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AJomraal Capital CIRCULATION Dally avarac distribution for tha BADtto ending August II. 19SI 10,446 Average daily net paid 10,000 Member Audit Bumu of Circulation FAIR tonight and Saturday, but cloudy and unsettled northwest portion; little change In temperature; north west winds, Local: Uu 71: min, 43; raia river -JJ leet; dear; south wind. 43rd YEAR, No. 217 2ttnEXggm SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931 PRICE THREE CENTS USSSSnSSP tmwn o n GOVERNOR HOT FAVORABLE TO EXTRA SESSION Meier Represented To Be Opposed To Sugges tion of State Grange Highway Work Relied Upon To Provide State Share of Employment MEIER SILENT Portland, Ore , (LP) Gover nor Julius L, Meier will make no statement on Grange re quests for a special legislative session until he receives and reads the grange resolution, he said Friday. Governor Meier, who has been at the Benson hotel for nearly three weeks convales cing from an Illness that struck him at Salem, said he is now devoting three or four hours a day to state business. . By BARRY N. CRAIN Unless proponents of the scheme lay before Governor Julius Meier more specific and tangible reasons for calling the legislature Into spe cial session for the enactment of emergency legislation to assist In handling the unemployment prob lem there will be no special session as requested In resolutions adopted by the executive committee of the Oregon state grange, meeting In Portland Wednesday. This Information, together with the statement that the executive" DRY LAW FINES TOTAL $271, 134 Pines totaling $271,134 were as sessed against state prohibtlion law violators during 1930, it was an nounced here Friday by George Al exander, former prohibition director now an officer in the state police department. The year's report sub. mltted by counties has Just been compiled. The report covers proni feltion cases handled by sheriffs as sisted by state and federal officers. The total arrested during the year was reported as 2686, an Increase of 133 over arrests In 1929. While the number of arrests increased, the fines assessed were lower by $34,000 than the year before. This, Alex ander said, was due to lack of mo ney on the part of those fined. To balance less fines, more days In county Jail sentences resulted. The number of days last year was 63,327 compared to 45,448 the year Deiore, Prohibition forces seized 310 stills, confiscated 78 automobiles, destroy ed 67,424 gallons of mash and 10, Concluded on page 8, column 4) FAVORED ROUTE IS ENDORSED Astoria (IP) Following a confer' ence Thursday afternoon In Sea aide with representatives of the Sea aide and Astoria chambers of commerce, the Clatsop county court went on record as strongly favoring a short-cut route from Portland to the coast with Its outlet by way of Hamlet to connect with the Oregon coast highway. The court also urged that the highway commission route the road east from Hamlet by way of Elsie and the Tldeport logging camp. Beyond Tldeport to the east the court declined to suggest a route, leaving the merits of the route by way of Vernonia and the one by way of Wolf creek to advocates from the districts most affected. The court wired to the highway commission advising of its reoom mendatlona AMERICA, RUSSIA BLOCK DISARMING Geneva. Switzerland, (V-Srva dor de Madarlaga, Spanish am bassador to the United 8tates. Prl da told the league of nations as sembly that world disarmament can never be realized so long as the United States and Russia remain aloof from "international guaran tees of security.' Neutrality In time of war no longer Is possible, he said, and every nation, whether they are members of the league of nations or not, shares In the lot of all other countries whether In tune cf peace or in time of war. ood Evening! VJ Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN BUI McAdams was In . yesterday looking like a million and asking to thank au nis inenas wno neipea him out through our column In his recent trouble. They'll all be glad to know that Bill Is up and coming. George Washington attained In ternational fame by cutting down a cherry tree. Abraham Lincoln at tallied some of his immortality by splitting rails. But George needed hatchet and Abe needed an ax to assist them on their road to un dying glory. AU of which brings heme to as the significance of the feat of Herman Schellberr the other day when without hatchet or ax he merely made a speech and blew over a large sized maple tree for the edification of an audience at the old tim ers picnic at Mehama. This, we aver, is