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6 G aoit alMJoiiraal CIRCULATION Dally averts distribution for th montb ending September 31. 1931 CITY EDITION Cloudiness with rain Thursday; southerly gales. 10,590 Local: Max.. W: Mln., 33; rain, .03; river, -3.4 feet: .cloudy; south wind. Average daily net paid 10,126 Iftmbw Audit Buimu of Circulation tijKui o J n , 3 itwl VV4P Jn 9K1 "nterad usecond class SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAIN'S AND NKWS tTAND FIVE CKNTfl matter at Salem, Oregon o) Ju m sum SAY AMERICA NOT HELPING PEACEMOVES Belief Widespread U. S. Failing To Cooperate With League Accused of Playing Lone Hand Pessimism Rules League Council Geneva Pi Tlwre was ft distinct note of pessimism Wednesday eve ning among persons In ft position to know the trend of debate re garding Manchuria In the League of Nations council. The belief was widespread that the United States, represented by Prentiss B. Gilbert, was not back ing up the league's program of pacification. Reports of conversations at Wash ington between Secretary of Slate Stlmson and Katsuji Debuchl, the Japanese ambassador, appeared to have aroused fears that the United States was playing a lone hand and short-circuiting the council's ef forts to Induce withdrawal of Jap anese troops from Manchuria. Kenklchl Yoshizawa, Japan's rep resentative on the council, remain ed adamant in his refusal to prom ise recall of Japanese troops with out certain guarantees which it Is believed China is unwilling to un dertake. It wax understood that the mem bers of the council were very dis couraged and that they were con " (Concluded on page 10. column 6) JUDD INMATE OREGON ASYLUM Dr. W. C. Judd. whose wife sought In connection with the trunk murder of Mrs. Agnes LeRol and Miss Hedvlg Samuelson at Phoenix, was an Inmate of the Oregon state hos pital for the Insane from December 27, 1919 to February 21, 1920. The hospital records show that he was committed from Marion county as a. drug addict. Dr. Judd had served with the United States forces overseas during the World war and his commitment followed his return here. Later, fol lowing his discharge from the hos pital, he Is said to have been offi cial physician for the Brookings Lumber company at Brookings, Ore. near the California line. He was graduated from the medi cal college of Willamette university In 1906 and for a time was an In terne at Willamette sanitarium here. Local physicians who knew Judd 1 describe him as normally a man of j culture and very personable. HOSPITAL PATIENTS RESCUED IN FIRE Oakland, Cal. UP) Twenty pa tients in the main building of St. Anthony's hospital were removed safely Wednesday when fire men aced the strcture. A triple alarm summoned all available fire appartus and fire men assisted hospital attendants In removing the patients to the ma ternity ward In an adjoining build ing. None was Injured. Cause of the fire was not Im mediately determined. Two patients were overcome but were quickly revived. Physicians, nurses and nearby residents aided firemen In remov ing the patients In stretchers and wheel chairs. A score of convalescents gather ed their paraphernalia and walked to safety. RELIGIOUS WARFARE RAGES, VERA CRUZ Mexico City i Reports of re ligious trouble In the state of Vera Crux were contained In dispatches ITS chine here Wednesday. A message from Tulancingo, Hid logo, saM a movement led by an unnamed priest had gained some stremrth at Iihuallan, Vera Crux, and that federal troops were wnrtnf on the town. In Coacoauintla, state of Vera Cms. the report said. Agrarians and municipal authorities clashed and three persons were seriously wounded. SCHOOL BURNS Rolderness, N. H. UFt Fire early Wednesday destroyed the Holderness school for boys and drove more than forty students to the street. Damage was animated M approximately 1206,000. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Henry Mencken wrote an article recently in which he urged the le galising of lotteries, remaps ne has found out since his marriage that ft lottery isn't so bad, after all. Our headline writer at the top of the classified page handed out the following last night: "Consider these If's If Cleopatra had worn long skirts; If Patrick Henry had been born tongue UeH; If Paul Re vere had been held up by traffic." We might add the following: If Herman Schellberg had, been born deaf and dumb. If Eve hadn't liked apples. If Walter Raleigh had gone In his shirtsleeves. If Al Smith had been born Methodist. The depression bas even bit the Salem high school secret societies. At least they cant keep the Wolf from the door. Barney Bernhard, local