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M. I Gaoitam Journal Circulation City Edition Pair tontte, increasing cloudiness S,u n d a y rain on coast. No cha nge In temperature. Southeast winds. Dally average distribu tion for the Month ol wovemoer, warn 10,027 Average dnily net paid Local: Max. S3, mln. 27: rain 0, rlv. 8.2 ft, Clear, variable wind. Member Audit Bureau or circulations 46th YEAR, No. 293 Entered as second class matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934 PRICE THREE CENTS "."ta'n'K.-" Bfl-ALGODBOL m 0 If Code 1 iL irinwrtr I FRO Uyujllljia - HOP GROWERS DISCUSS NEW MARKET CODE Third Annual Session Opens With Attendance Smaller Growth In Memberships Noted; Banquet Sche duled Tonight Hop growers of the state gather ed here today for the third annual convention of their association, but with indications of a slimmer at tendance than two years ago when hops were soaring around 75 cents. Yet they came at a time when fev erish activity was marking progress of the market with over 4800 bales sold the past week, but at around 10 and 11 cents, rather than at the 60 and 75 cents when the association was getting underway. When Henry A. Cornoyer filed his secretary's report early In conven tion proceedings today it showed a signup of 910 members in the asso ciation from hop growing sections over the state. While one of the most elaborate programs yet put together featured today's sessions, the high spot of in terest was scheduled for this after noon when the discussion of the new proposed marketing agreement was to be the order of business. This """(Concluded on pnge 8. column 4) KILLED IN SOUTH Redding, Cal., Dec. t U Driving a car bearing Ohio license plates, a man and woman were killed late Friday when their automobile failed to negotiate a sharp turn In the Rcddlng-Alturas highway 50 miles east of here and dropped 40 feet over an embankment. The woman was believed to be Mrs. Claire Craig, 40. Suttle Lake, Ore., resort owner. Authorities said her companion was either A. J. Holbrook, 2070 Day tonia Ave., Cincinnati, under whose name the car was registered, or R. B. Marlett, 1217 Carroll Ave., Los Angeles, the name and address giv en on letters found In his pockets. Bend, Ore., Dec. 8 (IP) Mrs. Claire Craig, operator of a resort at Suttle Lake, who was reported killed In an automobile accident near Redding, Cal., yesterday, left Bend Thursday for Los Angeles, where she planned to visit her mother. No direct word confirming the Identification of the accident victim as Mrs. Craig had been received here this morning, but her friends, were Inclined to accept the Identification. This week Mrs. Craig had purch ased a car from A. J. Holbrook, of Cincinnati, and had applied for an Oregon license. She was accompan ied on the trip south by her uncle, R. B. Marlett of Los Angeles. FOUR LOSE LIVES IN TENEMENT FIRE New York, Dec. 8 (P) Four par sons lost their lives In a fire which swept a five-story tenement house at 124-126 Willis avenue, the Bronx, early today. Four persons were Injured, one, a 70-year-old crippled woman, so teriously she may die. The dead were: Mrs Catherine Olbney, 36. her two sons. John, 7, and Lawrence 2, and Mrs. Minnie Johnson, 67, all of whom Jived on the third floor. Death was caused by burns and suffocation. Mrs. Lillian De Sena, the crip pled woman, was carried down a ladder by firemen. The tenants were lorced out Into the bitter cold, and water poured en the building quickly was trans formed Into Ice, hampering the fire men. Interstate Bridge Protest Renewed Portland, Dec. 8 P) The Port land chamber of commerce has re newed Its opposition to the pro posed Interstate bridge across the Columbia river at Astoria. The board of directors of the chamber voted yesterday to oppose the project and to send Its chair man to Washington, D. C, to attend the bridge hearing Dec. 18. The chamber directors held that the span would constitute per manent hazard to shipping and would handicap the development of ttit river. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN A man about town you all know was telling us this a.m. that he made record time from Salem to Portland In his automobile yesterday. Some day he'll try It and make wreckered time, also. Incidentally, referring to motor vehicles, a kind lady suggested yes terday while Doug McKay is pond ering whether to sign the banty or dinance or no, that he have incor porated therein motor trucks, motor cycles, et cetera, which tear through town full blast early each a.m., and drown out the banty's feeble crow. Thanks, some of you elevator girls, for following our suggestion and get ting the mistletoe sprigs in place for the holiday festivities. We're sorry, however, that our cold of late date has caused us to spray mentholatum all over our mustache parking space. And anyone knows who knows any thing that mentholatum and mistle toe don't mix. Our dear friend, Jimmy Nelson of the high school factory, offers a suggestion for the house renovizing committee that they read up on Mark Twain. He suggests for their lesson today that Incident re-counted by Mark of the chap who found an old knife. First he put In a