This Rain Is Simply Great the Greater Its Volume, the Greater the Stored Moisture for Future Crops and Greater the Problem of Production Control.
WEATHER
Highest temperature yesterday 60
lowest teniiieralure lust night 4-
Precipiiatlon for 24 hours 1.91
Hrecip. sine eflint of month 6.73
Preclp. from Sept. 1, IMS 18.44
Excess since Kept. 1, l!i:i5 2.43
Rain.
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' Crew o34 Perishes as
?ae Drfoes Freighter
Iowa on Peacock Spit
SEA YIELDS
BODIES OF 8
OF VICTIMS
Vessel Crushed by Worst
Storm in North Pacific
in Years; Guard Boat
Has Close Call.
ASTORIA, Ore.. Jan. 13. (AP)
The crushed hulk of the 410-foot
freighter Iowa swayed to the
swells In Its grave of sand today
while coast guardsmen Bearched
for the bodies of its crew of 34
men. All were lost. At 10:30 a. m.
eight hotlies had been reported
found. Three had been identified.
In the worst hurricane the North
Pacific had experienced in years,
the States line freighter crashed
Sunday on the sands of the south
western Washington coast. Moun
tainous seas hammered and batter
ed her to pieces in a matter of
hours. Waves crashed over her
with endless cruelty, sweeping all
life to destruction--'" ; -.-.,- r.
Captain Edgar L. Yates, 68, vet
eran of the line, and his crew of
33, "never had a chance," it was
said by Captain R. Stanley Patch,
commander of the coastguard cut
ter Onondaga. Captain Patch and
his crew of 53 almost shared a
similar fate as they drove through
the raging gale in futile attempts
at rescue.
The Clatsop county coroner said
identification hnd been completed
of the bodies of Marlon J. Perich,
carpenter, New Orleans: Theodore
J. Frlson, Becond assistant engi
neer, Portland, and Charles- Ogan,
third assistant engineer, San
Pedro.
Two coast guard planes circled
the wreckage today In an attempt
to locate other bodies In the sea
and point out their position to sur
face craft.
Mountainous waves and an ir-
(Continued on patre HI
'S
The Ira Byrd home on Fleser
street was destroyed by fire early
this morning, the members of the
family having a narrow escape
from the flames. The fire is be
lie. -d to have started from an
overheated stove. T h e family
was awakened by the roaring of
the flames, and barely escaped
from the house into the heavy
downpour of ruin while clad only
in their night clothing.
ti.. ........ I,ll,ll
was a total loss, and only a few
articles of rurnitnre were saved.
A cat, the family pet, perished in
the flames.
Editorials on the Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
PTIIIOPIA, the headlines tell us,
" claims another major victory.
The battle, an official Ethiopian
communique adds, was fought on
the Web river lost week, and the
Italians were Rol'TED with the
loss of six tanks.
jyjEAN WHILE,
this dispatch
official Italian
comes
sources :
4,The Italian army today claimed
a SMASHING victory over a
strong Ethiopian force on the
Northern front, trapping the
enemy in a cross fire of machine
guns and bombardment by trench
mortars."
llfHO won, you see, all depends
on who happens to be telling
the story.
Among ordinary, common, every
Peacock Spit is
Graveyard of 94
Hapless Vessels
ASTORIA. Ore., Jan. 13.
(API The wreck of the freight
er Iowa brought to 94 the num
ber of steamers that have run
into disaster on Peacock spit
since a shipwreck first gave it
Us name.
The treacherous shoal was
named after the government
sloop Peacock which went
aground there In 1841 just 94
years ago.
The shallow waters He on the
Washington side near the
mouth of the Columbia river,
where violent southeast Btorras"
sweep unbroken across the riv
er. The breakers reach such
size they smash huge ships as
a child breaks a toy.
Nine big steamers have been
stranded on the spit hi the last
six years.
WILLftlVlETTE AT ,
PERILOUS STAGE
!
River Rising at All Points,
With Highways Already
. Under Water.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jon. 13.
