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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1936)
Service! t You'll read The Statesman this morning, no matter the weather. Nearly 40 City car riers arose early and braved the cold to get yon roar pa peron time. . The Weather Unsettled with snow to day, probably Wednesday, continued cold; Max. Temp. Monday 23, Min. 18, river 2US feet, snow 1 Inch. EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Sakm, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 231 alter 9 Main Source Stmw Severe Storm Will Continue Says Forecast - ! ' ' - Fall Here is Steady but Only One Inch Up to Midnight; Record Blinor Accidents Proving Numerous; Silver Thaw Some Districts in Snow, which made its first first visit to Salem for this "winter" In late October when legislators were providing for a new. state house, came back to town early yesterday. It returned as a cutting sleet blew out of the north and covered the already frozen earth with in icy sheen. From mid-morning yesterday until mid-afternoon, the snow con tinned, but the fall amounted to only one inch, the official weath: report stated. The temperature re mained constant throughout the day, registering 23 degrees at G a. m., and varying no more than one degree anytime auring in? day, with 22 degrees registered at midiight. As the day began, there was no outlook for relief. Weather reports said it was probable there WouH be snow today and mayhap on Wednesday withUhitborsttowier continuing to stay well below freezing. In the southern part of tho state the outlook is tor warm er days, with snow replaced bv rain. Off the coast, fresh, strong easterly winds are blowing; in the valley the wind continued out ot the north. Traffic Unhampered On Main Highway Traffic on the main highway was continuing steadily last night, north and south stages running almost on schedule. Stage lines to points off the Pacific highway were delayed last night. MotorisiK reported roads slippery and minor skidding accidents were numerous. At noon yesterday the state high way department quickly hurried several light snow plows onto the main arteries of t-avel in the county, and paved highways were being sanded late in the afternoon. Claudia Benson, representative of the Oregon State Motor associa tion here, reported late yesterday that the Pacific highway south of Salem was open but warned that careful driving was necessary. J Snow extends as far as Eugene, Mrs. Benson declared. South of . Eugene there is some sleet and occasional rain. Mrs. Benson said motorists would have no trouble getting getting north to Seattle If they drove carefully. Gale Is Blowing In Columbia Gorge 7he office warned motorists to provide chains for their cars if they attempted to drive east over the Columbia river highway. A 40-mile an hour gale was blowing at Cascade Locks and the Inten sity had increased to 50 miles an hour at Crown Point. Motorists were warned last night that the Salmon river cut off road from Grand Ronde west for three miles was icy and dan gerous although there was little snow. Sleet had frozen on the road and made transportation dif ficult. The M c M I nnville-Tillamook highway west from the agency is reported very icy and hard to drive. Reports here yesterday were that the Newport ferry was ont of commission due to trouble with the pontoons with expectations that the ferry would be operating again late last, night A silver thaw prevailed along the Detroit-Mill City-Stayton road yesterday, reports were, and with considerable Ice on the road, driving was difficult. Nut Bread Is Recipe Topic For This Week ! s -- .;, ' i - Already nnt bread recipes are coming in to The States man Round table. Everyone is invited to contribute to the contest which awards cash prizes each week to the three best recipes submitted. The.; current topic, nut bread, embraces all varieties of this delicious ,4goodie" Including raised, baking powder, white - or whole wheat. Entries mast reach The Statesman .office 'by noon Thursday. 7 4 Sleet Storm Ra No Objection Workers; Pay Goes on Though Tasks Stopped Halt Ordered Early Monday May Continue Till Snow Disappears; Direct Relief Can't Be Increased But Wood Will Be Distributed, Stated SNOW means no hardship for WPA laborers. Their wages will go on regardless of whether they are able to work providing they report to their usual assembling places each day, J. J. Karstetter, district engineer, announced yes terday afternoon. All outdoor projects in this county were ordered shut down for the day early yesterday and doubtless Lead Figures in Blizzard Drama Above, Clayton Brown, 22-j ear- old fisherman of Charlevoix. Mich., who crawled for eight miles on hands and knees to safety after being m&rooned on Lake Michigan ice. Below, Earl Cunningham, coast guardsman who went ont seeking to rescue Brown and Claude Beardsley, but froze to death aa did Beardsley. Vandenberg Plans Not To Enter Primaries in Any State, Announces PORTLAND, Feb. 17.