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MERGER OF HILL RAILROAD LINES GIVEN APPROVAL CIRCUI.ATION Dally vrir distribution for the month ending January 31, 1930 10,474 Average daily net paid 10,061 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation . RAIN . . . . tonight and Saturday, slightly in our tonight 8trocg southeast winds. ' " Local: max. 50; mln. M; rain 31;. river M tnt; part ekmdyfcalm. - i a : 43rd YEAR, No. 45 Entered aa second class matter at 8atm, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY; 21, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS ON T SAINS AND SKW STANDS FIVB CENTS : o) Am) fo) TWO NORTHERN LINES UNIFIED INONESYSTEM Interstate Commerce Commission Approves Merger of Hill Roads Great Northern and Northern Pacific Lose Burlington Control Washington (IP) Acquisition by the Great Northern Paclllc Rail way company of control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific railway was approved Friday by the Interstate commerce commission. Under the order the Chicago, Bur lington and Qulncy railroad, now owned Jointly by the two roads but assigned by the Interstate commerce commission on Its consolidation plan as head of a trunk line system of . its own, would be divorced from the unification of the two north' west systems. Control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific by the newly formed Great Northern Pacific company would be obtained by lease and stock ownership. The new company was authorized by the commission to issue Its common capital stock for the purpose of acquiring the two roads. The Great Northern Pacific com pany also was authorized to acquire (Concluded onpagc 14. column 6 HOOVER MARKED FOR ASSASSIN'S BULLET, CLAIM Mexico City lPyA La Prensa dis patch from Sarf Luis Potosl Friday stated that Nicholas Alcorta, a for mer student there, who Is wanted In Mexico in connection with the shoot ing of President Ortiz Rubio, has been arrested in St. Louis, Missouri. Alcorta is alleged to have sent a letter to a friend In San Luis Potosl congratulating him on the attempt against the president's life and say ing plans were virtually complete for a similar attack on President Hoover. The paper said Alcorta would be returned to San Luis Potosl. Tamplco. Mexico ey-The General Workers' federation Thursday night gave approval to a general strike In protest at arrest of several labor leaders in connection with the re- cent attempt against the life of President Pascual Ortiz Rublo. Date of the strike was not fixed. $25,000 BOOZE DRIFTING AT SEA New York (LP) A boat laden with $35,000 In fine liquors la drifting in the Gulf stream off Cape Hatteras, the potential property of the first person to find it. Captain John Sleverson of the bandoned vessel, who arrived Friday on the liner H. H. Mallory, told how the boat with a cargo "worth its wcicht in gold," came to be adrift. Bieverson said he had been com missioned by John Murray and com pany, to take a boat load of cham pagne and whiskey from Nassau to another Island in the Bahamas. His crew consisted of two negroes. The engine stalled. The ship drifted north. The negroes became panic stricken and transferred to the first boat that spoke to them but Sleverson tried to carry on alone. The Mallory picked him up Thurs day. "It's an awful thing to lose a cargo like that," Bieverson said I've never seen a better assort ment of liquor." RUSSIANS THREATEN WAR ON RUMANIA Vienna (A The afternoon news paper Stunde. which has left lean ings, Friday published reports from Bucharest that despite official re assurances the Rumanian press was apprehensive that a conflict with Soviet Russia appeared Im minent. Rumanian troops were re ported to have taken defensive positions along the Bcssabarblan frontier. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN The Corvallis Gazette-Times edi torially now goes so far as to say our Baptist preacher actually hit the deacon over the head with a chair. No, Claude, you're mistaken. He Just swung the chair. Juct dumb-bell exercises. Claude, that was all. Believe It or not but George Washington was born on February 11 and his birthday anniversary Is always celebrated on February 22. It's quite a coincidence that the country's two greatest men whose birthdays are both observed this month, got their start toward great ness by cutting down trees. We note in a recent book review that John Brophy has written book called "Peter Lavelle." The review assures us this Is the same John Brophy who was author of a book called "The Bitter End." This last one must have been a story about the hop market. We knew that John was good at writing up bank books but didn't know he wrote novels in his spare time. What, do we have to go all through this fuss about high school secret societies again? But with a Wolf snapping at their heels it will be tough going for them. We always know when work be gins to get slack at the high school When the principal has nothing much else to do he starts a war on secret societies. Doc Fred Thompson and Doc Le- bold got in a furious argument yes- terdlay as to woo pnaraon s daugn- ter was the one who found