(AP) Rising flood waters held a
menace to Willamette valley com
munities today.
Edward L. Wells, federal meteor
ologist here, said the Willamette
river was rising at all points and
that it will continue to rise from
Salem north for the next two
days.
Wells said the Salem crest prob
ably will be 24 feet, highest since
1927. Already the muddy waters
have disrupted highway traffic be
tween Salem and Albany. Monroe
was almost fsoluted. Low-lying pas
ture lands and country roads were
endangered.
At Eugene the crest probably
will be 14 feet. Wells said, und he
predicted 27 feet at Albany, and
from 14 to In feet at Portland. He
added that that amount of water
in Portland "won't hurl, anyone."
The Long Tom river rose over
the west-side Pacific highway at
Monroe, causing ull travel to be
routed through Harrisburg. The
old highway between Salem and
Silverton was seven feet under
water from the Abiqua river. The
highway at Jefferson was threaten'
ed by the Santiam river.
ALnANV, Ore., Jnn. 13. ( AP)
Albany and Corvallis were separat
ed by high water that overflowed
the liiehuav directlv ncroRs the
WIllnniettR river from Allmnv lnm
liiiiriu There niiTienicil to he Utile
! ninmierl thnl Imffic a-nnlil lie
i stored before tomorrow afternoon.
! The river stood at 25 feet here
. today. A peak of 27 feet for tonight
' was forecast.
day business people, such prac
tices are known as LVINO. Where
governments are concerned, they
are termed "psychological stra
tegy," designed to uphold the mor
ale of the populace.
Governments, you know, can do
no wrong at least In their own
eyes.
a half dozen
F THEY'D turn
good American reporters loose , ' he meeting adjourned to the
down In Ethiopia and chloroform 1 2nd of March, at which time tbe
the censors for a couple of days, ; charter will be received, and offi
we could get at the truth of what icerB nnd directors elected.
is happening Ihere j RJJDYARD KIPLING
house of representatives.
l majority of six to one.
1 by
passes the bonus bill without
making any provision for raising
the money.
In Washington, you see, Santa
(Continued on page 4.)
CONDITIONS
LOCALLY AT
BAD STAGE
Lowland Homes Periled by
Swollen Umpqua River;
Slides Hit Houses,
Delay Traffic.
With more than two inches of
rnln reported by the local weather
bureau station for the 24-hour per
iod ending at 8 a. in., storm con
ditions were reaching a serious
stage here today.
l.owhnul residents are prepar
ing to move their homes If water
in the Umpqua river and its tri
butaries continues to rise.
All roads between Roseburg
and the coast are blocked by slides.
Fifty CCC men from Camp Brad
ford are working with highway
crews In efforts to clear a slide
on the Hoseburg-Coos Bay high
way, which probabVy will not be
open to travel until tomorrow.
. The . Umpqua, ulhwuy between.
Drain and Reedsport Is closed by
a slide west of Elkton.
The Blnte secondary highway be
tween Sutherin and Elkton is
blocked at Dodge canyon where a
bridge was washed out.
Three Homes Engulfed
In West noseburg a mud slide
from Mt. Nebo engulfed three
homes, but the course of the flow
was changed before any major
damage was done.
A south-bound Southern Pacific
passenger train was delayed four
hours at Dillard this morning by a
mud slide, but the tracks were
cleared and traffic restored at 7:30
a. m.
Forest rangers and guardB re
puting to the local headquarters
of the Umpqua National forest re
port considerable snow. Roads,
however, remain open in all sec
tions, except perhaps the South
Umpqua district. The South Ump
qua section has not heen report
ed, as the telephone line is down,
and efforts to establish!! communi
cation by radio has fulled.
Roseburg and vicinity has had
6.72 Inches of rainfall since Janu
ary 1, as compared with a normal
(Continued from page 2)
21-HOUR LABORING
WEEK PREDICTED
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (AP)
An eventual 21-hour work week
for American labor was predicted
todny by Frank Morrison, veteran
secretary of the American reilera.
tlon of Labor.
