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Circulation Average Dally and Sunday for October, 1935 Distribution 8407 Net Paid 7832 MEMBER OF A. B. C. The Weather Mostly fair, . some cloudi ness today and ' Thursday, frkmly rising temperature; Max. Temp. Tuesday 47; MIn. 20, northerly winds. .EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR -Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, November 6, 1935 No. 132 :ome me i IN FOUNDED 1851 "J . " . ' ""T7" : ; , . ; 1 '' ' ' ' ' ' !LL , , "" m If ! I .1j o i ri o Li to Board b. mm Nature Comes To Defense of iia Again Rain Halts Italian Drive Into Makale but Aids Army Alignment Mussolini and Drummond Confer to Alleviate European Tension (ByThe Associated Press) Nature, the only formidable jbstacle Italy has yet encount ered in : its military campaign to ;onquer Ethiopia, came again to :he aid Tuesday of Emperor Haile Selassie. Heavy rains forced a two-day halt of the huge fascist push to ward the strategic city of Makale. Italy's h:ch command, however, planned to make godd use of the respite in the mud and, slush. The four columns of the army of more than 125,000 will be brought into proper alignment and roads com pleted to enable the bringing up of supplies. If the Ethiopians intend to fight for Makale, they gave little indication of it. Warriors Evacuate Jklakale, Is Report Fascist scouts who flew oyer the town brought back word the warriors apparently had evacuat ed. .White flags of submission were flying, they said. Makale, in northast Ethiopia, is a cara van -center. Ethiopia's traitor, Degiac Gus sa, a son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, is commanding a group of natives under the fascist flag which is well in advance of the other troops. He expects to march into Ma kale Thursday, a" day abed,. of the other Italian soldiers. A new effort to relieve Anglo Italian tension began in Rome. Benito Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, Britain's busy ambas sador, held another talk. Offici ally it was announced the sub ject was British battleships in the Mediterranean and fascist troops in; Libya, upon the border of Egypt. ' Well-informed sources express ed' belef II Duce bad promised, to bring back a second division from Libya; that Britain promised to recall at least a part of h e r fleet, London official quarters pro fessed no knowledge of such an agreement. - Throughout Italy a drive of 'reprisals' against, sanctions was opened and the first "meatless Tuesday" was observed. The fas cists enlisted 800,000 housewives In a "Buy Italian" campaign. A sub-committee of serious statesmen at Geneva went ahead with plans for surrounding Italy with an economic barrier. It decided, however, not to at tempt to punish through trade qwota reprisals League states' which do not enforce sanctions or non-member states which might facilitate the transit of goods to Italy banned under sanctions. ' Judge and Others Sued by Attorney KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Nov. 5. - (JP) - Circuit Judge Edward Ashurst, Attorney David Vanden berg, George Kincaid and radio station KFJI were named defends ant today in a 175,000 damage snit filed by Attorney John Ir win. The action was based on re marks which Vandenberg was as serted to have made relative to Mrs. Irwin when the latter was on the witness stand testifying for the state in the case of Mar ion Meyerle, who was recently ac quitted on a murder charge. Vandenberg was Miss Meyerle's attorney. Kincaid is manager of the radio station over which por tions of the trial were-broadcast. Judge Ashurst was on the bench. Boys Taking Part, Current Recipe Contest Who said women are bet ter cooks than men? Young men, anyway, are defending their cookery valiantly with a number of excellent des sert recipes received this week at the Round Table. It looks as though the girls will have stiff competition. Anyone under 10 years of age is Invited to send In their favorite dessert recipe which they are able to pre pare themselves. Three cash prizes totaling 92 will be announced Friday morning. The contest -ends Thursday at noon. Ethiorj 9 r - " N. Y, Repudi As G. O. P. Potato Famine Faced as Cold Wave Subsides Growers Holding Firmly for Full Rise on Few Sound Ones Left 1 Eggs and Lettuce Figure yi Price Lift Also; Mercury Rises SEATTLE. Xov. 5 -(;p)-Seattle iacea a potato tamine tonight af ter jobbers reported themselves unable to replenish their exhaust ed stores from Washington fields. The mercury went to 4 5 de grees above zero and the forecast was for slowly rising tempera tures tomorrow. Similar modera tion in the cold snap was reported all over the Pacific Northwest. "The only potatoes on hand: are the few sacks held by a ifew wholesalers,': said S. H. Stevens, editor of the Northwest Daily pro duce News. "Jobbers haven't a potato on produce row and say they can't get any from the grow ers." Growers Holding To Ietermine Loss Dealers said potato