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7 WITNESSES
TALK IN TRIAL
OF MANNING
State Lays Ground Work
To Prove Shooting Not
In Self Defense
Course of Bullets, One
Through Heart, De
scribed by Surgeon
Klamath Falls, April 19 (LP) -Sev
en witnesses testified this morning
In the murder trial of Horace M
Manning, charged with the slaying
of Ralph Horan, his former law
partner.
They included Sheriff TJoyd Low,
autopsy physician, C. V. Rugh, a
stenographer, an engineer, two
peace officers, and the coroner.
Klamath Palls, April 19 (P) The
word picture of State Represents-:
five Ralph Horan's death continued
uninterrupted today as swiftly In
creasing numbers of state witnesses
offered testimony In the trial of
Horace M. Manning, attorney and
former partner of the slain man,
accused of his murder.
Today Lloyd Low, Klamath coun
ty sheriff, continued his testimony
cut short at adjournment late yes
terday afternoon. He was followed
by The 1 ma Guthrie, stenographer,
and Dr. Charles V. Rugh. the phy
sician who performed an autopsy
on Horanl body after he was found
(Concluded on pwT, column 8)
DEVELOPS HOME
BUILDING PLAN
Washington, April 19 ) Presi
dent Roosevelt planned a huge home
construction and modernization
camoalen at a lengthy White House
contercnce today which developed
the general outlines lor government
aid In this direction.
Frank C. Walker, chairman of
the president executive council,
detailed the general outlines of the
program. He announced further
meetings would be necessary.
"We are seeking to coordinate all
housing activities," he said. "The
Idea Is to stimulate private capital.
Whether direct government loans
will be made has not been decided."
Secretaries Morgenthau, Roper,
Irkes and Wallace, together with
General Hugh S. Johnson, Industrial
nlnistrator; Harry L. Hopkins,
relief administrator and Jesse Jones,
chairman of the RFC, participated
In the conferences.
Walker declined to estimate how
much money would be Involved In
the huge undertaking. Estimates
have run to 1.500 .000 ,000.
CITY WATER BOND
BIDS OPENED TONITE
Bids on the proposed $20,000 Issue
f city water bonds, to cover engin
eering costs of the municipal water
system, will be opened at a session
of the city council tonight. The ad
vertisements for bids made the op
ening date April 18, so they could
not be opened at the regular meet
ing last Monday night. Up to noon
today no bids had been received at
the office of City Recorder Poulscn.
The council will also consider on
third reading an ordinance bill to
authorize the Issuance of ,25.000
sewer bonds to pay the city's part
of the cost of the Walnut park pro
ject. The civil works administration
la to pay approximately $30,000 of
the cost.
MUNITION PROBE
BOARD SELECTED
Washington, April 19 OP Vice-
President John N. Garner today
named a committee of seven sena
tors, headed by Sen. James P. Pope,
V., Ida., to conduct an investiga
tion of manufacture and traffic In
arms and munitions.
The committee was named in con
formity with a senate resolution
passed last week. The committee
will hold hearings on all phases of
the munitions industry and is In
structed in the resolution to report
on the advisability of creating
government munitions monopoly.
The committee will consist of
Senators Pope. Homer T. Bone, D
Wash.; Benett Champ Clark. D..
Mo.; Morris Sheppard, D., Tex ; W
Warren Barbour, R.. N.J.; Arthur H
Vandenberg. R., Mich., and Ger
ald P. Nve. R., ND.
Vandenberg and Nye wrote the
resolution.
Good Evening!
By DON UPJOHN
ITS THE CLIMATE AGAIN
A correspondent writes in to tell
us this bit of nature which makes
the whole world kin. While It be
longs by right In the wild life lines
of the Oregonlan, we print same as
a scoop on our births editor:
-One day last week the boys In a
radio shop had a radio brought In
for repairs. Upon closer examination
it was found that a goodly family
of cockroaches had set up house
keeping within the portals of said
radio, and after the well known ha
bit of cockroaches soon propagated
enough of their kind to fill the
cockroach requirements of a city the
size of Los Angeles. Such action on
their part caused the ruination of
the radio. Beyond stating that the
machine was brought in from one of
the state Institutions, the boys re
fused to commit themselves."
