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Attendance so far , Double 1932 Figure," Receipts At Gate are Equal ; - Directors' cup Race is big Event on Track; Night Show Spectacular PROGRAM FOR TODAY AT OREGON STATE PAIR (NRA Day) 1:30 p. m. Running rarcs on Lone Oak track.- 8 p. m. Last showing of, Jim McCleave's Gymkhana and Ed Wright's rodeo In front of grandstand or In stadium. 10 p. m. Pyrotechnic dramatization of . fTRA in front of grandstand. 12 midnight Close of 72nd annual Oregon ' state fair. Gate receipts at the 7 2nd an nual Oregon state fair last night amounted to exactly tbe same as for the same period of last year's fair, Indicated that attendance at the reduced prices has been double that of a year ago, Di rector Max Gehlhar announced. Yesterday, Farmers', day, drew a crowd of 11,891 persons, 6000 less than Portland day Thursday. The fair management has designated today as National Re - covery Administration day. The Directors' cup race will feature the afternoon program on Lone Oak track with an intermission parachute race between Rusty Roy, Friday's winner,, and Sailor ' Ted Benton, , who are scheduled to leap from" a plane at a two mile deration. Following the gymkhana and rodeo tonight at 10 p. m., a pyrotechnic drama tization of the NBA moTement will bo presented in front of. tbe rrandstand. Dancing and,, merry making along the - midway will bring the 1933 fair to a close at midnight. Most Exhibit Will Stay Till Midnight Gehlhar announced that lire stock exhibits would be released at 6 p. m. today but other exhi bitors w o a 1 d be . compelled to keep their displays intact until , midnight. Exhibitors and em ployes will be admitted to the grounds without - charge Sunday but other visitors will be re quired to pay a small admission charge. In addition to the Mt Angel band, Tislting organizations at the fairgrounds today will include ' drill teams representing four Ore gon chapters, Modern Woodmen of America, which will compete . in connection with the firBt an nual encampment of the order here. General Maurice Smith of Kansas City, head of the mili tary department of the lodge, will be in charge. The teams will consist of 16 men each, with two ' from Portland and one each from Klamath Falls and Ashland. An all -state banquet will be held downtown tonight. Announcement of the two out standing boys and two outstand ing girls participating In juven ile club activities at this year's fair probably will be made short ly after noon today. In recogni tion of their work these boys and SirU will be entertained at din ner at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Lee Steiner tonight. Next summer they will spend fire days t Wallowa lake lodge. H. C. Sey mour, state club leader, also will be a dinner guest of Dr. and Mrs. Steiner. . " , - For the first time in the hls (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) , FACE COMMITTEE PORTLAND, Sept. 8. (AP)- A special committee of Governor Meier's state relief committee of 32 closed an all day session' of effort to formulate a program for raising relief funds here today; and found Itaolf with Hat "a mt tax levies that might raise 13,- 200.000. The list of taxes, .which the committee had prepared for its own information, after decision that with the sales tax excluded series of lories would b necea ry. carried a luxury and amuse ment tax, an ocenpation tax, a "quor license tax, a tax for.inflti wung legislation, an increase ot om 2 per cent to 10 per cent f the state's share of parl-mutnel etting and a property tax on au tomobiles la lieu of the portion "trtcken from the license fee; " ' ' " " wa assumed that the luxury !n mnsement levy might obtain 500,ooo, lery on liquor 1400,000, i.0"0,000, the occupation tax n Htuel leTT Increase $5 wo and the automobile property 1700.000. ; : . -.Various proposals were made rj1"? the day fayorlng a capital T' Sher income taxes and high ly bonds. SIX TAX SUES FORD MAY " "' r;-, ti I : y ; : ,K Foap v - vfe. ,.,.v ; .Vw- x - I? v; ri y c ' i- : , .. f' TX -A, . ' ? At Executive CoixrEOBKcs, Any suggestion that Henry Ford or the' Ford Moto r company -.ill fight the NRA, is scouted by. offi cials of the company. Whether Ford signs up or n ot, the company is already complying with the auto motive rode, they declare. Ford'a extreme indirid ualism is deemed! by observe to be the principal cause of his reluctance to conform to standards set by others. Though the first to set the $3 mini mam wage and to inaugurate other welfare mores, he has fought bankers and Insisted on running his business in his own way. His Independent att itude has separated "him from many former associ ate and his son, Edsel, is the