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TKIIRY HAS : NEW PLAN FOR M AIDING CITIES Issuance of Notes Against 1 Levied but Uncollected Taxes Proposed Would Pay Warrants; Early Report on Capitol Site ' Awaited by Martin ' 'By SHELDON F. SACKETT go successful have a score of Oregon cities been in their bond refunding programs this year, the state treasury department is working oat another program for debt readjustments to present to tha special session of the legisla ture. In the new program, cities and counties would be allowed to issae one-year notes, secured by levied but uncollected taxes, and with these notes could retire out standing warrant indebtedness, much of which bears six per cent interest. It was the treasury department which paved the; way for the re funding program f the last few months by writing acts for the 1935 session which permitted citfes to call Bancroft bonds bear ing! six per cent interest and in their place to issue 10-year re funding bonds at the market. As a result of this act, many cities Salem is the best example have made interest savings ranging from 1 per cent to 2 ?i per cent on outstanding bonds. Another enactment put through the ! legislature by the state treas ury! enabled school districts to is sue general obligation notes, up to one year's maturity, and -with the! proceeds therefrom to take up outstanding warrants. The Sa lem! school board did this, issuing J 100,000 as a general note which was sold fof--"l per cent in terest. Cities and Counties , Expectedo Benefit, , Fom the experience " of the school districts; the'trealury''has worked out its new plan- for counties and cities." Since an ad ditional debt is not created be cause Oregon courts have held ob ligations issued against taxes lev ied j and not collected, are not debts under the constitutional debt' limitation the legislature will be asked to authorize coun ties! and cities to use the privi lege of note issue now possessed alone by the school districts. Im mediate reduction in. interest is expected by the cities and coun ties since notes can be sold to banks at rates comparable to those prevailing on" other short time securities. Whereas warrants have no due date, are frequently issued In small denominations and necessitate considerable handling charge, a city's or a county's notes are bankable paper, eligible for jrediseount. The treasury is making Its plans because it wishes, first, to give Oregon subdivisions the ad vantages of low interest rates now prevailing: second, to obtain In vestment funds for Oregon cities, counties and school districts which are estopped from purchase of warrants, and third, to loosen large - quantities of purchasing power now tied up In the war rants of sub-divlsiois in the state. , , Until copies of the old-age pen sion act, as finally approved by congress, can be studied by Gov ernor Martin, he will not be cer tain whether or not be will pre sent the old-age pension matter to the special session. J"he Oregon act passed in 1935 la sufficiently complete for pensions to persons 70 years or over; funds and ma chinery for distribution are there in provided. No provision is made for j pensions for persons, between 65 and 70 years old. Some state Officials think the $1,000,000 set up for onemployable relief through the counties might be used for these pension payments; others say that -the legislature must declare, as a matter of law, that persons 5 years of age are eligible for pensions before any disbursement can be made. - Governor Stands - On iProtectlag Worker ; s Governor Martin stood pat this week on bis policy of affording state poll c e protection where needed to prevent injury to. lnm- - ben mill worker going back to their Jobs or damage to employ ers' property. However tha Port- land mills did not deem It wise V tTurn to page 11, coL 1) : Chicken Recipes -Invited This Week By Rottnd Table j j . Chicken la the deluxe ph itic dish no natter in what form It is offered. Cold fried chicken, roast chicken sand wiches or chicken salad . . all are delicious If properly . prepared. j f K yoir method of cook lug chicken produce envi able results, send la tbe for inula to the Bound Table this next week and you may win a cash prize. The eon test wfH run until Thursday noon, June 27. " ' "f They'll Carry Important Roles in -Methodist Session Here This Week it llllli i Ipnei left. Bishop Titus Lowe, -resident presiding bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church who will preside at the Oregon Annual Conference when its 83rd session opens here Tues day. Upper right, Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Washington, D. C, secretary of the board f temperance and moral