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X JM. CaitalJi Circulation Dally average distribu tion for the Month ol October. 1833 9,903 Average dally net paid D3G6 Member Audit Bureau or circulations Journal I City Edition I tl I Cloudy west portion NtT 0 tonight and Tuesday. Wta Little change In tern- "V fl r J perature; changeable m wind. u. Local: Max. 01, mln. SWSsS? 28. rain 0, river 1.3 ft. f " Cloudy, variable wlnda wi do out) ftusf 45th YEAR, No. 264 Entered as second elua matter at Salem, Oregon SALEM, OKEGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1933 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND KEWsl STANDS FIVE C15NT8 CITY OFFICIALS SHIFT DRIVE TO SECURE WATER Hope Now That PWA Will Permit Use of Loan To Buy Plant Scheme Built On Item In Washington Corres pondence On Power City officials began working to day along an entirely new possi bility in the municipal water situa tion built on the hope that the public works administration may allow money loaned to the city to be used in the purchase of the ex isting plant of the Oregon-Washington Water Service company. City Attorney Chris J. Kowitz said . that a supplementary loan would be applied for, to be used for purchase of the plant. Hope that this will be a way out of the present tangle in its negotia tions with the water company comes from a small paragraph in the daily Washington column of John W. Kelly In the Morning Ore. gonian. This says that the FWA allocated a loan to a municipality In Colorado for acquisition of ft power plant, and with the loan went the privilege of using the loan (Concluded on page 8, column 8" STRIKE LEADER ASSAILS F. D. R. Des Moines, Nov. 6 (P) MHo Aeno, president of the striking Na tional Farmers Holiday association, asserted today "betrayal of the farmers by both the president and Secretary Wallace" leaves the far mers "but one course left to pursue. to strike with all the power that iney possess." "It will perhaps be a long, bitter struggle and no man can foretell . the end," Reno ald. 'One thing sure is, that there can no longer be any doubt in the minds of the peo ple as to tne presidents attitude, and millions of our citizens labor ers, business and professional men realizing the injustice of the ad ministration's attitude towards the farmer, will rally and support the holiday movement. In St. Paul, Governor Floyd B Olson, one of five governors who conferred Saturday with the presi dent, said mid-west governors and farm leaders will carry to congress their fight for an agricultural price fixing and marketing control pro gram. "It seems foolish to longer tem porize with the situation, hoping it Is possible to convert cither of the old patries to the cause of the plain people," Reno commented. "In ignoring the request of the Farmers Union and the Farmers' Holiday association, President Roosevelt definitely and deliberately broke his pre-election pledge to the farmers of the nation." ASKS $10,508 FOR PROWLER CAR HIT Minnie D. Keenly has filed action for $10,508.50 damages against the city of Salem for injuries alleged to have been sustained when she was hit by a prowler car at Sum mer and Market streets In October, a year ago. The car was driven by E. C. Charlton, city policeman, and she alleges Charlton was driving P. M. Gregory, then mayor, home from the city hall about 10:15 In the evening. She alleges the prowler car was traveling at a speed iff excess of 50 miles an hour when she was struck She says she sustained fractures of the right arm, right leg and of a small bone in the left leg. That she had cuts and bruises on the right side of the head, a contusion on the right side of the forehead and other injuries as well as sus taining a shock to her nervous sys tem. PLAN FISHWAYS AT BONNEVILLE DAM Boise, Idaho, Nov. 6 (fif The state fame department announced today a meeting of representatives of Idaho, Oregon and Washington game departments will be held in Portland November 8 to discuss the salmon fishery problem raised by the contemplated construction of a dam on the Columbia river. Members of the state game de partments and delegates of the Portland and Astoria chambers of commerce, of fishermen and pack ers organizations will be present, the department said. H. B. Holmes has been detailed as a representa tive of the federal bureau or fisn eries. A previous meeting was held at Lewiston, Idaho, where It was rec ognized, the came department an' nouncement said, that the dam would destroy the salmon run unless provisions are made for getting the , fish over it through "iishways. ' A Ntudv of this nroblem will be un iertaken at the Portland meeting. Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN It is interesting to note that the experiment adopted awhile back of taking the higher educational insti tutions out of politics by putting them under a single board, Is work ing out so nobly. From press dis patches it seems all ill feeling has died down and everything is func tioning along smoothly and non- polltically. Of course, everybody knows that tne little exenange 01 pleasantries back and forth the past few days is merely to drum up in terest in the big football matcn next Saturday. Polks now feel the two teams will go in against one another with blood in their eyes and murder in their hearts, which should be great stuff for the gate. Yea. we are told the University of Oregon will have its team in the Prink of condition. Both coaches for the big college teams are now heroes in their own home towns and expect to remain so until after one of them gets beaten next Saturday. Once more the west triumphed in the east Saturday. And when the winning team gets home no doubt it will be greeted by all the belles of St. Mary's. Which makes us wonder if P. H Bell and his son, Phil, well known folks hereabouts, aren't also related in some way to the Bells of St. Mary's PLANS CELEBRATION Prank (Hlckey) Haas plans some what of a celebration tomorrow. Said Hickey is not only dean of the harness matters in saiem Dut also dean of all living ex-bartenders hereabouts. He started making harness back in 1886 but switched over to tending bar for Gene Ecker len in 1893 and held the fort to prohibition days. Hickey, who lives out North Front street way, has walked downtown throgh Marlon Sauare for 62 years and nas It fig- ured out he's walked through that square 87,800 times. Inasmuch as he thinks norses are coming duck to the farms soon, he doesn't know after next Tuesday whether to go back tending bar or making harness, A dispatch from Kansas City says that Sally Rand, who danced her wav from the Centurv of Progress exposition to a two-picture contract in Hollwood, has so many lmitstors: she is ready to give up her fans in disgust. "The fan dance - was a means to an end," says Sally, ' and the end was Hollywood." Sally can expect a lot more imitators next Saturday. Everybody expects to see a few thousand fans dancing after the football game. aro nan't Violn hiif umnrtfir when Tex Guinan arrives at wherever .hDD nnl,,r If eVio nnn'h h hntlert bV .alii, a eu.i.s t, .. - the cheery greeting, "tieno, suciteri It was quite a sight seeing Johnny Oravcc beat paclllc university loot ball team Saturday night. Wilkes Barre. Pa.. Nov. 6 (LP) The newly organized United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania tonay com pletely tied up operations in the Luzerne-Lackawanna district with a strike of more than 80,000 miners. Operations at the Glen Alden Coal company, the Kingston Coal com pany, the Wyoming Valley collier ies, the Hudson Coal company, the plttston coal company, tne Lee coal company, and a number of smaller mines were at a standstill. Hundreds of pickets blocked en trances to the mines. Followers of the United Mine Workers of Ameri ca, a rival union, were persuaded not to enter the pits. In several sections a number of shots were fired but police reported no one was injured. More than 100 state police officers were in the area to prevent violence. Leaders of the strike met today with John D. Moore, technical ad visor of the national labor board, who was to act as mediator. Moore reported progress was being made toward ending tne strike. Thomas Maloney, strike leader, announced that the new union's de mands, involving five points, would be given to Moore today. 50,000 MINERS OUT ON STRIKE La Guardia's Election Predicted As Contest Nears End In New York New York, Nov. 6 (U.R) Fiorello H. LaGuardia was seen the victor in tomorrow's mayoralty election by many political observers today. If he wins it will be the first rout of Tam many Hail, symbolic in all parts or the country for ruthless machine politics, since the election of John P. Mitchell, who led a reform party in 1913. Defeat of Tammany was regarded by many as near a certainty as Is possible on the day before an elec tion. La Guardia's campaign manager Joined the managers of Joseph V. McKee, recovery party candidate, and Mayor John P. O'Brien, Tam many Incumbent, in sweeping claims of victory, each for his own man. The slender indications available before the voters pass Judgment, however, pointed to La Guard ia. The Literary Digest poll gave him a ATTACKS ON tIR A MOSTLY HOBGOBLINS General Johnson Pleads For Full Support of Re covery Program Biggest