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A G apitaUWoraiial City Edition Pair tonlte and Friday, little change In tem perature; easterly Local: Max. 47. mln. 29: rain 0. rlv. 4.6 It. Clear, northerly wind. 46th YEAR. No. 291 Entered as second class matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934 PRICE THREE CENTS wjn i Circulation J Dally average dlatrlbu- v.mJm .rr tlon for the Month ol ni7 November. 1034 uj. Average dally net paid Member Audit Bureau Code ' Circulations Code HUGE SUM ON HIGHWAY BIDS Proposals Offered On Six Projects Far Under Estimates Portland Firm Low On Wallace Bridge Job In Polk County Portland. Dec. 6 (P)--Kern & Klb be of Portland was the low bidder on the largest of six road projects for which bids were opened by the state highway commission today, bidding $02,504.50 for 1,41 miles pav ing on 82nd street from Clinton street to Foster road. All pro jects were expected to be awarded later today to low bidders for a y total of $220,652, far below the en gineer's estimate. The projects attracted the lowest number of bidders experienced for many months by the highway com mission, ranging from 5 to 14 es timates on each job. Many con tractors, it was explained, were now busy and could not figure on tak ing on more work. The commis sion will let more jobs here two weeks from today. R. I. Stuart & Sons of Medford bid low on two jobs, in Coos and Douglas counties. For the .34 mile paving and widening of the Golden avenue-Johnson avenue section of the Oregon Coast highway in Marshfield they bid $12,150. On the six-tenths mile paving and widening of the Roseburg section of the Pacific highway they bid $26,914. Averill and Philpott of Portland bid low on construction of the Wal lace bridge over Yamhill river on the Dallas-Coast secondary highway in Polk county at $21,153. Barham Bros., of Salem, were next low at V (Conciiidod on pngc 4, column 1) ALASKA LASHED Seward, Alaska, Dec. 6 OP) South eastern Alaska today checked dam age from one of the worst storms to strike the coast In years. No lives were lost. A terrific gale, roaring in from the southeast, accompanied by heavy rain, disrupted communica tions and left Seward without elec tricity or water. At Cordova the wind collapsed part of the Copper River -Northwest-era Railroad company repair shops. The roof was blown from a sawmill, a fish warehouse and numerous small buildings blown down. A great slide of earth, loosened by rains, disabled the Seward power plant and carried away the main pipe line of the city's water supply. Communications between Seward and Anchorage and other mainland points were cut off. Rainfall totaled over 13 inches in three days at Cor dova. A heavy electrical storm, un usual for Alaska, accompanied the rain and wind. Alaska temperatures were unusu elly high, reaching maximums of 36 at Nome, 50 at Cordova and 58 at Fairbanks. YOUTH CONFESSES MURDER; GETS LIFE Lansing, Mich., Dec. 6 (LP) LeRoy Carson, 24, today was sentenced to life imprisonment in Marquette prison after he had pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Charles B. 4 Collingwood to slaying Leona Love, 12 year old school girl. Carson was arrested yesterday a few hours after the body of Leona y was discovered, her head crushed and a 2.2 caliber rifle wound in her body. He admitted, state police said, that he shot the girl after he ac costed her and she threatened to tell her family. WIDOW OF NELSON TAKEN TO PRISON Madison, Wis., Dec. 6 (IP) The girl-wife of George (Baby Pace) Nelson, slain gangster, was returned here today to start a new prison sentence for her association with the John Dilllnger gang. Department of justice agents brought the diminutive Helen Oilua. 22 year old mother of the gangster's two children. Into the Jurisdiction of the United States district court here today and lodged her In Dane coun ty Jail. NOTED SCIENTIST DEAD Boston, Dec, 6 Dr. Alan Wln- ter Rowe, International noted sci entist, famed for researches in chemistry and biology, and direc tor of research at the Evans Me morial hospital in Boston, died to-lay. