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100! That's hot weather! Like Washington, D. C," sum mer. Congress adjourned last night to get away from . it. The Statesman tells the story today. THE WEATHER Unsettled today and Wed b e i d a y, thunderstorms or showers by Wednesday; Max Temp Monday lOO, Min. -48,' river -3.7 feet, Tar table winds. i1 FOUND Ep 1651 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, August 27, 1935 No. 131 5 TOD IH SAYS STATE' S CHIEF Amount is Guarded Secret but in Neighborhood of Million, Indicated Further Negotiations Will de Had; Committee for State Has Report Whatever figure Willamette nniversity trustees may hare sug gested as their asked price for the 18-acre campus here was be ing carefully guarded last night by Governor Charles H. Martin and his special committee ap pointed to open negotiations look ing toward possible acquisit on of the campus for additional space for the state capitol. Intimation that the price asked might be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 was met with a state ment by Amedee Smith, president of the Willamette board, that the price was around that figure but neither Smith nor Governor Mar tin would give any exact state ment on the price sought by the university. Governor Martin yesterday morning did indicate to the press at the capitol that the price sug gested by the Willamette com mittee was high and he is known yesterday afternoon to have con ferred with Mr- Smith on the matter. At the same time the governor is understood to have sought ad ditional data on Willamette uni versity costs from his committee. Must Sharpen Their Pencils Says Martin Governor Martin-yesterday com mented, before his departure from Salem,-that Willamette university officials "would have to sharpen their pencils" before making any deals with the state. Additional negotiation between the governor's committee and a special cotnmittee representing the Willamette university board of trustees was expected in the1 near future. Representing Gov ernor Martin are Oscar Hayter of Dallas, committee chairman, and Roy F. Shields and E. B. Mac Naugnton of Portland. Represent ing Willamette university art Am adee Slmith, president of the board, R. A. Booth of Eugene. Robert Notson of Portland, and Paul Wallace and C. A. Sprague of Salem. Representatives of Willamette -have heretofore point out that any figures they have submitted are only the committee's idea of a .fair asked price for the campus and its buildings and have stated that any price asked was subject to acceptance or rejection by the full Willamette university board of trustees when that body is con (Turn to Page 2, Col. B Senator Charles H. McNary, re publican leader in the upper house, was on his thankful way last night to Oregon. . And it's not straining the facts to report that it will be a ' tired but happy" senator who gets off the train in Portland on Thursday morning at 7:30"o'clock. Tired for the session has been one of the longest and busiest in the nation's history. Happy because at Fircone, near, Salem, wait Mrs. McNary and their newly-adopted daugh ter. "Due to the unusually lonr ses sion of congress, through one of Washington's hottest summers, the senator will take the month of September for. complete lest," his office here announced yester day. "He Is much in need of this rest after his arduous duties and the responsibility incident to his position." In October, the senator ia ex pected to get about the state vis iting friends and looking over the needs ot his district. For the next month he will maintain no office hours here and guests at his summer home will come only by invitation. County Vannery Given U. S. Fund PORTLAND, Aug. 26.-P)-The uregonian a w as bin gt on corres pondent said today that Marion county had been granted $3426 in federal funds for the operation of a portable cannery for relief purposes. Sponsors ot the project re to expend $10,502 in addi tion. OFFER M M TO REACH OREGON THURSDAY Traffic Signals Head Kuhn's" Must List" He Reveals Upon Return Mayor, Back From Vacation, Hears Complaint Conditions on Salem's Streets are Worst; Will Ask for Funds ONE of Mayor V. E. Kuhn's first official acts, he announced yesterday on his return from a week's vacation, will be to suggest to the city council and budget committee that they provide funds next year for the installation of a traffic signal system in downtown Salem. Overhead signal