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'"''ri:': . , : . . . LITTLE MERCHANTS : All Statesman carrier are charged for all ; paper they deliver. - Please notify the office when changing address. Telephone 0101, , WEATHER V Partly cloudy today and Thursday no- teanperaturo change;' Max. Temp, Tees day 74, Mia. 47, river S feet west wind, dondy. 1 FOUNDED. 1051 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning; Jane 28, 1933 No. SO S X i I. it I f it llOIOi Grai IflRinMflHFY 4s IIUIIL.U I1IU11&.I France, Other Gold Nations ' Urge Britain: to. Join With no Success Wheat Acreage and Export Restriction Move has Difficult-Time LONDON, June 27 (AP) The world economic conference faced a showdown tonight upon the decision whether the princi pal European powers will follow the American monetary program for breaking the back ot the de pression or will leave the United States to pursue her own: policy alone. - Abandoning all hope ot per suading or forcing the United States to stabilise the dollar, re presentatives of central banks ot four continental gold countries, headed by France, exerted pres sure on the Bank of England to join the stabilization group. The British government and Bank ot England officials, how ever, according to authoritative information, refused to be drawn into common action with the gold group, at least for the time being. While the monetary drama was being played behind the scenes ot the conference, the four-power wheat deliberations for restriction ot production and export encount ered stubborn' difficulties and called a . recess until July when the size of the 1933 crop f may be more exactly known. l Optimism Expressed :' '' ' V By Mdley, Arriving . I I " " A note of determined optimism was sounded by Raymond Moley, assistant secretary ot state; as he approached London to "Join the American . delegation at the con ference and bring the latest re ports upon International develop ments in America and the views of President Roosevelt. ; "Definite progress-', isw&elng made in accordance to the origin al program. Mr. Moley said at Cobh, Ireland; before the steam ship Manhattan brought him on to Plymouth where he took train for London. -Determination that the confer : - (Turn to page 2, coL 1) P PORTLAND, June 27 (AP) The state highway commission In dicated at its meeting here to night that it Intends to carry out its own highway engineering plans when it declined suggestions from members of the state's new park commission that the Arch Cape-Neahkahnle grade be chang ed so that trees considered of scenic value might be saved. Leslie M. Scott, chairman ot the highway commission, said that re sponsibility for highway expendi tures was with the highway com mission, as was responsibility for highway curves and gradients. A. R. Watdek, chairman of the state park commission, said that the right - ot - way in question had been "robbed" of some wond erful spruces and cedars, John Teon of the park commission, said the requested new grade would not Involve a "hairpin curve." Registration of Voters Declines Since November Marion county's registration tor the July 21 election totals 28,493, the county clerk' office announc- I ed late Tuesday. This is a decline of 2147 from the high mark reached before the November, 1932, election when 30,440 voters . registered. Of the total decline of 2147, 114 waa a decrease of city registration and 983 was a de cline In the rural territory. -iThe registration for the coming election Is divided as follows: Re publicans 20,013, democrats 7924, progressive 15, prohibition 4, miscellaneous 885. Of ten counties thus far to re port their registration to the se cretary of state's 'office, each re ports a aecune rrom me mark, the decreases rnnnlng from two to 14 per cent. ;: Business Firms Disagree as 'to I Monday Closing Petitions in . circulation fcere yesterday- calling for , Monday ' closing of Salem business houses, to make a three-day Fourth of July vacation, drew favorable' re- - sponse from some businesses, par 61 T N ARK ticularly grocery stores. ' t Major business houses did not fall in line' however, and as It r now stands those stores who wish to do so will likely be closed for Monday and Tuesday, while the v others will do .business Monday and close Tuesday: n Pit Feverish Crops Pr i ces Soar Hi gher Tells American View at Parley Presenting! the United States side of the argument. Secretarr of State Cordell HulL leader of the American delegation to the world economic conference In London, is pictured as he ad dressed the delegates of 60 na tions.