little Moses in the bullrushes. Doc Thomp son says he called up a number of preachers and they couldn't de cide it. So to get at the truth he called us up. We asked a chance to think it over and today are able to announce our conclusion. Phar aoh's daughter, we wish to say on good authority, Fred, was the daugh ter of Pharaoh. As to Fred's Inquiry as to what bullrushes are we are of the opinion they are things which a bull makes in a bull fight. We met Doc Lewis, the druggist. on the streets several times yester day. He noticed that every now and then he would dart Into a drug store. "What's all this about?" finally asked Doc, our curiosity getting to a' boiling point. "The idea Is this," said Doc. "I'm trying to organize the druggists. We got to do something for our own pro tection. These candidates for jus tice of the peace are getting so thick they are a drug on the mar ket," The University of Oregon band was in town today for an hour or so to take lunch. It was be great to belong to a band just playing around all the time, as it were. SHELL SHOCKED YET SHOOTS 2 OFFICIALS Sidney, Neb. iff) Sheriff James Nelson of Cheyenne county and Ri chard Carlson, a deputized citizen, Friday were near death, having been shot Thursday by Thomas V. Tomp- sett, 32, a shellshocked, world wax veteran, who escaped from the slate hospital for the Insane six months ago. Club Asks Repeal of Clause in Charter to Permit Condemnation To clear the.decka so that an effective fight for public ownership of the Salem water plant can be made the Holly wood Community club voted Thursday night to seek first the repeal of the present charter- section providing tnat machinery for placing the question on the bal lot. It was held that the section Is unwieldy and that action can be hastened by repealing It and oper ating under the state law. This was one of two Important policies adopted by the club Thurs day night. The other was appoint ment of a committee, by unani mous vote of the club, to ask the city council to drop the proposed Installation of a fire alarm system in Salem. The club holds that It is unnecessary and a waste of public funds Col. A. Maurice Church, talked the club Into the action taken rela- tlve to the water system. P. M. Gregory, reldnt of the club, bad ARIZONA WB&MYSTER Y SHROUDS FIRST WOMAN FORJLAYING Grewsome Scene Enact ed as Eva Dugan is De capitated in Drop Maintains Composure to End Spent Last Hours at Cards Florence. Ariz. (JP) The name of Eva Dugan, mother of two hclldren, was written on the pages of Arizona history Friday as the first of her sex to be legally executed in the name of the sovereign state. The 52-year-old housekeeper, con victed of the slaying in 1927 of A. J. Mathis, her employer, on his ranch near Tucson, shortly before dawn calmly walked up the 13 steps leading to the gallows and smiled as she stood on the trap while prison officials adjusted the black hood about her head. Unshaken In her resolve, to "show the world I can take my medicine," she went to her death without mak-! ing a last minute statement. Sur veying the crowd of spectators and prison witnesses, she clasped the hand of Warden Lorenzo Wright and said "Good-bye, Daddy Wright." A few seconds later, at 5:11 a. m, the trap was sprung and Eva Du gan s account with Justice was marked "paid In. full." Mrs. Dugan was the first woman to receive the death sentence In Arizona, it also was the first time In the history of the state that members of her sex were permitted to stand on the scaffold as witnesses CQPCluded'onpage 4.columa3) SOVIET DENIES JEWISH RABBIS WERE EXECUTED Moscow (IP Official denials that several rabbis, arrested at Minsk on charges of participation in coun ter revolutionary activities, had been executed were made Friday. The denials supplemented the be lief in well-informed Jewish cir cles that foreign reports were, if not unfounded, greatly exaggerated. Soviet leaders continued to at tribute the world-wide protest against alleged persecution of reli gion to the "war preparations" they say capitalistic nations are making against Russia and held that the "crusade ' was more of a political than religious nature. The antl-religlous policy of the Soviets Is nothing new. Almost from the beginning of the Bolshevik regime, there has been official and semi-official opposition to certain religious forms. The closing of churches, arrests of clergy, and de molition of religious institutions has been in progress for 12 years, first on the grounds that religion was used as an "opiate"' to dull the people's senses, and second In the belief that religious workers were generally anti- government. broached the subject of the organ ization starting a referendum to get the question on the ballot, de claring that H was up to some or ganization outside the city coun cil to do It, and that now was the psychological time. He asked for a motion. At this point Colonel Church got up and ridiculed the present char ter provision under which the coun cil would have to act to bring the municipal ownership question to a vote. He said that In his opinion ' the charter provision "was framed by some group of sly