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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1931)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON PAGE SEVENTEEN POLK FARMERS PLAN TO ENFORCE ECONOMY EDICT THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931 Reforms In Conduct Of Coun ty Business To Be Insisted Upon By HARRY N. CRAIN Polk county farmers and farm organizations, revealed as the motivating; force behind the recent grand jury investiga tion into the conduct of that county's business by the county court, particularly as regards road construction and maintenance, are not altogether satisfied with the termination of the Inquiry, accord ing to Information reasnlrg the Capital Journal. The criticism which moat of the Interested farmers seem to have Is that the grand Jury did not go far enough In the matter of correcting evils and abuses they found to ex ist In the handling of county funds, and there Is talk of Institution of Civil suits to require the respon sible public officials to reimburse the county treasury for money al legedly wasted or spent In violation ef laws governing the letting of contracts and the purchase and distribution of supplies. OFFICIALS MUST ACT Whatever else may follow the re port of the grand Jury, spokesmen for the farmers declare, they are going to see that the recommenda tions of the grand jury are carried Into execution, and if the present county officials fall to Institute the desired reforms they will likely find themselves displaced by others who will. In substance the grand jury rec ommended as follows: 1 That on all county work amounting to more than $1,500 the county court conform to the provi sions of the statutes and advertise for bids and let the contracts to the lowest responsible bidders. 2 That a complete and detailed Inventory of all county property be made and kept up to date. 3 That all county purchases be made by requisition properly ap proved and countersigned, and that the disposition of all supplies and materials be accounted for in de tail. DEMAND WASTE STOP 4 That gas and oil for county use be purchased on a basis of bids and that an accurate check be kept on the use to which it is put and by whom. 5 That a segregated system of accounting be installed to provide a detailed and permanent record of all county business transactions which will be accessible to the pub lic: that separate accounts be kept of the cost of maintaining and op erating every piece of county eauinment. and that itemized state ments be attached to all claims paid. 6 That tile scale of wages paid by the county be adjusted to con form with the scale paia oy pri vate individuals and llrms for the same type of work, and that em ployes be paid only for the days they actually work. 7 That each office and depart ment keep a time sheet of the hours worked by all county employees to nrevent loafing and shirking. 8 That the practice of supplying employes with county gasoline to transport them to and from work be discarded. 9 That all county employes sev er their connection with political organizations. FIGHT LONG PENDING The critical report of the grand Jury with its detailed summary of Irregularities and extravagance Is the culmination of a long battle on the part of farmers and farming organizations to "clean things up" around the court house, to use the expression of some of the leaders In the movement. Attempts to 6ecure similar action from previous grand Juries have always been Blocked, they assert, by political Influences and they claim these same forces were at work during the sessions of the recent grand Jury to the same end but unsuccessfully. More or less criticism Is heard among the farmers concerning the part played by District Attorney Barnhart in the recent Investiga tions, It being alleged that his fall tire to cooperate freely and whole heartedly with the investigators hampered their work. In this connection It Is known here that three members of the grand Jury at one time during their session came to Salem to consult with Governor Meier regarding the possibility of having him name a special attorney to assist in the in vestigation and draw up the re port and indictments If they were found warranted. NOT PLAYING POLITICS This much Is evident: the grand Jurors were sparing no one In their endeavor to correct the abuses they found, as Is evidenced by their crit icism of Hugh Black, county clerk, over what the grand Jurors alleged to be dffeots in the conduct of his office. Black had been active in promoting and furthering the In vestigation, It Is generally known and out of his office came much of the information upon which the Jury based its recommendations. We are not Interested in per sonalities or In politics," was the manner In which one Interested farmer summed up the situation. "All we want Is a business adminis tration of the county's affairs In accordance to the laws without fav oritism or prejudice, and we Intend to get It." Asktd If it was planned to at tempt Uie recall of offending coun ty officials he said that such procedure had been discussed, but that he knew of no definite move In that direction. Sangerhausen, tP This city In the Han mountains boasts a 30- cre rose garden containing 8.000 different varieties of roses, almost every known kind. There are Jso, 00 bushes. BRITISH RADIO NETS INCREASE London (IP) The British radio In dustry had a turnover of $100,000, 000 In 1930, an increase of 40 per cent over 1929, according to statis tics Just published by the Wireless and Gramaphone Trader. Approximately 3.590,000 of the 11. 