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A PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 7, 193 "BUl Tighenmg:.:Maimitige Laws Receives House roval App STERILIZATION PROVIDED FOR Measure Would Raise Medic Fee, Require Tests; Four Vote No Three Tltal changes In Oregon's marriage la were approved hy the house late yesterday with only four representatives voting against the bill, which was intro duced by theommittee on health and public morals. It will now go to the senate. The hill would require that: 1. Feeble-minded persons be sterilised before they could be married. 2. Wasserman tests be taken before an applicant conld obtain a marriage license. 3. Both men and women pre sentmedical certificates showing they are free from "contagious or infectious venereal diseases, men tal Illness or defects" 10 days be fore tbey apply for a marriage license. - jt. The bill would also raise the medical examination lee num $2.50 to $5. Only persons oppos- lag the bill were Representatives Eckersley, Latourette, Ross and Snider. Seven house members Dickson, Fatland, Fraier, Haight, , Honeyman, Staples and Taylor were absent when the vote was taken. Hannah Martin Pleased i Representative! Hafhnah Martin, chairman of the committee on health and public morals, said she was so pleased at the vote given the bill she could excuse the house for passing the slot machine measure a few moments before.', . . Mrs. Grace ; Kent Magruder, Clatsop-Columbia' representative, said the bill had the endorsement of all clubs and societies, coun cils of churches and social hy giene groupsA An objection on the ground that the stiata would lose more revenue from marriage licenses was raised by representative Sni der. . ' Representative Latourette de clared Oregon should wait for Washington to enact a similar law. Bill Declared Humane "This is one of the most hu nane pieces of legislation to come before us," declared Representa tive Nels6n. Three other men, Hosch, Erwin and Wallace, spoke la favor of the bill, which they declared would protect society, make for a more virile, stalwart - race in the tate and lessen the load of the feeble-minded home. "I would vote for a dozen bills like this," Wallace said. "So would I," declared Repre sentative William Johnson, Jr. "Scenes at the feeble-minded home are the most pitiful I have ever seen." -, Education Board Committee Named The senate yesterday chose sli ; of Its members to serve on the Interim committee which by law Is required to pass upon all ap pointments to the state board of higher education. Senators nam ed were Duncan, Lee, McCornack, rearson, Strayer, Walker. MEMORIAL POSTPONED The senate yesterday postponed Indefinitely a house resolution by Representative Erwin directing the governor to proclaim October 11 of each year "General Pulas ki's Memorial Day." GRAND Today Shirley Temple in "The Little Colonel." Saturday "The Whole Town's Talking" with Ed . ward G. Robinson. i : j: ELSLN'ORE Today Ricardo Cortes in "The Shadow of Doubt". Friday Claudette Colbert in "The Gilded Lily". CAPITOL Today Zane Grey's "Rocky Mountain Mystery," with - Randolph Scott. HOLLYWOOD Today Double bill, MIt Happened One Night" with Gable and Colbert, and 'Elinor Norton" with Claire Trevor. Friday Double bill, "Bach elor of Arts' with Tom Brown and "Big Calibre" with Bob Steele. STATE today Double bill, Richard Dig In "His Greatest Gam ble" and "Ladies Should . Listen." Friday First run," William Haines in The Marines Are Coming".' . TJEMPLE The Call Board ... A FORMER state chairman of the republican party is Wal ter Tooie. Portland attor ney, who declared yesterday there was almost no legislation in which he was interested. He does not favor the measure passed by the house permitting circuit Judges to comment on evidence. In the hands of some members of the bench the power would be satis factorily used, Tooie asserts, but as long as Judges are selected by popular vote, many members of the bench will use the power un fairly. He would like to see cir cuit court Judges chosen by the governor subject to confirmation by the state senate. Tooze is pleased with Governor Martin's work and thinks he will make an expedient executive although he stayed with the republican party last fall