M200,GAZINE SECTION
B'REV00'STER HERALI)
VOL. 30 BREWSTEIt IiERALD Friday, January 16, 1931 No. 34
OFFERED PRESIDENCY The ground has thawed out in the
MARSHAL JOFFRE DEAD
, ROADS, PLANTS GIVE
WORK TO UNEMPLOYED
Millions for Improvements;
$8,500,000 R. R. Order•
Washington.--In spite of tbe handi-
cap of snow and ice, highway work Is
being expedited all over the country,
Chairman Woods of the President's
employment committee reported, as a
means of bringing Jobs to those out
of work.
Reports to the committee show that
in many states a large amount of
preliminary work, such as grading and
clearing, is under way, and Indleattons
are that much more will be started
wltbln the next few weeks.
Chicago is planning betterments in
its 35,000 acres of forest preserves.
San Francisco is considering a $2,-
500,000 bond issue for park and street
construction. Cleveland i)lans $200°-
000 for improvement of city parks, the
work to be given to needy. New
York city has put :15,000 men to work
in municipal parks three days a week.
. Most of the state legislatures are
in session and Colonel Woods expects
many of them to appropriate funds to
meet $80,000,000 of federal aid funds
now available.
New York.--The delicate needle on
tile gauge of national employment' has
shot upward nndcr tim pressure of en.
¢ouraging news.
The prospect of work for an addi-
tional 100,000 men was announced at
Washington by Tbomas MacDonald,
chief of the bureau of puhlic roads.
That many men, he said, will cash In
on the increased road construction
funds voted by congress.
A survey by the Cleveland Cham-
ber of Commerce showed 69 concerns
there planning to increase their pay
rolls this month. One thousand em-
ployees already have been recalled by
one Clottdng company.
The Beech Grove repair shops of
the Big Four railroad at Indianapolis
reopened Witb "1,910 men having the
encouraging prospect of ste'tdy eight-
hour-a-day employment five days a
week. Six hundred workmen returned
to Jobs at the Fm'd plant in Indianap-
olis.
Tim Pennsylvania railroad an.
nounced the placing of orders for 200,.
000 tons of steel rails for the year,
tie contracts at present prices totaling
$8,500,000. Expenditures for attach-
meats--frogs, switches, tie plateswill
bring the expenditnre of tbe Pennsyl-
vania to more than $15,000.000. Fif-
teen per cent of tim rail order is for
humediate delivery.
Shops of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, which have been shut
down several weeks, reopened with
more than ],000 skilled workmen re-
turning. About 1,500 men went to
work in Newark, where steam shovels
are being replaced by hand labor to
create more Jobs on a city rail/ray
project.
The RCA-Vlctor company plant at
Camden, N. J., reopened after a
month's suspension, affecting about
4,000 workers.
On the west coast similar optimistic
reports were heard. Between .2,000
and 3,000 workers beard the promise
of employment soon in the Los An.
geles area by reason of the expansion
of 14 industrial plants and tbe open.
tng of 11 new concerns.
Flint, Mich.--Officials of the Buick
Motor Car company ordered 1,700
former employees to return to work.
his step will place the personnel at
11,775, most of whom have returned
to their Jobs.
St. Paul, Minn.--ApproximatelY 4,000
shop employees of tbe Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific railways are
back at work after the usual two
weeks' holiday shutdown.
Roanoke, Va.--Seven hundred Nor-
folk & Western Railway company
lnalntenance of way workers who were
laid off December 18 will return to
,work In a few days, the company an-
aouneed. The number makes a total
,of 3,500 men returninlg to work for
the road since January 5.
Cleveland, Ohlo.--Approximately 5,-
400 men were placed on full time,
when the Sherwln-Wllliams company
here announced that their plants bad
,been placed on full thne basis.
Scbenectady, N. Y.The Scbenec-
tady works of the General Electric
company, announced that work would
he begun soon on the construction of
a power generating development that
will cost $4,000,000.
Detroit, Mich.--Orders placed during
the annual convention of the National
.Shoe Retailer's assoclatlou, wblch
closed here a few days ago, indicate
that shoe dealers throughout the coun-
try will purchase 75,000,000 pairs of
shoes between now and Easier, ac-
eording to Anthony H. Geutlng of
Pillladelphla, president of the organi-
zation. Tbese orders Gusting pointed
ut, will represent a retail value of
•aore than $400,000,006
Rtcardo J. Alfaro.
