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;T The Weather ! .-C!oudy today and Wed. , Desdajvno change'7 in tem perature; Maxv Temp. Mon-i day .73, Mln. 47, river A toot, rain , .00 inch, west wind, ; partly clondy. $ : Conversion Netrs i Xast minute new develop ments and interpretative material on the republican convention will be published , each day in The Statesman; 1 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, June 9, 1936 Pree 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 63 ' p . -: i v ! ' foumdisp.7183j1 v. ; ' - - - .7 - ; -' 3K JL r ' River's Water Supply Merits Study Is View North Santiam Superior Quality But Wells to ! Be Cheaper, Heldx Engineer for Taxpayer's League Claims Worst Water Here Good An engineering "report that Chides city officials for discard ing i tbe Willamette river as a source of water supply without further investigation,, finds North Santiam river water superior to wells in quality but inferior as a source in point of immediate cost, was; submitted to Mayor V. E. Kuhn yesterday by tbe Salem Tax payers league. The author of the report, Raymond A. Hill, Los An geles engineer, suggests that an Ideal supply system might be a small gravity pipeline from Stay ton island coupled with wells ca pable of producing 6,000,000 gal lons of water per day. v Hill declared 'a belief "the values given in this report are sufficiently accurate to serve as a guide to any determination of gen eral policy" altbougb "it must be recognized that our investigation V7aa limited as to scope and re stricted as to time ..." The data on which much of the report is based was collected by Hill during a four-day visit here the week of May 11. He suggests that detailed investigation of the water problem i& "the function of the engineers (Stevens and Koon) now retained by the City of Salem to plan its water system in the in terests of the citizens of that city." , Engineers Should Etndy Willamette ''Casual dismissal of the Wil lamette river source of supply on account of popular .prejudice seems unjustified, and the engin eers of the city . . . should be authorized . . . to make a full in vestigation of this practical ource," Hill asserts. " fThe worst of the waters In the vicinity of Salem are so much better than the best water avail able to many major communities on the Pacific coaut and elsewhere in the United States as to make a chemical discussion of water ra ther academic," the report added, going on, however, to estimate the hardness of the three sources as follows: . North Santiam river, 10 to 20 parts per million; Willamette riv er,! 30 to 40. and wells, 50 to 80 parts per million. While the report at one point states that "the principal advan tage of the gravity pipe line from the North Santiam river is the lack of hardness of the water. . ." it i later adds "the water from North Santiam river is of better quality than well water and is of course unlimited in quantity in so far as Salem is conjcerned." Hill, however, avers the city "is not Justified in placing sole reliance on continuous delivery of water through a single gravity pipe line - from- North Santiam river. He suggests as am "auxil iary supply adequate to meet all essentlonai demands oi tne city. , a. combination of a smaller grav ity pipe line than that now pro posed, and the developement of about six million gallons daily from wells with a booster plant adapted to take water from either the wells or the North santiam river pipe line and deliver it into the distributing reservoir or ai -rectly intd the system." j Well Supply Near Turner Probable Study of data collected by the city last fall and by the United States geological survey; several years ago leads to tbe conclusion (Turn to Page 10, Column 7) Arranged by Club , t Plans for a county-wide repub lican picnic to be held at Hazel Green park, June 22, were com pleted last night at a meeting of the Marion county Young Repub lican club in the courthouse. The picnic will terminate a-:member-ship drive which will starts tomor row with the club divided into two1 groups, "Boosters" captained by Ed Robey and "Gci-Getters" captained by Del Neiderhiser. The losing side will entertain; the win ners. A goal has been set of 150 members. :; i For the picnic, Earl Snell, sec retary of state, has been, asked to give a short talk, and Frank Dur bin, delegate-at-large to the re publican national convention, will be asked to