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FOUKDEP ' 1831 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, April 28, 1936 Price 3c ; Newsstands 5c No. 27 e Are Q of Gkiltsop o . .Rio ramtec BF v-V i is t County Board Approves 500 : For Pensions Average of Payments to '- Be Nearly Doubled in New Setup, Word Method of Payment Will Be Tested in Courts by Friendly Suit Approval .had, been siren late -resterday by the Marion county relief committee to nearly 500 old- . age assistance claims which are to be paid by the federal, c&te and county governments through the relief committee beginning May 1. -' Members of the committee said the average of the payments would approximate $20 a month to each pension recipient or nearly twice the average payments made by Jhe county in the two years it has paid pensions out of its own funds ex clusively. First Payments to Be About May 1 The relief committee expects to make the payments on or about May 1 for the period of April. Funds will be available for the payments, out pf moneys sent -to theatate by the federal govern ment, which is putting up'one-half the pension charges, and out of 11,000,000 set up by the state government in 1935 for pension payments. Brjefs are to be filed in the state supreme court today to test Marion county's right to pay its one-quarter of the cost into the general pool being raised for the use of 'the relief committee. The county contends in its brief, that 'the old-age pension assistance law of Oregon does not authorize the county to pay pensfSrrtr "fif'aTTan ket warrant to the relief commit tee which in turn will make indi vidual disbursements to pension recipients. Plaintiff in the friendly man damus action in the supreme court is the Ladd it Bush bank which was named by the county relief ommittee as its assignee to col lect the moneys to be paid to it by the Marion county court. tOO More Pensions ji County Probable County officials estimate that it least 200 more pension receiv es will be added to the libts here rhen the relief committee has fin shed its checkup. The additionals rill be due to a lessening of the requirements for receiving a pen lion provided in the new pension law. Heretofore a pension recip ient must have, been a continuous resident of Oregon for 15 years ind must have resided for two fears In the county where the pen don was received. Under the new law a recipient of old-age assist ince must have lived only five of the last ten years in Oregon and only one year in the county which pays the pension. The payments for pensions will aot include moneys for emergen cy medical and drug bills nor will it provide funds for hospital charges or funeral expenses. Here from to Page 2, Col. 4) Habitual Criminal i Law. b Criticized MEDFORD. Ore.. April 17.-JP) -Circuit . Judge H. D. Norton rapped the habitual criminal sta tute under which he sentenced I Raleigh H. Boylmaa to life im prisonment in the state peniten tiary today. "I will do what X can to se cure a modification of the Ore gon habitual criminal act. so it will give lower courts some, dis cretion in the meeting of the . present drastic sentence," Judge Norton told the wan prisoner.. " Hoylman was weak from hun ger and exposure for IS days In the wilds of southern Oregon and northern . California after his break from Jail .here. He waa captured Saturday at Crescent . City. v. ! . "If you had been given a chance on your first offense, you caight not be here today,". Judge Norton said. ., . Instructor Shoots Kills His Self; Superior! Dismissal Held Reason LINCOLN, Neb., April 27--John P. Weller, 40, a foreign lan guage Instructor at the University of Nebraska, whose release from the faculty had been ordered, shot and wounded j Dr. Harry Kara, chairman of the foreign language department today, and then kill ' ed himself. - j - - . Chancellor E. A. Burnett said Wellera "relations with the chair man of the department were not satisfactory and that the profes sor's "instruction was aot consid ; ered good.