reform, who will speak Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Below, Dr. James E. MilUgan, host pastor, of the First Methodist Knisronal ehtircb here.' jobs eo mm IN TWDDISTR1ETS CCC Quotas Unfilled; Pea Picking Opportunity Fails to Attract VANCOUVER, Wash., June 22-(AP)-The now strange cry of "workmen wanted" was raised to day at CCC headquarters for the Vancouver barracks district of Washington and Oregon. For the first lime since the es tablishment of the civilian conser vation corps l nele Sam is naving difficultv finding volunteers to enroll for. six months' labor In Oregon and Washington camps at $30 per month and room and board. Youne men between 17 and 28 years of age whose families are on the relief rolls are sought. HOOD RIVER, Ore., June 22-(AP)-A call for several hundred (Turn to page 12, col. 6) Fair and Raney Goat Rescuers PORTLAND, June 2 2. -Po lice Officers Fair and Raney to day planted their feet firmly on solid ground and rescued a "sure footed" goat from a steep rail road cut. The goat was stranded several feet down the cliff, unable to clamber back up and in danger of slipping and being banged from Its chain. The chain tightened, but It was from the rescuing pull of the offi cers, who were careiui not 10 wander too close to tbe brink. Loga Three Cents, A minimum price of three cents a pound, paid to the grower, , was announced late -yesterday for all loganberries sold in Oregon under provisions of the Oregon logan berry growers code, now effect ive. The control board, in making its announcement, said, the, price would apply at the customary place of delivery for the grower. A deduction of 75 cents a ton on loganberries was ' authorized by the eanner of ; processor .by the control board the funds thereby received going to the board of Its operation expense. " The price" is . effective , on all growers, Irrespective of whether or not they hare assented to the code, William J. Linfoot, counsel for the control board,.said yester day. He declared that all coopera tive processors' of loganberries, save one, -had assented to the code and by far the majority of growers. " "Reports are out that the un favorable NRA decision has ' in validated the Oregon agricultural adjustment - act," Linfoot said. V ! ;lJ jaAr. f I 1 j ..k... ! - I v i - I f. nberry -JSv V r y If:" Ks3 H CITIZENS IE FflEMOjlET Justice Campbell is Speaker at Unusual Program at Y. Saturday Night Twenty-five Marion county men and women dropped the appella tion, "alien", and graduated to the ranks of citizen at a banquet in their honor at the Salem Y. M. C. A. last night. "You have been passengers on our ship of state; now you are be coming members of the crew," Judge J. U. Campbell of the state supreme court told them. "As al iens you had the same protection as citizens but now you also have the citizens' responsibility." So pleased were the 25 with their new status and the banquet thathey agreed the new citizens' gathering should be made an an nual affair. The Y. M. C. A. citi zenship classes, which they at tended, will reopen to a new class in mid-August, preparing other would-be citizens for the next hearing, to be held In September. Tlje new citizens were wel comed on behalf of Governor Mar tin by his secretary, W. L: Goss lin, and the naturalization serv ice, by Thomas Grlffing, north west examiner. Carle Abrams, chairman of the Y education com mittee, spoke for the Y; Mrs. Fred Steiner for those former citi zens who were regaining their cit izenship status; David L. St. John and Edward Olson for the new citizens who had come from abroad. Brief talks were made by Mrs. C. C. Geer, Salem, D. A. R. regent, and Mrs. Mary L. Fulker son. Marion county school super intendent. Griffing heartily praised Coun ty Clerk U. G. Boyer for the cooperation his department 13 giv ing the naturalization -aervice. Boyer and Deputy Clerk Hugh (Turn to page 12, col. 4) BECKH DECEIVES IIIC1TI OFFICE PORTLAND, Ore., June 2 2-VP) Jonn J. ueckman, cnairman of the Multnomah county democratic central committee, has been nam ed attorney for building and loan association affairs of the state corporation department, it was disclosed today. , The appointment was made a week or more ago, before corpor ation Commissioner Charles H. Carey went south, but did not be come publicly known. until today Only last night Beckman was given a vote of confidence by the Multnomah county, democratic delegation in the state legislature. Beckman had been assailed by a group of central committee workers clamoring to be placed on the state payrolls themselves. He contended ho still wag el igible to the county chairmanship since be is paid from the build ing and loan funds, not by state roncher. Minimum Price Decided Here "This, is not the ease. There, is so connection between;? the - Oregon act and NRA. The State law and the codes thereunder continued In full force and effect and will be enforced.. -v. --: The new code marks the first time the state adjustment act has been r -operative on loganberries. Purchase of the . 