Imitation Dead Cat Is One About Free dom of Press Chicago, Nov. 6 VP) General Hugh S. Johnson today told a meet ing of manufacturers and business men that the objections advanced so far against the NRA were mostly Imitation dead cats and hobgob lins." Starting out on a speaking tour of "peace making" through the agri cultural midwest, the national re covery administrate pleaded for lull support of the NBA In an ad dress before the Chicago association of commerce and the Illinois Man ufacturers' association. Johnson said that when he took over the job he expected "the early applause would cease and the air would be full of dead cats." He said the NRA had "stepped on a few toes, and some of the biggest kick- ingest toes in the country , . . toes used to trampling anybody who op posed them." He said NRA objectors also had used "a device of witch doctors . . . to set up a hobgoblin and then dance around the fire beating a torn torn and screaming at it." He ad vised his listeners to "wake up and get no ot tnese savage xetisnes." "The biggest imitation dead cat is the one about the freedom of the press," Johnson said. After addressing the Chicago As soclatlon of Commerce the general (Concluded on page 8, column 6) YOUNGER FORD MAY BE CALLED (CopyrlBht, 1033, by united Press) Washington, Nov. 6 (IP) Edsel Ford, son of the world's richest mo tor manufacturer and active pead of the Ford Motor company, prob ably will be supoenaed to testify in the senate stock market committee Investigation of Detroit bank fail ures, the United Press learned to day. His appearance will add to the list of famous persons who have sat in the committee witness chair. Among them were J. P. Morgan, Percy A. Rockefeller and John J. Raskob. Henry Ford probably will not be summoned. Before the committee reaches De troit banks and Ford it will be a commanding host to Harry F. Sin clair, oil magnate who figured In the Harding administration oil lease scandals, and to Arthur Cutten, Chicago wheat pit plunger. They have been subpoenaed for Thursday in connection with one of the spec tacularly profitable stock transac tions from which Albert H. Wlggln, deposed head of the Chase National bank, made a large sum. The stock deal was in securities of the Sin clair Consolidated Oil corporation. Letters submitted in evidence hint ed that market manipulation ac companied the project which earned a net of just less thin (12,000,000 for the Insiders. FIRE IN DAVENPORT COST OWNER $4000 Portland, Nov. 6 VP) A cigarette, believed by firemen to have started a fire in a davenport, cost Ward F. Dean 4000 in currency here Sun day. Called to the Dean residence, in answer to an alarm, the fire-fighters found the davenport in flames and after extinguishing the blaze, which they believed had caused but slight damage, they were informed that the article ot furniture had been used by Dean as a hiding place for his savings. plurality. A straw vote conducted by a newspaper supporting McKce showed him In the lead. Newspaper political experts who indulged in prediction generally chose La Guar dla. La Guradla, who campaigned for honest government as an out and out antl- Tammany- antl -political boss candidate, was so confident of victory that he devoted one of his last speeches to a plea for support of his running mates on the fusion ticket. McKee. continuing his active cam paign, centered his attacks on O'Brien, saying a "vote for O'Brien (ConcludedbrTpaM 9,column 3) Reserve Bank Buys Gold In Foreign Lands Washington, Nov. 6 (LP) Chair man Jones of the reconstruction furnace corporation announced to day the federal reserve bank of New York was buying "substantial quantities' of gold on the foreign markets. "Some gold Is being bought in Paris and London," Jones said, "at a price not far different from the domestic price." Jones refused to reveal how much gold was being bought or the exact price being paid. The chairman said that the RFC had issued debentures totaling $2, 800,000 for the purchase of appro ximately 86.000 ounces of domestic gold since the metal-buying policy was promulgated. He said the administration was apparently satisfied with the gold policy thus far. Speculators who seek to take ad vantage of the difference in price between that being paid by the RFC and the world price may con tinue their operations without in terruption from the federal govern ment, Jones believed. "I don't see anything to stop speculation," Jones said. The chairman said he had not heard any reports of hoarded gold being "bootlegged' 'out of this coun- (Concluded on page D, column 7) ASK MAIL BIDS ON STAR ROUTES The postoffice department