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Vacation Time Have the Statesman for warded to your Tacation ad dress. Your regular carrier will collect when yon re tarn. Telephone 0101. WEATHER Fair aad warmer today aad Wednesday, low ha mJdlty; Max. Temp. Ho day 72, Mia. 60, river 5 feet, cloudy, west winds. . FOUNDED 1851 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, Jane 20, 1933 No. 73 P WM VOTED DO t i BALLOTS BRINE DEAL- TO Record Vote Cast, 1926, in Board Election; two Changes Result Nobody, as Usual, Attends Taxpayers' Meeting; Finances Shown Walter B. Mlnier and E. A. Brad field were elected to the Sa lem school hoard by substantial majorities, the counting board an nounced at midnight Monday aft er checking more ballots than had ever before been cast in a school election here. The final count: Mlnier. 1259; Bradfield, 906; H. H. Ollnger, incumbent, 713; Mrs. Frank Spears, 469; Fred A. Legge, 139. Unusual interest was shown in the election throughout the after noon and evening, with voters lined up awaiting their turns dur ing most of the five hours the polls were open, and hundreds of citizens calling The Statesman for returns after the polls-had closed. Ballots cast totaled 1926. 680 more than in the 1932 election which itself brought out a record vote. I New Directors Take Of rice Next Week j The newly-elected directors will take office next Tuesday-sight at the regular board meeting. Retir ing directors are Dr. Ollnger and Mrs. Roy S. Keene and those whose terms do not expire this year, F. ! E. Neer, Mrs. David A. Wright and Dr. B. F. Pound. Aside from the directors, Super intendent George Hug was the only taxpayer attending the an nual taxpayers' meeting last night. After School Clerk W. H. Burghardt read his annual finan cial report, Superintendent Hug announced that a sizeable, though as yet undetermined saying had been made from the expenditures budgeted for the year 1932-33. He was instructed to report the sav ings next Tuesday. Financial Report For District Heard Highlights in the clerk's report were: Receipts, less funds from war rants and notes, $372,550.54; ex penditure, less payments on war rants and notes, 1395,528.77; cash $68.65; outstanding war rants marked "not paid for want of funds", $197,674.96; bonded Indebtedness, $110,000; other in debtedness $500; assessed valua tion of district $18,751,031; tax under six per cent limitation 13.4 mills. Children in district four to 19 years of age inclusive 6713; num ber or public school teachers 168. Enrollments of private and par ochial schools In district Liv ingston, 45; sacred Heart aca demy, 171; St. Paul de Vincent, 100. FIRST TO COMPLY WASHINGTON, Jane 19. (AP) General Hugh S. John eon, industrial control and pub lic works administrator, tonight announced the cotton textile In dustry had swung In at the head of the line of march under the national recovery act and that a hearing on Us already submitted "code of fair competition" would be held on June 27. Sweeping In Its application, the code submitted by the Industry fixed minimum wages of $10 a week In the southern industry and $11 a week in northern mills, with a maximum of 40 hours work a week. Johnson described the project ed new scales as representing an approximate increase I 30 per cent ia wages in an Important part of the industry and a rednc tion of around 20 per cent In weekly; working hours. A short while before, word was given oat that road building and ship construction would lead the way in the public works division of the national recovery drive. ENGINE KILLS CHILD EUGENE. Ore., June 19 (AP) Jean Winkleman, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Winkleman, was killed today when a helper engine on the Southern Pacific . - Cascade line struck her while she was playing on the track at Fields, .Ore., near DISTRICT HERE COTTON INDUSTRY sere. ( 4 J Eradfield Elected School Directors Walking Race Added Feature of Bargain Day Here Phenomenal Offering Of low Prices at Stores Pledged SALEM merchants yesterday an nounced Friday, June 23, as the 16th annual Bargain Day. Genuine bargains are the prom ise, and this year that will mean greater bargains than ever, is the advance word. Advancing merch andise prices and desire to onload spring goods are causing mer chants to plan mark-downs that the shopper just can t afford to overlook. Thirty merchants have already joined