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Tuesday 00, Min. 40,. river . foot, aortheriy wind. - EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, June 5, 1935 SHERIFF FACES Portland Bootlegger CAPITOL BLAST - ) PEACEFUL SALEM WAKES UP WITH JOLT '8 PLANNED Of Proh i Days Sought In Weyerhaeuser Case Lived Near Kidnap Victim, Once Had Still at Issaquah; First Ransom Bill Found at Huntington; is Being Traced CHARGES FILED T A., TERRIFIC TI BY GRAND JURY 11 UR Negligence in Connection With Prisoner Escape Is Laid to Burk Official Refuses to Make Statement; McMahan Is Disqualified Investigations carried on inter mittently for several months by the Marion county grand jury Into the affairs of the sheriff's office yesterday culminated in arrest of Sheriff A. C. Burk on two secret indictments returned late Monday. One Indictment charges the sheriff with "negligently suffer ing and permitting a person to escape from the county jail" and the other "voluntarily suffering a prisoner to escape." The arrest was made by Coun ty Coroner L. E. Barrlck about 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning in the hall on the second floor of the courthouse. Burk obvious ly knew, when the secret indict ments returned by the grand jury were not placed in his possession as customary, what was up, for when he saw Barrack in the court honBe he approached him with the remark, "Well, give them here." Release of Craig Is Deemed Illegal The Indictment on permitting a person to escape from -the jail has to do with one Charles Craig, committed to the county lail from justice court October 28, 1933. whom the indictment charges Burk allowed to leave the jail after 50 days, over four months short of the six months- the court gave Craig on an automobile theft charge. The other indictment is out growth of the jail escape Feb ruary 9, in which the prisoners involved were Melvin Strand, Pa trick Cavln and Carl McKinney. The indictment charges that Strand, a trusty, was permitted possession of keys to the county jail. It was shortly after this Jail break, which netted the escapes only brief freedom, that the grand jury took under investigation matters in the sheriffs office. This investigation took on also workings in the tax collecting de partment, with a resultant clean hill there by the auditors from the state house. Sheriff Burk immediately en gaged John Carson and Allan Carson as his attorneys, and de clined during the day to make any statements, saying any that were made would come from his attorneys. They had nothing to say on the" case last night. Eurk's attorneys yesterday fil ed motion for change of judges, based on affidavit of prejudice signed by the sheriff. Order had not been entered from Judge L. H. McMahan yesterday transfer ring the case to Judge L. -G. Lewelling, presiding over depart ment two of the Marion county circuit court. Lewelling, however, let it be known he would not sit on the case, and it is expected application will be mad shortly to have the chief justice of the state supreme court assign a judge to the bench here for trial of the sheriff. McMahan Announces He Is Disqualified Judge McMahan, before affida vit of prejudice was filed, atated he had disqualified himself to sit in the case. He appeared as a witness before the grand jury on both charges, and probably, for the first time in history of court cases here, Jurors will hear testi mony from the circuit judge when the case comes to trial. Other witnesses called before the grand jury, besides Burk who appeared at hlsown request on . both charges, were: On the Craig matter, Newell Williams, recently discharged by Burk as his chief deputy: Walter Lamkin. clerk of (Turn to page 2, cel. 3) DISPLAY OF WOODS TO CLOSE T Townspeople today have their last opportunity to see a unique display the West Coast Lum ..bermen's association having on exhibit seven models of homes and an, array of building mate rials in the lobby of the Hotel Salem. The exhibit, which ap peared at the National Housing how in Portland last week, was brought to Salem by R. A. Meyer ot the J. W. Copeland lumber yards here which is. the Salem sponsor for the exhibit.' Hundreds of people saw the , display yesterday and even larg , er attendance is expected today by Mr. Meyer. A feature of the show here is a display of model farm buildings made by 4-H club boys from Turner, Hayesvllle and Salem. The show will.be open to the public without charge through to day and tonight, OH PORTLAND, Ore., June 4 (AP) Captain Jack Keegan of the Portland police detectives tonight said he advised Tacoma authorities to look for a former Portland bootlegger for questioning regarding the George Weyerhaeuser kidnap ing. A Portland man supplied officers here with a tip which World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) NBA: Washington President maps stop-gap extension in conferences with cabinet and congress chief; wants country to decide. Congress