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Petitions to Be Circulated
At Once; Relief Work
Is One Objective
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Is Argument as Group
Of Citizens Meets
Petitions calling a special elec
. tton to create a port district hre,
enabling appMeation for a 100,
600 PWA dock loan, will be
drawn up today and circulation
atartad immediately in an ei'i'ort
to obtain money to provide relief
employment this winter and im
prove slipping.
This action la' to result from a
motion passed unanimously by a
group of 31 citizens at tbe cham
t .ber of commerce last night repre
; senting a majority ot - Sakhv civic
organizations and many leading
Industries. B. . bisson, chamber
president, presided.
The meeting was called by the
chamber of commerce directors al
ter they had conferred Monday re
garding means other cities were
taking to Improve shipping facili
ties. Earlier yesterday E. L. Wie
der, president of the Salem Busi
ness Men's league, and J. N.
Chambers conferred with the
county court regarding the pro
posedelection and advisable size
of the port district,
. A unanimous sentiment in fa
vor of the new dock proposal per
vaded the wo hour long meeting.
It was generally believed there
would be little objection to the
new plan since it would entail no
bond issue sor settle any general
obligation upon ttte city.
- Signatures of eight per cent of
the voters at the last general eiec
Coa la Salem, or between 00 and
700 names, would be required on
the petitions. The county court
would then call the election with
in 40 to SO days. . '
The plan as outlined by William
P. Ellis, chamber Of commerce
representative eallr for formation
ot the port "district and applica
tion for the PWA loan with the
dock serving as security over a
period ot 15 40 25 years. Thirty
per cent of the f 100,000 would be
a grant, not to be .repaid.
"I venture to say that were It
not for the water transportation
available here, such as it Is, Sa
lem would not havo the large
canneries that operate here now,
Ellis declared. rhe lack ot ware
housing, and temporary docking
facilities now force double
handling of cargoes awaiting
boats. This situation is unneces
sary and Tasteful and shouldn't
have to exist,"
Ellis stated that the laws gov
erning port districts would put the
loan application with the PWA in
a more favorable t light than the
city charter does, and that several
computations of earnings of the
proposed dock showed it would
easily pay for itself.
The proposition received the
fall endorsement of four city al
dermen who were present, S. A.
Hughes, Watson Townsend, Dr.
O. A. Olson and Carl B. Ann
priest. Hughes held that the Wil
lamette river would some day be
canalized and said Salem should
be prepared for this eventuality
by having dock facilities. Dr. Ol
son declared he would be against
- a bond issue but would support
. the new- plan submitted by - the
chamber of commerce. Townsend
made the motion calling for ac
tion. "Water transportation Is one
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World News at
Gl
a
ance
(Br the Associated Press)
'Domestic:
- Louisville. Repeal trend in
Kentucky foreshadows December
5, as formal endvot National pro
hibition. - , -:
, Washington. "Roosevelt sum
mons experts on liquor control.
' - x-New York. La Guardla prom
isee new Tale; Curry assails Far
ley fdr Tammany defeat." '.r
- Philadelphia. Tare blames
organization's defeat, on his sup
port of Hoover.
Washington. Senate commit
tee to ask details ot Dawes bank
loan from RFC. . -
"Washington. - Roosrelt ex
pands federal relief to make 4.
tOO.OOO Jobs.
Denver. Major Charles A.
Sbepard, awaiting new trial in
wife's death, reveal secret third
marriage. "
Omaha, Johnson says recep
tion "marvelous"; believes extent
-4 . of farm, strike exasgerated. t
Washington. Litvinof f con
" " tlnues conversations with HnlL , .
Foreign: -' ' " ,-
32 slain in bloody
molt against Orau . government;
Bombay. Afghan king slain
- by Traitor. , .
Geneva, r Lindbergh arrive
'-. xrom Rotterdam, r .-.
