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SERVICE - If yenr Statesman tails ta Arrive by 6:SO please telephone SOO ud t copy will be seat to 70a promptly. WEATHER Clondy today and Sunday, possibly showers; lover tem peratare. Max. temp. Fri day SI; aria. SO; oath wlad. River S. FOUNDED 1831 EIGHTIETH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, Angnst 23, 1930 No. 1 ILL BE FILED Conspiracy Case Outlawed By Limitations Law, Lawyers Aver Olmsted Cross Examination Continues; Gift for W. C. T. U. Told SEATTLE. Aug. 22. (AP). A directed verdict of acquittal on the ground that his alleged con nection with . the conspiracy ceased in "1926 and the charges are outlawed by the statute of limitations, will be asked for C. T. McKinney, former assistant United States attorney, one of five- defendants In the Lyle-Whlt-ney trial in federal court here. Decision to ask the court to discharge McKinney was reached today by defense counsel after Roy Olmsted, former liquor "king" of the Pacific northwest, testified .his dealings with Mc Kinney ended in 1926, or four years ago. Alfred H. Hubbard, Olmsted's protege who said he became a dry agent to "get" prohibition offi cials, previously had testified that he had made huge protection uroaey payments to the other tour defendants but said he had not bribed McKinney. Conspiracy cases became out lawed by the statute of limita tions after three years Sullivan paid. Motion Delayed By Adjournment Early adjournment of court to permit the Jurors to hold sort of a reception for their families pre vented John J. Sullivan, McKin ney s attorney, from making his motion for a directed' verdict. Roy C. Lyle, former prohibi tion administrator, William M. Whitney,' his assistant, and Earl Crowin and R. L. Fryant, dry agents, are the other four defend ants, who are accused of having accepted about $100,000 in pro tection money from bootleggers, some of whom they" sent to the penitentiary later. Olmsted, who has eight months of a four year prison sentence yet td serve for conviction of li quor conspiracy, succeeded Hub bard on ") witness stand for the -government late yesterday. His direct examination was completed this afternoon, but defense attor neys expected to continue his cross examination when court reconvenes Monday. Well Oiled Plan Is Outlined Olmsted told with apparent relish of his well organized boot Turn to Page 2. Col. S "WOMAN DEFIANT SWEET HOME. Ore., Jtug. 22 Sweet Home, placid little Ore gon town, had more than its usu al share of excitement today. -.When the Linn county road crew attempted to begin road con struction across Mrs. Henry Thompson's p ro p e r t y, Mrs. Thompson met the men -with a rifle In her hands and threatened to shoot them If they proceeded with the work. The men retreat ed. . County Sheriff Shelton and De puty McClaln were called and through them the' district attor ney convinced Mrs. Thompson the county W-8 within Its rights even though, the condemnation auit against her property was still pending. INCREASE NOTED WALLA WALLA, Wash Ana;. 22 (AP) Prune abip-nx-nts from the Walla Walla-Milton-Freewater district so far this year have totalled 293 cars as compared to 218 can shipped oat at this time last year. The quality to far has been good and -prices have ranged from 85 to 4 cents for lags and suitcases. FLIER SATES MAIL BAKER. Ore., Aug. 22 (AP) Abe Warner, veteran air mail pilot, set down his Boeing airplane near the municipal airport today, leaped from the plane and rescu ed the mall bags Just before the lane's gasoline tanks exploded. . Warner tint noticed gasoline spraying Into the cockpit from a ' broken line while he. was SO miles east of here. Twice he was aearly K overcome br Ui fames. Then (ire broke out in the eockpft and One wing bet Warner sped on toward the field here.-3Wheo he landed ono wing 1 was $ burned f Aearly eft. ' . ? Warner suffered only a alight eut orer his right eye when he landed his .machine. A short . time later hetook off with J. P. ; XJ verm ore, another pilot, 'for Pas- griefs Body of First Polar Aviator Found After Silence of 33 Years a Fate of Andree, Lost in 1 897 on Balloon Trip Into North Regions, Discovered by Norwegian Expedition OSLO, Norway, Aug. 22. (AP) Out of tne Arctic si lence today came the grim last chapter of aviation's first North Pole argosy, solving after 33 years the mystery of how Salomon August Andree, Swedish balloonist-explorer who set out in an airship, in 1897, for the top of the world, perished with his two companions. E TEST FIRSTJH COUNTY Silver-ton Lads Will Pedal Bicycle Until School Calls, Proposed SILVERTON, Aug. 22. A bi cycle endurance test was started at Silverton at 1:30 Friday with Nor ris Ames, president of the Silver ton chamber of