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. . Late News Erealci . Tbe Statesman's exelu save "beat" ta Oregon on tho strike termination story Thursday was only one of V Toe"C7eatuer - ,IUlu today and Saturday, little Y change 'In tempera tare; Max. Temp. Thursday -US, MIn. 42, rlrcr I (et(.' rain JM Inch. . ' ly similar services to Its renders. --- Salsa,' Orejcn, Friday Ilomlaj, February 12, 1837 Price 2e; Neirsstasda 5c' No. 277 .Bffi mi LM' i - o M'MO II : EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR . Alt TT ' -'i; n, j bsgis.: V PeacePaitls Signed Ending Motors Strike Eight-Point Agreement to Bring Negotiation of : Remaining Issues v General , Motors Workers Will Return to Work With Higher Pay DETROIT. Feb. ll.-(JPt-VoT-mal acceptance at ."peace terms ended today the most widespread strike erer to paralyxe ' American automobile assembly lines. : The eight-point a r e e m e n t signed by representatires of Gen eral Motors corporation and the United Automobile Workers of America composed many of the differences ' aired In ' 44 days of bitter labor dispute. . Remainins issues will be ne gotiated In ' discussions between corporation and union starting February 1C. Recognition Granted Union's Members.. v" i The union was accorded recog nition as representing Us mem bers in the corporation's 69 auto motive plants. In twenty plants where strikes are in progress. General Motors agreed not to bar gain, without the sanction of the governor of the state, with any other group on "matters of gen eral corporation policy." " More than 100.000 Idle em ployes of the nation's largest mo tor car producer - will return to their Jobs next week at - wages Increased S cents an hour. Several hundred sit-down strikers evacuated Fisher Body company plants at Flint, Mich., "trouble center" of the dispute. Less than 500 words' were re quired . to state the peace . terms that halted a nation-wide indus trial strife in automobile plants, j The corporation agreed: ' To recognize the U. A. W. A. as collective bargaining agency for Its ir embers. Company Agrees I To Re-open Plants! ; To re-open as soon as possible all Us plants on strike or other wise Idle. To exercise no discrimination or prejudice against any employe because of his activity In the union or the strike. f To consent to dismissal of in junction proceedings against the union. Its officers and members, and to discontinue contempt ac tions Instituted under these In junctions. ' i The union pledged: To -forthwith terminate- the strike and evacuate all striker held plants. To exhaust possibility of nego tiations of grievances before call ing any strike, during the col lective bargaining agreement con templated In further , confer ences, and not to solicit members on company premises or to coerce or Intimidate employes. Union Not to ; i Call New Strikes 1 - To refrain from calling strikes or interfering with production pending the further negotiations. The corporation ! pledged in a letter to Governor Murphy that for a period of six months it would not negotiate with i any employe representation group- except the IT. A. W. A. - . ! : 1 " Will Take Over Bank HOOD ' RIVER, f Feb. ll-MV The First National bank of Port land will take over the First Na tional bank ; of Hood River . on Monday, E. B. ' MacNaughton. president of the Portland firm, and E. O. Blanchard. head of the local concern, announced today. Statesman Is First to Tell Of Strike End V The Statesman brought news, of the settlement of the automotive strike -' to Willamette valley . readers hours ahead of i any other newspaper. One other news paper circulated here Thurs day morning had a brief an nouncement without news of the terms of settlement.. Otli. er morning newspapers In Oregon received yesterday, contained no report or I be strike's termination. This la only one of many instances im ' which Tho Statesman has been first with Important i news. No other paper can keep its forms open so late and make remote deliveries. That gives the prestige for late news to The Statesman. For swift, complete and ecurato news service The Statesman the morning dally for the Willamette valley. Plane on Skis TesFoodto Stonii Victims rOCATKIXO, Idaho. Feb. ) ll-iV An airplane, on skis q brought food today to - twv if saowblind youths strandc v vor a weea ir sonwern toa ho's desolate lava ' desert where, a companion, also probably blind, , is believed Ralph Knapp, Pocatello pilot, retarned tonight to re port he had found Sam Bradshaw, S3,' and n youth ful ; companion known only as MVebb.M Bradshaw, no said. Is snowblind front week of wandering under a brilliant sun. Webb is par tlallly blind. No i trace was found, Knapp said, of Leonard Cox, jr., 23, who separated from toe group several days ago with s tractor and a horse In an effort to summon aid. Pioneer Maker of Stoves Dies Here R. B.1 Flemlns Recalled as 3Ianager of Old Prison . Range Foundry Robert Bennett Fleming. 