- Berlin.- Goebbels says reds
seeded relchstag fire to slnl tor
-v an uprising, r - . ' . -; ,
Borne, s Fmndamental,..Tevi
fons in""fasclst government are
undertaken. "
Loot Taken
Homes
Sa
id to Admit Crimes
Ddbert Mohr, Former Training School Inmate,
Arrested; Jewelry and Pennies From
Children's Banks Chief Haul
DOWN by the gas works, which in Salem consist of a
sooty pile of bricks, steel and stone now unused, city po
lice yesterday recovered loot stolen from at least nine Salem
houses within the past three weeks, they announced last
night, and in addition had the alleged burglar in jail. He is
Delbert Mohr, Leonard hotel, who claims he is 17 years old
KENTUCKY JOINS III
Repeal Has Safe Lead There
And in Utah; Million
In Pennsylvania
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Nov. 8. (JP)
Heavy votes in municipalities
tabulated tonight swept Kentucky
steadily toward ratification of the
prohibition repeal amendment.
Tne ballots were counted after a
violent election day which saw 16-
men shot to death, but some of
these killings were not traceable
to ballot disorders.
Reports from 874 of Kentucky's
4,204 precincts gave repeal 74,171
votes to 62,899 against. Jefferson
county (Louisville) with 35 of its
63 6 precincts tabulated, gave- re
peal 5,348 with only 373 against.
Smaller towns In the state aver
aged three to one for repeal, while
rural counties voted almoEt even
on the question.
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 8. (JP)
With only a few districts un
reported, Utah's repeal majority
In yesterday's election held near
40,000 tonight.
The vote, on the basis of re
turns from 729 to 798 districts,
stood at 101,103 for repeal of na
tional prohibition and 63,248
against.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8. (X)
Pennsylvania's majority for pro
hibition repeal passed the tnilHon
mark tonight as late returns from
yesterday's election brought the
total votes to 1,461,910 for repeal
to 458,135 opposed.
Those were the .figures with 6,
349 out of the sUte's 7,925 dis
tricts reported, and apparently
showed the prohibition's enemies
would carry the commonwealth al
most four to one.
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SUM BY TRAITOR
BOMBAY. India., Not. . UP)
The assassination of the king
of Afghanistan by a traitor was
disclosed in a telegram received
today at the Afghan consulate.
"His Majesty Nadir Shah
Ghazi was made a martyr by as
sassination at the hands of a trai
tor this afternoon," the message
said.
"The whole nation was plung
ed into mourning for the beloved
king and unanimously declared
aileriance to a new monarch. Mo-
hamedrZahir Shah, son of the
slain ruler.
"Afghanistan is quiet intej-nal
The young king, who was born
in 1914, married his cousin, the
daughter of Sarsar Ahmad Shah
Khan, at the age of 17.
The late king took the throne
on October 16, 1929, succeeding
Amanullah, wno was forced to
abdicate early in 1929 because ot
opposition among certain Afghan
tribes to his attempts to western
ise the. nation.
-After Amannllah's abdication
Bach Sahao, a usurper, assumed
power but was quickly over
thrown by Nadir Shah. ,
S1FEGU1IIB OF FISH
PORTLAND, Nov. 8. (JP)
A campaign to assure that the
construction of the $31,000,000
power and navigation dam across
the Columbia river at Bonneville
will include adequate provision
for the passage of fish np and
down the stream was decided on
today by game and commercial
fishing interests ot Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho.
Representatives of the game
and fish commissions of the three
states, ot packers, and commercial
fishermen ; on the . Oregon and
Washington sides of tbe Colum
bia, and of the United States bu
reau ot fisheries attended the
meeting. --" - ---.. . .
i Harlan B. Holmes ot Seattle,
representing . the United States
bureau of fisheries, was named
chairman of the committee, and
Mile O.' Bell of Seattle, was engaged-
as engineer to represent
the associated InterestarThe meet
ing was attended by J. H. Gal
lagher, civilian .engineer i engaged
to work-out the fish handling at
the Bonneville dam.
PRO LI DUSTER
COLUMBIA ASKED
From Nine
Recovered; Lad
oand whom police arrested Tues
day night on a downtown street.