commerce, giving the four boys who will take part the send off. Billie Kleeb rode the first two hours and then was re placed by Jean Hobart. The other two boys who will ride are Billie Gates, and Louis Patterson. SPOKANE. Wash.. Aug. 22. (AP) A 17-year-old tree sitter, aloft nearly 700 hours, laid plans today to "attend school" in his poplar tree, for the "honor of the state of Washington." Frits Barrett and Owen Ressa, 17. will attain 700 hours at 6 p. m. (E. S. T.) today. They yearn to beat Elmo "Piiiecat" Wilcox, 13, the redoubtable Couer d'Alene. Idaho, lad who will attain 778 hours at 6:30 p. m. Piano Hater is Also Still Aloft "Ressa is old enough to attend high school." said Barret' today, "and we- think we can get permis sion for him to stay up after school starts, if he studies 'In the tree, although t will have to go to school." Wilcox, the piano-hater of Ida hod, said nothing, but installed a radio in his pine tree and adopt ed a "no-surrender" attitude. He fled to the tree to avoid piano lessons and since learning that only one lad, Seth Perkins of Des Moines, Iowa, is aheadof him, he not only has refused to come down, but has Improved his tree with a mattress, springs, a dining room, rubber hose plumbing for the dal ly shower and a hammock. It's not the "honor of Idaho" with him apparently. It's Just that he doesn't care for the prano. ENDURE Rifle Halts Road Crew Blazing Plane Landed Prune Shipments Heavy Fish Committee Meets SEASON STUDIED ASTORIA. Ore., Aug". 22 (AP) The state legislative in terim fish committee Is schedul ed to hold a meeting here at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The committee is expected to discuss trolling, definition of va rious types of fishing gear ana matters relative to a change of fishing season on the Nehalem and Tillamook rivers. Today members of the commit tee inspected seining operations at Sand Island and Peacock spit at the mouth of the Columbia riv er. EGG TAKE STARTS EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 22 (AP) 'The state fish commission em ployes started taking Salmon eggs at the Salmon racks In the McKenzle river -14 miles above Eugene today. Hugh Mitchell, superintendent of state hatcher ies, was here yesterday to arrange the work. A large number of Chinook sal mon have been permitted to es cape the traps and go upriver. STOCKYARDS BURN . PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 22 (AP) Fire today destroyed 75 covered pens at the Portland anion stockyards. George Pear son, president, estimated damages at 828,000. The fire was believed to have started from hot tar used In re roofing some of the pens. Five thousand head of livestock were driven to safety end 128 employes' automobiles were shov ed oat of danger. A few pens be longing to Swift and Co. also were burned and for a time the fire threatened : the packing plant. Water was played on the roof of the building throughout the fire, however, and It was un damaged. : :, RISK ENTRY TRIED " EUGENE, Qre " Ang. 227 (AT) Am attempt to Jtnuiy open the rear door of the First, National bank was made here early today. - A patrolman saw four men In the aDry back of the bank. . As he approached they entered a car and drove away. The patrolman Investi gated and loand. Jimmy marks - oat the door. A .Norwegian scientific expea tion, headed by Dr. S. Horn, to day sent word to Oslo that its members had found the bodies of Andree and his mates in a camp of their making, on White Isl and, which lies east of the Northeast Island of the Spits bergen group. The discovery was reported at Tromsoe by the Norwegian seal er Ternlngen, which met the sealer Brattvaag of the Horn ex pedition in Arctic waters. The Brattvaag had aboard the bodies of Andree and of one of his companions. As "it is not equipped with wireless, the cap tain of the Ternlngen was re quested to announce the finding. The Brattvaag is due at Tromsoe September p. The Terningen's captain said no trace of Andree's balloon had been found. Identification Easy Despite Time Andree's dairy, his scientific instruments, a few scattered ob jects, and the bodies of the ex plorers told the gruesome tale of a battle with the elements in which the tall, blonde aeronaut had survived his fellows. Identification was easy. The frozen bodies were well pre served. Only one had deteriorat ed, presumably because it lay sheltered in a small boat which had been part of the equipment of the world's first dirigible. Andree was accompanied on this trip by K. Frankel and N. sinnaoerg, tne latter then a handsome youth of 24; professor in a Swedish university, engaged to be married but putting .off his wedding" until he might return from this one last adventurous fling before settling down. Th dispatches