If the boys at the radio shop naa
really wanted to clean out the ma
chine they could have hooked It up
and tuned In on a saxophone solo.
Local boys arc wondering whether
George Graves, due to his constant
attendance at circuit court the past
two weeks. Isn't planning on bolt
ing his salesman Job and becoming
a lawyer.
PAGE OUR BOSS
The American Telephone As Tele
graph company announces it will
continue high salaries to executive
employes as a reward to brains.
The big Job ahead of the repub
lican registered voter now is to find
some candidate among those run'
nlng for governor whom he wants to
cast his vote for. With less than a
month to do It In the Job seems
hopeless.
THE SLIGHT OMISSION
Portland, April 19 lilV-A puzzled
judge, an astounded defendant and
a gasping Jury heard the clerk in
federal court here read a verdict of
"guilty" In the case of Marvin Har
ris, accused of operation of a liquor
still. The court asked if the Judg
ment of "guilty" was the verdict of
the Jury. "No, your Honor," said
the embarrassed jury foreman as he
arose. "Our verdict is 'not guilty
We forgot to write In the word
'not'."
Billy Vinton, lawyer In the well
known case in circuit court, came
running over to the press boys this
morning just before arguments were
to start.
"You got a dictionary, you got a
dictionary?" he asked breathlessly.
"I want a dictionary. I want to find
out what the word 'vampire' means."
The new airflow type of car should
be an appealing one to the lawyers.
OREGON EXHIBIT
AT FAIR FIGURED
Portland. April 19 (A) Whether
about 15,000 should be spent to
place an Oregon exhibit In the Cen
tury of Progress Exposition at Chi
cago this year will be determined by
a survey authorized by the gover
nor's special commission. Money ap
propriated by the Portland cham
ber of commerce will be used for
the survey.
No announcement was made as to
how the estimated $15,000 can be
raised. The fish and game commis
slon will be asked to provide wild
life exhibits If the plan goes through
and murals of Oregon scenery will
be painted.
Many Oregon! arts who visited the
Chicago exposition last year were
chagrined, it was said by Walter w,
R. May, manager of the Portland
chamber of commerce, to see Wash
ington and California represented,
while Oregon had no exhibit.
Future Dollar History
Subject Of Deep Study
By Leaders Of Nation
(Coprmht, 134. br Aiaocttted Ptfh)
New York. Anril 19 On this first birthday of the new
dollar, the world of finance is
dollar is goinj? to look like on
etary doctors agree mai me aouar
will not buy as much a year from
now, as it will today. Whether It
will contain less gold, or even some
silver, remain moot questions.
The dollar Informally left the gold
standard March 4, 1933, but it was
April 19, a year ago. that former
Treasury Secretary Woodtn form
ally announced the dollar was no
longer a gold dollar, but a managed
dollar.
Under legislation enacted last
May, and la.st January, the presi
dent may increase the amount of
gold In the dollar a trifle, that is,
to ia.48 grains, and may decrease
It sutetantially, in fact to as Uttle
NEW EFFORTS
FOR RELIEF OF
CLOSED BANKS
Release of Frozen De
posits Sought To Head
Off McLeod Bill
Glass Insists That Sound
Assets Be Taken Over
By Government
(Copjrlrht, 1934. by United Preist
Washington. April 19 LP The
Roosevelt administration today be
gan a new effort to pry into cir
culation the deposit which have
been frozen since the banking crisis
of last year.
A new survey of assets in closed
banks was one expected develop
ment. Aroused by assertions of Sen.
Carter Glass, D., Va., that the ad
ministration was not taking full
advantage of its power to aid closed
banks, officials renewed their ac
tivity in behalf of the depositors.
