CIRCULATION
Average Dally and Sunday
1 for February, 1935
Distribution 7981
Net PaM 7562
MEMBER A. B. C.
THE WEATHEK
Fair today, frost ia morn
lng, Sunday fair becoming
cloudy; Max. Temp. Friday
65, MIn. 37, river feet,
rain .07 inch, S.W. wind.
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FOUNDED 1651
EIGHTY-FOURTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, March 16, 1935
No. 304
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ITS
STI LL ENTITLED
TO BLOCK SALE
Transfer of Timber to U. S.
Not Possible Without
Approval, Stated
True, Says Commissioner,
but Pressure by Owner
Will Be Intense
Full , power to block sales of
privately-owned timber to the- fed
eral government rests with the
Marion eounty court or any other
eounty court In the state, Inso
far as Its own territory Is con
cerned. Governor Charles H. Mar
tin yesterday advised Roy Melson,
Marion county commission, in a
letter directed to him at the
courthouse here.
The; governor's communication
came as a result of an interview
with Melson in The Oregon States
man yesterday in 'which the local
commissioner said there were five
billion feet of timber in the coun
ty subject to purchase by the fed
eral government.
"There is an unfortunate mis
understanding on the part of our
county officials in respect to the
purpose of this bill," wrote the
governor, referring to Senate Bill
189 which went through the as
sembly at his urgent request.
"Neither the federal government,
the state board of forest conser
vation nor private persons can
force the sale of a single tract
without the consent of the county
court of the county wherein such
tract Is located."
Take Advantage of
Weeks Law, Purpose
The governor's letter stated
that the only purpose of the , en
actment was to enable this state
to take advanage of the Weeks
law which made it possible for
the federal government to carry
the burden now represented large
ly by delinquent taxes In forest
states. , '
"You may feel that the people
of Marion county should not take
advantage of this law. If bo under
the provisions of 8enat BUI 1S9
you will be permitted to control
the situation," the governor
wrote. "But why should counties
desiring federal funds be denied
them by the defeat of this law?"
The governor accompanied his
letter to Melson with a copy of
bis special message to the legis
lature urging support of Senate
Bill 189.
Members . of the county court
here pointed out yesterday, prior
to receipt of Governor Martin's
letter, that they thought it very
doubtful If any county court in
the state would take advantage
of lta power to block sale of privately-owned
timher to the fed
eral government.
Pressure for Approval
Wfll Be Strong, Held
"You could get an Idea of the
pressure the private timber -interests
could exert by noticing the
pressure they put on the legisla
ture to enact Senate Bill 189,"
Melson commented.
Countv court members here
said the courts would be unlikely
to tie up a deal when some tim
ber owner, insisting on liquidat
ing his imber by selling it to
Uncle Sam, sought support of the
court.
Aside from the payment of
back taxes, the courts feel that
such sales will take all the in
come features away from the tim
ber lands which pass to the fed
eral government. While eventual
ly the counties will receive 35 per
cent of the income from the tiio
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More Strike
Troubles on
Coast Likely
- SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.-()-Another
strike of a maritime
union at Seattle added to uncer
tainty over the Pacific coast sail
ors' strike from oil tankers today
as efforts to arbitrate the latter
dispute started here.
The Masters, Mates and Pilots'
association brought the develop
ment that added to the uneasiness
at Seattle when it declared a walk
out In sympathy with other mem
bers of the trans - Pacific liner
President Jefferson's crew.
' Trucks were stopped as they at
tempted, to transport cargo to the
dock from which the liner was
scheduled to sail for the orient to
morrow. Longshoremen also became In
volved in the President Jefferson
conflict when they refused to
work with six non-union cargo
handlers. The crew had walked
out In protest against employment
of officers who are not members
of the Masters, Mates and Pilots'
association. : 1
v More than, 20 oil tankers re
mained tied np on the coast by the
strike of the sailorB union of the
Pacific, which is demanding pre
ferential employment of its mem
bers; though the, Associated Oil
tanker H. T, Harper slipped out
of Portland , with a crew which
onion officials said was apparent
ly transferred from another ves
sel. '. ' . .
COUNTY
Warlike Note Sounded
as Flandin is Upheld;
Larger Army is Voted
"France of 1914, of Verdun" Rediscovered is
Word of Premier After First Vote of
Confidence; Given Powers
PARIS, March 16 (Saturday) (AP) Premier Pierre
Etienne Flandin won three votes f confidence in the
chamber of deputies early today on his demand that army
service must be increased as a defense against a heavily re
armed Gemany.