new blade, then added a new handle, and after which he declared "See, it's just as good as a new knife." Since we got Into our new bldg. with the windows all over the front, our office force Is coordinating to see that all parades hi the future are routed along Chemeketa street. All chairmen of committees on ar rangements please note. There's no thing like a good parade passing un der your windows to alleviate the suffering of a long morning of hea vy brain duty. IVY EATS THIS WEEK "Mrs. George Kepplnger bro't a cluster of ripe red raspberries to The Star office yesterday morning, on which we're eight ripe berries and several green ones. They were grown, tn her garden. This Is very unusual for this time of year, H is said. They looked mighty good." Gervais Star. It may be unusual for raspberries to grow In gardens down Gervais way, as Ivy says, but they sometimes do hereabouts. Execution of 200 by the Bolsheviks In Russia makes us wish some of the folks who wish they were in Russia had had their wish fulfilled. Men of the Salem Breakfast club will entertain their wives and et cetera females at the next meeting Friday morning. That's a foxy move on the part of some of the husbands. It's one day they won't have to serve the wife's breakfast to her In bed. After getting that one off our chest we've decided it's Just as well we don't go home at all today but get Invited out somewhere for lunch downtown. NO GROUNDS FOR HOLMAN-MEIER ROW Portland, Ore., Dec. 8 (IP There are no grounds for the latest Gov ernor Meier-State Treasurer Hol man flare-up over the proposed Mulkey building transfer case, Portland realtors said today. N. c. Soule, of Staver, Soule and Therkelsen, building managers, said he couldn't "see why the agitation has ever started". He pointed out that the building will revert to the state only upon the expiration of the life Interest of Marshall A. Arm strong, Its present owner, whom he described as "hale and hearty'" and "should live for years .yet." Articles Filed For Distillery Plant To Make Beverages Here Brandies, wines and fruit concentrates will be manufac tured in Salem if plans of organizers of the Columbia Distil leries, Inc., for which articles of incorporation were filed to day, are carried out. Headquarters for the distillery would be in Sa lem. Capital stock would be $50,000. Incorporators are Willis Rounsevelle. John E. Wood and George G. Uelsi, all of Portland. John E. Wood has spent consid erable time during the past summei investigating possible locations for such a plant. Hood River and The Dalles were considered but discarded in favor of Salem because of the source of raw products Is greater here and also more varied. Local people were Interviewed by Wood and his associates in search of local capital for the enterprise. That he apparently has met with success TRINDLEASKS FATAL CRASH Grand Jury Called To In vestigate Death of Col onel Baldwin Prosecutor Resents Edit orial Criticism of Con duct In Case Replying to editorial criticism In the Capital Journal last night of his action in absolving from responsi bility the driver of the automobile which Wednesday evening ran down and kUled Colonel A. J. Baldwin, District Attorney William H. Trlndle today notified the editor of the Journal that he Is calling the Mar ion county grand jury to meet here next Wednesday morning to Inves tigate the accident. Notification of calling the grand jury is contained In a letter to the editor in which Trlndle invited the editor "to be present and present any evidence you may nave, or the nam es of any witnesses within your knowledge which may tend to dis close to the grand Jury a violation of the law." The district attorney makes refer ence to alleged charges "of a viola tion of the law" made in the Capital Journal editorial and volunteers the services of a state police officer to the Capital Journal to assist the pa per In running down any rumor or in securing any evidence of a viola tion of the law by the driver of the death car. In its editorial the Capital Jour nal made no charges of violation of the law, other than asserting a (Con"cludedon' pnge 7, column" 4) POST CLAIMS HE BROKE RECORD Bartlesvllle, Ok I a., Dec. 8 (PI - Wiley Post, stocky globe girdling flier, believed today he had added the world's altitude record for heavier-than-alr craft to his flvine laurels with several thousand feet to spare. He made his second hop into the stratosphere here yesterday and upon landing expressed the belief he had reached an altitude of at least 50,000 feet in his remodeled "Winnie Mae," the ship in which ne twice new around the world. The present world record at 47, 352.2 feet Is held by Lieut. Renato Donati of Italy. The barograph of Post's flight was sent to Washington where official certification is ex pected to be announced within five days. Post's altimeter failed to func tion above 40.000 feet. Estimates of the highest altitude reached were based upon three points: the rate of vumb indicator, which showed a steady ascent of 1,000 feet a min ute: the elapsed time of this climb: and the corroborative evidence of the tachometer, or engine revolution speei gauge. A new realm of high