Is ask ing proposals for carrying the mail on three star routes operating out of Salem and while the closing date for presentation of bids is not until January 16 of next year, a number of prospective contractors have made inquiries concerning the jobs. In each instance the contract will be for a four year period begining July 1 of next year. Due to tne ellm ination of train service on several branch railroad lines, it is under stood the express company is inter ested in the mail routes. They are carrying their express by truck to several valley towns and therefore are in a good position to take on a mall contract. One of the routes involved calls for two round trips from Salem to Mill City daily except Sunday with one round trip between Mill city and Detroit and during three months of the year a round trip to Breitenbusn. The second route runs from Sa lem through Pratum, Silverton, Mt. Angel, to W-oodburn. Two trips arc made daily during the week and one on Sunday. , The third route open for bids will b'e a combination of three present routes and will involve two round trips to Dallas, one via Monmouth and Independence, one between Dal las and Falls City and an additional trip to Blckrcall each week day and one round trip to Dallas every day. SHEPARD TO HAVE NEW MURDER TRIAL Washington, Niv. 6 VP) Major Charles A. Shepard, army surgeon won in the supreme court today his fight to set aside his convic tion of the poison murder of his wife, zenana, on tne Fort miey Kansas, military reservation, and his sentence to life Imprisonment The decision of the high court will have the effect of giving Dr. Shep ard a new trial. The court said the evidence of fered that Mrs. Shepard had stated her husband had poisoned her had been improperly admitted. Major . Shepard contended his wife had committed suicide, and challenged the admission of evi dence quoting her as charging him with poisoning her. BUYING CAMPAIGN TO START THURSDAY Mobilization of ammunition in the form of cash contributions for the NRA buy now campaign continues In full force with many additional firms and individuals taking part. Zero hour Is set for Thursday morn ing with the campaign to continue for one montn. Though originally set for Monday, it was found that there was not suf ficient time to get organized and to Insure the success of the effort Ralph Cooley, general chairman, delayed the firing of the opening gun for several days. Contributions are being made di rectly to the committee and also through NRA headquarters on High street. Additional financial ammu nition Is being supplied. B.M.SMITH, 69, DIES PORTLAND HOSPITAL Portland, Nov. 6 UP) B. M. Smith, 69, operator of extensive ranch prop ertles in the Willamette valley in the Champocg district, died in a hospital here today. He had been in ill health about two years. He is survived by two sons and a daughter; his mother; two broth ers in Salem, James E. Smith, Mar ion county commissioner, and Jo seph P. Smith, and by three broth era and a sister in Portland. COLLEGE WAR FLARES ANEW AT UNIVERSITY Speeches by Roscoe Nel son Resented by Dean Morse of Law School Nelson Attacks Attitude Of University Praises . College and Kerr Portland, Ore., Nov. 6 ipy De claring that he awaits "the effect of sober second thought in the fair- minded men and women of Oregon," Roscoe C, Nelson, presdent of the state board of higher education, had today apparently tentatively dismis sed from consideration an attack launched at him by Dean Wayne L. Morse of the University of Oregon school of law. "Mr. Morse seemed to think he could frighten me by calling for my resignation," President Nelson said. "The sooner I can get away from this noxious miasma of insensate hatred and breathe free air again, the better I shall be satisfied. In an address before faculty members and alumni of the Uni versity Saturday, Dean Morse spoke of what he described as "Mr. Nel son's insulting, insinuating, unfair and vicious attack upon the faculty of the University of Oregon," at re cent appeal nces of the board's new president at the University and at Oregon State College. Morse declared "we have stood by and witnessed the selection of a chancellor (Dr. w. J. Kerr) by a plot so rotten that it stinks to high heaven." He criticized Chancellor Kerr for reputed failure to cooper (Concluded on page 4, column 5) SOLVE MYSTERY OF LOST CHILD Pendleton, Ore., Nov, 6 MP) Cor. oner J. A. Folsom of Umatilla coun ty tennouneedtoday if appears to be quite well established that the skel eton of a child uncovered Saturday near Milton, was that of Cecil Brit- tain, who was four years old when he dropped from sight