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PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN. Sales. Oregon, Thursday Morning; December 7. 1933 mil Mom ) ERStO Is With Employes to Give Like .' Amount; No Direct Tax r ! . Will Be Levied - Funds for the operation ot the .Id - age pension bill were ten tatively provided by the house Wednesday when It adopted, the essential features of Representa tive Oleea's proposal. , This calls far the dally payment, to a state oM age pension of one-cent by 'every- employer for eTery em ploye In his- establishment and a one - cent, dally payment to the fund by each . employe. - . ' This money will be collected through the state industrial ac- ' cident commission which wilt dis tribute tte montniy couecuons io .each county on the ratio Its num ber of approved old - age pension claimants hear to the total of such t approved claimants in the state. v H. B. lie specifically provides that no direct tax can be levied to carry the old-age pension. Thus ' tit funds raUad by employer-em . pioye assessment will be used ex clusively until some- additional in direct taxation is provided. - The measure carried in the house, 42 to 16, with two mem bers voting absent. Pan Fights Against Leading the fight against the .': bill were Representatives Paget, -Snedecor and Walker. Each held the '.method of financing unjust and certain to raise a great pro test tn the state. Walker pointed out that , the state had just ap proved 43.00fi.600 for relief. Rep resentative Nichols pleaded against a direct property tax for old age pensions but approved the Oieen plan',-. Representative Hilton, wished the clause relating to prohibiting . levy on property for old - age pensions stricken out but be was not sustained. . . .. McAIearV Bill Lost Passage of the Oleen bill vir tually assures defeat of Represen tative Me Alear's bilL He proposed at 'the start ot the session' that the old - age pension law be held op to January 1. 1936 to permit tax collecting agencies to finance the proposal. Representa live Walker was unsuccessful in an at tempt to get the McAlear bill ad vanced to a vote ahead of Oleea's proposal, i Ryan estimated ' that the two cent daily payment would raise 945,000 a month for disbursement ' to the counties. 10-Juror Scheme Of Dickson Gets Favor of Senate r The senate yesterday approved a resolution by Senator Dickson. V. providing that the concurrence of " 10 Jurors in criminal cases, other than those carrying capital pun ishment, shall be sufficient to find a verdict of guilty. Dickson declared that the ap proval of this proposed constitu . . tloaal amendment would expedite court procedure and save the tax- payers a large amount of money . annually. The proposed amend ment also received the support of Senators Woodward, Lee and - Hess. Senator Francis covich spoke . against the resolution. It now requires concurrence of a the It jurors to find a verdict of guilty in all criminal cases. f f A rfowOwd Theater OLIYIYOOU Tonight is . Dime Night John Barrymore in "Renal In Vienna with Diana Wynyard ComJnff Friday - Saturday s - MARION' nAVTKS : w . v y , fmm r. ' V 1 Jx telephone does so much, and costs so little, that it simply does not pay to be tcithout one;" You can order from aay telephone "I janployeeor just tell our business V . ; ; .officev J . C ? V. . -. ,.v' : TnEpAonc Tlehionk and Tixecraph Compact ; ouauiess ; uiiice. 740 Back to Wind .. I : , - , Samuel Leibowitz, New York -Attorney,; chkf defense counsel for the even negroes in the celebrated Scottsboro ease, pictured (center) as he left court at Decatur, Ala flanked by two husky bodyguards. The men ' were assigned to guard the lawyer by presiding Judge W. W. Callahan after threats had beea made against Leibowitx, le siens bill FOR TOLL BRIDGES Signature by Governor Meier Wednesday morning of HB 78 providing for five bridges on the coast highway financed by a PWA advance. In turn pledged by tolls from the bridges, is expected to mark the final legislative step es sential to obtain the 15,100,000 grant which is needed. Attorney J. M. Devers of the state highway department imme diately drew yesterday the formal resolution needing approval by the commission which will ask PWA for the bridges under the terms ot the new bill. The resolu tion will probably be passed by the commission at its meeting to day in Portland. Proponents of the bridges will ask the commission to deputize Devers to go east to see that the application for the bridge moneys is pushed through the PWA or