lights and the necessary intricate cable and automatic control equipment World News at a Glance (By theAssociated Press) Washington: Congress adjourns. Third defi ciency bill fails o enactment. Soviet ambassador cites anti Russian propaganda in U. S. in reply to America's protest; Mos cow silent. Roosevelt signs utility company regulation bill. President sets deadlines for re lief allotments. Other domestic: Detroit Green launches drives to enroll 250,000 auto workers in "historic union.'' Foreign : Rome Italian fleet on verge of significant Mediterranean man euvers; Mussolini telephoned his commissioner in Africa, orders cabinet meeting near mimic bat tlefields. London Predict II Duce may offer to "swap" peace for pow ers' colonies. London English diplomatic sources declare Japan's equality demands kills naval parley hopes. LETTEBS TO KANSAS CITY, Aug. 26.-(ff)-Send-a-dime chain letters re member? promise to pay off for the United States treasury in a way to make envious the origi nator of that 40-day wonder of personal prosperity financing. In popular patronage, the chain idea has gone the way of the Mis sissippi bubble, the yo - yo and miniature golf. Bnt piled up in the dead letter sections of . postoffices today are thousands of misaddressed, un claimed envelopes bearing coins mailed in the frenziedsiiver rush which petered outttfree months ago. In Denver alone, reputed point of origin of the dime chain idea, 100,000 letters are impounded, with the contents to be turned over to the treasury after a year of gathering dust. Postmaster J. C. Stevic esti mated the Denver holdings at from $3000 to $4000 in dimes, quarters and half dollars. SAME OLD MISTAKE MARSHFIELD, Ore., Aug. 26. -(P)-Richard Bowman, who said he was from Florida, was severe ly burned last night when gaso line ignited while he was holding match over a tank to ascertain how much tainer. fuel was in the con- TREASOX CHARGED MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26.-(i!P)- Telephoned advices from Puebla said tonight authorities there had arrested 17 persons including a young woman, accused of plot ting against the federal govern ment. LEAK IS -STOPPED BONNEVILLE, Ore., Aug. 26.- ()-The Columbia Construction company tonight began the pour ing of concrete behind the huge main river cofferdam of Bonne- rville dam, after baring driven the last piece of steel piling around a leak which had hampered work since Tuesday. COLLISION IS FATAL ROSEBURG, Ore., Aug. 29.-VP) -Byron R. Nicholas, 65-year-old Spanish war veteran, was fatally injured today when the truck he was driving collided with a ma chine registered to J. J. Blrman of Roseburg near the Coos-Douglas county line. He died in an ambu lance en route to this city. Nich olas was moving his household goods from Wedderburn to Portland. i M en would cost approximately $1600 each If bought singly but con siderably less If obtained several at a time, he said. While Kuhn believes Salem needs seven signals for as many intersections and needs them bad ly, he says he will insist that at least three be installed on State street in 1936 and the others in ensuing years. Intersections men tioned are those of State and Court streets with Commercial, Liberty and High streets, and Center street with Commercial. "If it's the last thing I do, I'll see that we have some traf fic signals here," Kuhn declared. "Why, today a woman who drove (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) F0IWI CASE DEMURRER ARGUED Marion Hotel Bond Matter .Up Before Lewelling; Authority Denied A demurrer to the foreclosure complaint in the matter of Mar ion hotel bonds in the suit brought by Thomas A. Roberts, personal trustee, against James and Faris Linn and others for fail ure to pay principal and interest on certain bonds under a trust de benture was taken under advise ment by Judge Lewelling yester day. Declaring that the suit was started on the theory that Thom as A. Roberts as personal trustee has authority to enforce the ac celeration clause and to declare bonds due and institute foreclos ure, John Carson, who appeared for Linns, held that under his in (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) BLAME IS PLACED PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 26.