growers, finding most of their late crop frozen in the ground, were hold ing their few sound potatoes; for exorbitant prices or were refus ing to sell at any price until; the full extent of the damage is! as certained and the market stabil ized. Seattle wholesalers advan c e d the price on short supplies of Yakima No. 1 Netted Gems 50 cents a sack, to $2.50 and $3 t3 day. They refused to sell over 5 sacks to any one retailer. - Dealers said It was the first potato shortage in Seattle since World war days when "spuds' en (Turnrto page 2, col. 6) No Second Special Session, Promised Governor Reiterates His Stand, Urges Solous to Speed up Job Informed of reports that he In tended to call another session of the legislature. Governor Martin Tuesday issued a statement deny ing the rumors. The rumors! had been to the effect that he planned to urge Candalaria heights ; and later call a session to provide for a special election to vote on a change in the constitution to' per mit going outside' the old city limits of Salem. "As heretofore stated I do not propose to call another special session of the legislature. When I called the legislature together I felt that 20 days was sufficient for the members to finish; the work in hand. "They have yet four days to finlsn up the work for which they were called and any emer gency legislation that may arise. I see no reason why, with night (Turn to page 2, col. 2 All Coos Bay Respect to MARSHFIELD, Ore., Not. 5 (JPy Characterizing the late ; Sen ator John D. Goss as a man of "great leadership one whom we can ill afford to lose," the! Rev. George H. Swift, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church at Salem, paid tribute today to the memory of his own close friend. j Hundreds of persons thronged the chapel and adjoining rooms. "God surely works in a myste rious way, his wonders to per form," r the clergyman observed. "It is hard to understand why one who stands out in his community and among his tellow citizens should be taken , while others probably not so useful should be left." Senator Goss was killed at Sa lem Saturday night when struck by a motor stage at a street cross ing. He was there for the special session of the legislature. Leaders Needed In Every Community; "The world needs today in ev ery community, stalwart leader of men who will stand for the right," Dr. Swift continued. "We can III afford to lose such meh as Montana's Capitol While Nearby ' Y V' " f i .r - f in i &mm V; is ' - i - r - - j Montana's state capitol dome, at left, escaped during the latest violent shake the fate of the building in the foreground, two blocks from tlie statehouse. Two persons were killed in the last major temblor. International Illustrated News photo. Electrical Goods Business is Sold Burroughs to Take Retail Trade of Eoff Firm;; Moves Forecast !f The Eoff t-Electric company. 347 Court street, has sold to Julian Burroughs the retail electrical goods business it had conducted here for the last 12 years and will hereafter concentrate on whole saling. As el Eoff and Ellis Von Eschen, proprietors, announced yesterday. They plan to move in to larger quarters by next June 1. The change in the Eoff busi ness brings a new electrical firm to Salem, to be known as the Burroughs Electrical company, which has opened at 337 CourC street, and will result in a change of location and expansion for jtbe Court Street dairy-store. j; Glenn T. Morris, proprietor of the dairy store, confirmed theire (Turn to page 2, col. 6) j; Pioneer Med ford Editor, Dies; Took Active Pari In Politics in Jackson MEDFORD, Ore., Nov. 5.-ftV S. Sumpter Smith, 65, pioneer Medford newspaperman, died ; at his home here today. He had been ill for several months. j ; Mr. Smith was identified with the Mail-Tribune until five years ago and was one of the founders of the Medford Sun. He also took an active part in state and county republican politics. j ; Region Pays jj Senator Goss Senator Goss, but we must be lieve that God knows best and then when grief visits us there is a divine reason. U "When we have vision to pierce through the mellow sadness; of the falling leaves of autumn! to the unfolding life of spring; when we can see1 in the dropping of the teeth of childhood,. just the mak ing of way for the teeth of man hood; when we can look at i the retreating sun with a full realiza tion of its returning: wnen we have the vision to Bee progress, new birth and abundant life in the autumn of all things, then we must try to look upon all death as a step upward in God scheme of things." '. '). Dear Lord and Father of man kind," a song from the poem; by John Greenleaf Whittier, and "On the Resurrection Morning." were sung by Mrs. Stanley Henderron. Legislators Among jj Honorary Fallbears l Honorary pallbearers were Sen ators Frank Franciscovich of As toria, James T. Chinook of Grants Pass, W. H. Steiwer of Fossil,; and (Turn to page 7, col. 1) jj New Controls Dome Stands Buildings Crumble 1 Job Insurance