reaching Oslo did not readily identify the man whose body was found near that of An dree and described as well pre served. .Andree made his great Polar attempt from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, July 11, 1897. In the previous year he had failed. He had launched the idea in 1895, thirty-one years before the epochal voyage of Amundsen and the "Norge" across the Pole ac complished Andree's ideal. On a desolate table .land, at the base of a high cliff some 800 feet Inland, the Norse explorers came upon' the camp of death on August 6. SILVERTON STORE HEAD DIES FRIDAY SILVERTON, Aug. 22 Nils Digerness, well-known Marlon county business man, died at the Silverton hospital at 2:15 Friday morning from heart trouble. Fun eral services have not yet been announced. Mr. Digerness was born in Od da Hardanger, Norway, in 1887. At the age of IS he came to Am erica and settled at Thor, Iowa. He was married to Bell Larson and seven children were born to them. Six of these survive. Omar Dlgernes died about eight years ago. Mr. Digerness was widow ed IS years ago. The children surviving are Mrs. Nelson Adams of Mill city. Mrs. Aleda Denials of Sioux Falls, So. Dakota, Mrs. Eva Benham of Salem, Knnte and Mable of Silverton and Helmer Digerness. Mr. Digerness has. owned and managed a general merchandise store at Silverton since 1911. NEW YORK. Aug. 22. CAP) --Judge Gustav Hartman. counsel for egg dealers concerned la the state investigation Into food profiteering-, tonight denied there is racketeering or profiteering la the egg industry. "We deplore the wide-spread publicity that has been given to the false and malicious testimony, the statement said. Judge Hartman said -the New York Mercantile exchange, through Its exeeatlve body, had unanimous ly gone en record denying the ac cusations. He , said Utah eggs, which figured extensively In test imony as having been kept oat of the New York market.' were only a. minor facto In the trade. ' "t' ' AUTOS INCREASE - BERLIN (AP) Despite : busi ness depression, Berlin's automo bile registrations rose in the three months ending July 1 from 100, 000 to 107.000. The . number of women drivers also increased. METHIG EGGS ll'J DIED OPPOSITION TO EARLY SESSION SPREADS HERE Methods to Prevent Misuse Of Power Rights Held Already at Hand Legislative Call Proposal Branded by Some as Political Move Salem members of the legis lature discount the need of any special session at this time. They assert that the present laws give the state officials plenty of lati tude in controlling .filings for power rights on state streams. Scant sentiment in favor of go ing to the expense of calling a special session was found among local people. With the regular session only about four and a half months off, they saw no im mediate need for special legisla tion on power matters or any thing else. Some claimed that the special session was wanted Just to mix political medicine, the public ownership advocates loud speak ing for public attention. Governor Not Yet Ready to Deride i Governor NorMad has not de- j dared what his intention is re-) specting an extra session, but with the rolling tide of opinion setting in against calling the ses sion with all its expense it may be said that there Is- scant pros pect of a special call going out for convening the legislators. The governor did say yester day that he would Investigate the authority of the reclamation commission in protection of the rights of the people to their pow er. He will also Investigate the matter of exporting Oregon pow er to California for the develop ment of industries in that state. Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Start of Principal Race to Chicago is Indefinite, Maybe Wednesday (By The Associated Press) Participants in all but one of the bIx aerial derbies converging on Qhicago and the national air races moved forward yesterday. A sixth the Miami-to-Chicago derby was held up at Augusta, Ga., because of storms, but the three entrants expected to hop off for Sky Harbor, Tenn., today. Mrs. Phoebe Omilie led the six east coast women derby fliers In to Raleigh, N. C, from Washing ton and Richmond, va. Verne Roberts kept in the lead by a margin of about 4 min utes elapsed time in the Hart ford. Conn., to Chicago east coast men's derby in which there are five entrants. These fliers land ed at Cleveland. At Wichita. Kansas, Gladys OTtonnell of Long Beach, Cal., continued to lead the west coast women's derby when she landed from Enid, Okla., ahead of the other five contestants. Livingston and Moore Are Close A neck and neck race was on between Jack Livingston of Au rora, 111., and W. G. Moore of Kansas City In the two man der by from Brownsville, Tex. Moore landed at Bast St, Louis, 