-UP)-Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michi gan, mentioned as a republican presidential possibility, said la a letter received here today: "I do not Intend to enter the Oregon primary or any other primary." The letter was sent to Stew art Weiss, president of the Mult nomah county chapter ot Oregon republicans, in response to Weiss' offer to arrange speaking dates. Campaign For Improving , Willamette River Opens EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 17-)-.Angus Gibson of Junction City, president of the Lane county chamber of commerce, said today the organization would begin an Immediate campaign to effect riv er improvements to the Willam ette in this area. Report of federal engineers are to be heard here Thursday. u,c HV - ) 1 V JT y tt J ' 9 S m -r i . by WPA will be closed each day until the snow disappears, Karstetter indi cated. The county relief committee cannot increase its cash or pro vision allowances to its clients during the cold spell because "there isn't enough money as it is," Glenn C. Niles, executive sec retary, said. The committee, how ever, has sufficient fire wood on hand to last for several weeks and its staff "will do its best to keep the clients warm," Niles added. Absences piled up rapidly at Salem high school yesterday as difficult traveling conditions, colds and sore throats took their toll. The daily absentee list at the close of school in the after (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Farmers Will Be Paid Says Riches Congressional Action on Monday Assures AAA Debts' Payment All holders of contracts for re duction of agricultural products in Marion county are going to get their money from Uncle Sam, ac cording to Harry L. Riches, coun ty agent. Riches said he had re ceived this word from Washing ton following passage of a $300,- 000,000 appropriation by congress to be used by AAA for winding up its reduction program. Riches said it was estimated Oregon farmers would receive $1,- 340,000. For Marion county the payments will run from $20,000 to $35,000. Heretofore Marion county -farmers have received from AAA a total of $175,993, of which $80,141 went to wheat growers and $95,852 to corn-hog growers. In preparation for cleaning up the past obligations of the gov ernment under the crop control program, Oregon officials have been notified from Washington to return records and materials to (Turn to page 10, col. 1) Three Skaters at Everett Drowned EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 17.-(ff) -Three unidentified boys skated to their deaths in Silver lake, five miles south of here, tonight and a fourth, who plunged through thin ice with them, owed his life to a daring rescue by two men. A crew, working from a boat, recovered one body, and reported the other two had been located beneath the Ice. Jack Johnson, Rugg Lake, Wash., said he crashed through the ice with the others, but did not know their names. He was rescued by Ray Trelch el, principal of the Silver lake school, and Cliff Haggerraan, a former state patrolman. While Treichel held one end of a rope, Haggerman crawled out on the ice until he could grasp Johnson, clinging to the ice. The ice gave way as Haggerman pull ed Johnson out, but Treichel drag ged them both to safety. Three New Autos to Be Purchased For Police; Bid Call Is Authorized City Recorder Jones last night was authorised by the council to advertise for bids for three sew automobiles for the police depart ment. Specifications will be sub mitted by the council police com mittee. The three police cars to be re placed have run from 100,000 to 130,000 miles and are badly in need of repairs and new tires, Al derman Fuhrer s&ld. - " . r 0 Drifting Snow Now Handicaps Rescue Effort Towns Reached Earlier Isolated Again as Food Supply Cut Corn, Fence Posts Used for Fuel; Abnormal Cold Continues CHICAGO, Feb. 17. -(-Drifting snow raised new barriers about isolated villages in the mid western storm country today as slender stores of food and fuel dwindled toward the privation level. A half dozen South Dakota com munities Hereford, Volunteer, Stoneville, Creighton, Fa'rpoint and Hoover were cut off again after rescue expeditions had clear ed roads over the weekend Mea ger reports from the hamlets rep resented conditions as approach ing the critical point. Corn and fence posts were burn ed at Hereford. All the flour was gone at Hoover. Aviator George Hight piloted a ski plane 75 miles tnro"Kh the blizzard to bring Gus Anderson of Capitol, Wyo.. to a hospital at Belle Fourche. Cold Settles Down, North Central Area Six sleds were used to draw p r o v i 8 i o n s across snow-filled fields to Hatfield, Mo., marooned for a