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KYLE CALLED
NEIGHBOR ON
SLOAN'S DEATH
Joe Smith Summoned to
Identify Slain Man Shot
In Bedroom
Defendant Told Hazy
Story of Being Awak
ened by Robber
Joseph H. Smith, neighbor of
John Kyle in the Broad acres sec
tion, and first to establish that the
man killed by Kyle in the Kyle
home on the night of January 2,
was Hugh Jean Sloan, told his
story on the witness stand this
morning In the first degree mur
der trial against Kyle. Kyle sat
quietly absorbed and intent, dis
playing no emotions as Smith1,
story advanced through examina
tion and cross examination.
Smith lives a neighbor to Kyle,
somewhat diagonally across the
road. He said he'd lived there for
30 years and knew both the men
well, neither better than the other
and had always been friendly to
both. About 10 o clock in the morn
Ing of January 1 he heard the two
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ITALY REJECTS
N1V1I TPFSTY
London, Feb. 27 (p) Italy, under
stood to be balking at the continu'
ation of League of Nations sanctions
, against her, advised the British go
vernment today thai she was not
ready to sign any new naval treaty
with Great Britain, France and the
United States.
Following a meeting between Brit
ish and Italian delegates, the Brit
ish government Issued a statement
which read:
"Owing to technical difficulties
such as the question of the size of
battleships and the gap between
battleships and cruisers, as well as
because of difficulties of procedure,
the Italian delegation intimated
they were not ready to sign a treaty
at the present moment.
A British spokesman explained
that this did not mean Italy's with
' irawal from the conference or the
end of the meeting.
It was understood that the Ital
ians told the British they were not
ready to proceed until the question
of sanctions was settled and tt be
came clear what the league powers
were going to do next week at Gen
eva. Following the Anglo-Italian con
ference, another conference was held
between the British and the French
"to discuss the position in the light
of the meeting with the Italians."
DOLLS STUDIED BY
- BUREAUOF TRADE
Washington, Feb. 27 (ff) Sally
Jane, a doll who takes to water like
a mermaid, attracted the stern at
tention of the federal trade com
mission today.
The commission said it had come
across advertising, circulars showing
Sally Jane and another, unnamed
doll, each immersed in a jar of
water.
The circulars said that Sally, al
so known as a "paratcx" doll, suf
fered no ill effects after being un
der water a week; while the picture
showed the other doll In a "state of
disintegration.
The trade commission Issued a
formal complaint charging that this
was "unfair competition' by the
vendors of Sally Jane dolls.
WET WEATHER TO
STAY SOME DAYS
Portland, Feb. 27 (Pt Sopping wet
weather which extcno'ed over much
of the Pacific northwest today will
continue this week-end the weather
bureau predicted today.
More snow will hit '.he high spots
of Oregon and Washington, while
occasional rains are in prospect in
the valleys. Moderate southwest
winds will continue to warm western
Oregon.
Little change was expected In the
r level of the Willamette river, which
I was considerably above normal and
N flowing with a stron? current. The
Columbia river, now fairly free of
ice, was rising between The Dalles
in Vancouver.
CaoitaLffl,
the
Good Evening!
Sips for Supper
By DON UPJOHN
The court house was packed with
circuit judges today engaged In cas
es with a wide diversity of subjects,
same being murder, hops and
churches, or vice versa as you want
to look at them. The building was
crowded with people making their
selection as to which they wished
to hear about. Strange as It may
seem, the churches seemed to cre
ate the most interest, with hops a
close second and murder In tnc
rear.
The jury and alternates in the
murder case are locked up for the
night in the fourth floor of the
Marion hotel. As a precaution the
alternates might be locked up over
at the Senator Just in case of fire.
We met him looking pale and wan,
His face was drawn and thin.
His eyes were rolling wide and wild.
There were quivers in his chin;
His necktie waved in disarray.
His breath came sharp and fast;
He looked as though his hopes and
joys
Were forgotten with the past;
He seemed to sec no cheer ahead
In the hopelessness of life,
For he had spent the afternoon,
Out shopping with his wife.
If we only dared we'd remark
that foregoing pome was inspired
by looking at oursclf In the glai-5
late yesterday after an afternoon
spent thusly. But there's no use in
a guy putting his neck In a noose
and then stepping on it.
