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PAGE" TWO The OREGON STATESMAN. Salenu Oregon, Friday Blorningv April 5, 1935 HIT'S LET1S FOID EH 'iirinT niMr nm President Leaves on Vacation Anti-War ProSt Denies Theory IILIIIII UllLlii UIUI ' EFFORTS HMD BET BIG SALARIES POULTRY B TO BE TEST FOR II WASHINGTON, April A cool 110.060,000 was disclosed today to hare been tacked in the pay envelopes of 600 executives Of Americas industry in 1J34 1 encompassing salaries ranging from a few -thousand to a $1Z5, 800 top. v The avenues of these salaries, reported to the securities and ex change commission In connection with application for permanent listing securities on stock ex changes, was $16,000. . The salary reports to date cov .er executives ranging: from chair men of boards to assistant secre taries. "The average for 11 presidents of companies in this group, was about $56,000, but some 30 of them received more than $50,000 and four were paid $100,000 or more. Total salaries for these upper crust 119 in 1934 aggregated $4, 369.000. Tops went to Francis B. Davis, chairman of the United- States Rubber company, who got $125. 000."" Edward G. Seubert. presi dent of Standard Oil company of .Indiana, came second with $117, 00; Francis H. Brownell, chair man of American Smelting and Refining company, and George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post tied for third with an even $100,000. sue ph tOS ANGELES. April 4 .-)-Upton Sinclair, embattled votary of social justice for 30 yeaTs, would not say yea or nay today as to whether he might run ot president on the democratic tick et iu 1936. He began work this morning, however, on a prophetic booklet entitled "We, the American Peo ple, And How We Ended Pov erty". With this as a starter, he said, he expects to extend the EPIC (End Poverty In Californ ia) movement throughout the na tion. . ' He told of plans for a speech making tour across the country this fall, advocating the produc-tion-for-use program on which he was -defeated in his democratic race for governor last November. Before entering that race, he wrote a pamphlet, "I, Governor of California, and How I Ended "Poverty." and the one he is writ lag now will be practically the same, except national in scope. - Sinclair declared the democrat ic party could be captured nation ally by advocates of production Tor use as he captured it last year fa California. FEDERAL JUDGE ID OREGON PROPOSED Word was received here yester day that congress will probably i il i . i j. ..i . : . for Oregon as well as place anoth er Judge permanently on the ninth circuit court of apepals. A bill providing for these two ad ditions to the federal bench in the west has been favorably reported from the senate judiciary com mittee. Oregon, without representation ea the federal court of appeals, "would probably get the new ap pointment the president would make. Senator John Goss of Marsh Held is known' to be under con sideration for one of the appoint ments if either of the new posts is provided by law. Press reports that Goss wants J. M. Dever's job As counsel for the. highway com mission were said yesterday to he without foundation. KLSINORE Today "McFadden's Flats" with an all-star cast. GRAND Today Edmund Lowe In "Best Man Wins". Saturday "The Wedding - Night" with Anna Sten. - " HOLLYWOOD Today First run, "Flirting with Danger" with Robert Armstrong. CAPITOL Today Double Mil, "A ' 1 , . Dog of Flanders" and Dick ' Powell In "Happiness Ahead". STATE Today Jimmie Durante In "Joe Palooka". Saturriav -TVtiMji Mil 7in. . Grey's "Home on the s ' Range" plus "Rainbow Riders". The newest team of friendly enemies to come to the screen Is that of Walter C. Kelly, "The Vir ginia Judge," . and Andy Clyde, popular comedian, featured toge ther in Paramount'! "McFadden's Flats, which cornea today to the Elsinore theatre. They play an Irishman and " a Scotchman who like each other so well that they won't ' Ten argue ,. with anyone eh! V.: ' ; L tIa the final scenes, the two old coggers are forced to admit that their enmity had hidden a mutual liking to which they finally con fess. VK Prominent In the cast are Jane 'vDiirwell, as Kelly's wife, George 'Barbier, Howard - Wilson, . Betty ' Farness and Richard CrpmwelL m i The Call Board ... sr 'AY 14 e . Priimt RomctcU President Franklin J). Roosevelt wared to the