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SERVICE We ouutce our carrier ertlce. If your paper doaa lot arrlTe bj, 0:18, call 0101 and a copy will b d liTered at once. - THE WEATHER ' Unaettted with rate todaj and Thursday; : Max. Temp. Tuesday 68, Mia. 62, river foot, rain .10 loch, varl ahl wbtda. t t I I FOUMDCp ; 1651 EIGHTY-FOURTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Blorninj:, October 21, 1934 No. 1S7 i I t LUMBER FIRMS 1 i 0 PRICE FIGHT Judge McNary Won't Issue Injunction; Mentions Doubt of Legality If Price Fixing Ruled Out No Reimbursement for Time' Loss Seen PORTLAND, Ore., Oct S .-) -Thoia Pacific northwest lnmber men who hare raised their voices f agmlpst price-fixing clauses of the NRA lumber code, won a signifi cant rictory In federal conrt here today. Federal Judge John H. McNary. after "Securing "There is serious donbt in my mind as to the legal ity of the price provisions of the lumber code of the NRA," ruled that temporary restraining orders against four operators accused of code violation, will be dissolved. The government, having charg ed the four mills with "chiseling" on the price clauses, had later moved to enjoin them from en gaging la the. reputedly illegal price-cutting pending the termina tion of the suit. But Judge McNary, a brother of United States Senator Chasles L. McNary, republican floor lead er, turned the tables on the United States attorney today. Admitting that he is far from certain whether the price provi sions of the lumber code are valid, Judge McNary commented that if the provisions are finally found to be invalid, there would be no way to reimburse lumber operators for money lost should they now be enjoined from operating until the constitutionality has; been deter mined. "Where the temporary Injunc tions have been issued, the defend ants have no recourse for any loss if the price provision of the code is later dissolved," the court held. Then, after ruling that the four, temporary restraining ordrl ready Issued here should be quash ed. Judge McNary said: "This seems to be the only fair step to take since there is no way to reimburse the companies in volved if the price provision is not valid. Thus, the West Coast Lumber men's association, regional code authority, may not now penalise those accused of code violation un til such time as constitutionality of price fixing has been estab lished. Many In the industry have frankly admitted cutting prices below the code level, but they have contended it Is necessary In order to maintain the code pro visions for minimum wages and maximum hours. The- fight has been wholly over price fixing. The four companies which had been cited by the United States at torney were the -Turner Creek Lumber company, Yamhill coun ty; A. T. Coats Lumber company, Tillamook; , Sherman Mill com pany, North Plains, Washington county, and J. H. Chambers Bons, Cottage. Grove. ' PWCKH1ES5 USUI 10 BE GOOD The padlock-and food businesa should take a decided upward turn today as a glance at the calendar shows thattonlght is Hallowe'en. Padlocks for the garage, -wood-ahed, bicycle and anything else that might be raided or lifted by vandals, and food tor the innum erable parties that always accom pany this holiday. , . . . . Bakeries and candy shops have been waylaying hundred the past week with their tempting arrays f , colored bread, raJsln-eyed cook ies and clever acndies. - , Midnight matinees and carnival daneee will claim their share f merry-makers and many small parties of apple-bobers and cos tumed .guests among the young folk will celebrate the ancient feast day. - Plant Saplings In Burned Area PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. tO-(P)-Plantlng of 800 to 100ft acres of the La Dee burn near Estacada with Douglas fir ; saplings was started today by 111 men from the Oak Grove CCG camp, j The mature trees of the area had been logged off and the new growth was killed by the fire. Tax Cut Planned In Union County - LA GRANDE, Ore., Oct, l9.