set for summer ses sion. New York 100 coded indus tries urge synchronized regula tion by U. S. and states. Secretary Wallace holds su preme court showed constitution "firmly fixed in the past." Other domestic: Tacoma Find $20 Weyer haeuser ransom bills passed by dark man for ticket to Salt Lake City Sunday. Floods ravage rich regions In Kansas, Missouri and California after 500 deaths and $25,000,000 damages in western states and Mexico. Chicago Hoover says he and Lowden discussed "administra tion proposals to change to Euro pean form of government." SHERMAN, Tex. Two col lege boys dead, eight' ill from alcohol taken from laboratory. Washington Bonus leaders abandon fight now until next ses sion. Foreign : Paris Deputies overthrow new cabinet of Bouisson; he and Laval decline to form new one; French crisis gravest in years. London German naval en voys ask 400,000-ton fleet. Archangel Fear 47 drowned on dredge wrecked in storm; 15 bodies found. SPOUTS SITE SOON Group Will Visit Detroit Region; Development Supported Here Salem is on its way to obtain ing a winter sports recreational area if plans go through this week as scheduled. P. A. Thomp son, supervisor of the Willam ette national forest, has asked representatives from the city's sporting clubs to meet with him at tLi Detroit ranger station Thursday morning at 10 a. m. to make a final decision on the lo cation for the area. Several months ago a prelim inary meeting was held and the forest service contacted to ex plore the possibility of establish ing a winter camp similar to those at Mt. Hood, th ; one on the' McKenzie river above Eugene and at Bend. The Santiam was decided upon as the logical loca tion. Judge Harry Belt, president of the Izaak Walton league, will ap point someone to r-present that group Tbursd-T and others who have already decided to go are Joseph A. Hermann from the chamber of commerce sports de partment; Conrad Frigaard and Otho White from the Salem Ski club; N. J. Billings from the Hunters and Anglers' associa tion; Dr. F. L. Utter or George N. Fake from the Chemeketans, and Howard J. Grimm. WILL W Kansas City Threatened as Floods Continue Rampages (By The Associated Press) Floods, already charged with more than 500 deatns ana up wards of 125,000,000 damage in western states and in Mexico, rolled relentlessly last night over rich regions of Kansas, Missouri and California. The razing waters spread de struction and threatened further loss of life over a widening area. The big Missouri hit new' crests. It passed its 1927 level. It prom ised to equal the disastrous pro portions of the flood of 1903. . The smaller Kaw, carrying the tide which swept southward out of Nebraska into Kansas by way of the Republican , river, raced eastward toward Kansas City and confluence with 'the swelling Missouri. ; Army engineers and city offi cials feared the full crest of the Kaw; roaring Into the Missouri, would bring flood conditions at turned the search to the man who formerly was a rum runner both in Oregon and Washington. The former rum king has not been reported seen since the kid naping. "I sent detectives to Tacoma and we turned the information over to federal agents and offi cials in Tacoma," Keegan said. "I don't know how much stock they are taking in it, but I'm taking plenty. "We gave them the informa tion even before the return of the boy." The missing man suggested as possibly the "pot-bellied man" in the kidnaping, operated his last still In the vicinity of Issaquah where little nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser was freed. The still was raided. The man lived in Tacoma, near the Weyerhaeuser home, it w .s said. Federal agents at Tacoma de clined to comment on the infor mation. The rum-vending gang which the operator in question headed, was one of the last to break up and in the opinion of the Port land man who instigated the (Turn to page 2, col. 4) MOST OF SAWMILL Postal Vote at Tacoma is Overwhelmingly F o r Accepting Terms TACOMA, June 4.-(P)-An overwhelming majority of Tacoma lumber workers, employes of nine of the larger plants here, want to return to their Jobs on terms contained In the 4-L schedule re cently proffered, tabulation of a secret postal ballot revealed here today. The vote to return to work was almost 7 to 1, or almost 87 per cent of the vote cast on the ques tion while the proportion of those making a return on the question naire was little more than 60 per cent of the number to whom bal lots were sent. Of the 1752 cards mailed out by the e I p!oye committee which sponsored the test vote, 1068 were returned, but four were re jected by the committee for irre gularities, leaving 1064 for com putation purposes. Of these, 935 registered a "yes" to the ques tion of returning to work on the proposed terms of a 50-cent-per hour minimum wage and Increa ses running from 5 to 10 cents per hour, with other conditions the same as before the strike of the Sawmill and Timber Workers' union called on May 6. Even were all those who failed to Tote regarded as opposed to returning to work, there would still be a clear majority of 98 for accepting the offered settle ment. Such an assumption is re garded as wholly illogical, how ever. INCREASE SALES TAX SACRAMENTO, June 4.