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' m. p REPORTERS -Seventy-five special writ - an give complete coverage . to Statesman readers on news events throughout the Willamette valley. THE WEATHER Fair today and Fridays with fog on coast; tempera tare constant; yesterday's max. 87, min. 49; northerly triads. FOUMDEP 1851 EIGHTYFIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, July 18, 1935 No. 97 111 H ill AI: Ju IVM-.-Xi SnSei Price-Fixing Hacked Out of AAA Bill; Security Act Remains in Parley Roosevelt Firm That Taxa ' tion Bill Be Put Through Before Adjournment Washington; July 17. -(py-Congress -wallowed deeper into the Jungle of legislation today, with debates and senate -house conflicts projecting adjournment over a distant horizon. Although the senate hacked at the AAA bill hewing out in the process a big chunk of the im portant price fixing provision it moved slowly toward a final vote. The price fixing action followed yesterday's adverse decision by a Boston circuit court and in the face of desire by President Roose velt for continuance of all AAA features. The administration's social se curity bill again bogged down in a disagreement between the house and senate. The bouse insisted upon cutting out the senate's amendment to eiempt private con cerns already having annuity sys tems from feders.1 taxation for old age pension. The senate refused to recede from its stand and the bill plumped back into confer ence. Mr. Roosevelt again made known, at a press conference, that he wanted his wealth tax legislation act on now not at an extra session or next year and the house ways and means com mittee bent its cose closer to the grindstone. - New 30-Hour Work Bill is Approved Building higher the pyramid of pending legislation, a new 30 hour work week bill was approv ed by the house labor committee. It would create a federal commis sion to license industries send ing goods or commodities Into in trastate commerce, - ' ' Against the day's background of law-making, the utility lobby investigations at both ends of the capitol burned bright. The sen ate investigating committee heard a witness suggest that fear of "forgery" prosecutions prompted alleged destruction of a batch of telegrams urging a vote against the utility holding company aboli tion measure. Previously the com mittee had heard that names sign ed to the telegrams were copied out of a telephone directory. The house rules committee wound up one phase of its hear ing on charges of administration pressure for the bill by listening to Representative Brewster (R Me) reassert that an administra tion official had threatened to stof work on Maine's Passama quoddy power project unless Brewster voted for the utility measure. During the day Mr. Roosevelt had dealings with a couple of his foremost democratic critics, Gov ernor Talmadge of Georgia and Senator Long of Louisiana. Georgia Governor Confers at White House To the president's office came ( the Georgia governor to talk over the disagreement between the ad ministration at Washington and that at Atlanta which is holding up $19,000,000 of federal money for Georgia highway construction. The announcement of an agree ment came out of the conference. In more decisive fashion, Mr. Roosevelt served notice that Sen ator Long would have nothing to say about the spending of work relief money in Louisiana. Other developments: Proponents of the administra tion's Tennessee Valley Author ity cheered the news that a cir cuit court of appeals had reversed the ruling of a lower federal court adverse to TVA. The state department produced an old statute imposing fine or imprisonment for recruiting or enlisting in this country for ser vice in a foreign army, waving it toward those who might consider joining up with either Italian or Ethiopian troops. Rabbit Raisers Suffer Heavily From Heat Loss McMINNVILLE, Ore.. July 17.- (Jpy-New reports of heavy losses to poultrymen and rabbit raisers from the Intense heat of the past . -weekend were received tonight as ." the heat cycle waned. Losses in Yamhill and Wash ington counties mounted into hun- dreds of dollars. ." Heaviest individual loss report ed by rabbit raisers so far was that of H. V. Barr, near here, who , lost 254 rabbits, more than half his stock. Some of those lost were , described as prize bunnies. Most were the young bunnies. Cosmo Paolo of Gaston said 90 of his flock of 2400 turkeys gasp- ' ed out their last during the parch : lng heat of Saturday and Sunday. ..Jesse Bates of Forest Grove lost , 10 chickens. ' Admits Huge Sum is Spent V IV: . ii- i Appearing before senate investi gating; committee P.h i 1 i p H. Gadsden of Philadelphia, vice president of the United Gas Im provement company, admits "power -lobby" spent $301,000 to fight Wheeler-Kayburn utili ties bill. Ox Cart Structure