, 1 - i if BUY NOW! - j ' Salem firms join today la U m month's cooperative artrv ' . ity urging purchaser to Bay f Now," anticipating advancing ! prices' .THE WEATHER . Ooody toda'x and Friday,' fogi nprntag and nigbt; N Mar. Temp. Wednesday 40, ' ' Min. 32, river a feet, north, west wind. - - i i 1 f FOUNDED 1851 Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, November 9, 1933 No. 195 ft III AkiiI II 1 Jl I Ml II U - P . M ..Vi 1 II DC Vi n .l.-. i : V ft t : 1 r t 1' 1 Petitions to Be Circulated At Once; Relief Work Is One Objective ----- I UWIIIllbO llbUU 1 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 . (Turn to page z, eol. 1) 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. inn; 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 (Turn to page 2, col. 3) 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. (Turn to page 2, coL 3) OH ALLOTTED The Keystone I ' jL 1 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 (Turn to page -3, col. 1) noi-w 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" 1 ssli ' "" isslssl 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 (Turn to page 3, coL 5) 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 (Turn to page 2, col. 1) E 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 (Turn to page 2, col. 2) 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 (Turn to page 2, coL 4) 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 (Turn to page 2, coL 4) 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.' 1 r - J yv :