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Circulation , ' Average Dally and Sunday for September, 193 Distribution 9412 Net Paid 8701 MEMBER A. B. C. The Y7eather ' - ; Fair today and Saturday, moderate temperature, fogs near coast; Max. Temp, Thnrsday 61, Min. 44, river 4 feet, variable winds, part ly clondy. . FOUMDOD 1831 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning:, October 2, 1936 Price 3c;' Newsstands 5c No. 1C2 All Smittli. Uf .lectabim Alt R mm FOUNDED 1831' ! E Corvallis Curb Upon Socialist Leader Viewed School Board Admits it Denied Norman Thomas Use of Auditorium I Marks Says Higher Board lias luicuuuii ui Discriminating CORVALLIS, Ore., Oct. 1.-JP) -The eitv school board announced today it had denied an appllca- UUU LUl lUC USC Ul 111C U6U ovuwi auditorium by Norman Thomas, the socialist candidate for presi dent. Although representatives of the candidate did not officially re quest the use of an Oregon State college building, President George W. Peavy said tonight such a re quest would have been turned down. ' a policy that no state-owned buildings on the campus be turned over to the , political meetings. He said a request from Col. Frank. Knox, vice-presidential candidate on the republican ticket, had been denied. Knox was forced to speak at the ' athletic field, owned by the associated students. School Board Has No Explanation Xow : It had no further statement to make on Its action but Indicated that an explanation might be made at a later date. At Portland it was understood the state committee of the social ist party had written Chancellor Hunter demanding a "thorough and immediate" investigation of "a long series of abuses of eon- . A. II - sumuonai guarantees iu lue uiaic colleger ' The city council here forwarded the following telegram to offic ials of Terre Haute, Ind.. where Earl Browder, communistic can didate was jailed: "Congratulations on your atti tude toward elements undermin ing, t Vi a iniArlftin fnrm nf tyrv eminent." Interviewed ,by long distance telephone,; W 1 1 1 a r d L. Marks, president of 1 the- state board of higher education, said the Thomas matter had not come before the board and that be knew nothing of the situation. He said he under (Turn to page 14, col. 6) Time to Register Is Growing Short Only two days remain for Marion county voters to register for the presidential election No vember 3. With the deadline set for 8 o'clock Saturday night lines at - the registration desk in the county clerk's office are getting longer each day. Three and four clerks are engaged la taking oaths of the voters. Clerks estimated that more than 350 men and women regis tered yesterday and expect that as many or more will sign tip to day and tomorrow. Although .it is as yet impossible to tell how many have registered for the elec tion, officials estimate that the registration Is at leart as great as it was in 1932 "and anticipate that when the count is made the Ifst will be greater. Deputy clerk Harlan Judd vis ited the state tuberculosis hospital yesterday and registered 50 of the patients at the institution .who de sire to TOte in the election. County Clerk Boyer urges that all voters who can come in early in the day to register, do so, in order to leave the night hours for work ing people who are unable to get into the office during the day. Corvallis Theatre Damaged by Blaze CORVALUS, Ore., Oct. l.(JP) The Whiteside theatre was part ly destroyed by fire tonight when flames broke oat between the . celling and the roof near the ven tilator. Five hundred patrons, including- many students of Oregon State college, tiled out of the theatre calmly with the first signs of smoke. There were no injuries. Although the theatre is directly across the street from the fire station, the blaze continued fdr an hour before quick-acting fire men could extinguish it. No estimate of the damage could be made tonight but theatre officials said there would be an Indefinite shutdown. It was be lieved defective wiring caused the tire. The same theatre was badly damaged by fire ten years ago. Picking Grid Winners Will Be Worth While; Paper Offers Contest Football Prognosticators Will Receive Awards and No Strings Attached; Statesman and Advertisers Plan List Each Week HOW'S your football sixth sense? Can you call the turns and predict the winners? If you can The Statesman, with the cooperation of a number of its advertisers, is offering you a chance