-(P-By the decisive vote of 34 to 3, the senate tonight passed and sped on Its way to Governor Mer riam the biggest single new rev enue measure of the 1935 session the Hunt bill raising the sales tax rate to three per cent and ex empting essential foodstuffs. Kansas City similar to 1908. In dustrial sections were Inundated then with heavy losses. The threatened portions of Kansas City include the stock yards and buildings, numerous in dustrial plants and the Kansas City live stock exchange, i National guardsmen, regular army men and police rushed ahead of the surging crest In Mis souri and Kansas. They helped farmers and townspeople in the lowlands to higher ground. Prompt warnings were credited with preventing great loss of life. Still, death estimates already had pushed toward '00. The dead included 400 persons drowned In Mexico and more than a score In Colorado and Wyoming last week as well as victims in Kansas, Mis souri and Nebraska, . j Damage in Kansas, : Nebraska and Missouri alone was set unof ficially in the neighborhood; of ?20,000,OQO. . ,... MEN Twenty Windows Broken in Willamette Buildings; Blowup is 'Success' Calculations Amiss Due to Rock Under Dynamite; Damage Made Good Only a miracle of good for tune early yesterday averted seri ous injury to scores of spectators wbn 1250-pound charges of dy namite, set off simultaneously under the south and east walls of the old capitol, exploded with such force that heavy rock was hurled as far as three blocks from the structure. , Only Dorothy Alexander, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander, was painfully injured by the explosion. She received face cuts when the window of the room where she was Bleep ing at the Patton home on Court street, broke and injured her face. She had gone there the night before the blast to visit a friend. One spectator, unidenti fied, was knocked down by a fall ing rock, but quickly recovered. Buildings on the Willamette university campus, 450 feet from the site of the explosion, were damaged, 18 windows being broken in Eaton, while one was broken in Waller hall and two were smashed in Science hall, a thousand feet from the explosion. A 50-pound boulder crashed through the roof of the univer sity grandstand and rocks esti mated to weigh 250 pounds were buried in the lawn of the cam- pus. Spectators Scurry As Rocks Hail Down Spectators a hundred in num ber, had lined up on the campus preparation to make good on the loss to the adjacent property, to watch the explosion. They scattered furiously as a hail of rocks and bulders came their way after the explosion. Cameramen shot their pictures and dashed for cover. On Court street, a rock slash ed through the roof of the Charles K. Spaulding residence and some damage was done to the home of Justice Henry Bean of the supreme court. A large hole was torn in the roof of the car owned by William Poorman which was parked on Court street. Branches were stripped from trees in the capitol grounds and a portion of the temporary fence surrounding the capitol was demolished. Fred Leary, in charge of the razing job, said more powder by far was used yesterday morning than had been placed under the west wall Monday. Leary said the severe explosion was caused by the fact that the dynamite struck rock below it yesterday whereas a large part of the force of the Mon day explosion was lost because the dynamite was spent in soft earth below the wall. Fifty separate charges of dyna mite were placed before the explo (Turn to page 2, col. 1) E PLANNED FOR 4TH Probability that automobile races under the direction of Bob by Rowe who is now directing these events at the Speed Bowl near Portland, will be added to the Fourth of July attractions at the fairgrounds here, was report ed following the meeting of the American Legion committee in charge Tuesday night. Rowe at tended the meeting and promised, if the attraction were signed, to bring not only his Speed Bowl stars, but some also from the As cot track in California and others who have been racing in the east. : A representative of a fireworks company was present and signed up for fireworks attractions which will be principally set pieces for the etjoyment of those in the grandstand, rather than for per sons outside the grounds. It was decided that in case rain fell on the Fourth, the races and fireworks would be postponed un til Saturday, July 6. Marshall Berry Harvest Will Be Short, Forecast The Marshall strawberry har vest will be a short one, unless rtrins come and come soon, accord ing to reports coming in from most sections of the county. Need for rain is not so great for the later