We got a squint the other day at
a magazine order Paul Hauser
picked up at the state penitentiary
and were kind of intrigued at what
the boys read out there to while
away the interim, hiatus or what
ever it might be called. The sub
scriptions taken showed Liberty
heads the list with four; Master
Detective, Startling Detective, Real
Detective are tied at second with
three each; True Confessions, True
Story, Saturday Evening Post and
Cosmopolitan follow up at two each.
Readers' Digest, National Geo
graphic, Physical Culture, Outdoor
Life and Screen Play are among a
few more of the 115 subscriptions
which had one subscriber each.
Screen Romance, Ranch Romance
Breezy Stories, Modem Romance, all
had a subscriber each showing that
stone walls do not altogether clamp
down on the yearning for affairs
of the heart.
- The magazine subscription idea
at the pen Is worked through a
committee. Any prisoner by paying
50 cents a month can get a new
magazine to read every day. The
money derived is used in subscrib
ing for the magazines. To those
who would begrudge the boys then
reading let it be said it's a long
time between gate openings for a
lot of the lads out there.
REPORTER CONFESSES
REDFERN TALE FAKE
Washington, Feb. 27 (IP) The Ne
therlands legation received word
today that Alfred Harred, who re
cently claimed he found aviator
Paul Redfern in the jungles of South
America, has been arrested follow-
ing an alleged confession that his
stories were false.
The legation advices stated Har
red had been questioned by the
police to whom he allegedly made
the confession.
Redfern has been missing for al
most nine years after reaching the
South American coast on a flight
from the United States to Brazil.
General Hagood Called
Political Wise Cracker
By Department of War
Washington, Feb. 27 (U.R)
described Mav. Gen. Johnson
cracker" and trouble maker in
removal from active duty. The ex-
planation, breaking a long stand
ing rule of silence In such cases,
followed congressional demands for
an Investigation of all circumstan
ces surrounding the discipline of
Hagood.
The statement confirmed charg
es by administration critics that
Hagood was relieved of his 8th
corps area command because he
assailed WPA boondoggling and
"stage money" before a house ap
propriations sub-committee.
Army chief of stall Malin Orals
assumed responsibility ' for initiat
ing action against Haood In a me
RENEW ATTACK
ON WITNESSES
IN BRUNO CASE
Hoffman Questions Iden
tification by Taxidriver
Of Hauptmann
Alleges Violet Rays Show
Ladder was Tinkered
With by Prosecution
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 27 (P Gov
ernor Hoffman today questioned the
identification by. Joseph Pcrrone,
taxi driver, of Bi uno Richard
Hauptmann as the man who hired
him to deliver a note to Dr. John
F. Condon prior to the payment of
ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Perrone delivered tne note to Con
don the night of March 12, 1932. A
man in Gun Hill road, the Bronx,
gave it to him. It contained in
structions to Condon how to make
contact with the kidnapers.
At Hauptmann's trial Perrone
said the man who gave him the
note was Hauptmann.
The statement cited by the gover
nor was signed by Detective Claude
Paterson and Sergeant A. Zapolsky,
of the state police.
. . . Perrone," it said, "stated that
a few days after he attended the
Bronx county grand jury he had
taken a passenger to City Island
and there had observed Dr, Condon
talking to a man who he thought
was the man that gave him the
note." " '' '
The governor made his announce
ment almost at the moment Attor-
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FRANCE RATIFIES
SOVIET TREATY
Paris, Feb. 27 iP The chamber
of deputies today ratified the Franco-
Soviet mutual assistance treaty.
The vote followed lengthy debate
and a near clash today between op
posing groups which had to be sep
arated by attendants after mem
bers of the right had shouted to
prevent a socialist deputy from
speaking.
The government had passed word
to the chamber to ratify the treaty
before dinner time and had declared
that a safe majority of affirmative
votes had been pledged.
Plcrre-Etinenne Flandin, foreign
minister, predicted the pact will be
ratified by the senate next week.
The treaty provides for mutual
assistance between Russia and
France in the event of an attack on
the eastern border of France or the
western boundary of the Soviet.
It was signed May 5, 1935, at
Paris by Former Premier Pierre La
val and Maxim Litvinoff, foreign
commissar of Russia.
BRAIN SPECIALIST
ATTENDS AKULOFF
Moscow, Feb. 27 (P The Soviet
government announced tonight that
Dr. Herbert Ollvecrona, famous
Swedish brain surgeon, had come
here from Stockholm to attend L A.
Akuloff, secretary of the all-union
central executive committee.
