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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1936)
Win a Prize Today hook's the deadline for submitting recipes appro priate to St. Patrick's day for cash prises In The States man Round Table contest. The Weather Cloudy with showers to day and Friday, slightly rooler; Slax. Temp. Wednes day 58. Mia. SO; rive 4.3 feet, moderate south winds.. FOUND EP 1631 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 12, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No 301 import W1ID ranee "British in .glMg Capitol Plans Go Out Today To Architects $2,200,000 Cost Limit is Set; No Restriction on Style Made Acquisition of More Land in Future Considered ; May 22 Deadline Printed specifications for the nation-wide contest among archi tects for plans for the new Ore gon capitol are to be sent out to day. More than 100 architects and architectural firms hare al ready applied for copies of the contest rules according to Carl F. Gculd, technical adTiser, who is scheduled today to bring a print ed copy of the invitation to Gov ernor Charles H. Martin for the latter's perusal. Hundreds of ad ditional copies will be distribu ted to libraries and to technical journals of architecture. Salient provisions of the con test are: 1. Plans are to be submitted for only one building, to cost $2, 200,000 with an estimated cubic foot rtst of 80 cents. Architectural Style Hot Limited 2. No restrictions on style or architecture are put on the con testants who may or may not mate the proposed capitol har monize with existing state build ings. 3. Efficiency in design of the Interior and exterior of the build ing must be considered with due weight given to the monumental character of the structure. 4. All plans must be In the hands of Arthur Benson, clerk of the supreme court, by May 22, the committee of five judges will-open the sketches May 25 and the judg es will make their awards May 28. 5. Complete anonymity of the contestants will be preserved; plans will not be identified by number until they are received here. Uniform requirements will prevail for the size of drawing pa per, for the style of lettering anl for the number of sketches sub mitted. The specifications outline in detail the matter of site. "It is suggested that Summer street be eonsidere'd as the axial approach t- the capitol building," the report states. Indicating the possibility ef a larger site, the specifications to the architects relate that "half blocks or full blocks on each side of Summer street, extending a Mock or more north of Court street," may be included in the riot towards which the capitol structure will be faced. Additions to Site May be Assumed "Competitors may' assume this additional property will be ac quired, and that their discretion may include other state buildings Ij the group layout," the rules read. "At least one other building Biust be shown, namely a state li brary building with approximate ly 20,000 square feet ground floor area. Other possible future struc tures Include a state. o'fice build ing, a building for storage of ar chieves and a state museum." Each contestant must submit a Hock plan showing the location of the buildings to a city plan which will be sent with the specifica tions. Plans for each of the floors must be submitted, a front eleva tion and a side elevation must be (Turn to Page 7. Col. 7) Water Bond Sale To Be Postponed Members of the council ways and means committee who were assigned the work of preparing a bond ordinance for the sale of $1, 150,000 of water bonds for the construction of a filter plant and a pipe line to the Santlam river Indicated yesterday that they would not bring in the ordinance at the next council meeting. The aldermen point out that the work on the excavation of the new reservoir can go forward with the funds left from the last bond is sue and that it would only bring Interest payments on the new is sue which is not actually needed at the present time. A thorough investigation Into the practicability of Issuing the bonds In two parts to save inter est Is also being made. Portland bond men have indicated that the bonds will probably find ready sale. Hitler to Talk Today to Remilitarized Rhineland PARIS, March ll.