ft - Aurora Borealis Kortbern lights were visi ble from Salem last night. Perhaps job didn't know it Kb til you read it. Your news a ilce sever sleep. The Weather Increasing elond lnes . trowing unsettled today rain Saturday; Max. Temp. Thursday 74, Mln. 40, river 1.5 feet, rain .06 Inch, south wind. FOUNDED 1631 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, June 19, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c Nov 72 pn aafass, -1 - . . r x . . . 00 xi X x--7 y. 1 www ""- I ' '; " -"-"V--' ;- :T fig From Meliet Conimill : : ' ' : : : O tr; i iirrii ' Here Plainly; Unusual Sight Northern Lights Display Keported; hclipse is Said Explanation! Brilliant Illumination Noted from Numerous Northwest Cities Salem sky gazers last night caught an unexpected glimpse of "northern lif bis" display. It was reported by B. L. "Buck" Tirorilav umittur aslrnnnniAr Prom Bradley's hilltop home south of the city, great beams of grayish-white light wavered up ward from the horizon while bands of the same display extend ed in a semi-circle from east 10 west across the sky, he said. The light beams and bands ex tended far above Jhe horizon along an arc from east to north to west and at times were intense. An-east 10 west movement in the sky appeared to be more of shad ow than of light, Bradley said in attempting to describe the phen omenon. The display was most noticeable from 10:15 to 10:30 o'clock, but was still clearly vis ible early this morning, weather observers at the airport reported. Ad exhibition of the aurora borealis had long been unreported in Salem. !; ' The only'reportof the display's having affected radio reception here came from police headquart ers. Clive Scott, operator of the police radio station, said he had noticed that the Portland police radio, had at times assumed a 'wavery tone.' Thia condition, how ever, might have been due to in terference from another station, he said.. !! WENATCHEE, June A peculiar and unusual display of northern lights paused a sensa t!on here tonight. Appearing first as a narrow band of light stretch ing from horizon to horizon, from southeast to northwest, the light remained apparently stationary for more than half an hour be fore suddenly disintegrating into moving, wavelike blobs typical of the aurora boerealis. SPOKANE, Wash., June 18-()-Wbile the Russians had their total eclipse tonight, the north west had the season's first feeble display of northern lights. The aurora borealis was report ed from Tacoma and Montana, the telephone company here re ported the electrical effect was strongest in the Butte and Helena, Mont., region, where it ? caused considerable trouble. t WALLA WALLA, June 18. WP) -A Whitman college authority who would not be quoted explain ed the strange d 1 s pi a y of the northern lights here tonight 'as having been influenced by the sun's eclipse in Russia. " Appearing first like a search light beam, the lights later broke into small shafts and lighted the northern sk'y like nearby city. ; Eight to Remain On Relief Staff Five caseworkers and three of fice clerks will remain on the Marion county relief staff under the curtailed administrative pro gram adopted by the relief com mittee Tuesday. Glenn C. Niles, executive secretary, reported yes terday. The committee ordered dismissal of two caseworkers and three clerks to comply with the state relief administration's gen eral orders to reduce administra tive expense. Caseworkers who will remain on the staff here are Katherine Laughrige. Sylvia DuBois, Faye Henderson, Deena Hart and Jan et Weil. Dorothy Ann Gordon will continue as head of the .asework division. v Russian Novelist I lies MOSCOW, June W.-iiSV-lIaxim Gorky, one-time ragpicker and foe of the czars who became a hero of the Soviets and their outstanding writer, died .today: of pneumonia. He was 68. , : , The world famous novelist had been 111 for ten days. Russia's leading physicians had kept him alive for the last 24 hours by stimulants and applications of -oxygen.- .i' Gorky had only one lung, the other having been destroyed: by a tuberculosis infection after, he "abet himself in a suicide attempt as otb.". Maxim Gorkv D F ederal Inquiry into Flogging Cases in Arkansas Is Ordered r or WILLIE SUE o- Woman Will File Assault Charges Social Service Worker Is Confident She Can Identify Men LITTLE ROCK, June li.