Making the opening speech at
the International Seamen s linions
i convention, Morrison recalled that
I not many years ago the sixty hour
weeK was aimosi universal. lit
said the forty-hour week now was
generally accepted.
Changing conditions, however,
would reduce working hours to 21
a week "with a wag? scale that
will permit every one to live In
reasonable comfort. Morrison con
eluded.
DOUGLAS B.<O
GET FEDERAL STATUS
At the special meeting of the
shareholders of the Douglas Build
ing & Loan association, held at its
office last evening. It was voted al
mnul unnninintiRlv tn rnnvnrt fntn
ia Fe,ral Savings & Loan assocta-
tlon.
I W. H. Campbell, secretary of the
j Home Loan bank of Portland, was
1 present and explained the plan in
AT DEATH'S DOOR
LONDON, Jan. 13. fAP) The
condition of Rudyard Kipling,
great Britain's famous bard, was
stated to be "very grave" today,
eight hours after he had undergone
an emergency operation in a Lon
don hospital for a gastric disorder.
FIGHT TO SAVE-
BRUNO NOW N
FINN. STAGE
New Attorneys Engaged in
Attempt to Reach U. S. j
High Court; Ransom
Story Unfolded.
By DALE HARRISON
(Copyright, 1936, by the Associated
Press)
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 13.
Bruno Hauptmann's lawyers, sud
denly augmented by two Washing
ton attorneys and bolstered by
possible new evidence, swung vig
orously today into a last ditcb
fight ngainst his Friday night
date with death.
Retention of Attorneys Nugent ,
Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw, who!
year ago saved a condemned !
man, was accepted as an indica- j
tlon that a new move was contem-1
plated in the United States su
preme court.
They were employed after the i
New Jersey court of pardons had j
refused Saturday to grant clem
ency to the condemned kidnap-slay
er of the Lindbergh baby.
Another "Confession"
Bernard M. Finnlgon, - China:
eo lawyer, flew here to tell Gov. !
Harold G. Hoffman a story of
three men who he oaid possessed.
$22,000 of the Lindbergh ransom
money.
Captain John u Lamb, head or
the detective division of the state
noli ce. snld today that Finn i pan
had written on March 28 last year
that he had a client who had told
him the names of three men who
"might" have information leading
-to some, of the rausonv money,
1 Lamb ' said Col. H." Norman
Schwarzkopf, head of the state po
lice, wrote Finnigan two days la
ter and asked that he supply ad
ditional details so the matter
could be investigated, but no re
ply was received.
The Chicago attorney had first
reported the matter to the bureau
of investigation of the department
of justice In New York and Wash
ington, Lamb said.
Finnlean got the Information, he
exnlnined. from a prisoner in a
Chicago jail, who said his con
science had been torturing him.
The prisoner asserted. Finnigan
said, that he paid $2,000 toward
purchasing ransom bills at 40
cents on the dollar, but he did not
get the money because he could
not raise the rest of the price be
fore his own arrest on a worthless
check charge.
Finnigan decided to come here
(Continued on page fi)
Ti
OLYMPIA, Jan. 13. AP)
Curtis Meeker of Eugene, Ore.,
burned to death near here last
night when his truck and trailer
crashed off the Pacific highway
und was destroyed by fire. Chief
William Cole or the Washington
state patrol said today.
The truck was loaded with ore
concentrate, Cole said, bound for a
Tacoma smelter. The freight car
rier was owned by J. H. Beck of
Eugene.
State patrolmen reported to
headquarters that evidently the
driver had dropped off to sleep or
that a front tire blew out causing
the truck to Bwerve from the high
way and crash into a telephone
pole. The driver was pinned in
side. The crash occurred eiht miles
east of Olympia, tiie driver's body
being burned beyond recognition.
Meeker is survived by his widow
and one child.
Another belief among officers.
Cole said, was that Meeker was
stricken with a heart attack.
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the new Five Star Weekly color supplement that will eppear
as an integral part of the News-Review.
The author, Jean Rendlen, paints you a vital picture as
real as your own life. A connoisseur of living herself, she
gives to her characters a genuineness you'll never forget.
