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; ?f f The j Weather Cloady with showers to day, Saturday probably u settled; Max. Temp. Than ay 47. Blia. 1, river 1M feet, rata j 1.32 latch. 8W wind. ' Style Smiles There's a grin la each of the cartoons of Tbo States man's new "Style Smiles' cries, but there's also real fashion Information. POUNDSD 1651 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR - i Salem, Oregon, Friday llorniz?, February 19, 1937 Price 3e; Newsstands 6c No. 283 m Marines; f) -fill I - Etf). ifi aell. 6 it; : ! -U 'r'' .'' ' Planners Fa ce Lower Budget; Work Attacked $30,000 Is Final Figure After Strayer Seeks ' Board's Abolition Mines, Golden Gate Fair Support Get Approval of Ways and Means By JOHN D. MINTO After" undergoing a ' series of , verbal attacks whicn brought sug gestions that it be abollsned en . tirely, the state planning board emerged from the joiat ways and cleans committee last night with an appropriation of. 330,000. The budget department had recom mended 151,000. The attack on the board was led by Senator W. H. Strayer. democrat. Baker, lie described the reports as turned out by the commission as "bunk." "The trouble with the planning board la that it reads a string ot stuff and comes in here and claims credit for everything. I'm surprised they didn't take credit for the sunshine and the rain, or even the snow we had the other day. 'There's one report over there of about $00, pages that probably cost' 1500 or 11000. 1 wouldn't give a cancelled postage stamp for lu It concerns things up in my country that I know something about. I say to you. It's worth less." - v ,v.. , . Trio of Defenders Ky Work Beneficial - Representatives Barnes and Rennle, supported by Senator Pearson, came to the aid of the board. Barnes submitted figures vrbich he said showed that con gress had under consideration ap propriations for $27,102,000 for projects In the state as the result of the commission's work. - "It's no use to cut them down to where they cant do any good." Representative Rennle said. "I'd rather see them 1 cut out entirely than to leave them -so little to work . with." Senator Pearson said. . ' The debate came on the recom mendation o' the sub-committee that the appropriation be ap proved, at $40,000. After surviv ing motions to cnt It down to $25,000 and $20,000 the $30,000 figure was finally adopted. The committee sidetracked Representative Vernon Bull's bill appropriating $4,000,000 for old age assistance and cutting the age limit from 70 to 5. The bill ik as laid on the table pending the introduction ot the commit tee's bill on the subject. Mines and Geology Fund Is Approved Approval of a $100,000 appro priation for the state department of mining and geology was gijen sfter Senator Strayer had ex plained the bill which was substi tuted, for the governor's recom mended measure. Included In the new bill is a provision for grub stake loans which Senator Strayer declared might giTe some return to the stste as the board would receive ten per cent from opera tions of mines located during the first five years of operation. The committee Toted an approp riation of $30,000 for a state dls (Turn to page 5, col. 7 Unionizing Farm Workers Planned WASHINGTON. Feb. IS-ii" The American Federation of La bor decided today to start a na tionwide campaign to unionize wage-earning agricultural work ers. 1 William Green, president, said a survey Indicated a potential membership of 240,000 persons, which is the estimated peak em ployment during the year. Most J of them do seasonal work and mi grate from district to district as various crops mature. They usu ally get jobs harvesting, packing and canning produce. . Pending the organization drive, the executive council of tne fed eration declined the request of SO farm workers nnlona to be nn Iled Into an International onion. McLeod Chief of Young Democrats George McLeod. Willamette university student body . presi dent, was elected president of the Marlon county young Demo cratic club to succeed Dr. Estill Brunk at & meeting at the court house last night. Other new of ficers are: Vice president, Stanley Price, Josephine Barr, Mrs. T. J. Bra bec and Charles Rafferty; secre tary. Janice Bassett; treasurer, Glenn Savage; aergeant-at-arins, Richard Covelle. Representative Wayne Erwln ef Umatilla county addressed the Croup. Child Labor In Boston A Socialites, Students and Labor v Forces With Communists; Desire for Full Presentation ; - of Argument Prompts Mass Protest j H BOSTON, Feb. 18 (AP) The usually staid Massachusetts capitol was thrown into an uproar today when supporters of a federal child labor amendment, irate at the conduct of a legislative hearing, stormed from the committee room, picketed the statehouse and finally arranged for a mass meeting on Boston common tomorrow. i Courthouse Plans Hit New Obstacle Engineering Surcharge Is Objected to by PWA, Report Here Says i Planning ; of a new courthouse for 'Marion county has struck a small snag but thexrounty court's sub-committee hopes to iron out