crowd assembled on the dock when he left Jacksonville, Fla., on the destroyer, Farragut, to board Vincent Art or 's yadht, Noumiahal, for a 10-day fishing cruise. Commander E. Buckmaster, of the Farragut, is at the right. Huge Bridge Is Replaced In Jig Time been moved 30 feet northward into perfect position. Two veter an structure movers manned stump pullers and cranked them by hand to furnish the moving force. Bolts and rivets were tightened and hammered into place in time for the 4 p. m. train to make its scheduled crossing without even slackening speed. Previously the bridge was rais ed eight feet four inches and shifted 26 feet eastward. it 'illL Roads, Bchoolhouses and creek banks thai yesterday bustled with the activity of SERA workmen will be quiet today as far as re lief work is concerned. Work re lief will not be resumed in Mar ion county until an allotment of federal relief moneys is received, Glenn C. Niles, county relief ad ministrator, said last night. Meanwhile the relief office staffs will bring their records up to date on work already done while the social division will con tinue its supervision of direct re lief. The latter type of relief will carry on in restricted degTee un der state relief funds. Pay checks for men and women on -SERA projects during the week ended yesterday will be issued Monday through the usual chan nels, Nlles said. PRESBYTERY OPEBS (Continued From Paea 1) Eugene; R. E. Clark, Eugene; and J. S. Harper, Gervais. Business sessions will occupy all of today, except for a half hour of prayer at 10:30 this morning. The close will come at 2:30 o'clock. Twenty-one ministers and 14 lay delegates were present yes terday and a good audience heard Burns last night,' Holdover officers are: Per manent clerk, Rev. Joseph Y. Stewart,' Albany; state clerk and treasurer. Rev. Wallac Howe Lee, Albany. Rev. George H. Wilbur, Salem, is reporting clerk. Shore Radio for " Control oi Ship Given New Test ALAMEDA, Calif.. April 4.-UP) -The huge flying boat being groomed for her coming flight to Honolulu sat on her base airport today while the port's radio equip ment was given a thorough test. Although only intended for communication as far as Hawaii, the airport staff said - communi cation was maintained on wave lengths ranging 18 to 170 meters with Pan-American airways ra dio stations iu Miami, Florida (about 3100 miles away), San Juan, Puerto Rico (4140 miles), and with Port of Spain, Trinidad (4880 miles). Last Times Today "PALOOKA" with JIMMIE DURANTE Saturday Only! RELIEF WORK FUNDS DM MEETING s " jcaatAwf, iiumi. ,-, a , W t V5" V V ComaMader Buckmatr 'SCARING' IS LATEST SCHEME (By the Associated Press) A proposal that France, Italy and Great Britain join forces to "frighten" the rearming reich was reported under consideration in Paris yesterday as Europe's attention focused on the tri-pow-ered conference at Stresa April 11. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, the Paris reports said, will seek mutual assistance pacts with Rus sia and Czechoslovakia if Italy and Great Britain fail to fall in with his plan. The British cabinet awaited Capt. Anthony Eden's return, ex pected tomorrow, to draft com promise security proposals For eign Secretary Simon will pre sent. Eden, after extraordinarily brief and cordial conversations with Czechoslovak statesmen at Pre ha, was "indisposed" when he arrived at Cologne. Authoritative sources at Addis Ababa, meanwhile, said an Ethio pian army numbering 100,000 men, well equipped, was moving to the borders of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. PORTLAND, Ore.. April 4-() -Circuit Judge George R. Bagley today dismissed an indictment charging Nelson J. Sykes, repre sentative of'the Colonial Trading company of Reno, Nev., with vio lation of the Oregon blue sky law by selling securities without a permit. Judge Bagley sustained a de murrer filed by Sykes atforneys. District Attorney James R. Bain wrote the Oregon attorney general as to advisability of ap pealing the case. ' The court held that certificates of participation and evidence of beneficial Interest in the profits of the Colonial Trading company which Sykes was selling, are not securtities within the meaning of the blue sky law. Investors were said to be given these- certifi cates which entitled them to earnings made on speculation in wheat, cotton and other commo dities. Graham, Recent Session Employe Here, Passes On KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 4.