month. Abnormal cold settled down for another two-day stay in th? north central states. Fresh snow now a white plague halted rail and automobile travel in the vicinity of Grand Forks, N. D. Drift ham pered travel in other portions of the northwest and midwest. Cold records were shattered at several points. An all-time mark was broken at Watertown, S. D., when the 37th consecutive day of subzero weather was recorded. Fairmount, Minn., suffered its 31st successive day of tempera tures that averaged -18. The 27th day in a row of subzero readings bested a mark established in 1888 at Lincoln, Neb. Fuel shortages closed scores of schools. A two-day coal supply was reported at Enning, S. D. Elm Springs, S. D., had neither fuel nor food. (Turn to page 10, col. 4) Relief Work Not Limited to Union Relief workers, to get WPA help, do not have to belong to a union. Governor Martin offi cially advised Don W. Hicks of this city. Hicks had complained to the governor in a letter that he was told he would have to join a union before he received employment. At the statehouse it was thought Hicks' complaint grew out of the fact that many con tractors will only employ union labor and insist that all persons sent them from a federal re employment office must belong to a craft union. Governor Martin took Hicks' letter up with C. C. Hockley, state PWA administrator, and ob tained verification that the re lief worker need not be a union man. Bonus, New Farm Aid Funds Approved Quiclly by Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.- (P) The senate today broke all speed records for appropriation bills by approving in less than half an hour a 12,889,751,905 measure including $1,730,000,000 to pay the bonus and S440.000.000 for the new farm subsidy program. The remaining $719,751,905 is to pay the running expenses for the government's host of inde pendent agencies in the next fiscal year. Voice votes put through the bill Itself and the bonus and farm fund amendments offered by Sen ator Byrnes (D-SC). Farm Bill Vote in House Set Friday In the house, where the new farm bill has yet to run a gaunt let of republican opposition, dem ocratic leaders laid plans seeking a vote by Friday night. Chairman Jones (D-Tex) of the house agriculture committee said he plans to call up the senate-approved Smith-Bankhead bill and irir esz inii Valentine Day Revenge Case On St. Valentine's day seven years ago, seven "Bugs" Moran gang sters were killed in Chicago. ".Machine Gun" Jack McGum, shown above, was suspected bnt established an alibi. Almost ex actly seven years to the day la ter, he was slain in a Chicago bowling alley; and the blonde young woman who was his alibi on that earlier occasion heard about it in an anonymous tele phone call. International Il lustrated News photo. Frances Laws Is Severely Injured Salem Girl Given Slight Hope; Accident Occurs Near Jennings Lodge Reports from the Oregon City hospital early this morn ing were that Miss Laws' con dition was "about the same." OREGON CITY, Ore., Feb. 17. -(P) Miss Frances Laws, 23, who was injured in an auto accident early today, was in a semi-con scious condition at the Oregon City hospital tonight. Attendants held but slight hope she would live. Miss Laws, the daughter of Les ter L. Laws, head of the state flax plant at the penitentiary near Sa lem, incurred a fractured skull and lost considerable blood as a result of a severed artery in her arm. She was injured near Jennings Lodge. Others In Car Are Injured Somewhat Her mother, Mrs. L. L. Laws, incurred a five inch scalp lacer ation, and her grandmother, Mrs. Eugene Harrison, was shocked and bruised. Mrs. W. B. Robin son, also of Salem, was slightly Injured. Walter C. Norton, Milwaukie, driver of the second car involved in the mishap, also escaped with less serious injuries. Investigators said it appeared the Laws car, which was demol ished, slipped from a road should er at a highway construction pro ject and went out of control. (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Importance of Chematca Recognized, Resolution Recognition of the Salem In dian school's importance to this city and approval of its celebra tion at Chemawa next week were voted by the city council last night. City Recorder Jones was instructed to prepare an appropri ate resolution and send it to In dian school officials. substitute his own, which Is very similar, as an amendment (The legislation would replace the agricultural adjustment act. It would authorize federal subsi dies to farmers for taking crop land out of production to conserve the soil. The money could be paid either directly or to states which enacted authorizing legislation. After two years, the subsidies would be limited to state admin istration). Close to a peace-time record to tal for a regular appropriation bill, the measure passed by the senate today now