and gave bis support to Senator Dunne. Incidentally, Joe has been at the session only once and that time at a committee hearing held in the evening. Philip Jackson, publisher of the Oregon Journal, looked over the scene yesterday. Jackson was away in the orient during a part of the fall campaign for General Martin but his paper plugged con stantly for the governor and nat urally the publisher Is a welcome guest in the executive offices. Jackson is about 40, pleasant, smart, debonnaire. His paper is well-departmentalized and his only job is' that of advisory executive. He gives considerable time to community activities, his latest post being the presidency of the Portland chamber of commerce. His father, Sam Jackson, was an extremely vigorous publisher who came down to Portland from Pen dleton when the Oregon Journal was a struggling sheet and when the Oregonian was the state's newspaper bible. The Journal's growth of the last three decades is very directly attributable to the strength Jackson, sr., infused into the paper. County judges and commis sioners who have been very ac tive at the session the last fort night were all smiles yesterday. They succeeded in the house in amending the timber purchase bill of the senate so the federal government must provide an nually for the counties moneys equivalent to taxes paid on the timber before a sale by private holders to Uncle Sam can be completed. The senate will not accept the change and the bill will go to conference. Timber men declare the amendment kills the bill since federal au thorities will not and conld not agree to pay a tax each year for an unknown period. Coun ty officials answer that if the counties are not thus protected timber speculators will unload their holdings to the govern ment and the state will be stripped of taxable wealth. The measure is likely to be dead locked between the houses and to be lost in the last-minute shuffle. The troublesome matter of the proper tax on beer is not going to be settled until the closine hours of the session. Brewers, of course, want no advance beyond the Dresent rate of fi! ronta n barrel. The League of Oregon Cities insists some of the funds fmm tnTfn cr hAOr nnrl lionnelne beer sellers go to municipal cof fers. When the house committee first renorted the ainTirfmrita tn the nrppnt (it 11 a harrol woa allowed the state as a tax while cities were given the right to add another tax nn to that smmmf Sensing a 32 tax on beer instead of 62 cents, the brewers got busy and succeeded in making a suffi cient case tn Induce the hnnse nl- coholic committee to drop the bill to authorize senarate taxes bv the cities. The committee, however. Btncic the state a beer tax up to 31.30 a barrel, with a 30-cent kickback to the cities. The brew ers would probably be satisfied M A rlocvOviJcd Theater P OLLYVOOiJ Today Two Features 15c And Second Feature ELINOR with CLAIRE TREVOR Friday and Saturday TWO FEATURES 15c OIPEEILE in 'Bic Calibre' Hi 1 GcetTTcaoe& & Gossip Qr&po&sSZ&GbsvnKsspBt with an aggregate $1 tax; they were busy as bird dogs yesterday trying to get that figure to re place the fl.30 rate of the com mittee. rs The appropriation for, the na tional guard has been bogged down for a fortnight in a sub committee headed by Senator Peter Zimmerman. Zimmerman dislikes the guard for two rea sons: He is not a militarist and believes wars are caused by the "interests"; he also dislikes the guard because of its possible participation in labor disputes. The guard is going to get its appropriation, about as asked, bat the left-wing senator is giving the guard leaders jitters. Puzzling problems are certain to confront Attorney General Van Winkle if House Bill, 484 becomes law. That measure classifies each type of expenditure a department may make and sets up as capital outlays all moneys spent for "ap paratus having an expectation of life in service of more than two years." The bill will put the sec retary of Btate s office In a quan dary and will call for a succes sion of legal opinions. The reason is that the joint ways and means committee of the legislature has already approved scores of de partment budgets where estimat ed expenditures do not conform to this classification. Some de partments treat these expenditures