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: i CIRCULATION Average Dally and Sunday ' for January, 1934 Distribution 7412 Net Paid .7016 Member of A. B. CI . TE WEATHER dmdy today, becoming unsettled Thursday, moder ate; Max. Temp. Tuesday 54, Mil. 80, riTcr 1.4 feet, variable winds. FOUNDEP 1651 EIGHTY.THIRD YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Horning, February 14, 1934 p No. 278 iX-V. . . ffB. 1 W SVGA' I SA""nM M V. M MB MB www Oregon 75 ijdw;lon W agedOvei Numerous . Elections Held Before Final Approval Here i51ave ;lssue . Holds up Congressional Act To Create State . By R. J. HENDRICKS Editor Emeritus, The Statesman; Author; "Bethel and Aurora" This Is the' birthday of Oregon as. a state. The bill of admission iras signed by President Buchan an on Monday. February 14, 1859. The bill admitting Oregon as a territory (rather a coincidence) was signed Just 10 years and a half before, on August 14, 184S, by President Polk and that, too ,was on a Monday. But the expanse of the terri tory was much more, than twice as great as that of thft state. Ore gon territory as admitted contain ed all the land west of the Rockies and between parallels 42 and 49: thus Included the present states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and what is west of the summit of the Rocky mountains in Mon tana $id Wyoming. The story of the two admissions Is a long one; a relation of the details of it would eoTer many newspaper pages. It was- enacted in the shadow of the struggles that led up to the CiTil war. In each case, Oregon waited long as a supplicant at the doors of con gress. The storj, too, of the contests for the establishment of civil gov ernment here, prior to the admis sion of the territory, is alike a long one, and its course tortuous. What was known as Oregon or the Oregon Country waa original ly all the territory5drth f the snuntah (California! line west of the Rockies and up to 54-40, or the lower border of Russian Alas ka. It was said to hare been "cov eted by five nations and owned by none." After 1818, it was still "no man's land," but was under the joint occupancy of Great Brit ain and the United States. This atatus lasted until June 15, 1846. when the international boundary agreement was ratified by the U. S. senate. Up to that time, the Americans who had come to the Oregon country claimed owner ship for their government of all of it hence the "54-40 or fight" slogan of the campaign of 18 44 upon which Polk was elected president. Jason Lee Governor With Mclaughlin When Jason Lee stepped over the Rockies. June 15. 1834, the celebration of the centennial year of whose coming fa now begin ning, he in virtue became gover nor of American Oregon, from his adTent div;ding the attributes of such authority with Dr. John Mc Loughlln. chief factor of the Hud son's Bay company, and acting under specific laws of the Brit ish parliament, and having and exercising authority over life and property. -Lee and McLoughlin by joint agreement made this free soil as to Indian slavery, they made old Oregon bone dry, and otherwise acted as dual sovereigns, or the one for his republic and the other for his empire. At the suggestion of McLoughlin. Jason Lee in 1838 made David Leslie Justice of the peace for Americans. In 1841, February 7, Lee moved for Ameri can civil .law; at the funeral of Ewing Young, February 17, he furthered his quest, and the next day. February 18. 1841, the pro visional government was voted, and acted, under the lavs of New York, and Its acts endured even through and Into the territorial and state governments. ' March 3. 1849, also "Monday, Governor Lane, at Oregon City, proclaimed the territorial govern ment the last day of Poll's presidency, and one of his first acts was to issue a proclamation for a general election, which was li.M thit flnt Unndir of June. 1849, and he'designated Monday. July II. as the time of meeting . of the first territorial legislature, and Oregon City as the place. In that very first session, a oui was considered looker to a Tote On the question of a state con stitution, preparatory to making Oregon a state; but it was laid on the table. At the next session, held In May, '50, however, a Joint resolution on statehood was op, but It was shoved aside by a re quest to Oregon's first delegate In congress to attempt an amend ment of the organic law making the governor and secretary of the territory elective by the people. In the session of December, 1850, on the. 9th, a resolution was adopted for a committee of five to Inquire Into the propriety of calling a convention to. frame a state