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i The Weather , ; Fair today an Wednes . day, no change lit tempera tore; Blaz. Temp. Monday 80, Min. 48, river 8.4 feet, northerly irlnda. . Election Returns Detailed election returns will be available for States man subscribers In Satur day morning's first edition. EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon Tuesday Morning, May 12, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 23'' i Last Ma era 9 GlMd V .. . J ' Sepa -. McNary Takes Lead Writing New Measure Public Agencies to Have Prior- Claim i to - Half 1 of Power, Decided Uniform Rates Upon All .'Federal Projects is ' . Goal, Announced- WASHINGTON, May ll.-0P)-A white house conference cleared -the way today for legislation to authorize the army engineers and federal power commission to ad minister the Bonneville project separately, at least until a lea eral policy of "uniformity , In . rates for all federal power pro jects" can ' be devised and pat Into effect. i The 'results of the conference, called by President Roosevelt in the interest of action by the pres ent congress on legislation for Bonneville, were announced by Senators McNary (R-Ore.), Bone end Schwellenbach, (both D Wash). Bone and McNary Immediately went to work on a bill that would represent a composite of pending measures with added declarations of policy. Plan Xo Authority ... . , Bor Grand Coulee H ' They said the question of an administrative authority tor Grand Coulee "is out of the pic ture for the present".. The ques tion of a single federal corporate authority to administer Grand Coulee and Bonneville Jointly was not discussed. "The conferees,!'. Bone said, : "agreed the bill should not con-tain-provisions or : declarations of policy that would establish prece dents or bind the federal govern ment to. specific rate structures or operating programs for its power projects." The specific declaration on "uniformity in i rates" would mean merely that the federal government "has declared It a matter nf hnirit nrrH tr nrtrrf. , inate its projects in i the future and establish i similar rates throughout," Bone said. Regional Bickering -Would Be Averted T ; The declaration also would ap ply to. transmission and power plaat operators, he said. McNary said the uniform rate principle would tend toward stab ilisation and prevent "ruthless competition." I The general policy declarations to be written into the measure, Schwellenbach said, would be Hex ; Ible enough to permit adjust ments, particularly with respect to the Boulder Canyon dam. r "Boulder rates i were based on the cost of production by steam at Los Angeles, a method which is outmoded," Schwellenbach said : The composite bill, McNary and Bone said, would provide a ten rar iiujjiaiiuu ul cuuuucis, WHO a preference right for a 10-year Option. Public agencies, as pro vided In the McNary Steiwer bill Introduced two weeks ago, would have a prior claim to 50 per cent of Bonneville power. Sarron Champion In Feather Class WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11. -MP)-Petey Sarron, flailing Syrian buzzsaw, swarmed all over Cham pion Freddie Miller here tonight to win the world's featherweight .boxing crown by decision after IS furious rounds. Miller weighed 126 and Sarron 125 ft : Sarron, the Birmingham lad who has been fighting for a dozen years, piled up points during the early rounds and then tore Into the tiring defending champion In the closing rounds with a drum . tire offensive that had Miller on the verge of knockouts in the 13 th and 15 th rounds. ; Freddie, the ex-Baker boy from Cincinnati who iron the crown in January. 19 33, from Tommy PauL had successfully defended it 19 times, scrapping more often than any other titleholder. Three times before he had beaten Sarron. Cesspool Has Victim BEND, Ore.; May ll-CV Searchers followed footprints and found the body of two-year-old Ir win Edward Bernard in a cess pool here. He had been missing several hours. r - " i i ; , rate Control for Gotham, Contrary jto Custom, U p Early to See Hindenburg Come in Sonndphoto of the German seppelln lork City In the early morning of last Saturday at the close of her record-breaking flight from Germany with 51 passengers and S6 crew members aboard. Many New Torkers departed from what Is popularly supposed to be their collective habit, by rising at day break or earlier to view the spectacle; some of them from the tops of Gotham's highest towers, shown hereInternational Illustra ted News photo. Neiv Deal Flayed By Colonel Knox Some Objectives Declared Sound But Impairment of Liberty Wrong PORTLAND, May ll.-CTV-Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency, said tonight the principles of constitutional divi sion of powers and local sover eignty "are the two great over shadowing Issues i of this campaign.".- " i The , Chicago publisher spoke at a republican rally here. 