for office equipment as mainte nance; some as capital outlay. Which measure should the secre tary of state's office follow: House Bill 4S4 or the actual ap propriation bill? House Bill 484 is an outgrowth of criticism against the state tax commission for allegedly using maintenance funds for Eome office equipment. but the same criticism could be made against a score of depart ments. The senate may clarify the matter; the house let H. B. 484 through without a word of de bate. Ask Uncle Sam to Build Power Lines The senate yesterday adopted a memorial petitioning congress to enact legislation providing that the Bonneville transmission lines shall be constructed by the fed eral government. Senator Lee er planied that the government had already constructed transmission lines in connection with other power projects. The memorial was Introduced by the committee on resolutions. COUNTIES MAY JOIN The senate yesterday acted fa vorably on Representative Rod man's bill which provides a me thod for the elimination of county. Senator Wallace declared that this amendment was re quired because of a recent move to consolidate Crook and Jeffer son counties. s it's- ' 4 " ft CentUU Ml. T indcu ToUat Cmmi ' ' . ' 1. " 1 j , r , ,s , 3- ' 'i' 1 " " " ''' ft ', iZ ' 'j,' tig' t " Y J 11 COLLEGE SYSTEM DKEHED Additional 2 Years Work in High Schools Possible, $5,000,000 District Proponents of a junior college system in Oregon scored a quick victory In the house Wednesday morning when they pushed Sen ate Bill 99 through final passage with 34 members voting aye and 23 members opposed. The measure had been default ed on the first rote of the senate, only to win on reconsideration. It first went to the education com mittee of the house which report ed the bill ont unfavorably. The bill was then sent back to the committee on public institutions. When that group reported the bill out favorably yesterday, suspen sion of the rules was obtained and the measure hurried to pas sage. Election Required Under the terms of the bill, sponsored by Senators Best and Allen, districts where more than 200 high school pupils are enrol led and where the assessed value is 35,000,000 or more, would be allowed to organize junior colleges- with two-year courses offer ed. The organization plans first would have to be approved by the state superintendent of education and by a vote of the citizens of the district concerned. Taxes on real property to provide for the expenses of the district would be limited to two mills. Students in the Junior college would be charg ed a tuition equal to the tuition charged in state institutions of higher education for similar courses. Credits allowed would be accepted in the state university and college. Eastern Oregon interests fought for the Junior college measure, claiming that the cost of living away, from home and of trayel, made it impossible for many young people in that section of the state to go to college. LABOR LIEN BILL The senate yesterday afternoon defeated House Bill 126, by the committee on labor and indus tries, providing for the filling and operation of laborers' liens. Senator Duncan said the meas ure at first was disapproved by the lumber industry but that most of the objectionable features had since been eliminated. The bill was opposed by Sen ator Wallace on the ground that it would result in a complete up set ot the existing lien statutes. "This is not good legislation," Wallace declared, "and we will regret the day that we approved this bill. It Is in the interest of the lawyers and not the laborers." DM ED N SENATE TAKE ME ALONG ' iff V' ' V ' ' St ' ; A i i ' Y Tt; J - x-. S: Legislative Calendar Thursday, March 7 HOUSE: House bills on final pass age: 405, 400, 407, 408, 400, 50O, 228, 805, 501, 502, 503. H. J. M. 17. Senate bills on final pass age: SIS, SI, S68, 370, 265, 151, 839, 10O, 220. 258, 862, 280, 800, 833, 860. . S. J. R, 15. SENATE: Senate bills on final pass age: 886, 361, 880, 108. S. J. M. 10. House bills on final pass age: 185, 442, 408, 453, 455, 460, 387, 181, 364, 402. 1L J. 51. 