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CaoitalJIk Journal CIRCULATION Daily avfraiie distribution for the Mouth cuumg Uecembtr 91, 1832 CITY EDITION Cloudy tonight and Thunday; light rain; northwest wlnda. 9,678 Local: Max. 45; mln. 37; rain .06: river lit Jest; cloudy; southerly winds. Average daily net paid 9,253 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Jn o jo n 45th YEAR, No. 3 Entered u lecond clise mutter at Bntetn. Oregon SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933 PRICE THREE CENTS cffiJW 1PEM STEMS a is COMMIHEE'S SELECTED FOR BOTHHOUSES Wheeler of Lane and Al len of Wallowa Head Ways and Means Few of Committees To Function During Time Of Special Session H. C. Wheeler of Lane county and L. P. Allen of Wallowa were appointed chairmen of the powerful ways and means committee of the senate and house respectively. The personnel of all committees for the regular session were announced here today by the president of the sen ate and speaker of the house. All the regular session commit tees will not function during the special session, but those having to do with resolutions and taxation will be kept busy. It was exacted not more than five of the committee will be used during the special as sembly. The full list of committees are as follows, the first named being chair man and the second being vice chairman : SENATE COMMITTEES Agriculture Brown. Mriiii, Allen. WIN Bumson nr.d Zimmerman. Alcoholic truffle Dickbon. Bynon. Slrey r, Staples and Upton. Assessment and taxation ChinnocJe. Hazlett, Zimmerman. Fisher. Yates. Wood ward, Corbet t, Brown and Staples. (Concluded on page 8, column 4) 3 LOSE LIVES Wallace, Idaho. Jan. 4 UP) Three persons were killed and four houses dem&lishcd by a huge snowslide which roared down Mammoth can yon near here today. Dr. Herbert Mowery of Wallace, and Miss Lora Rasmussen, Iris companion, were nearly buried by the slide, but escaped with cuts and bruises. The body of Mrs. Powell was re covered nearly an hour after the slide, and rescue workers were bor ing into the debris for the bodies of her husband and son. Doctors and medical supplies were rushed to the scene from here and all available men were sent into the canyon to search for other pos sible victims. E. J. Powell and his 5-year-old son, Glenn, were crushed under tons of snow, ice and rocks as they ap proached the family automobile in whilch Mrs. Powell sat. She too was crushed. Lloyd Swinnerton, a resident of the district, was caught by the slide and was carried 400 feet down a mountain side but escaped un injured. Meager reports relayed here said several motorists were believed to have been in the district, but It was not known whether any perished. BANKER CONFESSES $130,000 SHORTAGE Washington, Jan. 4 (LP) Charles; D, Boyer, cashier of the Federal American National bank and form er president of the American Insti tute of Banking has confessed to a shortage of $130,000 In his accounts the bank announced today. Vicksburg Chamber Declares Sales Tax Detriment To Business In reply to an inquiry regarding to workings of the sales tax in Mississippi from the Salem Chamber of Commerce, W. N. Miner, secretary-manager of the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce replies as follows: Contained herein will be found statement of a few pertinent facts regarding the operation of the so called sales tax in the State of Mis sissippi, as prepared by the Vicks burg Chamber of Commerce. This tax is levied in addition to all other forms of taxes heretofore adopted by the state legislature, a majority of which other forms have been increased and none of which have been eliminated or reduced. . The tax is levied against the gross proceeds of all sales or income; upon the necessities of life the same as upon luxuries. The tnx is being passed to the Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN There seems to be a serious cal endar shortage about town this year, causing numerous rude com ments from erstwhile advertisers. A few years ago for a week or two after New Year's a man's progress up State street was invariably im peded by folk standing in stairways and at corners handing out calen dars. Now it is the other way around. Storekeepers etucetera arc badly bothered by troups of hungry looking folk invading their places of business end begging calendars. If this keeps on a genus of cal endar panhandlers is apt to grow up in the country. Then will come the hitch hiker going from place to place in search of a calendar; calendars will be bummed from aoor to door and the calendar hobo will take his place