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w m m & RENTS COLUMN A daily editorial page lea ' tare of The Statesman Is the column written by Frank Kent, noted political obaerv er of The Baltimore Son. y)l : H l a a Am i ? i ..- - - - t n THE WEATHElt f - : Unsettled and mild today -. with showers In moantalns, fair Friday;: Max. Temp. Wed. 76, Min. 50; river 02 : loot, rain, trace; cloudy. - FOUMDJEP 1631 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, June 13, 1935 No. 67 'MiS l l j . H nW ' m m : Kidnap Pair Arraigned in v Tacoma After Flying ' From Salt Lake; Both are Taken to Olympia Discovery of Ransom Bills in B.C. City Leads to New Huntjor Confederates as Mahan Still Free OLYMPIA, Wash.. Jane 12-;p) -Under heaTy guards, Harmon H Waley and his wife, Margaret, Weyerhaeuser kidnaping princi pals who were flown from Salt Lake City to Tacoma today, were rushed here to the . Thurston county Jail tonight for safekeep ing. They arrived at 7:35 p. m., aft er a commissioner hearing at Tacoma at which they pleaded not guilty to mail fraud and kidnap ing charges. The two cars in which depart ment of justice agents accompa nied them from Tacoma, 35 miles northwest of here, arrived in front -of the county courthouse with only a few witnesses in the vicinity. - -Locked in Third Floor Cells They were harried Into t h e building and rushed into the elev ator. Taken first to the base ment, within a few minutes they were brought to the jail on the top floor, three floors above the street. " s . r TACOMA. June - rCSV-Mr. and MrsrHarmon Hl WyTEl8 ed not guilty this afternoon when arraigned on charges of conspir ing to nse the malls to defraud In kidnaping nine-year old George Weyerhaeuser for $200,000. Com missioner H. G. Fitch set ball at $100,000 each on the mail fraud charge. ., -. , - k ; A few .minutes later both plead ed not guilty to violating the Lindbergh kidnap law. No ball wag set on this charge. Immediately after having ent ered pleas and waived hearings, the Waley kissed leach other. She leaned her hfad on his shoul der, and a federal agent walked np and lighted a cigarette- lor her.. '. - ' . Mrs. Waley laughed while awaiting transfer from the court room, but she bid her face behind a lapel of her black and tan coat, and Waley held his white cap in front of bis face when they ran the gauntlet of photographers, preliminary Hearing Not Yet Set No hearing was set and the whole affair was over in less than half an hour after they had alighted from a chartered United Air Line plane at Tacoma field, 12 miles south of here. The plane made the flight from Salt Lake, -(Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) IKTH MCK BY BM FORESEEN Irregularities -in the manner In which indictments Against Sheriff A. C. Burk were drawn by the Marion county J grand jury were intimated yesterday at, the court house when Judge Fred W. Wil son of The Dalles was informed by Burk's counsel that . the de fense would " move to awash the two Indictments against' the sher iff. Burk "was charged Jn the in dictments with being negligent In releasing prisoners, from the coun ty jail here. ,j , Judge Wilson allowed Bark's attorneys until June 17 to file their motions and until Jane 27 for the argument thereon. He will return here that morning to bear a court debate on the motion to quash. . .. "Cv--- Arrest of Sheriff Burk here last week constituted the first time an Incumbent of that office had ever been indicted in Marion county's history, -v . - Attorneys for Burk Inferred that they would ask. for testi mony from witnesses who appear ed before the grand Jury as well as , for. testimony of the jurors themselves when the motion to Quash was argued. Sheriff Bark made no statement yesterday and waived having , the .indictments read to him. - The grand jury is known to be digging into other offioial affairs at the courthouseThis week they 'came before Judge jLt HMcMa ban with- ft presentment of facts and asked the .court what indict ments was returnable, assuming the facts to be true. The court sent the jury back for further de . liberations and ordered the pre : sentment withheld. Small Gray Suit Indicates Mahan . - : Had Companion, is Police Belief , .. Jere Murphy, Butte, Mont., police chief, displays contents of suitcase found in the car abandoned by William Mahan, sought by federal agents for alleged part in Weyerhaeuser kidnaping. The gray suit, shown, too small for Mahan, Is held to indicate he had an accom plice with