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-tf - -,, ft If m ' -.., J- ' SERVICE ; THE WEATHER. - llMtly fair,' nme cloadl", rnese today, cooler today and -" - Slondayt Bias. Temp. Katnr c.day 85. Blln. 48, rlrer -3.4 ; feet, weat wind. ; i We guarantee our carrier ' service.; .i your paper .aoes 1 not arrive by 0:15, call 9101 and a copy will be delivered 7 " V.I vy - v ' S J V V. v' V at once. -... , ;.- v v. FCUNDCD iCSt EIGHTY-THmD YEAR Salem, ; Oregon,' Sunday Morning September 10, 1933 No. 144 SE! President is on Job1 Again After ' T . Brief Vacation, HydS Park Home NRA Counsel is Important Man -v - 'i TO GET RELIEF ABBwaannnni ir hinrii r rTT h 71 Lull L I H H i5v 1 EXTHA 1 FAIR IS CLOSED NIGHT KW SSfi - imivassfisn.'vviwjiiJH ?e,fvWean- - t "' "' S 1 Committee is Still Mulling Over Possible Ways of . Solving Problems Lack of Leadership Means Extended Discussion; Hotel men Happy t By SHELDON f. SACKETT 'A special sessioh of the Oregon legislature now seem almost cer tain as death and taxes. - No one, which - includes : the goYernor knows precisely "when it -will be called. - ':, " - When the" special board of 26 to consider employment relief for 1933-1934 reports, when the state liquor commission reports and when . the track legislation has had a" hearing before the state su preme court, there will be a basis formed to block out the work of the session. Nevertheless, the governor Is apparently anxious that there be no delay in getting the relief problem soWed, so it is likely that SO more days will see Oregon's 90 legislators in session here. Con siderable preparatory work must be done by the secretary of state's office which has asked for and been promised two weeks' notice before the session convenes. This notice has not yet been given by the governor's office so it is safe to assume the session will not con vene before October 1. ; Relief Commission. KeporU Progress . The relief commission made some progress during the week; with a conflict of ideas showing op. over the two fundamental questions:' (1) how much relief money is needed this winter in Oregon and (2) kow to raise it. Figures lor the former run as high as. 112,000,000; more con servative jnes are placed at 8, 000,000 while, some administra tors of relief think 13.000.000 will tide over the unemployment situation in Oregon this coming winter. V .-.-: The commission members have no end of "new deals" and "plans' for raising the necessary money. The left wing favors a capital tax although no one has yet explained how timber, land, buildinga and other real capital now snowed under with property taxes can pay a cash capital tax. Some form of modified sales tax with tobacco, - cosmetics and amusements is talked." Opinion seems to converge on beer, wines and hard liquors for a substantial portion of the necessary relief revenue. A higher income tax is talked, an occupational charge on professional men and higher 'liti gation fees are other metnoas oi raising revenue suggested. Local Sharing in Burden is Talked . Much has been said about- the advisability of making the local "governmental unit, either "" the county or the city, share directly In the costs of relief. Since money from the state or federal treasuries is usually regarded by the local community as - manna from heaven and spent rather lavishly this point is well taken. As yet no scheme has been pro posed to put the relief problem in part np to the counties probably because most - counties have run out of cash and are staggering under heavy tax burdens. This writer believes a three way division of the cosU of relief la feasible: the federal govern ment to furnish one part,1 the state one part and the county one part. .Federal funds are already available 6n this method of shar ing the cost Through the special taxes provided by the forthcoming legislature, the state could under write its share of the winter' re lief problem, : - - . It seems logical that the coun ties could shoulder the other one third.?' Naturally the county court which has three of seven mem bers on each county relief com mittee, would be chary in over spending it the county was charg ed with raising 83 per cent of the money. Warrant Plan for Counties Feasible ' Tha onestion which arises, how ever, is how can the counties at least some of them get cash needed for the 1-3 match money! To this writer it seems feasible that the sum needed for this win ter relief be included in the forth coming 1934' budget, in order to provide this sum in, cash, the state legislature could authorize the state treasurer to accept duly drawn 1 county warrants to '; the amount of relief funds levied, in payment of county taxes to the state. Eventually these warrants would be paid but for the present time the counties would conserve their cash for relief. k ? The staU treasurer, of course. would be more embarrassed than now for cash. ' However, the state has not used a fraction of Its bor rowing power for current expen ses. - It Is only a few weeks be hind on its warrants. , By the end of next year the state,, unless