Mohr's arrest, police said, clears
up a dozen burglaries perpetrated
here between October 22 and No
vember 7. They stated that the
youth had admitted the jobs. A
charge ot burglary is to be filed
against him today and if, as po
lice believe, it is found that he Is"
18 years old or more, he will be
arraigned in Justice court. Other
wise he will go to juvenile court.
Operating between 6 and 8
p. m., Mohr broke into nine
houses this month and stole a
considerable amount of jewelry.
ana money from children s banks
which he broke open, police said
he admitted. They have recovered
half a dozen watches and rings
aiong with other articles of small
er value. No great sum of money
was stolen, the "hauls" of child
ren's pennies scarcely averaging
IZ.50 each.
When Mohr cut his finger on a
broken window pane at the H.' A.
Cornoyer residence, 775 North
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RELIEF
Grant However Contingent
On Action Legislators
Take, Meier Avers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. (JP)
Tne reaerai relief administration
allotted $10,123,325 to 12 states
today' for unemployment relief.
The grants included :
Washington $750,000; Mon
tana $950,000; Oregon $950,000.
Governor Meier Wednesday re
ceived a telegram from Jfarrr L.
Hopkins, administrator of unem
ployment relief, that Oregon had
been allotted $950,000 under the
federal ' emergency relief act for
November and December.
"Payments under this grant
will be made upon condition that
definite action to aid In bearing
the costs of unemployment relief
will be taken by tho legislature
at its special session.
Commenting on the telegram.
Governor Meier said:
'This is an outright grant made
in accordance with the under
standing which I had with Mr.
Hopkins at the time I called the
special session ot the legislature.
"This allotment ot funds is
made to help us meet our relief
needs until the legislature can
provide revenues to match feder
al grants on the basis required
by the relief administration,
namely two dollars of local money
for one dollar of federal funds.
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OH ALLOTTED
The Keystone
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HOLM AVERS :
HE IS KEPT IN
DDI ON PLANS
Board' of - Control Matters
Basis of Complaint;
Meier Answers
Everything is in Minutes,
Asserted; Building
Plans Involved
Charges that action had been
taken under the purported auth
ority of the state board of control
without his knowledge, were made
by Rufus Holman, state treasurer,
and denied promptly by Governor
Julius Meier, in letters exchanged
here Wednesday.
Holman who addressed his com
munication to both Meier and Sec
retary of State Hal E. Hoss, said
his complaint dealt particularly
with letters sent out by-William
Einzig, secretary of the board of
control, in connection with the
state building program which it Is
proposed to present at the special
legislative session. The state treas
urer said he had been kept "in
the dark" as to how the estimates
for the several buildings Included
in the state program had been
reached.
"In case the legislature sees fit
to authorize the proposed build
ing program at anBstlmaJed cost
of 11,240,000, I will urge the In
clusion of a boys' dormitory at the
state blind school and remodeling
of the main building at the state
tuberculosis hospital here", Hol
man declared. He estimated that
these two projects, to cost $120,
000, could be constructed by re
ducing slightly the estimates for
the other structures.
Holman charged that the esti
mates of $600,000 for the con
struction of a tuberculosis hospit
al and psychiatric ward in Port
land were too high, when it was
considered that a central beating
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YIELDS SOME DOPE
A new glimmer of hope that
the public works administration
might grant Salem a loan suffi
cient to purchase the present
water system or to build a new
one, along with the mountain sup
ply line, was gleaned from a tele
gram received at the office of Sen
ator McNary here yesterday after
noon In reply to his query of Tues
day regarding such a loan. The
reply asked how muCh the city
would require In either event
Failure of E. C. Elliott, presi
dent of the Oregon - Washington
Water Service company, to reach
San Francisco as scheduled last
night forestalled city officials'
hope of learning the outcome of
Elliott's conference In New York
city relative to the company's city
bonds in payment for its plant.
J. T. Delaney, local manager, said
he was advised by long distance
telephone that Mr. Elliott was out
of reach, in Los Angeles last night.
