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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1936)
"Fire Anniversary Trie Weather Mostly fair, partly cloudy today and -Sunday; Max. Temp. Friday' 8, Mia. ,44, riTer feet, rata .21 inch, southwest wind. labor toBMir drive for .Floyd McMullen first aid ear Is starting appropriately aa Um anniversary of tin great capitol fire. FOUKDEP 1851 Price ic; Newsstands 5c EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Sakm, Oregon,. Sat urda j Morning, April 25, 1936 No. 25 lie session '" for KiT . .Bern vMM Zimmerman Backs Sam Brown; Club Here Votes Nelson $100 Flames Lower Historic Dome Just Year Ago First Anniversary of Big Capitol Blaze Noted; Loss is Mourned Recollection of Inferno That . Marred Salem's Skyline is Vivid By C. GENEVIEVE MORGAN A year ago this. morning, Ore gon's stately capitol reared her proud dome high above the tree? in the beautiful state h o u s e grounds. Little did her citizenry dream that before another dawa broke, an unbeatable demon would possess the 60-year-olJ structure and leave for the mor row only her smouldering ruin 5 and for the state a ser.se of dread ful loss and regret thai one youth ful life had been claimed by the fire. It was at 6:43 o'clock the night of April 25, 1935, that Henry Weslowski, janitor at the capiibi, telephoned the alarm to the Sa lem firemen. Then came the siren of the speeding fire equipment and word flying about that the: statehouse was on fire. Seriousness1 is Not Realized at' First Before the hour struek, black smoke, at first a mere ribbon, puffed increasingly from the dome, but even this omen failed to bring immediate concern lo townspeople. Persons in down town buildings came out to peer toward the capitol and sauntered back. But in the capitol, smokemask-, ed firemen weie trying desperate-5 ly to hold the blaze to the base ment, where it originated in the east wing from a source still a mystery. Flames had reached ihe first floor level by 7 o'clock and In another 20 minutes, the fire had burst through the east win? roof near the dome. Three hol low, wooden pillars, reinforced by steel, snpporred ihe first balcony .of the statehouse. Through these the flames raced upward to the second floor, destruction-bent as though these gaping "flues" wore built for their convenience. Thousand? Gather To Witness Inferno Crowds came fast as the omi nous smoke Increased and short ly gave- way to fire lapping through the roof. Thousands were on hand at 8:04 o'clock to watch the spectacle within the spectacle . the toppling, albeit not without a sense of majestic dignity, of the . great copper dome. t The tbppling of the dome was the signal for a raging Inferno, eonrsing through the attics and third floe levels. Almost the en tire building soon became alive with devouring fire, and by the time additional fire equipment rolled in from Portland, at 9.31 (Turn to Page 10, Col. 8) Gty to Purchase Own BohdsPlans In an effort to secure invest ment for surplus cash funds in the city treasury, the ways and means committee of the city council last night decided to cir cularise bond bouses asking for offerings on city of Salem bonds -which will mature within the next two years. The $190,000 fund which la to be invested is a part of the Ban croft retirement fund. Maturities of these bonds will start In 1938 necessitating; only short term ln-1 : vestment. Tbe committee also Toted to take no action toward investing . anrplns f n n d s in the general fand until it can be determined whether all tbe cash on hand - will he seeded before the end of the year. i Payment of delinquent taxes will determine this amount. " No dellnanent tax payment hare 1 yet' been turned over to the city I treasurer ! by the sheriffs office. Opal Yates Active - j- EUGENE, Ore.. April H.-JPr- Nearly HOOadelegates registered - today for; the annual state Chrts . , tlan Endeavor convention.' Among those named to committees today ,,-waa Opal Tatea of Salem, nom ?InatlBf. Progressives Exhorted To Unite; Toivnsendite Group's Stand Definite No Opposition to Endorsement of Salem Candidate Expressed But Some Memhers Said Indignant; Third Party Yamhill Solon's Threat PETER ZIMMERMAN, state senator from Yamhill county, came out last night for the nomination of Sam Brown of Gervais on the republican ticket for United States sen ator at also the exact hour that Townsend club No. 3, in a special business session at the Court street Christian church, endorsed Theodore G. Nelson of Salem as its candidate for Church Influence Topic at Banquet 200 at Dinner Honoring 25th Anniversary of Local M. E. Group The greatest danger the church faces today i.s becoming the church institutional. with its mortgages, bonded debts and-tlie like. Rev. Cecil F. Ristow. pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Eucene. told the 200 persons gathered at Jason Lee church here last night at a banquet honoring the 25th anniversary of the church. It Is quite possible for