only other man who has any voice in the management of the Ford interests, now. CDDE IS OBSERVED FORD FIRM CLAIMS Henry may Sign, may not; No Fight is Intended Officials Assert DETROIT, Sept. 8 (AP) There will be no "fight to the finish" between the Ford Motor company and the National Recov ery Administration, it was learned from an authoritative source to day, because the Ford company feels it Is complying with the code and there is nothing to fight about. " "The code; doesn't have to be signed in order to comply with its terms." was the statement. "Nobody has to Bign anything as long as they observe the provi sions of the NRA." Perhaps Henry Ford will sign the code perhaps he won't. Ford alone knows that. But whether or not he does, at the company's plant today it was said entire compliance with the Recovery Act is possible without Ford's signa ture "on the dotted line." This was not Ford's own state ment, but, coming from a high source, it was represented as be ing the opinion of the Ford com pany since the inception of the National Recovery act. "If we signed the code we'd have to live down to it" an often repeated statement of the motor manufacturer was said to be the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Many Being Sent To Harvest Jobs By Local Agency While 500. hoD Dickers were heinr called for at Independence. the employment burean here fin anced by the city and county gov ernments sent 73 men and one woman to work, chiefly at agri cultural occupations. An, order for ten onion pullers that came in from L. O. Herrold near closing time was auickly filled by men waiting at the employment office for just such an opportunity. During the day, 11 blackberry nickers were hired for F. D. Mit chell and 10 for P. B. Sharf; two pear pickers for Charles M char ter and 13 hop pickers for George Vick Other jobs were two at common labor,' 15 at general farm work, and one at wood cutting TKV BILLION FEET BURN PORTLAND. Sept 8. (AP) - A report has been submitted to C. J. Buck, regional forester, stat- i- .v. nnrnrni&tlv 10.000.- U1& V v - " 000,000 feet of timber was lost in the coast range fire that blazed unhindered for more than two week during atigust. The report was made after local officials of the federal , forest. ; .service - nu made a surrey of the fire area in an autogyro plane. a ' r BOON," SAYS PIERCE BEND. Sept 8. 4(AP) -Th first distrlbetion of federal public works money in Oregon, about S2 000.000, will take place with in the next few days, Congress man .Walter M. Pierce, in Bend today, aaid he had been MoroeA by sources , in contact withi the "is allocation, he said, will be followed., frobably In NoTember. SIGN; WON'T FIGHT NRA Code of Coal Industry May Emerge Soon WASHINGTON, Sept 8. (AP) A near crisis in the admin istration's effort to fasten an NRA code upon the .bituminous coal industry was bridged tonight with indications that both Hugh S. Johnson, the administrator, and spokesmen for the mine owners had made concessions in a new step toward agreement. Angrily, Johnson faced four of the operators In a three-hour con ference after receiving a biting letter of condemnation of the code which he handed down yesterday with the ultimatum that it would be promulgated early next week with few changes. At the end the quartet emerged smiling, and the administrator said he hoped still for a charter next week with a general agree ment from the industry. He ad ded, however, that the public hearing he had set for Monday afternoon might be postponed 24 hours to give the mine owners more time to study the most com prehensive code yet written at the recovery administration. DEATHS DULY 100 ST. LOUIS, Sept 8. (AP) Seven more deaths sent the sleeping sickness to near the hundred mark tonight Ten residents of St Louis died since yesterday and all but two were over 60 years of age. The death list was ninety-eight tonight, and 35 cases have been reported for the St Louis area. Scientists were more confident than ever today that the . cause and mode of transmission of the malady would be discovered shortly in the concerted investi gation under way. Scientists who are veterans ot a dozen epidemics declared the scope ot the medi cal and research- organization built up here to study: the dis ease, is unique in the history of medicine. An indication of laboratory progress away from the insert theory of transmission and that evidence is upholding the original hypothesis that the disease is spread-by' human carriers, was found today In new orders by health officials. SLEEPING an 85 Umber Loss Estimated . Dog Causes Gun Accident Public Works Funds Due , ' Standley Sawmill Burns by a second distribution of about 18,000,000. OWNER