ripening berries. The weather forecast for today giyes no hopes to berry growers and farmers who wish for rain to put their grain fields in the growing ' mood. Some reports have come in from the south end indicating that some grains there will not be worth cutting if a good downpour does not come shortly. T RACES HER pi ii j n hrWu ft -i" ,1 If a:-! f It J II f K r- "is J Salem residents whose habit it is to snooze later than 0 a. m., lost part of their beauty sleep Tuesday morning when a gigantic blast set off to shatter the walls of the ruined capitol building, did all of that and in addition broke scores of windows as fragments were hurled for blocks, and caused injur ies to two persons. Top picture was taken at the moment of the blast, showing sections of the walls dropping away; lower picture, some of the results. Cut courtesy Oregon Journal. EXPECT 1EST IN P CASE S Finding of Bill and Other . Developments Raise "G" Men's Hope (Copyright, 1915, by JUgoetated Prs) TACOMA, Wash., June i-(JP) -The trail of George Weyerhaeu ser's $200,000 kidnapers warmed tonight with passing of the first ransom bill in eastern Oregon, and the statement of a justice depart: ment spokesman that the case will "break wide open in 48 hours." The assertion concerning the "break came but a short time after the first ransom bill in the kidnaping came to light, and all the cunning of the Justice depart ment's criminal hunters had been thrown into a search for the sus pect. "This case will break wide open In 48 hours," the spokesman said. "The ransom money is loose now." Je added his belief that "a lo cal gang by that I mean Seattle and Tacoma men was responsi ble." SALT LAKE CITY. June 4.-;Pl -The man In the tan suit and brown hat who bought a ticket Sunday evening in Huntington, Ore., and boarded tram xso n, presumably for Salt Lake City aft er paying for the transportation with a $20 bill listed in the $200, ftflfl ransom nald for 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma, Wash., never reached this city, If the memory of Conductor Divm P. Squires can be relied upon. No. 14 is an eastbound train, with, a Pullman sleeper cutting out at Pocatello for Salt Lake City. Another crew handled" the train as far as Pocatello, and Mr. Squires took over the supervision nf tha Rait Lake section at that point. He recalls three men, ail of them traveling on rauroaa passes, who were on the Salt Lake City sleeper. Babe Is Offered Job at Palatka PALATKA, Fla., June 4.-(ff)-George Herman Ruth still has a chance to realize his managerial ambitions. The following telegram, signed by Jeff Emerson, manager of the Palatka entry la- the north Flori da league, was sent to the Babe this afternoon. "Will you , consider manage ment of Palatka baseball club? lWire best terms., 1 Tigard Minister New State Head Of Lions Clubs THE DALLES, Ore., June 4.-(P)-The Rev. Timothy Watson of Tigard was named new district governor of the Oregon Lions club today and Newport was selected as the 1936 convention city. Watson succeeds Ted R. Gillen- water of Klamath Falls as gover nor. O. F. Tate of Portland was re-elected district secretary. Dep uty district governors, appointed by the governor, will be announ ced later. Oscar D. "Frosty" Olson, past president of the Salem Lions club, was elected president of the dis trict key members' association. Olson holds a master key for hav ing secured 12 new members. Reported Wage Cuts Deplored Alleged wage cutting and hour lengthening by several Salem mer chants since the NRA was held unconstitutional drew fire at last night's meeting of the Salem Trades and Labor council but the matter ended at the discussion point. "We resent that because it's a tendency to pull things back ward," a council spokesman said, "but we didn't do anything about it. There's nothing we could do." Bouisson Out, Goes Begging; Crisis Seen (Copyright. 1935. by -aaoeiated ""1 I v piTjifi Jn 4. A defiant chamber of deputies by two rotes tnria- sivorthrew the young cab inet of Fernand Bouisson and to- nleht both the Teteran Pierre La val and Bouisson refused calls from President Leorun to iornt a new One. France .was thus plunged Into one of its greatest political crises of years. The Bouisson government was smashed when it demanded emer gency powers from the chamber to safeguard the franc. In an hour's conference tonight Lebrun urged Laval, retiring, for eign minister to take oyer tbe helm of state but he said he was in the midst of such Important in- ternational negotiations designed to safeguard France against Ger man rearmament that he felt it his duty to remain In the foreign office. ' - Tben the president turned . to TOMATO HIES TOPIW WEEK Many Coming-in; Thursday Noon is Deadline; More Veal Ideas Given Tomato recipes are coming in to the Round Table this week with marked success. There is still ample time to enter your favorite tomato recipe, however, in the contest and you may win a cash prize. Just