Opposed; Pay-as-You-Go Plan is Given Endorsement Declaring Oregon must build a capitol "with respect for the fu ture," not a "log cabin capitol at a cost of 5250,000," Governor Charles H. Martin endorsed a pay-as-you-go basis for financing the new Etatehouse in a short talk to the Salem Rotary club yesterday noon. "We are not going back to ox cart days and we want those fellows who are opposing us to-uni derstand it," the governor de clared. He said he did not wish to sub mit the capitol financing project to a vote of the people because "croakers" might oppose an ade quate structure. "I was tdld when I secured the nomination for governor that mean, small people in Oregon would 'run me out'," Governor Martin declared. "I was told that I was getting to be an, old man and that the 'nuts' here might kill me. Well, these fellows who oppose everything are not going to win out; I'll take care of them. Why can't we pull together and suppress them?" $3,500,000 Thought Adequate for Structure The governor pleaded with his listeners not to get into a squabble about the capitol. He said Wash (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) New Bond Parade Gains Momentum NEW YORK, July H.--In- vestment syndicates are expected to bring out two important secur ity offerings tomorrow. The larg est issue on the schedule consists of $70,000,000 3 per cent bonds of the Duquesne Light Co. to be offered by a syndicate headed by the first of Boston Corp. Pro ceeds will be used to refund out standing bona issues. A group headed by Dillon. Read & Co., will offer at par 250,000 shares of Commercial Investment Trust Co., 4 per cent preferrtd stock. MERCURY PICKETS HELD NEW YORK, July lwenty-mne men and ZZ young women were arrested on charge of picketing today in front of the fifth avenue offices of the American Mercury, a monthly magazine which has been having difficulties with its office staff. $21,600 Fee ) j. uLt-Jl JH Mil PLEADS FOR ADEQUATE CAPITOL Lands is Worrying Board A bill for $21,600 of which one-half must be paid by the state of Oregon, is worrying the state land board. The obligation is an outgrowth of the long-contested litigation over the title to the beds and surrounding lands of Malheur, Mud and Harney lakes in southern Oregon. " The claim was placed with the board following the - supreme court's decision in favor of the United States government and is for the salary and expenses of the master in chancery who beard much of the testimony involved in the suit. The master asks $15, 000 salary and $6600 expenses. The1 federal government has agreed to pay one-halt the charge since the supreme court of the United States has apgrgYfdvflhe $18,000 Appropriation " - ' "15 More Than Expended .f The state land board,' is with out, a sufficient appropiypn. to pay ' the claims ia full: and. will DRIVE AGAINST . inup nnrp rm D bUtO Ul. IN RHINELAND Sterilization Push Continues Although Catholics Protesting Germans Can't Hire Jews to Work in Homes or as Their Doctors BERLIN, July 17. - UP) - Nazis today continued their anti-semitic campaign, despite warnings from higher-ups, and pushed their ster ilization program, despite Catho lic protests, while the controlled press cried out bitterly against atrocity" reports abroad. Though order had been estab lished along the Kurfurstendamn, Berlin's white way, and recur rence of Monday's anti - Jewish riots seemed unlikely, Julius Stretcher and fellow Jew-baiters had other methods to employ. An article in the "National So- zaialistische P a r t e 1 Koorspon- denz," the nazi party's syndicate service, demanded that Jews, on pain of death if necessary, be for bidden to: 1. Rent apartments to Aryans. 2. Engage Aryan domestic help. 3. Attend Aryans as physicians, or accept Aryans as clients. Vatican's Protest Ignored by Leaders A nazi retort to the Vatican s strong protest against application of sterilization to Catholics new decree-legislation providing heavy punishment for propagandizers against sterilization was further emphasized when Dr. Arthur Guett, sterilization expert of the interior ministry, announced: "The mixture of races causes the swelling of congenitally un sound elements." Dr. Guett's assertion that bio logical considerations came before religion was taken to mean the government intended to continue its program relentlessly, despite Catholic opposition stiffened by the papal protest. Informed circles said the protest would have little effect. The German press, printing no (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) HE 5' Petitions signed by more than 4000 Jackson county citizens pro testing against a pardon for L. A. Banks, ept-Medford newspaper publisher, who is now serving a life term in the state penitentiary here for murder, will be filed with Governor Martin, Colonel C. C. Kelly, Medford