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. -
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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