The OREGON STATES3IAfc Baton JJreconi, Wednesday Meniin& August 11935 :
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Chamber of Commerce Has
strenuously Advocated .
- Construction Here
V tContinued from . Pass 1 )
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V "-Naturally we are Terr happy
to know the Salem building has
been- included in the-new past of
fice .projects," J. N. "Sam" Cham-
. bers, chairman of the chamber of
commerce postoffice committee,
declared' last night. Other mem
bers of his committee were T. A.
yfindishar- and W. M. Hamilton.
Chamber of Commerce
Persistent in Efforts
.Persistent efforts of tie cham
ber of commerce, augmented .by
ready support of Senator Charles
L: McXary and other Oregon eNoa
gr ess men, have kept the postof
tice project alive for Salem for
months and .brought about a sur
rey -which, capped the pleas tor
-urgent, need of a new federal
building here.
i Information compiled by the
chamber of commerce and fur-
hlahed the congressional delega
tion pointed out that Salem's
present post of flee was construct
ed 33 years ago, at a time when
the population of the city was
, only 480. In spite of growth of
the city to a siie where the post
office now serves more than 30.
00 people, only $25,000 worth
of construction an annex built
about seven years ago baa been
granted the Salem office in the
I3-years.
Nearly Tea Times
Vote me First Handled
I The building still in use was
erected when annual postal re
ceipts totaled 325,000 and 20 em
ployes were on the payroll, which
Is in striking contrast to the an
nual receipts now of $247,000
and 1 employes, the chamber
found.
, A new, structure to care ade
quately for the city's postal needs
and looking to the future should
be four stories high and contain
plenty of room for federal offices
on the npper floors, those who
have studied the situation believe.
shew- that last March 15 tele
grams were sent to Senators Mc
Nary and Steiwer and Represen
tatives Mott, Pierce and Ekwall
asking support for the poatoffice
and urging them to ask for the
survey by the postoffice depart
ment. Hopes were raised to high
peak later that month when Sen
ator McXary wired that Salem
would be included in a list of
postoffice projects if funds were
available, and dashed, again when
-funds weren't forthcoming.
. Recommendation is
for Greater Space
:- Late in April the inspection
and survey of the postoffice here
was completed and recommended
larger facilities, upholding the
chamber of commerce claim that
under the. present setup the work
was being carried on under diffi
culties and cramped conditions.
Both MeNary and Pierce advised
the chamber immediately that the
survey had boosted chances tor
the new building.
As late as May 18, the cham
ber sent information to the con
gressmen showing that in the 33
years the present postoffice has
stood, with only 125,000 expend
ed on enlarging it, $18,000,000
worth of general construction had
been carried on in the city of
Salem. Additional correspondence
between the chamber and con
gressmen since that time indi
cated the proposed project was
marking time along with other
postoffice propositions at least
until the second deficiency bill
passed.
liOBERS TRAILED BY
F
! FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13
-(-Trailed by a crowd of boys
-and girls. Will Rogers, humorist
. and film actor, roamed about the
city today, visiting business hous
es and the plant of the farthest
- north daily newspaper in the
world (The News Miner).
:; Rogers talked freely about
nearly everything except plans
for continuing his flight with Wi
ley Post, around-the-world flier,
In wbose red monoplane he is
touring the northland.
"Everybody in Fairbanks seems
to prowl around nights and at
midnight there are more people on
the streets, than at any other
. time." Rogers commented.
i The humorist apparently was
bavins difficulty adjusting him
self -to having daylight at mid
night. ' -
ELSTXORE
t Today Clark Gable in "Call
t the Wild."
"Friday Joan Blondell In
J "We're In the Honey."
J - CAPITOL
iToday Double MIL Bill
Cody la Texas . Rambler"
; and mystery thriller, "The
i- Shadow Laughs."
Thursday Double bUL Rl-
cardo Cortes In "Manhat-
taa Moon" and "West
Point of the Air" with
. Wallace Beery.