is Favored, Hearing Wanted to Save Benefits For Oregon Workmen; May Amend Later That Oregon should have some form of unemployment compensa tion was brought out at a public; hearing last night before the house and senate judiciary com-i mittees, the ways and means, la4 bor and industries and unemployf nient committees. j C. C. Chapman declared that the employers were accepting the plan somewhat reluctantly bull that they felt that as long as they had to pay the federal payroll tape for the fund that their employ es should benefit from the plajn if it proved workable. The bill as presented to the house is not perfect in form, 1t was pointed out. but would serve to save the funds to the state un itl the next regular session when the problem could be given more study. It Is thought to meet fed eral requirements. Collections under the federal act will not begin until January. 1937, and no benefits will be paid until T938:. The only purpose (Turn to page 2, col. 4) tot Farley's Brother, Other Demos Lose HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., Nov. S (JP) Five democratic candidates for supervisorships, including two incumbents, were defeated today in Rockland county, home of Postmaster General James A. Farley. j Farley's brother, Tom Farley, was one of the losers, despite s0v eal recent public appearances j In which James Farley spoke on be half of the entire democratic slate. It was the first time in (25 years that a democrat had faOed to gain one of the five places ion the board of supervisors. Tom Farley was given 1681 votes in the town of Haverstraw as against 2004 for the winner, Victor Shankey, a bolting former democrat, who ran as an indepen dent. The republican, John Law son, polled 1128. Rockland coun ty went for Hoover in 1932,! by a slender margin. j Large Federal Gift For Relief Reported PORTLAND, Nov. -(-Announcement was made by WPA headquarters here tnday that Comptroller General McCarl had approved a $909,864 federal gift to Oregon for -relief Jobs. The money constitutes the first allo cation to apply on 100 Oregon works - progress administration projects already approved by President Roosevelt. 1 i- ft Deal ':;!' " House Great Setback For Roosevelt Leaders Claim Farley Disagrees; Mayor Races on Party Lines Go Republican Too Anti-Democrat Trend m New Jersey Also Seen With Exceptions (By The Associated Press) Republicanism triumphed In New York's state assembly elec tions yestrday, with G.O.P. leaders Interpreting their victory , as an indication of vanishing New Deal support in the- politically j strate gic state. Regaining comfortable control of the state assembly, they elect ed 82 of that body's 150 members and transformed a previous dem ocratic majority of four into a republican margin of 14. With a republican trend unmis takably evident also in the state's numerous mayoralty elections, the party's leaders asserted' the New Deal had been repudiated. Gerrymandering Is Blamed by Farley Postmaster General Farley dis agreed.: Gerrymandering, he said, made it impossible for the demo crats to elect, normally, a ma jority of the state's assembly. ; Overwhelming approval was giv en a state bond issue of $55,000,- 00 proposed by Governor Leh man for relief purposes, with a reminder that the alternative was increased taxes. ; In New Jersey, where national Jissues also were raised, republi cans led in most of the contests for seats in the general assembly and state senate. Democrats swept their Hudson county stronghold with huge majorities, however. Philadelphia's vindictive may (Tun to page 2, col. 8) Brotherhood Hits At Gambling Bill Marion county's legislators to day will receive resolutions pro testing passage of the . proposed bill to license slot machines and punch boards and recommending, repeal of the pari-mutuel betting law, as a result of action taken at last night's meeting of the Sa lem Christian civic men's brother hood at the First Presbyterian church. The resolutions,! suggest ed by the legislative committee headed by E. J. Tooie, jr., were adopted by the 87 men; present without discussion. . A large number of Salem's pas tors were honorrguests at the ban quet, at which Dr. Victor Morris, professor of economics at Uhlver sity of Oregon, spoke on "Poten tialities of Christian Work." Dr. Morris' chief plea was for the lay man to "be convinced ; that the very fact that you have taken vows of Christian religion means that you have pledged yourselves to full time Christian ; service" just as much as any minister of the gospel., Dr. J. R. Milligan, pastor of the First Methodist church, and Rev. II. R.i Stover, pastor of Knight Memorial Congregational church, speke ! briefly for the other pas tors, i Relief From Cold Coming Gradually (By The Associated I Press) An early winter, attack on a normally mild Oregon autumn ap peared to. be losing ground tonight as prospects for warmer weather in the immediate future in creased N x Rising temperatures" were forecast, and Portland's outlook as stated by its weather bureau was far a 32-degree minimum to-nIght-4-several degrees above the low marks of the last few days. The mercury in most; parts of Oregon tonight was higher than in several days. Vegetable growers continued to watch prices mount some with gladness at being able to ; sell produce at record figures and oth ers with chagrin at having none to sell. Freering temperatures play havoc with many small crops. Helena Quakes Cease; Tension Soon Vanishes One Slight Tremor Early in Day is All; JSpeed Rebuilding Plans Miami Seeks Federal and State Aid for Relief; Death Toll Now 7 HELENA, Mont., Nov. 5.