6 0 0-ton logan berry pool at Woodburn yester day at three cents a pound by Lib by, : HcNeil and Libby indicated that the largest single purchase of the berries in Oregon was to be under the sew code's provisions. Growers are warned In the for mal statement announcing the new code price that sales on con signment or commission are ille gal if conducted below the mini mum price. Growers are advised to obtain 'a bond from any com mission firm or broker to indem nify them against securing less than three cents a pound for their loganberries. Linfoot said that suitable means had been provided -for strict en . . (Turn to page 12, coL 7) - METHODISTS TO START TUESDAY Over 150 Ministers. Many Laymen Will Come for Annual Sessions Noted Speakers Scheduled; First Church is Host at 83d Session More than ISO ministers, from the pulpits of the Methodist chur ches in Oregon, will be gathered in Salem by Tuesday night for or ganization of .the 83d session of the Oregon annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The visitors will start gathering late Monday, with conference ex aminations slated to begin at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Bishop Titus Lowe will preside over the conference sessions, all of which will be held in the First Methodist church. All committee meetings will be held in Eaton hall on the Willamette university campus, and meeting of the lay conference, which will bring 150 lay delegates to Salem for three days starting Thursday afternoon, will be held at the "Willamette un iversity chapel. Friday the lay men will meet jointly with the ministers with a united session also scheduled for Saturday morn ing. Prominent Speakers Will Be Heard Here Visiting speakers for the con ference will be Dr. Clarence True Wilson of Washington,, D. C, sec retary of the board of temperance and moral reform, who will give an address Wednesday at 7:30 p. m.; Dr. E. D. Kohlstedt, secre tary of the board of home mis sions and church extension whose address is slated for Saturday night; Dr. King D. Beach, pastor First M. E. church, T a c o m a, whose address, "Ways in Which the Laymen Can Help the Preach er", is slated for Friday at 8 p. m., Rev. W. W. Bell, missionary to Lucknow, India, who will speak Thursday at 7:30 p. m.; and Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of Wil lamette university, speaking Thursday at 2:30 p. m. The complete program for the opening day follows: 9 a. m. Conference examina tions at Willamette 'university, Rev. D. Lester Fields, chairman (Turn to page 2, col. 4) "6-WOWIEN" LIKELY IF WASHINGTON, June 22.-(JP)-Although there are no "G-wom-en" in the federal bureau of in vestigation, Director J. Edgar Hoover today said this was a pos sibility if the present field "force of 600 investigators "ever is ex panded to 1500 or 2000 opera tors." As to the ancient axiom that women cannot keep a secret im portant in present operations of the "G-men" the bachelor di rector Insisted "that has nothing to do with it." "We now have a comparatively small, militant force that must move to every part of the coun try in every strata of life on al most " instant notice," Hoover said. "That's why we had to use all men. , So far as integrity and ability are concerned there is not a min ute's doubt that women could qualify as agents. Certain women probably could learn to fire a gun. "But no one would ask a wom an to mix with persons Involved in a typical white slave case or try to subdue some hoodlum in a race track crowd. "Actually," Hoover said, "wom en play an Important part in the solution of every case the bureau has handled. "Most of the 1500 .employes here in Washington are women, and they also serve in the 37 bu reaus in cities as secretaries. and stenographers," he added. EUREKA, CaliL, June 22-(AP) -In a more they said was intend ed to prevent a recurrence of yes terday's bloody lumber strike iignung Here, auuormes toaay placed guards on highways and other entrances into the commun ity. ' v All Itinerant's suspected of be ing radicals were turned back by the guards on orders from Chlsf of Police George Littlefield, who said be feared that unless such action were taken more fighting would break out -'. ..Every effort was being made. Chief Littlefield said,, to rid the community of radicals he claim ed - had flocked here In the last few weeks.'.