goes back to the house for action on the bonus and farm funds and a few. other minor amendments. - ' Besides the $440,000,000, the Byrnes amendment reapproprlat- ed $30,000,000 of unexpended balances in the old AAA fund for the new farm subsidies. The Smith-Jones bill authorized $500,- ;.. ,'l -. -( 7 Hi -c ' t " i - - 4 mi in f in mi I- -J-VnAi'- tinifiiniiTi- - 090,000. O J, o TVA Decision Declared Boon To Northwest Will Mean Completion of Columbia Dams Soon Leaders Assert 8-1 Ruling Says Surplus May Be Marketed; New Dealers Rejoicing SEATTLE, Feb. 17-P)-Pacific northwest reclamation leaders to day hailed the United States su preme court's Tennessee valley authority decision as assuring ttie legality of the Grand Coulee ann Bonneville dams. Director E. F. Banker of the Washington State Department of Conservation and Development, said the decision that the govern ment may legally sell surplus pow er developed at federal hyrdo-elec trie projects, removed any doubt of rapid completion of the Grand Coulee and Bonneville dam pro jects. "Few supreme court decisions have been of greater importance to the northwest than that on thf TVA," remarked James O'Sulli van. Columbia Basin commission secretary. He said it removed "all doubt as to the legality ' of the Grand Coulee project. Marshall Dana. Portland editor and chairman of Pacific North west Regional Planning commis sion, .predicted congress would move immediately to provide methods of power ale at the two public northwest dams. WASHINGTON. Feb. lm Government sale of electricity gen erated at dams constructed tor national defense or other consti tutional purposes was upheld to day by the supreme court i its long-awaited TVA decision. Chief Justice Hughes, in an opinion from which JusticeMc- Reynolds alone dissented, ruled, (Turn to page 10, col. 6) Linen Mill Debt Proposals Heard Compromise Matter Taken Up by Control Board; Radio 'Funds Okeh A debt compromise In which the Salem Linen Mills would settle a current account of $8335 owed the state for $4000 cash and would trade Its Income deben tures, due in five years, for $7,- 835 in accounts payable taken ov ers from the Oregon Linen Mills, was proposed to the state board of control yesterday. The board took no action on the proposal, pend ing an opinion from the attorney- general's office. The board was aaed to make the compromise in order to expe dite reorganization of the Salem Linen mills. A letter from federal agencies announced that the proposed al location of funds with which to obtain new portraits of Oregon governors, to replace those de stroyed in the capitol fire, had been cancelled. It probably will be necessary to obtain a legisla tive appropriation for this project. Radio Plan Approved The board received official in formation from Washington that $144,673 had been allocated to Oregon for the establishment ot five police radio stations and a telephone system. Funds for a central state heating plant previ ously were authorized. Four 1000 watt radio stations and two 100 watt stations are proposed. The 1000 watt sta tions wonld be at Coquille and The Dalles. Officials said these police ra dios would be operated under the direction of the state police. Arson Charge Faced in Eugene; Arrest Is Made SAN DIEGO. Calif., Feb. -Ernest A. Keyser, 28, is being held in Jail here pending arrival of police officers from Eugene, Ore., where he is wanted on Arson charges. Arrested yesterday on complaint of his wife, who said he was creating a disturbance. Key ser was taken to the city Jail, where a check revealed he was wanted in Eugene, Detective Chief Harry Kelly said. i ' Are Icy System Total Cost To be $2,257,000 Council Estimates Intake Above Stayton Is Designated in 9 to 4 Vote by Aldermen as Further Delays Rejected Engineer's Latest Figures Indicate 879,000 Expense For Supply; Debt Not Excessive, Held THE North Santiam river last night survived two hours of bitter debate and became by a 9 to 4 vote of the city council officially Salem's permanent source of "moun tain" water supply. The vote by which this action was pos sible was on an ordinance, amended, which Alderman Walter Fuhrer introduced last December 2. Total cost of the water system completed under the plan proposed last night would be $2,257,000, of which $7000 would be paid immediately out of accrued earnings of the plant, leaving a $1,150,000 new issue of water bonds to be added to the $1,100,000 now outstanding. Adamant to the last, Aldermen John D. Minto, David O'Hara and Fred A. Williams fought to delay action pend ing completion of an engineering survey of the Willamette -rO Probable Cost of- Pipe Line Is Told 36-Inch Steel Main Would Be Installed; Studies Are Not Complete For $879,000 the Salem water commission can build a gravity water line from the North San tiam river a short distance above Stayton that