Akuloff, it was stated, suffered a
fracture of the skull February 18,
when he fell while ice skating.
The war department today
Hagood as a political "wise
an official explanation of his
morandum to Secretary of war
George Dern, In which he recoin
mended "action of a pature to serve
notice on all that the war depart'
ment will not tolcrat this type of
utterance."
His statement, by Inference, ab
solved President Roo-evelt of re-
sponslbllity for punishment of Ha
good In the curt army order bcgin
nlng: "By direction of the president
. . ." That, It was explained, is the
routine phrase In such orders since
the president Is commandcr-in-chlcf
of the army.
Publication of the memorandum
cSueiudaaf bDpi(4 iteumn'V"
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1936
Enjoin Mae
From Denying
She'sWedded
New York, Feb. 27 (P) A supreme
court order was sent to Los Angeles
county, California, authorities to
day to authorize service upon Mae
West of a suit by Frank Wallace, an
actor, who seeks to enjoin "tiso
West from denying he is her hus
band or that she is married.
The order was signed by supreme
court Justice John E. McGeehan.
Wallace stirred a turmoil in the
screen and stage world a year ago
by his assertion he had married
Miss West in Milwaukee.
I never heard of the guy," was
Miss West's retort.
A marriage license bureau clerk
hunting around in the records
found a marriage license Issued to
Mae West and a Frank Wallace
in 1911, but Miss West remained
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TAX PLANS TO
BE DISCUSSED
Washington, Feb. 27 tfP) Congres
sional and treasury leaders were
summoned to the White House to
night for a general discussion of tax
legislation to finance the $500,000,000
farm program.
Those invited by President Roose
velt were Vict President Gamer,
Sflcaker Byrns, Secretary Morgen
thau, Senator Barkley (D-Ky), Sen
ator Harrison (D-Miss), chairman
of the senate finance committee,
Representative Doughton (D-NO,
chairman of the house ways and
means committee. Representative
Bankhcad, the democratic leader,
and Herman Oliphant, of the treas
ury counsel ,.
On capltol hill, none of the leader
ship was willing to hazard a guess as
to whether the administration's tax
recommendations might embrace any
schedules beyond those needed' to
finance the new farm program, for
which President Roosevelt has said
$500,000,000 would be needed.
At his press conference. Speaker
Byrns said tax legislation would
be given "right of way" over other
legislation.
He added that hearings should
take about two weeks.
ITALIANS BOMB
ETH10P FRONTS
Rome, Feb. 27 iff) A land-air
battle between Italians and Ethio
pians was reported today by Marshal
Pletro Badogllo, commander of Ital
ian forces in Ethiopia.
"Intense aerial activity," he report
ed, 'took place on the Erltrean and
Somaltland fronts.
"The Erltrean air corps bombed
the defensive works of the Ethio
pians at Ezba Pass, despite a vigor
ous counter-action by the adversary
with anti-aircraft guns.
"A reconnaissance squadron flew
over the region from Akvcrgalle to
the Takkaze river.
"The Somaliland air corps com
pletcd reconnaissance flight in the
western region of Galla Borana as
far as Arero and Mega.
"The chief of the Somaliland tribe
of Gherra, Hassan Gababa, with his
armed men, submitted to our politi
cal authorities in Dolo. The Gherra
tribesmen live In the lower Dawa
Parma valley and had already ac
cepted the sovereignty of Italy with
the treaties of Lugh on Dec. 30,
1805. and of San Curar, on Feb. 21,
1896, signed for Italy by Vittorlo
Bottego."
KITTEN BEATS WAY
BY RIDING RODS
Oakland. Calif.. Feb. 27 A) A
kitten rode 90 miles on a steel
brakebcam under a passenger coach
of a fast train from here to Sac
ramento, Southern Pacific trainmen
revealed today.
On its fast ride the kitten tried to
dig Its claws Into the cold steel as
it huddled in an attempt to escape
the driving rain. Its claws bled as it
clung to the bar. Flicking gravel
made it whimper but safely tt rode
on.
Surprised, trainmen discovered the
ammai on arrival in Sacramento.
They bandaged its feet, named it
"Grit1 and found It a home.
Advertising Drops
First Month of Year
New York, Feb. 27 Printers'
Ink index of general advertising re
leased today indicated a decline of
4.6 percent during January from the
previous month but an increase of
7.4 percent over January, 1036. The
Index covers newspaper, magazines,
i farm papers, radio and outdoor ad
vertising.