111., at 4:82 p. m., and Livingston at 4:33. Nick Mamer, Spokane, Wash ington flier, arrived at Billings, Mont., In the lead of the contest ants In the Seattle to Chicago race, which Is scheduled to finish at Chicago Monday. Wednesday, or some day be tween then and September 1, a group of the nation's crack fliers will roar away from tho Pacific coast for a non-stop race to Chi cago, the seventh and flashiest of -the national air races cross country events. REVOLT OF WOPS LIMA. Pern. Aug. 22. (AP) The Peruvian government an nounced offJcIallT tonlcht that tho garrison at Areqnipa. second city in the republic, had. revolted. Vague reports, neter fully snb stantiated, have emanated from Pern from time to time dnrina the last year or so of movements against the government of Presi dent Angusto B. Lemla, who seis ed the presidency by a coup de'tat on July- 4. 1S1. He was re-inaugurated In 1929 to serve until im;7 -s- . - V'vi i: -Arequlpa Is the third eity In the republic, and has a population of about 5,000 people.. It is lo cated in the southern part bt the republic in the Andes mountains. on a railroad line stretching from Lake Tlticaca to the coast. - PERU FiEPORTFO Outlook Dark Says Filipino , - 1 - rv'' ' -t : 1 - - r ' " - - :;;;; ' N; Manocl Quezoa, leader in the movement for independence of the - Philippines, arrived in North America Friday in quest of health. He says the Island ers are "very sanguine in hop ing for ultimate independence. UST OF FEUDISTS William Hatfield, Aged 67, Passes Away Without Boots on, Noted BALTIMORE, Aug. 12. (AP) The last of the active figures in America's most noted mountain feud, William Anderson Hatfield, died at the age of 67 at a hospi tal here today following an opera tion, and tonight his widow, a son and a daughter started back to Logan. W. Va., with nis body. There, in the town where stands a monument to his father "Devil Anse" Hatfield, "Cap" as he was known, will be buried. . Neither he nor his father, the ihieftain of the clan army which half a century ago after eightt years of warfare, forced back Into the Kentucky mountains their foes, the McCoys, died with their boots on "nan" snrrnmhfrt lo an operation for a brain tumor, and his sire died peacefully In 1921 when he was 16. Possessed' of a remarkable mem ory, "Cap" told many stories of the feud during his early life, but of late years declined to discuss the strife during which he "guess ed" he had been shot at some 300 times. CaaseofPend -Long Forgotten - The real cause of the feud long ago became obscured. The most widely accepted theory is that it was a suit over ownership of some hogs. Two years -after the action had been settled, Bill Stayton, Hatfield adherent, was slain by two of the McCoys on the banks of the Tug river which separates West Virginia and Kentucky. The resultant open warfare con tinued for eight years and involv ed the governors of both Ken tucky and West Virginia when they refused extradition of feud ists wanted for trial in the oth er's state. Several score persons met viol ent death. Many of the feud figures and their descendants lived to become peace officers. "Cap" once served as a deputy sheriff under two brothers, one of whom, John D. Hatfield, Is the present Logan county sheriff. United States Sen ator Henry D. Hatfield Is a cousin of "Cap" as Is Daniel Hatfield. Baltimore city health officer. p. TIFF BOOT HEAD WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (AP). Henry P. Fletcher, of Greeneastle, Pa., a veteraa of the American diplomatic service and long associated with problems of world economics, is to be the chairman of the reorganised tar iff commission. His appointment was announc ed today by President Hoover who said he considered Fletcher well qualified for the post through experience with tariff matters while serving the govern ment abroad. It was Mr. Hoover's first ap pointment to the commission since congress ordered tho reor ganization la the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill mora than two jnraths ago. The president has nntil September II to name the other five members, three of whom must be democrats. Phil Metschan Calls on Salem . Phil Metschan, republican can didate for governor, was a Salem visitor yesterday. He was passing through but took time to make some calls at the state house. Metschan has made no "official" calls- on Salem republicans yet, but he is getting out over the state organizing for the fall cam paign - - . DIES PIT1L n 1' FERGUSON AND PUBLISHER FACING VOTERS Final Democratic Choice is Slated Today; Issues Appear Unusual "Pa" Says Wife if Elected Will Pardon Convicts In Liquor Cases DALLAS, Tex.. Aug. 22 (AP) Democratic voters of Texas will choose tomorrow between Miriam A. Ferguson, former