to turn your football knowledge or your psychic ability into cash. Beginning next week and lasting through the football sea- Prisoner! Issue Is Up lo Van Winkle Responsibility for Seven Returned j to Jail Will Be Basis of Ruling Determination of the responsi bility of caring for the seven pris oners returned to the county jail from the state penitentiary under commutation of sentences by Gov ernor Martin has been held up pending an opinion from the at torney general. Districe Attorney William H. Trindle yesterday made a written request upon the attorney general asking , for the opinion.; i Meanwhile Sheriff Burk Is feed ing the prisoners ' but neither Judge Siegmund nor Governor Martin gave any indication of re ceding from their positions, both continuing to hold that the other should, pay for the care of the men. j ' - The county court refused to pay for the board bill of the pris oners as submitted by Burk in his regular ! monthly account. Gover nor Martin said that "he had done his constitutional duty and that is all there la to It." "I noticed in the newspapers that Judge Siegmund and I, are engaged in a feud," Governor Martin continued. "That is news to me. There lis no feud as far (Turn to Page 11, Col. 5) Wenatchee Blaze Damage Is Heavy WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 1-(jP)-the most dlsastarous fire here since 1909 swept through a half block of the business section of Wenatchee this afternoon and caused; an estimated $300,000 damage. 1 Starting in the basement of the Anderson Hardware company at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the flames leaped into the walls of the building ; and spread to ad joining business houses before the fire department could get through the dense smoke to fight it. Short ly before 6 o'clock tonight tire blaze was brought under control after it had completely destroyed four major buildings and a score of minor offices and ' businesses. Jack Dailey, fireman, ; was In jured but not seriously when be fell down a coal hole in front of one of the burning buildings. Increase in,Milk T Price Requested PORTLAND, Oct. l--An in crease of one cent in the price of grade B milk, as a means of relieving a shortage in this area was requested today by the Dairy Cooperative association of Port land. The request was presented to the Milk Control commission. W. W. Henry, manager of the association, said it would be necessary to make the market more attractive if the shortage was to be Btopped. Bank Transactions Million Over Record in September This locality r roared around that prosperity corner last month like if was' more than making np for lost Ume. Or at least that Is the tale told by a check of Sep tember business at the three Sa lem banks, t f . - Salem bank debits during Sep tember soared more. than a mil lion dollars above the previous all-time high, according to the Babson debit check released to the Salem chamber of commerce yesterday. The total for Septem ber, 1938. reached $18,692,450 reflecting the biggest month's turnover, of monies for industrial and commercial purposes in the history qf the city. The bank clearings for the past month were $1,197,753 greater than the former high mark of No Oson The Statesman will conduct a lootDau contest in which the prognosticator who can each week dope the winners in 23 grid clashes- or the one who can guess the most will be awarded a cash prize of $10. A second prize of $5 will go to the per son naming the second from most winners in the 23 games. It Isn't a "you pays your nickle and you takes your choice" affair. Tou don't have to buy a thing. - i - Appearing in next Tuesday morning's Statesman will be a full page layout in which will be advertisements of 23 "Salem busi ness firms. In every advertise ment will be found the names of participants in a prominent foot ball game to- be played that week end. Entry blanks and only of fi (Turn to Page 11, Col. 8) ; Legion Continues Help for Bandon Permanent Depot Planned To Collect Supplies; Goods Now in Use 5 A ' semi-permanent organisation to receive and dispatch Bandon re lief supplies was ordered set up yesterday by the executive com mittee of Capital Post No. , Am erican Legion, and the post emer gency unit was relieved of this burden. A committee to manage the fire relief program for j the next CO to 90 days will be ap pointed by Commander George Averett: ' This committee will collect, catalogue and store