A GaoitalJa CIRCULATION Dally averas distribution for ths nwotb tndlnt August 31. 1930 10,568 Average daily net paid 10,155 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation FAIR tonight and Tuesday, normal tent perature. Gentle changeable winds. Local Max 7: Mln. 51; Rata ; River -2.1 feet; partly cloudy, north wind. 42nd YEAR, No. 220 n.,"Dtt SALEMt OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND I STANDS FIVC ONTS "?o)fo)o)n(g Siftlrlroll Ml JV 1, uwi o jo a TRADE STREET ISSUE TO AGAIN BE POSTPONED Councilmanic Objections To Cause Rewriting of Vacation Ordinance Special Meeting for Next Monday Likely to Con sider Propect. A possibility that another spe cial meeting of the city council possibly next Monday night, may be necessary before the Trade street vacation issue is' settled, loomed Monday. Prom a technical point of view some members of the council have objected to the ordinance In connec tion with the language applying to the rights of private concerns to vacated streets. So that the bill may be made to conform without question to all court decisions that have been written on the subject It appeared Monday that sponsors of the bill would rewrite parts of It and introduce it as a new ordin ance. Should action on the bill In Its new form be taken Monday night it would be necessary either to have (Concluded on page 10. column 8) HAND GRENADE STARTS WARSAW POLITICAL RIOT Warsaw OP) Two persons were silled and 23 wounded In the course of a clash between political demon' strators and policemen here Sunday afternoon, About 100 persons, many of them armed, were arrested after the fracas. The government version of the In cident said police attempting to die perse a crowd of 2000 leaving a hall where they had met to form a par. Ilamentary bloc in opposition to Marshal Pllsudski had to move upon the crowd with its rear, since women were posted in front. Some one threw a hand grenade Into the crowd of gendarmes, wound tng a police officer and several of the crowd, the police retaliating with revolver fire. Of the dead one was a civilian and one a policeman. Three of the 23 wounded were po licemen. Another version of the affair said a group of communist joined the crowd as it left the hall and that one of them threw the hand grenade which precipitated fighting and mu tual firing. NAVAL OFFICER TAKES OWN LIFE Hew York iPt Lieutenant Wood vard Phelps of the United States navy, eldest son of Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps, was found dead Sunday night aboard the u. S. S. Northampton, in dry- dock at the Brooklyn navy yard with a bullet wound In his temple. Captain Vemond of the cruiser said no reason was known why the young officer should have commit ted suicide, and declined to call the death a suicide until an official re port was made, but the lieutenant was believed to have shot himself. Lieutenant Phelps was graduated from the United states naval acad emy at Annapolis, Md., In 1924. He was 29 and was married to a young Maryland woman whose maiden name officers of the Northampton did not recall. END APPROACHING FOR MOTHER JONES Washington, (Py "Mother" Mary Jones, militant labor crusader dur tnj manw of her 100 years realized Monday that the end was near. Unable to take nourishment, ex cept a heart stimulant, she could not sleep last night, and as she tossed on her bed she repeated over and over that she was about to die. Monday, physicians said she had lost the ground she gained Sun day when she took a small quantity of cocoa. Despite her weakness, "Mother- Jones declined the ser vices of a special nurse, offered by a person who remained anonymous. She said present attendants could supply all her needs. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Why worry about Julius Meier paying back bis salary as governor if elected. Shosld this event happen tbea the state weald be paying Julius exactly what his services would be worth. Reed Rowland says he Isn't go ing deer hunting this year because the woods will be so full of hunt ers he wouldn't feel safe unless he went hunting with a tank. Well, Reed, you can find a lew tanks around here without much trouble. We dropped in on Lawyer Foster Cone In his office this morning and found him reading a big book. "Looking up something on the law of trusts," said Foster, sort or ex planatory like. We can advise Foster that the best law of we know on this trust stuff Is never to trust no body at no time. We notice in the phone book