The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

HISTORY: CHAPTER THE NEWSPAPER THAT I PART OF LIFE IN IDAHO WEATHER: Rain and Snow HPTTTR! Sixty-Seventh Year No 111 LEASED WIRE MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOISE IDAHO TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 6 1931 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Price Five Cents CRITICS BLESS Widow Treads Worn Path to Famed Grave SENATORS SEE Ben Ross Native Son Becomes 15th Governor At right Inaugural Ceremony Wife of Former President Keeps Custom of Honoring Day of Death OF TINY CIRL Proposed Four-System Union of Eastern Roads Starts Agitation for United Lines Linking Both Coasts Lily Pons Late Arrival From France Hailed Most Sensational Debutante Singer Since Marion Talley Chief Justice Lee Administers Oath To All Officials of New Regime OYSTER BAY (A?) To cany out a custom she has observed ever since her death Mrs Theodore Roosevelt returned Monday to Sagamore Ilill from San Juan where she spent Christmas with her son Theodore Roosevelt Jr governor of Porto Rico Twelve years ago Tuesday Theodore Roosevelt died and his widow has spent each anniversary at the home which all through his public life formed a quiet background for his vigorous personality On many occasions she has received the pilgrims who Journeyed on that day to his grave In the 12 years which have passed since that snowy day when lie was laid to rest Oyster Bay neighbors have seen a remarkable transformation in the cemetery where Roosevelt is buried His grave Is at the top of a knoll across the road Sagamore Hill surrounded by some 50 other graves of pioneers When the former president was burled there was not even a footpath to the lop of the little hill Soon a small footpath was worn then a wider one NEW YORK (A) One hundred five pounds of French girl named Lily Is trying to realize that me of those miracles for which the States is famous has hap pencd to her Saturday afternoon at 3 Lily was Just another coloratura soprano from Europe making her debut at the Metropolitan opera house She sang Saturday night Lily Tons was in headlines as the most sensational debutante singer the opera has heard since Marlon Talley Has Big Gray Kyw Monday she Is still In headlines and her hotel apartment on Upper Rroadway is a hot house of roses and a hot bed of telegrams cables if congratulations including one from the French ambassador In Washington Paul Claudel What surprises most about Lily Pons is Lily Pons She looks like a Hollywood Ingenue on a day at home Except for a touch of red on her lips the French girl uses no make up her eyes are big and gray blue without the assistance of mascara There is a faint natural pink In her cheeks Her brown bobbed hair lies close to her face The same naturalness characterized her clothes Monday simple skirt and a knitted sweater worn outside and belted around a 21-lnch waist Married What really takes people's breath is her legs They are the size of a wrist at the ankle and delicately curved and very sleek and straight in sheer chiffon stockings The hands of Lily Pons are slender and strong like the rest of her She wears a platinum and diamond ring and a platinum wedding band She is Mrs August Mesrltz and Mr Mesrlts is right with her In fact he started her on her operatic career by insisting that she develop her voice to please him Jit 'S THE PICTURE Governor Ross was a natural center Tall spare and gray yet with boyishly eager and smiling face ho was the symbol of Idaho's democratic population come to take charge of its public affairs JUSTICES RULE Republican Holdout ar Senate Bottolfsen is Speaker of House State Awaits Ross Message Grebe Gets President Pro-Tem 23 to 21 as Custer Man Swings Votes WASHINGTON (Universal) Strong agitation for the development of a truly national trans-continental transportation system de veloped in congress Monday as A result of the proposed four-system merger of eastern roads Sentiment was especially favorable to creation without delay of at least one great trans-continental line linking the entire country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and connecting with strong feeder lines running north and south Brookhnrt Favorable In fact several senators believe that the public will get no benefit whatever from rail consolidations until such trans-contincntal roads are set up as the basis of a great national system with east and west and north and south Among these is Senator Smith Brookhart -Republican Iowa who announced that he will reintroduce his bill banning all rail mergers until- provision is made for linking the east and west into one great system Brookhart originally