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G apit alAJoiiraal it nnwitr Circulation Dally average distribution for the Month of September, 1935 10,611 Average daily net paid 8604 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Weather Mr but with Kmi foe, tonight and Tuesday, high frost tonight. Northwest winds. Yesterday: Max. 91, mln. 36. Rain .16 in, River 3.9 ft. Cloudy, southerly wind. y(7f li VTi1 A T Mn OKI Entered ea eecond clau SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS "u. matter at S.lem. Oreaon 1 III) OH OS SUMS mam ITALIAN ARMY STARTS DRIVE IN SOUTHEAST Big Push from Somaliland Underway for Capture Of Harar Rich Oases Captured and Fortress of Dagnerrei Stormed (Associated Tress 8t(t Writer) i a5cit uaiys "Dig pusn in Gin lopia has started. Prom Italian Somaliland, the army of General Rudolf o Graziani was driving today toward Gorrahei. the heart of Ogadcn province in southeast Ethiopia. In the north, the main Italian army, massed from Aduwa to Adt grat, awaited Ihe "zero hour" for the drive on Makale, strategic gate way to the mountainous interior. The apparent principal objective of the Gorrahei campaign was Ha rar, the metropolis of eastern Eth lopia. Emperor Haile Selassie's principal defense forces were midway between Makale and Hnrar, on the plateau about Dessye. The emperor dis patched 8,000 of his European "(Concluded oh pRg3, column 3)' GUMPSlUTHOR Chicago, Oct. 21 fF) Si dney Smith, 58, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon strip, "The Gumps" is dead the victim of an automobile accident. The first comtc artist to get a million dollar contract. Smith was killed yesterday en. route to his 2200 acre farm between Rockford, 111., and Bcloit, Wis. He was alone in a small sedan. The driver of the second car, also riding alone was Wendell Martin, of Watseka, III. He was reported suf fering from a broken hip, a fractur ed jaw and possible internal Injuries. They collided head-on, Smith's car careening across a ditch and into a telephone pole. No witnesses to the accident have been found. Arthur Crawford, syndicate repre sentative, said the cartoon would be continued by a staff, trained by the originator, under the editorial di rection of Joseph Medill Patterson, president of the syndicate and pub lisher of the New York Daily News. $25,000 ALLOTTED FOR SILETZ SCHOOL Washington, Oct. 21 u) The federal Indian office today an nounced detailed plans for spend ing $1,337,500 old public works ad ministration funds for improving Indian schools and educational fa cilities on reservations throughout the country: The allocations included: Oregon Silctz, day school and community center, $25,000; Wam Springs, new school, $75,000. Nebbs Join The Family Rudy Nebb, his good wife Fanny, Junior Nebb and the rest of the tribe concerned with the fates and fortunes of the Nebbs today join the Capital Journal family of pen characters and tonight ac company Little Orphan Annie, Andy and Mln, Regular Fellers and Tallspin Tommy into your home. Rudy is introduced just after he secured some stock in the Lame Creek Mine and then got cold feet and sold it, only to learn too late that the mine had begun to 'produce. His ego will not permit him to ad mit he sold the stock as worth less, and the mental strain over his fumbled chance to become a rich man causes him to fall desperately HI. Fanny la unable to handle him and calls in a pretty nurse. From there on the story con tinues on page 11. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Elbert Bcde from Cottage Grove is back in town with the current special legislative session and at tractive waitresses, stenographers and other pulchritudinous parties over town are preparing themselves to get hugged. Reports from up val ley say that Bedc's advancing age has resulted in no dlmunition in his capacity as the champion universal hugger. In fact so widespread has Bedc's reputation become in this particular our favorite waitress advised us this a. m. if Bede tries it on her she'll "pop him in the face." We hope to be standing by for the occasion. Loren Basler, College of Idaho coach, at the alumni banquet before the game Saturday evening made a speech in which he remarked that winning or losing football teams wasn't the all Important thing but it was the education uplift the par ticipants received from a football contest which counted. It seems the visiting Idaho boys got a whole