'I challenge the new deal, as an expression of reaction, because in every major policy it has pro duced It has sought to shear away the powers of the states and of the people themselves" and abro gate -those powers to a bureau cracy dominated by an arbitrary executive," the colonel said. He termed the 1936 political campaign "the most crucial . . . In which any of us have partici pated" and said "we can meet this crisis. . . by no blind support of reactionary principles. We must (Turn to page 10, col. 1) Want Ocean i Vessel at The Dalles' Celebration THE DALLES. Ore.. May 11.- (jpv-Negotiations are under way to . bring an ocean vessel here June 28 for the Oregon Veteran Steamboatman's association con' vention. It would he the inaug uration of The Dalles as a sea port city. Circuit judge Fred W Wilson proposed the celebration. League Council Secretly Decides Stand on Ethiopial GENEVA. May ll-OfV-The League of Nations council, dead locked with Premier Mussolini on the conquest of Ethiopia, was sum moned for a secret, unofficial ses sion tonight in the home of Joseph A. C. AvenoV league secretary general. . . The purpose of the meeting, it was understood, was to discuss whata action the council will take on the Italo-Ethiopian war to morrow. Italian Delegate ail 10 Aitena i : ' Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italian delegate who earlier had abruptly left a secret council meeting, did not attend tonights gathering. British delegates said the league would resist Italy's claim of sovereignty. Baron Aloisi. II Duce's representative, finding the council ' opposed to him, simply walked out of an opening private 0" 'CI TUndenburg soaring over: New Ohio Primary Is i EiVed as tnicial "J"i i i i ' Borah Against Native Taft; Breckinridge It Roosevelt Rival COLUMBUS. Ohio1, May ll-(JP) -PoHtlrAl n,,it Mid tAniihil on the eve of Ohio'; most import- presidential primary in 16 years. - Two prime presidential Issues and candidacies of complete tic kets for state, district, judicial, legislative' and county offices 1 awaited the ballot verdict Tuesday of an anticipated record 1,360,- 000 primary votersj ! Sen. William E. Borah i chal (Turn to page 10, col. 3) Forget Disputes, Arbiickle Advises PORTLAND, Ore May 1 !-()-!; orget iactionai disputes and con centrate wholly on the success of the plan. Frank Arbuckle, Los An geles, regional director of the Townsend pension movement, ad monished 3500 persons at a rally here. ! He said the 'congressional inves tigation of the Townsend program was an ;" inquisition." I . He compared Dr. Francis E. Townsend with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, and said Townsendism was "up to its neck" in national politics because it in tends to name the next congress. Oregon ; enjoyed a top ranking; in the .Townsend movement, but slipped in the past four weeks, he I said. ' !. session with his colleagues. - "FuUle," exclaimed the Italian baron SA he ctftlVorf nut twfmlnr to sit at th tM. with wiii MarUm. whos ronntrr-thlnnlft- he said, no ionxer exists. . Resistance hv th lornm -said the British, means: . . 1. The league does hot reeog- nize Italy's claim of sovereientvl over Ethiopia. 2. The league does recognise the continued existence' of Em.l peror Haile Selassie's Ethiopian Through Alois!, ii Duce de- manded the outright removal of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute from I the council's agenda on the! grounds ."there is! no Ethiopian sute. ; The only sovereignty is Italian." ; j 1 But; with quiet stuhborness the! council voted to keep the Ethio-1 plan problem on the agenda, . . , -' '', , ! j (Bonneville Hindenburg on Return Flight Across Ocean Picturesque i Takeoff Made at, Lakehurst; i Passengers Fewer is Slight Difficulty Found in Getting Under Way; ; Big Crew i Needed LAKEHURST, N. J., May 11.- (i"P)-The record making German dirigible Hindenburg, visitor of the United States for two and one half days; headed toward its home land tonight. With starry skies and artificial lights supplying a colorful setting, the majestic sky cruiser weighed- off from the Lakehurst naval air station at 10:27 P- m. (Eastern Standard time). ' A half , minute after the com mand "'up ship" rang out, the Zep pelin's motors sputtered and took hold. A moment later the ship headed southward Into the wind, circled eastward over the little town of Lakehurst a mile away and then nosed toward the north. Thirty-eight minutes later the big ship was sighted from the bat tery.. She was over the narrows and heading due north. Expect Trip Home To Be Still Faster Its route took it over New Tork city and thence out over the sea toward its home port at Frankfort-on-the-Maln. Favorable winds and weather were forecast and its offi cers expected to reach the Euro pean coast in about 46 hours. The . leave taking operations were as picturesque as its arrival at dawn Saturday. Its bow fastened to the