-JP) -An investigating board 'today named three persons whom they believed responsible for the crash of a locomotive near Cochran, on Aug. 6. Five men were killed when an engine and two cars plunged to the bottom of a 110-foot can yon when a bridge gave way. Those named were H. C. Jones, bridge inspector; R. Andrews, foreman of the Southern Pacific construction crew, and O. V. Ches ney, bridge and building super visor. The board, headed by E. L. King, Portland division railroad superintendent, said the, crash re sulted from the operation of a train over a trestle when two bents were not longitudinally braced. In addition to the five killed, three others were injured in the crash. The trestle has been rebuilt. CRASH Start Pouring Big Dam . Veteran is Fatally Hurt Brush Fire Gets House Crash Victim Improves BARNS ALSO BURN EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 26.-UP)- A house and barn on the George Diess farm three miles north ot Eugene were destroyed by fire to day. The flames jumped to the structures from a grass fire on a railroad right-of-way. Fire yesterday destroyed the dairy barn and milk house on the Kenneth McCormack ranch on the north fork ot the Siuslaw riTer. HURT IN PLANE FALL MARSHFIELD, Ore., Aug. 2$.- (ffJ-John Karnosh; -who iras se verely injured when his plane crashed during the Paul Bunyan air-show here Sunday, has a good chance for recovery, physicians said tonight. He suffered a frac tured skull, a compound fracture of the right leg, several broken ribs and severe bruises when his piano nose-dived from a height oi ivv ieec. LATEST TORRID WAVE WILL BE ENDED QUICKLY Thunder Storms by Middle of Week are Forecast for This Valley Mercury Reaches 100 Here With Unsettled Period Slated to Start HOURLY TEMPERATURES IX SALEM MONDAY 5 42 a. m. . .49 42 p. m. 42 p. m. 42 p. m. 42 p. m. 42 p. m. 42 p. m. .98 .99 .99 .95 .89 .82 .77 .71 .74 6:42 a. m. 7:42 a. m. 8:42 a. m. 9:42 a. m. 10:42 a. m. 11:42 a. m. 12:42 p. m. 1:42 p. m. ..5 ..68 ..73 ..78 ..82 . .87 ..92 . .97 8:42 p. m. 8:42 p. m. 9:42 p. m. Thunderstorms Wednesday are likely to be a sequel to the blaz ing heat which belted down on Salem yesterday. Downtown pe destrians probably would believe it was high enough but the offi cial maximum temperature was a mere 100 degrees, in contrast with 106 registered earlier this sum mer. The weather bureau foresaw unsettled weather, slightly cooler and higher in humidity, in pros pect for today and showers and the sky fireworks for Wednesday. Sunday's maximum of 89 de grees foreshadowed yesterday's centnry mark and a minimum of but 48 yesterday morning brought it closer. The high point of the day's mercury readings came be tween 3:42 and 4:42 p. m., fol lowed by sharp hourly declines to 69 degree at 11:42. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 26.-(jP) Soaring temperatures and a marked drop in humidity turned Oregon forests into a veritable tin-der-hox today, with the result that timbered areas in 10 counties were ordered closed to entry and (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) TO PARTY CONTROL PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 26.-vp) -John C. Beckman, chair-nan of tHe Multnomah county democra tic central committee, tonight kept control of the county group by appearing on the scene and taking the reins from the hands of the man who sought to limit his power. Beckman previously had said he would not attend the meeting, called by Secretary H. J. Langoe, but changed his mind. As presiding officer, be ap pointed committees of his own choosing and succeeded in having referred to a committee on by laws a group of resolutions aimed at his regime. The group voted to sustain Beckman and the executive com mittee in its power to fill vacan cies on precinct committees and sustained the chairman in his re cent criticism of the state WPA for assertedly hiring a majority of republicans. Louise Palmer Weber leveled criticism at Governor Charles H. Martin and Mayor Joseph Carson for not protesting Hamilton Fish's talk before the chamber of com merce yesterday. "The thing that happened was a disgrace," she declared. "A man comes here and maligns the demo crats. Yet the chamber of com merce is supposed to be non partisan." WPA Projects in . Ten Counties of Oregon Approved WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-(JP- The works progress administra tion announced today that Presi dent Roosevelt had approved the expenditure of an additional (237,804 for work relief in Ore gon. Sponsors of the projects are pledged to provide (107,514 more for equipment and other ex penses. The program