July 16, 1906. The child was the son of P.. L. Brittain of Walla Walla, a photog rapher. The boy was the object of one of this region's greatest search es, and at one1 time more than 200 men, assisted by bloodhouds, sought trace of him. The best detectives in the northwest were unable to solve the mystery of the disappearance. The skull and bones were uncov ered near a road four miles south cast of Milton, and 14 miles from Tollgate by Floyd Jacobs of Milton, and State Policeman L. Ii. Pittlnger. Jacobs had caught sight of the skel eton a short time before. Tbe bones are believed to have been drawn from an accumulation of debris by an animal. Physicians said the boy had been dead more than 25 years. The coroner said the Brittain boy was the only one of that age lost and unaccounted for In this region in the post 50 years, and that it seems well established it was his skeleton. CHINESE BEAUTY MARRIES ROOSTER Canton, China, Nov. 0 IP) A wed ding in which a pretty Cantonese girl married a rooster was solemn ized today. Although her fiance, Shlh Kwang Tung, was living in Singapore, the girl's parents decided her marriage must be performed while they were still alive. Accordingly, a graceful appearing bird from a neighboring poultry farm was selected to act as the bridegroom. All of the elaborate ritual accom panying an old-fashioned Chinese marriage was observed while the beautiful bride, 18 years old, re ceived the congratulations of friends, and the rooster must re main her "husband." JAPANESE JINGOES URGE BIO FLEET Tokyo, Nov. 6 (P) Big navy prop agandists warned Japan today against interpreting the American fleet's removal from the "Pacific next spring as Indicating improved relations between the two countries. "Japan," said a note typical of a shower that deluged vernacular newspapers, "will be caught in an American trap if we reduce our building program because of inter preting the United States fleet's summer cruise as a gesture of friendship." Fighting for inclusion of a huge naval appropriation in the 1034-35 budget, the propagandists saw in the projected departure of the Am erican fleet the loss of their be.it argument for a bleger navy. 300 KILLED La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 6 (IW Near ly 300 Paraguayan troops were kill ed in Sunday fighting in a single sector around Fort Arce, an official Bolivian communique said today, TRUCKERS FRONT; UNITED TO TAT71 A If A . ,TD traiqn O Defensive Attitude of Aggressive Attack To Reduce Operating Costs At Expense of Highway System and Private Car Owners; Recruit Farmer Allies By HARRYN. CRAIN Unless Mr. and Mrs. Average Motorist fret their heads together and prepare to play a hand in the legislative game of the special session coming up on November 20, two weeks from today, they are apt to wake up with a Christmas present they have not anticipated in the form of further exemptions of trucks from paying tneir just and equitable share of the cost of constructing and maintaining Ore gon's system of highways. For years the truckmen, big ana little alike, have been battling on the defensive to hold the taxes and fees imposed upon them to the low est possible minimum. The atti tude has always been one of recog nition that they were not contrib uting to highway revenues in proportion to the benefits they re ceive and the damage they do to the roads, and they have given ground slowly at each session of the legislature, always pleading in ability to pay more. 'rnis year, however, due to pe culiar circumstances, they have (Concluded on page 8, column 4) BALBO LOSES JOB IN CABINET Rome, Nov. 6 u) Air Minister Italo Balbo today was relegated to the governorship of Libia. His re moval from the cabinet was part of a long planned shakeup which left Premier Benito Mussolini head of all defense forces in addition to his other cabinet posts. Baioo, a lew weeks ago Italy's greatest hero because he led the mass seaplane flight to the United 8tates, had been reported as having Incurred Mussolini's displeasure. But it was known Mussolini had long planned to combine the fight ing forces, and that as a first step he would make himself navy and air ministers. He already held the war ministry, as well as the . pre miership and the mlnistcnlcs of for eign" affairs, corporations or fascist guilds and interior. Previous reports sold Balbo would bo made chief of staff of the com bined services. Reports that he was in disfavor were always denied. Libia Is an African colony across the Mediterranean from Italy. It was revealed that the late Gen eral Francesco de Pinedo, once a greater air hero even than Balbo, suddenly was