20. Changes in Liquor Law Agreed Upon Amendments to the Knox li quor control law were quickly adopted in the senate yesterday afternoon, 24 members voting to accept the changes approved by the alcoholic control committee ot the upper house. Only Senators Carney, 'Burke and Zimmerman voted against the changes. The bill now goes to the house and may require a conference since the senate changes were numer ous. One change provided that a per diem payment of 310 for each board member be stricken from the bill. Senator McCornack, who es poused the changes, said the Knox law had worked quite satis factorily although a few amend ments are needed. These changes, he said, included the following: Elimination of bond require ment for certain beer and wine dispensers. Beer at 4 Per Cent Legal maximum alcoholic con tent of beer reduced from 5 to 4 per cent. Alcoholic content of wine in creased from 14 per cent by vol ume to 17 per cent by weight or 22 per cent by volume. McCornack made it plain that wine of this alcoholic content could be sold only with meals. Liquor permits reduced from fl to 50 cents. REGISTER CARAVANS Senator Best yesterday intro duced a bill which would require the registration of motor vehicle caravans. Both interstate and in trastate caravans would be affect ed by the proposed law. TODAY ONLY 2 Features RICHARD DEC in "His Greatest Gamble" Edward Everett Horton in "Ladies Should Listen" 7- . "j.-k" : W' ' ii 111 XVI Ivor ' mi, 1 - i sow s mi FOR IRE PAY Necessary if Best Material to Hold Office, Says Senator Burke If the voters of Oregon expect to attract the best legislative ma terial they will hare to Increase the legislator's compensation in excess of $3 per day, Senator Burke told members of the sen ate yesterday. His remark followed a discus sion of a house resolution by Representative Bull providing that members of the legislature Last Times Tonite Arthur Somers Roche's Most Exciting Story! "SHADOW OF DOUBT' RICARDO CORTEZ VIRGINIA BRUCE FRIDAY, SATURDAY IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT ON A PARK BENCH! look out mister, she means HI She passed up millionaires for a chance like thi$to sit on a park bench and eat popcorn with the man she love. G2 o The Olldod lily FRED Mac MURRAY RAY MIIIAN0 C AUBREY SMITH Choose mc for your com panion. I don't tolerate the bitterness, the acrid sting of undeveloped top leaves. Why should you? I don't tolerate the harshness of gritty, tough, LUCKI CENTER LEAVi f - , : U . should receive 330 a month dur ing their full term pf office. TJn motion of Senator Strayer the resolution went back to com mittee for amendment, Strayer contending the form of change proposed by Representative Bull was not satisfactory. Senator Hazlett said he also fa vored submitting some proposal to the TOters whereby the legis lators would receive more com pensation. Burke declared that the legis lators should receive at least $5 per day, with the regular session limited to 60 days. "Experience has taught ns that we cannot complete our work in 40 days," Burke continued. Average Below $2 Senator .Stringer said the legis lators were receiving less than S2 a day for their services when They Were Willing to Shoot It Out! IT k-k-:-7?p..vi. n ' ' hi y Seats m.) 1 l 'SUfcT bottom leaves. Neither should you. I give you exclusively the fragrant, expensive center leaves the mildest, the best-tasting of all. They permit me to sign myself "Your Best Friend.1 1 CENTER LEAVES mm 6lfltev MILDEST SMOKE it was considered that the cur rent session has' now run for 52 days. MI don't believe that the vot ers will increase the salaries of the legislators under 'existing fin ancial conditions," Senator Mc Cornack said. "I am of the opinion that we might as well write a letter to Santa Clans - as ask the elector ate to Increase our compensation at this time. EMPLOYES FORCED TO PAY Employers who are financially, able and wilfully refuse to pay their employes, would be subject to a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail under the provisions of a bill passed by the senate yester day. The measure was introduced by Representative Bolvin. TONITE FRIDAY SAT. V 1 Adolph ZukOf Prjt I err n nn raN A Psrsmouat Picturt with RANDOLPH SCOTT CHARLES "CHIC SALE Mis. LESLIE CARTER KATHLEEN BURKE ANN SHERIDAN GEORGE MARION, St. -PLUS-Our Gang Comedy "MIKE FRIGHT" miLHCOlONiL- J SVI1VN VlMAIlt 1 SJN( SIACKMIS (0! 4M .V;;:Hnonrj Tmt imt- fi'- "Si&t " " ii m