HOLLYWOOD
'.Today '"Lottery Lov-
er ..with Lew Ayers.
iFrldayr-Double MIL Buck
Jones In "When a Man
- l Sees Red, end The Swell
Head; with Dickie Moore.
STATE
Today "The Good Fairy"
with Margaret Sullavan.
Thursday Doable bill,
Charles Bichford in MNo-
torious Gentleman" and
"Hold Em Tale."
. Saturday Bob Stsele in "Big
Calibre."
IKS
YOUTHS
The Call Board
SafetyTest Cat
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Bere'a the SheU "Drive Safely- test car which will visit this city,
giving local motorists an opportunity to join In a movement to re
duce accidents by having their brakes, lights and born tested with
out charge. Art Burelbach, Shell Oil Company safety engineer. In
charge of the tests, is shown holding, a "decelerometer" latest
device for measuring hrake efficiency. In the foreground are flags
which will mark the test course.
PROMOTING SAFETY
SE
Shell Car Will Arrive on
Monday; Art Burelback
Will Be in Charge
An opportunity to promote safe
driving and to keep the highways
free from accidents will be of
fered the motorists of Salem next
Monday, according to an an
nouncement by Gordon E. Wilson,
Salem manager for the Shell Oil
company.
A Shell car, equipped with the
latest scientific devices for test
ing automobile brakes, headlights
and horn, will visit this city Mon
day. All motorists of the city are
invited to have their cars checked
without charge or obligation.
Art Burelback, safety engineer
for Shell, will be in charge of the
test car. He will be located at
Mission street, between Church
and Cottage. Those wishing to
enlist in the growing campaign
for fewer motor accidents by hav
ing their cars "safety tested,"
may do so next Monday between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Police to Assist
Tests will be purely voluntary.
Mr. Wilson announced that both
city and state police offieers were
enthusiastic over the plans.
"The entire police department
will lend every assistance possible
in this fine work." Police Chief
Frank Minto declared. "I think
this plan is one of the finest yet
attempted. I sincerely hope every
motorist who can do so will drive
his car to Mission and Church
streets Monday and have it test
ed." Wilson pointed out the test
will take but a few minutes. Fur
ther details of the Shell "Drive
Safely" campaign will be found
in The Oregon Statesman later.
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Electric Into a mammoth holding
company. At one point or another
he defended what he termed a
"constitutional right of privacy,''
and discounted reports of million-
dollar-a-year profits.
The fireworks started when Jo
seph McCarthy, the senate inves
tigator, was blocked when he at
tempted to serve Hopson as he
left the committee room, found an
elevator door slammed in his face
and raced two floors to the street
only to miss him again.
Late in the day Black grimly
signed a subpoena for William A
Hill, Hopson's attorney, who was
described in testimony as active
pin keeping McCarthy from reach
ing Hopson. Hill was Identified
before the senate committee as
one of those in the Associated
Press photo.
He will be heard tomorrow, if
he can be reached at the same
time Hopson is continuing his
testimony before the house com
mittee.
Clipper Arrives
At Midway Isle
MIDWAY ISLAND. Aug. 13.-
CPV-The Pan - American clipper
landed here at 3 p. m. today
Honolulu time (8:30 p. m. East
em Standard time), completing a
flight of 1323 miles trom Hono
lulu in eight hours and 52 min
utes.
CRAMER CONFIRMED
.WASHINGTON, Aug. lSHV
The senate today confirmed Law
rence W, Cramer of New York as
governor of "the Virgin Islands.
He succeeds Paul M. Pearson,
Pennsylvania republican, recently
transferred to the states in the
midst ef the controversy over bis
administration.
ROOSEVELT SPEEDER
IRVINGTON. N. Y Aug. 13.-(ff-John
Roosevelt, son of the
president, fell victim No. 65 to
day in a police campaign to curb
speeding on a newly-paved sec
tion of the Albany post road, and
posted $10 ball pending a sched
uled appearance tomorrow.
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COMIC OPERA 101
IS CIVEK TO PROBE
Comes Monday
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"FOB YF1ELECTED
Delegates to Convention are
Also Named for Unit
at Hazel Green
HAZEL GREEN, Aug. 13.
