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K -V 19 CAPITAL NEWS Day by day The States - man brings yon the latest and most complete newt on what doing In the various ctate department. THE WEATHER ; Unsettled today and Fri day, slowly rising tempera tare; Max. Temp. "Wed. 7t, Mia. SO; rain .20 inch, river S feet, cloudy. FOUNDED 1651 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Horning, August 1, 1935 No. 1W GITTf WILL PAY Sill 0,5 09 TO WATER COMPANY Formal Purchase Act Will Be Done Today, Federal Court in Portland Council Approves Payments of $5530 on Supplies, $4979, Additions The Salem city council in spe cial session last night took its final steps toward acquisition of the Oregon - Washington Water Service company plant here and today Mayor V. E. Kuhn and oth er city officials and attorneys will go to Portland to pay over a million and some dollars to 11. K. Griffin, vice-president of the water company. The final trans action is slated to occur In Fed eral Judge James Alger Fee's court as final disposition of the legal proceedings between the city of Salem and the water com pany. Mayor Kuhn 'will present the check to Griffin, and it is prob able the event, historic for Salem, will be recorded by movie news cameras. Going to Portland with the mayor this morning will be City Recorder A. Warren Jones, City Treasurer C. O. Rice. City Attorney Chris W. Kowitz. and W. C.'Winslow and Custer Ross, atorneys for the city in the long months of legal ins and outs cul minating today. Griffin will pre sent the mayor a deed and a clear title to the water plant. Chase Dank Will Receive $1,003,042 At last night's meeting, the council adopted a resolution au thorizing payment of $1,003, 042.98 to the Chase National bank account, a million for the water plant and $3,042.98 for Improve ments and betterments and also anthorizlng payment of $5530.1 6 to the Oregon-Washington Water Service company for supplies and materials. The mayor and city recorder were authorized to draw the necessary warrwtsr"- The only dissentlng-vote'to the resolution wa made by Alder man Fred Williams, who declared that everything . done in connec tion with the water business "had been handled by a click of four or five people" . . . and that he wouldn't vote for the .resolution nntil he sak a copy of the stiou lation to be entered in the clos ing of mnrt proceedings today. To Williams' objections. Alder man Fuhrer answered that the committee had only done what the council had directed it to do and that all steps were matters of re cord. 8002.30 Allowed For Arbitration Costs The council also allowed a hill of $602.50 as one-half of the ar bitration expense in the proceed ing over the water plant. The com pany will pay the other half. Ten thousand dollars was trans ferred from the Salem water bond fund to the water bureau fund as a loan to the water commis sioners for working capital. Fol lowing suggestion of Alderman Williams, Alderman Evans asked amendment of the resolution on the transfer stipulating the money be repaid to the water bond fund within one year. Kowitz said that such a loan was legal, and cited that the wa ter commission fi starting Its op eration of the city plant today without cent of working capi tal, and that some money Is need ed until the first revenue for the city starts coming in. ' Ai last money due the Oregon Washington Water eompany, the council authorized . payment of $1938.48 for labor and material used in the filter bed recently re sanded and directed to be done by the council utilities committee after necessity of the work was determined. The $1938 to- be paid to the water company for the ill tratkm beds is in addition to the $3,042.98 to be paid for other Im provements to the water plant, under agreement between the two parties that the city would pay the company ; for any : Improre ments the company made since last September. The $3,042.98 is ' for improvements made between last September and last May, when the council voted to offer the com pany $1,000,000 for the plant. $95$61 Low Bid On North Santiam Highway Grading PORTLAND. July 31-)-E. L. Gates of McCredie Springs, with an offer of $95,861.47, was low bidder today for the 3.3 miles of trading on the North Santiam forest highway. Bids were opened by the bureau of public roads. The section to be cleared and graded lies between Bigaboo and Straight creeks east of Detroit Work la scheduled to get under way September 1. - NEW CCC CAPTAIN SrLVERTON, Ore., July 31.