THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1931
FREE TEXTS NOT
FREE, CLAIM OF
COUNTY COURTS
Cripple Tortured and
Buried Alive Found in
Coffin In Deep Ditch
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"The People be Damned"
In November last the people of Oregon cast a majority
vote against the closing of the lower Rogue river to commer
cial fishing. The upper Rogue has been closed for 20 years.
The lower Rogue has been closed to commercial fishing for
steelhead for the same length of time. Seine fishing has
long since been banned and the only fish taken are salmon.
Yet to show their contempt for expressed will of the people,
both houses of the legislature have voted the closure of the
stream within three months of the date the people rendered
their verdict.
Salmon fishing provides the only large payroll at the
mouth of the river. It's closure means a real hardship to the
region. It also means the waste of a valuable Oregon food
resource. But it again emphasizes the latent hostility to
wards enterprise and industry that makes capital shy of
Oregon investments lest to satisfy prejudice and hysteria
they be confiscated.
The defiant action of the legislature is due largely to
log rolling and the fact that the people of the upper region
have ten times the number of legislators and votes than
those of the lower river possess. It is worthwhile noting
those in both houses who voted in accordance with the popu
lar vote. The roll call follows:
In the Senate:
For closure Bennett, Billlngsley, Carsncr, Crawford. Dunn, Eber
hnrd, Eddy, Kiddle, Kuck, Miller, Moser, Scliulmerich, Staples, Upton,
Wheeler, Woodward. '
Against Baliey, Brown, Burke. Dunne, Eisner, lYanciscovich, Hal!,
Johnson, Jones, Mann, Spaulding, Strayer, Marks.
In the House:
For closure, ayes Allen, Bronough, Bynon, Chinnock. Day, DeLap.
Deuel, Eckley, Fisher, Gill, Glass, Gouley, Hamilton, Howard, Jannsen.
Lawrence, Lee, Lewis. Macpherson, Manning. McAllister, McCornack,
McCourt, McGraw, McPhillips, Mott. Nichols, Oxman. Peters, Schaupp,
Scott of Umatilla, Scott of Morrow, Smith of Hood River, Smith of Mar
lon, Snell. Stockdale, Swift, Temple, Thornburgh, Tompkins, Weather
ford, Wells, Yates, Lonergan 44.
Noys Anderson. Andrews, Angell, Chindgren, Gordon, Hellberg. Hill,
Johnson, Keasey, Knapp, Nash, Norton, Proctor, Stewart, Taylor, Wins
low 16
It will be seen that many of these legislators voted not
only against the expressed wishes of the majority of the
people of the state, but against the clearly expressed wishes
of the people of their own counties. Twenty-five of the
thirty-six counties voted against the measure. It was nearly
tied in three others. The counties voting against closure
w'ere :
Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos. Crook. Curry, Gilliam,
Grant, Jefferson, Lake, Lane, Lincoln. Linn. Malheur. Marlon, Morrow-
Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Wallowa,
MIL
It will be interesting to see
any respect for the mandate of
or whether he also joins the ranks of the people be damned
crowd.
Drift Towards Autocracy
Numerous bills before the
towards autocracy the old regime never dared to contenv
plate. It features many of
designed to concentrate all powers in the hands of the execi
tive and give him as many portfolios in state government as
fl'ussolmi holds in the Italian
There is the bill to place
trol of one man. appointed and
Governor. There is the water power commission bill giving
the executive control through his appointees of power devel
opment. And there is the state
diture of $1,003,000 and an army of officers to enforce pro
hibition, traffic laws, fish and
patrol all under the Governor.
Then there are other bills
ing judges of all courts and lot the Governor appoint the ju
diciary from justice of the peace to supreme court thereby
giving the executive branch of government full control of
all the courts. And there is the bill already passed giving the
Governor power to appoint legislators in case of vacancy,
depriving the people of selection by election of their repre
sentatives, a clear encroachment of the executive over the
legislative branch.