fhe church institutional to be like the church militant and different, from the church triumphant. Rev. Ristow said in developing his theme, ' The Church as it Faces the Future." If tb.e church is to represent a living, compassionate Christ, he believes it must meet Jour needs: The need for a right relationship with God, the need for men to be rightly related to one another, the need for men to learn how to share God's bounty and the problems of achieving a reasonable degree of economic se curity including freedom from war. Judge Percy R. Kelly of the state supreme court shared the program with Rev. Ristow. the judge speaking upon "The Influ ence of the Church Upon Civic Welfare." Four main supports, the (Turn to Page 10, Col. 8) Arbuckle Meeting Here Is Cance lied PORTLAND. Ore . April 24. -(A)-James Logan, state manager of Townsend clubs, said tonight Frank Arbuckle of Los Angeles, regional director, would not ad dress mass meetings previously scheduled at Eugene, Salem and Portland. Mrs. Harriet Kraus, who has been instructing a group of wom en in a school for Townsend speakers, said today her classes had reached an enrollment of more than 100 as a iesult of state headquarters' approval of the plan to have women replace men barred from Townsend platforms because they are seeking political Offices. Cooper Captures Belt But Some tans Question Foul By PAUL HAUSER Whether Frank Riggi hit Tiny Cooper a low blow, hit during the breakaway or hit a legitimate punch that would hare meant a victory for him in the seventh may never be known but it won't make much difference to C o o p e r's friends and rooters for the 184 pound Hubbard farmer won the decision and Oregon heavyweight championship belt after ten rounds of brawling battling last night. Cooper outfought Rlggi nearly all the way and unquestionably earned the decision anleas Riggt's seventh round blow wax legiti mate. Referee Jack McCarthy de elded it was not legitimate, that it occurred la the break, and gave Cooper ten minutes to recuperate. The questioned blow came after Cooper had almost finished Rlgzi in the sixth with a serlea of right Jabs and right nppercuts and was preparing to wind it np in the sev enth. Topples to Canvas ' i As Clinch Broken Riggi. who had been hanging on Cooper at the end of the sixth. O the republican nomination for the senate. The local club, of which Nelson is a member, voted $100 to help Nelson pay his expenses. Senator Zimmerman indicated that another party might enter the campaign this fall if Brown were not elected. "The reaction aries have so long controlled both old parties that they $had better step aside and let the pro gressives take charge," he declar ed. "If they do not, people will be forced to start their own party one that will put pro gressive men into the field this year." He endorsed Senator Byron G. Carney as congressional candi date for the first district at the same time he supported Brown's candidacy. Carney seeks the democratic nomination. May 15. Zimmerman himself said here last month that he was not fil ing again as a candidate for pre cinct committeemen in the re publican party and last night In dicated against that the party bad no claim upon him for sup port. Friends of Brown Maintain Silence At the Townsend club meet ing last night, no opposition to the endorsement of Nelson de (Turn to Page 10, Col. 8) Students Endorse Firemen's Effort McMullen Memorial Car's Acquisition Backed by W. U. Donation Willamette university students yesterday heeded a plea for a do nation to the Floyd B. McMullen first aid car fund by voting a $25 appropriation from their student body treasury. The vote following an explanation of the first aid car drive here by C. V. Faulkner, fire man at whose station McMullen, a Willamette student, served as call fireman until he was killed by a falling chimney during th? capitol fire one year ago tonight. Faulkner was introduced by President Bruce Baxter at the Willamette chapel exercises yes terday morning. It was announced that individual student contribu tions to the car fund would be tak en by N. S. Savage, university bus iness secretary. Mayor Kuhn's orlgiual first aid car committee, named late last spring, yesterday voted its appro val of the Salem Trades and Labor (Turn to Page 5, Col. 4) went into a clinch and when they came out of it Cooper dropped to the canvas and lay there groaning. Referee McCarthy did not start counting him out but knelt at his side, urging him to get up. John Friend, Cooper's manager, climbed In the ring and told him to stay down, immediately claim ing that Riggl's punch was a low blow. Rlggi rushed from his neu tral corner to protest this accusa tion vehemently but McCarthy sent him back to neutral ground and Harry Levy, chairman of the Salem boxing commission, announ ced that Cooper would be given ten minutes to get over the effects of the blow that McCarthy ruled delivered in the break. After the ten minutes Cooper started but alow and the -eighth