mobile mooring mast, it was towed from 1a."s. A. 41 S V - o'clock (Eastern fand"d "m,e)- Vew,-mIn iater, its tail was turned to north and the ship was m minutes the north and the ship was moved JlSlt quarter mile from the hangar. A searchlight from atop the hangar played npon Its silvery sides, illuminating the name Hin denburg, the Olympic symbol and f"1 "Uka on the tall fins At the mooring circle, the 41 8 passengers were helped up the gang plank. A cargo of 1,751 (Turn to page 10, col. 1) Statesman Plans Speedy Election Returns Service Promptly at $ o'clock Friday night The Oregon Statesman will begin its compilation of election returns and their re lease to the public. Arrange ments have been completed - with the burroughs Electric company for lease of its outdoor public address system to accom modate the crowds which gather at The Statesman election night. , Utilizing its 75 rural corres-. pondents The Statesman will have preliminary returns at the -office within a few minutes from the time the polls close. These returns will be augment-'' ed by statewide reports coming over the leased wire of the Asso : elated Press. Throughout the night The Statesman will tabulate the re turns, providing a running ac count for announcement over the address system and for an swer to telephoned inquiries. - .Returns by precincts wiU be available in Saturday's paper. . Barnes Stays Behind as Hindenburg Sails Back Ralph W. Barnes, New York Herald - Tribune correspondent. was not v aboard the Hindenburg on its return to' Germany, his parr ents here were advised last night bjr Mr. Barnes in a telephoned call irom xiew xora. nis pape re- quested that he remain here for aays, going to wasaingiou,- u C for a series of conferences with government ornciais. He will sail for Germany on : the 1 Europe, on May 20. r His articles I b the flight are appearing daily u tne Heraid-Tribune Portland Plans Rodeo PORTLAND, Ore., May WMJP) -The "old west" will be revived at the rodeo grounds.' formerly J the Rankin airport, Jane 2. . H. M. Seivert, owner of the tract. said he was informed the event will be one of the five largest of its kind in the nation this I year, Assured Wins' on Vote In California Earl Warren,' to whom Californ ia's 44 votes In the Republican national convention were nom inally pledged as the unin structed slate defeated that of Alf Landon. Warren promptly released the delegation 'so . it would bo free to vote for any outstanding candidate who might arise at. the Cleveland gathering. Frazier-Lemke to Get House Action Three; Billion Currency Is Proposed; Other Act Is Ruled Invalid WASHINGTON, May ll.-WPV-A tumultuous house voted today to take up the politically - explosive Frazier-Lemke farm debt refin ancing bill and the first real cur rency expansion issue of the ses sion. : The democratic house leader ship failed by a 67-vote margin to prevent consideration of the bill that would call for the issu ance of S3, 000,000,000 In new currency, and then offered no re sistance to a rule under which it will bet called up tomorrow for six hours of debate. " Members' of the democratic high command contended, howev er, that today's balloting was no real test and that the bill would be defeated on the vote on pas sage next Wednesday or Thurs day. -!-.-. ST. PAUL, May ll.-6P)-The United States court of appeals for the eighth circuit today ruled un constitutional one farm relief measure sponsored by Senator L. Frazier and Rep. William Lemke as the house in Washing ton voted to consider another. Heidi invalid was the amend ed Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage" moratorium act. In a; three-Judge opinion filed here, the appeals court' held "the conclusion is inescapable the am ended mortgage moratorium act with its provision for a three-year stay, violated the fifth amend ment because it takes from an ap pellant without compensation; val uable rights . in the . mortgaged property and gives them to the appellee." Santiam Road to Be Opened Friday i EUGENE. Ore., May 11-V The new spring shortcut -route between Eugene and Bend over the Santiam route will open to travel Friday at C p.m., on sched uled time. - This was the word tonight from judge Robert Sawyer of Bend and Perry Thompson, supervisor of the v Willamette national forest They Inspected the route from which plows have removed snow. ; The State highway commission and, the forest service agreed to open the route this season as an experiment to determine whether it was more economical than open ing the summit of the McKenzIe pass, which is buried deeper in snow. -j . , - t The I lower , portion of the Mc Kenzie pass will he used. Highway - officials said trucks and bttsses would be barred, for the present, from using the road. The right was reserved to close the road at any time if storms made it too soft. I Boatwright Engineer, ? PORTLAND, Ore., May 11-UP) -G. R Boatwright of