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CIRCULATION
Average -Dally and Sunday
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Distribution 7981
' Net Paid 7562
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EIGHTY-FOURTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 19, 1935
No. 306
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COHMTIi
OF STRUCTURE
COUNCIL ISSUE
Merits Debated, Tenant is
Allowed Occupancy Till
May 1, is Upshot
Rebonding, Incineration of
Antedated Ordinances
Occupy Aldermen
Brows wrinkled and insinuations
flew thickly at last night's city
council session over the condem
nation by Building: Inspector
Bushnell of an old building at 311
North Commercial street. But en
suing soothing remarks calmed
the situation, the aldermen re
lented and H. Steinbock received
permission to conduct his second
hand business there until May 1,
when his lease expires.
Aside from disputing orer the
condemnation the council started
six antiquated ordinances dating
back to 1891 toward oblivion and
roted a $130,000 bond issue to
refund a like amount of improve
ment bonds at lower interest
rates.
Alderman H. H. Vandevort
perpetrated the Steinbock argu
ment by claiming there was "dirty
work in the complaint made
against the building." He insinu
ated a competitor of Steinbock's
complained about the building
when he moved to a new, nearby
location, and condemned Bushnell
for thereafter condemning the
structure.
Question Action to
Condemn at Present
"We elect officers and should
back them up," retorted Alder
man W. D. Evans, and Alderman
Cuyler Van Patten likewise called
for support of the inspector.
But Vandevort and Alderman
Walter Fuhrer proceeded to grill
Bushnell, Fuhrer asking, "Why
the .sudden action in condemn
ing?" VanPatten noLated out&ilwas
not customary to condemn a
building while It was occupied un
less Its condition seriously' men
aced citizens visiting the place.
"I looked through the building
myself; it's one of the biggest
fire traps in Salem," declared Al
derman E. B. Perrine.
Bushnell did his duty as he saw
It," defended Alderman Fred A.
Williams.
After Steinbock's attorney had
- explained his client's wishes, the
council granted him the right to
do business at the place in ques
tion until May 1 on condition the
condemnation notice be left tack
ed on the door to protect the city
In case of disaster. The attorney,
Allan G. Carson, said he under
Stood that after May 1 the struc
ture would be rased and probably
replaced with a new building.
Take Advantage of
Rebonding Privilege
Salem as a result of the coun
cil's bond action is the first city
In the state to take advantage of
a law but a few days old, passed
by the legislature last week. The
bond issue, 'for which bids will be
" received April 1, will refund 355
per cent Bancroft bonds of se
ries 2R, 2U and 2T Issued in 1927,
1928 and 1929, respectively. The
new bonds will bear not more than
S per cent interest and be retimed
aerially over a 10-year period. An
additional ( $47,227 worth of old
bonds will be redeemed with sink
ing fund moneys.
Vandevort loosed another ti
rade over the claim for costs by
William Backe and witnesses in
bis drunken driving trials in mu
nicipal and circuit court Al
though Backe was cleared of the
charge by; a circuit court Jury,
Vandevort objected strenuously to
the city,1- plaintiff . paying the
court cdsts. The matter was refer
red to the; police committee with
power to act.
One of the six ordinances start
ed toward repeal, that requiring
bathing suits to be neck-to-knee
length.' greatly amused ' the gal
lery. It was enacted in 1898. The
oldest was one regulating the lo
cations of laundries, passed in
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GHOST WILL W
FOR STATE STIFF
The 'ghost will walk for hun
dreds of statehouse workers this
week with the signing of appropri
ation bills' by the governor's of
fice. Pay for January , was re
ceived by the employes by the giv
ing of assignments to the state
treasurer. '
' However, February payroll as
signments were not' given and as
a result : the f irst-of -the-month
payroll la March was not met.
Technically no state worker, de
pending on an appropriation for
bis or salary, is eligible to receive
pay at the turn of the biennium
until the legislature appropriates
the money. - t- . --
Self sustaining t departments,
dependent on fees, are not com
pelled to hold up their payrolls
since they have funds on, hand ir
respective of legislative appropriation.-
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Relief
Investigation
Committee Selected
to Start Work Today
Verne Dusnbery, Grace Phelps and McCor
nack Nmed by Governor; Thorough
Delving Into Activities Promised
A SPECIAL committee of three, charged with a thorough
investigation of public relief in Oregon, was named late
yesterday by Governor Charles H. Martin. Verne Dusenbery,
Portland, will pe chairman; Grace Phelps, Portland, and
Senator E. A. McCornack, Eugene, will be the other members.