a feat which should place Herman along on the same plane with George and Abe but we doubt If he'll ever even have his plcutre on a postage stamp. Lions were told yesterday that 'social work Is not meddling In other people's affairs," and that there will be a new class of people needing relief this winter and that 'helping them is a matter not oniy of gathering groceries and clothing but also of encouraging them." We hope the encouragement doesn't take the shape of Intelli gence tests to find out how many of them can give definitions of sudorific." "ambergis,' and 'per functory," and to recommend ster llzatlon or admission to the feeble minded school for those who can't. Maybe all social work Isn't mere ly muddling up other people's af fairs but there's altogether too much of it that Is. Mr. and Mis. V. A. Goode over at Stayton will again have their wonderful gardens open to the public Sunday and everybody In terested In flowers, shrubbery and plants can spend a very Interesting part of a day there and meet a couple of fine people at the same time. Someone talking over the radio the other evening referred to the depression as "the most deplor able thing of the twentieth cen tury," or something to that effect. We wonder If he's ever seen one of the Eugenie hats? $200,000,000 NAVAL BUILDING Washington UP) Naval thin con struction costing In excess of (200,- 000.000 will be under way shortly after the navy department awards contracts for the building of 11 de stroyers to cost a total of $50,000, 000. " The bids are to be opened next Wednesday on these craft, the first designed by the navy under the terms of the London naval treaty. The navy department hopes the successful bidders will be able to begin work on the vessels In early October, so that shipyard workmen nay be employed In the winter months. One of the 1400 tons, 35 knot ships, Is to be built at the Brook lyn, New York, navy yard to avert a work load slump and resultant discharge of experienced workers. For the other ten, bids are expected from a half dozen private east coast yards, and naval yards at Boston, Charleston. South Carolina, Mare Island, California, Puget Sound, Washington and Norfolk, Virginia. WATSON OPPOSES INCREASE IN TAXES Washington (IP) The admlnlS' tration position on tax revision be. came Involved In complications Fri day when Republican Floor Leader Watson of the senate emerged from the White House and nounced he would oppose any tam pering with taxation. Watson said he was opposed to the tax plans of Senator Reed, re publican, Pennsylvania, and Rep resentative Bacharach, republican. New Jersey as well as to all other proposals to Increase government revenue at the coming session of congress. , Hood River Bridge Tolls Are Reduced Washington IIP! The war depart ment Friday approved reduction of tolls across the Columbia river bridge near Hood River. Ore., as tuicu u, uicguy nauiuw- ,ny anidt of interest or oper ton Bridge Co. The old and new i .ting expense, rates are: The Oregon approach to the pro- One to two ton trucks: old rate posed bridge tap the main business 11.50; new rate II. Two to four ton district of the city, connecting with trucks, old rate 12; new rate 11.50. The Dalles-Callfomla highway end Trucks over four tons, old rate 15; with the North Bank and Satus new rate 82.50. highways In Washington. GANDHI CLAD IN LOINCLOTH GRFJTSFREIICH Mahatma Completes 6, 000 Mile Boat Trip To Beard British Lion Spins Cloth and Sleeps On Deck Enroute Greeted by General Marseilles, France UP) When Mahatma Gandhi set foot France's shores Friday he had com pleted a 6.000 mile boat trip to beard the British lion on his own hearth and had spun enough yarn it was said to reach around the world. As he walked down the gang plank In his scant loin cloth, with Miss Madeline Blade, his disciple, at his heels, his lack of attire was a revelation to tiie blase French people, who seemed to feel that even a saint should wear more clothing. The appearance of India's mystl cal leader In her non-violent light lor independence was made even more grotesque' by a nondescript Concluded on page 8, column 6) E FOR LOST FLIERS Seattle, MP) Hone that Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, missing trans-Pacific airmen, will be found alive was practically abandoned here Friday after numerous reports of planes passing ovre various sec tions of the Aleutian Islands and northern Canada failed to be veri fied. Aviation experts and coast guard officers here declared there was scarcely a chance to find any trace of the two airmen who took off from Japan Monday on a