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i V-:: Happy New Year The Weather Bala today and . Than . . day,' . normal temperature ! Max. Temp.- Tuesday 54, Min,. 89, Hirer 3.51 feet, rain. 1.05 ; Inches, south . wind. , 1 the wish of The State man, and of the many Sa lens. - business firms repre sented in this Issue, for ev ery reader of this newspa per. IE FOUNDED 1831 . EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, January 1, 1936 No. 240 TED o v.Jl:-.JiiiiLdJ:BCC; -O H- 9fr flF 1 "V - I -X 1 1 JU I H I I: -:- r 1936 dec V. FN i r M jawver By Auto Here; Arrest Driver - ' . Orlando H. Carson I Dies From Impact; Former . Washington Editor f Reckless Driving to Be Charged; Victim is Carried 90 Feet Death stalked New Year's eve motor traffic here last night for Orlando Howard Carson, $ 4-year old Sajem lawyer, school teacher and one-time newspaper publish er. Carson was killed, apparently Instantly, as he was .- walking across the west pedestrian lane ot Center street at Cottage at 7:53 o'clock. He was struck by an au tomobile driven by Edward Ro ger Barrett, 27, of 1147 Center street. City police arrested Barrett on a charge of , driving recklessly. Baying that, specifically, he would he charged with passing another automobile at an intersection and failing to give right ot way to a pedestrian. He was released on hail ot S MO, set by District At torney Trindle, after being cited to appear, in municipal court at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. (Carried on Hood For Some Distance The Impact of .the car's hitting Carson broke the right front headlight, -Carson landed .on the hood, iwhich was deeply dented. Police, said Barrett stopped his .westbound light coupe 70 feet from the" pedestrian - lane, two wheels orer the south curbing of Center street. Carson apparently was then thrown from the car; his body was found near the mid dle of the roadway, 90. feet from the spot where hirMAtrjJ&?3PO- jlice reported:' - - - Although Tie was bettered dead, .Carsoa was rushed to Salem Gen- eral hospital but there a physician ' Immediately ordered the body taken" to a mortuary. Fire eyewitnesses estimated Barrett's speed variously at from - 20 to 35 miles an hour, police said. Barrett declared he was tra- veling between 20 andj 25 miles per hour. Nervously upset at what had happened, he had little to say about the accident other than that he did not see Carson until an in stant before the elderly man was ' i struck. Other Car Stopped For Carson, Belief According to police, the auto mobile Barrett was passing had stopped to permit Carson to cross the street. The investigating offi cer said there was no evidence for a belief that Barrett had been drinking. Dr. L. E. Barrick, county cor - oner, had not decided last night whether or . not he would call an inquest. . Carson had lived in Salem and vicinity for many years with the exception of four years "when he - bought and published a newspa per at Woodland, Wash. He re turned here from Woodland about (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) West Wai Tell More at Inquest LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31--Grand Jury Foreman George Ro chester aid today he was dissat isfied with the picture of the cir cumstances relating to Theima Todd's death, as It has been paint ed by witnesses in the week-old inquiry. " "Theyrre not telling all they know.Tie said. T'hU thing goes deeper and deeper, and we have n't yet been given the answers to the peculiar circumstance of it." Rochester made this statement after Roland West left the stand. The former business associate and friend ot the actress .will be recalled when the grand, jury meets Thursday. He reiterated, today, his belief Miss Todd met her death by acci dent when she started the motor of her automobile, and either fell asleep; or was overcome by mon oxide fumes, In their garage. Summary of 1935 News Events Given Today on pages 5 to 14 Inclusive of The Statesman are to be found Informa tive articles covering the events of the year- in the busy life of the Salem com munity. The ' records show that the year - was t one of general Improvement; that ciTic organizations, business firms and individual enter prisers, shared alike In the steady .return of prosperity. Bright Outlook For 1936 Seen - '.V x. - " "W X i Oscar D. Olson, chamber presl- dent for 1936, who pledges hard work for community ad vancement. Photo by Kennell Ellis. Chamber to Seek Community Good Unlimited Effort Pledged by Oscar D. Olson, New President Salem's chamber of commerce is going to leave nothing undone which can forward the commun ity's development in 1936, Oscar D. Olson, newly named president,, declared today in a formal state ment to Salem people through The Statesman, "As president of the chamber, speaking for the directors as well as myself, I can assure the com munity of hard work from this cta-ic organization," Olson declar ed. His statement continued: "Several projects have already been discussed, and one of these is the organizing of a North San tiam highway association whereby all communities along the high way may present their ideas to the state highway commission. "We will naturally be interest ed4 in the completion ot the