Salem was among 25 persons who passed ex aminations and became licensed civil engineers in Oregon today. v Aft Reform Group Keeps Out of, County Races McMahan, Lafky and Two Others are Left Off Interchurch List Only City Candidates to Have Endorsement is Indication Now ' Judge L. H. McMahan took his leap from the Salem "reform" bandwagon late last week only after the interchurch campaign committee had informally, a't least, turned "thumbs down" on an endorsement of his candidacy for reelection as circuit judge, it was reliably reported yesterday. The churchmen's label also has been recalled from three othej candidates for county offices, it appeared. , y When the "clean city" commit tee's "ticket" is officially released Wednesday, it probably" will prove to be an endorsement of city can didates only. These will be "sub stantially" the same names that appeared on a campaign endorse ment distributed at the First Christian church here Sunday night by the Marion county Chris tian Endeavor union, U. J. Leh man, head of the interchurch committee, admitted last night. Service to Church By Voting, Urg-d ' The Endeavorers urged service to church "by voting on election day" and listed the following candidates as "pledged to clean city government": v " For mayor, Chris J. Kowitz; for council positions, Mrs. George R. K. Moorhead. Dr. Lloyd Hock, ett, Fred E. Wells, Rev. N. J. Reasoner, Gertrude F. Lobdell, Paul Ficks and D. O. Lear. Opal Yates as president and Mary Kruger as secretary sign ed the Christian Endeavor, "tick et". The . lnterchurchmen reportedly approved the same slate at a meeting at the Salem Y.M.C.A last Friday night, officially or ganized and elected Dr. B. Blatch ford as secretary. They accepted a special committee s recommend' ation that no endorsement be giv (Turn to page 10, col. 4) Two Thousand at Townsend Picnic Two thousand Townsend club members gathered here Sunday for a "picnic and political rally held at the state fairgrounds. Frank Arbuckle, member of the national committee of the Town send organization, was the princi pal speaker. Theodore G. Nelson, candidate for the republican nom ination for senator, was unable to attend and his brother, Alf O. Nel son of Silverton, spoke in his be half. Linn Officialdom Opposes : McMahan; Campaign Warm By SHELDON F, SACKETT Linn county's officialdom, while' less subjected to attack by Judge L. H. .McMahan than offi cers in Marion county, is never theless smarting . under the Judge's Interference in county af fairs and in a quiet way la do ing its part in a' campaign to pre vent his reelection. - Leaders at the i Linn county courthouse, it was learned yes terday, are supporting Walter E. Keyes of Salem for the position of circuit Judge in district three which comprises ' Linn county, with, its 14,000 registered': vot ers, as well as the 32,000 regis tered voters of Marion county. Tactics Similar to , Those Employed Here i Judge McMahan. while spend ing-much the smaller portion of his courtroom time in Albany, has pursued a policy there slmi lar to his Marion county role. He has railed at-mileage paid county officers ' and has criticised Sher iff Herbert Shelton's handling of meals for county prisoners. The grand Jury, - before whom Judge McMahan had the matter placed. gave county officials' a clean bin of health. The . memory of the Judge's" Intrusion lingers on at the courthouse. Officials there have-not forgotten such incidents as Judge - McMahan's failure to call a grand .. jury one summer term of court which necessitated keenlnr a number of nrisoners in Jail for months until a Jury cduld be summoned In the faiL Lont er Suspected Caught at Without - -. w Fourth Leading Public Enemy .Taken Within Week and Half; Rushed to Louisville For Trial Masqueraded as Woman; H0o ver SayB $4200 in Ransom Money Found; -Hunt Lasts Nearly 2 Years WASHINGTON, May 11. (AP) Thomas H. Robinson, jr., last big quarry of federal agents, Was arrested to- night at Glendale, Calif., Louisville, Ky., society woman. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau of investiga tion, , announced to reporters that Robinson had been capC- tured after a two year hunt kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed Toll. 1 r . Hoover said Robinson was armed but that, as in. recent arrests of others, wanted as public enemies, he. had been taken so quickly that his gun was not used. I With Robinson's capture, the federal agents wiped clean q f"'- major "wanted? list. In a Gertrude Lobdell To Continue Race Decide Eligibility Later Is Stand; Question of Law Is Mentioned Gertrude F. Lobdell will dis regard the legal cloud cast over her candidacy for councilwoman from the fourth ward . and will permit her name to remain on the ballot for Friday's election, her husband, F. M. Lobdell, Bald last night. He indicated a belief the question of her qualification for the office would ; properly arise only