four year course in one game Saturday night. It was a mighty Interesting game to watch. The first half with the first team playing Willamette play ed Speckeenular ball and the second half with the second team playing, they played spectacular ball. Spec Keenc's warriors came out of the hospital and proceeded to work the visitors over to a point where hospital space around here was at a premium. If Spec's men have to go back to the hospital it looks like the Idaho boys will have to look for accommodations at the Deaconess, We expect the upshot of this sit uation will be that other coaches in the conference will be looking around to try to find out the factory where Spec buys crutches for his men. Speaking of football we gob a glimpse of a letter received by a friend from Don Mills, the Greek god half back who covered so much ground for Willamette last year. Don, according to recent report, was In an elevator accident in New York and it was feared amputation of both legs would result. However, it seems, he's only going to lose a bone out of a big toe. "The accident occurred," he wrote, "on an overcrowded ele vator. I was pushed up against the gate and my big feet protruded under said gate of course when the ele vator started to go up my feet, or rather my shoes, caught on one of the floor doors, the shoes were rip ped off my Jl't and my toes were lacerated and fractured. I yelled to the best of my ability and the op erator immediately stopped the car. I was taken to the hospital and oper ated upon immediately. My right foot is the most seriously injured. The big toe has a piece of bone cut out of it. I believe I have Almighty God to thank that amputation was not necessary, ft will be quite a few, weeks before I'll be able to get around normally and even then my I toes will not be those of a ballet I dancer." ' We understand over at Silverton they call it the 1936 Fjord. J We met a courthouse employe going up In the elevator 15 minutes I late to work this a. m. "I'm in a tough spot," he declared. "As a court house employe, I'm glad to be able to sneak in a few minutes late, butj being a taxpayer it darn near breaks (CtohcTudedohPB-e 3, eolu mn 2 ) Northern Italian Army Ready for Advance into An Unmapped Region fCoprrl.ht, IMS. br United Pretil Aduwa, Ethiopia, Oct. 20 (Via Asmara, Eritrea. Oct. 21 (U.R) The Italian army on at the given signal to start a largest unexplored region in me world, It will be an advance unique In warfare, In which baby tanks co operating with airplanes will lead an advance Into a country unmap ped, unknown, whose mysteries In clude a race of black Jews whose origin no one knows. It will cover great tracts of coun try where people have never seen a white man, never heard of the World war, who, if thev have heard of such countries as Prance, Great Britain and the United States, be lieve that their names stand or tribes. , BRITISH APPLY HAGUE LAWS OF NEUTRALS Colonies and Egyptian Sudan to Permit Italian Ships 24 Hours in Port Hague Convention Applied In "Friendly Fashion" Only in Africa London, Oct. 21 P High au thoritative sources revealed today that British crown colonies and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan had decided to apply against Italy the neutrality rules laid down by the Hague con vention of 1907. It was understood the Egyptian government has made the same de clslon. This means that no Italian vessels of war or Italian vessels carrying provisions or arms for the Italian troops In cast Africa will hereafter be permitted to remain In British ports more than 24 hours or will be allowed to take on more than enough fuel and supplies to reach the next Italian port. It was understood this decision had (Concluded on pnge 3, column 3) STEAMER CREW LOST IN STORM London, Oct. 21 (P) Eight ships searched today for 37 men feared lost after abandoning a foundering freighter In a raging storm which killed 13 and Injured scores in the British Isles. The crew of the 5735 ton freight er Vardulia took to their lifeboats in tempestuous seas 400 miles west of the Hebrides after sending SOS calls Saturday. Since then there has been no trace of the storm lashed crew or of the ship. The crew of the freighter Pen dennis, wireless messages related, was luckier. Before the Pendennis sank in the North Sea, whipped by the same storm, the Norwegian steamer Iris reached her and took off 22 men. The stricken ship was heavily laden with