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Agricultural Newt , The Statesman make special point of keeping closely in touch with farm activities, .crop and market news for rani readers. The feather - Cloudy- today, unsettled followed by showers Thar. Max. Temp. Tuesday 75, Min. 43, river 1.3 feet, northerly wind, partly cloudy. . FOUNDEP 1651 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Jane 10, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5e No.O am per K.ecoverj9 SteaweF: CIsliims One Dies From Crash, Others Badly Inured C. F. Gretzinjrer Fatally Hurt in Collision at Rural and 12th iTwo Women are Believed in Danger; Others in Cars Will Recover One man was injured - fatally ind two women hurt seriously 'when a light coach driven by Carl Gretzinger, 21, 2330 Lee street, and a heavy eedan operated by L. A. Grimes. 1444 South J 2 th street, collided at Rural avenue and South 12th at about 10:15 o'clock last night. s C F. Gretzinger, 66, father of 'the driver of the coach, died at Salem Deaconess hospital at 12: 0 a. m. today aa the result of a se vere skull fracture and head lacer ations. - Mrs. C. F. Gretzinger, 55, and Minnie Sedgwick, 64, both of 2330 Lee street, suffered pelvic frac tures and Mrs. Sedgwick also re ceived a fracture of the right arm. "They probably will live but their condition is very serious," he at tending physician reported at Sa lem Deaconess hospital early to day.. Carl Gretzinger! and Mrs. Au brey" Gretzinger received minor cratches while Grimes escaped unhurt. Grimes told police he was un able to account for the accident. He said he had just passed an other automobile as he was pro ceeding north on South 12th street and did not see the Gretz inger car, which was moving east erly, until the crash occurred a few feet to the" south of the cen ter of the intersection. . As the coach skidded toward the northeast corner of the inter section, the elder Gretzinger was thrown through the right front window. The car slid over him and came to rest against the curb ing, headed west. . The Grimes sedan continued north on12th street for about 85 feet. Damage to the sedan con sisted of a broken bumper and bent front spring assembly. One wheel was smashed and right side and rear windows ;, of the coach shattered. " 4' j . Carl fGretzingerj declined to comment on the accident. Police were seeking to locate the driver of an automobile which apparently was i following the Grimes sedan and, skid marks Indicated, stopped quickly when the crash occurred. Car and driver had disappeared when of ficers arrived at the scene. District Attorney William H. Trlndle ordered a thorough inves tigation of the accident. Photo graphs jot the intersection were being taken at midnight Gretzinger's death brought to three the number of automobile fatalities in Salem this year. The fatal accidents occurred at Com mercial and Center streets, a two car collision, May 17, and on North Front street - between Un ion and Division j an automobile train crash, May 23. C. F. Gretzinger formerly was engaged in farming. Recently he had not been working, a friend re ported.: ; , : Mrs. Sedgwick '1 was reported to he an aunt of Carl Gretzinger. Hoover's Address On Radio Tonight NEW YORK, June 9.-()-Un-der the broadcasting schedule as outlined for Wednesday, the sec ond day of the republican con vention both the president and the former president are to speak into a microphone within a short time of each other. If the convention is not in session at 7 p. m. (Eastern stan- ! dard time) WJZ-NBC and WABC BCS have arranged to carry from Little : Rock the Arkansas cen tennial a ddren of President Roosevelt. ' Former President Hoover's ad dress at the night session of the republican convention, will go out on all networks at about, 8 o'clock. The morning session broadcast is expected to - begin around 10:30. Also there may be additional periods, for comment ' and guest speakers. Mr. Hoover's speech will be heard here about 5 p. m.. Paci fic time, according to the above schedule. ' ; . ': Eastern Star Elects PORTLAND, Ore., June The grand chapter of Oregon, Or-. der of Eastern Star, elected Mrs. ' Peterson, Ontario, worthy grand matron at the 47th annual state ' cession here today. Milo B. Mack, Portland, was . chosen worthy grand patroa. - Women Are Evacuated From Mission Centers As Cantonese Advance - ; I.. Hunan Deemed Trouble Center by British Though Nanking Leader Says' No War Possible; Occupation of Yengyang Reported i SHANGHAI, June 10. (Wednesday) (AP) British au thorities ordered women inissionaries evacuated today from the Yengyang area of Hunan province, said to have been occupied by advancing troops- of the Canton (South China) government, (Hunan lies immediately north of Kwangsi and Kwang- Gardner Honored, Agriculture Work Salem High Senior Given Recognition; Will Receive Award Designation of Archie Gardner, Salem high school senior, as the outstanding -boy in the agricul tural classes was announced yes terday by Ralph L. Morgan, in structor. He