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CIRCULATION Dallr avert distribution far th . montb ending OeociDMi 81. 1929 UNSETTLED Tontqht and Friday, probably rain; no chanae In temperature. South erly winds. 10,383 average dally ut paid 9953 Uember Audit Bureau of Circulation Local: Max.. Si; Min, 33; rain, 09; river 2 feet; cloudy; calm. 43rd YEAR, No. 26 Entered a second elaaa matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS 3XS&U2&- o) o) WW mm MARKS TO BE PHOT OF STATESEHATE Albany Man Reported Assured Support of 20 State Senators Hold-overs and Prospec tive Members Line up. Eddy Competitor Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN As ever wishing to be helpful we suggest as a banner at the masthead ot the Statesman, these stirring words: "The Water Company, May she ever be right, but right or wrong the Water Company." One way Charlie Hall got his start In life was when he "assisted his uncle as custodian of his horse," says the pamphlet being circulated in his campaign. And we expect if the horse were called on to vote for Charlie in the primary he would say "neigh." ANT AGES TO STAY IN JAIL RULES COURT Release on Bond Be cause of Poor Health Denied by Judge Frick What Is believed to be authentic Information reached here from Portland Thursday that Senator Wiilard Marks of Albany Is assured the presidency of the next state senate. Tlie Information reaching here stated that Marks has secured the pledges of 20 members and pros pective members of the next sen ate. There are 14 hold-over mem bers, or members who will sit with out election. Normally there will be 15. but Senator Corbett of Mult- nomah county has resigned to run for the-Governorship. If Marks has 20 pledges he had had to draw heavily not only on the hold-over members, but on the pros hective list. Those expecting to Tea. we expected Charlie's cam palgn would develop a "Charlie horse." It has been called to our attention that the Oregon statute providing for appointment of a guardian of an incompetent person says the guar dlan shall be "some discreet person or an attorney." And no doubt some attorney drew the statute so ne should know what he was talking about. We wish to make a little belated acknowledgement of the fuss that was made over our "Sleeping In the High School" pome at a recent pre view at Frank Bllgh's theater. It seems our pome was set to music, flashed on the screen with due ack- knowledgement to the distinguished poet and Chuck Bier led the singing. A whole flock of high school lads standing by as a farewell gesture to run In the 929 campaign nave uiei primary elections as well as the November election to go through, so apparently there Is a chance for slip-ups in any pledges now written by prospects. The votes of 16 members are necessary to elect the president of the senate. Senator Eddy of Boseburg has been mentioned as Marks' princi pal competitor for the presidency. Gee, It's great to be a song writer and have your work appear on me silver screen. Us and Irving Berlin, eh? BODY OF DIVER 3 DAYS IN WATER Los Anseles IIP) The third at tempt of Alexander Pantages, multi millionaire showman, convicted of criminal assault, to gain his noerty on bond failed Thursday. At the same time. Superior Judge Pricke. who denied the petition for Bail prefaced his decision with a fiery denunciation of alleged attempts by members of the theater man's fam ily to influence him. The court's ruling was made with out the usual formality of hearing arguments lrom either attorneys oi Pantaaes or the state, both of whom notified the bench they would rest on the testimony of physicians made Wednesday concerning Pantages' physical condition. judge Fricke, his lace stramea from apparent anger, quickly dis closed his decision and Ins dis pleasure with the alleged acts of the family of the theater magnate. (Concluded on page 11. column C) As a reward for the way the car rier boys got their papers around on the dot during the recent snow and ice test one of them suggests that the folks have their money rea dy when the lads show lip to collect Saturday. All right folks, let s go. When the new high school press and censorship bureau gets to func tioning we hope the censor will take one precaution. When he gets ready to give out a news story he should take it to the sleeping room, lie down on a cot for an hour or two and sleep over it. Montreal, Que. (7P A telegram received here Thursday announced that the body of Peter