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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1937)
If Paper Missed If your paper' doesn't ar rive, call 9101 and one will be ; sent. Heveral carriers Te fin and substitute are handling route. The V7eallier Italm . or mow today and Friday, little change In tent, peratnre; Max Temp. Wed nesday 43, Min. 82, river . foot, ; rain .86 Inch. S-SW Wind. , EIGUTY-Siyni YEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, January 28, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 2S4 Mi (omeleo aft east .!: : ' pounded 1651 . ' - Dead. Reserve irumiciY (iPwntf Grange Policy For Session Is Outlined Here No Power Measure to Be Introduced, Indicated by Morton Tompkins Group's j Viewpoint Gets Presidential Support Already, Revealed A memorial to congress urging reservation of the power plants bow being constructed by the federal government for supply ing energy to consumers through publicly owned transmission and distribution lines will be intro duced In the legislature at once, announced Morton Tompkins yesterday. ! Tompkins is a mem ber; of the legislative committee of the state grange. The memorial will refer ' not only to Bonneville but to all fed eral plants, such as Grand Coulee, Fort Peck,: and those In the Ten nessee valley. The memorial will request legislation favoring-reliance on publicly owned facilities for : distribution to consumers of the electric energy which these federal plants will produce. For the 'present no state power bill will be Introduced under grange sponsorship, said Tomp kins. The i grange will await the action of the president's commit tee now making a study of meth ods of administering the power plants, and on further action by the congress. Recent power bills endorsed by the grange were de tested by the voters of the state. In so far as Bonneville is con cerned the grange committee fa vors considering it as a separate unit for fixing of power costs, rather than tied In with other plants. 1 The executive committee of the grange in i a meeting in Albany the first of the week decided to favor modification of the present law . giving a "closed shop" or monopoly to truckers. The grange would abolish the requirement of a certificate of convenience and necessity before a person may en gage in trucking for hire. The grange has previously ex pressed its approval of bills to abolish the $1.00 operator's li cense renewal fee, repeal of the 60c charge! on gas refunds, and extension of time for applying for refunds from, six to twelve months. . ; . - J j ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-OV A high administration official predicted tonight a national pow er policy giving preference to atates, counties and municipali ties which wish to aet up their own electric distribution systems. Speaking private's. he ex pressed belief . that congress will extend to all federal projects a policy It has laid down In the Tennessee Valley Authority' act. That act gives states, their sub divisions and non-profit coopera tives the first chance at TV A power. ; The government power , expert predicted also that President Roosevelt's power policy commit tee ultimately will recommend use of the competitive bidding principal In the sale of government-generated power after needs of publicly operated distribution systems have been satisfied; some protection for private power in vestments, possibly by public ac quisition of properties affected by federal power developments, and at least partial government con trol of rates charged the ultimate consumers 6f federal power. Salem Man Fined By Dallas Court DALLAS Ore., Jan. 27.-iP)-A justice caurt Jury here returned a verdict of guilty In the trial of Alvin B. Plumber of Salem on trespassing Charges. A fine of. $50 wai levied. i Plummer,- chairman of the grievance committee of the Work ers Alliance at Salem, was lodged In Jail by Sheriff Hooker last week. He assertedly refused to leave the Polk county relief of fice here when officials informed him that Eatel Small of West Sa lem, for whom he was acting, had not been in the county long enough to qualify for direct' re lief. Plummer has frequently appeared- at the relief committee. WPA and county court offices here and has spoken as alliance representative at pension mass meetings. - Monnevil J 'Power for Lieutenant Governorls Favored in House With 32-27 Resolution Vote Reconsideration Possible; Debate Shut Off After Only Two Speak; Ballot Goes on Partisan : Lines, Only Three Republicans Favor WITH debate shut off after only two members of the house had spoken on the measure, the house yesterday after noon, by a vote of 32 to 27, gave approval to a constitu tional amendment creating the position of lieutenant gover nor. Debate was shut off after Representative Walter Fuhr er's motion for the previous question was sustained by a vote Snow Cheats 235 Men Out of Jobs Dropped From Silver Falls Project; Relief Heads Claim Helplessness This month's snowstorms are to blame for approximately 235 Salem men 1 being unemployed and nothing j can be done about it, conferences with county, re lief committee. A. "A; and na tional park service during the last two days Indicated., Of the 235. 