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flii CIRCULATION Average' Daily and Sunday for May. 1935 Distribution 8151 " Net Paid 7792 MEMBER A. B. C. THE WEATHKK Fair with rising temper store, falling humidity to day .and Mondayr JIax. Temp. Saturday 72, Min. 48, river 1.3 feet, rain .05 Inch. FOUMDEP I63f EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning:, June 2, 1935 No. 53 KM IS. w ' j w v ;ir w i 'F I :t crJ 4" " i FLOOD TOLL IS IY MOUfJT Six-Foot Wall of Water is Rushing Down Toward Nebraska Towns McCook Death List Alone is Feared Around 250 When Final Check Made (By the Associated Press) A rising roll of flcod and storm dead reached the 50 mark last night as early reports indi cate seven western plains states had suffered property damage up wards of $10,000,000. Scores were missing all over the flood territory and particu larly in the path of the raging Republican riv:r which roared over a wide area in southwestern Nebraska Friday- and rolled on yesterday into Cheyenne county, Kas. A local Red Cross official at McCook, in the center of the Ne braska flood zone, estimated the dead there might reach 250 when a final checkup-can be made after restoration of communications to a number of communities now en tirely cut off. Hundreds of persons were left homeless and hundreds of farm animals perished. Colorado Springs alone listed flood losses within the city at $1,215,000; Pueblo reported dam age at "more than a million"; Ox ford and McCook, Neb., set their figure "at $1,500,000; and there were dozens of communities which had not yet counted their material losses as they bent ev ery effort to as-ertain their dead and relieve t: cir suffering. Late reports from the Colorado-" Wyoming flood region put the fa talities at '-4; Texas had seven; Kansas four and Missouri 1. McCOOK, Neb., June lHffy-A new menace, a six foot wall of water, rushed down the already flood swollen Republican river valley in southern Nebraska to night after relief workers had es timated disaster fatalities in the region might reach 250. Sixteen persons were known dead in floods and tornadoes which swept southern Nebraska, inundating thousands of acres of Dundy, Chase, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow, Frontier, Furnas, Harlan, Franklin, Webster and Nuckolls counties. The flooded territory was more than 200 miles long and at some points the river, normally a small stream, was two and a half miles wide. , Property damage was estimated after first surveys of the havoc at several million dollars. Mc Cook and Oxford alone counted their loss at $1,500,000. Scores of persons in the flood's path were missing. Dr. J. M. Wil lis, physician at McCook, who took a prominent part in relief work there after Friday's twin visitation of flood and tornado es timated the dead for the valley would reach!the 250 mark. "W. J. Nlssen, In charge of em said fatalities in his vicinity alone ergency relief work at Oxford would reach 100. Twenty were (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) fiiriiiTS iflfJT PRISON State penitentiary doors here swung shut tit f o'clock last night to confine the three.men Involved In the robbery of the Dairymen's cans at tieampna Wednesday. They were brought here In cus tody of Sheriff C. L. McCauley of Deschutes county and his depu ties. Warden James W. Lewis said the trio would be assigned to em ployment In the state flax plant. Ellery Thomas Holbrook was : sentenced to a term of 20 years in the prison. Frank Watson and Earl Davis fo terms of 18 years each. ' They were apprehended by m state police within a few hours after the bank was looted. Tomato Recipes Are Asked This Week in Round Table Contest Tomato recipes are want ed by the Round Table this week and it is hoped that many new uses for this lo tions summer fruit will be . discovered.' Recipes submit ted may call for fresh, canned tomatoes or tomato Juice. - ' .... Send In as many recipes as yon like bat be certain that they reach The States man y office by Thursday noon, Jane 6. Judging takes place in the afternoon and wlners of the cash . prizes are announced Friday morn ing . together with a new I topic. , - ' , - : . , 50; I INTO 1 HUNDREDS World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic: Tacoma, Wash. Kidnapers, be lieved headed by AlvirfKarpis, public enemy No. 1, free George Weyerhaeuser, fie with $200, 000 ransom before west's greatest army of man-hunters. McCook, Neb. Fifty dead, 200 missing as floods ravage seven states; property loss $10,000, 000. NRA situation In Washington: President Roosevelt dismisses 411 lawsuits charging violations of wage and hour codes under dead NRA. - -He spends