There is also a bill to remove the industrial accident
commission and substitute a
the Governor and numerous other measures tending towards
increasing the absolutism of the Governor all this despite
the fact the people voted overwhelmingly against such pro
cedure when they defeated the cabinet form of government.
The Demise of the "Erg"
According to the electrical books an "erg" is the work
represented by one C. G. S. which must mean Comical
Genius Slaughter. The grange utility district bill, being the
work of Dr. Slaughter, must,
senate committee to which the "erg" was referred found
that it was threatened with "electrolysis." Its "potential"
i. e. electrical intensity, was great but its "solenoids" were
"static". As soon as the committee found "watt" was "watt"
it decided to remove its ''torque" and throw it out into the
"magnetic field". So while they had the doctor hitched to
a "binding post" Senator Bailey took "charge" of the "erg"
and after carefully measuring its "Colombs", "Amperes",
"Farads", "Henrys", "Joules" and "Ohms" decided that it
had too much "resistance" so gave it a "short circuit". In
Other words he told the doctor that his "insulator" needed
oiling and his "battery" needed water.
To make a long story short Pr. Slaughter' bill has been
slaughtered by the committee and a substitute will be offer
ed to the senate. This of course will not be pleasing to the
doctor who has spent many long and weary months, with no
assistance but the friendly cooperation of a preacher and a
school teacher, in drafting the bill which was to provide
cheap electricity "without cost to the taxpayers" thus mak
ing the shecphcrders rich and the Grangers happy and con
tent. 'Twas not to be, however, for his bill is gone where
the "horse power" is free to wander in the "magnetic field"
and watch the "armature" make love to the "kilowatt".
Editor and Publisher
and Yamhill counties, one month 50
25; 1 year 64.00. Elsewhere 50 cents a
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entitled to the use for publication
not otherwise credited In tills piper
Wasco, Washington, Wheeler, Yam
whether Governor Meier has
the people and vetoes the bill
legislature indicate a drift
the administration measures
cabinet.
public utilities under the coiv
removed at pleasure by the
police bill, entailing an expeiv
game statutes and forest fire
to deprive the people of elect
single commissioner named by
therefore, be an "erg". The
Canines and Posies
By V. A.
Some Oregon folks raise posies
and some raise dogs. Although ani
mal and plant life do not readily
hybridize, most dogs attempt it to
the detriment of the posies. This
causes neighborhood rows and inci
dentally makes business for the leg
islators. Our own legislature has
tackled the problem of how to keep
untarnished the petals of the posies
and at the same time not unduly
curb Towser's roving propensities.
The time honored remedy for all
disturbing conditions of iassing a
law agin it" is again being applied
in two bills now before the session.
The first would protect the posies
along the highways and by-ways by
penalizing anyone who plucks, mu
tilates, digs up or in any other way
desecrates them. The penalties pro
vide for heavy fines and Jail sen
tences. Such dra.'tic "laws agin if
will inevitably call for the establish
ment of a special state cons;abulary
of Posey Protectors officered by an
Imperial Grand Portector and the
urmal retinue of under-officers, each
emuled to wear 'at state expense i
a gorgeous uniform patterned
doubtless, after the Kaiser's Imper
ial Foresters and amply empowered
to sieze and search all palpitating
young lovers who may be concealing
the torn petals of the daisy with
which they have plighted their
troth.