-Gip)-Reports received here tonight said Reicbs foehrer Adolf Hitler would make a speech tomorrows-night in the Rhineland be remilitarized. Hitler, it was said, would speak at Karlshure, only 10 miles from the French f rontier. - Latest Well Gets Cold Uncertainty is Cited Councilmanic Comment Indicates Moss Proposition May Be Tabled Monday Night; Formal Offer Expected Today; Island Study Continues THE latest proposal for use of wells as a source of city water supply received a cold reception yesterday from members of the city council. Most members interviewed took the position that the source of water supply for the city had been decided and that it was useless to reopen the matter. Commission Calls Water Conference Mayor, Construction Body Invited to Thrash Out Program Problems Seeking some amicable solu tion to the dispute between the Salem water commission and the city council over the construction of the new filter plant and pipe line to the North Santiam river, the commissioners in special meeting last night moved to re quest the mayor and water con struction committee of the coun cil to meet with them Friday night to discuss a settlement of the issue. The motion for the Joint meet ing came after a written legal opinion by Walter C. Winslow and Custer E. Ross had been read by the commission. In addition to inviting the con struction committee to meet with the commission Friday night, the commission instructed the city attorney "to confer with Attor neys Ross and Winslow and such other legal talent as he may deem necessary for a study of section 90, with a view of arriving at relative powers vested in the com mon council of the city of Salem and the Salem water commission, in arriving at a legal and proper procedure to follow in making such additions, extensions and betterments necessary to the Sa lem municipal water system and report back a written opinion" on Friday night. The water commissioners ap peared anxious to have the mat ter settled in order to relieve them from liability for the ex penditure of the water bond funds in case the council com mittee should go ahead with the construction work. Failing in negotiations with the council over the question, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Draft of Naval Treaty Approved LONDON, March ll.-;P)-Th! draft of a naval treaty was ap proved today by delegates to the naval conference sitting as a com mittee reviewing the work of the technical drafting committee. The treaty is now complete ex cept for escape clauses and other minor features. The draft sets the expiration date for the proposed pact at 194 2. Authoritative sources said Great Britain and the United States might undertake an exchange of views on the questions of fortifi cations in the Pacific before the American delegation leaves for home Double Blame Andresen Jragedy by Judge Indications that drivers of each of two cars, directly or indirectly Involved in the accident December 10 which brought death to Mrs. Cathleen Andresen, at South Com mercial and Rural avenue, may have violated the traffic law, are given in answers to a presentment of the Marion county grand jury made yesterday by Judge L. H. McMahan. The court devoted 13 typewrit ten pages to its answer to the pre sentment which the grand jury made early in January. The jurors sought to know the relative re sponsibility of the driver of a car. which turned left without giving a signal, and of the driver of a sec ond car. which also turned left to avoid striking the auto ahead. Both cars were traveling 30 to 35 miles an hour. First Car Should Hare Sounded Horn The court stated that the first car should have given a warning signal that a turn was to be made and should hare been assured that the movement could bare been made in safety. ' I am further of the opinion Proposal Reception; O "It is easy to see that any well digger would be interested to get a $90,000 job without bids," one councilman said. "The proposal of Roscoe Moss of Los Angeles leaves us entirely uncertain re garding the quality of water we might receive; the number of wells required or the pumping charge. Yet if we accepted his proposal we would virtually com mit ourselves to wells as a source of supply." Driller's Proposal Dne Here Today Moss left late Tuesday for Los Angeles. His written proposal for providing sufficient wells within four miles of Salem to furnish 10,000,000 gallons of water a day, was expected here today by (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Disorderly House Charge Admitted Woman Pleads Guilty and Then Takes It Back; Mean Word Said Myrtle Crosier, charged with running a disorderly house, plead el guilty yesterday afternoon be fore Judge L. H. McMahan. Immediately thereafter she told the court she was not guilty. "I haven't any money or any lawyers to help me so go aheai and sentence me," she told the court. Whereupon the Judge sent her back to Jail, ordered officers to make