- . - ' : CHS PLACED ON ROADS TO EUREKA Demo Revolt Ideas Feared (Coprrlght. 193S, by luUtr4 Pnu) ; WASHINGTON, June 22-(AP) -New signs of undercover dissat isfaetlon with several new -deal measures arose today, - leading some congressional chiefs private ly to express fears of a major up rising in democratic ranks unless the session ends soon or different tactics are adopted. Concrete evidence of the dis tent Included were: 1. Fourteen of the 22 senators who signed the petition for action before adjournment on share-the-wealth" taxes were demo -rats, some of whom expressed "Of f-the-record" fears' that the president's advocacy of the taxes might have been only a political move. 2. Disclosure that an actual majorltyof house members had opposed the Wagner labor dis- (Turn to page 12, col. 2) . EARLY TAX ACTION Would Settle Question to Relieve Uncertainty of Business Men WASHINGTON, June 22.-(;P)-To avoid putting business under a cloud of "uncertainty" for the long interim between this and the next session of congress. Senator Robinson, the democratic leader, today advocated enactment of President Roosevelt's new tax-the-rich proposals now, even though it prolonged the session indefin itely. This pronouncement, coming as somewhat of a surprise, was deliv ered to newspapermen after a brief Saturday session in which Senator Long (D-La.) challenged the President to push a bill im mediately to "break up concentra (Turn to page 12, col. 7) DEATH PENALTY IS : ASM SLAYER PEORIA, 111., June 22. -(yP)-State's Attorney E. V. Champion tonight said he would seek quick trial and the death penalty for Gerald Thompson, 25, who con fessed to police the brutal ceme tery slaying of Mildred Hallmark, 19, pretty and popular cafe hos tess. Thompson, arrested last night on suspicion but without any evi dence then that he was implicated in the ravishing and slaying of the young woman last Saturday night, fended all queries at first but finally confessed. Acting Chief of Police Fred Nussbaum said, when he was trapped by a lie detector and his diary. "Yes I did it I'll tell," he sobbed,, detectives said. His diary, they added, record ed 16 other assaults on Peoria girls, all chosen because they would not prosecute for fear of publicity. Thompson was secretly remov ed to Bloomington to be held there until resentment against him here dies down. Police said that during tbe In vestigation into the slaying, Thompson along with other fel low workers of Miss Hallmark's father at the tractor plant, signed a pact vowing vengeance for her death. They said, however, that the other . workers noticed he re frained from participation in of fers of rewards for the slayer's apprehension. : CITED IT T OLTMPIA, Wash., June .-tfP) -Unless the state can promise ad ditional protection for workers Tacoma mill operators will not feel justified in continuing efforts to operate their plants Monday, a group of Tacoma mill men told Governor Clarence D. Martin, here today. ! . Twenty five mill operators, re presenting not only Tacoma but also Seattle, Grays Harbor points and Vancouver, made an Impres sive appeal to tbe governor, point ing out the imperative need for additional protection against the lawlessness which has developed in the lumber strike, particularly in Tacoma since efforts to resume operations at a' number of mills started Friday. . - The governor was told that the issue In Tacoma is not one of un ionism vs. nonunlonism but ' had developed into one of constituted authority vs. 1 lawlessness. - Gov Martin listened gravely to.the"ap peal and the presentation, of sup-, porting evidence but declared he would need a little time to con sider the matter. - He . promised the delegation, however, he would give its appeal Immediate - and very earnest, attention; - E. -J. FROHMAN DIES -PORTLAND, Ore.. June 22.-ff) -Edwin James Frohman, 12, own er of a Portland hat factory and investment company, died here to night from am attack of . pneu monia- - PLEA OF ROBINSON PROTECTION ED IC1 Almost Nationwide Interest : Shown In Purchase of Salem Securities Filing of Stipulation Ends Litigation, and Final ; Transfer Imminent - An exceptionally large number of bids will be receivedby the city council Monday night on the Jl, 1C0, 000 worth of water bonds to be sold, as a result of the filing in federal court yesterday of the stipulation providing for the transfer of the water system here from the Oregon-Washington Wa ter Service company to the City of Salem, city officials believed. In the almost nationwide Interest shown in the issue they saw sale of tbe bonds at a favorably low in terest rate assured. - Numerous telegrams came to Mayor V. E. Kuhn and City At torney Chris J. Kowitz relative to the water bonds and