STATE PUSHES WALEY ACT1DH Weyerhaeuser is Bashful as Testifies; Federal Officer .-' Principal Witness (Continued from Page 1) coding sentence, will be his wife's only witness, Dore said. , Today's f witnesses, - following each other in quick succession aft er an opening statement by Assist ant U. S. Attorney Owen P. Hnghe on. what the government would attempt to prove, included: - H. C. McDonald, cashier of. the First National bank, Seattle, who .testified, how, be and bank em ployes prepared $200,000 in cur rency for Weyerhaeuser to he could buy back his son. . Charles Ingraham. Weyerhaeu ser'a timber company business associate who testified to repre senting the family in getting the money ready and of delivering it to Weyerhaeuser in Seattle dur ing one unsuccessful and one suc cessful attempt to make payment J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., who testified how he followed ransom demands in the "egoist" egoist" letters and several telephone con versations and finally left the money, in the automobile of his brother-in-law, P. Rodman Tit comb on a lonely road half way between here and Seattle the night of May 30. He said he saw someone drive away with it and on June 1 his son was liberated. GRIFFITH PLEDGES ran Oil RELIEF (Continued from Page 1) progress limitation, and that Ad ministrator Hopkins had stated plainly that should one project east more per man-year than an other, it would Averaged down by otherjirojects of leas expensive nature so all wonld come within the total aDDronriation available for -the state. Dana . quoted Hopkins as Hav ing said, "I want to see prosper ity and normal employment re stored to this country. I want to look back; at the work done bow as contribution to the tMocs that are xotag to afford a way for people to make a irvtna- in -the great west" rrojecta Caa Be Fitted TO Needs of Workers And he added, W can adjust our projects rn the west -so that the average cost will tome out all i Administrator Griffith today expressed sympathy with -projects suggested Uy Governor.. Martin's state research and development Iprocram. - Mr. Dana's statement was view ed here 1-jt nigh, as assurance that the state board of control should not regard Secretary Ickes proffer of 45 per cent of the capi tol's costs as one which would bind the sta e to use only relief labor-and to limit annual expen ditures per man to 11140, t Governor Martin expressed the 'fear Monday that 3000 men would 'be needed to -work on the capltol under the government's work pro gress administration, should Ore gon use the federal grant, !. The board of control will meet 'at 10 o'clock this morning to give further consideration to the .problem of financing the new statehouse. State Treasurer Hol inan is expected to su' mit a plan for financing the structure from the general fund without the Is suance of bonds. Newberg's Chief Object of Search "VANCOUVER, Wash., July 9.-(-With the mysterious disap pearance of C. N. Devine, former chief of police of Newberg, Ore., still unsolved, P. Beal of New berg was here today to organize a search. Devine, living on a small farm in the nigged Cape Horn 'country of Skamania county, dis appeared June 19. BERRY PEAK REACHED ; OREGON CITY, July 9.-JP) .The peak of the Clackamas coun ty berry harvest will be reached by the middle of the week, grow ers and shippers declared today. -Week-end rains brought out large quantities of top quality berries. GRAND Today "Spring Tonic - with Lew Ayres. ' Saturday Ralph Bellamy in Air Hawks." and Louis- Camera fight pictures. ELSLNORE Today - "No More Ladies' starring Joan Crawford. Friday Kay: Francis in -Stranded'. ." .CAPITOL Today Double bill. Gary ; Cooper fn "The Virginian" and, Barbara Stanwyck in "The Secret Bride." " Thursday Double bill. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" with ; Karloft and Lugosi. - Also Skeet Gallagher in . -In tho Money". ' STATE- . - Thursday "Grand Old ' Girl'! with May Robson. Thursday "Woman In the Dark" with Fay Wray. Saturday To be announced later. HOLLYWOOD Today - Ann Harding In "Biography of a Bach- - alnr Girl" Friday Double bill. Robert 'Armstrong in "The Mya- : tery Man", and Tim Mc- Coy tn "Tho Revenge RI- der". , . - The Call Board On School Staff -. - i A t j V j Hay L. Smith has been made a fall-time professor at Willam ette University College of Law, after serving as part-time in structor for 19 years. He holds degrees from Willamette and Yale. He has practiced in Salem since 1916, during which time he served as city at torney for a Bomber of years. C. M. Ionian has also been named a full-time instructor. EIM RIGHT SITED BV IUEI (Continued from Page 1) of the fascist militia, reliable re ports said. The new divisions will he add ed to four regular army divisions and four blackshlrt divisions al ready destined for East African service. It was learned from authorita tive circles that a big contingent ox specialists from the military class of 1912 has 1een told to re port to inty July 30. Early this tufflmer Mussolini, assuring the senate Italy could place between -860.O09 And 900, 090 men in the field on short no tice, referred to this class as a reserve which would "be held pend ing Ethiopian and European rto velopments. LONDON. July 9. - (-WhUe .predictions of an early war be tween Italy and Ethiopia echoed through Europe, weary British foreign office officials today be gan conferences wit J. A. C. Ave nol. League of Nations secretary- general. In another eleventh hoar survey of the menacing dispute. Prospects for peace dwindled and press predictions of imminent military developments increased with new from Schevenfngen, The Netherlands, that the Italo Ethiopian conciliation commission had suspended its sessions "in definitely." Kerne Says League Commission Extinct Official Quarters at Rome, tak ing the view U the commission was dead, said Italy would op pose appointment of the fifth neutral conciliator provided for in the league council's instruc tions erecting the commission. Belief that King George was trying to avert the seemingly inevitable war was expressed here after Sir Samuel Hoare. foreign secretary, cafled at Buckingham Palace for half an hour. Governor Martin yesterday gave notice to Mrs. Cora Thomp son, secretary and business man ager of the battleship Oregon, tbat revised budgets would be placed in operation August 1, un less she demanded a hearing. The action by the government follow ed a report by D. O. Hood, budget director, that stated that flagrant overspending was going on in con nection with the ship. "It is obvious," Hood said, "that this commission has at tempted to take advantage of a possible loophole in the appro priation act for the current bien nium, in order actually to spend more money than the ways and means legislative committee in tended when making the appro priation. "From our observation the money already expended and that proposed to be- expended is great ly in excess of actual necessary requirements." Hood's letter showed that two persons are em ployed regularly on the battleship with extra help during five months of the year. "I have made two visits to the battleship and my assistant has made several," Hood's letter con tinued. "I have never found more than one man on duty at the ship and cannot understand why so much personnel is required. "The -Veterans of Foreign Wars maintain a post on the ship but I have been unable to find that any rent is paid for the use of these quarter." Liquor Setup and State Police Are Question Topics " " . Oregon'a liquor control system and her organization of state po lice uniformly attract more ques tions by citizens of other states than any other phases of - state government, , Salem Klwanians were told yesterday, first by Glenn Holme. lieutenant gover nor ot this district, who repre sented the area at the San An tonio convention, and by Rodney Keatlg, oil Interest representative, who tor the past three and one half months has been at Sacra mento, Cat . Holmes said he found no state on his trip which waa handling the liquor situation as well as I Oregon. MARTIN CUTS BUDGE FOB U.S.S. OREGON F.R. B IKE TO PASS PiG Byrns Hopes for Windup by August 15? Long Parley Held, White House , , (Continued from Page 1) and alleged practices roundly condemned from congressional floors and a committee witness stand. ' ; , "'' ' ? .W Sandwiched into the more spec tacular floor fights was action on the administration's tax program. Thft house wavs and means com mittee decided to: limit its cur rent . hearings, and tacitly, the legislation itself, to the tax fields mapped by President Roosevelt new or increased levies on Inheri tances, gifts, corporations and big personal incomes. Taking the stand in the open ing round of the house rules committee investigation ot lobby ing on the utility bill. Represen tative Brewster (R.