attorney, declared yesterday. Kelly said that one petition now being circulated in Medford favoring Bank's release had the name of Rufus C. Holman, state treasurer, typewritten at the top of the sheet. Holman denied that he had signed the petition or authorized the use of his name. Opposition to Bank's release followed a recent announcement that Governor Martin had author ized a hearing to consider a par don. Banks shot and killed George A. Proscott, Jackson county con stable. BAB FIGHTS OVER "DEAL" LOS ANGELES. July n,-(jft-Efforts of the American Bar association- to reach an agreement on its opinion of the new deal have provided the only surface indication of controversy in com mittee ranks. The committee, composed of a group of seven legal notables, has labored two days at the association's conven tion here without reaching agree ment on a report. For Sail on have to go to the next special or regular session to obtain funds. It did receive an appropriation of $18,000 from the 1933 session to bring the litigation to a conclu sion. However, .previous costs in cluding printing of briefs and ab stracts, considerable legal re search, and the expenses and fees of L. A. Liljequist, who repre sented the state in the case, have used up about $14,000 of the ap propriation, leaving the state without sufficient funds to pay the master's claim. In the outcome of the suit the state obtained a small amount of the land but the bulk remains with the federal government. When the legislative appropria tion was concerned, the commit tee was told that the state had an excellent opportunity to obtain title to at least 25,000 acres of land with an average value of $10 an acre. The $18,000 fund provideed was obtained from roy alties paid on gravel taken from the Willamette and other rivers. IN I Hippo Meat Diet of Black Fighters and lions Their Aides ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 1 7 (P) Reports reaching Is tanbul today said the fierce Gal la tribesmen, known as Ethiopia's most savage fighters, have planned to torn lions loose against any Italian invaders. The Gall&s, who are pa gans, worship the tree as their symbol of divinity. A staple of their diet is report ed to be raw hippopotamus meat. The lion is the national symbol of Ethiopia, even being used on occasions to guard the throne of the em peror, who, since the days of King David, has been called "the conquering lion of Ju dah," When the emperor wish es to confer high honor upon any "persons as he did re cently in the case of Addl-soit- Southard, former Amer ican minister to Addis Ababa- he gives him a lion as a symbol of courage and in-detendence. WATER BOARD WILL Organization Gathering Will Be at City Hall; Score of 'Managers' Interviewed Selection of a manager for the Salem water system at a meeting of the water commission tomor row night at the city hall was predicted yesterday by Ed Ros tein, commission member. "As a commission we have had a number of Informal meetings but we have not yet officially or ganized," Rostein declared. "We will organize formally tomorrow night. 1 should judge we have In terviewed more than 20 candi dates for the position of mana ger. A number of them are ex cellent engineers. "We have not released a list of names of applicants because we did not think it fair to the men, a number of whom now have positions and are only seek ing to better themselves in ob taining the managership of the plant here." Rostein said he thought selec tion of a manager was necessary so plans could be made for tak ing over the plant August 1. In event a man now holding a posi tion with a private company or a governmental job is retained, he will need time to give notice to his employers, Rostein pointed out. He indicated he favored a care ful study of the water system by the commission. Improvements to the distribution system should be given priority, in Rostein's mind, irinew construction on the plant. He thinks a modern distribution system- should be put In and that meanwhile tests of wells and other sources of additional water supply should be made. The commission expects to avail itself to some extent of lib eral offers of federal government help in construction. Soviet Hero Soon to Hop For 'Frisco MOSCOW, July 17.