the Bargain day event, and more will have Bargain day cards displayed within the next day or two. List of merchants participating follows: Millers, Price Shoe store, Ship leys, J. C. Penney company. Ar- buckle-Klng Shoe store, Smart Shop, Oregon Shoe company, BI (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Pittman Memorandum had Source in Washington, Latest Revelation (By the Associated Press) A monetary resolution, includ ing use of silver in currency re serves, contained in a memoran dum submitted to the world ec onomic conference yesterday by Senator Key Pittman was revealed in Washington as having been framed there. The move was hailed In the American capital as indicating fundamental grounds were being reached by the world parley. The senator's five-point pro gram included suggestions gold be used only for reserves and in ternational debt settlements, and that the currency cover be reduc ed from 40 per cent to possibly 25 per cent, with the option that one fifth be in silver. Adjournment of the world con ference for a month or six weeks pending an agreement on cur rency stabilization was advocated by the gold standard countries, including France. With stabilization at a stand still in London. Indication was given at Washington the United States does not intend to be stam peded In the matter. Senator James Couzens of Michigan, only republican in the American delegation, expressed belief a choice must be made "sooner or later" between the American domestic program now under way and the international policies under consideration at the conference. TURTLE INITIALED GRANTS PASS, Ore., June 19 (AP) Ray Kimmey was fishing at the mouth of Jump-off-Joe creek recently when he found a large turtle". On the back of the amphibian was carved the initials, J. F. and the date, "1990. Kimmey took the turtle home with him. PROGRESS IDE I MONET PROBLEMS Jobless Make Demands And Picket Courthouse Climaxing a meeting of 300 un employed, visitation of "commit tees" to the Red Cross relief of fice and to County Judge J. C. Slegmund at his home, 155 South 17th street, pickets from the "un employed councils" throughout Marion county last night encamp ed on the west steps of the county courthouse and announced they would remain there .until their de mands for various types of relief were met. O. H. Goss, unemployed council organizer recently come from Medford, declared the pickets would.( some time today demand audience from the county court and that if their demands for re lief were not met they would car ry their cause to Governor Meier. Goss' address to the pickets last night was characterized in asser tions he made to a Statesman re porter: V "We're making no requests the time for that, has passed. We're demanding relief. The court will appear, on these steps when we order it to." When over 15 unemployed and on- Friday Cash Prizes Offered ; 72 Women, Girls in Eight Mile Hike S a special and different feature of Bargain Day, lo cal merchants have this year put up $22.50 in cash for three top winners in a woman's walking contest, to be held Fri day morning, June 23. Winner will take $10; second, $7.50; third $5. Exactly 72 women and girls have signed to compete in the walking race, which will start promptly at 9 o'clock Friday w niatt4K a w uivu tv a a o i l v I morning from the corner of State and Commercial streets. Contestants will be on hand at 8:30 o'clock. The route will be eight miles ong, and the entire distance must be covered by walking. Aid of any kind, running or cutting cor ners will disqualify contestants. Harry W. Scott, cycle man, has charge of the route, assisted by Don Dourla, scoutmaster, and a group of Boy Scouts. Chief of Police Minto will have officers stationed throughout the district to protect the walker. The route: East on State street to 14th, north on 14th to Chemeketa, west on Chemeketa to Commer cial, south on Commercial to State, east on State to 14th, north on 14th to Chemeketa, west on Chemeketa to Liberty, south on Liberty to State, east on State to 14th, north on 14th to Chemeketa. west on Chema? keta to High, south on High to State,' east on State to 14th, north on 14th to Court and west on Court to Liberty. Participants and the numbers they will carry: 1 Beatrice Whitted, 2 Ruby Skelton, 3 Helen Condra, 4 Tlllie Byer, 5 June Neef, 6 Elizabeth Es- plin, 7 Faye Jones, 8 Ellen Mc- Lerran, 9 Lucy H. Boje, 10 Effle Coffey, 11 Emma Schiess. 