The government was given a free hand to increase
World News at
a Glance
(By The Associated Press)
Domestic:
WASHINGTON The S14.880,
000,000 work-relief bill sails to
ward final passage as senate
scraps McCarran prevailing wage
amendment and accepts comprom
ise. CLEVELAND Wiley Post forc
ed down on cross-country speed
flight.
WASHINGTON 1700 Jailed in
opening of vast federal drive on
narcotic peddlers, counterfeiters
and other law violators.
WASHINGTON President
files tax return; 13 told first
quarter's total shows an increase.
Floods render thousands home
less in Missouri; Rocky Mountain
states are choked by dust storms.
Foreign :
PARIS Premier Flandin re
ceives three votes of confidence
in demand of doubled army con
script service.
BELGRADE Political and
economic entente expected from
negotiations between Italy and
Yugoslavia.
MECCA Would-be assassins
slain in Mosque in attempt on
life of King Ibn Saud.
STOCKHOLM Princess Ingrid
will wed Crown Prince Frederik
of Denmark in love match.
PARIS Robert and Dorothy
Switz, Americans, are Indicted on
spy charge.
LONDON Rooftop air tend
ings visualized by De La Cierva,
autogyro inventor.
CODE IS SCHEDULED
WASHINGTON, March 15-(JP)-Farm
administration officials to
day scheduled seven hearings on
a proposed butter marketing
agreement tor 11 west coast and
mountain states.
The hearings will be held as
follows: Missoula, Mont., March
25; Seattle, March 27; Portland,
March 29; San Francisco, April
1; Los Angeles, April 4; Salt
Lake City, April 8, and Denver,
April 11.
The proposed agreement Is de
signed as a voluntary pact on
the part of the industry and will
not interfere with existing chan
nels of trade or prevent prices
from responding to supply and
demand conditions, the AAA de
clared. The principal provision calls
for establishment of grades for
both cream and butter in an ef
fort to stimulate production of
high quality butter.
Other objectives are to reward
producers who supply high grade
cream for butter production and
to insure payment of premium
prices to producers who offer
high quality cream.
MARXEA MAY COME
HOLLYWOOD, March
The Marx Brothers and a com
pany of 25 are rehearsing a
vaudeville act for appearances
soon in Salt Lake City, Seattle,
Portland and, possibly, San Fran
cisco. They say they're doing it
to try Out some gags they've
thought up for their next film.
HEARING
BUTT II
Relief Complaints Topic
of Gathering Here Today
Definite plans for handling re
lief complaints in Oregon are ex
pected to be laid before the state
relief committee here this morn
ing when it convenes at 11 o'clock
in Governor Martin's office.
Governor Martin would not
comment yesterday on the exact
plans he had in mind but well
founded reports were to the ef
fect that he expected to ask the
committee to move vigorously to
counteract an attempt made by
the legislature to throw the en
tire relief setup before a special
investigating committee.
Following a conference yester
day with T. L. Edmonds, north
west representative of the Federal
Relief Administration, Governor
Martin announced that Edmonds
had termed Oregon a "model
state" in handling. Its relief
moneys.
"Mr. Edmonds told me that the
government has always been very
much pleased by the efficiency
and economy of relief administra
military service by decree from
one year to two years.
After the first vote of confi
dence Flandin said: "The world
will know the country had discov
ered the France of 1914, the
France of Verdun."
The votes approved the tall pre
mier's denunciation of Germany's
"vast rearmament" and France's
refusal to approve the establish
ment" of military aviation in the
reich.
The first vote was 389 to 190
In support of the government,
which refused to accept a social
ist motion to have the question
of two-year conscript service sub
mitted to the nation at large. The
socialist attempt was in line with
their campaign to force new
elections.
Record Try Ends Short of
Goal; 340 Miles per
Hour Achieved
CLEVELAND, March 15.-P)-The
second attempt of intrepid
Wiley Post to set a new trans
continental airplane non-stop rec
ord in the stratosphere between
Los Angeles and New York ended
at 5:20 p. m. today when lack of
oxygen forced him to land at the
Cleveland municipal airport.
Post covered the distance of 2,
.1.63 miles "as the crow flies" in
8 hours and 4 minutes. His aver
age speed was approximately 270
miles per hour.
