; . PROTECTION
For $1 you can bay
travel and automobile acci
dent policy from The States
man. Claims paid to date by
this paper aggregate f6800.
THE WEATHER
Cnsettled, showers today
and Friday, moderate tern .
peratare; max. temp." Wed
nesday 68, min. 44; river 1.7
ft., cloudy, northerly winds.
I
FOUMDEP 1631
EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, May 16, 1935
No. 43
HOOVER TIES
CUT AT PLANS
TO EXTEND ill
Complete Abolition is "One
Right" Act for Congress,
Says Ex-President
Avers NRA Crushing Small
Business and Preventing
New Enterprise
By W. A. WELLS
(ConTrijrht, 19.15. by Aociatrd Pr)
PALO ALTO, Calif.. May 15.
(Jf) - Complete abolition of the
NRA is "the one right answer"
which the house of representa
tives should make to the senate's
action extending Its life, former
President Herbert Hoover told the
Associated Press in an interview
. here today.
"We do not construct new
buildings on false foundations,
and we cannot build a nation's
economy on a fundamental er
ror." he said.
The NRA has bee crufhing the
life out of -small business and
"they are crushing the life out
of the very heart of the local
community body," he declared.
In response to a question as
to what, in his opinion, congress
should do with regard to the
NRA, the former president said:
"In reply to your question, the
one right answer by the house
of representatives to the senate's
action extending the life of the
NRA is to abolish it entirely.
New Proposals as Bad
As Original Act, Asserts
' Present NRA proposals are as
bad, in many ways, as the ori
ginal. With its continuation un
til the next congress and with
federal agents putting pressure
on state legislatures to get them
to enact state laws in support of
NRA, it is evident there has been
. no real retreat.
"This whole Idea of ruling
business through code authorities
with delegated powers of law is
' un-American in principle and a
proved failure In practice. The,
codes are retarding recovery.
They are a cloak for conspiracy
against the pnblic interest. They
are and will continue to be a
weapon of bureaucy, a device for
Intimidation of decent citizens.
"To the customary answer of
'destructive criticism or the other
question 'what substitute is of
fered?' I suggest that the only
substitute for an action that rests
on definite and proved economic
error is to abandon it. . . .
Advises Specific Laws
For 'Social Justice
"The beneficent objectives of
a greater social justice and the
prevention of sweating, child
labor and abuse in business prac
' tices should be and can be bet
ter attained by specific statutory
" law. . . .
"The prevention of waste in
mineral resources should be car
ried out by the states operating
under federally encouraged inter
state compacts. That Is an Ameri
can method of eradicating econ
omic abuses and wastes, as dis
tinguished from fascist regimen
tation. . . ,
"Claiming to cure Immoral
business., practices, the codes have
- increased them a thousand fold
through 'chiseling.' They have not
protected legitimate business
from unfair competition, but they
have deprived the public of the
benefits of fair competition.
"This whole NRA scheme has
saddled the American people
with the worst era of monopolies
we have ever experienced. . . ,
Codes Held Depriving.
- Youth of Independence
"The codes are preventing new
enterprises. In this they deprive
America's youth of the opportun?
itr and the liberty to start and
build their independence, and
thus stop the men and women of
tomorrow from buildiag soundly
toward a true social security.
"Publishers have had to resist
arduously the encroachment of
these NRA. codes upon such fun
damental, . constitu tionally guar
anteed American liberties as free
speech.'