give a first; hand ac count of the convention and dis cuss highlights of the party platform, tobe formulated at the convention in Cleveland this week. ; Races And contests are planned with nrlsea to be donated by mer chants. All Marion county repub licans are Invited to near we ' speakers but the younger members m- it full charre. u l A' detailed treasurer! report wis given by John Cunningnam, Klr elected treasurer, and Ed nntwrr nn an account of the torchlight parade held- in,' Cor Tallis June 2. " Republican Widow of Poet Dies Suddenly i Mrs. Julia Field, 82, -widow of Eugene Field, "children's poet. Mrs. Held died of a heart at. tack Monday at her home near . Heafford Junction, Wis-, which members of Phi Delta T h e t a fraternity recently saved for her by loaning $300O to fore stall confirmation of a fore closure sale. Committee Going To Santiam Camp Civic Groups Are Invited to Send Delegations; 3Ieeting June 14 In order to acquaint themselves,! with the grounds the Marion coun ty Santiam camp committee at the courthouse last night, decided to hold its next meeting at the camp grounds and to invite all civic clubs and other groups inter ested in the development of the recreational . park to sit in the meeting with them. The meeting will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday, June 14. At it first meeting last night the permanent committee which was appointed by the county court to work out a plan for the conversion of the former transient camp into a public recreational park, elected Claude McKenney chairman and Mrs. David Wright secretary. The committee directed the of. ficers to prepare tentative plans (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Gretzinger Case Will Reach Jury DALLAS, June 8. -(Special ) A circuit court jury was expect ed by Tuesday noon to be de liberating on the case of Aubrey Gretzinger, Salem man, accused of attacking Mrs. O. Sigurdsen in West Salem April 20. The state closed its case before Judge Arlie G. Walker this afternoon after eight witnesses had testified. Closing arguments were to be presented by prosecution and de fense attorneys Tuesday morning. Witnesses who appeared in court today included Gretzinger. Mrs. Sigurdsen, Deputy Sheriff Walter Gerth of West Salem, George Edwards. Salem police man; Sergeant Robert Phillips and Patrolmen Thomas Williams, Loren Spaulding and Farley Mo gan of the state police. The Gretzinger trial, which has been in progress for a week, is the first criminal case District Attorney Bruce Spaulding has had before a jury in circuit court here. All other Polk, county crim inal cases have been settled in justice court or by pleas of guilty in circuit court since Spaulding took office. , i . ; Paddle Discarded WALLA WALLA, June B-(JPt- Corporal - punishment, tor Whit man, college freshmen tonight was abolished by unanimous vote of the "W7 club, which enforces campus regulations. Use of the paddle to "keep freshmen in line" had been a college tradition since early history. Statesman Cooking School Set Next Week. Three Days I Next week the annual cooking school held by The Oregon States man will be held at the Salem armory for three days, Wednes day. Thursday and Friday. ' .The instructor will be Mrs. Fern Hubbard of -Portland. Salem women will remember Mrs. Hubbard., who had charge of one of the most successful schools ever held in the city, that con ducted ! by The Statesman in the Grand theatre in 1929. With hr fine knowledge of cooking . aijd of the methods of carrying on cooking schools, and her wide ex perience in the field Mrs. Hub bard is recognized as one . of the best qualified women in this line of workiTA few ireeks ago she conducted a - Hostess, school for the Orecbnlan and Pepco at I a , Portland theatre.. For years Mrs. Hubbard was No Precedent For Situation At Cleveland If i Borah Leads Efforts to Stop Leader He'll j ! Violate Own Canon Kansas Group's Program for Farm Relief Goes f Without Opposition f - :-7: . -. - ; . - t I By KIRKE L. SIMPSON CLEVELAND, June S.-VPft-Stop-the-leader movements that baye marked so many national political conventions find no ex act parallel in what is going on in Cleveland tonight. There are elements here strange to conven tion history. j If the stop-Landon drive suc ceeds, where would the conven tion turn for a nominee? The field-marshal and man of mys tery whose name : is mentioned oftenest in connection with that movement is Senator Borah of Idaho, . outspo&en foe of back room selection of presidential tickets. 