weekend cruising, awaiting nation's reaction to su preme court's decision on consti tutionality; tells congress he ex pects it to stay in session until December if necessary. United Mine Workers order 450,000 workers to strike June 17. Senate republican spokesmen demand quick enactment of "stop gap NRA." House liberal bloc opens cam paign to amend constitution. Foreign: Quetta, India Cholera threat ens homeless as quake toll esti mate mounts to 30,000. Paris Flight of gold from France slackens as Boulsson's cabinet takes hold. Geneva Fascists and socialists battle on eve of Swiss election. SCHOOL HELD NEED Baxter Promises Aid", 51st Anniversary Banquet Well Attended Convinced that the Willamette university law school holds an im portant future, Dr. Bruce R. Bax ter, president of the university, thi3 week will recommend to his board of trustees that further support be given the college of law looking toward its standard ization and "betterment in the physical plant" in the near fu ture. This pledge he made m speak ing before 7 8 alumni, facility members, students and guests who attended the banquet at the Ma sonic temple last night honoring the 51st anniversary of the found ing of the law branch of the uni versity. "Upon an honest and intelli gent bar and a Judicious and just bench depend our liberty as citi zens," declared Circuit Judge Ed ward F. Ashhurst of Klamat'i Falls, an alumnus of the school here, in the chief banquet address. He held that "science has made great strides but has never and will never give us anything greater than those rights granted under our state and federal con stitutions." At the speakers' table and pre (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) PLAYGROUND AIDES WILL BE P80IED Assurance that SERA or similar assistance will be supplied for Sa lem's - summer playground pro gram again this season was given Silas Gaiser, Salem school super intendent, yesterday in a bulletin from Roben J. Maaske, assistant state superintendent of public in struction. Last year the SERA provided instructors in playground arts and crafts, 'lifeguards and bathhouse attendants. Salem school . district will pay the salaries of Vernon Gilmore, superintendent of recreation; Grace Wolgamott, director of Ol inger field, and Gurnee Flesher, director of Leslie field. Certain other playground workers will be employed with funds provided by the city. The season officially will open June 10, at which time it is ex pected both swimming pools can be opened. SUPPORT I Profs' Flareup Denounced , By State College A lumni CORVALLIS, Ore., June 1.-US) A resolution denouncing the Am erican association of University Professors' committee report on Oregon higher education as biased and an "unwarranted attack on the state board of higher educa tion" was passed today by the Oregon State College Alumni as sociation. . Alumni and friends of the insti tutions were urged to unite in dis couraging such "disturbing influ ences." The action was taken at the association's annual meeting held in connection with com mencement weekend! Full discussion of Issues In volved was held before the res olution was presented and passed unanimously, alumni officers re ported. Copies were ordered sent to all members of the state board of higher education. . The text: "The disturbing influ ence on higher education caused by the biased report of three members of the American association of University Professors and distrib uted by two University of Oregon SUBSTITUTE TO NRft DEMANDED BY GOP LEADER Voluntary Regulation Plea Voiced by- McNary as Decision Viewed , Constitution Seert as Issue in 1936; Statements of Roosevelt Decried WASHINGTON, June l-P)-Swift passage of some voluntary industrial regulatory measure to replace NRA was demanded of the administration today by sen ate republican spokesmen. Seeking legislation at the pres ent session, they predicted "keen and bitter strife" If an attempt were made to amend the constitu tion to provide federal control of the nation's economic and social structure, regardless of state lines. "Let's not get gun-shy of the constitution because of this one case," said Senator McNary, of Oregon, the minority floor leader. "Everyone has suffered from the shell shock of the supreme court's decision, of course, but we ought to do something of a voluntary nature." Interpreting President Roose? velt's press conference statement and democratic talk of an all-summer congressional session as part of a plan to build up popular sen timent for a constitutional amend ment, McNary and other republi cans saw a tough political scrap ahead for 1936. Protest of Roosevelt Attitude is Voiced While tb.e Oregon senator