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4 I r BE THRIFTY V Save many times the pries of your Statesman subscrip tion bx using Statesman Ad vertisements M jor bvying guide EIGHTY-SECOND YEAR State Association in Favor Of Bill, Queries Show Opposite Sentiment Warning on Need to Keep up Large Capital Voiced By State Officer Branch banking. Its benefits and defects, were extensively air ed Friday night in a public hear ing held in the senate chambers on Senate bill 87. The commit tees on banking in each house heard the arguments, Senator Williamson of Albany presiding. The bill proposed -would permit branch banking in cities of more than 200,000 for. banks with a capitalisation of $1,000,000 or more. Banks In cities of leas than 60,000 with a minimum capital ization of $150,000 could conduct branches within a radius of 25 miles of the main institution or witbin its county, provided a minimum of $50,000 In capital was provided for each branch es tablished. Th bill would enable state or national banks to have branches, the act being appliable to national banks only in cities of 100,000 or more population until additional permissive legislation is passed by congress. Branches could only be estab lished through purchase of an ex isting bank or through establish ment in a community without banking service. State Association Head Supports Measure T. J. Cramer, secretary of the State Bankers' association, took the lead in presenting arguments for the bill, stating that the exe cutive committee and the legisla tive committee of the association were both favorable to it. He out lined the state and national trend towards fewer and stronger banks, revealed especially In the years of depression, , ... Cramer said banking deposits of Oregon were now concentrating in Portland. He said many east ern Oregon cities had asked for establishment of branch banks. He declared he did not think branch banking would lead to concentration of funds in large cities, to monopoly or to derelic tion by banks in serving their lo cal communities. F. E. Callister, president of the association, said his expert nee as a reaeral bank exam iner in California had evidenced to him that patrons of branch banks welcomed their advent to a city and bad adequate demon stration .in times of crisis that the branch bank could provide funds. Reducing Capital Trend Says Schramm A. A. Schramm, state banking examiner, Indicated he favored branch banking legislation al though he declared It was his pinion that branch banking tended to lessen the capital in vestment in banks and thus to reduce the cushion behind depos its. Schramm said ho thought f 10,000 should be the minimum eapital of any bank In the state, an amount of money increasing tngly difficult -for individual in terests to obtain. Better manage ment will follow additional eapi tal. Schramm averred, holding the larger the amount of money Invested the more likely the In vestor was to bulwark his Inter est by superior personnel and through placement of additional cash resources behind the in vestment. F. E. Coulter, of Portland, self styled "student of economy" pro tested against the branch bank- tax bill in vigorous terms, de claring that the enactment of the measure Into law would cre ate a one-bank monopoly of banks In Oregon within a decade (Turn to page 1, col. 1) The Day in Washington Senate suspended David 8. Bar ry, sergeant-at-armt, for writing magazine article indicating come members of congress sell TOtec. House received 916,600,000 legislative appropriation bin, 92,123.4.63 under enrrent ap priatlons. Postmaster General Brown pro tested to Senator Robinson (D Ark.), that cenate's eliminating flt.000.Q0O appropriation for air nan service would -virtually de stroy aeronautical industry. Senate voted to confine gov ernment department to pm chase of American made ma terials and sappUea wherever practicable. Bennett Clark, son of the late f peaker Champ Clark, was sworn a as senator from Missouri. Bepresenta 1 1 e Lagnardia ; (II N. T.) waned of danger, ; . to nation mnless farm mort- filEFllli DEFECTS TOLD relief is given. - Admiring Balmy Clime of V J. Oaaght In the Icy grip of a blizzard that swept Lake Arrowhead, more than 2000 persons attracted to the resort by the winter sport carnival, were maroonod in Arrowhead village and many motorists were trapped on the rim of the world highway. Photo shows the passenger bus and some of the can that were marooned at lAke Arrowhead. IIW SMALL BILLS E