contributions of all sorts clothing, shoes, bed ding, carpets, foodstuffs and oth er useful goods and ship supplies to Bandon as they are called for by the relief organization in by the hellef organization in charge of caring for the refugees there. - i A supply depot to which Salem people may deliver their contribu (Turn to Page 11, Col. 8) Shipping Resumed As Truce Readied SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. Maritime unions and shipowners working under a 15-day truce agreement, speeded? lagging water front operations today and cleared the way for negotiations designed to bring permanent peace to the long-troubled Industry. : ! ! The truce called for a contin uance of old agreements until Oc tober 15 and a 45-day extension thereafter if both sides agreed In the meantime to arbitrate any dif ferences remaining unsettled in voluntary negotiations. Seagoing commerce, which all agreement's expired at midnight, but stopped as old waterfront began to pick up 8lowly. Waterfront employers, who ad vanced the 15-day truce proposal after the maritime commission had made three peace sugestions, announced they probably would begin negotiations shortly with six of the eleven maritime unions for new agreements. vember, 1929, when the figure rose to I17.494.S97. The previous high for 193$ was during July, when the debits checks totaled $15,765.540 a comparative piker in face of the September index. The $18,692,450 is $3,299,393 greater than the September, 1929 Babson check of $15,393,057. It Is also more than three times the depression low of February, 1933, when bank debits locally dropped to $5,704,769. , . Bank clearings for September each year since 1929 follow: 1929 .$15,393,057 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 14,676,378 11,813,655 8,638.119 9,710,296 12.583.065 13,330.235 National Debt Won't Burden, F.R. Promises Will Be Paid Out of Big Future Income, Says in Pittsburgh Talk Knox, Six Blocks Away, I Declares New . Deal ! Dance of Death' i PITTSBURGH. Oct. l.-(JP)-President Roosevelt ' recited to night a story of billions poured Into the battle against depres sion, then assured thousands of persons crammed : into Forbes field that the national debt would not be paid by "oppressive taxa tion on f utnre generations." . ) The president declared that It "would have been a crime against the American people" to have bal anced the budget in 1933, 1934 or 1935. He contended that his admin istration bad piled UP the na tional debt by $8,000,000,000 and had much to show for it, while in four years under President Hoover the debt was increased $3,000,000,000 without visible results. i Then near the end of his sec ond major campaign speech, he turned to the Question of meeting the cost, asserting it was a "fool ish fear" that the debt would Im pose ; a "crushing load" upon "your children and mlne. "This debt," he said, "is not going to be paid by taking away the hard-won sayings of the pres ent generation. : "It is going to be paid out of an Increased national income and increased individual Income pro duced by increasing national pros perity." ? PITTSBURGH, Oct. lp)-A few .minutes . before -President Roosevelt spoke six blocks away, (Turn to Page 11, Col. 8) To Dedicate New Road to Klamath KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. l.-UPi -A new gateway into Oregon will be formally opened next Monday npon the official completion of the southern Oregon section of the Weed-KIamath Falls highway. The dedication of the road will be a feature of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland association's annual convention. ' Prominent citizens and. public officials of Oregon and California are expected here for the cere monies, t Invitations were extend ed to Governor Charles H. Mar. tin, the Oregon state highway commission, -.Director Earl Lee Kelly of the California department of public works end others. Opening of the Klamath-Weed section will provide a shortcut from The Dalles-California to the Pacific highways. Traffic has im proved steadily on this road in re cent years and the completed im provement is expected to bring an Increasing number of tourists into Oregon by way of Klamath Falls. Strikers Blamed, Blast at Salinas SALINAS, Calif., Oct. Two slight explosions, 15 min utes apart, occurred near barri caded lettuce packing sheds here tonight and Police Lieutenant Ralph Plaice expressed belief they were connected with the strike