Journal
LEON TROTSKY
TELLS STORY OF
SOVIET TERROR
Man in Exile Pictures
Regime Against Politi
cal Prisoners
Ruling Bureaucracy Ac
cused of Disregarding
Welfare of State
By Leon Trotsky
Former commissar of war in the
U. S. S. R., now living In exile in
Norway.
(A statement to the Associated
Press)
Honefoss, Norway UP) During re
cent months and weeks I have re
ceived extremely important news.
from authentic sources, relative to
the terrible regime against political
prisoners whose fidelity towards the
Soviet Union Is in doubt and whose
only "crime" is that of criticising
the ruling bureaucracy.
Friends have requested me by
cable to let them know the truth of
this matter.
A short time ago, for example,
Doctor Anton Ciliga, former leader
of the Yugoslavian communist party,
arrived from the Soviet Union where
he spent more than five years in
prison and exile as punishment for
his critical attitude toward the lead
ership of the Comintern.
In order, to force his expulsion
Jrom - the.' coun Uyi &iliga-rb9Ran a-
hunster .striker-He was then fed for
cibly, and prevented from commit
ting suicide. Thousands of expelled
Conciuded"onbnBe9, column 7)
TRAIN VICTIM
OF SNOWSLIDE
Missoula, Mont., Feb. 27 (Pj Bo
dies of two members of the train
crew and an unidentified woman
were recovered today from the bat
tered Northern Pacific railroad
coach hurled into a canyon cast of
Wallace, Ida., when a snowslide
roared down steep Coeur d'Alcne
mountainside.
Supt. D. M. DiLsco 1 of the rail
road, said the bodies recovered were
those of Conductor T C. Byall and
Brakeman F. A. McCiain, both of
Missoula, and a woman passenger.
Drlscoll said new snows! ides were
reported this morning along the
railroad tracks and thr highway be
tween here and the canyon where
the white avalanche smashed a
coach of the Wallace-bound branch
line train late yesterday.
These slides, the superintendent
said, were delaying relief trains and
ambulances from Missoula.
Two passengers, h E. Wheeler
and E. C. (Mickey) Florin, were
taken to a hospital at Wallace,
Supt. Drlscoll said he believed
only, the five persons accounted for
were in the coach wnen it was an
gulfed. RESCUE FIVE BURIED
IDAHO AVALANCHE
Wallace, Idaho, Feo 27 ii't Four
persons buried by an avalanche that
roared down Church mil into Burke
canyon were taken alive from the
debris today. Five houses were de
molished. Five-year old Donald Stalwick,
caught as he played near his house,
was tlie first to be found. He was
taken to a hospital suffering from
shock and exposure.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Erfckson and
their small son, Edwin, were dug
out after more than two hours by
rescue crews hastily organized from
nearby mines. Mr. and Mrs. Erick
son were suffering from bruises,
shock and exposure, out the son did
not seem to be hurt.
CONDOLENCE SENT
. BY SECRETARY HULL
Washington, Feb, 27 (Ti Secre
tary Hull has sent the following
message to Japanese Forrign Minis
ter, Kokt Hi rota, through the Ameri
can embassy at Tokyo:
"On behalf of the American gov
ernment and people I Bfjuire you of
the deep regret with which we have
learned of the death of dt&ttnguished
officials of the Japanese govern -rrnt,
and I extend to you our sin
cere condolences.'
LIQUOR BOARD BARS
AGENCIES IN HOTELS
FOR SELLING BOOZE
Control Commission Adopts Policy When It
Kef uses License to Glendale Hotel; $100,000
Paid to Redeem Relief Indebtedness; Total
Paid for Relief Now $2,414.000
The Oregon liquor control commission today indicated a
policy against establishing liquor agencies in hotels when it
rejected an application for one in a hotel at Glendale "be
cause it would set a bad precedent." Commissioner Stan
ley Jewett declared several Portland hotels were preparing
to make application for agencies.
and he stated that placing one at
Glendale would open the way for
the Portland hostelries. He moved
to reject the Glendale application.
The commission, at Its meeting
here, voted payment ot $100,000 of 1
the license revenue to offset out-1
standing certificates i indebtedness i
for relief. With this payment, but
$165,000 of certificates remain out
standing, which, Chairman Arthur
K. McMahan said, should be wiped
out shortly.