MAY LOSE ARM i f KLAMATH FALLS, Sept 8 (AP) Chester Sanfmis, Seattle, may lose his right arm as the re unit of the accidental discharge ot a cocked -gun while en a hunting trip. He was struck by a enarge when his dog jumped from Sam mis': automobile and alighted on the gun's trigger. :--.;"v ; , K; BTATtTSI TW VTTCL BINS i ROSEBURO, Sept 8. (AP) Fire destroyed the Standley Bros. .awTnflT lnatftl on tha COOS BSV- Roseburg highway, last night af ter apparently starting in the fuel bins. Accumulation ot planer shav ings : aided the biaze to spreaa rapidly and caused damage esti mated at 82600. The property is owned by Ed Reese ot Cottage Grove and the mill employed 18 men. Gem Hugr-JohntoW"- Dr. Heinrich Starts Laying Foundation for Attack On State Evidence SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept 8.(AP) The supreme effort of David A. Lamson's defense forces to cast doubt upon the state's charge that he killed his attractive wife Al- lene with an iron pipe began here late today with the calling of Dr. E. O. Heinrich, noted crimin ologist, to thewltnesf standj,, Heinrich. noted In other cases for going into the realm of, the microscope to find evidence that had escaped ordinary human ob servation, abruptly began laying a scientific background for what tbe defense expected to be a contra diction of some of the findings of the prosecution experts. In language highly technical but sprinkled with every-day phrases for the benefit of laymen, the criminologist explained the methods of testing substances for the presence of blood, saying such tests must be made with great care to avoid errors. , The exact trend of his testimony was not apparent when court ad jorned until next Monday morn ing but his reference to tests of charred blood, to the means of distinguishing human blood from that of other creatures an-1 his as sertion that an instrument used to scrape away spots ot blood and then substances not of blood might mix the constituents to the point ot confusion Indicated a possible attack on tbe testimony of Dr. Frederick Proescher, state witness. Another phase In the litigation involving the rates for log haul ing charged by the valley & suets railroad was passed here yester day when Charles M. Thomas utilities commissioner, filed his answer to tle recently filed com plaint of the railroad company. The case is in circuit court here, following plaintiff's appeal from Thomas' order which cut trie rates the Valley t Silets charge on log hauling. . The case is expected to be tried here shortly.- Its outcome has a vital bearing on the reopening of the Charles K. Spauldieg Logging company hre. . The latter has frequently asserted that it can operate it the lowered rates approved by Thom as are sustained . in the courts. On any , rate order,, either party affected has a right to appeal. . Body oi Missing Man Found: Held - Case of Suicide ROSEBURO. Sept S-(AP) Search for W. G. Adams, It, started on August 81, ended to day when a message said that Adams body had been found on Tunnel Eight mountain, near Glendale. An investigation was started by Sheriff Percy Webb, who expressed the belief , that Adams had shot himself. - Adams left his home in Glen dale 'on the morning of August 31 after borrowing a Tine from a neighbor and no trace had been found of his whereabouts until today. -v- -. , nAlLOGIST ON ST10 FOR LISON IS ENTERED TO LOeRlTECOMPLW slsFouei WILD MURE Walking Arsenal The n; Kills - H imself ; was Formerly . Asylum Employe Shotgun, Rifle, 2. Revolvers And 400 Cartridges, are ::. Carried by Madman r BELFAST, Me.; Sept 8 (AP) A madman, armed with an as-. sortment of -firearms,, went ber serk on the main street of this small city, today, killing two men outright and mortally .wounding two others, before he barricaded himself in a blacksmith shop and committed suicide by blowing' off the top of bis nead. , , - The killer - was - Adrian . Jones. former employe of a Massachu setts insane asylum, who had been known to be demented hut generally considered harmless. The dead were: Herbert E. El lis, C 5, an insurance salesman, and Raymond Blazo, 40, a truck man, who died instantly under the madman's fire, and R. Bam Stanhope, 47, a veterinarian, and W. W. Blazo, 75, father ot Ray mond, who died of their wounds in a hospital several hours after ward. Jones appeared on the street in front of the Masonic temple shortly after the dinner hour. He brandished a rifle in one hand and a shotgun In the other. As townsfolk scurried for shel ter, the madman came upon Ellis and without a word shattered his body with a blast from the shot gun. Jones then walked rapidly down the street and turned off Into Washington street, where