is the son ol Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gardner of Salem route seven. To win this honor, yoQng Gard ner earned the highest aggre gate score among 53 agriculture students on the basis of charac ter and dependability, leadership, scholarship and conduct of a home farm project. His total score was 255 out of a possible 390 points. The next highest stu dent in the department earned 223 points. The Future Farmers of Amer ica chapter in the near future will present Archie with a silver ring in recognition of the honor he has won, Morgan said. Archie's home project was the care of four silver foxes valued at $75 each. Leadership activities which helped him win included being club reporter, member of the parliamentary team, fourth (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) I Gretzinger Guilty Dallas Jury Finds DALLAS. June 9 (Special) -r After deliberating less than four hours a circuit court jury tonight returned a unanimous verdict of guilty against Aubrey Gretzinger. Salem. Gretzinger was charged with assault with intent to com mit a statutory offense. The jury reported at 8 o'cloc No date for sentence was "set by Judge Arlie G. Walker. The trial which has been in progress since Monday arose out of an alleged attack made on Mrs. O. Sigurdsen, West Salem, April 20. Mrs. Sigurdsen was badly beat en by her assailant but? escaped and reported the case to state po lice, i After five days investigation by state and city police and the Polk county sheriff's office, Gretzinger was arrested in Salem as he was preparing to move to Corvallls. This is the first circuit court crim. inaltrial Bruce Spaulding, district attorney, has conducted since tak ing office in January, 1935. Police Want to Question Driver Who Saw Smashup Police are anxious to get in touch with the driver of an auto mobile which was a short distance behind L. A. Grimes' machine at the time of the fatal accident at Rural avenue end 12th street last night, in order to learn more def initely what occurred, they said early this morning, j Transactions and Sales lax - Assailed by LEBANON, Ore., June 9.-UPH ' Seven hundred delegates to the 63rd annual convention of the Oregon state grange "heard Grange-Master Ray GUI assail transactions and sales tax propos als today and ; lay the basis for the nearly 100 resolutions to be presented for approval. The grange-master urged In creased inheritance, gift and .in come taxes. Addressing the opening meet ing of the five-day convention. Gill said establishment of 21 new granges and one Pomona unit brought the membership this year to 21,000 and predicted the next 12 months period . would bring the greatest growth in a decade. ; The grangemaster urged .liber alization of old-age pensions, sta bilization of northwest wheat prices, i shorter working hours, elimination of child labor and' the election rather than -the appoint Otung provinces, which makes np the Canton government, and Is affiliated with the Nanking na tional government. Canton ap parently is seeking to force Nan- king into a joint war against Ja-J pan). General Ho Chien, governor of Hunan province, announced at Changsha the Canton forces oc cupied Yengyang. (Yengyang Is about 100 miles north of the Kwangtung border, halfway to Changshe, the capi tal). The women missionaries were (Turn to Page 2, Col 4) Vacation Looming; School Out Today Pupils Return Friday But Just to Get Cards; 555 Finish Eighth Grade Today's that long-awaited day, the last day of school, for 4607 Salem public school pupils. Stu dents In the senior high and two junior highs and the nine grade buildings will be dismissed at the usual hour this ' afternoon to three months of forgetting books and recitations. They will return Friday afternoon only to receive report cards which the teachers will be engaged in mak iqg out Thursday. Grade pupils will be told to come back to their buildings at I p. m. Friday for cards, as will junior high boys and girls. Sen ior high students will report for year-end grades at 1:30 p. m. Salem high seniors, whose stu dies ended last Friday, swill at tend commencement exercises at the Elsinore theatre at 10 a. m Friday. The grade and senior high school programs today will, not Include closing exercises but final assemblies are planned at the jun. lor high buildings. Five Hundred rirty-five new pupils, advanced from the ninth grades, are in prospect for Salem (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Kletzing Is Head Of Oregon Lions Ralph Kletzing, . Salem, waB elected district governor for Ore gon of the Lions club at the state convention which ended last night at Newport. Aieaiora was selected es the meeting place for the 1937 conclave. Sheldon F. Sackett of Marsh field was the main speaker at the model luncheon given under the direction of the Salem club Tues day. Sackett gave an impartial, non-partisan discussion of the po litical sitnation as It is developing for the coming year. Salem and Enterprise were both bidding for the privilege of being the 1938 convention city. In the golf tournament held in connection with the convention, Tillamook took first place with Salem players coming in second. .