-m -Lover tax levies here and throughout Union county are In "prospect for next year , The budget committee of the school district has recommended a budget calling for a levy of $10, 71.TK compared with the mi ll levy of 1 111.TI1.1V , . Roosevelt s Winter Home up for Rent; with Touch of Renovizing t i ;.vs ' 1 f IV'- 1 t i I'ts f 1 1 1 v The "For Rent" sign has been tacked vp on the New York home of President Roosevelt, located en Sixty-fifth street, which the presi dent hopes to rent for the winter months. This photo shows a paint er dressing up the front of the structure for the prospective tenants. PEAK OF BUILDING Housing Survey to Be Made byjSERA Crew; Model House Plans Due Campaign chairmen, speeding up every phase of the Marlon county! home modernisation pro gram, are preparing within the next few days to launch their greatest offensive in the drive to unleash $500,000 for home and business property Improvement. Loans and building permits reach ed a new high total last week, ac cording to reports made yesterday to members of the executive com mittee at the regular weekly meeting of the campaign workers. The campaign, within the next few days will definitely branch out into a two fold program. Scores of SERA workers, who now are being drilled in the provisions of the national housing act, are expected to launch a house to house survey to ascertain the ex tent of improvements needed on the 6,000 homes of Salem. The so licitors will be equipped to assist home owners in planning the im provements and to acquaint them with the various provisions of the act which enables them to secure funds from banks to carry on the work. They also will distribute a directory of all firms co-operating with the movement. Architects, who for the last sev eral days, hare been busy drafting floor plana for the renovizing of the 85 year old house on the courthouse grounds, are expected (Turn to page I, coL 1) Chicago Fair to End Tonight in Blaze of Glory CHICAGO, Oct. S0.-UF-A Cen tury of Progress exposition, a $88,000,000 entertainment staged In the midst of depression, will end at midnight tomorrow In a blaze f "Fourth-of-July" glory. When the fair president, Rufus Dawes, throws a switch, the vivid colors which startled the country at first sight of the world's fair will blink out. Then a half million pieces, of fireworks will hang a dazzling curtain between the fair and Lake Michigan. xhat will be the closing, spec tacle of the exposition's two year run, in which it caught the fancy of more than 88,000,000 visitors. Coast Lumbermen V ote to Seek Price Fixing Ouster TACOMA. Oct. SO.--Price fixing as a part of the national lumber code received a severe blow today at the session of the trustees of the West Coast Lum bermen's association, west divi sion cods authority, held In Taeo ma, when by a vote of 14 to f the board Instructed its officers and employes and Its delegates to the national lumber code author ity to do their utmost to bring abount abandonment of price fix ing. . The 'West coast division is the largest of those Into which the United States Is divided tor the administration of the lumber cods and has heretofore been a staunch supporter of the "cost protection" price fixing theory. The decisive vote showed that the leaders - of ths association, John D. Tennent of Longvlew, chairman of the national lumber code authority; E. W. Demarest of Tacoma, president of the West Coast association and member of the national code board, and Col. W. O. Greeley, executive secretary and manager of the West Coast association, have been unable to hold the rank and ille of the in dustry with them. 4 if; ' , ' 'A i ' ? S ; 1 f lvl' I ln It' I tan. m HOT BHS TOPIC IN RECIPE CIMEST Baking Powder Biscuits and Similar Foods Figure in Round Table Event Baking powder biscuits, hot and fluffy, . add the final touch of hospitality to an attractive guest dinner. Recipes for them are in demand at the Round Table this week so be sure yours reaches the food editor before Thursday noon. Muffins and quick breads of all kinds as well as waffles, grid dle cakes and rolls are eligible, List the ingredients of the re cipe, the method ef putting to gether, approximate baking time and about how many-4t- erveaf The contest is open to anyone with three cash prises awarded weekly. Good ideas for preparing eggs may be found among the follow ing: Egg Cutlets 4 hrd-boiled ( ft I tablespoon batter i cup milk 1 cap ertimbt 1 tablespoon chopped onion teaspoon salt 4a&h of veoiMr Scald milk and add cup of (Turn to page 2, col. 5) WOMEN SHEIK AS "ill" LICKED PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 80.-(ff) WTtn a face lifting, a new arm to replace one broken and a few new feathers, Mrs. Ida May Shan non's ill - fated wooden Indian will be back In the display row with his four wooden tribesmen From Mrs. Shannon's workshop the Indian was taken by vandals, dressed in old clothes and "lynched." Someone saw the form dang ling from a rope beneath the St John's bridge and an excited crowd watched firemen attempt to rescued .what appeared to be a man. Women shrieked when the 100- pound form dropped 100 feet into the Willamette" river, but up bobbed the wooden figure and was returned. , ' Her husband builds the frame work and Mrs. Shannon puts in the ..features of the Indians de signed for garden decorations. The action of the west coast