Sunday night Rev. F. G. Roscoe,
superintendent of the Oregon con
ference, held the last quarterly of
the year. Church officers and del
egates elected to the annual con
ference are:
Class leader, G. G. Looney;
church and benevolence treasur
er and financial secretary. Ruby
Woodward; director of Christian
education, pastor; adult work.
Margery Looney; primary, Mrs.
H. Wortman ; delegates.
church. Ruby Woodward: Ladies'
Aid, Mrs. Wortman, missionary,
Mrs. G. G. Looney.
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Wortman,
Billie and Ruth left this morning
for a week with Mrs. Wortman's
relatives at Kennewick, Wash.,
before going to Spokane for the
annual conference.
Former Resident Calls
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bartruff
and children, Grace, Victor, Bryce
and Marian of Lacomb were
guests at the G. G. Looney home
Sunday. Mrs. Bartruff is remem
bered here as Lonie Peoples,
daughter of Rev. Bertha Peoples,
who built the church here 32
years ago.
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(By The Associated Press)
A new heat wave reached out
across the midwestern plains yes
terday (Tuesday) while another
was losing its hold on the Pacific
coast.
Des Moines, la., Lincoln, Neb.,
and the twin cities, Minneapolis
and St. Paul, where a high pres
sure area dispatched cool winds
Monday, all reported rising tem
peratures with still warmer wea
ther a possibility.
The southbound breezes were
felt yesterday in Oklahoma and
Texas but forecasts indicated the
relief would be brief.
At Lincoln, Neb., a temperature
of 90 at 1 p. m., yesterday was
seven degrees above that for the
same hour Monday.
Des Moines' 85 was five above
the maximum 24 hours previous
ly. In Kansas, where there were
spotted showers, the northwestern
sector began steaming up again.
BILL ASSURES FUND
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struction and mechanical equip
ment projects, .Including repairs,
alterations and improvements
would be carried ont on federal
buildings throughout the country
No announcement was made as
to the cost of the individual build
ing projects.
Projects announced today in
elude the following (postoffice
building and site unless other
wise specified):
Idaho Payette, Idaho Falls.
(The Idaho Falls project Is for an
extension and remodeling). .
Oregon Salem (building only),
Ontario, Portland (postal station
A).
Romance Carried
Bit Too Far When
Hay Stack Burns
LOS ANGELES, Aag. 13-P)-As
a trysting place, the hay stack
is an ancient and romantic insti
tution.
But when young lovelorn cou
ples set fire to the stack, and
the tire barns part of a man's
nome, its carrying romance too
lar. Henry Armstrong, suburban
resident, complained to the sher
if fs arson squad today.
In the moonlight last night, he
said he saw a young couple race
away from the hay-stack in the
rear of his home just before the
nre started. He asked detectives
w mita er iae pair.
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NEW M WAVE
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Flames Now Sweep Jdw'ard
Mt. Hood Forest; Power
Service Disrupted
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river. Those hurt included Harry
Oakes. Jack Friend. Charles. Cnl-
ver and William wmtmore, all
of The Dalles.
The- Dalles . was believed safe
from the flames, since brash land
around the city already-had been
burned off, constituting- a tire
break.
Considerable standing wheat,
scrub oak and second-growth tim
ber were destroyed. ' ?
Flames at Moaier -were leaping
at the Emmanuel church and bad
almost reached a residence before
being halted.
The high wind continued, to
night. . -
(By the Associated Press)
Higher humidity and generally
lower temperatures had materially
lesaened Oregon's forest fire trou
ble today.
Washington county's conflagra
tions were reported under control
late today but 100 men were kept
on guard near Scholls where sev
eral ranch homes were threaten
ed. Many logging camps and mills
in that area, in response to a sug
gestion by district fire warden Ce
cil Kyle, ceased operations, put
ting an estimated 1000 men tem
porarily out of work.
Row River Blaze
Reported Quelled
Firty more men were sent to
the Row river fire in Lane county
today by State Forester Lynn
Cronemlller, and it was' under
stood that situation was well in
hand tonight.