he en countered Blazo and his father conversing with Dr. Stanhope in front ot the trucking office. He sent a volley of shot into the group that sent all three crumpling to the sidewalk and then fled into a blacksmith shop. There, while police and sheriffs were laying plans for his capture. enes-bjfought-hJa- brief career.olJ bloodshed to an end by sending a shot through his head with a .45 calibre revolver. When his body, clad in an Ill- fitting overcoat, was removed, it was found he had besides the rifle and the shotgun, two revolvers and more than 400 rounds of ammunition for the various wea pons. CONTROL APPROVED (Copyright, the Associated Press, 193S) WASHINGTON, Sept 8. (AP) A cotton production control program for 1934 and 1935 has been approved by President Roosevelt and its outlines are ex pected to be announced tomorrow or early next week by Secretary Wallace. Two main features of the plan include crop reduction for next vear to around 25,000,000 acres and a virtual guarantee ot parity price to the grower on a portion of his cotton. This guarantee, as applied to each cotton producing county, would be almost halt its produc tion over the five-year average from 1928 through 1932, since the domestic consumption ot the entire production in the five years approached one half. In turn, county . committees would make the allotments to the individual farms on the basis ot the production ot the land during tbe period chosen. If a farm raised 100 bales yearly during the period and one man cultivated it, next year he would be assured the par ity price on 60 bales, or slightly less. Scan'Educators For Next Head Oi Willamette 'A considerable number of edu cators are being considered for the presidency of Willamette uni versity to succeed Dr. Carl Gregg Doney who last spring . submit ted his resignation effective at the end of the coming school year, according to Dr. B. Earle Parker, pastor of First Meth odist church here and a member of the committee . which is -to recommend the candidate for the office. The committee met early this week but took none but pre liminary action. v : Amedee M. Smith, ' Portland; eh airman of. the . Willamette board of trustees, is chairman of the .special committee .which Includes Senator R. - A. Booth. Eugene ! Judge James "W. Craw- ford, Portland; Dr-T. o. xaxnes and Dr. Parker Salem. v MURDER IS CHARGED , ' BRTJNEAtX, Idaho, Sept 8 (AP) Brown Roberts of Ham met t was held nere today to an swer a charge of first degree mur der in connection with the slaying August of Arthur. 3. Sullivan, Bruneau cattleman cnPHODn At my Office by Bedlam Reigns for:Time; All Revoluhbhary ; Is Suggested by Planned (Copyright; 1933, by the Associated Press) HAVANA,, Sept, 8,i-(AP) Three hundred - Cuban, army officers ousted by their troops Monday were held vir tuaT prisoners tonight in . the Hotel National, diverting at tention from attempts of the executive commission to select a new president of Cuba. Machine guns .were trained on the hotel, where the officers were proaching ; it were searched. ' o -Bedlam reigned -for a time in i the hotel lobby as officers, ABC J members and students,- many of J them, armed with- rifles and- pis- tola, created : general uproar - that finally, .quieted, bringing a sigh of relief from-the city, v . -The new developments reached a climax shortly after the cruiser Indianapolis had steamed from the harbor with Secretary of" the Navy - Claude ; Swanson, who - re mained in - the port two' hours without coming ashore. He was en route to Panama and the' west coast Sergio Carbo, member of the unta which has assumed control of Cuban affairs, earlier had stated the executive commission was inclined to form a coalition cabinet "with representatives of all the opposition sectors that have cooperated with us in our revolutionary work." This Indication of the junta s attitude followed shortly a flat refusal to accede to a proposal (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Entertainment, Unusually Extensive Displays are Planned for 21st "Buy Now What You Need Put Someone to Work. That slogan, employed in the drive -for . busiaeBSvjiftder jthe .na tional recovery act, will he fea tured in more ways than one this year, when the saiem Ad clno stages its annual Fall Opening on September 21. Window displays and advertis ing will carry this central theme in an effort to impress upon the public the importance to buy now. Merchants are planning more ex tensive displays of fall merchan dise than ever before, and novel entertainment features are being planned by the Ad club to draw thousands of people into the busi ness district on the night of the opening. A special feature in connection