board is certain to cause a pro found stir In the national, lumber code authority and at least some of the divisions of the authority, lumbermen pointed out today. Opponents of tha nrlce flvintr clause of the national code assert mat ue majorities of the Indus try In other divisions have been suppressed as well as In the Pa. cifle northwest and are against the price fixing control feature. It will take a general anread of the protest against the price fix ing provision to bring action in the national authority for the elimination of the objectionable feature, It Is realised. By a second resolution present ed by the price fixing opposition, which was led by F. R. Titcdmb of Tacoma, general manager of the Weyerhauser Timber company, the association board went oa rec ord as pledging adherence to the lumber code minimum -wage and maximum hour provisions, which it declared would be workable without 'price regulation. Tennent cast the sole . opposing - vote al though President Demarest sx Ereased like. aenj&e&U 1' - il f CLIMil IS ADMITTED UK Mill Federal Prisoner Avers He Was Asked to Assist in Handling Ransom Took Package of Money to "Friend In Germany" is Story of Sanders CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. II.-(ffV-The Enquirer says today that a federal prisoner held at Troy, Ohio, has set down in writing that Bruno Richard Hauptmann told him he kidnaped the Lind bergh baby and needed help in handling the ransom money. The prisoner, D. Y. Sanders, formerly of Schenectady, N. T., now held at Troy on a charge of impersonating a federal offi cer, has stated that he initiated negotiations to dispose of the ransom and did get rid of part of it in Germany, the newspaper relates. "In 1882," the Enquirer's ac count runs, "he (Sanders) met Hauptmann by invitation in New York. Hauptmann told him he had kidnaped the Lindbergh baby and needed help in handling the ransom "money. Because It was 'hot money' 8anders refused." But, the newspaper adds, Sand ers divulged he agreed to help Hauptmann the following year. They talked the matter over, then eame to Cincinnati and "pro posed an annuity agreement with a minister, merely saying he 'had gold to dispose of." The deal, says the Enquirer, did not go through. Finally, that same year,' Sand ers is quoted as saying, he took (Turn to page 2, col. 1) NfflML INTEREST IN ELECTIONS HIGH Nearly 48 Million Qualify to Vote; Local Races Draw Attention (Copyright, 19 84, by The Asso ciated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. SO.--A high voltage voter interest fn next Tuesday's first nationwide test of the New Deal, with 47,959,928 men and women qualifying them selves to vote, was shown today by an Associated Press compila tion. This figure, unusually high for an "off-year" battle, was indi cated In a gathering of registra tions and offical and unofficial estimates of voting strength In all the states which ballot Novem ber 6. Although falling a million be low the record registration brought about by the Roosevelt Hoover presidential contest In 1982, the estimate is more than 5,000,000 above that for the Hoover-Smith election In 1928. Two years ago the number of qualified voters as revised from latest statistics, was 48,962,63. The actual vote in the presiden tial contest was 89,791,886, a re (Turn to page 2, coL 2) HOT LUNCHEON NEW PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. SO.-iT) -School children were remember ed In an 8ERA project approved today whereby Uncle Sam and the Parent-Teachers' association will serve hot chocolate and hot soup on alternate school days at Red mond high school. The project during the next 24 weeks calls for less than $1, 000 of the $50,000 program ap proved today , by the state relief administration. - - - Some time ago Uncle Sam gave Oregon school children thousands for shoes where families on re lief otherwise were unable to send their children to school. f Preparatory to high water, In the Ochoco Irrigation district in Crook county, the committee ap proved a project calling for the cleaning and widening laterals, making repairs from Prlnevllle east approximately six miles to the Ochoco dam. Other projects approved includ ed: Improvements at Mt. Angel school;, continuation for two more xuonths the sewing project for women at Albany; library work at Hubbard high school, and physical repairs to -the build ing :- and grading and '' widening Jackson HHI road near Sunny aide In Marion county. TAYLOR "WILL OPENED y PENDLETON, Ore., Oct 80,-Cff")-The widow 'and children of the late Henry J. Taylor, Umatilla county pioneer who died October 20, inherit his estate valued at $70,000, probate of his will today Wiealed,. , . flJECt Named Bankers? National hChief I A j K - w "-.x ' 1 x,....