old dogs sev- 1 eral years ago for just such sltua- Hons as now confront the city." I He declared that under the present 1 tconeluded on PM 4, column Closed Car Trysts Of UNKNOWN COUPLE Folks out at D and Winter streets have a neighborhood mystery. For nearly a month now, since February 1, to be exact, they have been intrigued by a mysterious presence two mysterious presences in fact. There is nothing snoopy or spooky about it, nothing secretive at all. It's right out In the open. But that adds toft rather than detracts from the mys- tery. For many days the neighbors have been speculating about It, trying to solve the puzzle. The women whisper. The children talk about it at school. The men discuss It quite boldly when out of earshot of the mystery Itself. And they get nowhere. No one knows any more about it now than weeks ago. The neighborhood nerves have become a bit ruffled at times, and twice tho police have been summoned. But the officers come under some subtle influence when they visit D and Winter streets, and they are cold and un communicative when anyone asks them about It. One day early in the 'month a sedan with a Colorado license drove to D and Winter streets, and parked. It remained there several hours, but (Concludca on page IS, column 7) BAD CHECK MAN SHOT TO DEATH WANTED HERE O. L. Thomas, snot to death while fleeing from a posse of citi zens near Philomath Thursday night, and his companion, Mrs. Maurine Brown, were the pair for whom Marion county officers have been searching on charges of pass ing . bad checks In stayton, mi. Ansel and Dosslbly Silverton, ac cording to Sam Burkhart, Marlon county deputy sheriff, who went to Corvallis Friday morning to Inter view Mrs. Brown in the Benton county jail. Burkhart. In a telephone conver sation with the Capital Journal, said that he learned of nothing to connect the pair with the blowing of a safe in the Turner postofflce last Saturday night. In which they had been suspected of implication by local officers. The Capital Jutrnal was advised by the sheriff's office at Corvallis that the woman had admitted: passing several bad checks in this part of the valley, but the Corval lis officers said they had no infor mation to lead them to believe that Thomas and his companion had at tempted burglaries anywhere. The Corvallis officers credited Mrs. Brown with saying that she and Thomas had been living In a Portland apartment and working out of there to pass bad checks In various p'.accs In the Willamette valley during week-end banking holidays since 1927. Corvallis (A) G. L, Thomas, 26, Portland, wanted for Issuing -bad (Concluded on page 1,3. column 7)J WILL ABANDON WRECKED SHIP Portland v-j. R. Moore, district ajent for the Pacific Steamship company, announced Friday that the Intercostal steamship Admiral Benson, stranded on Peacock Spit, off the mouth of the Columbia river, Saturday night In a dense fog, will be turned over to Insurance under writers Saturday. Moore said Captain Charles Gra ham, commander of the Admiral Benson, who remained aboard the craft after more than 100 passengers and crew had been removed safely i by boats and breaches buoy, prob- i ably would be notified to abandon, the ship. Captain Graham remained . aboard Friday morning. Word to abandon the Admiral ' I uenson, Moore saia, was received I from H. F. Alexander, president of , I the Pacific Steamship company, Los Angeles, who said that the Admiral Farragut would replace the Benson i in the Portland -California schedule of the company. O'CONNOR RESIGNS Washington, (tP Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the United States shlppinx board Thursday asked President Hoover to relieve him from his duties as hrad of the! board. He gme 111 health thc reason for his request. ' PAYDAY FOR EMPLOYEES OF CHICAGO NEAR Chicago (LP) The biggest and most welcome payday in their lives is Just around the corner for the 43,836 city, county and school em ployes of Chicago. So hopeful were bankers and leaa- ers In the city's financial relief pro gram Friday that they raised tne goal in the emergency loan drive from $50,000,000 the amount already assured by big business, to the $74, 000,000 listed by the local governing bodies as their need between now and July 1. Banks announced they would con tribute $25,000,000 if an aggregate of $74,000,000 is raised, or one-third of anv sum over $50,000,000. Pay checks for the more than 40 000 workers, many of whom have not received a cent of salary money since before Christmas, probably will start going out Tuesday, those in charge of the relief campaign announced. Although 18,000 city em ployes received pay for two weeks of the long period, the amount was only a temporary help as it was needed for bills that had been piling up. The plan that finally was evolved after weeks of bickering and frus tration provides for the establish ment of a trust organization by wealthy citizens, public utilities, railroads, big commercial and In dustrial companies and other firms. These reservoirs of wealth will pour their millions into the trust com pany and it will purchase tax antic ipatlon warrants from the local gov