Shel ton ditch and will isk the board of control to assign state labor (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Sufficient Space In Salem Assured Without any question, quar ters for the utilities department of state govenment are to be Jound in Salem, Dan J. Fry, se cretary of the board of control, announced lete yesterday. . We have not concluded any lease agreement to date but ne gotiations are proceeding satis factorily and I think can be con cluded before the week is over," Fry said. Some consideration was given yesterday to a large poten tial office space which might be secured in a portion of the pub lic market building, i under lease by Bsick'a. The latter firm is us ing some of the market for stor age and thi smight be freed for use of the state. There was little likelihood yes terday that any state offices would be moved to Portland, oth er state officials said. - Trial Operation oj Relief Plan Here is Decided Upon Two weeks of trial operations on which the year's budgeting of relief activities will be based was determined upon at a meeting of the Marion county relieff commit tee yesterday afternoon. The com mitteemen decided that the ex treme' steps in expense cutting should come after this period and accordingly decided to meet again January 13. Decisions, reached at yesterday's meeting Included the following: All destitute persons shall be placed . on the minimum support basis on which 250 county poor cases are subsisting. Relief Committee Will Not Pay Rent Rent shall no longer be paid by the relief committee. Five positions will be lopped front the administrative staff for the present; further reductions may be made later. All relief will be in cash. A scale ot payments will be set up according to case types, such as number of dependents, but var ied according to resources each case may be found to have, as through relatives;; ? i : . Moderate direct' relief sums will be paid to 187 employable, desti tute persons who are not eligible Paul Jackson To Be Head of Indian School Present Head of Youth Program" Will jCome V Soon," Announced Has Been School Leader at Klamath, Member of State Board Appointment of Paul T. Jack son of Klamath Falls as super intendent of the Indian school at Chemawa was announced here to day. Jackson is now serving, on leave of absence from Klamath Falls, as head of the National Youth program in Oregon, under the Works Progress Administra tion. He has been superintendent of schools at Klamath Falls. Jackson . is to succeed Homer L. Morrison who was appointed to the Chemawa post for a tem porary term following the resig nation of J. T. Ryan, former su perintendent. Morrison is to re sume his work as superintendent of Indian instruction in. the pub lic schools at Washington. Well Known Here For Sport Leadership . Mr. Jackson, while superinten dent at Klamah Falls, headed the state high school athletic associa tion. He is well known in Salem having been here for many state basketball tournament. He was -rominently considered for the post of city school superintendent here last year. Jackson Is a grad uate of Linfield college, '21. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) S&lem's Welcome Gay But Orderly Downtown District Well Populated; Parties Prove Numerous "Ring out witd bells " A clock struck twelve, a whistle blew, a rocket surged through the air and another New Year was heralded in Salem by Joyous and hilarious groups of merrymakers. Many of those celebrating the advent of 1938 were congregated downtown. Honking automobiles were driven up and down streets of the business sectfon as stroll ers shouted "Happy New Year" to passers-by. Hotel and restaur ants were crowded. Generally ev ident was a feeling of good cheer. Most church groups helS watch night parties, a long prevailing custom. Three Dance Clubs Hold Celebrations , Three Salem dancing clubs gave elaborate New' Year's partr ies downtown to bid farewell to the old year and to welcome the new. Salem theatres celebrated the advent ot '36 with midnight rev els. - Hundreds of private homes held open house to welcome small groups to New Year's festivities. Today business will be adjourn ed in Salem. All city, county and state offices will be closed. Schools, closed since before Christmas, will continue their hol iday until next Monday. Governor and Mrs. Charles H. Martin will be at home on East Lincoln street to friends in the communtiy. for WPAJ jobs, until they secure private employment. Chairman E. L. Wieder announ ced following the closed commit tee session that Elmer Goudy, state relief-administrator, had de creed that "we must cut the ad ministrative staff to the bone." The Marlon county committee, however, will move slowly in this direction until after the trial pe riod, at least, Wieder said. Asked If relief payments actual ly would be adequate to maintain life. Wieder replied: "It isn't a question of that now. They'll have to get along. There is no other way out." ; Withdrawal of federal funds for direct relief leaves Marion coun ty with the necessity of cutting its relief budget In two, Wieder stated. He reported that there were 533 relief cases considered "absolutely unemployable," be cause of age, illnesaL or physical disabilities. Including 