-Me.) charged that Thomas Corcoran, an RFC attorney, told him work on the Passamaquoddy tidal power 's pro ject would be stopped unless Brewster voted with the admini stration on the utility bills. The project Is In Brewster a state. Corcoran countered with an entirely different story of what transpired to which he added an assertion that BrewBter indicated he would "duck" voting on the bin. Brewster Calls Corcoran "Liar" Brewster interrupted to shout: "You're a liar." The utility bill itself passed by the house without the hold ing company abolishment feature waa aent by the' senate to con ference with the house. The sen ate had passed It previously with the abolition provision retained. Although the hill went to con ference, there remained the ques tion of deciding what instructions should be given the senate's con ferees. Senator Dieterich (D.-HL) demanded that they be told "not to Insist on mandatory aboli tion. A rote on that demand will come by tomorrow afternoon. A second of the administra tion's utility plans broadening the power of the Tennessee valley a u t h o r 1 ty was condemned in house debate. Representative Short (D-Mo) said the TVA was using "black jack methods'' and that the legislation was "frivol ous, false, flimsy and fraudulent. Representative Maverick fD-Tex) Insisted TVA was benefitting "all the American peopre." Other developments during the day included: Coincidental with criticism by Premier Stanley Baldwin ot Eng land of lavi&h outlays for public works and of President Roose velt's recovery program, Mr. Roos evelt told a group of PWA. offi cials that- "these projects will repay the money spent many times over because they have increased the capital assets of the nation." Representative Dies ( D - Tex ) accused Immigration Commis sioner D. W. McCormlck with "flooding the country with mis leading propaganda'' against Dies' bill to deport all of the six to sev en million aliens in the country who enlisted illegally or who have been refused naturalization. WASHINGTON, July 9:-m-3. Edgar Hoover, chief of the "G- men" has entered the front rank of capital phrase-makers with a bang. Justice department associates who read a manuscript on Hoo ver's address today before the In ternational association of Police Chiefs at Atlantic City, N. J., com pared his language with the explo sive vocabularies of Hugh S. John son, Secretary Ickes, Harry L. Hopkins. Senator Long (D-La) and others noted for sizzling words. Some Hoover definitions: Counsel of criminals "Shyster lawyers," "legal vermin," "filthy parasites of crime," "crooked at torneys,'' and "attorneys : crim inal." ' Parole system "National scan- dal." - Parole advocates "Sob sis ters," "intruders," "fuss-budget busy bodies" and "convict lovers." Kidnaper "Foul body snatch- er" and "fiend." Criminal "Human rat" and "Jackal." Special agent "So called Q men." Victims of "G-men": "Tomb stone names." Lenient Judges "Sob ' sister Judges.' . - r - Political vote seeking through paroles "Ballots sp awaked in prison cells and the support of the gutter scum." : Automatic parole sentence "Monumental fake." . il Newspaper reporters "Hard boiled." Can't Resist Her Fireworks; Jailed ALBANY, Ore., June Mrs. Nellie McFeran was consign ed to the Linn county Jail yester day to serve a 30-day deferred dis orderly conduct sentence because she broke her parole by firing ureeracaers. ; Mrs. McFeron, after being warned by citv notice, waa arrests ed for allegedly persisting In pro longing her Fourth of July cele bration, contrary to city ordin ance, by shooting fireworks with in the city's tire limits. v CAR KILLS BOY, . S ALBANY. Ore., July George Frit, three, darted sud denly to death in front ot an au tomobile driven by W. L Winkler of Sweet Home at Lebanon last night. The boy had been standing by the roadside with his sister and father. fr-IH S CHIEF MS SI22UN6 "VOCtB" 1-Hit Pitching S a l em All - . Team -!Kes . Behind one-hit pitching the Sa lem All-Star softball team defeat ed the SHverton All-Stars 7 to S last night. A preliminary gam between. Hogg Bros, and the Sli ver Falls Timber team was call ed, off after failure to. break a 5 to S deadlock in two.: extra in nings. , - ' Irven.' Bahlburg and. Henry Singer, . pitchers 'for the ' Salem softball luminaries.: gave u p only one hit between them.' That hit came la the first Inning off bahl burg and resulted in a run when Tom Drynan