A. P. man, is urging a get together dinner for state officials so they may become acquainted. Leave It to a news paperman to work up a free feed for himseu. The question arises If Max Gchlhar should be compelled to order Tusko to be shot whether that would be another trunk murder. At any rate It's too bad Tusko didn't get all the publicity before the state fair. It would have made It one of the big paying attrac tions. Anyway, at the rate of two tons of hay a day, we can say for Tusko, "What an elephant!" Banker Lamport who has been vice-president of the United States National bank for a number 01 years, became Lawyer Lamport this week and looks the part ensconced in his new offices up In the bank building. Here's hoping for lots of litigation, Fred, and a multiplicity of suits. Right after our revealing the re lationship of Frank Spears and Doc Spears Frank got a citation to come down to Portland and serve on the federal grand Jury probably as right tackle. Some old philosopher once re marked that you get out of life what you put Into It. Which same may also be said of a mirror as any woman can testify. GUNMEN HELD IN LA GRANDE JAIL La Grande, Ore. (IP) Life death for Keith Crosswhite and John Owen, youthful Springfield, J Mo., "bad men", literally depended Wednesday upon the fate of Amos Helm, whom they shot. Helm, a state policeman, was shot down by one of the men last sun- day as he questioned them about robberies at Idaho Palls, Ida. Owen and Crosswhite deserted Orlean Wood house, a 10-year-old Idaho girl, and took to the wild Blue Mountain hills. They were captured Tuesday, hun gry, cold and dejected, without a shot being fired. A searcher in an airplane had located their hiding- place. If Helm dies, the prisoners win be tried for first degree murder, a capital offense. District Attorney Carl Helm said. Giant Hawk Tried To Carry Off Boy Sioux City, la. (IP) A giant hawk which tried to carry "Buddy" Knud son, 7, away, could not lift him and got Its claws so entangled In the boy's clothing It could not escape. "Buddy" suffered severe scratches before an older boy killed the hawk. Winter Relief Work Gets Definite Start At Conference Here Salem cot its organization for winter relief work as an adjunct to its job-finding1 commiswion for the resident un employed definitely under way at a meeting of the members of the community service commit- tee named by the chamber of com merce Tuesday evening, when plans for the collection and disbursement of relief funds and the systematic handling of all destitute and needy 1 cases were formulated and placed in preliminary operation. Without attempting to establish an arbitrary quota, which would be largely a matter of guess work tn view of the abnormal emergency existing, the committee will launch a concerted campaign for funds on November 1 with the Idea of tn--Juding everyone tn the city who FINAL TRIBUTE PAID EDISON AT OLD HOME Funeral Ceremony Sim pleMrs. Hoover At tends All Electric Lights In Na tion To Be Turned Off One Minute Tonight West Orange, N. J., UP In the drawing room of the spacious, Vic torlan mansion where he had lived for many years, a simple tribute was paid Wednesday to one of America's greatest peace time heroes Thomas Alva Edison. There assembled his family and his friends to bid him farewell, with the music, the poetry, and the flowers that he loved. The wife of the president of the United States, whom the inventor counted among his friends, was present, but there was about the funeral little of the stately cere mony one would associate with the obsequies of a man of world wide fame. -The service opened with two of Edifion's favorite songs "Little Grey Heme in the West" and "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen' played on the violin by his old t Concluded on page 11. column 8) RAILROAD WAGE CUT AVERTED Washington (IP) A plan for stab ilizing the critical railroad situa tion without recourse to wage cuts has been advanced as another of the efforts which the government Itr making to revive basis industries and restore confidence to American business. The interstate commerce com mission proposed the plan Tuesday in rejecting the carriers petition for a blanket 15 per cent rate In crease. It contemplates a huge pool of millions of dollars, accrued through widely spread but small rate increases for the benefit of roads in financial distress. The in creases would have scarcely any effect - upon the average citizen. As a companion effort to the $500,000,000 National Credit corpor ation and the proposed improve ments In the real estate and home building situations, the railroad plan would