him. Kote also the printing set with which he may have planned to alter serial numbers of ransom bills. Nimble M ahan Believed Surrounded Triangle of Customs and Federal Men Forms Near Boundary ; Possible Companion May Be Transient Man Held in Dakota BUTTE, Mont., June 12 (AP) The fleet-footed ex-con-, vict, William MahanlkhQ hurdled a backyard fence and possibly an intenratjoiatTOundary, was hunted tonight in a steehjawed triangle formed by customs and "federal agents who vowed the chase never would end uratil the fugitive mem ber of the Weyerhaeuser kidnap gang is jailed. ' -o A REFUSES TO is National Council is Told to Prepare for Trouble as ' Tientsin Invaded (Copyright, 1935, by Aiocited Pres) NANKING, June -(Thursday) -China "cannot" accept Jap an's North China demands, na tional government officials said early today, because they would reduce China to the status of a "Japanese protectorate." The statement The first open defiance of Japan's aggressive military leaders was made short ly after the national government's central political council, China's highest executive body, met in-secret "urgent session" and report edly decided; to reject some, at least, of, the Japanese demands.' While 800 more Japanese fight ing men ' moved into ' Tientsin, seat - of - the Sino-Japanese trou ble, the political council was said to have telegraphed General Hoy " (Turn to Page 2, Celt. 2) Heavy Rain Falls In Lyons District LYONS, June 12. Lyons And vicinity are welcoming a much needed rain today. The heaviest rainfall for several weeks began 'early this morning. . Crops and gardens were badly In need of th moisture. MEET J1P DEIf Oregon; California Leading Nation ihlSfore 5a Gam By WALTER WARREN V SAN FRANCISCO. June,12-) -Department store, trade is "hit ting the high spots' fn the far west. The Pacific slope led the na tion In Us Increase Jn sales in May, for the second month. , Dollar value of sales -climbed 10 per cent over the level of May, 1934, the federal reserve bank of San Francisco disclosed today af ter making a preliminary survey covering 90 large western stores. .This gain topped all others in the country by a substantial mar gin, the next largest being a 5 per cent rise In the Minneapolis reserve district. On the whole, United States department- store sales were 1 per cent below May, 1934. - ; ' - Gains were best In Oregon and California, . where farm . incomes are np. Washington had a relapse from the high April levels, largely on . account of the Inauguration May 1 of a 2 per cent sales tax. April sales were 25 to nearly f per cent higher than a year pre by Agents A flurry of excitement prompt ed by the detention at Mobndge, S. D., of a transient removed from a freight train subsided somewhat when Werner Hanoi, fledejal agent, removed the man xf Aber deen, S. D., and said he was not Mahan. The suspect, " however, was held for investigation. The insistence of Butte investi gators, that Mahan had compan ions when here led to speculation as to whether the South Dakota prisoner might not be such a com panion. The interesting information that Mahan won foot races in his childhood was revealed today by William Mahon of Great Falls, Mont. This explained why Mahan easily outdistanced Detective J. E. Mooney in a race through Butte backyards after the two met and recognized each other on a street early Sunday morning. Mahon, who knew1 Mahan as William Dalnard, son of a Duluth, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Efforts to Halt 'AAA Enforcement ix In StateDenieQ PORTLAND, Ore., June 12. -iff) snorts to temporarily halt en forcement-ot the Oregon Agricul tural Adjustment act failed today which Circuit Judge Hall S. Ltisk ruled against two restaurant op erators. . Judge Lusk ruled that Horace Crouch and. Clarence Gray failed to show they suffered any injury irom eniorcement or the act. They contended the cost of ag rlcnltural .products was Increased by' the act which they asked be temporarily enjoined pending de cision on a permanent injunction. vious, so the Washington aver age for two months vas about in line with other western areas. The lumber workers' strike appeared only a minor Influence in retail sales of the state.'