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Campaign Warming Several states ' hold pri maries this week and the Oregon campaign is warm ing np. Reliable political The Weather ?v Fair today and ThurtcUj-, rising temperature; Max, Temp. Tuesday 58, Min 44, river 3.1 feet, rain 58 inch, westerly winds. , ! news in The Statesman. EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem,: Oregon, Wednesday Morning, May 6, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e i No. 34 .L J n n 1 jjTOleclL e oniia Slat J I ' j , ' - s i . o Si m Tricolor .1 -J: ; y,'.. . ii ' ;: V. . If; Duce Decrees : Ethiopia Part I Of His Nation Bandit Infested Capital Welcomes Italians as j City is Occupied Mussolini Will. Dictate ! Peace; Revamping of h ; League Discussed ! I By WITT HANCOCK Associated Press Staff Writer) 1 The Italian tricolor fluttered from the palace of Emperor Hail Selassie in half-razed Addis Ab aba Tuesday night and the world's only war was over. . .Benito Mussolini, the dictator, who defied Great, Britain and SI other nations to seize one of Af rica's last territorial plums, in a Voice trembling with emotion an nounced in Rome that peace ha4 come. r. j ' j j- A dusty, motorized column ol fascist troops clattered Into the Ethiopian capital Tuesday after noon to end the trail of conquest they began to hew only sevea months ago. . Means Relief for j. -Imperiled Foreigners ; The arrival brought relief to thousands of foreigners. They had been barricaded within various le gations against marauding war riors since Emperor Haile Selas sie fled his throne Saturday, j ! The American! legation, which had been evacuated, wa,s partly reoccupied. j f ! Advices received in Rome aid Marshal Pietro Badoglio immedi ately installed troops to bring quiet to the fiot-torn city. f ' -Ethiopia is Italian!. II Duce shouted at a. gigantic fascist cele bration. The war is'ended! f Mussolini proudly said it was a "Roman peace,"! There was lit tle doubt that he would . dictate the terms and there appeared to be little the League of Nations, which set out last fall to defend Ethiopia, could do about it. i All Italy joined in , delirious celebrations. " Ready to Defend Victory, Asserted ; ' t Although pronouncing peace, -Mussolini warned: "We are re dy to defend ouf shining victory5 with the eame intrepid, irrevoca ble decision wlthlwhich we achiev ed it." . i " ..: .: - I Italian dispatches said Marshal ! Pietro Badoglio, J who directed the ! (Turn to page 10, col. 1) I : ; ,.j . j Employment Gain ! Seen For County April brought la pickup in both .private and public employment in Marion county, according to tie : monthly report lot the state eb ployment office released here yes terday by Lois Barker, district ' statistician. During the past I month jobs were obtained for SO 8 : men and 20 women within the . i county and ,eight men were assign ed to public works positions Tin other counties, j 1 I Of the 528 placements witin I the county, 102 were with private j employers, j 300 ion public works project and 1 ?8 on WPA pfo-, i jects. Private placements included 28 farm jobs. Nine of the women i placed received j private positions and 11, in Silverton, work on a i WPA sewing project. ; j The employment office during April received 152 new applica tions for jobs and 42 re-reglstra- tions. The list of persons desiring work dropped from 5966 March 31 to 5915 April 30. . Birthday Cake ; Round'j Table's : Current Topic j 7 Birthday cakes make UP. the current topic at Thei Statesman Round Table.' Eggs are once mere at a. reasonable price level boi that angel food may be in cluded in the range of cakes suitable fort birthday -par-; ties. !-.-;"r y(if - Angel food may be easily colored to go with the color scheme of the party, too. Since it is not at all rich, it is particularly suitable for children. Any cake re cipe "which would enhance a birthday party is wel - come. The contest ends "Thursday noon. J ; ;, ' 3 i - i ' ; ! j - ' ! 1 7T11 A i Junes: At FLAG STILL FLIES OVER U. V :J --j t. "It' - ' ';-L'.w.'.i' , rK . A handful of diplomatic aides held the American legation in Addis Ababa until help was furnished by the invading Italian forces, as ; the Ethiopian capital was ransacked' by natives following the col lapse of their Government. The legation was attacked several times. On the right, Mrs. A. R. Stadin, Seventh Day Adventst missionary nurse who was slain by the rioters. International Illastrated News photos. SI Invaders Rescue Four In American Legation j I ' : i. j Vice-Consul,; Three Radio Men Hold OJf Bandits i Until Italians Send Aid; 50 Blackshirts i. i i i . k . . t' Assijmea to Aid WASHINGTON, May 5. (AP) Hardly had the stars and stripes been I raised anew over the America legation in Addis Ababa today than a new attack against the diplo matic mission by uncontrolled elements of the fiative popu lation