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
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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