Panajna Clty.Ricardo J. Alfaro,
Panama's minister at Washington. has
heen summoned to asstnne tim presI.
dency of his country in a cable dis-
patched hy the supreme Court of Pan.
anla,
Tim supreme court's action followed
the ousting from office of President
FlorencIo Harmodto Arosemena, and
the swearing in by the supreme court
of tIarmodlo Arias as provlsional
president,
WANTS 446 MILLION
TO MAINTAIN ARMY
f
No Cut in Measure Reported by
House Committee.
Washington.-=Malntenanee Of the
army at the same level as at present
Is provided for by the War department
annual approprlath)n bill reported to
the house by the approprlations com-
mittee.
The measure carries a total of $446,-
000,000, of which $334,000.000 Is de-
voted to the upkeep of the milltary
establishment. The military apl,ropr[.
atlon is $5,000,000 beh)w the amount
voted for the army's expenses during
the current year.
Although navy enlisted strength
has been sharply reduced as an
economy move, no reduction'; are rec-
ommended for the army. The enlisted
personnel will renmin at 118,750 nnd
the connnlsslo ed personnel at 11,972.
Funds tire provided for tralnlng the
same number of National Guard, C.
M. T. C. candidales and officers of
the reserve corps as last year. The
strength of the National Guard is to
remain at 190,000.
As tile appropriation bill went to
the house It provided that the rlollcy
of building up the air corps at the
expense of the other combat branches
will be continued during the next
year.
The air corps appropriation is slight-
ly larger than last year, amounting
:o $37,000,000. This fund would give
the air corps, the committee said, al-
most all of the 1,800 airplanes which
the army is scheduled to .have nnder
the provisions of tbe five year expan-
sion program adopted in 1926. The
um of $200,000 Is included for use in
experlmeutatlon on metal airship de-
velopment.
[ WASHINGTON BRIEFS .[
A tax refund of $488,426 has been
allowed the Illinois Central raih'oad,
the internal revenue bureau an-
nounced.
War department engineers plan to
expe'nd 85,150,000 on the Illtoots river
project from .Toilet to the Mississippi
river during the next 18 months.
The body of Hngh Campbell Wal-
lace, former ambassador to France.
was taken to Tacoma, Wash., for
burial following funeral services here.
Preshlent Hoover announced that
Ills secretary in charge of public rela-
tlons. George Akerson of Minneapolis.
had resigned to take a business posl-
tion.
Presence of the marines In Nicara-
gUa and tim recent killing of a num-
ber of them there led to the Introduc-
tion of two resolutlous In the senate.
one (,ailing for hnmedlate withdrawal
of the marines from Nicaragua.
The ill'st official estimate of the cur-
rent Argentine wheat crop is placed
at 271.404,(Y00 bushels, compared with
162,576,000 bushels for tbe 1929-30
season, an increase of 66.9 per cent,
according to the Department of Ag.
rieulture.
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat -- Big Bend bluestem, 7Oc;
soft white, western white, 66c; hard
winter, northern spring, western red,
63c.
Hay--Buying price, f. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $17.50@18; valley timothy,
$17.50; eastern Oregon timothy, $19@
$20; clover, 14; oat hay, $14; oats an0
vetch, $13.50@14.
Butterfat--22 @25c.
Eggs--Raneh, 14@22e.
Cattle--Steers, good, $8.75@9.25.
Hogs--Good to choice, $9.25@9.50.
Lambs--Good to ehoiee, $5.50@6.75.
Seattle
Wheat--Soft white, western white,
66c; northern spring, hard winter!
western red, 64c; bluestem, 68e.
Eggs--Ranch, 12@24c,
Butterfat29c.
Cattle--Choice steers, $7.50@8.50.
:Hogs--Good to choice,S9.15@9.25.
Lambs--Choiee, $5.50@6.75.
Spokane
Cattle--Steers, good, $7.50@8.25.
Hogs--Good to choice, $8.85.
Lambs--Medium to good,S5@6.
Puget island will send a delegation
to the legislature to boost for good
roads.
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Smith, residents
of Fords Prairie, celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary recently.
Chehalis postal receipts for 1930
showed a gain of $429.37 over 1929,
according to Postmaster Imus.
The annual meeting of the Washing-
ton Growers' Packing corporation will
be held January 20 in Vancouver.
Unknown persons entered the sher.
tff's office at Pomeroy and carried off
30 gallons o£ monshine recently seized.
Orders to keep all automobiles still
without 1931 licenses off the highways
were issued to the highway patrol by
William Cole, chief.
