The Oregon statesman., December 21, 1935, Page 1, Image 1

Safety Campaign
Salem police are waging
strenuous safe driving
campaign. Citizens should
cooperate, realizing it is all -for
their benefit.
. The Weather
Fair today and Sunday
but with valley fog; normal
temperature; Max. Temp.
Friday 42, Mln. 25, river -a
feet, northerly wind.
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, December 21, 1935
No. 231
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Offer Instead
Own Plan For
Acreage Slash
Will Reduce 25 Per Cent
if Others Agree to
Do Their Share
Two Major Objections to
Program Proposed in
' Salem Stressed
SAN ROSA, Cal., Dec. 20.-(Jfy-California
hop growers rejected
the Oregon crop restriction plan
today.
They voted, instead, for a 25
per cent reduction if and . when
other Pacifle coast hop growers,
agree to participate.
. The Oregon plan would curb
production and levy an assess
ment to reduce surpluses.
Some opposition has developed
here to the . formation of the
growers' cooperative corporations
to take-surplus hops off the mar
ket and to control future plant
ing of hops.
Opposing the plan are grow
ers with two types of thought:
One group declares that any cur
tailment plan will adversely af
fect Oregon, which has been slow
to increase its acreage since 1930
while Washington and California,
i to the north and south, have
iumned Droduction in the last
If our years. These growers point
to the increased acreage in-hops
-on me coast irom xy,azu in
1930 to 37,404 acres in 1935.
California and Washington, on a
curtailment program, should de
crease their acreage in greater
ratio than this state, . certain
growers believe, because Oregon
increase in acreage has not been
so rapid.
Another type of opposition
comes from well-established grow
ers, long in the business. They as
sert the present hop crisis, is
caused by neophytes going into
the hop raising business, poorly
financed and without assured
markets. These growers have
brought the present price of hops
down, the old growers declare.
The market price has always been
governed by the law of survival
of the fittest, they declare, and
until this law operates and the
weak growers are weeded out,
the market price of hops will not
return.
Financing of New
(Growers Mistake
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Some of the growers assert
that banks, particularly federal
lending agencies, should not have
financed hew growers. This fi
nancing glutted the market with
unused hops and lowered prices..
Contrasting to this view is the
statement expressed J by some
large growers in Oregon to this
effect: If the excess production
of hops -causes growers to plow
out a portion of their yards, the
state will be harmed. The reason
is that the irrigated lands of
put back in hops and yield a crop
the first year after - they are
planted. In Oregon three years
are needed before a good crop of
hops can be had from. a new
planting.
Each time there has been a
material plow-out of hops and
then replanting as the market
sa . IKa ralth 9 a"avAcrirv nlont.
ings of hops to the total plant
ings on the coast has declined.
A. prolonged period of hop de
pression, many Oregon - growers
aver, could not but result in
plowing out of many yards; when
'these were put back into produc
tion California and Washington
with their Irrigated lands: and
fast-growing conditions, would be
In position to go back into hop
production quickly.
Conference Held
On Hop Program
Following up the state meeting
of hop growers who gathered here
Wednesday to consider a proposed
plan for a tri-state organization
of hop growers to control produc
tion" and to eliminate surpluses,
R. H. McDrew. federal attorney
for the AAA met yesterday after
noon with the members of the
Oregon committee working on
the plan.-. . . i
It is understood that a plan for
statewide coordination among the
''hop growers was discussed at the
meeting. No announcement was
made of the plan suggested or of
the results of the meeting. j
. After meeting with the Oregon
committee, McDrew left last! night
for California where he will meet
with representatives of the Cali
fornia growers.
Mem Reject Oregon Scheme jor Crop
HUNDREDS PAY TRIBUTE TO THELMA TODD
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Hundreds of mourning friends and admirers including many Hollywood notables paid final tribute to
Thelma Todd Thursday when funeral services were held for the victim of an unexplained tragedy
which was discovered Monday. Carbon monoxide poisoning caused her death but the details remained
mysterious. Upper picture, the casket, draped with a blanket of white roses and lilies of the Valley.
Miss Todd's latest photograph is on the right. Below, throng in Forest Lawn Memorial Park where
burial was held. International Illustrated News photo.