a further investigation and continued the case today. Clara Brown and Margaret Huck, two other women arrested at 197 Vi South Commercial street, were in jail last night with Myr tle Crosier-. They said they were undecided whether to plead gull ty or to stand a grand Jury inves tigation. They faced charges of illicit conduct. Tears streamed from Myrtle Crosier's eyes as she appeared in court. "Send me to the peniten tiary if you wish," she declared The maximum sentence for con ducting a disorderly house under Oregon law is a, year's Jail sen tence. The crowd packed into Justice court room yesterday morning for the hearing on morals charges against Margaret Huck, Clara Brown and Myrtle Crozler got ad ditional excitement when Judge Miller Hayden had to straighten out a near battle by threatening contempt of court. The incident came when Jesse Brookshine, secret investigator for the district attorney's office, was In the witness chair and Edwin Goodenough, attorney for the de fendants, questioning him. - The attorney asked a question and the witness answered, whereupon Goodenough called Brookshine a liar. Brookshine sprang from the witness chair and threatened to hit Goodenough. Then the Judgo (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Indicatedjor that the second driver was also violating the law in following the other vehicle more closely than was reasonable and prudent, con sidering the speed of such vehicles and In failing to note the condi tion of traffic at the intersection," the court declared. Factual Determination Up to Jurors The court emphasized that the jury must judge the facts in the investigation it has been making and decide whether or not the facts 'made the drivers apparent violators of the law. A. N. Drawson, route three, Sa lem, was the driver of the second car, the auto which struck and fa ulty injured Mrs. Andresen. Drawson allegedly swerved his auto to avoid striking a car driven by Rupert Magee, 1696 North Capitol street, who had turned left on Commercial and had start ed towards Rural avenue. The grand Jury began Its Inves tigation early m January, then brought before Judge McMahan the hypothetical question which he answered yesterday. : Charter Needs Clarifying on Water System Commission Advised by Special Counsel to Go to Court Suggest Council Direct Commission, Proceed With Program Frank admission that section 90 of the city charter providing for the purchase and operation of a municipal water system is am biguous and that a declaratory judgment by a competent court is thi only final answer to the true meaning of the charter amend ment regarding the water system, was made yesterday in a formal legal opinion to the Salem water commission made by W. C. Win- siow and Custer E. Ross. The opinion was requested by the commission March 7 in order to clarify its position in (1) mak ing of improvements to the exist ing plant and (2) construction of additions to the system. "It probably would be in the Interests of the city, the commis sion and certainly to the best in terests of the public, to take promptly appropriate steps to have the charter provision submitted to the courts," the opinion recites. By such a step the responsibility of the commission and of the council could be determined. In event of a decision "unsatisfac tory to the people of the city" correction would be easy through a charter amendment, the opinion declares. New Plant Sections Cause Confusion Confusion over the respective! authority of the council and of the water commission in con- (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) G-Men Start New Drive on Enemies Ask Police to Hold All Persons if Finger Tips Mutilated WASHINGTON, March U.-(JF- In a new drive on "public ene mies" the federal bureau of Inves tigation today asked local police to "hold" all persons with mu tilated fingertips whom they ar rest. This action was faken in an in tensified effort to hunt down Al- vin Karpis, branded as "public enemy No. 1," and other gang sters who are known to have tried apparently unsuccessfully to rub out telltale fingerprints by cutting or burning their fingers. The bureau said "none of the Individuals engaged in this effort has been Successful." Traffic Signals May Come Soon Mayor1 V. E. Kuhn said yester day that be hoped to hare the council take some action toward installing new traffic control lights at the next council meet ing. An allowance for the signal system was made in the 1936 budget. The traffic and street commit tees have been investigating va rious systems and getting prices on Installation. Action has been