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vi Vacation Time WKATUER Fair today'; and ' Monday, . ) little change - in . tempera- , tore; Max. Temp. Saturday. "'" 81, Mln. 40, rirer -L3 feet, . north wind, dear. , . 4 , ; Keep potted on local news while on roar. vaca. UonL Hare The Statesman follow yon. Telephone 0101 in ordering change. orde 1 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning July 23, 1933 No. 102 , : : , - r v-f- ; ': -.v -; j vYV - FOUNDED 1Q51 . : j j . - y. ' - ,. , ...... -r , J" ' f I VETERANS WILL BE HERETflDAY IN STATE MEET Memorial Program to Open " Spanish war Soldiers' 25th Encampment Business Meetings, Social to be Numerous Events Monday, Revealed spaxish War veterans program for today 8 a. mJ to 5 p. in. Recep tion, registration at Senator hotel. t 7:45 p.lm. Organ prelude. First Presbyterian church. 8:00 p. ni. Memorial ever rises, Fiii Presbyterian church. I MONDAY 8:10 a. m. First call by Chief Musician L. W. Mickel son. j 8:30 Parade, from, head quarters to statehousc. 10:00 Joint meeting, de partment, auxiliary, and grand lair. 12:00 Formal opening of encampment. 1:80 p. in. Business meet ings. 4:00 Past department commanders' banquet. 5:80 Open air banquet, Marion square. 8:30 Grand ball, Fraternal temple. United Spanish War veterans from all parts of Oregon will In vade Salem today for their 25th annual state encampment, which will run through Wednesday. Street banners were pat up yes terday, store windows were deco rated, courtesy cars provided for and housing of delegates ar ranged, to show the visitors that Salem welcomes them. Registration, reception and housing of delegates will be con ducted from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. today at the Senator hotel, head quarters for both the veterans and the auxiliary. Headquarters for the grand lair of the Mili tary Order! of the Serpent will be at. the New Salem hotel. -Memorial Service Scheduled Tonight Following an organ prelude at 7:45- o'clock tonight, memorial services will begin at 8 "at First Presbyterian church. The pro gram will be as follows: Song, "America," by audience; opening prayer by Rev. Grover C. Birtchet; anthem, "Goin Home," Dvorak, by the choir; scripture reading by Rev. G. H. Quigley; number by Nazarene male quartet; introductory re marks by Department Comman der Leslie R. Hale; reading names of deceased comrades by Department Adjutant Roy C. Lin ville; reading names of deceased sisters by Jessie P. Nelson, de partment recording secretary; taps by Chief Musician L. W. Mlckelson; memorial address by Comrade William A. Elkins, pas tor of the Monmouth Christian church; retiring of colors, song, "Star Spangled Banner," by au dience; benediction' by- Rev. I. G. Shaw, department chaplain. After the encampment call by the chief musician Monday morn ing, delegates and visitors will form at the Senator hotel and (Turn to page 2, col. 3) 10 LIDS KILLED III MOTOR MISHAP WOODBURN, July 22. (Spec ial) Two boys lost .their lives in an auto accident on the Pacif ic highway near the boys train ing school north of Woodburn to day, shortly! before noon. They were John Mead, age 12, and his brother, Robert, age three, of Brunk's , Corners. Polk county. They were riding with their moth er, Mrs. H. M. Mead, and another brother, Carlton, age nine, the family being en route to Skamo- kawa, wash., to visit relatives. Mrs. Mead was driving and drew out to nass a track whleh was ahead of her!. Her car skidded and crashed into the truck. The two boys werSi crushed In the impact Remains Were taken to Salem. Henry Kunz of Mllwaukie, was driver of the truck. Deputy : Coroner Golden last night said It was "unlikely that an inquest mould be held. This accident brought the J 2th and 12th fatalities from automobile mishaps In year . I Marlon country this Horse Killed by Hit-Run Driver i Eugene Hawes. 15, was badly bruised and the horse he was rid ing was killed, when -they were truck by a hit-and-run driver early this morning on South Com' merclal street near Oxford. - The driver turned off his lights as he sped away from the scene, so that his number! could ' not '$ be read. Joe Weathers, riding another horse alongside Hawes. was not struck. The Hawei -boy lives on route 3-. The horse belonged to W. JLlnfoot. S il ver Ful Dedication to Draw Large Crowd Today Program at 1 :30, With Leslie Scott Speaker; Both Roads in Good Condition; Local Committee Promotes Event MARION county will take to the hills todayi concentrating at Silver Falls to dedicate the recently created Silver Falls park. Elaborate preparations have been made by the general committee of which Dr. David