Travel Insurance Persons going on vacation trips should be protected. The travel accident insur ance policy provided by The Statesman Is a good one. i The 7cathcr Fair today and Monday continued warm with low h tnldity; Max. Temp. Sat rday 87, SI In. 43, liver -2.4 feet, northwest wind. FOUNDEP 1851 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday; Morning, July 19, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. C3 . 11 (0)1: mew rn tvooti (Dili. (01 7 TTD 0 pSljl - . rt I ii i r v i i i v i i j Tow'nsendUes . Decline Pension Group Found Cool to OARP Members Here Not Interested in Try in i rr '. to Pick President Nelson Draws Criticism for Convention Acts ; Minds Kept Open By STEPHEN C. MERGLER :'Sit tight and wait till o u f delegates come home." That sentiment prevailed yev terday among a number of Salem Townsend club leaders who were asked for their reactions to the - reported tumultuous events which transpired late last week at th national convention in Cleveland, O. The antics of Theodore G. Nel son, who yesterday claimed to have withdrawn from a position s3 delegate to which the leader of the Oregon delegation later declared Nelson had never- been admitted, elicited caustic com ment from DtvH. C. Epley, pres ident of Salem club No. 1. ".The article he put in the pa per didn't do us any good," Ep ley declared, referring to Nelsoa titingly as "hU royal highness ot (club) No. 3." Nelson's Influence ; Held Overestimated ..... , , ,. in William Thieken, one-time president of club No. , discount ed Nelson's Importance, averring bis influence had been overestim ated. He laughed, at the incident of Nelson's self-reported "with drawal" from the convention.- "That's what they warned us against, dissension from within rather than from the outside." Thielsen remarked. "I'm inclined to believe when the delegates get home there will be a different story." ' " Third party talk is unimport ant in so far as fostering , th e Town3end old age pension plan is concerned, Thielsen held. , "We don't care about any presi dent," he explained. "What we want is to get congressmen." The effort at tbe convention to have the Townsend organization endorse William Lemke, presiden tial candidate, and his Union par ty was "foolish," P. G. Delano, another former president of club No. , asserted. "It's Inopportune and not only that but the history of third par ties has been disastrous," Delano added. . Delano said be hadn't "any re action" to the convention but add ed be understood "most of the delegates were against' the Un ion party. Neither does W. M. Smith, pres ent executive of club No. 6. think a third party endorsement by Townsend members would be wise. "I don't believe in it at all," he said. Like most of the pension club members questioned, J3mltb indi (Turn to Page 6, Col. 7) Burglary Suspect Lerake Party Caught, Silvertonito SILVERTON. July 18. A shot from Lloyd Kennedy's gun brought M. H. Senolke out from hiding under the Red and White grocery store shortly after C o'clock tonight and resulted in tbe third criminal case in Justice court here today. One of the employes of the store- happened to look out the back window just In time to see a man crawling under the store. He reported to officers at once. S. A.. Pitney, constable, and Ken nedy,' chief of police, attempted to bring him out by calling. When he failed to respond and after the officers had crawled under in an attempt to bring him out, Kennedy fired tbe shot in order to frighten him. He was arraigned before Judge Alt O. Nelson and pleaded guilty to an attempted robbery charge and was bound over to the grand Jury. I Two earlier trials In justice court resulted in Ed Caron get ting ten days and $10 plus costs on a vagrancy charge, and L. D. Long $10 and costs for operating a motor vehicle without license. Los Angeles Hot LOS ANGELES, July lS.