copy down the recipe list ing all the Ingredients first, then tell how they are combined and last, how many it serves. Send with your name and address to the food editor of The Statesman before Thursday noon. More veal ideas follow: Jellied Veal I Ibi. vel 1 quart water 1 tatrleapooa relatia fnica of H len 1011 1 tablcape graced parsley 1 cup hipp4 cream alt and pepper to tatte Use bony piece of veal such as cuts from the neck and should ers. Cook slowly until tender in the water. Separate meat from the bones. Put meat through a grinder, using the fine knife. Soften gelatin in 4 cup cold water and add to the hot meat (Turn to page 2, coL 7) Premier Job Bouisson, who firmly refused to make the attempt again. Edouard Herrlot whose cabinet fell several years ago because be insisted upon payment of ' war debts to America, was widely re garded as the president's next choice. The powerful radical socialist party, headed by Herriot, voted to join independent socialists in a resolution calling for a cabinet with a large left majority-and a limited program safeguarding the present regime. . .Heavy police reinforcements were rushed to , the chamber shortly after the deputies voted 214 to 212 against Fernand Bou isson's tour day old "save the franc" ministry on Its demand for sweeping powers to defend the currency. rr . Falling allelse, many deputies believed Lebrun would request Bouisson to resume his power and (Turn to page 2, coL S) Recovery Forces Will Keep . Statistics, Prove Value of Defunct Recovery Act, Roosevelt Indicates Will Enforce Regulations on Federal Work; Fund to Mediate Labor Disputes Win be Asked WASHINGTON, June 4. Apparently determined to have the nation decide on the business-control issues raised by the supreme court. President Roose velt today proposed a fragmen tary, stopgap extension of the NRA. Announcing that an agreement had been won from democratic congressional leaders on the pro posal, the president outlined plans for a code-less, "skeleton organ ization" that would keep business statistics and require that gov ernment contractors live up to minimum wage and maximum hour standards. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized throughout a round of extraordin ary conferences with cabinet, and senate and house leaders that this projected sh dow of the old Blue Eagle machine would not seek to enforce the working conditions or fair trade practices that existed under the code structure abol ished by the supreme court's de cision of Monday before last. Told You So" Figures WiU Be Collected Indicating that the adminEstra-" tlon would seek to prove that conditions under the old NRA were better than would have ex isted without it, Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that one of the duties of the fragmentary NRA would be to list in parallel comparative columns statistics on industrial operations with and without the codes. To news men who jammed every Inch of his office late in the day, Mr. Roosevelt neted that the national labor relations board and subordinate boards for set tling labor disputes had been abolished by the court's decision. Quickly he gave Inferential ap proval to the Wagner labor dis putes bill. Also to meet the problem cre ated by the lapse of 7-A the labor section of the NRA act he called for a $600,000 appro priation to "enable the secretary of labor to conduct additional mediation and conciliation acti vities and thus take over a small portion of the work of the boards which are abolished." Mr. Roosevelt, apparently in cheerful mood, praised all ques tions as to plans for additional (Turn to page 2, col. 2) FORTY-FOOT SB) S BEND, Ore., June 4. -(averag ing out a crevasse-like trench through ice and snow, a rotary snow plow today was making slow progress on its persistent grind to open the McKenzie pass high way over the Cascade mountains to western Oregon. The big rotary which started up the grade more than two weeks ago was boring through packed snow 25 feet deep today with one drift towering some 40 feet above the road on the south wall of thr big highway cut It is the heaviest snow ever measured on the stormy pass. Re ports from Sisters indicated the rotary was about halfway through the cut. A breakdown yesterday halted the work temporarily. Dynamite is being used in an attempt to loosen the moistnre laden pack, but the snow ejuickly settles back into a glacier-like mass, necessitating further use of powder directly -ahead of the plow. ' Woman Injured As Autos Smash T . Mrs. J. L. Mitchell, Salem route two, suffered shock. and bruises as the result of an auto mobile accident involving J. I Mitchell and Kenneth H. Fowler, Turner route one, at High and Mission streets at :45 e'elocH last night. Her Injuries were not believed serious. A minor collision involving At Clark, route three, and 8. Os trach, Los Angeles, at Commer. cial and Mission streets was re ported to police last night. - FOUND T iMIT CI