would not attempt to say what the republican attitude would be if the president made a consti tutional revision the prime issue, Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan, who also has been mentioned as a candidate for the republican, nom ination, registered a strong pro test. "The president set the stakes for the 193 6 campaign yesterday," yndenberg said. "He is not sim ply asking for federal control but for nationalization. If under any other flag but ours, that would be facism or communism. It isn't the length but the direction of the step. "What he asked for yesterday was not merely for America to decide whether one section of the constitution is inadquate, but whether we should tear up the old conception and embrace the new. That inevitably is the 1936 cam paign issue." Terming the president's state ment that the supreme court de cision had sent America hack to the "horse and buggy" age as a "gross and malignant exaggera tion," Vanderberg declared that If the simile were justified "The democratic platform of 1932 was a horse and buggy platform." Senator Steiwer of Oregon agreed it was better to amend the constitution than to "gradually usurp" its powers, but said wheth er such an amendment would be the outstanding issue next year depended on its nature. He added: lf it is proposed to make Washington into a Moscow then it will be an issue of outstanding importance." Falling Tree Is Cause of Death Of Frank Cramer Frank Cramer of Salem was killed instantly yesterday after noon at 4:30 o'clock when he was struck by a falling tree4n woods 30 miles above Silverton. He was working for a logging crew of the Silver Falls Lumber com pany. , Cramer's wife, residing here, survives him, as do two brothers, Emil and Evertt Cramer of Silver ton. The body was brought to the Ekman Funeral home at Silver ton. Funeral services had not been arranged last night. faculty members is deplored by the Alumni association of Oregon State college. "As already pointed out by the press of the state, the release of the report serves no useful pur pose. It is an unwarranted attack upon the state board of higher ed ucation and tends to continue tur moil and strife after substantial progress has been made, toward attainment of harmony. i "The report disregards'thei fun damental purposes of higher; edu cation service to the state and its youth and sets np the. idea that the system should be run to please disgruntled professors. "As to the attack upon Dr. W. J. Kerr, his sterling character and record of 30 years of devoted and unselfish service to higher ed a cation in Oregon is its own de fense. i "This association believes the people of Oregon are tired of strife, bickering and turmoil In higher education. The harmonious action taken last - week by the Portland alumni chapters of both (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) - ; Helped Pay for Child's Release X ' 4 Jf ' , V V 1 Above, Frederick E. Weyerhaeus erf below, Rudolph M. Weyer haeuser, uncles of little George Weyerhaenser, who rushed to Tacoma from St. "Paul, Minn., and are believed to have furn ished the bulk of the $200,000 ransom which freed the child Saturday morning. They are heads of the large Weyehaeuser lumber interests in the middle west. i TAX INCREASE IS WASHINGTON, June 1-(F)-A definite decision against any present" increase In tax rates was disclosed today by congressional revenues raisers as they mapped a drive to put a tax bill on the statute books within 30 days. They indicated, however, that the forthcoming bill would make permanent, instead of extending for one year, the present '.'tempor ary nuisance" taxes which ex pire within the. next month and which will produce upward of $400,000,000 in the financial year ending June 30. One tax leader, who discussed the situation was Rep. Samuel B. Hill of Washington, ranking de mocrat on the house ways and means committee. Asserting that he was express ing his own personal view which others 'privately said reflected a general understanding already reached by committeemen inform ally Hill said this: "I don't think we are going out to look for any new sources of revenue. Nor do I think it will be necessary to make any changes in the existing tax rates." DISMISSAL OF iA CASES IS ORDERED . WASHINGTON, June l-UP)- Apparently throwing off the last vestiges of restraint: imposed by NRA's now dead wage-hour and fair trade- practice provisions, President Roosevelt today dis missed 411 court cases Involving violations of blue eagle rules. This wholesale action, coupled with an announcement that- other legal actions contemplated would not bo initiated, followed close after the dropping of hints in high quarters that -the president would propose no stop-gap NRA legisla tion. And if any permanent plan was ready for submission, con gressional leaders, at least, lacked any inkling of it, -Mr. Roosevelt cruised on Chesa peake bay aboard the Yacht Se quoia tonight while the capital pondered without answer the course the administration will take. The most uniform specula tion of observers was that further soundiifg of the nation's reaction to the overthrow of NRA would precede any definite action. 