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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1933)
1. f ""i " f - GOOD TIME COMING E ve r y bridge player In , Salem, .will want to; enter, the - tri-cdunty bridge tour- -namenf- starting here Octe- : ber S...I . . '' THE WEATHER : i Unsettled 'with -raina ,to day, clearing Wednesday; -cool; tnax.' Temp. - Monday fi, Min. S9, rirer i 1 foot, ; rain JSQ iachi MMtth Wind. ' ' FOUKDX2D ..1051 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAH . Sa1em Oregon, Tuesday Morning, September 26, 1933 " ? . : No. 157 II III I I 1 1 I I L 1 ' VI I III I I 1 - I Jl I I I . I It ;i War1 TlJZr-V A I I ' I I I I I I I T ,T 'V 1 I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I L iJ i ' ) J;-, . I ; i i. S ), h v k .? r- ' f r . : i . V 0 ( k i T ) t i i I V t f t t i t ? i ' I I V ; f ; -' "t - v w r ' r i , . I . -4 ' ' 4 Manufacturers' Association Sends Bulletin; Giving Stand on Unions ' Inducements to Employes Not to Join Allowed, Counsel Contends xxr a CHTVfiTnV . Sent. 25. (AP) Thousands of inanufac- turers oyer the nauon were ioia tonight by the national associa tion of manufacturers a closed union shop under which labor contracts were made with a single union would violate the intent of the recovery act. This interpretation went out in a copyrighted bulletin prepared by John C. Gall, associate conn sel of the association, and took direct Issue with William Green president of the American Fed eration of Labor. The association also informed employers that under the law they could advise workers against Joining a labor union, or, within nmus, oner specm. uun. such as group insurance, to tm- ployes, who will Join and bargain through a company union. As the document went Into the malls, president Roosevelt at the the capjtai unit national cham White House was seeking new t . the unit.a Quartet and stimulus for the recovery cam paign through loans to the rail roads with which to nuy sieei rails if the steel companies would cut the prices. At a conference with four lead era ot the steel industry, Joseph B. Eastman, the tail Coordinator, and Donald C. Richberg, general sn.i tha ICR A Mr. Roose-I vvuuf,. - i velt obtained agreement for competitive diqs upon u 600.000 and 700.000 torn of rails. The money needed would be loaned the railroads from the Pudhc wui iuuu. Hurh S. Johnson, me recov ery administrator, .was unable to attend the conference, being con fined to Walter Reed hospital with an infection The bulletin of the manufac turers' association was interpret ed br NRA officials as widen lng the- breach between capital and labor over the labor section of the recovery act that guaran tees the right ot workers to bar gain collectively in any manner gam coiiectiveiy w I they choose without interference or coercion from employers. BYRD EXPEDITION ens UNDER WAV nntTn-N ?t 25 fAP) Thursday in the Ashland Presby BOSTON, bept. za. lArj . -vr.h nf .htoh Mm. Dunn The romance ship of the Byrd second Antarctic expedition, the old barkenUne Bear of Oakland, was on the high seas tonight car- f j. h eonent in a cov rying her most useful cargo and "J? reachinSr the Roeue crew on her most adventurous mission. For a half century she kept the peace ide;thfnBtnra"ne rick Dunn was credited with be in the Arctic while in ing the first wedding ceremony pf ment service, and now after 59 5 Jackson county, years, she Is going to the , oppo- member of the southern site "." "" f strength with crashing Ice of the south polar glaciers The Bear headed for Bayonne, N. J.. where she will pick up oil Then a stop will be made at Nor folk, Va to replenish her coal supply. She will cross the Panama canal before steering for Dunedin, New Zealand, the ship's base. At the edge of the great ice pack the barkentine's desperate fight with the ocean of Ice will begin. Once inside the bay of Whales and adjacent to Little America the sealer will land Admiral Byrd ana his party of 40 who will remain during the Antarctic winter on the Ice for exploration and scientific study. Richfield Plant Safe Blown