C apitalAfoiiraal
CLOUDY
fast and nnsettled with occasional
rains west tonight and Friday. No
Changs in temperature. Shifting
winds.
Local: Max. 70; mln 47; rain
river -.4 loot; clear; northeast wind.
CIRCULATION
Dally iitnn distribution for th
month ending April 10, 1931
10,581
Average dally net paid 10,146
Mambtr Audit Bureau at Circulation
43rd YEAR, No. 121 MA
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931
PRICE THREE CENTS rT7NRSD.
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SKY ARMADA
IN FORMATION
OVER CHICAGO
659 War Planes Parade
In Attack Groups Over
Lakeport
Army Masses Its Power
In Manuevers of De
fense Chicago i A proud armada of
the nation's fighting aircraft streak
ed through the skies above Ameri
ca's Inland metropolis Thursday.
It was the army's greatest dem
onstration of its air strength. Over
Chicago's lake front 659 planes pa
raded In formation, serenading
thousands of watchers as speedy
pursuit ships sang a high tenor to
the deep baritone hum of mighty
bombers.
Thousands left Michigan boule
vard skyscrapere as the planes ap
peared from the north, where the
aerial procession had formed after
a wide circular movement from the
live airports ir. which they had con
centrated Wednesday from Dayton.
Roofs and oiflce windows were
dotted with on-lookers, and traltic
In Grant park stood still as a mass
of spectators poured over the green
turf to the edge of Lake Michigan
and gazed skyward.
Overhead the sun shone.
Major Davenport Johnson of Gal
""TConcluded on pftge15, column 7)
JENKINS SLATED
FOR POLICE JOB
Portland (IP) The News-Telegram
said Thursday that the ap
pointment of Chief of Police Leon
V. Jenkins of Portland as head of
the new state police force was vir
tually assured.
The newspaper said that this re
port was current In political and
police '.rcles and that it was un
derstood that Jenkins will act in
an advisory capacity until he
able to complete his official duties
here.
The News-Telegram said that
General Smedley D. Butler and
Governor Meier have agreed that
Jenkins is the logical man for the
post end that his contemplated ap
pointment was acceptable to all but
one stat executive. The story add
ed that a possibility remained that
another Portlander or an eastern
Oregon man might be named and
"Tconcluded on page 13. column 5'
$3000 VERDICT FOR
DEATHCAR DRIVER
Oregon Clly P) A verdict of $3,
000 against the Rev. A. E. Danlcy of
Eugene was returned In circuit
court here Wednesday In favor of
James Wagner of canemah. The
ult grew out of the death of Wag
ner's father, Rudolph Wagner, 63.
who was struck by an automobile
south of here last November.
Wagner had asked damages of
(10.000.
Kenneth Israelson and George
Israelson, Portland warehouse op
erators, were named as co-defendants
but the Jury found in their
favor.
Wagner contended the car driven
by Danley forced - the Israelson
truck off the highway, striking his
father who was walking along the
edge of the road.
53 ARMY POSTS
TO BE ABANDONED
Washington. 'IP) Abandonment
t,f f3 army posts, valued at $22.-
000.000 is contemplated by the war
department. It was announced.
The posts were designated by the
general staff after a survey ordered
by the president. Their abandon
menl. General Douglas MacArthur.
chief of staff, said, will contribute
to military efficiency as well as
economy. Only 13 of them now are
garrisoned. Others may be added
to the list, MacArthur said.
Included In the posts unoccu
pied except for care takers, which
will be disposed of entirely, are:
Ford Ward, WasTi.; Willapa Bay.
Wash.
Included in the harbor defense
posts which will be disposed of. ex
cept for portions containing forti
fications and guns, are:
Fort Caset. Wash.: Fort Canby.
Wash : Fort Columbia. Wash.; Fort
Whitman, Wash.; and Fort Flag
ler, Wash.
Good Evening!
Sips for Supper
By DON UPJOHN
Dr. Mark Hayter of Dallas, than
whom there are no better chaps, has
sent us over a check for 2.60 to
add to the Billy McAdams fund
with the comment that "it seems
just too bad that one with such
genial ways and kindly dlsposi
sion should be so afflicted." Thanks
Mark, we have relayed It on to
John Parrar.
We have received a letter signed
"1931 Straw Hat Committee," refer
ring to Chief Minto's old straw hat
being heaved Into the Willamette
and with the added suggestion that
the committee had overlooked Walt
Fuhrers straw hat which "outdates
the neolithic period."