there's a chap over In Dallas named W. M. Slppy. That's the sort of name to have If a chap wants to get along In this world. Brother Woodcock, the new fed eral prohibition director says one of his policies will be to try to get federal dry agents to use their brains. We should think the first move would be to get some federal dry agents with brains to use, Bert Ford was steering Phil Metschan around town today. Ah, there Bertl Want to be supreme Judge some day yourself, hey? POLITICAL NEWS NOTE Homer Foster Is making a great hit on our streets with a big sign "Meiet for Governor," tacked onto the front bumper of his car. He won't say whether Julius paid for the sign. Clarence Bowns was figuring on starting out deer hunting today but his family said he didn't look good In a red hat so he Backed out. STEAMER USED AS DISTILLERY SINKS INFLAMES St Louis on The charred hull of the stern-wheeler steamboat Illinois, lay at the bottom of the Mississippi river Monday, supposed ly burned by lncendlarists who sought to cover up ihe operations of the old craft as a floating dis tillery. Just ss federal prohibitionists were about to Investigate the boat, it disappeared from a dock at Al ton, 111., early Sunday and wa sent floating down the river, a tow ering mass of flames. It was the first floating distil lery ever to come to attention of federal operatives here, and they suspect it was the largest source of alcohol hereabouts. Estimates of its dally capacity ranged from 600 to 1,000 gallons. The old vessel had a long and honorable career on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, first as a packet and later as a fish and game con servation boat. It was equipped with large tanks, formerly used to carry live flsn. The Illinois first came to the at tention of prohibition' agents in August, when' It was found anchor ed between two barges, one of Which was filled with whisky mash and the other with distilling utensils and fuel. The agents returned the next day with a search warrant, but the old stern-wheeler had vanished and the barge with the mash was scuttled before they were able to reach the scene. Fog Forces Bromley To Put Back After 25 Hours Over Pacific Tokyo (AP) A valiant American aviator, to span the City of Tacoma, ended Monday when he and his co-pilot, Harold Oatty, were forced by ad-ad verse weather to return within a few miles from where they had taken off for America nearly 25 hours previously. Bromley landed the huge mono plane near the village of Shltsukarl on Cape Shiraya, Aomori prefec ture, at t a. m.. (1 p. m., P. 8. T.) Neither the pilot or Oatty were injured. Dispatches said the plane was slightly damaged. The monoplane, attempting a 4.500 mue flight over the ocean to Tacoma, Wash., was in the air 24 hours and 52 minutes and from calculations apparently had flown ASK 5 MILLIONS FOR MUNICIPAL POWEflPLANT Ordinance To Be Intro duced in Council To night for Bond Issue Charter Amendment to Be Submitted to Vot ers at Election An ordinance bill providing for a $5,000,000 bond Issue and which will be the first step towards municipal operation of a power and lighting plant in Salem will be Introduced at the city council meeting Monday night. The ordinance will provide for a proposed charter amendment to be voted on by the people in Novem ber. It will be read (irst.and second times Monday night and a special meeting of the council called for Thursday or Friday night of this week to take final action on it. The proposed amendment will authorize the city to enter into the business of manufacturing electrical energy as a municipal enterprise. It will give authority to the city for acquiring water rights and property (Concluded on page 9. column 4) MAIL RECEIPTS OF 50 CITIES NOT PUBLISHED Washington Post office depart ment officials admitted Monday that monthly statements on postal re ceipts of the 50 largest cities had not been Issued recently, as cnarged bv Senator Barkley. democrat, Ken tucky, In a statement Sunday night. Acting Postmaster General Arch Coleman denied, however, Barkley's assertion this had been done to keep the "real facts concerning unem ployment and business depression" from the public. Coleman said the department "has no disposition to conceal anything." Postmaster General Brown .was out of the city Monday and Coleman said a formal reply must await his return Tuesday. Coleman said that while postal receipts were off this August as compared with a year ago, allowance should be made for