constitution. v r Long Fight Ahead --' W Before Admission . . ". Thu '51-3 session" brought up the matter again, and a Joint ' ITnrtl rt nin 9. ml 11 Years Old g Fight is Admission The Washington Spotlight (By the Associated Press) . NRA swung away from the idea of . compelling purely local bnsiness firms to obey national codes. The senate deferred decision upon charges against William P. MacCracken, Jr., and three air line officials. The postoffice department chal lenged authority of a New York court to test its air mail contract cancellations. Secretary Wallace gave luke warm support to the Bankhead bill for compulsory cotton con trol. Charges of graft in army and navy plane building set a house investigation in motion. President Roosevelt looked over the house bill for reduction of municipal debts. Charles A. Lindbergh's protest against mail contract cancella tions blocked business in the house. The treasury announced over subscription of its 800,000,000 note issue. The senate postoffice commit tee approved use of army ships and men to fly the mail. Congressional action was com pleted on the 40,000,000 crop loan bill. Ilirosi Saito, Japan's new am bassador, delivered a message of friendship to President Roosevelt. Governor Julius L. Meier yes terday filled the existing vacancy on the board of higher education by naming Leif S. Finsetb, mayor of Dallas, to the position vacant since the resignation of Roscoe Nelson, Portland attorney. Fin seth has been in business for a number of years at Dallas. He is now serving his third consecutive term as mayor, is chairman of the county relief committee and is in charge of the CWA program in, Polk county. rinseth has served as chancel lor of tbe Knights of Pythias of Oregon and was for four years a member of the Pythian home board for this state and for Wash ington. There are now nine members eu the board. The appointment must be confirmed by an interim committee of the house and sen ate. Cement Firm to Construct Large. Plant, Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13.-( -The Santa Cms Portland Cement company will construct a cement plant here at a cost exceeding 1300,000, it became definitely known here today. Construction will begin shortly. Announcement was made from San Francisco headquarters and by officers here that a site has been purchased at the foot of North Albina and Lewis avenues. It embodies 400 feet of river frontage. The plant will have a storage capacity of 60,000 bar rels. NAMED CONSULTANT WASHINGTON. Feb. lJ.-P)-Senator Steiwer (R-Ore) was no tified today that William R. Scho enfeld, of Oregon State . college, has been named consultant for the farm credit administration. Schoenfeld also Is a director of the Federal Land bank at Spo kane. , STATE CROUP ACTS PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. lZ.-P) -Directors of the state congrega tional conference today launched their second attempt to bring har mony to the Evangelical Brethern German Congregational . church where contention has flared into physical manifestations. The directors said they were anxious to aid, but deplored the controversy between factions in the church as contrary to the spir it of Christianity. Civil and criminal actions in three ' courts resulted ' from the latest outburst at the church. MAYOR OF DALLAS ' OH HB BOARD CONGRESS LETS LIE; TRIAL L Administration Rushes to Explain Cancellation of Mail Contracts CWA Appropriation Lies on Garner's Desk, Awaits Action in Serrate WASHINGTON, Feb. !3.-aV The administration tonight hur ried the preparation of an ex planation to the courts and the public of why it cancelled all air mail contracts. Early tonight, word was passed out by the postoffice department that Postmaster General Farley would make public the text of a letter to .Senator Black (D-Ala.) chairman of the senate commit tee investigating air mail con tracts. WASHINGTON, Feb. IS.-fJP)- Although upward of three million depend upon its legislative action for their Saturday's pay, the sen ate today transformed itself into a court to try William P. Mac Cracken for contempt charges. Both MacCracken and his at torney, Frank J. Hogan, protest ed, first that the senate had no such authority, and then that MacCracken had given a senate committee the files of air mail correspondence ft had demanded and that he bad no knowledge of the removal of some of the files. While this case proceeded, in tertwined as it was with legal in volvements, an appropriation of $950,000,000 for-civil works and relief lay on the desk of the vice president awaiting action. Bound up in it was a patronage argu ment