Tbe annual report of the Centralia
police department shows that 992 ar-
rests were made during 1930, of which
83 were on state charges.
Work on Yakima county roads will
be suspended during January and em.
ployes will overhaul equipment. No
employes ,ill be laid off.
For the first time in more than a
year the population of the Washing.
ton state prison registered less than
1100 inmates, the total being 1098.
Peter Pickton, who was 100 years
of age en December 23, died at the
Masonic home at Zenith. He was be-
lieved to be the oldest Mason in the
state.
i Yakima business men have been
asked to support a new cross-state
highway project from Spokane to the
coast by way of Lind and the Naches
Pass road.
Traffic Officer Kenneth Mandley
was looking for automobile accessor-
ies thieves at Wenatchee. Returning
to his car, he found the spotlight had
been stolen.
It is reported at Centralia that the
Carlisle Lumber company, which oper.
ates a large mill at Onalaska, in cert.
tral Lewis county, will resume opera-
tions in its woods at once.
Longvtew postoffico receipts for
1930 totaled $50,16Y.12. This figure is
approximately $600 less than In 1929.
It was the second consecutive )'ear
that the total passed $50,000.
F. O. Hagie was re-elected unani.
mously by the Yakima chamber of
commerce directors as secretary for
another year. He has held the posi.
tion since the spring of 1927.
Returns from the Wapato city water
system the first 11 months of 1930
were $11,700 and December receipts
will raise this to $12,000. The water
department is kept on a self-sustain-
ing basis.
A deep tillage experiment is being
made on an 8-aero farm six miles east
of Fairfield by Washington' State col.
legs. Tbe federal erosion station and
a Spokane machinery house are co.
operating.
More building was done in Walla
Waila in 1930 than in any other year
except 1928. Building permits num-
bered 270, the total value of which
was $403,292 as compared with $282,-
741 in 1929.
garden districts near Walla Walla
and spinach is beginning to move. A
ready sale is found for the vegetable
on the coast. The movement so far
is in limited quantities.
High tides and'a flooded condition
of the Quinault river caused residents
of Taholah, an Indian village on the
Quinault reservation, to leave their
homes and seek higher ground during
the storm on the coast.
Two crews of men will be put to
work in the Quinault district within
the next ten days extending the North
Quinault road and building forest
trails, H. L. Plumb, Olympic forest su-
pervisor, said at Hoquiam.
Hero's good news for little Willie
Skunk. True, he has bad habits, but
he's worth a dozen cats for keeping
down mice, rats and ground squirrels,
central Salmon creek valley farmers
north of Deep River, declare.
F. F. Gullet, a Mohitor orchardist,
is in the hospital with a paralyzed leg
and severe injuries to his back as the
result of a fall from a ladder while
pruning trees to clear a way for a
radio aerial. His pruning shears came
in contact with an electric wire.
lIre than 5,000,000 pounds of wool
were marketed in 1930 at a cost of
one-fourth of a cent a pound by the
Oregon-Washington Wool Marektin6
association, J. F. Sears, secretary-man-
ager, reported at the fifth annual
meeting of directors at Yakima.
The Columbia County Taxpayers'
association will co-operate with Spo-
kane, Whitman and Lincoln counties
in a program for real estate tax relief.
If relief Is not granted at the next ses-
sion of the legislature many plan to
refuse to pay their taxes in Mareh.
According to Senator Wilmer of
Rosalfa four major issues are to come
before the legislature--taxation, flat
rate auto license and increased gasp.
line tax, the Showalter school bill,
legislative reapportionment. A state
income tax may be proposed also, he
said.
Work has been started on a 30 to
40.mile power line from Aberdeen to
Grays harbor's south beach communi-
ties. Crews are now slashing right
of way for the high-tension line. The
line will carry tbe first power into a
wide area south of the harbor. Con-
tractors expect to complete the line
#
Job in March.
Ten eastern Washington senators
who met at Spokane decided that the
running expenses of the last legisla-
ture were too high and that at the
coming session the extravagance
should be curbed. There were 88 per.
sons on th payroll. It was thought
that 33 could have been cut off, with
a saving of $11,000.
Mrs. Mary Rushford and her chll-
dre had.a narrow escape from injury
when two large trees about one hun-
dred feet in hdight fell without warn-
ing on the building housing the Husky
care on the Lewis river road below
Ariel, operated by Mrs. Rushford,
where the members of the family were
asleep. One of the trees split the
building in two and the other clipped
through the eaves of the structure.