1 A L COraPLnTED MARCH OF ME BACK TD MILLS -IS SPEEDED UP 12,000 to Return Monday, All at Increased Wage, Present Indication One Portland Firm Obtains Agreement With Men; Seattle Dark Spot . PORTLAND, Ore June l.-flP) The march of men back to their jobs grew louder tonight as indi cations pointed toward a major break Monday in the Pacific Northwest lumber strike. Many 4-L mills will resume op erations under the new increased scale adopted by the loyal legion of loggers and lumbermen, de clared 4-L President W. C. Rueg nitz of Portland. Previously, W. C. Muir, spokes man for the striking sawmill and timber workers' union, estimated at least 12.000 would be back at work Monday under compromise agreements with operators, grant ing higher wages. Since then more agreements have been reached, and if any (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) FIRES ID PUGUE PERIL QUAKE Cholera is Feared; Doctors and Nurses Rushed to Devastated Region (Copyright. 1935, Associated Press) QUETTA, India, June 2.-(Sun-day)-Fires flaring in the ruins of this city at death, devastated by earthquakes at a loss of life esti mated at 30,000, burned them selves out today, but authorities feared an outbreak of cholera. Doctors, nurses and medical eguipmeat wereJieing rushed here by airplanes after most of the fear-stricken, scantily-clad survi vors spent another night under the open sky, shying away from shelters erected by soldiers. Floods accompanied the fires which raced through the devastat ed area last night, threatening to swell still further the roll of dead and injured. ALL OH POLICE All Oregon state police were put on the lookout for kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser, 9, by orders of Charles P. Pray, state superintendent, yesterday. Descriptions of the men sus pected of the kidnaping and de scriptions of the autos they were alleged to have operated were re ceived at police headquarters here yesterday morning and were promptly relayed to all state troopers. "My men have been instructed to do everything possible to as sist in the capture of these ban dits'" Pray declared. Side roads will be watched closely and all persons resembling the kidnapers will be questioned, Pray said. Pray said his department was la close touch with the federal gov ernment authorities working on the case. Pray himself was at one time a federal agent. E TEAMS AT ASTORIA ASTORIA, Ore., June George Elmer Emlgh, 27, assist ant coach at Jefferson high In Portland, will succeed "Honest John" Warren as coach of Astoria high, It was announced today. Emigh, Oregon State college graduate, was elected at a special meeting of the school board here last night-and announced accept ance today. Emlgh coached at Burns for two years spon his graduation and tn 1933 took his team to the state basketball tournament. He ha been assistant at Jefferson dur ing the past year. He Is a son-in-law of Major-General George A. White. ' Emigh played an outfield posi tion for the Salem Senators part Of last baseball season. , START BIAXEUYERS ABOARD V. . S. PENNSYL VANIA IN MANEUVERS AT SEA. June 1 CP Ninety-two combat ships of the United States fleet were started today by its com mander in chief. Admiral Joseph M. Reeves," npon a series of the most intense tactical drills at tempted In the annual maneuvers. i W Mi WILL COACH Oregon Police Weyerhaeu (In in Northeast Part of State Tan Sedan Outspeeds Officers; Net Drawn A round Umatilla A rea District 45 Miles in Diameter Hemmed in by Police; Five or Six Men in Machine Which Eludes Sheriff's Aides PENDLETON, Ore., June 1(AP) Search for the Wey erhaeuser kidnapers centered tonight in northeastern Oregon with county and state officers tightening their net in attempts to corner a tan sedan which sped past two depu ties at a 98-mile an hour clip and outdistanced them. The tan sedan which the deputies said carried five or six men, was believed bottled up inO 1 an area 45 miles in diameter, in northern Umatilla county. Two deputies from the Uma tilla county sheriff's office were cruising eastward from Umatilla when the tan thunderbolt whizzed past so fast they didn't even see what make of car it was or what type of license it carried.