dire calamity befall the 1933-1934 budget, will hate eased into a comfortable cash position and have actually retired about 2,- (Turn to page 12, Col. 1) K v I - - - v Hi tV! V s ft r ".w - - - - ..: : f r - --- prZZZl President Roosevelt pictured with Bozzie Dall, as they sailed from Pongbkeepsie, N. on toe Astor yacht, "Nonrmahal, for Washington at the conclusion of the presU dent's brief vacation at Hyde Park. At right is Tincent Astor, owner of the yacht, close personal friend of the president. II. S. OFFICE Representative is Coming ... This Week; County and City to Cooperate Salem is to receive a federal government re-employment office, Ivan G. White, member of the state relief committee, declarea while in Salem 'from. Portland last night White said E. L. Mer sereau had authorized the estab lishment of an office here, fol lowing word that the field was clear for such action. . A. G. Johnson, executive secre tary of the government re-employment bureau in Oregon, is to come to Salem early this week to confer with a previously ap pointed local committee which is to supervise the office. John son will also confer with the Mar ion county court and city offi cials. The county and city will be asked to contribute the same sum to the new office as pre viously paid to the office con ducted here. ' White said eight re-employment-offices had already been established in the state and de clared they were functioning very satisfactorily. They have aided materially in the last three weeks in placing seasonal work ers as well as securing work on various , road jobs being let by the - state through the use of PWA funds. Re-employment offices are now operating at Astoria, Albany, The Dalles, Pendleton, Medford, Bend, Portland and Baker. -v White said he had been ex tremely busy for the last Week preparing information for .the governor's commission on relief needs of Oregon for the coming winter. He worked with the re employment ' bureau for one month under special deputlzation from Raymond Wilcox who-han dled relief for the state last win ter and is cow chairman of the state relief committee. Criminal Insane Pair Escape But One Recaptured State police and Oregon state hospital attendants last night were searching tor R. J. Annls, who with A. W. Steele, escaped from the criminal Insane ward of the hospital late Friday by remov ing the window bars and lowering themselves three stories to the ground with a rope made of sheets. Steele was injured in fall ing to the ground and was cap tured two blocks from the, hospi tal but Annis made his getaway, leaving one slipper behind. : Annis, : it was believed, was heading for Oregon City, where he has relatives. Steele was com mitted to the hospital from Mar lon county and Annis from Mult nomah county. Both are criminal ly Insane. . Ruzek Will Head Students? Board ; CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept 9. (AP)- The appointment of Charles W. Ruzek as chairman of the associated students board of control at Oregon State college was announced here today. Ruzek, professor of soil f ertllity, will suc ceed Harry S. -Rogers, dean of the school of engineering, who re cently resigned to accept the presi dency of the Brooklyn Polytechnic institute. - - WLOflHT IS ASSURED his two grandchildren, Slstie and DEPOSIT LAW VJILL BE EYED Schramm Returns; to Call Meeting of Bankers to Discuss Program A. A. Schramm, state banking superintendent, and Examiner Vo- get, were back at the capitol yes terday after a hurried trip to San Francisco where state bank an thorltles from seven western states conferred with federal of ficials regarding the bank deposit guarantee law which is to be come operative January 1, 1934. Schramm said yesterday he ex pected to call a meeting of state bankers here some time in the future to explain the provisions and interpretations of the new act. The meeting will not be held until Ted Cramer, secretary -of the bank association of this state, re turns from the east. The application of the new act to state banks is not fully worked out as yet. While state banks are Included in the listing of banks which can apply for and receive membership in the guarantee cor (Turn to page 12, Col. 4) CATTLE EXHIBITORS Mrs. Ella Wilson of this city. for IS years actively connected with the Oregon state fair, was honored late yesterday by 40 ex hibitors of cattle who made np i pool and purchased for her a bean tiful myrtlewood lamp. The gift was presented to her informally Saturday night. Mrs. Wilson, to whom the gift was entirely unex pected, was fairly overcome by the token of appreciation tor her services.. : The lamp was purchased from the Coos county exhibit, in charge of I. L. Smith of Coquille. a for mer county agent. - - This year Mrs. Wilson has had no connection whatever with the fair. Severence- of her relations grew out of a controversy which raged several months between Max Gehlhar, fair director, and her self. Governor Meier took a nana in the controversy' and criticised both Gehlhar and Mrs. - Wilson She retained her position in the agricultural department but has nothing to do with the fair. Mrs. Wilson was at the fair yes terday as a visitor. . -S I , f i - & . 