-(jP)-A respite from shocks bolstered the morale of this earth-quake-nervous city tonight, and stricken Helena again hastened its re building. . The din of hammers upon metal and the hustle of workmen in creased steadily with the passing of hours which did not bring a repetition of incessant earth jolt ings. With one exception, a slight shake early today, the earth's crust remained normal during the daylight hours. The last quake, at 4:44 a.m. (MST), brought the total to 845 since the series be gan October 12. Of a certical movement, the tremor was felt at Butte, Great Falls and Livingston, but no dam age was reported. Normal Business Quickly Resumed Curiously, downtown Helena showed no sign today of the nerv ousness and tension of the last three weeks. Shops were busy.; Sidewalks -carried normal lines of! pedestrians. It was ' almost a chore to find a place to eat. The weather lent a helping! hand. From the south blew a "chinook," . known in the north4 west as a warm gentle wind. The breeze melted a mantle of snow. ; MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 6.-()-The city of Miami pleaded for money lots of it, and quickly today (Turn to page 2, col. 5) Cost of Pensions Is Serious Issue Sales Tax Talked; Grange Ideas to be Revealed; Load Held Heavy Faced with bills for lowering age limits for old age pensions, the senate- judiciary committee yesterday heard suggestions on financing the cost. D. O. Hood, budget director, speaking person ally, said he saw no other way to raise the amount of money needed than to pass a sales tax law. Ray W. Gill, state grange mas (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Mayor of Bandon Reported Missing BANDON, Ore., Nov. S-JP)-Sheriff William Howell of Coos county was conducting a eearch in this area tonight for F. E. Drane, mayor of Bandon, who has been missing since last night. Mayor Drane was understood to have left his office at his cold storage plant around 7 p. m., Monday, intending to drive to his home. No word from him has since been heard. His car also is missing. No reason has been ascribed for his disappearance. Minor Legislation Pouring Rapidly Through House Mill In addition to considering tne capitol bills yesterday the house continued to pour out a mass on minor legislation. No new bills j were introduced. Senate hill 51 which sought to; simplify the foreclosure of delin-l quent liens and assessments by cities was the only bill coming up ! for final vote that did not pass.; ; The bill failed when Represen-j tative Hyd asked unanimous con-! sent to amend to provide a re demption period of two years In-! stead of one as provided in the; bill. Objectio'n was made to thef amendment and defeat followed.; Representative Alber changed his- vote for the purpose of moving for; reconsideration later, he indicat-l ed. f House bill 69 appropriating; 13577.25 to cover the deficit of the tomato and mellon code board; which oprated under the. recently. declared unconstitutional state; AAA. was passed, rort District Bills From Senate Voted Senate bills 3 7 and 3 received th approval ot the lower house They both authorize port districts; : '-Vi;!;---.' Candalaria Back in IILJJ-. ja milling, uus i juiuui t 2 Million and Half Final Passage Scheduled Today But Further Amendment Possible in Aiiimittoo Bull and Kirkpatrick Reports, Fail Though Latter Has Support of Marion County Delegation Capitol Question Tuesday ' House adopted majority, report which gives commission au thority to locate capitol on old site, or adjacent land, or on Candalaria heights, and limits coht to 9 2,500,000. House rejected, 22 to 34, Kirkpatrick minority report authoriz ing $3,500,000 project and purchase of land adjacent to old site. " ' House rejected, 21 to 35, Bull minority report calling for f 1,500, OOO capitol on old site. " Today House majority report up for final passage at 10:30; may be considered section by section and amended if house' goes into committee of the whole. J 1 FTER four hours of oratory which covered eulogies for j Candalaria heights a3 well as appeals for use of the his (! toric site, the house of representatives yesterday voted jdown two minority reports and approved the majority report jwhich would leave to the capitol commission final decision in jthe selection of the ground for the new state capitol. The