five Sundays in this August when comparing the two . months. At the post office department press headquarters, where the state ments formerly were Issued, it was explained they had not been Issued because they were not regarded as worth publishing from a news standpoint. NATIONAL GUARD TO PROTECT NEGRO Cartersville, Ga. P National guardsmen were dispatched here Monday at the direction of Adju tant General Parker after crowds gathered at a Jail In which John Willie Clark, 22, negro, is being held for the slaying of Police Chief Joe Jenkins. A detachment of fifty men later reinforced sheriff's deputies and po lice at the Jail and the crowd dis persed. Clark, an escaped convict, was captured Sunday after being shot twice through tne nip He is saia to have told officers he shot Chief Jenkins accidentally in a scuffle. attempt by Harold Bromley, Pacific ocean in his monoplane approximately 2,400 miles. The plane had reaced 300 miles beyond Cape Lopatka, nearly half way to the westernmost Aleutians, before turning back when the fliers en countered thick fog and head winds. Fear for the fliers' safety had Increased when no reports were re ceived sfter it began Its hazardous flight. Although the plane carried a wireless set, operators on the ships at sea and land stations were unable to pick up signals from the fliers. Before their take-off from 8am Tconciuded on pate 11, column S Bailey Talks on Campaign To Chamber Economic problems determining the development of the state have been made political issues to such an extent that solution has been lost sight of and resulted In Oregon gaining much unfavorable public ity and making no progress towards a cnange xor uie Better, state sen ator Edward F. Bailey, of Junction City, democratic nominee for gov ernor, stated at the opening fall luncheon of the chamber of com merce Monday nocn. Readjust ments of taxation and the devel opment of transportation facilities, chiefly inland waterways and nar- (concluded on page 10, column 5) PRICE OF OAS RAISED CENT BY LOCAL DEALERS Following announcement by the Standard Oil company In California last week that the price of gasoline would be advanced by them one cent a gallon on September 15, four of the six oil companies operating in the Salem territory had placed similar price increases in effect here Monday noon. Retailers handling the products of Standard, General, Shell and Oil more companies had been notified to advance the retail price of gaso line to 24 cents a gallon. Local agents of the Associated and Texas companies said they had not been advised of any in crease by their companies. San Francisco (flV-Pacific coast motorists were paying one cent more' a gallon for gasoline Monday as all but two of the major oil com panies Invoked a one-cent increase. The exceptions were the Associat ed and Texas companies. Officials of these two corporations were slat ed to meet Monday and it was ex pected they would follow the lead of the other companies. Standard Oil company announced the Increase last Friday as a relief measure for the independent refin ers. KELLY CLEANS UP OLD DOCKET ' When the new circuit Judge as cends the bench on October 6 for the October term of circuit court to succeed Circuit Judge Kelly who Is becoming Justice of the supreme court by virtue of appointment from the state's chief executive, the new Judge will find he has a clean slate to work on in department No. 1. While there will be a heavy doc ket, one of the heaviest yet con fronting the department, it will be all new cases and the old stuff, down the odds and ends will be out of the way. AS far as Marlon county is con cerned In department No. 1 pre sided over by Judge Kelly the last 19 years, the departing Judge has no motions, demurrers or argu ments of any kind under advise ment. A few small orders coming In from him a number of days ago cleared up all such motions and de cisions on arguments. He also has the docket set for the main portion of the October term, the grand Jury for the October term has been named and charged, and in every detail the Jurist is leaving his court room here In a state of immaculate order for his successor. THREE KILLED IN MID WEST STORMS Kansas City, IJPy Lightning and wind storms accompanying heavy general rains killed three persons. Injured many others and caused considerable property damage In Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma over the week end. The rainfall filled the creeks to overflowing and threatened to