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Valley Coverage Bight y, correspondents provide dally coverage from as many communities, explaining steady growth of tbls paper Im 1U wide, Meld. EIUHTY-FIFTH YEAR .Ro Tokyo Cabinet Discusses New Secret Policy Hero of Jehol is Named War Education Head to Fill Vacancy Prince Konoye Expected to Gain1 High Office; Generals It Resign ICnnTrleht. 193S. by Associated Pwsi) TOKYO, March 4. Emperor Hirohito commanded Prince Fnmimaro Konoye, distinguish ed vonne leader In Japanese liberal and naval circles, to cre ate a new cabinet today to re place that of Premier Reisnke Okada, shattered by a short lived military uprising. Prince Konoye, 42 - year - old former president of the house of peers, accepted the charge and asked the emperor for time to organize a new ministry. TOKYO. March 4 - (Wednes dayW,5V-Gen. Giicni Nishi, mem ber of the supreme war council wag appointed inspector general of military education today. He succeeds Gen. Jotaro Wat anabe. assassinated in the bloody military uprising of last week The new head of the govern ment's education department is the hero of the Japanese army's conquest of Jehol in 1933 His appointment came as mem fcera of the cabinet aDDroved "an important law" today and inform ed sources predicted Prince Fn mimaro Konoye would be named to the high position of lord keep er of the privy seal. Subject Matter of New Law Untold The privy council and cabinet convened fh session in the great eastern council chamber of the imperial palace but the subject of their deliberations was not dis closed. After' the privy council's pro ceedings were concluded, the cab inet remained in session to obtain the emperor's sanction to the "im- portant law. Prince Konoye was summoned to the palace after an earlier eon vernation with Prince Saionji. nniinr elder statesman of the mnlr (Prince Konoye, ' who visited New York city in 1934. has been (Torn to Page 10, Col. 8) Make Aerial Map Of Water Source An aerial mapping survey of the North Santiam river in and above Stayton was conducted yes terday for R. E. Koon, consulting engineer for the Salem water commission, Koon said last night. The survey, from which a map to the same scale as that on the land surveyors' maps will be prepared, included the proposed intake site short distance above Stayton and the island from which A. D. Gardner, sr.. of Stayton proposes that Salem obtain its water. The aerial map will serve to di rect the land surveyors in choos- hri nineline course through tne wooded country from fitavton to the intake site. Mr. Gardner's suggestion that huge springs on the Santiam river Island be tanned by tne cuy oi Salem will be thoroughly investl- rated even tbou;h plans are ai ready nnder way to take water directly from the North Santiam, Maror V. E. Kuhn declared yes terday. Seek Suspects in McGurn Slayings CHICAGO. March 2.-JP)- for mer bodyguard of gang-slain Jack MrGurn known to them only as "Johnny Alcock" was sought to- tsieht bv oollce for questioning in two similarly - patterned klUings In the McGurn family. Jack, ex-chief machine gunner lor the Al Capone syndicate, waa hot to death in a bowling alley iaat month- his vounrer halt brother, Anthony de Mory, was killed in a poolroom last night. "Alcock," police were inform ed, was present when three men ended the up - and - down under world career of McGurn February 15; he fled the poolroom last night, shortly after 24-year-old Tony was shot. - A. A. U. Playoff Ends PORTLAND, Ore., March -The Hop Gold basketball, team won the Portland A. A. U. playoff tonight by defeating Reliable Shoe 42 to 52. Rayley for the winners was high scorer with 14 points. Burns. Reliable Shoe guard, waa . next wlta IS. -.. Tax Offers to Quit Due to Revolt IF GENERAL ARAKI Widening Pacific Highway to Start Rerouting to South Under $95,000 Contract Will Be Launched Today R L. Houck, Independence con tractor, will start preparations this morning to widen and rfhten the Pacific highway south of Salem under a 9o.00U contract recently awarded him by. the state highway commission. The project, approximately four miles long, will be finished by September 30, the highway de partment estimates. The new grading operations will he started with only a skele ton crew but will be enlarged rap idly if the weather permits, it is expected. The state employment office here yesterday assigned four laborers from the relief rolls to Houck to go to work today. The highway from the lntersec Hon with the Soutn lztn street cutoff to Taylor creek wiU be re located east of the present route to eliminate the numerous curves which have caused many acci dents. Houck's contract calls for grading the new route to a point (Turn to Page 10, coi. 6) Lindys May Live In Caxton Barn LONDON, March 3.