-; ... Kv'l;s(:,,; V Ml? Thl, new picture of Rudolf 8. Hccht, of the Hibernia National bank of New Orlean, was snap ped after he had been named president of the American Bankers' association at tta con vention In Washington. EH S Federal Relations Board Is Offering Scheme Today to End A.&P. Row WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. fiPV-Th labor relations board early today proposed an agree ment to the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company and representatives of the unions involved in the la bor dispute In Its Cleveland stores. The peace plans calls for reopening of the stores and an end of the unions' strikes. (By The Associated Press.) Bullets tlewuand clubs flailed yesterday In Denver and Mllwau kee labor disputes, while confer ees at Washington sought to reach an agreement in the A. & P. store closing order. Denver saw a sharp battle be tween police and 800 men and women In which several police men and more than a score of agl tators were Injured. Trouble arose during an attempt to per suade federal relief project' work ers to strike. A second riot broke out soon afterwards as police rounded up several reputed lead ers In the disorder. Milwaukee, scene of several (Turn to page 2, col. 4) MARCHERS DENIED TU T ALBANY, N. T., Oct. 30.-OiP)-A party of 210 "hunger marchers" attempting to enter the New York capital with relief demands, were beaten back by police in a short, fierce battle on the Hudson river bridge tonight. Injured marchers lay rolling against steel girders while the police drove others Into Rens selaer, a railroad town jfceross the river. Early estimates were that 20 needed hospital attention. About 45 were arrested. Meanwhile the guard of troop ers about the capitol was increased to 20. Another party of marchers moved toward Albany from- the west. Police with machine guns, shot guns and tear gas bombs waited for them at the city line. This par ty was from Buffalo. Mindful of the bloody riot in the capitol building three years ago, city police formed a cordon across the huge Hudson river bridge as the marchers approached from New York city. Dunne Wins Out In Straw Ballot Senator Joe E. Dunne won a plurality of votes yesterday noon at a straw ballot' conducted by the Salem Kiwania Club lunch eon. Dunne received, 18 votes to 16 given General Charles H. Mar tin, democratic nominee for gov ernror. Peter Zimmerman, Inde pendent, won five votes. One vote was given a candidate not on the ballot. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore.; Oct, S0.-() -Pert ec to Lopez. 140, Loa Ange les, pounded out a decision over Roy Ockiey, 141, Portland, In a rigorous eight round fight here tonight. - Jack Hlbbard, 158, Los Ange les, outpointed Frankie Gomes, 157,-Los Angeles, In six rounds. Mickey. McCafferty, 110. St. Paul, ' drew with Johnny Bhaw, fieattle. la foul round!, ENEWED N LABOR TROUBLE ENTRY mm COURT DELAYS LOWER ED RATE ON TELEPHONES Temporary Injunction Given P. T. & T. as Litigation Outcome Awaited Patrons Will Be Repaid if Thomas'. Order Upheld, . judges Announce PORTLAND. Ore., Oct 8(h-jP) -Circuit Judges Robert Tucker and Hall 8. Lusk today Issued an order temporarily restraining the Oregon utilities commissioner from enforcing his rate reduction order against the Pacific Tele phone k. Telegraph company. The Judges, sitting en banc on the case, indicated every effort would be made to speed up the hearing of tha company's peti tlon for a permanent restrain ing order to set aside the reduc tions. Telephone users will be repaid the difference between the old rates and the new rates for the period of litigation in case re ductions are upheld. The court ordered the telephone company to give a satisfactory bond to assure it would make any ad justments ordered later. The court held that should the reductions go into effect tempor arily November 1, as ordered by Commissioner Thomas, and then not be upheld later, an irrepar able damage would be done the telephone company. In making the reduction order commissioner Thomas, after a three years' survey, appraised and lowered valuation of some of the company's property and struck out certain administrative expense items. The company filed suit to set aside the order which it declar ed was confiscatory and uncon stitutional in that it deprived the company of property without due process of law. The company alleged the com missioner made many mistakes in his appraisals of property. NEW TRIAL SOUGHT IN HERD'S CASE Another stop in the state's case against Charles Archerd, former Salem man under sentence for conversion of warehoused goods, was