They're the kind of people you know and love.
S BILL
GIVEN SENATE
Plan Provides Payment in
Full in $50 Bonds That
May Be Redeemed. .
Immediately.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (AP
Payment of the bonus in S50
baby bonds convertible into cash
at local post offices was proposed
In the senate today by administra
tion forces.
Senator Harrison (D., Miss.) In
troduced the bill he predicted
would be "enacted into law." He
said no new taxes would be re
quired to raise funds at this time.
A statement appended to the bill
said the additional money required
to redeem bonus certificates would
be $2.2:17,000,000. But advocates of
the bond plan contended it would
offer an inducement for the vet
eran to hold his bond, rather than
cashing In Immediately.
The three per cent bonds would
he dated June 15, 193(1, and run
until June 15, 1945 year of the
original maturity date of the certi
ficates. The authors of the bill
Harrison and Senators Byrnes (D..
SI. C), Stelwer (R., Ore.), and
Clark (D.. Mo.), estimated the
amount due veterans in bonds at
$1.8:1(1.213,950. To clear up odd
amounts $87,78(1,050 In cash would
be needed, while the remainder
of the estimated $2,237,000,000 In
volved the treasury life insurance
and other special funds.
Vets Said Satisfied
Leaders of tbe three veterans
organizations which supported the
house bill to authorize full pay-
kinentt .wove reported sutlnf led with
the senate payment measure.
The senate finance committee
was expected to give Its speedy
approvol late today, but floor con
sideration can not start until
Thursday, next day the senate
meets.
Harrison announced on the floor
the measure also had the support
of Democratic Leader Robinson.
The finance committeo will meet
Inter in the day to consider It as
a substitute for the house-approved
bill which specifies no method of
payment.
Plan Explained
The bonds to be Issued would
he in small denominations, Harri
son explained, In the belief many
veterans would not cash all of
them immediately, thereby lessen
ing the strain on the treasury.
The bonds would not be nego
tiable but would be redeemable in
local postoffices. They would run
for ten years and would bear in
terest ut 3 per cent.
The interest is an Inducement
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CRASH FATAL TO
YAKIMA, Jan. 13. (AP) Dana
Roberts, of the Roberts and John
son construction company of Ta
coma, died yesterday following an
automobile crash on the Yakima
canyon highway and his partner,
George W. Johnson, died shortly
after 10 o'clock today. Johnson suf
fered a skull fracture from which
he did not rally and Roberts died
as a result of head and Internal
injuries. Jack Kluasen, driver of
the car, and George Warter, archi
tect for the company and also from
Tacoma, received severe injuries
but are expected to recover.
Klaasen Is the least hurt of the
four.
The construction men were re
turning to Kllensburg after a ses
sion In Yakima at which they were
awarded $240,000 for a building on
the Kllensburg normal school
campus. Their sedan crashed into
a trailer behind a truck loaded
with hay.
NEW FORM
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The editor of the magazine sup
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Noted Contributors
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TROUT HATCHERY
Rock Creek Station to Get
$10,300 for Program of
Improvements.
Expenditures totalling $10,300
have- been budgeted by the state
gume commission for the Rock
creek trout hatchery, according to
Hex Per Mice, chairman ofthecom-
misslon, who returned last night
from Portland, where the game
board held its annual budget
meeting lust week.
1 ho improvement of the Rock
creek hatchery, Btarted lust fall,
1 be continued, Chairman Rice
reports, with $2,000 allotted for a
cold storage plant, $3,000 for con
struction of holding ponds, $5,000
for completion of the tank house,
and $.100 for painting and repairs.
The commission, he reports, has
earmarked $55,520 for various
hatcheries of tho state, and $30,
030 for game farms.