important Ones Lacking as Committees Continue To Ponder Them The lower house of the legisla ture ground on steadily Friday but its accomplishments were more quantitative than qualita tive, majotr bills still being in committees. Chief among the house's ac tions was passage of Representa tive Weatherford's measure per mitting filing of liens to secure seed advances to farmers. Weather-ford contending the measure would aid rather than hamper farmers, many of whom cannot now obtain seed without the lien protection to the seller. The house passed bill 31, en larging the scope of labor which can be protected by the industrial accident commission. It adopted other hills includ ing one to relieve cities of furn ishing bonds in cases at law, pro vided for quarterly Inventories of supplies held by the state and changed legal provisions relat ing to taxation of road districts H. B. 288 requiring an eight inch sign on all school busses was made a special order of business for Monday. A number of bills were killed including two by Representative Oleen relating to fee reduction of electrical workers and two by Representative Paulus making minor changes In eircuit court procedure. Representative Lonergan re ported more than a dosen bills out of the judiciary committee. Resolution for World Court is Passed, Senate Ratification of the world pro tocols now before the United States senate was urged upon that body by the state senate here yesterday in a resolution adopted with only three dissent lng votes. Senators Woodward and Dickson each urged the passage or the resolution as a means of hurrying TJ. S. senate action. 8enator Upton spoke against the resolution, con aemnmg me worm court as a means of entangling this nation in European affairs. Senators voting against the world eourt resolution included Bynon, Staples, Upton . and "Wheeler. mm N State Office Building Amoitization Extended Extension of the amortisation period for repayment of cost ot the state office building, to make it possible to reduce by 80 per cent, rentals charged to state de partments housed therein, was approved by the ways and means committee of the legislature when a report recommending such a step was considered Fri day night. Funds for construc tion of this building were ' bor rowed from the state Industrial accident commission. ' Appropriation ot ISB.14S ask ed by the state board of health, but 'disapproved by the state bud get director, was reinstated by the ways and means committee. The budget director had suggest ed that, this state activity be made self supporting. The budget as approved by the ways and means committee will result in a saving of 24,0, when compared with the aggre gate requirements presented by the board officials. In reducing the requirements the committee eliminated four laboratory em ployes, clerk, rehabilitation offi cer and three male nurses. Salary cuts also were applied. 1 H A -V Daladier is Approved in Initial Test PARIS, Feb. 8 (AP) By a large majority, the chamber of deputies tonight approved Pre mier Daladier's promise to quiet France's unrest, balance the bud get, and participate In the pro posed world economic conference. Socialists at the last minute de cided to support the cabinet and helped make emphatic a S70 to 200 vote of confidence in the pre mier's proposal to proceed with a program of "slow but sure" fi nancial restoration. In a declaration read in the chamber, M. Daladier pledged himself energetically to quiet the country's unrest. France, he said, faces "material and moral diffi culty, but no present peril, Justi fies alarm now." It Is necessary to face conditions "with energy and with speed and strength," he declared. USE HOME GOODS WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (AP) The senate tonight voted a modified restriction of Imports by confining all government depart ments to the purchase of Ameri can made materials and supplies whenever practicable. The vote was 41 to 12. The issue split the democrats widely despite a modification which would permit use of for eign materials if similar products were not produced in the United States "fn sufficiently and reason ably available commercial euan titles and satisfactory quality." The proposal, sponsored bv senator jonnson R.. Cal.). was onered a an amendment to the treasury-postofflce appropriation bill. A similar proposal has oaased the house as a separate bill. The Johnson amendment, however, still must be accepted by the house. Purvine Still in Serious