ganization. Lang Attacks PGC Franchise Bill, Committee Meet Opposition to Senator Zimmer man's bill providing for repeal of the franchise of the Portland Gas A Coke company was voiced by John Lang, vice - president of the company, and a number of other persons who appeared be fore the senate judiciary commit tee yesterday. The franchise or iginally was granted to Henry D. Green but later was assigned to the gas and coke corporation. Lang declared that there was no reason for the repeal of the franchise for the reason that its provisions had been strictly ad hered to by the company officials. Action on the bill was postpon ed on til today. Power Bill Up for Hearing This Morn Senate bill No. 43, by Zimmer man, providing for the creation of . a state: power commission in connection with the proposed state power development program, will be considered at 10:30 a. m. today under the head of special order ot business The commission would be prevented from issuing or selling bonds unless authorized to do so by the voters. t i ,-v - v -. . y f State StH TeL 3101 Up Cuban Job HI 111 TAXMESSAGE Governor Juliua "L. Meier's special message urging the adop tion of the 1 per cent privilege tax, was met with different reac tions by public statements in the senate and house upon' the read ing In both houses of the Oregon legislature yesterday afternoon. In the house his message was followed by an announcement from E. A. McCornack of Lane county, chairman of the home taxation and revenue committee, which has the administrations bill, that the committee had battled with the matter of school relief until it seems the only way out would be a general sales tax. He said a definite report would oe made tomorrow. Representative George Winslow of Tillamook, added to the com ment of McCornack with the statement that "if the committee feels there is but one way to get school relief and that by a sales tax. I would like to see the com mittee bring out a sales tax pro posal." In the senate Senator W. E. Burke of Yamhill county rose to his feet and declared he was "sorry the governor has not learn ed the lesson prior to this session. Here he is trying to Jam a sales tax down our throats, after the overwhelming defeat of the last sales tax." TRID OF MEMORIALS APPROVED, SENATE Three memorials were approved by the senate just prior to ad journment last night. The most important of these urged President Roosevelt to in crease the federal appropriation for the Bonneville power dam construction from S 3 1,0 00,0 00 to 343,00,000 in line with the or iginal ' recommendation of the federal army engineers. Senator Upton said the larger appropriation was necessary in order to obtain power at a rea sonable rate. Another memorial would ex tend the "federal loan privilege to Include funds for repairs and ad ditions to buildings. The third memorial urges the government to assist In salvaging timber. damaged by the Tillamook forest fire last summer. Unanimous Vote is Given Kidnap Law Unanimous approval of the sen ate was riven yesterday to Senator Chinnock's bill fixing the-penalty for kidnaping,, with intent to ex-, tort money or property, at from 10 years to life Imprisonment, in the state penitentiary; " ' r y A similar law is now In opera tion In a number of other states. r d) or. Welter CormoEy Y) li URGES PRIVILEGE TAX Asks Solons to Vote One Per - Cent on Sales for Re lief of -Schools' In a direct message to both houses Wednesday afternoon, Governor Julius L. Meier pleaded for enactment of a one per. cent privilege tax on sales of tangible property, funds to go for the re lief of elementary school children la Oregon. He termed the school situation an emergency one' and estimated, the proposed tax would raise 33,000,000. i Striking out at opponents of the measure, the governor termed the master of the state grange and the head of the state federa tion of labor "obstructionists. "While they are always prolific with objections to all solutions presented, neither has any remedy tor this or any of the other ser ious problems confronting; the state,, the governor's message read. - His message continued: "In my opinion neither of these officials reflects the sentiment of the rank and file of their organ izations with respect to this legis lation as an emergency aid for our public elementarj schools. In my Judgment laboring men and farmers are as vitally concerned In seeing our schools kept open as any other citizen of the state. "In fact, since the proposal of the measure, grange organiza tions have expressed themselves