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jt,. r v : Accident Insurance The : Oregon Statesman . will issue ; to subscribers Travel . Accident Insurance policy. Costs only f 1 per year. Call - 9101. - . . H ... EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon Wednesday Morning, August 9, 1933 No. 116 ; . VV'. J I J U T C"s'l l' U:l 'LnIXI VI LI 2 ii&tF V9SrV I A Irlfr I K1 I I I I I I I II I I I I I l " " iBHcliaBlntemperarerjl , i JKSl . riUr Temp. Tnes- . ; - -C? "li day 87. Mia. CI, river . ; " . x . '- W ' -T iX- tfAAlrSSrf?NvC -." feet, east wind. - v 4 t I r xN lJiatter However .Will go or ' ; V Ballot; ; ;District; Fund vitif'itinn ViuPrt y. . - .. . uiuuiiviu uiiu miiiiw wuj ; Scheme Uiiwise;' Pound Defends Program Opposition - to bonding. Salein chool district -for 'constructing additions and new. buildings broke out among the , directors last night, although members, of the board united in favoring submis sion of the matter to the taxpay ers at a special election. To this latter end, the board adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman in order, to permit is suance of the election call at an early date without holding a spe cial meeting. - Director A. E. Bradfield led the opposition to a new bond issue and backed arguments with a special report from the clerk showing $285,759.50 In district taxes unpaid, $23,100 outstanding In notes payable on demand and $174,489.86 outstanding in war rants marked "unpaid for lack of funds." Bonded indebtedness is nW $89,000. which with $8600 interest will be paid up in 1938. "I'm free to confess that I'm not sold on the proposition of adding another burden on top of what we already can't pay," Brad field declared. "I wouldn't con sider it good business conduct in my own business to borrow when I had liabilities that I couldn't pay. I -want these buildings .Just as bad as anybody; I'll go just as far as possible." . Seconding Bradfleld's remarks. Director Walter Minier asserted that "If we'll check orer our pro posed buildings, we'll find we can get along, using, buildings not now full." "When we do go ahead with new buildings," Minier added, "we should hare a definite rpla and should cut down the number of school buildings." Dr. B. F. Pound, holdover di rector, defended the proposed bond issue, declaring additions and new buildings were needed, that four per cent government money should be taken while available, and that the matter of employment relief should be con sidered. Portland bond attorneys. Dr. Pound reported, hold that the Sa lem, district is in condition to seek (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) OREGON CITY. Ore.. Aug. 8.- (AP) Donald J. Ryan arraigned In circuit court here today on in dictments charging him with lar ceny by bailee and "wrongfully converting money to his own use, possessed by him as a trustee," entered a plea of not guilty to each charge., Ryan, state representative from .Clackamas county, was formerly county clerk. He was arrested yes terday on a charge of converting to his own use $814, belonging to the Steiner estate and which had been entrusted to him. In the oth er indictment he was charged with having taken 9 183 posted with him by the city of Estacada, when he was county clerk. His bail today was reduced from $5,000 to $2,500. His trial was set for September 11. Because Ryan had served as clerk of his court for several years, Judge E C. Latourette will not preside at his trial. Judge George Bailey of Hlllsboro has been assigned to the trial. AS GIRL'S SLAYER SACRAMENTO. Aug. 9 (AP) Sacramento county deputy sheriffs arrested Roy Mann, 24, of Roseville, early this morning in connection with the mysterious death of a nearly nude girl in the pump building of a vacant house in Sacramento county. Roy P. Johnson, deputy district attorney, said that Mann had ad mitted taking the girl to the house but denied the killing, Johnson, however, said Mann would be charged with murder. .The girl, an attractive blonde. was found huddled across the pump machinery over a 60 foot well shaft. She apparently was. aoout 19 years old. mere were evidences of a struggle on the back porch of the house, with blood smeared on the walls and floor. The body had been dratted, a blood trail showed, down tn back stairs to the woodshed In the rear of the garage and then to the pumpnou8e. There was not a sin gle trace of the girl'g identity. M GUILT 1UHCM ram HELD Intensive Campaign For Re covery PI of an 'ChiselersV.' Being Reported to Ellis, Probe Of Complaints to Await Time When all : May be