entered yesterday when a mo tlon for a new trial was filed with the state supreme court. C. F, Pruess, Archerd's attorney at Grants Pass, filed the motion which will probably come before the Bupreme court next week. De cision on the motion will be made by the court without argument. The court recently denied Arch- erd'B appeal from an unfavorable decision by Judge L. O. Lewelling here on a habeas corpus proceed ing Archerd's counsel brought. Should the state supreme court refuse the motion for a new trial. Archerd's final recourse would be an appeal to the United States su preme court. That body has al ready refused to take jurisdiction on the merits of the case; the ha baes corpus proceeding has not been before the court. Archerd, indicted about three years ago, has been working stea dily on mining property he owns near Grants Pass. Local citizens are his bondsmen. Freight Agency Transfer Looms PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 80.-6P) -W. T.- Sexton, vice-president of the States Steamship company, today announced his company will relinquish the Portland freight agency of the Hamburg- American line to Sudden Christenson, Pacific coast general agents. D illirtger's Wooden Gun Gets Into Politics Now CROWN POINT, Ind., Oct. 30. -(P) Repercussions resulting from an Investigation of John DU llnger's sensational Jail - escape rocked Indiana, politics today. To republican critics who have attributed, Dillinger's fantastic "wooden gun getaway and the state, prison break of ten convicts to democratic Introduction of the spoils system. Governor Paul V. McNutt recently replied that they would be silenced by impending developments In the Investigation of Dillinger's escape. Today J. Edwar Barce, assistant attorney - general,. . seised, eight Lake county residents, carted them off to Monticello, 0 miles away, and there announced he had obtained from them Information that he confidently expected would Ieid to the arrest of three persons on charges of aiding Dil linger in his escape. - ' Barce said tonight there Is 4! feO-thJui 1ft" report &$ has fvilions Pumpe State Relief to " Votes, G.O.P. World News at a VJiance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: WASHINGTON Mysterious conference between President Roosevelt and group of aids stirs capital speculation. ALBANY. N. T. Police and hunger marchers engage in tierce battle on Hudson river bridge. WASHINGTON Lanor and A. 4b P. in conference before labor board on Cleveland ' closing. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. Wall Street internation al banking Interests, at conven tion, propose foreign lending. HONOLULU Eagerly await ing clearing of storms, Charles Kingsford-Smith plans bop to California. MADISON, Wis. Governor A. G. Schemedeman, recovering from leg operation, tells electorate he will "carry on as before." CROWN POINT, Ind., War den and others are "detained" as Dillinger escape is made political issue. WASHINGTON AAA amend ments battle in next congress may test President Roosevelt's strength. Foreign: NANCY France armed and ready for trouble In approaching Saar plebiscite; nazi putsch thought possible. ROME Premier Goemboes Hungary to discuss revision Treatv of Trianon on visit of of to Mussolini. LONDON Labor opposition in fighting mood in sedition bill de bate In House of Commons. BERNE Sarah Bernhardt mentioned in Jewish court battle to prove "protocols of the elders of Zion" a fabrication. LONDON Matsudlara, Japan ese envoy, moves to break dead lock gripping five power naval conversations. LONDON Dr. Cook's claims to Polar discovery as valid "as Peary's, J. Gordon Hayes, Polar historian, declares. SOFIA King Boris of Bul garia risks life to save engineer from death in burning locomo tive; drives engine home. ELIGIBILITY LOOMS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct S0.-p) -Emerging without a decision from its "second conference over whether nearly 25,000 Los Ange les voters may be stricken from the rolls in Tuesday's election, members of the st:e supreme court late today predicted the eagerly awaited action will come "soon after 10 a. m. tomorrow." "You may tell Los Angeles," Chief Justice William H. Waste remarked as the conference dis persed," that we are giving the matter very earnest consideration and I think we have pretty nearly come to a conclusion." The court is to convene for its third conference In the case at 10 a. m., and the chief justice said he hoped for a decision "rery soon thereafter." Unidentified Dog Is Killed by Bus "A dog ran under the bus and was killed." This perhaps sad tale was the brief message contained in an ac cident report tiled at city police headquarters last night by