ernments. NEW CABINET IS COMPLETED BY CHAUTEMPS Paris (LP) Camille Chautemps. ' leader of the radical Socialists in 1 the chamber of deputies, Informed President Gaston Doumergue Fri-1 day that he had formed a cabinet to succeed that of Andre Tardieu, resigned. The cabinet presented by Chau temps includes the following: President of the council and min ister of the Interior, Chautemps. Minister of Justice and vice pres ident of the chamber. Theodore Steege. Foreign affairs, Aristide Briand. Finance, Charles Dumont, War, Rene Besnard. Navy, Albert Sarrout. Merchant Marine, Charles Dan leLton. Public instruction, Senator Jean Durand. Public works, Edouard De Ladier (leader of the radical Socialist par ty outside the chamber). Commerce, Senator Georges Bon net. Agriculture. Correze Queuille. Pensions, Senator Dr. Oallet. Work, Louis Loucheur. Air, Laurent Fynac. Colonies, Lucien Lonouren. Finance buritt fa new ministry), a. Maurice Paimade. Mable Pays $10 Fine for Speeding In Washington Washington. Mabel Walker Wlllebrandt, former assistant attorney general In charge of prohl bttlon en -foreement, pleaded gnllty Frl drty In police court to a charge of upeeding and paid a fine of 11$. Mrm. Wlllebrandt was ar rrsted last Friday by a po Herman who amid she was driving her aolomobile at a speed of 18 mi lei an hoar. i nnnri'rvn nr LMMkI urn M COMPANY HOLDS SALES TACTICS FAIR Practice of Charging ; Costs t o Operating Expense Defended Hamilton Willing P. S. C. Say $ Utility to Abide by Decision Reduction in the average "unit" cost of electrical power through in creased production, made possible by a greater use of appliances, Justi fies the Portland Electric Power company and other utilities in charging the expense of their mer chandise sales departments to op erating expense, in the opinion of W. M. Hamilton, district manager for the power company. Principally through the sale of ap pliances by the company and Inde- nendent dealers the power company has been enabled to Increase the consumption of electricity In the ! territory served by ,lts Willamette valley division to a point which has reduced the per unit cost of power from S cents per kilo-watt-hour In 1910 to an average of 3 cents at present, Mr. Hamilton says in reply to the announcement of local appli ance dealers that they Intend to seek action by the public service com mission or the courts to forbid the power company from charging sales costs to operating expense. This Increased consumption has not only enabled the power com pany to reduce Its "unit" cost, but " ( Concluded on" page 14, column 3 RAISE TARIFF UPON CELERY ANDLETTUCE Washington (IP) Tarrif matters had a free rein In congress Friday with prohibition shunted aside tem porarily due to a recess in the house Judiciary committee's hearing on bilis proposing repeal or modifica tion of the dry law. Before voting to Increase the du ties on celery, lettuce, cabbage and canned mushrooms, members of the democratic Independent republican coalition which has dominated the tariff debate enjoyed themselves while Senator Pat Harrison taunted the old guard about a newspaper story representing that President Hoover has been in sympathy with the coalition throughout the tariff fight. Harrison drew a humorous picture of Senator "Old Joe" Orundy. re publican, Pennsylvania, circulating the story "in high dudgeon" to mem bers of the old guard. It was brought out at the lobby committee's hearing several weeks ago that Orundy. erst while dean of lobbyist, once had ex pressed himself as "worried about Mr. Hoover's lack of political exper. ience." Some members of the senate chuckled and others sat In chagrin during this break in the monotony of tariff debate. The tariff duty on dried eggs was doubled by the senate Friday in adopting the amendment of Sena tor Howeil, republican, Nebraska, In creasing the duty from 18 to 36 cents a pound. This action completed considers tlon of the ajrlcultural schedule of the bill. After voting further Increases In farm duties, the senate completed action cm the agriculture schedule of the tariff bill Friday and moved on to consideration of flax, hemp and Jute rates. RECORDER POULSEN SUFFERSA STROKE Martin Poulsen, city recorder and police Judge, was stricken while standing in front of the White House restaurant at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and taken to the Salem General hospital by ambu lance. Judge Poulsrn was carried Into the restaurant and Dr. J. D. Oarnjobst called. This Is the second stroke that Judge Poulscn has received, the first occurlng last fall when he fell on the stairs at his apartment At that lima he was confined to his bed for several weeks while recuperating. Plan to Build 2 Apartment Houses Soon A. H. Hansen of Hansen & Lil jequlst Sash is Door factory, an nounced Friday that he la now having . plans drawn for the con struction of two apartment houses on the property about a quarter of a block square at Capital street and Nebraska avenue and work is expected to go ahead as early in the spring as possible. The apart ment house, he states, will be of brick construction and the most modemly equipped it will