More than 300 men were en
gaged in fighting incendiary fires
in Douglas county, where general
fire conditions were described to
night as "improved."
Several homes were threatened
in suburban Portland, where
brush fires have proven a serious
hazard, but no material damage
resulted.
New CCC recruits rushed to in
cendiary fires In Coos county
were reported to hare halted the
spread of the flames.
LONG'S H01CY
MILD FUROR CHOSE
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continue to vote their own convic
tions on legislation but said neith-
of them had "ever bolted a party
nomination local, state or na
tional and neither oX us has
ever entertained the remotest no
tion of doing anything of the kind
in 1936."
Almost coincident with the -dis
closure by Long's colleagues -of his
presidential plans came a warning
in New Orleans from Senator Bil
bo (D-Mlss.), for the Louisiana
senator to keep his hands off Mis
sissippi politics.
Bilbo said, "Mississippi will
never become & province of Lou
isiana" and added that Long's
candidacy for the presidency was
a great big Joke."
Some reublicans took the mat
ter more seriously, however. One
western senator said that if Long
ran independently his own state,
which had gone democratic In the
last two elections, would go re
publican. TRIO CONVICTED OF
cn
DETROIT, Aug. IS -JP)- Wil
liam Lee Ferris and three former
burlesque house dancers were con
victed by a recorder's court Jury
today of the 3134 holdup-murder
of Howard Carter Dickinson.
Judge John A. Boyne said he
would pass sentence of life im
prisonment, mandatory under
Michigan laws, on the four self
styled "cocktail bar racketeers,"
Thursday.
The jury of six men and six
women deliberated two hours and
41 minutes, returning a separate
verdict against each defendant. It
added a "recommendation for
mercy" in the eases of the wom
en, but the court has no option
but a life sentence for first de
gree murder in Michigan.
The taree women, Florence and
Loretta Jackson and Jean Miller.
who have interrupted the trial fre
quently with emotional outbreaks,
were taken screaming.- from the
courtroom.
FRIERDS TO MEET
AT SCOTTS MILLS
The Salem quarterly meeting
of Friends will be held at Scotts
Mills Friday and Saturday of this
week, announces Rev. Edgar P.
Sims, quarterly meeting superin
tendent. The Friday afternoon session at
2:30 o'clock will be on ministry
and oversight, and at 7:30 that
night, the evangelistic message
will be brought by Rev. T. Clio
Brown, pastor -of the Salem High
land Friends church.
Saturday morning at 10:30
o'clock a meeting for worship
will convene, with visiting Friends
expected from other , quarterly
meetings. Reports from the recent
yearly meeting will be heard. The
business session will be held Sat
nrday afternoon.
GIRL IS MISSING
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 13-JPy-Search
for Marie Briggs. 1, who
disappeared from her home at
Springfield last Friday, was con
tinued today. She was traced as
far as this city.
1 M
Uhfaiz Cargoes
Issued Voted On
By Stevedores
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 13.
(p) Members of the Maritime
Federation of the Pacific today
began voting on the question of
handling alleged "unfair' Bri
tish Columbia cargoes.
Federation officials reported -a
heavy vote and said a count prob
ably would be available by Wed
nesday night.
Meanwhile, preparations for a
separate coastwise vote by long
shoremen were made. Longshore
men previously had agreed to
vote with the federation but they'
beeded later instruction from
their district council and planned
to . begin their separate vote to
morrow' night,
HOP HARVEST WILL
SIT IS
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which constitutes the bulk ef the
crop in this area, will get under
way about September 1, with the
harvest to last around three
weeks. The early cluster and
fuggle harvest lasts only a short
time. First picking in the Grants
Pass area started yesterday, ac
cording to word rejprred here.
Shortage of Pickers
Not Indicated Now
The only probability of a slash
in the present heavy crop pros
pects would be early fall rains,
either before or during harvest.
which wonld bring on mould In
yards that have not sprayed the
crop this season. Less spraying
than usual has been done, due
both to favorable weather for the
growing crop and to financial
problems of the growers.