forced its occupants to call for assistance from the re cently arrived Italian military. O Tautf est 1 Winner On Hop Contract Seidenberg Company Loses in Circuit Court in. Protracted Case Otto Seidenberg Co., plaintiffs in a suit to recover $6500 in ad vances made to jlenry Tautfest on a hop-growing Contract, were de clared losers yesterday In a pro tracted negotiation conducted be fore Judge L. G4 Lewelling here in March. '" j j -The court ruled the hops raised by;Tautfest met the quality agreed to , in the contract! and held the plaintiffs had no recourse for the advance made by Tautfest, when the latter had duly presented his hops and the Seidenberg repre sentatives had refused to accept them. j Plaintiff asked to recover 4500 in .advances made on a 65,000 pcftind hop contract and $2000 made on a 25,000 pound contract. Hops Auctioned Off Following Refusal ! : - Tautfest. who had agreed to sell the hops at 15 cents abound, put them up' for auction after the plaintiff company refused toac cept them. The market was low at the time and moneys received by Tautfest lacked by $900, when added to the advances, an amount equal to the money Tautf est would t urn to page z, coi. i) r A to Administer N. W. ency Power Projects is Sought WASHINGTON- May S-f-Im- i mediate- creation of a public cor- poration to administer , the new deal's Pacific northwest ' "power yardstick" program of distribu tion of cheap Columbia river cur rent in Washington, Oregon, Mon tana, and Idaho, w;s recommend ed to President Roosevelt today by the national resources com mittee. . ' -. Endorsing the Pacific north west regional planning commis sion's recommendation for joint distribution of power from the Bonneville 1 and On n d Coulee dams, the committee wrote Mr. Roosevelt it wished f to empha size the imperative need for legis lation in the present session of congress." , jj r Establishment of -j 4 Agency Necessary - With Bonneville dam, which will generate i 430,000 kilowatt hours, scheduled to be completed within 18 months, the adminis tratlon'i chief punning agency mean T Against AttacKers The; aid was quickly forthcom ing. After driving off temporarily who concen on the lega- about five a group of bandits trated a heavy fire Uon compound for minutes, the little band of four within; the legation! a vice con sul and three navy radio men cheered the arrival of 50 Italian troops; under the command of two officers. With them to reinforce the handful of fighting Americans within, the latter state 'department informed the jthey believed the situation shortly would be entirely, under contfol. Tonight's attack represented the third j sortie against the American legation jin the fourth day of the siege laid against it by rioting' natives. AssaUants j Beaten Off by Americans As they: bad done on the two previous assaults against the building, the Americans vwithin (Tumi to page 5, col. 7) Losses Heavy in Warehouse Fire I i ' . i - - .. NEWBERG, Ore, May 5.-0D-About 35,000 cases of canned goods, mostly; pearp and raspber ries, horned today In a fire which destroyed all but the holler room and INo. i 1 warehouse of the Springbrook Packlhg company, Loss was estimated at $60,000 Company officials said insur ance would cover the damage and indicated the plant would be re 1 built.; o - - said the establishment, of a pow er agency is needed to begin without delay the Important task or exploring the alternative pos sibilities of rate structure in re lation to the developing Indus trial land economic problems of the- Pacific northwest." The committee recommended that the proposed; three-man re gional agency (which would not possess as broad powers aa the first ? yardstick agency, the Ten nesseo Valley Authority), set up a "gf-id" network j including both present ana future power devel opments in the Columbia basin. This ' "upset power" system would extend benefits of the de velopments to the! entire area ex tending "from Spokane westward to the Paget Sound area, thence north, and south to the Portland region and Bonneville, and thence up the Columbia! valley to the Grand Coulee project," the com mittee added. - ' - War M Ended ' 1 . -'T : : : S. "FORT. in. tn Monmouth School Building Entered m .. v . Typewriter Only Loot as H. S. Prowled; Gues Are Vague, Word m6nMOUTH, May 5. The Monmouth high school building was broken into sometime after midnight last night and two type writers stolen. A forced entrance was gained by prying iip a window of the lower floor at west side. Ap parently there were two partici pants in the robbery. Verd Schrunk and Deputy Sher iff Williams of Dallas were called and made a thorough investiga tion, but were unable to obtain distinct fingerprints because such nrints as could be found were smeary with mud. Tracks leading to the building over newly plowed ground on the north side were believed to have been made by the marauders, as their course through the interior could plainly be traced from mud dy prints. They entered the sewing room first, and probably next vis ited the principal's office, picking the lock on a private locker room. Two partly burned cigarettes were found on the desk. Apparently they found nothing they wanted there. ' " They evidently knew their way around in the building, sand went next to the typing room, the door of which is secured.