gov ernor, and Ross S. Sterling, Hous ton publisher and capitalist,, for the party nomination for gover nor. One of the state's strangest and most vitriolic primary cam paigns ended tonight with in tense feeling aroused over the gubernatorial race In which Tex as' first and only woman gover nor is attempting a political comeback sponsored by her hus band, former governor James E. Ferguson. Sterling, who Is chairman of the state highway commission, and Mrs. Ferguson survived for tomorrow's runoff primary from a field of eleven which contested at the first primary a month ago. A highlight of the campaign was a promise made by Ferguson that his wife, If elected, would pardon all convicts serving time for violation of the state prohi bition law. He said she would liberate 2.000 convicts from state institutions. Leaves Campaign To Her Husband Making few public appearan ces Mrs. Ferguson left the cam paigning to. her husband, who was ruled Ineligible to be a can didate himself as the result of his impeachment and removal from office during his second term as governor In 1917. Ferguson offered the voters "two governors for the price of one," announcing that he would be his wife's chief advisor in the event that she returned to the chief executive's office. Sterling, making his first cam paign for electire office, declar ed that "honesty In government" was the paramount issue, citing Ferguson's impeachment and at tacking the pardon and parole record of Mrs. Ferguson while she was governor. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 22 (AP) The Salem Senators to night defeated Peninsula, Port land city champions, 3 to 1, in a night baseball same here. Andy Peterson, sensational Senator pitcher who has one per fect no-hit, no run game to his credit and a lengthy string of strikeouts, won the contest. He allowed four bingles, struck out 10 and walked two. Peterson has won nine of his last ten starts. Phil Helm pitched for Peninsula and let but five bingles get away. Salem scored in the first, fourth and eighth innings. Pen insula counted in the third. In the ninth Peninsula had the bas es loaded but Peterson bore down and struck out the side. R H E Salem 3 S 1 Peninsula ....1 4 2 Batteries: Peterson and Mes senger; Phil Helm and Geenty. Salem will meet Coquille there August 31 and September 1 in the elimination series to decide the state independent champion ship. STARTS NEXT WEEK Finishing touches are being put on the machinery and equip ment of the Western Paper Board Products company, locally financ ed company, which -will begin op erations next week In its new plant north of the brick yard In north Salem. A good flow of water was struck In the company well and a tank .Is being erected for water storage. "The big- new digester has been received and installed In place, as well as the machinery which Manager Pnttaejt shipped up from San Francisco. Tho product will bo binders board of a superior quality be ing manufactured from wood fi bre and flax fibre. The raw ma terial consists of wast products from the local paper mill and the state flax plant. The palp screen ings will be trucked to the mill In damp state. Flax ahhres will be' blown Into box car at the peni tentiary plant, hauled by rail to the hoard mill where they will be Mown to the storage bins on the second floor. Three shifts per day will be ran when the plant is la fall op eration. The mill la fully financ ed, chiefly by local capital. - mm PUBS SOIIS TO VICTORY PAPER mm Mill She's Dry But May Vote Wet Lvr v a--v avT iivi : .i 4?J icr t$ ""V - Z-.y'. S Ruth Hanna McCormick, Hlinois republican candidate for the senate, says she will abide by state referendum on prohibi tion question, though she is personally an ardent dry. Ruth Hanna McCormick Says She Will Vote Wet If Referendum Carries SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 22. (AP) Ruth Hanna McCor mick, republican candidate for the United States senate, today announced that If the voters of Illinois at their referendum in November ask for repeal of the prohibition amendment, 'she will be guided by their decision. Before she had spoken, the re publican state convention adopt ed a platform with exactly the same attitude on the question as expressed by Mrs. McCormick. "If a majority In Illinois are recorded as favorable to repeal of the 18th amendment, she said, "I stand ready, when elect ed senator, to obey the mandate and I shall vote to submit the question of its repeal to the va rious states." "If the expressed will of the people Is for modification of the Volstead act, my course as a member of the senate would be in sympathy with the principles so approved, but the definite course to be pursued would be dependent, of course, upon the nature of the modification de manded.'' Reiterates Her Own Dry Stand While reaffirming that she was dry. personally, she told con vention delegates that "the re Turn to Page 2, Col. 2 mi ::.