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The Weather ' - Fair today, partly cloudy We, morning fogs; alight ly wanner; Max. . Temp. Monday 50, Mia. S3, river 9.9 feet, rain .15 inch, south Worthy Causes T When r blic project of general benefit is being pro moted In the Willamette Tilley, The Statesman will always be found helping. 0 FOUMDEP 1631 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 10, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No, 223 q Mto Ansel Flax Plain tart n n r n n r www Work TM Britain Nation's Duty To Aid France Cited by Eden Present Situation Isn't Threat; No Mention of Punishment Germany and France are Both Disappointed at Trend of Events LONDON, March 9 .-iPJ-CSreat Britain linked a plain warning to Adolf Hitler sot to make war to day with an agreement to examine - his security, proposals following the scrapping of the Locarno .treaty. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, in a pronouncement to the house of commons just before en training for Paris, said Great Bri tain is honor-bound to march to the assistance of Franch and Bel gium if Germany should attack them. There is no reason to suppose the German action threatened war, he said, howeTer, and he pledged that Great Britain would make the best of an admittedly serious situation by trying to re build Europe's shaken peace struc ture. Failure to Mention Sanctions Significant Eden's failure to mention sanc tions or any other possible pun ishment of Germany we'onsid ered significant ia. .diplomatic quarters. They-interpreted hts speech as definitely conciliatory and as indicating that Britain Is not prepared to take any strong measures against Germany on the basis of the present situation. Prime Minister Stanley Bald win, following Eden in the packed house, said peace in Europe is impossible so long as Franco-German suspicion continues. He pledged that Britain would bend her energies toward greater co operation in me hope of achiev Ing a tri-partlte friendship. BERLIN, March 9-iiP)-Ger-many, expressing disappointment at France's curt refusal of her offer of a peace pact, looked to day to a meeting of the council of the league of nations Friday. Adolf Hitler's offer to sign peace treaties with hs neighbors, foreign office spokesman said, stands or falls on the manner in which the council will handle the Franco-Belgian charge of a viola tion of the treaty. Whether Ger many will rejoin the league also may depend upon the outcome in Genera. The spokesman said Germany must receive a formal invitation If she is to attend the council session. (The leagne invitation, sent by Secretary-General Joseph Arenol, (Turn to page 10," col. ) Oregon Program Is Eyed WASHINGTON, March J.-tfV The federal social security board began today a study of Oregon's newly-devised social security pro tram. Elmer R. Goudy, administrator for the state's relief commission, submitted a four-point program calling for old age assistance, aid to blind, to crippled and depend ent children. He declined to discuss whether a method of financing had been devised to assure state participa tion up to the full extent of bene fits available under the federal so cial security act The board withholds all infor mation about state programs sub mitted to It until after it haa tak en final action. A spokesman for the board said a study of the Oregon program would be completed in several days.-'- - . .Taxpayer League To Decide Policy 'The Salem- Taxpayers' league win meet either today or Wednes day to determine its next step in efforts to demonstrate that the North Santiam water supply plana of the city council are inadvisable, league members indicated yester day. The council'i water construc tion committee may be invited to attend the meeting or to confer with leagne members at another session in the near future. The league haa sought to have the council attempt to develop a well water supply on the assump tion . that money could be saved thereby. ; , ' . .. Security Warns Permits Pass Million Mark for First Time Since 1929 in Salem Pre-Depression Year's Total Not Far Above That for Little Over Two Months of 1936; Grade School Latest; 21st New Home Noted THE $125,621.75 cost of the new Salem grade school be came a part of the city building department records yesterday with the issuance of a permit for the project and thereby sent the city's 1936 construction total over the million mark. Not since 1929 has the million dollar point in building Just Too Bad; Motorist Hits Trindle's Car District Attorney William H. Trindle is "plenty mad," city police reported last night, and that is "too bad" for a certain motorist. That motorist is V. J. Harnett, about 55, of Salem H ei g h t s, who allegedly smashed a fender on the district attorney's automo bile while i' was parked in front of Tr indie's home, 1985 South Commercial ft reel, and axpt on travel ing. As a result he landed in the rity jail on charges of driving while drunk and bit-run (Living. Barnett's