- ALL QUIET ON THE IT Unemployed Council Lists Several Benefits From Recent Occupation All. was "Quiet on the courthouse lawn Tuesday after the clearing of the grounds Monday afternoon of unemployed relief demonstrat ors. Courthouse workers, bothered throughout last week by tthe ser ies of noisy orations made from the west steps, expressed pleas ure that the disturbers wtefe gone and that Quiet had been Restored. Relief ' headquarters on Nortn Commercial street also reported that business was being now con ducted in an efficient manner. Members of the Unemployed Council announced a meeting for Thursday night at which the Goss case" would be dfecpssed The group meets at 433 p Ferry street. - 1 j Late yesterday another! issue of the Unemployed Council News, mimeographed, made its, appear ance. Bearing the names of Goss as chairman and Sam Rutherford as secretary, the bulletin said the week's occupation of the court house grounds had brought out six' factors, enumerated as fol lows : "It has focused public attention on the' Intolerable and miserable conditions under which unemploy- I ed families are forced to live. "It has thoroughly exposed the Red Cross 'relief officials, and the composition and class bias of the county court. It has furnish ed a valuable lesson .to the work ers-as to the duel role of the cap italistic political machine under which so-called 'normal' condl tlons is directed towards the maintenance -of the merciless sys tem of exploitation. (Turn to page 2, coL 1) WANT HIGHER WAGB KLAMATH FALLS, June 27. (P) Herders in the Klamath country - were reported leaving their flocks on the ranges today to Join .a strike called by the Sheepherders' association, recent ly organized. The strike was call ed when demands ot the herders that their wage scale be $60 a month Instead of 340, as at pres ent, were not met. Owners ex pressed confidence ' they would find little difficulty In filling the vacancies. RECORD RAIN FALLS BURNS. June 27. (AP) An electric storm swept over this district today, bringing with it a rain that drenched the entire val ley. Seven-tenths of an inch fell in one hour, the most for that per lod, the Harney branch experi ment station reported. In II years. Tbe rain was welcomed bj the farmers, who said It would he of considerable benefit to their crops. . SALEM MAN NAMED HILLSBORO. June 27s (AP) The Oregon Washington dis trict ot the Lutheran church un der the Missouri synod will not be divided so tar as those two states are concerned, but southern Idaho mar secede If the general synod approve delegate fcere from Jhe V - ' V V - - ' - - V ; - con i Burn arid utures Pass Dollar Mark; Vast Total Of Trades Made CHICAGO, June 27. AP) It was hot in the grain pits ,. today as well as in the grain fields where withered crops set oft one of the wildest speculative orgies of trading seen on the Board of Trade since the world war. . Prices soared in snectacular fashion in all grains for the sec ond successive day as news con tinued to pour in that crops were burning up ' because of the ex cessive heat and prolonged drought. With grains sweeping up from three to eight cents a bushel on a huge volume of business, prices of wheat for future delivery cross ed the dollar mark, reaching a peak of 31.06 a bushel on the May (1934) delivery, with Decem ber touching 31.01. It was a record - smashing day. So vast was the amount of busi ness that seldom was it possible to tell the status of the market hy the blackboard quotations. The markers scurried baek and fourth on their narrow catwalk chalking price changes until one of them collapsed from sheer exhaustion less than a minute before the clos ing gong. Wheat was again the center of most attention, traders fighting for places to stand or eling on the pits' bulging steps and rims. Traders would attempt to buy wheat in vain and then a deluge of selling orders, coming from prof- ittakers, would almost swamp the pits. These cleared away like snow flakes beneath a blazing sun and the next minute would see buyers storming into the pits again. Each successive reaction was followed by rapid rises which almost al ways resulted in new peak prices. Wheat shot up more than sev en cents during the day as it did yesterday and closed with more than six cents of tbe gain retain ed. Barley scored an eight cent gain on the first transaction in the December delivery, leaping from yesterday's close of 56 to 64 cents a bushel. This was the most spectacular and the widest price gain of the entire day. T Leaders of both the coast ar tillery and the infantry units ot the national guard from Salem reported themselves well pleased with; this year's encampment. from' which most of the guards men arrived home during the noon hour yesterday, a few, com posing the rear guard, will return here today. Mess Sergeant Harry Plant