0 i mm WJn SCENE OF IfEW REVOLUTION DISORDER IN HAVANA At left is the National hotel la Havana, which has been designated American territory and a place of refuge for American citizens . Practically all the Americans remaining la the capital hare moved Into the hotel or are planning to do - NRA Fireworks Final Event Of big Week; 99,887 is Total Attendance ; Gehlhar Well Pleased and Plans Improvements For Coming Year . In a colorful shower of aerial fireworks and blaze of midway lights Oregon's 72 d annual . state fair came to a close last night After a week that brought several thousand more paid admissions than the 1932 exhibition. Yester day's attendance' of 14,053 per sons swelled the total crowds for the week to 99,887. - The brilliant pyrotechnic plc- turlzatlon of President Roosevelt's NRA movement, and the final showing of Jim - McCleave's gym khana and Ed Wright's rodeo at tracted a capacity crowd to the grandstand last night. Nothing comparable to the NRA dmaratiz ation had been, seen at -other state fairs. The huge vart-colored dis- Silay elicited rounds of applause rom the spectators estimated to number close to 000 persons. Director Max Gehlhar expressed himself as pleased with the re sults of this year's state fair inno vations the reduced admission price, earlier dates and return of racing on the Lone Oak track. The exhibition's success led him to announce Important Improve ments for the 1934 state fair. . Dog. Racing Track Planned Next Tear Plans are under way, Gehlhar said, for construction of a dog racing track inside the present half-mile oval, and connection' of the automobile pavilion with the agricultural building. The new building thus created will be de- . (Turn to page 12, Col. S) T HOP SUES IB Picking of a bumper crop of high auality 1933 -hops is moving rapidly throughout the Salem dis trict unimpeded generally by mold or other untoward condi tions, growers reported last night. The smaller operators expect to clean up their yards within sev en or eight days while the larg er growers will keep pickers oc cupied for around 10 days longer, Fears of mold, motoyated by the Tains of early last week, have vanisned tor most ox . tne grow ers, only in yards wnere nops were not properly sprayed is mold developing to noticeable extent and nowhere it is serious. It was said. Dealers last night predicted that the market for 1933 hops would open at around 40 cents per pound and based their fore casts on first sales reported. Their optimism was heightened by the reported sale of 400 bales of '33 fuggles at 40 cents at cars to English buyers since the Eng lish market has in recent years shied away from Oregon hops. Another sale, of 250 bales, was reported at 38 cents. Where the hop market will go when the heavy crop is ready to move, the dealers claim to be in a state of uncertainty. Avery Fined 'r Illegal Hunting ' TURNER, Sept. 9. Arrested early this weekat Woodpecker eamp on a charge of -hunting deer with lights, John Avery pleaded guilty in court at Albany, When Avery pleaded inability to pay 1100 tine, the Albany judge par oled him to a federal forester. . . i I . . ' 4 4 - - , ' ::: ? r x t . :: i . . J A y yy.: . Here is one of the most Important men fa the United States today. He is Donald R. Richberg of Chicago, general counsel of the NRA and his decisions affect every industry la the country. Richberg first won a national reputation as connjel for the railroad brotherhoods. RELIEF NEEDS FOB STATE ESTIMATED Seven Millions to be Paid Out This Year; Call to . Be Greater, Belief By CLAYTON V. BERNHARD Associated Press Staff Writer On the basis of relief expendi tures during the first six -months of 1933 as paid out by the state relief committee alone, the year's needs will total in excess of 17, 000,000, a study of activities re vealed Saturday. And this fund. It was learned, did not provide any families except those in need and applying for aid, while the many unemployed on the boroer line and not requesting fund's were un aided. The relief committee spent S3, 683.889 directly to families - un able to obtain -funds from other sources, the peak during the six months being reached in May when 51,287 cases were aided. In most instances these represented entire families under one case. Of the sum spent only 3337,633 was contributed by local communities, while the rest was obtained from the Reconstruction Finance cor poration and the federal emer gency relief act. It was on these figures that the relief committee based Its original contention the state must provide upwards of $5,000,000 for the next 14 months, since federal funds will be paid only in propor (Turn to page 8, Col. 4) FISH DEALERS MEET Ralnh Newman, proprietor of Newman's Fish market, and E, G Harlan, manager of the chamber of commerce, both of Eugene, stopped in Salem Friday on their way to Portland to attend a meet ing of retail fish dealers. Walker S. Fitts and son, Ira, of Salem, accompanied