"The whole concept of NRA Is
rooted In a regimented 'economy
of scarcity' an idea that increas-
ed costs, restricted production and
hampered enterprise that will en
rich a nation. The notion may en
rich a few individuals and help
a few. businesses, but it will im
poverish the nation and under
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. Jury Refuses to
Indict in Chain
Letter Test Case
DENVER, May 15-P)-The
carefully prepared test ease
-through which the United States
government hoped to dam the
stream of cash . chain letters
flooding postoff Ices throughout
the country was dynamited by a
federal grand Jury's refusal to-day
tp indict three Dencer busi
nessmen, . The government contended
ff that 1000 "send-a-buck" letters
the three men had mailed violated
- the fraud and lottery statutes
but the grani Jury, after hearing
the evidence, reior&fid "not
". true bilL'' ... ,
This Family Directing Influenza
Epidemic Fight Alone, Far North
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Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Griest (shown with their son) are directing a
grueling fight on the influenza epidemic which has afflicted 300
in Point Barrow, Alaska, killing 15 persons. First calling for life
saving "flu" serum to be rushed to that remote city by airplane,
they now are asking for pneumonia vaccine.
Medical Scientists Fly
Toward F lu-RazedCity
Two Philadelphia Physicians are En Route to
Point Barrow, Hoping to Find Cure
for Dread Epidemic Disease
SEATTLE, May 15 (AP) Medical science's unremitting
battle against the wily "flu germ," cause of oft-recurring
epidemics in many parts of the world, finds a new field
of action at Point Barrow, Alaska, up on the rim of the. arctic.
Sensing the "importance" of any new epidemic, two Phil
adelphia physicians, Dr. Horace Pettit and Dr. Sergeant
LITTLE HOPE HELD
OF EDM STRIKE
35,000 Workers Affected by
Lumber Walkouts; Scant
Cheer is Offered
PORTLAND, May 15. -(-Pacific
northwest lumber strike ne
gotiations remained in a log jam
tonight.
Today's developments carried
some cheer along with the gloom,
but nothing indicated there would
be speedy settlement of the walk
out directly, affecting some 35,
000 workers.
Forty men from the Dubois
Mattack mill at Vancouver,
Wash., Joined the walkout today,
bringing the Vancouver area stri
kers to about 550. Only cabinet
shops and reail lumber yard3
were free from the strike.
Alfred F. Biles, president of
the Central Door & Lumber com
pany here said his 100 employes
were "strong-armed" off the Job
by 200 union pickets today.
Union officials reported they
had "converted the men to the
American Federation of Labor,"
which seeks higher wages, short
er hours and union recognition
in the lumber strike.
TALK DAYLIGHT SAVING
he state board of control today
will decide whether daylight sav
ing hours wili be adopted by state
departments. Seventeen depart
ments voted unanimously in fav
or of the proposal while seven de
partments were divided.
SEMOX RK-APPOINTED
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., May
15. - - The Klamath county
court today unanimously appoint
ed Henry Semon, prominent
Klamath county farmer and
democrat, as state representative
from Klamath county to succeed
himself.
Chase Bank Chairman Flays
Proposed Banking Measure
WASHINGTON, May
Llkening the omnibus banking
bill to measures utilized at the
time of the destructive German
and French inflations, Winthrop
Aldrlch, chairman of the Chase
National Bank, predicted today
that if all its powers were used
the "practical value of all social
security legislation" could he
swept away.
In as severe a denunciation of
the bill as has yet been made,
Aldrich, with several aides group
ed about him, told a senate bank
ing sub-committee the bill was
"potentially despotic" through its
centralization of authority over
credit and currency in the federal
reserve board. The system, he
said, would be "set up without
check or balance in law and with
few restraints in fact"
Reading from a prepared state
O Pepper, will leave Newark, N. J.,
by plane late tonight in a dash
which should take them to the
,4iebound arctic coast In well un
der 100 hours.
By air to Seattle, by ship to
Juneau, and again by air to Fair
banks and Point Barrow, the two
university of Pennsylvania bac
teriology experts will rush to the
scene of the arctiff'-outbreak. They
may arrive at a time when the
epidemic, believed under control,
may be again becoming serious.
The epidemic, which has taken
at least 15 lives, all but one of
them natives, offers an unusual
opportunity to gain valuable new
information for that long-sought
"cure," medical men here say.
In addition, Dr. Henry W.