. Ot the 12 reserve districts. there were gains in 4 and decUnes in , the Chicago and 'Richmond districts holding even with May, last year. ' Besides gains in San Francisco and Minneapolis dis tricts, Atlanta was up 2 per cent and Dallas 1 per cent. Recessions were: Cleveland and St. Louis 8 per cent, Kansas City 7, New Tork and Philadelphia 4 and, Boston 2 per cent. , , - . . -Three out of 4 western stores covered in the ' report showed gains; the actual. count being . gains to. 2 2 declines. California and Arizona gained 11.5 per cent, and the Pacific northwest was np 2.4 per cent;., - ( Portland topped the larger Ci ties, where results were somewhat mixed, ranging, from. large gains to moderate recessions. . CLIPPER SOARS tOWAilD HAWAII AT GOOD SPEED Reported 1095 Miles From Alameda at Midnight Flying at 6600 One-Stop Flight to Midway Island Armed as Test; Storm Invited ALAMEDA, Calif.. June 13.-(Thursday)-P)-Captain Edwin Mnslck of the Pan American clip per plane flying to Honolulu re ported at midnight the plane was 1095 miles out and flying at an altitude of 6,600 feet. -j There was a 30 mile headwind, with the weather fair and temper ature S3 degrees, ceiling and visi bility were unlimited although solid clouds at 5000 feet made the sea Invisible. ALAMEDA, Calif., June 12.-(P) A one-ston flirht to lonelv Mid way island, near 4000 miles out in the Pacific, wi.s started by Fan American Airways' clipper plane tod a v After It had waited two days for a little stormy weather to appear along the first leg oi the route.- Thn hisr nhln leaned off the choppy waters of San Francisco bay at 2:59 p. m. Pacific stand ard time, requiring only 25 sec onds to get into the air with a heavy load of gasoline and a crew of six men. She was 38 miles out at 3:30 p. m. Captain E. C. Muslck, in charge of the big ship, made no estimate as to the time she would need" to reach Honolulu, 2400 miles away, and said the flight would be de voted to technical matters in pre paration for establishment or tne projected trans-Pacific commer cial service. Last Anrll the clipper flew from here to Honolulu in a little more than 17 hours. She returned with in a week but required more than 20 hours for the eastward crossing because of stormy con ditions. This time, however, she actual ly Invited stormy weather. She was ready for the takeoff Mon day, but the flight was postponed because conditions were describ ed as "too good." It was explained the crew desired at least 300 miles of rain or heavy clouds. The weather forecast this time nromised varying conditions be tween here and Honolulu. Captain Mustek said the clipper probably would remain in Hono lulu two days before undertaking the 1323 mile water gap between there and Midway island. Eight Hurt In Omaha s Strike Riot OMAHA, June 12 -W)- At tempts by police to disperse a crowd of 1000 in South Omaha tonight after missiles were hurl ed at street cars resulted in in jury to eight persons. Three of the injured were struck by buck shot. Three policemen were hurt and 16 persons were arrested.. The crowd was composed large ly of sympathizers with striking organized employes of the Street Railway company the police said. An 11-year-old boy, John Matut weiicz, was wounded la the legs by buckshot.. Ralph Elring and Leo Blga also were struck by buekshot. The bullet victims were in hospitals. John Matukewies's brother, Frank, 9, was hurt slightly In fleeing from the scene. James Rodney Taylor, six months old, was overcome by tear gas and his mother and grand mother were slightly affected. The three Injured police offi cers remained on duty. The trouble began, the police said, when a crowd started ston ing trams in the packing house district. OAKLAND, CaL June 12-(fl-After dropping the first game, 7-4, the Oaks -came back In the second of a double header to night and defeated Hollywood, 4-2.. t Second night game seven In nings: .. Hollywood L. 2 T 0 Oakland 1. 4 7 2 Hebert and Kerr; " Haid and Eaimondi. v SACRAMENTO, June 12-(aV Second night game (seven in nings): Seattle I :! I ' 0 Sacramento 0 B 1 v Daglla and Bottarial; Hartwig and Salkeld. LOS ANGELES, June 12-P)-Second game - 7 Innings): ' Portland . ;, ;, 10 11 0 Los Angeles 2 " 6 1 Schuli and - Doerr;. Kimball, Gabler, Harris and GoebeL . Late Sports World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) The Far East situation: Nanking Sino-Japanese rela tions tense as national . govern ment rejects sweeping Japanese ultimatum, expressing fear ot re duction to "protectorate" status. ; London Pelping dispatches say China .warned by Japan against seeking held from world powers: . hostilities feared -after midnight deadline. Washington U. S. keeps offi cial silence, but state department watches situation. Domestic : ' Tacoma