"These persons were drafted by me to serve on this
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WORRIES LEADERS
Some Solons Suggest Plan
To Enact Pension First
Delaying Remainder
WASHINGTON! March 18.-flP)
-With the $4.88:0,000,000 work
relief bill apparently near passage,
the administration tonight was
shaping strategy to get the social
security measure and other long
delayed proposals through con
gress. Some house democrats have
suggested a plan to scrap all the
security bills for this season save
the old age pension plan, but the
word from the president during
the day was that he favored keep
ing the present measure virtually
intact.
Secretary Perkins also said it
would be "unfortunate" if the
measure were broken up but nev
ertheless a caucus of house dem
ocrats probably will be held to de
termine sentiment.
Some democrats feel that oppo
sition to the unemployment in
surance phase of the security pro
gram might delay the enactment
of old age pension legislation.
The proposal by Senator Adams
(D-Col) to slash! 12.000,000.000
front the work relief bill was de--
bated In the senate today but the
administration appeared confi
dent, so much so in fact that Sen
ator Robinson, ot Arkansas, the
democratic leader, predicted pas
sage of the bill this week.
On the eve of house considera
tion of the bonus, congress was
warned that the president prob
ably would veto either the Patman
or Vinson bills, j
The former would call for pay
ment of the bonus through an is
sue, of new currency; the latter
calls simply for payment.
This renewed effort to win sup
porters for a compromise plan un
der which the soldiers would re
ceive interest bearing bonds in
stead of cash.
Idaho Goes Wet;
Control Bill is
Signed by Ross
BOISE, Idaho, jMarch
With a stroke of the pen Governor
Ross ended legal! prohibition in
Idaho at 3:35 o'clock this after
noon, when he signed the state
owned package goods liquor stores
bill. j
He did not name the personnel
of the three-man commission
which is to administer the act that
became law as soOn as he signed
the bill. He will do so within a
few days, he BaidJ
EXJOYS 107TH BIRTHDAY
PRESCOTT, Arizi, March 18-CP)-While
his guests dined and
danced, Edward McGlnley, who
has always been a good "cusser,"
looked back on 107 years of life
tonight and predicted he still had
a few more to live;.
M MEASUR
Pile of IBills Still Faces
Martin; Deadline Tonight
With midnight the final time
for signing, rejecting or passing,
without signature all legislative
enactments of the 88th session.
Governor Martin faces a busy
schedule- today cleaning up the
bills before leaving Salem for a
brief vacation following the in
tensive work since inauguration.
Reports from officials close to
the governor, indicated that Sen
ate Bill 404, the public utility
district measure passed by the
senate in lieu of the Ickes grange
bill, would probably be vetoed.
Opponents of the bill say it will
hamper the state's request for
federal power lines In' Oregon.
Governor Martin was nrged
strongly yesterday! not to approve
Senate Bills 178 and 179 which
would permit circuit courts to set
npset prices on foreclosure, actions
brought In the state. Counsel for
opposing aides to Senate Bill 297
-also appeared before the governor
yesterday, one group asking him
to sign and one to veto the bill.
The measure attempts to prohibit
auto manufacturers .from requir
ing dealers to use their own fi
nance companies to the exclusion
of any other credit concerns.
It was considered unlikely yes
committee with the understanding
that I desired the committee to
investigate and to report to me
fully all charges made in refer
ence to the administration of pub
lic relief in this state," the gov
ernor declared.
The committee is to serve with
out compensation. Clerical help
will be furnished to it. A report is
required by the governor within
30 days from the time the com
mittee begins its work.
The first meeting of the inves
tigators is set for the capital this
morning at 10:30 o clock. Ray
mond S. Olson, regional field ex
aminer of FERA, and official re
presentative of Corrington Gill,
head of the finance department
and assistant administrator of
FERA, will be present.