-P)-Tbe temperature rose to 97 de grees at noon today in Los An geles, breaking the seasonal high of ,95 .reached yesterday. Nine prostrations were reported to police. Claims Nelson Wasn't Seated, t Trouble Maker CLEVELAND, July 1S-(tf-Dr. Ralph Je Shaddock of Portland, leader of tbe Oregon delegation at the na tional Townsend convention, said tonight Theodore G. Aelson of Ha lent was the only: Oregon delegate not seated at the parley and that none of ; the others bad withdrawn. Dr. Shadduck also said the Oregon delegation asked the. convention credentials committee to refuse Nelson a seat on the claim be was a "trouble-maker." Nelson ; today : wired, . an Oregon newspaper that tie had resigned as a delegate and had Informed conven tion officials it would be unnecessary to cancel his credentials or read him oat; of the. organization. Democrats Elect McColloch Chief , i j Klamath Falls Man Edges Out Caufield Who Has I Early Advantage PORTLAND, Ore., July 18-) Tbe democratic state central committee launched its drive for the fall election today, named Claude McCulloch of Klamath Falls chairman and heard an ap. peal for party harmony in Ore gon, i . , v McColloch received 19 rotes. exactly the number essential to head the party. Seventeen votes went to Jack Caufield, Tillamook, on the last ballot, the fifth. Sponsors of Judge Fred Fisk. Lane county, and Floyd Bilyeu, Multnomah county, withdrew their favorites names after tbe fourth vote. ! Caufield led in the first three ballots ' but did not have sufficient votes for election. ' First Caufield 13, McColloch 10. Fisk 7, Bilyeu 6. Second Caufield 13, McCol loch 9, Fisk 8. Bilyeu 6. Third Caufield 16, McColloch 10, Fisk 8, Bilyeu 2. Fourth 'McColloch 17, Cau field 15, Fisk 4. Fifth McColloch 19, Caufield 17. ; :.-.;! - . The retiring chairman Is George Wilbur, Hood River. Nadie Straye- Baker, was elect ed vice chairman of the state cen tral committee. Mrs. Helen Glea (Turn to Page 5, CoL 4) .... Assistance Check Average Goes Up ; Marion 'county old age pay ments will go over the $20 mark on the average in checks to go to 825 elderly residents shortly After August 1, Glenn C. Niles, executive secretary of the coun ty relief committee, reported yes terday.; The! average July pay ment ion old age assistance' due August 1 'will be $20.10. The average this' month was well below the $20 mark on 803 payments, i Requisitions providing for old age checks for 825 Marion coun- men and women were sent the state; relief committee by Niles yesterday. In addition he sent orders for 12 checks des tined for persons qualifying for assistance to the blind, seven more than July 1. Blind assist ance payments will average $23.83 each.! 7 Speeding Up Pipeline Work Topic for 'Council Monday A $10,000 continuing fund from i which labor and other emergency expenses may be met on force account! units of the water j. system improvement pro gram will be requested of the city council Monday night by tbe water construction committee. A resolution incorporating machin ery for financing the day to day force account operationswas sub mitted to Mayor V. E. Kubn yes terday . by a special committee1 consisting of City Attorney Paul R. Hendricks, Water Manager Cuyler Van Fatten and City Re corder A. Warren Jones, i Provisions in the resolution are virtually those suggested -at a re cent joint meeting Jot the water construction committee with the water commission, to which all council members are invited. In abllity to agree as to the exact procedure that would be legal and at tbe same time permit con struction operations to be carried on without delay led to directing Resolution Elect Headers Is Voted Down No Endorsements to Be Made on Presidency, Decision Reached Mahoney and Other Demo Members Declare for , Party's Platform CLEVELAND, July 18P Norman Thomas, socialist candi date for president, told the na tional convention of Townsend clubs today that their old age pension plan is unworkable hut be wis met with : a chorus of booes and the session wound up with a rote which left Dr. Francis EL Townsend In control of the movement. ( Thomas appealed to the dele gates to rally to the socialistic movement to do away with the capitalistic system. He said he did not believe that the transactions tax, through which the Townsendltea propose to pay 200 a month pension to all persons over 0, would work. A resolution was brought be fore the convention proposing to reorganise so that the board of directors would be elected by the citizens maxim .1 or district lead