-(P)-The nllv Emress sal toaay coi Charles A. Lindbergk and his fam llv are nlannlng to live in "Long Barn" at Seven Oaks m Kent. The old residence is reputedly the birthplace of the Engiisn nrinUr and tvoe designer, Wil liam Caxton. The 18-room house, originally composed of four ancient cottages and a barn, stands in an old Eng llsh rose garden with a swimming pool and tennis courts. The house is regarded by some to be haunted by the ghost o Caxton who, according to tne story, upsets his printing press every moonlit night in the room where he was born. i iJ."" f lv Wpff r h vj ;-v 1 1 tin V Progress Toward Peace in Labor Troubles Negligible (By The Associated Press) Negotiations toward settlement of three big strikes yesterday pro gressed virtually as laboriously as the thousands of New Yorkers taking long flights of steps afoot because of the elevator operators' walkout. Spokesmen for both sides In the strike of Manhattan building ser vice employes, meeting in the chambers of Mayor Florello la Guardia, indicated little actual ad vance toward a solution was made. Employes of More Hotels Walk Out The Hotel Workers' union said employes of seven more hostelries joined ln the walkout adding 000 to 6.000 workers to the thou sands already ouU , At Akron, O.J eonf erencea eon Propos Reach Jurors By Afternoon Arguments Due at Start of Today's Session; Defense Closed Trial is Slowed Down by Objections as Sloan's Reputation Eyed Fate of John Kyle, charged with first-degree murder of Hugh jean Sloan of Broadacres, early in the morning of January 2, will be In the hands of a trial Jury here sometime lae tnis auenioou. Attorneys' arguments are to start at 9 o'clock this morning and by mid-afternoon Judge L. H. Mc Mahan is expected to instruct the Jurors and to send them out for the deliberations which will de termine whether Kyle will go free or be convicted. Under Oregon law the Jury may pass by the first-degree murder charge and bring in a second-degree or manslaughter verdict. Trial of Kyle has already taken eight days in court here and kept 14 men and women, serving on the jury, away from their homes that length of time. District At torney Trindle won his motion from the court that the Jury be kept together until the- case was determined. State Wins Point Of Admissability Yesterdays proceedings were bogged down with a four-hour le gal battle between the district at torney and Paul Bums, aeiense counsel, over the admission of evi dence dealing with Sloan's record as a man who frequently drank heavily of Intoxicating liquor. Trindle won his point that Burns could not introduce specific evi dence of Sloan's drinking or evi dence that he was belligerent when intoxicated. Bums was al lowed to question witnesses on Sloan's general reputation in the Broadacres community as to get- (Turn to Page 10, Col. 3) Old Reservoir as Swim Pool Talked The proposal that the old city reservoir on Fairmount hill be turned into a public swimming pool when the proposed new 12,- 000,000-gallon reservoir is im Ished was made in jest at a re cent water commission meeting. but it might be taken seriously, it appeared yesterday. To reline the old reservoir and make it satisfactory for continued use by the water department would be prohibitive in cost, Wa- ter Manager Cuyler vanrauen said last night. Because of its present poor condition, only about 750.000 gallons of water are stored in this reservoir although it was designed to carry more than a million gallons. VanPatten said it originally had been planned to fill up the old reservoir when the new cov ered concrete storage basin is completed, but added that the water commission might be will ing to permit it to be converted into a swimming tank. Its scenic location and large site migni make it the most popular swim ming place In the city. - Wiebe Diet From Injury In Crash Near Jeffenon ALBANY, Ore., March 3.