the difficulty, which . has to do with terms of the architects' con tract, it wii learned yesterday. Although it was represented to the full building committee at that body's last meeting that a 1 per cent surcharge for engin eering, in addition to the usual 6 per cent architectural fee, met with PWA officials' approval, ob jection to the extra fee has em anated from the state PWA office, It was understood. Eight Object Jons to Contract Listed . ' letter I reported to contain eight specific objections to terms of the architectural contract, which already has been, signed, has been addressed by the PWA offices tg Jtbe architects. -and -a copy -forwarded to the county court, a reliable informant stated. Court members declined to comment -on the problem. A trip to Portland Monday - to confer with the architects and with PWA officials was being considered, it was known. I Cnyler VanPatten, sub-committee citizen chairman who stood with Commissioner Leroy Hewlett (Turn to page 9. col. 6) Gabriel to Speak At Seattle Meet SEATTLE. Feb. 18-CfP-The more than 300 lumbermen attend ing the opening session of the 34th annual convention , of the Western Retail Lumbermen's as sociation didn't talk lumber today until they greeted old friends. Besides the bright prospect of building more than 2.000.000 low priced homes In the United States for persons whose incomes are around the $2000 mark, there was talk of the new streamliner door with a therm6meter to regulate it. a "double-coursing" method for outside walls of homes and the new system; of grading' western pines. Among speakers listed was E. B. Gabriel of Salem,. Ore. McKay9 Flood Control Cooperation BiH Get Support of Committee i The senate irrigation and drainage committee last night reported "do pass" on a bill by Senator McKay,' enabling coun ties to take advantage of a fed eral appropriation for flood con trol In the WiUmette valley. -- The federal government al ready has allocated $2,500,000 for this purpose. ' ' Counties, under the bill, would hare to conduct surveys. Insure maintenance and assume all li ability. , i John P. Hunt9 Chief Clerk of Se ha t e Dies; County Native WOODBURN. - Feb. IS. John P. Hunt, who died late this morn ing In St. Vincent's hospital in Portland where he was taken 11 days ago from Salem where he was working a chief clerk of the senate when he war stricken 'sud denly ill, had been a resident of Woodburn practically all his 68 years. Death followed stomach ulcer hemorrhages.": Funeral arrangements will not be completed until tomorrow fore noon. It was announced at the Beechler-O'Halr mortuary tonight. Aided Legislature ; . - Since 1007 Session i '" Mr. Hunt, long a figure in state politics and who served as assist-1 ant emez eiers ox w kw .uu 1907 te 1921, since when he has been chief clerk, was born on a farm near Woodburn, February t, 'I87t. He receited his education Amendment Icket Ca&itol fter ; ? f'iiff O or tnree neurs. scores or picketers cnanteq "pass tne cnua labor amendment" as they marched slowly before the main entrance to he capitol, which faces the historic common.; Socially - prominent Boston women, students from nearby uni versities and representatives of organised . labor j mingled : with socialist and community party representatives in the picket line. 'The picketing i broke up when Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield of I Boston granted the picketers a permit for a mass meeting on tne common tomorrow. : The trouble broke out when State Senator John D. - Mackay (R., Quincy). presiding at the hearing on . ratification of the (Turn to page 9, col. S) Program of Crop Insurance Viewed Cost 100 Million or More But Would Avoid Other' Relief Need, Held . WASHINGTON,! Feb. 1$. (P) Officials estimated tonight that $100,000,000 to $1(0.000.000 would be required . to set-up a vast crop insurance system rec ommended to congress today by President Roosevelt. They figured would establish that amount adequate re- serves and meet other necessary costs. t Offsetting this waa the conten tion of the president's crop In surance committee that the pro posed system would eliminate other expenditures for farmers distressed by crop failures. The committee estimated such outlays had totaled $60,000,000 in the past ten years. In a special message to con gress today, Mr. Roosevelt rec ommended that a federal crop insurance start with wheat next (Turn to page 9, col. S) Santiam Ski Club Will Visit Idanha Members of the Santiam Ski club will visit their winter play ground at Idanha next Sunday in a chartered bus, Stanley Herren. secretary, announced yesterday. Roads all the way to Idanha are now open to two way traffic and snow conditions are Ideal with about five feet of snow on the Idanha slides. . 1 The forest service has done con siderable improvement work at Idanha. Herren stated. The slide has been widened and lengthened and a - stone fireplace has i been constructed.