-at night by a (Turn to page 2, col. 1) . Receipt of Plans Will Be Arranged - ' . Alton J. Bassett, secretary of the state capitol commission, will come to Salem within a few days to arrange for., the receipt and dis play of planff submitted by archi tects : in the capitol . competition. The plans are-to be delivered to Arthur Benson,' "clerk of the su preme court - It will be necessary to nrovide spacious and well lighted quarters for the Jury to work In as they study the plans and make their choices. The plans will not be open for public Inspection until the Jury has announced its decision, which is done in the presence of the su preme court, i After the awards are madfrthe. chamber of commerce : of Salem hones to arrange for a pubUc ex hibition of the plans, or at least of those winning first place and hon orable mention. . . - It : Is expected that somewhere between 100 and 200 sets of plans will be offered in the competition. Fall Into Well Fatal PORTLAND, Ore., May i.HJPi -Raymond Schelly 11, died today as a result of a 30-foot fall into wall j 1 J jTestimony by - I 4 - nV S . .j , if If: " 1 1 ' - Townsenil Put Off Fortnight Depositions Wanted are Not Yet Available, Prober Explains Caravan With Petitions Leaves Los Angeles; 80 People Start WASHINGTON, May 5.-(V With Dr. F. E. Townsend ready to ktep on the witness stand before an expectant audience, the house committee investigating the Townsend old age pension plan to day suddenly postponed its hear ing for two weeks. The ; only explanation given by Chairman Bell (D-Mo) was that Important depositions and records obtained by a sub-committee in California were not available. He said the records were vital in the: questioning of Townsend who told newsmen he welcomed the Investigation "if it is' to be an investigation and not a dilatory putting off, all the time." 'Lord bless you, no," Townsend told a reporter when questioned as to whether the postponement had been at his instance. "I've been waiting around here for weeks and want to get this pumping over." He. said he could give the com mittee: all the information he had in a day or two and was ready to proceed. "me ears ol the public ' are turned toward Washington," he said, "and I can speak to them bet ter from here than anywhere else."i Bell said It would take "perhaps two or three days" to get the nec essary papers to Washington. LOS- ANGELES, May 6.-UP)- Hymns, patriotic songs, shouts and cheers along a downtown "pa iraae route gave an entnusiasuc aeild.oft today to tne TownBend rade" route gave an enthusiastic pension plan caravan bound for Washington. In the caravan were 20 auto mobiles, 80 elderly men and wom en, and two large trucks. The trucks carried great bales of peti tions addressed to eongress urging legislation giving $200 a month pension to persons more than 60 years of age. Townsend plan leaders said the petitions bore nearly 2,000,000 signatures and it was hoped to collect 8,000,000 more enroute to Washington, where-the caravan ia scheduled to arrive May 16. 'By that time, it may number 1,000 automobiles, said Walter P. Warmbold, director of the Town- send ; national legion, caravan leader. Lima, Paroled, Up On Forgery Count C. S. Lima; paroled from the circuit bench here on an n.s.f. check charge, landed again " in the hands of the law yesterday, this time on a forgery charge. which he readily admitted to Jus tice of the Peace Hay den. The forgery complaint against him, made by Gordon E. Hull of the Smoke Shop, involved a $7.50 check to which Lima had alleg edly forged the name of C. C. Davis and made to himself. He passed it at Hull's shop. juage nayaen do un a uma over to the grand jury, and he is in jail in lieu of $750 bail. Lima was .arrested i late last year on the n.s.f. check charge, and waived hearing, going direct ly "before Judge L. ' H. McMahan here,; who sentenced him to six months in he county jail and paroled "him to Sheriff A. C. Burk. One condition of the parole was that Lima leave liquor alone. I HnnvPi KrPPinpt A1UUVC17 A icciui,i flnnrtPfl TjlTlflOtl tions being submitted to all candl .yppuacs A-KJAU.wai dates to the BUt0 a8semDly j PALO ALTO. Calif.. May Former President Herbert Hoov er's home precinct voted over whelmingly against the republi can slate pledged to Gov. Alf M. Landon in today's California pres idential primary. 