-j!P-A. F. Graham, 60, attache at the last session of the Oregon legislature and prominent Oregon democrat, died of heart attack here last night. Recently he received a post with, the public utilities commission of fice at Salem. He was one of the founders of the democratic organ ization in Klamath county and was chairman of the county' cen tral committee for many years. TtledtcateeL Ingrediaiia of Vicks VapoRub in Convenient Candy Form VICKS COUGH DROP Dr. Clian Lam Chinese Medicine Co. Without operation - most ailments of stomach, liver glands, akin and ur inary system of men and women can be removed hr nntn oar remedies, is JlZ years In business. . Dr. Licensed N. D. Phy Last sicians. 893 H Court Street, Corner Liberty Of ' flee open Saturdays only. 10 A. M. to 1 P. Mn 6 P. at. to 7. Consultation Blood Pressure, and Crine rata free of charge. Dr. Goldi Cfeaa CHARGES AGM SYKES DISMISSED REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April i.-(lP)-TiV0 previously unpub lished letters of William Cullen Bryant, famous American poet, have been unearthed in Palo Alto, it was rereaied today. Bryant was author of "Thana topsis", "To Water Fowl", and other noted poem. The letters were discovered by hBertrand Hoff acker, student at the Palo Alto high school who has been studying American lit erature in a class taught by Hol land D. Roberts. , The.- letters were in the library of Hoff acker's home. He brought them to Roberts attention, and the latter announced today he waa writing an Interpretation -and analysis of the letters in relation to Bryant's life and works. Bryant wrote the letters, it was said,' to Bertrand J. Hof faeker, a composer, . grandfather of the present high school boy -and a friend of the .poet. One was a letter of introduction for Hotfacker to Abraham Lincoln, president at that time. It evi dently was written while Bryant was editor of the NewTork Eve ning Post, as it bears the head ing; of the Post, 41 Nassau street. New York. It Is dated Decem ber 10, 1863. SPRM6 ACTIVITIES IT COLLEGE SAVED CORVALLIS, Ore., April 4.-P) The spring sports and activity program at Oregon State college will be carried out, the student faculty board of control voted late today.. The specter of a campus with out activities, sports or publica tions loomed when the same board last Sunday suspended all those extra-curricular activities be cause so few students paid stu dent body fees under the tempo rary optional fee payment ruling. A three-day drive resulted in pledges or actual payments by 1157, a majority of the 2352 un dergraduate students. The board pointed to a break down caused by the voluntary fee system which it was said caused "waste effort, unfairness and lack of democracy." The board also voted opposition to the proposed referendum of the 1935 legisla tive enactment which will make fee payment compulsory after this term. "The board, composed of stu dents, faculty and on alumni re presentative, recognized the evi dent breakdown in the voluntary fee system, and a resulting waste of effort, unfairness and laek of democracy," a statement said. Wage Decision in Trucker Dispute Ready to Reveal Findings of the board of arbi tration annotated earlv in the year to settle the truck drivers' strike questions here will be re vealed at 11 o clock this morning at the chamber of commerce. Rev. Thomas V. Keenan, neutral arbiter, announced yesterday. As the closed shop question was withdrawn after the dispute was placed in arbitration, today's re port, it Is understood, will deal only with wages. The strike was called last De cember 24 by Drivers and Help ers union No. 324 of. Salem. Within a few days it was called off pending arbitration. Torch Singer is Seeking Divorce; Charges Cruelty LOS ANGELES. Anril 4.-UP- Helen Morean. stage and serpen actre8S,who once said "I really never had a chance to get ac quainted with my husband," to- TOMORROW! 