but i Loot Not Heavy Teggs blew the safe at the Richfield Oil company plant on the Paelfie highway Just north of the city limits Sunday night for the second time this, year and ob- tained less than 1 10 for their; trouble, company officials said Because of the earlier safecrack. ing, the officials had been leav ing but little money in the sare. State police said last night no clue to tha yeggs identity had been obtained. Evidence that they were experienced was noted In the way the. door was blown cleanly off the safe. ,it'f:V'; 1Un g Lar drier Baseb all III Last Creator of VYou Know Great' Also Noted for Successful , . Plays; Busy Until Near end NEW YORK, Sept. 26. (AP) Ring Lardner, whose 'ready wit and keen appraisal of human 'nature push ed him into the foreground of contemporary humorists, died tonight in the quiet of his 48 years old. Lardner succumbed to a Final Appearance Before Chicago Trip Slated Wednesday Night Under the lights at Sweetland field, the drum cvorps of Capital pn Vn Q Ampriran Terion. Wed- nesda nignt wiU make jta fina.1 Hc appearance ln Saiem be-' fore headin for the national le- ion conventioni at Chicago where om week ,ater u wm Beek to re. un Ug UUe Jf natIonal Champion. nroaram. starting at 7:45 vift.v. will in addition Include the American Legion cadet band. Legion leaders concurred in an nouncing last night that prepara tions for the corps' Journey and impending competition with the crack corps of the nation were completed. The new white and goldf Cadet-type uniforms will-be -wa.uin the nlavers in Chtcagb, i ... .t wucltj icyicncuiaiiT co vi oring flrm supplying them will fit J each bugler and drummer Sunday mornlng. proceeds from the small i.,.,-,, ta tn cbre-ed Wed- nesday nlght wlli g9 toward pay- (Turn to Page 2, Col. Z) JIM HILL Dill CALLED BY DEATH PORTLAND, Sept. 25. (AP) Mrs. Mary Hill Dunn, 97, be- ueved to be one of the first three e e g... white women to cross the Slskl you mountains Into California, died here today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ella Dunn Rice. The other two white women be lieved the first to enter Califor nia over the Slskiyous were Mrs. Dunn's sisters. The body will lie in state here all day tomorrow, then will be taken to Ashland, Ore., where funeral services will be held . ' mv was a charts member. nn. iih i..r rm. - - ' t, " n.nn ,n L,E . Oregon Pioneers association and named queen.motner of Oregon pioneers. SWF PUB FOR DM COUPS CIRCLES GLOBE; WRECKS ON II, 4 If Wilev Post, famous glolie-irbrdUmg broken left shoaider when nis 11U for Davenport, la. When . tore shows the damaged Winnie Mae. International Illustrated Dies Humorist Two Years Me Al" and "Elmer the Long island home. He was heart attack which was a Oc"max to a two-year illness bom of a lung ailment and a general breakdown in- 1931. Beginning as a sports writer and columnist in Chicago after going there as a youth from Michigan, Lardner won a wide audience first with his satire on young baseball players. Baseball was both bis hobby and his joy. He had no regard for the rules of rhetoric, for syntax or for grammar when his pen started to trace the exploits of a big league "rookie." To him verbs and nouns were interchangeable and when he lent a hand at play writing In 1929 with George S. Kaufman, he cap tured the argot of "Tin Pan Al ley" with ease In "June Moon." Earlier his "Elmer, the Great,' a baseball opus was successful on stage and screen. Ranking with these two efforts was his (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) President .Interested, .When Bonneville Dam's Need Cited, Says Solon WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 25 (AP) Declaring that there is a "real need for this project," Senator McNary (Rep. Ore.) to night awaited word from the White House concerning the ap peal to President Roosevelt for the construction of a high dam across the Columbia river at Bon neville that would provide for power development as well as na vigation Improvement. "The president showed real In terest in the Bonneville project," McNary said. "We are