200 last received work Jan uary 5 on the park service pro ject in the Silver Falls district the Silver Falls district I ? 1 T 11 other SShaveiad little !treSll ODOWiallS lore' work on a federaTr- .. .. s, j. and the if any more project in the Elkhorn district. Park Son ice Says j It Cant Help j Speaking for W. A. 1 Dangiie. director of the Silver Falls pro ject, C. H. Page told a commit tee from the county, relief and WPA offices that his work was so governed I that it was Impos sible to advance money to the men for work not accomplished. After Director J. E. Smith for the WPA, Chairman E. L. Wied- er for the relief committee and the county court had all inform ed a delegation representing me 5K men that their hands were tied, they sent a committee to ascertain if the parK service could be prevailed upon to con tinue to assume responsibility for the men .receiving pay checks. The onlv concession, made was that it might be possible to give up to 75 men two or tnree weeics work in the near ruture. ies- terdav's heavy snowfall, nowev- evmade that prospect dim. Meanwhile tne Z35 men, wno wr transferred to the park projects from the WPA rolls and (Turn to Page z, vol. a) Pump Applied to Postoff ice . Site Pumns were applied to the ex cavation for, the new Salem post office building basements to make It look less like the old. muddy swimming hole, and workmen proceeded to stake out the loca tions of footings. Working In mud more than ankle deep at times. they found progress slow. While the excavation has been going on. the Hoffman Construc tion company has had form car penters busy making up pier and other form materials In prepara tion for concrete work that will be started' in the near future. . Herling Death Case Not Yet ( Closed, Officials Here Say Both of the .3 S calibre revol ver bullet wounds found in .the body of Ben F. Herling, 38-year old sheep rancher, on his fa ther's farm near Turner Tuesday could not have resulted ot&er than fatally but one might not have caused Instant death. This was virtually the only significant Information investi gators gleaned last night from an autopsy t performed at tne Clough-Barrick mortuary in an attempt to determine more def initely the manner in which Her ling met his death. Apparently Suicide : Bat Uaasnal Case Further Investigation, includ ing the questioning of "a few persons. will be made today, be fore Herling 's death is officially pronounced as due to suicide or some form of homicide, District Attorney Lyle J. Page said late yesterday afternoon. He did not attend the post mortem examin ation. " ; . - - "It is apparently a case of sui cide although the two shots are very unusual considering their location and the size of the gun." i - . Limes Oof 33 to 2(. Representative Hyde, Lane, opened the debate on the resolu tion. He declared that the system by which the president of the sen ate became governor of the state is undemocratic and undesirable. "Under this rule." Hyde said. "16 senators can choose the gov ernor, should the elected execu tive become unable to serve." Representative R. H. C. Ben nett opposed the move on the grounds, that the people of the state had already voted on ' the amendment four times end turned it down each time. Closing Debate Is Criticized by Oleen i After the previous question mo tion had been put and the debate (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Hinder Road World Extra Plow Arranged For Gates Section; Deep Drifts Are Noted Fresh, heavy falls of snow complicated the county road de partment's efforts, to open and keep in service mountain roads in the eastern end of the county yesterday but arrangements were made to renew the attack on drifts and free snowbound farm ers. County Engineer N. C. Hubbs indicated last night. Although bus service to De troit was reported l on schedule, Hubbs said he had been informed Road Foreman J. R. Bewley was having trouble with the Gates Niagara section of the North Santiam: highway. Extra road clearing j equipment will be sent there this morning. Drifts 4 to 7 Feet Deep t- Drifts four to seven feet deep were found by Hubbs during a survey trip to the' ridge road north and west of Silver Falls state park from the veterans camp along the south side of Sil ver creek. Hubbs said the Silver Falls road, however, was being kept open by federal crews and he was able to get within one half mile o the veterans camp site. He dispatched a large cater pillar road clearing . machine to the ridge route yesterday after noon. The rural mail carrier serv ing the: seven or eight families there was forced to pack the mail in on foot. County equipment was s 1 1 1 1 working: away bat not with marked success to clear the Crooked Finger road, the ; engi neer said. Page stated. "There will be no inquest unless It develops that a public record should be made of the case. Both the state police and the district attorney's office, of course, are making their own records.'