nonstop lugnt to Seattle. . Reports that a plane was heard passing over Dutch Harbor, Aleu tian Islands, early Wednesday, were discounted when messages from the coast guards cutters Chelan and Itaska, searching the water In that vicinity, said they had investigated but found no confirmation. Rumors of a plane landing on Vancouver island and also on small Island along the northern coast of British Columbia were wtihout confirmation after exten slve Investigations. A large monoplane, reported to have been seen over Carmacks, 200 miles north of Whltehorse, Y. T., was believed to have been one operated by a mining company on the Yukon river. Such a ship was not reported as being sighted at any other pointy WOMAN HELD IN POLICE CUSTODY Syosset, L. 1. (U) Mrs. Benjamin Ceilings was taken, to Oyster Bay, L. I., Friday to re-enact the events preceding and following the disap pearance of her civil engineer hus band from their motor boat, the Penguin, Thursday. She was at tended by Inspector Harold King of the Nassau county police. Police announced the discovery on board the mystery boat Penguin of a revolver and a broad-bladed hunt ing knife. The revolver was secreted beneath cushions on a seat on board the strange craft It was admitted that the weapons might be the customary equipment of a boat, but the investigators at tached Importance to them. They tore up the deck of the little boat seeking further clues. Mrs. Collins was taken back to Mineola by motor car after re-enacting her story of how her husband was thrown overboard. THE DALLES TO VOTE ON BRIDGE BONDS The Dalles, Ore. The city council Thursday night unanimous ly adopted a resolution calling for special election to be held Oct. II for the purpose of voting on the proposal to Issue $450,000 In 15 year Columbia river bridge bonds. The bonds, which must be sold at par, and the accrued Interest will be paid from toll revenue. Tne cy rulrantees to tax Itself to cov- Women Also Suffer With Roving Foot Washington UP) A study showing the roving foot to be a feminine as well as a masculine attribute has Just been completed by Dr. Gladys L. Palmer for the woman's bureau. Surveying 609 women workers at four industrial summer schools, Southern school In North Carolina, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, and Wiscon sin universities, Dr. Palmer found as a "typical worker" the "restless, American -born girl seeking vari ety of location or occupation." One girl had nine Jobs In 13 years In as many industries ana wcau tles; another 30 jobs In 30 differ- (Concluded on page , column 7) MAYOR TO SIGN ALL WARRANTS The entire S8000 appropriated by the city of Salem as Its share In the maintenance or tne neaim bu reau will be available to that de partment Mayor P. M. Gregory let it be known Friday when he said he would be guided by an opinion from City Attorney Trindle that reached the mayor Thursday. In this opinion Trindle stated that the full 88000 was legally appropriated and the mayor without authority to withhold any part of It by refusing to sign warrants. Although the opinion did not reach the mayor until Thursday It was dated August 20. Trindle says the opinion was at his office await ing Gregory for several weeks. Gregory says he didn't know it was there untu informed of it xnursoay morning. . In a statement to the city coun cil Tuesday night the mayor said he had asked Trindle for an opin ion but had not received it, and that, considering 12000 of the 18000 appropriation Illegal, he would re fuse to sign the warrants as soon as 16000 was exhausted. The mayor based his stand on the fact that the city budget committee for 1S31 ap proved only $6000, the council later raising the amount to 88000. "I have no authority to disregard the attorney's opinion." Oregon? said Friday, "and will be guided by it, for it will go Into the minutes of the city council as offcial advice to me. The opinion follows: "Complying with your request for an opinion as to the legality of the appropriation made for the Marion county health department In the annual budget of the city of (Concluded on pap a, column 7) ASK HALT TO VET HOSPITALS Baltimore IIP) Announcement that the American Medical associa tion would ask the American Legion U use Its Influence to halt the erection of veterans' hospitals was made here In a statement Friday by Dr. Thomas 8. Cullen, a trustee of the association. Dr. Cullen, Johns Hopkins Medical school professor, said, however, the association does not plan to ask congress to abandon a policy of rendering hospital and medical benefits to veterans with disabilities not