them. Mr. Harlan has written a fish code for re tail dealers which will be consld ered by retailers from all parts of the state. It is also planned to form a statewide organisation of retail fish dealers. A meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday at the Eugene chamber of commerce for fishermen and dealers along the - Oregon coast where a strike has been In pro gress ; tor , several weeks. . W. O MoMorrau, NRA administrator for Lane county, and Mr. Harlan hope to adjust the differences so sev eral hundred fishermen may re turn to work. i V: PORTLAND At right; Cuban marines are shouting "Viva revolution! as they swing their hata following the reading of m telegram announcing the reBUrnaUon. of the sreaideat of the Cuban retmblic. ' Maine Voting on Monday to ! Be Complicated; Refuse n f. Wet-dry Designation . '.: Maryland, Minnesota, Also Colorado Tests Will be . On Following day ; ; - (By. the Associated .Piress)'J s MaJne.;.birthPiace.sor- prohibi tion,, will vote on JOonday on rati- ficatiott ol ep l-of the 18th amendment to be followed the next day by Maryland, Minnesota and Colorado. - ? . " If the four states favor repeal. 29 of the 86 states required to abandon prohibition will have reg istered their approval of the change. ' i Drys insist that when Maine votes the state's - traditional " pro hibition attitude will be main tained. . Repeallsts contend that Maine, which went Vbone dry" in 1851, will abandon the prohibition cause and Join the 25 states which have voted to ratify repeal. . The Maine ballots will be com plicated. Its courts have ruled the wet and dry allegiance of 80 dele gates to be elected cannot be designated. Both sides claim Maryland, Minnesota and Colorado. In Mary land the repeal forces believe the voters will follow Got. Albert C; Ritchie, one of the earliest advo cates of repeal. By November 7. 39 states will have voted on the repeal amend ment. BELIEVE MlHI OF PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 9. i (AP) Reconstruction of the tra gedy that took the lives of three Portland men, as they essayed to climb the dangerous east slope of Mt. Jefferson Labor day, today pointed to a new- theory that Don Burkhardt, leader of the trio, gave his life in an attempt to save those of his companions, Davis McCamant and John Thomas. A previous theory was that the three men had been swept several hundred feet down the mountain as an avalanche, starting near the summit, crushed everything in its path and flung the broken bodies of the three men into a crevasse, where they were found yesterday. Today, mountaineers at the scene of the tragedy, discovered a rock chimney that gave evidence of having broken away at it up permost point, this mute evidence gave rise to a theory that Burk hardt, attached to his two com panions by a rope line, had reach ed' the chimney's head and was climbing to safety when one of the other two slipped and start ed to fall, pulling the second man with him. Control Board Meet Scheduled Here on Monday The state .board of control Is scheduled to meet here Monday morning for the first session in several months with all members present. Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, , is back from eastern Ore gon knd will attend. So also will Governor Julius L. Meier and Ru fus C. Holman,. state treasurer, both - of whom- spent the major part Of last week in Portland. : A number of-Important matters tare on the board 'docket for dis- US3ion.Willlam Elnxlg, secretary, will report on his trip east this summer on which a considerable quantity of flax was sold. r ? n i f v- 1 ' Mm n TRAGEDY :' -- -:rv: jAternatlona Illustrated News Fhoio. GUBAW REPUBLIC ; Dr. Ramon Grau Sari Martin, Former Havana University J Professor Exiled Because of Opposition to Recent v Machado Regime,;-Selected to: Lead Nation; Junta K Proceeding to Select Cabinet; Off icerV Choice Appears Popular as Crowds Cheer Announcement; Presidential Palace" Bristles With Machine Guns - as Army Officers Demand Junta Step Down to Make way For Restoration of De Cespedes , HAVANA, Sept 10 Sunday ( AP) Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, former university professor, today i was named president of Cuba. - , His selection was announced by members of the junta which took oyer the government of Cuba last week in place of that of Dr. Carlos Manual de Cespedes. Four members of a new cabinet were also named at the meeting. They are: Dr. Antonio Guitteras, interior; Juan Manuel Barquin, treasury; Eduardo Chibas, public works; land Carlos Finlay, sanitation. Dr. San Martin, who is well known for his educational, work in Cuba, made the announcement of his selection him-' self to newspapermen. - o - "I did ; not want the presiden cy," he said, "I would have pre ferred to continue my. education al work, but my first duty is to Cuba." . . There was .much - embracing and cheering among crowds who had gathered In front of the pre sidential palace when they heard that Dr. San Martin had been chosen , as the head of the gov ernment. IDr. San Martin was