hopeful of his favorable consideration.". Army engineers recommended a 72-foot dam for power and na vigation purposes while a 30-foot dam, costing $15,000,000 and providing only for navigation Im provement has been urged on the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) No Relief From . Rain is Likely Till Wednesday No Immediate relief from the intermittent showers occurring here over the weekend is in sight, according to the weather bureau forecast for today. Possibility of clearing weather Wednesday, how ever is given. " The weekend's rain brought .4 Inch of precipitation. While prune and tomato growers saw their crops being steadily damaged, mo torists In increasing number were reporting traffic accidents due to slippery pavements. -1 c avUtor, snstamed . m piane. uw . wnuue jiim, craueu vp tbe engine died the ship dove Into . . .. . m . m -mr MM HOPES FOR PROJECT APPROVAL Delegation Will Stay and "Hammer for it," Word I To Administration . Dangerous-Social Unrest Is Feared; Bank Openings One Solution now WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 (AP) Another farm group marched to the White House and the farm credit agencies today to demand cheaper dollar to aid the farmer, voicing at the same time a determination to buck rigm here and hammer for it." The delegation, including among its membership represen tatives of the American Farm Bu reau federation and several other organizations, was headed by Ed ward A; O'Neal, president of the bureau. It called on President Roosevelt, Secretary Wallace and Henry Mcrgenthau, Jr., governor of the farm credit administration. Members of the delegation isaid 'A failure to help- agriculture promptly may easily culminate soon ln dangerous social unrest with consequent disaster to all our Institutions." Meantime, the administration sought to put millions; ln money back to work through railroad re pairs and purchase of steel financ ed by federal funds, as well as by stepping up public works activi ties In the general Tecovery pro gram. 1 As another stimulus to buying. with plans for releasing deposits In closed banks. A specinc exam- i .Mj.t.f Marion Hntpl pie of thia was the reopening In t iiSM at ManOn tlOiei, Washington of a new bank formed from several closed ones, freeing $8,000,000. Meanwhile, Senator King (D., i hti. iir a . . iu.v . j ... . ni - o ' i uwn,, -u ut i trinii, ot silver" to see what they could do King said the currency should be stabilized on a gold and silver base, with free coinage of the lat ter ln fixed ratio to gold. STRIKE IN COTTON NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25. ton mills culminated today ln the shooting of a striker by a police- IS 1LENT man who had been hit with. aPerB Fw.-v hHv thrown from a c r o w d of h tournament play, for Salem has .T,i .wnfiiof m h was escorting workers to their homes ' PrincA nrthPlot. 21. was taken to a hospital with a wound in the n ...in no. ttUUUUlCUt AU Vmwvu w formed in an effort to save his Hf A A he was on the boeratlntrl table announcement was made of a conditional settlement of the strike which resulted in a shut down of the mills more than a week ago. The strike started over com plaints against working conditions ana tne aiiegea aismissai ox em- ployes who were officials ln thel textile union. SHORT HOP if ii - . k ..v 4 it. S -t . - 5 - - v.- n4 badly sprained or . nl w m wu uung u i a tree, crumpling both wings. Tic- 1 . A i r . ' News photo. Guarded Alter Kidnap Threats j j " v 4 ' i 1 i x'"- ':.