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PAGE TEN - f The OREGON STATESMAN. SaJm. Oregon, Satnrday Morning, May 24, 1930 REDS PROPAGANDA ti. IS ORDERED PROBED WASHINGTON, May 23. CAP) A searching investigation into activities and propaganda of communists in this country was ordered today by the house. An Inquiry is to be made by a special honse committee of fire members to be named by Speaker Long-worth. Senate action on the measure la unnecessary. The resolution, sponsored by Chairman Snell of the rales com mittee, and Representatives Fish of New York and Underbill of Massachusetts, republicans, was adopted after a short debate . by a Tote of 210 to 18. The commit tee probably will be appointed next week. Drafted to give the committee power to subpoena witnesses and records, the resolution directs the inquiry into the membership of the communist party of the United States and affiliated organisa tions and among trading corpora tion f New York, the soviet gov ernment's official commercial rep resentative in this country, and the dairy worker, reputed to be a communist organ. In additional, a study would be made of -communist propaganda In schools and of all groups and individuals who are alleged to ad vise, teach or advocate the over throw by force or violence the United Slates government. PRICE OF FICTI1 WILL BE REDUCED NEW YORK. May 23. (AP Four New York publishers, in cluding Donbleday, Doran and company, one of the largest' gen eral publishing houses in the United States, today announced price eats that will reduce by one halt or more the cost of their popular fiction this summer and antnmn. Sinon and Schuster, Farrar and Rinehart and Donbleday, Doran and company will issue novels and detective stories at $1 a volume Instead of $2 and $2.50. The lat ter two will also reduce prices of their more expensive books. The fourth, the firm of Coward-Mc-Cann, will issue only first novels and works by less popular au thors at $1.50. Simon and Schuster will pub lish $1 books in paper covers but the others will bring theirs out In cloth bindings the same type of books, they said, as they issue at the higher price. All announced the price cuts si multaneously as the American Booksellers' association closed its annual convention with formal protest against the sale of cur rent books in drugstores and ci gar stores at cut rate prices. WANTS RECOGXITIOX John Wood fin of Woodburn. scoutmaster there, objects to the fact that Woodburn scouts were not given due recognition In re port on the court of honor held here Tuesday night. Scoots from that city were designated simply as coming from troop 22, instead f from Woodburn. CIRCUS ARRIVES IN SALEM TODAY j ? W. "ujk,, MM iff CSd - - I ( J , T a-, - - : DHL TELEPHONES look'foS' S ""P13 S1 oar m8 This biff event which has bee tnl Zl"r !!L yJr0?1 013 UJke 'r the past several week fa tod.. a reality. Kariy tlda 'SwSSSLL 3r1 "Sf ,friwd the city, Ti. the 8. P. raQroad aJd vrt aVhSYne exblbiUoa gronnds at Olinger Field were scene of bastling activity JeqU wrLTl r !Dl,f 'S'. Was enr to erect the big canva city. -hVnd .UTL 80 bOTe to nKve o the heavy wagons, while half. Bv ntlnrVTi. P? "Sf00 'J ente' PIes tatothelr positions. PTS! 8'cSikf re,K,ineM IOlth aftern0n -1 ht Performances, whl will 2-.!? "" n . IH8m. Known the world'. Joseph Metealf. n:r.,r," "t win be the scene of many thrilllnir ad a. -a vua a uuniavw., miPrswi siv sra .m. i H. . - - The nlrk of JhuCT VT1- . f.1 ". l0&lin' MeTe Mbe Stark and Innr nmn.. rw. ' " -wu miso nave prominent posltiOBs on the long progran. Two gorgeoss spectacles will h nfferwl pmi.t .. ni 'TTZz. WASHINGTON. May 23 (AP) The loesr telephone company was speechless tonight lb the face of a congressional outburst against the machine age as typi fied by the dial telephone. A senatorial ukase demanding that 450 of the dial telephones be replaced by the old fashioned kind In the senate aide of the capitol was regarded so favorably by some members of the house that Representative Abernethy, North Carolina, introdaeed a resolution to instruct the hens sergeant-at- arms to have -the recently Install ed dial instruments removed from the house offices. Officials of, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone company to night declined to comment. Senator Glass of Virginia, led the revolt in the senate, complain ing against being made "an em ploye of the telephone company without compensation." The senate adopted his resolu tion directing the sergeant-at-arms to order the telephone com pany to remove the dials "where as dial telephones are more diffi cult to operate and require sen ators to perform, the duties of telephone operators in order to enjoy the benefits of telephone service." In the honse Abernethy added to the Virginian's plaint the as sertion that "telephone compan ies, are putting the dials in for the purpose of doing away with operators, tending thereby to in crease unemployment." Telephone company officials ex pressed hope while the revolt was confined to the senate that things eould be arranged. But when the excitement spread to the honse. and when it was recalled that President Hoover refused to hare dials Installed at the White House they announced they had "nothing to say." Senator Glass faced smiling col leagues on both sides of the aisle as his resolution was adopted. Senator Ashnrst of Arizona complimented Glass on the "mod eration" of his language, adding that the congressional record might not go through the mails if it contained "what senators think about the dial telephone." Huge Railroad Merger Is Blocked Until Marth 4th WASHINGTON. May 23 (AP The senate today adopted by 46 to 27 the Couzens resolution to re strict railroad consolidations un til March 4 and to make illegal the exercise of Joint control through holding companies or oth erwise -without approval of the in terstate commerce commission. The vote followed lengthy de bate in which Cousens, republi can, Michigan, assailed the opera tions of holding companies and de manded a eurb for unifications in general "until congress can legis late further Opposition '.to the resolution was voted by Senator Hawes. democrat. Missouri, and Senator Fess,- republican, Ohio, who as serted, it would suspend execution of a consolidation plan congress has commanded the Interstate commerce