with the house which has delayed action. James V. Martin, a pioneer in the art of thrusting heavier than air objects through space, told a house committee that a group of aviation officials in Ohio con trolled army and navy contract letting for planes, that the con tracts were all let colluslvely, and that 75 cents out of every dollar spent by the army and navy was' stolen by the air trust. City Recorder Mark Poulsen and City Treasurer C. O. Rice last night announced they would file today their notices of candi dacy for re-election. Mr. Rice is now In his 20th year as treas urer and Mr. Poulsen In his 12th year as recorder. For six years prior to 1923 Poulsen served as deputy under Recorder Earl Race. Three more aldermanic candi dates blossomed forth yesterday: A. L. Tumbleson, seeking the two year term open in the fifth ward; Fred A. Williams, running for the sixth ward seat now occupied by Watson Townsend, and W. D. Ev ans, filing for a two-year term in the fourth ward. Alderman Townsend, who Is in his eighth year on the council and has been one of the most ac tive members, is unable to seek re-election because of a ruling in the state highway department, by which he is employed, ban ning Its employes from holding public office. Williams formerly was an alderman but resigned to serve as city attorney during the Livesley administration.- Evans also served on the coun cil, filling out an unexpired term that ended in January, 1933. A. S. Henderson now holds the po sition Evans seeks. DOING POM Hi K SEEK CT1 Schoenfeld is Honored Church Peace is Sought Mining Claim Filing In Grief Cause of Suicide NO PRECIOUS METAL ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. U.-yP-The first mining claim filed in Clatsop county for 28 years has been filed in the county elerk's office by Louis Raymond of As toria. The glitter of gold was Jiot the motivating force, but an alleged supply of building rock and other non-precious stones and metals. He tiled on 18 acres on Tillamook Head, just south of Seaside. WOMAN" TAKES POISON -NEWPORT, Ore., Feb. "lS.-) -Mrs. Margaret Klinke Harvig, who suffered a nervous break down after the sudden death in December of her son Edward Klinke, ended her dif e yesterday by drinking a poison solution. She Is survived by her widower George . Harvig, a daughter Mar garet who lives here and a son, Lieutenant Fred Klinke of Corn wall university,' w v., Pretender Lacks Audacity of his Fathers or He'd Be King Now. " ..HUI 1)1 II I.ULU HI. IIL HI ' WIIIWHI jllll'W m.l ...II .lll..W J.I--I.I. ,'" ' : ?- iv -'S-':-:--.' ::-:-'.: : : f.W; :"f:W.i'.-S'..: : X : - -; : , f t s ' : ' V.; 1 1 I 1 11 " Doc de Guise ...7v . ..... Charles Maurras ; i t 1 X ; ,' i The crown of France that rests upon a satin cushion In the Louvre might today be resting on the brow of the Due de Guise, did he pos sess the red-blooded audacity of his forebears. So say keen ob servers of the situation In Paris. While a howling snob, Infuriated at the government, was frantically seeking a leader, the duke failed to grasp his opportunity. He remained far from the scene of turmoil In his castle of Anjou, near Brussels, Belgium. Mean while bis henchmen, Leon Dandet, leader of the French royalist party, and Charles Maurras, director of the newspaper, L' Action Francalse, had called for the overthrow of the republic. Maurras is now under arrest, charged with incitement to murder. The duke's rival claimant to tbe phantom throne is Prince Louis Na poleon, who also remained in exile in Brussels, while he might have made a gamble for the crown. CRIMINOLOGIST TO r now case Coroner's Jury Asks That Manning be Held Until Probe Furthered KJ,' MATH FALLS. Ore., Feb. 13. (iT")-A coroner's jury verdict today recommended that Horace M. Manning be held for investiga tion in connection with the death yesterday of State Representative Ralph Horan, 29, shot and killed In Manning's office. District Attorney T. G. Gillen watets said no charges would be filed until after the arrival of E. O. Heinrich, criminologist from Berkeley, Calif. Heinrieb will ar rive tomorrow. The jury's report found that Horan came to death from gun shot wounds received in Man ning's office. Deputy Sheriff Rex McMillan described Manning's telephone call to the county jail after the shooting. Manning told officers he shot in self-defense. In Horan's hand was clutched a gun fired twice. No amplification of the motive for the killing had been given. Dr. C. V. Rugh was the only other witness called. He testified than an autopsy revealed one bul let went directly through Horan's heart and was instantly fatal. The