86. who helped lighten the early day housewife's labors by im proving cook stove design, died at his i home, 785 Court . street, shortly' after 6 o'clock last night. He had been 111 since last falL Coming to Oregon from Neb raska and settling in Salem in 1&86, Fleming becarfe production manager for the old Northwest Stove foundry, which was op erated fas a state penitentiary industry. There he pioneered in the development of steel ranges and made many Improvements In design. He was among the first stove , founders to - equip range ovens with thermometers. Convict Foundry Labor Hired Out The . prison-made I ransf"' were sold w I d el y in the . northwest through the old Lowenburfc-Go-ing company, . Portland, which contracted for convict labor at the prison foundry. Fleming continued his work at the foundry until about 20 years ago when the labor contract was c&nceled and the industry drop ped as ! far as commercial pro duction"! was concerned. Surviving are the widow. Maud Fleming, Salem; a daughter. Mrs. Charles Bennett. Myrtle Point; a brother and two sisters, Charles j R. Fleming, Margaret Cheney and.' Mrs. Catherine Boyee. all of Omaha. Neb. Funeral services will be held from the Rigdon chapel at 3:30 p.m. Saturday with private com mittal following at Mt. Crest Abbey crematorium. Expansion of Facilitie To Combat T.B. Urged CORVALLISV Feb. ll.-VEx-panslon of tuberculosos facilities and greater support for the Doernbecher "' children's hospital at Portland : were backed by the Benton ; County . Health ' associa tion. Both moves are before th legislature. ' " .- Chinese Start Year ' i SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. ll-ff) -Feasting amid the popping of a million firecrackers ushered in the new , year In San Francisco's Chinatown today. It starts the CCCSth year since Emperor Fn Hal's dynasty. .. Lei Highway Fund Alone arid Add No T( , e Martin Advice Solemn warning that the high way funds should go untouched by the many bills before the house and senate was. given by Gover nor Charles H. Martin who ad dressed s Joint session of the leg islature i in tho house chambers yesterday morning. r - Deviating from hU prepared address .many, times. Governor Martin In caustic comments ad monished the legislators ot to Interfere with the highway pro gram and reasserted his belief, as expressed in his messsge at the opening of the session, that the people had delivered an ultima tum by i their vote at . the ltlt election ; to impose no additional taxes. : : 1 ; . -Points Out Bills -Deemed Injurious - Speaking not In generalities but specifically ' pointing to the measures which he bettered would hurt the highway program, the governor recommended that sev en measures already Introduced be killed, that three be Amended and that only two pass.. Declaring that should the pro posals before i the - legislature carry, the state would have only a 9500.000 surplus above fixed charges to match federal appro priations, he rappei proposals to divert funds to cities, to install a paid, elective commission and to ne Handed o nirnr I iiinfT Mumper and Bilyeu Both f Negligent, Is Finding ' of Coroner's Jury Witnesses Cannot Agree Whether Crash Occurs Inside Safety Lane Careless and negligent opera tion of an t automobile by : Ted Mumper of ! Scio and 1 negligence Jy Raymond Bilyeu of -Scld -ln failing to have effective Drakes on bis car were blamed tor the death of Bes Emmanuel Johnson by a coroner's jury following an inquest at : the : Clough-Barrlck mortuary yesterday, Johnson. 51 - year - old Inde pendence farmer, met his death. the jury ststed In Its findings, "by reason of being struck by an auto mobile at State and Commercial streets . . . by the careless, negli gent and unlawful operation of said automobile at said tjoe and place by Ted' Mumper, the driver thereof. And we further find that death was occasioned by the care lessness and negligence of the owner said automobile, Ray mond Pilyeu, by wrongfully fail ing to have brakes Jn said auto mobile In . good and nroper con dition.": District Attorney Lyle J. Page, who left before the jury reported its findings, said last night that the cases of Mumper and Bilyeu would probably be presented to the grand Jury. Charges of operat ing a motor vehicle without an operator's license and without proper brakes are already on me against Mumper. 