up held his previous records for field kitchens, passing inspection 100 per cent nearly every day, Cap tain H. G. Malson reported. Guardsmen of Headquarters battery, 249th Coast artillery, were elated over their regiment's having won the annual competi tive drill with the Infantry. Pri vate First Class Wray Morehouse, Private Robert Osland and Pri vate Errin Edwards brought a second place to the local battery in the rescue race on the field day program. "All we do Is sign the payroll' was sung generally by the guards men Monday morning when they received their camp pay, cut 15 per cent this year. Sheepherders on Strike Lutherans Pick Seattle Burns Has Heavy Storm Jury Panel Is Exhausted three states decided at the con cluding session today ot the week- long district conference. - . The delegates accepted the In vitation of the Hope congrega tion of Seattle, to hold their next annual conference . In the Paget sound city. H. C. Reinke ot Twin Falls, Idaho, a layman, was one of tire persons today appointed to the board of finance to fix' bud gets for the next three years. W. Fischer ot Salem, Ore., was ap pointed to the board of education. GLENN PLEA DENIED t MEDFORD. June 27. (AP? The jury, panel was exhausted here today before selection of a Jury to hear - the trial ot John Glenn, former Jackson county jailer, "was completed. Glenn is charged with complicity In the theft of several thousand ballots from the county courthouse last February.'' ,;;,:.. v-,vv a plea of former jeopardy fil ed by Glenn in circuit court today set fortn that by reason ot the dis missal of the jury first drawn for his trial, he had been placed twice in jeopardy. The plea was denied by Circuit Judge G. F. Sklpworth of Lane county. The first Jury .was dismissed Monday when the state claimed that one of Its members disqualified himself through pre- Ijaaiciai statements. no n IS SIZZLING HETiT Willi; -x RELIEF SLIGHT ? . 'HM Scores Prostrated, Number Of Deaths Reported as Mercury Mounts Chicago has 100-Plus and Southwest is Hotter; New York Suffers (By the Associated Press) Most of the nation baked der a sizzling sun yesterday. Scattered showers in a few farm sections brought only scant relief to seared crops. Scores of persons were pros trated and a few died . as the mercury climbed to record highs. The temperature registered on semi-official thermometers in Chi cago was as high as 102 and an official thermometer showed 100.1, the hottest June 27 since 1913. Seven persons died in Illi nois. Two persons died In Indiana and the mercury veered from the mid ninety to. the century mark. Detroit reported one death and a reading of 96, breaking heat rec ords for June 27. Ohio tempera tures were in the 90's. Southwest Boils At Hundred Pins The southwest boiled It was 105 tor the second day at Alva, Okla. Some farmers In the state were forced to haul water tor miles to relieve suffering live stock. Texas temperatures stood near 100 and there was no rain in sight. Salina, Kas., reported a read ing of 103. Scattered showers In Missouri eased the heat wave somewhat. St. Paul, Minn., sweltered as the reading climbed to 100. There was one death in Minneapolis. Milwaukee reported a reading of 101; Omaha, 84; Lincoln. Neb.. 91; and Iowa around 90. New York was uncomfortable with excessive humidity while the mercury-stood ar 57 Fog delay ed snips. It was 87 In Pittsburgh; 84 in Baltimore. West Virginia saw rising temperatures. It was slightly cooler In Washington with frequent thunder storms breaking a two day heat ware. In the south, Atlanta had a maximum of 90 with showers forecast. At Birmingham where intermittent rains fell, the high was 98. Nashville reported 93 and Memphis 90. CASE IS AT ISSUE An alternative writ of mandam us directed against the Marlon county court on behalf of Thelma E. Ross, plaintiff, was granted Tuesday by Judge L. G. Lewel- ling, citing the court to appear and rive reasons why a $20 a month widow's pension should not be granted Mrs. Ross from April 28, 1929. The plaintiff asserts that her husband was committed to the state tuberculosis hospital in August, 1927, and In February, 1928, was sent to a hospital at Monrovia, Cal., at the advice ot his physicians. He died there Jan uary! 12, 1929, Mrs. Ross return ing to Salem in the same month. She alleges that she applied to County Judge Siegmund for a widow's pension the following April and .was Informed that the was not entitled to It because she had not been a resident of the county for six months. In her complaint she asserts that her residence In California was only temporary and that she was entitled to a widow's pension from the date ot her Initial ap plication. July 7 Is set as the date for