Acquainted With Code DAILY inquiries about the requirements for a Blue Eagle are coming to William P. Ellis, "general" in charire of the local NRA drive, his office, reported yesterday. Ellis said he was giving out such information as he had received but was delaying the carrying out of an extensive campaign until further data and publicity Washington. , . v Reports of dealers who ,mq enisenng ' on prices ana Hours of closing as Well as wages eome daily - to Ellis', office, he also stated. He said he would wait a : few . days until the blanket code's operation was better un derstood by employers before setting his organization to work checking up such complaints. Ellis said vhe did not think the local NRA committee could con cern itself with prices charged by any group, the matter of prices being left to the particu lar trade or association to regu late. Mrs. Harry Weldmer of Salem was yesterday appointed a "ma jor" to serve with the women's division under Mrs. Hannah Mar tin. She is the third major to be named for the women's de partment here. A campaign to secure consumer pledges for N. R. A. will soon be pusher by the local committee, El- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) WET, C01T SHOWS Wargin More Than Three to One; Drys Conceded it But Went to Court PHOENIX. Aris.. Aur. (AP) "Bone drv" for 18 veara. Arizona tonixht became the 21st state to ratify the proposed repeal of tne l8tn amendment of the na tional constitution, by a vote of more than three to one. Ratification was assured when returns from 323 out of the state's 444 precincts in today's election gave 34,389 votes for re peal and 10,147 against. Mrs. Isabella Greenway, demo cratic national committeewoman for Arizona, and friend of Pres ident Roosevelt's familv. defeated two men opponents for the state's lone congressional post, vacated bv Lewis W. Douelas. now direct or of the federal budget. Her nom ination Is. practically equivalent to election, as no republicans were In the field- Arizona "drvs" nractlcallv con ceded defeat beforehand, although they have a case now before the state supreme court attacking the validity of the election. Tne -arys" aid not place any candidates on the official ballot for delegates to the forthcoming state repeal convention, but voted merely by mark against repeal. Sun Blamed tor Autos? Collision Evelyn Ruth Rodgers of Inde pendence escaped injury although her automobile was struck broad side at Brunk's corner yesterday afternoon by a truck driven by Emmett Floyd Balch of Salem. State police who Investigated said the woman apparently was blind ed by the sun for she stopped her car in the path of the truck. Balch and occupants of the Rodgers ma chine were uninjured. EARLY STAGE DRIVER TILLAMOOK, Ore., Aug. 8. (AP) Hanry Crenshaw, 61, Til lamook county judge, died last night in a Portland hospital af ter an illness of several months. He came to Oregon from Iowa In 1893, and in early years oper ated a stage between North Yam hill and Tillamook. He was sher iff of this county from 1906 to 1916. Crenshaw was elected coun ty Judge last November, assum ing office the first of this year. His widow, two sons, a brother and two sisters survive. HEADQUARTERS HERB GRANTS PASS, Ore., Aug. 8. (AP) - C. R. Jester, deputy state horticultural Inspector here for the past three yeaxs, has been transferred to Salem,-where the state at large will be under his supervision. He planned to leave with tii family Wednesday for the capital city. W. "E. Rohland will corns here from Corvallls to succeed Jester. ' - PICKS UMPQUA CAMP ROSEBURO, Ore., -Aug. 8. (AP) Zane Grey, author and 11 Sll Ebene it materials are received from ' Asserted Exclusion of its Envoys From N. R. A. is Scored by Council Inferring a charge that em ployes were not being represent ed equally with employers in the NRA activity here, the Salem Trades and Labor council last night objected to the alleged ex clusion of the five members of the council's special NRA com mittee from the general com mittee for the city. A plan was advanced to have each of the SO labor unions in Salem send a representative to the NRA or ganization heads here to seek representation. The council also adonted a resolution from the Seattle Cen tral Labor council joining in a protest aealnst the allered acts of certain store groups whom it was charged were- whittling down the benefits that should accrue to their employes under the NRA. Two resolutions for in trod nr. tion at the state federation of labor convention which opens at Portland next Monday were passed by