-(P)-Announcement was made to day that Captain C. S. Miller of Vancouver barracks . would , sue ceed Captain E. H. Stambaugh; as commander of Camp Silver Creek Falls. Captain Stambaugh will go to Medford, district headquarters. World News at a Glance (By The Associated Press) Washington: Utility lobby Investigators seek missing witnesses as new "death sentence' drive is reported. Manufacturers protest, republi cans critcise, democrats divide as tax bill nears floor. Senate passes bill restoring benefits to Spanish-American war veterans, abolishing last remnant of economy law. U. S. drafts note to Nazi gov ernment promising effort to pro secute Bremen flag incident. Private utilities offer to un dertake $238,249,000 rural elec trification program with public funds." Other Domestic: Chicago Widespread hunt is started fr doctor's mutilation slayer. Los Angeles Oil in sea is only clew in disappearance of new army plane. Foreign: Geneva Great Britain and France believed to have reached common basis for attempt to soothe Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Addis Ababa Ethiopia tells world its independence is not for sale or barter. Rome Mussolini seizes control of Italy's mineral imports for pos sible use in war. Berlin Police gird to forestall opposition within Hitler ranks as economic cri:is develops; prices soar; Jews warned to stay out of Berlin. Moscow Reveal 55 killed in Russian submarine collision. II I A.F.L. Leaders Say Reds to Try to Make Trouble This Fall, Coast WASHINGTON. July 31. -()- American Federation of Labor of ficials denounced communists to day for their reported intention to make trouble this All on the Pacific coast. Samuel Darcey, American rep resentative at the communist con gress in Moscow, said yesterday tnat a glantic strike was plan ned for the west toast maritime workers in September. , William Green, president of the federation, told reporters that Darcey's statement vindicated the A. F. of L. stand against Russian recognition. "Russia has violated her pledge by spreading propaganda in the United States through the Third International, and affiliate of the soviet government," he added. Victor Olander, secretary-treasurer of the International Sea men's union, said: "The communists aren't run ning the seamen's union and they aren't going to run it." J.K. DIES IT AGE OF 85 ALBANY, Ore., July Z1.-(JP)-Dr. J. K. Weather ford, regent of Oregon State college for 44 years and a graduate of the institution in 1872, died at his home here last night. He was 85 years old. Dr. Weatherford was president of the O. S. C. board of regents for 28 years, a record of service believed unequalled in state edu cational circles. He had signed more than 5000 diplomas during his regency and the large men's dormitory on the campus bears his name. The 1929 merger of high edu cational boards of Oregon termin ated his service. His term other wise would not have expired un til 1938. Dr. Weatherford was appointed to the board by six governors and served six years before the in cumbent president, Dr. W. J. Kerr, came to Oregon. He was one of the first two receiving the honorary doctor degree here in 1923. He is credited with playing a large part in the growth of the in stitution during the past half century. SHE Mystery Poisoning Sends 4 CCC Men to BEND, Ore., July Sl.-tf-Four members of the civilian conserva tion camp In the Ochoco national forest were rushed to a hospital here.-tonight, suffering from a form of poisoning not immedi ately diagnosed. Seventy-four others were less seriously. 