was filed by W. J. Griffith, Oregon WPA adminis trator. Counties named In the list In clude Baker, Benton, Jackson, Jefferson, Klamath, Lane, Linn, Multnomah, Tillamook and Wash ington. Projects yary widely, and In elude playgronnds, road work. airports, sidewalks, school re pairs, library Improvements light ing system, free medical ' atten tion, sewage disposal plants, paint BECKMAN HANGS ing and remodeling work and wa iter system. . . Royal Ethiopian Is Modern Girl X.. y Princess Tsahal, daughter of the emperor and empress of Ethi opia, is a very modern young woman who affects the smart ways of the western world. Ping pong Is her favorite diversion FOB BELIEF WORKS Applications in Final Form Must Be in September 12, F. R. Insists WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-(p)-A series, of deadlines, the first scarcely mole than two weeks off, was fixed by President Roosevelt today in a move to complete the allotment of the entire (4,000, 000,000 work relief fund by Sep tember 24. This latest attempt to speed up the lagging program was inter preted as eliminating almost all heavy construction projects on which applications have not been submitted, and barring numerous PWA and housing projects ear lier slated for approval. Increased emphasis on Harry L. Hopkins's works progress admin istration projects, with wider dis cretion to local administrators, was foreshadowed. The president's letter, notify ing cabinet officers and other work relief agents of this latest policy change, gave these final dates: September 12 All applications by both local and federal agen cies submitted in final form. September 17 Final meeting for work relief allotment commit tee. September 24 All allotments (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) UNDER Mil LISTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-UP)- The agricultural adjustment ad ministration reported today that benefit payments to farmers in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Utah through the fiscal period of July 1, 1934, to June 30, 1935 to talled 117,599.572.94. Oregon, with no sugar benefit payments, ranked third with 3, 482,109.48. Washington state re ceived (6,493,260.59; Idaho (5,- 718,503.90; Utah (1,905,697.97. Of Utah's total, (1,049,288.51 was received for the curtailment of the sugar beet crop. Umatilla county shared largest in Oregon in the benefit payments, receiving a total of (985,698.72. Sherman with (371.955.12 was second; Morrow with (266,408 was third and Gilliam with (252, 771.24 was fourth. Other- counties received pay ments as follows: Marion, (110,- 407.06; Polk (61.634, and Linn, (88,504.42. ' Wife of Senator Connally Victim Of Heart Attack WASHINGTON, Aug. t6.-jp Mrs. -Tom Connally, 50, wife of the junior senator from Texas, died suddenly late today in the senate office building. Death was caused by a heart attack. - Mrs. Connally was suddenly stricken and her husband sum moned during a brief recess in senate proceedings. He was at her side when she died, after being taken from an elevator to his office. DEADLINES SEI BENEFIT H HOLDING FIRMS BAN IS SI D ID BY ROOSEVELT Fight Will Be Carried Into Campaign, Says Leader i on Opposing Side Interstate Utilities Will Be Regulated, Some of Companies Barred WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-OP- Rigid federal regulation of inter state utility business and a com plete ban against many holding companies was made law today by President Roosevelt. He signed the utility holding company bill most bitterly fought of any measure in the clos ing congress while a half dozen of those who led his capitol hill fight looked on. Hardly was the ink dry upon the new law before one of the or ganizations which fought hardest against its enactment was threat ening to take the issue into the next presidential campaign. Hugh S. Magill, president of the Amer ican Federation of utility invest ors, said in a statement that the law was regarded by investors as an attack upon "all investor own ed and privately managed bus iness." Political Control Will be Fought He promised the issue would be heard again in thenext campaign In a fight by citizens "against greedy political control and con stitutional confiscation of private property.' And immediately, the Hartford Electric Light company and the Connecticut Power company cut off their interstate power 'trans mission lines to avoid coming un der federal regulation. Officials