Now listen, committee, we made
no objection when you had Frank
Minto's old straw thrown into the
river knowing that you boys had
to have your little fun. But if you
start on Walt Fuhrers hat to go
the same route we rise up in pro
test. There are plenty of laws on
the statute books to back us up.
The Oregon code contains three
or four pages of laws about pollut
ing the streams of the state. The
state board of health has been ap
pealed to time and time again to
clam up the Willamette at this
point. And In face of these facts
it s no time to talk about throwing
that old lid of Walt Fuhrer s into
the river. The river is having a
hard enough time as it is without
going Into the summer season try
ing to absorb that old sunbonnet.
Why doggone it, this glutton of
a committee will want to heave
Carey Martin's straw hat into the
river if It is given a little leeway.
Give some of these birds a little
authority like that and there's no
telling where it's going to wind up.
I'NBLTTON VOI R VESTS, BOYS
Who cares what Smedley Butler
does.
Why waste your time on a brigadier?
Who cares if Hal gets a three buck
fee
On your motor car for the coming
year;
Who cares if Minto stirs up the cops
And switches them off on a new
routine;
Who cares If the cons get a two-bit
raise
For a four hour day ona flax ma
chine; Who cares if they launch a new
attack. To upset a vote on the state police;
Who gives a darn for this or that
Or whether the world has war or
peace?
Why worry your heads over little
things
For this is the springtime of the
year,
And the wide world laughs as it
smacki Its lips
For strawberry shortcake time Is
here.
Not wishing to slight anybody,
sure we extend our big strawberry
competition to the Ettersberg grow
ers as canning season advances.
Why we might even go further
than that and Inaugurate a prize
competition for the biggest and
best sack of sugar left at our house
by a local grocery.
If there's any one thing we want
to be it Is fair, open and above
board and not shut anybody out.
BURGLARS WARNED
BY POLICE RADIO
Chicago (LP) The radio system
which Chicago police installed to
speed up capture of criminals has
been turned by robbers Into an Im
plement to help them evade cap
ture. It was discovered Thursday
by Sergeant Tom Stalbus of Austin
station.
Stalbus' squad was touring the
streets when a flash came over their
radio to hurry to the Prudential
Life Insurance company, where
burglars were reported working on
the second floor.
The squad arrived a minute too
late. The burglars had Just left In
such a hurry they forgot their
tools.
Among the "tools" was a portable
radio. It was tuned In on the po
lice broadcasting station. Upon en
tering the place, the robbers had
set up the portable ar,d the same
flash which sent Stalbus and bis
men speeding to make the capture
had been the robftW warning to
flee.
Joke on The Snake
Ate China Nest Effg
Petersburg, Ind. UPi The joke.
Mn. Sallna Gladlsh reported, was
on the snake.
For two weeks, she said, she had
been missing eggs from her hens'
nest. Last Tuesday a China nest
egg was gone. Thursday she saw
large snake In the barn yard. She
killed It with a hoe and was iur
prlsesd to find Inside Its carcass,
the China egg.
RUSSIA NEEDS
MORE WHEAT
FOR HOME USE
Soviet Delegates Refuse
To Curtail Production
For Own Consumption
Definite Export Quotas
Favored As Remedy for
Wheat Surplus
London ifl"; Soviet Russia's dele
gates to the world wheat conference
said Thursday they opposed a plan
suggested by Samuel R. McKelvle.
head of the American delegation,
for reduction In wheat acreage be
cause Industrial and social condi
tions In Russia made increased
wheat production imperative.
"Wednesday," an official an
nouncement said, "The Americans
submitted a proposal which is un
acceptable to Soviet Russia because
of conditions in our social system,
with extraordinary development In
our industries and the number of
our industrial workers, and in view
of the increased production which
Is necessary to wctt growing in
ternal demands.
"It seems advisable to us to al
low each country to decide for it
self whether to cuitall production
of agricultural commodities, and
wheat in particular."
The statement said It was the
Russian opinion, drawn from state-
(Concluded on page 15. column n
CO-OP COUNCIL
HEARS GEHLHAR
Portland Pl In the first public
antwannfa tm Yias mnrlf slnre he-
ing appointed director of the de
partment oi agriculture, Max oen
lhar of Salem Thursday announced
a nnltrv rf rinse cnonerntion with
the Interests of lnd.vidual industries
in Oregon agriculture tor the gen
eral betterment of fanning in the
state.
Gehlhar was the principal speak
er at the meeting of the Oregon
Cooperative council in session here.