Chalrmun Rice and Commission
er George Aiken, tho latter of On
tarlo, plan to leave January 29 for
Washington, D. C, where they
will represent the stolo of Ore
gon at a national wild life confer
ence called by President Roose
velt. ATTORNEY SLAYS
ANOTHER IN COURT
CHICAGO, Jnn. 13. (AP) A
disgruntled lawyer shot and killed
Attorney Christopher G. Kinney In
circuit court here and then fired
two shots at Jlidge John Prystal
ski, presiding. The Judge ducked
behind his bench und escaped.
The pistol wielding attorney,
Identified ns John W. Kocgh, 59.
ran amiik when Judge Prysiulski
ruled against him in a case he had
argued for twenty minutes with
Attorney Kinney.
Kinney dropped dead beside the
judge's bench at the first shot
from Keogh's pistol.
Kcogh fired three more shots
before one of the attorneys In the
cro wiled courtroom knocked him
out with a blow to the jaw.
FIRE KILLS MOTHER
AND EIGHT CHILDREN
LONDON. Jan. 13. fAP) Eight
children and their mother, Mrs.
Sarah Alice Tvrer. 40. perished
today when fire destroyed their
miner's cottage at Tyldcsley, I-an-
cashlie.
Adam Tyrer, the father, wns the
on I y survivor.
o
tirnm ir-vr-" -r-vir-e
SKIERS AIDE DIES
UINUCK oINUW oLIUt,
I IIIMJJINUII a.m. Jun. j iftr;
. Smothered beneath tons of wet
snow. Arthur Hrnnlund, 4I, opera
tor of the Skiers' escalator near
the Mount Raker lodge, met death
Sunday morning.
Thn tragedy followed ono of the
worst blizzards In the history of
Heather Meadows.
"ROXY" OF MOVIE
FAME PASSES ON
NKW YORK, Jan. 13.
(AP)
Samuel I. Itnthafel, motion picture
producer known tn thousands of
theatre-goers as "Roxy," died to
'day of a heart attacklu his rooms
In the Hotel Gallium.
titled, "The Family Next Poor," Is
to be written by Jean It end. en
(Mrs. Glenn Hurshberger). She is
a former feature writer, columnist
and movie reviewer for Hearst
irewspapers; a former columnist
and writer, for Vanderbllt papers;
auttior of many novels and 'short
stories; former editor of the Flori
da Hanker and publisher of a news
paper of her own.
John Richard Finch, one of the
Five-Star Weekly staff writers, has
worked on newspapers on three
continents. He was a war corre
spondent in China in 1927 during
the stirring days of the Nanking In
cident. He was wounded In getting
the news In the nutive city of
(Continued on page 6.)
T
Pension Plan Given Boost
by Bonus Bill Triumph,
Clements Declares.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13. (AP)
Chuncua of imaslng the Tnwnsend
pension plan at this session of
congress looked (brighter to the
field goneral of the Towntend
forces today as a result of house
approval of the soldiors' bonus.
Assorting the bonus vote was
"un admlHKion by the powers that
be of the soundness of the Town-
send plan," Robert K. Clements,
secretary and directing head of
the pension movement, predicted
nddlllon or at least luo representa
tives to the Townsend bloc in the
house.
"Tho big argument for Immediate
payment of the bonus wns the ef
fect the money would hnve In In
creasing purchasing power," Clem
ents declared. "That Is precisoly
tho uigiiinent for the Townsend
plan.
"If It would aid business to In
crease the circulation of money
ouco, with tbe bonus, It should be
much hotter to do It over and over
again each month wtlh pensions
for our old people."
Not only did the bonuB advocates
I UBe Tl,wl""nl arguments, Clem-
makers Indicated they would "re
j vert to our system for raising tho
money.' He explained:
"After a conference with Presl-!
dent Roosevelt at Warm Springs,
Senator Walter F. (Jeorge (D.,
(ia.) announced that if they pass
ed tho bonus they would raise the
money by a tax on Industry."
Pensions to Fit Tax
The Townsemlltes advocate a
two per cent transactions tux to
raise $200 a month pensions for
overy person over (10 years.
Answering critics who say this
tax will not he sufficient, Clements
declared :
"Let them set the tax at two per
cent In tbe bill, and cut the pen
sions to fit If that doesn't provide
(Continued on page 6.)