Bennett Hill is chair man. Subcommittees have been working and everything will be in readiness for the. affair. Attendance running into the i O thousands Is expected from ad LIMITED TRADING ALLOWED WIDNDflY Chicago Grain Market Will Open; Restriction Upon Fluctuation Voted (By the Associated Press) Grain and security markets of the country will be open for lim ited trading periods only tomor row following the crash of prices which affected them all. Directors of the Chicago board of trade yesterday decided to re open that grain market, the larg est in the world, after two days suspension. Future dealings In grain will be permitted between 10:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. for an indefinite period and under a min imum price restriction whifh will prevent declines in wheat, corn, oats and rye below Thursday's closing quotations. ' . The New York stock exchange' on which prices firmed yesterday after three days marked by sharp declines, will limit trading hours from noon to 3 p.m. The New York curb and produce exchanges, the Philadelphia stock exchange and the Chicago stock exchange will observe the same restricted hours. . Most of the other major grain markets were expected to act in accord with the Chicago board of trade both as to trading hours and regulations against fluctua tions. The Minneapolis chamber directors meefTtoday to decide on their nolicv and the Duluth board of trade meeting' was slated for early tomorrow morning. TO Opinion that it would be use- lees to call a special session of the legislature to draft a tax, law in place of the gross sales tax act defeated in Friday's election, was expressed Saturday by Char les V. Galloway, chairman of the state tax commission. "What conld another legisla ture do in face of the drastic de feat of the sales tax at yester day's election T" Galloway asked. "Any special tax would be de feated regardless of whether it was enacted to relieve the state's pressing financial situation or for some other purpose. All tax mea sures are subject to referendum." Galloway said the defeat of the sales tax leaves the tax structure of the state unchanged with the real property tax remaining in full effect. The tax delinquency for the first half of 1933 aver ages 45 per cent in the 36 coun ties. Had the sales tax been approved receipts from the act would have been used In offset ting the property levy, Galloway declared. He said the counties and cities would have received the most benefit from the sales tax law. - WAGE BOOST DEMANDED KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., July 22 (AP) The W ey e r hauser! Timber company, largest lumber concern in Klamath county, was shut down late today when about 500 employes went on strike, de manding an increase In wages of 25 per cent. The walkout occurred while R. R. McCartney, manager, was In Washington, D. C, conferring with national leaders of the in dustry abont the establishment of a recovery code for wages and working hours. H. J. McCoy, as sistant manager, said tonight he could not predict what sort of a settlement might be made here. Representatives of the workers said the men would report at the plant Monday, but . that they would not resume work unless their demands were met. STATUE DEDICATED PORTLAND,1 Ore., July 22 t APi A bronze statue of Harvey W Scott, late editor of the Ore ronian.' was dedicated here today at the crest of Mt. Tabor park, lo cated on one of the highest nuis on the east side. Deelarlnr that gcott's work would "live even without thla via (JJMiep I s Park vance indications. Stay ton and Silverton in particular are giving fine response. Road conditions will be excel lent. The state highway commis sion will sprinkle the two roads leading to the falls and the stretch between the north and south cataracts. The county has had crews getting the south road in shape to care for the extra traf fic. The hour for the program is 1:30 p. m., in the park space at the south falls. The principal ad dress will be given by Leslie M. Scott, chairman of the highway commission. Rev. George H. Swift will have charge of the program, which Is to be as follows: Community singing America and My Oregon, led by F. G. Deck- ebach, Sr. Prayer. Introduction of guests and may ors Douglas McKay, mayor of Salem; Joseph K. Carson, may or of Portland, introduced - by Mayor McKay. James W. Mott, representative first congressional district, Oregon. Leslie M. Scott, chairman state highway commission. Salem Chemeketans will act as guides to conduct parties on the four mile trail around the ten falls. Boy Scouts will act as guards at places to prevent ecci dents; and every precaution