coal. The first fury of the storm along the British Isles was believed abat ing today, but hundreds of craft which had fought to reach the nearest shelter still hugged the harbors. FLORIDA TO ESCAPE TROPICAL STORM Havana, Oct. 21 (P) The Belen observatory announced today the present tropical storm was not like ly to imperil Florida. The observatory stated: "There Is no danger to Florida but some dan ger to the extreme eastern tip of Cuba. "The disturbance, which Is one small diameter, was south of Point Morant, Jamaica, at 11 a. m., today and moving northeast. "Storm warnings have been post ed from Cape Cruz to Punta Maisl, Cuba." the northern front is ready wide, deep advance into the There Is no activity on the fron tier at present, such as fighting or advancing. The army Is on the Aksum-Aduwa. Entlsclo-Adlgrat line from west to cast. Within the last few days the area of occupation has been ex tended out southward from the line for strategic reasons, giving the positions of the soldiers greater strength. Reconnaissance flights of airplanes have revealed onlv a few scattered assemblages of Ethiopian troops In the Blcutnn-Temblcn-Makale regions (Concludedba pag. laTeoluma i Security Bill Introduced by Allan Bynon The first social security bill was thrown into the senate hopper today by Senator Allan Bynon, who de clared he would follow it with an other soon. Bynon stated, however, these were his own bills and were not administration measures. The first bill, to be known as SB2 will reduce the old age pension qual ification from 70 years to 65 years. This is to be followed by one which would shift the burden of matching the old age pension fund of the federal government from the coun ties to the state. Under the federal provision iLs contribution for old age pensions is to be matched fity percent, of which the state law requires 25 percent to be paid by the counties and 25 by the state. Bynon's bill will provide (Concluded on pago 3; column 1) FRESH QUAKES ROCK HELENA Helena, Mont., Oct. 21 (P) Win dows were shattered by a fresh ser ies of earth shocks which tore today at the taut nerves of this capital city of 12,000 persons beset by ten days of tremors and damage of mil-1 lion dollar proportions. At 9 a. m. the total number of tremors since last Friday night had ' reached 264 and the grand total,1 since October 12, was 323. As reconstruction finance corpor ation representatives announced plans for loans for rehabilitation of damage to property display windows crashed with recurrent jolts some of which were of two seconds' du ration. No casualties and no major damage was reported. Additional discomfort was suf fered by the 400 to 500 refugeei camped in national guard tents on the military grounds west of the city as temperatures dropped sharply. The city council hurried plans for ordering destruction of heavily damaged structures and control weakened buildings. Windows along Jackson adjacent to the Montana Record-Herald were broken by a shock at 3:33 a. m. At 6:22 a. m. came the latest se vere disturbance with others of lighter intensity following. BRAIN TRUSTER VISITS PORTLAND Portland, Oct. 21 (" Smiling and affable Rexford O. Tugwell, under secretary of agriculture and promi nent "brain-truster," visited in Port land today, expressed confidence President Roosevelt would be re elected and politely parried questions as to the continuance of the new deal policies by asking "did you ever hear of the supreme court?" Tugwell arrived yesterday from San Francisco after a trip to Mexi co City and said he would leave hers tomorrow night for southern Cali fornia. In commenting on a question as to the permanence of present execu tive policies, Tugwell in a pre arranged press conference said: "There are some things outside the control of the new deal. Did you ever hear of the supreme court. . . We are acting under an executive emergency order that may be taken away from us tomorrow. , , No one can commit congress, you know. Tugwell said he was making his present trip merely to establish def inite and friendly relations with the 11 regional re-settlement offices and conferred here with Walter A. Duf fy, regional administrator for Ore gon, Washington and Idaho. . In commenting on the new deal program, Tugwell said farm income had nearly doubled in recent years, contended that effort!) of the ad ministration had gone a long way toward "eliminating the disparity between