be pos sible to make them. The apart ments on the interior will all be done In a mahogany finish. Each will be a single story in height Each building will contain 10 four (Concluded on page 15.column 7) NEW OREGON COACH GREETED AT PORTLAND Portland (IP) Dr. Clarence W. Spears, newly elected football coach at the University of Oregon, step ped off a train at Union Station Friday to receive a rousing welcome from city officials and alumni of the University of Oregon. The husky, affable coach exhib ited his broadest smile when Mayor Baker greeted him In characteristic breezy fashion before cameramen. -Di Arnold - Bennett-Hall, presi dent of the University or Oregon, and George Godfrey, head of the public relations department, accom panied Dr. 8 pears on the train from Vancouver, Wash., to Portland. I "Dr. Spears, we're pleased to have you come to Oregon," said Mayor Baker. And "Doc' Spears made It very plain he was happy to be here. A group of alumni led by Edgar D. Smith and Lamar Tuoze, presi dent of the Portland alumni asso ciation, formed a rcceptian commit tee. Virgil D. Earl, director of ath letics at the University of Oregon, and Dr. John T- Bovard, head of the department of physical educa tion, were among those who came down from Eugene to meet the new coach. Dr. Spears apparently had heard that it rains in Oregon for he wore his rubbers, despite a bright sun and a tang of "football" in the air. JAPS REELECT GOVERNMENT Tokio (LP The Minseito (govern ment party) Friday claimed on the face of incomplete returns, the elec. tion of a majority of members in the lower house of the Japanese diet, Reports indicated, however, that Tsuyoshi Inukal, 7Q year old leader of the Seiyukal (opposition party) a stalwart of the old school of Japa nese politics and bitter opponent of Premier Yuko Hamaguchl, had won his seat. Among those apparently defeated were Professor Ijwo Abe, socialist democrat, who is known as the Jap anese "father of baseball." and Toy ohiko Kagawa, beloved worker in the slums of Tokio and other cities, who was a "drafted" candidate. Rabbits to be Given Young Performers in Matinee at Capitol On Saturday afternoon will be launched an entirely new feature in the first of the Capital Journal-Capitol theater special Saturday afternoon matinees for children, when about a dozen more or less, Ba - lem boys and glrLs contribute in teresting bite ot entertainment for the edification of the other mem bers ot the audience. Prizes of real, live lucky rabbits This Coupon and Five Cents Will admit any Salem youngster 12 years of age or - younger, to the Capital Journal Souvenir Matinee Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock at Bligh's Capitol Theater To See and Hear "Tarzan The Tiger" LIMEN THREAD KING BUYS III MILES PLANT Largest Manufacturer Purchases Treasury Stock in Local Mill Capital Stock to be Doub led and Plant Probably Expanded The Barbour brothers company of New York City, among the larg est linen thread and twine manu facturers in the world, has pur chased the outstanding treasury stock in the Miles Linen Mill ot Salem amounting to $50,000. Pre diction Is made of an early doub ling of the 200.000 capital stock-of the mill. In addition it Is pre dicted that the present capacity ot the mill will be doubled in the near future, probably during tha com ing summer. While directors and officers of the mill declined to comment on the reported purchase the- Information comet from ft source such as to make it .unques tioned. Invasion of the Oregon thread and twine field by eastern capital Interested In flax development to tho magnitude of the Barbour company Is the eonsumatlon of ft " (Concluded on page 14. column 6 SOVIET GRILLED FOR PROPAGANDA IN ARGENTINA Buenos Aires, (U Recognition of the 8oviet government Is "un thinkable so long as the soviet persist in Ignoring the principles which are the basis of international law," La Prensa declared Friday, citing recent Instances of alleged abuse of the law in the western hemisphere. "The Soviets," the newspaper continued, "defy the sovereignty of other nations by promoting com munist propaganda, as in the re cent incidents at the Mexican em bassy and in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. "Governments which observe the first principles of civilization, such as respect for liberty of thought and personal liberty should not be anxious to maintain official rela tions with a government and country where political assassina tion Is a public institution and where the Individual is the slave of the state. "After proclaiming the abolition of the death penalty, the Soviets resort to it without formality of any kind, while filling Uie air with protests when other countries ap ply the psnalty after impartial trial by properly constituted court. "Mexico and other American countries anxious to show political advancement. Imprudently recog nized the Soviets, but they havent been long In discovering that they navo uauiea wun ft aangerous friend." - will be awarded to all Juvenile performers. Other features on the program will include the sound pictures 0f"O.iwald, the Lucky (Concluded on page 4. column