will be taken to avoid accidents. (Turn to page 2, col. 1) POLK GOES WET BY 22! Falls City and Monmouth Dry; Independence and . Dallas Favor Repeal DALLAS, July 22 (Special) Polk county went wet at the spe cial election by a margin Of 222 votes after the count had varied from a majority of 240 for the wets down to a bare majority of 41 votes. At midnight Friday the wets held an edge of 140 votes and increased their lead this morning when the remaining pre cincts sent in their count. Twenty four of the 35 precincts In Polk county voted wet on the repeal of the national prohibition law. Dallas repeated its stand of last November by going wet by 119 votes and Independence reversed Its stand and lined np for repeal. Falls City and Monmouth were the strongholds of the drys. The Dal las vote was small with only 4135 ballots being cast out of a regis tration of 7917 for a percentage of 52.2. . voters in this county cast a stronger vote for the repeal of the state prohibition law than for the repeal of the national law, giving a majority of 424 votes for repeal of the state law. The sales tax was snowed un der by a rote of over 3 to 1 while the county manager amendment was defeated by about 1500 votes Oscar Hayter and James Imlah, wet candidates, were elected with 2384 and 2155 votes respectively. Virgil L. McPherson and Perry O. . (Turn. to. page 2, col. 1) c VOTE MAJORITY Klamath Loggers Strike Harvey W. Scott Honored Snake Fights Reflection Ex-Senator Carsner Dies terlal reminder," Chester H. Row ell, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, in the principal ad dress, said that the late editor had built his own monument. HAS X1XE RATTLES BURNS, Ore., July 22 (AP) Remember a few weeks back when cock robins In Kansas City, Portland and points east and west were battling their own images reflected from windows? When Mrs. John Waterhouse of Hines entered the yard of her home she heard the warning buzs of a rattlesnake. Investigating, she saw the reptile coiled; on the window Bill, striking angrily at its reflection In the window. The snake was killed. It had nine rat tles. - FUNERAL IS TODAY THE DALLES, Ore-, July 22 (AP) Robert J. Carsner, St, registrar at the land office here. a former member of the state sen ate, died at a hospital here last night He was operated . npon Wednesday. - . - - ; Carsner came here from Spray where he operated a large stock ranch. The funeral will be held at Spray Sunday at 2:30 p, m. FURTHER s E BY WETS IN STATE VOTE Federal Repeal Carries by Nearly 2 to 1 ; two of Counties go dry Governor Indicates August H may be Date set for State Convention PORTLAND, Ore., July 22 (AP) Repeal of the 18th amend ment was voted, and the last ves tige of state prohibition had been erased from the statute books of Oregon . today by an electorate which 18 years ago embraced anti-liquor laws in a rousing wel come. Returns from yesterday's spe cial election showed Increasing gains by the wets. Dry leaders were disappointed by the two to one vote for repeal, but they were not disconsolate. One of them said "we were prepared for such a jolt. We will fight harder than ever now." Only two of Oregon's 36 coun ties were definitely in the dry column today. They were Benton, the county seat of which Is Cor vallis where Oregon State college is located, and Linn, the adjoin ing district- These two counties, however, will have a total of only five delegates of the 116 from the state at the constitutional con vention next month. Douglas county In . southern Oregon, and Wallowa, in the east were ex tremely close. Reports from 1,728 of Oregon's 1787 precincts gave 133,821 votes for repeal of the 18th amendment. and 70,875 against repeal. The vote on abolition of the remaining state dry laws was along the same line. Last November Oregon repealed the bone dry acts' in the state laws, and only "constitution al prohibition remained until to day when the slate was wiped en tirely clean. A 2 per cent state sales tax which the legislature had propos ed as a means of reducing the property tax burden, was sent to an ignominious defeat by a vote of nearly four to one. A proposed tax on oleomargar ine, an .issue that has appeared on the ballot in nearly every election in recent years, was defeated by a vote of about three to one. .Governor Julius L. Meier indi cated today he probably will call the constitutional convention tor Monday, August 14. The 116 del egates to this meeting will have no choice in their voting. Each candidate pledged himself to vote In the convention, wet or dry, as his county voted in the election. Multnomah county, with Port land commanding 95 per cent of the vote, gave