The committee is to handle its
nrobe entirely apart from the
state relief committee which Gov
ernor Martin reorganized ten days
ago. Its appointment was determ
ined upon by the governor as an
outgrowth of his campaign prom
ises to investigate relief condl-
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TO PROBE RELIEF
Hopkins Sends Affidavits
To Columbus; Libel is
Charged by Davey
. COLUMBUS, O., March lS.-W
The Ohio senate responded
quickly tonight to a demand from
Governor Martin L. Davey for a
"thorough Investigation of relief
administration" In the state fol
lowing a day ot swift develop
ments in his bitter controversy,
with Federal Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins.
The governor, who earlier in
the day had filed a criminal libel
action against Hopkins as a re
sult of the latter's charges of
"corruption' In the Ohio relief
administration, went before the
legislature in joint session with a
new attack on the federal relief
head and a demand for the In
quiry, By a 29 to 0 vote, the senate
adopted a resolution for an in
quiry by a committee of five mem
bers of the senate and five of the
house. The house has yet to act
npon 1U
Characterising Hopkins' char
ges made at the time he took over
relief in the state last Saturday as
"cowardly and nefarious," Gover
nor Davey declared a "wave of
popular indignation" would arise
against the relief administrator if
he is tried on the libel charges.
Hopkins had declared in a letter
he possessed affidavits showing
"corruption" in the relief admin
istration 'in Ohio and today an
nounced in Washington that he
has sent the affidavits to the Ohio
attorney general and prosecuting
attorneys of two counties.
The democratic governor ob
tained a warrant atNewark, O.,
charging Hopkins with criminal li
bel and challenged him to come to
Ohio. The offense is 'not extradi
table. Department of Justice attor
neys said, in Washington they
were ready to defend the relief
administrator.
terday that the governor would
make any official changes In the
appointive positions at the State
house until he returned this week
end. His office did not announce
where he would go during his
holiday, Indicating the governor
wished to rest and to avoid the
siege of office-seekers .which have
been at the statehouse' daily since
the session opened.
Estes Snedecor, who has served
as legal adviser to the governor,
is scheduled to leave tomorrow
for his home in Portland. He has
been here since the session open
ed. D. O. Hood, budget director,
leaves for New York city Friday.
He will probably plaee Carl Cov
er In charge of the budget depart
ment. Hood said yesterday that
his department would . work out
system of checking budgets un
der the power granted the gov
ernor by the legislature." His de
partment Is also to take an in
ventory of all state property and
to set up a system ot property ac
counting and control. Hood does
not expect to continue the budget,
work personally other than to ad
vfjt Governor Martin from time
to time on the work of the de
partment. - ".-
LEG SMS
M UPON
E
TAX INTEREST
Unfair to Many Who Paid
Up 1931-32 Levies, Mar
tin Says in Message
Measure Backed by Large
Owners With Money to
Pay, He Declares
A governor's veto late yester
day struck to earth high hopes of
delinquent taxpayers' that interest
would be waived on all 1931 and
1932 delinquencies with a five.
year extension granted the prop
erty owners for the payment of
these claims.
In vetoing Senate Bill 153,
which went through both houses
after sharp debate, the governor
said: "The effect of this measure
would be to penalize, for their
promptness and sacrifice, all peo
ple who have now paid 78 per
cent of the 1931 and 1932 taxes
levied in this state. It would re
ward the 25 per cent who have
failed or have neglected to pay
their taxes. An immediate and
direct effect would be to betray
the confidence of some 13,000
taxpayers who paid $800,000 of
back taxes, together with $105,
000 of accrued Interest, into the
county treasuries while the bill
was pending in the legislature.
Governor Martin explained in
his veto message that the waiver
of Interest and penalty in the
1933 legislature, was an emergen
cy measure designed solely to en
courage people to pay current tax
liens while providing an easy plan
ror tne liquidation of delinquent
taxes accumulated from 1926 to
1930. .
Sought Mostly By
Extensive Owners
"To approve Senate Bill 153
is tantamount - to a declaration
that the act of 1933 is no longer
considered an emergency measure,
but a part of the legislative policy
of the state," the governor de
clared. "Such a step would be
exceedingly unwise and would
tend ultimately to undermine the
entire, tax structure and financial
stability of our state."
The governor also pointed out
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TRAFFIC GHEES
Five motorists received arrest
tickets over the weekend on
charges ranging from no driver's
license to driving while under the
influence of liquor, four of them
as the result of accidents. The
only one of the five reported in
jured was George Hetland, 1135
Colonial avenue, who said his legs
and back were hurt.