Trans, diver, who had been traDDed 20 feet under water at the plant of the Ontario Peper company at Riviere Aux Out ardes since Monday morning, was brought to the surface at 7:30 o' clock The teleitram received at the companv's oflices here said: "The body of Peter Trans was brought to surface 7:30 tats morn ing. Doctors now e:. ruining body." Trans had been under the Icy waters of the Outarde river almost 72 hours, when the two divers who had flown there from Montreal, brought his body to the surface. A laborer, volunteering as a diver, Wednesday had reached Trans' body and grasped hi3 hand. He said there was no response and hope was practically abandoned then that the man was alive. CHAMBERLAIN'S SON IN CUSTODY Portland Ml George E. Cham berlain, son of the late Senator Georne E. Chamberlaln'i who died In Washington, D. C, was held for Investigation by the United States department of justice Thursday. Chamberlain Is aliened to have posed as a federal ofticcr. - Police Inspector Swennes, who arrested Chamberlain, said the youth cashed a check on a Calif ornia bank In which he hed no funds. Chamberlain arrived In Portland last Sunday on the steam ship Admiral Peoples from San Francisco and is alleged to have registered on board as Captain Cos ta, an officer in the aviation corps at Crlssey field. Chamberlain Is said to have given . a University of Oregon student the check on the California bank. A three column advertisement from the water company on the editorial page of the Statesman Thursday morning along with two-column editorial rallying to the water company's defense maybe explains a lot of things. FAVOR TRANSFER OF DRY BUREAU Washington MV-By unanimous consent, the house expenditures committee Thursday ordered favor. ably reported the Williamson bill to transfer the prohibition enforcement bureau from the treasury to the Justice department with amend ments. The measure was amended to per mit the treasury department to is -sue permits for the withdrawal of industrial alcohol under regulations to be prescribed by the attorney eeneral. Under the original prov sion the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general would have drawn up the regulations Jointly. The bill also was amenaea change the name of the new bu- rcau of Industrial alcohol and nar. cotics under the treasury to mere Iv the bureau of industrial alcohol. This action was taken. Chairman Williamson of the committee sa in order to prepare a way for the other measures now under consider. ation for the tcttlm up of a arate bureau to handle -permits deallni with narcotics under the treasury department. urist Grills Attempts to Work on His Sympathy Through His Family Arrests to Start Of Autoist8 Not Having Stickers Secretary of State Hoss, after conferring Thursday with the Portland police department and soma other traffic officials, said that officer will start at once making arrests of persons who have not paid their 1930 motor vehicle licenses for the period op to Janoary SO. Hoss said that the de partraent Is practically caught up with applications for licenses and that for some time officers have been Issuing warning dips. From now on It will be ar rest and punishment. NAVAL POWER YARDSTICK UP TO COMMITTEE Stimson's Motion for De vising Navy Measure Adopted by Conference BORAH AGAIN SEEKING SCALP OF DRY CHIEF BISHOP'S DEATH LEAVES CHURCH WITHOUT HEAD Chicago Wl The most Rev. Char les Palmerston Anderson, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church of the united states oi America, died Thursday. The passing of the Episcopal pri mate leaves his church without a head and his diocese without bishop or coadjutor bishop. An election of coadjutor bishop who would suc ceed Bishop Anderson was called Wednesday, scheduled for the dio cesan convention here next Tues day. A special meeting of tne House oi Bishops will be necessary to choose new presiding bishop, since no provision is made for an automatic succession. Bishop Anderson had been elected at such a meeting last November 13 in Washington, after the death of mos. Rev. John Gardner Murray, October 3. He assumed the addi tional duties immediately. Upon the death of Bishop Ander son, Right Rev. William Andrew Leonard, of Cleveland, Bishop of Ohio, became acting head of the church. Irregular Readings Public On Meter Cheat Water Italy Again Asks Parity With France Latter Proposes Compromise Washington IIP) After another conference with his informant In the government department, Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, Thursday wrote a letter to Prohibition Com mission Dora nand demanded that John F. Herbert, dry administrator for Montana and Idaho, either oe publicly exonerated of the reported charges against htm, or removed from that district. It was disclosed by Senator Borah that the man who made the report to him on Herbert record was Frank S. Flynn. Flvnn is In the legal department of the prohibition bureau here. Bo rah said he wes under the impres sion Flynn was an agent of the de partment of justice but when ne made this statement, Attorney Gen eral Mitchell chaUenged it. Wednesday night Flynn returned to the Idahoan's office and reaf firmed his previous declarations against Herbert. After a severe cross examination, Borah said he was con vinced that Flynn knew what he was talking about and for that reason ne had written Doran. Assistant Secretary Lowman of the treasury, in charge of the pro hibition enforcement, has defended Herbert against the charges reported by Borah and also Dy senator wnee ler of Montana. In speaking in the senate Monday, Borah said if the report he had re ceived on Herbert was true he had no business "in Idaho or anywhere else outside of a penitentiary." London () IHe entire question of how to measure naval power whether by total tons, or by tons in separate categories a problem which has vexed naval limitation negotiations r years, was put in the hands of a special committee, Thursday by the London naval con ference. - This plan of treatment was adopt ed on the motion of Secretary Stim son, American delegation head, at a full session of the conference per meated by a general willingness to compromise, but marked neverthe less by plain reiterations of diverse national viewpoints. The secretary of state's proposal was accepted unanimously although Italy gave notice that she felt her claim for parity with France should have precedence and that she would accept the decisions regarding limi tation methods only on condition that she have a day in court later. The Italian dissent was presented in pungent phrases by Dino Grand!, Italian foreign minister, known by everyone to speak the full determin ation of premier Mussolini. He de clared that while the whole parity IConcluded on page 11, column.il) NEW SPANISH CABINET PICKED BY BERENGUER By HARRY N. CRAIN At least two of the suspiciously questionable practices of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company in Salem, as revealed by tne capital journal 8 inquiry into complaints of the public against the company and its rates and practices, are to receive the capful and detailed scrutiny of the state PUDUC service commyion wun nw view to correcting the alleged evils they ire found to be general practice of the company. This assurance was given me Capital Journal by the commission Thursday. One complaint deals with practice of the company, noted In a consid erable number of complaints filed with the paper. In falling to read meters at regular Intervals as pro vided by the rules and regulations of the company. The result is w deprive the customer whose meter is read at irregular intervals oi the savings possible under minimum charges. The advantage to the company of such a practice is illustrated pointly Concluded on 'page B. column 6). AUTO COLLISION FATAL TO THREE BLEASE VOTES DRY DESPITE WETNESS Washington UP) Senator Cole Blease, democrat, South Carolina, served notice on the senate Thurs day that he was voting dry "no matter what my Individual opinion Is." The South Carolinan spoke up after a Washington paper had clas sified him as a wet. He told the senate "whether my state U a pro hibition state or not, my people vote for prohibition and I will not vote tor repeal or modification of the prohibition law." PLANTING OF FISH TO BE RESUMED Portland Itf) Matt Ryckman, su perintendent of hatcheries of the state game commiwlion, Thursday announced that active planting of fish In Oregon streams would be re turned as soon as weather moderates. Ryckman said that first planting will be done- In Til'amook county with fry from Cedar Crock hatch ery. Other streams that will receive fish under present plans are Nes tucca. Three Rivers, Neskowln creek, Slletr, Drift creek. Schooner creek and Salmon river. Devils lake and Lake LyteU also will be planted. Lindy's Wife Takes Flight in Glider to Win Pilots License . San Diego, Calif. (AP) Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh Is flizht behind her famous husband Thursday. She is the first woman holder of a first class slider Dilot's license In the uniieo States. Santa Mario, Cal., VP) Three Santa Maria men were killed and one San Francisco salesman ser iously Injured in an automobilel collision on the state highway 20 miles north of here about mid night. The triple tragedy was caus ed bv the excessive speeding of one the victims, who was racing to the bedside of his daughter In Oregon, where she also was an automobile accident victim. The dead: W. L. Judd, 35; C, Spencer. 