000.000 homes In Great Britain have radio licenses, the journal says. It estimates that radio will eventually be Installed in at least 75 per cent of the homes in the country. "Less than half the potential field has been touched," the magazine says, "and a still higher turnover caii be expect d by this youthful but wonderfully progressive industry." To substantiate this prediction, the journal points out that the num ber of radio license-holders Jumped by 178,000 during the first two months of 1031. This indicates that the increase of 500,000 new listeners in each of the past six years would be surpassed. Tile matazme estimates mat oe tween 2O.0CO.0O0 and 30.000.000 per sons listen to radio programs in Britain every night. THINK MURDERESS ESCAPED TO EAST Hysham. Mont,, i Belief that Lyda Southard, convicted murder ess who escaped from the Idaho prison May 4. passed through Mon tana toward the cast, was expressed Wednesday by C. L. Harris, county attorney. Harris said he passed a woman renalrini her car on the Yellow stone trail about 10 miles west of here about 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. He said she answered the description of Mrs. Southard He notified sheriff of counties east to be on the lookout for a small coupe. Big Gas Pipeline In Montana Started Butte, Mont., (LP) The largest construction project since the pion eering of the trans-continental railroads the piping of natural gas from northern Montana fields to ci ties and Industries of southwestern Montana Is underway. The first shovel of ground for the $19,000,000 project was turned last week, and each week until tne com pletion or tne nuge pipeline ana numerous distributing systems will see Increased activity. The Montana Power company al ready has franchises to serve more than a half dozen cities, Including Butte and Anaconda whose Indus tries will use more than 10,000,000, 000 cubic feet of gas annually. MemDhls IP) Aviators at the Memnhis airport aided the Com munlty Fund Chest by donating the nroceeds from an air show and passenger rides. 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Canadian delay Is said to have been caused by the fact that the Bennett government has been m power only a few months. Bennett bas said the fit. Lawrence project will relieve unemployment to a degree, and aid both Industry and agriculture. He Is quoted as saying he will do everything In his power to get It started. Both Bennett and Dr. . , Man- Ion, Canadian minister of railways and canals, are said to have dis cussed the treaty with President Hoover and the state department on recent visits to Washington. Presumably, the United States Is to bear the entire cost of the ship channel and the construction of dams in the International section representing a cost of about $100. 000,000 to balance the ledger with Canada for construction of the $125,- 000,000 Welland canal connecting laic ur.tano ana UiKe trie. In addition, but not as a part of the treaty, the United States is to construct the channel connecting Lake Superior with Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and the one con necting Lake Huron with Lake Erie. In the last rivers and harbors bill congress authorized $30,000,000 of the $65,000,000 estimated cost of the lirst. and $300,000 of an estimated $1,000,000 has been let in contracts to start work between Lake Ontario and Prescott. Ont. SOUTH JETTY ON COLUMBIA FAVORED Portland (IP) Senator McNary has been informed by Colonel Kingman that the report of the special board of army engineers headed by Colonel Ferguson, favors the restoration of the south Jetty at the Columbia river entrance as soon as possible, according to a dispatch from the Oregon Journal's Washington correspondent. The report is subiect to approval of Major General Brown, chief of engineers, and he Is expected to act on It within a few days, the dis patch said. Funds are now available and It is believed they will be allotted so that work may be started before there is any Impairment of naviga tion at the mouth of the Columbia. MINIATURE ROAD Philadelphia (IP) One of the world's most complete miniature railroads has been constructed on the Main Line estate of Boise Pen rose, 2d, nephew of the late senator from Pennsylvania. The line, named the Devon and Darby rail road, was built solely for the own er's amusement. When the line Is completed It will skirt the Darby creek and reach every part of the estate. It will be about a mile In length. QUICK FACTS Com tu to optvoti) HermM colly sealed refrigerating unit No Uichen repairs fewer moving part Qwleiest electric refriger atorHandy Temperature Con trol More, usable shelf space not, usable top fteautiful, groce-. ful coblneti iow prices and gen erous terms Covered by brood foctory guoroitee. 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The press bitterly criti cized the police ana especially Scotland Yard, organized 10 years before, for its failure to capture the man. Using this as an example that crime was Increasing, police offi cials demanded and received addi tional men to augment the detec tive force. This proved to be the vital spark needed to raise the "Yard" from an ordinary group of plain-clothes men to an agency which has grown to be feared by the worst criminals In the world. A series of sensational murders which were promptly solved "sold" Scotland Yard to Great Britain. The detective story, the popular ity of which has so Increased In recent years, has made a super- Sherlock Holmes out of a plain, business-like man who spends as much on luck as science to bring criminals to Justice, according to officials. Lieut. Andrew OUphant who re' tired after serving two score years on the force, In commenting on this phase of the situation said: "No detective possesses uncanny cowers such as Sherlock Holmes." And, another shock to thriller readers la contained In the state ments of other police heads that detectives rarely use disguises but dress in such a way as not to at tract attention. All are excellent marksmen but do not carry guns The chief value of the Scotland Yard agent Is his keenly devel oped powers of analysis and ob servation which, aided by every modern Invention of science, gives him the advantage In coping with the