speed ap peared opened by Post's latest at tempt. He estimated that at the top of his climb he was hurtling tnrougn tne air at between 350 and 375 miles per hour. Screaming and whining past the wings of the Winnie Mae raged a stratospheric wind, the velocity of which the flier estimated at about 200 miles per hour. or sufficient encouragement to pro ceed along his original line is lndi cated by the filing of the articles of Incorporation. While here Wood had samples of California brandies and also of the product put out by the method he is now engaged in promoting. Apr! cot, apple and pear samples appear ed superior in taste from the varieties sampled. In support of his industry he points to the eight canneries In Salem and that his concern seeks to utilize their by-products to great extent which can readily be made Into a distilled product while (Concluded on page 7, column 7 State Saves . Huge Sum On Alsea Bridge A saving to the state of more than $50,000 in connection of the Alsea coast highway bridge was effected through change in plans upon which PWA approval was obtained by C. B. McCullough, bridge engineer, ne an nounced here today upon his return from the national capital. McCullough said that following the awarding of the contract, PWA officials at Washington ordered changes in the foundations and spe. cified the use of steel sheet piling around the piers. The state highway department, however, requested the use of con crete bag rip rap, which proposal was protested by the eastern engin eers. The highway department was ada mant in its request and sent McCul Conclude"donpnge 8,cblu miT 7T WINTRY SPELL BEGINS RETREAT (By the Associated Press) The wintry blast that left at least fifteen deaths in its wake appeared to be moderating today. Rising temperatures were prom ised for much of the area affected by the storm, which overspread the northern states from the Rockies to the midwest and finally enveloped the east. Before the indicated relief ap peared, however, thermometers re gistered as low as 24 below at Ro chester, Minn., and ten below at Owls Head, In upper New York state. At Galena, 111-, where roses and pussy willows were In bloom in No vember, the mercury dropped down to 14 below.zero.,,, Meanwhile the stricken sections took stock of their loss of lives. Michigan counted seven victims five of whom were burned to death when stoves became overheated. A sixth died in an accident while shoveling snow, and a slippery road mishap took another me. Three men were killed and a woman badly Injured when a tree came crashing down on a motor bus on the western slope of Snoqualmie pass in Washington. Illinois had at least one death for which the storm was blamed when an automobile skidding on an Icy pavement killed Charles Jons, at Harvard, 111. Two deaths were recorded In Iowa. One of the victims, W. A. Puffet, 82, a farmer of Oto, appar ently froze to death while walking in his sleep. A coroner's investiga tion came to the conclusion that he removed the screen from his bedroom window, climbed out and then walked about a mile before he succumbed to the cold. LIQUOR TAX CUT SEEMS DOOMED Washington, Dec. 8' P) The drive to cut liquor taxes has suffered a blow from the treasury. Substituting for Secretary Mor genthau in a radio speech last night, Arthur J. Mellott, deputy commis sioner of Internal revenue, said: "Some people think the federal tax ought to be reduced. Their ar gument Is that this will stop boot legging. My feeling Is that we have made big inroads on bootlegging with the present tax rates and that eventually we shall come close to stopping it entirely, " "Prom the standpoint of an efft clent enforcement of the revenue laws, I see no Imperative need for lowering the federal tax at this time." The tax on domestic liquor Is $2 a gallon. Melott estimated liquor and beer In repeal's first year brought 4ou, 000,000 In taxes to the treasury and said this Income was Increasing. He hoped congress would appro priate money to Increase protec tion for dry states, of which there are 13. Lumber Production Slumps Off Sharply Seattle, Dec. 8 (IP) Production of 548 Oregon and Washington mills, which reported to the West Coast Lumbermen a association during the week ending December 1, totaled 75,079,748 board feet, about 8,400,000 under the preceding week. Average production of the mills In 1934 has been 78,558,144 feet weekly, and for the same period last year 77.285,440 feet. New business reported was 76,81 722 feet, against production of 75, 079,748 and shipments of 70,091,039. Shipments were under production 6.8 percent, current sales over pro duction 1 percent. Orders booked were under the pre ceding week by 4.000.000 feet, or ap proximately b3 percent. FIND $30,000 RANSOM COIN IN FRUIT JARS Cache Discovered by Fed eral Agents In Brush On Lewis River Total of $124,000 Out of $200,000 Paid For Urs chel Recovered Washington, Dec. 8 CP) The dis covery of an additional $30,000 of the Urschel ransom money near Portland, Ore., was announced to day by the department of Justice. Details of the discovery were with held. The amount found yesterday makes the total recovered $124,000 out of the $200,000 