Two families united by the mar-
riage of five brothers and five sisters
ts something unique in marital rela-
tions, at least in the Chehalis section.
Lawrence Hadaller and Gertrude
Kirpes were married at Harmony
church, near Silver Creek, recently.
This was the fifth brother and fifth
§ister of the two families to be mar-
ried, all 10 living east of Chehalis in
the Salkum and Silver Creek district.
Crops produced on the Sunnyside
irrigation project in 1930 brought a
return of $4,638,820, or $58.34 an acre,
according to the annual report of
Porter J. Preston, district superintend-
ent of the reclamation service. The
1929 total was $7,947,511, or $100.51
an acre. Asparagus grown on 441
ecres and cherries on 530 acres gave
the hlghest acre return, $331 in both
cases. Apple production, greater than
in 1929, gave $1,094,000 from 6350
acres, an average of $172 an acre.
Pears also exceeded the 1929 record,
2245 acres returning $356,631.
A spectacular fire of undetermined
origin destroyed a meat market at
Salkum, 20 miles southeast of Che-
halls. It is thought tbat gas used in
connection with the ice machine was
the cause of an explosion that started
the fire.
More than 250 sheepmen from all
parts of the state will meet at Yaklma,
January 19, for the 35th annual coa.
vention of the Washington Wool Grow-
ors association. A moving picture
showing methods of wool shipping
will be' exhibited.
Marshal Joffre.
Paris.--Death came to Marshal Jot-
fro, last of the chief French military
readers of the World war, after a fort-
night's illness in which it was neces-
sary to amputate his left leg. The
marshal was seventy-nine years old.
His death removes from the world
stage all save three of the great mili-
tary leaders of the war--Field Mar-
shal yon Hindenburg and Gem Erie
Ludendorff of Germany and Gen. Johu
. Pershing of tile United States.
TWO BILLS'TO CURB
GRAIN SPECULATION
Measures Are IntroJuced in
Both House and Senate.
Washlngton.--Bllls were introduced
simultaneously In t!m senate and
house of representatives to curb spec-
ulative operations in grain in all
American markets and to tlghten gov-
ernment regulation of exchanges un-
der the grain futurcs act.
Tile two bills were introduced In
response to a recent request of Alex-
ander Legge, clmlrman of the federal
farm board, for legislation "with
teeth in it" calling for strict govern-
ment regulatlon of exchanges dealing
In agricultural products, t
The proposed program also Is a di-
rect result of disclosures late last fall
that Soviet agents lind been operat-
ing on the Chicago exchange, selling
Ilusslan wheat short for the deliber-
ate purpose of flu'ther depressing the
sagging American markets. The Sovl.
et agents, it was charged, sold wheat
sbort at a price on which delivery
could not have been made.
Tim bills are identical, the senate
measure being Introduced by Senator
Arthur Capper, Republican of Kansas,
and the house measure by Represen-
tative L. J. Dickinson, Republican of
Iowa. They are aimed directly at
short selling and at further operations
in domestic markets by foreign govern.
meats or their representatives.
Tim Capper bill seeks to control
short selling by Ihnitlng to 2,000,000
bushels a day the future sales by any
individual or firm. Brokers also are
forbidden to buy or sell grain for a
foreign government without first, ob-
taining the consent of the secretary
of agriculture. Full publicity of such
a prospective sale also must be given.
Five Italians Killed
on Transatlantic Flight
Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, Africa.
--The glory attained by ten Italian
seaplanes in their transatlantic flight
to Natal, Brazil, had Its prlee--five
aviators were left behind dead and
three were Injured. Two of the four-
teen planes In the squadron were vh'-
tually destroyed.
As twelve of the phmes took off,
one.of the red group, piloted by Cap-
tain Recagno, crashed from a helght
of 100 feet. The sergeant mechanic,
Luigl Fois, was killed, the two pilots
and tbe radio operator were Injured.
Ten minutes after the take-off, the
second plane of the white group was
forced to alight on tbe sea at full
speed. It took fire and the four crew
members perished. They were Capt.
Lu[gl Boer and Lieut. Danllo Bnrbl-
cantl, pilots; Sergeant Mechanic Fel-
Ice Nensl, and Radio Operator Ercole
Imbastarl.
Russian Atheists Open
Farm for the "Godless"
Leningrad.--The local society of
mllltant atheists has organized Rus-
'sia's first completely "Godless" col-
lective farms in the village of Plash
v[tsl. The farm, wldeh is named
"Tim Atheist," enlists non.believers
only and so far Ires some 500 mere.
bets,
LEO BROTHERS HELD
AS LINGLE'S SLAYER
St. Louis Man Identified by
Witnesses to Murder.