demoted from chief of staff of the air force under Balbo to tho post of air attache of the Bue nos Aires embassy. FOR LITVINOV Washington, Nov. 6 (LP) Honors usually reserved for high govern ment dignitaries will bo accorded Maxim Lltvlnov, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, when he arrives in New York and Washington to morrow, the White House revealed today. The ceremonies will be carried out despite the fact that the United States and Russia have as yet no diplomatic representation. The schedule calls for the Soviet emissary and his party to be met on board the liner Bercngarla to morrow In New York harbor by James Clement Dunn, chief protocol officer of the state department, who will accompany them to a cutter and thence to tho Jersey City pier, whero a special train will bring them to Washington. At Union station here, there will be 'Secretary of State Hull, a sec retary to the president, the While House senior military aide, Under secretary of State Phillips, and Wlllam Bullitt and Harry McBrldc, state department officials. They will take their places in the presidential reception room at the station and a few minutes before the arrival of the train go out on the platform to receive the party. Prohibition's Doom Will Be Sealed When States Vote Tuesday (Dr the United Preai) The doom of the 38th amendment and the experiment of national prohibition Is expected to be sealed at the polls tomorrow when six states vote on ratification of the 21st (repeal) amendment. The states are: North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania. Kentucky, Ohio and Utah. Needing only the approval of three states to bring tho total of ratifying states up to tho necessary 30, repeal is ts expected all six to go wet. Impartial observers, however, believed North Carolina and Utah should be listed as doubtful. Postmaster General James A. Far ley, who has led the assault of the Roosevelt administration against the dry reign, made a final appeal to the nation at large and tho six voting states in particular In a pub. 11c address last night. A repeal vic CHANGE LOW FEES Past Abandoned for CUBAN STUDENTS ATTACK WELLES Havana, Nov. 6 (IP) Student sup porters of the Grau San Martin government today planned a public demonstration against American Ambassador Sumner Welles, whom they charge with desiring the gov ernment's downfall in favor of one more pliable to American ideas. Feeling against Welles was in tense among government supporters, who had hoped he would recom mend recognition of President Ra mon Grau San Martin, A plenary meeting of the students' party lost night shouted "Down with Welles" while speakers criti cized his policies. It was decided to organize a public manifestation of disapproval. Eduardo Chlba, a party leader, laid upon the American Ambassa dor most of the responsibility for Cuba's economic plight, on the ground that his defense of Ameri can financial Interests had caused an intense campaign to be waged to overthrow the government. A threatened crisis in relations between Grau and the students was dissipated when the students yester day renewed a pledge of support. The student newspaper Alma Ma ter in an open letter to President Roosevelt demanded Welles' remov al as "a disturber of publlo peace I and systematic conspirator with re actionary elements." , FORD LAYS OFF Dearborn, Mich., Nov. 0 (IP) A system of rotating employment, In which 0,000 employes will be idle each week, went into effect at the Ford Motor company today. It represented Henry Ford's meth od of compliance with the maximum hours of work provision in the NRA automobile code. It went into ef fect today despite the administra tion's offer to make a special ex emption permitting continued em ployment of the entire Ford work ing force which has been working an average ot 40 hours a week. Instead of cutting down the work day of each employe, Ford has di rected that the present work days be continued. To balance this work day with the 35-hour week maxi mum provided under the code, em ployes, in groups of 9.000, will be given a "layoff" periodically. Un der this system, employes will aver age only 35 hours a week, although they will work 4o hours every week except those on which they arc laid off. Ford officials refused to discuss an offer of Administrator Hugh S. Johnson to allow continuance of the 40-hour week average which has been In effect previously. FINLAND TO DISCUSS DEBT REDUCTION Washington, Nov. 6 (IP) The state department said today that conver sations with Finland and Czecho slovakia on reduction of their war debts to the United States probably would begin this