111. at the camp, where three doctors were striving to get the epidemic under control. M. W. Thompson of Prineville, who brought the stricken men here, said he had been informed that it was unlikely any of the cases' remaining In camp would result fatally. Physicians-tonight indicated the four In the Bend hospital probably would recover but declined to comment defi nitely. - - The four here were Ed Zych, William Daly and Frank Zebins, all of Chicago, and- L. S. Wyatt, a civilian carpenter, Prineville, Ore. The camp Is comprised prin REQUEST SENT FOR CAPITOL'S 8 Hockley Likely to Approve It Immediately, Forward to National PWA Head $1,575,000 Gift Asked With State to Pay $1,925,000 Through Legislature Oregon moved one step nearer to the erection of a new capitol late yesterday when Governor Charles H. Martin officially sign ed and sent to C. C. Hockley, state PWA administrator, the state's request for a 45 per cent grant for the $3,500,000 structure It proposes to erect as a new state house. The application, prepared by the state planning board and by Dan J. Fry, secretary of the board of control, will be promptly ap proved by Hockley who will relay it to Harold L. Ickes, PWA ad ministrator at Washington. Because Ickes has already giv en his oral approval of a grant to the state for a hew capitol, of ficial approval from Washington is expected to require only a few weeks. The grant requested from the federal government is $1, 575,000. The state proposes to put $1,925,000 of its own funds into the capitol. The application for funds by the state has been officially ap proved by the state board of. con trol. Solons to Got Call When Grant Approved Governor Martin ha3 announc ed that he is ready to summon the legislature into special session as soon as official word is received from PWA that the state's appli (Turn to page 2, col. 2) NAZIS FACE CRISIS Extreme Precautions Taken . by Berlin' Police; Fear "State Enemies" .BERLIN, July Si.-W) -Extraordinary police precautions against possible trouble were in stituted in Berlin tonight shortly after impartial foreign observers said they believed Nazi Germany's economic crisis lay behind the Reich's vigorous, many-sided of fensive against "state enemies". Count Von Helldorf, Berlin's new police president, Instructed his men to hold themselves ready for eventualities all this week, though the capital outwardly was normal. Earlier usually reliable sources said they understood storm troops and members of the party's "po litical organization" also had been ordered to keep themselves ' in readiness. Food Price Riees Foment Discontent Malcontents over the economic situation are housekeepers, trad esmen: and underpaid workmen. disturbed by food prices which av erage, in the, case of meat, 40 per cent higher than six months ago, Malcontents over the political outlook are old party members who have failed to get Jobs, Nazi underlings whose rise " has not been fast ' enough to suK them and outright, if secret, opponents of the Nazi regime.- SCHOOL BONDS REJECTED GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 31. (Jfy-The proposed $117,000 bond Issue for a new Junior high school was defeated by a nearly 2 to 1 vote here, yesterday. The count was 328 to 168. RAVISHEB TO DIE PEORIA. 111., July Z1.-JP)-Gerald Thompson, 26, was con victed tonight of the ravishment murder of Mildred Hallmarlr. 19. by a circuit court Jury which fix ed nis punusnment as deatn in the electric chair. Bend Hospital cipally of recruits from the met ropolitan district of Illinois. 78 Boys and Men Said Stricken Of the 78 stricken. SO are CCC boys and the remaining 48 civil ian carpenters, Thompson said. He said the entire encampment had been turned into hospital barracks. The three doctors in attend ance Include Lieut. Pierre Man gos, camn nhvsician. and Drs. J H. Rosenberg and H. P. Belknap, both of Prineville.- First reports Indicated the Ill ness was caused from meat eaten earlier In the day but Thompson said here tonight it was now be lieved a form of vegetable poison in. -.. - ; Camp Ochoco Is located in the Blue mountains 60 miles .east of Bend on Mill creek, where a per manent barracks is being - con structed. HISTORY MADE, Upper picture shows Governor Martin delivering address yesterday to crowd which gathered at the old capitol to witness the uncov ering of the cornerstone which was laid October 8, 1873, with elaborate ceremonies. In the picturebve is shown leaden box in the cornerstone removed and placed on table before governor, which he turned over to State Treasurer Holman, who in turn gave the box to Secretary of State Snell. In this box are 83 valuable mementos of the cornerstone laying. Mr. Snell will open the