250 eases already supported as -"c o u n t y pooT. An additional 75 or more cases were ordered placed In this category- In all. the direct relief cases include approximately 2000 persons. , t ; V . One hundred and eighty-eeven (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Banner Farewell to Happy Groups Celebrate as Old Year Dies Past 12 Months Seen as Period of Progress From Depression All Business Indices of 1935 Point Upward; Salem Favored W.h lie gay dancing parties, fireside festivities and downtown whistles and bells announced a New Year, Salem reviewed the history of Old Man 1935 and fou.nd it good. For 1935 was the city's bright est business period since depres sion cast its gloom on farm and city life early this decade. Better business came to retail mer chants. Improved prices and or ders brightened the life of manu facturing plants such as the pa per and woolen business here. The farmer, while his crop was not heavy, and while prices were down in lines like hops and not strong in prunes, found butter fat upv prices strong for wool and sheep, pigs and beef cattle the best prices in six years. Building permits," index ot re covery, .showed steady improve ment from the low figures of the slump. They went to $348,000 last year compared to 1286,000 in 1934 and as the new year was ushered in there was every indi cation that 1936 would see the $1,000,000 mark passed. Irrespec tive of whether the new capitol .structure was under way within the next 12 months. Bank clearings which- are ac cepted -. indices of the business tempo of a community contin ued their upward climb to the (Turn to Page2, Col. 1) Top News Stories Of Year Selected Capitol Fire and Solons' Decision on Rebuilding Lead; 1935 Eventful Seeking to determine what lo cal news stories were outstand ing in Salem in 1935, The States man yesterday picked' its ten most important news- events as recorded by its files. The list fol lows: , 1. Destruction of the historic Oregon capitol by fire. 2. Decision to locate the new capitol here, on the old site, at an expenditure -of $2, 500. 000. . 3. Strong upturn observed In local business; bank debits mount; building permits greater; industrial production increases; retail trade gains. 4. Purchase of water company by city after six years of negotia tion. 5. Launching of 11,108,000 building program for Salem by vote of citizens. 6. Special prosecutor launches drive to rid city and county of gambling; city and county police criticized. 7. Former state parole officer, Dan Kellaher. accused of con tracting to free I. A. Banks from prison. 8. Growth and political-development of Townsend movement. 8. Inauguration of Oregon's "New-Deal" with Governor Mar tin as chief executive. 10. Sale of substantial interest In Ladd ft Bush, pioneer, valley I banking institution. A pplegatei- Grandson, of Famoui Oregon Pioneer, Diet Aged 50, Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. SM) Jesse Applegate, 50, grandson of a famous figure in Oregon's pio neer history, died here today. He was 50 years old. The grandfath er, Jesse Applegate, and two brothers, Charles and Lindsay, crossed the plains from Missouri in 1843. . ' The grandson, who was born in Yoncalla where the grandfather is buried, formerly owned an ab stract office In Jackson connty, established the. pioneer employ ment company in Pendleton and was postmaster. at Gibson In Uma tilla county. - " ' i Construbiion Wmv U l antra (By the Associated Press) AMERICA greeted 1036 Tuesday night with a rip-roaring welcome perhaps unequaled since the spontaneous celebration that herald ed the end of the World war. ; From hamlet to city the1 lid was off either by official proclamation or ripped from its moorings by enthusiastic celebrants. Every where they called it": "The biggest night since the Armistice." Restaurants and night clubs from coast to coast recorded record reservations. In New York City 1,100 bars hung out the "open all night" signs as Mayor La Guard ia called a 12-hour moratorium on his anti-noise pro gram. Night spots in Chicago's loop district alone had 15,000 advance reservations. "Big ger and better" were the parties in Miami, Hollywood, Reno, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and elsewhere. Iindberghs Going To Wales, Report Spokesman Says Purpose to r Avoid Danger to Child in U. S. LIVERPOOL, Eng., Dec. 31.-(JP)-The Charles A. Lindberghs arrived In England today main taining the secrecy that sur rounded their entire voyage, but a relative said they were refu gees from American crime. The flier, his wife and three-year-old son, Jon, while Liver pool celebrated the new year, spent the eve in the seclusion of their suite at the Adelphi hotel. They refused to see anyone from the moment they left the American importer under the cover of a group of detectives and police. But a member of the family of J. L. Morgan in Llandaff, Wales, said the Lindberghs would be guests there and would re main "for some time." This spokesman said the Lind bergs came to England through fear that Jon would become the victim of kidnapers, as was his older brother, little Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Business had noth ing to do with the journey, this source