Registration of pickers is re
ported to be picking up, and there
is little likelihood that a short
age of harvest hands will occur.
Announcement that WBA will not
start projects in this section un
til after hop and prune harvest
had been completed has perked up
registration, and will bring in
more it is considered.
Estimate on the 1935 hop pro
duction in this state is 120,000 to
125,000 bales, trom about 24,-
000 acres which includes new
acreage put out two and three
years ao and now coming Into the
peak of production. Final figure
on the 1934 production in Oregon
was released yesterday and is
117,114 bales.
Carryover In 1034
Production is High
Carryover on the Oregon 1934
crop as the new harvest comes on
is 10,016 bales, with other carry
over on crops from 1929 to 1933
bringing the total holdover to
27,101 bales. This carryover.
though a bad factor In the pres
ent price situation, is good in com
parison to the other two coast
states' hop carryover. Washing
ton has a 14,43 4 bale carryover
and California has 39,23? bales
of all stocks still to dispose of.
The California carryover In
cludes 19,760 bales of the 1034
crop and the Washington, 11,303
of the- 1934 crop. A year ago,
the stocks in growers' hands to
taled 46,095 bales, compared to
30,772 at the present time.
NEW YORK. Aug. 13.-UPVA
heavily reinforced theatre district
detail poiicea Gotham movie hous
es after the bombing of two of
them and an apparent attempt to
bomb a third, the Times Square
theatre on west 42nd street.
A porter found the suDDoaed
bomb in the Times Square the
atre under a couch on the met
zanine floor.
He ran for a nail of water ti
which he doused the suspicious
package. The vial supposed to
nave contained an exnlosivn was
broken, coloring the water blue
Chemists sought to analyze t h
contents.
400 Patrons Insid
Four hundred nersona wpra In
the theatre, which had been nn
of those picketed by motion pic
ture operators' unions recently in
a tabor dispute.
Thirty-five pickets were arrest
ed tonight on charres of disnrd
erly conduct. 17 of them In front
oi one or the two theatres which
were targets for early mornlog
bombing attempts.
Benjamin F. De Agostina, pres
ident of the Allied Motion Pic
ture Operators' union, and Joseph
uasson, president of the Moving
Picture ODeratora' union. tntu
however, that the anions had any
connection with the blasts.. .
Hamni's Camera
Has Pictures of
Bonneville Dam
PENDLETON, Ore.. Aug. 13-W-Pictures
found In a camera
identified as belonging "to Roy
Hamm. Portland youth whose
body was found In the cellar of a
vacant house near Meachem, today
led officers to believe 4h vnnth
was slain by a hitch-hiker he had
picked np at Bonneville dam.
The pictures portrayed portions
of the river project.
Officer said many transients
linger at the site of the dam and
that Hamm mav have nicked nn
one of them to accompany him on
his trip to pocatello, Idaho; Hamm
left Portland for Pocatello In a
truck July 2. His battered body
was found a few days later. His
truck' was abandoned near the
Meachem house. ' " ' I
LAST DAY. '
... Margaret Sullavan
In
"THE GOOD FAIRY
THEATRE BOMBINGS
III GOTHAM PROBED
DESI&piS
'ortland Firm and 2 Local
Men Selected; No Date
for Election Set
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A conference between members
of the board and representatives
of the three firms of architects
will be held, Thursday to discuss
contracts, Tate of pay and rela
tion t the firms working on the
various labs.
No date was set for the bond
election at which the school ven
ters will approve or disapprove
the ICOOrOOO bond issue but The
clerk and chairman, of the finance
committee were authorized to ad
vertise for the election to be call
ed at the earliest possible date.
Caretaker Asked
For- Playground
vernon Gilmore, playground, di
rector, appeared before the board
with a request, endorsed by the
school-playground committee, that
caretaker be hired to prevent
damage to property and to do nec
essary work at Ollriger playground
during the winter. Gilmore said
that under the present setup
playground property had been
damaged during the winter
months. Last winter children
made the Olinger pool into a min
iature yacht club with -rafts and
there was danger of drowning.