1 . ' This stop movement must be aimed at throwing the ultimate decision on the floor of the con vention itself. There are more than S00 of the thousand-and-odd delegates technically uniri structed and unpledged, whatever their personal preferences or commitments. Nobody knov's whatj they are actually thinking as they await the first ballot roll call. : j . , ; j I In that technical sense this is a 'strikingly free convention. So have have many others before it, (Turn to Page 10, Column 7) j J. Hayes Hammond Called by Death Confidant of- Presidents ; Started Poor; Notable Career Is Recalled I GLOUCHESTER, Mass., June -&PH-John Hays Hammond, Sr., Califbrnian who started on a shoe strine and became a multimillioh aire mining expert, died suddenly of a; heart attack at his palatial estate. Lookout Hill, here late to day. He was 81. j i The man wha had" been the friend and confidant of presidents, empire builders and i just plain miners died in his study while reading. :, I His outstanding exploit was par ticipation In a "reform" move ment against the administration of "Oom" Paul Kruger just be fore the outbreak of the Boer war i in the Transvall republic, Africa. j He and the others were cap tured by a trap set by Kruger, convicted of high treason by; a Boer council, and " sentenced jto hang. He was saved by the inter vention of the United States sec retary of state. I i The man who later was to pick Out gold sites for Cecil Rhodes! in Africa and to represent his friend, president William Howard Taft, at the coronation of King George V of England, was forced j to sweep out his own office when! be Started business as a gold assayer. I : I Federal Building j To Conform, Says ! ? : -: ' i 1 H. R. Crawford , had a letter yesterday from Harry Bennett, architect in charge of planning the Salem postoffice to whom Mr. Crawford, has sent' pictures of jthe new ! state capitol. Bennett ex pressed satisfaction over the c?pl tol's Grecian design, which he is following for the postoffice and said they would go well together. Mr. Francis Really, ; capitol arch itect, will confer with him within a few days, as he leaves tonight for the east. The form of the contract be tween the architects and the state commission was gone over by commission members and Mr. Keally in the office of Assistant Attorney General Ralph E. Moody and is now in final, form subject to approval of the commission. home economist with the General Electric interests, and put! on schools in all parts of the coun try including the largest cities. She was sent on a tour of j Ha waii and there conducted schools. Now she Is engaged in independ ent work, and comes to Salem un der engagement with Tbe States man. - J j I; Cooperating with . the news paper in ' presenting the school fill be, many local and national advertisers offering lines of in terest to women in cooking and In household work. Gas ranges will be used and electric ' ref ri- geration. ' r I-r Ki I The hours for the school are from 2 to 4 in the afternoon. All women In Salem' and vicinity are cordially invited to attend the" school, which is free to all. O Capitol Start Made as First Earth Spaded Governor Martin Wields Shovel, Sees Forward Step for Oregon Notables Present, Also Two Who Saw Earlier Cornerstone Laid .Governor Charles H. Martin turned the first spade of earth on the new state capitol project yesterday morning. It was a test pit in the center of the spot where the building will stand. Three of these will go down in the area to determine . the soil conditions.; Actual construction work will pot start until Septem ber, j ; Notables gathered for the occa sion yesterday, including state officials, members of the capitol commission end architects. Two Salem residents who had witness ed the 'laying of the cornerstone of the old capitol attended. They were H. S. Belle, 765 Ferry street, and Mrs. Ida Babcock, 749 North Commercial street. A con siderable company of Salem citi zens were spectators. J. A. McLean, chairman of the capitol commission, handed the spade to Governor Martin shortly before 10:30 a. m. After lifting a generous chunk of sod the gov ernor "leaned on his shovel" and made a short speech. He was fol lowed by Francis Keally of New York, associate architect for the building, i Many Officials of State are on Hand Among state officials attending were Secretary of State Earl Snell, Treasurer Holman, Chief Justice Campbell of the supreme court, Justices Rand and Kelly, Arthur Benson, clerk of the su preme court; Miss Harriet Long, librarian; Miss Mirpah Blair, as sistant; Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, superintendent of the state hos pital; Ralph E. Moody, assistant attorney general; Sen. Charles K. (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1) Walker Silent on Cause of Slaying PRINEVILLE, Ore., June 8.