marshal from $100,000, 000 to $125,000,000 for another in dustry weakened by the strain of adverse business conditions and vitiated credit. By making its counter proposal, the commission was believed to have averted for the time being at least any further speculation re garding wage reductions for ran workers such as a flat denial prob ably would have occasioned. STARTS DRIYE ON ONE EYED AUTDS Charles Pray, state superinten dent of police, Wednesday issued a warning to motoriits driving at night with only one headlight. The police department is making a drive against these offenders and any one with single headlights will be subject to arrest, Pray announced. .Complaints of many one-light drivers on the highways as well as many with glaring headlights, have come into the department, Pray said. Both violations will be check ed In -the drive for more safety on highways. desires to assist. The appeal, to be directed bv a special corps of work era under trie direction of William McOllchrlst, Jr., will embrace every class of people able to contribute to poor relief from laborers and salaried workers on through the whole scale of occupations to bank ers and professional men. The proceed of the campaign which, except In the event of un forseen emergencies will be the only such appeal made here dur In the winter, will gojnto a com " (Concluded on "pat 11, column iT Freight Rates On Lumber to Be Increased The Interstate commerce commis sion ruling In granting certain in creases on commodities shipped by rail, although refusing the flat Is per cent Increase requested by rail roads, affects lumber, Charles M. Thomas, public utilities commis sioner, stated. He said his Inter pretation of the findings showed this was the only commodity ma terially affecting Oregon. The Increase permitted on lum ber Interstate shipments was $3 a carload. This Increase was Includ ed In the conditionally approved surcharges. The commissioner announced mat (Concluded on page 10, column t) BECKETT HELD TO GRAND JURY Dallas Russell Beckett and L Schaeffer, both Salem men, were bound over to the Polk county grand Jury Wednesday following arraignment in the court of Justice of the Peace Oregon, and released under $500 bond furnished by Frank Berrv. Portland bail bond broker, as the result of their arrest here early Monday morning by Chief of Police Neufeldt. The two men were charged with possession and trans portation of alcoholic liquor ana possession of a loaded gun upon a public highway. I A third man, one "John Doe" who has consistently refused to talk and consequently could not be questioned by officers, occupies a cell In the county Jail until he Is willing to answer questions of the officers. Mysterious circumstances brought the arrest of the trio according to tht story told by Chief Neufeldt. Beckett allegedly brought "John Doe" to Dallas in a light coupe late Sunday night. "John Doe" got out of the car, and Beckett head ed back toward Salem. Police promptly picked up the stranger as a suspicious character. About 4 o'clock the next morning accord ing to the officer's story, Beckett returned driving a truck and was accompanied by Schaeffer. When Neufeldt stopped him. Beckett al- iCoucluded onpntte 10, column 7) DENY PERMISSION TO DRAG WHALE Portland. Ore., tip) The words 'only a bird In a gilded cage" will never apply to Egbert the whale. Permission to catch Egbert and drag him 300 yards overland to concrete pool full of salt water was denied P. Pl?her and Clyde Lei cer. Vancouver, Wash., Wednesday by the Oregon Humane society. In rendering Its dictum, the so ciety was thinking only of Eg bert's welfare, Mrs. LUlle Thomas president, indicated. We think it would be cruel to drag the whale 300 yards and put it tn a tank only nine feet deep, she said. A counter proposal to tow Eg bert from his adopted home in Oregon slough Into the Columbia river and start him on a 100-mile journey down the river to salt water, was being considered by the society Wednesday. LAVAL TO SPEAK ON RADIO MONDAY New York iJPt Premier Pierre La val of Prance, coming to the United States for conferences with Presl- I dent Hoover, is to speak before the j microphone next Monday evening. The address is to be made at a ! dinner in his honor by the French chamber of commerce In the United States and will be broadcast from New York by WABC-CBS. The premier s arrival some lime Thursday morning Is to be described over an NBC network. Wednesday the premier finished writing the speech he will make In New York and sent a copy of it to Washington by radio so President ; Hoover might look tt over before It Is delivered. I Henry Ford Thinks