Griest, heroic Presbyterian medi
cal missionary who has waged a
fight with one graduate nurse
against the more than 300 cases
at Point Barrow, has also mes
saged, descriptive of the disease:
"Unusually high temperatures
prevailed, with cases reaching
crisis quickly."
Many of the cases also develop
ed into pneumonia, he reported,
in making requests that pneu
monia vaccine be rushed north.
B
ST
WASHINGTON, May 15.-ff)-New
tactics designed to achieve
a wide distribution of "baby
bonds" as a means of combating
inflationary demands today were
reported by the treasury sales
managers.
More life was to be pat into the
selling campaign by requesting
prominent women, including Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, to urge by
radio purchases of the "baby
bonds," so-called because issued
in denominations as low as 25.
The campaign was being con
ducted by Chester T. Crowell and
James William Bryan, financial
writers. From Secretary- Morgen-
thau they bad Instructions to get
bonds in to the hands of as many
smaU investors as possible with
out conducting a "high pressure
drive."
ment, Winthrop was interrupted
only a few times, principally by
Chairman Glass (D. -Va.) who
agreed with most he said.
"This bill is a measure not of
security but of insecurity," Al
drlch asserted, "for the, exercise
of powers freely granted under
it can wipe the practical value of
all social security legislation off
the slate, and make benefits
granted to the aged or the unem
ployed mathematical expressions
only."
He said the bill, by granting
the reserve board six powers, in
cluding one to "dilute the cur
rency" and another to "force the
reserve banks to engage in what
ever open market operations it
may decree," did not liberaUze
the reserv system but made it over
into an instrument of despotic au
thority." -
ABf BONDS
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IN ID
PRUNE BOARD'S
ADMINISTRATOR
Green Prune Prices Set but
Announcement Withheld;
Eyes on Washington
Light Oregon Crop, Heavy
One in California
Reported Likely
Selection of A. M. Chapman,
who owns a farm with prune or
chard in the Liberty district
south of Salem, as administrator
of the Oregon state prune code,
was announced by the prune con
trol board following a meeting
here yesterday.
Chapman succeeds R. A. Bailey,
administrator since the code was
put into effect early last fall, who
resigned recently to become man
ager of the Springbrook Packing
company. The new administrator
takes up his duties today. Chap
man was for six years prior to
1928 manager of the California
Packing company plant in Van
couver, Wash.
Price Announcement
Expected Saturday
Prices will be announced for
green prunes for canning for the
1935 season not later than Satur
day, the control board announced
before disbanding for the day.
The code prices were agreed upon
yesterday but announcement of
them was held up to give Wash
ington control board members
present yesterday an opportunity
to confer with packers in that
state so the two states might
come to a mutual agreement on
the code figures for the canning
pack.
Virtually every canning and
dried prune interest in Oregon
was represented at the session
yesterday afternoon, with the
board hearing a detailed expres
sion of opinion on the prune in
dustry prospects and conditions
from the canners and packers.
Assurance Given No
Late Change Expected
At the outset of the meeting,
some packers expressed desire
that setting of the code prices
be deferred until a later date, this
being explained later as due to
thought, that the board might
change the price later in the sea
son. On assurance by the board
that no change would be likely,
once the price is announced, ob
jections to an early setting of the
price were withdrawn.
If the price should go above
that set by ?he board, this situa
tion would be taken care of by
supply and demand and so would
not work to detriment of packers,
Max Gehlhar, former director of
agriculture who Is now opening
his own Oregon Fruit Products
company here, pointed out.
California Crop to
Offset Oregon's
Indications at the present time
point to a light prune crop in Ore
gon, and considerably under last
year. However, Robert Paulus
who has just returned from a trip
through California pointed out
that California prospects are for
a very heavy prune crop, thus off
setting the estimated light deal
in this state.
Walter J. Robinson, director of
agriculture for the state of
Washington, in Oregon yesterday
on business from Olympia, said
that while all Codes in that state
are somewhat in the air due to
legal controversy over the state
marketing law, there is high hope
that the 1935 law will be declared
constitutional by the supreme
court.