the council. One pro vides that the federation shall investigate and make arranre- ments for a law giving various units of . government in Oregon the right to make contracts cov- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) KIDNAPING HINTED III DEATH OF DAILY CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 8 (AP) A belief that kidnapers struck down and killed 27-year- old Oliver S. Bally, a leader of the younger smart set of Cincin nati society, was expressed by his relatives and friends tonight. They thought it possible the kidnapers found the husky young captive more than they could handle. But the police neverthe less, went on hunting for a wom an. They believed they have - evi dence one had been with him along a wooded drive late Satur day shortly before somebody hit him on the head with a brick causing his death. Toung Baily's wife and three-year-old son were vacationing at Lake Placid, N. Y., and his par ents were at North Port Point, Mich. So there was no one to report him missing or to Identify him un til late yesterday, when police succeeded in tracing the shoes he wore. Urging acceptance of the kid naping theory, friends pointed out that kidnapers might have intend ed to seek ransom from Baily's wealthy father-in-law, Jess LIp- plncott, president and treasurer of the Cincinnati union stock yards. Tillamook Judge Dies Jester Is Transferred Zane Grey Vacationing Legion Men Gathering sportsman, left here today for the Steamboat ranrer station on the North Umpqua river where he planned to spend the rest of the summer fishing. He was accom panied by his two sons, Romer and Loren. SALEM VET IS FIRST KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., Aug 8. -(AP) The vanguard of the delegates to the state conven tion of the-American legion open ing .here Thursday was arriving here tonight. A total of 4000 visitors is expected here for the convention. J. L. Pounds of Salem was the first guest to sign the regis ter. He was accompanied by his wife, who is a delegate to the auxiliary session. . A pre-convention business meet ing will be held Wednesday night.- The annual bands and drum corps contest lias been scheduled for the Klamath coun ty fairgrounds Friday night, with entrants from California as wen as Oregon. The convention will close Saturday with the election rof officers. - .-w-. General U WW N 1 liiii American Ambassador Goes To President; so far no Results Shown Machado Says Strike Will Cease Today; Election Reforms Promised (Copyright, 1933. by the Associ ated Press) HAVANA, Aug. 8. Sumner Welles, United States ambassador, it was confirmed from a high source, told President Gerardo Machado today that he must ask congress for a leave of absence if Cuba's political problems are to be settled. This was the "principal point of a formula agreed to by Cuban po litical 1 parties and presented to the president by Welles in his ca pacity as mediator of the island's political difficulties. The government appeared ready to resist. Machado announced a short time before: "I an and I contin ue being president of Cuba in the plentitude of all my constitution al prerogatives, of hich I may not cede the smallest part without betraying the confidence deposit ed In me by the Cuban people." The president's statement came a short time after he had held an Interview with Welles. The Amer ican envoy declared as he left the presidential palace that "media tion is not ended." The ambassa dor had been engaged for some time in an attempt to mediate the Cuban political turmoil. The strikes of transport and other workers, which have spread rapidly in Havana and in other parts of the island the past week, may be broken tomorrow, the president asserted. "The laborers have protested to me energetically the perverse form in which they were provoked by elements foreign to them in yesterday's tumults which were rapidly repressed by the police of the city without the army's hav ing to tire a single shot." The president said he was dis posed to reach an agreement with his political adversaries and that even today he had sent to con gress a recommendation for im mediate approval of the electoral reforms advised by Professor Howard Lee McBaln of Columbia university. The latest count of the results of yesterday's street firing, made by visits to the morgue and hos pitals, showed 21 dead and 146 wounded. This did not Include persons treated in their own homes. Marlon county is being more generous with its unemployed than other counties as far as use of the portable relief can nery is concerned, Commissioner