ers. This would have stripped Dr. Townsend of much of his power. Townsend Offers To Give Up Control fit It is your will that I re nounce ownership which - means control, then I will." he said as a roar ot "no" swept the crowded public audito'rium. Amendment upon amendment (Turn to Page 5, Col. S) Reckless Driving Charge Is Faced II. II. Lewis, Eugene, was ar rested last night by city police on a reckless driving charge, fol lowing a head-on collision with a car driven by Grace Curtis, Stuart, . Iowa. The accident oc curred on State street near Lib erty. Tbe front left wheels of both cars were-knocked off from the Impact. Grace Curtis received a bruis ed arm in the wreck . and Mrs. Alberta Curtis suffered slight head injuries. Darald DeLancy. Corvallis, col lided with a car driven by Mel Tin Goode, Albany, as the Goode automobile" was being backed away from the curb on Liberty street between Chemeketa and Court streets last, night. Goode's car was slightly damaged from the collision. . Robinson Defends Agriculture Act PINE BLUFF, Ark., July 18 () Sen. Joe T. Robinson, discus sing supreme court Invalidation of the agricultural adjustment act, told a farmers mass meeting to night "judges like other men are liable to err." ' The democratic senate leader described tbe act as "tbe most important ever passed by congress for the benefit of the farmers." He said he had no apologies for sponsoring the measure. i the special committee to work out terms of the resolution. To Restore When Claims Verified The resolution authorizes the water commission to check out of .the "advance fund for force account work on the water pro gram" for labor, materials and other expenses requiring prompt payment. The council under its terms agrees to replenish the $10,000 fund "when verified claims are submitted' and the water commission to refund the $10,000 when the program has been completed. Construction units for which the advance fund may be used are the Stayton island intake, island section of the gravity pipe line, Santiam river undercrosslng, island control :" house, one over and two nndercrossings on the Salem ditch, pipeline from the island to Stayton east city lim its, reservoir control house equip (Turn to Page 12, CoL S) to Democratize o Founder Retains Complete Control As Townsend Convention Nears End V 1 Dr. Francis C. Townsend Landon Preparing Acceptance Talk Next Convention Highlight Set Thursday Night, . Kansas Capital TOPEKA, JClfUL July, 1 1 -CPK Seeking what respite the yellow bricked executive mansion offered from baking Kansas heat, ' Gov. Alt M. Landon worked today on the' address which simultaneously will accept the republics n presi dential nomination and formally open his offensive against the new deal. The weekend was reserved for this task ot polishing the accept ance speech Landon will deliver Thursday night. Only close ad visers and staff aides were-scheduled for conferences. ,Friends said It was the governor's desire to have his address complete, down to the last punctuation mark,' be fore the vanguard of distin guished guests begins to arrive for the notification ceremonies.' The arrangements committee looked for upward fo 60.000 visi tors. - During a morning session at the office today, Landon discussed state matters with the Kansas tax commission. He received also Clark M. Eichelberger, director of the-league of nations association, and Walter, W. Van Kirk ot the national peace conference. . Van Kirk reported to newsmen that Landon "shares our- view that a way can be found to main tain peace." He advocated a na tional defense policy adequate to repel domestic - Invasion; v strong (Turn to Page 12, CoL. 4) Flier Unhurt as Plane Cracks Up HAZELTON, B. C, July lt.-(JP) -Pilot Jack Hermann of Fair banks, Alaska, escaped without a scratch when his plane cracked up on the flying field here today as he attempted to take off. The plane's motor Quit Just as Hermann ' lifted it from the ground. The machine was badly wrecked." : : !.--.