added. The Morgan family expects the Lindberghs at Llandaff, in the quiet Welsh countryside, some time tomorrow. J. L. Morgan is the father of Aubrey Neil Mor gan, widowed husband of Mrs.; Lindbergh's sister. She was the' former Elizabeth Morrow and died -last year in California. Bids Again High f On Grade School ' The Salem school board yes terday had again to resort to referring building bids back .to contractor and architect for downward revision of costs, this time on the grade school project. The low bid, by Drake, Wynian and Voss, Portland Arm, was 990 in excess of the 1115,600 available, with all alternates j re moved. . -The directors were hopeful that the contractors and the arch itect, Frank H. Struble, eould work out . the cost-cutting chan ges so that a contract could be awarded for the project by early next week. Similar conferences were necessary before contracts could he let on both the Leslie junior high and the senior high projeeta. , ; . 7. J ' The Portland contractors, jwho were the only bidders at the jfirst opening": ot offers on the grade building, submitted a basic! bid yesterday of 1153.500, or $2, 500 below the original bid-earlier In December, They deducted 125, 110 from yesterday's figure! for omitting all alternates. The other bidder yesterday. Stein Brothers of . Eugene, offered to construct the butlding for 1168.800 of tor imJTul with alternates eHmlfl- Mere -fAlTV i " -i a I . .. i x: Not all was revelry. Many led by Pres ident Roosevelt and his family made a fire side evening of it as snow blanketed broad areas of the nation. In some cities churches met to pray for peace in the New Year with thoughts of East Africa, where Mussolini's armies moved deep er into Ethiopia, and on China, where internal strife and Sine-Japanese difficulties loomed dark against hopes for tranquility. Matrimonial hunts for the unwed with the gentlemen as the game came into pros pect in the leap year. The last day of the old year was proclaim ed "bury the hatchet" day In Seattle. The may or urged everybody to pal with his worst en emy for the occasion. He had varying success. High on Pike's Peak the AdAmAn clnb of Colorado Springs sent up its customary rocket to greet the New Year. Portland Proud Of Year Record PORTLAND, Dec. 3 1 . - (Jf) -Pprtland looked back on 1935 to night and found that the year bad brought. A 6 4 per cent Increase In cus toms receipts; An 11 per cent increase in bank clearings ; A: 45 per cent increase in the value of building permits; A) 10 per cent increase in pass port applications; A) 50 per cent increase in natur alizations; A 14 per cent increase in mar riage licenses; A 1.4 per cent Increase in dl vorpes Ainity Woman Has Serious Injuries J A New Year's eve celebration trip to Salem ended up in Salem General hospital last night for Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thomas Robertson of Amity route one. They were injured at 10:55 p. m. When the auto in which they ere riding, driven by Ersile Clarence Robbins, same address, plunged into a ditch and over turned on the north river road two miles north of Keizer school. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins escaped un hurt. Mrs. Robertson was being X rayed at 1 o'clock this morning to ascertain it she had received back and internal injuries, as feared. Condition? of her husband, who was cut abot the head, was not serious. I ... The Robbins fautomobile was demolished, state police reported. Robbins said h missed a turn when lights "of an oncoming car blinded them. ! Creamery Prospect is Rosy Cheese Production Planned MT. ANGEL, Dec. 81 Patrons ot the Mt. Angel coope r a 1 1 v e creamery, gathered here today in their annual patron's meeting and dinner, received a new year's present In word from R. J. Bern Ing, president, that a quarter cent cash bonus for every pound of bntterfat will be given In mem bers, plus a second bonus of three quarter cents per pound being is sued In the form of a certificate of interest redeemable in five years. :'" ; .' These bonuses, totaling one cent, and the 14 cent higher re turn paid per pound during the year, will mean the patrons will receive 2 V4 cents more Per pound for their butterfat for this year "than a certain creamery that boasts about its, returns," Bern Ing said in his annual address to the 2009 patrons' gathered here today. Cheese Production To Be Innovation . r '.. Berning also ' said - the rop plans. a new venture in dairy pro duct in 1 9 3 6, the v making of cheese. This will be subject to a vote of the stockholders at the an nual meeting January 27, and cheese ; will be made only when the cheese market is favorable to ear Hop Control Plan Agreed Upon Now Yakima Proposal Approv ed at Portland; McDrew Is on Way East Shifting the attack on surplus age and over-production from the organization of a voluntary!group to an appeal to the federal gov ernment for aid under the AAA, committees representing growers of Oregon and Washington meet ing in Portland yesterday approv ed the new control plan that was accepted by the Washington growers in Yakima on Monday. R. H. McDrew, marketing spe cialist ot the AAA, was present at yesterday's meeting. He ex plained the 9lan and after ap proval was given the commit tees left immediately for Wash ington, D. C, to confer with fed eral officials there. It is nnder (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) New Licensed Are Necessary Today State police early today will start their annual roundup of au tomobile operators who have not obtained or made application for their 1936 license plates. Officers will be stationed on all main highways and violators of the license law will receive arrest slips. - ' Approximately . 