repeal a majority of more than three to one. The upstate vote was about three to two. River freight business between Salem and Portland picked np late last week after having declined several days previously, Arnold S. Johnson, manager for Salem Nav igation company, announced yes terday. Both of the company s steamers, the Northwestern and the Stranger, are again in service. making three round trips weekly. "We've never before had this much business at this time of I year." Johnson commented. "The Northwestern is carrying around 150 tons and the Stranger about 120 tons on each trip. A lively river business is expect' ed until August 5, when the docks , at Oregon City will he closed for repairs. The repairs will include addition of another lock to cope with a lower river" level down stream from 'the falls end win take from CO to 90 days for com pletion, Johnson said. HAS FOREST FIRE BEND. Ore.. July 22 (AP) A forest fire tonight was sweep ing no a steep slope on a quarter mile front north from the rugged Metollus river country into a vir gin stand of pine on the Warm Springs reservation. Fearful that the fire might jump the river and eat its way in to timber in the lower Metollus country, fire offlciala sent three equads of fire fighters to the Bcene of the blase from civil con servation corps headquarters at Camo Sisters. The entire person nel of the camp was field1 in reaai ness for an emergency call. Word from the fire line Indl cated that the three squads of fighters had crossed the river and were assisting Indian service fire fighters in . control work on the north bank of the Metollus. some men remained on the south bank to guard against flaming embers. - Relative humidity in Bend dropped to 11 per cent late today. the lowest of the year. GAIN ID FDEfGHT ON RIVER BREAKING RECORDS METDLIUS REBIDH A round OKLAHOMA OIL Abductors Apparently Want Only Urschel, Husband Of Slick's Widow Machine Guns are Pointed At Card Players and Both men Taken OKLAHOMA CITY, July 23. Sunday (AP) Walter Jarrett, Oklahoma City oil man, kidnaped with Charles F. Urschel, at the latter's palatial home late last night while playing cards' with their wives, was released early today after about an hour In the hands of the kidnapers. Two swarthy men, each armed with a machine gun, entered the sun parlor where the wealthy oil men and their wives were playing bridge, and the leader, Mrs. Urschel said, excitedly de clared "Don't cry out or we'll blow your heads off. Which one is Urschel t' No one replied. "Well, come along then, both of you," he said motioning with his machine gun. The men arose and as the lead er brought up the rear, he turned at the door and warned Mrs. Urschel and Mrs. Jarrett: "Don't move and keep away from that telephone." For a moment, the two women sat dumbfounded, then fled In terror upstairs to the room where Betty Slick, 16-year-old daughter of Mrs. Urschel had retired, and telephoned police. Where Jarrett was released could not be learned Immediate ly. He called police and said he would come to the station at once. Jarrett's release indicated the kidnapers had determined the Identity of Urschel, wealthy oil man, who married Mrs.' Tom Slick, widow of the multi-millionaire "king of wildcatters.' CODE TDO DRASTIC WASHINGTON, July 22 (AP) A conference between Hugh S. Johnson, the industrial adminis trator and groups representing employers and labor In the ship building Industry adjourned to night with Johnson advocating a 32-hour week and ship builders presenting a vigorous resistance. The meeting recessed until to morrow afternoon to give Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Newport News shipbuilding and drydock company, opportunity to fly here from Norfolk to present the shipbuilders' case. After several days of fruitless efforts to effect a compromise be tween shipyard employes and management on maximum hours and minimum wages nnder code of fair competion, Johnson moved determinedly today to settle the conditions nnder which the navy's impending building program will be carried out. It was learned that labor had accepted the 32-hour proposal suggested by Johnson, but .the shipbuilders presented a united front in opposition. - - FURNITURE MEN OF STATE 10PT CODE PORTLAND, Ore., July 22. f AP Homer Goehler of Port land was elected president of the retail furniture dealers of Oregon at the annual convention of the association held here today. Other off fleers elected were: Manrice Dalton of Dallas, first vice president; H. L. Peterson of Ontario, second vice president. and J. King Bryant of Portland, re-elected managing director. Th association adopted, with a few minor