-)-Injuries incurred yesterday in- an auto accident near Jefferson re sulted fatally today to Jack Wiebe of Portland, foreman of a. school construction project here. o tinned In an effort to solve the controversy between the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, and 14,- 000 employes who left work two weeks ago. Pickets still ringed the rubber plants there. Settlement likewise appeared remote in the five-day strike or 4.000 garment workers at Boston, who have drawn society figures, clergymen, college girls and edu cators to their picket lines. ei m co. Passengers on the strike-bound liner California, however, got word that the vessel probably would start as soon on its sail ing, cancelled yesterday over the crew's wage demands. The ship was to have left San Pedro, Calif yesterday for New York. In Milwaukee, conferences were under way to compromise differ r way io cumv.uui ace Mtwn u wiwoMia new. and it atrikine editorial workers. FOUMDEP Salem, Oregon, Wednesday al Bed Close Just Call Is Part of Job For Them TILLAMOOK, Ore., March ft-fl-Peter J. Johnson and 8. T. Jackson of Salem ap parently do not take nar row escape seriously. The two were engaged in reconditioning the 184-foot smokestack of the Mountain States Power company here when the ring to which the pulley was aUached gave way. Suspension ropes ami auxiliary pulleys fell to the ground but the hook of the pulley which suspended the two men, one inside the smokestack and one outside, caught on the top rim, rip ping the stack three feet before stopping. Today the men were 'jack at work with the same equipment. The pulley worked itself downward through the metal stack an other three feet, but f the pair didn't fceem to mind. Taxpayer League Will Ask Hearing Discussion of Santiam as Water Source Sought; No Legal Action The Taxpayers League of Sa lem probably will request a meet intr with either the entire city ronncll or at least with the new lv - created water construction committee to discuss the league's nrnnnsal that a water supply iia h soueht in lieu of the North Santiam river supply. Frank W. Durbin, league presi 'dent, said last night. Durbin averred league members had not considered filing suit to enjoin the city from starting construe tion of the Santiam pipeline. "We don't believe we will need to do that," Durbin responded when asked if the league's objec tions to the 1879,000 Santiam water program might be taken into court a. 1 League memDers i uirci elthe? today or Thursday to de- e liner ' . , C1UC W Uat. wuanv " low, Durbin said. The league's opposition to the Santiam river plan "is not an ar bitrary thing with us," Durbin asserted. "We're trying to save some moneys With the town try ing to assume a bonded debt of K k u. between four and live imuiion school Dunaingo feel the propo sition before the council is Justi fied. And If we are going to have polluted water, we might as well go to the Willamette river." Vallee Pleads in Copyright Matter WASHINGTON. March 3.-(V RUjy Vallee. appearing as a guest star at a house patents commit tee hearing, today pleaded for an snnot financial re tarn for writers of songs that have that certain something " because un- til they are written, "I go out, we all go .. r n.tinnt enn- - tinue." Tle singer and orchestra lead er testified as a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He oDoosed a bill which would revise the copyright laws, elimln- atlng the $250 minimum for puni tive damages fringements. for copyright ln- Mystery Death at Seattle Reported SEAT 'LE, Marc S-(i!p)-With a bullet wound through the head, George Self, about 33, was found dying tonight when police enter ed his apartment in response to a telephone call. The officers detained a young woman who said she discovered Self lying wounded beside a da venport. A pistol lay near him. Police auoted the woman as saying she had visited Self earlier in the night and, returning, found him shot. She called neighbors. Self died in a hospital without regaining consciousness. Clippers to Meet Today, Mid-Ocean ALAMEDA, Calif., March i-m tv mM.Pacirie rendezvous oi i - ,,- twn riant ; uhan cupper .eay.