- Grange Leader ment of the public service com missioner. Soil Conservation Program Praised The new federal soil conserva tion program was commended. Reciprocal trade agreements now being made, chain stores and cor-, poratlon farming were criticized; Gill said estimates of the 193 farm income are approximately $1,000,000,000 more than for 1935 and commented that "be yond a doubt the agricultural ad justment act had considerable in fluence In making this increase in income." Delegates tomorrow are sched uled to name state officers, elect the 1937 convention site and con- sideh the first of nearly 100 reso lutions. ' LEBANON,-June 9. Resigna tion of Mrs. Alice Goff, state - (Turn to Page 5, Col. Z Harmony Un on Major Planks Still Lacking Gold Principal Bone of Contention; Borah's Views are Sought - Some Landonites Aim at Rebirth of Party and Junking Old Policy CLEVELAND, June l0.-(Wed-nesday )-( With Landon lead ers announcing they! wished to confer with Senator Borah of Idaho, the platform subcommit tee of the republican convention recessed its efforts to reach an agreement early this morning. William Allen White, regarded as the direct spokesman of Gov-i ernpr Landon of Kansas on the committee, said he was anxious to confer with the : Idaho sen ator, enigma of the platform situation. "Has he refused to see you?" he was asked. 'No, we Just haven't been able to strike each other. ; We've been chasing each others' tails." Members of the committee re ported no progress whatsoever in their effort to resolve impending disputes on economic issues, not ably money, monopoly and mini mum wages. The meetings will be resumed at 9 o'clock this morning. London Group Kot For Return to Gold White very strongly indicated that there was no idea in the Landon camp of a plank urging a return to the gold standard as asserted by Senator Borah. Before closing its doors for an executive session, tne com mittee met for public hearings with a long list of witnesses (Turn to Page 10, Col. 1) Englewood Faces Principal Change ir r , . T Miss Murray to Give Up Administrative Work For Coming Year The Salem school board last night accepted the request of Lyle Murray, principal of Englewood grade school since 1921, for per mission to drop her administra tive activities at least temporarily and teach a primary class. Miss Murray stated the after-effects of recent severe illness had made the duties of principal too stren nous. Superintendent G a i s e r said Miss Murray probably would : be assigned to a second grade room. She entered the public school sys tern here in 1919 as a primary teacher and in 1921 accepted a combined position of principal and primary Instructor. In 1927 she was made a full time princi pal. : One-year leaves of absence were granted Lois Fellows, Parrish junior high social science teacher. and Frances Fellows, senior high Latin instructor, to permit them to study at Columbia university, New York. Cecilia Mielke was giv en leave until next March to study toward her bachelor of arts (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Pile Driver Will i 1 m Ta Alfl An I ACf" PltC A pile driver will be moved onto the new capitol site within a few days ' to make foundation tests which can not be made by hand In the three pits now being dug by a city street crew. City : En gineer Hugh Rogers said yester day. He is planning to drive a 16- foot blunt piling Into the bottom of one of the pits, measuring the pressure required to force it into the subsoil in the process. If neces sary a piling will be driven down to bedrock, Rogers said. '! Each of the three test pits had been sunk to a depth of at least 1 4 feet yesterday afternoon ; and the workmen were in - each ease digging in a solid I glacial gravel formation. A slight trickle otwa? ! ter was encountered at the 13 foot I depth in the pit nearest the band stand. . ; r . Second Ballot on Labor Question Set Next Week PORTLAND, Orei, June 8-(yP- Representatlvea of, the , sawmill and timber workers' union said tonight no second vote on a pro- posed : logging ea m p agreement will be taken until next week. Last . week's balloting ' was de clared void when a ballot box seal i was found broken.' Siibsti lute wew Deal ; : J ' ! iJ" i. Oregon Solon piitlines Plan To Aid Nation Sound Governmental and Business Principles are Needed, Declared Roosevelt is Branded as New Deal Caesar" and Lacking Conscience CONVENTION HALL, Cleve land, June 9.