1 Officer George Edwards testi fied that the brakes on the car driven by Mumper and owned by Bilyeu were in poor condition and gave the results of 'a number of tests.; - 1 -t : f - '' -'-" i : : Differ Upon Exact Place of Accident Testimony ! on the : point of whether Johnson was in the pedes trian lane ws conflicting. Mumper, on the stand in his (Turn toj page 2, col. 6) Gties Sharing in Road Fun 1 1 The house committee on high ways and highway revenue heard further arguments on the propos al of the league of Oregon Cities to allot cities a share of state highway revenues, up to a maxi mum 7.S per cent In 1940. in a special hearing last night.; j?.; One spokesman for the league, C. G. Reiter, city manager of Bend, and one-for the state high way commission which is opposing the measure, R. H. Baldock, gave their views. Reiter claimed that as the ma jority of people In Oregon do from CO to 80 per cent of the traveling within city limits, the cities should get a portion of the tax these road users pay.. ; , ' v' '. - : . Baldock countered with , the statement, that although there Is a; growing - movement. In the United States toward shifting the burden from real .property to the actual road user, "the road user can't . possibly carry all of , the burden' of road' maintenance and construction.; . i: repeal the present $1 biennial fee for driver license renewals, r t ' Citing the j requests of every section of the state for additional road development,' Governor Mar tin asked, "How can It be done If you're going to raid the high way funds?" He. pointed out that under the present budget the de partment will hare ft. 550,000 for federal fund matching for high way work. rjs.j, - The two bills of which the ex ecutive approved were introduced by Senator MeKay, republican. Marlon. One would reduce the li cense fee on light tracks from $10 to $S and the other would Increase tie amount to be paid to the counties annually from the state highway fund. The governor termed the re duction In light truck fees "both equitable and Just." . On : the - subject of i taxation. Governor Martin explained t that his message of a month ago was meant to convey not only the thought that the : tax structure should not be made more burden some, but that no additional forms of taxation should be Im posed. -; ;i - : .v; , "It has been called to my attention-' that i several, measures have been proposed, which ' em body the imposition of additional. .: (Turn to page 13, coL 3) : i Argued His Precepts Still Furnish Ideal Guidd for Liberty-Loving Nation mr K, vji 4 t'jLfi . ABRAHAM Overtime Victory Scored by Salem Three Extra Periods Are Required to Defeat Chemawa, 30-28 CHEMAWA, Feb. 11 Tom Hill, center for the Salem high Vikings, played a hero role here tonight and played It welL His two tree throws In the third overtime period of a nip and tuck battle gave the Vikings a 30-to-28 win over the galloping Chemawa Indians. His 15 points, scored on six field goals and three free throws, kept Salem In the race when Its usual high scorers failed to function. ' Sumner Gallaher played In the role of assisting hero. It was his field goal which brought the Vik ings even at 24-all as the regular playing period ended. - -Each Scores In ; Second Overtime Neither team scored In the first overtime pei lod but In the second each collected two field goals, Gallaher and Maers scoring for Salem, to make the count 28-28 as the game went Into the decisive and final third period. The contest was-a see-saw af fair from the opening tip-oft with never more than three- points separating the two teams as they (Turn to page 2, col. 8) - Institution Farm Survey Is Soughtj ' Senator Douglas McKay Thurs day Introduced a resolution ask ing appointment l of an Interim committee to investigate the agri cultural, dairy and poultry needs of tho several - state Institutions and report their findings at the 1939 legislative assembly. Only those Institutions conduct ing farms, dairies and poultry plants are affected by the reso lution. , ' " - -."' One member of the committee would be appointed by the super intendent of the Oregon state hos pital. Another would ..be . selected by the department' of agriculture at Oregon State college, and the third by the state board of con troL Two other members would be appointed by the speaker of the house and one by the presi dent of the state senate. ' Cost of Gearing : Roads Only 4500 Despite the emergency mea sures required, to e 1 e a r recent snows from Marlon county's 2000 miles of roads, the job has been done at 1 the relatively small ex pense of 14500, County Engineer N. C Hubbs reported yesterdsy. While all available power graders and bulldozers were being used on the- roads and emergency tractor-driven snowplows were being 'constructed, .the 'county court feared the extra expenses entailed by the. snow, would run much higher than that figure. 