Oddities Flashed
Depositors Get Shock
CHICACO, Jon. 13. (AP) De-
; posllors In the closed Standard Na
lionul bank had a right to be not
only pleased but amazed today.
Receiver H. K. Ilallenbeck nn-
! nounced the bank's final dividend
j check would make a total of 107
U'"r rent received by all who had
money rn deposit when It cl i-ted
' . .
i iiu t!LiH nt-vi-ii .-m d in
terest accumulated since June 21,
I!i:i2. the closing date.
Honeymoon Halved
PHILADELPHIA. Jnn. 13. (AP)
Judge Horry 8. McDevitt set a
tlniu limit on honeymoons when be
Issued a warrant for the arrest of
Louis Hamburg on a two weeks'
old speeding charge.
Hamburg sold ho was starting
on bis wedding trip.
"A week seems long enough for
a hnhnvi...,,,!, tl,.,Ua .1:1 VU " Itldira
livi remarked.
Perfectly Safe Risk
ORANdKlU RO, 8. C, Jan. 13.
(AP) Rep. Fulmer (D.( S. C). has
FRESH JOLT
RECEIVED BY
NEW DEAL
Nine Justices Are Unit!
in Directing Return
of 200 Million in
Impounded Tax.
Cotton Act's Validity Not
Passed On, Nor Decision
Made on Legality of
TV A Legislation.
New Deal on Short End 1
Of 7 to 2 Legal Score
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13
(AP) Hera Is the scoreboard
on the government's defense of
lutvs under President Roose
velt: Gold clause won (6-4).
Railroad retirement lost
(4-6).
"Hot oil" lost (1-8).
Mortgage moratorium lost
(0-9).
NKA lost (0-9).
Government right to process
ing taxes impounded lost
(0-H).
First Bankhead act case dis
missed (110).
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, (AP)
Ordering $200,000,000 in im
pounded taxes returned to proces
I sara because they were invaled un
'dor AAA,- the supreme court- left
open today whether the $1,000,000,-
000 of such taxes already paid to
formers could be retrieved by the
tuxpayers.
In another unanimous action, the
high tribunal also dismissed the
first test case on the liankhead
cotton control act.
No decision was handed down
in the only other new deal case
before It involving the Tennessee
valley authority act.
The tax ruling, given tn the
Louisiana fice milters case, did
(Continued on page 6.)
TO RACE MIRY
PORTLAND, Jon. 13. (AP)
Willis K. Muhoney, mayor of Kla
muth Falls, stood today as a
democratic candidate, on the
Tonwsend platform, for United
States senator from Oregon.
The Klamath man told a Jackson
day meeting here Saturday he
would oppose Republican Senator
Charles L. MeNary for the con
gressional post.
"The Tonwsend plan," Mnhoney
said, "is the key to the return of
national prosperity. It is the one
plan that will end unemployment
in America. It Is tho one plan
that will end restore purchasing
power into the hands of the
masses and, beyond all of that, It
pays a Just debt which a govern
ment owes to Its aged people." -
Muhoney said "I will accept tho
mil. I will file as a Jackson
1 democrat and heat McNary."
From Press Wire
a request for a new kind of farm
relief.
A man wanted to borrow $200 to
finance courtship of an attractive
widow with a form.
The prospective bridegroom told
Fulmet he was sure a year on the
farm would he sufficient to make
enough to pay back the loan.
Irksome Indolence
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 13. (AP)
She went into municipal court
with a complaint that her hus
band of two weeks would not
work. He countered with tho
charge that she asked him to
marry her, wouldn't let him work
and pawned their furniture. The
court passed the problem on to a
probation officer.
Would End Thumbing '
ClflCAOO, Jan. 13 ( AP) Presl
dent Charles M. Hayes of the Chi
cago Motor club rigured It out: "If
every automobile in the United
States wore a six-passenger ma
chine, the whole population of tho
nation could ride at one time. His
i i4iii i-B niiun cu uuu vol tut oioij
6.07 persons.