offered this resolution three years ago Costly" Others who favor treating the railroad transportation question from a national viewpoint Instead (Continued on Page Two) Upper House Tacks Food Funds to Drouth Relief Bill Over Protest WASHINGTON (JP) Again over-riding the administration policy the senate Monday added $15000000 food loan fund to the $45000000 authorized for drouth relief The measure carrying sixty million dollars total was returned to the house which earlier had ap proved the $45000000 and Repub lican 1 leaders prepared to resist the added sum for food loans which they have argued were beyond the province of the federal govern ment Sponsored By Caraway Senator Caraway Democrat Arkansas sponsored the food loan amendment and called attention of the senate to the demonstration last Saturday of hungry Arkansas farmers Before the Christmas recess con gress upheld the position of the administration and struck out the senate's authorization 'for food loans The senate also accepted an amendment by Senator Black Democrat Alabama providing that no geographical lines or county boundaries be followed In the administration of the loans to farmers The measure was then returned to the house North Idahoan Dies In Houseboat Flames COEUR (iP) Barney Mahlun 60 trapped by flames In his houseboat on Coeur lake was burned to death officers learned Monday Mr and Mrs Reynolds said he visited them Sunday night and returned to his boat Monday They found only smoldering em-'bers of the boat and the body was visible In the water It was believed an overheated stove started the fire Ocean Hop To Commence Today NORFOLK Va Weather -permitting Lieut Bill MacLaren and his 1 red-headed co-pilot Mra Beryl Hart will take off from here at 6 a Tuesday in their second attempt to carry the first load" to Paris A dense fog prevented the start Monday' after the arrival of new sextant from Annapolis' Md late Sunday A disabled sextant caused them to Bermuda the first stop on their scheduled flight Saturday when they were within 50 miles of their goal BOISE TEMPERATURES January 4-5 1931 (From Weather Bureau) 2 a 33 2 35' 4 a 34 4 39 6 a 34 6 3 7 8am S3 8 pm 34 0 a 24 10 32 2 noon 34 12 midnight 20 first native son to become her (15th) chief executive was inaugurated Monday' At 12 minutes after 12 Ben Ross three-time mayor of Pocatello leader of the first Democratic victory in the state in 12 years took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Bailey Lee in the chamber of thehouse of representatives Its floor and gallery were packed nth members of the twenty-first'' Idaho legislature and citizens silently absorbed in the ceremony Donald Whitehead speaker of the house in 1929 and 1930 called the Joint session to order and bade the inauguration to proceed as the echo of a national guard gubernatorial salute of 21 guns died away Adjutant General McConnel and his staff of 12 officers sabers In hand marched down the aisle and formed guard of honor on either side of the rostrum Behind them marched the newly elected executive and Judicial officials Senators and representatives were already seated Baldridge Presents Ross Chief Justice Lee stood at the desk after an invocation had been said by the Rev Paul Van Horn and asked each official to rise and take the oath Governor Ross was the first He was accompanied and presented by retiring Governor Baldridge The others in order and those who presented them to the chief Justice were: Mix of Moscow 1 Democrat lieutenant governor presented by Senator Van Hoesen Justice Raymond Givens of Boise escorted by Justices Varian and McXaughton (Justice Budge of Pocatello re-elected was' unable to attend) Fred Lukens of Grangeville Republican secretary of state presented by IL Shrontz assistant secretary Gallet of Pocatello Republican state auditor presented by Howard Day deputy Fred Babcock of Lewiston Republican attorney general presented by Glllis his predecessor Mrs Myrtle Davis of Blackfoot Republican state superintendent of public instruction presented by Asher Wilson president of the board of (Continued on Page Five) Hideout on Bluffs of Snake Wins Pity and Aid of Parmaites PARMA (Special) Not far from hero the mighty Snake twists its tortuous way to the coast Winds chilled with the devilish blasts of winter race up the valley ruffling the surface and whistling around the humps and hollows along the bluffs which line the stream on the Idaho side High up on the bluff not far from where the highway bridges over to Oregon soil a rude cave pierces the hillside A tattered blanket over the doorway flutters in strident unison with the frigid wind Behind the blanket in the rude hollow a venerable man named Selby