Drunken Driving
Charge Admitted
Six Other Arrests Figure
in Safety Campaign of
Police; Five Fined
Seven arrests including one for
drunken driving and five collec
tions of fines marked the city
police department's safe driving
campaign yesterday. Six motor
ists were charged with speeding
at rates of from 35 to 48 miles
per hour.
Municipal Judge A. Warren
Jones imposed a 1100 tine on
O. W. Boley, route six, who
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Nicholson Leads
In Officer Exam
Results of the recent police de
partment promotion examinations
were announced following a spe
cial, meeting of the city civil ser
vice commission in the city record
er's office at 5:30 o'clock yester
day' afternoon. The standings, on
which promotions will be based,
were as follows:
Donald Nicholson, 96; Louis
A. Burgess. 89; Harry Smart and
George Edwards, 84 56 each.
Nicholson also stood at the top of
the old promotion list.
Credits for service on the de-
Suicide Iheory
Drop Probe
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.--Inqulry
into the strange death of
Thelma Todd turned toward a
consideration of suicide today.
Deputy District Attorney George
Johnson said he definitely did not
believe the glittering blonde mo
vie actress was a -"monoxide mur
der" victim, and that it "seems
too difficult to-believe she went
to that garage, and started the
motor of the ear to keep warm.
Johnson and other investigat
ors, examining witness for the
opening of the grand jury inquiry
Monday, discounted the state
ments of four more persons
bringing the total to six who of
fered evidence that Miss Todd was
still alive, late Sunday afternoon.
Detectives, basing their - theory
largely on the autopsy report, be
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80-Mile Gale
Sweeps Gorge
Causing Havoc
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec.
SO (A1) A destructive east
wind swept northern Oregon
today, unroofing a building
at Crown Point on the Co
lumbia River highway, over
turning two trucks in the
same vicinity and disrupting
power and telephone service
at Government Camp on the
side of Mount Hood. No one
was reported injured.
The Oregon State Motor
association said tonight
state police were attempting
to discourage auto traffic
along the Columbia and ad
vising residents to seek shel
ter in the more protected
areas.
Wind velocity was meas
ured at 80 miles an hour,
the highest of record
through the Columbia
Gorge.
partment did not vary the stand
ings gained from examination
grades.
Questions of search and seizure
brought the lowest grade of "the
examination, 59, with spelling
next, 70. The four men's average
in spelling was 86, in arith
metic 90, in city ordinances 86,
in geography of the city 89, in
law of arrest 92 and in search
and seisure 78.
Held; Police
of Star's Death
lieve she died at dawn, Sunday.
Four Others Say
Star Seen Sunday
In addition to Mrs. Wallace
Ford, who said she talked to Miss
Todd around 4 o'clock, Sunday,
four other persons told police
they believed they actually saw
her.
Johnson pictured the beautiful
blonde, standing outside her door
in the early morning, buffeted by
a bitter wind blowing from the
sea, suddenly turning up the long
flight of 270 steps, on the side of
the hall, and entering the garage,
tar above.
"Perhaps she was suddenly
very despondent over something?
Perhaps she was fully aware of
what she was doing when she
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Enraged Officers
Seek Two Gunmen
Pair of Peace Officers
Slain; Planes Used
in Wide Search
SHELBY, Mont., Dec. 20.-(iT)
Enraged possemen of this north
prn Mnntfinn. 1tv ar-a n n tho
broken lands near the Canadian
border tonight for one of two gun
men who killed two peace officers
in a street duel.
From the air, from horseback
and from speeding automobiles
the search progressed after one of
the gunmen was slain In his flight.
Police Chief Edward Tenbrook
and Undersheriff J. Alton Alsup
fell in the fatal exchange of shots
with a man police identified as A
Hanson, of Custer county, an ex
convict. Hanson's dash Into the ravined
range ended when officers came
upon his hiding place in the rough
country south of here. Deputy
Sheriff Bert Turner, shot In the
arm as Hanson opened fire, killed
the fugitive with a bullet through
the eye.