The other bill provides for the
regulation, control, care and social-
welfare of the state's canines. To
enforce this "law agin If we arc
to get another set of constabulary
having at its head the High Chief's
favorite hound. Uniforms of course.
and at state expense. One pattern
already suggested Is grey-hound
tan with spaniel fur cuffs, a brass
collar for insignia and a tin whistle
exhaust. One can easily conjure the
vision of an Oregon landscape en-
llveded with these gaudily capar
isoned Protectors and Supervisors
cavorting tltrough the glens redo
lent with the tang of cedar and
heavy with the periume of the dog
wood bloom, while the hillsides re
sound with the baying hounds, and
the toots of tin whistles. I
Oregon already has a distinguish
ed galaxy of inspectors, supervisors.
special agents and investigators. It
will do no harm to add a few more
Posey Protectors and Master of the
Kennel to the present list of Bed-
sheet and Privy inspector, enforce
ment o.'iicers and kitchen snoops
.smelling of the garbage cans. We
have meat Inspectors and food ln-
s;ectors, for both Jackasses and hu
mans; seed exirts and fertilizer
connoisseurs; oculists for the pota
to eyes and dermatologists for the
pear's skin; stock Inspectors looking
for black-legs and chiropodists at
the rest: beetle hunted roaming the
pine forests, and weevil chasers
rawllr.g tltrough the aualfa fields;
b-e Inspectors solemnly contemplat
ing the business end of a hornet
while college youth and poultry ex
perts vie In doing the same for the
chickens. We have health nurses to!
insect our children's teeth, tonsIL
and 'tummies; college expert to
tape our daughters' legs and pat ,
shapely backs in a wild search for
the winner of the Golden Apple;
medical experts to sort out the fee- i
ble-mludcd a4 democrats from the :
milling nerd, wniie irom tne leit-
overs the colleges pick their athletes
and the poor voter his nominees.
All we need now is an Experi-i
mental staff added to Department i
Three of the new Agricultural Bu
reau to seek methods for crossing a
Shanghai rooster with a cotton-tall
rabbit for the production of spotted
Easter eggs and the o.d state is
saved. Yes. once aeain Oregon is
first In the nation, she proposes to
protect her posies from ail flirtatious
desecrations canine or human. Her
dcs are to be supervised, exercised
and trained in toilet manners by the
gaudiest lot of uniformed specialists
ever turned loose In the heather
since Robin Hood's men camped in
Sherwood Forest or Phil Met-vhan
led the Shrtner'i parade It Phila
delphia. -
Arkansas farmers may starve; Ok
J! iTTTC iff r
CoorrtcM Prui PubilihlDt
DELZELL
lahoma have her food riots, banks
in the middle states burst like gub-
err.atorlal booms at an Oregon pri
mary, timbermen may wall and hop
growers talce Bankrurcy, but Ore
gon cares for her own! For dogs and
posies, uniforms and Insignia, tin
whistles and oratory, travel allow
ances and deficiency appropriations,
Oregon Is In a class by herself. On
with the dance, let joy be unrefin
ed. The taxpayer pays the fiddler.
Heres your match, Nero.
BOY'S LIFE SAVED
BY DOG'S CURIOSITY
St. Helens,. Ore., (IP) Pearl
Kobk, 12, son of a farmer, owes
his life to the curiosity of his dog
but It cost the life of the animal,
As the lad was on his way to
school he noticed sparks ehooting
irom a barb wire fence with the
glow of a Fourth of Julv celebra
tion. Attracted by the display the
dog trotted ahead, sniffed at the
wire and was electrocuted.
The sparks were caused by a high
tension wire, which was torn down
by a wind storm. The boy was
about to Investigate when he aaw
his dog fall. He sensed the danger,
and stood crying In the road until
linemen came to repair the break.
They said he, too, would have been
electrocuted if he had attempted to
remove the dog's body.
Scotta Mills Mr. and Mrs. T. I.
Sutton and daughters. Elizabeth
and Mary of New berg were recent
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph McCracken.
LAUNDRESS
AND
LADY
TilESI dajrs, you can't telt where
one begins an J the other leaves off.
For most ladies launder their owa
fine lingerie, and most laundresses
have atne lingerie of their owe.
And they have one other grea,'
bond In common now they use
White King Granulated Soap for
the heaviest as well ai the most
delicate washing jobs. White King
it pmrt that's the reason. Made
from vegetable and out oils good
enough to eat, its fine quality makes
Il safe for anything that water
won't harm, and at the same time
disposes effectively of (he heaviest
woolens.