of union workers. ' . One of the blasts slightly dam aged a truck in the yard of the Salinas Valley Ice company, in which the sheds are located. The other tore a small hole in the ground in a nearby vacant lot. "It's the beginning of a new reign of terror," said Lieutenant Plaice. He declined to amplify the statement. : ' Chief of Police George Griffin expressed belief the explosions "radicals,' who he said were sup porting the striking fruit ud vegetable workers' union, to in timidate non-union Filipino field workers. False Arrests Will Be Charged, Drotcder Case TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 1. -TV-While Earl Browder, com munist candidate for president who spent 26 hours in JaU here With four associates on vagrancy charges, hurried toward New York . tonight, his attorney, David J. Bentall of -Chicago, prepared charges of false arrest and false imprisonment gainst Mayor Sain Beecher and Police Chief James C. Tates. . - "PROSPECTING" FOR GOLD l v ' ' ? , Avid gold-seekers are shown "prospecting"-, in the rains of Charles Winters jewelry store at Bandon for . valuables that may have escaped destruction in the fire that destroyed the town. They aren't looters, ' bat are assisting Winters in an effort at salvaging part of his stock, with some success.- Cut courtesy The Oregonian. i ?i . - Industrial Union Issue Faced Here Resolution Deploring Acts Of Federation Leaders Comes up Tuesday The. craft i versus . industrial union word 'war which raged late in the summer : in Washington, D. C. may echo in Salem next week it a resolution introduced br a labor delegate recently is reported out at the semi-monthly meeting of the 'local rades and labor council Tuesday night.' The resolution would place the union council here on record as disfavoring action of the Ameri can Federation of Labor in pun ishing John L. Lewis and the 10 unions affiliated with his com mittee for industrial organization and would direct the council sec retary to send i a written protest to the f ederaUon offices at the national capltoL What sort of report, If any. the council's organization committee will make on the resolution had not been decided yesterday. H. E. Barker, council president. Is chairman of the committee. Council leaders would prefer to drop the issue, one of their number declared last night. "That will have to be taken care of at the next national fed eration convention," he said. "We'd sooner j stay clear of It here." . ; j The resolution was introduced by a delegate from the painters local, presumably acting as an in dividual rather than under in structions from his union, a coun cil office holder reported. Marslifield Shoes Back There Again ' Marshfield to Salem and back again was the history of a box of women's shoes which arrived in the Coos bay city early this week In one of the relief supply truck- loads sent by Capital Post No. 9, American Legion. The box, con taining high black shoes of the type women wore before the short skirt era, was stamped from "Gor don's, Marshfield, Ore." This store has not been in business In Marsh field for more than a decade. The Coos Bay Times of Marsh field reported women sorting ar ticles sent from Salem had dub bed the capital city "home of small feet and big hearts." New State Bank , Opened at Bend BEND. Ore., Oct. l.-(iP-The Bank of Bend, the first bank chartered In Oregon for five years, opened her today. F. S. McGarvey is president and C. L. Mannheimer, vice-president. "' , ; - - - Carl B. Hoogner has been nam ed cashier with Eleanor Bechen and Duane Eames, assistants. The hoard of, directors, consists of Fred - 8. Simpson, Frank : R. Prince, Carl E. Erickson, and F. S. McGarvey. , Liner Roosevelt Sails After Strike Settled NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-JP-The 235 striking seamen of the United States liner Roosevelt, Teached an agreement today with company officials and the crafU whose pas-, sengers sailed for Europe on other boats, left - with mail and cargo about 29 hours behind schedule. r. Normalcy Rapidly Being Restored in Coos Fire Regions MARSHFIELD. Ore.. Oct. 1. - VP) - With victory in sight, southwestern Oregon turned more to the routine of normal existence tonight after a week of disastrous fires. Bandon was in nine, eleven persons . were dead . but . this country . was ready to resume its business. , Brigadier-General Rilea, per sonal representative of Govern- or Charles H. Martin in