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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1937)
Legislative Newt ; -'. -- Couplet and' unbiased Woverage of the legislative session Is provided la rttm Statesman with all features carefully reported. .The 7eather; ' Clearing aad much . eokl er today, - Sunday mostly fair; 3-Iax. TempJ Friday 45. Mia. 91, river -liO feet, ralm 14 inches, S-8W wind. EIGI1TY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Horning, January 16, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 253 1M ' " ; ' . ' - ! ! . ' ; . hunbbd' 1651 " ' ;' ; ' . . . ' TTTT Flee IB . , . . . (tore Ftoeds t ' ' ' - J ; . i . -i ;. . t ' Li ill. m- - - - i -V " , -7 t . "' . 'it . . - - -o ; Open End Sale Contract Plan Held "Vicious" Legislation to Ban It Is . Sought in Report to . Governor Martin -: Prune Industry Ills Are : Analyzed ; Grades of Products Viewed The type of agreement between (rower and buyer of fruits and other agricultural products known as the "open-end contract" is In herently vicious and its use is contrary . to the . public Interest, Governor Charles H. Martin was adTiaed Friday In a report by the committee he appointed last June to Investigate marketing. of fruits and kindred problems. ' ' Members of the committee are Louis Harner, Carlton, chairman; John W. Ramage, Woodburn; L. H - McBee, Dallas; D.-N. Busen bark, Roseburg, and Paul Carpen--ter, Corvallis. "Despite a certain legal stand ing now of the, 'open end con tract. It Is urgently recomended that legislation be enacted to out law the purchase and sale of fruits and vegetables under such agreements, the report contin ued. The committee said the "open end" contract has few friends in Oregon. . Grading of Fruits, Vegetables Viewed Grades for fresh fruits and vegetables delivered to .canneries were discussed at length. The re port recommended: . , That suitable grade standards for fruits and vegetables deliv ered to canneries be promulgated by the state department of agri culture In conjunction with grow ers and processors. That all fresh fruits and vege tables at processing plants be -on state grades. That all grades at processing plants be established by Inspec tors from the state agricultural department. That grades so established in i der state regulations be final. That all plants packing fruits and vegetables in any form be subject to these regulations. That all canneries be held to account for dispositldn of cull fruit. The recommendation was made J that all canners be brought under the produce dealers' and peddlers' act.' V'" .! Licensing Cannera Favored In Report Further recommendation was made that all commercial canners and processors packing foodstuffs in hermetically-sealed containers be brought' under license under the state agricultural department. The license would control sani- te.ry conditions, employment of properly, qualified and licensed processors, and processing meth ods as to minimum temperatures for approved time periods. TYi m1 of nrooortional rall- ....i ntH nn mixed carloads of rnadm. dried fruits and uts, was stressed. Producers, nackers and other trade factors deriving Income from these com - modltles were requested to organ , txe and present their problem to the proper authorities, : Prone Growers Ills -Several reasons were advanced to show why the prune Income hat not been as satisfactory as it should have been: -(Turn to page Z, eoL 4) Fowler Angle Is Studied Further ittTntilVI Tan 1 K tSKm wo department of Justice agents aad Snohomish county Deputy Sheriff Ray Ryan" again late this ...atlnmil Iirh TT&a- kelt-Fowler, SC. a paroled convict and convicted Albers Bros. -M Hi lar company robber here, regard- lag the uunei uif- iUK a-uit - , - .nrl. In t 4as was kept alive as the O-menagsln questioned Fowler's all g d v.. m iin Bald to re side near Arlingto u As on Thnjs- dsy algni, Ul woman w parted 'frora the county Jail with official cntody e o a 1 d not be learned. . , . -, . . : , raitJiia Sent Here To Supervise Job Wainaxa - viiyy, -r college graduate, arrived here yes " t ex day - from Redding, Calif., to postofflce for the treasury depart- menu in wu. oaugmer icruuiv""-" - .Excavation work was tempor arily halted m the project yester day because of the mud and equip- " ment was ahifted to tha task of removing atone work la front of One 'l 4 o Be Three Get Spotlight Non-Partisan Vote to Be