Through a coincidence the direc
tor of the newly created department
spoke first before the body which
had been most active In opposing
the idea of a distinct agricultural
department.
In introducing the new director,
however. President Glenn Marsh of
Hood River declared the council is
most desirous that the department
succeeds.
"I have no pre-conceived or hard
and fast policy that I intend to
put in force," Gehlhar said. "But
I do want the suggestions and
cnimu-i now and at anv time of
Just such groups as this. The de
partment must depend at an times
on the ocopcration of those actually
engaged in the individual agricul
tural Industries, otherwise any pro
gress Is limited to the capacity of
the officials themselves."
T hiivp already found there Is
considerable misconception as to the
functions of the state department,"
he continued. "It was not created to
do for farmers by some magic means
the things they must do for them
selves." The speaker also pointed outthat
"Tconcludrd-on" pa8e'"l3. column 4
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
CUTS FRUIT RATE
Portland 'IP) A six and one-half
cent reduction on freight rates for
fruit from the southern Oregon sec
tlon to Portland, was announced
Thursday by J. N. Mulchay. as
sistant freight and traffic manager
of the southern Pacific railroad.
The existing rate Is 35 cents a
hundred and the new rate, which
will become effective August I, In
ample time for the 1631 harvest,
will be 28 j cents.
The new rate, admittedly made
to meet truck competition, U ex
pected to stimulate shipment of
fruit to Portland for the European
export trade. Heretofore a large
part of the Medford crop has mov
ed overland to New York fo. Eur
opean dispatch there.
It is believed however, that with
the new rate much of this export
business will be routed via the port
of Portland.
Eugene Convention
Gets Special Train
Portland A spedel tram will
carry delegates to the Kugene con
vention of the Oregon Btat Grad
uate Nurses' association May 35 and
It, it was announced Thursday.
M'Namee Sad
As Wife Sues
For Divorce
New York MPl The voice to which
millions of radio fans have listen
ed choked with emotion Thursday
as Graham McNamee confirmed
the shattering of a romance which
Broadway had considered an idyiuc
example for ten years.
Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee
is suing the radio announcer for a
separation. The suit has been on
file several weeks but no inkling of
her charges has leaked out.
McNamee, looking haggard and
nervous, said he had been alone sev
eral weeks although even his near
est friends knew nothing of Mrs.
McNamee's intentions.
I haven't seen her application
for a settlement," he said "but I
been served with the necessary pa
pers. I don't know where Mrs. Mc
Namee is, but I do know that the
statement that the separation is by
(Concluded on pase 15. column 5)
DUNLAP'S BODY
SENT TO PARIS
Tours. France, ilP) In the pre
sence of three French generals,
the body of Gereral Robert H. Dun-
lap, U. S. M. 0., who died attempt
ing to save a French woman from
a landslide, was removed from the
mortuary chapel Thursday and
placed in a hearse for transporta
tlon to Paris.
As the flag-covered coffin was
borne acros sthe street, General
Goubeau, commander of the ninth
army corps, and Generals Loiseau
and Mauren of tne anuiery corps.
stood at attention, surrounded by
their staffs. The prefect of Tours,
Marcel Gregoire, supervised the ar
rangements. A crowd of people who had come
to show their respect for the Ameri
can's heroism stood bareheaded,
men and women crossing themselves
meanwhile. Commander Calvin
Cobb, of the American embassy,
accompanied the body on the Jour
ney to Paris.
Mme. Denis Briant, who was
taken alive out of the wreckage
from which the general's body was
recovered, underwent a second
operation at the hospital here
Thursday and her condition was
reported extremely grave. Her leg
was so badly crushed that part of
It was amputated immediately af
ter she was rescued.
CUBA SUPPRESSES
REBEL MOVEMENT
Havana '.f) The government
Thursday announced that the auth
orities had suppressed revolution
ary attempts at Manzanillo and
Jiguani and some "excitement,"
manifested at Shaparra, and Holo
uln. An official statement issued by
Secretary of Interior Octavlo Zub
lzarreta said the government had
taken measures to prevent further
trouble and that its armed forces
were prepared for any emergency
although "there Is no fear that
events will become more serious."
The statement added that re
ports from all other points In the
republic showed absolute quiet pre
vailing. It declared that while a
suspension of constitutional guar
antees which the president was
authorized to use at his discretion
had not yet "been resorted to It may
be necessary to do so If the seditious
attitude persists."
The government reports that none
was killed and only 1 few wounded
in the disturbances which occurred
In the province of Oriente.