arrest was brought about by Joseph relton, assistant In Trra dle's office .who reported the crash to police and then followed liar net t until offi cers caught up with the er ring motorist. Felton lived at the Trindle residence. Fighting Resumed After Brief Halt Stopped to Await Action on Peace, Explained; All Fronts Busy ASMARA. Eritrea, March 9-tP) -Italians troops resumed offen sive operations on all Ethiopian fronts today after a one-day sus pension. Italian officers had announced the baiting of offensive move ments at 8 a.m. yesterday to await developments on the League of X a 1 1 o n s' recommendation for peace talks, accepted "in princi ple" by Italy and without reser vation by Ethiopia. Observers thought the suspen sion of hostilities was an effort to ease the European peace prob lem at a troublesoma moment fol lowing upon Germany's remilitari sation of the Rhineland and de nunciation of the Locarno pact. (An official announcement at Addis Ababa today said Ethiopia, regardless of Italy's action, "will continue the defensive war until peace negotiations begin on a def inite baste.") Logger Is Killed ASTORIA. Ore.. March M-TV-Louis Johnson. 55. a logger em ployed at the Markham and Cal low camp near Seaside, died today shortly after he was crushed by a falling tree. Student Strike Epidemic Hits Oregon at Su Helens ST. HELENS. Ore., March 1- UPf-Glen W. Metsaker, Jr., stu dent body president of the St. Helens high-school, said tonight nearly 400 students will he absent from their classes tomorrow as a protest against the school hoard's failure to re-hire Supt Jay R. Austin. The students paraded through town to a special board meeting at which directors said they would consider the question with a eltl sen's committee. The decision fail ed to satisfy the students, who de manded the hoard cite reasons for failing to retain Austin. Austin has been superintendent for three years. w Talks to students by board members today f aUed to alter their determination to "strike." Parents of pupils attended to night's meeting. ALAMEDA, CaliL. March $.- (AVAlameda's strike of 1400 high school students, which threatened Hitler operations been reached. The en tire 12 months in that year push ed permit figures to $1,259, 175.15. The 193 S building total with yesterday's permits included is $1,034,100.75. Had a permit been taken out by the state for the state hospital unit now under construction, the total would have been $1,190,035.75. In the smaller but important employment-giving field, residen tial construction received a fresh boost yesterday when the 21st permit of the year for erection of (Turn to page 10. col. 4) Checkup on City Licenses Slated Only 38 Per Cent Paid Up Says Mundt; Official Complaints Loom The license collector, in the form of a city bluecoat armed with a warrant. Is liable to visit more than 400 Salem businesses of varying types soon of the ne cessary annual licenses are not obtained promptly, Alfred Mundt, acting city treasurer, warned yes terday. Only 38 per cent of the food, recreation and rooming es tablishments subject to city li cense have paid the 193C fee, Mundt estimated. "We are going to check up in about two weeks and turn over to the city attorney the names of establishments that have not ob tained 1936 licenses," Mundt said. "The attorney will prepare complaints and turn them over to police for action." License Files Are Checked by Mundt To make the checkup more ef fectlve, Mundt for several weeks has been revamping the treasur er's license files. II expects soon to have catalogued all businesses subject to city license. (Turn to page 10, col. 7) Excavation Bids Called March 23 The city council will hold a spe cial meeting the night of Monday, March 23. to open bids for the ex cavation for the proposed 10,000,- 000 gallon reservoir at Rural and John streets, Jtfayor V. E. Kuhn announced yesterday. Bids for the excavation job were advertised for yesterday. They will close at the city recorder's office at 2:30 p. m. March 23. The excavation, of approxi mately 37,400 cubic yards of earth and soft rock, is estimated to cost around $30,000. The city council has 36,303 and the water com mission $10,000 on hand remain ing from the first sale of water bonds last summer. civil turmoil, ended today with the pupils' objective realised reinstatement of the city school superintendent who had been dis missed. The reorganised board of edu cation, which suddenly ousted Supt. William Q. Paden last week, called a meeting for final settle ment of the dispute and to deter mine the status of Elnar Eoren sen, named Paden's successor tor a few days. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. March I.Hf) The students' federation, composed of high school pupils, decided today to call a general students' strike March 18, the day before the Preliminary meeting of Pedro Alblxu Campos and other nationalists charged with plotting to overthrow the United States government in Puerto Rico by force. . - The students planned a "per manent strike if the nationalists (Turn to cage 10coL 1) But Agrees to Charges Faced By Eight Over Seaside Clash All's Quiet as Probe is Arranged by Governor and Clatsop D. A. Sabotage at Paper Firm Camp; Strike on at 1 Cathlamet, Word ASTORIA, Ore.. March 9.UPh- State police kept a tight grip on Clatsop county communitites to night as investigations of Satur day's outbreak at the Crown-Willamette camp near Seaside got un der way. Formal charges were placed to day against eight persons alleged to have figured in the armed clash which cost the lives of two men. Eighteen others were held in the county and city jails. District Attorney Willis West said the grand jury probe proba bly would not start until an inves tigating committee named by Gov. Charles Martin, began its work. Probes by the state police, coun ty officials and the sheriff's office continued. Tractor Blown t'p At Seaside Camp In addition to the deaths of two persons, injuries to a score of oth ers and considerable property damage at the Seaside mill, state police today confirmed reports that a logging tractor wesH&town up at the Crown-Willamette camp eight miles south of Seaside. Loss was unofficially estimated at $11,- 000. Capt. Vayne Gurdane of the state police said It appeared the tractor was destroyed shortly aft er members of the Sawmill and Timber Workers' union clashed with the Crown-Willamette mem (Turn to page 10, col. 4) Townsend Board Increased; Five KANSAS CITY, March 4.-(J)- Tfce board of directors of the Townsend pension plan organiza tion was increased from three to five at a meeting here tonight. Dr. Francis E. Townsend, or iginator of the $200 a month old age pension plan bearing - his name, announced the new direc tors are Gilmour Toung of San Francisco, formerly with an ad vertising agency tnere, and the Rev. A. J. Wright, pastor of Wickliffe Presbyterian church in Cleveland, O. The other directors are Dr. Townsend. president; Gomer Smith of Oklahoma. ' vice - presi dent, who were present, and R. E. Clements of California, who was not Toung and Dr. Wright also attended. Bulletin A 25-year-old bus paasenger from California wa being beld in Salem General hospital by state police early today for in vestigation In connection with the holdup and robbery of the Woods service station at Albany 'at 8:20 o'clock last night. He had leaped from a mov ing bus about five miles north of Jefferson at 10:15 p. m. and suffered a fractured skull when he either tried to board or to flag down a moving private automobile, state officers said. The bus driver grabbed the flee ing man's leg but his grip slip ped as the suspect jumped out the door. Brought to the hospital here by a passing truck driver, the young man. who gave the name of Stein, Malm, escaped from the Institution but was quickly recaptured by polke before he could run from the front yard. An operation for a depressed ' fracture on the top of the head will be performed upon him this morning. The suspect watt unable to talk coherently but state offi cers said "it looks like a pretty good case," referring to. Malm's alleged eonnectiom with the Al bany holdup. ' Sheriff Herbert Shelton of. Linn county, who caugHt Charles W. Harris,', 22, and. Bert Blackinnson, SO, both of Bellingham, Wash., on charges of ate ling aa automobile from J. L. Henderson of Salens, while working on the holdup case, said about $15 was taken from , the station. V t - . i Takes Up Reins - Of Government : "law . i mm i ? i - --' r KOKI HIROTA Hirota Regime Is Started in Japan New Government Sworn in as Compromise Breaks Army' Opposition; TOCYO:-Marth t.-OV-A new Japanese government replacing one broken up by assassins bul-? lets 12 days ago was formally in stalled tonight in a ceremony in the Phoenix hall of the imperial palace. Emperor Hirohito attended the installation of Koki Hirota and the men he picked to aid him in guiding the course of the empire. Hirota. former foreign minis ter, had compromised with army and navy leaders in the selection of the cabinet The military clique demanded a 'positive, independent readjustment of foreign rela tions." Promise Reforms to Prevent Uprisings In turn, the militarists prom ised reforms in military education to prevent Such uprisings as that of February 26, when rebellious soldiers killed four government leaders. Hirota will serve' as premier and- foreign minister In the hew government His cabinet Includes representatives of both major par ties, the Mlnseito and the Seyiyu- kal. Pact Unimportant Is Claim in Rome ROME. March .