White King Granulated washes
tnrytbmg fabrics, dishes, silver,
glass, floors, woodwork. And it's
economical a teaspoonful is
plenty for the wash basin, a cup
ful ample for the washing ma
chine, even in hard water. Put it
oo your list for today. Your grocer
has it.
nft tt dft'tt a O'tf md
lf'MlfM aU (Vtl
Green Stamps
Every Day
Double Str.rr.ps Saturday
Carson Pharmacy
We Deliver
Ml Ceart rhone tJJ
Cocnpinr (Kw Tork Worts) 1931
'HEAVIEST RAIN
IN YEARS FALLS
AT LOS ANGELES
Los Anje'.es (IP' One of the hea
viest rain storms since 1914 swept
southern California late Tuesday
night and save every indication of
continuing Wednesday.
Rains of cloudburst proportions
fell In outlying sections of the city,
flooding streets, retarding lnter
urban street C3r service, and under
mining buildings.
At Pasadena, 120 Inches of rain
fell within an hour, and by mid
night the total had reached 1.90
inches since early Tuesday after
noon. Santa Monica and Venice,
beach cities, had recorded 1.43 inch
es duiir.g the same period, wlule
Santa Barbara, 100 miles to the
north, gave 120 Inches as its total
for a 12-hour p-'riod to midnight.
In Hollywood .78 of an inch de
luged theity in one squall, which
precipitated .46 inch in Los Angeles.
Pacific electric interurban train
service was Interrupted at various
points. Sand washed from a hill near
El Segundo, derailed a car; a bridge
near Palms was weakened, neces
sitating transferring of passengers.
At least three persons were ser
iously injured during the height of
the storm. Motorcycle Officer Jo
seph Waite of the state highway
patrol was internally injured when
his motorcycle skidded from under
him.
William R. Lillie. 34, received two
broken legs when struck down by
an automobile. Fred Schuller, 4.
was i.iternally injured in a similar
accident.
Mt. Angel Engdbert Grimm re
turned to Mt. Angel alter visiting
for several weeks with Mrs. John
Matter at Pe Ell. W&hiniton.
1 iiAMS
Upsets rival brands with Sweeping
Victory, in Ripley's latest Taste-Test
They hclJ another "tea
party" at Boston the other
day. "Down with the tyranny
of habit!" was the cry. "Let'a
find out which cigarette really
tastes the best."
From Back-Bny to the Fish
ing Docks, It was another Bos
ton rebellion. Throw ing brand
prejudice overboard . . . more
than a thousand Boston smok
ers compared the four lending
cigarette, with the brand
names hidden.
They didn't know which was
which. All they wanted was to
OFFICIAL BOX. SCORE
Aft audited bj Button Firm of Accountants
'! hcrefry rrtflff that th frtllowtRt tt true
anj compftt audit ol tha tnt of th four
l-.1lnta dorrtttt, coaJwcted by Robert tuple?,
la Biwton."
OLD GOLD . 4 U
II rand X 2t8
Wun And Company,
Brand V
Brand Z
Accovatuta iij
NOT A COUGH
IN A CARLOAD
The counlv courts of the state
seem to be lined up against the free
text book measure, from a cross-
section of Information gained at a
meeting of the legislative committee
of the judges and commissioners as
sociation here Tuesday with a num
ber of other Judges and commis
sioners present.
County Commissioner Smith,
member of the committee from this
county, stated that it seemed to be
the general opinion among the vis.
iting officials that the text book
bill should be defeated.