SIRENS SIGNAL
FOR "BUY NOW"
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Business Firms Uniting to
Impress Slogan Upon
Salem's Citizens
Message to Be Carried by
Plane; Part of NRA
Campaign Here
If the Salem fire siren dins In
your ears at 10 a. m. t o d a y,
there's no cause for alarm.
It is only one of the devices
chosen by the Salem NRA Buy
Now committee to announce offi
cially that Salem's month - long
Buy NOW campaign is on.
Joining with the fire siren In
a few minutes of noise making
will be a group of auto dealers
and auto parts firms which will
add the noises of their horns and
sirens to the announcement. In
dustrial plants, including the pa
per firms, the Kay mills and the
linen mills will join in.
Overhead Lee Eyerly will fly
one ot his planes, dropping Buy
Now material.
Hundreds of business firms had
agreed yesterday to do their part
In making B u y N o w a success.
Many downtown merchants were
busy arranging special window
displays urging the need of present-day
buying. ,
Yesterday Buy Now signs were
placed in stores throughout town
while street walks and lamp posts
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Mayor Joins
In 'Buy Now
Advice Here
Mayor Douglas McKay lnvitei
uniform public support of tbe Sa
lem NBA Buy Now committee's
program In: a proclamation issued
Wdnesday.-T h 4nayo state
ment, in full, follows:
"Whereas:
"The National Recovery Admin
istration has designated the month
ot November tor a nationwide Buy
Now campaign, and
"Whereas: The merchants,
wholesalers and manufacturers of
the nation have incurred Increased
expenses In complying with the
president's program for the relief
of the nation, and
"Whereas it will be necessary
for the success of the president's
program that the buying public
support said program and the em
ployers who are doing their share;
"Therefore, 1, Douglas McKay
as mayor of the city of Salem
hereby proclaim the period from
November 9, 1933, to December 6,
1933, as a time tor the people of
Salem to lend their whole hearted
support to the Buy Now campaign
and urge the people to cooperate
to the utmost of their ability in
order that the success of the presi
dent's program may be assured."
Additional merchants and firms
are coming into the campaign with
the list of contributors increased
almost hourly.
bDemandsI
lolliowi
Governor Accepts W
Chancellor Barr ier to
Harmony, Dean Says
Law School Head Points to Kerr's Past Role
In Controversies; Praises Nelson and
Asks Him to Tell True Situation
EUGENE, Nov. 8. (AP) The resignation of Chancellor
W. J. Kerr was demanded here tonight by Dean Wayne
L. Morse of the University of Oregon law school in a state
ment in which the dean declared personal admiration for
Roscoe C. Nelson who resigned this afternoon as chairman
of the state board of higher education.
o Morse's statement follows:
CURISW SEALS
Tuberculosis Aid Plan for
County, is Outlined at
Conference Here
Plans for the 27th annual sale
of Christmas Seals for the pre
vention of tuberculosis were laid
Wednesday afternoon when coun
ty officers and seal workers met
at -the Y.M.C.A.. with Homer A.
Chamberlin, field representative
of the Oregon Tuberculosis asso
ciation. A corps of 100 workers will
open the sale December 1 in Ma
rion county, under the chairman
ship of Mrs. J. A. Werle of Silver
ton. Mrs. William C. Jones is
chairman of the Salem workers.
Returns from the sale of these
little orange stickers go to finance
local, state and national organisa
tions for the prevention of tuber
culosis. Only five per cent of the
total returns goes out of the state.
The percentage ot proceeds re
maining in the county is based on
a per capita return so that the
county gets to keep from 40 to 70
per cent of the returns. The more
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WASHINGTON, Not. 8. (JP)
Senate investigators disclosed to
day that evidence ot a syndicate
stock operation participated In by
Alfred E. Smith and a group of
associates in 1929 had been sub
mitted by the Chase National
bank.