-(iiP)-Calling the new deal convicted of retarding re covery," Senator Steiwer of Ore gon, keynoter at the republican national convention, tonight asked the nation to return his party to power. , Our purpose here is not only to adopt a republican platform and to nominate a republican president a deeper and thoroughly Amer ican purpose is to start the drive to put an American deal into the place now usurped by a self styled new deal. " Although he did not refer to President Roosevelt by name, ho referred to a "new deal Caesar" and to a man "without a con science" who was "destructive of the basic essentials of popular gov ernment,',c. ; Steiwer said that during the 12 years of . republican administra tion, between the Wilson and the Roosevelt regimes, taxes were re duced five times and "what we have done once we will do again." He alsp promised the party would reduce forthwith the. size of the federal government" and "stop its wasteful spending." On relief, he said the republi can party "will make sure that public funds voted to feed hungry ipuouc iunas voiea to teea nungrj mouths will be used for that pur pose and will not be employed for the enrichment of political strap hangers." Nullification of Constitution Rapped Democrats, he -asserted, had at tempted to bring about changes in the basic law, not by constitution al amendment, but by "devious procedures that amounted to nul lification." Generalizing near the outset (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Paper Mill Wage Increase Slated PORTLAND, June 9.-tiP)-ReP- resentatives of 28 major paper mills and 11,000 union employes , signed an agreement today pro viding for a. total wage Increase during j the next year of nearly $1,000,000. The meeting of dele gates is held annually. The new agreement, effective until May 31, 1937, calls for 5 cents ah hour for most male em ployes end 2 cents an hour more for women. The increase, third in three years, brings the total boost in wages since 1932 to 12 cents an hour. The pact also provides there shall be no strikes or lockouts i i . i . . . . . . I uuiluK;ll existence ana mai tm- Vloyen, will assist the paper- unions "to build up and maintain their membership in each mill." Oregon, Washington, and Cali fornia paper mills were repre sented at the conference. j Breakfasts First Topic at 'School' The program Wednesday June 17 for The Statesman cooking school will be on "Breakfasts and Pastries". This announcement is made by Mrs. Fern T." Hubbard who will conduct the school for this newspaper. 'The place will be the Salem armory, for three days: June 17, 18, 19, from two to four p. m. Mrs. Hubbard la a famous home economist who ' has : conducted cooking schools In all parts of the country. One Tery ; successful one fe Put on was in 1929 f or The Fresh from her tour of this coun try and of Hawaii Mrs. Hubbard is back again with , new ideas for housewives. , ,. -4 . ; The subjects for the remaining two days of the school will be Thursday, Parties and Entertain tng; Fridays Meats and Dinners All women of the city and country tare cordially invited to attend American Nation Listens to Marion County Boy in Forceful Keynote Address ' " ; - : - Xf . : v ' -; r FREDERICK , 1 ' '. O Hop Damage Eyed As Sun Comes Out End of Rain May Result in Saving Large Portion; Some Already Cut With clearing skies indicating the start of warmer weather, hop men yesterday were anxiously viewing their yards in an effort to determine how much damage has been done by the downy mil dew. While the downy will con tinue to develop for the first two or three warm days, continued fair weather will stop its growth. It is as yet impossible to esti mate the extent of the damage to the year's crop, hop men declare. That real damage has been done is agreed by all. Guesses range from 10 to 40 per cent decrease In the harvest, though dealers and .(Turn to Page 5, Col. 8) Yamhill Building Goes Up in Smoke YAMHILL, Ore., June 9-i!p)-A blaze presumably resulting from discharge of fireworks swept through a business building own ed by Mrs. Icey Gist today and caused damage estimated unoffi cially at $6500. The building was one of the oldest in the city. It housed the Fern confectionery and the Thom as market. Mrs. Julia Beeson, owner of the confectionery, resid ed on. the second floor. No one was injured. The McMlnnville and Carlton fire departments were called to aid in preventing the flames from spreading to nearby frame struc tures. The conflagration was . this city's first major tire in 20 years. Steiiverisms Hit Sharply At Policies of New Deal CLEVELAND, June- 9.-(P- Some "Steiwerisms" s coined by the keynote speaker of the repub lican national convention: "The new deal depends on book worms for practical experience and on hookworms for energy." "If Noahy in anticipation of the flood, had installed an irri gation system instead of build ing the ark, his mistake would have been no worse than have been 1 the new deal economic blonders. . : - - r "No government can borrow it self rich, or spend Itself prosper ous." r ' ' "New deal extravagance Is bend ing the backs of the people with an unfair burden and has con demned aU the babies of the entire Meal for is Keynoter V Advice STEIWER - Delegates Praise - - Steiwer Address Oregon Group Vociferous in Laudation; ruts , iT T . nun an unc CLEVELAND, June 9. -(j?3)- Members of the Oregon delega- tion to the republican national convention tonight lauded the keynote address