Chicago.--Leo Brothers will go tO
the electric ehalr for the murder of
Llngle, It was declared by Pat Roche,
chief investigator for tbe state's at-
torney's office. "Thl nan will sit In
the electric clmlr for the Lingle mur-
der, I'll stake my officlal reputation on
that," said Roche. "If he Is not the
killer, then Llngle still is alive."
Chicago.--Thls city's most Intensive
murder investigation, the seareh for
the slayer of Alfred ("Jake') Llngle,
Tribune underworld reporter, killed
last June 9 in the subway to the Ran-
dolph street station of the Illinois
Central railroad, has brought the au-
nouncement that Leo B. Brothers, alias
Louis V. Bader, a St. Louis gunman,
has been positively ldentlflcd as LIn-
gle's murderer.
lie was arrested December 21 and
since that time had been a secret pris-
oner, closely guarded In a Chicago he.
tel room.
No formal charge has been placed
against hhn.
No indictment proceedings have
been started.
The names of the witnesses who
were reported to bare positively iden-
tified him were wRhbeld, and Broth-
ers has not retained a lawyer, per-
baps because be has not yet had the
opportunity.
The charge and the defense have
not been revealed.
No confesshm has been announced.
Seldom in the annals of Chicago ,
crime has the city been stirred by a
more sensational nmrder case or by
a more dramatic .climax to its subse-
quent Invstigatlou.
The accused murderer, although un-
known to Chtcago police and having"
no previous reeord of gang affiliations
here, Is far fl'om being a stranger to
the pollee of St. l,ouls. Its is at pres.
ent a fugltlve from a gnng murder
charge tbere and has been arrested
more tlmn sixty thnes in that clty.
Brotbers has blue eyes, blond wavy
hair, and at the time of his arrest was
well and expensively dressed.
Cldef Investigator Pat Roche of the
state's attorney's nfllce aud Iris staff
of detective assistants, and the other
members of the so-called "l)oard of
strategy" appointed to investigate the
LIngle murder, Clmrles F. Rathbun
and James E. McShane, special assist-
ant state's attorneys, and all amn-
tuer detective, Samuel Lederer, store
equipment nalnufactnrer, announced
the capture and were given full credit
for the intricate and tireless detective
work which led to Brothers' capture.
Ills whereabouts In Chicago were
found and a net of watcbers wus
thrown about his every* movement.
When first located here, Brothers was
living at Riviera hotel, 4900 Black-
stone avenue. Two month s ago lie
moved to the Lake Crest apartments,
4S27 Lake Park avenue, taking a sin-
gle room.
Clad tn trousers and shirt, hastily
put on over hls pajamas, Brothers
stepped into tbe hotel hall to answer
a prearranged telephone call. The de-
teetlves grabbed him and pinioned his
arms.
Roche pushed illm into the room he
had Just left. A hurried search of
the room revealed a revolver, fully
loaded and cocked, ready for instant
service, on the dressers. Brotbers was
then commanded to dress and pack a
bag, He was taken to the downtowu
hotel, where he has since been held a
closely guarded, secret prisoner.
An immediate trim for Brothers, on
the charge that he is the murderer
of Alfred Llngle, will be asked by
the state. Tbe state will ask the Jury
to send him to the electric chair.
A woman, sald to be a former sweet-
heart of Brothers named Margaret
Farmer, who Is also known by tlie
names of Welsh and Clark, was ar-
rested by the St. Louis police.
Congress Draws Teeth
From Jones 5-10 Law
Washington.--A ntl-prohlbltlon forces
in congress scored their biggest vlc-
torylin tim eleven years of Volstead-
ism When the house passed the Stohbs
bill modifying the drnstic Jones "five
und ten" law.
The bill was sent t, Prehlent Hoo-
ver for his signature, as the senate
previously had acted on It.
Liheral members of congress
balled the passage ,' of this bill,
drawing "teeth" from the Jones law,
as the first step toward a return
to reason In prohibition leglslatlon.
Under tim Stohbs blll, Judges will
be unable to send hill flask toters
and other petty offenders to prison
at hard labor for as long as five
years. The brand of felon Is lifted
from the minor offender.
The Jones law provide d a maximum
penalty of five years In prison at hard
labor or $10,000 fine, or both, i'or any
violation of the federal prohibition
laws.