HAS OPERATION
London 'P. The Duke of Can
naught, King George a uncle, under
went a minor operation on the nose
Thursday. He was 81 years old on
May 1.
Central Oregon Faces
Driest Year In History
Crops Being Abandoned
The driest season known in recent yeius in Ort'iron has
struck the central part of the state and has resulted in real
cause for alarm, State KnKiiipri' Charles K. Stricklin, said
Thursday. The dry area constitutes
a strip through the central part 01
the s'ate through California and to
the Mesican line. The strip runs
from the Cascade mountains to the
Blue mountains.
Reports from that section Indi
cate the farmers there hve giv-n
up any Idea of cropi this vason.
but are worried for et.o'it. h water
for their wells to supply l.v...tork
and some rrhsm. Where this
wa'er was coming from, had not
FEDERATION OF
WOMEN'S CLUBS
MEETS FRIDAY
Business end Profession
al Women To Assemble
In State Convention
Program of Sessions and
Entertainment Arran
ged Locally
The eleventh annual convention
of the Oregon federation of Busi
ness and Professional Women's clubs
will convena in Salem Friday for a
three-day session. Registrations will
commence at the convention head
quarters In the Marion hotel at 10
o'clock. The list of 164 voting dele
gates, which Includes the six elective
federation officers, ten federation
directors and chairmen, presidents
of the 22 clubs in Oregon, and 126
official delegates, is expected to be
augmented by several hundred ad
ditional clubs members who will at
tend the convention sessions and the
many social events planned by the
Salem club.
Pre-conventlon sessions of the
executive council and their lunch
eon, a luncheon for vice-presidents
of the 22 clubs in the Oregon feder
ation, and a third luncheon for all
convention delegates and visitors
not included In the other luncheons,
will be held at the Marion hotel
Friday noon.
The business sessions will be held
in the chamber of commerce rooms.
Miss Martha Gasch of Portland,
state president, calling the conven
JCon clu dedoiTpsge 4 .eol u mn 3)
Ire fighting"
among chinese
Shanghai, China (IP Fighting be
tween revolutionary forces in north
central China and government
troops was reported Thursday to
have broken out along the Peiping
Hankow railway.
The reports could not be con
firmed. A censorship on press dis
patches was anticipated by cable
officials here.
The spread of insurgent move
ments to north China was retarded
as a serious threat to the authority
of the central government at Nan
king, already harassed by open re
bellion In the south.
The government was reported to
have decided to use the Yangtze
river naval squadron In an effort
to establish a blockade at Canton,
seat of the southern rebellion, an
emergency military conference was
called at Nanking.
General Chiang Kai-Shek, head
of the national government, was
understood to be taking drastic ac
tion to check the growing revolu
tionary menace.
SUN YAT SEN'S SON
TO JOIN REBELS
Shanghai (LP) Sun Fo, son of the
late Dr. bun Yat Sen, and until
recently minister of communica
tions In the Nanking government,
has sailed for Canton, apparently
intent on taking a post In the In
dependent Canton government, It
was learned Thursday.
Sun was accompanied by Eugene
Chen, who was minister of foreign
affairs In the radical government
set up at Hankow a few years ago.
Chen also Is expected to take a
post at Canton.
ben determined. Reports from
California, .Stricklin states. Indi
cates that stale Is worse off than
Oregon In the area of the dry strip.
The state distributes water for
irrigation to a million acres, but
the streams are lower and some of
them In tlie dry area are entirely
dried up this year. Lack of snow
In the mountains has likewise
slow.'d dn and dried up many
springs.
California's Heat
WaveBr oken; Snow
Falling In
San Francisco (U.R) A record May heat ware in north
ern California was broken Thursday by cool ocean breezes as
an army of fire fighters brought under control hundreds of
brush and grass fires started in the last 48 hours.
The third major fire in San Francisco in as many days
swept a large mercantile building
and climaxed a series of blazes that
caused damage exceeding $1,000,000.
Oakland brush fires which destroy
ed several homes and threatened
many more, and others In Tahoe
national forest, Calaveras, Tuolum-
me, Santa Cruz and El Dorado
counties were under control.
"Fire weather" prevailed over
southern California, although lower
temperatures were forecast.
Denver, Colo. (LP) Apple and
cherry blossoms and tender young
crops In this section were covered
Thursday with snow as tempera-
i concluded on" page 14, column 41
RAILROADS ASK
HIGHER RATES
New York, .yp) Presidents of the
eastern railroads, representing all
lines east of the Mississippi, Thurs
day voted to ask the Interstate
commerce commission to restore
freight rates to a level which. In
the judgment of the commission.
will protect the credit of the car
riers. A committee was appointed to
work out the details.