-iff)-A federal inquiry into reported floggings in the east Arkansas cotton strike was ordered today while one of the alleged victims, a woman social service worker, said she would file charges against her assailants. Attorney General Cummings di rected Sam E. Whitaker, a spe- cial assistant, to question Miss Willie Sue Blagden, 29, of Mem phis, and the Rev. Claude K. Wil liams, Presbyterian minister of Little Rock, who said they were beaten Monday night near Earle, Ark. Cummings said a report on a previous investigation by Whit aker of "peonage" charges in the strike area would be withheld un til the second inquiry is com pleted. (Turn to Page 16, Col. 7) Only One Hammer Crew Works Late It wasn't Mill creek mosquitoes that, at a distance, caused a buz zing sound in the vicinity of Un ion and Winter streets early last night, residents of the .neighbor hood had agreed before they went to investigate. They found a city street crew working overtime tearing up the concrete pavement with the aid of a compressed air hammer. Members of the crew explained that since the city water depart ment is using the air hammer on a pipe laying job at the new Fair mount hill reservoir site In t b e day time, the street men had to wait until evening to attack their concrete breaking job. . A small section of paving at the northeast corner of the Un ion and Winter street intersec tion is being torn up to get at a poplar tree root which has bad ly cracked the surfacing. 400 Scouts Expected Here Today for i Additional registrations yester day Indicated that at least 400 Boy Scouts from Oregon and Washington would arrive here this afternoon for the camp-o-ral to be held at the. state fairgrounds tonight, Saturday and Sunday, it was reported by ; Scout Executive James E. Monroe of Salem, who will be camp director. The boys will set up camp in the tent city grove and stage their exhibitions and contests on the fairgrounds parking area. - ' . , Today's program will consist of registration and setting up of camps at 4 p. m., supper at C, gen eral campfire program at 8, tatoo at 9:30 and taps at 10. The high light Saturday will be a parade through the business district led by the Portland scout drum corps. All Programs to . Be Open to Public . - Monroe said the camp, exhibi tions, and campfire programs would be open to the public. Com petition .will be by patrols. Now registrants yesterday in cluded the Panther patrol of Ba - " - asm i BLAGDEN Bonus Station Is Open Until Eight Number Cashing Bonds Is Dwindling; Some Vets Are Keeping Them To accommodate those 'men who will be unable to get to the certifying stations during the day. Postmaster H. R. Crawford an nounced yesterday that the cham ber of commerce station for the cashing of the bonus bonds would remain open tonight from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock. Practically all of the bonus bonds that have been received by the department are delivered, Crawford said yesterday. It is ex pected that 300 additional bonds are yet to be delivered at the post office. Yesterday's lines for the cash ing of the bonds were not as long as the first day and the amount of bonds certified fell off about 50 per cent, postal officials esti mated. The number of men Cash ing the bonds were about the same but the proportionate number of bonds w-as lessj The certification stations will be open all day to day. Crawford said that he was glad to see that quite a number of the veterans were keeping some of the bonds. "It has been a pleasure to work with the boys in the department during the ruFh period," Crawford said yesterday, : "and you may be sure we appreciate the cooperation the veterans groups have given us. The work U well in hand now." Gapitol Plans to Be Ready in Time Plana and' specifications for Oregon's new eapitol building should be completed in advance of September 15, Tfowbridge & Liv ingston and Francis Keally, New York architects, telegraphed state officials "yesterday. The interior floor plans are now being worked over by Whitebouse and Church. Portland architects, for transmission to the New York architectural firm. Big Camp-o-ral lem troop four, led by Walter Bushnell; the Flying Eagles of Albany troop 21, headed by Ray Talbert; three patrols from Med ford . and one from Jacksonville. Monroe said approximately 60 pa trols had signed up to participate in the camp-o-ral. Patrols in Mar ion, Polk and i Linn counties are eligible to attend and Join In the contests only in case they earned A or ; B , ratings at the Cascade camp-o-ree held at Lebanon last month, ir . .t. f i , - . j The camp staff will consist of Monroe as director; ' director of program, G. H. Oberteuffer, Port land scout executive; director , of campfire and ; morale, Irving P. Beesley, Medfbrd executive i Sun day" observance. Rev.