; Latest arrested was E. Jo". Glv
ens, 1835 South . Capitol street,
whom police took to Jail early
last night after his car struck a
parked automobile belonging to
E. A. Rosebaum, 221 North Front
street, in the 600 block on South
Commercial. Police said Givens
had previously been arrested on
a ; charge of driving while under
the influence of liquor, the charge
he was booked under last night.
Ivan S. Barton, Eugene motor
ist Involved in the collision with
Hetland at Cottage and Market
streets yesterday secured contin
uance until next Monday of the
reckless driving charge filed
against him. Hetland was cleared
of the no driver's license count
when he produced his license in
court yesterday.
Municipal Jndge Jones allowed
M. Pence, 1720 Broadway, charg
ed early Sunday with hit-and-run
driving, and J. M. Snyder, 60
Market, arrested later on a reck
lessness charge, 24 hours in which
to enter pleas. -
HOWARD HOBSOH IS
AS
DENVER, March 18.-P)-Coach
Howard Hobson. whose
Southern Oregon' Normal team
easily barged into the third round
of the National A. A. U. basket
ball tournament here today, an
nounced tonight he had made ap
plication by telegram for the job
of , basketball mi baseball coach
at ' the University of Oregon.
, The post was thrown open to
day with announcement that Wil
liam Reinhart, Webfoot basketball
and baseball mentor for the past
11 years, " had been appointed to
the coaching staff of George
Washington university.
After his arrival In Denver,
Hobson was notified by telegram
that friends in Oregon had start
ed a campaign in his behalf. .
Hobson was graduated from
Oregon in 1928 after a brilliant
athletio career there. He has been
head coach- in all sports at the
Southern Oregon Normal at Ash
land for three years.'; i
i .The" Southern' Oregon team
drew a bye in the first round of
the national i toumey and today
trounced- the- Tulsa, Okla., Tire-
TO 1
FIVE ARRESTED
IN
JOB
m,en 4 to It. -
World News at
Gl
ance
(By The Associated Press)
Domestic:
COLUMBUS, O. Governor
Martin L. Davey tiles criminal 11
bel action against Federal Relief
Administrator Harry L. Hopkins
for alleging "corruption" in Obiio
relief administration. I
WASHINGTON Conservatives
seek $2,000,000,000 cut in relief
bill; Senator Robinson (D-Ark)
predicts senate passage with full
$4,880,000,000 allotment. t
WASHINGTON Senate Judi
ciary committee reports favorably
revised 30-hour week bill; would
abolish flexible NRA codes, make
short week mandatory on all ex
cept agriculture. i
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. Floods
menace six northeast Arkansas
towns; 2,700 Missouri refugees
return home as waters recede, i
WASHINGTON Indictment
charges Rep. John J. Hoeppel,
California democrat, and son,
with conspiracy and soliciting $1,
000 for appointment to West
Point academy.
KANSAS CITY William Lan
ger, deposed North Dakota gov
ernor, presents appeal from con
viction of felony before U. S. cir
cuit court of appeals Tuesday.
WASHINGTON Donald R.
Richberg urges progressives to at
tack "The Old Guard" and "The
Destroyers;" observers Infer raps
at Huey Long, Father Coughlln,
Hugh S. Johnson.
WASHINGTON Congress re
publicans see new hope for party
in midwest' conference to plan
presidential campaign.
Foreign:
Europe's war strength 17,000,
000 men, costs three billion an
nually, survey shows.
PARIS France, possibly Italy,
plan to join British protest to Ger
many's projected conscript army
of 500,000.
BERLIN Germany says she
still is willing to discuss Euro
pean security; "German arms fac
torles are working virtually on a
war footing," propaganda minis
ter says.
TO BEGIN 1110
!
The Dalles Quint Expected
To Be First; Workouts:
Scheduled Today
By train, bus and private cars
the best prep basketball teams
in Oregon will begin arriving in
Salem today as the topic of
thoughts and conversations be
comes the 16th state basketball
tournament which opens tomor
row afternoon In the Willamette
university gymnasium.
The Dalles is expected to be the
first team to arrive -and has al
ready arranged to work out on
the Willamette floor today at 3
o'clock.