com mand of the fire zone, tonight granted permits to .open logging operations In areas where no fires were burning. ; . . The general, recognizing the possibility of further flareups along the fire lines, laid down carefully-planned restrictions. Residents continued to pour back to Bandon where army tents housed many of the. des titute. The high school, which escaped the flames, was to re open soon. An elementary school was destroyed. No Bank Failures During Past Year WASHINGTON, Oct. L-PH The, new deal tonight hailed the completion of the first full year! since 1881 without a single na-j tlonal bank failure. i J It was reoorted bv the office of J. F. T. O'Connor, comptroller') of the currency. For the previous year, ending October 1, 1935, officials report ed, there were four national bank failures. There are now 5,384.naj tlonal banks. ; :! Since the 1933 banking holi day, the comptroller's office re ported, there have been 295 bank failures, of which eight were na tional banks and 287 state banks. Five of the national banks and 114 of the state banks had fed eral deposit insurance. - Since January 1, 1934. when denosit insurance went into ef fect, five national- banks and lit state banks were reported to have failed. All the national banks and 61 -of the state banks were in sured, officials said. Caravan Here, Noon i The Roosevelt-Garner caravan will arrive in Salem this noon. There will be a public meeting at this time on the court - house square. The public is urged to attend.?-:" :v !; Response is More Rapid Noiv To Red Cross Bandon Relief The short period fom noon Thursday to early evening saw a turning point in Salem and Marlon county's response to the Red Cross call for funds to assist in relieving the homeless and strick en in the Bandon fire area. Red Cross officials hero said last night."'' v " r-'V With Salem hitting her usual responsive stride in producing fi nances" for disaster emergencies, and with Marion county towns sending in fine reports, the local chapter expects to send 1U first contribution to the Red Cross at Bandon late today, Mrs. Olive Roak Bynon, executive secretary of the Marlon county chapter, said late yesterday. Ontside Communities Respond Generously Red Cross officials here gener ally were delighted with the turn in the tide of voluntary contri AT BANDON 1 S5f'--...,. ''--. ::-:-Vj:;- To Dedicate Grid? Lights at Dallas - Independence Game to Be Highlight Tonight as System Turned on DALLAS, . Oct. . 1. Tomorrow night's opening football game be tween Dallas high school and Mon mouth high school will he the first to be played under the new flood lights. This is also the first game of the county league and the first game to be played , on the local field since the Improvements have been made under a'PWA project. . Preceding the game a parade Is scheduled to take place. It is to form at the high school at 7:15 and to be ready to move at 7:30. It will .move along Main street to Washington. Present plans call Xor the Mon mouth-Independence bandNto lead the parade followed by the Mon mouth football team and - Mon mouth rooters. The Dallas fire de partment and the Dallas city band will be next in the lineup.' The Dallas football team, Dallas root era and a delegation from the Jun ior high school will come next. The game itself is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock. After the game a dance is to be held in the Dal las armory. The response of the citizens of Dallas in subscribing funds for the new lights has been generous, but the finance committee is still a lit tle short of the desired goal. . The committees handling r to morrow night's affair are: Publicity Earl Richardson, chairman, Mrs. Margaret McKlm oa, Miss Adelaide Lake, Jeanne Hartman, representing the high school and William Blackley. Dance committee: Ray Boyd (Turn to page 14, col. 7) Help for Bandon ; Talked, Chamher PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. l.