connected with military service. A resolution calling on congress and the legion to substitute a plan of disabilities not Incurred during military service was approv ed at a recent session of the medi cal association. This resolution was condemned at the recent conven tlon of Uie Veterans of Foreign Wars. The last congress appropriated 120800,000 for more veterans hoe pltals. Dr. Cullen said the approach to the legion would be In "a very friendly spirit" and the proposal for a direct appeal to congress would be disregarded. Baptist War Causes Soldiers To Patrol Jonesboro's Streets Jonenboro, Ark. VP Military authorities disclosed Fri day that the presence of a great number of armed men at a revival meeting Thursday night caused them to ask Gov ernor Pamell to declare martial law m Jonesboro, scene of a bitter controversy between rival factions of the First Baptist church. The governor sent word from Lit tle Rock that he would not declare martial law unless the situation gets beyond control of the etvU au thorities and 100 national guards men called out to aid In preserving order. Mesnwhlle, Our Freellng, secre tary to the governor, and Lieuten ant Colonel C, 8. Garrett, assistant TEACHERS III CHICAGO WORK FOR NOTHING End of First Week Fails To Bring Pay To Peda gogues Only Fear of Unemploy ment Keeps Instruc tors In Class Rooms Chicago (IP) Loyal to the Ideal that "school must go on," 18,000 public school marms. Janitors and office workers, many of whom have not been paid since April, came to the end of the first week of the new school year Friday droning their theme song: "When, oh, when will our next pay day be?" And to those who have been stalling the baker, the butcher and the landlord, exhausting savings accounts and borrowing sources or seeking markets for the scrip of school board offers In lieu of money, the answer is all Important, Sitting amid a din of ringing telephones, surrounded by scratch pads, pencils, and beseaching teach ers, Secretary Charles E. Gilbert, of the school board wearily said: "I don't know. Nobody does. But unless something Is done taxes paid, a special session of the state legislature, or something it might be two years." The natural question, "Why do the teachers teach If there Is no money forthcoming Immediately -for bread and butter?" brought assort ed replies. Some expressed fear of not find-' Ing other openings. Others are held here by responsibilities of property and dependents. Many are loathe to sacrifice the standing they have made for themselves lnthe school '(Concluded " on page's, column EAST SWELTERS IN HEAT WAVE Chicago (IP More than half the nation sweltered In an autumnal heat wave Friday. From the western plains states to the eastern seaboard the nested but nonetheless devastating wave of heat rolled on toward new Sep tember record shattering marks. Spotty relief In the northwest and perhaps In some sections of the plains states was anticipated by the Chicago forecasters before an other 34 hours has passed but In the main residents of tne neat Den may expect to swelter Saturday and possibly over the week-end. Temperatures of 95 to 100 were forecast for the plains states before Uie sun goes down. Tne mercury In Chicago, which Thursday came within one degree of breaking Sep tember records, was expected to touch M before night, which would establish a new September mark In Chicago. JEM SMITH, FAMED PUGIUSmSSES London OP Jem Smith, one of the greatest ot the old time bare knuckle prize fighters, and twice the champion of England, died Fri day, aged 68. His vreatest battle was In 1887 when he fought the American, Jake Kllraln. for 810.000 and the cham pionship of the world. They went 106 rounds on an Island In the river Seine In Prance, but darkness came and they agreed to call it draw. state adjutant general, left Little Rock Friday with a sonvoy of five army trucks to convey more troops to Jonesboro. Freellng went as the personal representative of Governor Pamell and Colonel Oarrett Intended to confer with military authorities al ready at Jonesboro with a view to preventing a renewal of disorder that took place here Wednesday night and Thursday as outgrowths (Concluded on pase i, column fl) J Capital Journal To Open Washington Bureau Of Service Beginning next week, with the issue of Monday. Sep tember 14, the Capital Journal offers its subscribers a new Washington information service, with additional educational xeatures, mat is recognized as tney greatest free service that Is brought to 1U readers by any newspaper, This service Is directed by Fred eric J. Haskins. famous author