commission to make and was an "affront'i to the house which is Investigating hold ing companies. The resolution specifically would suspend author ity of the interstate commerce, commission to approve any unifi cation or consolidation which, ex cept for the commissions appro val, would be In violation of anti trust laws. , Amendments by Senators Swan- son, democrat, Virginia, and Glenn, republican. Illinois, accept ed oy couzens before the vot Turner Has 11 Finish Grade 8 TURNER, May 23 The gradu ating exercises of Turner's eighth grade class will be held Tuesday evening. May 27, in the high school auditorium at 8 o'clock. County Superintendent Mary L. Fulkerson will give the class ad dress and present the diplomas. The class of eleven all passed the recent examination. Mrs. Cleora Parks has been their teacher for 2 years. , INSTALL LIGHTS Installation of four lighting standards on the south side of State street in the east half of the block between Liberty and High, has been started. Lights have been installed on the South Church street bridge. was taken, provided that the res olution .should not prevent acqui sition or control of steam or elec tric railroad properties commonly classified as short line railroads, required as a condition to any other acquisition pf control pre vtouSly or in the future author ised by the commission. Couzens also accepted an amendment by Senator Connolly, democrat, Texas, providing that no unification, merger or consol idation should be authorised which did not require continued operation of general offices and Shops were previously located or adequate and continuous compen sation for removal. The resolution Would prevent unification of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads under the commissions general plan for consolidations. The northwestern unification was assailed in the senate by those opposing as well as support ing the measure. Hawes asserted it should be dealt with in some other manner. OF HOLD BIG MEEIJG BOMBAY. May 25. YAP) One hundred thousand Indian na tionalists this evening attended a meeting addressed by J. V. Patel, Mahatma Gandhi's successor as field leader of the nationalist cam paign, who annealed to liherala to use their influence with the eov-!PB1sn, announces mat eminent for a settlement. I name would be preempted trd Patel, resigned speaker of theiplace1 In the field in November. - ' rii.:- j r a a legislative assembly, revealed that HOT If JS IN PHI CttST PHILADELPHIA, May 23. (AP) Gifford Pinchot, on tfce basis of unofficial retains, tonight stands as the' regular republican nominee for governor of Pennsyl vania. But In the November elec tion he may face, besideshis dem ocratic opponent, a third candi date, supported by the wet and possibly liberal forces of the state. On the fact or early complete unofficial returns from the repab lican primary of Tuesday. Pinchot. had a lead of more than lZ.tCw over Francis Shunk Brown of Phil adelphia. Success In the republican primary has been equivalent -te election to this office for jajre;- The unofficial totals with -only 21 districts of 8,701 missing. gave Pinchot S3 1,0 30 and Brown 618,235. Thomas W. Phillips, who ran on a slate advocating repeal of the 18th. amendment and ot the state enforcement act, polled 264.462. Some districts Hd not report the complete report the complete vote for Phillips as fee was far behind the leaders. Additional returns in the sena torial contest Increased the fcnge plurality of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis over Senator Jos eph R. Grundy to 234,504. A to tal of 8.406 districts gave Dcti's 720,608. Gmndy 486.104 tud Francis J. Bohle-n. wet. 238.549. In addition to the democratic candidate for governor, John M. Hemphill of "Westchester, who nominated Tuesday without oppo sition. Pinchot may face a car1'- date supported by the wets. Randolph W. Chllds, who siaD- aged the Phillips-Bohlen cam- a party he had restrained for the' being a raid by 100,000 volunteers on the salt deposits at Wadala. He said the Bombay provincial committee had sought his advice about this but he had told them the time was not yet ripe. As the spirit of non-violence had not gained complete mastery, he appealed to move with caution. The Satyagrahis, he Insisted, had been completely peaceful at Dhar- asana and elsewhere. He objected to the use of lathis by police. Childs made this statement after a conference in the office of Ro bert K. Cassatt, chairman of tbe Pennsylvania branch of the Asso ciation Against the Prohibition Amendment; ROAD XOT FOR SALE SALT LAKE CITY, May 23 (AP) Arthur Curtiss Jamfs, chairman of the board of Western Pacific Railroad Co.. declar-d here today, the Western Pacif'o Railroad Is not for sale. cn n ED 111 h. conns sua CHICAGO. May 23 tAP The state's attorney's ofiiee today summoned 13 contractors to a conference tomorrow concerning their dealings with Harry K. Cur tis, Chicago attorney and son of Vice President Charles Curtis. The prosecutor's office announc ed that the contractors wonld be asked the nature ot the - work Curtis 'undertook for them and that Curtis would probably would tracts and forthwith withdrew aa oe asked to submit his records of the work and the fees charged. The Investigation Is the result of unofficial charges that Curtis accepted feea for promises to aid contractors in securing govern ment contracts. The son -of the vice president acknowledged he had been approached by Mike M al loy, alleged representative of some of the contractors, with such a proposition, but said he emphat ically refused to consider It, Later, Curtis said, he did agree to serve as legal counsel for group of contractors. He said he later learned that his name wu being used in con nection with the securing of eon- counsel, returning such fees as he deemed he had not earned. 2 Dallas Queen Contest Is Close DALLAS, May 23 Marga Staate continues to hold the lea ) In the May Queen race here. The candidates have been, eliminated until only three remain. One r,: these will be queen and the othe two will be her maids of honor. The final count of the vote will be taken at 7:30 Saturday night. The count now stands Margaret SUatsf ur Catherine Smith i 1 3 Betty Finn . ... . l7 . In an actress it's Personality 8 v .. 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