- - ' . - Wants to Milk Crowd Tivo Move Years Says Toivnsendite Official Michigan Manager Advised Not to Rush Program He Testifies; Extravagance in Chicago Office of Pension Movement is Described DETROIT, April 27. (AP) Jack T. Leasia, manager of the Townsed old age pension organization in Michigan, testified today before a congressional committee that a Townsend official had warned him "not to get this job done too fast; we want to milk this crowd for two more years." The hearing, which is Deing conducted by Rep. Clare ' O Hoffman. Michigan republican, No Discrepancy in County Tax Books Accounts Check 6o Far in Audit Made Because of Neet Disappearance No discrepancies in the tax ac counts of the sheriff's office in the period between January 1, 1936, and February 22, 1936, haTe as yet been uncovered by Auditors Covert and Rowland in their check of receipts against the tax rolls, the auditors reported yesterday. The county court ordered the rolls and the certificates checked last month following the strange disappearance of L. E. Neet, dep uty tax collector, February 22. Sheriff A. C. Burk laid the neces sity of an audit before tne court which concurred in his views and made the formal order which ex pedited the checkup. Ordinarily the sheriff's books are not audit ed until the close of the year. No trace of Neet's whereabouts has been found since he was last seen here early in the afternoon of Washington's birthday., At that time he said he was going to Port lad to spend the weekend. When he failed to appear Monday the sheriff's office started an exten sive search for him but thus far no clue has been discovered. The theory that he may have committed suicide has been dis counted in the last month since of ficials are certain his body would have been found before this time. Insurgent Clubs Will Be Ignored PORTLAND, Ore., April 27. (JP) - Ralph Anderson, district Townsend organizer, said today that state headquarters i Ignor ing belligerent Townsend club "the only ones out of 410 that are against the state Townsend organization." Clyde F. Ward, president of Portland club 26. said represen tatives of the insurgent clubs met yesterday and will meet again next Sunday to seek "representa tion In the entire Townsend movement." They refuse to turn over funds to the state headquar ters. Anderson said "The Townsend people are elected in the regular way and there will be another election in June or July." Headquarters does not counten ance meetings which simply build up an "organizations within an organizations," he said. To Make Loans Again PORTLAND. Ore.. April 27.-(P)-The resettlement administra tion will begin taking applications for rehabilitation loans in Ore1 gon again after July 1, when a new six-months budget Is expect ed to provide funds, Regional Di rector Walter A. Duffy said today. Publicity for B igge r AAA . Benefit Payments Ordered " WASHINGTON, April 27.HTV A republican demand for publicity on tig AAA benefit payment was granted today by the senate, hut not until democrats had attached a counter proposal that Ujiff ben efits to manufacturing aod other industries also should bo . publicised.-! : , The order tor reports ion pay ments over 110,000 a year and for tariff benefits to the liirger in dustries was contained In -1 h e much amended and long pending resolution by Senator Yaadenberg ( R-Mieh. ) . :- Two weeks ago the subject stirred up an exchange be tween Vandenberg and Secretary Wallace as to whether such pub licity was fair to the farmers. More to Broaden v: :- ': j ; . Scope Is Defeated rY V:Vi " The resolution finally' was pass ed without even a record-' vote. But when republicans sought still opened today before an audience composed largely of elderly peo ple. Leasia testified the warning was given him by H. H. Sch wing er, who then was an official in the Townsend organization's Chi cago office. The witness said he had gone to Chicago to protest that or ganizers in the congressional dis tricts were "starving to death" on their pay of fire cents for each new member enrolled. Leasia testified Schwinger spent $23 in an expensive night club for a dinner for Leasia, another man and a girl. Schwing er subsequently told him, the witness said, that "There's a lot of money in this thing for men above the level of organizers," and explained that the organiza tion work was to be drawn out to permit "milking" the contributors. Note Issue Bid Is Highly Favorable School Board Loan Costs Lowest Interest Ever; Bank Here Figures The Salem school board estab lished a new record for low cost of borrowing money for ther dis trict when it yesterday afternoon received and accepted the lone bid of the First National bank of Portland, Salem branch, to buy a $100,000 refunding note at 1 4 per cent interest. The same bank a year ago loaned the district $100,000 on a 1 per cent note. The $100,000 debt is a floating obligation the school district has carj-ied in bank loan