50: and J. W. Cheno- weth. 25. all of whom were em ployes at the Rosemary ranch here, owned by Captain O. Allen Handock of Los Angeles. Kaipn Henderson. 25. San Francisco auto mobile salesman. Is In the Santa Maria hospital, with a broken leg. Judd, receiving a message oi nis daughter's injury, started with Spencer and Chenoweth to catch a bus that was enrout to San Fran cisco. Driving at what investigators reported was a terruic pace, uieir car hit Henderson's on a curve. The latter was hurled through his wlndshief, but suffered only broken leg and slight cuts. Spen cer and Chenoweth were killed in stantly and Judd died shortly afterwards. Their car was demolished. All that could be learned of Judd's injured daughter was that her name was "Elsie" and that she was at Rainier, Ore. NORBLAD TO SPEAK AT BEND BANQUET Lindbergh Is a first class glider pilot also he has been for more than a wee. But Wednesday the fomvr Anne Morrow, taking her piece in a sail nian.. for the first time in her life. soared aloft and remained there for six minutes and one-tenin scconai, to qualify as the first of her sex to win the national aeronautical as sociation recognition which as yet has been conferred upon compara- ttv.lv few men. It was dillicult fo determine. Madrid (LP) General Damaso Ber- enguer announced Thursday he had comnleted the formation of a new cabinet to succeed the dictatorship of General Prlmo de Rivera, resign ed. The Duke of Alba told the press that he had- accepted the post oi minister of public Instruction. He said neither Francisco uamoo nor Count Mortera would accept portfolios in the new cabinet. The new cabinet was announcea officially as follows: Premier and minister of war, Gen eral Damasco Berenguer. Finance and national economy (ad interim), Manuel Aguelles. Public works, Leopoldo Matos. Justice, Jose Estrada. Public Instruction, The Duke of Alba. Labor. Sangroy Bos de Olano. Marine, Admiral Salvador Carvi- Interior. Enrique Marzo. There was a large crowd In front of the royal palace when General Berenguer announced he had com pleted formation of the cabinet. The premier-designate arrived at 13:30 p.m., after a long conference with the Duke of Alba. FLOOD AREA IN INDIANA GROWS AS RIVERS WIDEN Vlncennes, Ind. (LP) Residents of the southern tin oi Indiana were threatened with a deluge of water and ice Thursday as the flooded Wabash and White rivers rose on their way southward. New Ice jams threaten to unleash more water and Ice and send It running over previously undamaged territory near the Junction of the Wabash and Ohio rivers. Fear was expressed for residents of Posey county, Indiana, which Is bounded by the two streams. In the territory north of the junction the tee and water extends over a strip from 13 to 15 miles wide and the area la dotted with sui'fercrs ho have not yet received relief. Additional supplies were brought to the grit Is trie ken persons Wed nesday by airplane and Red Cross reported relief work was progress ing satisfactorily. While suffering still is acute in places, indications are that few II any deaths have occurred, officials of the Red Cross said. Eighteen families stranded at Bown.cr a bend along the Wabash have been out of food and fuel for days while attempts to bring them supplies have been futile. Aviators prepared to fly over the section Thursday and attempt to drop food. Food has been dropped to the 10 persons isolated in a little hut on Rinebier island, while 20 persons shut in on Cutoff Island also re ceived supplies from the air. CHICAGO UNPAID CITY EMPLOYES BEING EVICTED MILLER RAPS COMPANY FOR LONG DELAYS Commission To Insist That Promises Made . Be Fulfilled Work To Start by Feb ruary 28, Finished by August 15 Chicago (IP) Unpaid for a month and a half, some of the 40,000 em ployes of Chicago and Coolc county faced eviction from their homes Thursday because they couldn't raise rent money. Landlords have gone Into