered. Klngsley Is a La Ortnde man was was convicted at Pendleton and sent to the prison July 13. Wit. Hl wife and mother live in La Grande. The present owners of the plant had taken over the plant in the middle of 1927. It was on June 4. 18:18. that tlie public service com mission served no'.lce on the com pany that It had investigated con ditions relative to the operations of the company in the Salem district and found that sufficient grounds exlstrd to warrant the commission's Instituting a formal Investigation on Its own motion, to determine whether the rates, rules, regulations, practices and service of the com pany were unjust, unreasonable or dlscrlmnatory. For the benefit of the unlnlilated explanation Is made that to Insltute a pyceeding on its own motion means that the com mission begins the Investigation without being petitioned to do so by the public or by some municipality or organization. After some negotiation between "tConcluded on pas, . column