Condition No word of Improvement in the condition of 8. Ellis Purvine, Community Service president and active charity leader, could be riv en last night. His condition was described as still very serious 'and a second consultation with Port land medical men was called for, ur. Purvine suddenly became ser lousiy in last Sunday. Reductions Ot Sll.llft were ordered by the committee in the requirements of the bureau of public nursing which is under the direction ot the board of health. Proposed asnronrlations of 112,000 for the state board ot eugenics and licit tor the corn sus bureau of the health board were eliminated entirely. The ap propriation ot 18700 asked by the heading and upholstery division ot the board was cut to SS191, while the appropriation for camp ground inspections was reduced from $2210 to 11221. Representative Dammasch rec ommended that an interim com mittee ot It members be appoint ed to conduct a study of the health activities in Oregon with a view of amalgamating is of these GOVEHENT WILL boards and commissions at the 19 SS legislative senston. The committee also reinstated an appropriation ot 97800 tor the support of the soldiers' and sail ors' aid commission. This appro priation previously : was disap proved by the state budget di rector. Requirements if 189,972 tor ' (Turn to pagi 2, eol. I ' FOUNDED Salens Oregon, Saturday Morning, February 4, 1933 "Sunny Cal" IN? KEf TOjl TIL Theft of Paper Written by Accused in 1931 Said Cause of Slaying LQNO BEACH, Cal., Feb. 8 - (AP) A document written in Spanish, purportedly stolen from the wallet of the slain Walter wanderwell was described to a ury here today by his widow in her testimony against William James Ouy, 23 year old adventur er on trial for the killing. Wearing a trimly tailored Bemi military uniform which added further eolor to a case of fasci nating mystery. Aloha Wander- well testified that in South Amer ica in the summer of 19S1, while Guy was a member of an ezpedi tion to South America, he ten dered Wanderwell a paper which tated that Gut and other mem bers of the party would no longer accept Wanderwell's leadership. She said her husband always carried the paper in his wallet, hut that it bas been missing since he was shot in the back on his yacht Carnia by a man who board ed the craft here December 5. . Accused of mutiny, Ouy was placed ashore at Panama City, ac cording to testimony at prelimin ary hearings, and it was from that circumstance that his alleged en mity for Wanderwell arose. Prosecution questioning of the pretty young widow, who accom panied Wanderwell on his travels from the time they met in south ern France when she was 17 years old. stressed the theory that Ouy killed Wanderwell to obtain the document so that it could not be used to combat his asserted at tempts to collect money from the professional rover. L In reply to its wire this week asking Senator McNary as to the status of the seed loan Din, me Salem chamber of commerce has received the following telegram: "President has not yet signed seed loan bill but as soon as it becomes law department of agTi culture has assured me it will proceed as rapidly as possible in effecting necessary organization The chamber requested this in formation after a large number of farmers, interviewing a represen tative of the Regional Agricultur al Credit corporation here this week, concluded that they would prefer the seed loans, as tney were made last year, to those of fered by this corporation. The corporation requires chattel mort gages on farmers' property while the seed loans were made on eoi lateral of the crop alone. Medical Officer To Arrive Soon At Soldier Home ROSEBURO. Ore., Feb. 9 (AP) Dr. James O. Do nn oily, who Is to be chief medical officer ot the Northwest National Sol diers home at Roseburg. Is pected to arrive here from Wash ington. D. C. this month. The home is Bearing completion. For the past few years Dr. Don- nolly has been the executive offi cer to the medical director at Washington, and was formerly re gional medical officer for the Los Angeles division of the veterans administration. PLANS REACHES NOME ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. (AP) The United States sig nal station late today reported the plane of Pilot Robert Reeves, lost in a blizzard with four passen gers since Tuesday, had arrived w . "it . ri - 1 -w -r "; I m, n .ii iB 1 1 mil tlnrmiit i mil r Tiiii 1 DOCHI SEED 01 BILL IS NOT YET APPROVED safely at Noma. 1851 CAUSTIC WORD S