'VC V.V 1 iv el LINCOLN Milk DeHveryman Seriously injured Elmer Peterson Struck by Car as He Jumps Off Truck on Capitol Elmer Peterson,! 25 year old milk truck helper, received In prove fatal, o'clock when a car : driven 1535 North Jumped from juries whlcn may last night at 8:50 he was tsruck by by R. L. Houck, 20 th street, as he his milk truck to make a de livery In the 500 block on North Capitol street. Peterson was rushed to the Deaconess hospital unconcious early and was still this morning. He was reported , then as in Im proved : condition j though . phy sicians were still attending him. The accident occurred In front of 580 North Capitol.' Houck was not held after an Investigation was made by state police of ficer Spauldlng. - j Peterson, whose! home Is on route 8, Is employed by the J. J. Roberts . dairy, south of Salem. Charles Merrifield, Leonard hotel, was also hospitalized yes terday after being injured In an accident In which ears driven by William Hasklns. 2098 Turner road, and Lee. Leichty. 151 Bel levue. collided at 13th and - Mis sion , streets. .t K f :;v Merrifield, who was riding In the Haskins ear, received a back injury but It was not thought serious. ; He was taken to the Deaconess hospitals Lt. Governor Idea . Is Hit; Townsend . Issue Coming Up When adverse reports "of the senate resolutions committee on the Townsend pension, plan mem orial and on the two senate bills to set up. a unicameral legislature reach the floor of the senate, de bate will be unleashed , on two of the Important - controversial- sub jects of . this . session. Senator Strayer, chairman, gave no Inti mation, when the reports, would be presented. ' . : . k -:- ' , The Townsend plan t memorial was Introduced by Rep. ' Harrison and others, and passed the lower house early in the session. Since then lt has reposed In the pigeon hole of the senate resolutions committee. . :"-, k The two resolutions to have a one-house legislature, were Intro duced, one by Carney and one by Staples. Other resolutions on the same subject are pending In the house. "-Another- adverse report .was given by the senate resolutions committee. It turned thumbs down on the house resolution to create the office of lieutenant gov ernor. At present the senate eltcts its own presiding off leer who Is first In line for succession to the governorship. . - ; I ' : V Conrt""Sc!:e3 Debated Ovc Radio's Fcno Maverick and Wood Main Speakers in Gotham; Many Others Talk Aims at Constitutional Change hyi Indirection Is Opponent's Claim ;. NEW YORK, Feb. U.-apV-Men and "women for and against Presi dent Roosevelt's I proposal for en larging the supreme court If mem bers over 70: do not retire; spoke out tonight In a huge radio forum. ? In New York J In Washington and In Chicago Centered the de bate, held over the far : spread radio channels of America's town meeting of the air (NBC), "while all over the country citizeqs had opportunity to listen In. ' 'The discussion led off from New York, 'speakers In Washing ton and Chicago,; then aking up the case. ' jt - Here the major speeches' were delivered by Rep. j Maruy Mav erick, a Texas democrat, who sup ported the president, and by Fred erick II. Wood, j a widely known lawyer who participated in . the case that Invalidated NRA, in tbe gold clause suits and in the action involving, the . Guffey ' coal act. Wood was In opposition to the Roosevelt project Senators King and Black Debate Issue From Washington. Senator Hugo . Black. Alabama democrat.' upheld the projected changes "In the court, while Senator William H. King, Utah democrat, spoke against them. j . - .. At Chicago, six speakers were listed Judges Edward , B. Casey and Frank M. Padden. and Attor neys .Alice Greenacre, , Louis A. Stebbins, Philip ft. Davis and Robert M. Golding. ? ; , Maverick, delivering the' main argument for the, president's pro gram, said the court as presently constituted had ""knocked out al most everything the mass -of the people want and must have if we are to survive as a democracy." ' Wood argued that the presi dent's proposal was not to make the court more efficient, but that "manifestly it is! to cause the supreme court to change Its in terpretation of the- constitution by the appointment of six hew Justices. PinbaU's Friends Rally to Support House bill 169.' by Representa tive Martin , which would provide for the destruction of slot ma chine, dart garnet and p 1 n b a 1 1 equipment operated or played tor a profit, had a public airing Thursday night before the house committee ' on health and public morals. '. ,. - ; , ." -y.;;., . :- "I am speaking' for the plnball machines, said Ernest Abel, of the Oregon Food and 'Beverage Dispensers. "If yen don't permit this i. Innocent diversion you will drive people to ptaees where the slot . machines . are concealed" to fleece .themV i?