or warrant form for many years to provide operating funds. Delinquent taxes more than equal the amount of this debt. Garfield and McKinley schools will be the first buildings in which lighting will be modernized under a five-year program, initiated when the budget was adopted last summer, the directors decided yesterday. The buildings will be (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Bus Case Is Taken Under Advisement Trial of Vernon D. Leek, charg ed with operating a pus service inside the city without a franchise, was adjourned after a lengthy hearing yesterday afternoon when Municipal Judge Jones requested attorneys In the case to submit briefs. Judge Jones particularly asked for written statements of the defense counsel's contention that the whole of the city's fran chose ordinance was invalid be cause a section applying to inter city busses had been held illegal. A defense demurrer was over ruled more thana week ago when Judge Jones fceld that the city re tained the right to require bus services operating from point to point within the city to obtain a franchise. further to broaden it to Include an investigation of the resettle ment administration and publicity on the number of salaried employ es appointed by this administra tion outside the civil service ranks, democrat! and' ft tew re publicans showed them under. .. The resolution, as finally pass ed, asked these things. - A list of all AAA payments over $10,000 a year, with the amount of production the payments had stopped,' and the acreage involv ed; .-. : - -;-V'.; A list of corporations with 19i4 incomes ; exceeding ' 11,000,000 which produce commodities pro tected by the tariff, and the duty rates, with the profits attribut able to the tariff, as well as In creased costs to consumers; The names of the three corpo rations which did the largest II 24 : (Turn to Page 2; Col. 2) V Walp Trial to Open Today in Grcuit Court Insanity Defense to Be Bolstered by Several Witnesses, Planned Full Day, Perhaps More to Be Required for Selecting Jury Trial of Harry Walp on char ges of first-degree murder for the death of his former wife, Mrs. Martha Neal Walp, will begin In circuit court here this morning, JudgeL. H. McMahan presiding. The state, represented by Dis trict Attorney W. T. Trindle and Lyle Page, deputy, will seek to send Walp to the gallows, on the charge that the murder of his wife March SI at 835 Marlon street, was a premeditated act subjecting Walp to the death penalty. Paul Burris, who will defend Walp, will center his defense on the theory that Walp was Insane when the slaying occurred. Bur ris said yesterday that he would make no attempt to prove that Walp did not fire the four shots which brought instant death to his former wife, niness With Brain Fever is Recalled "I will have witnesses to prove that Walp suffered for four months trom brain fever several years ago and that the illness permanently affected his mind," Burris declared. "Walp's mother will take the stand in his behalf as will a physician who attended him while he was 111." Burris said that Walp's first wife, whose maiden name was Thelma Morrison, waa coming here from California to testify that her former husband was un balanced mentally and not respon anced mentally and not respon sible for his acts. The state is ready to meet Walp's defense, its attorneys said, by a report of alienists who ex amined Walp this month and de clared him sane and responsible for bis acts. A special venire of jurymen was called yesterday to avoid any delay in selecting a trial jury. Court officials estimated that all of today and perhaps a portion of Wednesday would be required for the selection of a jury. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Communists Cain In .French Ballot PARIS, April 27.-tf,)-Com-munist gains in the chamber of deputies election yesterday, along with the prospect of a leftist vic tory In next Sunday's runorfs, caused French issues to sag heav ily today on the bourse. Financial authorities anxiously speculated whether the new chamber, with a majority possibly more radical than heretofore, might not drag the franc to de valuation. The stock market's slump was attributed to uneasiness over the outcome of the runoffs when many communist, socialist and radical socialist candidates are expected to withdraw to give vic tory to the strongest candidates In their "peoples front". With results of only two Cor sica n districts missing, official returns showed