ransom. Besides the $44,000 which has been found in Oregon, $30,000 was recovered some time ago at Para dise, Tex. As rapidly as the money is found, the department Is turning It over to the family. The department said today there is little likelihood that the full $200,000 ever would be recovered. Much of It is believed to nave been spent In the vicinity of St. Paul, Portland, Dec. 8 Iff) - Federal agents revealed here today that an other $30,000 of ransom money paid for the release of Charles P. Ursch el, Oklahoma millionaire, had been found In a cache on the banks of the Lewis river in Washington. Six 'fruit jars contained the $20 ransom bills. The cache was cun ningly hidden In the brushy coun try, and the officers did not reveal the steps they had taken In locat ing the kidnapers' treasure. The find was made by special agents of the department of justice a few hours after Alvin H. Scott and (Concluded on page 8, column 5) FRENCH BACKING Geneva, Dec. 8 (LP) Prance and Italy took opposing sides today in the potentially dangerous political and territorial dispute between Yugoslavia and Hungary. Great Britain assumed the role of neutral ity. The Balkan conflict, brought be fore It the League of Nations coun cil amid talk of war, resolved itself into a dispute over revision of the post-war treaties by which Hungary s well as Austria and Germany lost territory in formation of the new Danubian states. Hungary has been charged with a terrorism cam paign, such as the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, de signed to revise the treaties. The linup before the council to day: Prance, through Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, placed himself square ly on the side of Yugoslavia, which brought the charges of terroristic responsibility against Hungary. Lav al indicated that Hungary, under the league covenant, was Indirectly guilty of agression against Yugo slavia and called for International solidarity and action against terror ism. Czechoslovakia, Turkey and other Balkan entente nations sup port this stand. Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 8 (Un charges of mistreatment at the hands of Serbian police marked the arrival today of more Hungarian refugees expelled hurriedly from Yugoslavia. The forced exodus of Hungarian residents as a reprisal for assassina tion of King Alexander of Yugo slavia, reached a total of 2,008 with arrival of 90 more refugees at three (Concluded on page 7, column fi HFT Help FigKt Tuberculosis Shoppinq Day 'til Christmcr SEASONS WEMMS 1934 f I IllltH HERMIT HELD FOR DEATH ill i1' iff - , ' V Hugo Mayer, 52, strange recluse Oregon, who faces a murder charge neighboring mountaineer. For nearly 30 years a legendary figure In the Curry county mountains, Mayer dressed In skins of animals he trapped for a living. Police say he believed Fantx was plotting his death. He is in jail at Grants Pass. (Associated Mayer Paves Way For Plea of Self Defense In Signed Grants Pass, Dec. 8 (P) sent a plea of justifiable homicide, Hugo Mayer, 52, hermit of the craggies, today admitted again in a signed statement to the Daily Courier that he had killed Robert Frantz, lower Illinois river valley rancher, but struck from a manuscript several statements and reworded others attributed to him at a ques tioning by District Attorney Sher man S. Smith and state ponce. In an interview Saturday he also combatted the legendary stories of i his reputed peculiar habits, and ap peared more and more an experienc ed woodsman who uses nature for his own advantage instead of the "revert" which Gold Beach corres pondents suggested he might be. Presented with a typed resume of his testimony released after the hearing by the district attorney, Mayer struck out a number of state ments attributed to him. The following Ja taken from Um statements as finally signed by the (Concluded on patte 8, column 6) $10,0Q0VERDICT AGAINST BEST A verdict of $10,000 was returned by a Jury In Judge McMahon's court this morning In the $25,000 dam age action of Edna Ball against J. H. Best for Injuries sustained In an automobile accident near Gervais December 3, 1033. The Jury went out after lunch yesterday, was out all night and returned with IU ver dict about 11 o'clock this morning. The verdict awarded $1000 as spe cial damages and $6000 as general damages. Charles A. Lytle was fore man of the jury. Mrs. Ball charged that her injur ies were such she was permanently disabled and that because of frac tured vertebrae she was compelled to wear a brace. She stated she suffered continuous headaches and that her ntlre system was shocked. DRAMATIC DEATH FOR DONNA NADON Monterey, Cal., Dec. ) (IP The drink Donna Nation, 23, profeslonal dancer, waved ao gnlly over the heads of patronj of the Blue Ox Cafe was poison deadly" cyanide of potassium patrons' who saw the girl drain the draught learned today. Amid the laughter and the bright lights of the night club the former Seattle girl passed from table to ta ble, tcasingly holding out the cup In her hand but refusing to let any one drink from it. Jack Hicks, a patron, tried to wrest It from her hand. Before he could reach the glass the girl dancer