the court to make its showing before Judge Lewelling. Non-High School Districts Board Meets Saturday The newly-elected board of edu cation for non-high school dis tricts in Marlon county will meet to organise here Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock, Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson, county school super intendent, announced yesterday. She Is ex-offlclo -secretary of the new hoard. Official totals en tho election held June It were delayed due to additional checking needed In four of the IS districts which bal loted , at the election. .The non. transportation group ot candi dates were shown, to have receiv ed a considerable majority In the Incomplete reports. ; ' Members of the new board are Michael - Weinacht, Ellis Stevens, C. A. Ratcllff, Ernest Werner, Eu gene Finlay. Mr. Stevens received the highest number of . votes pt any ot tho tea candidates. WM s ran Heads Program ToXreateJobs Colonel Don H. Sawyer, war-time director of army camp con structiozv who has been ap pointed temporary administra tor of public works la the Roo . sevelt re-employment program. E Five Cents on Loganberries Reported; Black Cherry Deal is Imminent While canners are making no open talk on loganberry prices for this vear. there is roiormauon from an authoritative source that one local concern has offered five cents a pound on as many berries as It could sign up. Cherrv Drlces show considerable ranee, with the most talked of firure for Royal Annes at 3 cents and blacks, 4 cents. Paulus is pay ing these figures, according to word at that plant, and Reid Mur- dock company and Hunts are eaia to be paying 3 cents on Royal Annes. Some eberrles are said to have been bought at as low as 2 H cents. Baker, Kelly and McLaughlin have bought a quantity for bar relling from the Willamette Cher ry growers at 4 cents. At The Dalles, growers have stood pat for at least 5 cents per pound, and are getting it. Handling of black cherries for fresh shipment east will probably get under way directly after the Fourth. Claude McKenney will be In the market on this deal again, and the Salem Cherry Growers' association will also ship a large Quantity. With the market show ing an Increase on California fresh shipments, there is hope that this price may range around or even above S cents. Strawberry barrelling will prob ably be nearly finished here this week, and it is now estimated only 1,000 tons will be put up in this section this year, in striking contrast to the huge quantity, es timated around 15,000 tons, put up last year. Strawbeiry growers are getting 5 and 6 cents at the canneries and barrelling plants Canning and barrelling of cher ries -will be general in canneries here next week. Paulus Is already canning a quantity ot blacks from eastern Oregon and Hunts hand led small lots of cherries as long as a week ago. T GMK BILL CASE A temporary Injunction re straining Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, from placing the so-called grange power act on the July 21 special election ballot was granted here Tuesday by Judge I. O. Lewelling. Petitions referenda lug the measure have . already been tiled with the secretary ot state' office and the measure cer tified to the county clerks for the ballot. Officials of the clerk's of fice here were of the opinion Tuesday that the injunction would obtain through a later order to be "5 jj; sent to clerks by the secretary of same time Judge Lew elling granted a motion of W. 8. TTRen, counsel for Hoss and the Security Owners' association, call ing for the plain till in the ac tion to make the complaint more certain. He allowed 10 days for the tiling of a bill ot particulars by the plaintiff. The State of Oregon, appeared as mover in the action, on an affi davit filed by F. E. Coulter of rortund wno asserted that pe titioners for referendum signa tures had asserted they were spon sored by the Oregon State grange, a statement Coulter gall was false. -. . . . CROSBYS HAVE BOf " HOLLYWOOD, June 27 (AP) A seven pound, six ounce baby boy -was born at a hospital -here tonight to Bing. Crosby, singer and-movie actor, and hl tsfnisx actress wus. nm ee v - - Vs I un- IA'N LL. FIT oralis Hi 11 ONE i n SCHOOL COSTS FOR YEAR ARE ILOllDlT Saving of $12,181.81 Made But Receipts Lack More When Taxes Unpaid Delinquency About Same as Last Year; Income of District Higher Salem's school administration effected economies during the year 1932-33 which resulted in expenditures' falling below the budgeted amounts by $12,181.11, Superintendent George Hug re ported to the school board last night. In addition it advanced $7200 at 7 per cent interest to the McClean Transportation com pany, which operates the school busses. Until this year the board had not paid transportation costs until the end of the school year. liems tor wnicn expenditures dropped below budgeted amounts were: Debt service $8559.92, fix ed charges $2836.02, mainten ance and repairs $1724.35, emer gency $1702, capital outlays $1)07.51, auxiliary agencies $984.16 and operation $754.41. Overdrafts on the budget were: Transportation $8480.60. instruc tion $540.82 and general control $145.74. District Receipts Well Below Budget The districts' receipts during the year fell $31,64 8.25 below the budget. Main items ot deficit were shortage of taxes received over amount asked for. 129. 