court' seeking to put 11 families into ths snow-covered streets. Reluctant jud ges were forced to giant several eviction orders despite their feel ings but the rest of the cases were continued to stave .off action as long as possible in hopes some so lution of Chicago's debt tangle will result In pay for the workers who carry on despite their poverty. One city employe, Mrs. Louis Mogelepsky and her four children, were ordered to vacate a flat be cause she had no money for rent and no prospects of getting any until millions have been raised and poured into the treasury. Joe Thompson, a school janitor, was ordered out of his $20 a month room. His salary of $127 for Jan uary remains unpaid and there Is no cash In the school treasury for either salaries or coal. Two days of hope for at least temporary relief from the load of almost $300,000,000 In debts that mounts dally filtered through the gloom In an announcement that Oovernor L. L. Emmerson will con fer late Thursday with members of the Chicago and Cook county tax board and a vague announcement from Silas Strawn, head of the 'rescue committee," that "some thing may be done for the county in a day or two." BAFFLING ILLNESS ONLY GAS POISONING O.K. GIVEN TO NEW FASHIONS when she landed after a four mile flight, including successful bans to right and left, who took the most measure In the feat she or her husband. Lindbergh face was liehted bv a broad smile as he watched nis bride pilot the broad winged craft to a feather-light landing, Mrs. Lindbergh when the scram bled from the diminutive cockpit, was beaming. She, Indeed, appear ed to have looked 1'pon the entire procedure as a lark. Her fr- hed (Concluded on pfg. 11, column 61 Bend, Ore. (IP) Oovernor Albln W. Norblad, who arrived in Bend Thursday morning, will be the prin cipal speaker at the Oregon products banquet here Tnursaay mgnt. ine governor was the guest of a group of Bend business men at breakfast in the Pilot Butte Inn Thursday morning and at noon he Is to meet with the members of the Bend chamber or commerce board of dl rectors. The banquet Is an annual affair featuring a menu of products cf this state. About 200 persons arc ex pected to attend. Falls City Residents of this town and surrounding communities en Joyed a mental ease Thursday when the battling Illness of Ed Wirt, log ging company welder at Willamette camp, 24 miles from here, above Black Rock, was pronounced by Dr. A. B. Btarbuck, of Dallas, Polk comty health officer, to be gas poisoning caused by fumes from welding apparatus. The countryside was terrorised when word spresd throughout the district that Wirt's malady was spinal meningitis. Physicians at first partially confirmed this fear, but later diagnosis developed the gas poisoning theory. A special train was made up vo take Dr. Btarbuck to the camp from Dallas, as other means of transpor tation were blocked by closed roads. Another special train carried the pnysicisn ana nis pmiieni vo wc Dallas hospital Thursday. 86 YEAR OLD ROMEO SEEKS HEART BALM Los Angeles ijti A breach of promise suit for 135.000 was filed In superior court by I. W. Hunt, M 7frr old Civil war veteran, against Mri Elisabeth H. Pierpont, mlddle-.-Dd widow, who. Hunt charges, ii'.i:d him alter he gave her an cr.or.iblle, diamond ring and real :'ts'.; u .d'.r promts of marriage WALLOWA PARK PROPOSAL VETOED Enterprise, Ore. (LP) The United States park service is opposed to the establishment of a Wallowa Na tional park, according to informa tion received here Thursday from Representative R, R. Butler and Senator Stelwer. Chief objections to naming the area as a national park are that it contains no scenic grandeur, ttaat it Is not a regular tourist route and that it Is already designated as a wilderness area by the national forest which has the vajor part of the country under Its Jurisdic tion. The term wilderness area, It was pointed out. gives this land a status which requires that recreational uses shall have preference over all other uses. Paris (Vn A representative of New York dress manufacturing I house Thursday gave the Associated Press the "yardstick Ok" he was cabling his firms with which to tandardize length of women s dress es during the coming season. He said it was too early to gen eralize yet, Inasmuch as the fashion shows of the French couturiers would not be completed until early next week. However, it seemed to him that sport skirts should be about 13 inches from the floor. Street skirts will be about