The caretaker would live in quar
ters in the Olinger grandstand.
Gordon A. Findley of Portland,
a graduate of Oregon State col
lege, was appointed as supervisor
of bands and orchestras of second
ary schools at a salary of 31350
after the board went into execu
tive session to consider applicants.
Findley will be the first full time
band and orchestra instructor the
Salem system has had.
The board approved Superin
tendent Gaiser's recommendation
of Alice Inslow, La Grande, for a
teaching position in the element
ary schools.
CHAMPIONS OF AM
CORVALLIS. Ore., Aug. 13.-6ip
L. A. Moorhonse of Colorado
State college was elected president
of the Western Farm Economics
association at a business session
of the convention here today.
George M. Peterson of the Uni
versity of California and Milton
N. Nelson of Oreaon State colleee
were chosen vice-president and
secreary respectively.
Laramie. Wyo.. was named as
the site for the 1938 parley.
Friends of the agricultural ad
justment act had their inning at
today's session, following verbal
attacks on the AAA eet forth at
the meetings yesterday.
C. V. Wells, senior agricultural
economist with the AAA at Wash
ington, defended federal farm con
trol policies, declaring that such
practice was socially desirable
since it assertedly provides for all
domestic neeas and the export de
mand. E. R. Jackman. Orezon Stat
college, hailed the agricultural
adjustment act as "the first real
break farmers have received" and
argued against proposed changes
including the elimination f con
tracted acreage and the abolition
of historical base for allotments.
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-vP)-Lead-ers
of three branches of Method
ism today completed preliminary
negotiations for the proposed
merger of the Methodist Episco
pal church North, the Methodist
Episcopal church South and the
Methodist Protestant church.
A "plan" committee spent the
day at the North Shore hotel in
suburban Evanston perfecting a
constitution to be put before a
committee of 45 churchmen to
morrow. The constitution, if acceptable
to the committee and ratified by
general conferences of the three
denominations, will result in a
united church of from 7,000,000
to 8,000,000 members the larg
est protectant body in the United
States.
Under the proposed constitu
tion, it was reported, the united
church wonld be divided into six
regional conferences, each confer
ence to elect a bishop.- Negro
churchmen would be given a con
ference of their own tor the first
time, resorts said.
LI.YT700L
Held O ver
. Today and Thursday
All Salem Acclaims
the Big New
Musical Show!
ADDED - .X-ay
;' ... Comedy and News ;
HAVE THEIR II
METHODIST UNI
LOOKS PROMISING
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Divorces Sought
In Three Cases;
Wives Plaintiff s
With desertion charged in two
cases and cruel and- inhuman
treatment in the third three di
vorce complaints hare been filed
with the county clerk.
Ruth, Wright charges desertion
and asks for custody of a minor
child in asking for a divorce from
Jack Wright whom she married
in Salem October 9, 1931. Dora
Margaret Ball, seeking a divorce
from Arthur Cheater Ball, to
whom she was married at Merced,
Calif., October IS, also charges de
sertion. I n a V. Church
seeks a divorce from William 0.
Church. They were married In
Casa county, Iowa, December 22,
1922. She asks the restoration
of her maiden name of Ina V.
Miller.
LABOR PUT FOR
PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 13-p)-A
program of speeches and the
presentation of resolutions for
preliminary study marked the
second, day's session of the Oregon
State Federation of Labor con
vention.' The only formal action taken
today called for sending of pro
tests, over the signature of state
labor officials, against the "sub
sistence wages" on relief projects.
Delegates voted to inform gov
ernment relief leaders that the
Oregon federation "can see no
reason" why wages should be be
low union scales.
Resolutions offered called for:
A law claiming all profits for a
public fund to be used to provide
employment and supply unem
ployables; the formation of a new
party "based on the principles of
production for use and abolition
of the profits system''; an old-age
pension 'plan depending on funds
from progressive taxation on
property with an assessed valua
tion of $10,000 or over; a 30
hour week for carpenters and the
opening of the Rogue river to
commercial fishing.