Roy S. Melson declared yester day. Protests had been heard at the county relief committees taking one out of every five cans of vegetables being preserved with the portable canning plant Lane county is taking one in four and Linn one in three of the cans of produce, Melson said he was informed. The com mittees in these two counties plan to take one-half of the to matoes, meat and fish which will be canned later and Intend to make their portable canneries self-liquidating, according to the commissioner. Around 660 eans of beans were packed at the auto park yesterday, an Increase of 50 over Monday. The relief committee hopes soon to speed up the op erations. Fund for Care Of Willamette Locks Provided WASHINGTON, Aug.' 8 (AP) The war department today al loted 866.865 for operation of The Dalles-Celilo canal on the Colum bia river during the current fis cal year. This is in addition to an $81.- 021 unexpended balance The- department also allotted 822,500 for care of the canal and locks In the Willamette river at Oregon City, in addition to an un expended balance of 810,485. 87 -Degree Heat Recorded Here More of yesterday's 87-degree temperature Is predicted in the weather, .bureau forecast for to day. The thermometer rhad been rising daily since last Friday when the Maximum was only 62 degrees. ens WITH 11 7 Strife .?t I v . J v ft . - JDr Cartas jLLiti-i, Jr:4, jDECESpgDEsl I'sTr 3Tt The United States has appeared rather reluctant to t ake an active hand litical troubles, but Ambassador ident Machado, in effect, that he car B. DeOntas, Cuban ambassador to the United States, was informed several days ago that this na tion would hot discuss tariffs with Cuba until the situation there was improved. Dr. Carlos Manuel De Cespedes has been mentioned as a possible succe ssor to Machado who would be acceptable to all parties. The nnrest in Cuba has been fostered by the A. B. C. society, a meeting of some members of which is shown above. - BALLOT STEALING Schermerhorn Handed Three Year Term, Ladieu and Jones get Four Each MEDFORD, Ore., Aug. 8 . (AP) Gordon L. Schermerhorn, former sheriff of Jackson county, was sentenced ' today to serve three years. In the Oregon peni tentiary for complicity 1 n the theft of 10,000 ballots from the county eourthouse last February. The ballots were stolen the night before a recount of votes was to be taken to determine the legal ity of Schermerhorn's election as sheriff. Arthur Ladieu of Medford and Walter Jones, mayor of the town of Rogue River, convicted of sim ilar charges, were sentenced to four years each in the peniten tiary. Motions for new trial filed by Schermerhorn, Ladieu and Jones were overruled by Circuit Judge G. F. Skipworth of Lane county, who presided over all the trials growing out of the ballot theft case. Six others who had pleaded guilty were given lighter sen tences then all, with the exception of Wesley McKlttrick, were par oled. A previous prison record prevented McKittrick's parole. In all, 20 persons were indicted for complicity in the case. The sentences here followed by one day the sentencing in Klam ath Falls of Earl H. Fehl, Jackson county judge, to four years In the penitentiary for complicity in the theft of the ballots. His trial (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 8 (AP) District Judge Hendrlek son played the role of Solomon when Mrs. E. M. True sued In his court today for 85, the price of a pair of shoes which she charged had been lost when left for re pairs. Petro Ferrani, defendant, pro duced a pair of shoes which he declared were Mrs. True's. She said they were not. Judge Hendrickson Invited Mrs, True to try them on. She did. and they were too large observed the court: "A young woman la Inclined to wear shoes too tight, rather than too loose." Mrs. True was awarded 88 for her lost shoes and 35 eents ad vance payment on repairs. Late Sports SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8- (AP) Jim Browning, 215, claim ant to. the world's heavyweight wrestling championship, defeated Bob Kruse, 208, of Portland, In straight falls here tonight. Using airplane spins. Browning tossed Kruse in 88 minutes and one min ute. . : LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (AP) -Maxle Rosenbloom, 180 tt, clev er New.' York light heavyweight champion,, scored .'a technical knockout over K. O. Christner, 197, Akron, O., in the sixth round of a scheduled tea . round bout hers tonight t S COMPLETED U HOLE WISE M1 -.1 Sumner Welles s poke firmly as had better take m vacation while State Police Fired on in MilkStrike LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 8 (AP) Striking milk farmers tonight flredja fusillade of rifle shots from v ambush, narrowly missing two state troopers who were part of a convoy accompany ing eight large tank trucks of milk. 