Mrs. Alexander Thompson is Wrathy, Louise Palmer Webber Sarcastic Mickle and Eldridge Made Targets of Attacks; Food Value Topic Biting remarks directed at two differing men by two militant and opposing women enlivened the oleomargarine hearing last night before the house commit tee on foods and dairy products. An amused audience applauded as first Mrs. Alexander Thomp son of Portland, representing the Anti-Food league and then Mrs. Louise Palmer Webber of Port land spoke against and for the proposed law to tax oleomargar me. Mrs. Thompson launched into a face to face attack on J. D Mickle, state foods and dairies commissioner, who after speaking in xavor of the bill had taken a iron i seai in me crowded com mittee room. Mrs. Thompson de clared that Mickle made slight mg ana insuiung allusions to a speech she had delivered the night before. Mickle, replying ov er the rapping of a chairman calling for order, denied that he bad even heard the speech re ferred to. Farmers Entitled to Sell Butter, Ray Oieo Speaking further as a "dirt farmer," Mrs. Thompson denied tnat oleo" interests had con ducted an intensive radio cam paign against passage of tax measures. She declared it the right of farmers to sell butter and buy oleomargarine if they wanted to do so, and without the hindrance of a prohibitive tax. Mrs. weDoer, speasing in re buttal .against opponents of the bill, directed a rapid fire of comment toward K. C. Kldridge of Portland, representative of oleomargarine manufact ireri Mrs. Webber declared that she was forced to speak In personal lties because no arguments bad been advanced against the bill. 'The present proposal to tax oleo Is a compromise and not s prohibitive tax," Mrs. Webber (Turn to page 2, eol. 1) BILL IS APPROVED Voters of Oregon will have op portunity to amend the state constitution so county managers may be designated for county government It a resolution which passed the senate yesterday, 22 to 8, prevails in the house. The measure was introduced by Sen ator Upton who also has put into the senate hopper a bill which would put into effect that con stitutional provision, it the latter was carried The legislation provides that the managership form of govern ment can only be provided in counties which specially vote for It Upton denied that Governor I Meier had favored the legislation to get even with some office holders in Multnomah county. Senator BuTke opposted the measure as an expensive innova tion in county government. Banks Warns He Will Resist Any Arrest Attempt MEDFORD, Ore., Feb. I (AP) Accusing the courts of Jackson county ot Joint conspir acy, L. A. Baahs, pubiisner and erchardist, announced in an extra edition ot his morning newspaper today that he will resist arrest on a charge of criminal libel and at tempted extortion. The charges were filed in the eourt of Judge L. A. Roberts at Ashland yesterday by M. O. Wil klns, attorney and former counsel tor banks. A hearing on the ac cusations will be held tomorrow at Ashland. Substitute Bus, Truck Bill to Be Drawn, Word A substitute bas and truck bill to replace the several bills now before the highways and taxation eommltteee of the house, may be introduced by the state highway department Monday. It was Indi cated yesterday. Truck and bus men will gather here again that day to go before the committees on legislation still unreported. - The highway department bill, it is reported, will leave blank the rate ot Increases in various taxes but wlU prescribe the methods of farther regulating contract and schedule haulers. A considerable boost In rates la anticipated. - II OVER m t Takes Whirl at Running France Political mortality among French premiers has been high lately, bnt Edonard Daladier, who was minister of war in the latest cabinet, has tackled the Job re linquished by Joseph Paul- Bon. eeor. EXPECTED III ML City to File Reply Brief In Fortnight; Trindie To Assist Kowitz Decision from the state su preme court on the city's suit for validation of the $2,500,000 wat er bond issue is now looked for in April, according to Chris J Kowitz, city attorney, who yester day reported that he would prob ably submit the city's reply brief to that body In less than two weeks. Last Saturday he filed mo tion for more time in which to draw up the brief answering the 148-page one filed by the Oregon Washington Water Service com pany, January 17. William H. Trindie, former city attorney who instituted the suit in eircuit court for a declaratory Judgment on the bonds' validity