in civilization. It will not be long before armies of calendar hunger marchers will storm state capltols for calendars and Lord knows what will arise after that. Incidentally we haven't got our customary calendar this year but we sttppose nobody will take a hint. We note by the Aurora Observer that the Damm property in that town has been sold and the Damm house will be moved over to the highway. We also notice that a half price shoe sale is now in progress here. Which we would figure as being the same as a two for one sale as you get two shoes for the price of one. Mister Roosevelt promised us four per cent and now the county of ficials have got 10 per cent. So why should they kick? But it seems the special session of the legislature Is figuring on only 2 per cent. We were sorry to read in last night's Journal that Mr. Stag;; is ill of "pnewmonia." We pnew that Mister Stagg was ill, we pnew that it was serious but darned if we pnew it was pnewmonia. But some sort of a pnew disease pops up every now and then. We hope Mr. Stage's pnewmonia isn't compli cated with pnewralgia pnewritis or kneephritis to make matters worse. Incidentally we heard today that hop men arc planning on liber ally fertilizing their hopyards this year will use a lot of manpnewure, as it were. The Corvallis Gazette-Times in a mon thy resume of the newu for 1932 gives the high spot for last June 86 follows: "Marion county tax league makes sane move to give Oregon better school system and save taxes. Eug ene sore about it. . . ." It seems consolidation is still a Zorn in the flesh of the Gazette Times. POPE HOPEFULOF PROGRESSIVE YEAR Vatican City, Jan. 4 (IP) Pope Pius XI has reason to hope That 1933 will be a much better year than 1932,'' the pope said today in an address before the Roman nobility. "We felt supremely inspired to proclaim 1933 a Holy year," the pon tiff said. "We expect good tidings this year, besides material blessings. "We feel that men will raise their eyes and hearts more towards heav en, that this again will bring fur ther blessings to all the earth, and that 1933 will be more promising both for spiritual and material well being." the pope said. consumer either in a known man ner or through an increase in the sales prtee of merchandise or ser vices. The property owners' tax burden has been increased the same as non-property owners, and the con suming publir are not failing to express dissatisfaction. There is a noticeable increase In out-of-state buying: alio in pur chases made through mail order houses or from "agents. There is, especially in the border cities, a noticeable decrease in the volumne of busim-ss fnrmerlv done with comurrrrs living in border iConcltHitd on pact 0, column 8) HEAVY LOSSES IN CAPTURE OF SHANHAIKWAN Chinese Defeated by Force of Superior Arm aments Prepare Fight Marshall Refers Japs to Nanking Fear Involv ing Foreign Troops Shanghr.i, Jan. 4 UF) A graphic picture of the Japanese bombard ment and resultant capture of Shanhaikwan was slowly forming today through fragmentary dispat ches from Shanhaikwan and Chin wangtao. A day of horror preceding the fall of Shanhaikwan was being revealed. Casualties were reported to be high. When the Japanese Infantry swept into the half ruined city following an aerial bombardment, fierce hand to hand fighting resulted in which 300 Chinese soldiers were reported killed. Other advices stated 2000 were slain. Advices indicated the Chinese were defeated by force of superior armaments. The Chinese clung to their de fenses in the face of a terrific bombardment from land, sea and air. Shells destroyed the city wall while incendiary bombs started nu merous fires within. Advices stated that numerous charred bodies were on the city streets. ; Pciping, China, Jan. 4 () Mar shal Chang Heiao-Liang, military ruler of North China, served notice (Conchuled on page 8, column 6)' KLAMATH FALLS MINUS A MAYOR Klamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 4 (JP) Klamath Tails was without a head of its city government today and the citizens turned with interest to the courts where one of the most involved municipal problems in the city's history will be solved. A circuit court hearing was sched uled to be held lnte today to deter mine what action should bo taken on an injunction prohibiting Mayor elect W. E. Mahoney from taking office. Mayor Fred Gofer's term expired yesterday. Mahoney, attorney, insurance agent, and former member of the Washington legislature, was elected on a write-in vote after his name had been stricken from the ballot. A temporary injunction then was issued prohibiting