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. ' . ii i t a a -' ' - . .yv mm RECIPES . Hundreds of housewives in this community are en joying and utilizing the . weekly recipes presented in The Statesman's Round Ta ' bio contest. " , THE WEATHER . , I Increasing clondiness fol lowed ' by rain- today, show- . era Thar.; Max. Temp. Toes, 51, Mln. 41, river 4.2 feet, rain .52 in., Tariable winds. - FOUN.DEP 1631 t EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, April 24, 1935 No. 24 fir mmt mi mm mmm it ENTIRE BLOCK IS WIPED OUT IT SILVERS Loss Estimated at-$75,000 From Fire Originating in Billiard Room Old, New Theatres, Former Printshop, Restaurant Go Up in Flames SILVERTON. April 23.-(Spe-claD-Fire which broke out at 2 a. m. .back of the Club billiard hall razed virtually the entire old opera house block here this , morning, for a loss estimated at nearly $75,000. The Digerness store, a small building standing in one corner of the block, was the only struc ture saved in spita of the work of Silverton and Mt. Angel fire fighters who brought 10 hose lines and six hydrants into use The fire was the most disastrous since the blaze of 1907 which swept North Water street, level ing the buildings between the present Starr hardware store and the Olson pharmacy. Buildings and businesses swept by the fire this morning were The old Palace theatre and the new theatre under construction by Alfred Adams, "Kelly's Club billiard hall, B. Feneide's Duck 'n Swallow restaurant, Kottek's old Tribune print shop, the Webb Transfer company buildings, the American Transfer company, Brandt's second hand store, Les ter Geer's sign painting shop, Pete Schmidt's shoe shop and two barber shops. A truck and trailer in the transfer building were also destroyed. Wife of Theatre Man . Carried Down Ladder Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Adams, owners of the theatre buildings, were asleep in their apartment above the theatre and did not get out until the fire was well under way. Adams jumped from the window and Mrs. Adams was carried down the ladder. Nothing was saved from the apartment. Adams went to Portland early this morning and could not be reached during the day for a statement on his, the heaviest, loss. Mrs. Adams spent today resting at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. C. A. Reynolds. Firemen reported that the new mains put ia on North Water and East Main streets were of great assistance in augmenting the sup ply and force of wa!er. The telephone cable also melt ed and a large portion of Silver ton was cut off from telephone service throughout the day. Tel ephone repair trucks and men from Corvallis and Portland came in and were busy assisting local telephone people in repairing the damage. Several thousand feet of motion picture film exploded. - The damp weather and lack of wind assisted in keeping the fire (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Clipper Back Home; Flight Held Epochal ALAMEDA, Calif., April 23.-(fl-The flying clipper, conquer ing adverse ocean winds, arrived here at 2:58 p. m. today, com pleting a leisurely 2400-mile re turn flight from Honolulu in 20 hours and 5 Si minutes. .'First to make the round-trip between here and Hawaii, the big monoplane swiftly approached her base from the hills south of San Francisco. Some' 10,000 spectators watch ed as the 10-ton flying boat alighted perfectly on the sun-lit waters. The fliers appeared slightly wan, but otherwise gave no indi cation they had just completed the 2 4 0-mile journey. "The big thrill-In the trip," Captain Mustek declared as he stepped ashore, "was the fact it was negotiated without a thrill. "I think this flight has largely removed the element of chance in the transpacific-Journey, although it Is the largest commercial over water flight ever attempted." Adams Plans to Resume at Once On New Theatre SILVERTON, .April 2 3 Alfred Adam, theatre owner here, said tonight he would at once resume construction on his new theatre here. A crew of men will begin Wednesday morning to clear de bris from the lot where Adams had already begun erecting a new theatre building. The ' two new walls, already erected, were only slightly damaged by the fire. New " equipment which Adams eaid was ordered to be delivered In June, was already on hand and was burned. The old Palace the atre which Adams - planned to rase when the new theatre ' was occupied, was totally demolished by the Ore. - Scenes in Capital of Formosa Before Disastrous Earthquake i V . 