and appealed the case to the su preme court, has volunteered his services in preparing the sections of the brief covering points he had worked on In the initial suit Kowitz said. The present city at torney has completed the major portion of his share of the brief covering merits of the case. As soon as the city's brief is submitted to the high court, Kow itz will file a motion for advanc ing time for oral arguments and if the petition is granted, attorn eys for both sides may argue tbe Case yet this month. That the water company may resort to unusual procedure and seek permission to file an answer to the city's reply brief was in dicated yesterday. State Hospital's Quarantine to be. Lifted Monday The Influenza epidemic at Ore gon state hospital has passed and the ban on visitors will be lifted Monday morninr. Dr. R. E. Lee Stelncr. superintendent, annQnne- ed last night. The hospital had been under quarantine several weeks. More than 100 attendants and Inmates suffered from the disease, according to Dr. Stelner, and four deaths resulted, two of Inmates and two, nurses. WANTS POLITICS RAN PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb. I (AP) An "armistice in politics. eriucism ana oDstruclion." was demanded tonight by Senator Harrison of Mississippi In propos ing a series of ten legislative pro jects for the coming extra session of congress. .-J-:: - .-VJJf : sttjiai"- a-- " j - ' WATER Fighting Farmers Carry On Against Foieclosure (By the Associated Press) The midwest's mortgage fight ing farmer carried on in field and legislative hall yesterday, deter mined V forestall foreclosure sales while his tactics won him variously praise and warning at Washington. Twenty four neighbors of Charles Grady at Ivesdale, TIL, posted 11,000 bond that his per sonal property, mortgaged for S2- 750 and bought by them at auc tion for $4.14, would be held safe pending litigation. Attorney W. A. Doss, whose wife held the mortgage, has sued to recover the property. The farmers insisted the sale was le gal, although they ejected Doss agent from the farm, and . hare forwarded to Mrs. Doss a check for 14.16, the proceeds from their purchases ranging from two to 27 cents for farm machinery, and livestock. At Washington, the farmers al ternately were praised as uphold ing the principles ot the Boston tea party and admonished that in terference with mortgage terms would ruin their credit. it THREAT IS ON Agitators Attempt Coercion Higher "Food Wages" Among men Employed by Coun ty, Red Cross and Community Service; Demand for $3 Or More Groceries is Urged Aid Headquarters Starts Move Requisitions, Following Recent Disturbances; Cards Entitling Bearer to Supplies for Period of Several Weeks, Feature Program Suggested THAT agitators have threatened to take workmen on local relief projects "for a ride" If they do not strike for high er food wage was reported yesterday from a well-inform. '1 source. From 10 to 30 men are now employed daily by the Coja munity Service-Red Cross-county court setup at grubbing land, cutting firewood and working for the city street depart ment. The agitators said trouble would follow if the3e men re fused to etop working for the $1 worth of groceries a day. now being paid them and strike for a $3 or $4 wage. As y however, no violence has occurred. O Apprised of the situation, Ch f 6713 1MES TAKEN Class Enrollment Large in Proportion; Boys Have Edge in Numbers The 1832 census report of Sa lem school district, number 24, completed recently shows a total of 6713 children between the ages of tour and 19 inclusive. In this figure boys have a slight edge in numbers with 3406 listed. A surprisingly large enrollment in the city schools is noted in pro portion to the census total, with the latest report numbering 5618 students and the figure probably to reach 6700 before the end of the present term. Too, out ot the complete census list some are not yet of school age, there being 638 students between four and six years of age, and a number ot the older children who have dropped out of school before reaching the age ot 19. Offsetting this, however, is the fact that some 600 students are brought to school in Salem by bus or other means of transportation. particularly to the high schools. (Turn to page 2, eol. l) Prof. Roberts Students Please With Y Program The Salem T. M. O. A. program committee picked another winner last sight when they presented Professor T. 8. Roberts and his students In a musical entertain ment In