-(P)-Darrel Walker, 17, retained George Bernier of Prineville as his attorney today and maintained a close-lipped silence about the mo tive of the slaying of Merritt Pea cock, 25. i Captain Vayne Gurdane of the state police said Walker admitted the shooting, and expressed no regrets. (The slender, six-foot youth said Peacock shot at him the day before the slaying at a sheep -camp near Suplee, Ore., Friday. ! Officers said a personal feud existed between Walker and Pea cock. 1 : Walker, who is held in jail here, frequently spent entire days alone in! the hills. The shelter in which he spent the night after the slaying was constructed a year ago while he was hunting deer. j He was raised by his aunt, Mrs. L A. Olds, of Grass Valley. PORTLAND. Ore.. June 8.-V Danny McShain. 160, Hollywood, threw Walter Achiu. 15J, Dayton, O.. with! two body slams in their wrestling match here tonight Rod Fenton, 158, Canada, gained two of three falls from Walter Stratton of Ohio. PORTLAND. Ore.. June 8.-6PJ- At Snina. Portland, signed a con tract today to meet Buss Brown, Portland, for the unofficial state featherweight championship in an onen-air match at Multnomah sta dium July 6. CHICAGO. June" 8.-rVLeo Lomski, one-time "Aberdeen as sassin j lot the Ting, got his come back attempt under full speed to night iby scoring a technical knockout over Adolph Wiater, the Green Bay, Wis., heavyweight Joe Louis once said gave him his nara- ejst battle. : NEW YORK, June f-iflVJohn Henry Lewis, world's light heavy weight; 1 champion, had an easy time' outpointing John iAnderEon of Sweden in a ten-round non title bout ; tonight. NEW YORK, June i-(P)-Pedro M o n tanes, sensational Puerto Ricau lightweight, chalked up the 16th straight victory of his Ameri can campaign tonight wltb a well earned decision over Krankie Klick, veteran Sap Franciscan, Am Late Sports START TEST PIT F OR NEW ' MS i . i -v. n Governor 3Iartin turns first sol on capitol project. From left, front. Governor Martin; J. A. McLean, Eugene, chairman capitol commission: Francis Keally. Xew York, architect of capitol. Back row. Dr. Olinger, Salem, member of commission; Morris H. Whitehoose, Walter E. Church, Portland, supervis ing architects; W. L. Gosslin, Tax Bill Parley Is Marking Time No Ma jor-Controversy Is Seen; Both Houses of Congress Recess jWASHINGTON, June After a conference with President Roosevelt, democratic house and senate conferees indicated today no definite action would be taken this week on controversial points in the tax bill. Senator King (D.-Utah) acting chairman of the senate group, said there was nothing in the tax bill which would cause prolonged dis cussion or lead to failure to agree. He said the conferees merely dent on tbe general makeup of the exchanged views with the presi bill. S "The hope was expressed that we get together on a satisfactory bill at the earliest possible date," King said. "I see no reason why we cannot get a tax bill out of the way early next week and ad journ congress before the demo cratic national convention week after next-" The meeting was arranged shortly after the senate and house wound up perfunctory sessions and recessed for a week while the republican national convention is in I progress at Cleveland. Victor Jury, Film Star, Plans Visit Coming: to: pay his father, Ed win A. Jory, 425 Hoyt street, his first visit in more than 15 years, Victor Jory, motion picture ac tor, will arrive in Salem at 2 o'clock this afternoon, it was learned last night. He was ex pected td spend two days here be fore proceeding on a trip to Aus tralia, j jVictori was 17 years old when he last saw his father, friends say. . jTbe actor's most recent promi nent part In local screen show ings was that of King Oberon in "Midsummer Night's Dream." Elks' in Custody Over Elk's Theft i PORT ANGELES, Wash., Jane 8.HP)-Four Port Angeles Elks who "stole" a stuffed Elk from the lobby of the Aberdeen Elks' lodge early . Saturday, expressed their, displeasure today after they were arrested by game officials here on a charge of "illegal posses sion of elk meat" (The 'Itheft was part of a con vention stunt to call attention to the state meeting here June 18 20, but; the four men had the tables turned on them when their lodge officers refused to get them out of Jail for more than four hours. ! 