delayed bejse of an engineer's report which one of the signal companies was to give to the committees recommending the best system to be adopted by Salem. Upon receipt of the report, it is planned to install signals on six or seven of the downtown intersections. Hat tie Hart Running For Recorder on Demo Ticket Hattie G. Hart, resident of the Gervais district for a number of years, yesterday entered the rap Idly increasing list of candidates for county offices when she filed for the democratic nomination as county recorder. Mrs. Mildred Brooks Robertson, incumbent since 1915, is expected to tile shortly as a candidate for the re publican nomination, Mrs. Hart, housewife at Gervais, said her platform would be: "Economy, ef ficiency with courteous perform ance of the duties of the office." Sugar Price Raised NEW YORK, March 11. -)-The extremely firm position of the sugar market received fur ther attention today when lead ing refiners throughout the conn try advanced refined sugar 19 points to 4.7 5 cents .a pound. 'Jackass 99 Reply To Cry of "Fool9 v'A-:-tt. lllt&l CONGRESSMAN EKWAL1 Words Flame Over Attack by Pierce Ekwall, Called Fool, in Torn Hurls "Jackass" at Zioncheck WASHINGTON, March U.-i Speakers Byrns lectured an un ruly house today after cries of "fool" and "Jackass" had broken up a discussion of free speech and communism. The uproar was quieted only by deft and Quick parliamentary maneuvering by leaders on both sides. Representative Ekwall (R-Ore) asked for unanimous consent to speak for five minutes in answer to an attack Representative Pierce (D-Ore) had made on an earlier speech by Ekwall against com munistic activities. "I won't object," put in Repre sentative Zfoncheck (D-Wash) "if the gentleman wants to proceed and make a fool of himself." "If anybody has made a bigger jackass of himself this session than the gentleman from Wash ington, I don't know who it is," Ekwall retorted. Shouting above the uproar, Rep resentative O'Connor (D-NY) de manded "the words be taken down" a preliminary move to de termination by the speaker wheth er they shall be expunged from the record. "Take 'em down," snapped Ek wall. In vain, Speaker Byrns rapped (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Students Confer, Albany Faculty ALBANY. Ore.. March U.-JP) Fate of Albany college's athletic standing in the Northwest con ference and the future conduct of the student body appeared to rest tonight in the hands of nine students and five faculty mem bers called in private session. Indications were tonight that the meeting resulted In at least two decisions to censor the ar ticles appearing in the "Orange Peal" and to avoid personalities in future statements or talks re lating to the campus situation. The next issue of the "Orange Peal" is scheduled Monday. , Senate Rebuffed, Message Probing WASHINGTON, March ll.-Ctf5) -The "supreme court of the Dis trict of Columbia today rebuked the sehate lobby committee with a preliminary injunction for overstepping the limitations of the constitution. It ruled a subpoena issued by the committee for all telegrams sent and received by Winston, Strawni & Shaw, Chicago attor neys, between February 1 and December 1 of last year consti tuted "unreasonable search and seizure" in violation of the fourth amendment to the constitution. 22nd Permit For New House Issued Permit for the construction of the 22d new bouse since the first of the year was issued yesterday. W. A. Cladek is to build a 1 story dwelling at 1660 North 19th street at a cost of $2X50. Other construction permits Is sned yestreday by the city build ing inspector included: Service station at 970 South Commercial street by L. Neuman; reroofing of a house at 850 North Church street by Ester M. Werner at a cost of 1150, and George Saun ders, to move a garage at 905 Church street at cost of hi Skeptics Hear French Threat To Quit League Death Blow to Collective Security Unlikely, is Officials' Belief Little Entente, Belgium Back Up France as Talks Loom (By the Associated Press) France brandished a threat to withdraw from the League of Na tions Wednesday before Great Britain in an effort to gain the latter's support of vigorous action against Adolf Hitler because he remilitarized the Rhineland. In strong talk in official Paris circles, the word war was used. Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin left for London to attend far-reaching conversations Thurs day by Locarno signatories on what to do about Germany's breach. Officials said Flandin was "al most" convinced France should wage a "preventive war" against Germany now rather than wait un til she is stronger. Withdrawal More Held Improbable But in London, although it was admitted France is deadly in ear nest, officials were frankly skep tical she would take such an ex treme course as withdrawing from the league and giving a death blow to collective security at Gen eva. Germany seized upon the French league threat as proving the wis dom of her course In scrapping the Locarno treaty. The reich will not be represented at the opening Sat urday of a session of the league council In London to hear Franeo- Belgian appeals against Germany's (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Family of Five in B. C Found Slain Case of Murder, Suicide, Police Believe; All Shot in Head OSOYOOS, B. C, March 11.- (JPy-K. Julius Mortinsen, Danish mine employe, his wife and their three small, daughters, were found dead tonight in their home here. Police expressed the belief it was a case of murder and sui cide. All were shot through the head. The tragedy was discovered by Mrs. Nathaniel Millen, a neigh bor. Police said the bodies of two of the little girls, aged seven and nine, were lying on one bed; the bodies of the mother and a three-year-old child in another with Mortinsen's body. Sergeant E. Gammon of the British Columbia provincial po lice, at Penticton, said a note ad dressed to "police" was found. stating ill health was the cause of the tragedy. 1st Marriage License Since March 3 Issued By County Clerk Here The spell of leap year, which thus far has exerted a dampening effect on marriage license issu ance at the county clerk's office, was broken yesterday when Charles B. Fiker, 49, fruit grower at Ornak, Wash., received permis sion to wed A. Kathleen Steward, 35, social worker at Brooks. The license was the first issued here since March 3, according to Har- land "Cupid" Judd of the clerk's staff. Student Strike As St. Helens Roiv is Aired FRESNO. Cal., March H.-OPV- The student strike idea bobbed up in Fresno today to mark its third appearance on the Pacific coast in a week. . Between 60t) and COO out of 1000 Edison Technical high school students left their classes, held a parade and a mass meet ing and drew up a list of griev ances to discuss with Superin tendent O. 8. Hubbard. Case of Mass Hookey, Principal Declares They admitted the -success of the recent Alameda high school strike Inspired their walkout. Principal W. L. Potts said , it wasn't a strike but a case of mass hookey influenced by spring. ST. HELENS, Ore., March 11. - Wi - Striking students at St Helens high school decided to night to return to school as a Preventive War Held Necessary V ; I ; CN - Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin reported yesterday to be 'almost" convinced France should wage a "preventive war" against Germany. France's Threat Crabbed, Berlin Vindicates German Stand, Held; Germans Not to Attend Council BERLIN. March French threat to leave the league of nations because of the Locarno situation was seized upon by Ger man officials tonight as proof of Nazi charges France would not let the league "work against her." "Now it is clear," a foreign of fice spokesman said. "Germany's contention was correct. Further more, the Franco-Russian pact Is gradually being smoked out. "Russia's eagerness to back France to the limit against Ger many justifies our fears the pact had more behind it than was ad mitted." Germany, a spokesman announ ced, will not be represented at the opening session of the league council in London Saturday to consider a French appeal against Germany's violation of the treaty. There were Etrong indications, however, that If the council for mally invites the Reich to attend she will do so. Rumors circulated tonight that (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) L A. Patrol to Quit One Stand ALTURAS. Calif.. March U-tJR -Sheriff John C. Sharp declared tonight George Davis, chief of Los Angeles police, has advised him he is drawing the southern city's indigent transient patrol from Mo doc county. Sheriff Sharp had telegraphed a wfcrning to Chief Davis that he would have "border patrol" offi cers thrown into jail. LOS ANGELES, March 11-AV Police Chief James E. Davis said today the Los Angeles police de partment's "border patrol," turn ed back 1,373 transients during February, while another 4,761 left the state voluntarily. Of the 1.270 transients finger printed at the border patrol sta tions. 