- George H. Swift, Salem, council commission' er; registrar, T. C. Roake, Salem: grounds,. N. J Billings and R. W. MHlison, Salem; divisional camp directors, - Verne C. Gilbert, .Wil liam Johnson and D. P. Heming way of Portland, T. D. White of Albany; concessions, R. W. Milli son. . - Dissolving All Armed Group France's Move Difficulty in Enforcing Orders Anticipated; Cabinet Working Workers in Hospital Get Quick Victory ; Most of Demands Met PARIS, June 18.-i"F)-Striking workers at the American hospital forced a quick victory tonight while official France made a firm thrust at "enemies of the regime." Sixty hospital assistants, scrub women and other workers at the Neuilly-Bur-Seing institution won almost all their wage-hour de mands in one day of entrenched idleness. Authorities at the hospital said they had to give in hecause the government, despite a personal appeal from Ambassador Jesse Isidor Strauy, refused to oust the strikers by force until negotiation had been tried. Doctors and nurses pitched in to scrub floors, clean rooms and cook meals for the 85 patients. mainly Americans, 23 of them in a serious condition. All Combat Gronps Ordered Dissolved On the political front, the cab inet decreed quick dissolution of the Croix de Feu and three other rightist leagues described as "combat groups." Reports from the leagues indicated difficulties ahead. Premier Leon Blum's socialist government moved also to,remedy Frances shaky financial- condi tion. '.m':X-'j. Authorities sought repatriation of capital with a bill prociding prosecution of Frenchmen who fail to declare what gold and se curities they have abroad. . The cabinet : approved a bill which would permit the general federation of labor and indust rialists' corporations representa tion on the regents' council of the bank of France. A weekly Bank of France state men disclosed a new 7-day gold drain of 959,000,000 francs ($63. 614,306). The senate all but completed parliamentary action on Blum's la bor bills by approving a collective bargaining measure. The vote was 279 to 6. Improving Police Efficiency Is Aim Committee Will Meet Soon and May Fill Vacancy; Problems Viewed The city council police commit tee is expected to meet early next week to discuss plans for improv ing the efficiency of the police department, it was reported yes terday. Whether a new appoint ment to the department and fill ing the sergeancy left vacant by the discharge of Orey G. Coffey would be delayed until after this meeting was uncertain yesterday. Chief Frank A. Minto- indica ted last night he planned to fol low the prescribed procedure of requesting the civil service com mission to certify to him men for appointment to Coffey's old posi tion and a new man from the elig (Turn to Page 16, Col. 7) Two Lads Escape From Institution Two 16-year Inmates escaped from the state training school for hovs near Woodburn at midnight hast night, Salem police were in formed. They were Stanley Sears, Lebanon, and George Persons, Portland. Both were wearing the regula tion: clothing, dark reddish brown trousers and hickory shirts. Sears was described as being five feet, seven inches tall and 147 pounds in weight, with medium complex ion, blue eyes.: Drown nair. freckles and a scar on the head Persons was reported as five feet. three inches tan, weigning pounds and having medium dark complexion, blue eyea and dark brown hair Both needed haircuts. Late Sports SEATTLE, June 18.-(P)-T u e Seattle' Indians clubbed their way back to the lead-in the Pacific coast league tonight, winning 7 to 5 from Los Angeles and taking a one-game lead In the series. Los Angeles . . . ...... 5 Id 4 Seattle ..... . . . . t 7 13 . 