Details of the operations were
not included, but Smith, in New
Tork, said In a statement that the
syndicate was composed only of
directors of the County Trust
company, of which he Is chairman
of the board, and that it borrow
ed money simply "to buy the
stock of our own trust company."
He denied any implication that
the money -was. borrowed "to
gamble in the stock market," and
said tbe loan had been repaid in
full. He further asserted that
neither he nor his associates bad
known that the Chase National
participated. .
The evidence obtained by the
Investigators will not be placed in
the records tor several days, as
the committee plans to make an
Inquiry tomorrow Into i $35,000,
000 underwriting pool in the
stock of the Sinclair Consolidat
ed Oil company.
HKDBERG ACQUITTED
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nor. 8. (JP)
A jury of district court late to
night acquitted Dr. W. H. Hed
berg, St. Paul chiropractor of a
charge of assault with intent to
kill Dr. E. J. Engberg, St. Paul
physician.
Late Sports
PORTLAND. Ore Nov. 8. (JP)
Franklin high school, defeated in
five straight games in this fall's
lnterscholastle championship race,
showed unexpected power and
held Washington hlghschool,
league leaders to a scoreless tie
in their football game here today.
PORTLAND,' Ore., Nov. 8. UP)
Billy Edwards, 191, of Kansas
City, defeated Ted-Thye, 197. of
Portland, two falls out ot three,
la the main.: event on tonight's
wrestling card kere.
- Edwards won the first fall in 17
minutes withy series ot head-
locks. Thy took the second fan
with a body press in1 10 minutes,
but lost: the deciding fait to Ed
wards, who applied another" head-
lock la trre minutes. r
' Leo Jensen,' H0, Vancouver, B.
C-.vwenthejsemirwmdupJf r o m
Bunny . Martini 1 1 1, Tulsa,! Okla
taking two tails out t three.
m mm
err Resignation
)fMson?hich
"Mr. Nelson's resignation is in-
dicative of the true character of
the man. I was Convinced that
when he fully appreciated the fact
that his presence on the board was
Inimical to.harmony in higher ed
ucation, he would resign. During
the last - few days Mr. Nelson
learned many things concerning
higher education which he did not
know at the time he delivered his
unfortu late speeches. As a re
sult he is now in a position to
speak out to the people of this
state and knowing him to be a
fearless man I sincerely hope
that he will do so. Again I wish
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52 Slain; Both Sides Claim
Advantage; Truce Until
Morning Declared
HAVANA, Nov. 8. (JP) A state
ot war existed throughout Cuba
tonight, proclaimed by President
Grau San Martin after a vicious
army and civilian rebellion, 20
hours old, bad killed an estimated
52 persons and wounded 18 oth
ers. Tonight came reports from Mat
anzas,.just east ot Havana, that
almost the whole of Matausas
province bad Joined the uprising
and that the ABC secret society
had captured the town of. Bejucal.
Previous reports said the move
ment had spread to Santiago and
that former army and navy offi
cers from the isle of fines prison
were prepared to march on the
capital.
A lull In the daylong fierce
fighting brought ghostly silence
to Havana as bight fell, but fur
ther clashes were regarded as in
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BRIDGE SET AFIRE
BY FARM PICKETS
PORTSMOUTH, Iowa, Nov. I
(JP) (Thursday) A large bridge
of the Milwaukee railroad one
mile south ot.here was fired and
destroyed1 early today by men
who Sheriff George E. Jensen
said were farm pickets.
(By the Associated Press)
While cold weather enforced
a truce in the mid western farm
strike Wednesday, the American
Farm bureau threw its support
to the government's relief pro
gram. "We must practice patience"
the farmers of the bureau were
told in a message from Edward
A. O'Neal, president, as he
emerged from a conference with
President Roosevelt.
Farm relief officials, announced
a new class of government loans
t tide the farmer over, and
pointed out that October ad
vances brought the total of fed
eral farm credit funds to f 1,870,
C00. - -
The new loans they explained,
would go to properties suitable
for "part time farming."