-)-Italy and Germany signed a treaty today giving mutual recognition to civil and juridlcial codes of their countries. i The agreement was initialed by Premier Mussolini and Ulrica yon Hassell, the German ambassador. Despite reports that Berlin and Rome are seeking a rapproche ment In the current European cri sis, officials said the meeting was limited to this point Italian diplomats turned their attention from Ethiopia to the Rhineland tonight as they sought to define their official position in the Locarno treaty controversy. Authoritative sources declared the fascist negotiators had not yet formulated a policy In respect to the French and Belgian protests to German reoccupatlon of the Rhine sone. Youth Is Held in Mutilation Case CHARLESTON. W. Va March 9. UP) State police tonight ar rested Ronald Parsons, 24, charg ed with the mutilation alaylng.of attractive 24-year-old Mrs. Doro thy-Reedy. . r The officers . cleared Charles Reedy. 45, held tor questioning about the death of his wife. 1 Earlier, 13 - year - old '. Robert Hoffman, a caddy who found Mrs. Reedy's body near a golf course, had identified Reedy aa a man he saw with the slain woman in an automobile." ' . " . Police Chief W. A. Tally ! of Charleston said Parsons, a yonng chemical company workman, ad mitted quarreling with a woman in , a' ravine on the Kanawha Country club grounds. yj . t : '.. : t ; -3 Study Crew Rescued As Leaky Ship Crashes Phyllis is Sent Aground Deliberately to Save Men Says Captain Boat Total Loss; Flares Guide Coast Guards to .Wreck Scene PORT ORFORD, Ore., March I. -(P) -The 19-year-old steamer Phyllis tonight crashed on a rock -strewn beach five miles south of Port Orford. It crashed full steam ahead and vita a definite purpose to save the lives of the 22 members of its crew. All hands were rescued by coast guardsmen. " Captain Victor Jacobsen, vet eran commander for the ship's owners the W. R. Chamberlin company gave the order when he aaw a mad race to port would fait Captain Jacobsen said the ship was about a mile offshore when three feet of water was disco v ered in the bold, and the level rising rapidly. Tried to Make Port Orford, Failed "We tried hard to make Port Orford but It .was just impos sible." the captain said. "We fi nally had to turn to the beach. avoided rocks and Jumped to life boats when the Phyllis struck. " We, sent up flares Immediately and the Port Orford coast guard responded. We were picked up within an hour and had no trou ble reaching shore." The freighter was carrying 400 tons of general cargo from San Francisco, hound for Portland. Maud Covingt ons Resignation Is In City Librarian 12 Years to Leave; Health Is Believed Reason Miss Maud Covington, city lib rarian, presented her resignation, effective April 1, to the library board last night Miss Covington had served 12 years as head of the Salem pub lic library. Members of the library board expressed the belief that ill health was the reason for her resignation. She had been given three months' leave of absence last year to recuperate. The library board has taken no action regarding her resignation. Board members had only praise for her work. Dr. H. H. Ollnger, chairman of the hoard, expressed surprise and regret at her request that - ahe be released from her work. .David . Eyre, chairman of the board s employment commit tee, likewise expressed regret in regard to her resignation and said that so action had been taken In regard to appointment of a suc cessor. Miss Covington said that she had no Immediate plans for the fntnre. Since Miss Covington came here from Portland 12 years ago, the number of books in the library has Increased to J 5,8 18 volumes. The library la now serving 14,- J7t patrons. Last month, 18,525 books were loaned from the lib rary. Violence Marks Building Workers Strike at Newark (By the Associated Press) As operators of New Tork buildings rejected last night the proposals of Mayor Flolello La Guardia to arbitrate the strike of building employes there, disorder broke out In a similar strike in Newark, N.J. .;, . : Two men were injured in vio lence which followed the Newark walkout of union workers ' de manding higher wages and re duced working hours. Union lead era claimed 11 buildings were af fected, but operators denied there were that many. ' More Workers to Bo ' Called Out. Warns Failure of the latest concilia tion efforts In Manhattan brought curt statement from James J. Bambrick, union - chief. 'They'll get my answer tomorrow." he Id, referring to the operators. Bambrick had .postponed caning Mw : Peace Plan Funds Are Assured, Announcement Made At Gathering There Construction to Commence This j Week Says EL J. Griffith, WPA Cliief f For Oregon; Group Pleased Governor and Other State Officials, Chamber of Commerce Leaders Attend; Money Is Pledged ANGEL, March 9. the first of the three proposed flax retting and scutch ing plants for Oregon will be started at Mt. Angel within the present week was given by E. J. Griffith, Oregon WPA director, at an enthusiastic meeting here tonight. This was the outstanding development in a gathering f flax committeemen and leaders from Mt" Angel, Canby and Eugene the three proposed plant centers with bankers, business men and chamber of commerce representatives from Portland and Salem. Governor Charles H. Martin and Sec-' retary of State Earl Snell were in attendance, each lending support to efforts to get the retting and