round was -even but he had Rlggi going In the ninth and tenth with hard rights to the head. Roughness Occurs Frequently in Boat About the only times Rlggi could hit Cooper would be when he rushed him into the ropes, wrestler fashion. Rlggi several (Turn to Page S. CoL I) Lindy Ransom Bills Turning Up in Volume Hauptmann Death Seems Signal for Release of Money, Northeast G-Men Swarm; Forecasts of More Indictments Made, Wendel Case BOSTON, April 2 4. - (ff) - The Post says department of justice agents were concentrated tonight in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire after discovery that more than $20,000 of the 850,000 Lindbergh ransom money was found in this section. Since Bruno Richard Haupt mann died in the electric chair at Trenton, N. J., for the kid- nap-murder of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's infant son, the money has appeared at two banks in A 1 b a n ji ' N. V., Northampton, Springfield, Worcester and Green field, Mass. Officials who declin ed use of their names said they believed bills are about to be cashed in southern Now Hamp shire. The Post says Indications were that persons traveling northeast ward from a point near Albany, N. Y., disposed or the ransom notes In bills of $20, 810 and-5 denominations. NEW YORK, April 24. - UP)- Five or six more persons, in cluding "some public officials of New Jersey," may be indicted early next week In connection with the abduction of Faul H. Wendel, District Attorney Wil liam F. X. Geoghan said late to day. He refused to say who would be named In the new Indictments be said he would seek. Five persons, including Ellis H. Parker, jr., son of the Bur lington county, N. J., chief of detectives, were indicted by a Brooklyn grand Jury last night on charges of kidnaping and sec ond degree assault. It was disclosed that an eight state police alarm was sent out this afternoon for the arrest of Parker, Jr., who was described by-Geoghan as the man who plot ted the abduction and directed the activities which led Wendel to make his "confession" of the Lindbergh kidnaping, later re pudiated. Mahan Traced in Sioux Falls Case SIOUX FALLS. S. D., April 24. -(JP) - Definite indication ,that William Mahan, wanted in the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping; case, was in South Dakota last week was reported today by Sioux Falls police who announced his finger prints had been found after last week's burglary of the Stock holm, S. D., state bank. D. V. Baker, identification of ficer, said Mahan's fingerprints were obtained from cream cans left behind by the Stockholm burglars who burned a hole in the bank's safe a week ago. The burglars obtained $20 in silver and burijed up about $800 in currency in their efforts to rifle the strong box. 1 Baker said comparison of Ma han's known prints with those taken from the cream can show ed positive prints of comparison and that "the similarity is strong enough for conviction In court." Triumvirate Still In OARP Control WASHINGTON, April U.-iJPy-Testimony that three men still control the Townsend old sge pen sion organisation and, its assets, despite a recant-shake-up designed to "democratize" the movement, was given today to a house inves tigating committee. Robert E. Clements, a eo-found-er of the movement, said Dr. P. E. Townsend. - his brother, Walter Townsend, and Gilmour Toung, who succeeded Clements as nation al secretary, control the Old Age Pensions, Ltd., corporate name of the Townsend organization. The testimony came shortly be fore the special house committee recessed its hearings until May- S. Dr. Townsend has been ordered to appear at that time. Italian Force Drives Toward Enemy Capital Ethiopians Claim Aid of Calla Tiibes Regained as Fighting Rages Eden Plans Question for Hitler to Clarify His Foreign Policies (By the Associated Press) The Italian high command in Ethiopia reported new gains to ward Addis Ababa Friday as a spokesman for Emperor Halle Se lassie's , government ' claimed to have regained assistance from Galla tribesmen. The fascist commander tele graphed his daily report to Rome describing advances on both the northern aad Somaliland fronts. with a major offensive In the lat ter sector launched against the city of Sas Baneh. The attention of peace-seeking nations in Europe centered on London where British foreign se cretary Anthony Eden is prepar ing a questionnaire for Adolf Hit ler to clarify the retch's foreign and colonial policy. Extending Berlin Treaty Is Asked In Moscow, soviet sources look ed forward to a two-year exten sion of the Berlin treaty by which Germany and Russia agree to re frain from assisting a third na tion in an attack on one or the other. To denounce the treaty. Germany would have had to serve notice by midnight but soviet ad vices reported such notice of ab rogation had not been received. The French,'tccupled with pre election campaigning, listened to Speeches denying and affirming party positions. Lieut, CoL Fran- cois De La