Inquest lasted only 20 mln (Turn to page 2, col. 2) WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Feb. 13CP)With 11 convicts locked In their cells and conditions quiet inside the walls of the Washing ton state penitentiaryr Warden J. M. McCauley today launched a ri gid investigation Into the causes of the attempted prison break yesterday which took the lives of an officer and eight convicts. The d e a t h . of Amos Alonzo Ware, 27, early, today, brought the price in lives of a desperate and unsuccessful dah for liberty to nine. Ware, from King coun ty, was received early last year to serve an eight to ten year term for robbery. He was shot through the stomach. McCauley named Philip Wal lace, who was serving a minimum term of ten years for robbing a Fort Lewis paymaster, as the prime mover engineering the at tempt to escape. Wallace, who led his companions Into the open, raced for a cell bnilding door and saved his life as the other conspirators dropped u n d e r a withering tire. Other ringleaders, McCauley said, were James DeLong, who headed the payroll bandit gang in Pierce county and received a sentence of ten to 25 years, and Lawrence Colton and Thomas J. Woods, Cowlits "county robbers ana kidnapers. DeLong was kill ed, Colton wounded and Woods was unhurt. pick wins m PRisoracAS Leon Dandet FRANCE I J Mn pun is iH'iciwrs Proposes Setup Here Made Known by Members of Group in Council The city manager plan to be proposed for Salem by Mayor Douglas McKay's special commit tee will in many respects be simi lar to that enacted eight years ago by Cincinnati, O., it was stat ed by committee members yester day. The Ohio metropolis during the eight year period has over come its name of being tbe worst governed city and been dubbed in stead the best governed. Details of the charter amend ment which the committee will submit to the city council in the near future will be coordinat ed at a closed meeting of the committee with the mayor and City Attorney Kowitz tonight, ac cording to Alderman V. E. Kuhn. chairman, who Is serving with Al dermen Watson Townsend and Walter Fuhrer. Public hearings on the amendment probably will be held after it reaches the council, upon whose decision will rest whether or not the measure goes on the May 18 ballot, Cincinnati, since it voted for a managerial government, Is claimed to have set up an envi able financial record, with a bal anced budget, a cash surplus at the end of 1933, low tax rates, and not above a seven and one half per cent tax delinquency. The governing body consists of nine cotvpcllmen, of whom one is the mayor,- elected at large on a ballot on which the voter indi cates nine or more choices in the order of his preference. PLAXE CRASH FATAL OCEAN PARK, Calif., Feb. 13 (Jfy-George Strimple, pilot, and O.tto Freeman, both of Los An geles, were killed today when their airplane crashed while they were trying to make a forced landing in the sand dunes of Del Rey hills. . Late Sports P.ORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. lS-(ff") -Paul Karch, 154, Portland, dom inated all six rounds in taking a decision from Miles Murphy. 153, Cordors. Alaska, here tonight. The crowd booed a four-round decision giren FrankW -ealluci. 121, Portland, oyer Joe Calder, 123. Seattle. Chet Kelsey, 144, PortUrbd, was awarded a technical knock out in the first round oyer Harry Kelso, 141. Seattle. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13-aV Ellsworth Vines, tall Californian, used the power of his service to advantage tonight to defeat Bill, Tilden, -4, C-4. and even the count in their professional tennis- exhhibition tour. Eaeh now has won nine engagements. Their next meeting la in Louisville, Ky. IIDiSTOBES TO OPEN SOON Home Rule Killed For Good When Prohi Law Passed High Court Rules First State Retail. Stores " Will Open Thursitiiii r Portland, Stated 3 The state supreme court yester day In a unanimous opinion- up held the constitutionality of the Knox liquor control act and laid to rest the mooted question of home-rule which was first raised before the governor's llauor con trol committee appointed In July, ls33. Subsequently the home rule question was raised In an attorney-general's opinion present ed to the legislature. ,It was formally presented In court In the suit of the City of Klamath Falls against the state liquor commis sion. Judge L. G. Lewelling in an opinion here January 24 uphold ing the constitutionality of the Knox law. From this decision, Klamath Falls appealed and the supreme court Tuesday, one week after the hearing, returned its opinion which validates the law. The