It consists of W. W. Atterbury,
president of the Pennsylvania;
Daniel Willard. president of the
Baltimore fc Ohio; P. E. Crowley,
president of the New York Central
lines; J. J. Bernet, for the Van
Swerigen lines; J. M. Davis, presi
dent of the Delaware, Lackawanna
Sc Western; J J. Pelly, president of
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford, and C. H. Hix, president of
the Virginian.
The committee will appoint a
chairman and determine at once
the manner and method of proce
dure. It was pointed out that the
committee's major work will be to
study the question completely and
to decide on the amount of in
crease to request. It was said there
was a disposition on the part of the
executives expressed at the meet
ing to ask only for a sufficient in
crease to protect the roads.
CRAZED BY LIQUOR
SHOOTS UP FAMILY
Medford, Wis. fP) Joseph Fleisch
mann, 35, shot and killed his wife
and two small sons Wednesday
night and for five hours held his
two daughters, another son and
three adults In a tate of terror
while he talked Incessantly of fir
ing deer rifle bullets at them.
The three adults, one a Catholic
priest, escaped from the Flcisch
mann farm home, two miles north
of here, amid bullets from Fleisch
mann's gun. They called authorities
who arrested the man before he
could harm his other children,
Fleischmann, an assistant butter
maker, was craved by liquor. Sheriff
George R. Belrd said. He said
Fleischmann had been confined
twice before for alcoholic Insanity.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
SEEK ARMY POST
Washington HP) President Hoov
er has rereived two requests from
local authorities to take over army
posts for local purposes, it was an
nounced Thursday at the White
House.
Governor Franklin D. tloscvclt.
New York has asked for 2.00(1 acres
nt Camp Upton. L. I . and senator
Howell, republican, Nebraska, has
asked for part of Fort Omaha for
a municipal university.
NAME OF CRAWFORD'S
SLAYER TOLD POLICE
Los Angeles U The name of the
man who may have killed Charles
Crawford, powerful politician, and
Herbert Bpencer, newspaperman
and nmga.lne editor, was given to
the police Thursday by Ouy Mc
Afee, known as a political "boss"
and lord of big gambling Interests
In the city.
Police said McAfee gave them
the name of the susiect at a con
ference which broke up about noon
Rockies
BEAOTY QUEEN
TO RETURN HOME
Nice, France (LP) Charlotte Nix
on -Nirdl in ger, acquitted by a jury
of Frenchmen, made plans Thurs
day to proceed as quickly as possible
to the United States.
The St. Louis leauty queen was
free after two months In jail In
Nice, after the shooting of her hus
band, Fred O. Nixon-Nirdlinger,
wealthy Philadelphia theater owner.
Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlingcr departed
for a mountain village In the foot
hills of the Alps, overlooking the
Mediterranean, where she soufcht to
avoid the throngs of curious. She
left her two small children at the
apartment In Nice, scene of tne
shooting.
Her mother, Mrs. James H. Nash,
accompanied her Into seclusion.
She said they Intended to remain
several days before proceeding back
to America.
The acquittal permits the young
widow to claim a third of her hus
band's estate, valued at $725,000. Her
claim would have been annulled un
der the Pennsylvania law had she
been sentenced.
Mrs. Ntxon-Nirdllnger said she
had little money available and that
she intended to live simply, kreping
her share of the eMato-about $;'40.-
000 for the education of the chil
dren.
PROTESTS GRAIN
3E CUT
Hot Springs. Ark ypv Senator T.
H, Caraway told the Arkansas Bar
association Thursday that i Am
erican representatives at the Lon
don wheat conference were .succiss-
fut In reaching an aurrumm to
restrict American expoit; or acre
age the effect would be "to starve
people off the farms n..J into the
cities."
Such an eventuality, he said,
would cause "grave conscpqut iicj.s
to our governmental fabric."
"Twenty-one millions of people
arc now paupers through the un
employment of 7,000.000 workers."
he said, "and any restriction of
farm acreage or exports wouiu
send an additional 10.000.000 people
off the farms into the cities to live
off charity.'
Senator Caraway asserted the
government owes agriculture, as a
class, the obligation of removing
the "high and unjust tantl.
"The present administration tells
the farmer he must go back to the
law of supply and demand,' he
said. "There Is no such law, under
the tariff.
"If that law must be applied, j
then the farmer must be allowed to
sell to whomever he pleases and !
be allowed to buy from whatever!
country lie pleads."