these two of ficials in turn telegraphed notice to prospective bidders that the stipulation, clearing Ahe way for immediate use of the proceeds of the bond sale, had been filed. The city attorney said It doubt less would be found all of the bonds could be sold at an Interest rate averaging less than 4 per cent. Split bids, with low rates on the shorter and higher on the longer term bonds, were antici pated. Selection of Best Bid Lengthy Task Fred Paulus, deputy state trea surer, was expected to attend the special meeting Monday night to assist the aldermen in selecting the most favorable bid. It was ex pected the task would require two hours or more. The condemnation suit which was started against the water com pany more than a year ago ended with filing of the stipulation. The final act will be tbe handing down by Federal Judge James Alger Fee of an Interlocutory decree and judgment, setting forth the terms of purchase of the system by the city. Transfer of the plant includ ing all property and supplies but excluding cash" on hand, deposits (Turn to page 2, col. 1) CITY OF FLORENCE PORTLAND, Ore., June 12.J?) -Citizens of Florence, Ore., and the Siuslaw valley, boasting their greatest period of prosperity . in a decade, are eyeing, the possi bilities of building a seaport at their town.. United States engineers have been petitioned to dredge away a dangerous shoal from the en trance to their river. Already they have obtained from a lighthouse service a promise of a series of day navigation ranges to guide ships into the harbor. Captain Benjamin H. Inman, nephew of the late lumber king, unofficial bar pilot, ex-army flier, and now longshoreman and com munity booster, was in Portland recently conferring with United States engineers, lighthouse offi cials and others. The little 148-foot Bertie M. Hanlon already has made three trips Into Florence this summer, bringing sugar and manufactures from San Francisco for Eugene and the surrounding country, and loading out full cargoes of lum ber. "We have enough lumber lined up to keep the Bertie busy, for the rest of the year, and we can promise Eugene freight rate re ductions of more than $1 a ton on sugar from San Francieco", Captain Inman said. HAS 1 M rs. Waley is F orced to : Trial Despite Her Pleas TACOMA, June 22-(-Sa-faced, red-eyed from weeping, 19-year-old Mrs. Margaret Thulin Waley sat in a cheerless cell in Olympia tonight awaiting Federal Judge E. E. Cushman's decision Monday as to when she must face a Jury and demand acquittal ot kidnaping and conspiring to kid nap George Weyerhaeuser, 9. - Three times In three days she sought, against the efforts of her husband, Harmon M. Waley, t3 admit her guilt and accept the felon's brand" Waley ; accepted when he pleaded guilty yesterday and received a 45-year sentence. And three times In three days Judge Cushman refused to accept her plea, finally entering a not guilty plea for her, on her attor ney's statement thai' she could not be guilty. The attorney, Stephen J. O'Brien, demanded that she go through, the fanfare,. the drama, the hurly burly, publicity, expense and delay of a regulation trial. -' - Today's - procedure placed the girl In the position ot resisting ef PEACE PROPOSAL IS IDE ON EI OF ILL OPENING FiftyfCent Wage Minimum, 40-Hour Week Among Offers of Sawmill Owners; Operator Declare Themselves Willing to. Meet Representatives of Any Group Employes to Negotiate Terms Abe Muir, Unions' Representative, Comments on Plan r.....Li.,. n -1 pi. . . - r-ri a r i i aiui auij t utivcaio Aareement Before ODenina: Return of All Men Who Previously Had Jobs, Assured PORTLAND, Ore., June 22. (AP) After police protec tion had been secured for a mass reopening Monday, Port land sawmill owners tonight offered a peace plan to end a strike involving 2500 lumber workers here. The plan met immediate favorable comment from Abe W. Muir, chief spokesman of the striking Sawmill and Timber Workers' union, an American Federation of Labor affiliate. The plan included a 50 -cent common labor minimum wage, or an increase of five cents per hour with adjustments in the higher brackets, and a promise to deal with plant em ploye committees in bargaining over conditions. j At a meeting tonight the employers drafted the proposal. o terms of which will be posted at mm T VICTIM OF CRASH t Luttrell, Ad Man, Dies as Wing of Plane is Torn Off at Chehatis CHEHALIS, Wash., June 22.