1 i v Hoey Holds Lead ' I CHARLOTTE, N. CV June 8.-(yp)-Clyde Hoey held a 5,000-vote lead tonight over Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, S3 -year -old former professor and militant aales tax repealist. In North Carolina's democratic race tor governor. . --7N - ' r secretary to Governor Martin; Earl Steiwer Speech To Be on Radio Around 6, Word NEW YORK, June S.-tf5)-Broadcasters have set aside two periods for transmission of the first day's session of the re publican national convention at Cleveland on Tuesday. At 10:30 a. m., eastern standard time, NBC and CBS are to come on for the opening, with the keynote speech now scheduled for 9 p. m. According to this announce ment Senator Frederick . Stei wer's keynote speech will start about S p. m. here. The open ing broadcast will be at 7:30 a. m. Bonneville Bill Is Reported Out WASHINGTON, June 8.-;P)-A bill authorizing the federal pow er commission to set rates and conditions of the sale of power from the Bonneville dam and granting similar jurisdiction in other federal power projects was reported today by the house riv ers and harbors committee. The report followed testimony by Brig. Gen. George B. Plllsbury, assistant chief of engineers urging construction of the Bonneville dam, on the Columbia river as a navigation project. Its construc tion, together with the improve ment of the river between Bonne ville and Vancouver, he said,' would make possible navigation by small sea-going vessels as far as The Dalles, 186 miles from the mouth. Colonel Green Dies LAKE PLACID, N. Y., June 8. HPV-Col. D a v i d H. Jloblnson Green, 7," railroad industrialist, banker and son of the late Hetty Green, famous woman financier, died at the Lake Placid elub here today. Oregon Votes lo Landon; CLEVELAND, . June t.-JP Leaders of the Oregon delegation to the republican national con vention said tonight they had vir tually abandoned hope for - the nomination i of Sen. William ' E. Borah of Boise, Idaho. ' " B ; .Walter Tooze. delegation chair man; Joseph Dunne, Oregon vice chairman of the convention, and Lowell Paget, Oregon member of the convention resolutions com mittee, said Borah's chances for the presidential - nomination ap peared slim on the basis of pre convention indications. . But WU1 Stick Till Released by Borah The delegation, they said, would stand ' by Borah as a unit and carry out the mandate-of the Ore gon Toters i until Borah released the members to vote for "second choice." The three delegates all from eaidleF CAPITOL ?' Snell, secretary of state. Chiang Kai-Shek Denies War Talk Spirit of Cantonese Held in Exact Accord With Central Regime's NANKING, China, June 8-P)- The most powerful man in China, Generalissimo Chiang . Kai-Shek, virtual dictator of the Nanking national government, tonight sharply opposed a war against Ja pan. ; . - Chiang also said there would be no civil war between the- Nanking and Canton governments.' The question of war' or peace he added, can be decided only by the government here. The generalissimo said, howev er, that "the southwest's spirit of national salvation and desire for national solidarity are in direct accord with the central govern ment," . . "I am sure." said Chiang, "the 1 e a d e r s of Kwangtung- and Kwangsi provinces (which make up the Canton government) will not seize upon the diplomatic pol icy of the central government as an alibi to start a civil war." (Turn ato Page 10, CoL 2) Agreement Voted But Ballot Void PORTLAND, Ore., June 8-iflP)-The Columbia council of the Lum ber and Sawmill Worker's union declared the balloting on a wage agreement void because of I'rreg-, ularit es,',' and ordered new vote taken, starting Wednesday. Nature of the irregularities was not revealed, but it was rumored the seal of one of the ballot boxes waf broken when it arrived here for tabula talon. T h e. a g reement tentatively reached by representatives of em ployer and workers, would bring wage increases of . 