In favor of the bill aa an emergen cy aid for our schools, and bo have several labor leaders. "Next to the home, our schools exert the greatest influence on the character ot our citizenship. "Consequently the most impor tant business of the state is the training and education of our children, and education should be available to every child. "I am,' therefore, renewing my recommendation for the enact ment of appropriate emergency legislation to meet the crisis with which our schools are faced, and in doing so I am pleading the cause of approximately 200,000 school children and approximate ly 7,500 teachers, who are looking to you for aid in this crisis." . Home Rule Repeal Resolution Goes With Senate Okeh A resolution by Senator Upton providing for repeal of the home rule amendment to the state con stitution received favorable con sideration of the senate yester day. Upton declared that it was ne cessary to refer this resolution to the voters provided the people of Oregon desired uniform state-wide regulation of the liquor traffic. Senator Staples said that re gardless of any liquor control leg islation enacted by the legislature he was opposed to repeal of the home rule amendment. Abrams-Paulus Bill Applies to School Levies The Abrams-Paulus bill to stif fen tax collection in the state, ap plies only to taxes levied for elem entary and high schools. All other taxes on real property, proponents of the bill said yesterday, includ ing taxes for higher education, would not be subject to the bill's provisions. On school taxes affect ed, a 12 per cent annual Interest charge and a three per. cent pen alty would become effective after March, 1934. The authors of the measure think it would be helpful in the relief of elementary school districts. Gas Fund Won't Go for. Schools ' By Indefinite postponement the house Wednesday morning refus ed to divert two cents from each five now collected on gasoline for the elementary school fund. The measure, proposed by Representa tive John Johnson' was supported in principle by the grange and hy organized labor. No committee members spoke for the bill.. State highway associations opposed the measure rigorously. Tomorrow, and ' Saturday TV- jTS7rT,l . . SeU Judge Earl Day la the serious minded, courteous gentleman seen about the lobbies this week. Ear lier this year ha was Just another representative. When Judge. Eart Tehl went berserk Ja Jackson county and landed at the end of State street in Salem, Day was ap pointed, to the vacancy by Gover nor Meier. He is Interested In ad justing Jackson county's finances to permit taking up the huge bud get d e f I e i t occasioned by the Banks-Pehl et al, trials. Incident ally, Frank Lonergan, who defend ed Banks at Eugene, Insists his client should have been freed. He can tell the story of the trial most dramatically. W. G. Bare of HOlsboro is an ex-senator who was prominent in the days of Joseph, Norblad, Moser, Klepper, et al. Erect, forceful, he has m buUfrog voice which echoes in every nook of the , senate chamber. Hare ex hibited his good sense- when he resigned from the state board of higher education before his ap pointment was confirmed; he saw a political fight ensuing nd went about the even tenor of his legal Ways at Washing ton county. Hare is close to the present administration and un doubtedly assisted in the ap pointment of Senator Ireland who can be depended wpon to consult Hare on major senate votes. Hare is a tillkum of long standing: with Henry Hansen. Cuff notes from the capital: Representative Snedecor's nick name is "Pete" . . . Warwick Han ten is comfortably established on a farm near Salem and keeps a cow . . . Salem had the heaviest rainfall in 42 years the day the nation went wet . . . Senator Har ry Corbett will not run for gover nor in '34 . . . Floyd Cook lost a substantial wager that H. H. would defeat F. 