-' i :'i r";!;'v j Members of the ikl organisa tion who wish to ; make the trip by bus may register with Herren at - Anderson's sporting goods store. : "'-:.'i- Kuhlman Condemned I BROOKVILLE, Ind., Feb. 18. (JP) A Jury! late tonight ? con demned William A. Kuhlman to death in Indiana's electric chair for his confessed part in the "head and hands" slaying of Harry. R. Miller, wealthy retired Cincinnati fire captain. in Marlon county, and was a grad uate of Mt. Angel college. Veteran members of the legis lature have -said he was one ot the best parliamentarians : in ; the state's history. - :r ; Mr. .Hunt's first business ven ture was in hops, and in 190$ he engaged In the insurance business, doing that work uatil his death. Late in 1908, he married Molly A. Meiring ot Salem; who with their two children, Wlnton J., and Gelta-Mae, at home, survive. Win ton Is a student at the University of Oregon law achooL r : Surviving also are his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, and two sis ters, Mrs. Nellie Morgan and Mrs. Marine Meehan, all of British Col umbia; and two brothers, Henry and Thomas Hunt of Broadacres. Mr. Hunt waa an early advocate '(Turn to Page 15, Col. 81 ; Motors Peace Is Delayed by New Outbreak Two Plants at Su Louis Involved ; Anderson Ruled by Jroops Sit-Downers Defy Court ' Order; New Disputes . Noted at Detroit tha Associated Press) New strikes hampered negotia tors yesterday In their effort to solve labor issues remaining un settled at the conclusion of the re cent General Motors Corporation tleup. One which halted operations at the Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants in St. Louis. Mo., tempor arily delayed progress ox a con ference at Detroit, Mich., of Gen eral Motors and labor conferees. They asserted they were far from an agreement on disputed Issues. Union spokesmen said they be lieved the St. Louis complaints, which s claimed non-union em ployes had replaced union labor ers would be Ironed out soon. Tney announced the men would resume their duties this morning. Troops Remain at Anderson. Decided At Anderson. Ind.. national guard troops prepared to remain In the militia-ruled town over the weekend. Twenty military prison ers were ordered turned over te civil authorities for possible grand jury action. A shooting skirmish between union and non-union men last Saturday injured ten persons. Sit-down strikers at the Fan steel Metallurgical corporation plant in North Chicago. 111., de fied a circuit court Injunction de manding their evacuation. They nailed doors shut and posted sign reading "Collective bargaining' or bust." One hundred fifty members of the United Automobile Workers of America started a sit down dem onstration on the assembly line of the L. A. Toung Springs and Wire company at Detroit. They sub (Turn to page 9, col. 8) Forensic Tourney Is Oh at Linfield Willamette . Entering All Divisions; Contests Wind Up Saturday McMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 18-(A-The vanguard of several score students entered In the sev enth annual Linfield college In vitational forensic tourney arriv ed here today. Preliminary events were held tonight; Finals will be held Saturday. Twenty-two western colleges and universities have registered for the events In debate, Oratory and extemporaneous speaking. Cups and medals will be awarded winners. Willamette university's victor ious forensic squad left yesterday afternoon for McMlnnvllle to par ticipate in the invitational Linfield tournament. Willamette will enter both men's and women's teams in or atory, extemporaneous and' debate. In 1935 three members of the Wil lamette team placed first In the tournament. Judges who will go from Salem are Prof. Herbert Rahe, Dr. Ly man C. White, Mrs. Nathalie Pan (Turn to page 9, col. ) Ten Killed, Many Wounded in Raid MADRID, Feb. 18. (Thursday) OP) Ten persons were killed and more than 70 wounded in the Vallecas district alone as Insur gent air raiders bombed Madrid and its environs twice last night. - .-, I- h-.l.v:.. Vallecas it on the southeast ern edge of the Spanish capital. The second bombing came shortly after the first air raid on Madrid aince . January ' . ' Lumber Barge Loose in Columbia After Storm A S T O R I A. - Feb. 18-flP-A Westport Lumber company barge loaded with 222.000 board feet of lumber was torn loose from Its moorings in a storm ' today and has not been located. Mariners be lieve the wind blew ft up the Co lumbia river. -r.,.y--- No one was aboard. Puget Sound Triumphs CALDWELL. Idaho, Feb. 18-(AV-College of Puget Sound cag ers rode to a 43-20 triumph over the College of Idaho quintet here tonight in a Northwest confer ence encounter. . The teams -meet again tomorrow sight. - PICTURE "V".,,, 1- I I . - . V . : '; ' -;' V-'.