send larger streams to high stages. In Oklahoma the precipitation dissi pated a heat wave. A lightning bolt striking during a rain and hall storm near Rush Center, Kansas, Saturday killed Roy Case, 37, and Herbert Herb ler, 52. Gilbert Sol to. 9. was killed by lightning Sunday near St. Char les, Mo. Windstorms of near hurricane velocity swept northern Oklahoma causing 1100.000 damage at Tulsa and Injuring four persona. A huge oil tank near Maud, Okla., explod ed when struck by lightning, de fraying seven dwellings.. SELECTION OF CIRCUIT JUDGE IS POSTPONED Governor Delays Action Because of Protest Against Lewelling Norblad States Several Lawyers Withdraw From Support of Hill Governor Norblad's anticipated action in announcing the appoint ment of L. a. Lewelling, district at torney of Linn county, to the va cancy on the circuit court bench for the third Judicial district, compris ing Marlon and Linn counties, did not materialize as slated Monday and the governor gave out the in formation that it would be several days before he makes the appoint ment. Announcement of the delay coupled with a further statement of the governor that several of the 26 Linn and Marion county lawyers who appeared before him as a dele gation Saturday to urge the ap pointment of Gale S. Hill, Albany attorney, had come to him privately and recommended the selection of Lewelling, had served to further complicate a much-tangled situa tion Monday. Leaders of the delegation which Saturday waited upon the governor in behalf of Hill declared Just after noo that a check up of the attor neys In the Saturday delegation, made both here and at Albany dur ing the morning, lound every mem-. (Concluded on page 9. column fl SECOND GIRL SLAIN IN SLEEP AT SOUTH BEND South Bend, Ind. (IK One white man and two negroes were arrested for questioning Monday as a cor oner's Jury began its inquiry Into the second murder of a young girl here within the last three weeks. Still at a high pitch of resent ment over the slaying of 0-year-old Marvlne Appel in August, South Bend was stirred by excitement over the murder of Alice Woltham, 17, whose throat was cut as she lay asleep Sunday morning In a room with a younger brother and two sisters, Edward Smith, one of the negroes arrested was questioned at once by detectives. He was a neighbor of the Woltham family and had been In the home a number of times. The white man and the other negro were held as material wit nesses. Alice was slain by a man who crept through the window of the bedroom where she and an 8-year-old brother were sleeping on one bed and the two sisters on an other. A razor-sharp blade was drawn across her throat and her assail ant leaped from the window and escaped. RUTH'S PROBERS HOLD SESSION Chicago (IP) Members of the sen ate committee Investigating the campaign expenditures of Ruth Hanna McCormick, republican sena torial candidate, met in private con ference Monday to discuss ques tions of strategy preliminary to the resumption of the Inquiry. The conference was held in the suite of Senator Gerald P. Nye, committee chairman, st the Pal mer house and was believed to cen ter about Mrs. McCormlck'a admit ted hiring of private detectives to trail Nye and committee operatives. Senators Clarence C. Dill of Washington, Roscoe C. Patterson of Missouri, and Robert E. Wag ner of New York, participated in the Investigation for the first time and were given a review of past hearings, the most recent of which Senators Nye and Porter H. Dale of Vermont conducted several weeks ago. GOKBEL STARTS FLIGHT hnntnwl.l. f. T II 0 im m. bel left here Monday on a one stop utgni to los Angeles, ne wui re fuel st Wichita, Kan. Ooebel said he would make no attempt to better Captain Frank Hawks' transconti nental time althourh he honed to make especially good speed with tall winds. Six Armed Bandits Rob Everett Bank Get $30,000 Loot Everett, Wash. (AP) Six men armed with sub-machine guns held up the Citizens Security bank at 12:20 p. m. Mon day and escaped after cleaning the cash out of the tellers' trays and the-vault. Patrons and bank employes were lined up against the wall during the holdup. Bank officials said after a hurried check that $30,000 had been taken. About 50 persons, employes and patrons, were in thel Q 1 II T)fi 1 110 I 01 bank. The men drove away in a car bearing license plates No. 236-281, witnesses said. The car was de scribed as a Chrysler sedan. One man remained at the wheel and another outside the bank with