-(;p)-Soviet Russia's flying hero, Pilot Sig mund Levaneffsky, tonight said he and two companions were ready to hop off across the top of the world to San Francisco "as soon as the weather is right." Levaneffsky said he expected the 6,000-mile, non-stop flight, If successful, would take 60 to 72 hours. "I have thoroughly examined the plane and its (single) motor," he added, "and they are in per fect condition." Levaneffsky, who gained inter national prominence and the title "hero of the soviet union" in 1933 when he flew to rescue James J. M a 1 1 e r n, American round-the-world flier forced down on the frozen wastes of Anadir, flew his. mystery plane over Moscow this afternoon. ' Steeves Favored For High Job in State "40 et 8" Volture 153 of the 40 et 8" went on record at its meeting last night endorsing Dr. Laban A. Steeves, present Grand Medicin, for the post of Grand Chef de Gare. Elections will be held at the grand promenade which will take place beginning August 14 at The Dalles in conjunction with the American Legion convention there. The voiture also elected dele gates and alternates to the grand promenade. Three members are automatic delegates by virtue of holding state offices. They are Dr. Laban A. Steeves, J. T. De laney and C. K. Logan. Delegates elected were Dr. G. E. Prime, Dr. V. E. Hockett, Dr. B. F. Pound, Irl McSberry and Douglas McKay. Alternates chosen "were Claude McKInney, Charles Johnson, Sam Yoder, Ronald Jones and O. E. Palmateer. SELECTMAN FRIDAY m YEARS FOR JUDGE'S IRQ 19-Year-0!d Kidnaper Goes to Michigan; Alcatraz Receives Husband "Easier to Wait for Harmon Inside Than Out" Says Wife at Tacoma TACOMA, Wash., July H-(JP) -The "waiting for her husband" planned by 19-year-old Margaret Thulin Waley, sentenced today to 20 years imprisonment for her part in the $200,000 Weyerhaeus er kidnaping, will be done at a Michigan detention farm, while Waley himself serves time at Al catraz. Court proceedings of a quarter of an hour today saw her sentenc ed to 20 years at the detention farm at Milan, Mich., by Federal Judge E. E. Cushman after he had denied defense motions to stay sentence and calling for a new trial. "Anyway, It will be easier waiting for Harmon inside than on the outside," she said later, in United States Marshal A. J. Chitty's office. Waley Moved Without Notice to Island The proceedings took place about the time that Waley was arriving at the federal govern ment's prison on Alcatraz island, in San Francisco bay. He had been secretly spirited there from Mc Neil island penitentiary, in Puget Sound, near here. His removal to Alcatraz, a fortress-like prison which will vir tually cut him off from contacts with the outside world, was par alleled with the placing of a Washington state "detainer" against him by the state parole department. Such a move, under prison rules, removes him from eligibility for parole, meaning that he must serve the full 45 years of his sentence, minus a probable 15 years for good be havior. "I consider that Waley com mitted a most atrocious crime," said Garfield Davis, state parole (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) TVA ACT UPHELD IN E NEW ORLEANS, July 17-(;P)-The act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority was held consti tutional by the first circuit court of appeals today. It sustained the government's right to sell electric power in competition with private utilities. The holding, which affects hun dreds of electric utility stock holders as well as thousands of consumers and prospective con sumers of TVA power, reversed a decision of Judge W. I. Grubb of the northern district of Alaba ma annulling contracts between the TVA and the Alabama Power company for the sale of govern ment manufactured power in sev en north Alabama counties. U.S. Debt Off to Flying Start as New Year Begins WASHINGTON, July 17-()- The federal dencit ana aeoi goi off to a flying start in the first two weeks of the new financial year. The treasury's July 15 state ment today showed the national debt had iumned about $500.- 000,000 to a new peak at $29, 177,786,318. Expenditures totall ed $536,249,207, leaving an ex cess over receipts of $376,010, 635, compared with a deficit of about $151,000,000 in the cor responding period last year. The war debt peak in 1919 was near $26,600,000,000. Salemite Drowns In Montana River KALISPELL, Mont.. July 17. Floundering in midstream, Wil liam F. Emery, about 40, of Sa lem, was drowned near here to day when he attempted to swim his team across a river to be shod. He was riding one horse and pull ing the other when he was swept into the stream by the swift cur rent and drowned. Both horses swam to shore. Emery was em ployed at a lumber camp. Crown-Willamette Shows Good Gains NEW YORK, July 17.