'More than a doxen shots were fired from the bushes. The 28 troopers, under com mand of Lieut J. A. Morrlsey of Troop D, returned the fire. Ob servers estimated more than 300 rounds were fired into the under growth along the highways. No one was hit however. This Is the second time milk trucks have been fired upon dur ing . the milk strike. Tonight's shooting occurred at East Creek, a quarter of a mile west of the Herkimer Montgomery county line. One of the farmers' bullets struck the rear of a police car in which Troopers J. H. Barr and J. S. Keetlng of Troy were rid ing, missing them by about six inches. Other bullets hit the rear of the first truck. Two struck its shell, but did not puncture it. Four others lodged in the chassis. No trace of the farmers could be found in the bushes. Amateur Yeggs Are Blamed for Jonetf Slaying Fingerprints and rogues' gal lery photographs that police scrutinized yesterday in an ef fort to identify the slayer of Milton Howard Jones, Valley Packing company watchman, Sunday, proved of little value, District Attorney William H. Trindle announced last ' night. Little evidence remained to work on, he averred. Police joined in declaring the shooting and the intended safe cracking was the work of ama teurs. The two sticks of dyna mite found , near the packing plant, they said, were of but 40 per cent grade, or low grade blasting explosive. Liquor Control Group is Firmly Against-Saloons PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 8 (API The state lianor control committee, recently appointed by Governor Julius I Meier to nit npon a plan for the control of li quor In Oregon in the event the 18 th amendment Is repealed, agreed at Its first meeting here today that the saloon must not re turn to this state and that there must be a state law regulating the sale of liquor, but allowing the several counties and municipali ties to prohibit the sale within their borders If they so wish. Among the methods of control suggested by committee members as worthy of consideration were those used in Finland, Sweden and Canada and those outlined in the Anderson plan of the Wicker shara report. Another plan recent ly framed under the direction, of Pierre Du Pont was also discuss ed. . - Pamphlets outlining the vari ous plans were received, by the committee and will be studied be fore the next meeting.: in settling Cuba's involved po mediator Tuesday and told Pres others straightened things out. Os TO BE REINSTATED Pound Fears Entire System Will Come Back; Bids on Sidewalk are Asked Salem music teachers' efforts bore fruit' last night when the school board voted to reinstate Gretchen Kreamer, in effect, as music supervisor. The matter, brought up by the music teach ers' petition late in the spring, had been banging fire on the board table ever since. No extra salary is Involved In the change. The reinstatement was unop posed at the vote although Dr. B. F. Pound averred that "If you keep on at this rate, you'll have your entire supervisory sys tem back in." Superintendent Hug recommended the reinstate ment and also favored reinstate ment of Clara Pomeroy to at least part time supervision of penmanship. The board did not act on the latter proposition. . Use of Olinger field was grant ed the Salem Archery association, which was represented personally by Dr. L. B. Schmidt and In writing by a petition signed by Dr. Schmidt. Otto K. Paulus and 30 others. Sealed bids were called for construction of 630 feet of city standard sidewalk on the south side of Howard street along the Leslie junior high school prop (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) McDonald Given District Deputy Off ice for Elks O. Lyman McDonald of Salem has been named district deputy for the southern district of the Elks lodge in Oregon, it was an nounced here yesterday. McDon ald, a past exalted ruler of the local lodge and long prominent in its affairs, was appointed by Wal ter F. Meier of Seattle who Is now grand exalted ruler for the United States. McDonald's duties will call for visits to all the lodges in this dis trict and a report to the grand ex alted ruler at the national conven tion. A discussion of legal questions Involving the probable effect re peal would have on liquor con trol . regulations existing before the state prohibition law