603 had previous criminal records, Davis said. Davis said the patrol will con tinue indefinitely. Lamson Defense Rests SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11. (iTVFollowlng a bombardment of testimony by character witnesses, the defense in the trial of David A. Lamson, charged with wife murder rested its case today. Hits Fresno means of refuting charges that Superintendent J. R. Austin was unable to maintain discipline. The. 400 students walked from their classes twice this week when the school board failed to offer Austin a new contract. They attended morning classes today on appeal from the Kiwanis club, of 'Which Austin is president, but struck again this afternoon when the school board allegedly failed to explain why Austin was not being retained. i Board Reiterates I Promise to Reconsider The complaint that the super intendent was unable to maintain discipline was , aired by board members at a mass meeting to night. The board in last night's session promised to reconsider its failure to offer Austin a new .con tract and reiterated Its stand to night. " J LgLtt'liri 1 " lr ii -Jk Withdrawal of Germans From Rhine Favored British Policy Develops at London Cabinet Sessions Today . Flandin Indicates Belief Preventive "War Only Possible Course (Copyritrkt. 19SS. by Associated Prwil LONDON. March 1 2. -(Thurs day ) Great Britain, balance wheel in the turnings of Europe's Locar no pact crisis, swung toward the support of France today, diploma tic sources said, in demanding m withdrawal of German troops from the Rhineland. This British policy developed from three successive meetings ot Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's cabinet, in the consensus of diplo matic circles, while statesmen of the Locarno powers assembled for discussions on which peace or war might depend. (Copyrirbt, 1938. by Annoriatrd PreM PARIS, March ll.-CPV-Frenei talk of a "preventive war" against Adolf Hitler was coupled tonight with a threat of France's with drawal from the League of Na tions with her allies' on the eve of momentous conferences on Ger many's violation of the Locarao treaty. Carnage Held In Prospect Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne) Flandin went to London for vital conversations beginning tomor row, French officials said, "al most" convinced he should make a preventive war" against Adolf Hitler now, rather than "submit to carnage two years from now when treaty breakers will bo Strong." The French delegation carried with it to the London Locarno and league talks a mandate to stand firm for punishment of the reich. France, officials said, is re solved to throw her all into the crisis if necessary to preserve "th future peace of .Europe, as Pre mier Albert Saurraut told parlia ment yesterday. An authoritative French spokes man said: "We know war is coming In two years anyhow. We might as well have it now, while we are pre pared. Hold Signatories Should Drive Germans Out "The only way in which Hit ler's troops will leave the Rhine land is for the Locarno signatories to drive them out, but a stitch la time saves nine. "There comes a time when a na tion refuses to be humiliated la front of the world. French honor is at stake and we are ready to draw the sword if necessary to keep it unsullied." Seven of Alleged Rioters Released ASTORIA, Ore., March ll.-tfln -Gov. Charles Martin's special committee investigating last Sat urday's riot near Seaside heard witnesses late today but no results of the probe were announced. Wallace Wharton, the governor ' secretary and a member ef the committee, said the investigation probably will be continued tomor row. - In the meantime, seven ef the 38 men arrested were released on their own recognizance. Names of those freed were not announced. Roosevelt Winning 2nd Test Against Talmadge CHIPLET, Ga.. March ll-av Piesident Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a second test of strength against Got. Eugene Talsaadge, today piled np an overwhelming lead In incomplete returns from a presidential preference primary frs 1 reral Harris county. Returns from 8 of 14 precincts gave the president 991 ,rotee to 34 for his Georgia critic, Tal madge. - Late Sports PORTLAND, March .--Sandor Szabo, 215, Hungary, took , a one-fall main-event wrestling match tonight from Vincent Lo pez, 220. Los Angeles. Ssaoo wen to 22:10. Wee Willie Davis, 262. Blacks burg. Va.. won the semi-final af fair from Jack Kennedy, 211, Fort Worth, Tex. " V . r Strangler Ed Lewis, 245, Glen dale, Calif., and Chief Littlo Wolf, 220, Trinidad, Colo grappled fire rounds to a draw. The -Black Secret". 220. Bos- -ton. won from Body Strongborg, 215, Germany, In the third round. Ttph Rnftsell. 215. Evanfton, . I1L, tossed Dr. Nap Devore. 205 ProTlnce, R. in tne tnira reuno.