--, I will become a long-awaited reality tomorrow.- On lonely Wake island, close to the International date line, the . . t, l..Jnl moot sister ships are scheduled to meet tomorrow niahx. officials said. The China Clipper will be from Manila: the Philip- v ' I frnm Ala vw - . ------ - . - I meda. 1651 Morning, March 4, 1936 Playground on North Santiam Will Be Ideal Preservation of Present Transient Camp Gets General Support Already . Artistic Layout With Possibility for Wide Utilization On the beautiful North Santiam river accessible by the long-established county road between Taylor's bridge and Mill City . lies a well-landscapea. careiuuj planned summer and winter camp. to which Marlon county is suum; to fall heir. Known officially as Camp San tiam. headquarters for nearly two years for 150 men who traveled the rods and nitcn-niaea meir way across the country during depres- sion, tne enure pruj --"' . am . wii n its artistic log buildings ana proo- hlv with the equipment installed by state authorities, is to revert to the ownership of the county. Board of Trustees May Take Custody And the county court, eager that this windfall be preserved, is this week making plans to entrust the grounds and. buildings to an organization which would make permanent and useful the quarters originally provided for transients. Briefly, the court's plan is this: To designate a representative, Im partial board of trustees or to or ganize, perhaps, a non-profit cor poration, which would be entrust ed with the care of the camp. Here rrouDS from a score of coun ty organizations could conduct nmraer-e m pi W conventions choosing Salem as their meeting place could enjoy an over-night re treat. Within a few days the county court emects to summon repre- . . m MAsa.DA(lnn et seuan' - community organizations-veter- ... th. v M. C. A. and inn' rrouns. tne x. ai. . Y. W. C. A., service clubs, the Boy (Turn to Page 10, Col. l) WPA Will Start Reducing Payroll WASHINGTON. March 3-;P)-A new White House conference on unemployment, described by iTes- Went Roosevelt as a still Incon elusive discussion of whether in dustry could take on more men, tonight stirred speculation in me capital. It was followed swiftly by an announcement by Harry L. Hop kins, Works Progress administra tor, that WPA would start this month to trim Its rows rrom a February high of 3,037,440 to a minimum of 2,310,100 by next June 30. The administration anticipated. Honklns asserted, that zOO.ooq Vould be placed ln priTate tn employment each two I . . a T..1- t i tppih neiwccu iiu Strike of Relief Workers Revived LOS ANGELES, March Stt.l . wort, .roir tm. i m i , am w nm w iiiiau seventy -uw mci .ji.i...ii. atnrm rt rain pro - cts Anrelea today I .f f th discharre of , rivuhv altered leader in Mtrdav' ahort-llved strike of inn men on the project. ' - later agreed to re4l persons who favored old-age pen turn in work ana a reiuoeu, Police took questioning. six in custody lor and later released them. Col. Donald H. Connolly, coun ty WPA director, gave orders for the Immediate discharge of the 33 who refused to return to work. Further Progrett Made In Raising Needed Fund For MM City Program ' Kuhn announced yesterday after Five hundred dollars was added noon. Earlier he had announced m snbscrintlons to the capital the appointment of Aldermen E. Sock of the Mill City Lumber b. Perrine, Merrill D Ohllng company by Salem iirms yesie TAttor manager or ... ' ..j I. nivht new mm, reyunc -- the first two days of tha drive to raise S 50 00 in Salem, $1500 has been subscribed. ; 1 !