was passed showed the problem to be so complex that lawyers of the committee were charged with stu dying the problem and employing outside legal talent if necessary The possibility . was seen by some members that rulings by the supreme court and even a special election might be necessary before the various questions Involved could be settled. Attorney-General Van Winkle will be asked to furnish the com mittee with copies of all state laws pertaining to the control , of sale of liquor before the next meeting. Another question to be discuss ed further at later meetings was that of continuing to allow, beer and wine to be sold in restaurants and other places. Those who spoke on the subject said there .. . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) MUSIC north mm GIVEN SI 20,000 Debate Oyer Merits of two .- Routes is Waged. Before '.' Highway Commission ' Southern Route Gets More But Commissioner Says Amount Satisfactory PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 8 (AP) Highway projects totaling 31.240,000 were decided- open at a meeting here today of the stata highway commission and repre sentatives of the forest serviced and bureau of public roads. And addlUonal 875.000 of forest funds was allocated to maintenance a&4 835,000 for surveys. The largest share of the high way funds, 8275.000, was alto cated to three sections of the coast highway. They Included 4 Hebo-Dolph, 3185,000: Port Or-ford-Euchre Creek, 350,000, and Gardner-Glenada, 840,000. The largest single allocation was for; the Diamond Lake road, 3280, 000. Other allocations included: Cascade Lakes, 375,000; West on-Elgin. 3100.000; Willamette, 3150.000; North Santiam. 3129, 000; South Santiam, 3170.000-4 Tiller Trail. 335.000; Enterprise Imnaha, 330.000; Lincoln-Berry, Creek, 335,000, and Wapinltia 350,000. Before the allocations were made, delegations presented ar guments for funds for the North Santiam. South Santiam and North Umpqua routes from the Willamette valley to eentral Ore gon. Northern Route is Shorter to Portland State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock estimated cost of the North Santiam project at from 31,175,000 to 81.550.000. depend ing on whether or not the old railroad right of way was aban doned and made available for a highway grade. He estimated the route would be from 13 to it miles shorter from Portland to Bend, depending on cutoffs ntll ized, than by the southern route. The figures were based on esti mated cost of grading and surfac ing from Mill City to the junc tion of the two routes in the Cas cades. Construction of the South San tiam project from Cascadia to the junction, the highway engineer es timated, would be about 31.330,- 000. Delegations representiasj (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) STREW ARRESTED MONTICELLO. N. Y., Aug. 8 (AP) The sensational kidnaping of John J. O'Connell. Jr., seien. of the ruling political house of Albany, was laid to Manaey Strewl and "several others" todax by District Attorney John T. De laney, of Albany. Strewl, the intermediary whdl effected young O'Connell's release by handling the 340,000 ransom' payment, was freed from police "protection" on an unopposed habeas corpus writ and promptly; arrested as one of the alleged kid napers. The ex-convlct was lodged in a cell while his custodians ate din ner and then was started back to Albany, where a sealed indictment was returned earlier. District Attorney Delaney said he had been out looking for "several others" who might also be charged with the kidnaping. Strewl, whose record includes two federal prison terms, brought young O'Connell back to the Hel derberg mountain camp of his un cle, Daniel O'Connell, on July 30, after delivering the ransom mon ey in New York City. BEER TAX STAMPS IN SHORT Mi An order for 100,000 beer tan stamps probably Will be sent to the printer this week so that beer dealers can obtain . a suf ficient supply of the stickers. Alderman O. A. Olson of the council license committee report ed last night. He said that even if the bottle tax should be re duced, over 50,000 of the pres ent one-cent stamps would be used before the change could be effected. - City Recorder Poulsen yester day again sold his entire supply of the one-cent stamps, or 6009 of them, he announced. Stamps sales this . week have amounted to 881.10, bringing the total to date to 3173.45. Forty .six .beer licenses .have been granted, with no new ap plications received yesterday, ac cord ing to City Treasurer - Rice He estimated license revenue at I860.- - ' , IN O'COIELL CASE P