Other teams which will install
themselves In local hotels today
and tonight for a rest before the
tournament grind starts are Uma
pine, La Grande, Ashland, Klam
ath Falls, Marshfield, The Dalles,
Oakridge and Gardiner.
All other teams are within easy
driving distance of Salem and will
show up early Wednesday morn
ing. Salem high worked out On
the Willamette floor yfcsterday.i
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WASHINGTON, March 18.-P)
The house rivers and harbors
committee approved today 211
waterway projects in all parts of
the country and recommended
army engineers survey possible
projects in several hundred other
localities.
In a supplemental report ac
companying the bill, the commit
tee listed costs including the fol
lowing: j
Columbia and lower Willamette
rivers below Portland, Oregon,
and Vancouver, Wash., Umpqua
river, Oregon, $700,000. - S .
Lower Willamette river. $100,
000; at St. Helens, Ore., $40,
000; Vancouver channel, $140,
000; Youngs bay and, Youngs riv
er, Ore., $5,000; Columbia aid
Snake rivers. Ore., Wash., . and
Idaho, $400,000; Snake river.
Ore., Wash., and Ida., $7,500. I
The bill also recommended the
army engineers make surveys in
the following localities:
Alsea bay, Oregon; Yamhill
river at Lafayette, Oregon; Co
lumbia river, Oregcfa and Wash
ington, from Tongue Point to the
sea; Seaside harbor, Oregon; Co
lumbia river, at and near Ham
mond, Oregon; Willamette river,
Oregon, from Eugene to Spring
field; Sandy river, near Troutdale,
Oregon; Trask river, Oregon; Mi
ami river, Oregon; Kilchus river,
Oregon; Wilson river, Oregon; De
Poo bay, Oregon. .
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TjTT.WnT TS1l OTTT
' WASHINGTON, March Uf-
The Oreeon-wasninrion. uauroaa
and Navigation company lost to
day in the supreme court in an
effort to collect and ' Additional
110,000 from Strauss and Com
pany, Inc., ot Adams, Ore on
wheat shipped to Portland. j
CHIP! HOOPERS
HI) (1 H10R i
WORK IS FAVORED
Hi FATE
TO BE DECIDED
IN VOTE TODAY
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Recall on Basis of Stand
Against Townsend Plan
Has All Lane Agog
Legislator Denies Promise
To Support Plan; Will
Need Many Friends
EUGENE, Ore., March l&.-UPl-
Lane county voters go to the polls
Tuesday, March 19, to decide the
fate tof Representative Howard S.
Merrlam, facing recall proceed
ings instituted against him by
Lane county Townsend clubs un
der the direction of Charles L.
Paine, district organizer. Polls in
the county will be open from 8
a. m. to 8 p. m. and results are
expected to be known around 9
o'clock.
The recall election has stirred
many citizens to the fever point
and an Intensive, though quiet,
campaign has been waged by both
sides. Merriam, having served
through the last assembly, has
completed the work for which he
was elected barring a special ses
sion. Members of the Townsend
clubs, in their campaign to recall
the Lane legislator, claim Mer
riam violated oral and written
promises when he voted against
the minority report on the Town
send memorial in the house and
favored the majority report. They
protest his vote against the Town
send memorial in committee,
claiming it was his vote which re
sulted in the adverse report to the
house.
In rebuttal, Merriam declared
he had never made any promise
to support the Townsend plan or
any other particular pension plan,
saying merely he favored the prin
ciple of old-age pensions. He sign
ed an affidavit to this effect to
day. .
A total of 22,000 voters are
eligible to cast their ballots Tues
day, that being the present regis
tratlon in Lane county, according
to County Clerk W. B. Dillard
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WASHINGTON, March lS.-()-A
4.5 per cent increase in lumber
quotas for the Eecond quarter of
1935 orer production allowables
for 'the first three months this
year was announced today by the
national control committee of the
lumber code authority.