-P)-The Crown Willamette Paper company and subsidiaries. Including the Pacific Mills, Ltd., a Canadian subsidiary, reported today a con solidated net profit of $1,467,615 after all charges, for the fiscal year ended April 30. For the pre vious fiscal year, the company reported a net of $1,129,680.: I T Mrs. Waley Starts Long Term While Husband Goes to Alcatraz Prison l i - i ! I ELKS TEMPLE MAY L Tentative selection of the Elks temple here as a gathering spot for the 19 35 special session of the legislature was made yester day by the state board of con trol. Members of the board In spected the Salem armory as well but agreed that the temple pro vided the most advantages for the house and senate with quar ters for each assembly and ade quate committee rooms. Secretary of State Snell said the proposal would be referred to the state emergency board be fore a final decision was made. All signs yesterday pointed to an early session. Representatives of the state planning board were busy preparing an application for $1,575,000 of PWA funds: the board promised its final report on the capitol before Jjuly ended; Governor Martin indicated haste would be needed in order to se cure appropriations from the fed eral government. No date has been set for the session but statehouse observers predict the session will convene by September. Under the consti tution its term cannot exceed 20 days, as far as pay for the mem bers is concerned. Weeping Sisters, Who Slew Halfwit, Not to Be Jailed MANCHESTER, England, July 11-(JP)-A court's finding that they were insane today saved two weeping sisters, found guilty of killing the younger imbecile bro ther they nursed day and night for 20 years, from death on the gallows or imprisonment. Catherine Walsh, 39, and Mrs. Evelyn Constance Alexander, 35, who told the court "we did it for the love of our brother," were sentenced according to custom in such cases "to be detained during the king's pleasure." The sisters were charged with killing Sylvester Walsh June 10 "by administering gas and tab leta " and thev admitted to the court that "we promised our mo ther we would do it. New Information Sought On All Relief Workers The busiest week the Marion county relief offices have exper ienced for several months will start today when interviewing of the 1200 relief clients of the bu reau for additional information needed by the WPA opens. As present relief files do not carry sufficient information for scientific placement of workers under the WPA setup Glenn C. Niles, executive secretary, has been instructed to obtain all the necessary data from the relief of fice clients. 10 Interviewers to go Over . All Applicant Interviewers will be available at the SERA office between 9 a. m. and 8 p. m., including the noon hour. The office will also be open-all day Saturday. Niles hopes to have ten interviewers on the Job throughout the week. They will be located at the rear of the balcony in the room formerly used as a sewing room. .In previous registrations the of fice has sent men to all the outly ing commnnities in the county but due to the lack of time all regis' t rations must be made in the Sa lem office. Niles said that there would probably be times when the staff would not be able to take care of all clients as soon as they aJ: v r V? Above, left, Mrs. Harmon Waley. who was sentenced to serve 20 years for Weyerhaeuser kidnap ing, and right, young Weyer haeuser, pleased at outcome of the Waley cases. Tl First Project Sought is One for $25,000 of Work on Eugene Campus The first application for gov ernment money under the WPA was filed with James E. Smith, director for this district, yester day afternoon by three faculty men from the University of Ore gon. Known as steam tunnel pro ject unit three, for extending the steam line and other power serv ices on the university campus, the application asks for $25,000 of federal money. Applicants for various positions under the WPA were also lining up yesterday, and a few addition al persons have been added to the personnel. Including H. H. War rick, who has-been assignment of ficer at Oregon City and who comes here as supervisor of per sonnel; S. W. Richardson, who comes from - Gladstone to direct the division of projects and plan ning, and Bettina Libby, Salem, office assistant put to work yes terday helping applicants fill out the form blanks. No suitable building has yet been found for an office location for the works progress adminis (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) GAIN II) STUDENTS Willamette university's enroll ment for the freshman class this fall was 28 ahead yesterday over the same period one year ago, Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of the university, announced yesterday. One hundred and twenty-nine new students have already applied for entrance to the university, he de clared. Dr. Baxter said there had been much discussion recently among alumni and other friends of the university concerning p r o p o sed sale of the campus and reconstruc tion of new buildings on a new site. Some alumni have expressed opposition to any change , in loca tion, he said. Dr. Baxter said the trustees' committee headed by A m e d e e Smith of Portland, is to confer shortly with the special commit tee appointed by Governor Martin. Return of E. B. McNaughJton to his desk in Portland will bring the committee together, he said. came but that an effort would be made to get the job done as quick