'tun airis wmi X i ; t -f - Cfcitif THE ADDED! Walt Disney's Newest MICKEY MOUSE ' "The Dognappers" w v. .. v. . y. 3 ka T. Flyaa Administration approval of the ienate munitions committee re port indicated that a 12-point pro, gram to eliminate war profits would be drawn up on the basis of recommendations made by John T. Flynn, above. New Tork at torney and writer. His program recommended clapping: military regulations upon every essential wartime industry and taxing earn ings until profiteering: were elimi nated from wartime industries. ' day filed suit for divorce against Maurice "Buddy'' Maschke, jr., Cleveland, O., attorney. Miss Morgan, who used to sing "Nobody Wants Me," a song that first elevated her to prominence as a torch singer, charged that her husband forced her to work to support herself, called her un complimentary names, exhibited Jealousy and caused many embar rassing scenes. Rehabilitation of Convicts Planned A program for the rehabilita tion of convicts in the state pen' itentiary was announced yester day by Dan Kellaher, state parole officer, and W. L. Gosslin, secre tary to Governor Martin, in co operation with prison officials. A special mail course in dentistry has been offered by President Miller of the North Pacific Dental college. A similar course lu dle sel engineering will be offered by L. L. Adcox of Portland. Wlllard Marks, president of the state board of higher education, and Harriet Long, state librarian, also will cooperate in the program. Strike Decisions Scheduled Today SAN FRANCISCO. April 4-) -Hopes of a truce in the Pacific coast strike of oil tanker sailors tonight hung on expected answers by both sides in the dispute of a new peace proposal. The answers have been prom ised by tomorrow, A. A. Rosen shine, chairman of a federal me diation board, announced here as he urged those Involved In the controversy to be patient. Deschutes Land Will Be Bought, Added to Forest WASHINGTON, April .-() Lands within six miles of the ex terior boundaries of the Deschutes national forest in Oregon would be added to the forest area by proclamation of the president un der terms of a bill by Representa tive Pierce (D-Ore) reported fa vorably today by the house public lands committee. I ism I1KI "TV W SMn M. i I . JACK HOIT 7 I ' . :, ,Nv, s f II Robert n-tr-i-r , -in 1 1 i . 1 II WASHINGTON, April 4.-(ff-Belabored by critics within and without congress for dropping its p r t i ous NRA constitutionality test ease, the administration mov ed suddenly today to put up a new case for supreme court -determination. The move by the Justice depart ment was made with an air of nr gency. It evidenced a desire to get a decision by the present term of the court before the NRA act expires on June 1C and before congress, currently studying re newal of the recovery act, ad journs. The government picked the Schechter poultry case- lavolvlng wage, hour and sales provisions of NRA codes as the strongest case it eould find. The high court has twice been coaeernerl in re cent years with operations of New York City poultry market con cerns. Meantime, criticism of, NRA in' the senate finance committee hearing ran on with the protest of another small business concern, a steel company, (hat it had been j Injured by NRA. It also heard Lowell Mason, a member of the former Darrow review board, liken the blue eagle system to Mussolini's "fascist" Industrial set-up. NEAR NEW RECORD WASHINGTON, April 4--Elghteen years after the world war, a comparison of the nation al defense budgets for the United States and Great Britain, the two great English speaking nations in volved, today showed that both are near peace time records. Although legislative action has yet to be completed in either country, government estimates virtually sure to be approved or even exceeded placed the project ed expnditurs for military and naval establishments for the com ing yar as follows: The United States, more than $800,000,000; Great Britain more than $480,000,000. The British figure, however, does not include maintenance of forces in Australia, Canada, the provinces and colonies In Africa, India and elsewhere. Both great powers are contem plating increasing their army per sonnel, air defenses and naval strength. . The United States plans to lift Its army enlisted strength from 118,000 to 165,000. England's ar my strength is to be 152,200, an increase of 2700. Convicts Face Death Penalty SAN RAFOEL, Calif., April 4- (;P)-Alex McKay and Joe Kristy, San Quentln convicts who kidnap ed members of the state prison board hi a desperate escape at tempt last January 16, were found guilty on 11 cornts, two carrying the death penalty, by a jury In superior