-(if)-Benton H. Luttrell, about 40, of Portland, a member of a visit ing flying squadron of the Sport men's Pilots of Oregon, was kill ed shortly before 6 p. m. tonight as bis plane plunged to earth in the northwest part of Centralia. A wing apparently had torn- loose from his ship, witnesses said. His plane hurtled down from about 3,000 feet altitude and bur ied the engine deep in the earth. It landed within 50 feet of a house" on tbe northern end of L street, close to railroad tracks leading from Centralia to Grays Harbor. The body was badly mu tilated. The crash occurred a few min utes before 6 o'clock. Luttrell was one of a party ot pilots and sportsmen who had flown 12 planes here earlfer In the day and landed at the Che halls airport. Late in the after noon he took off by himself, and his plane was reported to have (Turn to page 12, col. 6) Slayer of Mish Asks State Aid For His Appeal PORTLAND, Ore., June 22. (AP) -Joseph' J. Osbourne, form er special policeman of Portland, today. asked the state Ho finance an appeal of his murder convic tion to the supreme court. He was convicted of the fish pond slaying of Simon Mish, re tired furniture dealer. Osbourne's attorneys today fil ed a motion In circuit court ask ing that the state be ordered to stand the $700 expense for secur ing a transcript ot evidence of the trial for use in perfecting appeal. Circuit Jndge James. W. Craw ford set Monday as. time for a hearing on tie motion. forts to prove her innocent She wept when they said she had to stand triaL " But - Judge Cushman persisted in being more interested In seeing justice done than In answering any public clamor for speedy sen tence for the accused girl.- -- The net result -was that Mrs. Waley, who faced tbe prospect of a comparatively light sentence on a guilty plea, now gambles with a Jury on acquittal or conviction and the possibility of a life saa tence under the - Lindbergh . law. Also she must stand trial on the mall extortion indictment which the government dismissed when she agreed to plead guilty. ; Owen. P. Hughes, assistant dis trict attorney, Immediately had that indictment reinstated, f and announced that he will move to have it consolidated with the kid naping and conspiracy Indictment for triaL His e h 1 e f district attorney, 7. Charles Dennis, said Mrs. Waley (Turn of page 12, coL 8) , biiuuuo i.nuuo iu nunc ai their plants Monday morning. The notice: "To our sawmill employes we are resuming operations on the following plan: 40-hour week. 2. 50 cents per hour for com mon labor; adjustments in high brackets. "3. All employes working at the time of shut-down shall be taken back without discrimina- WUU. ' ' "it Willingness on the. parjt ef mo operator 10 oieei wjianj of his employes, or committees thereof, for the purpose of bar gaining for the men they repre- bcul, vuTciius noses, uuuia ur working conditions applying to his plant," The notices will be on display at eight companies' plants. Favorable comment on the em ployers gesture was forthcoming from Abe W. Muir, executive vice president of the Brotherhood ot Carpenters and Joiners, key union man, who said: "For the past48 hours both union representatives and lead ing executive among the employ ers in the Portland area have been doing everything possible to come to terms of settlement that would assure the establishment of standard wage scales both as to operations in Portland and in the Douglas fir industry at large. "The resumption of operation at the earliest possible moment with the assurance that alt men employed at tbe time of the sus pension of operations will be re employed without discriminations goes a long way to promote har mony. "The establishment of commit tees representing the employes and the recognition of these com mittees will assure employes of justice and fair treatment" Prot System - Is Deplored, at ME: Gathering MOSCOW, Idaho, June 22P) The profit motive and competfe Hon in the existing economic sys tem were condemned, in a reso lution passed today by the Pacific northwest Method . Episcopal conference, as making Christian ity "an absurdity; and' unworkable- . . A resolution charging news reels with glorifying war In pic tures of naval . maneuvers and graduation exercises of military and naval academies evoked such sharp debate from the floor It was referred to a special i committee for further consideration. Holding Company 'Death : Sentence9 It Taken from Bill WASHINGTON, June lt-ir-The house commerce committee today by 15 to 7 approved a utili ties control bill shorn of its hold ing company "death sentence and even of taxes on holding company dividends. ' Despite President , Roosevelt's Insistence upon death for "unnec essary holding ; companies, the committee - which had been tied up for months over the controv ersial measure refused to agree to that course. :i The senate already has passed a measure calling tor abolition by 1942 of holding com panies not necessary and not di rectly above operatinsjpower com panies. ,