him from taking office on the grounds he had not been a resident of the city long enough to qualify under the charter. Mahoney left Klamath Falls soon after his election to avoid service of the injunction suit, spending most of the time in Seattle and at his former home near Spokane. He returned to Klamath Falls yester day in the company of Adam Bee- ler, Seattle attorney, and Elton Watkins, Portland attorney, Tne first greeter was Deputy Sheriff Brown who met Mahoney at tne car vestibule and handed him summons and citations. OFFER $500 REWARD SCHLESINGER'S BODY Portland. Jan. 4 (tP) Reward of $500 for the recovery of the body of Lee Sehlesinger was offered today by his father, B. F. Sehlesinger of San Francisco. Lee Sehlesinger, prominent Port land businessman and sportsman, was believed drowned In the Colum bia river at Vancouver, Wash., a week ago tonight. His big auto mobile was recovered from the river off a gravel dock at the end of a street. Two divers who have been search ing for the body were to wind up their labors today having covered all the territory on the river hoUom which is feasible without finding trace of the body. Their belief is that the body was swept down stream by the current.' $1,638,177 SPENT BY THE DEMOCRATS WaMifngton. Jan. 4 (LP) The democratic national committee spent $1,638,177.58 in last years election campaign, according to reports filed today with the clerk of the nouse. Receipts for the year totaled sl,708.507.7G. leaving a balance on Jiiv?d December 31, of $70,330.10. Electors Cast Their Ballots For Roosevelt The five democratic elector!. named last November today cast their vote here for Franklin D. Roosevelt for president of the United States. The certificates ol the vote taken at the secretary of state's office, will be forwarded im mediately to Washington and Port land. The statute provides that the electors convene at noon the first Wednesday of January following the presidential election. Six cer tificates of the votes are taken, one (Concluded on page 8, column 0) BANK ROBBED AT PHILOMATH Philomath, Ore., Jan. 4 VP) Four men held up the Philomath State bank today and escaped with $1500 of bank funds. $50 of postofffce mo ney and some blank travelers' checks. The men escaped in a mud spattered (Paige) automobile and were later seen near Dallas. State police and Polk county deputies took up the chase. The postoffice money was taken from Mrs. Mabel Cummins, assist ant postmaster, who chanced to be in the bank. Two men entered the bank and inquired for C. W. Davis, told he was out, and satisfying themselves that Mrs. Cora Rccotte, assistant cashier, and Erma Byingson, book keeper, were alone, they signaled to a third man who entered and threa. tened the women with a revolver. Just as they demanded the money, Mrs. Cummlngs entered. Her money sack was taken and she was forced to the rear of the building with the other womeu., - - The three men ransacked the bank, fled to the car where another man was waiting, and sped away, Several persons observed the ma chine but the license plates were covered with mud and the number could not be seen. One of the robbers was dark. He had a small black mustache and the women said his lips were unusually thick and protruding. He wore a tweed overcoat. Another was tall and slender and wore a blue-gray mackinaw. Residents of Philomath did not know of the robbery until the three women gave the alarm. State police were immediately notified and with Polk county officers they guarded all roads in the vicinity. They be lieved, however, the robbers beat them to a sideroad ana turned north. BANOltSMAKE Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 4 (IP) Postal inspectors today were check ing the loss of a perfectly timed mail robbery in which bandits es caped with three registered mall pouches. No estimate of the loss was ob tainable immediately but one offi. cial said it might run as high as $150,000 in bonds and currency. The bandits entered the mail room of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul railroad station while only two attendants were on duty. Two men stood guard outside the room with sawed-ooff shotguns while their confederates rapidly selected three mail sacks. A few minutes later armed guards would have been on duty in tne room. One pouch, believed to contain valuable securities and possibly currency, was en route to Chicago. George A. Longqulst and P. R. Kosek, clerks on duty, were able to give only brief descriptions of the bandits so quickly did they carry out their plans. It was believed six men were in the gang. WAPINITIA