The situation is connected with
the strong house sentiment for the
McLeod bill, which would have the
federal government pay off $3,000,
000.000 In frozen deposits. By de
vising a way to help depositors un
der the present law, the adminis
tration could head off the McLeod
bill.
The first step In the new drive
was taken after a quiet conference
In Glass' office. The meeting was
attended by Glass and the three
directors of the federal deposit in
surance corporation J. F. T. O'
Connor. E. G. Bennett and Leo T.
(Concluded on pnge 4. column 6)
GALE TUMBLES
OIL DERRICKS
Galveston, Tex., April 19 (IP)
Houses were moved from their
foundations and oil derricks top
pled over by a cyclonic wind which
raged in the High Island district
north of here for 40 minutes today.
None was injured.
Only three of the 46 derricks
remained standing after the 75
mile an hour wind subsided.
Sioux City, la., April 19 (IP)
Farmers of four states surveyed
wind-torn fields today where the
twelfth dust storm of the spring
season left ruined fields of newly
sown grain and bare roots about
their winter grains.
Dense clouds of dust blotted out
the sun yesterday as a 40-mile-an-hour
gale scooped up soil which has
been tossed about in the worst
spring weather in 50 years.
The storm extended over the
arid corners of four states, harry
ing eastern South Dakota, western
Minnesota, northeastern Nebraska
and northwestern Iowa. Seed was
blown out of the ground. Drainage
ditches along the highways were
drifted full of loose earth.
ESTACADA CLIMBS
ON BAND WAGON
Est a cad a, Ore., April 19 (LP) Es
tacada voters "climbed on the band
wagon" in a big way.
Tabulation of the registration for
next month's primaries show regis
tration of 180 democrats, and four
republicans.
Two years ago there were 142 re
publicans, and 42 democrats.
chiefly interested in what this
its second birthday. I ne mon.
as 12.9 sratna.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Morgenthau have made it clear
that they wish to continue with
the present dollar of 15 5-21 grains
for the time being.
In the meantime, the silver bloc
in congress is agitating for greater
monetary use of silver. Usually
well-informed Quarters assert that
any mandatory silver letmlatlon of
extreme monetary moment would
be vetoed.
So, barring unexpected develop
ments in silver, the future of the
dollar Is midelv expected to depend
(Concluded on p.ige 4, column
Oswald West
Sends Message
To Democrats
Former Governor Oswald West
has Issued the following "message
to democrats" :
'Having received high honors at
the bands of the democratic party,
I feel I owe It something. Among
other things, 1 owe It loyalty and,
to this end, am duty bound to sup
port the fit, and oppose the unfit,
in the selection of party candidates.
It is better that the party go down
to defeat with honest and capable
men than on to victory with crooks
and blacklegs.
I hope to see worthy democrats
favored in the primaries. Should
the party nominate an honest man
for governor, I pledge him my sup
portand regardless of his views
on public questions; but should It
nominate a thief, a forger, or a de
generate, I shall not only oppose
him, but expose him."
TRACING TRAIL
OF D1LL1NGER
Chicago, April 19 IP Manhunt
ers of the department of Justice to
day studied one of the warmest
trails ever presented to trackers
while John DiUlnger, a mocking
outlaw, remained at large.
There were few gaps in the
diary-like files for DUllnger's ac
tivities since he pounded a wash
board Into a wooden gun and
walked out of the Crown Point,
Ind., Jail except for today.
The newest reports placed DM
linger somewhere in the south In
flight from a bank robbery at the
Bank of Montgomery, Montgomery,
La, yesterday. The desperado was
reported to have obtained an un
determined amount of loot In a
bank where his picture hung on the
wall.
To fill in other gaps, agents
learned that the gunman drove
home to a family reunion in Moor-
esville, Ind., during the April 7
week-end. John W. Dillinger, the
outlaw's father, and neighbors said
he came to see his sister, Mrs. Au
drey Hancock of Indianapolis and
a half brother. Hubert Dillinger.