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Now we have passed into a com pletely new era. There is the dawn of a new day. Yea, now the ques tion is, "Well, how do you like the new building as far as you've gone." Census figures to date haven't been compiled in re instant question, but preceding questions brought the grand total to us alone up to 15,338, Other members of the office force are still reporting in their totals, but when finally added up the ag gregate will be tremendous. In answer to the latest question of how we like pur new office we may an swer, "Doggoned swell." We note "Spec Keene made good on his promise to give his football aggregation a turkey dinner if they ran up 50 points or more on Whit man. The boys were all greatly disappointed, however, that Mrs. Keene wasn't there with her fur coat to act as toastmistress. WE'RE AIDED AND ABETTED "Dear Sips: If your friends never give you credit for ever having any real, sane helpful suggestions, let me tell them for you they are sad ly mistaken. Your plan of renoviz- ing the old house on tne courtnouse lawn is the very best, by far, of any that I have heard about to date. onclu"dedbnpnge4. column 7) Drunk Chained To Phone Pole May Sue City Paintsville, Ky., Dec. 6 (LP) Mrs. M. L. Price retained two lawyers to day and threatened suit against the town of Paintsville and all its offi cials because her 25-year old son was pilloried on Main street for relusal to work out a fine for drunkenness. The youth. James, was chained with two similarly recalcitrant com panions to telephone poles on three corners of the town's principal in tersection. Twenty-five pound iron balls were attached to heavy log chains which bound them. The prisoners shivered for two hours In the biting mountain cold, two of them without overcoats. Police Judge R. A. Patrick, who ordered the punishment, expressed astonishment at the furore he cre ated. "It seems a trivial thing," he re marked, "for everybody to get so ex cited about." Mrs. Price, boiling with an Indig nation which pushed her toward prosecution of Patrick, the town marshal and all the other town of ficers she could name, said she had received telegrams from sympathiz ers throughout the country, CARGO OF ARMS GO VIA HOLLAND Washington, Dec. 6 IP) Evidence that the Du Pont company sent a shipment of powder to Holland in 1929 for re-shipment to China while an embargo was in effect against sending munitions directly to China was received by senate in vestigators today. This came after Senator Clark, democrat of Missouri t had asserted that it was not necessary for the United States to enter the World war "except to protect the munitions makers' profits." Also, the munitions committee was told that state department files showed no indication the depart ment had suggested a conference of arms makers called by Herbert Hoo. ver, as secretary of commerce, be fore the 1925 Geneva arms confer ence. The former president said yes terday that Frank B. Kellogg, secre tary of state in 1925, had suggested the conference. During frequent clashes with wit nesses, Senator Clark told Irenee Du Pont, munitions manufacturer, at one point that the latter was not "running this Investigation." Colonel A. J. Baldwin, Familiar Salem Figure, Victim Of Automobile Annon James Baldwin, 77, familiar character of Salem, knoWn affectionately as Colonel Baldwin, was instantly kill ed shortly after 7 o'clock last an automobile onven by Eimer w. Means, who lives on rural route 3 The accident happened on the Pa cific highway a short distance be yond the south city limits. Means was exonerated after an Investiga tion by the police and District At torney W. H. Trindle. He is an em ploye of a Salem store and was on his way home. Colon-il Baldwin had left his home at 2250 West Nob Hill and was walking to Salem Heights commun munity hall where he was to ad dress a meeting of the Townsend Old Age Pension club. The investi gation indicated that Means told a correct story of the accident. He NAVAL PLEAS OF JAPANESE TURNED DOWN Davis Voices Refusal of America To Agree To Parity Costly Building Race Only Alternative If Treaty Scrapped London, Dec. 6 (LP) The United States today rejected Japan's de mand for parity and insisted on maintenance of the Washington treaty, with the implication that ihe alternative is a costly naval race Norman H. Davis, chief United States delegate to the London nnval conversations, explained his coun try's stand in a significant sreech to the Association of American Cor respondents. Abandonment of the principles embodied in the Washington and London treaties, he said, "would 'fad to conditions of insecurity, of inter national suspicion and of costly competition, with no real advantage to any nation. On the contrary, he said, on in struction of President Roosevelt, "I have proposed a substantia! all around reduction in naval arra ments to be effected In sucn a way as not to alter the relative strengths or to Jeopardize the security of the participating nations as esnaomnea by those treaties." Washington. Dec. 6 (IP) The Uni ted States served notice today Uiat this country will not agree to Ja