12 P- line Barry, 13 Emma Rentochler, 14 Grace Hockett, 15 Martha Lu- - tm T 1111.. -!-.- trt 1 (Turn to page 2, col. 4) AT HIGHEST LEVEL KELSO, Wash., June 19-(AP) While the Red Cross sought $12,500 for relief of the 2,000 persons made homeless here when the Cowlits river broke through dikes last Thursday, both that river and the Columbia were vir tually stationary at high flood marks here tonight. After a survey today, Red Cross officials revised their estimate of need here and announced that they would seek $12,500 instead of $7,500 as requested last week. Meanwhile the refugees, repre senting about 400 families whose homes remained flooded, were being cared for in the Kelso high school, church buildings and pri vate MRnes. Work of repairing the broken dike was rushed as 56 members of the civilian conservation corns from Vancouver barracks were brought here and aid was prom- ised from the state highway de- partment. sympathizers defied Red Cross of ficials and marched Into the office of Miss Thora V. Boesen, execu tive secretary, yesterday ' after noon, four city and two state po licemen answered a hurry call for protection. Aside from crowding ,n ni. , aniui ,n,.Mt,., TTH ly. the demonstrator, conducted fnk riT for "tension of the themselves with little loud talking Inland water transportation ys and left the office after Inspector te rar, ,nto the Productive agrl- Orey O. Coffey of the city police nartmant nrnmli fa aoa that th fmii ohfAfi Mmniiini Ytvnf w mwtvlilAft with fnnA last nlght The unemployed council's com- mUtA Tt marched ia Jndre Siegmund'a residence. The judge Informed the spokesmen that he nnM a Tint in it until tndav and that It then would be necessary to place the demands before the en tire county court. The committees then, marched to the eourthouse lawn. Sheriff A. C. Burk put a stop to attempts of several unem ployed to talk through the bars to XTjurn to. page Jt eoL IX . GRAND ARMY'S COHORTS WILL GATHER TODAY Five Affiliated Orders to Convene Also; Program Will be Extensive National Commander to be Here, Also Officers Of State Groups The fifty-second annual en campment of the Grand Arm? of v. w . JJt l0T ev ."tment or Oregon opens this morninr with an administrative council at the Marlon hotel at 11 o'clock and a business session at 2 o'clock in McCornack hall. In addition to the Grand Army there are being held here in con junction with the army, conven tions of its associated natriotlc orders, the Women's Relief corps. Ladies of the Grand Army, Daugh ters or union Veterans of the Civ il War, Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War and the auxiliary to the Sons. Among prominent officials to arrive today is expected Col Rus sell C. Martin of Los Angeles, now national commander in chief of the G. A. R. through the death In Chicago this past week of Com mander - in - Chief Wright. Col. Martin, until that time, was sen ior vice - commander. State Department Commander James W. Jones of Portland, will fee-an arrival -of today. Others ex pected today are Mrs. Mabel Ragsdale of Hood River, presi dent of the Ladies of the G A. R.; Mrs. Annie S. Warren of Portland, president of the Daughters of Veterans; Mrs. Alice B. Adams, president of the auxiliary to Sons of Veterans; C. O Gosney, Marsh field, president of the Sons of Vet erans, and Mrs. Florence Shipp of Salem, who is state president of the W. R. C Three Large Public - -. ..nuuuuvvu There will be three large pub lic services in connection with the meeting of these organizations. One is the public reception in the armory tonight beginning at 7:45 e clock and including a program of talks and music. Mayor Doug las McKay in behalf of the city will welcome the distinguished and honored guests, and an ad dress in behalf of Governor Meier will be given and to these re sponses will be made from each of the state organization officials. The address of the evening will be presented by Hon. W. C. Haw ley. A parade will be featured at 10 i o'clock Wednesday morning, and a "campfire" at the armory Wed- . nesday night. This meeting, bo named from the fires around which the boys In blue hovered in (Turn to page 2, col. 1) PORTLAND, June 1 (AP) Word from Washington, D. C, that Major General Lytie Brown, chief of the army engineers, had recommended modification of the Columbia river project to provide for a