- Hot in pursuit, the officers spurred their car to 91 miles an hour but soon lost the sedan. However it was learned , the car turned off the Umatilla cutoff before reaching Wallula, Wash. With the broad Columbia river hemming them on the north, the only alternative route would be for the men to head southward toward Holdman and a compre hensive net of county and state officers. The forces of the law sped their efforts to capture occupants of the tan sedan before darkness aided the fugitives. It was believed the fleeing men turned southward at Cold Springs, Ore., toward Holdman. At the lit tle road marker called Holdman there Is only one telephone and the ranchers living there said they had been in the back of the house earlier in the evening and would not have known if the se dan sped past in the twilight. Two deputies took a station on the Holdman - Pendleton road, about two miles north of Hold man. Besides the road south from Holdman to Pendleton was a little-used canyon road from Hold man to Helix, on the east. A road eastward from Helix connects with Athena, which is on the main highway from Pendleton to Walla Walla. Two state police guarded the Athena section of the road from Helix and Hold man. Other deputies were scattered throughout the area and city of ficers watched approaches to Pendelton. Steeds Are Sued For $10,000 Due To Auto Smashup Damages-of $10,000 are Bought from Wallace Steed and J. Lyman Steed in an automobile accident suit filed in circuit court here yes terday. B. A. Wagner, adminis trator of the estate of the late John A, Wagter brings the suit, alleging that the boy, 14 years old, died as a result of accident in juries he sustained February 17. Young Wagner was riding with Wallace Steed in the car of the latter's father, the plaintiff al leges. The car overturned on the road leading east from Salem at a distance one mile from the city limits. Plaintiff alleges the care less driving of Wallace Steed caused the accident. "Subterfuge" , Van Winkle Says of Board's Charges Unwarranted and nntrue were charges by the state liquor com mission that the state legal de partment had been "slow and unresponsive In furnishing urg ently needed legal opinions," At torney General Van , Wlkle de clared In an extended statement here yesterday." Van Winkle said It was ob vious that the charges accredited to the liquor commission were a subterfuge so that It might em ploy private counsel Instead of relying upon the . attorney gen eral's office for legal guidance. ? The liquor; commission also charged- that -Van Winkle had failed to complete and deliver a new set of regulations and that neither he, nor members of his staff, had cooperated with the liquor control board. ' ; . "I have been waiting for some official communication from your commission since I - read : In the public press on May 29, a report of your meeting held the previous day,. Van Winkle's letter read. elieved ser Kidnapers ELDERLY REPORTER GETS GREAT SCOOP Johnny Dreher Was Pest of Newsroom Over Kidnap, but He Cashes Tn TACOMA, WTash., June l.-fjP)-John H. Dreher, who grew up in the Pennsylvania Dutch counties, slept undisturbed tonight for the first time since nine - year - old George Weyerhaeuser was kidnap ed a week ago yesterday noon. For Johnny", last of the old time Seattle police reporters, sln glehanded staged the biggest news "scoop" in the Pacific northwest in years. He was the only one, out of about 75 news men from all parts of the eountry, to interview George. And he interviewed him, lying on the floor of a speeding taxicab with the boy so rival news men would not discover his find. And after he had delivered the 1200,000 boy to his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, jr., Dreher panted up to the hotel suite fitted up as a branch news room of the Seattle Times and be gan writing. For three hoars, the 59-year old, grin-wrinkled newspaper man pounded a typewriter. And the copy fairly flew from the "mill." The courthouse reporter was his copy boy and the society- editor and a cub reporter were proud to be kept busy dictating the story (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) RASPBERRY PRICES E Code prices for the 1935 black raspberry crop as set by the con trol board for the marketing agreement In Oregon were an nounced last night by B. M. Le Fevre, administrator. The board's requirements he listed as follows: "For ripe, whole berries, free from mold or crushed fruit, de livered at usual place of delivery, not less than 5 cents per green pound tp growers, and for- well ripened and well colored berries in the dry state, free from mold sticks, and leaves not less than 22 Vt