1 , . . if. .... i i r -1 - a - , ,f 1 i $ - . - . - - ' r ' - .j -f, ' , ; , -- v s According to the latest count, 3152 persons were killed and over 10000 injured in the disastrous earthquake which struck the island of Formosa, off the southeastern coast of China. Sundav. Above are two scenes in Taikohu, the qnake. Above, parked street low, prerectural administration RELIEF RUSHED 10 Agencies Have Hard Tasks Due to Extent of Area; Death Tnll at 31R9 TA1HOKU. Formosa, April 23. -(j-Agencies of mercy were taxed to the limit today In rush ing supplies of food, water and medical necessities to the distant sections of the island where sur vivors of Sunday's tragic earth quake were in sore need. While the scarcity of water in one part of the island lent ter ror to the populace, people in another section were imperilled by flood possibilities. Tropical heat brought suffer ing to many whose homes were (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Dionne's Cousin Also Father of Multiple Babes NEW YORK. April 2i-JP)-Frank Dionne, of the Bronx, cou sin of Oliva Dionne, father of the famous Ontario quintuplets,' be came the father of twins today. Mrs. Gertrude Dionne presented her husband with a seven pound boy and a baby girl weighing six and a half pounds. Both mother and babies are doing nicely. The Dionnes also have four oth er children, three boys and a girl, ranging from five to 11 years old. 2 Men Arrested In North Salem T. Ha worth was booked at the police station Tuesday night on a charge of vagrancy, declared by officers to have resulted from complaints that the man was looking into windows in the vi cinity of North Fourth and Pine streets. A. Tracy was arrested In the same vicinity hut in an en tirely different case, on a charge of drunkenness. 1 IK Playground Season Plans Started by School Board Preparations for the 1935 summer playground season began last night when the Salem school directors adjourned to open bids on repairing dinger swimming pool next Tuesday, arranged for wood to heat the two tanks and heard a report on outlining ' of Supervision plans. Salem contractors win be given preference in bidding on the din ger pool job, which consists in part of re-plastering . the tank walls. Bids will be opened at 6 p.m. next Tuesday. Plans mar be seen at the office of Lyle P. Bar tholomew, 318 United States Na tional bank building, i That an SERA school tor play ground instructors is contemplat ed was revealed by Director F. E. Neer. It would precede the open ing of the playground season. He also said the physical education department had been ' asked to outline the needs for playground instructors tor submission to the county relief committee as -an SERA project. - - - The directors decided no addi tional wood would have to be y ',''S' LP"' ! .U--r 9 ! capital of Formosa, taken before leading to the city museum. Be building. RECIPES UTILIZING OrSTERJNDEl! Cocktails Suggested; More Spinach and Avocado Uses Outlined Oyster cocktails are as good as the sauce which surrounds them. There are many fine prepared sauces on the market now but of ten a dash of this or that in the home kitchen, added either to the commercial sauce or to your own concoction, furnishes that subtle flavor that will make your oyster cocktails famous. Do you have a good recipe for oyster cocktails? If bo, send it without delay to the Round Table editor of The Statesman and you may win a cash prize. Any oyster recipe Is eligible this week in the contest: baked loaves, stews, fried or combined with other ingredients. Remem ber that the deadline is tomorrow at 12 o'clock so be sure that your recipe is in the hands of the food editor by that time. Send as many as you like. More spinach and avocado re cipes follow: Spinach Soup 2 quarts spinach 8 caps boiling water 4 caps chicken broth eup batter H eup flour ' 2 caps milk salt and pepper Cook spinach half an hour in 3 cups of boiling water. Drain and chop and rub through a sieve. Add chicken broth, heat to the boiling point and thicken with 4 cup butter which has been blend ed with cup flour combined with 2 cups milk. Season with salt and pepper. Ellen Robins, 571" N. Church. Stuffed Avocado Remove the avocado meat from three avocados, keeping the half sections of the skins intact. Cut the avocado meat into balls, cubes or slices and fill the shells with 3 cups avocado cubes, com (Turn to page 10, col. 4) , purchased to run the swimming pool heating plants. Arrange ments are being made to hare 60 cords of firewood delivered to each pool under contracts already let. t Bids for the purchase of $100, 000 worth of school district one year notes to bear not more than 6 per cent interest have been called for S p.m.. May 14, Clerk W. H. Burghardt announced. In terest will be payable