Two Weyerhaeuser kidnap prisoners plead not guilty to Lindbergh law and mail fraud charges after being whisked by airplane from Salt - Lake City; G-men continue hunt for William Mahan. . Washington Huey Long fili busters against NRA 'extension bill as weary senate waits to trap him. Washington Administration heads prod balky house for ac tion on bill to abolish utility hold ing companies. Alameda, Calif. Clipper plane off on one stop flight to Midway island over 4000 miles of Pacific ocean. Washington Postmaster Gen eral Farley recommends 25 per cent cut in foreign air mail rates of Pan-American Airways, alleges past favoritism. Biloxl, Miss. Governor John ston of South Carolina opens fight to revive NRA at annual gover nors' conference. Washington Roosevelt plans new special' message to spur con gress, v .; Foreign rv- - Bqsnos Aires Chaco war bel ligerents' capitals celebrate "cease firing" order ending three -year fight Friday. - Mexico, D. F. Strong criticism of conditions in Mexico by former President Calles precipitates po tential political crisis. London Indicative five-year building program for proposed new German fleet will be drawn up in Anglo-American parley. Athens Three Greek arch bishops arrested In religions re volt. 3 P.E. 0. College and Welfare Hours, Formal Dinner on Day's Convention Program The state convention of the P. E. O. Sisterhood will present three new -chapters with charters this morning and in the afternoon will conduct a model meeting with Chapter A, Portland, exem plifying the work and Mrs. Ethel Dutton presiding. There will he a Cottey College hour and a welfare and trust fund hour. A formal dinner at the Ma rion hotel tonight will conclude the day's activities. Business ses sions are in Waller hall. There were 120 delegates reg istered at the Marion yesterday. The convention closes tomorrow with election of officers and In stallation ceremonies in the after noon. Today's calendar Is as follows: (Turn to Page 2, Col. C) Election of three governors ' of the Oregon state bar from each of the three congressional dis tricts, was called yesterday by Ar thur Benson, clerk of the state supreme court, . The election will be held under an act ot the 1935 legislature re organizing the State Bar associa tion. Nominations will close1 Wednes day, July 10, and ballots will be mailed to attorneys 10 days later. The voting will, close .Thursday, August 15. John Guy Wilson, secretary of the State Bar association, and Al lan Carson of Salem have been selected as assistants to constitute an election and canvassing board. ' Active members ot the bar will be required to pay a fee of $3 for the remainder of the current year while Inactive members shall pay a fee of 12. Bicycle Rider is Awarded Damages A verdict ot $500 was return ed In favor of Peter H. Anderson against Earl Woods by a circuit court trial jury . last night after deliberating on the case since 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. An derson ' claimed - serious injuries to his right arm as the result of an accident early this year when an auto Woods was driving, struck Anderson who was riding is. bi cycle to church. Nell Ue arm ire was foreman of the jury. ; Judge L. H. McMahan presided: at the trial which took one and one-halt days in court - . .. ELECTION OF BAH eOHIS CALLED FILIBUSTER! SHI Long Pale but Voice Strong as He Continues Battle - for Job Prerogative Senate Balks Move for Rest; U.S. Chamber to Revise, New NRA Status WASHINGTON, June -Huey Long g.ave np his fili buster oh the JTRA resolution In the senate today after 154 h ours of continuous talking, but Senator Schall (R-Minn), immediately took up the fight for him. By NATHAN ROBERTSON WASHINGTON. June 13-(Thursday)- Pushing toward his sixteenth straight hour of talking. Senator Long (D-La) continued to grip the senate at 3 a.m., eastern standard time to night in an almost-unprecedented filibuster that blocked a vote on the NRA extension resolution. Growing noticeably more pale, but with his voice still strong. Long threatened to hold until noon or later. He had left the sen ate floor only once for a brief period in more than 15 hours. WASHINGTON, June 1Z-JP)-In an angry mood, the senate stayed In session late tonight, for the first time this year, in a desperate effort to break a one man filibuster conducted by the almost tireless Huey Long against the resolution extending NRA. Senate leaders, worried over the approaching expiration of the recovery law Sunday night, clamped down the strictest rules possible to break the filibuster, refusing even to let Long call a quorum. """ After more than seven hours of .speaking, Long suggested a re cess, but Senator Pittman (D Nev) in the chair, ruled he would lose the floor. If he made such a motion. As he noted the hands of the senate clock touch nine, Long re marked: " "Well be here probably at 9 o'clock in the morning."