? . - .- i- The two' autopsy surgeons found that one bullet, the first one fired if Herling shot i him self, entered the j body about three inches below the heart and. ranging! downward at a 15-de-gree angle, passed between the eighth and : ninth ! front ! ribs, pierced the spleen and emerged through the back- after nicking the 11th back rib, according to State Police Captain Walter Lan sing, who assisted j Page In the role of technician. The : ether, designated as number two bullet In the investigation, touched, the sixth frontal rib, punctured the heart cavity and ranged upward at a 15-degree angle to pierce through the ninth back rib. -Either Bullet would haveklll ed,v the captain said, "number one probably not Instantly." ' Efforts of Joe S. Hurry, : Iden- Turn to page 2, column 8) : Is Plea Hook and Line Bill Argued at Public Hearing Salmon Depleted, Claim of Game Fishermen, Closure Sought Protection of Spawning Grounds Asked; Other Side Also Heard Contention of the Oregon Wild Life association voiced through its secretary, Walter Klmmel of Glide, that salmon are rapidly be ing depleted In Oregon, and de nial of this claim by Andrew J. Nateriin of Newport, featured the hearing, attended by 300 per sons, before the Joint fisheries committees of the legislature Wednesday afternoon. Pp for consideration of the committees was Senator Clark's bill which would close all streams excepting the Columbia to fish ing except with hook and line. Klmmel stressed the coastal streams which he -said were the natural' spawning grounds for salmon. "If you destroy these spawn ing grounds you will wreck the entire commercial fishing indus try in the state of Oregon," Klm mel said. "You should keep the commercial fishermen in the open waters where their operations can be regulated." Cannery Operation No Longer Profitable Fishing on the Siletz river was discussed by F. W. Gertula, com mercial fisherman. Gertula de clared that because of the dimin ishing fish supply cannery opera tions on the Siletz river were not profitable. Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg newspaperman, presented figures (Turn to page 2, column 5) Center of Oregon In Grip of Storm PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 27-OP) Cheers mingled with groans In Oregon tonight as milder temper atures brought the heaviest snow fall of the season to central, east ern and southern portions of the state. The cheers were from stockmen and wheat ranchers, and from health workers who saw a wide spread Influenza epidemic slowly wane and schools reopen. The groans came from motor ists and highway workers as drifts blocked roads east of the Cascades. Snow also came to western Oregon but soon turned to slush." Road crews apparently were winning their battles In the north east portion around Pendleton. The Oregon-Washington highway to Walla Walla was reopened and two-way traffic was expected to be resumed soon on the Old Oregon Trail over the Blue Mountains and the Pendleton-John Day artery. Father and Son Arretted On Battery Charge Here - Charles Kirchen and his 15-year-old son, Raymond; were ar rested by deputy sheriffs at the Kirchen place eight miles south on Riverside drive early last night on a Justice court warrant charg ing them with assault and battery. The father was lodged In the county Jail and the youth taken to the county detention room at a lo cal hospital. ; Late Sports CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 27-(tf3)- Ellsworth Vines defeated Fred Perry, 3-, 6-1, -4, here tonignt in the 12th match of their cross country series. The match gave Vines a two-up over the Briton In the series. SEATTLE Jan. 2 7-V-Vah-eourer's - Lions, overcoming a one-goal lead, scored a I to 1 Tlctory over the Seattle Sea hawks Tiere tonight and blasted their hopes of lumping from the Pacific Coast Hockey league cel lar. --;..--r New YORK, Jan. 27-(ff)-Ken Overlin. fighting sailor boy from Richmond, Va.. pulled an upset tonight by winning a 10-round decision over Fred Apostoll, San Francisco middleweight- The de cision drew boos from the house. Final Hurdles; Loom Ahead in ; Marine Strike Dividing line of Sailor and Longshore c Work " One of Problems Checkers Lack Accord on Wages ; . Government Delay Advised . SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. tT.-iJf) Negotiators advanced smoothly today toward the last two major hurdles on the maritime peace path while employers began pre paring for a return to work, and civic authorities stood by, appar ently . ready to demand govern ment action in the event of a set back. .,.,. ,' . Coastwise ship operators left one of the problems t hat of drawing a dividing line between the work of longshoremen and sailors to i, a committee which Immediately - sought a meeting with the dockmen. The other major issue, wages and. hours for clerks and check ers, appeared headed for quick settlement when worker spokes men announced they had a new offer to make and were seeking an Immediate conference with employers. The clerks and check ers are affiliated with the long shoremen. 