semi-annually, these notes which the board hopes to sell at low interest rates, would replace $95,600 in notes and 15000 in warrants now out standing. , The board adopted a schedule submitted by Superintendent Gal ser setting up fees to be charged to non-profit and public organiza tions using the high school audi torium. The schedule covers cost of Janitor and electric service plus from SI to 31.50 additional for unforeseen ' expense to . the district. Groups meeting tor two hours ! would be charged 33.50; with one rehearsal, 35 and with (Tarn to page 10, coL 1) Mlf ELECTED HEAD OF CROUP TO AID VALLEY Boosting Population Here by 100,000 Goal, Says Governor Martin Disposal Project and River Revetment Plan Given Board's Approval PORTLAND. Ore., April 23.- UP)-With Governor Martin's en thusiastic favor ringing in their ears, members of the state plan ning board met here today with members of the Willamette valley project committee to discuss ways and means of popularizing the Willamette valley for thousands of additional families. Terming the valley one of the world's "garden spots," Governor Martin declared that "it will care for 100,000 persons without con gestion when it is put into shape." "There is room for 37,000 more families, many of them to come here from the drought stricken areas," the governor declared- Senator Douglas McKay, Mar ion county, was elected as chair man of the committee; John Thornburg, Forest Grove, was elected vice-chairman; and R. H. Klppe of Portland was named sec retary. A 312,000,000 sewage disposal project, which was a portion of the Willamette valley project dis cussed, was approved by the com mittee, as was a plan calling for revetment of the Willamette river from Eugene to its source, which would cost about 1300,000. The committee also studied a recommendation that an unoffi cial planning commission for com mercial and recreational develop' ment of the Gold Beach area in Curry county be formed. Because the recent session of the state leg: Islature turned down a plan pro viding for county planning com missions, the Gold Beach board would necessarily be unofficial The Gold Beach project as dis cussed was part of a plan to de velop the Rogue riter as a recre ational playground without en dangering the commercial bene fits in a manner similar to Cal ifornia resorts. Cars will be provided for all citizens of Salem and visitors who have no available transportation to take them over the Blossom day route next Sunday, according to King Bing Schlitt. Following precedent, the cars will be on hand at, the chamber of commerce headquarters, North Liberty street, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. The traditional route for view ing the best blossoms will be laid out Saturday by the Cherrians who will place printed markers at all turns. Boy Scouts under the leadership of J. E. Monroe are to act as guides for the Blossom day crowds. The Scouts will be sta tioned on North Capitol street, at State and Center streets, at the chamber of commerce headquar ters, at the Polk county bridge and on various turning points on the route through the country. State institutions are to be opened for inspection and the two linen mills, following last year's practice, Will also be open to the public. Publicity material for newspa per and radio use was being pre pared yesterday by the Cherrian committee which has charge of Blossom day. E TOLL TEHERAN, Iran, April 23.-4P) -A series of earth shocks rocking northern Iran (Persia) since April 12 continued tonight after killing an undetermined number of per sons and doing un estimated dam age. Reports from Mazanderan pro vince said 483 persons died in that division alone. Lack of common ication facilities prevented any accurate survey of the devastated regions. (Dispatches from Teheran pub-, lished in Parish said 00 persona were reported killed and .thous ands injured in the Iran Quakes, which destroyed the tqwns of Do- danguen, Tchaanguen ana Lezara Jarlb and caused widespread panic. (The Paris advices said the quakes, continuing, were impend ing rescue efforts, racking build lngs as rescuers penetrated them in search of victims). The Iran .press reported the heaviest damage was done at 8u leda, where many 'buildings were destroyed and most of the popu lace left homeless PROVIDE CARS FOR BLOSSOM VIEWERS IK n n Faces Charges Oj Bilking U.S. W E. C. SOLINSKY Eleven Hiring Cards Made for Non-Existent Men, Solinsky Jury Told PORTLAND. Ore., April 2S-(JP) -A federal court Jury, sitting on the case of E. C. Solinsky, ex superintendent of Crater Lake national park, who is charged with conspiring to defraud the government, late