cents per dry pound to the grower." At Us meeting last week the control board organized, electing A. S. Mellinger of Newberg as president, George Paulus of Sa lem as vice president, W. E. Jenks of Salem as secretary and LeFevre as administrator-treasurer. "But I have not received any such communication." Van Winkle said that while he did not care to question the com mission's authority to employ an attorney he desired to controvert certain statements made at the meeting on May 28 reflecting up on the conduct of his department, "These statements were wholly unwarranted and untrue, as dem onstrated by the facts," Van Win kle's letter continued. , At the rquest of your com mission one of the attorneys of this office, sat with yon in con ference and. was informad that yon had decided to rely upon the attorney general's office for le gal serrices M that time and In numerous succeeding conferences during the legislative session the matter of amendments to the li quor control laws were considered.- ' 1 "Pursuant to your request he prepared such amendments, and in doing so and discussing them (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) LISTED 111 to lave Bottled EAD IS TURNED LOOSE UNHURT; GDIW Karpis Mob Clue is Given New Impetus; Ransom Paid, Announced a Boy's Own Story of Men's Actions and Treatment is Told in Detail . PENDLETON, Ore., June 3-(Sunday)-(;p)-Convincel that a tan sedan with Weyerhaeuser kidnap suspects was bottled ap in northeastern Oregon, offi cers stood by their guns at stra tegic points through early morning hoars today waiting for dawn to close their net. (Cotljrrieht. 1935. by Assooiatfd Prest) TACOMA, June 1 -(-Ransomed for $200,000, little George Weyerhaeuser was freed by his kidnapers today while a spread ing hunt for his abductors closed around a mystery automobile speeding through northeastern Oregon tonight. The Pacific northwest's great est manhunt, unleashed when the nine-year-old boy was returned home, was intensified in a 45 mile area of northern Umatilla county, Oregon. Immediate object of the chase was a tan sedan, carrying five or six men, which outdis tanced Oregon officers in a wild dash of nearly 100 miles per hour. Hemmed in on one side by the Columbia river, the car was be lieved heading southward toward Holdman and a tightening ring of officers from whom no quarter could be expected. Descriptions of two unnamed men were ordered circularized as "probable" suspects, meanwhile by the Washington state patroL While hysterical parents lav ished attention on the curly-haired youth, the hunt for his snatcb ers drew in again the names of notorious Alvin Karpis and his kidnap gang, who got $20,000 before releasing Edward G. Brem er as their captive. Members of the family issued a statement late today revealing ransom demands had been met "through the assistance of friends." No word was revealed when the contact was made which re sulted In freedom for George In a lonely wooded area near Issa quah before dawn today. Highlights of little George Weyerhaeuser's statement! (Copyrieht, 1935, by The Associated Press and Seattle Times.) "I'm awfully glad to get hack. "A man grabbed me and put his hand over my mouth and pulled me, into the tan sedan. "He put me down in the back nn J ,t.AAjt ma W 1 1 Vl fHfa Vl 31 71 aim v a " ' " ket. It Certainly is dirty, isn't it? And their we drove and drove and drove. They told me I wouldn't be hurt if I didn't yell out, and I aian t wim iu ire uuu - & v my mouth shut. "I signed my name three times. Once on that envelope, once n the ransom note, and once at .the bottom of the blank paper." "The men told me there were six in the kidnaping but I only saw three. They called one an other Bill, Harry and Alvea. "They let me read all the news- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) iilsliis 1TERE5JBCED Salem banks will reduce inter est fates on savings accounts to one and one-halt per cent a year, effective July 1, it was, learned here yesterday, following an nouncement that the new rate would be effective In all clearing house banks in Portland after that date. Rates now paid are two per cent a year. Certain re strictions will prevail on the pay ment of the Interest, the depositor being required to maintain the account for. six months in order to receive payment. Existing rites paid on savings accounts here are on a two per cent a year hasls. The new rate will be the lowest ever paid on Bavlngs in Marion county. Bankers said the reason for the reduction was the Inability of hanks to obtain sound, liquid In vestments at an interest rate which would permit T, paying a rratf Mfn than" nne and ' one-1 half per cent on savings accounts.