leftists and the center wlth 13 seats each and rightists with 57. Runoffs will be necessary to fill 433 seats, or more than two-thirds of the chamber. There are CIS districts. Teachers to Help On First Aid Car Salem school teachers are being asked to join In the Floyd B. Mc Mullen first aid car drive by con tributing a fund with whicn one of the souvenir memorial bonds being issued by, the city will be purchased. It was announced yes terday by Mrs. Gertrude Shisler, member of the solicitation com mittee from the Salem Tradea and Labor council. ; , Twelve students from the Sa lem high school public speaking classes yesterday afternoon visited each school building to ask the teachers to join In raising money for purchase of the first aid car and equipment. They were Jenev era Selander, Jean Doege, Romeo Gouley, Archie Cardner, . Edwin McWain, Dan McLellan, . -Robert Lorenz, John Ritchie,' Alice Swift, John Van Osdol. Earl C; Warren and Esther Vehrs. - To Preside ? 4i. G.O J. Session 1-:.: . x- awr :W.; W'Mf III! II Congressman Bertrand H. SnelL cboeen as chairman of the re publican national convention. Entire Tax Bill Will Be Opposed By Republicans But They Admit Futility; Will Pass House Soon WASHINGTON, April 17.-JP-House republicans decided at a two hour conference tonight to concentrate their opposition to the $803,000,000 tax hill in a virtual mass vote against passage without organized effort for any particular amendment. They conceded, however, the opposition would be in vain. Hepreeenrative Snell of New York, minority leader, told re porters: "The only real effective opposi tion is to vote against the hill. (Turn to page I, eol. S) I Warning Given as Italians Advance Addis Ababa to Be Blown Up if Resistance Made Leaflets Declare ADDIS ABABA, April ll-JPj-A warning that the Italians would bomb and destroy Addis Ababa if their advance on the capital 4 re sisted was made today in leaflets dropped from a fascist airplane. "Our mission Is to occupy Addis Ababa and Ethiopia for civiliza tion", said the leaflets, which were signed by the chief of staff of Marshal Pietro Badogllo, with headquarters in Dessye. "If Addis Ababa is delivered without resistance, we will not bomb it; other wiser we will de stroy It all," the messages said. (Turn to page 2, col. 2) Fascist Columns V Advance Steadily ROME. April 27-()-Three fas cist columns, two of foot soldiers and the other of motor trucks, climbed steadily tonight toward the central Ethiopian plateau holding the capital city of Addis Ababa. Italian press dispatches from the northern front disclosed two Erltrean columns have pushed far ahead of the long line of motor ized convoys to clear the rough terrain of defenders and protect both flanks. The advance guard was Relieved to be at least halfway to Emperor Hail Selassie's seat of govern ment. In the south; the advance was reported being duplicated as an other trio of blackshirt armies converged on the strategic city oW Sasa Baneh, Ethiopian stronghold and gateway to Harrar, second city of the Negus kingdom. Miner Crushed to GRANTS PASS, Ore., April 17 care-In j at the Joker gold mine about 30 miles northwest of here broke the seek of Harold Spiker, 30, and, crushed him to death. cUr 1 ;. He lived -half an hour after tons of mud and rocks trapped him alive yesterday. " Workers from the nearby Ori ole mine, from Rand CCC camp and national . guardsmen from Grants Pass dug him from the 25 feet of dirt which blocked the 300- foot tunnel in which he was work Death Jby ing. ' --i- Successor, to Huntington Is Being Talked Salem High Coach Won't Remain Next Year ; on Job Twelve Years Dwight Adams, Erickson, Hauk, Drynan Among Men Suggested After.. 12 years service coach ing athletic teams at Salem high school, Coaeh HoUls W. Hunting ton yesterday announced that he would submit his resignation to take effect at the close of the school year to June. The announcement was a sur prise, to members of the school board and no consideration of a successor for Huntington has been had nor, according to Superin tendent Silas Gaiser, will any se lection be made for some time. However, the announcement of Huntington's withdrawal from coaching Immediately raised a cloud of conjecture and rumor as to his successor. Dwight Adams Is Receptive, Admits First to announce definitely that he would consider taking the place vacated by Huntington was Dwight Adams, coach at Dallas high school and former physical director of the Salem Y.M.CA.. In