-.:.-. r-r-'S-r-x-xcwi':-. M " 3 sr i M ! ' I dlATEIKS TO MAJORITY RULE State Employment Plan Urged, by Federal Chief The state of Oregon should In stitute a well-planned employ ment service and when it does, the federal government will co operate with its funds declared Francis I. Jones, director gen eral of the United States employ ment service, before a group of community leaders Friday night at the T. M. C. A. Jones, en his annual western tour, declared that the "machine age'' and the day of mass pro duction and divided ownership, necessitated more than ever that the governments of the states and nation tackle the problem of labor placement He explained that the Salem labor placement bureau would be continued as an adjunct of the farm labor division work, and he aid he hoped 'additional moneys could in time be secured for the work here. r.. - " . w '. - The visitor Interjected glow ing compliments for local and state! leaders in labor placement work into his address and at the same time characterised Presi dent Hoover as the "deepest stu dent ef economics In . America." Jpaee also characterized Senator McNary and Congressman. Saw ley in laudatory fashion, I saying both men were highly respected at Washington, D. C. Eight Hundred Kidnaped Icr Ransom as Helpless City Is Sacked by Reds, Word From Honan States Direct Attack on Capital is Made Friday; Score of Leaders are Arrested rrr Nanking SHANGHAI, Ausr. 22. (AP) Two thousand ban dits descending upon the helpless city of Hangcheng chen, western Honan pro vince, killed 500 natives and kidnaped 800 others for ran som, said Chinese press din patches today. The atrocity, latest report ed in the series. since rebel lion, communist depredation and widespread banditry, gripped China, took p!ae during a fortnight occupa-. tion of the city. Methodical ly and thoroughly the briganes Btripped the townspeople of aM their possessions, slew the poor and carried off the prosper, their lived dependent upon rar. som payment. Firing the city and leaving it in ruins, the bandits marched erf with their prisoners to the moun tains of eastern Shensi province. Safe there from pursuit by mili tary engaged in civil war, they may prepare for another attack upon defenseless towns or coun tryside. Communists whose armies have roamed over several pro vinces.' despoiling the country, looting and burning cities, struck directly at the capital of the na tionalist government today when a score of their leaders were ar- -rested In Nanking. Their ptet to overthrow the government t dynamiting several of its build ings was frustrated and latge quantities of explosives and eoss munlst literature were seised. Rebels were active, too, ia South Chins. Fierce figbttasi took place as Insurgents attacked Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 PIFlW III TOPEKA, Aug. 22 (AP)t Sen. Arthur Capper today receiv ed assurance from Secretary f Agriculture Hyde that "every thing in our power will be to prevent any manipulation ef the markets by those who wanM take adavntage of the drought situation." The secretary of agriculture, la a letter to Senator Capper. saM the department had sent out in quiries to their market news agents In various markets ee re tail prices of fruits and vegeta bles. "Our conclusion," he said, ia. that reports of profiteering are greatly exaggerated. Some in crease is to be expected, especially of the commodities of which there will be a reduced supply by rea son of the drought." "Ton fellows in Oregon boosters," said the labor leader. "Some times I think I haveat met a genuine booster in thie state. Oregon is a glorious state. It has won me. You may be as sured our department will -got. forget Oregon." Jones said that in the .last year his department had placed 600.000 workers In 'jobs at-am average cost of 15 cents for carat worker placed. in miroaucmg Mr. w ones, sr. H. Fitzgerald outlined he werk of labor placement, saying Eng land had takea the lead years ago. R. J. Hendricks, who ha erred ti chairman of the T. M C. A. committee sponsoring' the labor bureau here, said Polk a4 TamhUl counties . should bear part of the expense. , Max Gehlhar praised the 4a reaa for. supplying ". seasonal workers. He said oftentimes th "floater" was a poor laborer ad was valueless when he did ap pear for a Job. "I. doubt ft there's an unemployment prh lem," f said Gehlhar. "People who know how to do job we and do It, can always get work. -The problem is to make peen capable of holding Jobs. The talks were preceded ty a no-host draner served at. the T. M. C. A.