box later this week. Picture below shows the last of the old capitol walls starting to earth, a few moments after the cornerstone exer cises yesterday were ended. Thus a 63-year cycle of earth-to-earth for the old statehouse is ended! Photos by Stuard. ; O Cornerstone Opening Unites Past, Future Last Pinnacle of Old Capitol Falls While Final Words of Exercises Spoken; New Day for Oregon, Martin's Vision YESTERDAY joined hands with tomorrow and, through the span of 62 years, lauded the courage and the vision of the state's forefathers and pledged devotion anew to a bright future for old Oregon. The occasion was the uncovering at 2 o'clock yesterday of the cornerstone to the state's fire-razed capitol. ORDERED HElO.iJER CASE Man Believed to Be "Jon6s" Who. Abducted and Killed Doctor is Named CHICAGO, Aug1. 1. (Thurs day )-if)-Orders to arrest Mande ville Zenge, 26, of Canton, Mo., for questioning in connection with the mutilation slaying of Dr. Wal ter J. Bauer,, 38, a professor of Klrksville, Mo., were sent out by Chief of Detectives John L. Sulli van early today. Dr. Bauer was abandoned, ter ribly mutilated and dying from shock and loss of blood in his own automobile in front of a Stony Island filling station on the south side early yesterday. He died sev eral hours later in a hospital. Hotel Manager Supplies Clue The search for Zenge received new impetus after a telephone message from Lieutenant Van Loomis of the Michigan state po lice saying that the manager, Charles Resume, and a clerk, Norman Jedley of the Jennings hotel, Ann Arbor, Mich., had pointed out a strong resemblance between a picture of Zenge, and a missing hotel guest who regist ered as "T. S. Jones," of Chicago. Before he died, Dr. Bauer told (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Late Sports LOS ANGELES, July 31.-()-A screaming homer over the left field fence, hit by Joe DiMaggio, gave the San Francisco Seals a S to 5 victory over Los Angeles to night, and paved the way to their second consecutive win the cur rent baseball series. San Francisco 8 1 Los Angeles ....5 8 1 Densmore, Sheehan and Beck er; Frailer, J. Campbell and Han nah. PORTLAND, Ore., July Sl.-ff) -Hans Stelnke, 250 -pound Ger man, presented something new to northwest wrestling tans tonight when he landed on Ed "Strangler" Lewis, 245-pound hulk, for the de ciding fall in the main event. Other . results:. Pat O'Shocker. 235, Salt Lake, won a decision over Angelo Cestoldi, 220, Tor onto; Pat Fraley, 215, Boston, took the deciding fall over Joe Hubka, 210, Dodge City, Neb.; Joe Gardiner, Portland, and "Si lent"' Banks,. Texas, both middle weights, went to a draw. RECALLED AS CAPITOL CORNERSTONE OPENED ; O ine Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, presided yester day as they did a rainy day, Oc tober 8, 1873, when with auspi cious ceremony, the cornerstone of the capitol was laid. Then the walls of the capitol were about to rise; yesterday the last words of the exercise had scarcely been uttered when Fred Leary, in charge of razing opera tions, pulled to earth the last pin acle of the old capitol's walls. Last night only one chimney re mained aloft of what last April 25 was the proud capitol of the state. 1500 Witness Stone's Uncovering Gathered yesterday at the state house were 1500 persons to wit ness the uncovering of the for- nerstone in which a sealed, lead box contained 83 separate me mentos placed there 62 years ago. Not until Friday will Secretary of State Snell open the box to ex amine and to display the tokens placed in the receptacle at the original cornerstone ceremony. On the platform with the or ficials of the state and leaders in the grand lodge of Masons in Ore gon was Thomas Brunk of Brunk's corner, Polk county, who 62 years before, as a 14-year old lad. bad bitched nn his father's team and wagon to come to the exercises attending the laying of the cornerstone. Mrs. Frances Loney Cornell of Salem, another witness of the original ceremony, was there yesterday as was Otto J. Wilson of Salem, who also saw the cornerstone laid. On the platform sat Miss Mary Chadwick, whose father, Stephen F. Chad wick, was secretary of state in 1873. and orator of the day, de livering an extended address in Willamette university chapel fol lowing the laying of the corner stone. The principal address at yes terday's ceremony was given by Chief Justice J. TJ. Campbell of the state supreme court. He re (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Oil Slicks Tell Fate of Missing Super Army Ship LOS ANGELES, July tl.