6000 license plates were sold at the state mo tor vehicle headquarters here Tuesday. A similar rush was re ported at the branch offices in Portland. Sheriffs also were busy through out the day issuing temporary permits. 1 diversion of some of the cream to this Dumose. he said. He also announced that the co op has called in all common stock up to two shares to each person. tnus diverting the 1850 interest paid on this stock annually to the advantage of the entire associa tion. "It is the man who strips the cows and not the man. who simply has money who should re ceive the profitable returns of our creamery," Berning declared k in making this announcement. Frank Bettwer, manager of the co-op, stated in his talk that total production of butter for 193 S win approximate 1,700,000 pounds or 4 anout o,ooo pounds . more than in 1934, for a value of 1100,- ooo above the output a year ago. Hettwer scored the Marion coun ty . representatives for voting for H. B. No. (relating to the de partment : of agriculture and set ting np marketing agreements) at the last special session of. the leg islature, and a rising vote unfav orable to such legislation. -Two thousand Are ' j Served at Dinner ' s. . . I - Two ; thousand persons were served dinner in relays, motion pictures hetng ' provided in St, . (Turn to Page t, CoL; 7) 1 1 Fouii Millions WiilBeSpent -For Buildings Figure Includes Public Projects Alone; More Progress Certain. Workmen Already Mass Here in Anticipation of Great Activity It doesn't take anyone adept in the higher calculus1 to prove that 1936, a wee New Year this morning, is to usher io by all odds the greatest public construe) tion year in the history of Sales, Definitely in sight allocations' made in several instances with contracts awarded and work un der way is a public building pro gram totalling $4,441,217. 'Way back in 1929, when the city had a $1,200,000 building program the wise ones said the city was doing well and. even the past year's, $34 8,000 'has been welcomed. To have $4,441,217 as the definite building program for the new year is a bit breatb-tak ing. ' Here are the projects authorifc ed: -State capitol ...... . $2,500,009 New high school..... 611,909. Postoffice ..l 265,099 Highway ' undercrossing 380,009 Leslie junior high ... 179,0e9 State hospital 181,099 Grade school 125.099 Blind school 79.391 T. B. Hospital 192,35 And it's a safe estimate that at least eight and probably all nine of these projects are going to be under way before the year ends. Probably the state capitol wiu be the last undertaken and a sizeable amount of that Construc tion will be carried over lata 1937. for the submission of plans and the awarding ot contracts is going to take time. Some time ia the next 12 months, however, the new statehouse should be under way. Skilled Builders Congregate Here I Nor will the $4,441,217 bethe total of 1935 building. Already there is an influx of skilled work men into town for everyone knows that the unusual building program soon to start here ia going to demand more men than the Salem trades can provide. And as these men come, and the population of the i:Ity grows, the demand for new residences be comes more acute. Several small apartment 'houses are projected for 1936.- There Is talk, of down town retail structures, including a new $100,000 Montgomery Ward building, It Is quite likely that the new year will see X rom 75 to 100 new houses Under way and that building permit figures, when totalled. 12 months from now, will run to $5,000,000. , Fate and fortune have played l together to bring Salem this un- f usual construction program. The i burning of the state capitol April j 25 was the harbinger of an nans- j ual, unprecedented reconstrnc- tion program in Salem. Then PWA, at the Instigation ot congress, relaxed its strict rules and provided a 45 per cent grant to responsible -agencies which would cooperate with it in spending, quickly, the. lavish ap propriations the government had available. Salem voters decided (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Air ; Liner Dives; ; Only One Rescued S LOItDOkI Jan. l-( Wednesday) j -p)-Tha ship Brilliant reported today it had discovered th wreckage- of the Imperial Airways i liner City of Khartoum ;. In the ; Mediterranean sei,. but had found only; lone member; of the. crew and hone of the passengers. . The plane was forced down be tween Mlrabelle, Crete, and. Alex andria, Egypt yesterday. The number of passengers was unknown, hut the plane,' carried a crew of four. " ; The H.M.S. Brilliant wireless ed It had picked up Pilot Vernon Gorry : Wilson, - Who apparently had been swimming in th water from ; the time the plane came down.' btt . that there ' was no ! I trace of any other occupants. . - - " - .... - :',. -