today heard Isaac Davidson, ex-construction foreman at the park, relate the manner In which he made out eleven fictitious hiring cards. According to Davidson who, with A. R. Edwin, ex-special dis bursing agent at the park, was ointly Indicted along with Solin sky, money obtained as salary for the fictitious park employes was given to him by Solinsky in par ment for sums advanced by him for the construction of a boat at the park. The payments were unusual in that they were in cash, Davidson reported: Payments for wages and other things usually were in check form, he said. Edwin, who also testified dur ing the BeBsion today, told of bor rowing enough money to make up for $298.36 that was the remain der of a fund for an uncompleted wood cutting contract and which was to have been kept in the safe by Solonsky. Edwin said he bor rowed the money at Sollnsky's or der when it was learned that offi- (Turn to page 2, col. 1) SUSPECT IN MAIL B PORTLAND, Ore., April 23.- (JP)-Tiocc(y J. DeGrasse, 40, long wanted for questioning in con nection with the robbery of a federal mail carrier in Chicago, was arrested while asleep in his apartment in one of the better residential districts here tonight. Although surrounded by load ed firearms when police entered the apartment, DeGrasse had no opportunity and, apparently, no inclination to use them. He was taken completely by surprise when Portland police men, led by DeGrasse s four-year-old son of whom they inquired the way, entered his apartment After arresting DeGrasse, po lice returned to the apartment about an hour later and arrested his wife and brother, George De Grasse, who were held as ma terial witnesses in the city jail tonight. DeGrasse was indicted in Chi cago March 1 on charges of pos sessing unlawfully negotiable se curities taken in the holdup and robbery of a United States mail carried in Chicago December 1932. When questioned by police here tonight, DeGrasse denied participation in the robbery. He said that he was living in Cicero, 111., in December, 1932, and de nied any first-hand knowledge of the affair, according to Captain of Detectives Keegan. Late Sports CLEVELAND, April 23.-KP)-Max Baer, heavyweight champion, grinned and pretended he was in danger several ' times as he clowned bis way through the greater part of four-round no decision fight with Eddie SImms, Cleveland heavyweight, tonight. In the last round, however, the champion- hit SImms a right to the head that rocked the Cleve land fighter. Baer smiled frequently as SImms landed solid punches to the head and jaw. The slim crowd booed once when the champion wrestled with" SImms. Baer weighed 211 pounds, SImms 199. iPaul Pirrone, Cleveland, knocked out Benny Levine,157, Newark, N. J., In the first round of their scheduled 10-round fight. Pirrone weighed IS 8. ICTIT1S NAMES ON PAYROLL CITED BERY CAUGHT US CLOSED DUE TO nmiir nnnrnn Spread to Other Factories is Predicted; Tanker Walkout May End Maritime Workers Reject Proposal for Union Political Party TOLEDO, O.. April 3-tfVAp- proximately 2340 workmen lost thfiir 1nhs lnilfinitplv an nfflflala of the Chevrolet Motor company closed Its Toledo branch fartnrv today when a strike was called by . -- j the united Automobile Workers' Federal union. Fears of "grave danger" that the strike might spread to other automobile factories were express ed by William Green, president of the American Federation of La bor. ine exact number or men on strike was undetermined. How ever. James Rowland, chairman of the union's strike committee, said 90 per cent of the workers are union members, Green in Washington added that in the recent automobile la bor board election, 1800 of the 2200 men then employed in the plant favored the union as their bargaining agency. This primary election showed the factory is one of the few in the automobile industry where a majority of the workers are union members. SAN FRANCISCO. April 23-;p) -Prospects of settlement of the Pacific coast oil tanker strike were advanced late today when the six maritime unions involved submitted to the special federal mediation board a memorandum of suggested terms of wages, hours and working conditions. The proposals setting forth the conditions under which union members "are willing to return to their positions" were said to differ from offers by the oil com panies only in the request lor a 44-hour week instead of 56 hours. The 44-hour week was recently awarded by the seamen's arbitra tion board to unlicensed personnel of general cargo ships. Submission of the memorandum by the unions followed a sugges tion made by the mediation board at a conference with union leaders (Turn to