The outlaw had dyed his hair red,
they said.
On the following day, according
to Evelyn Frechette, Menominie,
Wis., girl friend of the outlaw, Dii
linger was in a Chicago tavern as
federal agents took her in custody
Dillinger walked through the ranks
of the agents and drove away in an
automobile, she said. Agents ex
pected to remove her to St. Paul
where she faces charges of aiding
and harboring a criminal, in con
nection with Dillinger s presence in
that city-
HUNDREDS HERE
FOR CONVENTION
The golden Jubilee convention of
Christian Endeavor in Oregon which
will take the lorm of a four day
convention beginning Thursday
night and extending through Sun
day on the campus at Willamette
university, was attracting hundreds
of out of town delegates during the
early afternoon. The crowd is ex
pected to exceed close to 1500 or 2000
by Saturday.
Thursday evening', session will
begin with a pre-conventinn dedi
catory prayer service led by Rev.
C. P. Gates. This will be followed
at 7 o'clock by a union delegation
assembly and a song service led by
Claude Neely. .
Addresses of welcome will be
made during the evening service by
President C. O. Doney of Willa
mette university on behalf of the
schools and churches, and by Mayor
Douglas McKay, on behalf of the
city.
Helen McClay. president of the
state organization will respond on
behalf of the delegates.
Rev. H. S. Weber will give the
principal address of the evening,
talking on the subject "The Cloud
of Witnesses."
Friday morning's conference will
begin at a o'clock with divisional
conferences. Rev. Wendall E Burke
will talk to the assembled delegates
on the "Challenge of the Race,'' at
11:20. Speakers for the afternoon
and evening sessions Include Rev.
Paul Pettlcord and Dr. Raymond
B. Walker.
TREES PLANTED TO
HONOR HOOVER
Wafhlneton, April 19 ii-Two
trees honoring Herbert Hoover, only
livinir former president, will be
Dlanted In Anacostta park here Sat.
urday by the Daughters ol the Am-
enran Revolution.
The Iowa Daughters will plant
walnut tree fr.'.tn Hf.rbert Hoover's
birthplare at Wert Branch. Iowa.
The California deviations will
plant a tree from the Stanford uni
versity campus.
CHINESE VIEW
JAPAN POLICY
AS EMBARGO
Direct Challenge to Oth
er Powers Seen In Bid
For Overlordship
Direct Blow to American
Aircraft Makers Bri
tain Disturbed
Pelplng, China, April 19 MP
North China's reaction to Japan's
hands-off China pronouncement In
dicated today that Chinese of this
region see in the declaration a di
rect challenge to other powers.
Voicing the Chinese viewpoint on
the Japanese restatement of policy
toward China, announced in Tokyo.
the official Pelplng Chronicle said
today:
'Here Is an entirely naked Jap
anese bid for overlordship of the
whole orient.
"Tokyo's declaration Is a warn
ing to China not to borrow money
elsewhere and to other countries
not to lend.
It is a direct embargo upon any
attempt by China to prepare to de
fend Itself and a challenge to the
rest of the world to dare to afford
help to this end."
The Japanese legation declined
to comment.
Shanghai, April It (IT) Japan's
restatement of policy toward China
Is seen here, In part, as a direct
blow at the activities of American
aircraft manufacturers.
In the draft, announced by the
Tokyo foreign office, Japan states
that she objects to other nations
supplying China with military alr
Cncluqedon pnge 4. column 6)
HALF BILLION
NEW PWA FUND
Washington, April 19 The
administration today had set $500.
000,000 as the amount necessary to
carry its public works program along
for another year. President Roose
velt and Secretary Ickes, who has
administrated PWA since Its incep
tion, agreed on tills sum.
The original public works fund of
$3,300,000,000 is virtually exhausted.
Under the new fund to be asked of
congress a considerable number of
projects already started with previ
ous allotments would be carried on
and new enterprises begun.