the same length. Afternoon dresses will fall to within nine Inches of the floor, while evening skirts will be parrallcl with the ankle bone or Just clearing the toes. The same stylist expected a com promise on the waistline, with the silhouette straightlsh. If not even pulled in, to tight nurmal. The evening siinouettcs at wea- nesday's shows had soft draping around the waistline giving a clas sical Greek outline to the long skirted dresses. Admonished by Prank J. Miller, chairman of the state public service commission, that the commission has tired of the procrastinating tactics of the company and its repeated failures to fulfill Its representations, and would henceforth insist upon fewer promises and more perform ance, the Oregon -Washington Water Service company Thursday filed with the commission complete plans and specifications for the new filtration plant. In filing the plans J. T. Deianey, district manager for the company, . informed the commission that ten ders for bids on the project had been mailed lrom the San Francisco coast headquarters of the corpora tion Wednesday; that bids would be opened on February 14, the award made and construction work actual ly started by February 28. "Water will be running through the plant by July 15, and the sys tem will be in full.opcvation by Au gust 15," Mr. Delancy said. Opening Thursday morning s oon "Tconcluded on pane llTcolumn 6) QUEEN MARIE'S DAUGHTER AND COUNT ENGAGED Predcal, Rumania (IP) Princes Ileana, 21-year-old daughter ox Queen Marie, Thursday announced her engagement to Count Alexander of Hockberg, second son of ttw Prince of Plcss. In an enthusiastic .speech to male and female students at a celebration here the princess said Jheirs was "the happiest love mntch." The princes added humorously that "the attachment was the re sult of a mishap of fate." She promised to continue to watch over charities and the girls' homes which she had created. A com mittee of students later handed s gold plaque to Count Hochberg, her fiance, who was present, In recog nition of his sportsmanlike qualities. Count Hochberg Is second son ox th; Prince of Pless, a small Qrrman principality, and is 23 years old. CHICAGO REDS PLAN PARADE Chicago UP) Police prepared Thursday to prevent any disturb ance that might arise from the threatened march of 5000 commun-u-t sympathizers on the city hall la protest against unemployment. Two calls for police reserves were made Wednesday by the Lleter stores at Van Burcn and State streets when 10.000 men and women, applying lor Jobs, got out of control. The men and women were at the store in antwer to advertisements I for 2000 salespeople. Several women fainted In the Jostling mob. CONFESSES MURDER OF AGED LANDLORD Denver. Colo. IIP) William Moya. 32, Thursday morning confessed, po lice say, that he had slain josepn Zemp, BO, last Monday and then hid the body under the floor of an out building on the aged man's premises. Moya said, according to the police. that Zemp had become enraged and threatened him because he Moya). who occupied the upper floor of the old man's house, had locked up his rooms and taken Zrmn's Daners to city hall on In structions from police after he had reported Zemp missing. Zemp returned home Monday, Moya said, having been In a sana torium undergoing medical treatment. Double Murder Ends Night of Violence In Chicago Underworld Chicago (AP) A night of violence that began with a f 100,000 bombing and carried on with a gangster ambush, came to a tragic end early Thursday with a double murder. The bomb explosion the most terrific In the memory of police- wrecked large one-story brick building housing a wholesale gro cery company on the northwest side. Eight persons were injured and buildings for blocks around were damaged. Shortly alterward Johnny Oenaro. pal of gang lords and with a repu tation of his own, stepped from a club on the edge of Chlcaao'a China town Wentworth and 23rd into a two man ambush and was shot nrobablv fatally. The men stood within three or four feet of him, took careful aim and emptied their revolvers. They drove away h small car and Oenaro lay uncon scious In the street. The Roers Park resi lentlal sec tion became the C3SV of the nlrht's most appalling r.mie. B.vrney Mit chell, treasurer of the Chrcker Taxl rab company, and Ocmae Jackson, found fhot dead In Jackson's eab at the Intersection of Farwcll aven ue and Hldw boulevard. Several bullrts had been fired Into "iConciudd on pas. 11. coluaan