Expect Report on
Death Case Today
Report of the Marion county
grand jury on the accidental death
of Mrs. Arthur Andresen is expect
ed today. Mrs. Andresen was kill
ed on South Commercial street a
fortnight ago by a car driven by
A. N. Drawson.
The jury will not" report on the
Dan Kellaher case for some time
as additional testimony Is being
taken concerning the charges of
alleged default in trust made
against the former state parole
officer.
Wants Policeman
. .
But Gets Firemen
Residents at 2425 State street
wanted a policeman at 5:25
o'clock yesterday morning. They
got instead four firemen and two
of their red trucks.
"I hit the wrong number on the
phone dial, a man told the fire
men as they stopped in front of
the house.
What was wanted with the po
lice was not revealed.
Liberal Group
111 Republican
Party Labors
Borah - Pledged Delegate
Lists Appearing in
Several States
Idaho Senator Savs His
Own Fate Will Hold
! Second Place
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. -UP)-
A spirited pre-convention battle
between liberal and conservative
elements of the G. O. P. was as
sured today through a formal
declaration by Senator Borah of
Idaho that he would "cooperate
fully" with moves to make him
self or some other progressive
the republican presidential nomi
nee. Almost simultaneously with
Borah's 159-word announcement
that his primary 1936 objective
was a liberal nominee running
on a liberal platform, word was
spread that the first Borah-pledged
candidates for seats at the
Cleveland convention June 9 were
in the field in Wisconsin and
Massachusetts. '
New York Liberals
Will Seek Victory
in New York also, w. Kings-
land Macy, former republican
state chairman, was reported to
bo heading a group of liberals
who will try- to capture the Em
pire state's 90 convention dele
gates - for the- Idaho senator in
the April primary.
Senate republican Independents,
several of them close friends of
the 70-year-old Idahoan as well
as supporters of President Roose
velt, were not surprised at his
formal effort to advance his own
candidacy. None, however, would
comment.
Borah maintained that his
chief purpose was to obtain a
liberal platform with which to
combat reelection of President
Roosevelt. He took this public
stand:
If his friends wanted him to
be the nominee, that was all
right with him; If they desired
some other progressive, that was
agreeable to him, too.
j "In other words," he said, "in
jtlexible as to the objective, flexi
ble as to the tactics."
Liberal Delegates
Present Objective
"My primary objective," his
statement began, "is a conven
tion of liberal delegates which
will write a liberal platform and
name a liberal candidate. To that
end I shall devote my efforts.
"If in any state or district the
liberal forces think it will help
the liberal cause to pledge the
delegates to me, I shall cooperate
fully with that plan.
"If, however, it is thought bet
ter to pledge the delegates to
some other liberal, I shall co
operate Just as fully."
Borah said that as he sized up
the national 'political situation
"a man would be seeking politi
cal immolation to take a nomina
tion upon any other than a lib
eral platform."
Resignation of
Rural Nurse In
Resignation of Miss Ruth Sam
mons, nurse in charge of rural
areas of the county, was announc
ed yesterday by Dr. Vernon A
Douglas, head of the Marion coun
ty health department. Miss Sam
mons on January 1 will take a po
sition as Portland public school
nurse.
Mrs. Joseph Young, formerly
Nova Lyndes, whom Miss Sam
mons succeeded, will fill the staff
vacancy temporarily, Dr. Douglas
said.
Late Sports
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 2
The university of Portland bas
ketball team defeated the travel
ing Fresno state quintet 40' to 31
here tonight, he Portlanders held
a comfortable 23 to 9. lead at half
time. The Portland university
frosh lost to Washington high of
Portland 26 to 15 in a prelim
inary. DALLAS. Ore.. Dec. 20 -P
Toe Newberg nigh Dasfeetball team
defeated Dallas high 31 to 20 here
tonight.
MILTON, Ore., Dec.
sensational shot by substitute Rln
ker from the middle of the floor
just before the final whistle gave
McLaughlin high school of Mllton
Freewater a 24 to 23 victory over
Hood River in a see-saw basket
ball game here tonight.