The flier made an easy landing
on he skids of his plane, the
famous Winnie Mae, alighting on
the belly of the ship without dam
age to himself or his craft. Most
of the trip was flown at an alti
tude of greater than 30,000 feet.
Post was 60 miles east of Cleve
land when he discovered his oxy
gen supply was dangerously low.
He swung back to the airport
here and made a "dead stick"
landing.
As Post sped downward through
the denser atmospheres ice con
densed ou the induction coils of
his motor and two cylinders "cut
out." This did not, however, ham
per the flier's maneuvers.
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S
SAN JOSE, Cal., March 15.-JP)
-The state suddenly shifted its
tactics today in the second trial
of David A. Lamson, charged with
wife murder, when it introduced
poetry written by Mrs. Sarah Kel
ley, red-haired Sacramento divor
cee whose name was linked with
Lamson's in the first trial.
This evidence was a variation
from offerings by police and for
mer sheriff deputies who had
been on the witness stand for
several days, telling of the scene
in Lamson's home on Stanford
university campus -after Mrs.
Lamson's body was found in the
bathtub.
Howard Buffington, jailer, con
fronted by Lamson in the court
room, said the scar on Lamson's
forehead resulted from the scratch
he saw on the defendant's head
the day the body was found.
tion in Oregon," the governor
said.
"However, Edmonds agreed
with me that we must take full
cognizance of these complaints
and go to the bottom, without fear
or favor, to see if there have been
any careless or misdirected expen
ditures." The governor promised in his
campaign that relief affairs in the
state would be probed. He had in
tended to reorganize the relief or
ganisation in the state following
legislative adjournment. When
Representative Er win Informed
him last weekend that he would
attempt to put an investigation
resolution through, the house, Mar
tin moved quickly to replace four
members of the Btate committee
with persons of his own choosing.
Erwin criticized the governor
for looking to his own relief .com
mittee for the Investigation. He
said a separate organization or
group of individuals should be
picked to probe relief affairs.
POST FORCED DOWN
WHEN OXYGEN GONE
POETRY IS
READ TD
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ON CASE JURY
ILL CITY AND
WHEELED STAY
V CONTEST
Marion County Entry Takes
30 to 14 Victory Over
Westport Quintet
Benson Portland Champion
With Lincoln, Jeffmen
Tied for 'B' Spot
McMINNVILLE, Ore., March
lS.-iT-With driving offenses and
air tight defenses, the Mill City
and Wheeler high basketball
teams boomed to the finals of the
district 15 "B" league tourna
ment with lop-sided victories here
tonight.
Mill City beat Westport 30 to
14 and Wheeler whipped Dundee
25 to 6. The winners play tomor
row night for the championship
and state tournament entrance.
Seim, Mill City forward , was
high scorer of the first game with
15 points while Frye, a substi
tute, was high ( scorer with eight
points for Wheeler in the other
game.
Lineups:
Mill City 30 14 Westport
Allen, 2 F...... 6 Lovelace
Seim 15 F 4 Tuom
McAuley 8 C Foytich
Smith, 6 G Forrest
Catherwood G Belleville
Wood...... S 2 Boone
Herron S 2 Quinlan
Wachter S
Referee: Emil Piluso of Port
land. PORTLAND, Ore., March 15.-(;P)-Benson
high won the Port
land prep league championship to
night with a 24 to 17 victory
over Lincoln high in a thrill sat
urated game. :
But Portland's "B" entrant in
the state tournament won't be
decided until Monday when Lin
coln and Jefferson play off their
second place tie.
Jefferson, an In-and-out team,
finished strong this last night of
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More Levees
Cut A. way by
Rising Water
(By The Associated Press)
The turbulent St. Francis river
tore a gap in the levee in Ken
nett, Mo., yesterday and surged
over a mile wide area, driving 60
families from their homes.
Before the Kennett levee was
washed away the Red Cross had
estimated the flood homeless at
5000, and it was feared the num
ber might be doubled by today.
Backwaters of the Mississippi in
undated 3000 acres in Perry coun
ty, Mo.
The danger was lessening In Il
linois and the Ohio river valley
for the most part, although fore
casts of rain held a threat of ris
ing waters again this weekend.
Saline county, Illinois, which
was 40 per cent under water In
midweek, was drying speedily and
residents were moving hack home.
Resorts in southern St. Louis
county, Mo., were under 10 feet
of water from the rampage of the
Meramec river hut the crest had
passed last night.