CUT-OFF OPENED TO TRAFFIC Bend, Ore., Jan. 4 lA'i Wapinitia cut-off, closed this week by deep snow, was today opened to two-way traffic but motorists were advised to use chains. Trucks were barTed from the highway when it was opened to one way traffic last night but they were allowed to use the mountain road today. Although nearly 4 feet of snow covers the Sun Mountain pass be tween Bend and Klamath Falls. Tne Dalles-California highway is open to general travel and is In good winter shape, highway officials re ported today. BUTLER UNCHANGED WnKhiiiffton. .inn. 4 iVi Repre sentative Butler, republican, Ore gon, was still in a serious condition U'tth nnnimnnla tnrifl-v with Utile change from yesterday with a slight improvement was reported. BOYCOTT ON FRANCE SOUGHT BY HI JOHNSON Calif ornian Would Bar American Resources From defaulters Details History of War Loans Which Were Freely Made to Allies Washington, Jan. 4 (IP) Notice was served the senate today by Senator Johnson he would demand legislation to bar American resour ces from "nations that do not honor their obligations." He refrained from detailing pro visions he had in mind. California's independent repub lican, in the first speech that has broken the senate silence on war debts this session, assailed those who favored cancellation or revision and said the American people had beggered themselves to buy bonds so this country could make the loans. "There was no question then of cancellation or revision," he said. "No voice was heard demurring." An intent senate listened while he recited the history of the war loans. . "How I recall the bitter anguish ed cry from France when America entered the war that our backs are to the walll' Johnson continued. 'I recall when the first engagement or our troops occurred ano. Ameri (Conchuied on page' e6lvimh"6,f FARM RELIEF ACTION SLATED Washington, Jan. 4 (P) The house rules committee today ap proved a resolution giving a previ leged legislative status to the emer gency farm relief bill designed to set minimum prices on major agri cultural commodities. The bill, reported yesterday by a 14 to 8 vote of the agriculture com mittee, will be brought up for con sideration tomorrow with eight hours for debate. The rules committee acted after brief statements by Chairman Jones of the agriculture committee, spon sor of the domestic allotment bill, and Representative Haugcn, repub lican of Iowa, ranking minority member of the committee. Jones told the rules committee the bill, which levies a processing fee on wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs, using the funds to pay the farmer a bounty on his share of the domestic consumption, was propos ed as an experiment. "It is generally recognized that the restoration of agriculture is es sential to national economic recov ery," he testified. "It seeks to es tablish a parity between farm pric es ad industrial prices. "If the buyers will bid up to the minimum price, this bill automatic ally eliminates itself." Woman Barber Sues Delinquent Patron Portland, Jan. 4 (LP) Emma Mc Cutchan, woman barber, brought suit against Everett Wilkinson for $8.50. Every time she shaved Wilkin son, she testified, she dropped a match into a box. Wilkinson admitted the bill and said he would pay up. Rapid Action Taken On Two Policy Bills Introduced In House Moving rapidly for the opening day of the special legis lative session, members of the lower house not only intro duced two tax measures a sales tax and an increased income tax but passed them through two readings, referred them to the taxa tion and revenue committee and set a public hearing on the measures for tonight. Both bills were Introduced by the committee to which they were re ferred, but the committee had in troduced them without recommen dation. Both were drawn by the state tax commission prior to the session and were ready for intro duction immediately. Representa tive E. A. McCormaek of Lane coun ty is chairman of the committee to which the measures were referred. Late today the house committee will consider the two measures in Spending Delays Taxation Bills Pending Budget Quiz There is little prospect that the special session of the legislature will wind up its work and adjourn Saturday night in preparation for the scheduled opening of the regular session Monday, and every prospect that the special session will be prolonged perhaps for the full 20 days allowed according to leaders in both houses. President Kiddle of the senate expressed that opinion this morning, and Speaker Snell said he was In clined to agree. In the event that the special ses