Washington Talking
6 Centa, Strawberries
Robinson also said while here
that strawberry growers in that
state have an idea of 6 cents p
pound on Marshall berries, bu.
that this has been talked without
consulting the packers.
Glen Hogg, Polk county orch
ardist, presided at the sessions
yesterday.
LAND VALUES HEBE
RISE 40 PER CENT
Land values In the WlllrTiette
valley have risen 40 per cent
since last November, was the
declaration of Dean W. A. Schoen
feld of the department of agri
culture at the state college, who
was a caller at the capitol yes
terday. As director of the Federal
Land Bank of Spokane, he comes
in contact with prices of lands.
"The Spokane land bank has
very little desirable land left,"
said the dean. "Most of our good
places have been sold. The Spo
kane bank is in the most favor
able position of any of the hanks
as regards delinquencies and the
Willamette valley is at the top
in the Spokane territory. We ob
serve from the monthly reports
that taxes are being paid now and
in. some counties there are no de
linquencies at all, on lands on
which the hank carries the mort-
gage.'
World News at
a Glance
(By the Associated Press)
Domestic:
Palo Alto, Calif. Former Pres
ident Hoover urges quick death
for NRA.
Washington Hour wage rates
slashed 30 per cent under tenta
tive wvrk relief plans; Roosevelt
yet to approve.
Washington Secretary Hull
serves world notice U. S. ready to
stabilize.
New York Edward Johnson,
Canadian born tenor, named new
Metropolitan opera head. .
Washington Winthrop Aid-
rich, Chase National banjr' chair
man, flays banking bill; likens it
to measures In destructive Euro
pean inflation.
Chicago Rains wash away
corn belt blues, brighten small
grain prospects in midwest.
Washington Treasury pushes
baby bond" Bales campaign as
means of combating inflationists.
Atlanta Wets and drys In
close Georgia repeal vote.
Washington S e n a t e scraps
over farmer Invasion for AAA
boost; Wallace "welcomes" inves
tigation.
Springfield, 111 Illinois relief
crisis sharpens as legislature
deadlocks fourth time on state
sales tax increase.
NEW YORK Johnker diamond
bought by American for "over
1700,000."
Washington Wagner labor dis
putes bill starts through senate;
Wagner declared NRA alone un
able to save collective bargain
ing. Foreign:
Rome National press demands
Italian control of Ethiopa; Eng
land reported ready to Ignore
Duce's "hands off warning for
sake of peace.
Berlin Italian-Ethiopian dis
pute anticipated to be ammuni
tion for forthcoming Hitler speech
on foreign policy.
Lima, Peru Peruvian publisher-statesman
assassinated by
student; wife slain shielding hus
band's body.
Moscow Franco-Russian drive
started to bring Germany and Po
land into general European non
aggression pact.
Warsaw Pilsudski's body lies
in state as nation mourns leader;
national services set for Saturday.
Manila, J. I. Three city offi
cials and fourth person shot to
death in outbreak; authorities
blame 'communist terrorism.
Y
Hofstetter, Rhoten, Savage
and Sheridan Named for
Marion County
Following presentation of pur
pose and aims of the Associated
Dairy Industries, Inc., recently or
ganized in Portland, to a group of
about 30 persons representing all
phases of the dairy industry, two
directors to represent Marion
county on the state board of the
new group were selected: E. A.
Rhoten, producer, and William
"Bill" Sheridan, dealer.
Two other Marion county men,
W. E. Savage of near Salem, producer-distributor,
and Hans Hof
stetter, of Curly's Dairy, Inc.,
were named Marion county repre
sentatives on the market mil com
mittee, the first committee ap
pointed under Associated Dairy
Industries.
Officers Outline
Organization's Aims
Explanation of the new organiz
ation was made by O. G. Simpson
of the lear Creek creamery at
Oregon City, state president: Levi
McKee. Perrydale, state secretary
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S
E
Ernest Womacr, charged with
assault with intent to kill, was
arraigned in circuit court here
yesterday having waived indict
ment by a Marion county grand
jury. The court allowed Womack
additional time in which to enter
his plea.