seven - foot channel 160 feet wide from Celilo falls to Wallnla, was received enthusiastically In trade circles here today. Completion of such a project would open the stream for navi gation by river boats and barges for another 110 - mile stretch. Navigation la already possible to Cemo fans. Governor Julius I Meier, who had advocated Improvement of the upper river, and shipping men here greeted the announcement as the first step toward ultimate lm provement of the Columbia and u"rmi wun"T I Empire. I The project, 16 eost about I $400,000. would provide a seven foot channel at low water, but Is aubject to the condition that local interests furnish assurances to aecretary of war that they will construct suitable terminals aad warehouse facilities alone the area to be Improved. - MAYOR IS DIRECTOR HUBBARD, June 19. Garfield Voget, mayor, was elected school director for three years and D. E. McArthur. clerk for one year at the annual jBlectlsa Jieie today. COLUMBIA CHANNEL MM n G. A. R. Leaders At Encampment ....:?''. ' i ) V i t Vsr v , As r i At top, Col. Russell Martin, na tional commander In chief of the Grand Army of the Repub lic; below, Jamee w. Joaea, department commander of Oregon. Both officials are ex pected to be Salem's gnesta t the G. A. R. encampment which opens today. E PLAHS ON BALLOT Self - Liquidating BaiS for Each Agreed Upon at Council Session Salem's councllmen voted Mon day night to submit the proposal of a city sewage disposal plant and a municipal dock to the voters July 21 but each plan will be pro posed on a self-liquidating basis. without the. Issuance of general obligation bonds by the munici pality. In the case of the sewage dis posal plant, the city will issue bonds, if authorized, under a 1933 legislative enactment allowing ti tles to borrow money secured en tirely by Indebtedness agreements for which the utility built will be the sole obligation. The sewage disposal loan proposed will be for $475,009. The proposed $95,000 R. F. C. dock terminal loan, to be submit ted July 21, will be secured, un der the proposal adopted last (Turn to page 2, cel. 2) Saving on Light Bin Announced The city of Salem saved $729 In its lighting bill in May accord ing to a statement received and approved by the council Monday night. Before the lighting econo mies agreed upon by the council were effected, the city's May V; YX) I nia llghtlng hill was $2108; after the terday in connection with the an reductlona the bill totalled $1868. I nuai meetings, resulted as fol- Councilmen pointed out that next month's saving should be $877 as a part of the reductions during May were absorbed by new In- stallations necessitated then. Un der the present lighting system. alternate street lights remain dark over town nightly. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., June 19. (AP) Otis ' Clingman of Okla homa City and Tesuri Hlgaml of Japan went one hour to a draw In the main event of tonight's wrestling card here, each taking La fall. Clingman weighed 119 and Hlgaml 1(0. Thor Jensen, 1(8, Elkton, Ore., defeated Hugh Adams, 1(1, Port land, two falls oat of three In the seml-wtndup. Bulldog Jackson, 1ST, Klam ath Falls, defeated Hal Cox, 1(0, Denver, te the. opener . COUNCIL CLUBS CITY MANAGER PLAN TO DEATH Indefinite Postponement of Mayor's Proposal is Voted by "Dads" Only Three Favor it; Some Receptive but Insist On Further Study The city manager plan for Sa lem proposed by Mayor Douglas McKay as a special election issue July 21 was clubbed to death by the city council Monday night by the indefinite postponement method. As a result, the char ter amendment sponsored by the mayor will not come up on the city ballot and reorganization of city government must await a new proposal by the council or an initiative petition by voters. Only three votes for the city manager plan were available when the test came: Aldermen Hendricks, Need ham and Town- send standing with the mayor. Eight councllmen voted to post pone the measure indefinitely; these being Aldermen Daue, Fuh rer, Henderson, Hughes, Kuhn, O'Hara, Olson, Vandevort. Alder men Armpriest, Boatwright and Wilkinson were absent. McKay took the floor to urge approval of the city manager plan, declaring he had "no in terest whatsoever in the person chosen to be manager." McKay pointed out that In his first mes sage to the council when he took office he pledged himself to