"The bill would raise taxes half a
mill," stated Commissioner Smith,
-and the feeling among all the judg
es and the commissioners is to re
duce taxes, not raise them. At half
a mill the bill would cost Marlon
county taxpayers t.'S.OOO In round
figures. '
The legislative committee was
here Specifically to fight the bill ad
vanced by the league of cities to
give cities and towns 70 per cent
of the county road money raised In
their own limits instead of the 50
per cent now allowed them. Coun
ties generally are opposed to the
bill, including a solid county court
from Clackamas county, the home of
Chris Schuebel who Is directly
sponsoring the measure. The Yam
hill county court was also opposed
to It and mayors of several cities
appeared against it. Including the
mayor of McMinnvllle, who declared
that his city wanted to see the
county roads developed as this was
the most beneficial thing that could
be done with the money for the
advantage of the cities themselves.
Commissioner Smith opposed the
bill for Marion county. He pointed
out how 2,Iarion county had aided
cities and towns from county road
funds in the market road program,
including such tow-ns as Turner,
Gen ats. Stayton. Aumsviile and in
fact virtually all the smaller towns
of the county. There seems to be no
demand for the measure from Sa
lem, which raises its own road funds.
The commissioner stated that indi
cations are the bill will meet with
defeat.
County Fruit Inspector Van
Trump, who Tuesday went through
the Sc:o and Lacombe strawberry
sections to inspect strawberry plants
on a number of plantings there,
stated that all the plants he saw-
were in wonderful condition and he
found no trace of weevil whatever
in plants raised for selling as plants.
He visited six plantings in that sec
tion and pronounced the plants not
only clean but they are growing in
fine shape and making wonderful
crowns.
"The soil east of Lacombe in the
Downing section is very similar to
the soil in the great strawoerry sec
tion up around Silver Falls," he
stated. "Indications point to a
great strawberry year for the com-
mg year and the plants are in fine
conditio.n All I looked at were in
he newer plantings and I didn't
get into the older plantings, so can
say nothing in regard to their con
dition. But there are a number of
new plantings scattered here and
there in tnose strawberry sections
which make wonderful showlng6."
GOITER REMOVED
Independence O. Osmundsen, a
farmer south of town, was operated
on for goiter at a Salem hospital
Monday morning and last reports ho
was resting easily. Osmundsen lias
been quite a successful turkey raiser,
marketing over a thousand birds
this year. j
Silverton Mr. ana Mrs. Dory
Grace, their four sons, Milo, Merl,
Elraer and Irl Ludwlg Meyers, Inez
Lee and Luella Foreland, all of Sil
verton, and Miss Mabel Hall of
Aumsviile, all spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Grace's daughter
Stella, Mrs. Hoyt Cupp, ar.d fam
ily of Atimville.
pick out the best tasting ciga
rette. At Icilngton ... modern
Minute Men needed hardly a
minute to give O. C. a 2 to 1
victory. At Bunker Hill, OLD
COLD'S cool, throat-easy
quality completely routed the
enemy.
"So taxation without repre
sentation" . . . said the Boston
of long ago. "No throat-tat...
and unlimited smoking Joy 'J
says the Boston of today.
(Signed)
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Auditor
Chicago (UP) George Wittbrod, 34, a crippled sales,
man, was rescued Wednesday from a rough coffin in which
he was placed by seven men who kidnaped him, beat him, let
him hang for ail hour from cross '
in cemetery and then burled
him alive.
A farmer passing the cemetery
at davbreak heard stifled moans
and called police. Wittbrod's coffin
was found in a deep ditch, where
he had been tossed after a nlht
or torture unequalled In the history
of Chicago crime. He was suffering
from cold, exposure, the beating
and fright.
Officials to whom Wittbrod con
fided that he often had been the
RUTH GARRISON
NIGHT, BELIEF
Seattle !LP) Ruth Garrison may
known Wednesday night whether
she must return to the state prison
or may be given her freedom.
That was the prediction of at
tomeys and court followers Wed
nesday after Prosecutor Robert Bur
gunder had announced that he hod
only five or six more witnesses to
call, and Miss Garrison's attorneys
had rested their case.