pan's demands for naval parity. The pronouncement of Amebian naval policy was laid down in Lon don by Norman H. Davis, chief Am erican delegate to the naval conver sations now going on in London It was the first such public announce ment of American naval policy made since the three-power conversations started. Although Davis spoke informally, and on his own responsibility there was Uttle doubt that that his re marks had the full approval of Sec- (Conciuded on pngc 4. column 4) INSULL TO FACE FRAUD CHARGE Chicago, Dec. 6 (LP) Samuel In sull today lost a legal battle to es cape going to trial in federal court on a second charge growing out 01 tne collapse of his two-billion' dollar utility system. Judge James H. Wilkerson over ruled a demurrer to an indictment charging Insull and nine others with violation of the bankruptcy laws. Insull, acquitted by a jury in Judge Wllkerson's court two weeks ago on charges of mail fraud, was ordered to appear Dec. 18 and enter a plea. The bankruptcy fraud trial will be delayed for several weeks at least because of the 75-year-old Insull's trial In state court on embezzle ment charges, scheduled for Jan. 7. His brother, Martin J. Insull, Is on trial in criminal court on charg es of embezzling $244,729 from the now-defunct Mlddlewest Utilities company. HIGHWAY WILL BE NAMED FOR BAKER Portland, Ore., Dec. 6 (IP) The new Portland part of the Oregon City super-highway, will be known as George L. Baker boulevard, hon oring the man who was mayor of Portland for 16 years, it was indi cated at Wednesday's council ses sion. City Attorney Frank S. Grant ws instructed to prepare an ordinance officially naming the boulevard. night when he was struck by was driving south and turned to the left to pass another automobile. Colonel Baldwin was walking south on the left-hand, and legal, side of the highway. Means said he did not see the pedestrian in time to avoid striking him. The left fender of the car hurled Baldwin first against the hood of the car and then to the roadside. Colonel Baldwin had been an ac tive resident of Salem for 24 years. Formerly he operated a grocery store in the Salem Heights district. He was also an auctioneer by occu pation and followed that work for i (Conciudedon pagV4, "col umn4) YUGOSLAVIA EXPELS ALL Expulsion To Be Gradual; 2000 Deportations Al ready Made Hungary Files Protest , With League; Situation Critical Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6 VP) The Yugoslav government, it was announced today, has decided to ex pel all the 27,000 Hungarians now living in Yuffoslavia. The government decision means the uprooting of the entire Hungar ian element in Yugoslavia. It was stated authoritatively the expulsion will be a gradual process but will proceed relentlessly. It Is estimated today some 2,000 Hungarians already have been de ported and the number is increasing daily. About 300 luckless former Hun garians have found themselves without a country. This group was composed of men and women who renounced Hungarian citizenship preparatory to becoming Yugoslavs. Hungary has thrown them out and Yugoslavia will not permit them to return. They are living in three trains stranded in "no man's land" at the Hungarian-Yugoslav fron tier. Geneva, Dec. 6 (IP) The Hungar ian government informed the League of Nations today that Yugo- (Concluded on page 16, column 2) RUSSIA SEEKING l Copy Huh t, 1934, by Associated Press) Geneva, Dec. 6 Alarmed at the prospect of a close understanding between Prance and Germany, Soviet Russia has asked France not to conclude any special political ac cord with another nation pending the fate of the projected pact of eastern European securities. Russia was described by league of nations sources today as fearing isolation for herself would result from any Franco-German political accord. It was understood France has agreed not to make any special bi lateral political treaties without consulting Russia beforehand. France, it was said, will continue her efforts to get both Germany and Russia into the proposed East ern European Securities convention often called the "Eastern Locarno past." Such a pact, in the opinion of the French statesmen who pro posed it, would insure peace on Germany's eastern frontier. Russia has come to the position of giving prime Importance to the eastern pact as with peace assured on her western boundary, she would be left freer to cope with the Jap anese problem in the far east. CROSSER IN RACE FOR SPEAKERSHIP Washington, Dec. 6 (IP) Repre sentative Robert Crosser, (D., O.), chairman of the house democratic steering committee, announced to day he would