Womack Is accused of shooting
Richard Shank, employe of the
Tom Mix circus, following a per
formance here Monday night. May
9. Shank was critically Injured
but was reported yesterday at a
local hospital to be greatly Im
proved and quite certain to recov
er. Womack Is being held In the
county jail here nntil his case Is
disposed of. He and Shank are
said to have nursed an old grudge
and, when each became intoxicat
ed, to have started a fight which
ended in Womack's firing a pistol
at Shank, a bullet from which
wounded the latter.
Judge L. H. McMahan sus
pended sentence on Charles D.
Brons, local youth, who waived
indictment and pleaded guilty to
burglary not In a dwelling. Brons
attempted to enter the Elmer
Wetzel service station en North
High street early in the morning
of May 12. The court said the sus
pended sentence would be oper
ative only as long as Brons behav
ed himseLt- " v.:
DA
INDUSTRIES
DICK CHOSEN
Ml 1
OF ASSAULT
STATE UPHELD
IN FIGHT OVER
RAZING CAPITOL
Lewelling Refuses to Make
Temporary Injunction
Permanent One
Appeal Indicated but is Not
Believed Likely in Time
to Halt Work
Legal barriers to razing of the
old capitol walls were toppled
yesterday by Judge L. G. Lewell
ing, who refused to make per
manent a temporary injunction
against the state board of control
granted May 8 when four mem
bers of the Marion County Tax
payers' League asserted they were
being irreparably damaged by the
destruction of the old building.
The court's technical reason
was found in the fact that the
plaintiffs Henry Zorn, Edwin A.
Jory, Martin Rostvold and Wil
lard Stephens had not shown
that they were any more damaged
than any other taxpayers in the
state. If proceedings were proper
ly brought. Judge Lewelling set
out, they would be through the
district attorney's or attorney
general's offices, on the relation
ship of all taxpayers to the
board's proposed action, not the
relationship of a specific group.
Restoration Art Authority
For Removing Old Walls
The court went further, how
ever, and effectively blocked the
way to further litigation by de
claring that such a proceeding, if
brought, would lose on its merits
since the state restoration act
gives the state board of control
full power to remove the old walls
as a preliminary to restoring or
replacing the statehouse struc
ture. Members of the board of con
trol late yesterday expressed
themselves as highly pleased with
the decision. The board, while it
did not meet yesterday, is known
to be unanimously in favor of
tearing the old walls down as fast
as the SERA crews now at work
on the capitol can handle the
Job. F. G. Leary, builder-wrecker
in charge of the job, plans first
to remove all debris from the
interior of the building to facili
tate trucks getting into the struc
ture to remove bricks when the
walls come down. It will be a
matter of a week to 10 days
before the demolishing of the
walls can begin. When the walls
do come down, a cable will be
attached to the walls and with
the aid of a winch, they will be
pulled towards the interior of the
old capitol, the bricks loaded in
trucks and hauled away.
Appeal Believed
Effectively Blocked
While B. S. Martin, one of the
plaintiffs' attorneys, announced
orally in court yesterday that his
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Young Nurse is
Freed, Part in
Extortion Plot
SEATTLE, May 15-)-Mi8S
Dorothy Flower, 22 - year - old
nurse and daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. T. J. Flower, of Milton, Ore.,
was freed today by Federal Judge
John C. Bowens of charges of us
ing the mails to extort money.
She was indicted with Dan T.
Kid well, 23, who was sentenced
to six years at the McNeil island
penitentiary six weeks ago on
pleading guilty to such charges.
He was accused of sending ex
tortion letters to rooming house
proprietors.
Assistant U. S. Attorney John
Ambler said that Miss Flower was
innocent of any criminal Intent
In aiding Idwell, a man she was
nursing in a hospital here at the
time.