adjustments, the Na tional Furniture association's bus iness practice code drawn np in accordance with the national in dustrial recovery act. The new code wag forwarded to Washing ton, D- C last night. A. B. Frank of Chicago, representing the Na tional Furniture Manufacturers association, and Bennan Schoen feld of Seattle, representing the National Retail Furniture associ ation attended the meeting. , SPEEDING CHARGED Donovan J. ' Buchanan, route eight, was Arrested on a charge of speeding last night, according to police reports. He posted 15 ball. MEN KIDNAPED ONE RFLFASFD on m Globe. Sets Circles Globe in Less Than Eight Days to Lower Record by 22 Hours ',- V i V ' 'f - - r , UV " 'v1iK- i vy.. -: -v- av- I V a V::.v: .: . .v. .-.v. .:.v :. .w . ...... I , V i - "J ' 1 t ! I -v.'. ; 'x :A - - '4 The air-minded portion of the world's population thrills today at the . a . .a. s b a ' . . aa a exploit or wiiey I'ost, uaianoman wno aasoea aronna me woria in seven days, 18 hours, 49H globe circuit and to lower the record he held along with. Harold Gatty for the swiftest dash across all the longitude lines. MOLLISOIIS FLYING Amy has Lipstick, Jim no Baggage at all; Good Weather Favors PENDINE, Wales, July 22 (AP) Carrying a lipstick for Amy and no baggage at all for Jim, the flying Mollinsons took to the air today .to make their long delayed flight to New York. For Amy, "the greatest adven ture of my life," for Jim, "this may be my last spectacular flight." Their plan was to cross the At lantic non-stop to New York, thence again across the sea non stop to Baghdad. They ran their plane, the Seafarer, off the beach of Pendine Sands and into the air at 11 a. m., Greenwich time (8 a. m. Eastern Standard time.) At 1:20 p. m., Greenwich time (8:20 a. m-, E. S. T.), the Mollln sons were sighted between Fast net Rock and the Cork mainland. The Seafarer carried 400 gal (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Salem Barbers Gather Monday To Frame Code Proceeding under instructions received from General Hugh Johnson calling for cooperation In promoting industrial recovery, the Salem chamber of commerce has invited trade groups to meet at the chamber to work out codes In . compliance with the spirit of the act. A meeting of all Salem barbers will be hem Monday.- night at the ; chamber rooms, at S o'clock. W. H. Gil- more, - president of the state board of barber examiners, will be present to assist. Retail paint and wall paper dealers wil hold a meeting Wed nesday night at the same place to establish their code. Robert Huteheon is local chairman. Goss Found Guilty; Labor Defense Demands Release O. H. Goss, leader of the un employed labor element, was found guilty of the vagrancy charge by the six-man Jury which sat on the case on its retrial. The jury took about two hours for its deliberation, making its report at 2 o'clock. . Judge Hayden sentenced Goss to six months In the county jail, whereupon notice of appeal to the circuit' court was immediately filed. Goss Is out on bond. Following decision of the jury. It was announced that a second charge against Goss will be dis missed. ; Unemployed Council followers of Goss crowded the courtroom during the trial and collected out side the court stairway while the jury was deliberating. However, there was no sign of a demonstra tion when the verdict was made known. The' crowd later fathered Sol o minutes to complete the first solo Key Pittman Wins Victory At London; Nations to Restrict Market LONDON, July 22 (AP) Representatives of the silver pro ducing and holding countries at the world economic conference signed tonight a solemn agree ment the provisions of which seek to raise the price of the white metal which is used for money by nearly half the population of the globe. The accord was regarded as a victory for the persistent effort of Senator Key Pittman of Nevada who has been carrying on untiring negotiations for rehabilitation of the silver market. In Mr. Pittman'a hotel suite the representatives of India. China and Spain, whose coffers are bulg ing with monetary silver, of the United .States, Mexico, Canada, Australia and Peru, the great world producers, completed a memorandum which calls for re strictions of silver sales for four years. When ratified by the home gov ernments the document will take the form of a treaty. The big producers will absorb from mine production amounts of silver equivalent to the sales of holding countries. They will hold this metal for monetary use while agreeing not to sell any monetary silver. Fight Reported At Beer Garden State 'police received a hurry up call early this morning to go to the Silver Eagle, a beer