Flood, conditions were most se
rious around Fisk and Kennett,
Mo., and St. Francis, Ark. More
than 60,000 acres near Kennett
were under water, and 2000 fam
ilies depended on the Red Cross
for temporary shelter.
VANCOUVER, B. C, March 15.
-(P)-Rapplng in two goals in the
second overtime period, the Van
couver Lions defeated the Portland-
Buckaroos 2-0 here tonight
to tie up the two-out-of-three ser
ies in the Northwestern pro hock
ey league semi-final playoffs at
one game each after a sensational
game.
The Lions speeded up the pace
in the first of the two 10-minute
overtime sessions but found Ait
kenhead'p stonewall defense in
the Portland goal too much to
beat Hextall and Clint Smith
each broke through the defense
to slam hard drives from short
range but the Bucks' goalie han
dled everything that came bis
way.
Hemmerling soloed through the
Vancouver team twice but both
times was wide of the goal. A
third attempt was stopped at the
Lions' blue line.
Gordon Fraser and Munson fol
lowed Hemmerling to slash a pair
of bullet-like drives at Clark, but
the Vancouver goalie saved sen
sationally, sprawling on the ice to
stop Fraser's shot which sipped
for the corner of the net.
EVENS
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Leader in Move
To Free Islands
...
His smile reflecting satisfaction at
the progress of the campaign
for Philippines independence,
Manuel Quezon, president of
the Philippine senate, is shown
on his arrival in the United
States bringing the new consti
tution which he will ask Presi
dent Roosevelt to sign.
I
Famed Moscfue Sees Battle;
Two Shot by Guards, Ibn
Saud Grapples Third
MECCA, Saudi Arabia, March
16.-jP)-Tb.ree thugs stealing into
ancient Mecca's most famous mos
que were shot down and killed
this morning as they attempted
to assassinate tall, bearded Ibn
Saud, "warrior king" of Saudi
Arabia.
The assailants, men of Yemen,
launched their sudden, daring at
tack as Ibn Saud and his son, the
Crown Prince Emir Saud, joined
200,000 pilgrims in celebration of
the sacred Mohammedan "feast of
sacrifice."
The king's armed bodyguard
shot two before they reached the
spot where he stood. Emir Saud
himself grappled with the third,
staying his knife, until pistol
shots stretched him lifeless.
They fell close to the sacred
black throne, an object of especial
reverence to every Mohammedan
making the pilgrimage to Mecca,
which followers of Islam believe
the angel Gabriel gave to Abra
ham. An official announcement said
"it has now been proved that the
would-be assassins were Zeidus
(presumably residents of the Zei
di river area in trans - Jordan)
from Yemen."
(Last year Ibn Saud heavily
defeated $he Imam Yahyi of Ye
men in warefare started by bor
der disputes, capturing the port
of Hodeidah and other Yemen
territory. A treaty concluded last
May 13 ended the war, the Imam
Yahyi accepting Ibn Saud's peace
conditions).
"Investigations are still pro
ceeding," the announcement Bald,
"to ascertain their motive and
find out whether they had any
accomplices."
F. fl. SERIOUSLY ILL
WASHINGTON, March lS.--Louis
McHenry Howe, who for 25
years has stood at the right hand
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, lay seri
ously ill today at the White House.
Throughout the wide corridors
of the executive mansion voices
were softer, faces graver. The
president worked in the executive
offices much as usual but he re
ceived frequent reports from the
bedside of the man who in the
last two decades has been friend,
counsellor and secretary.
Callers came and went from the
executive offices. The cabinet held
its regular meeting. Newspaper
men canve for their semi-weekly
interview. The president chatted
with them, laughed with .them. But
those who watched closely seemed
to catch a glint of concern in his
eye, to notice a deeper line about
his mouth. His hand trembled a
little as he stuffed a cigarette
into Its ivory holder. '
No mention of the Illness was
k
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i sum
RIGHT HAND Mi OF
I made at the press conference.
HIRING SPEGIAL
LAWYERS BACK
TD OLD STATUS
Martin Vetoes Measure He
Was Presumed Backing;
Says Abuses Kept
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Governor Explains Bill He
Favored Was Different;
Van Winkle Silent
After constant attack on the
"racket" of special attorneys for
state departments, Governor
Charles H. Martin yesterday
about-faced his assault and sent
Senate Bill 3!L9 providing for se
lection of attorneys by the attorney-general
to the execution
squad.