-.." A; J:. ; , x " - - : ' ' ,j"-r.. r -. ... i . ... y.J-. V . . ',y V:- v. V J & Miss Peggy Ann Landon, 16-year- Old daughter Of UOVernOr AH M. Landon of Kansas, who is being closely guarded since her father made public details of a plot to kidnap her and hold her as hostage until he granted pa- roles to five long-term convicts members of the notorious Har- Tey B a 1 1 e y-Wilbur Underbill gang. Bailey and Underhill are now on trial in Oklahoma City in connection -with the Charles p. Urschel kidnaping. Interna- tional Illustrated News photo. First Contest Next Tuesday All Players Invited Uri William H. Quinn and bb ie lies PLUUCED . . m m kalib i-tarrua. wuu wuu ... ... if m v iv iriia . Places, will be in Salem today per- fecting final arrangements for the contests. The first tournament is to be next Tuesday night, October 3, at 8 D. m. at the Marion hotel. Each Tuesday night thereafter until eight contests have been held, the tournament will go on Mrs. Quinn at 2 p. m. each after noon will conduct a class for be ginning bridge players, and at 3:30 P. to. she will noia one ior advanced students of contract bridge. A number of local players man - ifested Interest yesterday follow - I, . In Thai mj nnuuucuic. Point being-stressed Is that the tournament is for all contract very few players who have partic- lpated in any tournament. I layers m iuumviiii. will be eligible from any pan 01 Marlon, Polk or Linn counties. I Induiries about the tournament I . . as weu as reservations ior n. uu l ior tne classes, can do diu uuw eitner tnrouga ioe Diaieoiuau vi through the Marion hotel. Murder Suicide Evidence Found tittt r.nr r. 2S p gnot t0 death ,n a narked automobile In - a loneiy section of the Berkeley hills, the bodies of Maurieo R. Roedere, former cement company ex ecu- tlve, and Mrs. Noa mi R. Mc- Ewaln, divorcee and mother of three children, were discovered today. Police said evidence lnaicatea Roedere had killed the woman and then committed suicide. E5SfEk15l.Sg. - The McNeil Island penitentiary launch Margaret Ann, was burn- ed to. the water's edge tonight, coast guardsmen said, but an of ficial and four . prisoners aboard her escaped unharmed. - Late Sports PORTLAND, Sept, 25. (AP) Otis Cllngman of Oklahoma City defeated Don Hill of Bakers - field, Califs taking two falls ont or inree in mo mam event oi w night's .wrestling card here. Cling- man weighed iiv ponna less than his opponent, . - : d Sandy McShaln, 180, of Pasa - dena, Calif.. -won the semi-windup irom uorry iwtion, xoi,. oat ticr0Wd and the business or eiaim Lake "City, getting two out of jin accounts In the old First Na three falls. , " .1 The "masked ' marvel"- (name Unannounced) 1(5. won the pre- Mlnln.M f,Am .TTtiffh. Vilama 1 n . Portland, taking two falls out of L th.oa ' - : j I t V I - :- ' ; -"--V - - - I UI1IU UllllllllUIII Ufschel "Jailor" Declares He had Taken no Part; Cites Bates, Kelly Believes Bailey not Sharer : In Scheme. Though he Was at the Ranch OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 25. (AP) Answering prosecution Queries ln a deliberate drawl, R. O. Shannon, a defendant in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping trial told today how two men he Iden tified as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, his wife's son-in-law, and Albert Bates brought the victim mrui, wucio un a ucm captive nine days, The Texas farmer's testimony at times was attacked by counsel for the defense as he related how Bates and Kelly allegedly coerced him and his son Armon, another defendant, to guard Urschel. He told the court and Jury he had guarded the wealthy oil man in desperate fear of his own life, The witness told of being warned by Bates and Kelly, the latter still a fugitive, that unless he obeyed he would be killed. He also testified that Bailey, notorious jail-beating bank rob ber, had been a visitor at the Shannon farm near Paradise, Tex. on the day Urschel had been forced to write notes to his fam lly pleading with them to pay 3200.000 ransom or his life would be forfeited. Before the prosecution could begin its cross-examination of Shannon, Bates' attorney, Ben Laska of Denver, rose and began shooting questions at the witness. "This bad boy, Mr. Bates, -la. m . . orougat a macuine gun iuu uiui- eni vniiT" UHrt lrfn "Yes. he did." was the answer (Turn to Page 2. Col. 4) MERGER OF PULP SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. AP a mereer of nuln com paniea, said to set up "one of the largest Independent" units on the 1 continent, has been aereed noon Ik - officers of the Rainier Pulo . n ina raper company, bouaqtibw Products company, it was learned