Rules for Club
Competition in
County Dratted
Standards by which club . pro
grams and activities will be
judged this winter were discussed
by the executive council of the
Marlon - county - federated clubs
which met at the chamber of com
merce last night. A list of these
requirements will be published in
the near future.' M -'"
L. J.'Chapln, federation' presi
dent, announced A. A. Geer of
Waldo Hills as another member
of his advisory council and. named
a legislative committee consisting
of B. L. Moor, HayesvDle; Roy.
Rice, Roberts; C. H. Taylor, Sun
nyslde, and Mr, Geer. i , "
'The next meeting of.the.fed-
erauon win oe nem ai uasei
Green November 14. "
VICIOUS REVOLT ON
IN Will CUBA
ith Regret
MPAflTlflLITY
CHALLENGE IS
REASON GIVEI1
Higher Board Head Avers
Situation is One Which
Cannot Be Mended
Meier Cites Poor Health of
Appontee as Reason
For Acceptance
PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 8. (JP)
The resignation of Roscoe C. Nl-
son, Portland attorney, as presi
dent of the state board of higher
education was submitted to Gov
ernor Julius L. Meier today and
accepted by the chief executive
with an expression of regrret.
The resignation climaxed a bit
ter controversy which flared last
Saturday as the result of address
es the president made at the Eu
gene and Corvaliis campuses.
These speeches resulted in a bit
ter attack by Dean Wayne L.
Morse of the University of" Ore
gon law school, and a subsequent
demand by the faculty organiza
tion of the university for Nelson's
resignation on the grounds that
he had insulted the faculty and
that his period of usefulness on
the board had ended.
Stating that he was quitting be
cause he felt that course was the
best thing for higher education in
Oregon, Nelson wrote ia his letttr
of resignation:
"It is the ultimate fact that
there exists a group necessarily
involved in a controversy upon
which the board of higher educa
tion must pass, and that that
group has challenged my Impar
tiality as a member of the board."
He denied that he had shown
or felt any partiality, but said that
"justification or refutation of that
challenge does not dispose of the
question."
"No judge," he continued, "will
pass upon a cause, a p a r t y to
which believes him to be preju
diced. In retiring he does not d
so 'under fire' nor does he admit
a factual basis for the challenge.
He withdraws so that the suiter
may submit his controversy to a
court with the impartiality of 9
which he is content and whose ul
timate judgment cannot hereafter 1
be assailed upon the ground that
the controversy had been preju
diced." Future contacts with the uni
versity faculty which had demand
ed his resignation. Nelson stated.'
would be frequent and "under
existing circumstances . . . could
be nothing but embarrassing, both
to the faculty and me."
Governor Meier, in his letter
accepting Nelson's resignation,
said he did so. not tor any reason
advanced by the retiring board N
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Business Bright
Spots
CHICAGO, Nov. 8. (JP) R. H.
Scott,, president and general man
ager of the Reo Motor Car conv
pany, today announced that sbis
ments for October were twice as
large as for October last rear.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 8. (JP)
The Chicago, Mllwaukee-St. Paul
and Pacifle Railroad today asked
the interstate commerce commis
sion to approve S1,S18,7S0 f
notes to be given th public worjta
administration for a loan to buy
S0,000 tons of steel rails.
NEW YORK Not. 8. (Oc
tober sales of the Simmons com
pany today were announced as
$1,619,(53. an increase ot 22-s
per cent over a year ago.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8. (JP) An
tomobiles and trucks sold by Gen
eral Motors corporation to con
sumers In the United States dr
lag October totaled 2,618 units,
compared with 26,941 in October
1982. 1 -' -. '
WASHINGTON,' Not. t'. (Jpy
The number of men directly em
ployed 4 by the bureau of public
roads in its recovery highway pro
gram today had reached 100,071
as against about 11,000 twe
months ago.
CHICAGO,-Nov. 8. (JP) Th
Pennsylvania Railroad today an
nounced It would purchase 100-
OOOtons eff new rallsone year's
requirements and will pay tot
them "oat of currency funds.'
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