1 Thomas, ; Gabler and Stephen son; Wells and Bassler, SpindeL Radio Brings Direct News From tront9 (Editor' note: The following is th fint of eerie of newi dispatches which Salem amateur radio operators attend ing the annual national guard encamp ment will transmit to amateurs remain ing here, for the benefit of eitiiens in terested in the local guardsmen's activi ties. Jerry deBroekert, owner of ama teur station W78T, received this dsi patch at 10:30 s'clock last night direct from Fort Stevens where Milton L. Marsh and J. Wayne Taylor of Salem are operating the Headquarters battery radio transmitter.) By CORPORAL PHIL BELL FORT STEVENS, June 18-(Via Amateur Radio) - Headquarters battery, 249th -coast artillery, of Salem, started firing subcalibre this afternoon. A few trial shots were fired by the six inch bat teries. The mortar batteries tracked with preparations for firing to morrow. Targets for the mortars and six Inch rifles are towed in the river. The ocean tug tows the targets in the ocean for the big 10 and 12 inch guns, which track ed today. Firing of service ammunition, some shells weighing over one half ton, will not take place till next week. If weather and other conditions are favorable the ar tillery will fire at Fort Stevens and six-inch guns at Fort Canby Wednesday. The first casualty of the en campment was Private, First Class, Max Hauser of the medical detachment. He went out on the ocean tug as a first aid man and became seasick. He was quite ill today. .g Radio contact with the tugs from the shore group and com mander was established with good results. The radio was manned by the men of Headquarters battery and consisted of two five-meter voice sets (ultra 'short wave radio telephones) and two 50-watt voice sets. .r i Cooking School's Final Meet Today 0 Attendance Bigger Second Day and More Expected For Last Gathering Today The Statesman cooking school holds Its final session in the armory from 2 to 4 o'clock. Mrs. Fern Hubbard will lecture on and demonstrate meat dishes. Folger's coffee will be served as usual at the conclusion of the afternoon as the audience leaves. An increasing number are stop ping at the attractive stand where the coffee is dispensed free of charge to cooking school pat rons. The loud speaker Installed yes terday projects Mrs. Hubbard's voice all over the armory so that she may be plainly heard and un derstood. Many women in the audience take pencil and paper for note-making. Foods prepared today will be an oven dinner, fish loaf, cream fry potatoes, carrots and onions, baked lemon pudding, vegetable cokery, Kolaches, spiced ban anas, horseradish jelly, broiled steak and puffed potatoes and Hawaiian beans. The audience today is expected to exceed that of the two former afternoons. Six hundred attend ed yesterday. Beer Sale Permit Denied Two Here PORTLAND. Ore.. June 18. (Jf) The Oregon state liquor com mission voted today to discon tinue handling half-pint bottles of liquor after the present sup ply is sold. Beer license suspensions includ ed: R. E. Curry. Mickey's Tav ern, Salem, route '4, 21 days; Playmore Tavern, Woodburn, 10 days. Both were charged with selling beer to Intoxicated per sons. Among those refused licenses were Glenn H. Lutx, 163 South Commercial street, Salem, and Marlon club, Salem. Refusals were based on the contention sufficient 1 licenses already had been issued. The location of the proposed "Marion club" is north of Salem on the Pacific highway, the for mer Eckerlen location. Mr. Lutt has been . remodeling the former Tourist. cafe quarters for a beer parlor. ' , . v Active Clubs Convene UEDFORD. Ore., June 18HJP) -The first of 200 delegates to the 12th annual convention of the International Active clubs arrived here today. The organisation has members in Canada and western states. The session will continue I through, Saturday." Agreement on Taxation Plan Now Complete But Bitter Fight Looms in Senate When Bill is Brought Back Final Draft Veers Over to Original View of Chief Executive WASHINGTON, June 1 .