- - Louise Palmer fWeber charged that pinball machines were made the "goat because not enough money, accumulates In them to pay police officers who wanted "pay off." - I r.: Guy Smith of Salem Informed the committee that Judge' Craw ford of Portland, -j who had ruled In a plnball casej had told him he had not held all marble boards to be games of chance and that the Individual games would have to be considered. : - : :! - Parole Reform Bills Handed j Praisdf Saving Is Promised The proposed state 'parole bills ,! were aired before the senate and house' judiciary fommlttee last nignt wltn no opposition ex pressed to their purposes. There are 243 felony statutes In the Oregon laws, J. M, Brown, of thu United States department of Jus tice, told the committee In point ing out the mlxed-up . condition of the state's criminal laws. -"It to" sUU a f elony,. he said, "for a man to ride a horse Into a saloon and hit a Chinaman on the head with a aulrt,, Federal System of - - Parole Works We ; - , Brown told the i committee the federal governmeni sow. has 41,- 000 prisoners under supervision and that a saving; of over $29.- 000,000 had been! made by the government ? by proper v; snper- vision. ' - ' " : , The success of f the system is shown." Brown said,', 'by tho fact that only eight per. cent of the parolees violate their trust." Speaking in relation to the xa- BiU Attacking ; ' ' Kerr Job Fails i In Committee Tbe senate 'educational conunitteo voted Thnraday night to report out unfavor ably n howao bin by Repre sentative Allen abolishing the office of director - of marketing and research - In connection with.- the hlglter educational system, v . Senators Carney and KM die did not concur In the re port and. Senator. Grabem, chairman of the committee, dldTnot vote. , i ,- " The' office Is now held by W. Kerr, chancellor eroer Una of tbe higher education al Institutions. S e n at o r s Staples and , Walker took the position that It did not look well for the legislature to single out one office and allow others "to go uninvestigated. : . ; Chancellor Hunter ftp-' pea red ; before the commit tee earlier in the day in de fense of the office which the' bill seeks to abolish. He said Mr. Kerr was doing a won derful job and that the re sults had been beneficial. 12th Street; Main Project Studied :.'-r''"-:-;:-'f. r, ' "' ' :'- - f - : Water. Committee to Delay Recommendation; Big i: Valves Bid Upon r . No specific proposals for Im provement of the city "water dis tribution system will be handed the city council Monday night but he aldermen wfll. be advised the special water construction com mittee is considering . possible WPA projects such as the pro posed 12th street feeder main, the committee decided at a meet ing yesterday afternoon. ; While WPA. leaders bare sug gested the city apply tor a blanket project enabling - the water , de partment- to v revamp " the entire system, it Is not considered likely the water construction commit. tee will , follow this course. The committee . is understood, how ever, to be determined to make construction of the 12th street line, possible, probably under a project for which the WPA would contribute 150.000 In labor. Materials and supervision for the lino would cost approximately 176,000. . .. - Improvement In " Pressure Expected - Mayor. V. E. Kuhn pointed out yesterday that construction of the 12tb street line, extending from Rural avenue In south Salem northward ; to the heart of the Hollywood district, would Im prove water pressure throughout tne city since no large main now runs all the way from the south to the north city limits. The 12th street line also would obviate necessity of continuing operation of the northeast Salem wells, wnicn tne water department holds to do uneconomical. The committee yesterday also discussed informal bids for two large valves, .one for each end of tbe Salem-Stayton pipeline, which are estimated to cost S1S00 each. CorvallU Fire Chief. Say$ - Losses Dropped - f 40 Per Cent Last Year CORVALLIS. Feb. lllpV- Percy Tallman, : fire - chief, re ported a 40 per cent drop In fire losses In his annual report. Fire destruction In 1 9 3 totaled U(,U1 -and most of this came from the Whiteside theatre fire. There was less than $200 dif ference between the total loss and the Insurance pajd. , ; determinate sentence feature- of toe onu srown declared tnat a prisoner should not know when be le to be released. They Just llre for : release,' he said. -He should 'come out only - when he to . reformed. : : T Dr. F. li" Utter, parole