Favored! in One Bill; Nebraska Copied Townsend Memorial Will Reach Senate; Total of Measures 49 The Townsend old age pension proposal, passed by the house and now in the senate committee pending action for floor debate, held' the spotlight of the first week's session of the Oregon leg islature, but as adjournment was taken Friday ; morning, over tbe weekend reports indicated strong ly that the unicameral legislative issue would be the highlight of the second week. Three measures were beinr drafted, but sponsors declared they did not know how many would be introduced on the one house legislative plan. One will call for a partisan electien, an other for a non-partisan, while the third will provide various changes from the present Nebraska system. The other two follow the Nebraska plan closely with the exception of the partisan phase. Two of these measures: may be ntrodacedta the house and tha third was slated for senate-intro duction. Sponsors requested their names be withheld until later in the second week's proceedings. Pension Mrmoriil n.v Lose In Senate The Townsend old are pension memorial was lying quietly In the senate committee on resolutions of which W. H. Strayer of Baker is chairman. He stated action on the house-approved' petition "may be delayed until late in the week. Predictions were the measure would be defeated by a close vote. Placing .the first week's bins and memorials into committee, the two houses of the legislature adjourned until Monday. The house saw tbe introduction of 29 bills and two memorials, one, the Townsend old age Pen sion proposal being disposed of immediately by" passage, while (Turn to page 2, col. 8) ; Land For Capitol Group Is Favored Purchase of additional property for a capitol group now, rather than later when values will have Increased, was advocated by Rob ert M. Duncan, state-senator from Burns, in a talk before the Salem Twenty-thirty f club Friday night. -. Senator Duncan said that In his opinion the legislators - erred. In failing to acquire the Willamette university, eampus: r - , The work of the -present session la complicated by lack of a major Issue and the pressure of many controversial 1 questions relating to specific localities, the senator said. .. : . f It was announced at the meet ing that Richard Halliburton, not ed globe-trotter, writer and lec turer, would be brought to Salem under the -club's auspices for a lecture May 18. T Proposals Will 2500 Relief Workers March In Capital Protest Parade WASHINGTON. Jan. If.-fJPV- Twenty-flvet hundred WPA work ers, chaperoned by ' Washington police, -marched from the White House to C a n 1 1 o 1 Hill, todav chanting a i demand tor, more re lief Jobs at higher pay. v Their leaders said r they had come from 28 states and were members of , tho Workers Alli ance of America. - v Better Provbdoa e'er Relief Demanded . Their demandv,- presented : by committees to the White House and. both 'houses of congreas. In cluded: i -.r:- - - A deficiency appropriation of $1,040,900,000 to carry WPA until July 1 (President Roose velt .asked congress for" 880. 000.000 1 : employment ef 8.800. 000' WPA workers until that date; and a 20 per cent increase In monthly wafres- u-. , WPA records showed 8J84. 000 at work on - relief Jobs on December 12.' ' - The workers marched. fo r abreast down : Pennsylvania ave nue carrying banners and shoot I Made Chairman Of Water Board E. B. GABRIEL Democrats Raise Patrdnag fcue Marion County Gels Blank I ,on Legislative .Jobs, - Society-Informed ? ! r " Asserted lack of recognition o Marlon county democrats In the matter of patronage; in the state house of representatives brought fourth indignant protests at the meeting of the Marion county democratic society at tbe court house Friday: night: Bitter crit icism, of the apportionment - of most appointments ' to Multno mah county was voiced by sever al speakers with the result that President Horace jr. Walter j ap pointed' a committee, of five to confer with the speaker of the house and hla employment com mittee Monday. 