court here late today. There was no recommendation of mercy. .. The leather unged announcer with his five-foot megaphone has disappeared from major league baseball in St. Louis this season. In his place is a public address system. A wrestling match at Duncan, Okla., broke up with the disqual ification of Bruce Noland for at tempting to stick a cigar stub in his opponent'seye. AManeOvitt) Theater OLLYVOO Today and Saturday AN EXPLOSION OF LAUGHS C Added Mickey Mouse in Two-Gnn Mickey" BUCK JONES In THE RED RIDER Comedy and News COMING SUNDAY DEFENSE BUDGETS OF X-vii X LAUGHS VCf As Dr. dement Arnold Testimony that he had given his own blood to prove his conviction -that David A. Lamson is guilty of the alleged murder of his wife was given by Dr. Clement Arnold, above, at Lamson's trial at San Jose, CaL Dr. Arnold said he per mitted the arteries in the back of bis head to be severed, and that the blood had spurted no further than 18 inches. This was In con tradiction to the defense theory that blood from Mrs. Lamson's head had bespattered the ceiling after she fell in the bathtub. OF IS WASHINGTON, April 4 .-(;P)-A vigorous drive to eliminate all possibility of the conscription of labor under the McSwaln anti war profiteering bill developed tonight in the house as It ap proached a vote which promised approval of the measure. The senate munitions commit tee, meanwhile, heard a ship builder's assertion that where there was a choice of giving na val construction to private yards or government yards, Herbert Hoover would 'yield' to the for mer "only if there is an advan tage to be .gained in the way of political trading.'' A day's debate ilimly attended, tonight brought the house to the point of considering amendments to the McSwaln measure, fore most among which was one by Chairman Connery of the labor committee, who disputed the con tention of its author that labor "could not be drafted" under the bill. School District Warrants Called Salem school district this week has called in $17,051.87 of its outstanding warrants for collec tion, it was announced at the schol clerk's office yesterday. Ac crued interest amounted to $311.10. The warrants bore num bers 10-924 to 11-085, inclusive. The district's warrant debt now runs back to December 21, 1934. Early spring floods in south ern Missouri damaged extensive ly fish sanctuaries In that section. The state game department organ ized crews to . retrieve fish from them to the preserves. C0m OH DOWN TO THE HOUSEWAtfmiiG! The MkFaddeAS of reeehr- ino! A real knock KJowe od drag m out skindlg! More fights than a Sinn Fain riot! Coataaariy and pick a toft ipot to s. 4 500 Seats 25c C0HIT1 BSssawS waWaWH1 ' l 'i'l f v m CHICAGO, " April 4.-V-Fresh efforts to outlaw alienation of af fections suits were launched to day as Mrs.. Helen Bedford-Jones .was awarded the record aum of $100,900 as the cash equivalent of her fiction-writing husband's stolen lore. Shortly . after aa all-male fed eral court Jury established a new Chicago bica by voting the plain tiff half the $200,000 balm she asked, a Wisconsin -state senator proposed a bill not' only to ban love theft suits from the court but to slap a $4000 to $5000 fine and prison terms on anyone threatening to suit for heart balm. Indiana and New York already have enacted anti-alienation suit laws, and similar measure were in the legislative mills of Ohio and Illinois. Mrs. Bedford-Jones, first wife of H. Bedford-Jones, looked with unsmiling satisfaction on the Jur ors' decision that the author's present mate, Mrs. Mary Bernard in Bedford-Jones, must hand over $100,000. Alleged Kidnaper Found in Oregon SACRAMENTO. Cal., April 4.-(P)-Extradition papers for Archie Button of Los Angeles were ap proved today at the office of Governor Merriam. Button, un der arrest at Marshfield. Ore., is wanted by Torrance, Cal., police on a charge of kidnaping a 16-year-old Torrance girl. A statu tory charge is also preferred against him. TONIGHT - SAT. 2 SMASH HITS OuiJa's World-Loved Dog and Boy Story, on the Screen! 3fo V T R A N K I E THOMAS O. P. HEGC1E HELEN PARRISH AND i SDick Powell V to Ahead" TODAY SAT. am x - s ill 1 ilK .IT?! WALTER C. KELLY (Hi Viiiiii J e d t ) ANDY CLYDE RICHARD CROMWELL JANE DARWELL DETTY FUR NESS GEORGE BAR BIER HOWARD WILSON ADDED TODD AXT KKLLT C03IEDT )PEXKD Br MISTAKE" ..... CARTOON -TttXEWa