Rocque, leader of the nationalist movement, urged his followers to vote for "patriots' to halt movements toward dictator ships. Oiling of Santiam Highway Favored Commission Sidesteps on Naming of Roads; np to Public, Ruling PORTLAND, Ore., April -Naming of highways is not the duty of the state highway depart ment, -the commission indicated at its session here today. "If we name one routs we will be drawn into dog fights all the time over names," Chairman Hen ry Cabell commented. His statement came after a pro posal was presented for the nam ing of. the super-highway from Oregon City to Portland "Mc- Loughlin boulevard." "It they want to, let them start calling It that." He suggested that Anna K Lew of Milwaukie, who requested the naming, ask offi cials of the various towns along the route to name it McLcughlin boulevard. The highway commission today referred to the chairman and en gineers for award the Hoffman Construction company's bid of $410,212 for construction of the viaduct on Union avenue in south east Portland. Necessity for a grade agreement and a possibility that a 1935 legislative act affect ing the state's participation in the project would not be ruled on by the supreme court until May 7 oc Contract was negotiated with the casloned the delay In award. The only job awarded was for surface materials in Coos county. (Turn to Page 6, Col. 5) . Fate of Scadding- Remains in Doubt HALIFAX 'N. S.. April 2 -) A dominion airplane waa en route here from Montreal with special medical equipment lor treatment of Charles Alfred Scad- ding, one of the two survivors of ten days' Imprisonment in an abandoned gold mile who are pa tients in a hospital here, Scaddlnr. 44 -rear -old time keeper, waa suffering from a se vere case of "treneh feet" Physi cians were striving to prevent ag gravation of the Infection, known as an Incipient stage of gangrene. Dr. D. Edwin Robertson,' 12-year-old Toronto surgeon wbo was brought here by a royal air fore sea trlane from tha scene of the care-in. He, had rested overnight in a temporary hospital establish ed at Moose river, , An official statement said Dr. Robertson stood the trip weU and is bow resting eomiortabiy in a hospitaL No complications have developed. . Dramatic Arrival of Rescued Men At Mine's Entrance Is Recorded y 1 i - w 'r v ifw M v ' ' t r A )f - . -r, . . ' i - ( ; V r, A " b; -w " 4 : .jr- '- t -' : .r--v . W f i v., : v . C Dr. D. K. Robertson, heroic Toronto, Ont., snrgeon, is shown in upper picture as he staggered ont of the month of the Moose Creek gold mine after ten days imprisonment caused by a rock slide. His face was mnd-streaked and his beard long, but a smile lighted np his features as he greeted his wife and railed for a beefsteak. Be low, the more touching exit of Alfred Scadding, indicated by arrow. International Illustrated News sound photo. Dooley Pen Still; F. P. Dunne Called Famous Dialect Humorist Is Victim of Cancer; Career Meteoric NEW '.YORK, April 24. -()- Finley Peter Dunne, 68. author of the famous Mr. Dooley stories. died of cancer here tonight after a long illness. Only his physicians were with him at the time of his death. His widow, Mrs. Margaret Abbott Dunne, and his sons were immedi ately notified, at thetr homes in Hollywood, Calif. . . (Turn to Page 5, Col. 3) Good Prospects Project Seen at Meet Here Reports that the much discus sed Willamette valley five-point project would1 eost $200,000,000 are without foundation In fact. Senator Douglas McKay, president of the committee named by Gov ernor Martin to lead in the pro ject's development, told a confer : ence of $0 members of the com mittee here yesterday.. "Not until the army engineers complete their findings December 1 of this year will we know what the ultimate costs will be for the irrigation, drainage, flood eontroL navigation and power develop ment of the Willamette valley," McKay declared.. Hla statement followed that of H. A. Rands, engineer in eharge of the $200,090 federal -nrrey which has been under way since last fall.. Rinds told the Wil lamette Valley project committee that tha studies of his men would include a determination of -, t a costs of flood control dams and reservoirs which would . control the Willamette river and Its trib utaries and would lead to the development of the vallejt Will Form Basis , . . ': For 1W7 Efforts 4 .' The federal surrey, when com pleted, will be the basis on which f f Dallas, Lebanon Entries In Music Tournament at Forest Grove Win Places FOREST GROVE, Ore.. April Il.i?)-818 from 40 Ore- gon high schools competed today in - the instrumental and vocal events at the annual high school music tournament at Pacific uni versity. " "Senior violin: Dorothy Palmer, Dallas, third. Girls' low voice: Jewell F. Cal lahan, Lebanon. . Crash Injury Fatal SEASIDE, Ore., April 24.