1 1 The .opening- gun in the at tack on the house patronage set up was fired by Kenneth Baqne and he was I followed by Avery Thompson, Mrs. E. English. George Cusiter and Alvln Young. Mnltnomah Charged With Actual Greed The committee i appointed to meet with house members Mon day Include' Avery Thopson, (Turn to page ,2, col. 8) Re-Allocation in Banddn Arranged BANDON, Ore Jan.; 1B-MP)- The city of Bandon and a score of Industries signed over their prop erty to trustees of the fire-razed town today as efforts continued to acquire title to all land, .'after which v a .re-allocation ; will be made, included In the signers was the Moore Mill and Lumber com pany, untouched by! the Sept.; 28 holocaust. i ; - !" The, second Industry to rebuild since the nearly four-months-old conflagration wiU open tomorrow the Bandon Cheese and Produce company. The new city hall had Its first tenant today tbe fire de partment. !'::. J I , : -I ' . ing "we want jobs" a f t e r the fashion of a college football crowd. As they passed Presi dent Roosevelt's office their , cry changed to; : ) - -. 1 -Before - election J Tes after election. ?No. j ; A delegation of 10, headed by President David Lasser . ef the Workers Alliance, called at the Whte. House. Other x r o u p dropped out ' of the parade to confer with Harper Sibley, pres ident of the United States cham ber of commerce. Vice President Garner and - Speaker : Bankhead. President Roosevelt 'did ' not see ' them, but; Marvin -' Mclhtyre, a White House secretary, prom ised . them ther demands : would be laid before the president. "At the nearby Chamber ef Commerce building, a committee presented ' a special . set of 1 de mands to Sibley challenging the chamber "to provide jobs in pri vate . industry at a decent ! living wage.'. -, i 't " Lesser described . Sibley . as "very courteous and consider ate, L i ature Next Week Gabriel Named Water Board's New Chairman Sub-Departmental Setup ; Planned; Rental for. f Hydrants Sought Appeal to Budget Board ; Is Olson's Proposal; Policies Talked i The Salem Water commission 1 last night elected E. B. Gabriel as chairman for the next two years and thereby set a precedent re cognizing seniority membership. Gabriel's election became unani mous after E. B. Grabenhorst, new member. Lad declined to ac cept nomination. 4 Gabriel served a two-year term on the city's original water board and was then reelected for a four year term, which expires at the end of 1838. Foreseeing Increased responsi bilities, the commissioners direct ed Manager Cuyler VanPatten to draft a tentative sub-departmental form of organization for pre sentaton at the next meeting. Commissioner J. M. Rickman, re calling that Former Commission er William Gahlsdorf had fre quently advocated dividing the commission, into committees, pro posed that this plan be adopted by the sew board. ; Charge For Water Connections Talked . The commission found little business to transact, at the sec ond meeting at which Grabenhorst and Dr. O. A. Olson sat as new members, but engaged In consid erable discussion of the question of charging fcr water connections and of collecting fire hydrant ren tals from the city -council. From his long experience as a councilman. Dr. Olson declared a belief the commission could re gain the $5500 It Is losing annu ally In hydrant rentals, which the (Turn to page 2, col. 7) ... . Sheriff Benefits By Court Ruling Sheriff A. C. Burk yesterday saw approximately $300 return ing to his personal pockets when Attorney General I. H. Van Win kle ruled that Governor Charles H. Martin acted within his auth ority when he commuted the sen tences of seven short-term pen itentiary prisoners and directed they serve the remainder of their terms in the Marlon county . Jail. The county court had refused to pay these prisoners' board bills pend ng-the handing down of this decision. ' Of the seven prisoners affected ny tne governor's rder. which was compiled with, four are still In Jail, according to Information at the sheriff's office. They are Paul DIckman. William Kalaquln. Joe Jigger and Frank Bragg. Charles Leiferman. William Aid rich and Elmer Vollderbachat. the other three affected, "have completed their sentences and been released. I ' With the county court refus ing to pay approximately $300 In bills for i these prisoners board. Sheriff Burk had been forced rather than to let them go hun gry to pay the food expense from his owr pockets. ; J:r Catholic Pastors 1 In Woodburn and . . Salem Announced PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15-4P) -Changes In the Catholic diocese of: Portland, announced today by Archbishop Edward. D. Howard, sent, to Woodburn, as pastor the Rev. Joseph C Heesakert super intendent of the St, Mary's home for boys at