stu dy the city's government and to propose a more efficient system. The results of his studies led him to favor a manager plan, instead of an aldermanic or commission type of city government. Let Voters Decide Is Plea of Mayor "This plan I have proposed should be submitted to the vot ers," McKay continued. "If they don't like it they can kill it. If It is adopted and found lacking. " c amended Just as we are city charter. If we obtain an In efficient city manager we can fire him and get another Just as a board of directors replaces a manager of a corporation." McKay reiterated former state ments that ho had no complaint with the council or any city em ploye other than to observe that men who concerned themselves wun puoiic administration as a part-time job could not function las efficiently as a full-time man ager. Aiaerman a. A. Hughes op posed the city manager plan. holding the council was economi cal, hard working and getting along as well as a manager would. Alderman V. E. Kuhn said he saw nothing in the existing char ter to prevent hiring a manager without amending the charter. I favor a manager plan but not this one," he said. "I'm very much mistaken If politics does not enter Into the managerial form of government,1 (Turn to page 2, col. S) School Directois, Clerks Elected in Elections for directors and clerks in many of the school dis trirtm. in Marion county, held yes- lows: Fruitland Orsa Flagg elected director for three years and Al- oert Harmon reelected clerk for one year. M Aurora. Fred sneiaer, eieciea director for three years; Mrs. Ber tha Garrett, elected clerk. Butteville Fred Dentel, re elected clerk for three years; and Irvin L. Carter, reelected clerk for one year. Pleasant Point 8. u. uius, el ected director: Mrs. George Gu er ne, elected clerk. Davis Mrs. E. O. Nelson, re elected clerk and L. A. Hall elect ed director to fill the vacancy left by H. E. Brown. Rosedale Aioerx cammacs: el ected director for three years; Forrest Cammack, reelected clerk. Roberts Don Osborn elected director and Mrs. Mabel Biggin, clerk. Buena Crest Stanley .Boston elected director . for three years and Bruce Jones ' alerk for one .ZeeastaMw Margin of 406 Againsi Transportation Shown In 60 Rural Districts State to Rest In Jones Trial This Afternoon MEDFORD, Ore., June 19. (AP) The state Introduced 27 witnesses today in the trial of Walter J. Jones, mayor of the town of Rogue River, charged with complicity In the theft of 10,000 ballots from the Jackson county court house. Court was recessed in mid- afternoon today to a 1 1 o w the state to call two more witnesses n the morning. The defense, it was believed, would start put ting on its case before noon to morrow. E 13 DEFEATED Old Members all Leading; Mixup Occurs Over Length of Term SILVERTON, June 20 (Spe cial) Sllverton's recall stir ap parently ended nowhere. al though the school vote count had not been completed at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Complete vote in the south precinct, where 89 ballots were thrown out. was: For recall of R. V. Duncan. 150; aeainst, 241. For recall of Dr. Klelnsorge. 154; against, 253. The old board members. against whom recall was aimed. also came out on top in the vote for directors. All the old board members were at the top of the list: Duncan, 283; Dr. Klelnsorge, 247; Merlin Conrad, 249 and H. R. Irish, 245. Vote on the other candidates for directors in the south precinct was: I. D. Wor- den, 65; Ernest Boesch, 50; A. Lathers, 53; H. B. Jorgenson, 89. Counting In the other precinct was also favoring the old direc tors, although there the recall was a bit closer, but still against ousting Duncan and Klelnsorge. SILVERTON, June 20 The recall committee at the Silver ton school election received a Jolt here Monday afternoon at the last minute when an irregu larity was discovered in the fil ing of candidates on the recall ticket. It was discovered that (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Would be First To Cross Pass BEND. Ore., June 19. (AP) M. R. Cornu of Lander, Wyo.