with Fall Opening and the buyers' drive will be an essay contest on the subject "Why Buy Now." Grand prizes, a complete fall out fit for man and woman, will be offered in addition to numerous smaller merchandise prises to winners of the content which will begin Monday. Details and rules will be announced within the next few days. The annual street parade is be ing planned this year with a num ber of new features. The evening's entertainment will be climaxed with the annual Ad club dance. Acre Reduction Fund Estimated HILLSBORO, Ore., Sept 8. (AP) Acreage reduction in Washington eounty Is expected to give wheat -farmers of the dis trict approximately 1100,000, an estimate ot William F. Cyrus, county agent, states. Cyrus bases his estimate on a basis of 830 per acre with about .8294 acres to be taken from production. BUY NOW SU FOB Fill OPFJR Patterson liophy Won by Monroe; 4-H The annual 4-H club style re view and the announcement of 4-H club awards in the outstand ing special contests, drew 7000 persons to the grandstand at the fairgrounds . Friday night - - The program was la charge" of -H. C Seymour, state club leader; Miss Helen CowglU, Dr. L. J. Alien ana other officials engaged In . this work. -' fx.:,-- i V.-J;:,"'" - nt Mnnm. riiiVaml Tnnth. received the Governor Isaac Lee Patterson trophy, which Is one of the most coveted awards at each succeeding state fair. The presen tation was made by Mrs. Patter son who. In a few words, compli mented Monroe for his achieve ment Tou have worked long and hard and you. are worthy of this award," Mrs. Patterson said. Mon roe responded briefly.; Mr." Bey. mour previously lauded the late governor tor the Interest he had taken ta boys and girls, club work. . ; v During the six years that Mon roe has been engaged in club work he has completed M projects, led 21 one-hundred per cent Judging teams and has given eight demon strations, all of them placing in some contest Monroe has attended rs Prisoners Mibati Junta Coalition Group With Parties ' Represented -V. men in Cbiitrol held, arid all automobiles ap Realignment of Positions Is Made Necessary by Vacancies,-Stated Transfer of three teachers from the Junior high schools to faculty positions at Salem high school will feature the realign ment . made necessary . there this year by the resignation of two teachers and tbe absence of an other away on leave. Mrs. Sylvia Kraps, social science teacher at J. L. Parrish Junior high school for several years, will hold the history teaching position vacated by the resignation of Mrs. Clau dia Fuhrer. Mrs. Ida M. Andrews, former ly head of the art department at Leslie Junior high will be trans ferred to the senior high school this year while Ruth Brauti is abroad visiting art centers on a year's leave of. absence. Frances vveicn, instructor in nome eco nomics at Parrish, will spend her mornings at the Junior high school building and In the after noons will jteach at Salem high, filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Carol M. Chase. While tbe exact details where by vacancies made in the teach ing staffs of the Junior high schools may be filled at no addi tional expense have not yet been completed, Superintendent Georce W. Hug said last night" that irt will be possible to readjust mat ters there so that no new teach ers need be employed. Returning from leaves of ab sence of a year each, Joy Hills, head of the social science depart ment at Leslie, and Bertha E. Magness, English teacher in the same school, will' take up some of the slack. Miss Hills, a grad (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) MORE TROUBLE I All was quiet on the hopyard front late Friday night although the sheriff's office was momen tarily expecting some new out break. All seven of the agitators arrested here In the last seven days were treed on ball late Fri day afternoon: Each one Walk er, Berglund, Mann, Fessler, Bris tol, Segrlst and Wilson raising a bond of 8250. The agitators were to have had a hearing before Justice of the Peace Overton at Woodbum on Friday but the case was held over until next Tuesday, at the request of the district attorney's office. Seven alleged friends of Bris tol all students dr. former stu dents at the University of Oregon appeared at the sheriff's office yesterday to protest Bristol's ar rest and -to say they were ready to aid him in any possible man ner. Circulars opposed to the meth ods used in the arrests were being distributed In some yards. Review Held two 4-H club summer schools on state fair scholarships and placed In Judging contests both times. He said his high scoring record at the Pacific International Livestock exposition was his greatest achievement " . . .. - This year Monroe carried more projects than ever before. These included calf lf 2 and 8; poultry 1, 2 and 4, bee, seed, forage, corn, potato, garden, camp cookery, for estry and dairy record keeping. The award was based on achieve ment and leadership in club work activities. Monroe also received first prise for senior 4-H club work, offered by the Oregon Bankers associa tion, for participants between the ages ot It and 21 years. Folmer Bodtker, - Lane, was second; George Shambrook, Douglas, third, and Richard Bailey; Clacka mas, fourth. , - .v : r c -The '.style review probably was the most colorful event staged at this year's state fair. In the cot ton school .dress class first place went to June Clark of Multnomah eounty, with Myrna Laird ot Lane econd. Kathryn Parks. Portland. won first place in the tailored suit ,V JTurn to Page 1, Col. 4) 1 . TMIISFE 10 TO SEfli HIGH JOBS S ran Iflljl ili Bodies of Missing Climber ' " Found on Crevasse ShcJl;; Near Summit; Tragedy Irj Storm Evidenced " $T ;: Eleven Searchers Worn ;oul V By. Task, Unable to Bring Men out; First Fatalities On Jefferson in Years PORTLAND, Ore., Sept (AP) The bodies of three Portland men; apparently tit victims of an avalanche on the icy slopes of Mount Jefferson, were to be brought here early today as the final episode te one of the most heroic searches ever conducted in the mou' tains of Oregon. Each of the trio had suffered a broken neck and had appar ently been carried several hun dred feet on the front of aa avalanche before dropping ia. to their icy tomb. Members ef the party that found the bodies -were of the opinion that instant death had resulted in the slide. The discovery came by mere chance, searchers said, as snow had covered the bodies. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept 8. (AP) Confirming the fears ex pressed by experienced moun taineers, Mt Jefferson, a tower ing 10,500 foot peak, today re vealed the deaths of three Port land men who had essayed to climb its precipitins cliffs and cross its dangerous ice fields in a blinding snow storm Labor day, A party of searchers explor ing the crevasses Just below, the bergschruhd of Whitewater ' gla cier, a point a few hundred feef below the summit of the defiant peak, came upon mute evidence of the tragedy as they found the huddled bodies of Davis McC&m ant, Don Burkhardt and John Thomas, on a crevasse shelf. Exactly what happened as the trio battled its way up the tor tuous climb will probably never be known. Meagre1 Information that has reached leaders of the search here indicated the men. probably near the point of ex haustion, tumbled into the yawn ing chasm and were too weak to extricate themselves from the icy, tomb. Searchers Unable To Bring: Bodies Out The searchers, 11 experieneea men, found the three bodies Late! today after an exhausting search that started yesterday, continued through last night and today un til the discovery. Exhaustion: from their battle against the treacherous east slope and the elements, left them unable to re turn with the bodies to the OleJ- lie lake base and a pack train, el five horses, is on its way to a' point close to Whitewater gla cier to accomplish the task. First Indication that tragedy had visited the mountain, came with the discovery of an auto mobile the trio had used on the trip from here, at Olallie lake last Tuesday. It was known the men had planned an attempt to Bcale" the dangerous east slope of the mount Labor day, and that (Turn to Page 2, CoL ) HIGHER EDUCmi BOARD TO COKE EUGENE, Ore. Sept. 8 (AP) J1. -A lively session of tbe state board of higher education la in prospect here Monday, September 11, with policy matters effecting the university and state college. on the heavy docket filed with the board, meeting for the first. time since mid-summer - - , Two important issues, to come before the board have to do with -Chancellor W. J. Kerr's plan to change the personnel In the dean ' of women's office at Eugene and the state auditor's reports on the -management, ot the properties on -the Oorvallls . campus. . . - The personnel changing plan is said to have geen considered as the result of a report by Dr. Earl Pallett executive secretary, alleg ing that conditions on the Eugene campus - were not satisfactory, -Strenuous protests ' have been made by 'representatives ot the Oregon Mothers, . -student , body -and .others' in close touch with affairs at the university, against the proposed' change, t .... Mystery surrounds' the report on the audit Copies ot the re port having been withheld by the auditor's - office . at Salem, and beard members say they have not' been fully informed as to the cen- tents.- , , . - v '