1 Government Advised Walt Until Friday Federal Conciliators E. P. Marsh and E. H. FitzGerald rec ommended I to the labor depart- (Turn toj page 2, column 5) Bank Nights Being Discontinued Here Policy on Pinball Awaits Decision as to Appeal of Recent Ruling While a decision loomed today as to whether or not immediate action would be taken to halt op eration of " pinball games In Mar ion county, the status of the hank night which has' been conducted at two local theatres appeared to have undergone a change. Manager Carl Porter of Warn er Bros, theatres here announced that the bank night was being temporarily discontinued "until a court decision Is handed down." At the two theatres ; under his charge the i audiences were In formed that bank night was be ing stopped since time for trial of the case : In court was near. "You'll hare to ask Mr. Moody," Porter replied when asked If discontinuance of bank night had followed a discussion of the matter with Ralph E. (Turn to Page 1, Col. 3) Perreaoiilt Faces Burglary Charges Leo Perreaoult, If 5 South Commercial, was arrested by city police last night on charges of ear theft and burglary. Perreaoult admitted theft of a ear belonging to Edward Strode, Marlon hotel, and was also charg ed with- stealing a radio from CharlesThompson, whose ddress Is also 285 South Commercial. COAST GUARD AIDS IN FLOOD BATTLE y. j tt-i mnji iy" 1 With their surf-boat packed ba s shown at Jersey City, N. as sea 4he I fresh water sea where Evacuation of All Endangered Along Mississippi lis By.:Army; y ' . : Union Leaders Badly Injured Auto Strike Organizers in Flint Blame "Company j Thuss" for Crash FLINT. MICH.. Jan. 27-iip- Four organisers for tne -United Automobile Workers of America, who . had escaped crowds in two nearby cities, were Injured ' here today when, they said, their taxi' cab was forced off a street and struck a , pole. ' . Three of the four were - taken to Hurley hospital. where their conditions were described as ser ious. The Jourth man did not re quire hospital treatment. The Injured men . contradicted the assertion of Arthur Place, driver of their taxicab, that four shots were fired at the Tehlcle, but all five agreed that an auto mobile parked on the , opposite side of the street drove across the thoroughfare and In their path. Joseph Ditzel, -of Toledo, Ohio, who was not seriously injured, said "General Motors thugs were responsible for this The union for which the men are organizers Is the one that has called strikes which have nearly paralyzed operations ofvthe Gen eral Motors corporation. The seriously Injured men are: Anthony Federoff, Pittsburgh; W. J. Hymes, Pittsburgh; and Frank O'Rourke, Saginaw, Mich. Two Are Queried In Mattson Case PORTLAND. Jan. 27-a-Fed-eral agents questioned two men concerning the Charles Mattson kidnap - case tonight. -Both were detained In jail but there was no Indication they were connected with the crime. One gave his name as A. E. Liggett, 26, In the rear of whose car detectives McMekken and Pe tersen said was a small typewriter bundled In cloth. The other was listed as Ray mond Clark, 20, who gave Em mett, Idaho as his home. Question-! ed concerning a stained ; coat he said he came in possession Jef the garment In Seattle last November.1 Architect Notes i Capitol Progress Satisfactory progress Is being made in the construction of the new state capitol despite the bad building weather conditions that have prevailed this month, Wal ter Church, member of White house A Church, Oregon associ ate ' architects, - said - yesterday while here on business In con nection with the project. - When the weather became too cold for safe pouring of con crete the Hammond construction company turned to further ex cavating work and now Is doing concrete work at good speed. . : flat car behind them, these members of the TJ. 8. Coast Guard are they give the Atlantic coast a xareweu jook oerore invaiung m the awollem Ohio river has taken Ohio Flood R ecedinQ Lrouisvilie Hardest Hit in Fatality , List With Over 200 Dead; Craig Directs Troops9 Rescue Plan 100 Coast Guard Craft Wait, Ready to Move Refugees; Train Loads of Relief Supplies Sent j (By The Associated Press) ITlHE dead in the mitrhtiest. J. reached into the trajric hundreds today and the army, bol stering the levee defenses of the Mississippi, prepared should the worst come to evacuate the endangered along its course. :-; In the Ohio valley, where so many had died particular ly at sadly-hit Louisville, which could only giiess at the num ber of its fatalities the worst appeared over at most points. Louisville, Cincinnati and scores of other smaller cities, how ever, still faced cold, water of epidemic proportions was The homeless in 11 states Cross at nearly 1,000,000; the ly was estimated at above $400,000,000. h ',.' .