farm and urban buying power" and declared that the pro gram for the decentralization of the re-scttlcmcnt administration had now been completed with the estab lishment of the 11 offices. FLEET WITHDRAWAL SEEMS PROBABILITY Rome, Oct. 21 (JPt Joint with drawal of British battleships from the Mediterranean and Italian troops from Libya were envisaged to day in conversations between Sir Erie Drummond, British ambassa dor to Rome, and Fulvio Suvich, It alian under-secretary for foreign af fair. GERMANY OUT OF LEAGUE, TO STAYNEUTRAL Naziland Only Bound to Terms of Locarno Policy a Mystery Gratification Expressed In Delivery from "Fet ters of Geneva" Berlin, Oct. 21 (LP) Germany, Mystery nation of Europe, ceased today to be a member of the League of Nations and became a diplomatic free agent whose policy no one knows. Adolf Hitler, with the nation be hind him, has ripped the hated Ver sailles treaty to shreds. Now, with Germany out of the League which it always regarded with suspicion, It is bound only by the Locarno treaty in which Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy promised to aid anyone of the five attacked by another signatory. Hit ler has affirmed his loyalty to this treaty. On a dramatic Saturday at Ge neva, October 14, 1933, Germany's delegation left the world disarma ment conference in anger over al leged unfairness. Germany was asked to remain weak yet other na tions were not keeping their prom ise to disarm to Its level. The official resignation , giving the necessary two years' notice, took effect at midnight last night ac cording to the German computa fConclu"dcdonnbjrgo 3."column 1 ) COURTSPEEDSUP AAA LAWSUIT Washington, Oct. 21 (LP) The new deal's troubles were speeded up in supreme court today when the tn- bunal directed the government to show cause on Armistice day why Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, should not be allowed to test con stl tut tonality of the Bankhead cot' ton act. Talmadge, bitter opponent of tho administration and a possible pres- idential candidate, Is expected to force one of the most Important court tests of the Roosevelt pro gram. Another Important court action today was a request by attorneys for Thomas J. Mooney that the court reconsider its decision of last week refusing to Intervene at present in the California habeas corpus pro ceedings for release of Mooney from prison. In connection with the Talmadge suit, It was pointed out that some officials fear it might lead to similar challenge of the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act. Both the Kerr-Smith and the Bankhead acts are designed to add teeth to voluntary crop control agreements initiated by the AAA, The government also will be watching closely the suit of Lee Moore, Texas cotton grower, to test the constitutionality of the same law. The Moore case should come up for argument at about the same time as the order granted Talmadge $11 BILLIONS FOR GRADE CROSSINGS Washington, Oct. 31 (Ti Presi dential allotment of $11,512,(197 of work relief funds for. highway and grade crossing construction work in six states was announced today by the WPA. Allotment Included B 243 897 for highways and $3,269,000 for grade crossings. Highways allotments Included: Washington, tl. 042,700. Simultaneously, Aubrey Williams, acting relief and works progress administrator, allotted 188.676,000 to 37 states to continue rehabilita tion of physically handicapped needy now receiving vocational training "pending a final decision upon this relief phase." Crania Included: California. 19.375; Idaho, 800; Oregon, 11,500; Washington, (1,200. STORl" SLACKS Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 21 MV Arsging storm which crippled ship ping in the North and Baltic sen; during the weekend slackened today. OXMAN'S REPUTE FOR VERACITY BAD STATE NEIGHBORS Mooney Hearing Continued in Portland and Eastern Oregon Cattlemen Testify; Anoth er Witness Testifies Money" Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 (Testimony that his reputa tion for truth and veracity was "bad" was given today by two men who knew the late Frank C. Oxman, principal prose cution witness against Tom Moonev in the San FrannVn Preparedness day bombing case. A father and son answered wun me one wora -oaa, when the. question of Oxman's reputation was put to them in a continuation of the Mooney habeas corpus hearing. They were Frederick L. Shaw, 71. Durkee, Ore., cattleman, and