is fighting a grim battle against privation and starvation a few morsels of food and realms of pride and honesty his only weapons Shows Intelligence Selby now in his early 50s has a background of education and world experience His diction is faultless his grammar of high quality He holds a keen interest his fellow men although the in-elligent gleam in his eyes has been dulled by the rigors of 'winter Parma charity workers located lim recently They happened onto the rude cave which he had hol-owed out with bis- own hands From the doorway six feet broad he shelter pierced the bluff for a distance of eight feet At the extreme rear a rude cavity six feet ong and less than three feet deep was covered with a few ragged lankets Besides the rude bed the place was furnished with one small frozen pumpkin a dab of eef tallow and a few sorry-Iook-ing carrots and turnips Visitors Scare Him The old cliff dweller was fright- -ened by the visit of the charity (Continued on Pnw Tw MWB MRS TIIEO ROOSEVELT SR and now a broad way goes up to the top of the knoll It was found necessary to build timber steps into the side of the hill Never a day passes that some pilgrim does not pause at the Roosevelt grave On some summer days as many as 8000 persons have been there 1 1 SEAPLANES DARE ATLANTIC Italian Squadron Takes Off From African Port for Brazilian Coast BOLAMA Portuguese Guinea Africa (Tuesday) (A?) A squad ron of 12 Savoia seaplanes brought here by General Italo Balbo Italian air minister from Orbetello Italy took off from here at 2 a (9 Monday) for Natal Brazil on one of the broadest transroceanlc projects in the history of aviation Twelve Italian cruisers have been stationed along the route between Bolama which is near the far western tip of Africa and Natal at the far northeastern tip of South Africa to render assistance in case of possible mishap to any of the 12 seaplanes composing the squadron 1600 Miles of Open Sea The route to Natal is across about 1600 miles of open sea with only one landfall between Bolama and the Brasilian city the island of Fernando do Noronha lying 125 miles northeast of Natal Flying at about 100 miles an hour the squadron might expect to reach Natal at about 6 (G T) or 3 (Natal time) or 1 (E T) Tuesday From Natal the planes each manned by two pilots a mechanic and a radio operator plan to fly down the coast to Rio de Janeiro which will represent a trip of about 5500 miles from Orbetello from where the planes took off December 17 The squadron may continue down the coast to Buenos Aires VARNEY PLANE SETS NEW SPEED RECORD PORTLAND Ore (JP) Bowled along by a strong southerly wind a mail-loaded Varney Air Line biplane set a new speed record between Salt Lake and Portland Monday Varney officials said The actual flying time for the 726 miles was five hours 35 minutes an average of 126 miles an hour' and about" 80 minutes less than the previous record Total elapsed time Including stops for fuel at Boise Idaho and Pasco Wash was six hours 13 minutes 10 minutes faster than the previous elapse record Jack piloted the plane from Salt Lake to Boise Howard Fey flew It to Pasco and A1 Davis brought It to Portland SEEKS SUGAR AGREEMENT PARIS (A) Thomas Chad-bourne of the Cuban-American sugar delegation announced Monday he would go to Berlin Tuesday' to resume negotiations looking toward world sugar control which were Interrupted at Brussels last month Postmasters of Buying Jobs The postoffice department statement Issued by Arch Coleman assistant postmaster general said that at the direction of the postmaster general all evidence filed by the inspection division during its investigation had been sent to the department of Justice Coleman refused to name the Indiana representative implicated saying any further announcement would have to come from the Justice department The First Indiana district is represented by Harry Rowbottom Republican re-elected 'twice from his district but defeated at the last election At his home at Evansville Row-bottom said he knew nothing regarding the dismissals gums in J0FEHE SIER Thousands Pay Homage to Heroic War Lord of French Nation PARIS (iP) Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre the of as he will go down in history lay In state Monday to receive an homage from the people of France that has rarely perhaps never been surpassed in his annals All knew before hand that magnificent manifestations of respect would be paid' beside the of the man who was almost an Idol of the French masses but the number of French men and French women who poured' from their homes Monday to honor him exceeded all forecasts Mob Breaks Bounds The crowd began to take form at dawn and slowly it grew