- Hermann was alone In the plane at the lime. . i , Mrs. Jack Hermann, wife of the flier whose plane came to grief at Hazelton, is visiting In Salem with Mrs. Walter Barsch. - Mrs. Hermann received a telegram from her husband saying the plane had been wrecked but that he was unhurt. Mrs. Hermann had been in San Francisco visit ing relatives and stopped here on her way north. To Pour Concrete At New Reservoir , The grinding" gears of a con crete mixer will be heard at the site of Salem's new reservoir, John street and Rural avenue, be fore the present week Is ended, it appeared yesterday. The con tractors, Kern & Kibbe, had al ready set up the mixer, erected a batching tower behind it, a n d were setting foundation form3 in tbe east half of the excavation. The reservoir will be divided into two separate,-5,000,000 gal lon sections. The sections will be covered with reinforced con crete. . OtU A. Case , V -hfV iif' YniWrfffi'r-r-r Slartla F. Smith" Three men on whom spotlight focused at the Townsend con- ' vention in Clev elan d. Otto A . Pane was tbe convention key . noter and Congressman Martin F. Smith of Hoquiam, Wash., the permanent chairman. - oses To Crush Canton ; NANKING, China, July 19.- (Sunday)-p)-With southern op position to the Nanking (central). Chinese government crumbling, Generallssimd Chiang L Kai-Shek was reported today to have de cided to crush It permanently, i' Chinese reports said Gen. Chen .Chl-Tang, commander-in-chief in -rebellious Kwangtung : province, had sent emissaries to the Nan king dictator to inform him of his decision to bow before the central government, i They requested, however. It was stated, that Shlang Kai-Shek not select Gen. Yu Han-Mou, who la leading Nanking's : thrust Into northern Kwangtung, as succes sor to Chen Chi-Tang. : i The Nanking .''government head 'was understood to have firmly re fused this request, and to have ordered Yu Han-Mou to drive Southward relentlessly, "until all opposition Is crushed." Fairview Escape Recaptured Here I City police apprehended Vin cent Stafuf, 12-year-old escape from the Fairview home, .at 12 ) 'clock last night, The boy was reported missing by officials at 8 o'clock last night. i He had climbed into the back seat of a car downtown and de manded that the owner take him to Portland. He was taken to the police station where he was turn ed over to officials from the in stitution. Late Sports i SACRAMENTO, July 18.-)- Sacramento ' and San Francisco divided another doubleheader here tonight" with pitching predominating.- . ' In the opener John . Chambers hurled a 2-hit, 4 ,to 1 victory, for Sacramento. 1 In tbe 7-inning nightcap, ' Bob Cole pitched a 6-hit, 2 to 0 vic tory for San Francisco.. x San Francisco . 1 2 2 Sacramento 4 t 0. '.- Sheehan and Monzo; Cham bers and Narron. S.an Francisco , :..2 4 0 Sacramento . -.......0 - . 5 0 ' Cole and Woodall; - Ross and Head. - ... '1 J Chiang Prop ; 1 Drought Areaj Cools Rapidly Minnesota, Michigan - and Wisconsin Temperate j , After Long Siege j Points Farther to South Still Boil; Toll of f Death Now 4481 I CHICAGO, July 18.-ffT-Tae; northern halt of the drought area cooled oft tonight, as Resettle- ment Administrator Rezford Q4 Tugwell ordered - t h e federal drought relief program extended to 11 southern, central and north-l western states.: . ( Enlargement of the drought re-t lief measures followed another! blistering dar In Oklahoma. Mis-j sourl and Kansas, where temper! atures soared above the 100 mark to establish new high neat re-f cords. 1 While temperatures slid to the. 70s and low 80 's In Minnesota! Michigan and Wisconsin, tbe merj cury rose to 113 In Tulsa, Okla. for a new record. Nevada. wai the hottest spot In Missouri, with an all time record ot 117 degrees! It was a searing 121 In Fre? donia, Kan., and sisters cities of that state broiled In temperature! almost as hot, With most of the' victims rel ported in the Oklahoma-Missouri Kansas area, the death toll built up in 15 days of almost unpre4 cedented heat reached 4481. : ,1 oiaies mciuueu la a ugweu or-f A. ar . , t m. i n a a m l.. n i a uip. 10 rage e, uoi. if -1 Recorder Signin or 0 TUilKbn in Bonds Thousand and One Due to Have Signatures of Mayor Added Soon Pushing the pen that at each flourish turns a piece of printed paper into $100 is not aH glory. City - Recorder A. Warren 'Jones was- ready to admit yesterday as he waded into tbe task of check ing over and signing the 1001 bonds which comprise the $1,000,- 000 issue the city is selling to finance the remainder of its wa- (Turn to Page 12, CoL.4) Clements Qaims Big Sum Offered Cleveland, o July, u.