Leo nard A. Shaw, 31, dairyman of that region. Oxman was for many years stockraiser in the Durkee district. George T. Davis of San Francisco, one of counsel for Mooney, asked each witness: "What was Oxman's reputation for truth and veracity?1 Each time, Referee A. E. Shaw of San Francisco advised the witness "there is only one answer to make good or bad." And In both Instan ces the one word reply was given "bad." The testimony of another witness, James A. Tate, 76, of Durkee, met (Concluded on page o. column 4"f NAZI OLYMPIC GAME ATTACKED New York, Oct. 21 OP) Reiter ating his attacks on the nazi re gime and his opposition to holding the Olympic games in Germany, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, national president of the amateur Athletic Union, has called on Dr. Theodore Lewald to resign as president of the Germany Olympic committee so that he no longer would be "used as a screen to conceal his govern ment's most flagrant violations of the Olympic ideal of fair play to all." Mahoney challenged Dr. Lewald's authority to make promises that Germany would not discriminate against any athletes on the scoie of race or creed and expressed the hope "all Americans will join with me in opposing American partici pation In the Olympic games and will aid In having them transferred to some other country." "If you are not a hostage of your government,1 said Mahoney In a letter to Dr. Lewald made public last night, "I counsel you, my dear Mr. Lewald, to formally and public ly resign your office In the Olympic committee in respect to those ideals of sportsmanship to which your whole life has hitherto been dedi cated. $6,303,030 FOR OREGON WPA JOBS Washington, Oct. 21 WPI The treasury today released an addition al (70.852.130 for works progress ad ministration projects. Approval of the allotments by Comptroller General J. R. McCarl brought to $966,024,489, the total available to WPA for Immediate ex penditure, compared with $1,181, 746,151 allotted by President Roose velt. Funds released for WPA projects, which are to be chosen by state ad ministrators. Include: Oregon, (6,303,030. Adolphus W. Greely, Noted Explorer And Soldier Passes At 91 Washington. Oct. 21 (fP) Major General Adolphus W. Greely, Arctic explorer and holder of the congressional medal of honor, is dead at the age of 91. The end came yesterday after an Illness of two weeks In Waller Reed hospital. His tena cious hold in life during that per iod amazed his physicians, but Greely always had been known for his tenacity. With six of his men he lived for four years in the Arc tic until a relief expedition rescued them In 16B4. On March 27 of this year con gress voted him the congressional medal of honor. Greely is survived by his two sons and four daughters. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., In 1844. Greely led the "farthest north" expedition of 1881. From that expe as to Offer of "Blood AIRWAYS GET MAIL CONTRACT Washington, Oct. 21 ("") The Pan American Airways company was the only bidder today for the mail con tract for airmail service from San Francisco to Canton, China, The company bid maximum rates allowed under the law for the route $2 per mile for the specified load of 800 pounds and $1 per 1000 miles for each additional pound of mail car ried. Pan-American officials Indi cated privately they might be ready to start service by November 15. The 8000-mile route will carry mail and passengers from San Francis co to China by way of Honolulu and Manila. The company is completing Its fourth survey flight to Guam. Al though It has not flown over all parts of the proposed route, airline officials said they had already made survey flights over "the hardest part of the route." The Pan-American bid was hand cd to Postmaster-General Farley i few seconds before a postoffice buzz- er signaled twelve noon, the hour for opening the bids. Juan T. Tripp is president of the Pan-American. WPA PROJECTS BEING HELD UP Washington, Oct. 21 (LP) The $4,000,000,000 work-relief program encountered new difficulty today when officials abandoned hope of complying with President Roosc vclt's order that alt employment projects be under way or ready for contractors' bids by tomorrow. The ruling was made primarily for Harry L. Hopkins' works prog ress administration. WPA intends to make Jobs for 2,250,000 of the 3,500,000 relief roll needy with Its $1,157,183,490 allocation. WPA now