a member of the Junta. Dr. San Martin was formerly professor of anatomy at Havana university, but left the island be cause of his opposition to the re gime of former President Gerar do Machado. He returned to Cu ba after Machado's overthrow and was named a member of the Jun ta after last Monday's coup. (Copyright, 1933, the Associated Press). HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 9 (AP) The four-day-old radical Junta ruling this country today agreed to the formation of a new government, .with the office of presidenfrestored, as the pre sidential palace bristled with ma (Turn to page 12, CoL 2) F BAKER, Ore., Sept. 9 (AP) An Inquest Into the death of Dave Brlcboux, found - dead early today in a cell in the county Jail here, returned a verdict of suicide after a physician had tes tified that Brichouz had used either a knife, fork or pair of tweezers to sever a vein in his right wrist sometime Friday night and had bled to death. - The ex-Oregon convict bad been confined since his arrest last Wednesday on a charge of first ' degree murder, in connec tion with the death of Mrs. Al bert Koehler here Aug. '23.- Officers declared they had "tight evidence" ;in support of the - charge . and stated that "his arrest had come 'only after-- in formation from Salem,. Ore., stat ing that palm, prints found on a bottle, believed used in striking Mrs. Koehler - after she ' had been shot hrough the head,' were iden tical with those of Brichoux, on file at the state penitentiary. - Dave Brichoux, , was re leased "from the : Oregon state penitentiary three months ago af ter serving IS years for murder committed in Malheur county. C. : Brichoux V originally was . sen tenced to a life, term ' but this later was commuted to 15 years. Officials said he had been a mod el prisoner and had given valu able: service during the years he spent in tha penitentiary.' Staiefs Income ; FromGastiiw CLcvIncreases - Receipts' from the gasoline fuels tax during the period January 1 to July 1, 191 J, Increased S91. S77.C1, when compared with re ceipts during -the -same period In 19 31 the, state department reported-Sa tar day. . i 'Receipts during the six. months period ending July Sir 1933 ag gregated S3,su,zis..z; -as com pared with $3,719,149.71 during the similar period in 1932. ' v ' The increase in revenue . was said to be due to the additional one cent tax. , i.. DEATH D X IS DEEMED SHE V?"l h hs now IN COLLEGE BOND Higher Education Group to Face Problems Monday At Eugene Meet . Another behind-the-scenes or -open conflict' in - the board of hjgher education seemed likely for tomorrow's meeting In Eu gene, when it became . known Saturday at the statehouse . that the attorney-general's office had been asked for an opinion on whether or not certain ' board members and the chancellor had , a right to snpress a portion or' all of an audit made of one of the state institutions. The attorney-general's office said the opin ion had been sought on behalf of E. C .Sammons, chairman of the finance committee of the board, but declared the opinion had not yet been handed down. L H. Van Winkle, attorney-general. Is In -the east. - The potential fracas concerns a checkup made by the auditing department of the secretary of " state's offices a number of months ago. The particular part Of the audit ' objected" to which was of Oregon State college, con cerned the operation of . the building department there. Auditor Buell, who made the report, criticized this department at length and pointed to alleged Irregularities in the handling of '." funds. Criticism , was especially directed at Mr.. Jackson, in -charge of buildings at Oregon State college. . Baell's report fell into the hands of certain' board members and Chancellor :W. J, Kerr, be fore the full board saw it. Im mediate protest was made by these board members and repre sentatives of the chancellor. A lengthy brief protesting Buell's , statements was submitted to Hal' (Turn to page 12, CoL 8) ; More Jobs AieW OutLastfii Week, Revealed ' Jobs increased in number in Sa- 5 lem vicinity last week as agrieul-'"I" tural labors gained : la" demand, , ' the weekly report of the tree em ployment bureau issued yesterday indicates. - During the week ICS persons were sent to work, a gala : of.4S over the previous week. Of these 131 men and three women were set -at picking bona and fruit and doing "general, farm .work, 19 r men at common .labor, seven at woodcutting, five at state highway r . wore ana uree women at house- ; work. ; - - "v.-., ' ' .1; . -t-'.. Thirty-four bop pickers were hired here yesterday for the fed- 4 efal employment agent at Inde pendence in addition to 12 labor-v v era and two blackberry pickers. : J i Hdme of Cdndit -i TURNER. Sept, I . The Ross Condlt house between Turner and . Aumsvllle. was 'completely de stroyed by Hre Wednesday nlght..r Cause of the fire and, amount of insurance carried ,by . the; owner could . not be determined. - Tat place had 'recently been occupied by the Clifford Willard family but at time of the blaze was under going refinlshlng. -