-, hopes to be the first motorist to cross the McKenzIe pass highway in 1933. He has established a camp near the divide, among drifts of the high country, and is prepared to drive over the sum mit to Eugene just as soon as the state highway department rotary plow breaks through the final snow barrier. Cornu has been in the mountains four days and is prepared to wait at least 10 more. all Disliicts Kelzer Ray Betzer elected di rector for three years; Paul Pierce director for one year; and Ruth Rullfson, reelected director for one year. Hayesvllle Dr. Fred Ellis, new director; Horace Smith, new clerk; budget approved. Jefferson J. G. Fontaine, el ected director for three years: E. E. Hollow reelected clerk for one year. Mt. Angel Joe Bernt, direc tor for three years, and John Dlehl, clerk, both reelections. Lake Lahlsh Williard Mat- thes, reelected director for three years; William A- Mumper re elected clerk for 25th term. Auburn Ben Hawkins, direc tor for three years; Don Smith, director for two years; Carl Krehclel, clerk. Oakridge Fred HIrsch, elect ed director; Eva T. Jones, clerk. Porter Don Ross, new direc tor; Ira Lor en, reelected clerk. Brush creek Alvin Kurg, new T 1 RECALL MOV director; John Goplerud, reelect- eussed the bridge project "lnfor ed clerk. I mally. with the public works ad- Abiqua. J. J. Steiger, reelect-1 ministration officials but that ed director; Marie Dunagan, re-1 nothing definite could he settled elected clerk. I until the organization of that iTurn to pars j, coL J) agency Is completed, 33 Against, 27 Favor' Service; Change in Trend Unlikely ML Angel. Previously Leader in Fight, is Deciding Factor Marion county In its first an nual election of a school board for its 98 non-high school dlstrta had cast a majority of its ballets for five members opposed to the continuation of free bus transpor tation for high school students. It appeared certain from figures compiled from CO of the 98 dis tricts at 1 o'clock this morning. The figures, secured through staff correspondents of The Statesman, . were from widely scattered areas of the county and showed an average vote majority against transportation which was little reduced as additional pre cinct reports came in. Opponents of bus transporta tion received an average of 1I4S votes each from the 60 reporting districts to an average of 1442 votes received by each of the pro transportation candidates. These figures indicated the new board would be composed et Michael Weinaeht. tone one; Ellis Stevens, zone two; C. A. RatcMff, zone three; Ernest Werner, zone four; Eugene FInlay, zone five. Transportation Wins In Two of Districts Incomplete returns from the five zones showed transportation had won in zones one and three which Included the Woodbnrn and South Salem areas, while direc tors opposed to transportation had received majorities In tone two, Mt, Angel area, zone foar. Silverton area, and zone fire. East,' Salem and Stayton area. As the returns came in early Monday night, transportation pledged directors jumped Into a substantial lead which was wiped out and never regained as the Mt. Angel territory vote was returned. The Mt. Angel district Itself cast an overwhelming vote against bus transportation, the average vote received by the pro-transpor-(Turn to page 2. col. 1) EX-NATIONAL OE LEGION KILLED SHREVEPORT. La., jane 19. (AP) O. L. Bodenhamer. Eldorado. Ark., former national commander of the American Le gion, died in a Shreveport hos pital at 7:20 o'clock tonight of burns received in a gas explosion In the east Texas oil field near Henderson today. Bodenhamer was brought to Shreveport this afternoon aad placed in a "heat bath" in an ef fort to save his life after doctors ascertained he had been burned over his entire body with excep tion of his head and chest. Bodenhamer's clothes were burned from his body In an acci dent this morning near Hender son. Texas. He had left Henderson before daylight en route to Hou ston on business and stopped at his property in the east Texas field to confer with his assistant. R. C. Cook, in preparation for re opening his five wells after a three-day shutdown. " ' E WASHINGTON, June 19. (AP) J. M. Devers, attorney for the Oregon highway commission, said here today he had received "encouragement from the feder al publlo works officials In con nection with proposed construc tion of five bridges on the Oregon coast highway. He has been here for several weeks to press for fa vorable action. Devers said he expects bids for one of the. bridges will be adver tised within two weeks, and that bids for three of the spans will be advertised within SO days. He was I unable to say which bridge would ' t I J . M M. i The attornev said he had dis. n M WI1I3 NTIW