-vp) Robert . Clements, co-founder of the " Townsend old age pen sion, plan who recently . resigned from the organization, said 'to night that "moneyed interests" were ready to spend "as high as $200,000,000 to stop Roosevelt." The former Long Beach, Calif., real estate operator, here as "un official observer", of the second national Townsend convention, said the "interests" hoped to achieve their end by launching a third party", which would deflect enough - liberal democratic votes to elect the republican nominee. "I was approached by a repre sentative of a New York trust company ' Just after, the Town send convention in Chicago last year," Clements said. "I was given to understand that finan cial interests were willing to spend as high as $200,000,000 to stop Roosevelt and that consid erable portion would be used to finance tbe third party." North Half of McNary and Martin Talk on Final Day of , ,: - STAYTON, July 18. A mardl gras carnival spirit prevailed In Stayton tonight as festivities of the three-day Santiam Spree came to an end. Two dances, attended by hundreds from here and near by communities, concluded the activities. - In a water fight between fire departments of Stayton and Scio earlier tonight, Stayton won first place. . x ... In the community where he tried his first lawsuit 34 years ago, Senator Charles II.. McNary, republican leader In the national senate, made his first public ad dress today since his return from Washington on the . occasion of the dedication of the new city ball which also climaxed the four day "spree.", . "A stolen calf , was the reason I was assigned here in 1902 to try my first case after being ad mitted to the bar," McNary said. "I received a greater thrill out of having that culprit bound over to the grand . Jury than I have (ever had. 1 ,am sentimentally Mehels in - Hi'JEfe Outgoing Regime ,OMary Islands Rebellious Possessions. Claima Domestic Uprisings Quelled Barrio Forms New of Old Group Faction Reported Victorious fADRID, July 19. (S If 1 Sinet of Premier Santiago l a military revolt hi Spanish Morocco and, the Canary lsianas ana outoreaks in bpain itself, resigned early today, j Diego Martinez Barrio, chief of the republican unica and Sot a brief time president of Spain, immediately organ ized 'a new cabinet, containing five members of the previous group. The resignation of the Casares Quiroga government came only a few hours after it had sent air and naval forces against the rebellious soldiers in the two Spanish possessions and had claimed complete control of the internal uprising men it is saia ceniereoi axoeviiie. jThe leftist Casares Quiroga cabinet installed May 13 e Producers' Future Is Bright Good Crop and Good jricc Faced; Federal Buying Is Additional Help! - -'-.it.-- " With prospects tor a good; crop and good prices, prune growers of the Willamette valley arei fac Utg Ahe 1 93 S harvest with the brightest future for several years. Aj general fruit shortage in east ern orchards, further decreased by. the drought,-and the elimina tion of surpluses of federal. agen cies have combined, to create the possibility of an .--active market if or,. Oregon, prunes, .both canned kad dried. ..,. . ..-pl ,.v Th Food- Field Reporter for Jaly 13 estimates the California crop at 160,000 tons. This is If 0,000 tons short of last year's hirvest. Though no definite tig- ure is oDtainaDie. tne caiiiornia carryover is believed to be about 80,400 . tons. The Pacific Prune Products association, government sanctioned diversion agency,; I dis posed of 10,200 tons ot offgrade prunes during, the year. in j spite of tbe general fruit ti (aura to jfage &, coi. fTurkey Accorded Ta 1 - - m -1 I ment to ne-Arm ! ! - . 1 t iMUft i b k J2 v ,-, switzeriana, juily 18.-(jP)-Immedlate righjt. to remilitarize the Dardenelles iwas granted to Turkey tonight I by lh signatories to the Lausanne ost-war " treaty,'. : 7. j .' Delegates to the international conference res dl ting fro m the ijrsrkish . request to rearm1 jthe Straits agreed to sign a conVen- Vn Monday. . 