Beaverton, succeeding the late Rev. John Rubls. The Rev. : Nicholas Deis, Sup ply pastor at Woodburn recently became assistant priest to St. Jo-' soph's Catholic church, - salenu- .. To succeed the Rev." Mr. Hee aaker. the Rev. James Maxwell of Newbergvwas named to the Beav erton boys school and tha Rev. Robert eugsbauer, Salem, was transferred to Newberg. "' : Named as pastor of the St. Vin cent de Paul parish at Salem was the Rev. John -Dunn, chaplain at 1 Uarylharat coUegtw - Seek Pervert; j Mattsqn Case j Clues Fizzling Request for Records of Many Persons Reveals Lack of Real Line Arthur Madsen, Held at Sacramento, Queried; Haynes Not Linked TACOMA, Jan. -tf-A reli able source indicated tonight fed eral bureau at Investigation agents , are seeking a pervert, tor the kdnap-slaying of ; Charles MattsOn but as yet do not have a clear Idea of his Identity. The source., said the agents have within the -last few . hours asked and secured from local au thorities the records of numer ous persons Involved In criminal trials. Including a number Impli cated In perversion and other sex cases. From the number of records records requested, the source im mediately deduced the hunt has not produced clues sufficient to center the agents' . attention - on and particular person. Pervert Theory Is Given Prominence . From the request for perver sion records, the informant Judg ed young Mattson had been the victim of a demented person. ' . The pervert theory has been (Tarn to page 2, col. 1) Vikings Win Tight Came at Medford Score 17-13 With Medley Hign"bespite"Belated Entry ; Angels Lose MEDFORD. ORE.. Jan. 15- -Salem high defeated Medford high's basketeers 17 to 18 tonight in a close-checking game.- The visitors led IS to Ss at . half-time. Medley, Salem substitute, led the winners In scoring with 4 points. Wilson,: Medford forward, was high point man with 6. Lineups: Salem (17) Gallagher, 3 (18) Medford Ettinger 6, Wilson Lowe HilljS.- .. Chambers, 8 2, Miller Hill 2, McKee Maerz, 3 Stubstitutions: Salem, Medley, Wickert 1; Medford, Werbeck 3. ASHLAND. ORE., Jan. 15-P)-Southern Oregon Normal defeated Mount Angel college's basketball team 41 -to 31 tonight, holding the lead most of the way. Half-time score was 28 to 13. Three South ern Oregon regulars were out with Injuries. Ashland high won from Grants Pass ,2 2 to 21 In the pre lim. Woman Leaps and Fireman Catches With Great Skift SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 15-jP) A, woman who leaped from the third floor, of a burning apart ment house tonight said she owes her life to a good catch by Lieut, Al. MeCrae of the fire department. "Agnes Wylie, a nurse, leaped from the , blazing Gardner, apart ments when flames trapped her on the third floor. Lieut. MeCrae, she told , hospital . attendants, caught iter before sh reached the ground , breaking the tall. She suffered second degree burns o t both arms and both legs, but a bruised foot was the only Injury received from: the fall.' A man who leaped. from a second-floor window, landing on his hands and knees, walked away without giving firemen his name. Sigma' XI Charter Note Granted. State College CORVALL1S, Otov Jan. 15-(A) -Oregon - Stats coUege ; received the second charter In the stats from Sigma XL national honor society for the promotion of scl ent! fie research. Dr. W. B. Milne, head of the O.S.C department of mathematics, said : today. . The other state chapter . Is at the Uni versity of Oregon. ; ; " Lotc Sports LA GRANDE. ORE4 Jan. 11 (AV'Eastern - Oregon Normal turned back- the Lewiston Normal quintet 41 to 28 la a beetle bas ketball game hers tonight. : ssawaaMW i. T"1 MISSOULA. MONT., Jan. 15 (JP) Montana SUte . university; playing Its best game of the 'sea son, . defeated tha .University , of Idaho 2l.to 28 In a siMling has- aeioau game puugui F .C. .G. .... G In Plane Crash ; i That Kills Two -1 Above, Esther Jo Conner, stew ' ardess who helped rescue pas sengers despite her own In : Juries; below, W. W. Lewis, pilot who refused help until all outers were taken from tbe planv that crashed near Ban . Fernando,? Calif., recently. One . snasi : wasi killed . and , Martin JTohnaon, famed explorer, died later front his Injuries. Inter national ninstrated News photo. jCondon Man Dies i!aUto Plunges THE DALtES, OREl. Jan. 15 W3) The Ice-covered Columbia River highway 85 miles east of The Dalles sent a car careening down a 145-foot