Five of the principal federal pro
jects will require financing. These
are the Grand Coulee, Bonneville,
Fort Peck, Caspar-Alcova and Boul
der Canyon dams.
These gigantic projects, involving
total expenditure of some $250,-
000,000, include imitation, flood con
trol, power and navigation.
In addition, it is expected that the
new money will afford funds for
some of the $3,500,000,000 of non
federal project applications.
ROBBERY OF BANK
LAID TO BARROW
Edwardsville, Kas., April 19 (LP)
Two men and a well-dressed youth'
fill appearing woman robbed the
Edwardsville state bank here of
$1,480 early today and escaped In
a (Ford V-8 sednn answering thr
general description of the car used
by Clyde Barrow, southwestern
bandit, and Bonnie Parker.
K. H. Beach, vice president of the
bank, and Arthur Knight, 22, a la
borer, were kidnaped by the ban
dits and taken to Monticello, Kas.
where they were released.
Officers here believed that the
bandits as described by Beach and
Knli?ht answered the descriptions of
Barrow, Bonnie Parker and either
Henry Metvln or Raymond Ham
ilton, escaped convicts from Hunts
vllle prison In Texas.
SALMON TROLLERS
RESUME FISHING
Seattle. April 19 (LP Approxim
ately 700 salmon trollers, operating
out of Seattle, Aberdeen and As
toria, Ore., resumed fishing today
according to an announcement made
by Wood Freeman, president and
manager of the Trolling Vessel
Owners association.
Action followed aareement be
tween trollers and buyers whereby
a fixed price of 15 cents a pound
will prevail for large fish, cent
for small reds, 0 cents for slivers
and 7 rents for whites until May
After May 1, 14 cents a pound will
be paid for large fish, with the
other prices remaining stable.
WORKING OF NEW
SERA SET UP TOLD
RELIEF COMMITTEE
Ivan White Explains
place CWA Activities; Case Basis in Rural
Regions; Projects Must Be Approved by
Committee and Construction Engineer
The workings of the new SERA setup, which Is taking
the place of the old CWA program throughout the nation,
was explained Wednesday night to members of the Marion
county relief committee by Ivan White, of the state relief
committee. As outlined by White the general setup of the
relief and work programs will be
under two heads:
1 A work program In urban
areas including cities of 6,000 pop- 1
ulation and over and such Indus
trlally stranded centers as were ap
proved by the state committee and
authorized by the government.
2 Rural rehabilitation set up on
a strictly case basis the establish
ment of families on a self sustain
ing basis. This would permit a
capital Investment such as seeds,
farm animals, machinery, etc. This
further provides work for relief
to augment the lean earning months
in rural areas.
Due to the delay In starting
such a program, the state com
mittee has decided to work out
certain projects for working per
sons needing relief In rural areas
on a strictly cash basis, the work
ers to receive payment In kind
consisting of both groceries and
clothing. This work relief In rural
areas will come out of the relief
committee's monthly allotment.
Protects for these rural areas
must be approved by the county
committee, worked up by the pro
ject engineer, submitted to Port
land and after their approval, the
work can start. All costs on these
projects such as materials, super
vision, compensation, etc., must be
borne by the local subdivision.
All projects, both urban and
rural, must be approved by the
county committee, prepared by the
project engineer and men submit
ted to Portland. The projects In
the urban areas will be directed by
construction engineer who will
have several counties under his
supervision. White emphasized the
fact that all costs of projects ex
cept labor must be borne by the
local subdivision.
The new administration setup will
be placed under four heads:
1 Placement This office will be
handled by an outside man, the
reason for this being that he will
be uninfluenced by local pressure
to secure Jobs for local people,
2 Auditing and disbursing This
office will remain practically the
same as under the CWA setup, the
only addition being that the audit
lng for the direct relief will be
handled through the same office
instead of at a dlfrerent office as
In the past.
3 Engineering department Th is
department will function under the
direct supervision of Mr. Palmer
and will consist of a project en
gineer, also a construction engineer
4 Direct relief This organiza
tion will function as in the past.