1 I The decision - was unanimous, vkh only the Japanese making slight reservations because j of wfeat la spokesman'. described as Japan's "unfortunate departure from the league of nations." Tbe! countries agreeing to I the bopvehtion Included Great Brit Kin, France, Russia, Japan, Tur key, Greece, Rumania, Ygo ela via jand Bulgaria. I 3 pantiam Spree j "I ! bound1 to Marlon county, not only lor mac reason, .out because I was born here." ' 7 ill Opposed to Delay i Pp North Santiam Ml i McNary, speaking with difficul ty! over a hard cold which! he declared he was "glad to get j for the benefit of enjoying Oregon wf ather," declared he was j op pojsedjto any delay in the comple tion Of the north Santiam high way, iwhich passes through Stay ton, and that it was the logical :cqnnection between western and eastern- and central Oregon, j ii ; iThe senator lauded tbe work of Governor Martin, when he was a member of congress. in j the KBnneville dam program, and sajd that the governor "rated higher in character and Intelll gefneejthan any of the 43S mem bers of the lower house." . ! Governor Martin, speaking! ex temporaneously, even though for getting to dedicate orally the hew riy hall, did declare himself i for the development of Oregon. for (Turn,to Page 12, CoL ) Morocco Are A ctiv Sends Troops Into Government, Fivo Retained; Franco unday) (AP) The Spanish cab- Casares Quirocra, harassed toy "when Former Premier Manuel Atana was raised to the presi dency of the republic-had wrm the support of a solid labor front against the revolt. Socialist, communist and syndi calist leaders had ordered general strikes" In any places where, mar tial law was proclaimed contrary to government orders. Success of Rebels Claimed, Disputed ''(Reporis from "Tangier, ? Inter nationalized zone in Morocco, said 20.000 rebels headed by Gen. Francisco Franco, military, gov ernor of the Canary Islands, held complete control of Spanish Mo rocco. . (An unconfirmed dispatch re ceived at Oran, Algeria, related, however, that Franco had been arrested, two generals killed and 30 other officers seized at Tetuan. capital of Spanish Morocco. .(This report-stated loyal sol diers, joined by naval and avia tion forces, which refused to Join the rebels, made a successf ul counter-attack, i - (British authorities at Gibral-. tar, on the southern tip ot tbe Iberian peninsula closed tba Spanish border after an encounter at La Linea, Spain, in which one person was killed and at least 20 were Injured. ' Foreign eirion Is Said Farticipatlnjr (Reports received at Gibraltar said 20,000 troops of the Spanish foreign legion were narticioatiiMr In the Moroccan revolt.) bpanisb government airplanes bombed the cities of Melllla end Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. War ships had been sent to aid In at tempting to crush the retell: across the narrow strait- separat ing Spain from North Africa. The civil governor of tbe Ca nary islands informed the rover - ment at Madrid he and the crvil guard chief at Las Palmas were besieged In his palace. Escape From Fire By Talung to Boat SAN FRANCISCO. July 1 -Four men, two of them from Portland, Ore., escaped by boat when fire swept two boat build ing plants on the waterfront here today. George Van.-Wart, 24. and Ho mer Ballairfyney 23, who said they were Portland newspaper-, men; Fred,N. Norton, watchman at one plant, and Bill Lenhart, University of San Francisco row ing coach, "were the four. r Escape by land cut off by flames,, they jumped into a 40 foot cruiser, the "AmalHa. in which Ballantyne and Van Wart had come down the coast from Portland, and maneuvered the craft out Into the bay. Lenhart 's eyebrows and hair were singed as be attempted to save two dogs, which perished in the fire. Quake in Ecuador Kills 100, Claim GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. July IS Reports received here to night said more than 100 persona were estimated unofficially to have perished In yestrrday'i earthquake at Tuquerrea, Colom bia. " Survivors fleeing from the quake area were sail to hav' found their way impeded la many places by enormous crackt