'D. R. in New York state (spelling under NRA procedure) . . . R. R. Turner, po tent democrat and Dallas school superintendent, is lobbying for ex tra revenues for the schools . . . at least 15 senate speeches are awaiting utterance on the Knox bill . . . legislators and their help ers are being paid cash through a strategic bit of short-time financ ing by the treasury . . . brewers would like the tax on beer held to two cents a gallon, the same rate as California brewers pay.' Reported: RCH will not seek governorship unless JIM does, then he will RUN although CKS and RWG along, with WRB may also enter race. FC is looking about for a winning republican and likes WTM bat fears be is too conservative. CMT is admit tedly a candidate but will not oppose his superior J. BEH may seek the democratic toga and GM also is talked but be likes Washington better than Salem. HH is keeping mum and ob serving the political wind. SB dreams of wearing the toga ot the late GWJ. The time is ripe, most believers agree, for a DEMO to WIN. All candidates fear the $$ which the incum bent may employ and think there should be an NRA, and AAA code limiting expendi tures. Pity the pet fanciers! Will Rog ers laments to 20,000,000 read ers the loss of his pet dog. Mrs. Hollis Huntington, sister of the Eugene representative, yesterday cancelled a bridge date because her pet cat died. However, there are tears of anger as well as of rage among the dog owners. Mrs. Earl Snell was furious yesterday when her dog this week ate a hole through new sued shoes. So also was Beatrice Walton who found her two dogs In one evening had ruined three pairs of stockings a prized sewing bag and had worked a sizeable hole la a new woolen blanket Blta; Secretaries of the speaker of the house and presl- Ham at, - . . r "jo senate oaiiy keep a TU DM I Tt uie nuu DARING AS HE, RACES CvMl WITH DEATH aW DANGER jLJ fst Tiiues '.today. lifllill - Show Daily 1 fSi- ..hiii Ij:4A'a:iJ:i scrapbook X r their superiors Peter Zimmerman contends the United SUtes entered the. ; World; war at the behest ct Wall S t r e e t financiers . . Wayne Pettit produces more newspaper copy daily than any other, atatehoose correspondent . . the combined ages of Repre sentatives Wells and Deich is 114 years . . . Mark Weatherford stands six feet, tow inches a helghth and weighs 100, nu dist camp basis . . . Earl C Bronangh ia traternizing with old-time friends in. the lobby ... he was a bouse buddy ot AUaa Bynon when the young sters were cutting their legis lative teeth . new Bronaogh stays in the Portland law of flee, he, Bynon and Hamilton run, while Allan sits in the sen ate, ... Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Randall, first floor counter op erators, have incorporated their firm as Elkhorn Tavern . . . they envision a mountain re treat business 18 miles up the Little North Fork of. the San tiam where they have a cabin. Members generally chuckled and were pleased over Governor Meier's direct attack on Grange Master Gill and Labor Leader "Oa born. These solemn owls sit in at many a committee meeting. When the committee members are about agreed on a bill, Gill and Osborn are asked for an opinion. Solemn ly but bluntly and persistently they say "no" and so potent is their voice committee members, recalling the slaughter ot the sales tax, hesitate to oppose them. Nev ertheless they dislike this "little group of willful men' controlling ineir actions irom the third house. Of course Gill and Osborn liked the attack; it got them in the headlines and Increased their po litical and organization sature be being singled out in the message. So the merry round 1 of politics continues! The hOtiRA ItnrriA thmnrH calendar Wednesday morning, passing a number of comparative ly unimportant bills. Included were changes in the law for certi- iicauon ox teachers, changes in the income tax and intaneihlAa tax laws, a measure authorizing me staie Doara ot higher educa tion to transfer real property, a measure to permit county courts in certain Instanced tn rdia as sessments, a redefinition of utili ties in Oregon. By Indefinite ttostnonemont thm. house killed HB 30 and 68, the tormer authorizing counties to is sue relief bonria. tha latta vidlng an added inheritance tax tor momentary scnoois. The house killed SB 68 Which authorized the state fcfthw KADI. mission to purchase rights of way tor roaus in cities oi less than 100,000 population. Return to Land Bill is Passed Over Meier 'No9 The Lee-Beckman "back to the land" bill, passed at the reenlar 1933 session but vetoed by Gov ernor Meier, became law yester day after the house Tuesday had overriden his veto. El to a. Th bill had been on the table since the earlier days of the session when it came from the senate with the latter s approval. The bill gives- assistance to persons who wish to go to state- ownea iana and there to try to earn a -sustinence. An appropria tion of 27500 is nrovidad for a commission which wUV , ttnent ine pian. itl. -V 2. AND WlUKP MAX jus mat Itl ULUNDfk sssuoeiua rmn Continuous pjn. to 11 pjn. HOUSE VOTES 1ST OF SMALL MATTERS nEieuiiGH" TIX n OUT Senate Postpones Zimmer man Measure Indef intely; ; More Buildings Added :M The senate yesterday