sion is prolonged it is practically certain that the bars to the intro duction of all kinds of legislation win be let down, in order that the time of the majority of the senators and representatives will not be wasted, and so that all of the com mittees can get to work. The prospect of a prolonged spec ial session grows out of the increas ing demand among members of both houses that they be given more op portunity to size up the tax situa tion and determine to their own satisfaction just how much, if any additional revenue is going to be needed. There is growing up an in- (.Coucluded on page 8, column B) PROPOSES CUT IN VET COSTS Washington, Jan. 4 pj An im mediate $85,000,000 slash in the vet erans administration expenditures was proposed today by the chair man of the house veterans appro priations committee as a tempor ary measure to achieve some econ omy inriex-'fcoldiers' benefits. The chairman, Woodrum of Vir ginia, announced his purpose to newspapermen and said he would put it up to his committee and the house. His plan contemplates ten per cent cut, for the next fiscal year only, in World war compensa tion and disability allowances, army and navy pensions, emergency ofii- cers retired pay and similar items. He advanced this plan while the. joint congressional committee veterans was hearing proposals from the national grange for big per manent slashes hi veterans' funds. This organization was the latent of long list appearing in opposition to continuance of benefits to foi- mer soldiers whose claim is not based upon injury or illness attri butable to active service. Woodrum's committee is to re port before long the annual eter ans' appropriations for the fiscal year 1934. His plan calls for a reduction in the budget estimate for disability allowances from $125,000,000 to $105,000,000; a reduction in the al lowance for hospitalized veterans without dependents; and applica tion of a ten per cent cut instead of the present eight and three quar ters to the emergency officers' re tired pay. MOCK FUNERAL NO JOKE FOR BAGWELL Essex, Mass., Jan. 4 (LP) When William A. Bagwell, 58, got drunk at belated New Years celebration, fellow merry-makers painted his face and hands red, pronounced him 'dead," and held mock funeral ser vices. Later "pall bearers" took him home. Mrs. Bagwell found her husband. hours afterward, lying on the floor of their unhealed kitchen. A doctor said Bagwell was dead "By prob able alcomolism and exposure." executive session, to be Joined by a similar committee from the senate. The public hearing on the bills was set for 7 p. ra. in the house chambers. Delegations from the State Federation of Labor, the Orange and other organizations known to be opposed to a general sales tax, were expected here to argue against the measure. The general sales tax bill intro duced yesterday is the same that was considered by representatives of Idaho, Washington and Oregon last week as a basis for a uniform sales tax bill for the northwest. The Concluded on p;igc V, i-ohimu 6) Orgy Fear FOUR PERISH IN FRISCO BLAZE San Francisco, Jan. 4 (JP1 Fire swept through MacBeth apartments scarcely half a dozen blocks from San Francisco's downtown shopping section, killing four people early to day. One man was possibly fatally burned and nine others were less seriously hurt. Mrs. Pearl Williams, suffocated sitting in a chair of her fourth floor apartment, was the only vic tim identified more than two hours after the blaze had been extinguish ed. An unidentified man was suf focated in her apartment. His body was found under the kitchen stove where he had apparently crawled while hunting for a window. The bodies of an unidentified man and woman were recovered from the third floor. Both were burned to death, the woman as she fled down the hall. Frank W. Wilson, poultry realer, was so seriously burned about the hands, face and arms, hospital at tendants said he may die. Physi cians who treated the others said they would recover. The spectacular blaze was report' ed at &:03 ajn. by a newsboy, at tracted to the scene by the flames and the shouts of residents in the four-story building awakened from their sleep. When firemen arrived flames were sweeping up the stair ways and elevator shaft, forcing those trapped in the upper floors to leap into nets at the front or rear of the building, or flee by fire escapes. START BATTLE Taylorvillc, 111., Jan. 4 (VP) Fight ing broke out anew today among hostile union miners as members of the United Mine Workers started for the shaft of Peabody Mine No. 7 at Kincaid. From both sides of the mine shots burst out. Two