- ... i . r . firm, her! had said they wofid SriJut dtlar was bing met "7ttng propoMl to dl- M- "ub.m"1 th e firms or to man- reCtOrS OI tne linns Of m rectori - a6cmC - . -onn. .ni . aniin buiips. "8."t " " " esentatlves of his Mill City wprewBtaujet in mt i jMtn iiniia innir bviiliw mm, w... vv-: 1 tion locally today : RevoMtioiiary Levy Against Surplus Of Corporations Is Large Firms9 Finances To Be Vastly Changed Stock Market Advances After Complete Halt When Plan Made Known; Velocity of Money May '' Be Greatly Speeded by Tax Scheme ( Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press) -rmr vnuv Ur-n, 3 (API -A complete change in the scut 1I1CU1VU vi o r- . . xt. i. ninn -orotf Wall Street s inter ing into me iicai j4"camv," " . nretation today of the Roosevelt tax proposals. prer:" kT ,r.if fnrp-warnm. securities markets were stunneS into ta&rftTWta. for around 1.600,000,ou to oe raised by a levy on undistributed corporation profits. From the standpoint of the se curities traders, the tax was rreeted as a windfall, since cor- " m forced either ponuuu ,inev. inir9na navmenis iu ,,vir r to nav the heavy tax. nromntlv rained 11 to $5 a share on the New York stock Thi,-i remnlnpd. however, the disquieting prediction in several (Turn to Page iu, coi. oj Fascist Alliance Hinted by Moves ! Von Neurath and Austrian Starhemberg Reported on Road to Rome (CnBTrlrtt 1936. by AMoelmte Preu) ROME. March 4. Germany's minister for foreign affairs, Bar on Konstantin van Neurath, was tn Rome today, it was ir , ,, ,, , ti tt learned iJ1yto" .YlX mier Mussolini turned to a iresn Kninmatie offensive against . nis Rnronean adversaries. Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, powerful Austrian vice-chancellor, in waa coming from Vienna for Italo-Austrian conversations, in terpreted as the first step in a Fascist campaign to end the threat of sanctions against Italy. Resurrection of Old Alliance Visioned The news of the German for- lrn minister's visit, simuuane- ou8iy witn that 0f Ton starhem- berg, added growing volume to ev idence that an Italo-German rap- prochment possible resurrection (Tarn to Page 10, Col. 8) Stadelman Plans Early Visit Here P. J. Stadelman. fruit broker and prominent business man at ttwk "nd 'and tmf" V1J m nrh.hi. an- a& iuv w" " " an- nounce his decision on his candi dacy for the state treasurership. said friends of Staledman at' the ranital yesterday. Possibility that he will seek the republican nomination was height ened by the announcement that Senator W. E. Burke would try for the office. Stadelman, wno was secretary oV state for one year Burt. Mm C, innnair- iiiiipi imi uaci a 1 rnmneni. wiu uitiuo iuo I Townsend plan vote as well as the sunoorters of public ownership and distribution of power, State Treasurer Holman has an- nounced he was sympathetic witn sions but he has not unqualifiedly endorsed the Townsend plan. Water System Will Hold The new water construction committee authorized by the city council Monday night will be call- .a th da .. Mayor v E. - urtmr v. duii meiFunrer as memoers m wu- Tn Initio nf which he la chairman. - - . , Mayor Kuhn said he would have no definite plan of action ready nnUl the committee meeta. With S46.303 In water bond funds appropriated tor the committee's use by the councn. J. con. true- tlon board jrill he in a position to call for bids at once on the ex- I , --nnmoA nw r. the cavatlon lor the proposed new re- Iservolr. the The reservoir excavation unu waterworks Improvement . nrAm can be advertised - m Price 3c; Newsstands 5c. Rtrppt'a inter- the president asked congress Praises Taxing Program of F. R. SENATOR HARRISON Chain Store Tax Measure on File Would License All Retail Establishments; Joint Owner Fees Higher State licensing of all retail and wholesale establishments with heavier licenses required tor stores owned by one corporation is required in the so-called 'chain store tax" measure filed yesterday with the secretary oi state's office here. A . preliminary petition putting the measure be- I fQre Toters 0f tne Btate was filed with the measure. In case peti tions are completed, the new tax law is to ko on ballot in Novem ber. Signers totalling 16,371 must be approved by the secretary oi state's office by July 1. The proposed measure would nut a license fee of $2 minimum on all stores but the rate of in crease would depend on the num hr of stores owned by a lirm. Where more than " 50 establish (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1) St. Mary's Quint Oregon Champion PORTLAND, Ore., March 3-(JPl -St. Mary's high school of Eugene scattered done by the wayside to- night ir ti$?Z i . ffL2fiar" i 7. . . . , ML Angel won tniro piace in the tourney by winning from St. Mary's of Beaverton 26 to 20 in a consolation game. St. Stephens of Portland