state liquor commission late yesterday announced it would proceed at once in its establish ment of state liquor Stores, the first opening Thursday in Port land. The store here and those In other upstate communities will be ready for business early next week. The higher court's opinion set at rest legal controversy over Ar ticle XI, section 2 to the state con stitution the home-rule provis ion by declaring that this had been repealed , when Sections 36 and 36a of the constitution, the bone - dry amendments, were passed by the voters. Tbe court held that "the people, by initiat ing the prohibition amendments, intended to deliver a death blow to the traffie in intoxicating li quors. It was not contemplated that the corpse would ever come to life. ... It was the be ginning of a 'new deal'. The slate was wiped clean." Sound Legal Grounds For Ruling Claimed. While the repeal of the home rule amendment by subsequent constitutional amendments was only by the implication of the re pealing phrases in the latest-past amendments, such repeal Is no more sound legal grounds, the court held. Justice Harry Belt writing the decision, than the use of the common law rule that re (Turn to page 2, col. 5) February 14 is not so much a day to send Valentine greetings in China as it is to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which begins on this date. The exact date va ries as does Easter, but today throughout China shops will be closed and high spirits will pre vail. Chinese New Year's has a busi ness significance. All old accounts must be paid by midnight of the eve of the new year or credit will not be extended during the next year. Consequently, loans are made for fabulous rates of interest the day before the New Year. Celebration often lasts a week and tea houses are crowded with Jubilant townspeople, drinking tea and splritous liquors and play ing Man Jong. Fireworks crackle night and day and the foreign as- well as domestic population guard its possessions more close ly, especially on New Year's Eve as thieving may take place to pay off the old year's accounts. CHINESE NEW YEAR OBSERVANCE BEGINS Applicants for SchoolVob Will F ace Careful Scrutiny All members of the Salem school board were urged by Chairman F. E. Neer at the re gular meeting last night to ac quaint themselves with the qual ifications, of the applicants for the position of school Uuperintendent. on which the board Is expected to act early in March. Neer declared that although the board hal an employment committee, it behoov ed all five directors -actively to participate in naming the new ad ministrator. The board declined to act on a suggestion from Superintendent George W. Hug that names of ap plicants to suceed him had best be kept confidential among the di rectors.' Director Walter "MInier concurred In Hug's belief but Dr. B. F. Pound held the applica tions should-be considered as pub lie records along with other board documents. The ensuing i discussion revealed that one ap plication had been withheld from public Inspection. It was explain ed that publishing the applicant's REDS SLAIN AS WA IN INI Estimates Vary From 500 to 2000; Rebels' Stronghold in Karl Marx Apartment Building is Wrecked, Many Killed There; Heavy Bombardment Poured on Enemy Camps by Loyal Troops Battle Inspired by Fear of "Fascist Government" Goes On in Dozen Cities ' of Austria; Rebels Reported as Holding Numerous Sectors, Forced to Retreat Upon Several Fronts by "Withering Fire VIENNA, Feb. 14-(Wedneday)-(P)-Battrel by government guns and harried by troops, beleaguered socialist forces appeared early today to be gathering for a final stand against Austrian authority. (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) VIENNA, Feb. 13. Government guns battered workers sections tonight as unofficial estimates put the number killed in two days of civil war at 500 to 2,000. A steady bombardment of the huge Karl Marx apart ment building wrecked that socialist stronghold and govern ment troops started other relentless offensives to crush the rebellion. - " Loyal artillerymen rained lead upon the enemy camps. Troops in the heart of Vienna crossed, the Danube to the war zones, under the protection of the barrage. No one could estimate the exact number of dead in the hours of vicious street fighting and bombardments, but po lice disclosed that 123 civilians were brought, dead, to the Vienna general hospital alone. World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: WASHINGTON Senate post pones decision on contempt char ges against William P. Mac Cracken and three co-defendants. NEW YORK T. W. A. wins