until just before nightfall it became a vast multitude which at one moment got out of bounds and women were knocked down and trampled upon before order was restored At first a single line the stream of those Who filed through the portals of France's famous military school to pause for moment beside the body of the old warrior grew 20 deep and stretched from the entrance of the school nearly a quarter of a mile away across the Champ de Mars National Funeral Wednesday Once inside the chapel where the body lay on a simple cot the crowd was kept slowly moving by army officers who gave the privileged places to mutilated soldiers come to give a final salute to the leader they had served under Outside again thousands did not leave but formed a silent mass on the opposite side of the great square of the Champ dev Mars under the shadow of the Eiffel tower The body will lie in state again Tuesday and Tuesday night will be taken to the Aro de Triompbe and then to the Cathedral of Notre Dame where on Wednesday a great national funeral will be held ALMA REUBENS IN JAIL ON NARCOTIC CHARGE SAN DIEGO Calif -Although she emphatically denied the charges and vehemently declared she was the victim of a plot Alma Reubens motion picture star was arrested on narcotic charges lateMonday afternoon Police Sergeants Joe Jobblns and Joe Doran raided Miss Reubens' room In the Grant hotel where they declare they found approximately $5000 worth of morphine Four Indiana Face Charge WASHINGTON (iP) Dismissal of four postmasters in First district on charges of having purchased their appointments from a member of congress was announced Monday by the postoffice department The postmasters summarily discharged and immediately replaced by acting postmasters were: Otto A Weilbrenner Mount Vernon William Davisson Petersburg: McKinley Ayres Chrlsney and Mrs Helen Roetzel Boonvllle Ross Bibbler rural carrier at Dale was suspended two senators Watson and Robinson both Republicans instigated the Investigation which led to action Test Case Decision Declares Prohibition Adopted Legally by Nation NEW YORK The Eighteenth amendment was held to have been legally adopted in a de cislon Monday by the United States circuit court of appeals The defense In the case was the same as in the recent Sprague case In New Jersey In which Federal Judge Clark held that the amendment had not been legally ratified The court of appeals affirmed the conviction of Louis Thi-bault Windsor Vt who was accused of possessing and selling two pints of whisky To Appeal Decision As in the Sprague case counsel for the losing side announced Monday that the appeal would be taken to the United States supreme court In each case counsel defending the accused person contended the Eighteenth amendment was not legally ratified by the states because it was approved by the legislatures instead of by state conventions athered for the express purpose of nslderlng it 'judge Clark supported and elaborated upon this contention In New Jersey federal court and freed William Sprague the defendant on the ground that the prohibition amendment had not been legally adopted The court of appeals declared Monday that the supreme court already had held the Eighteenth amendment to have been proposed and ratified lawfully The amendment it ruled become a part of the constitution and must be respected and given effect the same as the other provisions of that instrument" 11 1 ins pa1 Princess Will Lie In Royal Mausoleum LONDON (Universal) Frin-cees Louise King George's oldest sister Is expected to be burled In the British royal mausoleum at Frogmore The Princess Royal died Sunday from a heart ailment of long standing She had been gravely ill for several months It was authoritatively announced Monday that the Prince of forthcoming tour of South America will not be postponed on account of the six-weeks mourning period ordered in both the British and Norwegian courts Butte Representative Wins Choice by Members to Wield Gavel A Bottolfsen of Arco Republican representative from Butte county newspaper publisher and veteran of the World war Monday assumed the gavel of the twenty-first Idaho legislature -In accordance with his caucus decision ho was placed in nomination by Representative Taylor of Kootenai county and the unquestioned majority strength made the roll call a matter of form Robert Coulter of Valley county was placed in nomination as the Democratic leader by Rep resentative James Hawley But before the vote was announced he moved that Bottolfsen be chosen by acclamation and the totals were never footed Comrades Lead Induction Comrades of former sessions Inducted the new1 speaker into office Speaker Donald Whitehead of