won fourth by defeat ing Columbia prep of Portland 19 to 15 in the other consolation con test Commission First Meet Soon bidders at any time, R.' E. Koon, enrineer emplosed by the Salem water commission to prepare the plans, said last night. He said he could have copies of the specifica tions ready for Didders within not more than four days after he. was authorized to do so. Plenty of Time to Plan on Reservoir As the excavation Job will re- anire approximately three months time, specifications for construc tion of the reservoir can easuy ue completed by the time the 20-foot u A ready for forms to be set mnA . MnrretA nonred. .Koon al ready has virtually finished his drawings for the completed "reser voir and valve house. a The water commission already has purchased a site for the re servoir consisting of eight lots at Rural avenue and John streets at a cost of 14000. , xor The Weather Fair wltt riainjf tempera ture today and Thursday; Mar. Temp. Tuesday 38.. Mia- 87, river 7M feet, light northerly wind, part cloudy. No. 294 Profits Suggested Revenues Pay Bonus and Farm Aid Cost Dispute Arises at Once in Jittery Congress Over Plan's Merit Reserves Necessary, is One View; Solution on Budget Seen By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, March Z.-JP)-White House proposal that 1620,000,000 be added to cor porate industry's annual tax bill, through a major revision of the federal revenue system today stir red an obviously apprehensive congress to immediate contro versy. In a special message. President Roosevelt suggested that farm re lief and payment of the bonus be ; financed from a tax on profits j which corporations amass in their 1 treasuries as surplus instead ef distributing as dividends. Later, speaking to the press, he drew a broad distinction be tween reserves to provide work ing capital and cover depreciation I of equipment and surplus, waica he said represented earnings. needed by the smaller stockhold ers, which should be taxed or dis tributed. President Condemns Klin Up of Profits In both the message and at nis press conierence ne conaemnea the accumulation of undistributed profits as a method of evading - taxation. The message termed mis an "evil" that 'has now reached disturbing proportions from the standpoint of the inequality it represents and of its serious ef fect on the federal revenue." With some democrats applaud- . Ing while others were openly cri tical; with many republicans! frank in their denunciation, and administration leaders emphasiz ing that the president's plan was only a "suggestion." machinery was geared for starting a tax kill through congress. The ways and means commit tee, which will frame the meas ure, relegated the whole subject to a subcommittee which will be gin its task tomorrow. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) said open hear (Turn to Page 10, Col. 6) Train Hits Truck And Injures Two EUGENE, Ore., March 3.-(,!P)-Two persons incurred serious in juries tonight in a train-truck I collision at Maxwell crossing two I miles north of Eugene near the Pacific highway. They Included: , Mrs. Ernest Johnson, route 1 , Eugene, deep leg cuts, shock and internal injuries. Ralph Jeffries, route ' 1, Eu gene, fracture of both legs and right collarbone and internal in juries. Hospital attendants tonight de scribed their condition as "fair." Jeffries was assisting Mrs. Johnson on a milk route during ber husband's illness. The truck, struck by a north bound Southern Pacific passenger train, was hurled 75 feet and de molished. CanbyGetsin Spotlight For Sea-Lion Visit Canby made fronf page news in the New York Her-aJd-Tribane last week along with the Japanese revolu tion and the "exile" of Ma-Jor-Gcneral Hagood. And Mrsi Flnegan gave the Clackamas county commun ity its prominence for it was the story of ber overland flight from the Willamette river which brought the coramHBity to the attenxk of a, million Xew York read ers.' Unfortunately for the publicity aaplrafioms of the female sea-lion, bow. bel lowing In her own stamping ground off the Oregon coast highway sooth of Xacbata, the t account was about a male sea -lion and the cog-, omen Flnegaa bad been dropped by this-time -the news traveled to Sew Tork. May 4'