The young woman, who is fight
ing to prove that she is sane and
should therefore be permitted to
leave the state institution, made
her greatest bid for liberty late
Tuesday when she testified, for the
first tune, tnat her former lover,
Douglas Storrs, led her to poison
Mrs. Grace Storrs, his wife.
Storrs didn't teil her to kill his
wife, but, according to Miss Garri
son. he spoke of Mrs. Storrs' at
tempts at suicide by lwisoning, and
told Ruth that If she went to a
certain drugstore, 'they would fix
her up." Miss Garrison did not re
veal that situation during her orig
inal trial, when she did everything
poilD.e to shield her lover.
She has spent nearly 12 years In
prison since she was adjudged not
guilty of murder by reason of in
sanity.
Prosecutor Burgunder, launching
a desperate fight to prevent her re
lease, is basing his case on his be
lief that Miss Garrison was sane
when she entered prison, has not
changed, and that it would be lav
safe to permit her to mingle with
society.
He called three witnesses, all for
mer prison employes, after Ruth
had concluded her testimony and
her attorney had rested their case
Through them he tried to prove
that her mental condition had not
changed, and that she was a trouble-maker
and bearer of false tales
In prison. He was constantly block
ed by Miss Garrison's attorneys, Ev
erett J. Smith and Frank B. Sharp-
stem, and it was the general belief
that the case would hinge on the
impression Ruth made on the Jury
when she told of her life, tearfully
spoke about the crime she had com
mitted and sketched details of h.T
life In prison.
SON IS BOK.V
Mill City Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Root are receiving congratulations
upon the arrival of son born Feb
ruary 2.
Scotts Mills Mr. and Mrs. A. L
Brougher and son Ira and Miss
Mary Myers, motored to La Center,
Wash., Sunday, where they visited
old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Beasley.
Mt. Angel Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Orth and children and Mrs. P. B.
Roycroft of Portland Tislted Mrs.
Orth recently.
I'r"" " LT" PlZ V OF HABIT I" It was another Boston
tebellion. Smokers picked O. C. tot throat-taw a ad smoothness.
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vujbbw w yiuuu.iu jum-B uy nei
ghborhood hoodlums, because of hi,
affliction could hardly believe such
an attack as tills had been Intend
ed as a "Joke."
Wittbrod said he knew the names
of six of the seven kidnapers and
police began a hunt for them.
The salesman said he was on his
way home from a poolroom late
Tiusday nluht when the seven
seized lilm hi an alley and knock
ed him unconscious.
When he awoke, he eaid, he was
in an automobile with the men.
They taunted him and told him
they were toking him for a "ride."
His feet and hands were tied.
They took him to All Saints' ce
metery. There, he said, he was
dragged from the auotinobile and
susiwnded on a high cross. He was
left hanging there and as his body
became numb from exposure, the
hoodlums laughed.
They were leaving, he told, when
he managed to Jerk one hand free.
One of the men saw his move and
called the others back. Seeing the
rough box nearby, the gang lead
er susested they take Wittbrod
down from the cross and bury him
alive.
He was cut down, placed In the
box, his hands and feet retied and
a burlap sack placed over his head.
The lid of the box was nailed down
and the box hoisted onto a conven
ient wheelbarrow.
Nearby was a half dug grave,
which the grave-diggers had left
unfinished Tuesday night. An at
tempt was made to force the rough
coffin Into the grave, but it would
not fit when laid horizontal. It
va.i stood on end in the grave
while the men debated whether to
get a shovel and dig the hole big
ger. The men, wittbrod said, finally
removed the box from the grave,
fastened It to the back of their
automobile, started away at a rapid
pace and cut the box loose.
The coffin rolled from the road
way and into the ditch, where
Wittbrod was found, face down
ward in the box and half dead
from the mistreatment he had re
ceived. Mt. Angel Mr. and Mrs. JosepS
Turner and Mrs. Harry Benton,
of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Kirsch were dinner guest
at the Charles Ullr.:an home Sun
day. I years
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