and correspondent. It departments In clude (1) the Haskins Letter, a dally news story of Important gov ernment activities and of events and develpoments that are of general Interest; (2) Answers to Questions, a dally feature present ing the most interesting of the Questions of fact that will be an swered dally for our readers; and (3) a daily educational ouering oi government publications and other booklets and maps that will be sent from our Wasnlngton bureau to any readers of the Capital Journal who request them. All questions of fact that may be asked by our readers will be answered by personal letters from Washington without charge to them, the only requirement being the enclosuro of a two cent stamp to cover the reply postage. For the booklet and map service the only charge Is the cost of printing, handling, and return postage. Further announcements of this new service will be made during the week and Capital Journal readers BLAST WRECKS KODAK PLANT Rochester, N. Y. IP A terrific explosion demolished one of the buildings in the Eastman Kodak Co., plant here Friday, with loss of life and high property damage. Casualties Included three dead and 30 Injured. The explosion occurred in build ing Q. 35, known as the coating department. It wrecked the building. The roar of the detonation could be I heard for miles. Windows over a wide radius in the vicinity of the1 explosion were shattered. Ambulances were rushed to the Eastman plant to care for the In jured. It was feared more dead would be found In the debris ot the smoking, shattered building. FRENCH FLIERS OFF FOR TOKIO Moscow UP) The French airplane Hyphen II, out for a distance rec ord, passed over Moscow late Fri day night and headed for Kazan. The weather naa cleared ana mere was no wind. Le Bourget, France UP) Word from Dusseldorf Friday said the tram-Atlantic airplane, Question Mark, In which Paul Codos and Henry Roblda started from here Friday morning on a flight toward Tokyo had been forced down near that city. The message said the plane Hy phen II, which took off a few min utes ahead of the Question Mark to fly over the same route, was still going well. Joseph Lebrlx, Marcel Doret and Rene Mesmln are aboard this ship. Paris, UP) Two French airplanes, one of them a veteran of the trans Atlantic airways, left Le Bourget airdrome at dawn Friday in the di rection of Tokyo, seeking to wrest the non-stop distance ribbon from America and matching speed with each other. One waa the Hyphen II, manned by Joseph Le Brix, Marcel Doret and Rene Mesmln, who crashed In Siberia several months ago with the original Hyphen on a similar ven ture. The other was the Question Mark, owned by Major Dleudonne Coste, which was carrying Paul Codos and Sergeant Henry Rodlda JOBLESS CAUSING HOOVER NO ALARM Washington, tP The unemploy, ment problem Is regarded by ad' ministration and relief leaders as serious but no cause for public alarm. Administration officials In touch with the relief program believe the American people can take care of the unemployed during the coming winter and that overemphasis on the distress problem has disturbed the public mind. Ttiey were said to feel the relief problem cannot be measured by the total number of unemployed In that about 1,500,000 are out of work. FREDERIC J. HASKINS ahre urged to acquaint themselves with Its valuable features and to use any or all of them. ASK REDUCTION IN VALUATIONS McMlnnvllle UP) James K Bur dett, McMlnnvllle attorney, Friday confirmed reports that about 30 owners of real property In Yam hill county will present petitions to the county tax equalisation board Saturday demanding drastic reduc tions In tax valuations. This was taken as the forerunner of a suit to be filed In the Yam hill county circuit court alleging discrimination In the Oregon taxa tion system. Burdett said that should the equalisation board at Its meeting next week neglect to make any or sufficient reductions in the valua tions, a circuit court action de manding the reductions will be filed. If necessary, the attorney declared, the case will be taken to the supreme court of the state. Eight counts will be noted In the stuck on Yamhill county's valua tion- system and taxation method. One Is that assessors have neglect ed to consider earning power or Income from lands In attempting to arrive at the true value. Another charge Is that the assessor has failed to place on the tax rolls a great part of the property of many Individuals and corporations. A third point Is that farm and tim ber lands have been assessed In greater value than the cash or market value. BOLIVIAN