Hard Times Do Good New York 0P Henry Ford thinks the economic slump "has done less harm to the people of our country than a continuance of our previous false prosperity would have done." In an interview In Wednesday's issue of the American Automobile Mr. Ford says that "the depression Is a wholesome thing. In general. "The condition mill be broken when people cease to believe that something can be obtained for nothing and when people get back their self-lependence; that is. when they cease to lean on the initiative of a few either to provide work or charity." FINANCE AND ECONOMIES TO BE DISCUSSED Hoover and Laval To Confer on Readjust ment of Conditions Debt Revision and Arma ment Reduction Prin ciple Subjects (Copyright. If 31, hj Auociated Ptcm) Washington, (ffV-A broad read justment of the tangled world eco nomics, including possible debt re visions and drastic arms reduction, but Involving no American guar antee of French political security, is conoeived by the American gov ernment to be the theme of Pre mier Laval's coming conferences with President Hoover. There la no expectation here that any sort of prior commitment, in the form of a Franco-American consultative pact or otherwise, will be discussed when the two states men converse at the White House later this week. The United States does not con sider Itself in a position to make promises respecting the security of any European nation. It will be a surprise if Mr. Laval suggests such a step. The understanding here is tnat the sole basis of the Hoover-Laval conversations will be world econo mic rehabilitation. France and the United States, holding between (Concluded ori page 10. column 4) WOUNDED COP WORSE TODAY LeGrande wv-The condition of Amos Helms, state trooper, shot here Sunday by Keith Crosswhite, 19. and John Owens, 28, of Spring field, Mo., appeared less satisfac tory Wednesday than it did Tues day. He passed a restless night. Crosswhite and Owens were cap tured Tuesday near Meacham after posses of national guardsmen, state police, sheriffs deputies and clti zens had sought them since Sunday after they shot Helms who with Captain Lee Noe had tried to ques tion them for auto theft. Officials said Wednesday they ex pect to file charges of assault with attempt to kill against the two men If Helms recovers. If he dies the two will face murder charges. Police said both men signed con fesslons admitting they shot Helms, robbed a service station at Idaho Falls and stole the car in Missouri. Miss Orlenn Woodhouse, 15, of Idaho Falls, who was with the two when they shot the officer, is held as a material witness. She left their company after the shooting. PACIFIC FLIERS CALL AT WHITE HOUSE Washington A' Two non-stop fliers Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pa born Mopped Wednesday at tne wnite House. The Pacific fliers stayed long enough to shake hands with Presl dent Hoover and pose with him for pictures. They were accompanied by Mrs. Herndon and Assistant Secretary Young of the commerce depart ment. After a call on Ambassador De buchl of Japan and a visit to the state department, Herndon and Pan r born planned to return to New York, they expect to receive there tomorrow the $25,000 check offered by a Japanese newspaper for their flight. Storm Warnings Are Posted Along Coast Portland Southeast storm storm warning were ordered up at all Oregon and Washington coast stations at I ft. m. Wednesday. The weather bureau said the first real blow of the season tSLlndlcated. a storm or maraeu intensity, the forecast said, la nearing the Ore gon and Washington coastline from the Oulf of Alaska. Rain Wednes day night and Thursday and south erly gales to the coast and off shore were predicted. Portland had the lowest tempera ture of the season Wednesday with ft minimum of 39 degrees at I ft. m. MORE VICTIMS DIE Heme, Westphalia, Germany Of, The death toll of Monday's mine explosion at Mont Cenls col Her was raised to 17 Wednesday when five more of the victims died. Filter Construction Offer Repeated By Water Firm Chief If and when the question of municipal ownershiD of the city water supply system is submitted to the people of Salem and rejected, or sooner if the city council will execute ft con tract with the Oregon-Washington Water Service company to protect the company in the ment in betterment ana improve-. menu, the company stands ready to proceed immediately with work of completing the filter plant, pumping plant, extension of its mains, enlargement of the present reservoir and the construction of ft 150,000 gallon supply tank atop Fairmount hill. This Is the sense of ft reply to queries addressed