her0 today. Operations under the merger are saia to oe siaieu ior Marcb i, 1934. The matter has not yet been ap- proved by directors of the three companies ana aeiaus were not divulged, but It was understood tne new company will purchase as- gt of the mereinz companies I - through issue or stocit to tne con- stituent firms. Tne new concern win nave plants at Shelton, Bverett and Port Angeles, Washington, with a combined capacity of about 150, 000 tons of pulp annually. Volcano Erupts ! Today in Japan TOKYO, Seut, 26. (Tuesday) (AP) Several houses were de- .t-oA mr,A farmlands ' n1 STiU u damaged today in eruption - tt TOicano KomagaUke. 35 miles north of Hakodata. The lava flow blocked roads and interrupted .railway service. No casualties were reported.. F RMS PROPOSED Wlrvt Nntlnnnl Rinnrh "v n't CI Flowers and friends ln quantity and hundreds of expressions of goodwill from depositors greeted officers of the new branch ot the First National of Portland which opened for business Monday at State and Liberty streets, Salem. promptly at 10 o'clock yester day - morning- the - bank's , doors 1 gwunjr opea fot the first nnrer .t-tA business ln the bank's Quarters since Governor Julius I Meier declared : a state morator- lum on banks March 1. while the bank's lobby was I fflied , during ; most of the five I banking hours,' there, was no I tional ot Salem went on In good I order. TJnder the provisions of the approved sale of the local bank's I ...... th. Itionmlnr .branch tOOK - lover all .the preferred cUims for IninnMi ait ADCb In lUll Willie IB Toll Estimated 5000 Twenty Charged With Terrorism On Trial, Tokyo Tftirvn fiant Tnwidav (AP) Twenty civilians charged witn minor participation in iue terroristic acts of May 5. 1932. during which Premier SuyoshI Inujai was killed went on trial In Tokyo district court today with 68 attorneys representing tha f ofonun Ten naval officers and 11 army cadets have been court-martialed for participation in the acts dur- otnciaiiy nncoantea, and tremen ing which public buildings in this dJUs property damage wrought city also were attacked. ln Port of Tamplco by T h a civilians are variously charged with murder, attempted ported to the Mexican capital to murder and unlawful possession night. and use of explosives. GALLISTER DENIES nnmmittefi nn Annnintments ASKcu uy nus5 tu ivieei Saturday, Portland F. E. Canister of Albany, mem- ber of the state board of higher education, denied emphatically while here Monday that he was going to resign from the board. GIT N LAN Rumors of Cailistter resignation i uead were made by officials at were prevalent at the capltol last I the Interior department in "un weekend. Callister was in the city I official or remi-official" capacity yesterday to congratulate officials of the First National Dan it or Portland on their successful open- ing of a new branch here. Cal- lister himself Is manager of the newly opened Albany branch of the First National of Portland. Members of the senate interim committee on appointments last night were requested by Hal E. Hoss, secretary of ste'.e. to meet in the hearing room in the Oregon building in Portland Saturday at 10 a. m., to confirm or reject the elections of Roscoe C. Nelson of Portland and William a.1 Hare of I Hillsboro as members ot the state board of higher education. Nelson was appointed to suc ceed C. L. Starr, chairman of the board, wniie Hare succeeaea u. v. Colt. Starr resigned at the request of Governor Meier while Colt vol- untarily submitted his resignation to the executive the following day. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) TO RECEIVE LESS LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25. (AP) Prefacing his decision with the L Grey Chaplin's accounting of ex- - - " Cm penditures was "very vague. Su- perlor Judge C. S. Crail ruled to day the monthly allowance, tor support of Mrs. Chaplin's two sons must be reduced from 3500 to 3350. The Judge's ruling climaxed a stormy hearing on the fifth an nual accounting of expenditures the former wife of the film comedian, Charles Chaplin, made as guardian of Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., 8, and Sidney Earl Chaplin, 7. Mrs. Chaplin, Infur iated at being brought Into court for Interrogation, was led ln a state of semi-collapse from the witness stand. " " " I "? , 1 .secured claims to the extent of 70 per cent were also assumed for prompt payment. " At the beginning of Marcn, tne First National here had deposits of 31.350.000. Deducting the 70 per cent settlement now Jecuye ana ine prepaymBi. w " .!"0.'00v..dl" IXmUkllUJ OUlSkiUB - v ly aoaA av - a -m SV V k 1 hm Mnmail ti tTZt7c thenew-brancB, win be iiqniaatea v TrAi TjAwaii fArinMi naiasrw'm. tor, and he ts optlmistie that in due-time depositors will be paid ia"fuii-. ? - One of the features of the nejr branch is the fact that an entirely Salem sUff has been chosen, with CHAPLIN CHILDREN the exception of J. S. Roman, sou"" uuc . manager All save one of the oth- suits in disarmament by compos er, members were with the First tag the differences b e t w e e n National 3 when its assets were France and Germany, dwarfed for , sold. H.'B. Eakin is to be assistant the time being the Issue of Get , c (Turn to Page z, Col. 1) many's treatment of the Jews, v Nearly' all. BuHding In Modern City of -36,(kW) Leveled - Little Official New Available; Relief Plans Started Mt.-s.ii-u, u. r., sept. z&. Heavy losses oi lire, sun ast nignt s nurncane were re At tne department oi tne in terior. Secretary Eduardo Vas concelos said the number of dead "cannot be stated exactly.'? From Tampico itself the mili tary chief of the district report ed by wireless that "three-onar-ters" of the city was destroyed and "many" were dead and in jured. At the department of interior, unofficial estimators feared the ton would run into the thou from the S. S. Sapinero came an estimate of 200 dead and exten sive property damage, with hun dreds homeless. I The Sapinero. accordinr to I shipping records, sailed from. New Orleans September 17, for Tarn- I pico and Barcelona, Spain. The estimates ot thousands I on tte bais of infor nation then at nana, capital newspapers ap peared with reports 5000 had been killed. Lata dispatches from Tamplco y way or Cardenas, San Luia I 99 . (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) THIS CITY KILLED L VISITOR LA GRANDE. Sept, 25. (AP) Harvey "Benjamin, 17, was killed near Telocaset yesterday. . . police said, when ne relL beneath hte wheels of a Union P a e 1 f i e train. '' Woolwart Van Nertwick told the officers, they said, that he and Benjamin went to sleep on top of a tank car and when he awoke Benjamin was missing. The body was later found beside the tracks. ine ooay oi tne youta win do I sent to Cozad, Neb., his home city for burial. It will, be accompanied east by Van Nertwick. The coroner's office said no in quest will be held. Young Benjamin, nephew of Ray McLaughlin of Salem, was re- turning to his home following a ... ... . " I "" Will luvuBUguiiua acts. ... . .... ,., . k Hls uncle said last night that they had attempted to .persuade the boys not to ride the rails, but that the travelers felt they should sare their money for school and that "kid fashion" they had elect ed to "bum" tLeir way back to Nebraska. WAR PERIL ACUTE LEAGUE INFORMED GENEVA, Sept. 25. (AP) Fifteen years after "that fratri cidal crime, the great war? the world still confronts the menace of war, Premier Johan Mowinckel ot Norway declared today when, as president ot the council, he opened the sessions of the league of nations assembly. ' ' ' His solemn warning spurred ac tivity among the world statesmen gathered here to advance the cause of peace. Of first Importance i r m pii in t.m a.u aci ui m. tno vppih were efforts to bridge the emasm tween and the new Ger- many of Chancellor Adolf Hitler. : Nlrman H. Davis. U.S. diaarm- It with Baron KonsUntln Von i Herman foreirn min- - - ister. . Mr. Davis continued the work of Franco-German mediation already started by Sir John 8Imon the British foreign secretary. - 5 Dr. Mowlnckel's' warning of the . menace of - war, coupled with ne- v r- !f .A