modern criminal, authorities say. Sherlock Holmes, they say, wouldn't search In dust bins for discarded cans of lobster but Scot land Yard did and convicted a gang of defaulters. Also, the famous Doyle detective probably would await a caU from the mysterious woman In red, but Scotland Yard solved a robbery of Catholic church by photograph' ing a foot print on a window ledge and arrested tne tniei a lew oays later, although these officials point out, there are thousands of crim inals In England who wear shoes. Chief Constable Frederick wems- ley who retired recently was known as the world's cleverest detective. He was offered a position to re organize the Chicago police depart ment but declined, his tenacity and shrewd deductions led to the arrest of "Peter the Painter," dangerous anarchist in 1910. It Is doubted here mar, snenoc Holmes would have followed the same steps as Scotland lira man assigned to Investigate a murder of a woman, committed on the docks. The face and head naa been badly beaten. The officer convinced a bottle was usea only more k days HUUD GAS TAN KM EATER. of London. He sent a letter and later thrown Into the water. A force of divers was employed and fragments of broken glass brought to the surface. Th num ber of the bottle was traced to a publlo house where the possible purchaser's name was revealed. A few weeks later the man was hang ed on the gallows. One murderer was traced by a laundry ticket, an other by a picture and one by an Insurance policy. Scotland Yard doesn't shout but knows there Is no such thing as a "perfect crime.'' They always look for the minor details which the slayer In anxiety to cover his crime has overlooked. Borne crimes may still b unsolved but Scotland Yard never sleeps and never forgets. PARISREADERS TURN HIGHBROW Paris (IP) There Is nothing "tra shy" about the American patrons of the American library In Paris. They are decidedly highbrow. Buch Is the opinion of the library directors. They report that patrons of the American library In Paris demand a higher percentage of so- called "better" books than perhaps anv library of its kind In the world These better books Include the classic novels, memoirs and travel volumes. James Joyce and Ger trude Stein are the two favorites of the sophisticated readers, while the every-day novel reading patrons fa vor Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Drei ser, Upton Sinclair, Joseph Herges heimer, Mary Webb, O. B. Stern and Ludwlg Lewlsohn. The American library, organized during the war for the American doughboys, Is now a flourishing in stitution containing nearly 50,000 volumes. Fifty-six per cent of Its readers are Americans, 19 per cent French, and 15 per cent English. Gothenburg, Sweden (IP) A float ing fish meal plant, capable of turning 50 tons of fish Into 12 tons of meal every day. Is at anchor here. The mill Is Installed on board a four-masted schooner. It grinds all the superfluous catch of the fishin trawlers, which was form erly thrown overboard. Into a flour nutritious to pigs and cattle. 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That, at least Is the entry on the register of the revolutionary Republic. Actually Napoleon and his successors and the Republic have never believed that story. Millions of Frenchmen today believe that the Dauphin was smuggled from his prison and escaped. It is a historical fact that Charles Louis was brought from Versailles to Paris by the revolutionists and locked up with his parents and his sister, Madame Royale, In the Tem ple. Later, the boy was placed un der the charge of a Jacobin shoe maker named Simon who treated him cruelly, shamelessly and taught the boy foul language and ob scene revolutionary songs and made of him a drunkard at five years. Mrs. Atkins, a wealthy English woman, plotted to get his freedom. She says In her memoirs that the Marquis de Fenoyl aided her and that the Marquis' valet, Gomin, succeeded In getting Simon's job. It is her story that as Simon and his wife left the Temple they wheel ed their possessions with them in a cart and the young prince was hidden In the load. The deaf and dumb son of a Normandy tailor, Hervagault, was put Into the Tem ple and pointed out as Louis XVII. At any rate a boy died in the w alled up cell on June 8, 1795, and was bur led In the church of St. Marguer Los Anseles, one way...$is.nn itoiiiut Trip . . . .s.'i.i.oo San FranrlM'o, one wuy f 11.0(1 Kouuil Trip JiO.OO Heateil reehnliiR ehiiir cars Dally Thru Limited Service INDEPENDENT STAOE CO. Depot lllldli Hotel I'hono 0131 "Fc&o" palatable Mealtime-Drink COKE CO. . ite under the name of ths Dauphin, Louis XVII. When et. Marguerite's was de stroyed under Napoleon HI In 185S, the bones were dug tip and subjected to a thorough study by the best doctors of the day, who decided that the boy who died In prison could not have been Charles Louis. That Is the basis of the pres ent inquiry. Scientists have spent recent months In checking over the meas urements of the remains as given 78 years ago and they have about agreed htat the earlier conclusion was correct and that the boy who died In prison could not have been the prince. That leaves the door open to the 37 different pretenders, or their descendants, who have made known their claims to the French govern ment. Foremost were Jean Marie Her vagault, son of a Saint Lo tailor; Mathurln Brumeau, son of a cob bler, who went to America and left descendants; a Caghnawaga Indian who was brought to France by the missionary Eleazcr Willams; Fran cois Henry Hebert, so-called Due de iiichemont who was well paid to drop his claims, and a Potsdam watchmaker, Karl Wilhelm Naun- dorf. Mystery has surrounded the ends of many of the pretenders, and poisoning Is believed to have caus cd the death of Naundorf. the "Due de Richemont," Jean Hervagault, cobbler Simon, valet Gomin and BnrrflR. 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