-(5-Mrs. Inei Bauman, 64, Portland, died here last night as a result of Injuries received when a car driv en by her husband plunged from the road April IS. for Valley the Oregon delegation will work in 1937 in seeking large federal appropriations for the develop ment of the Willamette valley. At the conclusion of the con terence, held yesterday at the chamber of commerce rooms here. Senator McKay was reelected chairman of the Willamette Val ley. project group. C D. Eby of Oregon City was named vice chairman, John Thornburg of Forest Grove was elected second vice-chairman. O. M. Plummer of Portland was - named treasurer and.RvH. Kipp of Portland was reelected executive secretary. Earlier in the day, at Governor Martin's suggestion, fire groupt which aim to develop the valley bisd . bosa. -welded . Into .-one new -organization the Willamette Valley Projects committee. Xa the group are the Willamette Riv er Flood Control association, the Greater Willamette Valley associ ation, the Columbia Valley asso- hclation, tha , WUUmette Valley Waterways and the - Willamette valley project -committee. Improvement First Then New Settlers Governor Martin, speaking j at the gathering, said he thought i (Turn to Page i, CoL-) Gosslin Power To Face Test In Vote Today Administration Man. Out Supporting Carlson; Brooks Opponent Importance of Youthful Bourbons Stressed in Walter's Address . Toung Democrats, assembled here yesterday in the fifth an nual state convention, f aster themselves in a close contest foe the presidency of the organiza tion within the .first hour from the Ume the sessions opened. The hand of W. L. Gossltn, pri vate secretary to Governor Mar tin, waa seen in the sponsorship of C. C. Carlson, young Portland " attorney in the office of Edgar Freed, state emergency director, while anti-Gosslin men were lin-. ing up for Stanford Brooks ol Portland, also a young attorney and associated with Jay Bower man, prominent republic leader. The convention delegates vers being solicited as soon aa they reached Salem for the respective candidates for the, presidency with Gosslin, himself twice presi dent of the state organisation, putting on the power of his pa tronage control to swing votes te Carlson. Brooks and Gosslin are, reported to have tangled on pre vious occasions with the result that Gosslin seeks a statewide. organization which is favorable. not adverse, to himself. About 50 Delegates Figure in Contest The vote on tha presidency will Come np at 3 o'clock this after noon. Thirty - four, county clubs are eligible to send two dele gates each to the convention but not more than 60 voting dele gates are expected to take part in the vote this afternoon, A second conflict of the open ing day of the convention wa a clash over a proposed constitution change which would have permit ted the. state executive council nt -the state organization to sponsor as many clubs in a county as It saw fit. Gosslin, member of the) constitution revision committee, favored the change but delegate voted the proposal down, assert ing that Multnomah county wel4 dominate the state since each etna could have two delegates te a state convention as well as aa ad ditional delegate for each 5t mem bers of the club. "The propose-i constitution change was sent back to the constitution revision com mittee with instructions that tha formjer provision of one club tor each county be reinstated. Constitution changes wh i(k were approved Included change the name of the organization frar the Young Democratic league el Oregon to the Toung Democrat? clubs of Oregon. The clubs decided to admit t associate memberships pnon- 41 years old" or older but they will not be permitted to rote. Honor ary memberships 'will be limitea (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Illegal Operation Syndicate Traced SAN FRANCISCO. April 1. -(jPj-Dr. Charles B. Pinkham. sec retary of the state medical beard. disclosed In amazing detail today the activities of what he said was a highly organised coastwide ring or doctors and laymen ta tha business of performing criminal operations to prevent childbirth. He declared the ring was di rected by a leader, in Los Angeles, through whom offices were rent ed, soliciting agents operated, and through which was was dis tributed in a wide circle to organ- ' ise and protect what he described as a rich source of revenue. At least nine west coast cltk were included in the ring, he de clared, adding that doctors were shuttled among them, often un der fictitious names. For more than a year the slate hoard of medical examiners hajl' been Investigating, Dr. Pinkham said. The ring not only include many agents who offer "consent slons" to drug stores and abyaa cians for directing customers a patients to members of the croup, but even has set, up subsidiary syndicate which finances opera tions for impoverished woi and collects their earnings for loaf time thereafter. Judge First Victim i B END, Ore., April 24.-lfja- nicipal Judge H C Ellin forgot that Bend's tourist-season park ing limitations went Into effect te ' day. A patrolman tied ticket No. 1 to his car and Acting Judge Bob,, ert Foley fined him $1.. . " -