page 2, col. 5) THIO FEARED LOST, SEATTLE, April 23. - (JP) - Fears for the lives of two Seat tle boys and a Portland high school lad deepened tonight as darkness halted a beach patrol for them or their bodies after the coast guard found their broken optboard motorboat ashore in Useless bay. The boys were last seen Satur day night when they set out in a high wind for Indianola beach. on the western mainland and 17 miles from where their skiff was found today. The missing lads are: 'Hugh Andrews, 18, Portland. Al Erlckson, 17, Seattle. ."Peter.Ferry, 19, Andrews' Seat tle host. Friends tonight reported that Peter's, mother, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Ferry, lost all hope for the boys' lives when told of the discovery of the broken boat. Al's father. A. E. Erlckson, still clung to faint hope that, the boys may have gotten ashore from the boat and are at some isolated spot unable to communicate with their par ents. T PLAN a i ni murium STORM UPON SOUND Revised Hop Code Will be Acceptable Within a few days copies of the latest revision of the hop market ing agreement will be received by coast spokesmen of the commit tees working on the code, Mathew O. Trobiner, attorney for the AAA, and just back from Wash ington, D. C, - told hop leaders while here yesterday on a . brief visit, Trobiner expressed the opinion that this code will meet approval of the growers. Frank Needham, active In working on the code and who saw a draft of the revised agreement, declared "If this last one comes back from Washington like they say It will, all growers here will like it". Most startling of ' provisions, in this code Is that which cuts oat all grades and establishes a min imum price on a standard grade only. . - . . ' However, if dealers buy every thing on a basis to make the min imum price . also the maximum price, the proposed code grants I the Industry board power to boost i the minimum. price overnight, t Walket to Administeir v H our B Decision of Roosevelt Two Fliers and Attendant Hurt, Gasoline Blast SEATTLE, April 23.-0P)-Two Seattle aviators and a service sta tion attendant were severely burn ed late today when a jrasoline sta tion exploded and burned at Boe ing field, county airport. The blast, which wrapped the three men in flames and shot smoke and fire 100 feet in the air. was blamed to a spark from an electric gasoline pump short-circuit igniting spilled gasoline. The three men, none believed seriously Injured, were: William Brandt, 21, station at tendant. Elliott Merrill, pilot Gil Cook, pilot. No Serious Damage Listed but Populace Terrified as Buildings Shake PROVINCETOWN, Mass., April 23. - UP) - An earthquake rocked this town on the tip of Cape Cod tonight, shaking houses, rattling dishes, and terrifying the inhab itants. Buildings swayed for the few seconds' duration of the quake. and; a 35-foot watch tower of the coast guard at Race Point, two miles from town, "shook like a leaf," the lookout reported. R. J. Davey, on watch in the station, two miles from the cen ter of town, said: "I thought sure we were going over," he said, wand. I opened up the hatch to go down. It sounded like thunder and lasted for nearly a minute. It was a loud rumble." He said that coast guardsmen in the wood end station and keeper at Long Point light, widely sep arated points on the narrow neck of the cape, had also reported feeling the shock. Dr. L. D. Leet, director of the Harvard seismograph, reported that in the past year 65 other earthquakes of similar Intensity had been recorded on his appara tus, but because they occurred in less populated areas or at sea only three of them had been reported to him. Dr. Leet suggested that the quake had "possibly occurred off (Turn to page 2, col. 2) IS SENT TO RECREATION MEET Salem school board last night sent Superintendent Silas Gaiser as its official representative to the conference of the National Re- creatiou association which opens at Sacramento, Calif., Thursday. His expenses will be paid by the district, which is bearing the ma jor share of the cost of conducting Salem's summer playground pro gram. Mr. Gaiser left by train last night with Dr. B. F. Pound, school director, and Mrs. Po nd. Both men will take part in the confer ence. Dr. Pound to speak on "The Challenge of the New Leisure to the Schools." Dr. Pound heads the Marion county recreation organ ixation. - The conference will last through Saturday. is Belief Here Another revision would give the growers full vote on saleable ton nage and establishment of the minimum price. The industry board set-up will be changed somewhat if this pro posed agreement goes through, with seven