a gun on his shoulder. The four others entered, and while one held the employes and patrons at bay, three took the money. Vice-President Frank Cooper and a teller were forced to open the vault. Patrolman Fred Lawrence was near the bank and as he rushed to (Concluded on page P. column's)" BOSSY GILLIS CANDIDATE FOR U. S .SENATE Kewburyport, Mass. (LP) "Bossy'' Olllis, former sailor serving his second term as mayor of Newbury port, will be greatly surprised if he wins the republican nomination for United States senator In Tues day's state primary election. He made this admission Monday in discussing his prospects In the fight In which he Is opposed by William M. Butler, former senator and former chairman of the re publican national committee, and Eben 8. Draper of Hopedale. "I'm not kidding myself that It's going to be a cinch for me to win," the mayor said Monday. "I know I'm stacked up against two mil lionaires and it's, going to be a tough race. I'll be very much sur prised if I win, but I've got every thing to win and nothing to' lqse; so I'm not worrying." "Bossy" has adressed rallies throughout the state and has re sorted to radio broadcasts, but, be pointed out, "my campaign expen ditures have been well within the legal limit." The unemployment problem has served as the basis for his campaign. "Work Is the most Important thing for the working man,'' he has told his audiences, adding a promise to strive for Improvement in employ ment conditions If sent to the sen ate. COULTER PUT ON . TARIFF BOARD Washington (JPi Dr. John Lee Coulter, of Fargo, N. D., chief econ omlst of the tariff commission, has been selected by President Hoover as one of the members of the reor ganized tariff commission. Coulter is a republican, the second representative of that party to be placed on the bi-partisan commis sion of six members. Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvan ia, also a republican, has been ap pointed chairman by the president and the selection of Thomas Walker Page of Virginia, a democrat, also has been announced. The North Dakota man is a for mer president of the North Dakota Agricultural and Mechanical college. During the war he was connected with the war Industries board and before that was a member of the American commission to Europe to study economics and credit. WOMAN VICTIM OF RADIUM POISONING West Orange, N. J. IP-Mrs. Anna Stasl, 37, Is dead and there Is one less name on the "book of doom" Monday. Radium poisoning, contracted while she painted watch dials for United States Radium corporation from lsll to 1923. was given ss the cauie of Mrs. Stasis death. Fif teen of her fellow workers have sue cumbed to the slow poison, and 15 times has the ' book of doom" been shortened. The "book" consists of a secret list of company employes who painted dials and who apparently face the same fate. How many names still remain on the book has not been revealed. nnlLnUnUO H0IV NO REDUCTIONS IN COAST RATES Washington (LP) Reconsideration and modification of the recently authorized reduction on Brains and grain products In western trunk lines territory was asked of the inter state commerce commission Monday in a brief filed by roalroads serv ing Inter-mountain and Pacific coast territories. Declaring they would suffer "Ir reparable loss" through the new rates, the carriers served notice that if the commission did not modify Its orders they were pre pared to Introduce sufficient new evidence to Justify the relief sought. The roads contended the com mission "erred" in making the re duced rates applicable to inter mountain and Pacific coast terri tories. They pointed out that be cause of the more difficult hauls over the mountains, the commis sion would be Justified In allowing them to collect higher rates than other western trunk line carriers. Regarding the Joss of revenue, the petition declared the carriers already had suffered great loss through reduction of rates on deci duous fruits, which the supreme court later declared invalid. They pointed out, however, that noth ing was contained in the supreme court decision ordering the com mission to reestablish previous rates to compensate the carriers for loss of revenue suffered during the two years the reduced rates were in effect. ARRESTED FOR SLAYING HERMIT San Francisco IP Philip Man gerene, 23, taxi driver, and John Cu sock, 22, were held by police Mon day accused of the recent brutal murder of Olovannl Marcelll, 72 year old "hermit of Visitacion val