week. The Anglo American debt conversations have been virtually ended. Both Czechoslovakia and Finland are small debtors, the former owing the United States $107,071,000 and the latter $8,004,000. tory would mean "a victory for sanity." Repeal, in event three states vote for it tomorrow, will become effec tive probably December 8, when ratification conventions are held In three of the six states. After that date tho fedcrnl government's ma Jor enforcement task will be In connection with the Webb-Kcnyon act which prohibits transportation of lquor Into dry states. New federal taxes on liquor arc now being studied by a house com mittee. A first year revenue of $500,000,000 from such sources is " (ColwluuU ob DEATH MARKS FARM STRIKE Hi MIDDLEWEST Violence and Destruction' Of Property As Hostil ities Are Renewed Anti-Strike Organizations: Prepare for Battle Guardsmen Called Foit (Br the United Preu) The rich agricultural regions ol tho midwest were torn by violence) today as farmers struck boldly to halt the flow of milk and farm pro duce from markets. An Iowa railroad train was halt ed and its load of livestock scat tered along the right-of-way. A railroad bridge was burned near Lcmars, la., but direct connection with the farm strike was not ea tabllshed. Frank Fletcher, farm picket, was klled "at the front" by a speeding automobile. Despite an Increasing series of outbreaks in Wisconsin and Iowa, governors ol Doth states said they would rely solely upon local peaca officers to prevent violence. Both executives denied intention of call ing out the nation guard to pre serve order. Wisconsin roads were closed to farm truckers In many districts de spite the order of Governor Albert (Concluded on page 0, column 7) RED X 1EADER TALKS ON RELIEF Loose handling of relief funds provided by a generous government is making this a nation of beggars, A. L. Schaefer, Pacific coast mana ger of the American Red Cross, told tne cn amber ot commerce Monday noon. The statement, he said, Is not one of criticism but of warn Ing. Many worthy persons are "up against It," the speaker said, but at the same time many are taking ad vantage of carelessly distributed re lief and seize the opportunity to "see America first" at public ex pense. Because of its trained staff and facilities, tho national Red, Cross organization has offered the serv ices of its personnel and local chapters In the distribution ot funds and supplies available under the federal emergency relief ad ministration act. A trained social or welfare worker, through experi ence, Is able to make supplies go much further than the layman, no matter how good his intentions are, Schaefer said. Distribution of dis aster relief funds and maintenance of the Red Cross is carried on at less than 2 per cent overhead, In cluding salaries and operating ex penses, he said. Until three years ago Marlon county was the only one in the United States in which a capital Is located that did not have a strong county chapter. Schaefer expres sed pleasure at the way the Marion county chapter has been reorgan ized and Is now financing its own way. BRITAIN TO REVEAL WAR DEBT FAILURE London, Nov. 6 (IP) The cabinet was understood to have authorized full revelation in the house of com mons in details of war debt nego tiations with the United States. Tho negotiations at prsecnt appeoj to have broken down completely. Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of tho exchequer, was expected to reveal the debt details In the house of commons Tuesday and a white paper probably will be published soon afterward. AVIATRIX KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS Fresno, Calif.. Nov. 8 IP) Victim of an air tragedy, Miss Flo Ann Ross, 20, student aviatrlx of Los Angeles, was dead here today while authorities sought to determine what sent her plane into an 800 foot tailspln. The accident occurred after Mlsa noss had taken off for a solo flight from an abandoned airfield near here yesterday. 8he had gone to the field with D. F. Johnson, Log Angeles, owner of tho plane. Niagara Falls May Go Completely Dry Niagara Falls, N. Y., Nov. 6 (FV Unless the flow of water down tht Niagara river increases, Niagara falls stands a good chance ot going completely dry. Very llttlo water is going over the falls now and the generally roaring coternct has a strange appearance with many unfamiliar rocks exposed to view. The water level In the gorge below tho falls is twenty feet lower than It was last week. The reasnn for the mere trickle Is a stiff cast wind which has pushed tho water back Into Lake Erie and has reduced the Niagara river to hardly more than a creek.