delivered by Sen. Frederick Steiwer of Oregon. II. H. DeArmond of Bend, sec retary of the delegation, said the speech "should put Steiwer in line for the presidential "noml nation." "He outlined good American and republican policies," DeAr mond said. Henry Collier of Portland de scribed the speech as "an indict ment the new dealers cannot an swer." Lowell Paget of Portland view ed it as a "successful start for. a crusade." He said many delegates from other states were impressed by Steiwer's "vigor, sincerity and charm Joseph Dunne, also of Port- "if the people want poverty, fol low Roosevelt if they want life and success, follow the republi can party." Other comment included: Senator Borah of Idaho: "A good, sturdy American speech.' CLEVELAND, June Delegations from Oregon, Wash- (Turn to Page 5, Col. 7) Says Japanese Peaceful PORTLAND, Ore., June 9.-P) -Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan. world-recognized religious lead er, told interviewers today 99 per cent of intelligent Japanese oppose war. I nation to be rocked in cradles dec-: orated by debt." "Fixing of prices by monopolies and combines picks the pockets of the buying public. "The most priceless privilege of citizenship under the American flag is the right to seek and ob tain merited reward, unhampered, unrestrained and unafraid. ' , "There are no party lines when human liberty is at stake. - "For more than three long j years . we have had a govern ment without political moral ity." There could.be no better testi mony of the strength of the Am- (Turn to Page 2, CoL zj Convention Is At High Pitch During Speech Under Surface, Still in Conflict Over Leader, , i Platform Issues t- Anti-Landon Group Isn"! Agreed on Gold, Labor Legislation Policy' j CONVENTION HALL, Cleve land, June 9.-(A?)-A flaming key note attack upon the new deal, aid a call for members of all parties to supplant the Roosevelt admin istration with an "American deal,'! tonight stirred the surface ml s republican national convention that underneath was in conflict.' Sen. Frederick Steiwer of Ore gon, standing as temporary chair man before more than 15,000 per sons jamming the huge Cleveland public auditorium to the eaves. brought the convention to! its feet, cheering, with a thundering call for party harmony and an assault upon President Roosevelt. Behind this enthusiastic scene. republican platform drafters struggled"through the night in an effort to . weld together planks that would avoid a bitter outbreak upon the convention floor tomor row night. Anti-Landonites Far From Harmony The Landon followers, them selves at first divided over a plat form, attained a degree oft har mony early in the night, j But among-the anti-Landonites, there was the widest division over sach issues as currency and whether a constitutional amendment should M proposed to facilitate state la- Just as there lias been no ap- parent coalition among those op- l nosed to the nomination of Gov- ernor Landon, ..whose sunflower r : - emblem nas waved Increasingly at mis convention, so mese same forces were divided tonight ea the proper platform. j . CoL Frank Knox of Chicago, ar riving here today, promptly served notice that he would withdraw aa a candidate if the platform dM not satisfy him. His demand for a rigid i gold standard plank ran directly coast er to the earlier demand by- Sen ator Borah of Idaho that a return to making dollars exchangeable for gold be avoided. ): Steiwer Avoids , j Helping Individual :- Steiwer himself steered ; care fully away from references calcu lated to help one candidate or an other. His calls for 'thrift hit hammering against "new deal ex- (Turn to Page Z, CoL 4) ApHmi nPmJinilfHi In French Cnsis PARIS, June 9.-P)Leon Blum, declaring "every hour counts," demanded action on his labor new deal to cure a linger- Ing strike fever today. j; ; The tall socialist premier took his bills for a compulsory 49-hour week, paid vacations, collective labor contracts and pension cut relief from cabinet to chamber of deputies. '-, ' " f Tonight the ministry of the in terior announced the arrest -of a number of agitators who were ac- cused of carrying arms and at tempting to influence strikers. Earlier, left wing deputies decided to "ask explanations' 'from the interior minister, Roger Salengro, about "rumors that troops and mobile guards have been concen trated in the capital." i The deputies granted Blum's request for a 33-member special committee to expedite the legisla tion, which may, be finally passed next week. ; v-VH-I ' '. A trickle of returning strikers. responding to a government-wen employer agreement on wages and hours, gave the Paris Industrial area something of. its normal as pect. Ai:-::i.a u -i Social Security. Leader To Hold Conference Here PORTLAND, Ore., June t.-OPH Richard Neustadt, regional! direct or of the social security hoard for , Oregon, - Washington, California t and Nevada, began a series of con ferences here today. He also will hold meetings in Salem, f He is. ,of this week. . . .... A