White explained that the program
as set up now seemed to be of a
more or less continuous nature and
that while work in the summer
months would be somewhat curtail
ed, in the fall he expected to see
a further enlargement of the work.
Due to the fact that workers In
rural districts would receive only
payment In kind for their labors.
Mr. White suggested that the com
mittee stress the fact that this
work was only one of the many
plans which would be in effect in
rural communities, whereas, in the
urhnn area only, straight work
would be permitted.
Some variation in the program
might be looked for. While ex
plained, as changes are constantly
being made in Washington.
Resignations
Of Candidates Now
Holding Public Office
In the opinion of the Marion county Pomona Kranjre,
public office holders who run
they are occupying should resign the miter, mis was em
bodied In a resolution tnat was
adopted yesterdav at a meeting of
the Pomona grange at Union Hill,
and Is later to be put in a bill to
go before the legislature.
While no names were mentioned
it was pretty generally understood
that the resolution had particular
reference to Rufus Holman, state
t reasurer who Is a candidate for
governor.
The practice of retaining the oc
cupied office deprives the people of
opportunity to elect a successor who
is instead appointed, and this the
grange holds Is unfair.
"It Is a common prartire," ay
the preamble to Uic resolution, "for
Work Program To Re
FRANCE SERVES
TROTZKY NOTICE
Paris. April 19 WV-Leon TroUky,
the man no country seems to want.
was served today with a formal
notice that he waa being expelled
from France for his revolutionary
activities.
The Bolshevik's cottage near Bar-
bizon. 35 miles from Paris, was ent
ered by two gendarmes. They hand
ed him the document which tells
him to get out.
Trotzky s departure for Spain ap
peared imminent with the appoint
ment of Inspector Vilchien to ac
company him to the frontier
In order to avoid a demonstra
tion, the exact time of the exile's
departure was kept secret, but It
probably will be tonight or early
tomorrow morning.
Unconfirmed reports persisted
that TroUky la seeking refuge In I
Spain or Belgium. His secretary
said, however, that they were "hav
ing difficulty in obtaining passport
visas." The secretary did not dis
close what countries were being
dealt with.
A threat of street clashes caused
authorities to forbid a demonstra
tion of militant socialists and com
munists scheduled In front of the
city hall tomorrow.
Followers of Trotzky had planned
to join In the manifestation to pro
test against the order for his ex
pulsion. The demonstration was called or
iginally to voice indignation over
what the leaders termed the "decree
laws of fascism" referring to the
economy decrees of Premier Dou
mergue. GANG THREATS
SENT TO WHITE
Columbus, Ohio, April 19 fP) A
threat on the life of Governor
George White, apparently emanat
ing from Dillinger gangsters, Is un
der investigation of postal authori
ties, the governor disclosed today.
The threat was made in a letter
mailed in Chicago and sinned by
"friends" of Harry Pierpont and
Charles Mnkley, Dilllnijer gangsters
under sentence of death in the elec
tric chair for slaying Sheriff Jess
Sarber at Lima.
Governor White reported the let
ter said that if he did not pardon
'Harry and Charley" before the ex
ecution date, July 13, he would not
live out his term in office.
"I turned the letter over to Post
master Nate M. Coy of Columbus
and he submitted It to postal In
spectors," the governor said.
The letter was received a week
ago Tuesday. It was written on the
stationary of a St. Louis hotel.
Pierpont and Mnkley are to be
electrocuted for slaying the sheriff
when they raided the Allen county
Jail and liberated John Dillinger,
their chieftain, who was held as a
robbery suspect on October 12.
Russell Clark, also a member of
the gang. Is now serving a life term
for his part in the crime.
Sought
for other offices than those
such officials. If successful In their
candidacies, to continue In the po
sitions in which they may be in
cumbents until entering upon their
new duties, thereby depriving the
people of the opportunity to elect
their successors, and in many cases
also enabling such officials to ap
point their own successors. . . Such
practices savor of trickery and greed
for power."