drank Its contents. A little later she collapsed and two hours after that she died In Monte rey hospital. of the wild country of southwestern for the slaying of Robert Fants, Press photo). Statement Apparently intending to pre MAKES REPORT The total value of bank loans made so far by Salem banks in connection with the Marlon County Housinir committee's drive under the national housing act is $18,318, says the lntest check by the executive committee. The total number of loans made for house alterations is 65. Some Idea of the activity of the committee can be gained by a table of statistics prepared and made public today. The statement shows that 2578 pieces of literature have been dis tributed hy the committee. Persons passing through the old building on the court house lawn, now in process of renovlzation, number 3792. A total of 3700 Inches in adver tising and publicity mutter has been published In Salem papers, and pictures used total 500 Inches. Sixty-three radio talks on nous lng have been given and 42 talks have been made before service clubs and other groups. A check on building permits were issued, valued at $64,393, as anainst 150 permits and '$38,408 for the same period last year. For the first 11 months of this year permits have been 59 per cent morn than last yenr and 42 'j per cent more than In 1032. Statistics relative to the better "(Concluded on pnge 7, column 6) Report of Engineers On Flood Control Program For Valley Due Shortly Army engineers who have been in the field making a survey for the gigantic flood control program it is hoped to put on in the Willamette valley, "to save what is left of tha vallnv." as tne slogan 01 me wu - lamette Valley Flood Control assocl atlon goes, are nearly through with their task, according to a letter re ceived by the county court here to day from D. O. Woodworth, Linn county Judge, president of the or ganization. As soon as the engineers have their Job done It will be coordinated with the aerial survey and photo graphic map made under the su pervision of the association, and the associations will also have their report and data together, the entire mass of data to be available when congress meets. At that time an effort will be made to put over fed OTHERS MADE ILL DRINKING RANKPOISON Portland Police Kept On Jump From Calls From Rooming Houses Victims All Warned by Poison Labels Stuck On Bottles Portland, Dec. 8 (Pi Eleven men had died, one dying and several others were critically ill today from drinking poisoned denatured alco hol In Portland's waterfront district. Nearly all the victims were found in cheap north end lodging houses. All were men. One or two of them, police said, might have died from natural causes, but the poisonous wood alcohol was believed to have accounted for the deaths of the ma jority. One emergency hospital attendant said "we are picking them up like flies. Duplication of calls for emergency aid and for removal of bodies caused considerable confu sion as police tried to determine the number of actually dead. Detectives believed they had trac ed the source of the poisonous li quor sales to a north end drug store which, they said, deals largely in (Concluded on page 8, column 1) DYNAMITE USED IN CAR STRIKE Los Angeles, Deo. 8 (IP) A stick of dynamite was found today on th tracks of the strike-harried Lot Angeles street railway shortly after two trolley cars had collided In. another section of the city. According to police, a pedestrian found the dynamite resting square ly on the rails. A street car passing over it would have been blown to bits, It was said. Thirteen persons were treated ai hospitals for injuries received in the trolley collision. L. A. Garmain, a motorman, suf fered a skull fracture and was not expected to live. Other crew mem bers and passengers escaped with lesser hurts. Police said the collision had no connection with the current street car and bus strike. JAPAN ACCUSES Tokyo. Dec. 8 (P) Charges that authorities in Arizona were not at tempting In good faith to end th bombings of Japanese homes in he Salt river district were made today in the house of peers. An intorpcllator, Jusha Tsumura, declared: "The fact that not a single arrest has been made slnco the troubles began Indicate! they have no real intention to profect the Japanese. "Not all Americans are uncivil ized, but some of them are bar barous." Forelun Minister Kokl Hlrota, speaking In soothing terms said tha government intends to call attention ngaln to the Arizona situation ai Washington, and may ask d.imoges. Repeated attacks, said Hlrota, "are arousing some doubts In my mind." - eral legislation which will get un der way the titanic project ol con trolling flood waters all over tha valley and reclaiming hundreds ol thousands or acres or ncn iarro lands damaged or threatened bj freshets and floods. In his letter Judge Woodwork calls attention to a matter of great Importance in securing federal al to put over the project. And thai being the attitude of the federal administration officials from tht president down to make federal all projects matter of national import In this connection he j;alls attcn "(Concfuded onpag 8, colucaiT flT"