In a brief veto message, the
governor said: "The employment
of special attorneys by boards and
commissions to perform legal ser
vices which should have been per
formed by the attorney-general's
office has cost the taxpayers hun
dreds of thousands of dollars and
has become all but a public scan
dal. This bill legalizes the old
abuses and prevents their correc
tion." "I'm going to prevent a contin
uation of this racket and to hold
all boards and commissions to
strict accountability to me and not
to the attorney-general," he add
ed. Doesn't Dovetail
With Bill's Wording
The veto statement was in
strange contrast to the provisions
of Senate Bill 359. That enact
ment, which passed the senate
unanimously and went through
the house with only Representa
tive Wallace dissenting, provided
that the attorney-general's office
should do all the legal work of
the state except where attorneys
with special qualifications were
needed for a departmental attor
ney. In such instances, the attorney-general's
office and the de
partment were authorized to
agree mutually on a deputy attorney-general
to act as depart
ment counsel. In event a deputy
could not be agreed upon the gov
ernor was to have the deciding
vote.
Governor Martin had tacitly ap
proved Senate Bill 166, written by
the attorney-general office and
containing most of the provisions
of Senate Bill 359 which he ve
toed, except that the latter afford
ed him more control than did the
first named bill.
While the governor's office did
not send the legislature a formal
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Records for Tax
Payment Broken;
Over Half Paid
PORTLAND, Ore., March 15.-
(P)-A11 recent records for prompt
tax payments were broken today
when more than half the 115,286,
665 current county roll had been
collected today at the end of the
first quarter of the tax collection
season.
Sheriff Martin Pratt gave much
credit for the showing to the state
bargain tax rate plan under which
discount is given if full taxes are
paid at this time.
At the corresponding date last
year 47 per cent of the year's
taxes were remitted.
Monorail From
Grants Pass to
Sea Is Proposed
GRANTS PASS, Ore., March 15.
(TJ-A "monorailway" line with
a single overhead rail carrying an
engine and cars suspended be
neath it, was proposed by its in
ventor, P. S. Combs, to link Grants
Pass and the Pacific coast at
Crescent City, Cal.
Combs left for the coast today
after outlining his proposal to
business men here last night.
Seventeen Hundred Jailed
in Federal Drive on Crime
WASHINGTON. March 1
More than 1700 in jail, and con
traband valued in the millions
were the" rewards tonight of a
swift and widespread anti - crime
campaign which linked all the
agents of the treasury in a con
certed offensive.
Narcotic peddlers and addicts,
smugglers, counterfeiters, liquor
tax evaders, violators of every law
for which the treasury holds en
forcement responsibility were
rounded up the nation over.
The seizures made a varied list.
They rank from silks to tapestries
and veered off to cabin cruisers,
morphine and lottery tickets. In
Baltimore alone, they were valued
at SM35.S40, Including $913,928
in lottery tickets and 700 gallons
of liqnor.
. .Secretary Morgenthan received
reports on the progress of the
E1LK WAGE
Compromise Proposal Wins Over Six, Upsetting Result
of Previous Vote 50 to 38; New Proposal is Then
Approved Almost Immediately; President Permitted to
Set Wages Except on Federal Building Jobs
Way Cleared for Early Adoption of $4,800,00 0,000 Aid
Bill; Wagner, Champion of Organized Labor, One of
Die-Hards to Shift Over; Robinson Announces New
Plan Will Have Administration Approval
WASHINGTON, March 15 (AP) Roosevelt forces to
day pushed a prevailing wage compromise through
the revolt-torn senate, ending in a matter of minutes the
deadlock that for weeks has held the $4,880,000,000 work-
relief bill stationary.
Gaining six votes, they defeated 50 to 38 the McCarran
amendment, written into the, bill by 44 to 43 nearly a month
ago. Opposition to the compromise then crumbled as if by
magic and it was swiftly adopted, with just two members
voting against it.
The compromise, bearing full White House approval,
directs the president to set uch wages as would not tear
down existing wage levels, but with prevailing wage rates
to be paid on all federal public building projects. The Mc
' oCarran proposal flatly directed
Jill COLLEGES
BILL MEETS VETO
Expense Chief Reason; Ax
Also Falls on Sunday
Closing Measure
As he had indicated Thursday,
Governor Martin yesterday vetoed
the Junior college bill and the
Sunday closing bill.