dropped John's fly to left field, Tnt Slherton team scored twice in the. third on four walks and an error, after which Henry Singer replaced Bahlburg and the SHverton Stars were held scoreless. An error and two singles load ed the bases with Salem players in the fourth, setting the stage for Lauderback's flukey r three bagger which brought In ' three runs to tie the score. Lauderback GHESE REFUGEES MEtiEDBYFI (Continued from Page 1) of the city. The flames, though largely kept under control by the water separating buildings, burn ed to death many persons trap ped in buildings by the waters. Food was becoming scarce, and prices for the meager implies soared. All manner of animal life was destroyed. Dead cows, chick ens, pigs, work animals such as water buffaloes the creatures upon which, the Chinese farmer depends for his life -floated by on the flood waters. Famine Certain to Fallow, See With crops, work animals and farm homes wiped out by the wa ter extending as far .as the eye could see from the tallest build- tea still standing tn Chaagteh, famine was sure to follow In the wake of the floods. The' extent of the flood, which seemed certain to reduce western Hunan province to beggary, was revealed in communications from Sheachow (sometimes called Yu-anling-) 200 mile southwest ot here and further up the Yuan rirer. The country thereabout la an unbroken lake, the advices said, something hitherto unknown in that region. A gale has been blowing over Shenchow and the countryside for the last 4 8 hours, whipping the waters into currents and waves which add to the dam age. No estimate of the dead at Shenchow, where many residences have been carried away or shat tered by . wind and waves, has been made. Shenchow Walls May Give Way A small portion of Shenchow within the city walls remains, like Changteh, the only haven of safety in the entire area, the ad vices continued, with no certain ty as to how long the walls will stand. As the waters of the Yuan rir er rose, Shenchow victims clam bered atop dikes most of which later collapsed, carrying those up onrthem to death. Many fortunate enough to find parts of the dikes which stood against the water were blown into the torrents by the roaring winds. - Although the waters already have reached levels . heretofore unknown in Shenchow, they are continuing to rise," the dispatches received here said. :. 1 Idaho Trying to Put Tax on Cars Sent, Caravans STATEHOUSE, Boise, July t.-0?)-A 16-cylinder legislative Jug gernaut crushed all opposition in both houses of the Idaho law making body today and tonight seemingly was headed for ad journment within 24 hours. Called together specifically to pass highway legislation which would permit the state to use fed eral allocations in municipalities and to regulate motor caravan ing, the second day ot the second extraordinary session of the 23d legislature wenj. far In accom plishing its functions under pro visions of Governor Ross' procla mation. The principal stumbling block appeared in the house when that body declined to suspend the rules to pass a measure which would Impose a SK tax on each unit in automobile caravans. The bill was placed on general orders for final passage tomorrow. TIWAlkmeOmsi'toeater r lKlO&isVlYOoU TODAY AND THURSDAY CbvrL HARDING Ka6erch - MONTGOMERY )FA 7 Lcne aDwaaorvtAFTT MR0H SDWAKD ARNOLD -UNA. MCftKli; ' Added Charley Chase in "Something Simple- 15c U v. V.j . V 1 1 m m) Wins i or Stars; Hogg . With Bunyans scored on Kitchen's single. ' v Three bits and an error in the eighth produced three more runs. Hogg Bros, got 14 hit off Chal fan. Silver Falls hurler, but couldn't make them all count. The Brothers scored twice in the first -when Kellogg singled, add ed another In the fifth when Hauk doubled to drive in Miller. ' - Silver Falls, after scoring once in me imn, scored xwice in notn the seventh and eighth to take the lead. .Three walks and two hits in the ninth gave Hogg Bros, the tieing runs but neither team was able to unknot the count In the next two iramea. Hogg's got a man on third in the tenth but Kel logg filed out. Silrerton All Stars .... 3 1 2 Salem All Stars 7 10 2 May. and Harris; Bahlburg, H. Singer and Kellogg, Dryman. Hogg Bros 5 14 2 Silver Falls ... ... 6 10 1 . M. Serdotz, N. Serdots and Kel logg; Chalfan and Brady. COAST LEAGUE DUCKS uy TO III 11111 HID 9TU By the Associated Press W. L. Pet. San Francisco 13 8 .619 Missions 13 10 .S65 Los Angeles 12 10 .545 Seattle 11 10 .524 Hollywood 11 12 .47S Oakland 11 12 .478 Portland 10 12 .458 Sacramento . g 15 .34 SACRAMENTO. July .