growers, seven deal ers and one member at large to be selected. The code lists brewers and dealers as dealers and will likely provide for four brewers and three dealers under the seven dealer elections, Needham says, j Trobiner indicated that leading eastern dealers, while not ready to sign the code for fear all deal- era will not come In, have agreed to sign a letter approving the marketing agreement. Highlights of the code will he sent to each grower for study at the same time copies of the draft are sent to committee spokesmen in the three coast states. Trobiner was enroute to Taklma HEAVY SB FELT IN CAPE COD AREA RAISER to attend hearing tor a marketing agreement for the pear Industry. His headquarters are in Califor nia. ' "' -. - : ' illion Fund, is Former Head of U.; S. Emergency Board Called Again . Harrison Bonus Plan Placed Under Fire by Morgenthau WASHINGTON, April 1Z.-UP)-Lifting the lid for the first time on his plans for spending the $4, 000,000,000 work relief fund, x President Roosevelt today set up, in effect, a funnel into which must be poured all plans for job-giving projects'. The chief executive named Frank C. Walker, of New York, former head of the national emer gency council, to take that post once more. Particularly, ne win direct a new "division of applica- , tions and information," created under. the council to handle work . relief plans. If this division approves of an application for a project, and gains the endorsement of the par ticular federal department con cerned as to its engineering feas ibility and practical worth, it will be passed on to an allotment board to be created by the presi dent rithin a few days. Mr. Roos evelt, as chairman of this board, will have a final say in how the money is to be handed out. Morgenthau Objects To Harrison Scheme Elsewhere in the capital, mean while. Secretary Morgenthau serv ed flat notice on congress that passage of any one of the three major bonus bills thus far propos ed would have to be accompanied . by the imposition of hundreds of millions of new inheritance taxes. "The treasury." Morg.enthq!, ti , told the senate finance commit- " ' tee, "would view with great con cern the enactment of any bill which calls for large expenditures without additional taxation." Chairman Harrison of the fi nance committee said later, how ever, that he felt his compromise plan exchanging negotiable bonds for bonus certificates- would not require new taxes. The possibility of a new boost fn the treasury's silver price was seen about the same time when the London figure V the metal moved up to 70.75 cents an ounce, as compared to the federal price of 71 cents an ounce. Closing Loophole in Gold Bill Studied There was financial speculation , also that the administration might seek to close the loophole in the Roosevelt monetary system left by the supreme court gold deci sions. The government asked a month's stay in a suit brought in the court of claims seeing in terest on a $50 Liberty bond until its maturity date, since the gov ernment refused to pay its face value n gold. Congress, by the passage of a law,' could forbid such suits. The house during the day open ed debate on the biggest regular naval appropriation bill in 15 years, a 1460.000,000 measure carrying an authorization for lay- -ing down 24 new ships. One bouse leader said the bill was drafted with an eye on "war clouds hang ing over Europe." C0VER1ENT TAKES, CODE LI V E H WASHINGTON, April Jt.-tfV Under an order- appointing: CoL C. H. Crawford administrator of the lumber and timber products code, the government today un dertook direction of the lumber -Industry as it Is affected by the lumber code. In the order of appointment, issued by W. A. Harriman, of the national industrial recovery board, Crawford, who has been in the NRA since February, was authorized "subject to the gen eral supervision of, and review by, the said board ... to direct and coordinate all administrative activities of the national recovery administration In connection with the code of fair competition for the lumber and timber products industries, as amended, and such other codes for allied products as said board i. may from time to time- designate, and to exercise all the powers and functlona here tofore vested in said board relat ing to the administration of said code or codes." Officials of the lumber code authority, heretofore the admin istrative agency of the lumber code, were unavailable , for com ment on the Harriman order, be ing either in or en route to Chi cago to attend the annual meet ing of the National Xumber Man- ufacturers' association and later : a meeting of code officials. .