109.62, and $12,469.20 from the county school fund. The county school fund, probably to be paid in the fall, ordinarily provides over 830,000 revenue to the dis trict at the- spring tax turnover. The aistrlct's share of the ele mentary school fund increased $1468.60 and of the tuition and transportation fund $10,333.0 over the budxet estimates. : Total receipts, however, rained $5732.62 over the vear 1931-32 largely due to an Increase of tax payments ot $18,438.71 in turn resulting from payments of back 1931-32 taxes this year. School tax aeunquency remained about the same. Superintendent Hug saia. loiai expenditures the nast school year were $30,947.41 be low those for the year 1931-32 Instruction, the largest Item, was cut $21,943.98; repairs to build ings and grounds $3554.03. FOB DALLES LIKELY THE DALLES, Ore.. June 27 (AP) The Dalles, with no banking facilities now, may have two banks soon, this was indicat ed by the application for a char ter for a branch bank here by the. First National bank of Port land. The United States National ot Portalnd recently announced u wonid open a brancn here if a charter could be obtained. The First National's decision followed a conference between E. 0. aiCMaugnton, president, and a group of The Dalles businessmen. ' lease was taken on the Citizen's National bank building here, with option to buy, and the bank will open its branch as soon as per mission Is received from Washing' ton, D. C McNaughton was quot ed. Tbe United States National is expected to occupy Quarters form erly used by the First National bank ot The Dalles. Nee 7 New TWO BOiCn BB Chairman; Names Without a sign of the adver tised disagreement, the new Sa lem school hoard, meeting for the first time last night, elected Frank E. Neer, senior director in point ot service, to the chairman ship from which Dr. H. H. din ger retired. The motion to elect Neer was put by Dr. B. r. Pound and seconded by Mrtv David Wright. Dr. Pound wan elected vice-chairman. ? Although Dr. Olinger hade school directorship goodbye, it be came evident . the new board would still seek his advice and services when Chairman Neer ask ed and received permission of the directors to Invite Dr. Olinger to serve with the finance committee in negotiations with - the new county non-high school district school -hoard. Neer pointed out that Dr. Oltnger, by virtue of his If years service oa the board. could giro valuable assistance ta these negotiations. The hoard la faced with an en- - 1 tlrely new duty, that ot eontraet- . tag jnta, jnt pon-higa school lIlIH FIRST SOUTHERN STATE West Virginia Industrial Centers Outvote dry Rural Communties Giving 60,000 Lead for RepeaLas Half cl, State's Ballots Tabulated; 2 to 1 Margin Shown Early But Country Districts Reduce it Repeal Holding 3 to 1 Ratio Angeles and San Francisco, With Little Chance of Change When Other Parts of California Report; Dele gates to Convention Elected SAN FRANCISCO, Jane 28 vote California today joined fifteen other state in voting te re peal tbe eighteenth amendment tion. Returns from 5,402 precincts, of which 100 were incom plete, from yesterday's special election showed 617,708 votes fer repeal and 200,593 against repeal. Tbe precincts reported rep resented the bulk of the vote in But one county, RlTerslde, early today, and that majority SAN FRANCISCO, June 27 bered prohibition ballots turns tonight from California's amendment. Virtually all these les county, which with its thickly populated neighbor coun ties once constituted the stronghold of the drys in the state. In 437 precincts out of 9,347 and 21,471 against. These returns represented and the remainder came from northern part of the state, and central portion. -O TEXTILE Organized Labor Protests . . I Provisions; Exemption Asked by Some Firms WASHINGTON, June 27. (AP) From labor and minority groups suaaen opposition sprung today as the nation's textile oper ators formally placed before the national recovery administration their proposal to stabilize indus try by establishing minimum wages and