ly as possible. The information needed In the re-registration is largely concern ed with technical skills though a record is also be made of the cli ents three- previous employers, time worked, nature of work and rate of pay. Whether the worker can drive a car or truck, the na ture of his driver's or tracker's license, machine shop experience, whether he can read - blueprints, and engineering experience will be among the data to be obtained. Clerical workers will be asked about typing and stenographic speeds, bookkeeping experience and other office work. New Cards to be Made Out in Triplicate The new Information cards will be made out In triplicate, one go ing to the WPA office, another to the reemployment office and the third being kept on file by the re lief office. It will be impossible for relief clients to get Jobs on WPA projects without being reg istered under the new set-up. The reemployment office Is also preparing for & rush, of cler ical work in connection with the WPA as all workers win be clear ed through that department. i a-1. w AUBUS DEADLINE BE6N WILLAMETTE 1 ITALY RUSHING AFRICAN EROi League Council Plans Meet July 25 to Consider Ethiopian Crisis African Emperor Feverish In Preparations for Im pending Conflict ITALO-ETHIOPIA SITUATION IN BRIEF By the Associated Press ROME Italy bares plans to mass 30O planes In Afri ca for aerial drive against Ethiopia. ADDIS ABABA Troop drill in streets, play at war; general mobilization expect ed today (Thursday). GENEVA League coun cil called July 25 to consider ways of averting war. LONDON Anthony Eden to bead British delegation to Geneva; Britain shifts troops in Kenya, adjoining Ethiopia and-Italian Somali land; expected to authorize arms shipments to Ethiopia. ROME, July 17-()-Italy pour ed troops and planes into Africa and Ethiopia drilled her tribal warriors today in preparation for expected hostilities as efforts to avf war repeatedly called fu- . tiiEgliere continued. A spokesman for the govern ment said Italy bad received no notice of the League of Nations' announcement that the council would meet in special session about July 25 to consider the It-alo-Ethiopian crisis. Italy will not consider her re ply to an invitation until it ar rives, he said. Well-informed cir cles believed, however, Italy will accept an invitation but refuse to yield any of her precepts and op pose any further efforts to han dle the situation through the lea gue. Press and officials alike have said repeatedly the league can do nothing. Dispatches from Addis Ababa reporting increased Ethiopian mil itary preparations followed yester day's publication of dispatches from Cairo, Egypt, describing in great detail the African empire's assertedly feverish efforts to get ready for war. Offsetting Ethiopia's reported preparations was Italy's announ ced program of large scale aerial warfare against Emperor Haile Selassie's country. 300 Planes to Aid 10,000 Foot Soldiers Three hundred planes will aid the tens of thousands of foot sol diers already designated for East African service, the national avia tion service disclosed, with Gen eral Giuseppe Valle, under-secre-tary for air, probably commanding them. Twenty-four planes and SO pilots left for East Africa yester day. A government spokesman, how ever, said Italy, though keenly aware of Ethiopia's military prep aration, had not considered imme diate severance of diplomatic re lations with the African nation. That will come up if and when hostilities start, he said. Observers believe the spokes man's inference was that the gov ernment would not allow itself to (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) League Asked to Help Ex-Germans LONDON, July 17 -UP)-A pro posal was made today that the League of Nations assume the re sponsibility for the care of. refu gees from Germany, estimated at more than 80,000. James G. Mc Donald, New York, high com missioner for refugees coming from Germany, and Viscount Ce cil of Chelwood, commission chairman, united on the sugges- tion. They submitted it with their Report that 80,500 persons, most ly Jews, had quit Germany since Hitler came to power. 20 Hurt as Train JumpsTrack Ohio UPPER SANDUSKY, O.. July 17 .-iffj-Twenty persons were In jured today in a wreck of the Pennsylvania railroad's Liberty Limited. The .speeding locomotive ploughed Into a truck trailer at a crossing and derailed. It tore ' up tracks for three blocks, shear ed off the loading platform of a freight depot, wrecked several freight cars and then overturned. Two railroaders and the truck driver were injured seriously. T her mom eter, 87 ; Humidity Prevails Wednesday's thermometer told a near normal summer tale, with the maximum for the day here S? degrees. Predictions for today say there will be no changes over yesterday, with low humidity stilly prevailing. -