has 640,427 persons at work. Hopkins' aides blamed admin istrative delay In Comptroller-Gen eral John R. McCarl's office for their failure to have employment near the 2,000,000 -mark at the pre; ent time. McCarl, they said, had made only $824,814,140 of their $1,157,188,400 actually available. They pointed our that, until last week, he had signed only $500,000,000 in treasury war rants for their projects. However, sources close fo the re publican holdover who holds thi purse strings to the whole workb fund said his task had been made "almost impossible" by WPA's pro cedure in filing applications. Hopkins gained Mr. Roosevelt'h approval of $2,521,672,500 worth cf projects although he had only about half that much to spend. dition of 25 men seven returned, found by the third of a scries of re lief expedition after being ma rooned four years in the Arctic near latitude 83 decrees, 24 minutes and then "farthest north.'' Their Polar ship had been crushed In the ice. Overlapping Grcely's activity as an explorer was an army career that saw him wounded In the Civil war and carried him through to the closing campaigns against western Indians In 1007. As an officer of the signal corps, (Concluded on pam 10, eolumn 0) LEGISLATURE'S ORGANIZATION BEING HELD UP Credentials Committees Wrangle over Contests For Vacated Seats Reports Expected to Pre cipitate Long and Heated Debates After the senate and house had assembled in a Joint Informal ses sion and the galleries were filled with spectators to hear the gover nor's address, an attorney general's opinion halted what would hava been an unprecedented procedure. The governor's address was to have been given unolficially before the house complcteo organization, but Attorney General T. H. Van Win kle ruled that the assembly was not official until both houses had or ganized and that therefore the governor-could not officially give hit address. The message will be delayed until the house of representatives organ izes. The contest over two seats In the lower house will probably delay the organization until far Into the afternoon. It could not be stated when the legislature aould be ready to hear the governor's message. The Joint meeting was of neces sity informal, as under the law the legislature Is not official until both houses have completed organization. In past years the governor's ad dress was usually given early in the afternoon, but there have been times his speech was delayed one day or longer. But never had he addressed an informal gathering for the purpose of presenting his mess age. Legislative leaders, headed by Concluded on pnge 8, column a ROOSEVELT SHIP IN STORM PATH Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 21 W) A tropical storm roared through the western Caribbean sea today leaving considerable damage to crops and communications in Jamaica. The center of the storm was be lieved to be passing to the eastward of Kingston, Jamaican capital, and heading toward eastern Cuba and the Island of Haiti. Far ahead of the slowly moving storm center sped the cruiser Hous ton bearing home President Roose velt from his voyage to southern waters. The vessel was In deaf weather today. The morning storm advisory plae ed the center south of Kingston, capital of the British island of Ja maica, moving north -northeastward, but lator advices indicated to the bureau the storm may be moving more to the northeast. If the latter course is true the dis turbance would hit somewhere in Haiti or Santo Domingo. The center was said to be progressing rather slowly. The usual rate of movement is from 8 to 12 miles an hour. FBAZIER-LEMKEAGT DECLARED ILLEGAL Peoria, III., Oct. 21 (P) The amended Frazier-Lcmke farm debt relief law was held unconstitutional today by Judges Charles P. Brigglr. and J. Earl Major of the United States district court. The ruling was given on pdition of William W. Young, Fulton county farmer, who sought to come Into court under the amended law, pass ed by congress after the Unitcj States supreme court held the ord inal measure unconstitutional. THIRD PARALYSIS DEATH IN KENO Klamath Falls, Ore.. Oct. 21 (An nie third Infantile onralysls death within the last ten days was report cd to the county heal'h office today. The victim was Noil Gtfford, 12, of Keno. where an epidemic of the dread disease Is raging The child died Sunday morning. Schools at Keno aim nearby Wy erhacuser camp hava been shut In definitely. .