scutching plants.: For these WPA has offered to put up $19,500 each for con sruction of building and tanks, with the towns to raise about ' - -Olll.OOO for installation" of ma garihing.Water Authority Sought Measure on Ballot Asked by Board Members as Question Raised A proposal that the city coun cil submit a measure to the Sa lem voters to eliminate alleged overlapping of authority on the part of the council and the water commission came from Edward R o s t e i n, commission chairman. yesterday, Rostein In an interview with a Statesman reporter Satur day, night expressed a belief the council was usurping authority rightfully belonging to the com mission in . assuming supervision of water system construction acti vities. , The measure, which would be In the form of a charter amend ment should he submitted to the electorate as soon as possible, Rostein said. Attorneys' Opinions Followed, Cited Mayor V. E. - Kuhn took issue yesterday with Rostein's remarks Saturday night by declaring that we are abiding by the city attor ney's decision" in handling the water system expansion program. The city attorney's decision, he said, was given after opinions from three other attorneys here had been obtained and compared. It was beld in these opinions that the council should retain charge of construction operations Paid tor out of water bond funds. Kuhn said he believed the aa - (Turn to page 10, coL 4) Dock Work Starts MARSHFIELD, Ore.. March t. (P Crew began work repairing 1,000 feet of floating dock here today. Construction of the new wharf, allowed under a $10,000 WPA allocation, is scheduled to start within a few days. The chan nel at the dock is to be deepened. out 25,000 additional -workers in hope that an agreement might be reached. . Striking students of Alameda, CaliL. returned to their classes; Progressive Miners of America at Harrlsburg, DL, ended their "holi day"; ChaxleroL pa. mine work ers resumed digging; Jeannetta, Pa rubber plant employes con cluded a five-day 'holiday'; and at Jessup, Pa., striking teachers were mollified. by payment of half the 150,000 owed them to take five disputes from the active list , An agreement returning at least half of Boston's 4,000 garment work strikers back to work with in two days was predicted by lead en and pickets at Akron, O., said negotiations. were. pending in the prolonged walkout of Goodyear Tire 4c Robber Co. employes. Strikes at three other Akron plants, however, . continued in deadlock. Assurance that construction clo chinery and equipment to provide the sites. Ul UUU1 . HI &2C ' Ltf start work on the Mt Angel plant pledge by Joe Berndt chairman of the Mt Angel flax committee. to uninth that Mt. Angel 1 was: ready to guarantee its share la the government project Mt Angel has . not completely finished its financing, but has over $7000 in preferred stock nite assurance of the balance. Growers will meet to vote their financial support this week. Nine ty-five growers have signed ap over 80S acres of flax for this plant i ' Governor Martin,1 wbom the and applauded twice during the evening, emphatically urged that A V t a m . am - . - uiese piania oe esiaousned that the fibre flax' -industry may go forward". He warned that the umuuuo is is i approacuing an j jit , . . . planting of flax seed.- - ' Opportunity for Oregon is Viewed . We can demonstrate that we are the favored land in this flax industry ... it is no longer an exnerlment here.' th -nmran. (Turn to page 10, coL 1) ; Two Arrested in Auto Theft Case ALBANY. Ore.. March 9iJP- Two men. one flourishing a gun. , robbed the Woods Brothers ser-. vice station of about $15 in cash -at 8:20 p. m. tonight Police said they were seeking a car stolen at Salem earlier this evening fa the belief it may have been used by -the pair. , The men appeared at -the service station on foot Salem police, believed the Al bany gunmen had stolen a eedaa here last night until Sheriff Her bert Shelton of Linn county ntl- . fled them shortly before midnirkt that he had, recovered the Salem machine at Halsey and arrested two men on a charge of its theft. - They were not the same men who robbed the Albany service station, the sheriff said. The ear. belonging to J. L. Hen derson,- 741 South Commercial street was stolen from In front of the owner's residence at 7 o'clock last night Police were not inform ed as to whether or not a S40t - surveyor's transient which Hen derson had left in the machine was recovered along with the car. Smith Will Seek uvuuui juii iicir;, W. JUL Smith, county school su perintendent here prior to the in cumbent Mrs. Mary L. Fnlkerson, let It be known yesterday while visiting at the courthouse that he will seek the republican nomina tion tor this same position at the coming primaries. Smith resigned as county super intendent to accept a state posi tion; and upon his resignation Mrs. Fnlkerson' became superin tendent and subsequently sought for and obtained the office at the polls. Smith has not yet tiled for the post i