7 The vote in the Stanford .university- precinct was 123 for The uninstructed republican- delega tion and. 9 for the Landon ticket Fourteen democratic votes were cast j for President 5 Roosevelt's slate and three for Upton Sin clair's production for use ticket Representative John 81 McGroar ty's old age pension slate failed to draw a vote. Strikes Close Lumb er Mills In Labor Board is Against Onalaska Firm Which Questions Power British Columbia Timber Workers Picket; Some j Disputes Settled j timated 3000 lumber mill men and loggers were on strike in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia tonight, seeking to force union recognition- and higher wages. ! Simultaneous with the latest disturbance in the northwest's major, industry, came a report by Harry Hazel, trial examiner here for the federal regional labor board, recommending against the Carlisle Lumber company, of On alaska, Wash., on all points in its labor-and-wages dispute. Hazel recommended the compa ny, which attacked the board s authority to rule on its case, be given until May 13 to notify re gional Labor Director C W. Hope of its compliance. j Small Increase Is Given, Bellingham ; Other developments, some of them tending to lessen the tension of the situation, included: i The Morrison Mill Co., Belling ham, granted its. 140 employes a 5-cents-an-hour wage increase as of May 1. The workers had de manded a 10-cent advance. j Hoquiam, Wash., . dispatches said prospects of an early set tlement or the Grays Harbor ply wood strike situation appeared brighter when union and compa ny officials scheduled a confer ence for tomorrow to draft a pro position. , j (Turn to page 2, col. 4) j Choice of Goachl Up Next Tuesday Committee Meeting Held But Decision Delayed j Says Board Chief Selection of a new athletic coach for Salem high school prob ably will be considered at the regular school board meeting next Tuesday night, Chairman E. A. Bradfield said last night fol lowing what he termed a com mittee meeting of four directors. Percy A. Cupper, fifth director, was out of the city. J Bradfield declared no coach had yet been picked to succeed Hollis W. Huntington, who re cently announced he would not return to the high school next year. Huntington probably will not Bubmit a formal resignation since he was employed only . un der a temporary teaching certifi cate expiring in June. Twenty applications for the coaching position ave been fe- ceived to date, it was estimated at the superintendent's office yes terday. Names of the applicants were1 not made public. Nearly all were Oregon residents, it was said. J The coaching position will Jbe-. come a full instead of a. half time "Job when ' the new high school building is occupied late this year or early next. The du ties of the coach will also In clude an all-day schedule of boys' physical education classes. i Precinct Local Oj Grange By CLAYTON V. BERNHARD (Associated Press' Staff Writer) Precinct local option law 1 for control of the state liquor traffic has been added to the legislative program o fthe state grange! it was revealed in the series of ques The grange program, with; 15 planks, was definitely set out! by the questionnaire issued by Ray " W; Gill, master of the grange. Re plies to toe questionnaire were re quested, showing favorable or 'un favorable reaction. . ' Glll.4a ais introductory, com ment' stated the questions have a "bearing upon the grange-legisla tive program." The 15 Issues range from the grange power bill, state bank and unicameral legis lature to abolition of compulsory military training in Oregon's high er institutions of learning, i Better Control of . I V Ajchol is- Sought r j In addition to favoring the lo- i cal option law the grange asked if Kansaii is Ahead oi Borah in S. Dakbta; Roosevelt Winhin Towiisendite - McGroarty .and Sinclaii Backers Get Nowhere in Bourbon Race in South; Hoover Upheld . Tennessee Republican Convention Is For Landon; letter's j Failure to Endorse Cal. Ticket Is Factor SAN FRANCISCO, May 5. (AP) Delegate pledged to Gov. Alf M. Landon were trailing art uninstnicted repub lican slate and President Roosevelt's "regulars!" were run-', ning- away from two "liberal" democratic tickets tonight in returns from the state presidential primary. f The uninstructed slate, nominally pledged t6 Earl War ren, republican state chairman and friend of former Presi dent Herbert Hoover, registered 136,401 votes in 4,5)7 out of the state's 11,708 precincts, compared with 102,778 for the Kansas governor. I jjt . : Roosevelt's' personally picked delegation raii 'up 317,545 in. the 4,591 precincts, while the democratic ticket pledged to Upton Sinclair, production - for - usej advocate;, registered 44,936, and Rep. John S. McGroarty' Townsehdite group Says Taxing Bill Is 100 Per Cent on Savings Above 30, Estimate of Senator Hastings WASHINGTON, May B.