Water Service Asked
Outside CUy; Policy
of
May Be on Same Terms as Extensions Inside Limits;
Two and Three-Family Houses Get Break Under
Commission Rules; Audit is Planned
THE Salem water commission last night gave its first
serious consideration to a major extension of mains
outside the city limits when Manager Cuyler VanPat
ten reported that George Vide and associates had asked
him if the water department would extend a water line out
Garden road 2000 feet to the first four corners. Vick, ac-
1 1 O cording to VanPatten, has plans
Reservoir Plans
Shown to Board
Location at Rural Avenue
and Johns Street Is
. Contemplated
Incomplete plans for the propo
sed 10,000,000 water reservoir on
Fairmount hill were exhibited at
last night's meeting of the Salem
water commission. The reservoir
site already optioned is located at
Rural avenue and Johns street.
The rim of the big storage basin
would be rectangular, 200 by 400
feet. Sides would slope inward
to a flat bottom providing for a
2 0-f ooi depth of water. At the
east end of a wall dividing the
reservoir into two separate units
an "intake and waste valve cham
ber would be constructed. The de
sign calls for an 8 Inch con
crete slab covering the entire res
ervoir and supported by numer
ous concrete pilasters.
Covering the reservoir would
go far toward keeping out con
tamination and keeping the wa
ter temperature.low, according to
Manager Cuyler VanPatten.
The commissioners said last
night that if the city council al
located $240,000 in water bond
funds to this project at the Janu
ary 6 meeting., bids could be calle.l
for at once and a contract be let
by the time the bonds are sold,
late in February.
Officers to Seek
Changes in Laws
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20.-(P)
-District attorneys and sheriffs of
Oregon, in their annual conven
tion here, voted today to seek an
amendment making the slaying of
a peace officer in the discharge
of his duty a first-degree murder
offense.
The formal action followed the
consideration of similar resolu
tions in separate meetings of the
attorneys and sheriffs' organiza
tions. The joint group also went on
record favoring the following:
Enactment' of a law Permitting
the introduction of pictures, death
masks and similar evidence in
homicide trials.
Repeal of a law making it ne
cessary to obtain a doctors ex
amination in drunken driving
cases.
An amendment to the unlawful
assemblage .law providing , for a
penalty, where none now exists.
An addition to the law making
refusal to obey the lawful com
mand of a peace officer an act of
disorderly conduct.
Irindle Asks McMahan to
Name Hewitt in Burk Probe
A new step In the tedious march
of McMahan-Burk hostilities was
takes at the courthouse yesterday
when District Attorney William
H. Trlndle called upon Judge L.
H. McMahan to name Roy Hewitt
as special prosecutor and have the
latter put before the grand jury
alleged charges of incompetency
and unfaithfulness to trust
launched against Burk early this
year.
Trlndle Informed Judge McMa
han is a formal letter that he was
ready and willing to have Hewitt
named "as attorney to look . into
the charges against Burk. Trlndle
said he proposed to have the char
ges put before the grand jury De
cember 30.
" Burk was indicted by the grand
jury June 3, on two counts: one
charged him with letting Charles
Craig, a prisoner, out of jail af
ter serving only. 30 days of a six
months' sentence; the other in
Board Will be Set
for a residential development of
the area along this road.
Such an extension, if granted,
probably would be made on the
same basis as additions to mains
within the city, discussion indi
cated. The commission rules pro
vide that a main may be extend
ed if Its estimated annual reve
nue will equal 12 per cent of the
cost of construction.
Need 40 Families,
Manager Estimates
Van Patten estimated roughly
that the requested extension
would cost )2500, which Ke said
would necessitate assurance- there
would be at least 40 new custom
ers. The proposed line would be
a six-inch one, connecting to one
of the same size at the east end
of Market street not far from the
Market street well. The commis
sion was inclined to rule that Vlck
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Puppet Ruler May
Get 'Empire Back
Restoration of Pu Yi to
Dragon Throne Talked ;
May Merge States
SHANGHAI, Dec. 2 !.-&)-( Sat
urday )-Reports from Hong Kong
today, said newspapers there were
giving- prominence to a report that
Maj. Gen. Kenjl Doihara, Japan
ese military strategist, Is plotting
the restoration of Henry Pu Yi to
the dragon throne of the defunct
celestial empire at Peiping.