C. J. Walker, 2238 Trade street, driver of a city street bus. The tragedy tor some boy or girl, or some huntsman proud of his canine companion, occurred at ICth and State streets. persisted for some months . that recent murders of gangsters in Lake county were committed be cause they knew too much of the plot to free Dillinger, "Our Inves tigation Is along entirely different tines, he added. Barce's action, however, pro voked the Ire of some democratic office holders in Lake county who apparently felt state officials' were shifting to them responsibility for the Dillinger fiasco. .. The Lake county grand jury was in session and after confer ring with Judge William J. Mur ray of the criminal court and Prosecutor Robert G. Ee till, Allen P, Twyman, an attorney, went be fore the jury to ask an investiga tion of Barce's activities. Twyman la: attorney for Ernest Rlunk, one of those seized by Barce. Blunk, finger print expert at the Jail, was indicted by a grand jury last summer after an -JTura to page 1, eoL IJl DECISION UN VOTER dlnto Gain Claims Maine Left Out Sinco It Already Voted j Rest All Aided Allocations are Made Before Month End, New Innovation WASHINGTON. Oct. SO.-gP)-. roar of protest rose from the re publican high command today a the democratic administratis. with the election a week off, pour ed $136,000,000 of relief money into every state except Maine, which voted in September. The republican senatorial-congressional campaign committee In a statement, asserted that "again the New Deifl administra tion convicts itself of the charge of using federal relief funds far political purposes and as a sub stitute for a campaign fund. While relief officials explained that Maine had been omitted fresa the allocations because its neeAs for November had not been de termined, the republican commit tee said: "Curiously enough every state except Maine received a slice. Maine has already voted. Maine, under the Farley plan of Ta manylzing the country, manifestly is recorded as having had hers." Chairman Fletcher of the re publican national committee, ia radio address tonight, contended the New Deal was staking its hope for success in the elections ea President Roosevelt's personality and "the use of public money as though it came from the demo cratic national committee insteas) of the United States treasury." "No such shameless use ef public funds to influence election can be found in the most sordid annals of our municipal polities, he added. The relief allotments, designed for November needs, were divided among 47 states, the District f Columbia and Puerto Rico. It was a big increase over the 3111, 499,490 given to all states aad territories for October. Relief officials said the in creased allotments were appor tioned in anticipation of greater relief needs In November's cold weather. The republican committee. however, commented: "Santa Claus was around agata today and again he is playing New Deal politics with the money of the people. "Today's announcement was an innovation. Lp to today no allocation has been made until the first of the month and thest only for a few states at a time. "November b allocation Is an nounced days in advance of cus tom and a full week in advance of the election. This is the way to reap the full political be De- fit." FIND BtOOD-STIS IIU ABANDONED AUTO THE DALLES, Ore., Oct. 30,-(iF)-Blood-stalnB were found to day on an automobile abandoned here Oct. 7, and identified as that of Charles Rochlits, 48, of Cald well, Idaho, whb has been missing since Oct. 3. City police picked up the car, stored it in a garage and made a routine report to state police at Salem, who checked with Idaho officials: Then it was learned Rochlits had left in his automo bile to inspect: property at Mid vale, Idaho, and had not since been seen. Upon, receipt of that word a close scrutiny of the car was made, and blood stains were found on the back seat. To sacks in the back of the car were spot ted with blood and there were stains, on the floor. State police started a thorough investigation , Hit-Run Driver Hurtles Sedan Across Curbing A hit and run motorist was driver of an automobile that crashed Into a, parked sedaa he- . longing to Samuel L. Miller, 395 Court street, and shored it up on the parking. Miller reported to city police last night. Miller gave police the number he believed was on the hit-run machine. - Ben Schlag, 301 South Izd street, and Roscce A. Parcel, Port land, were drivers of cars that col lided at State and Cottage streets. " Another minor collision involved cars operated by Jessie Faught, " 1610 Bellevnue, and Charles Da vidson, 238S North Front, at South Front, at'South 14th and" thexaUsMA,