postponed indefinitely a bill by Zimmerman providing that income tax returns shall be made available for pub lie inspection, This bill was re ported out adversely by a major ity 5 of the" committee on assess ment and taxation. The senate also postponed in definitely a bill by Zimmerman providing that income tax returns shall be made available for public inspection. This bill was report ed out adversely by a majority of the committee on assessment ana taxation. V - Senator Chlnnock said he had been advised by the state tax com mission that the .passage of this hill would decrease rather than increase the returns from the per sonal income tax law: The meas ure also was disapproved by Sen ator Haxlett, who declared that elimination of the secrecy clause would resttlt ln opposition to the general plan of income taxation. The senate unemployment com mittee amended the bilL author izing a state building program by including $76,000 tor remodeling of the senate and house chambers and ftO.OOO for Camp Clatsop. The program calls for a total ex penditure of fl.400,000. A bill by Jones authorizing horse and dog races within a ra dius of 20 miles of Portland was reported out favorably by the sen ate Judiciary committee. This measure was sought by the cit izens of Oregon City, who desire to hold dog races in competition. with those at Vancouver, Wash. Senator Spaulding's bill mat ing it possible to pay taxes at any time and in any amount, received unanimous approval. Spaulding contended that the passage of this bill would -aid materially in the collection of taxes and prove ben eficial to the taxpayers. TIX LIQUIDATION Senator Dunne's bill providing for relief of thq counties through the liquidation of delinquent taxes was approved ' Wednesday by the senate by a vote of 16 to 14. The bill provides that delin quent taxes of the counties mav be assigned to the state tax com mission which will have author ity to borrow from the federal government 50 per cent of the amount involved in such delin quencies. This money would then be returned to the counties. Senator Upton said this bill would relieve the counties of the necessity ot taking over a large number of properties because of the non-payment of taxes and would bring about $20,000,000 of federal money into the state. Attempt Industry Tie-in With NRA v A move to hurry through HB 55, tieing state Industries in Ore gon into the NRA program, failed in the house late Wednesday when Representative Paget objected to mindr amendments proposed by Representative Dickson and then was successful in sending the bill back to committee. The bill came up for final 'vote on consent of the house. Paget objected to the Starts r j I aoaay t for 2 Days j I SPIB i1h'iMll.II prum ANN DVORAK: U GVEN OKEH IIS Ufa m i U tit's Fast ' 'hmJimJLf I - and ' --' L Snappy! IfRtRACy -TValt Disney's Silly Symphony--Just Dogs' pathe review The Gall Board . . . . ' i . ELSEfORE . Today WiUiam-Powell in v "Kennel Murder Case. Friday -Katheriae Hepburn in "Morning' Glory." ' ' " CAVTtOIi Tonight only Philharmonic Symphony orchestra eon- " cert. -" - ' Friday Jack Holt la "Mas- fer of Sen."' . ' . : - - , - GRAND ' Today Rnes Columbo in "Broadway Thru a Key hole.! - Friday Double bill Jean Parker in "IWhat Price Innocence" and Tim McCoy In "Police Car 17." V. HOLLYWOOD Today John Barrymore in "Reunion in! Vienna." Friday Marlon Daries in -Peg O My Heart, Saturday- Midnight - matinee 11:15 p. m. Buddy Rog ers. In "Best of Enemies." STATE Today Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils. Saturday only Ben Lyon In "Bj Whost Hand. allegedly Speedy procedure follow ed in considering the bill. Dunne Introduces Gasoline Control Senator Dunne Wednesday in troduced a bill providing that when prices for first structure gasoline exceeds 18 cents a gal lon it shall become a public util ity and be sole' by the state and Its political subdivisions at cost, plus a handling charge. Dunne said such a plan was proposed in the state of Washington and in other sections of the United States. Authority on Farm ChemistryStricken AMHERST, Mass., Dec. . (JP) Death came suddenly today to Dr. Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher, 61-year-old retired president of Mas sachusetts State college and au thority on farm chemistry, under whose administration that institu tion made a number ot Important strides. , Thatcher was stricken In the college laboratory with a cerebral hemorrhage. He died less than an hour later. 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