-(?- Portland won the opening game of the series here tonight from Sacramento 6 to 2. The Ducks made a runaway game of it in the last two frames, scoring four runs off Art Herring. Bill Posedel, young Bearer righthander, stopped the Sacs In all but the sixth and -eighth. John son homed In the eighth. Portland 14 1 Sacramento 2 9 1 Posedel and Cronin; Herring and Berres. LOS ANGELES, July t.-ypy- The Mission Reds pounced on Vic Frazier, recent arrival from Cin cinnati, to shove across three runs in the second inning and beat Los Angeles S to 3 here to night. Missions 6 13 1 Los Angeles 3 7 4 Mitchell and Outen; -Frazier, Campbell and GoebeL SAN FRANCISCO, July fl.-itf5)- sam Gibson pitched the seals to a 4 to 2 victory over Hollywood here tonight, striking out nine men and chalking up his 12th vic tory in 13 starts. Hollywood got off. to a good start in the first inning when a single by Myatt and Doerr's dou ble put over a run but the Seals scored two in their half of the in ning on a series of three singles. TO FIX UP SCHOOL (Continued from Page 1) time of the first advertisement and the meeting night. , The W. W. Rosebraugh com pany, bidding $896, won the con tract for installing a new double furnace at Englewood schooLJ Eastman . Furnace company, SH verton, bid $898 and Montag Furnace company, $872 with the stipulation that removal and re placement of pipe connections should be done by the district. A new coat of paint will be applied to the exterior of Parrish Junior high school If the build ing-grounds, committee decides sufficient money will be available. The cost was estimated at 8900. Committee appointments by the. new chairman, Walter B. Minier, were announced as follows: Finance, Percy R. Cupper; building-grounds, Frank Neer; in surance, E. A. Bradfield; supplies and health, Mrs. David Wright. The board granted Townsend club No.' 2 permission to meet in the high school auditorium July 1Z. - eld Over! JUST TODAY ONLY! - George Barr McCutcheon's Great NotcI Millions" with Jack Bachanon LIUDamite Ray Noble's Orchestra and of course Walt Disney's Greatest Cartoon! Mickey Mouse la The Band Concert', ITLMED IN COLOR! HO ESTIMATE 1 " Brewster s 'S OliEH, All ILL (Continued from Page 1) with the new union group hare returned to work, some- of the members clinging to the old group refused to return and persisted in picketing. -Outlaw Unions . Backed by Council The Longviewc e a t r a 1 labor council, acting against the advice of Mulr and other A. F. of L. of ficials, had supported the outlaw union rather than the anions des ignated by Mulr. SEATTLE. July .-a)-Ever-ett became the focal point in the northwest lumber strike situation today when strikers voted to stand together after one mill had re fused to submit an agreement to its former employes, similar to pacts approved in other cities. Five Mills Vote; One Refuses . Everett strikers were to have voted last night on an agreement presented by five of the city's six large mills. The sixth mill, how ever, made no provision for union recognition in peace offerings and stated in a proposal that men at work in the mill when the strike was terminated would only be re placed at the discretion of the management. The Everett workers at a pro longed meeting this morning de cided to take no action until all mills had submitted a suitable agreement. A. W. Mulr, vice-president of the International Brotherhood, said a total of five or six Seattle mills would sign agreements with the union by tonight. 20 Chartered in New Lions' Club; Salem Men Help Thirteen members of the Sa lem Lions club last night lent their encouragement to the new club at Albany by attending the neighboring; group's organization meeting. The Albany club, of which Richard R. Levy is presi dent and Jack B. Pearce secre tary - treasurer, has 20 charter members. The Salem goodwill delegates included President Barkley A. Newman, President-elect Kenneth L. Brandon, Marion Curry, Albert P. Ramsey er, Lloyd A. Lee, Sher iff A. C. . Bark, Howard. Jenka, Harry W. Scott, Dr. Carl W. Em mons, Lynn Holt, Robert B. Crawford, Monroe S. Cheek and .Ralph Kletxing, secretary-treasurer of the Salem club and deputy district Lions governor. Women Workers Helped by NRA LOS ANGELES. Jnlv .