-)-After tossing into the discard a move to increase surtaxes on indi vidual incomes, senate-house con ferees today reached complete agreement on a tax bill estimated by them to produce $800,000,000 for at least one year. The compromise measure, call ing for an entirely new system of corporation taxes, was engineered closer Into, line with the original tax recommendations of Presi dent Roosevelt. In that sense it veered away from the senate bill. The action placed congress nearer its much-sought goal of adjournment by Saturday night. Chairman Dough ton (D-NC) of the house conferees, who said he was certain the new bill would meet with the administration ap proval, asserted that the confer ence report would be called up Saturday in the house. Bill draft ers, ready to work night and day to place the measure in legisla tive language, said it would be in shape by then. v Fight Apparently Looms in Senate But a bitter row apparently lay ahead of the conference report in the senate. There was no specific evidence, however, of any inten tion to filibuster. As it emerged, the compromise corporation tax plan called for: A graduated levy of 8 to 15 per cent on all corporation income. On top of that would be im posed a 7 to 27 per cent tax on earnings not distributed to share holders, after deducting the nor mal tax from total income. Corporation dividends, now sub ject only to surtaxes, would be subjected also to the 4 per cent normal individual income tax. New Dike Planned For Brownsmead More of Old One Goes Out as Governor Appeals For Federal Aid ASTORIA. Ore., June 18.-(JP)-Farmers of the flooded Browns mead area voted today to call im mediately for plans to construct a new dike Inside the old levee which has crumbled rapidly under heavy water pressure of the past two days. The county court voted to ad vance 85,000 to the diking dis trict and loan the county engin eer to assist in the work. Another 75-foot strip went out today. Sandbags were thrown up has tily to protect a small road dike which keeps water from covering another 600 acres. Crops on three farms were believed a total loss. Governor Martin yesterday ap pealed to Senator McNary and Ma jor Generol Edward M. Markham, chief of the federal army engin eers, for immediate action to cope with a serious break in the Co- (Turn to Page 16, Col. 6) Grandstand to be Finished Saturday; Public May View The face-lifting that has been transforming Sweetland field Into a more adequate scene for soft ball battles will be completed by Saturday night and the field will be ready for the opening of the summer Softball season Monday night, Gurnee Flesher, sof tball di rector, . announced last night, ' Work on the Willamette grand stand has reached the painting stage, the mill stream has" been shunted to its new bed and much of the work of smoothing out the fill-in of the old bed completed, riesher stated that the infield would be laid out Saturday and that anyone who wished to see what it looks like may see It San day. The Home plate will be di rectly in front of the new grand Stand and the diamond, will face the old- grandstand . across the filed. There has been some talk of boarding up part of the front of the old grandstand to bounce back a' few fly balls that go that far. . :' Covering Planned For Softball Opener The 1836 Softball season' will start off with the usual panoply and ceremony. All eight , teams Controversy Harms All Concerned Says The Dalles Member New Crisis in Row Over Direct Aid Is Precipitated; Governor Blamed For Creating Overdrafts Martin Remains Silent as Second of k State Workers Quits; Audit of Relief Books Is Ordered PORTLAND, Ore., June 18. (AP) Miss Celia Gavin, The Dalles attorney, announced her resignation from the state relief committee today as another climax in the current controversy between the committee and Governor Charles Martin over the expenditure of funds. Her letter to the governor said ,she was resigning effec tive July 1 on the assumption the audit now underway would be completed by that time. Her resignation was the second to be announced since the governor last week declined to sign additional certifi Resigns Relief Board Position CELIA L. GAVIN Amity Man Killed By Logging Train AMITY, June l8.-(Special)-Roy Allen, about 50. of Amity was killed lnstanly here tonight when a special log train bound for Sa lem struck his automobile and threw it against a bell signal post. The engineer said the locomotive hit the rear end of Allen's ma chine. The heavily laden train was "dynamited" tsa stop 100 yards down the track from the Fifth street crossing here. Coroner Glenn Macy of Mc Minnville took charge of the body. Allen, an employe in the Yam hill county road shops at Mc Minnville. was a grandson of the pioneer Willamette valley Beck ett family, which came to Oregon in 1847. His grandfather Beckett built one of the firsi houses In Ca lem. Surviving are the widow and a