the T lobby. All numbers were well received by a large au dience. A male quartet, composed of Wendell Robinson, Ronald Cra ven, Arnold Taylor and R. D. Bar ton, accompanied by Professor Roberts, presented several num bers, while a group of piano en semble numbers were given by Oretchen Thlelsen and Carolyn Parker. The latter two also pleas ed the audience with solo selec tions. "Interest rstee will have to be brought down to three per cent if we are going to save the re public," said Representative La Guardia of New Tork on the house floor. Taking an opposite view, franklin W. Fort, chairman ot the Federal home loan bank. warned farmers they might infla enee Institutions to stop making new loans. Several state legislatures eon- tinned debate on proposals to ease the farmers mortgage burden. the trend in South Dakota being toward an Increase in the time for redemption ot property so hi on mortgage foreclosures. The pro posal call tar increasing the re demption period from two to three years. Iowa's legislators planned to continue in session over Saturday to gfve the house and senate op portunity to agree on a relief bllL The house has approved a virtual moratorium on foreclosures and has refused to agree to a senate bill providing arbitration in mon tage dlsputee. Ifl K WEATHER F Off , no tmperatare eliange today and-' Sunday; Max. Temp. Frldax Mi Mia. 28; rala .03 inch, Htct av4 feet, dowdy, north, winds. No. 263 RELIEF JOBS to Bring About Strike ton to Speed up Handling ot of Police Frank Minto declared he did not believe the agitate would resort to personal injury, and discounted their talk of d;-" lng harm to the relief pro'r:! workers. Prom his experiet with rioters who Thursday scended upon the Communi'y-Service-Red Cross office snd manded food, he said he was ld to feel the demonstrators wr. afraid to do more than just t.v.'A, He Intimated that If they conr'a- ue their disturbances they might talk themselves out of the c'ty, should the business men dema-d such action. Speedier Handling Of Needy is Aim An undertone of agitation for more expeditious handling of n- plicants for food requisitions el the relief office continued yet r day. To protect the young wom en In the office from further de'j onstratlons, a city policeman as stationed there most of the day. Complaints over the hours el waiting imposed on persons seek ing food requisitions were an swered yesterday with eonfereirce between county court member and a relief committee, which cussed plans for speeding up the work, which bas exceeded the ca pacity ot the present office fbrea of three. The scheme presented calls foe Issuance to needy persons ot cards which would be good for obtain ing weekly food supplies from tke relief warehouse for a period el probabfy two months. In this way, the family heads asking for food would not have to return to the Red Cross office each week as as present and the congestion would be quickly relieved, it was ex plained. The eltlsen s eommuiee con- f errinr with the county court con sisted of Mayor Douglas McKay, past Community Service press dent; J. 8. Chambers. B. E. Sia son, M. Clifford Moynihan. T. A, WIndishar. Cost of supplies for the rewr irhoMt last monta increase to $2100 from the 11200 expend ed in December, County Commis sioner J. E. Smith reported. Tne number of families cared tor Jumped from 425 la Salem and- 100 from out" lo OTer last month. Demands for relief to West a- lem residents may diminish now. since a supply depot was opeaea there yeeterdsy with Mrs. Elmer n. Cook in chsree. Of the approxi mately 75 needy families In West Salem, around 40 have heen re ceiving aid from the Salem relief headquarters. Roosevelt Takes Vacation Before Facing New Task ENROTJTE WITH PRESIDENT ELECT ROOSEVELT TO JACK SONVILLE. Fla-. Feb-2 (AP) President-elect Roosevelt conclud ed his intensive pre-preaidaatial preparation tonight and set out in a carefree mood for hie last private vacation A 19 days' fish ing cruise la southern waters. Tomorrow morning tn Jackson ville he boards the yacht ot Vtn- I cent Aster, a distant relative, with a group, of Intimate mends on a trnls that la not destined to touch shore again until February FRENCH PLAN HTT GENEVA," Feb. I (AP)-The French disarmament plan, whkh was attacked yesterday by Ger many sul Italy, met further ser ious opposition today when the British spokssman announced kia country would not give the addi tional pledges for European se curity which the French proposal demands. " Ui : 4