NO SITESELECTED
FOR SOLDIERS' HOME
Washington (IP) The federal
hospitalization board considered
proposed sites for the northwestern
branch of the soldiers' home at an
executive meeting Thursday but
members declined to discuss their
deliberations. The she must be Ap
proved by President Hoover before
an announcement is made.
It was announced later that th1
bmrrt had not reached a decision
Thursday but hsd asked additional
information on the various sres
proposed from the veterans' bureau.
The matter will be taken up at a
meeting later in the week.
Charley Erb's Suit
Is Heard at Medford
Medford, Ore. HP Charley Erb's
$11,000 tult agalnH the Consolidated
Trurk company for Injuries suffered
in a crash on the Parilic highway
near here In February, 1!30. con
tinued In circuit court heie Thurs
day. The former alar Uuhirvlty ot
California football pljver and ex
Idaho coach, alleged that he as
In a hospital 11 weeks following
the crash and that the Injuries pre
vented him from coa-hlng.
SPONSORS OF
REFERENDUM
AWAIT RULING
Attack Upon State Po
lice Bill Delayed Until
Court Acts
Kowitz To File Suit in
Behalf of Sportsmen
Organizations
If sponsors for the referendum
attack upon the state police bill
get under the wire with their com
pleted petitions within the statut
ory time limit for filing with the
secretary of state, midnight of June
5, It will be a scant margin or
hours to spare It now appears.
Copies of the perfected petition
with the ballot title prepared by
Attorney General Van Winkle are
ready for circulation, but their ac
tual circulation is being field up
pending a decision by the supremo
coudt on the validity of the title,
which decision will come on an ap
peal to the court.
Until this decision w banded
down there Is, according to Ed F.
Averill and other sponsors for the
petitions, nothing to be gained in
circulating them. In the event any
defect Is found In the title all
names which micht have been se
cured on the petitions prior to the
C onclutlt-d on pane I 4, column 8)
FOIL GROCERY
STOREJPBERY
Officer Wintersteen who has the
South Salem pa fro! at nltrht cruised
along In his car just at the right
time early Thursday morning to
break up what evidently was the
plan of four pilgrims from parts un
known to break into the KnJghten
grocery store on South 14th street.
He took them to headquarters where
they were booked as Earl Sears, 19,
Buckler Evans 22. James V. Flint 22
and Colbert C. Joits. 20. They are
held for Invest ipa tlon.
The quartet wns nabbed by the
officer at 2:35 am. The officer
found one of them In the street, one
stationed on the side walk and the
other two at one of the store win
dows, with a sirnincnnt appearing
empty sack lyin? at hund.
Wlntersteen said that the men
had attempted to enter the store.
Evan, the oldest of the four, having
tried to open the rear door.
The Sheridan dairy store, known
a? the Hazeldell. at State and 12th
streets, was en'ered by burglars
.some time during the nicht. but ap
parently nothing was taken. En
trance was made by prying open
a- window leadlnp into the boiler
room, the "Jimmy" being used for
the purpose, from indications. Th
tracks of a man were found outside.
The place was entered some ttrct.
between midnight and dawn.
NO WAGE CUT IN
STATE DEPARTMENT
Secretary of Stat Hal E. Hots,
announced Thursday the state de
partment did not contemplate the
reduction of the waee scale to is
employes. He made this announce
ment following the action of the
state Industrial accident commis
sion in which the vnce scale was
cut on an average of 10 per cent.
Rumors had been circulated that
other departments contemplated
such action.
Hoss stated the salary and wage
scale In the state department ws
bs low as possible r.ow, and that he
could not reduce wnscs furtlier. No
other department have announced
any wage rcrt'.r'iuhv or plans to
that effect.
Vabahond Lover
To lirinff $10,000
To Sons Writer
Chicago .Il-r.ie "V.itabond Lov
er' was ba k It 'tie Thurjday, a
co'm decided.
The song, which whs sung an over
the country, was nltten, Judgo
Piul'p t: Sullivan decided Wednes
lav, by Jesse Bro n. an attorney In
ivnaif he o d-re.1 an ae-
counting from Kudv allee, Leon
Zimmerman, Leo i-vist. inc., puo
llshers. and tv.o pioiu-graph com-
lainles.
Brown said he ( ;cd to reause
II0 000 s a result of tht decision.
He said he tuned l'i n the radio
one night two years aco when th
song was a bis hi! and remembered
he had written it at a time when
he was leading an orchestra.