TROOPS MEETING QUELLED Lapaa, Bolivia (LP) A subversive movement among troops in the first In ran try regiment was reported in an official communique Friday. The rebellious troops killed sub lieutenant Noe Bios, shooting him twice. The government ordered mo bilization of the military school and non-commlssloned officers' school. Machine guns were placed at stra tegic points in Plata Principal. Leaders of the uprising were ar rested, and others fled. FRENCH BAN ON COAST LUMBER Seattle 'At Steamship companies here Friday were Beginning to leei the effects of a lumber Import pro hibition Disced in effect by the French government, and shipping men were preparing to protest the order. A consignment of 1,500.000 feet of northwest lumber booked for a ship of one of the regular lines for France was cancelled this week. Rough Douglas fir boards Is the principal item going under the order, shippers said, passed In an effort to protect the French lumber Industry. Escaped Women Prisoners Taken Phoenix. Aria W Mrs. Zora Neal Ross, knife slayer, and Mrs. Dale Talley. burglar, who made their es cape over the is foot wan of tne state penitentiary at Florence Thursday, were captured hers Fri day, BELIZE RAZED 200 KILLED BY TROPICSTOHiM Two Hurricanes Leave Destruction in British Honduras, Porto Rico: Tidal Wave Follows Hundreds Injured ' Many Destitute (Br Uw Associated Prcst) Two hurricanes were sweeping the Carrlbean Friday., One was reported to have killed 300 to 400 at Belize, British Hon duras, Thursday night, and Friday menaced the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico. The other killed at least one at San Juan,- Porto Rico, and Friday was sweeping toward Haiti Shortly before noon various weather bureaus predicted the storm would pass near Santo Domingo late Friday afternoon or early Fri day nlgnt. Government raido facilities at Belize, which Is the capital ot British Honduras, .were put out of order by the storm. A flash from Tela, Honduras, said the city was destroyed, 200 dead, and half tba population homeless. Another mes sage to the Pan Anmeiican Airways from Its Belize field manager fixed the dead at 400. Several American priests are believed among the dead at Belize. The Red Cross at Washington waa advised by the manager ot the Porto Rlcan chapter that the hur ricane passing over San Juan killed one, Injured several, unrooted 30S houses and damaged numerous business buildings. 6an Juan was cut off from com munication with the rest ot the Island. A second messsge received by Pan American Airways from Bellxe (Concluded on psge 9, column i) CHIEF JENKINS GOES TO LONDON Portland IIP) While communists and Edgar the Sailor were saying scorching things - about his force Thursday, Chief of Police L. V. Jen kins nonchalantly swung aboard a train and headed for London and Paris. The chief had planned the trip for some time, and apparently thought the communists and Edgar the Sailor were not worth staying home to listen to. Jenkins win speak at International detective conven tions. While Chief Jenkins was packing his toothbrush and comb, Edgar the Sailor, otherwise known as Joe M. Edgar, bitterly complanled from a cell that Officers O'Dale and Bacon had given him money to buy a pis tol, then Jailed him for possessing It. Edgar claimed to be a sleuth em ployed by the officers. The communists charged that the police falsely accused them of spon soring the Aurora, Ore., bank rob bery on September 1. As a matter of fact, the communists opined, they wouldn't be at all surprised if the police hadn't engineered the rob bery In order to blame It onto the communists. RENO POLICEMAN SHOT BY BANDITS Reno, Nev. UP) Ross Peterson, Reno policeman, was shot In a gun battle with burglars early Friday morning at the Reno high school, and one of the burglars was killed, while a second Is believed to have been wounded. The policeman was hiding In the school In anticipation of a burglary following a recent burglary at the University of Nevada, and Is believ ed to have fought It out with the burglars, one ot who.n be billed. Peterson's wounds were In the back. Indicating he had been shot from behind. Pabst Purchases Grain Plant To Use for Beer Milwaukee c-Purchase at the Atlas grain storags with a capacity of 400.000 bushels, was announced Friday by Fred Pabst, president of the Pabst corporation. Pabst said the purchase was made In line with his belief that congress by next year will legalise the man ufacture and sale of beer. The Pabst corporation last year Installed (1.000.000 worth ot new equipment for the manufacture of beer, Pabst said.