-f-Army circles tonight virtually abandoned hope of locating a super-speed pursuit plane, missing since yesterday afternoon, when two searchers returned and agreed in . their reports that fresh . oil "slicks" In the sea probably mark ed the graveyard of the lost ship, -r The ship, a pursuit type built by the Northrup corporation, and capable of a top speed of 325 miles an hour, had been taken up by Lieut. Arthur H. Skaer, Jr., of Walnut Park, Calif., formerly of Denver, Colo. ' , , Army officers denied the plane was in any sense a "mystery." mwuwu. . ww.u'au ml 1 4 a m m. X" !fmmmwnm 1 'f;Zi- .:AJ .1(1- ' TEN DIE IN TRl DE1UH.F1 20 Injured, More May Still Be in Ruins; Most of Victims 'Hoboes' TEMPLE, Tex., July 31.-()-Between 10 and 15 men were be lieved killed tonight when a freight train was derailed and caught fire at Bruceville about 1 miles south of Waco. At least20 were injured. All were believed to have been "hoboes." The estimate of dead was made by Injured persons. One man said that he was rid ing in a car with about 20 others and that not more than eight of them escaped before the car caught fire. Other injured said that several men were riding on a car of rocks which overturned and it was be lieved that some of them were crushed to death under the rocks. (Turn to page 2, col. 3) LABOR BOARD CONTINUED WASHINGTON," July 31-(-President Roosevelt today extend ed the life of the old labor rela tions board another month pend ing appointment of a new board to administer the Wagner labor disputes act. Only one member of the old board, Edwin S. Smith, is still on the job. Aluminum Magnate Offers To Buy Bonneville Power PORTLAND, Ore., July 31.-(P) -Charles B. Bohn of Detroit, Mich., president of the Bobn Al uminum & Brasa corporation, to day disclosed his firm had made, an offer to the government to' buy the entire power output of the $40,000,000 Bonneville . dam project now under construction on the Columbia river 40 miles east of this city.-. . ' . Bohn, who said the first of the 10 units, which, his company-proposes to erect at Bonneville it the offer Is -accepted would cost 410, 000,000,- declared the United States "has our offer in black and, white. They can take it or leave it. But we are setting tired of - the delay."! ; Foresees Production of 200,000,000 Pounds Year He prophesied something like 200,000,000 pounds of the white metal a t year if i the government will sell him power cheap enough; Bohn ; said that his company had - located vast ; resources of T YIELD PLAN URGED Compensated Tax Plan Held Best; Exploitation is Sharply Criticized The problem of proper timber taxation coupled with its corrol- lary the placing of the north west's timber on a sustained yield basis, is the greatest economic problem confronting the porth west, David Eccles, editor of the Commonwealth Review, Portland publication, told the Salem Rotary club here yesterday. "Instead of considering timber like we have mines places to be exploited and abandoned we must bring about situation where we can reforest as we go and pre-, serve and continue an irreducible supply of timber, cut as it is need ed and at a fair price," Eccles de clared. Future Seen In Lumber Processing When the timber problem is solved, he declared, the north west can go farther in its pro- Lcessing of timber than it does now -"we shall- have an . industry which is not as primitive as at present and we shall Invite much larger payrolls to the state," he declared. . Eccles said lumber had suffered from chronic overproduction for (Turn to page 2, coL 4) alumlte ore, rich in aluminum and potash, somewhere In Utah and proposes to ship it to Bonneville for manufacture. He also said he wanted a 35-foot channel to the sea to permit ore boats to bring additional supplies from British Guiana. ' Other chemical -IndastTtes, Bohn said, would follow the ini tial Bonneville development close ly to make it one of the largest industrial centers of the nation. His own plants, ho . declared, would provide employment for 5000 persons. He expressed the opinion that If his corporation's offer is accepted the entire cost of Bonneville would be paid back to the government V within M years. : :..' v" ?