be a candidate for speaker, Crosser's decision to enter the race further confused the outcome of the fight In which nearly a dozen house leaders are entered. Crosser who has had 20 years ex perience in the house and sponsored the railroad retirement bill and other important labor legislation, said that if elected he would "make certain that every member of the house will be treated with absolute fairness at all times." Crosser always has fought gag rules. GOVERNORS MARTIN TO COMPARE NOTES Portland, Dec. 6 fP) What the governor of Washington will say to the governor -elect of Oregon will be one of the points of Interest at the Pacific northwest regional plan ning conference in Seattle next week. The two Martins, Charles H of Oregon, and Clarence D., of Wash ington, then will meet formally for the first time. Washington's Martin will welcome the conferees Wednesday, and Ore gon's Martin will address the con ference dinner Friday night. Plaything of Boy Valued At $16,000 Rockland, Me., Dec. 6 (IP)'-A 17 pound lump of wax-like substance picked up by a Rockland boy, Rod erick Crandall, and used as play, thing, has been analyzed as amber gris, valued at $16,000. Searche3"'nd No Trace Of Ulm, 2 Companions Temperature Of 29 Above Lowest Here In Months Three degrees below the freezing point during the night brought to Salem Its first real touch of "winter" and almost the coldest day for more than a year. The low reading for the night was 29 degrees with 47 degrees the high point on the thermo meter. The coldest day in more than a year was February 15 when the mercury dropped to 27 degrees. On January 22 and again October 21 of last year the reading was 28 degrees. December 15 of last year equaled the temperature of last night. SCOTT PLEA FOR LIBERTY DENIED Portland. Dec. 6 UP) A ruling of probable cause, sufficient for the re moval to Oklahoma of Alvin H. Scott and Mrs. Margaret Hurtienne, his housekeeper, held on a conspir acy charge in connection with the kidnaping last year of Charles P. Urschel, Oklahoma millionaire, was handed down today by Kenneth Prazer, United States commissioner. It was explained, however, the case must be brought now before the district court here for a removal warrant- The district court thus will have to review the evidence which for two days has been presented to the United States commissioner. Federal agents testified at the hearing that $1360 of the $200,000 ransom paid for Urschel's release was found on Scott when he was taken to a hospital early last month and that more of the ransom notes were found in the Medford home where he lived with Mrs. Hurtienne and his five children. Elton Watklns, , Scott's attorney, made the dismissal charges late yes terday, declaring the government had shown no evidence of a conspir acy and failed to connect the de fendant with a conspiracy. Before the government rested lte case Urschel recounted the kidnap ing story he has told in other trials where 1Q persons already have been convicted in his case. HOOVER TALE OF CONFERENCE HIT Washington, Dec. 3 (IP) The sen ate munitions investigating com mittee today challenegd Former President Hoover's explanation tnat a munitions manufacturers' con ference in Washington in 1925 was called at the request of the state department. Stephen Rauschenbusch, chief committee investigator, testified under guidance of Senator C. Clark, D., Mo., that he found no sugges tion In state department files he examined that the conference was at the suggestion of the secretary of state. Rauschenbusch said he exam ined carefully all state department flics, Including the confidential ones, The conference was held when Mr. Hoover was secretary of commerce and called to safeguard American business interests. Other developments: 1 An admittedly misleading statement regarding high officials of the American government and made by an officer of the Reming' ton Arms company for sales promO' tion purposes in South America was revealed. 2 Irenee Du Pont was rebuked by Senator Clark for breaking Into the testimony. "Let me tactfully and as gracefully as possible disabuse your mind that you are running this in vestigation," Clark said. 3 Evidence was brought out that the Remington Arms company, Du Pont company, sold munitions to both Bolivia and Paraguay dur ing the Chaco fighting. 