Proceeds from liquor sales and li
censes, which have now been paid
out for relief In Oregon under the
statute creating the liquor set-up
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SUE ST. HELENS
FOR POLLUTION
Portland. Ore. Feb. 27 (LP) The
first suit against a municipality to
enjoin it Irom dumping sewage into
the rivers had been brought today
by the Columbia River Fishermen's
Protective v80clatiolv against-- -the
city of Sr. Helens..
The Fir-Tex Insulating Board
company and the St. Helens Pulp
and paper company, were named
co-defendants in the suit brought
by Lord and Oillard, Portland, and
Franciscovtch and Hesse, Astoria,
attorneys for the fishermen.
In addition to the corporate
plaintiff, the following were named
as additional plain til is: Arvia
Mattson. secretary of the associa
tion, Joe Nelson. Peter Toteff, Abel
Moen, John Salvcsen, Ross Leroy,
Elmer House, Ortc Joutnot and C.
W. Bradford.
Mattson said this was the first of
several such suits which will be
brought In federal court against
municipalities, seeking Injunctions
preventing them from dumping
sewage into the Columbia and Wil
lamette rivers, which the fishermen
say threatens the existence of the
Columbia's salmon run.
FARM BILL SENT
TO WHITE HOUSE
Washington, Feb. 27 Wl Congress
spend the administration's new farm
program to the White House today
where President Roosevelt already
was studying tax plans for financing
the $500,000,000 bill.
Final congressional action was
senate adoption of the conference
report accepted earlier by the house.
At the White Hons.: the president
planned to confer tonight with Vice
President Garner, Secretary Mor
genthau, Speaker Byrns and senate
and house democratic leaders on the
Important question of lovonuc. Whe
ther a tax bill might gc beyond the
farm program to embiace the bonus
was unknown on capitoi nui.
The house adopted the conference
agreement on the farm bill by a
voice vote after a few technical
points were discussed.
Ask Salem for $5000
To Start Cooperative
Plant at Mill City
Financial support to the extent of $5,000 for the Mill
City cooperative mill will be asked of Salem people with the
drive to get under way, it was decided at a meeting of the
chamber of commerce special com-
mittec and representative business
men of Mil) City last night.
Already $15,000 cash has been
raised a Mill City with an addi
tional $10,000 In bankable paper, to
be paid off by men employed in
erecting the new plant. Most of
the equipment recently purchased
near Clatskanle has been moved to
Mill City with contracts signed for
the purchase of fir and hemlock
with other equipment necetsary to
bring the timber out of the moun
tains. It is the hope or the mill's spon
sors to havs things rea -v to start
PRICE THREE CENTS
ASK SURVEY OF
WELL SUPPLY
Members of the executive com
mittee of the Salem Taxpayers'
league, meeting this noon, voted
unanimously to petition the citj
council to make a "thorough , sur
vey" of the possibility of a well
supply for Salem's municipal water
system before taking final action
upon the proposal to establish tne
main North Fork of the Santiain
river, above Stayton. as a perma
nent source of supply. .
Members of the league commit'
tee, basing their conclusions upon
information gathered by the league,
expressed the conviction that an
adequate well supply of pure wa
terwhich it would not be neces
sary to chlorinate can be develop'
ed at a saving of at least half a
million dollars over the council's
proposed expenditure of $879,000 to
bring water from the North San
tlam river into, the city.- '.
The' IeflgAife--augrgeelr'-nhflt,'the
council, before authorizing the Is
suance of $1,150,000 in additional
water bonds to finance the North
Santiam project, invite proposals
from qualified well drillers to sink
experimental wells in the ImmcGl-
ate vicinity of the city to determine
whether or not a sufficient and
suitable supply of well water is
available.
FLOOD MENACE
IN FIVE STATES
Chicago, Feb. 'i (P) River towns
in at leatt five states centered both
fears and hopes today on tee-filled
streams.
Where gorges broke up they car
ried the menace of floods down-
stream, relieving the danger in the
immediate vicinities of the gorges.
but adding anxiety to cities on the
lower reaches of the rivers as the
pentup waters were loosened.
In Oil creek valley, near Oil City
Pa., a 10 foot wall of Ice filled wa
ter carried away a baby from her
grandmother s arms. The state list
ed a total of three drowned as
streams apparently reached their
crests in the western section after
flooding many villages and homes.
Families moved back Into the
Missouri lowlands of Atchison, Kas.,
when flood danger aimed. Ice jams
had raised the river level there lour
feet an hour.