-f-. . . r-C Growing Use of V: Aluminum Xoted - Furniture; automobiles ana railways were listed as among the industries which" are-finding al uminum v Increasingly valuable. . D. F. Peck, , , manager of the Handchett Paper, company of .ChiT - - (Turn to page X, eoL t) ? US AID TIMBER ! PLAN REPORTED TO KEEP ITALY FROM II I HC Ethiopia, Italy Would Stack Arms, Permit Negotiation to Be Renewed Formula Said Agreed on in Franco-British Talks Behind Scenes (Copyright. 1935. V AiociaW Pra) GENEVA. July 2l-iJFy-A plan to keep the arms of Italy and Ethiopia stacked while their bit ter Quarrel is subjected to renew ed arbitration was reported un officially to have emerged to night from the Franco-British conversations- behind the scenes of the vital League of Nations . council session. Premier Pierre Laval of France and Anthony Eden, Britain's chief envoy to the all-important session, took np the delicate problem of averting war in two long talks tonight and reputedly agreed upon a draft of a formula for council action that would include: (1) Continuation of concilia tion and arbitration, which bog ged down in the deadlock of the conciliation commission at Sche veningen. The Netherlands, . re cently. (2) Neither Italy nor Ethiopia will resort to war measures in the meantime. Fifth Arbitrator Would Break up Deadlock (3) A fifth arbitrator will be appointed to the deadlocked commission. (4) Signatories to the 1906 treaty between France, Great Bri tain and Italy, guaranteeing in dependence and territorial inte grity for Ethiopia, will lend their good offices to secure a broad and general solution of the conflict. Whether Italy would agree' to the reported draft was a matter of some apprehension in British circles, since it was hinted Musso lini was unwilling to have men tioned the matter of non-resort to force. Eden's Demands Said Agreed to by Laval The formula draft was nnder stood to have been agreed upon after Premier Laval approved im portant modifications demanded by Eden. Eden, British circles under stood, turned down an earlier draft on the grounds it was not strong. TALKED, TRUSTEES While the executive committee of the board of trustees of Wil lamette university met yesterday in Portland, the matter of possi ble sale of the Willamette univers ity campus to the State of Oregon was only discussed informally, Amedee Smith, board president, announced last night in Portland. He said routine affairs occupied the attention of the-4- committee and indiSated the committee on campus had not reported. Following the Joint confereseo here Monday between Governor Martin's special committee to deal with Willamette and a special committee of the trustees, the latter group was delegated to , make a study of a fair price fer the university campus and build ings and to report this price to the governor'a committee. Estimates of the replacement cost o the buildings now on the Willamette campus will be made, figures being secured from archi tects. 'When the study has been completed, Willamette trustees are expected to submit their price to the governor's committee wh'ch in turn will pass its finding oa to the forthcoming special sessioa of the legislature. Missing Portland Boy Found, River PORTLAND. July 31.-The body of Bobbie Weinstein. eix y ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam uel Weinstein. was recovered from the Willamette river aear the Weinstein home by deputy sheriffs tonight. The "boy dta- peared this morning and was feared to have drowned bat tot nntil late today when a playmate told officers of having sees the child fall into the stream were dragging operations begun. Recipe Contest . , For Gropes Use Ends Tciay No o 'n ' Today at noon the grW contest closes ami cash, pris es will be announced by the ,Becipe Round Tnble. Friday 'morning together with a new topic for next-week. Any - recipe trailing ' for grapes or grape flavorin is acceptable. More than one recipe may be seat In if de sired and everyone is invited to contribute. ;i M 16 CAMPUS