The resolution requests the state
grange executive committee to pre
pare a legislative bill to prohibit
this practice.
The Pomona grange adapted a
(Coucluited ou iuri 4, column 7)
ATTORNEYS III
CLOSING TALKS
535,000 CASE
Mrs. Laughlin In Rebuttal
Contradicts Testimony
Of Walbridge
Defendant Denies Allega
tions and Seeks To Es
tablish Alibis
The $35,000 damage action
brought by Robert R. Laughlin
against Perry H. Walbridge, local
Insurance manager, goes to the jury
this afternoon.
Charges that this was a conspiracy
and a blackmail scheme were made
In arguments for the defence this
afternoon as Fred A. Williams)
opened the arguments for Wal
bridge. Declaring there are several
forms of racketeering, the holdup
man, the burglar who works In the
dark, the confidence man and kid
naper. Williams averred this suit
was the outgrowth of conspiracy
between the parties to blackmail
the defendant for money.
The plaintiff, he averred, waa
the brains of the scheme. "They In
tended to get the money without
law suit at first," he said, "bub
when they found they had got as
far as a lawsuit they had to go
through with it.
Alfred P. Kelley or Portland mAde
Tconclu"ded'o"npftge 16.column if"
CANADIAN GOLD
SHARES BREAK
Toronto, April 19 (AV-Gold share
prices broke wide open at the open
ing of the Toronto mining exchange
today as a result of the new 10
per cent gold tax announced to the
Ottawa dominion budget yesterday.
Dome dropped $8.50 to $30 on
opening sales, but soon recovered
to $36: Hollinger dropped $2.10 to
$16; lake Shore $5 to $48; Mcln-
tyre $3 to $45.50: Teck Hughes $1JQ
to $6.40; and Wright Har greaves.
70 cents to $8.90.
Bralorne and Pioneer, two Brit
ish Columbia gold leaders, fell about
$1 each.
The industrial section of the Tor
onto stock exchange wti steady.
Millions of dollars were quickly
written off the face value of the
storks of leading gold producers.
Brokerage houses were jammed by
excited throngs and the galleries of
the mining exchange in Toronto and
of the Montreal stock and curb
markets were parked.
The wild burst of selling under
the accumulated overnight orders
later steadied, however, and rccov
ery set in before noon,
BOMBING PLANES
STARTAIH MAIL
Salt Lake Cltv, April 19 0P
Christened "Stale of Utah" with
water from the Great Salt lake the
first of six Martin bombine: planes
to be put into use in the Western
air mail 7.one will be sent on Its
way to Cheyenne thi.s afternoon
after ceremonies at the Salt Lake
airport.
'Hie christening, by Governor
Henrv H. Illood, will follow brief
remarks by Lieut. Col. H. H. Ar
nold, commander of the western
zone. The ship will carry several
hundreds of pounds of airmail for
eastern points.
The six new bombers, built to
carry a ton of bombs besides ma
chine guns and ammunition, have
a cruising speed of 175 miles an
hour and a top speed of 2oo miles
an hour. They will be used on the
Cheyenne-Oakland air mail route
NULLIFY KELLY'S
BEQUEST TO NURSE
Portland, Aprl 19 Tt Circuit
Judge Tazwell yefterriav refused to
admit the will of the late Plymp
ton J. Kelly, elderly widower, to
probate, after announcing he be
lieved undue Influence was used
by Jessie O. Northrop, a nurse, m
obtaining bequests of nearly $eo.
000 from the will. An administrator
for the $90,000 estate will be ap
pointed, the court announced.
JudKv Tazwell held the will did
not express the wishes of Kelly in
that he "was not rxercismg his
own free will but was under the
domination of Mrs. Northrop. Let
ters the nurse reputedly wrote to
another person, the rovrt raid were
"sufficient to disclr.se the methods
employed In attempting to attain
her object."