- : ' O At Louisville alone official Refugees Leaving Louisville, Train 800 Depart; 25,000 Move Across Pontoon Bridge to Highland Safety . LOUISVILLE, KY.. Jani TlrVP) The ftrst tralnload 4 of refugees from flood-stricken Louisville left late today, for Shelbyville. Ky.', on the Louisville and Nashville rail road. Eight hundred were aboard the first train to move, from the city since the flood wiped out rail communications Monday. Another group of 800 was scheduled to leave for Shelbyville by the same route early tomorrow. Evacuations-were In high gear tonight. By truck 8,000 negroes were shipped to Shelbyville. Air liners, now moving easily in and out of Bowman field, carried 150 passengers from the city, booked for Nashville, Indianapolis, Co lumbus, Cleveland, Washington and New York. Their departure all but coincided with the arrival. also by air, of several hundred policemen irom as xar west as Phoenix, Ariz., and as far east as Boston. One plane arrived with a' ton of bread. - Officials estimated that 25,000 crossed the whiskey barrel pon toon bridge today from the flood ed central sections of the city to the safety and relief camps in the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Hunting License Needed Even to Kill Jackrabbit KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Jan 27- (iiP-The jackrabbit took on a new importance toaay wun an order by state police that "just because rabbits are small that doesn't mean hunting licenses to hunt them are not needed." Guns of seven sportsmen were confis cated. . . ' j, possession ox tnoasanas or nomo. Arranged flood ever to Rtrilr thU nitu' shortage and disease. Influenza reported at Paducah, Ky. were estimated by the Red property damage conservative statements combined with author itative estimates put the dead from the flood directly or from Its effects at from zoo to 400. Fearful of what might happen along the lower Mississippi as the Ohio's crest rolled southward Major General Malin Craig, the army's chief of sUff, had mapped out and ready a military organiza tion capable, if need arose, of evacuating half a million . people from Cairo,. UL, to the Gulf, of Mexico. -j- ,.'1 - t -- .. -..j Cairo to Mesuilii v Chief-. Danger Area The danger area, however, was declared by army officers to be particularly in the river stretch and Memphis. between Cairo Tenn., where river people. live about 3 0,0 OS The war department made it plain there was" no occasion ' for panic; General Craig said, nev ertheless, that It looked 1 like a "very difficult ! fight" to hold the main line levees below Cairo, es pecially in the Memphis district. Thus, he ordered an evacua tion setup to stand by, and quick ly the corps jarea commanders took their places. i From the two greatest cities of the lower river New Orleans and Memphis -came reports that both were in no prospective dan ger. - T A greater concentration of boats upon the1 lower Mississippi included an additional 100 coast guard craft, said by an admiral to be capable of transporting 5.- 000 persons at one time. This fleet was ordered to proceed up the Mississippi . Duty Not to Raise j Prices, Declared Atlanta reported railroad ears had been Joaded with J1.000 bed sacks, 80,000 cots, 10,000 blan kets. An army officer declared it a ""patriotic duty' not to raise food prices It a crisis occurred. Supplementing other i state ments that New Orleans appear ed in no prospective danger. Col Harrv Jacobs i of the ' Louisiana state board of (engineers said he had been told by Major General B. M. Markham, chief of u. b. engineers. It was "absolutely ri diculous to think there was any flood danger in the Mississippi river Talley south of Arkansas City, Ark." i . ' . I -.. While the Ohio valley auua- tlon was clearing, there still was alarm for persons in isolate settlements.' I s 3 - Above calrd. III., "the onto smashed a setback levee and cov ered Mound City, m.. with five feet of water within half an nour. (By the Associated Press) Flood facts: ! ' I , Homeless Estimated at al most 1,000.0001 by the Red Cross. Dead Known dead numoerea 22 Including 151 known dead in Ttniaville. However, it was Te- liably estimated more than S00 had died from exposure ana -sease in "Louisville hospitals. This would boost the general nooa total to more jthan 428. Known dead by states included 5 Ken tucky 170, Arkansas 23, Missouri 14, Ohio 14, West Virginia i. (Turn to page s, comma LADE TOD A V R. C. . In Oregon it's cold and wet; we sniffle, waddle through the mud; but then we "ain't seen nothin yet" compared to Mis sissippi flood.! , ; The legislators, slow to start hare now achieved a faster paee and oratory, glib and smart, . is booming; throughout the place. 'f now BA L of By