-(JP)-Organization and information on how to apply for federal aid are of prime importance in the re construction of Bandon, Phil Mu thersbaugh,. assistant manager of the Portland chamber of com merce industries management, said today in a report to Walter W. R. May, manager of the chamber. Residents, Muthersbaugh stat ed, didn't understand the meth ods necessary to obtain federal relief funds. He said erection of a hospital, a school - and light and water systems should be un dertaken immediately.,; butions from this area ; for the Bandon suffers. Parrish Junior high school boys and girls yester day afternoon sent in $13.35 for the cause; the state hospital' sent $20 for relief of Bandon; Wood burn sent word that that town ex pects to reach its. quota. before tonight; and Bethel community leaders left word that the money they raise as a Bandon-relief ben efit there next week will be sent to the fire area through the lo cal Red Cross. Other encouraging reports were received yesterday afternoon. . . ' . The swing into fine response for Bandon from . Salem and Marlon county came yesterday al most at the same time Douglas H. Moore, director of publicity from the San Francisco offices of the national . Red Cross, was expres sing his keen disappointment at : (Turn to Page 6,- CoL 1) Claims Kansan Is Remedy for Is of Nation Cannot Support Failure, Asserts; Is American. . Before Democrat Former Standard Bearer Attacks Party Status of Roosevelt Aides NEW YORK, Oct. 1. Al" Smith, former friend but long- a bitter critic 1 of . President Roose velt, went ail the way in opposi tion tonight-? and urged the elee- tlon of Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, to the presidency ; Standing white-faced befor a shouting, - screaming throng in gray old Carnegie hall, the "Hap. py -Warrior" of the losing demo cratic, campaign eight years ago. disavowed the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt and shout ed: , ' " ; "I firmly believe I that the rem edy for all the ills that we are; suffering from today is the elec tion of Alfred M. Landon!" "How," he cried out above the growing din of a crowd that had sensed what was doing, -"Can IT support a failure?" "I am an American before I am a democrat, a republican or any thing else!" In the roar that burst forth was - a momentary disturbance about mid-way back in the hall A man struggled for a moment in a tangle' of raised arms about him and finally was bustled from the building. ' - - ' 'Previously, Smith had been heckled at one point in his ad dress. ' . ' On the floor of the hall and in every high. tier there were Lan don , sunflowers and repeatedly the band played "O Susannah," the Landon campaign song. Smith spoke under auspices of the Independent . Coalition of American Women, an anti-Roosevelt organization, and his address was - broadcast nationally. At one point, while Smith at tacked President .Roosevelt for asserted failure to make use of the country's "best brains" for advice, a rt-svdy roll of boos and hisses arose from the hall. . . Cheers mounted, as Smith ap proached the climax of his speech (Turn to page 2, coL 1) - Hop Sales Active With Top Now 45- Following several days ef slow sales the hop markets sprang into activity again yesterday with re ports of sales of 637 bales ef 1335. clusters lat the top' price t 45 , cents. Four bales sold at 40 cents, f Price variation, dealers said, was due to quality. -Buying of older growths has been slow since the first of the week but 56 bales of 1935's sold yesterday at 32 cents.: No 1934 sales were reported. Although harvesting is com pleted in Oregon it is as yet im possible to get a definite check on production for the year. Estimates set the figure at 45,000 bales. Picking is still progressing in eastern Washington but should be completed this week. In Eng land where the crop -was later than; ordinary the harvesting will continue for another week, cables from there 6tate. Mutiny Suspected On Spanish Vessel OBUENOS AIRIIK, Oct. l-HAV Two .Argentine warships tonight guarded the Spanish liner Cape San Antonio outside the harbor here, believing a recalcitrant crew was in command, with the cap tain a prisoner. Uruguayan officials who board ed the ship said they found a steward and a seaman apparent-. ly , in command. They demanded to see the captain, Jose Lans. He was brought forthi but the stew ard and sailor continued to par ticipate in the conversations and answered questions addressed to him. -' Ttco Killed in Aviation . Race to South Africa; : Charles Scott Winner JOHANNESBURG. South Afri ca, Oct. l.-(53)-Overshadowed by the deaths of two contestants in a crash, the $50,000 England-to-Johannesburg air derby crowned its winners today. As crowds feted the winners, Charles W. A. Scott and his com panion Giles Guthrie,, the bodies of Max H. Findlay, 38, and his .radio operator, A. - H. Mcrgan, awaited funeral arrangements at Abercorn, northern Rhodesia.-