-PV- Worklne women en loved the greatest benefits from the NRA. and now that It has been invali dated, the responsibility for their protection devolves uson the state governments, Mary Anderson, di rector of the women's bureau of the department of labor, said to day. Miss Anderson was here on a national inspection tour. She said a preliminary survey had not revealed radical reduc tion of wages or lenrtheninr of hours for women employes. t URi CfiS For your modernizing use our N.H.A. budget plan. Pay as you like no down payment and no red tape. Salem Paint and Roofing Co. 474 Ferry St, Phone 4642 fantastically fanny ridiculously romantic insanely sensational panic of fan and adventure tbat ever panicked a theatre I n $vf smMmSL with LewAyres Claire Trevor Zasu Pitts Jack Haley Walter King TalaBirell : Mitcliel & Durant Yorld News at a Glance ; Domestic r : Washington. Congressman passes .lie to RFC attorney, elec trifies house committee inquiry on utility , bill lobbying. .. House delays show-down on Tennessee Valley . Authority bill after bitter" debate. ' Holding company abolition Is sue still question mark as con ference committee drafta. new utilities measure. Administration, wins prelimin ary ylctory in fight to restrict scope of wealth tax program. Tacoma Government opens trial to convict Mrs.- Waley in Weyerhaeuser kidnaping1, defense wins two points. , Foreign: CHANGTEH, China Fire and famine, follow flood which has taken toll of hundreds, made mil lions homeless.- London Britons still striving for Italo-Ethiopian peace despite predictions of early war and col lapse of conciliation efforts; France to be "strictly neutral"; Mussolini ereates . new troop di visions. London Baldwin government upheld by eommons on depres sion policy; new premier critical of Roosevelt program. Lad, 8, Smashed . As He Dashes to Reach His Folks ROSEBCRG. Ore.. July 9.-UPI -Suffering severe chest injuries. John Hartman, eight, was in a hospital here tonight. The lad. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hartman ot Kansas City; Mo., stopped on a curb to tie a shoelace last night and then dart ed across the street to catch up with his parents. Crash an automobile driven by A. C. Evans of Wtlbar bore down on the suddenly appearing lad. Hemorrhage Indicated injury to a. lung, bat no bones were broken. Warrant Rate Is Cut to 4 Per Cent With the-district's warrant In debtedness at the lowest average since 1)32. the Salem school board last night ordered the in terest rate on warrants cat from 5 to 4 per cent to effect further savings. The change will go into effect August 1. School Clerk W. H. Burghardt estimated the dis trict's present warrant ' debt at S2,000. . I P-i-N Otss som WITH GILMOKE GASOLINE AND LID CO GAUD MOTOR OIL . Earl Ortman used identically . the same Purest Penniylvania Lion Head motor oil you bay from independent dealers . . . and broke the "Three Flag" N. A. A. airplane record. The motor of your car will never be subjected to such a test . . . but you should protect it with the only oil made that with stands terrific engine heat and yet is light enough to make . amazing speed and economy possible. Fill with Lion Head today! TT-r sSMaMMfcaasSssfrssja '''XSBaJ Gi O. P. Group on Record for Cash Payment Bonus CLEVELAND, uly 9.-)-The six -state Republican Crusaders conference adopted a set of reso lutions today including one for Immediate cash payment of the soldiers' bonus. Many of the resolutions con demned the new deal. After ap proving them, delegates from Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. KentnrVv mnA Tennessee adjourned the confer ence. - The conference denlorod th lack of protection of negro rights in some sections of the country and added a resolntlon dnrinrin for enforcement of anti-Iynching laws. HELD OVER TILL THURSDAY NIGHT When a play girl . . . mar ries a play boy ... excite ment Is bound to follow! Elobcrt Moattconoy CHARLES RUGGLES EDNA MAY OLIVER FRANCHOT TONE ' In COMIXQ FRL - SAT. KAY FRANCIS GEORGE BRENT "STRANDED" 1 (cMSMiTC HELD OVER For Today Only 2 FEATURES "THE VIRGINIAN" with GARY COOPER BARBARA STANWYCK in "SECRET BRIDE- TOMORROW Friday & Saturday TWO FEATURES VX V .AgUnf shape rim through the loor, 'Jtt face a craxy-qvlil of horror; Ri contorted aindtxtd ofl lovely i. Edgar Aixaw Porr CJT BELALUGOSI Aad Hit Xa. S . A Riot of Fun! 8KEETS GALLAGHER LOIS WILSON WARREN IIYMER te "In the Hone f "-. 1 1 CT- I Joan CffOwEord Mm