declined to predict how wide spread such actions might become but both the securities and power commission said they had received no word of such steps. . In the group assembled about the president's desk as he signed ttfe bill were Senators Wheeler (D-Mont), Barkley (D-Ky) and Brown (D-NH), Representative Rayburn, (D-Tex), Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas C. Corcoran. Two young administration attor neys and Dozier De Vane of the power commission. "I think it is a good bill and I think it will do the job,': said Rayburn as he emerged from the president's office. Forest Fire in Corvallis Area Is Not Checked CORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 2G.-(JP) A forest fire was sweeping un controlled through timber six miles west of Corvallis tonight, af ter residents of the area were un able to keep it in check despite having had it almost under con trol late this afternoon. A CCC camp In the vicinity were unable to aid materially, due to the absence of most of the boys who are battling another blaze near Triangle lake in Lane coun ty. Officials of the camp said It was probable a contingent of CC's would be rushed to the scene early tomorrow, however. Deficiency Bill's Failure To Tie Up WASHINGTON, Aug. 2t.-(JPy-M o s t congressional authorities held tonight that failure of the (100,000,000 third deficiency bill may delay operation until Janu ary of the bulk of new deal legis lation enacted during the last two months of congress. The bill carried funds for such major bills as social security, the holding company bill, the bus control law, the Guffey coal bill, and the federal alcohol control act. - Though President Roosevelt was reported to believe he could allocate funds to these agencies from work-relief money, congres sional authorities generally ex pressed a belief Comptroller Gen eral J. R. McCarl would not per mit this Btep. One high ranking senator said he had talked to McCarl about It and the comptroller general had assured him work relief and pub lie works funds could not be di verted for administration ot the laws. - ; Nevertheless, It was contended many of the new agencies could begin work unofficially with a view to being reimbursed In Jan uary, when congress meet again. Hiiey Long Filibusters Bill to Provideunds or Pension; Kills Ban on Limiting Of Advertising, Aim of Measure Preliminary petition fer a con stitutional amendment striking at the legislative act which prohibits dentists from advertising their prices, was filed in the state de partment here Monday by S. T. Donohue of Eugene. The proposed amendment reads as follows: "No advertisement of any busi ness, vocation, profession, service or of the sale of any goods or any vother property, or of any qualilyTrice or other detail in connection therewith, ever shall be prohibited or regulated, pro vided the advertisement states the truth." In case the petitions are com pleted by July 1, 1936, the amendment will go on the ballot at the next general election. E Offer of Colonies by Other European Powers Seen as Hope of Mussolini (By the Associated Press) The Italo - Ethiopian crisis, heightened by colonial considera tions, brought a beginning yester day to evacuation of the Ethio pian capital of Addis Ababa. Thousands of natives quit the capital for their villages. The Italian government began eva cuating its citizens and legation archives. Neutral diplomats sought protection for their lega tions, and food prices mounted. London Diplomatic observers (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) T WET SITES OKLAMOMA CITY, Aug. 2 6 -iSy-Texas repeal of prohibition made Oklahoma a dry desert In the southwest tonight surrounded by five wet staes and only one dry. Repealists jubilantly hailed the moist turn of affairs in Saturday's Texas vote as assuring eventual repeal in Oklahoma. Prohibitionists and enforcement agents, busy enough already, saw the problem of keeping thirsty Oklahomans that way made in creasingly difficult. "We can't keep Oklahoma dry now," gloomily muttered one off icer. Kansas is the only bordering dry state. Arkansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Colorado preceded Texas into the wet-column. Gov. Marland, who recently led a liquor raid himself, admitted "enforcement will be much hard er in Oklahoma now. But the law is on our statute hooks. We will continue our best efforts to en force it." Major Projects Here are the major items lost when Senator Long (D.