bluff late today, killing William Squires, 65, Con-, don, Ore., and bringing Injuries to three other occupants of the machine. . One f Albert Brandon, The DaUes, was reported in a critical condition from Internal injuries aad shock. The other two Incurred minor cats and bruises and were not hospitalized. The men were employed at a. soil erosion csmp near Condon and were en route to The DaUes. j- . "State 'police at Arlington said eye witnesses reported all ' four men were thrown through the top of the automobile after It crashed through a guard rail. Squires died before he could be brought to the hospital: here. The accident oc curred .near Qulntln station, c Potto ff ice Not 1 Wanted For Library, Viewpoint ; In Collegian .Editorial Opposition to the proposal that the old Salem postofflce be moved to the .Willamette university campus is expressed in an editor ial in . the Collegian, .campus newspaper, this week." ' The editorial declares that the postofflce building "would not fit from an aesthetic point of view , and that the structure is "well past its prime In life." Doubt' as to the financial practicality of the proposal is also expressed. ;.' 1 y So.... J t ijimi Tn.HiitnlniliiOi il hd m iiiiii 1 mi ll M ' i ' i i ' , " ' ' X'M . 5 V v. - V 'I j. T' " . A.-.. r: J S TV Truce Brings Hope of Early Settlement id Motor Strike ' - ' .... i . . . . ( By the Associated Press) ' : Employers - and -- employes in volved In far-flung labor disputes quickened their steps 'along the path, toward peace yesterday (Fri day). -!-yiZ-:y'-V ' An 18-day armistice permitted spokesmen for the management, and the United Automobile Work ers of America to prepare tor the opening of negotiations for a per manent settlement , of the strike at General - Motors corporation plants. Conciliatory moves gained momentum in ' the strikes in the flat glass and maritime Industries. Together, -.these three -controversies have resulted la tha unem ployment of the ' great t majority of the nation's 200.080 strike Idle and' have caused wage and busi ness' losses estimated at approx imately 8500.000.000. t r Major Developments ,' 1st Strike Scanned ' These' were the major develop ments along tha strike front: v 1. Got, Frank Murphy of Mick Forecast of Colder Weather Welcomed; May EndR iverM ise Conditions in Jay "Worst Since 1913: Some Refugees Are Rescued in Small Boats 1 Levees Broken in Missouri; Illinois Situation Also Grave; Ohio Near I Flood Mark But Is Receding (jiHlCAGO, Jan.s 15 (AP) Hundreds of lowlanders fled l before the steady advance of flood waters in the midwest : today. - - ; i I Some left threatened . homes on foot. Others were brought out in small boats. But the refugees were cheered by a forecast of fair, and colder weatherexpected to end pro tracted rains and check the swift rise i qf overburdened streams In the Ohio and Mississippi valleys j I Considerable damage and distress was reported. Jay county Indiana, officials called conditions; the "worst since 1013." Railroad and interurban traffic yfras disrupted in the inundated areas of that state. Elaine Barrymore Sues For Divorce Asks Temporary Support, I Won't Seek Alimony; I Wed Two Months MLOS ANGELES, 'Jdn.- IS Ejaine Jacogs Barrymore filed sf it for dlvorcs in-superior court here lata this- afternoon against John ' Barrymore, actor.' i She charged mental cruelty. j ': Mrs. Barrymore, known on the stage as Elaine Barrle, asked the c6urt to award her temporary support, but at her Beverly Hills home she declared she did ' not intend asking for permanent ali mony. . 7 -" ' ' 1 ' j The divorce action followed by little - more than two months t&eir marriage at Yuma, Arix., and their, separation last New Year's eve when Barrymore left hjs wife at a night club, follow ing an asserted disagreement or- I - ' (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Newsroom Strike ilssue Is Revived 1 SEATTLE, Jan. 15-(ff)-Reper-chssions of the settled newsroom strike at the Hearst-owned Post Intelligencer came ' tonight In statements from the publisher and president of the Seattle chap ter of the American Newspaper Ouild after a national labor re lations board's decision In .Wash ington today. - Tbe decision ordered- the Hearst management to o f f e r -frank M. Lynch, and Philip Ev-. erhardt Armstrong, discharged by the newspaper last summer, their jobs back. - The discharging . of these ' two men