men were seriously wounded, the others reached cover amid a shower of machine gun bul lets and buckshot. Deputy sheriffs, who palroled the Taylorvillc - Kincaid highway all night as a result of yesterday's fighting in which a man and a wo man were killed, reported they were targets for sniping from houses, thickets and other places of con cealment. They arrested a score ol persons and confiscated many bombs and guns. Thomas Hickman and Fulton Smith were wounded this morning by gunners who they said shot from the second floor of a business build ing on Kincaid 's main street. Their co-workers, many of them from other towns-, made up a full working force at 7:30 a. m., and the mine resumed operations. STREAMS SUBSIDING END FLOODMENACE Portland," Jan. 4 ifl'i All import ant streams in the Willamette val ley were falling today, including the Willamette river which has dropped six feet at Eugene. A slow rise con tinued at Portland but there was no threat of danger. The Yamhill river, which flooded lowlands in the vicinity of McMtnn ville, started to fall last night and was expected to go down rapidly. Although a 52-mllc-an-hour gale raked the north Washington coast line today, more moderate winds prevailed on the Oregon coast. Storm warnings, ordered up on the coast Tuesday, were taken in today. ANCHORAGE ROCKED BY SEVERE QUAKE Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 4 fP) -An earthquake of greater Intensity than any previously recordrd here shook Anchorage in all directions late yesterday for 45 seconds. Goods on shelves of stores and pantiles and lamp were upset, but otherwise no damage was reported today. The first disturbance came at 6 p. m. and there was a lesser shock about 11 p. in. The tremors seemed to be chiefly in a north- south direction. FIRE DESTROYS CRACK FRENCH LINER AT SEA L'Atlantigue, Pride of South American Ser-. vice Burns Most of Crew Rescued By German Steamer But 30 Burned or Killed Cherbourg, France. Jan. 4 yn Captain Schoof, master of the French liner L'Atlantique, repou?d tonight that 30 of his crew were killed when the vessel wa& destroy ed by fire in the English Channel today. Some were burned to death and others were killed getting off the snip, ne saw. One hundred and nineteen of the rescued reached Cherbourg tonight aboard the steamers Achiiies, Hu.ir and Ford Castle. Eighty others ot the crew were enroute to Bresi in other vessels. The captain was the last alive to leave the bout, being forced to leap into the sea. He was picked up in a small boat from the Achilles un injured. He reported the reason lor the lack of radio distress messages was because the operator was as phyxiated at his post. The fire started at 3:30 a.m. in a ft oleics rohln anrl tnrcnrl rnvtirtiv until it reached electric cables by Concluded 6npage Optoiunm b 4 . . ASKS VETO OF PHILIPPINE BILL Washington, Jan. 4 (j(P) Presi dent Hoover today referred the Philippine independence bill to Sec retary Hurley lor report, and there were strong indications of an im pending veto of the measure. The secretary of war, alter dis cussing the bill, which woula give the islands independence within 10 years, left the White House to pre pare his report, declaring tne meas ure "docs not solve the inherent difficulties of the Philippine prob lem, but merely accentuates tnem." Hurley said he felt the bill mid been constructively amended in reaching a compromise between tne house and senate measures, but aud ed "I have seen nothing yet that would change my opposition to Hie bill as a whole." He contended it would "reduce the authority of the United States but still hold it responsible." biutoSance FARMMORlbkb'ES Washington, Jan. 4 (!') A bill to refinance farm mortgage indebted ness through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which would receive $3,000,000,000 tB; lor tne purpose, was introduced in tne nouse today by Rep. Cox, Dem., ou. A similar measure was liitrouui-ed simultaneously in the senate oy Senator George, Dem., Ga. JOURNAL BRIDGE BOOKLET OFFERS REVISED SCORES Willi the issuance ot the new International Score uimn. on November 1, old con u act bridge booklets becanrn out-of-date. So, In order to keep to Its high standard of efficiency the Washington Information Bureau of the Capital Journal has incorporated into its con tract bridge booklet the new scoring chart. Send for this booklet, use coupon and enclose ten cents in coin to cover cost and handling. The Capital Journal infor mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskln, Director. Washington, D. 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