board member outlined tbe bills to the committee. : He said the bills would allow the , Judge to set a maximum term and that the parole board would fix the mini mum after a study had been made of the individual from all sources of information possible. "The sole purposes "of these bills." Dr. utter said. "Is for the full protection of society and to get a good : parole system ' estab lished - and working with proper supervision. ; ; ' The bills' would provide for a full time chairman of -the board with a staff of field supervisors. '"' E3-governor Oswald West and Wlllard Marks spoke In behalf of the measures. Vote fx on yoMeasiircs; Set Sahinfav Strike Curh Proposal Is bubject of Hearing; Merits Debated Labor Relations Act Up.-. T A f ' II - ior. Ainnz Also in House Committee - -Proposed labor legislation em anating both from the camps of organized labor- and of Interests seeking to limit labor union activ ity to prevent industrial -and transportation tie-ups, took the center of the stage in the Oregon legislature Thursday but prom ised! to Teach Its first climax Sat urday. v i : . This prospect appeared when the house set the two bills limit ing i union activity, for Saturday forenoon at 10 o'clock as a sdc- cial iorder of .business. They, came In on an adverse report from the labor and Industries . committee but a minority report will also be presented. . i Two hearings were held Thurs- day on measures dealing with la bor. - ' -' ,: . . i Hearing on Senate . ' - Bills Draws Crowd Senate bills 109 and 10? bv Senator Duncan, the first to nar row the definition of the term la bor dispute and restrict the priv ilege of picketing, the other to require a 30-day mediation period before a 'strike or lockout could " be put into effect were discussed at a public hearing before the senate committee on labor and industries Thursday a f t e rnoon. The j hearing attracted a great many, people and lasted for two hours. ' " .- ;- William Knight of : Rosebure. former member of the house, took -the. position .that picketing should',, not be allowed unless there was a' controversy between-the em ployer and the employee. Knight declared both of the Duncan bills were sound and if passed would go far toward avoiding labor disputes In Ore gon. . . i- . Testimony offered by the Four L association Indicated that offl- -dais of that organization were not In sympathy with some of the strikes conducted In Oregon dur ing the past few years. King Benton of Hood River told of the financial losses suf fered by the orchardists of that locality as a result of the recent strikes. . - r . "If .we had been protected by. these! bills the controversy proba- -bly would -have been settled with out prolonged delay and much of the financial .loss would have been avoided", Benton declared. William Masters of the Oregon Automobile Dealers ; association also spoke in favor of the two bills. ; - - - Benefits Of This Legislation Denied - Principal speakers In epposU' tlon to the bills were Ben Os- -borne, executive ; secretary of the state federation of labor; John Brost, president of the longshore- . men's association, and ' B.A. Green, labor attorney. . - ' : Osborne : declared leg 1 station ' such as proposed by Senator Dun-, can would not prevent, strikes. . . "When, the employers agree to" collective : bargaining with . their ; employes there will , be few labor disputes -In O r e g an", Osborne " said. Osborne said the Duncan -bills would . - widen rather than heal any breach that may exist between labor and employers. A similar line of argument was " advanced by Green - and Brost. . ' Green said legislation could not' prerent an employer from closing down i his Industry regardless of the passage of the Duncan bills. He branded the - proposed leglsLa- tion as one sided and discrlmtna-' tory against labor. Labor Relations . , ' ?, V. . -Bm ts Debated . " Pros and cons of the labor' re lations act were debated last night I before' the house labor and' ' industries: committee as labor representatives a n d employers' representatives disagreed over the effects of the measure The labor forces were led by Osborne. - He j charged that. all. strikes were the fault of the emnlovera and denied that labor erer struck without provocation. - , - -, B. A. Green, attorney for labor, said the bill came from the fed oral government and bad not yet been enacted In any other state. - '- , (Turn to page. 2. col. t) - - ALL ADC of TOD A Vf By JV C. There's joy throughout the nation as tbe last big strike is settled, but the argument still rages1 with both parties some what nettled, over-how, in fu ture arguments, tie-ups can be averted; and after long debate we doubt if anyone's ecnvertr I.