precipitated the Strike last -August 18. I .Shortly after -a statement by the newspaper's publisher, John BoetUger. that he- had been ad vised at the time of his- appoint ment as publisher that such a decision would be appealed - by thai Hearst - management, H. Richard Seller, president of the guild. Issued - a statement. "We lave always thought the ' P-1 would -offer Frank Lyneh and Everha'rdt Armstrong their Jobs back We still think they will," le said, in part. " fgan announced both: sides In the automotive conflict had agreed to the truce after a 17-hour parley. General Motors agreed sot to re open strike-closed factories. '"The union a g r e e d to remove "sit down strikers from lbs corpora tions property. Executive Vice President William 8. Knudsen of General ' Motors and President Homer Martin of the United Auto mobile Workers union planned to meet today at Detroit to arrange details of tha peace parley sched- fled to start next Monday. - ' . 2. Demobilization of 2.300 na tional guardsmen. began at Flint, Mich., They -were rushed there to preserve peaca- after a clash- at a General Motors branch there left 7 Injured Monday night. IKS. The union decided to have the "sit-down" strikers march frpm the Guide ' Lamp plint at Anderson, Ind., today and from the Cadillac and Fleetwood plants At Detroit 'and the . Fisher Eoiy . CT"ata page 2, coL.C) : County, Indiana, Nearly 100,000 acres were sub- omergea near uvansvuie. Many hlgnways were engulfed. A long freight train toppled from the rails near Endlnburg. In some districts the i icy waters covered houses' and barns. The brimming St. Francis river broke through a levee -near Rom bauer. Mo., and the Black river poured through an embankment south of Poplar Bluff. National guardsmen evacuated more than 100 families from tbe danger xone. One thousand . WPA, work men strengthened sea walla.' Clear creek burst two levees and surged over eight square miles of -farm land In Union and Alexander counties In Illinois. v -. The Kaskaskia river lappel near the top of the levee near Vandalia, 111. It reached the highest level since, the 1930 floods. The Wabash river went out of Its ! banks and moved across thousands of acres In the Mt. Carmel vicinity. Farmers left for higher ground. Rural schools closed. Three mines were Idle. 85 Rescued With Mayor Supervising Mayor Harry Crlsy of Marlon supervised the rescue of 35 per. sons. They Were quartered in a school, bulldsg. The i broad ' Ohio swelled to within : Inches of the 53 feet flood' stage at Cincinnati but Meterol oglst W. ' C; Devereaux said a' slackening . In rate of rise indi--j catea me upper vaiiey wonia es cape a damaging Inundation. Just ten months ago. the crest of one of the nation's most dis astrous floods moved down tha Ohio..: . I ' The great ; Miami receded today after dozens , of residents had va cated homes .near - Trenton and Engles corner, Ohio, - but the Ohio river, crept further over low lands below - Louisville. Mora than 100' persons evacuated hous es near Hamilton and Newtown. t- Creeks . and streams edged up to new high, marks In Tennessee. Lowlanders retreated from men. seed areas. 4 ' SioV Returns as Cold lis Forecast! "Snow flurries returned to Sa lem around 10 o'clock last might again to whiten lawns which had turned green a day earlier wheal a Chinook wind evaporated a pre-i vtous two-Inch blanket of new,' Tbe flurries had stopped at mid night, however, and clearing: weatrter was predicted for today The ;w lather bureau also fore cast "much colder" weather. Tens peratures -Friday night ranged: about seven degrees colder than ; Thursday night. & L L A IT II il of ..TODAV if n By R. C. . Tha : temporary factory for grinding out new laws Is on a weekend sit-down strike, a wel come two-day pause; next Monday In Its hopper will drop measures ' by the . score; one schema, - proposes just one house where two have stood before. . , There's joy among the Sa lem fans, both local, teams prevail; they'll call 8101 to night to learn if Vikings faiL Corvallls sees a red-hot game and weeps as final shot en hances V7ebf ooU title hopes while Beavers go to pot. .Long lines of marchers seek relief-as In the gloomy time ! wbea nation's current snthera closed with "can you spare a dlmef? Detect.'Tes en the kid nap trail adi.it with rueful I face - they've followed may ! leads but so far lack autien--tla trace. ,., - . the Ola nuiiaing.- - . ti