The allowable was fixed at 4,
489,900,000 feet, compared with
4,299,500,000 prescribed for the
first quarter. The quota includ
ed 3,791,300,000 feet of softwood
and 698,500,000 feet of hard
woods. Expected consumption was es
timated at 4,558,500,000 feet. The
quotas, it was announced, con
template a reduction of stocks on
hand at the mills in some divis
ions of the Industry, and an in
crease in others to the end that
total stocks on hand may pre
sent a balanced national inventory
calculated to take care of expect
ed demand. Quotas for the var
ious divisions of the industry for
the second quarter (In millions of
board feet) include:
Southern pine, 1,237.9; West
Coast, 1,184.6; Tillamook , burn,
45; western pine, 907.7; red
wood, 103.5; cypress, 60; north
ern pine, 35;. north hemlock,
79.5; Menominee bl., 1.5; north
eastern, 92:6; Appalachian, 27;
sustained yield, 17; total soft
wood, 3,791.3.
NGREASED LUMBER
DUDTASPERMinED
County Buys Two Blocks
in N orth Salem for Shops
Completion of negotiations for
two blocks of land in North Sa
lem for the location of the new
county road machine shops was
anlbunced late yesterday by mem
bers of the county court,
It . was also announced that
plans for the new county build
ings had been approved and, that
construction would begin as soon
as arrangements could be com
pleted with the city for a change
in the soning ordinance to permit
the erection ot the new struc
tures. : ".: -'. -
The land bargained for by the
county court consists of blocks 27
and $0 between Myrtle and Wal
nut and v Locust and - Hickory
streets. - The - county's purchase
will include alleys and streets
which, nave been vacated. While
the price, of the land was not an
nounced. It was: said' to be less
than the' court would bare been
required to pay for acreage, out
side ot the city. " - .
The court estimates the cost of
Its new ihopi at $11,600, most of
which' will come from SERA la
bor the government in to furnish.
Germany Still Willing
tolallAnglo-Frencli
Peace?
Lifer in Prison
Here Purchases
$250 Baby Bonds
While there's life there's hope.
is the apparent belief of John A.
Pender of Portland, who is serv
ing a life term in the state pen
itentiary." Pender yesterday had Joe S.
Murray, accountant for the pris
on, purchase in his name $250
worth of the new "baby bonds."
Pender had wanted an even $200
worth, but the. nearest the pos
tal employes could figure out
came to $187.50 present values.
These bonds will in ten years be
worth $250.
se mm soon
30 Miles of Improvement
On Program; Petitions
Ask For Much More
An oiling program for "Marlon
county's roads, the first to be un
dertaken here, will be begun as
soon as weather permits and an
organization of experienced oiling
men can be perfected, members of
the county court said here yes
terday. ,
Roy Melson, county commls
sioner, said yesterday he was
hopeful that a few more weeks
would see the oil project under
way.
The court's plans tentatively
call for oiling 30 miles of roads
this summer at an estimated cost
of $1000 a mile.
"We will allocate this road oil
ing work to those sections ot the
county where the most meritior
ious roads, for oiling can be
found," Melson commented. "We
are getting many petitions for oil
ing work, of course, but it will be
Impossible with the limited funds
at our disposal to handle all ot
these applications for work.
Melson said the county would
work closely with the state high
way department getting the ben
efit of the experience of its de
partment chiefs in the prepara
tion of roads for oiling.
"Many people think oiling is
only a matter of sprinkling oil
along a road like one would sprin
kle water. Instead it means the
resurfacing of the road, with con
siderable new rock needed and re
grading of the surface of the road
required," Melson added.
Three Tankers
Remain Tied Up
Due to Strike
PORTLAND, Ore , March 18.
OTVThree oil tankers remained
tied up here today as several oil
companies and the International
Seamen's Union remained at odds
over recognition of the union.
Agreement between three other
steamship lines originally affected
by the recently called strike was
reached in New York Saturday.
C. E. Carter, business manager
here for the Seamen's union, said
no agreement had been reached
yet between the seamen and offi
cials' of the Union Sulphuj com
pany, LONG AIDE ARRAIGNED
NEW ORLEANS, March 18.-(P)
-Joe Messina, chief bodyguard of
Senator Huey P. Long, was ar-
ralgned .in criminal district court
today on a charge of assaulting
Leon M. Trice, an Associated
Press news photographer with in
tent to kill. . He pleaded not guil
ty. A machine shop, two storage
buildings, a garage for the cars
of county employees and a fill
ing tank and pump Station will be
erected by the county. The roofs
of the new buildings will be of
corrugated iron which will also
be used for the gables. Rustic
will be used between the windows
for. the siding of the buildings.