- WASHINGTON, June ll.-flV A Senator Long filibuster . put (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) McMINNVILLE, Ore., June 12. -Pf-The Oregon Btate grange to day overwhelmingly approved the action ot its executive committee In demanding that Governor Mar tin pardon Walter E. Baer, 37, Portland civil engineer facing de portation. A stormy debate in which some declared the grange should take not part In such actions preceded the vote which upheld Grange- master Ray W. Gill who was sup ported in his stand by State Sena tor -Peter Zimmerman. Governor Martin twice has re fused tr give Baer a full pardon from ', prison' sentences he has served as "required. 1 The grange adopted memorials urging revaluation of real prop erty . In Oregon and seeking a federal Investigation of corpora tions manufacturing farm machin ery. . '. - -. After several ballots, Lebanon was chosen as the site for the 63d grange convention to be held next year. Morton Tompkins read the leg islative committee's report which assailed Governor Martin' for his statement last February that the grange executive committee should "return to their plows.' PiDDN FOB BIER IS CBK DEMI State to Seek Federal Aid For I nstiiutional Buildings Federal grants of $111,000 for construction ot new . state build ings, other than a. state capitol, will be sought from the ' public works administration, the state board of control decided yester day..; ': . . l- This action was taken upon re ceipt of a letter from C. C. Hock ley, Oregon engineer for the pub lic works administration, that he would recommend the grants. ., The proposed grants would in clude 135,250 for construction operations at the western Oregon state tubercQldsls hospital, 31, 6 8 0 for a dormitory at the state blind school and $45,000 tor a new building at the Oregon state hospital here. - The 1935 legislature appropri ated Approximated $200,000" for construction operations at these institutions. fr s ; .m?, " Applications for grants will be based on 45 per cent of the state appropriations. . - The board set the deadline tor tiling requisitions for equipment to replace that destroyed la the ROIKBI Mil 1Y Llf Troopers and Deputies Haul Pickets From Bridal Veil to Within 10 Miles of Portland, Leave Them to Walk Rest of Way; Autos Sent From Labor Temple; Strike . Leader threatens Mass Action "We're Going to Fight," Shouts Union Secretary When Report FrOm Mill Received; Says 7000 Men Ready for Picket Lines but Nothing Done at Late Hour; Arrested Men Sue Officers PORTLAND, Ore., June 12 (AP) State police and coun ty officers tonight dispersed all pickets at the Bridal Veil lumber plant about 30 miles east of here, hauling them -to within 10 miles of Portland and releasing them. County off icers had arrested 237 pickets, but with the arrival of the state officers no more arrests were made. Union headquarters at Portland, declaring the arrests were illegal, announced more pickets were being dispatched to the scene. Automobiles were sent from the labor temple to pick up the pickets who were left stranded 10 miles from town. Frank Johnson, executive secretary of the Portland Sawmill and Timber Workers' union, who declared he was "going to take a crowd" to Bridal Veil where pickets were O being evicted, apparently decided IB FILE C1PLWS Oregon Breeders Claim They are Barred From Races at Portland Track Members of the Oregon Grey hound Breeders- association yes terday had achieved their first objective in their fight to get Oregon raised dogs in the Port land races when Chairman Mc Fadden of the Oregon racing commission announced that he would summon the commission to meet Friday in Portland to hear the complaints of the Oregon breeders. " The special meeting ot the commission grew out of a confer ence held here this week with Governor Charles H. Martin when Dr.