the twentieth session presented him with the gavel when he was escorted to the chair by former Speaker Glllis Majority Leader Taylor and Minority Leader Coulter In his speech of acceptance he pledged the fullest measure of fair consideration to members and measures from both sides of the house expressing the hope that the session might be recorded as one of the most constructive in the state's history Receipt of invitations from the Boise chamber of commerce to the Inaugural reception and ball provision for part of the list of attaches necessary for legislative work comprised the business of the session Ten each morning was fixed as the hour for convening and rules of the last session were adopted until new ones are drafted Formal notification was given the senate and Governor that the house was organized The committees to whom this duty was assigned were: Coulter of Valley Cosho of Ada and Taylor of Kootenai to wait upon the Governor White of Shoshone Yearlan of Lemhi and Bertiard of Canyon to notify the senate Attaches Sworn In Following were the attaches selected and sworn in: Chief clerk Paul Davis of Ada secretary Faye Stewart of Ada Journal clerk Katherine Hoy of Minidoka sergeant at arms (Continued on Page Five) The first Democratic Governor In 14 'years will deliver his message to the legislature at 11 this morning when Ben Ross charts the course he hopes the law making body will follow for the next 60 days While the contents of the message are as yet of course unknown tit is assumed that he will touch- rather largely on taxation direct legislation and other points covered in the Democratic state platform The two houses will convene separately and then will assemble in joint session in the hall of representatives to hear the message CHIEF GREETS Inaugural Ball and Reception Highlight of Social Events Corridors of the state capltol will pulse with life and glow with lights and native decorations this evening when the people of Idaho pay their respects to the new Governor in an informal reception A profusion of flowers and jine boughs will fill the' main hall and the rotunda of the second floor where the reception line forms There follows a colorful ceremony of introduction of Governor Ben Ross and the honor guests to the assembled citizens The reception has been planned and executed by the' Boise chamber of commerce and all Bolseites and visitors are urged to be present while the new administration makes its first official social bow Reception at 7:30 Promptly at 7:30 o'clock the reception line will pass from the office? to the rotunda of the second floor where they will fContinued on Page Flve The Idaho state senate organized for business Monday morning and took occasion to show the world that this was body from which almost anything may be expected In the next 60 days That dean of the elder statesmen Senator Charles Baker of Custer county provided the thrills which made the opening session one' long to be remembered and for a time ho found himself the most cussed and courted man in Idaho for that much discussed and elusive thing control of the senate flitted from Right to Left and back again Just exactly as the veteran legislator chose to cast his vote4 All in Clear Fun i That it was all good clean fun and not to be taken as an indication of irregularity Baker himself showed when with a wicked grin he reversed all the machinery which he had started in the Democratic direction and restored the world to a status quo of Republican control The thing started nicely enough with the customary nominations for president pro tempore Senator Callahan of Shoshone county chair man of the Republican caucus started the ball rolling with the nomination of George Grebe of Ada county as president pro tem citing him as one who had served in past sessions with ability and fairness and one who had won the respect of his fellows Senator Robertson of Washington county seconded the nomination Senator Hunt of Bannock a Democratic newcomer nominated Senator Van Hoesen of Adams county floor leader for four sessions as the Democratic candidate and Senator Reed of Clearwater seconded the nomination Baker Passes Vote Then the roll call started Baker the first man on the list was the man about whom the Republicans were worried And he decided to prolong their worry and get some enjoyment for himself so he passed Grebe and Van Hoesen both passed for neither felt like giving the customary complimentary vote for his opponent until it was evident how things would shape up At the end of the roll call Baker voted for Grebe the candidates themselves cast their customary votes of courtesy and everybody breathed more fConiny on Page Five) i a.