-(P)-Senator Hastings, ; Delaware re publican, today thumped down be fore the senate finance committee a set of tables showing, he said, that the house bill would in ef fect impose a 100 per cent tax on all corporate savings beyond 30 per cent of their net income. He Btressed these figures wbkle Arthur A. Ballantine, former un dersecretary of the treasury in the Hoover administration, was opposing the measure on behalf of the Merchants' Association of New York. j Bar to Industrial ' Growth Argument Ballantine argued that while the maximum tax under the bill (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Move For Capone ( Release! Started CHICAGO. May 5.-;P)-Two attorneys were at work tonight trying , to build the word "thej" into a legal loophole to free Al Capone, America's- first "Public Enemy No. 1,'. from 'his prison cell on Alcatrax island. They based their hope for the beer .baron's freedom on a new decision in a federal statute cov ering extension of grand juries. Because tie law said "theT in stead of "A," the lawyers William Parrillo and Lyman W. Sherwood, declared "Scarf ace, Al's" four years behind the bars on income ft a v MVov-CAa . rk a 1nar 1 1 1 1 ft -r ana he should be free.. . ; An opposite opinion was ex pressed by U. S. Justice depart ment officials at Washington. They said the point, was not valid because it was not raised at the racketeer's trial, and that any move to release Capone would he fought. Option One Policies, Shown candidates favored legislation to make the control and regulation of alcholie beverages in the state more effective. The 15 questions. worded either, for-or against is sues, preceded by the. words "will yon vote,", were: l.-For a state power bill (gen erally termed the grange power bill.) it one shall come before Che' legislature. - .- 2. For legislation to enable the state to secure the advantages of electrical, current from Bonne ville without being forced to rely on privately owned utility com' panies. , - 3. To enact legislation for the creation of a state-owned and state operated bank. . 4. To- submit to the people an amendment, providing for aa one house legislature. ; , 5. For an amendment to the state constitution providing for lieutenant-governor. ' . - 6. Against any and all propo sals for a compulsory, county unit (Turn to page 5, col, ) : Confiscatory gathered 25,843. i The 'uninstructed delegation, favored by Hoover? and several other republican leaders, led In aU the more populous areas. Landon, whose failure to eith er endorse or repudiate the ticket entered in his behalf, led to a republican controversy,- was mak ing his best showing in Los An geles county, when his ratio ho thef Warren 'ticket was about ' I to 6. . h (By The Associated Press) Delegates pledged to the presi dential candidacy of Governor Atf M. Landon trailed fin California and led ih South Dakota as early in yesterday's republican primar? ies in the two states were tal lied, a f In California Landon delegates . pledged without the endorse men i vi uanaoa who iook no pars in their lining up trailed an ub instructed slate.- i : , L Less Than SOOO ' Votes Is Margin In South Dakota,! where the is sue was more directly betwee Landon delegates and those fer the candidacy of Senator Willlaa E. Borah; Landon delegates ae- - cumulated a lead )n the carry counting. The vot in 106g out of 1955 precincts was: Landon delegates 26.395: Bor ah delegates 24,725. At jstake in the South Dakota primary were the state's eight republican convention totes. President Roosevelt!' was unoppos ed in his party's primary there. Tennessee republicans met let their state convention and en dorsed Governor Landon. Fifteen of the 17 delegation votes are pledged to Landon; Final seleo (Turn to page?7, col. f) -4- !. amed Justice, jStayton Christepher E.S Neitling f Stayton, was named yesterday as justice of the peace for that com munity, succeeding the late Jer ome Grier who died last week. The appointment was made by Governor Charles l. Martin. Other j appointments yesterday by the governor included that of Dr. Carl Patterson of Portland who was renamed a member of the state! board of medical ssao iners. A --.. v. f C.- L. McFaddeh of PortUar wasjiamed to the state board pharmacjr, succeed ihg Frank Bet of Astoria, whose term expired.' vRiT Cox of ; Portland :.vi named at member tf the tax su pervising, and conservation com mission of Portland. Pratum . Girl Is Hurt; Aiito Hits CeNeitlingN Pearl Jensen, about 10, of tha Pratum district suffered a frao -ture of the left arm at, 5 o'clock . yesterdajr afternoon as the re sult of being hit by an automo bile driven by H. A, Sappingfield, route fife, according to hospital and state police reports. She was brought to Salem Deaconess hos pital for, treatment " ' Police said theyswere called t Investigate the accident by Clif-' ford Martin, route tour, box 415, believed! to he an4 uncle of the little girL The names of her par- c ents were not learned. ' I r