545 Seniors Are A pprovedFor
High Graduation June 7th
Three hundred and forty-five
seniors of Salem high school were
certified for diplomas yesterday
by Fred Wolf, high school prin
cipal, while the status 'of seven
more members of the class of '35
was kept in abeyance until the
high school administration could
determine whether or not they
would meet graduation require
ments before the school year ends
June 7.
"We will not have as large a
graduation class aa we did in
1934," v Mr. Wolf stated. "A
number of members of the class
worked in the CCC camps last
summer and winter and took oth
er Jobs In order to help with the
support of their families. This re
duced the normal graduation num
ber considerably.
Busy Program Bet
For Final 'Week
' Plans for the commencement
exercises of the school are nearly
completed. Baccalaureate services
will be held Sunday, June t, at 11
a. to. in the Elslnore theatre,
which provides the only auditor-
inm In the city, large enough to ac
Work Relief
Be30der frivaie
Hourly Rates, Reveal
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BOND SALE PROGRAM
TOPIC FiTIGHT
Conference Scheduled When
City Learns Bid for.
Water Plant Okeh
Tonight the City of Salem will
move another step nearer its ac
quisition of the OregonTWashing
ton Water Service company's
plait here when the council's
committee on ways and means
and on utilities will meet with
Mavor V. E. Kuhn and Citv At
torney Chris J. Kowitz t- draft a
bond sale ordinance to be pro
posed to the council when that
body meets next Monday night.
Fred E. Paulus. deputy state
treasurer, will attend the confer
ence and advise the councilmen In
the drafting of an ordinance
which will nrovide the most ad
vantageous returns to the city
from the sale of its water bonds.
Decision to hold the conference
tnnlzht was made yesterday by
Mayor Kuhn upon receipt of tele
graphic word from McLutcnen,
Olney, Mannon & Greene, San
Francisco attorneys for the water
company, that the trustees for the
bondholders in New York City
had formally accepted the city's
proffer of $1. 000. 000 for the wa
ter plant. The directors of the
Oregon - Washington Water Ser
vice company accepted the city's
bid May 7.
As soon as the city can sell its
bonds and provide therefrom cash
funds with which to purchase the
plant, the deal can proceed. The
pending suit in condemnation, be
gun September 24, 1934, in fed
eral Court, will be dropped by
the city and judgment of $1,
000,000 confessed in favor of the
water company.
Vandevort Uncertain -About
Injunction Salt
Only barrier to the transaction
is a threatened injunction against
the sale of the bonds of the city,
brought by Henry H. Vandevort,
alderman, who has fought the
purchase of the plant. "I still
have the suit under considera
tion," Vandevort said yesterday.
He did not indicate definitely
whether be would seek to enjoin
the council from selling the bonds
when bids were called for.
The committee's meeting to
night, in addition to deciding how
long the term of the bonds the
city proposes to issue will be, will
also consider how much money
must be raised by the bond issue
for working capital for the plant.
Provisions must also be made for
moneys with which to pay legal
costs heretofore incurred in ne
gotiating for the water plant and
in the condemnation suit. The
charter amendment which author
ized the purchase of the water
plant and the issuance of bonds,
provides that none of the bonds
shall be for les sthan five years
or more than 40 years.
David O'Hara heads the ways
and means committee, Walter
Fuhrer heads the utilities com
mittee. A number of bond buyers have
already made inquiry about the
issue the city will put out for its
water purchase.
PWA Allots Amity
$24,000 Project
AMITY, May 15. Mayor J. D.
Woodman has received informa
tion that ft PWA loan of 124,000
has been granted the city of Am
ity to improve its water system.
Amity has a gravity water sys
tem. This loan will enable the city
to put in all iron pipes.
commodate the class and the mo
thers and fathers of the gradu
ates. Rev. H. C. Stover will give
the sermon.
Commencement exercises will
be held Friday, June 7, at 10
a. m. in the Elslnore theatre. Dr.