if and after she were elected. A person whose name could not he learned yesterday suggest ed to Mrs. Lobdell that she might be unwittingly in violation of the corrupt practices act were she to continue in the race, it was re ported . by a leading "reform" candidate,- who declined to be quoted by name. The corrupt practices act sec tion mentioned was one which cites as illegal, running for of fice merely to prevent another candidate's election, or .sponsor ing such a move. Mrs. Lobdell's . candidacy ; be came a point for dispute last week when It was discovered she had not lived in Salem three full years immediately prior to the May 15 election,' as required by the city charter. . With', tew exceptions,--members of the Linn county bar. are op posed to Judge McMahan s re election and are working against him. . An exception is Sam Gar land of the Lebanon district who is active . for the Judge. In re cent days the. McMahan support has tried to use the .oppesitidn of the bar to McMahan's reelec tion as an endorsement for him on the theory that a Judge, is honored if he stands "between the people and the lawyers." How far this sentiment has gone and how effective it will be only the results of the Friday vote will determine. . The semi-weekly. Greater Ore gon In Albany is active in sup port of Mr. Keyes. This paper. whose publisher, Francyl Howard is an officer in the Townsend club, has endorsed Mr. Keyes edi torially and the publisher Is oral ly urging a "new deal'! on the circuit bench for Linn and Lane counties. The circulation of this paper is large In the rural dis tricts -of Linn county where Mc Mahan's strength is supposed to lie. Circulars Sent Out By Both Candidates ' . The McMahan support has fol lowed an extensive circularization of the county by Keyes with a broadside of IS pages in which the incumbent Judge repeats the charges made against his oppon ents in a Salem weekly. This cir cular has gone to every family ' (Turn to page 10, col. 2) r - efetice Kidnaper Glendale Resistance for the alleged kidnaping ol a - ' for the man charged with the week and a half, the last of the more notorious kidnap . suspects have been captured. They are: Get Four Big; Ones In Week and Half Alvln Karpis. wanted for the kidnapings ot Edward G. Brem er, and William A. Hamm, both of St. Paul, Minn., and the $4C. 000 mail train robbery at Gar rettsville, Ohio. ' Harry Campbell, limping pal of Karpis, wanted for the 1200,-, 000 Bremer kidnaping and' tb Garrettsville robbery.' William Mahan, alias DaiaartV wanted for the $200,000 kidnap ing of George Weyerhaeuser, -year-old son of a Tacoma, Wash., lumberman. Mahan pleaded guil ty and was sentenced immediate ly to CO years in McNeil Island. Wash,, penitentiary. Disposition of the cases of Kar pis and Campbell is pending. Mrs. Stoll was kidnaped 1 October 10, 1934. Hoover said Robinson admitted ; his identity fhen captured at 1 about 10:30 p. m. (E.S.T.). to- night and was immediately start- 1 . w . . ft. - .'-. - - ea tor ljouiavme. ! Robinson had on his person when arrested $4,560 of which $4200 was kidnap ransom money. Hoover said. No shots were fired in taking the kidnaper,! Hoover - said, al though Robinson was carrying a .38 calibre pistol. L The kidnaping suspect,' who is known to have masqueraded as woman: at times, had been living in Glendale tor - the past two months under! the name ot "John Simons." ' " . f 1 Robinson, known as a "lone wolf" criminal, nad been hunted by the "G-men nearly two years since the $50,000 kidnaping of Mrs, Stoll.' wife of Berrv V. Stoll. Louisville. Ky.,' oil ! man, - and niece of Frederic M. Sackett, for-, mer United States senator and former ambassador to Germany. ; Unlike the gang kidnapers, Robinson had no cronies or eon-, fidants. Hls practice of appear-' ing in the disguise of a woman made the chase doubly hard. He had once been confined to an in sane asylum. The Robinson chase covered most of the I United States, with reports oi me appearance oi non inson or the "blond woman" dis guise he used coming from many scattered cities. . " . Hoover said at once time that part of the jransom money has turned up from time to time." ' Both Robinson's father, T. j. Robinson, and his wife, Mrs. T. H. Robinson, Jr., were investigated in the kidnap plot, but: were acquit ted In the fall of 1935. The ransom note on which -the $50,000 was paid was written on legal paper In legal phrases, and directed that ransom be paid to Robinson's father or his wife. McNary m Only Campaign Talk Is on KGW Tonight Senator Charles L. McNary, In bis only personal message in his campaign for the republican nom ination for the senate, will speak tonight over KGW at :30 o'clock to voters of Oregon. The message will come by leased wire direct from the capital. The senator will speak for only 15 minutes. In his alloted time he will outline the reasons he' seeks renominatlon and election. 5