Provision is to be made on 1 the
new property for the storing of
piling used by the county on Its
bridge work and also tor the stor
age Ot - wood which the county
noes for relief eases. -
: The court Is negotiating 'with
the Oregon Electric company for
the. least of a strip ot land lying
between- the ' . company's main
tracks and the aiding which the
county expects to use in bringing
oil to Its new shop location, " v.
County Commissioner , Hewlett
said ' yesterday he ' expected the
new buildings could be erected
within 6D days from the time
work begins. When the new build
ings are occupied, the county ex
pects to raze Its old shop build
ings on Center street and to offer
the land there for sale.
on
!an? Assurance
Neighboring Nations
Protest Rearming
Of Nazi Land
Already Well Armed &
Holds Surprise of
Others is False
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION
AT A ti LANCE
Great Britain formally pro
tested Germany's re-arming
threatening the peace of Eu
rope.
Germany replied it was will
ing to discuss the Anglo-French
peace system for Europe
scheduled in Berlin.
Concerted action of France,
England and Italy appeared
abeyance.
In Germany conscription
in
soldiers was under way and (h
storm troops were reported dis
banding.
The president of Ross
la
warned that "war may break
oat unexpectedly" and called
OB
his armed
pared.
forces to be pre-
at, 1935. by Associated Prl
BERLIN, March 18.-With Ger
man arms plants working virtual
ly "on a war, footing," according
to the government s own admis
sion, Reichsfuehrer Hitler replied
to a British protest on re-armament
today that he still is williog
to talk peace with Sir John Simon.
Immediately after answering
London flat charge that Hitler's
re-armament is "calculated feert
ously to Increase the uneasiness
of Europe," Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels told the wo rid.;
"Germany already possesses a
powerful, well - equipped. r , jirmjr,.
with excellent artillery and huge
reserves of trained men."
He said material was being
supplied from German arms fac
tories "in an ever-increasing vol
ume." . The propaganda minister in a
press communique said Germany
was "amaxed at the astonishment
manifested abroad at the re-crea
tion of a Germany army."
Astonishment False
Goebbels Asserts
"One would have believed, he
said, "that the news would hare i
been recelwd with visible relief
and satisfaction, now that the
world knows where we standTiNot
that it was not aware before,! bat
it has the certainty now." j
; Goebbels cited Stanley Baldwin
of England, Premier Pierre Etien
ne Flandln of France .and other
authorities as dwelling on the. un
known . terror among European
peoples emanating from ignor
ance as to what Germany waaj do
ing in the way of re-arming, j
"Now that the world is told."
said Goebbels, "it professes to be
astonished and indignant.' Would
it not have been more courage
ous, consequent and logical if It
faced "the new situation?" )
He pointed out that the Ger
man people have not greeted der
fuehrer's proclamation with war
like exaltation or cries of revenge
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TIFF ON HER
. . . -
WASHINGTON, MarcTl8.-(i?)-Backed
by t h e 1 r . congressional
members, representatives of the
West .Coast lumber industry to
day voiced approval of the general ;
principles of reciprocity 1 1 a d e
agreement but urged that in con
sidering the proposed agreement
with Canada the United States re
tain its present protection. 3 .
j At the hearing before the reci
procity trade, committee, lumber
men argued that the. present pro
tection of $3 excise tax, on iin
ported lumber, and the low tariff
should not be changed, on the
ground that it already, was much -lower
than tariff duties applied .
by the Canadian government to
lumber products from this ebun-
try. ' f--s
'. The general proposal, as voiced
by Dr. Wilson Comp ton, manager
ot the National Lumber Manufac- "
tnrers association, was that non
competitive products should be
admitted to each country either" '
free or at equal rates while on
competitive items there should be
protection. . :
! Former Senator C. C. Dill, rep
resenting the West Cot Lumber
men's association and the Wash- '
lngton. Oregon Shingle Manufac
turers .v association, agreed with
the statement , ot Compton, and '
urged that the present agreement
between shingle manufacturers of
the Pacific northwest and British -Columbia
Whereby dominion op- -eratJons
are allotted 25 pet Cent
of! the United States market be
'made a part ot any trade treaty, l
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