gar den east of Salem, where it was reported that a free-for-all fight was under way. Details of the fight or whether anyone was hurt, were not available at the time. in front of the unemployment of fice on Court street and held a mass meeting. Demand that charges against Goss be dismissed were made in a letter received yesterday from the Portland headquarters of the Oregon section. International La bor Defense, by Judge Hayden. Three other officials are said to have received similar letters. Judge Hayden paid no attention to the letter. Its contents are: "The Oregon Section of the In ternational Labor Defense hereby demands that yon dismiss the charges against O. H. Goss, now on trial In your court on charges of vagrancy and disturbing the peace as a result of his participa tion and leadership in a mass dem onstration . of the unemployed workers of Salem against the cut ting off of relief. (Turn to page 2, coL 2) ADOPTED Flight Record ROARING ID GREETS HIM AT BENNETT FIELD Elapsed Time Is Seven Days 18 Hours 4954 Minutes; Final lap Speedy Cuts About 22 Hours From ' Former Time Made in Jaunt With Gatty NEW YORK, July 22 (AP) Wiley Post shot down from the darkness at 11 p. m. tonight. (Eastern standard time), com pleting his world flight for a new record. His appearance, almost an hour ealier than he had anticipat ed' was so sudden that the hupe throng was startled. The flier was not seen until he came down almost in the cen ter of the field. He landed from the north, taxied his plane to the end of the field and around to the front of the administration building.. Mrs. Post was in the crowd that had had been waiting at Floyd Benett field since ear'y evening for the Oklahoma flier who reached here after a non stop trip from Edmonton, Alta. Major J. Nelson Kelly, super intendent of the field who te corded Post's take r off at 4:10 a. m., (Eastern standard time), last Saturday, clocked his return officially at 10:39:0 p. m. Post's official elapsed time therefore was 186 hours, 49 minutes, for his journey ef ap proximately 15,400 miles. He had flown around the world in little ever a week, and near'y 22 hours less than on his pre vious journey. Crowd Rushes Past Lines of Policemen As Post taxieTl along the crowd became frenzied. About 3000 per sons broke through the strain ing lines of policemen and push ed toward the Winnie Mae's spinning propeller. Post was forced to stall his motor to prevent possible lb jury to them. The flier did not climb from his ship immediately. It was pushed up the taxi strip to the administration building with him still in the cockpit. Post had ' flown from Edmon ton with phenomenal speed. He had left there at 9:41 a. m.. coming southwest across Can a 3a and thence back into the United states. The enthusiasm of the crowd for. the 34-year-old aviatoi's stir ring achievement exceeded any thing ever seen at the field, at tendants said. Pho ographers pressed around the purple and white monoplane to take pictures while Post still was In his seat. As the deafening cheers con tinued unabated. Post rose and waved a couple of times, then slumped back into his seat. Ap- parentlr he was close to exhaus tion. After several minutes Port was pulled from the cockpit by Lee Trenholm, his representative, and a policeman. He was taken Immediately to an automobile and there was no opportunity for . anyone to speak to him. Oklahomans Travel Far to (ireet Poet In the forefront of the throng that had pushed to the Winnie Mae was a group of Oklahoma men who had flown here to -wel come Post. At 11:23 p. nu his automobile drove away from the field ' for the mldtown hotel where bis headquarters have been main tained. A bed was ready at the hotel for Post, who had snatched only short naps on his journey. He ' had complained at Edmonton of a headache. The aviator's return to .be field uhich he had taken off at dawn week ago was fully aa hour earlier than the crowd has) expected. Trenholm was the first to greet the flier at the field, but the words they exchanged could not be heard. Mrs. Post did not go out on the field, but remain ed in the automobile in which Post was hurried away. She had hot coffee and a lunch for her husband. Harold Gatty, who had been waiting nervously for many hours, managed to get through the crush around the plane and grasp his old comrade's band be- . fore the aviator lctjt. ' Beer Tdx Meet Will be Called Calling of a special city coun cil meeting, Monday night to act on the beer taxing, bill was vir tually assured last night. Dr. O. A. Olson, father of the measure, re ported. The meeting will be held. at S p. m. if the aldermen egret; ta th till, as eznectedJ i ,1