4 During the luncheon recess Senator James P. Pope, D., Ida., said that testimony would be In troduced subsequently to show how representatives of munitions mak ers attempted to block various em bargo actions and even the Nye resolution authorizing the present inquiry. The committee schedule calls for reaching this phase next week. Youthful Burglar Escapes But Caught Portland. Dec. 6 fl Less than two hours after a daring escape from the county courthouse where he was being examined by a psy chologist and a psychiatrist, Harvey Havelock Handron, 17. was captured when he returned to the scene of one of his former crimes. The boy was attempting to hold up a pawnshop when two dectectlves found him. He had previously been Jailed for robbing the same place. 66 RUSSIANS EXECUTED BY FIRINGSQUAD Only Five of 71 Accused Acquitted; AH Denied Attorneys Trials and Executions Conducted In Utmost Secrecy Moscow, Dec. 6 UP) Sixty-six per sons, including one woman, had paid with their lives today for the assassination of Sergei Klroff, red leader and friend of Joseph Stalin. The 66 were tried in Moscow and Leningrad yesterday and summar ily executed. The ashes of Klroff, himself, were sealed with proletar iate pomp and ceremony in the wall of the Kremlin. The official announcement of the execution was brief. It said that a woman named Zinaida Bullglna was among those executed In Mos cow. Just what connection the 66 had with the crime, actually com mitted by a discharged former So viet employe, Leonid Nicolieff, was not specified. The list of the condemned show ed a duplication of family names and middle names in three classes. indicating that brothers had been (Concluded on page 4, column 5) PRESIDENT BACK IN WASHINGTON Washington, Dec. 6 (IP) President Roosevelt returned to the capital today from warm Springs to con tinue his task of preparing a legis lative program lor congress. Vice President Garner met the president at the train together with Secretaries Hull and Wallace. Mrs. Roosevelt, who left Warm Springs In advance, also was at the station. The group posed for a few mln utcs on the back platform for pnotograpners before Mr. Roosevelt entered his automobile for the drive to the White House. Washington, Dec. 6 (IP President Roosevelt Is bringing to the capital today a new deal legislative pro gram calculated to avoid a bolt by r, potentially radical congress with out entirely disappointing business. men and bankers who would coop erate in recovery. His biggest Immediate lob k fix ing a time for balancing the budget and consolidating business and fin ancial support for the administra tion. On public utilities, unemployment relief and some labor issues the new deal legislative program will offend private capita. On some other Issues Mr. Roosevelt will be the only bulwark between congress and big business. Ickes wants to create jobs with federal money. Moffett would use the housing act to put private cap ital and men to work. Both pri vate and government funds will be used but Mr. Roosevelt has not yet explained now. VON 1IUTIKR DEAD Berlin, Dec. 6 (IP) General Oscar von Hutler, 77, who held import' ant German commands on the west front during the World war and captured Riga from the Russians In 1917, died today. Shaggy Hermit Admits He Killed Neighbor In Hills of Curry County Gold Beach, Dec. 6 (U.R) Like a shaggy, caged bear, Hugo Mayer, the "wild man of Indigo creek," peered from behind the bars of Curry county jail today, wondering just what It was all about. Charged with the murder of Robert Fauntz, his nearest neighbor In the wilds of the upper Illinois liver, on No- vember 6, Mayer, his shaggy locks and unkempt beard untouched by shears for no one knows how long, arrived here last night In custody of Sheriff Fritz Smith and State Trooper Ouy Forsythe. He offered no resistance, Smith said, and readily confessed the slay ing of Fauntz whom he said was "plotting against me." Mayer has been an almost legend ary character of the Illinois river country for years. Strange tales many of them probably apocryphal AVENGED SERGEI KIROFF Communist leader, for whose death 66 persons today paid with their lives before a Soviet firing squad. PARDON SOUGHT FOR COP SLAYER Medford, Dec. 6 (fP)A. petition asking Governor Julius L. Meier to grant a full pardon to Albert W. Reed, former Denver, Colo., resident serving a life term in state prison for conviction of the slaying of Vic tor Knott, Ashland policeman, on the night of November 19, 1932, was served today upon the district attor ney of Jackson county. District Attorney George A. Cod ding announced that the granting of executive clemency would be opposed. The petition asks that a hearing bo granted by the governor at the expiration of 20 days. . The pardon petition is based upon the following grounds: "Misconduct of a Juror," error of the court in admitting evidence of a California burglary, discovery of new evidence, and