Five reasons were given in the
veto message disapproving Senate
Bill 89 which permitted school
districts to organize and operate
junior colleges. They Included
failure of the bill to provide any
means, other than tuition charges,
for out-of-district pupils, too low
a valuation limit on the territory
permitted to organize a junior
college, inabiliy of property to
stand a higher tax for education
purposes and existing aid furn
ished by the federal government
to needy students who wish to go
away from home to attend insti
tutions of higher learning.
"This is no time to enact legis
lation which would authorize in
creased levies on real property,"
the governor said in his veto mes
sage. "What is needed is some
vigorous pruning in the school or
chard and not the planting, of
more trees as potential excuses for
taxation."
The governor said the Sunday
closing bill, applying only to
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Oregonian Held
On Counterfeit
Count in South
SACRAMENTO, March 15.-
-A man identifying himself as Rex
Alexander Hall, 24, of Lincoln
county, Oregon, is in Jail here to
day charged with possession of
counterfeit coins, following his
arrest in Arbuckle, near here.
Federal agents who arrested the
man said they found him play
ing a slot machine with counter
feit coins. He is held on 12500
bond, but his mother, who came
here from Oregon, is attempting
to obtain his release on his own
recognizance.
drive as It developed, and late in
the day expressed high satisfac
tion with its results, telling news
papermen they were "extremely
pleasing."
A total of 11,517 men were
massed in the great attack.
The coast guard mustered 9,
000. The alcohol tax nnit furnish
ed 1700. The narcotics bureau as
sembled 300, the secret service
240, the intelligence nnit of the
bureau of internal revenue 152
and the customs bureau 125.
The alcohol tax nnit of the
treasurywtook the lead in report
ing arrests with 741 early to
night, followed with 257 arrests,
by the narcotics bureau, includ
ing six women. Customs men held
19S prisoners, mainly for liqnor
and lottery, ticket violations, while
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ENTS LOSE
mt
that prevailing wages be paid.
The ending of the weeks' long
impasse cleared the senate air,
and there were predictions that
the pace of the big measure
through the senate would be
measurably swifter next week.
Other amendments remain to be
dealt with, but leaders expressed
confidence that the bill could be
shoved along substantially as the
president desires.
The climax of the long battle
came as three senators Wagner
of New York, Q'Mahoney of Wy
oming, democrats, and LaFollette
(Prog-Wis) announced they
would support the administra
tion's compromise.
Portly Senator McCarran (D
Nev) ended the argument for his
amendment after a long day of
debate by assailing Seaator Wag
ner for his shift to the administra
tion proposal. Wagner earlier bad
defended his position, saying the
compromise gave protection to
the "going wage" scale and fix
ed the responsibility on Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Taking the floor shortly before
the roll call votes were demand
ed, Senator Glass (D-Va) told the
senate he was authorieed to say
that President Roosevelt would
veto the relief hill If the McCar
ran amendment prevailed and
that Senator Robinson of Arkan
sas, the democratic leader, was
authorized to say the chief exe
cutive would approve the com
promise, introduced by Senator
Russell (D-Ga).
THREE PASS BHD
TO ELECTRIC CHAIR
TRENTON, N. J., March 15.-(iT)-Walking
one by one past the
cell of Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
three convicted murderers met
death in the electric chair to
night. Michael Mule, 24; Connie Scar
pone, 26, and George De Stefano,
jr., 25, all three like Haupt
mann, convicted of murder in the
commission of a felony - paid
with their lives for the holdup
slaying of John Szczytowski, 37.
Hauptmann shook -hands with
each of the men as they paased
his cell.
"Pray to God," he was quoted
by a prison official as saying to
each.
Scarpone, the first to die, star
tled the gathering of reporters
and officials in the execution room 1
by making a statement in' which
he involved another man in the -Szczytowski
slaying.
"I'd like to aay something be
fore I go," he declared, as 'the
executioner i repared to slip the
mask over his face.
"Any members of the press
here? Then tell Detective Dl Louie '
to go arrest ." (He named '
a man who gave evidence against
him An his trial). "He was in on
it." '
Necessity Made
Robbery Defense
PORTLAND, Ore., March 15.-WV-Admitting
his guilt, Noble C.
Smith. 30, who was charged with
assault and robbery with a dan
gerous weapon today told the
court Ma fellow's got to IiTe.Mt
So Circuit - Judge Jacob Kanz
ler handed Smith a 20-year room
and board ticket to the state pen
itentiary. . i