- and Mrs. R. H. Kreutzer ot Portland, representing the ' own ers of 400 Oregon raised grey hounds, vigorously protested to the executive the alleged ban ning of Oregon bred dogs .from the races in Portland. Because the managers of the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Dr. Utter Named Member of State Board of Paroles Dr. Floyd Utter of Salem, pres ident of the Marion County Dem ocratic club,- was named yester day by Governor Charlea H. Mar tin to serve as a. member ot the state parole board. He -succeeds C F. Wright of Portland. :.Dr. J. Vernon Horne, Portland, was appointed a members ot : the state board" of examiners In op tometry to succeed Dr. H. Car penter Staples, also ot Portland.. Letha Humphrey, Portland, was reappointed a member of the "state board" for the examination and registration ot nurses. Mrs. Gertrude Laube-WIUiams, Eugene, was. appointed, a member of this board to fucceed Lillian Pfenninger. V ,J recent capitol fire at 10:30 a.m. next Monday... The cost ot this equipment is being paid out of the state restoration fund. Officials declared that after Monday, all requisitions for new equipment ' would have to pass through the board Of control In stead of the state 'purchasing agent, f - . Fire fighting equipment,' ag gregating a cost of S5760. tor the five state institutions located di rectly east of -Salem, was author ized. Close Check. on State Autos Ordered Closer supervision of state-owned and state-operated - moor ve hicles was approved. It was re ported ' that - the driver : of one state - operated automobile had filed a bill covering 1400 miles ot transportation without giving any details of kU.,tr&fc;;t-u?.;N:.:i k' Secretary of State "Snell said this practice was not good busi ness and should hot be tolerated by the board. . . to survey the bituation before or dering any mass action. At the Labor temple It was stated he was out ot town and that the stream ot pickets being dispatched to Bridal Yell was steady but hot noticeably increas ed. .'' PORTLAND, Ore.. June lt-P) -Frank Johnson, Portland lum- ber strike leader, tonight declar ed he would personally lead thousands of men to the Bridal'" Veil Lumber company from where state and county officers reported ly were driving 150 pickets. ' We're going to fight," shouted Johnson, executive secretary of the Portland Sawmill and. Timber Workers' union. 'I'm going back there and I'm going to take a crowd with me. . We've conducted our picketing according to our constitutional right and according to state law and according to decency. Claims Pickets Hare Rented Space Nea Mill "I'm going to stand on that right. We've got ground rented at Bridal Veil and we're going to stay there.' Governor Martin dispatched Su perintendent of State Police Charles Pray and 40 .deputies to the scene with orders to make no arrests, but "if you can't disperse the mobs, use your own Judg ment." Johnson said be had 8000 men, of whom could be under call with in 20 minutes. Bridal Veil is about 30 miles east of Portland on the Columbia river highway. PORTLAND, Ore.. June M.-GFi -Sheriff Martin T. Pratt of If H- nomah county and State Police Superintendent Charjes P. Pray left tonight for the Bridal .Veil I -lumber plant where '237 to ear had -been arrested as fast as they be-" ' gan' picketing. ; ' " v Right to Peaceful Picketing Asserted . Asserting their right to peace-'-ful picketing, ; union strategists kept filling the breeches with hew pickets as - fast as arrests 'were- -made, and declared test suits would be Instituted. ; ; Damage - suits - asking 2S,000 damages each, were filed late to-1 day by two of the arrestedTijien, . (Turn ,to Page 2, CoL,.'). v 10PEDS SENT TO ! BRIDAL Kill . "We might as well have a show-, down now as at any time". Gover nor Martin declared late yesterday afternoon after he had ordered ' state troopers to Bridal Veil to assist Sheriff Pratt of Multno mah county In handling the strike Bituation there. v- v . i "If : the , situation warrants I will not, hesitate to recall the Ore gon National Guard from Camp -Lewis for strike duty, Governor Martin continued. . - Governor Martin ordered the state: troopers, to Bridal Veil fol--lowing receipt of Information that pickets were cutting power wires and had caused other damage. Earlier in the day the executive ordered Brigadier-General Rilea, , now at Camp Lewis, to turn over , the drill room Of the- Multnomah county armory to : Sheriff Pratt for housing pickets and other per sons arrested In the strike sone. -! Tenstate troopers- left Salerno: at 3:39 p.' m. yesterday for Bridal -Veil in command Of Captain W. H. McCIain of the Salem "district. Other troopers were to be picked. v up In Portland. ' -.: . ' ; Y