Brnce Baxter, president of Wil
lamette university, delivering the
address. Thursday night, June C,
the annual senior banquet will be
held at the Masonic temple; the
nnual Junior-senior will ,be' a
post-commencement event it the
high school gymnasium the night
of June 7.
Class instruction In Salem high
school will he completed Wednes
day, June 5, Mr. Wolf said. Teach
ers will complete the reading of
examination papers and the deter
mination of grades Thursday and
Friday, with final reports being
given out Friday afternoon, Jane
7, after commencement exercises
have been held.
The graduation list of seniors,
thus far approved for diplomas,
follows: 4
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Wages to
May Vary From $16
to $96, Different
Areas, Said
Schedule is Submitted
to Roosevelt for
Approval
(Cnprrirht, 1935. hy Associated Ftasa)
WASHINGTON, May 15. A
basic framework for labor's wages
under the $4,000,000,000 work
program, calling for a 30 per
cent slash in prevailing hourly
rates on construction jobs, to
night was disclosed to have been
drawn tentatively for White
House approval.
Emphasizing that President
Roosevelt has yet to approve the
setup, a high official who would
not permit use of his name, said
monthly payments were expected
to vary from $16 for unskilled
labor in the south to 196 for a
skilled workman in New York
city.
Average to Exceed
$50 per Month
The average, he said, would
exceed the 1 50 a month "secnr
itl" wage on which the work pro
gram was planned. It compares
with a monthly average of $29.50
on jobs now conducted under the
relief administration on which
prevailing wages are paid but
only enough employment given
to meet a worker's family relief
needs.
Still undetermined In the tenta
tive schedule were the monthly al
lotment of work hours to labor
and the total cost of labor's share
of the outlays. Detailed wage re
gulations were expected to be
submitted to the White House
shortly by Harry L. Hopkins,'
works progress director!;
Workers Will Be
Classified, Says -a
The authoritative official said
present plans called for three
classifications of workers, with
graduations in pay. 1 Separate
wage schedules would? be pro
vided for the six major regions,
still undisclosed, into which the
country has been divided.
In some quarters it was said
the new wage scales, which are
to apply to all relief jobless with
the exception of the civilian con
servation corps, will be modified
to fit conditions in 320 work
areas already marked out by Hop
kins. A survey of the cost of liv
ing for low income families la 69
representative cities was to be
completed shortly.
Four Killed
By Terrorist
Shots, Isles
MANILA, May 15.-iiP)-Three
city officials and another person
were shot to death today in what
authorities called an outbreak of
communistic terrorism in Lagona
province, scene of the bloodiest
fighting in last week's pre-pleb-iscite
Sakdalista revolt.
The trouble started, officers
said, when a band of commuaists
roaming the bills near the village
of San Antonio shot and killed
one person. A group of officers
went to investigate and three ot
them were shot down. The ether
dead were the acting Tillage
chief of police, the municipal
vice-president and a policeman.
- News of the slaylsgs reached
here as the counting continued
on yesterday's balloting in which
tbe Filipinos voted overwhelm
ingly to accept a commonwealth
form ot government for 10 years
pending complete independence.
Latest totals were 1.157.9CS in
favor of the commonwealth sys
tem snd 39,920 against.
The constabulary; which had
taken extraordinary precautions
to preserve order during the f ot
ing, began a widespread search
for tbe asserted communists.
BONUS VETO SAFE
. WASHINGTON, May HHJP)
Senate administration leaders
maintained today they were hold
ing plenty of voting strength to
sustain President Roosevelt's !
prospective veto of the Patman
bonus bilL despite recurrent re
ports that Vice-President Gamer
was advising senators to override,
the chief executive. .
The Texan, : who favored' the
bonus before he became President '
Roosevelt's running mate, refused .
to comment on the reports, but
senate leaders said he denied to
them that he was offering such
advice.;':;--- :rV - - ' - .
Garner pointing ont to Inquir
ing newspapermen that. he never
commented on issues before the
senate even when his . name be
came involved., v
FDR AIDES ASSERT