Pu Yi, now Emperor Kang Teh
of the Japanese-sponsored state
of Manchuokuo, as a baby of two
was called to sit on the gorgeous
dragon throne. But three years
later China became a republic and
he was evicted. In March of 1934,
at the age of 28, he became ruler
of Manchuokuo.
Doihara also was reported to be
considering the proposal of North
China leaders that the East Hopeh
autonomous government merge
with the newly inaugurated Ho-peh-Chahar
council, a semi-autonomous
setup for the two north
ern provinces.
Object of Search
Just Making Visit
Offering no explanation other
than that he had occasion to drive
out in the country and was un
able to return last night, J. E.
Cox, 56-year-old Salem carpenter,
returned home early yesterday
morning. At the request of his re
latives, police had searched for
him all night without success. He
was reported missing around. 11
p. m. Thursday.
One relative said Cox had visit
ed a cousin In the country. Cox
lives at 1065 Norway:
dictment charged Burk with . let
ting one Melvin Strand, prisoner,
have the keys to the jail and thus
permitting a jail break.
Never Asked Hewitt
Appointment, Reply , f
Judge McMahan said late yes
terday that he had never asked for
the appointment of Hewitt. . He
said he had not decided what he
would do regarding Trindle'a gen
eral request.
The Indictments against Burk
were thrown out by Judge Fred
Wilson of - The Dalles who came
here to set the case. Burk's at
torneys -claimed McMahan had
used undue influence with the
grand jury In helping them re
turn the indictments. Judge Wil
son sustained the objection and
threw the indictments out at the
same time resubmitting the Burk
case to the jury.
Trindle's. letter follows: t
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Control
Fascist Ruler
Orders Armies
To Push Ahead
Believe Sanctions Fail;
i Britain Has Pledges
i of Help in Need
France, Turkey, Greece
Yugoslavia Promise
Aid; Drop Plan
(Copyright, 1933. by Associated Prra)
ROME, Dec. 21 Premier Mus
solini, posing his "unshakably uni
ted" people against the 'disorgan
ization and contradictions" of
sanctionist nations, directed confi
dently today that his armies pro
ceed with their campaign for con
quest in Ethiopia.
Rcnrnlnffn rnlv to the Franro-
Britiah. proposals for peace, al
ready repudiated by Great Britain
and discarded by the league of na
tions, he declared his conviction
that fascism would triumph over
both Ethiopia and league sanc
tions, r ,
The Fascist grand council, su
preme organism of the state,
which passes on measures dictat
ed by II Duce himself, issued a
communique after a meeting with
Mussolini last night, setting forth
three main points:
J. That the Italian people, in
contrast to the conduct of opposi
tion league states, remain united
and firm in their course, as exem
plified by the popular contribu
tions of gold to aid the simulta
neous campaigns of war abroad
and resistance at nome. .
2. - That the Fascist leaders are
confident of victory in Ethiopia?
3. That the nation will press
on! relentlessly for achievement of
that goal..
J (By the Associated Press)
In a militant death wake for
discarded peace proposals. Great
Britain rallied friendly powers
Friday night to assure quick help
if her Mediterranean men o'war
are attacked.
Already, . said dispatches from
London and Paris, Britain has
been assured by-France, Turkey,
Greece and Yugoslavia that they
will come to her aid.
She wants a united front of
collective defense by League of
Nations members against possible
unprovoked assault by Italy, now
that the Anglo-French plan for
African peace Is dead and Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin has
promised his parliament he won't
"err" again.
Recent movements of French
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More Power For
Governor 'Snnpht.
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W. L. Gosslin, secretary to Gov
ernor Martin, described the work'
of the governor's office and the
executive department of the state
at the meeting of the 20-30 club
at the Quelle cafe last night.
He criticized the board of con
trol form of government, saying
that by this system that the state
had not one governor, but three.
He advocated vesting more power,
in the hands of the governor.
Dr. Floyd Utter, member ef
the state parole board, spoke on
the state parole system. He said
that he r believed the governor
should receive the support of the
people in refusing to open the
doors of the penitentiary and
turning out people who would be
dangerous to society. He advocat
ed greater regulation of paroles
and said that there should be a
system for greater uniformity In
sentencing prisoners for similar
types of crimes.
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UUIj seals
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til Christmcs