will supply 13.6 mil lion gallons per day and a mod ern gravity filter plant" having a capacity of 12 million gallons a day. Engineer R. E. Koon re ported to the commission at a closed meeting last Wednesday night, it was revealed last night after the city council had voted for this source. Koon proposed a 3 6-inch steel pipe line from the Intake over a route nis crews recently sur veyed to Fairmount hill where the commission has purchased a new reservoir site. This pipeline and the filter plant at cost of 1116,000 could "be increased in capacity to 20 million gallons per day by adding pumps near the point of diversion and building additional units for the filter plant," Koon's report stated. A substitute supply system, which was not mentioned in last night's arguments before the council, was suggested by Koon to cost $791,000. This system would supply a 10-million gal lon daily water flow and would be increased to 15 million gal lons by a $100,000 expenditure at a later date. Either system would start from the same point on the North Santiam river. Koon emphasized that his esti mates were based on surveys and (Turn to Page 7, Col. 8) Hearing Set, Park Vacation Question The city council last night nn animously adopted a resolution calling a hearing March 2 on the vacation of the section of Willson park one half block west from Summer street for capitol build' tag purposes. Carl F. Gould, the capitol con struction commission's technical adviser, "feels having this plot might lead to some architect's giv inr us a most superior capitol.' Dr. R. H. Olinger, member of the council and of the commission. stated. "The capitol commission has had Willson nark in mind ever since its inception, Dr. Olinger explained. "Whether the capitol commission can erect ten feet of the capitol on Willson park is a question bnt there have been sug gestions that the legislature nexi year can give permission if the Cliy w 1X1 Kile us uiu The commission. Dr. Olinger In dicated, probably wonld place the deed given by the city in escrow until the capitol plan was com pleted. He said Mr. Gould was exnected to have the final ached ule for the capitol architectural completion complete when the river supply and of comparison of this, the North Santiam and the Little Xork fork of the San tiam rivers. But nine oouncilmen headed by Alderman Brazier C. Small de clared themselves ready to accept a report by Engineer R. E. Koon, dated February 12, which set $879,000 as the cost of the North Santiam supply. Four Hold Out for Further Figures The vote designating the North Santiam river above Stayton as the permanent "mountain" water supply: Yes: Armpriest, Evans, Fuhrer, Goodman, Olinger, Perrine, Small, Wieder and Young. No: Daue, Minto, O'Hara and Williams. The council then directed the ways and means committee, the mayor, city attorney ' and water commission to draft an ordinance for the sale of $1,150,000 of addi tional city water bonds and sub mit it at the next council session, March 2. t An intake, gravity pipeline from above Stayton and a filtra tion plant would cost $879,000, Alderman Small told the council in opening the debate. He declar ed $198,000 additional was need ed for a new reservoir and $126.-" 000 for a feeder main running north and south across the city, making- a total new expenditure proposed of $1,203,000. "The water department says it can carry the debt load and han dle its regular operating costs with a two and a quarter mUlion dollar bond issue," Small told the cuuucu. a majority ui me waie commission has joined in recom mending this program. Abandon Willamette, Purpose of Small "If the council sees fit to do it. we will have a gravity mountain water system and, what the peo ple want, get away from the Wil lamette river. You could put in a new Willamette supply but never could correct outside advertising that Salem drinks sewage water." Small averred the difference in interest burden between an 1879, 000 North Santiam supply and a (Turn to page 10, eoL 1) Late Sports EDMONTON, Alta., Feb. ll-qf) -Playing a strong defensive game, the Portland Buckaroos held the Edmonton Eskimos to a 1-1 tie in a Northwestern Hockey league game tonight VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. 17-(A3r-Seattle's league-leading Sea hawks staved off a desperate third period apart by the second-plaee Vancouver Lions and gained a 4-4 overtime tie tonight In a North western Hockey league game.. PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 17-) -Jack Lipscomb, 159-pound mat man from Indianapolis, scored an upset tonight In defeating Don Sugal, Salem, Ore., 159, two ont of three falls on the main event of a wrestling card, Jean LaBell, Montreal, won two of three from Ernie Plluso, Port land. Otis Clingman. If2, Okla- noma vuy, wva m uu uvu Curtlss, Jackson, Miss., 160. . lll m 1t . T.afc