maximum working hours. Hardly had the broad outlines of their agreement been sketched before the crowd of spectators present, when William Green. president of the American Feder ation of Labor, objected to the age and labor, provisions of the code and several manufacturers came forward with requests that their plants be exempted. Presented by more than" two- thirds of the domestic spindle and loom operators, the proposed code of fair competition must be ap proved by the Roosevelt adminis tration before it takes the effect of law binding minorities to abide by it. Hugh S. Johnson, admlaistrat- or of the recovery legislation,, pre sided over the hearing at . the start, telling the thousand or more persons crowded Into the big, hot. commerce department auditorium that "you are about to be witness es of what may prove one of the most momentous meetings of this kind that has ever been held any where." "We have presented here from a great industry, with practical (Turn to page 2, coL 2) School Board Gtoups boards ot Marion and Polk coun ties for tuition and transportation of pupils to the high school here. Polk county, whose non-high school directors favor transporta tion, probably will send more pu pils than ever to Salem high school. Superintendent Hug i ported. The district's tuition charge this year will be about 111 per pupil, or $4 less than last year, he said. -: Committees appointed hy Chair man Keer are: building and grounds Dr. Pound, chairman. and Mrs. Wright; insurance I Walter B. Minier, chairman, and E. A. Bradfleld; employment Dr. round.- chairman, and Mr. Minier; - supplies Mrs. Wright, chairman, and Mr. Minier; fi nance -Mr. Bradfleld. chairman. and Dr. Pound j health Mrs. Wright, ; Before E. A. Bradfleld and Wal ter B. Minier were sworn In, the old board canvassed the June It school rote and approved the bond Of W. H. Burghardt a tiers: for PROGRAM 1 Ti ATur t pago I, eoL 1J. on Early Returns From Loa (AP) By an overwhelming ot- tbe United State coastltn- the population centers. showed a majority for retention was a single vote. ( AP ) Repeal votes outnum. more than 3 to 1 in first re referendum on the eighteenth returns were from Los Ange the vote was 62,097 for repeal 439 precincts in Los Angeles, scattered precincts in the San Joaquin county in the At the time ot this tabulation tho polls had not "yet closed in San Francisco county, which has always registered heavily against prohibition i In Its balloting. Specifically voters balloted oa the election of 22 delegates to a convention to either ratify or re ject the 21st amendment to the UnItd sute constitution, which wuuia repeat iu ism amenameni and 8et BD ne fandamnuJ law for the control of liquor. CHARLESTON, W. Va.. Jane 27 (AP) Offsetting dry thrusts from the rural sections. West Virginia's great Industrial centers rallied to the wet stand ard tonight in the state's prohibi tion election, giving the repealists a lead of over C 0.000 votee with almost one half of the precincts tabulated.- Rolling upward from the very first trickle of figures. In 1.C14 of 2,338 precincts the repeal eaue had amassed IS 1.4 31 votes compared to $1,475 for retentioa of national prohibition. Kanawha, tbe state's largest county, was running three to one for repeal with about halt its pre cincts In. Cabell, with two-thirde or the' vote reported, also sho a similar ratio. .Logan, Mingon, Ohio. Harrison. Marion and other heavily pop ulated counties conslstentlT la- . creased their wet leads as tka sparsely settled mountain and farm sections sent In their small er majorities against repeal. Tne nearly two-to-one lead for repeal, however, was cut down when votes from the highlands came in. Regarded as dry since Ills when It ratified its own prohibi tion amendment, the mountain state apparently was on the war to be the ISth state to approve national repeal, j Wet leaders elalmed the state by a f 0,009 te loo.ooo majority. HOOVER PRECDCCI WET SAN JOSE, June 27. (AP) Former President Hoovers' homo precinct, Stanford No. 1, want wet In today's election. The vet was 01 for repeal and 82 against repeal. Statesman Plans Championship Fight Service The Statesman-Ola irr y City Baking company "fight party" several weeks ago at tho time of the Baer SchmeUng fight wan appar ently so greatly appreciated by tana, that arrangements have been made for a simi lar affair Thursday night to provide Associated Press blow-by-blow reporta of the world heavyweight them ptonehip boat btawotax Jack Sharkey and Prlmo Camera. The Cherry City pmbUe ad drees car will broadcast the story from in front of The Statesman office, begtnnimf probably about B:SO p, na. There will, bo no radio broadcast from. tho ring- - " 1 1 n