a telephone conversation with The Statesman last night Ad ams said, "1 am certainly inter ested and will look into the situa tion and see how things are set up. Although I have had no idea that Coach Huntington would re sign I would be glad for a chance to coach at Salem. However, I have been thoroughly satisfied here at Dallas and wouldn't try for an opening in any othe school but Salem." Adams, a 'Salem high and Wil lamette university graduate, has coached one year at Dallas. He recently signed a contract tor next year at an increase In sal ary. Adams said he would be in Salem within the next few days to talk to school officials. Walt Erickson of W. U. Fame Talked Among others mentioned as possibilities for the position were Walter Erickson, former Willam ette football star now coaching at Camas, Wash., high school where he has had championship teams in football and basketball In the last two years, and George Emlgh, coach at Astoria high school. Emigh, a son-in-law of Major General George A. White of Sa lem, in his first year as coach at (Torn to Page 10, Col. 1) Dionnes Complain Q tuntet Underfed CALLANDER, Ont,. April 27. -(-Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne eaid today they believed their Quintuplet daughters are not get ting enough to eat and that" their diet ahould be changed. The parents, who . visited the children, twice dally in their pri vate hospital, added that the five "don't say a word that can be understood," although "we have tried them in every man ner." ' - However, Dr. Allet R. Dafoe. the babies' physician, said they got ample food, but that their weight waa being kept down pur posely, because babies not bur dened with excess weight were better able to resist disease. As for "restlessness" comment ed upon by Mrs. Dionne, the doe tor said that was a direct re sult ot their plentiful energy an energy which had to be work ed off. . Mr. and Mrs. Dionne have been at odds with the guardians of the quintuplets. . 4 Dog Food Unfit for Dogs Given, to Poor Says Solon WASHINGTON, Aprtl 27-GPV- An assertion that the administra tion had forced thousands of poor persons to a diet of dog food "un fit for even dogs to eat," was made in the senate today by Senator Dickinson (R-Iowa). Assailing . What he called the Roosevelt "scarcity" program, Dickinson said this" and non-enforcement of the pure food laws had caused many, to eat poor dog food. : - i Senator Byrnes (D-SC) an ad ministration leader,, walked Into the chamber some time after. Dick inson v spoke and poked fun at what he called the ' "republican campaign issue of healthy dog food. . - - -- - ' He said the speech had been Seaside Cases Are Woun DA. Won't GiUespieV Release Conditioned Upon His Remaining Out of AU Union Activity; AU Plead Guilty Two Cases Remain; West "SurprisecT at Virtual Elimination; Wants Costs Assessed to Group ASTORIA, Ore., April 27. (AP) Ray Gillespie, former president of the Seaside Sawmill and Timber Workers' union, received a three-year penitentiary sentence and conditional parole today when he pleaded guilty to riot char ges in connection with the union battle in which two were killed. Circuit Judge R. Frank Peters granted the parole on condition that Gillespie refrain from all labor union activi ties as an of ficer or leader. . The riot at the Crown-Willamette logging camp March 7 climaxed a long jurisdictional controversy between th Timber Workers' union and the International Sulphite union, both American Federation of Labor affiliates. Two-members of Gillespie's union dropped dead, when Pro-America Unit Here Has Meeting Value of Women's Taking More Lively Interest in Politics, Theme For the purpose of furthering the Marion county unit of Pro America, the national organiza tion - of Republican women, a group of about 30 met last night in the county courthouse,, Mrs. Winnie Pettyjohn is chairman of the local group and the other of ficers are as follows: First vice chairman, Mrs. Joseph Roman; second . vice-chairman, Mrs. Percy Kelly; secretary. Mrs. Victor Griggs, and treasurer, Mrs. Earl SnelL Guest speakers for the evening included Mrs. Harry Lofgren, re gional director of the young Re publican federation; Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, president of the state organization of Pro-America, and Mrs. Read E. Ireland, field secretary and trustee of the group. Touching mainly on the history of the organization the three speakers were unanimous in the belief that due