conflicting statements alleged made by Roy Layman, Ashland po liceman and companion of Knott at the time of the murder. The petition sets forth that new evidence will show that Reed was in a hamburger stand a half mile from the murder spot at the time of its commission. The petition also asserts, support ed by affidavits of four Ashland residents, that Officer Layman told them immediately following the murder, he could not identify the killer, but at trial was the chief identifying witness of the state. Paul McQuade and Lee Jackson, companions of Reed, stand indict ed for first degree murder. The pair are fugitives from justice. TAX LIEN FILED ON HAUPTMANN New York, Dec. 6 (LP) William B, Reilley, internal revenue collector for the 14th federal tax district, today filed an income tax lien against Bruno R. Hauptmann and his wife, Anna, in Brooklyn federal court seeking approximately $9,700 from the Lindbergh suspect. The government charged in the lien that Hauptmann and his wife owed taxes of $9,678,30 for the years 1932 and 1933, and Interest at 12 per cent from Nov. 20, 1934 to Dec. 1, 1934, amounting to $31.80. Federal court attaches, declining to say whether the charge was based on money allegedly obtained by Hauptmann under extortion, ex plained the government was not concerned with the source of Haupt manns Income. have been woven about his myster ious existence. He shunned every one, was said to have subsisted on herbs, berries and raw meat of ani mals. He often appeared at the trading post at Agness, even In winter, without shoes. He made what living he needed by trapping. Whether the stories were true or not, Sheriff Smith said Mayer stow ed away a meal of cooked food sufficient for two men, when they took him to Agness late Wednes day. Mayer fled to the hllld after Fauntz' body was discovered with (Concluded on page 4, column 8 NAVY WIDENS SEARCH FOR 3 LOST AIRMEN Planes, Submarines and Surface Craft Comb Wide Sea Area Radio Broadcasts Con stant Stream of Mes sages To Ulm Honolulu, T. H., Dec. 6 (IP) A lookout In Aloha tower in Honolulu harbor today reported a floating object three miles at sea, toward the south. The coast guard vessel Tiger was sent to Investigate. Honolulu, Dec. 6 (IP) Determined to find some trace of the missing trans-Pacific plane Stella Australia, the United States navy today org. anlzed a new giant comb-like ma neuver in the waters off the Hawa iian islands. When Ulm's plane, nearlng Hono lulu after a flight from Oakland, be came lost and took to the water Tuesday morning, the aviator said he thought the Stella Australia would float 48 hours. The deadline expired today. Surface craft of tne navy went into searching formation at 6 a.m. under orders to make a clean sweep of Honolulu. Submarines took up a line 10 miles apart, while destroyers were 15 miles apart. Nine army airplanes which spent the night at Kauai took off at dawn to renew their search. If the army flier fall to locate Ulm on the pres ent flight they will be withdrawn (Concludcd on pnge 4, column 6) LONG TIGHTENS DICTATORSHIP Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 6 (fP) Senator Huey P. Long today had Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, his New Orleans enemy, removed as chairman of the democratic state central committee and the senator was elected in his place by an over whelming majority vote, over a vigorous protest by the mayor. Speaking before the committee'! re-organization session at the state house, Walmsley challenged the committee's selection of a man to guide them who he said had criticiz ed the government. "I wouldn't be true to myself, my party r the people who elected me if I let this thing go by unchalleng ed," Walslcy declared, "I can't let a man be elected to head the democratic party organiza tion In this state who has said h doesn't give a damn about the gov ernment in Washington. This Is a slap at the national democratic par ty." Senator Long was seated in the committee as a member while Mr. Walmsley spoke. DOGS BARRED FROM UNIVERSITY CAMPUS Eugene, Ore., Dec. 6 (fl1) "Bruno, huge Newfoundland dog, weight 200 pounds, and all his canine pals. were officially ruled off the grounds of the University of Oregon today. A motion to hold student owners responsible for keeping dogs off the university campus was passed unanimously by the faculty. The "campus dog gang" Includes besides "Bruno" a number of po lice dogs, bull dogs and others. Students claim "Bruno" is the larg est campus mascot in the United States. ..... PCL Protect Children I SiASONS I Live! 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