court order requiring postmaster general to show why injunction should not be granted to prevent cancelling of air mail contract. ST. LOUIS August Anheuser Busch, Sr., aged brewer, com mits suicide. NEW YORK William Travers Jerome, reformer and prosecutor of Harry K. Thawr dies. WALLA WALLA, Wash. The death toll in escape attempt of some 30 convicts mounts to nine. Foreign : VIENNA Between 500 and 2, 000 killed as government guns battle workers sections In civil war. TOKYO House approves larg est peacetime appropriations for defense In Japan's history. PARIS Police are withdrawn from public gathering places as cabinet adopts policy of "silent work." Spring Vacation Plans Approved Salem school students and teachers will be given a spring vacation this year, the school di rectors decided at their meeting last night. Superintendent Hug's recommendation that the vacation dates be April 2 to 6 inclusive was agreed to. Hug explained that these dates would enable teachers who so desire to attend the Inland Empire association annual meet ings. identity might jeopardize his pres ent position. CWA and CWS projects con sumed much of the board's atten tion during the session and brought out recognition that there existed a possibility that tbe Les lie and Olinger field playground projects might not reach comple tion under federal allotment of funds. The directors joined, hew ever In expressing a belief that it war more probable further gov ernment CWA aid would be forth coming .after the present Feoru ary 15 deadline. The directors unofficially sanc tioned an application for a CWS nursery school project for which funds for about 60 days' opera tion has been allotted in Oregon. The project would consist of a class of possibly SO children se lected from needy families, who would be given health and home arts trainings by Instructors who are now being trained at Oregon State college. It Is contemplated (Turn to page X, coL t MM In a dozen other cities the so cialists' struggle for "a chance to live" and against "a fascist gov ernment threat" waged furiously. Socialist entrenched themselves in machine gun nests; they pat up an unrelenting battle unto death; all available troops. were rushed to the zones of greatest fighting. Police admitted they lost 11 dead and 38 seriously wounded in the day-long bombardment. Soldiers ringed the Sandlelten Hof. another socialist apartment, awaiting the surrender of tbe oc cupants. In the populous Florids- dort area socialists were forced to retreat from their positions, fighting tenaciously, to nearby Stadlau and Jedlisse. While the government guns boomed tonight, the insurgents were said to be hold the Otta kring. Simmering, Favorites and Wernals sections. Howitzers reduced the -Karl Marx model tenement, the largest in Europe and once the home of 2000 families, to ruins. Fighting there started at daybreak after desultory fighting during the night between socialists aad troops. Street fighting nearby was so severe that no one could get near it. While the shelling was reach ing its height this afternoon hand - to - hand combats added to the terror. Hand grenades popped from windows. Corridors became tren ches. Machine guns biased upon the besiegers below. Tear gas per meated tbe vicinity but it and smaller weapons could not dis lodge the defenders. Big shells then ripped into the concrete structure. Two1 floors col- (Turn to page 2, coL 1) F Organization of a Food and Grocery Code Authority for Mar ion county was completed -Tuesday night at the ehamber of com merce here when 70 grocery and meat dealers from various parts of the county elected seven of their own members to constitute the authority. The latter will handle the administration of the grocers and meat dealers code, dealing in particular with trade practices prescribed by the code. Named on the authorityare L. F. Garle, chairman, E. H. Bin genheimer, secretary-treasurer, John G. Marr, F. E. Broer, G. C Solterback, William Lewis, W. L. Park, Ed Schunke. president of the Salem Retail Grocers association, served as chairman at the organ ization meeting. ' Srlvan Durkheimer. chairman of the "state code authority. In Portland. . was the principal speaker at the meeting. Grocers attended front SUrerton, Wood burn, Stayton and Jefferson. Ed win' Good enough acted as secre tary for the organisation. A part-time secretary who will serve with the secretary of the re tailers' code authority for other merchants In the county Is being considered by the grocers organ ization, his selection depending on the amount of funds the organ isation has available. 111 Hi 0 CODE GROUP OK