ley." Authorities claimed that they had traced the pair by means of a faint clew white paint on automo bile tires. Neighbors of the aged hermit re ported that a car with white tires had been seen In front of Marcelll's shack the day of the murder. A girl, Mrs. Josephine Oreiner Mitchell, was held in Los Angeles, police stated, implicated In the slay ing by a confession made by Man gerene. All three were arrested Sun day. Mangerene, police declare, reveal ed that he and Cusock attempted to rob the aged man of $9000 they had heard he possessed. Marcelll was found badly beaten several days ago bound to a chair in his hut near here. He died later, only being able to reveal that he had been attacked by two young men and a girl. 10 Injured in Auto Crashes in Marion County Over Sunday Ten persons sustained more or less severe Injuries on vt.;,.n Aminiv rnnrla in automobile accidents over the week end according to reports received at the sheriffs office. The r 2f ",ir"r;r-a pa. Herman Jelderks, section employe at Oervals, who was struck by a car driven by Tom Sell wood who made verbal report to Sheriff Bower. Jelderks was taken to Oervals where nine stitches were taken to close up a scalp wound. He was brought to Willamette sanltorlum here where It was reported Monday he evidently was not suffering from Internal Injuries and had run no temperature. When brought to the hospital he was In a date but It was stated there he probably could be out In a day or two. Jelderks was hurt when Sellwood EASY VICTORY OVERTRIAJIGLE Enterprise Speedily Wins Second Race of Series Distancing Shamrock Challenger Drops Behind Gradually From Start, On All Courses U. S. S. Kane, off America's cup course, By radio to the Associated Press) The Enterprise, a slim white ghost in billowing robes, Monday proved her superiority for the second time over Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V, and won the second race for the America's cup by a margin of almost ten minutes. ' First away from the starting line, the American cup defender led at every mark, gradually Increasing her margin until at the finish she was almost three miles In the lead. Commodore Harold S. Vander bllt, amateur skipper of the win ning boat, outmaneuvered the vet eran Ned Heard, at the bead of the British boat, at almost every phase of sailing and his fast stepping professional crew made the work (Concluded on page 10. 'column 4 SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY HOLD KEY TO CRISIS Berlin, (IP) President Paul Von Hindenburg, traditional savior of post-war Germany, was besought by political leaders Monday to In tervene to protect the country from domination by the fascist party, which sprang Into a power ful position by making aniastng gains in Sunday's general election. The fascists and communists, at the opposite poles of political policy, have 107 and 76 seats re spectively in the new Reichstag, a gain of Si for the fascists and 23 for the communists. The ultimate decision was In the aged president's hands, and the presidential palace was the scene of animated conversations all day long among the president and his Concluded on page' II. column 7) SMOOT SPEAKS TO UTAH G.O.P. Salt Lake City VP) Republicans In the United States senate who havs not supported the administration were characterised by Senator Reed Smoot before the republican state convention Monday as "republicans one day in six years." "He Is not a politician, he is an American," he said of the president. "Before another two years are pass ed, the American people will know him as he is. Not what that bunch in the United States senate has sought to make him appear, and members of his own party. That Is, they are republicans one day In six years." Senator Smoot defended the re cently enacted tariff bill which bears his name as co-author and told his fellow republicans they "need not fear to go before the peo ple of Utah or the United States on that great Issue." in his car. Sellwood stated that Jel derks was walking along the pave ment and he did not sea him antil Just ss he flashed around the eth er car. He turned In as doss to the other car as he could to avoid hit ting Jelderks and his ear hit the hub cap of the other car. This threw his car out so a fender hit Jelderks, lifted him four feet in the air and hurled him to the side of the right of way. Four people were reported Injured In a crash between cars belonging to J. L. Batdorf, route . Salem, and (Concluded on pn if. ooluma 7