son, Granville, Amity; his mother. Mrs. Olive Allen, near Amity; three sisteTs,- Mrs. Ray Vincent. McMinnville, Pearl Allen, HiHs boro and Vealeane, Amity. will meet in uniform at the Y.M. C.A. at 7:30 Monday night from where they will parade througn tnwn to Sweetland field. The parade will' be led'by the Salem high school band ana sponsors and officials wUl ride in cars. Ceremonies, which Flesher said would be short and snappy, will be held at the park before games start at 8:30 o'clock. , Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, president of Willam ette, and Max Page, Softball pres ident, will speak. Teafn Selling Most Tickets Will Play The team selling the most tick ets to the opening night Win be assured of playing in the first game. Thejothet, three teams will be drawn by lot. The Paper Mill entry is at present leading in the ticket selling campaign. ' V - All but two teams have turned In their list of contracted players, due Monday noon. Nearly all of the teams ere stronger than last year and observers state that the outlook . Is for : a much stronger league. v. v..? . . -v : Teams entered are Atwater ITent. Master Bread. Horr Bros.. Wait's, Paper Mill, Eagles, Arti sans ana. Man's Snop. - t ' J J j sbbbbMSsHbsbbW '"'''"'MtMBjMMW cates of indebtedness for direct relief and ordered the commute to proceed on a cash basis. K. R. Bryson, Eugene, made known his plans to retire from the commit-' tee in a statement last Saturday. Won't Be Party to Harmful Controversy Miss Gavin's letter set forth she felt citizens on reUef, the relief committee's administrative staff and county relief commit tees would be- injured by a con tinued controversy. "The inevitable loss of pablie confidence would result," sbe wrote. "I am unwilling to fee a party to any controversy that might increase their burdens." She also said "No one could appreciate more than I the saerit of your desire to conserve the funds of the taxpayers whenever the conserving can be Justly ac complished and without causing suffering to the helpless,, and with that desire all the commit tee members concur." s Understood Funds 5 Already Set Aside Miss Gavin said the Jun checks, some of which "bounced' before the governor instructed the liquor commission to caver overdrafts, were drawn on a fund of 8300,000 declared to have been set aside by the board of con trol. ' As I understand it. the fail- nre to so complete the minister ial provision for the finances y your, board, caused particularly by your refusal as a member of the board of control to sign that anticipation certificates, caused the overdrafts to which yoa have taken exception'." Home from a tour of easterm Oregon where he fired aeveral salvos at the state relief pro gram and denounced the feeding of reliefers at taxpayers? expense. Governor Martin returned to his desk Thursday and enveloped himself on the relief subject. All the governor said was that he had ordered an audit of jfhe books and would await the production of the audit. He made no an nouncement of a successor to E. R. Bryson. ,E u g e n e attorney, whose resignation had bees sub mitted prior to the recent pas sage at arms. Confronting the governor to day will be the resignation - of Miss Celia Gavin, The Dalles at torney, as relief committee mem ber. Miss Gavin, prominent dmo-. crat, fears controversy will im pair public confidence in the ad ministration of - relief and savs 'she is not willing to, be a party to such controversy which would ' (Turn to Page 16, Col. f) Bonus Recipient Not Necessarily Off Relief Roll - Bonus bond recipients will sot be summarily cut off the Ma rion county relief rolls. Glenn C Niles, county relief adminis trator, said yesterday. Cases f World war veterans on reset wOl continue to-be treated, as tat the past, on the basis of need. "Some of these men have debts to " pay off," "Niles - explained. W.'ll 1st tfim An titmt wftfe their money and if that taken all they have, they will stay est the relief rolls. One man -on our list that I know of, for another in stance, is going to Portland for a surgical operation which -lie needs. If a man gets his bonus and has enough to live m for awhile, be will go off relief. Whether or; not veterans will remain on relief after their bonus checks come tn - will be decided oy me ; caseworkers oaring isery routine investigations, Niles lndV cated ' ; -; ,