-La.) fili bustered the appropriation bill to death: Social security, (76,000,000. Soil conservation, (13,000,000. AAA potato control, (5,000, 000. Utility bill. (1,125,000 for the power commission and (765,000 for the securities commission. Neutrality resolution, (25,000 Railroad retirement, (600,000. Civil service, for examination ot new postal employes under 40- hour week law, (500,000. Alcohol control administration. (300.000. Senate Investigations, (100,000. . Guffey coal bill, (200,000. Bus and truck regulation, (1,' 250,000. Labor disputes board, (200, 000. : District of' Columbia -yweurity act. 1125-000. V Seafood inquiry, pure food" ad ministration. 1600.000. Steamboat inspection service, 550,000. Penal institutions, (1.000.000 World power conference, $75 000.' v Administration of the Bank head cotton act, unlimited funds. OP cm EVACUATION B BINS UM Third Deficiency Act Unpassed; Delays Big Projects President May Solve Issue; Adjourn at Twelve Sharp WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.-yF-(Tuesday) - Congress adjourned an historic session of gigantic !--islative labors today, but left bar led under a filibuster by Senator Long (D.-La.) the money for ma jor new deal projects. The senate quit at ruidnij.fet Monday under the lash of an ad ministration warning that Pres ident Roosevelt has constitutional powers to order adjournment. The house closed its first ses sion of the 74th congress at 12:03 a. m. (EST) after turning back the clock while waiting to le&rn what course the senate would pur sue. When Speaker Byrns rapped the final gavel, the clock in the house chamber read only 11:57 p. m., or 12 minutes behind the real time. Cotton Loan Issue Causes Filibuster But a tumultous day of confer ences and compromises which maneuvered the administration into rewriting its cotton loan plans as the price 'for mollifying southern senators and winning (76,000,000 in cash for the vast social security program was iibI lified by the Louisianau's five atd a half hour talk-fest. i Bluntly, he was charged bv Senator Robinson, the democratic leader, Senator Black (D-Ala) aad others with "deliberately killing" the third deficiency bill "carryia funds for the aged and crippled by his filibuster." "No I ain't," Long retorted, as he talked on. Downtown. President Roosevelt sat up late in the White House, going over correspondence and a huge stack of bills awaiting sig nature. He was informed of ttee end ot the session, which began Jan. 3, by Stephen Early, secre tary, but had no comment on the death of the deficiency bfll. At the other end of the capi tol, representatives sang and per formed to navy band tunes in the customary session-end frolic. Crowded galleries echoed the fun making. Neutrality Embargo Funds Also Involved Wrapped in the (100,000.f0 deficiency bill Long talked to death was money not only to start the social security program, but also for the neutrality arm embargo, the national labor board, the utilities and Guffey coal bilH and other outstanding measures. Though some had contended Mr. Roosevelt could get the meney from work-relief funds, Robiaeoa said Comptroller General J. R. McCarl had held otherwise and ia repeated rulings the senate chair said the appropriations for "the aged" would be lost if the seaate could not vote by midnight. But Chairman Buchanan D Tex.) of the house appropriations committee said Mr. Rooaevett could finance "everything neces sary between now and January" through executive orders. Repre sentative Taylor, the acting Moot leader, added: "The president told a bunch of us down at the White House this morning, and I- suppose lt'a ne secret, that he could take eare of things even If the deficiency bill didn't pass." Schwellenbach (D-Wash.) char ged Long with showing off to the packed galleries. "I will stand on my own tet and my own " Judgment," Long, replied, insisting that the hmvm should vote on mandatory 12-ewt (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Interesting Corn Recipes Coming in To Round Table Numerous interesting individual recipes nsiaff corn are already on file fa The Statesman office with promise of many more yet to arrive. With a subject of such wide range and diver -ity some tasty, practical and economical recipe should be forthcoming. Don't forget the Round Table contest closes Tharo day soon and that cask award may come la handy daring: the Labor day week end. -. '