Ohio, Illinois and West Virginia
shared the worry. The Illinois river
was as much as 12 feet above nor
mal, flooding several thousand acrt..
of wooded lowland near Shander
ville. Other central .Illinois streams
were rising rapidly.
Cold weather was predicted for
the eastern half of the nation,
promising, to lock the melting river
ice wlt.i a new freeze. Fresh cold
meanwhile struck the North Cen
tral states, with heavy snows in the
northwest.
operations by May 1. There are
already 16 men at work in setting
up the equipment for the new
plant which will be on a 30 acre
pond formerly owned by the Ham
mond company three-fourths of a
mill from Mill City in Linn county.
Representing Mil) City at the
meeting were T. W. Allen, J. F.
Potter and D. B. Hill. They stat
ed that proceeds from the sale of
the $6000 preferred or common
stock will be used for working cap
ital In the new plant. Potter, pres
ident of the lumber mill, will also
tConcluuttrt on pane 4, column 4jT
Cloudy tonight and Friday, occa
sional rain; little change in temper
ature. Southwest wind.
Yesterday: Max. 49. min. 47. Rain
.07 In. Rlv. 8.8 It. Cloudy south wind.
ON 1'RALNfc AND NEWS
STANDS-PI VK CENTS
CRISIS PASSES
AS INSURGENTS
ACCEPTfEACE
Threat of Bloodshed
Averted as Soldiers Re
turn to Barracks
Capitulation Follows Up
on Mediation of High
Military Authorities
(Copyrltht. 1936, by Associated Pm
Tokyo, Feb. 28 (Friday) After
two days of the greatest crisis in a
generation, Tokyo slept easier in
the early hours today, confident sun
rise would find the rebel soldiers
who assassinated four government
dignitaries Wednesday back in their .
barracks.
They capitulated last night to a
government request that they quit
police headquarters where they had
barricaded themselves In defiance
of loyal troops.
The threat of bloodshed in the
capital's streets was averted.
Ranking military authorities said
they were confident that danger was
past since, under an arrangement
between the rebels and the war of
fice, the former promised to return
"Iconcludecf on page fliiKiumn sT
TALMADGE SEES
NEW DEAL PLOT
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. a? (IP) Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge, balked In his
attempt to operate the state without
uii uppiupJULiUii uui, Luuuy ujumeu
the new deal for "deliberately
bringing on the state's chaotic fi
nancial situation In an effort to
stop him from "campaigning against
Mr. Roosevelt in the United States."
Talmadge, bitter new-deal foe,
who was given the endorsement for
president by the grass roots demo
cratic convention declared:
"They (the new deal) have gone
to the length of bactting up a sus
pended treasurer In taking over
$20,000,000 worth of bonds out of the
vaults of the state."
George B. Hamilton, before being
ousted from office as state treasurer ,
by Talmadge, said he transferred se
curities held in the state vault and
removed them to the Federal Re
serve bank In Atlanta
Talmadge accused Hamilton of
illegally carrying off the bonds. .
4 CANDIDATES SHY
AT OHIO PRIMARIES
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 27 Gov
ernor Alf M. Landon of Kansas,
Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher,
Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, and
Senator Arthur Vandenbcrg of Mi
chigan made known today they
for republican presidential nomina
tion. Chairman Ed D. Schorr of the
committee said Governor Landon
made known the decision in a tele
gram to the committee.
Decision of Landon not to enter
Ohio strengthened reports that the
republican committee would reiter
ate Its decision to seek to send a
"favorite son" or uiiimtructcd del
egation to the party's national con
vention. Political speculators listed Robert
A. Taft of Cine inn an as the first
"favorite son" choice and Charles
Fredcrickson of Coshocton, former
chairman of the state committee, M
second choice.
UPPER HIGHWAY
OPENS TO TRAFFIC
The Dalles, Ore., Feb. 27 iPi The
upper Columbia river highway,
blocked at Blaloclc by slides and
washouts, was reopened to travel
today.
The slides also blocked the rail
road tracks for a time.
The warm wind continuing today
brought concern lest melting snows
would cause floods In tho Columbia
basin.
For a time late yesterday high
way flagmen piloted motorlsu, over
bad places In tho roads.
The Condon highway was report
ed badly damaged but floods and
the Hcppner highway was littered
with debris but passable, the high
way office here reported.
Falling rock were a menace on
the Columbia river highway west ol
The Dalles, but no serious flldci
wen reported. (