to the fact that women cast 45 per cent of the votes, they should be organized and become more interested in the principles of government and should take a much more active part than they have previously. Graat's Grandchild To Talk,' Portland "An interesting announcement was made by Mrs. Qerlinger when (Tarn to Page -2, Col. 4) ' ? - , a " Child Is Injured. . In Auto Smashup Rudie, S, son of Eric Kantle berg, 1125 Garnett street, suf fered cuts about the scalp and one ear at 4:45 yesterday after noon when an automobile driven by his father collided head-on with a ear driven by Dave Shade, Salem, on the east end of the Marion-Polk county bridge. The lad was able to go to his home after receiving first aid. Kanteleberg swore out a com plaint against Shade charging him with reckless driving. Both automobiles were badly dama'ged. wldeljr distributed by the repablP can national, committee's Chicago headquarters. - . "The real Issue fa not canned food It la canned speeches," he asserted. : . . . .1- Dickinson said the annual pro duction of canned dog food had been estimated at - 590.000,000 cans with a retail value of 140, 000,000 and Investigation disclos ed a "heavy demand" existed for it among poor people, - .Saying he spoke- for the "sake of fairness and the record." Dick inson named 15 meat ' packers whose product, he said, is regu larly Inspected by the department of agriculture. - i " : --, The packers Include, Schleaser Bros., Portland, Oregon. : . afi TTt- UDlllaf-lr 17 9 snots rang out during tne early morning battle at the logging; camp where members of the sul phite union lived. After GiUespie's sentence waa pronounced, 31 defendants chang ed their pleas Jo guilty, received sentences of a year each in eoua- ty jail and were paroled. Three Penalties Less . To Avoid Deportation Three .other defendants made similar change of plea and vera sentenced to 11 months, 20, dayv- each in county Jail and paroled. " The lesser sentences were "grant ed by request of defense attor neys who said there was some doubt of the men's citizenship and sentence of a year or more -for a crime Involving moral tur- - pitude would render them liable to deportation. Two cases remained of the 27 indicted for riot. Those were of William Wedel of Portland. st!U in a hospital from wounds receiv- ' ed in the riot, and Willis Klink of Seaside, who District Attorney Willis West said was on condi- -tional pardon from the state pen itentiary on a charge of auto theft. Francia T. Wade, assistant state aUorney general, recommended parole in all the cases and eon- sented to jail sentences for all ex cept Gillespie. District Attorney Has Different View District Attorney Willie West asked that the record show he did not concur in the parole recom mendations. Wade aaid after tae hearing that the attorney gener al's office took full responsibUity - e Concur for settlement of the case and ad mitted the district attorney waa -not "in" on negotfationa leading to the parole recommendations. He said he believed the settle- . ment was tbe test way. to'peiw manently adjust labor trouble ia the county. - - - t - West said his virtual, eiimtna Uon from the case came as a !sur" prise-" to him. . He asked that payment of the , cost to the eounty of the investi- gaiton and preparation of the case. estimated at $2000. be made one the parole conditions. The judge . refused. , . Judge-Peters also rejected West's suggested that the mem pay for-damage done in the riot. At- -torney B. A. Green for the defense aaid-this would be handled ta "an other way," but did not explain. More Borrowings: Plan of Treasjiry WASHINGTON, Aprtr IT.-iT)-The treasury announced tonight a weekly sale of short term" pa per for funding soldier eonue payments until the government can determine- the total cask needed for that purpose. .; To this end. Secretary Morgea than said the present weekly bor rowing of tSO.OOs.OOO weald be stepped np fo $100. 600.00 be ginning .- next Monday and coa tlnuini;tuntn farther noticV, ' The. additional borrowing wCl differ in one respect:' instead, of carrying a nine-months' matur ity. It will all fall due next De cember' 16. when it must be paid off - because it carries no con- -version - privilege. " ; - . X' ... .v Girl Scouts to Meet EUGENE, Ore., April 27.-MV" Oregon Girl Scoat, leaders will meet here Thursday for a three- . day conference. " Council . and committee ; members " from al! parts of Oregbn and . southern f Washington will attend; -