to him by the Capital Journal by E. C. Elliott, president of the water company, who Is Just now In New York. In view of the agitation of the Salem chap- tec of the Oregon Building Con gress and local building trades unions for the resumption of work upon the contemplated water sys tem betterments either by the com- (Concluded on pw 11, column 6) POSSES HUNTING BANK ROBBERS - l Menominee, Wis., UP Sheriff's posses Wednesday were hunting three members of a machine gun bandit gang for the hold-up of the Kraft State bank In which a son of the bank's president and ft fourth robber were slain. The body of James Kraft, 19, as sistant cashier in the bank head ed by his father, W. H. Kraft, was found on the highway six miles from here where it had been thrown from the bandits' car. The slain bandit, whose body was also found along the country road, was Identified through fingerprints as Frank Webber alias Frank Smith, who was captured In a Salt Lakt City bank robbery In 1919. Sixteen persons were forced to lie on the bank floor by the three bandits. The leader scooped up an estimated $10,000 in cash and se curities. The robber car, blood spattered, was later found. Possemen Wed nesday were continuing the search in the neighborhood of Webster, and Sponnervllle, Wis. W. H. Kraft, another son of the president, was shot In the back as he lay on the floor when he re fused to tell the bandits where other valuables were. He Is expec ted to recover. OREGON FOOTBALL TEAM OFF FOR EAST Eugene, Ore. P) Bound eastward for two lntersectlonal games on suc cessive Saturdays, the University of Oregon football squad entrained Wednesday for Grand Forks, N. where they will meet the University of North Dakota eleven Saturday. From Grand Forks the Webfoota will go to New York for a game with New York University October 31. The Oregon team worked until long after dark Tuesday In an at tempt to smooth out their attack. Doc Spears, coach, drove his men hard throughout the afternoon and scrimmaged them for over two hours. The Oregon camp was down hearted when word came from the hospital that examination revealed that Lawrence Winter, regular end, had suffered a knee fracture in the Trojan game last Saturday. Speara had planned a new attack built around Winter. Devers' Report Upon Unemployed In Oregon In Governor's Hands J. M. Devers, attorney sion who was designated to make county-by-county survey of the unemployment situation In Oregon in connection with Oovernor Meiers plans for state and county cooperation in the emergency employment of idle la bor during the winter, was Wed nesday whipping his final report into shape for submission to the executive office. He expected to have the finished report In the executive offices late In the afternoon and It was an nounced there that the report would be made public Thursday. Devers would make no advance statements as to the contents of the report, but It It understood that his amount of its actual invest CONDITS WIN SUIT FOR LAND Circuit Judge Hill Wednesday handed down a decision decreeing in the case of Emma and Ross Con dit against Charles L., and Margaret Martin that a deed of trust from the Condits to the Martins covering 53 acres of land la void and of no ef fect and the plaintiff Emma Condlt is decreed owner of the property. An accounting of rents and profits also is asked for. The decree Is final outcome of ft case which aroused considerable in terest, especially in the Aumisville district which resulted in Ross Con dlt going to the penitentiary on charges of statutory acts against ft young girl. He has since been re leased. The court In decreeing the proper ty back to Mrs. Condit holds that the plaintiffs have failed to establish by a preponderance of evidence any of the allegations of the amended complaint of conspiracy, fraud, threats of undue influence and false representations, and declares that such allegations are not true. The court In setting aside the deed of trust held that It was wholly without consideration and the only ciaim trnrc tne defendants asserted was that they held the same In trust for the use and benefit of Emma Condlt and her minor children. The court states that insofar as the evidence tends to establish such a trust that It is too uncertain and indefinite as to constitute a legal and valid trust. CLAIM POLICE RECEIVE BRIBES Oakland, Cal., (LP) More than 150 Oakland policemen were un der fire Wednesday in an Investi gation by District Attorney Earl Warren of Alameda county on evi dence that bootleggers are paying huge sums of "protection money" here. Aided by federal agents during Inquiry lasting two months. War ren claJ med information linking officers with the payment of $50,000 or more a month in bribes by li quor Interests, and the asserted sale of seized liquor to bootleggers. Warren alleged one special duty officer had withdrawn nearly $40, 000 from a hidden bank account since July and that another, paid $250 a month salary, had deposited $20,000 in a year. Indictment on bribery. Income tax evasion and prohibition counts may be sought. Warren indicated. The prosecutor gave the first hint of Ills inquiry in an address before a men's club when he charged that "liquor Interests are corrupting our police forces. 