j-i ' 1 ! onU8 refused to suspend the Roll Call Shows j Views Upon Site Clear Cut Issue Balloted on With Committee's Report Winning '! Individual views of the mem bers of the house on whether Ore gon's new capitol should be lo cated on the Candalaria site for $2,500,000, or be restricted to ithe old site with additional ad jacent ground and an expenditure jot 13,500,000 was shown yester day on tne roil can ior tne sudsu- ,-tutioQ of the Kirkpatrick report for the majority report on the Capitol bill. j I Kirkpatrick's report called for $3,500,000 on the old site with additional ground. Those voting ;(Turn to page 2, col. 4) Robert Mountain Named To Superintend School I WPA Projects in City jj Robert T. Mountain, Aumsville engineer, has been hired by the Salem school board to superintend the; district's three WPA projects. He win oversee the laying of a inew ytorm sewer across Oiinger jfield, . the preparation of the grounds at University and Mis sion streets for ' the new grade school building, the seeding of the Highland and Englewood grounds to lawn, installation of sprinkling I systems at the two playgrounds and construction of a tennis court at Richmond school. He is a grad uate of Oregon State college, ij the directors are now casting about for a man qualified 4o over see the four PWA building pro jects scheduled to get under way within the next two months. j to ! make certain improvements. One for airport purposes and the other for port development. House bill 51 for the purpose of covering the operation of the fire marshal's office after the ex piration of alloted funds also pass ed, as did house bill 49 relat ing to contracts of irrigation dis tricts with federal agencies for loans. Senate bill 39 and 'house bill 28'; companion measures which were designed to make constitu tional the state milk control act passed in the morning session wUh only three dissenting votes. The bills raise the taxi on butter- fat and take into the act all dairy men, some of whom were former ly,' excluded. -''.11'' L An appropriation bill for $24, 000 for re-employment I offices wis passed and house bill 48 car rying an appropriation of $27, 000 for the property control law enforcement also went through. Oregon Prod acta I Use Is Favored, House joint rsolutlon : calling for the use of Oregon products (Turn to page 7,! col. 4) li JL II Z. JL nt thn IVIiAla rules to put the bill as amended on final passage, which is taken iu luuiidio ma i. au ciiuri win pe made to amend it in committee of the whole this morning, altering either the amount of the expendi ture or fixing more definitely the site to be used. The majority report, regarded as a "mother Hubbard" bill which covers everything and touches nothing, for the purpose of satis fying house groups and for giv ing tne nouse conrerees wampum for trading with the senate, gives the commission power to put the capitol on the old site, or to go north or to go south ot that site, or to pick Candalaria heights which the senate rejected decisive ly. However the majority report would give the commission only $2,500,000 to do the work; and if the old site is used a minimum of 31,000,000 and a maximum of $1, 500,000. Introduced at the last minute was a special minority report by Representative Bull which fixed the old site and the sum at 11, 500,000. It was voted down. Kirknatriclk Plan - Has Local Backing Then, the report of Representa tive Kirkpatrick was voted down, although it drew the solid support of the Marion county delegation. It -limited the area to be purch ased by the commission to ground adjacent to the old location and allowed the maximum of 33.500, 000; although Mr. Kirkpatrick predicted the development would extend over six years and cost ul timately over $5,000,000. Though the debate was limited to 15 minutes for each mam her. so many members wished to ex press themselves on the question that the debate took most of the day. Representative Fuhrer of Mar ion brought retorts from Repre sentatives Norton and Irwin when he charged that there must be some insiduous force that was causing the members to favor the Candalaria site. "Why this sudden shiftt" Fuhr er asked. "I'd like to know what is behind it. Are you going te cru cify Salem by taking the very (Turn to- page 2, col. 1) Big Scliool of , Fish Reported In Mill Stream AUMSVILLE,. Not. 5 A phenomenon occurred here this morning when an im mense school of fish was discovered moving slowly upstream In the Mill stresm. The school, about 100 yards Jong, Includes thousands of chubs, graylings and suck ers. Theywere evidently headed for a spawning place. . ' Arthur Mix, William Kel log and Charles Martin, who first saw them, attempted to f deflect them from the Hp-stream course, but could only- retard them. Martin, here A O years, says never before ha s he seen more than three or 'four fish to gether jn Hill stream. At the rate they were go ing, they will reach Stayton In two days, Martin estimat ed. ;