The longshore delegates asked
the federation to consider forma
tion of a "union labor party" in
Oregon and to abandon the policy
that the state group should not
take issue on political questions.
EXCEEDING!! SHORT
The production of white clover
seed this year is expected to be
about one-third that of last year.
Smaller crops In Louisiana, Idaho,
and Oregon, are ladicated, accord
ing to the U. S. bureau of agricul
tural economies. In recent years
the production of this seed in Wis
consin has been very small, and
it may be just as small this year
because the somewhat better
yields reported may be offset en
tirely by the decreased acreage.
Heavy rains at harvest time in
Louisiana were mainly responsi
ble for the smaller acreage and
yields than last year. However,
a somewhat similar situation pre
vailed last year when much of the
seed was shattered by the effects
of the prolonged rains. The pro
duction in that state is estimated
to be 300,000 to 350,000 pounds.
compared with approximately
900,000 pounds each in 1933 and
1934.
On July 9 growers in Louisiana
were being offered mostly 12 to
S14 per 100 pounds, basis clean
seed, or same price as last year
but about to S2 more than they
received two years ago on the
corresponding date.
MU1I15
ES
The mercury, which has been
emulating a Jumping jack, drop
ped 15 degrees yesterday from
Monday's third highest maximum
of the year of 102 to a mere 87
degrees. While Salem residents
were not in a hurry to get out the
bred flannels and ear muffs the
rapid drop furnished considerable
relief. A light breeze was a big
factor In cooling Salem's heat vic
tims and the run on soft drink
fountains, swimming pools and
cellars was not so noticeable but
still Btrong.
Yesterday's maximum of 87 de
grees was reached in mid - after
noon. Minimum temperature, at
a time when most people were
still sound asleep, was 53 degrees.
Clear weather and changeable
winds Is the forecast for today.
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THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY
TWO GREAT FEATURES
Hit No. 1
Playing a
lone hand in lovewith
the Queen of Hearts.
Hit No; 2 WALLACE BEERY in
"WEST POINT OF THE AIR"
NHS
PIFJEOJ VALLEY
Purcell Installing Two-Pump
FiHing Station at
Halls Ferry
HALLS FERRY, Aug. 13
Bertha Brown, who has been sick
for the ' last three months, has
been "taken to the Deaconess hos
pital for treatment.
M. A. Mulrony-aad wife of Hon
olulu, were guests at the home
of his coesin, Mrs. Harvey Schue
bel last week. Mr. Mulrony is
operating a radio station. He left
Washington for the- islands about
20 years ago and is now back for
a tour of the Pacific coast states.
He says that crops look the best
in the Willamette valley of any
place he has visited.
Building: Station
Oscar Purcell has purchased
eqalpaent and is installing a two
Pump filling station at his home
place en the River Drive road.
The new station will be known as
the "Midway' as It is halt way
between Salem and Independence.
He will also Install a fruit and
vegetable stand. He will be assist
ed in this enterprise by his daugh
ters, Dorothy and Elinor.
J. L. Strawn has .finished his
work on the bridge in Rainier Na
tional park, andjhas now taken a
logging job near Woodbnrn. He
will be assisted by the Holland
brothers.
SP
VETS I FAVORED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-JP)-Asserting
that his action estab
lished no precedent for world
war pensions. President Roosevelt
today signed the Spanish-American
war veterans bill.
The bill restores all pensious
to the dependents and the vet
erans of the Spanish - American
war. Boxer rebellion and Philip
pine insurrection at a cost esti
mated by the veterans adminis
tration as J45.581.0O6 a year. It
will return approximately 60,000
persons to the roll. Widows will
gain by about 16,000,000.
The presidential signature was
put on the measure a few hours
before the lapse of the 10 th legis
lative day after passage. Had he
not signed it by midnight, the bill
would automatically have become
law.
lUSiO FEARED
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the dead could be attempted in
the darkness, rescue workers late
tonight estimated the total might
be between 600 and 1000.
Many bodies, buried under de
bris of homes as whole families
were wiped out by the sudden
flood, will never be recovered,
they feared.
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