7 per cent to 10,000 union mill and wood work res in northwestern Oregon, and provide a neutral hiring hall. Will Never Go Perhaps Steiiver Portland, predicted a majority of the delegation would be against Gov. Alt M. Landon of Kansas. They asserted the delegation, it Borah released it. would vote sol idly for Senator Frederick Steiwer of Portland, convention keynoter, should his name be placed before the convention for president . or vice-president. '-- 7 --.'--V- . Leaving Steiwer out of the pic ture, Tooze and Paget said, the delegation probably would split over a second choice. ; Next to Borah and Steiw.er, Tooze said, his choice would he Col. Frank Knox of Chicago. Pag et and Dunne and other members of the delegation said a ticket headed by Steiwer and - Sen. Ar thur H. Vandenberg of G rand Rapids, Mich., would be a "win ner." ;4 The republican party wants a (Turn to Page Z, Col. S) 1 f 5 - ---- - " ! Miwj Gonyeiitioii at : Cleveland Due ToOpenToday Borah Center of Hubbub"; Avers Gold Standard Men Write Plank - 1 Secret Meetings Occupy Final Hours Before Curtain Goes Up CLEVELAND, June 1 harried round of secret parleys among leaders of the anti-Landon forces tonight followed the oat break ' of platform conflict be tween the camps of Senator Borah and the Kansas governor on the eve of the Republican I National convention. 3 With the leaders themselves silent upon their late-night talks amid the hubbub preceding the opening of the 21st republican conclave, wide speculation circled out from their meetings; Earlier, Borah of Idaho, after asserting formally that he would not enter into any movement to "stop Landon,' hit out in a for mal statement at what he said be understood were the platform views of the Kansas forces en money, monopoly and foreign af fairs. He demanded a statement ef Landon's views on a return to the gold standard. 9 Request for Speech Permission Shunned Promptly, a statement issued firom Landon headquarters that Borah's implications that strict gold standard men were drafting the Landon money plank were "not true." At the same time far from warm reception was given the Idahoan's bid for chance to address the convention if his platform views were net accepted. j Several hours afterward the anti-Landon round of conferences started. First Frank Gannett, New York publisher, and an ardent Borah supporter, closeted him self with Senator Vandenburg of Michigan.' j! Next, Vandenburg walked near ly a mile from his own hotel t that of Borah. A distinct stir was created as the two senators, arms locked together, pushed through the jammed lobby of the Cleveland hotel and out onto the public square. For nearly an hour they walked and talked. "I know nothing about Senator Borah," said Vandenberg after ward. ' "Ask Van," was Borah's only statement. j Hardly had Vandenberg re turned to his own hotel when George H. Moses, former senator from New Hampshire and new a leader in the drive for Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, closeted himself with the Michigan sena tor. ' I: Convention Opens At 11 This Morning; jj Against this background the gavel opening the convention will fall at 11 a. m., eastern standard time tomorrow. S Supporters of Gov. Alf M. Lan don of Kansas tonight ; reiterated claims that the opening' would find him assured of the nomina tion and ' they continued whirl wind efforts to gain an ever whelming victory. f The divided , but active oppo-. nents of the governor emphasized (Turn to Page 10, Col. 4) Lists Close With Three Candidates j. Nomination lists for the Salem school directorship election to be held next Monday closed last might with the name of W. F. Nevtane added to. the early list of tknt candidates. Although but St sig natures were needed, the petitions nominating Neptune carried 271 names. - -5 Directors E. A. Bradfield and Walter B. Minier are tunning for reelection. The other early candi date is T. B. "Tom" HilL . Amendment to Give New State Powers tomes In WASHINGTON, June 8.-(fl-A proposal to amend the consti tution to empower congress "to regulate : agriculture j commerce, industry' and labor"jj was Introduced- today In the senate by Chairman Ashurst fD-Aris) the' judiciary committee. of Lindbergh Is Repaid TRENTON, June 8. -(-Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck of Hun terdon county said tonight he had turned over to CoL I Charles A. Lindbergh's New York representa tives the 814,700 remaining from the $50,000 ransom paid In nope of saving the Lindbergh baby's life. - . P " -t