11 RESERVE BANKS RAISE DISCOUNT RATE Washington IP Increases In re discount rates by tne Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank from 3 to 3l per cent, and the St. Louise Reserve bank from 21. to 3li er cent effec tive Thursday were announced by the federal reserve board. for the state highway commis - . ... Investigations have revealed the most serious unemployment condi tions to exist In Portland, certain of the valley eountles where indus trial development is heaviest, and In such counties as Clatsop, Coos and Klamath where depression In the lumber market has thrown thousands of men out of work. Unemployment conditions In east ern Oregon are said to be generst ly less serious than In the wet'tm part of the state. Correlating with (Concluded on past 10. column J FEAR SUICIDE MAY BE FATE OF MRS. JUDD Many Arrested But Re leasedDoctor's Wife Makes Escape Good Husband With Others Be lieves Murderess Wil Not Be Found Alive Los Angeles (LP) With a seal al most equal to the search for Wil liam Edward Hickman, murderer of Marlon Parker, the hunt for Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, 27, accused of the "trunk slaylngs' of two of her friends, went on throughout south em California and Arizona Wed nesday. Just as In the case of Hickman, Mrs. Judd was reported seen a doa en times in as many different places but as the day wore on each of these tips seemed to have been groundless. One woman was questioned twice. first at San Pedro and then again near Vlctorvllle. Twice local polios were called to downtown hotels by clerks who believed Mrs. Judd waft one of their guests. A woman "re sembling" Mrs. Judd waa reported hitch-hiking for the Mexican bord er while still another was enroute (Concluded on page 10, column 7) TRAGIC DEATHS FOR 3 NURSES Portland fP) By a ghsatly turn of fate three girls, all young, all pretty, bound close by the ties of friend ship, have met violent, tragic deaths within a year. The gruesome slaying of Agnes LeRol and Hedvig Samuelson of Phoenix, Ariz, recalled that a year ago this month Ruth Nellie Rme hart, young Portland and 8alem nurse, and their close friend, disap peared mysteriously from the steam- Princess Louise while en route from Wrangel, Alaska, to Portland. Mrs. Le Rol saw Miss Rinehart off on the Princess Louise when she left Wrangel to sail south. Her dis appearance from the boat never waa explained. Members of Mrs. Le Rot's family said Wednesday that when the girl was here last June she spoke of the tragedy but appeared reluctant to discuss details of her relationship with the nurse or of her disappear ance. IOWA BANK HELD UP AND $4370 TAKEN Yale, la. IP) Two bandits who were inside the Farmers' State bank of Yale Wednesday when em loyes of the institution came to work, held up the bank, took $4, 370 82 In cash and escaped. J. W. Hemphill, bookkeeper, en tered the bank for work Wednes day morning and was accosted by two bandits who had apparently secreted themselves In the build ing during the night. They ordered him to open the vault, then bound him and placed him Inside the vault. When W. R. Hltchins, assistant cashier, arrived a few minutes later, he was likewise bound and placed in the vault.. After taking all the available currency and strewing the bonds around the vault, the ban dits hurriedly escaped in a stolen car, BUTLER'S LECTURE FINANCIAL FROST Portland tlP-Whpn Major r.en era) Bmedley Darlington Butler, blew the lid of( crime." at the au ditorium here last Saturday night. he "drew" Just 14 50 more than tne auditorium rental. The KUtson White Chautauqua company bare petitioned the council to reduce the rental of 1360 (or the auditorium to 1160 because the total receipt the Butler lecture amounted I only 1164 50. Marathon Dancer Admitted Crazy Chicago (IP) Michael Boras. It, riplalned hen charged with steal ing gloves that dsnclng 483 hours had made him "so eraiy I dldnt know what I was doing dt Ijton Kdelman replied that any body who danced that long "arat b rrarr" and rcl.avd Borak ao pn- I ballon.