- Bridge Disaster Hearing Planned Negligence Charge Causes Dispute; Safety Net ' Recovery Sought v SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. If. (JPl State officials, challenged on their charge of negligence in the death plunge of 10 workers from the Golden Gate bridge, today summoned .witnesses for a hear ing while 800 men returned to their jobs on the span but steered clear of the tragedy spot. Timothy A. Reardon. of the state Industrial accident commis sion, called the hearing for Sat urday and asked San Francisco police to help in recovering from the ocean the gigantltc safety net which dropped 200 feet from the span and carried ' the en meshed victitms to death in a strong tide. t Reardon said the torn net and a piece of steel which reputedly fell with It were of "great Im portance." Searchers continued examina tion of floating portions of the net for traces of the nine bodies not yet recovered. Some fisher men and coast - guardsmen ex pressed belief the corpses might have drifted out to open sea and may never be - found. Teamsters' Union Opens New Strike SAN PEDRO. Calif.. Feb. 17- (JP)Two docks here were sur rounded today by about 300 pick ets as the international teamsters' union launched its threatened tie-up of shipping. : ' A. M. Giuber, secretary of the San Pedro central labor council, said that all unions which sup ported the teamsters are expected to spread the picketing along the Pacific coast. Union officials ordered the pickets to terminala of Norton and Lilly and the Matson Navi gation company. Later, they said. non-union men were sent out from a hiring hall established in Wilmington : by the merchants and manufacturers association. A . labor meeting was Immedi ately called at which the team sters were given assurances of support by maritime and other unions. The. union' leaders, charging that the merchants' and manufac turers association was fomenting a wide-spread strike, telegraphed President . Roosevelt asking his Immediate Investigation." Purchase of Site Bill Re-Referred Senate bill 228. which author izes the board of control to buy blocks 8 3 and 8 5 in Salem as additions to the capitol grounds. ls : returned to the senate Thursday --, from the capitol re construction committee, and re ferred to the ways ' and means committee, since it carries an appropriation. , The ways and means commit tee will consider it along . with SB 29 5 tor erection of a state library. SNAPPED AT TRAGIC MOMENT I -A i - "ill' i i ' .... Taken the Instant the safety net on the Golden Gate bridge ripped away from the center of the giant span and pronged ten men to their death In San Francisco bay, the npper photo was taken by an International Ulastrated News cameraman who was waiting near by to photograph fishing boats. Lower picture, a closenp of the sipped net. which previously had saved many lives. Note the boat searching for bodies of the victims. Anti-Pinball Bill Report Favorable The anti-slot machine and pin ball game bill, H. B. 159. by Rep. Martin, was given a favorable re port by the senate committee on revision of laws last night. If the report Is accepted by the senate the bill will go on final reading. Mrs. Martin appeared to urge the bill which prohibits all devices of a gambling character and repeals the 1935 -act to license plnball games. ' ' '-).- v . -x H. B. 18 by Barnes to give good time credits to present i prisoners, which has passed the house, was likewise given a favorable com mittee report. J Questions have been raised as to its constitution ality as an: Invasion of judicial power. . r l ; The committee heard F ra-nk Severs of Portland urge approv al of H. B; 349 which eliminates the minimum sentence for drunk en driving, while retaining the maximum sentence. Be urged -the penalty be left discretionary with the judge, up to the maximum. Many Witnesses Are, Queried In Woodburn Cannery Action Lines of attack and defense shaped gradually yesterday - as the Woodburn Fruit ; Growers Cooperative association -: i a 1 1 against Ray-Mallng, Inc.; cannery. progressed through Its second day of trial before Circuit Judge Arlle G. Walker In a packed de partment one room at the court house here. W.:.' W. C. - Wlnslow, plaintiffs counsel, after calling on- 29 . of more than 100 growers expected to testify, said he would near a close today but might have to postpone calling of reveral -witnesses who are HI until the trial reopens next Wednesday morn ing. , - ' - :: The witnesses yesterday were Questioned by - WInslow - regard ing the also of their 1934 logan . & i ! I Compromise Upon Umpqua Fish Bill Compromise between commerc ial fishermen and recreatlonalists on the Umpqua river poured oil on the " controversial bill which, would have' reduced the open sea son to commercial fishermen and Increase the minimum sixe of the mesh in drift-nets. The measure amended by . agreement : ot the two - groups received committee approval last night. The amendments as submitted to -the committee wduld read as follows: r , "Commercial fishing Is to be carried on In the Umpqua river In accordance with the present statute 'governing mesh-size from April 20 to June 30; from July 1 to September 15 drift-nets having a mesh of not less than eight and one-half - Inches are to be us ed; and, from September 18 to November; 15 commercial fishing to . be carried . Oh in accordance with present statutes governing mesh slse. . berry - crops, the 1 amounts de llvered to the cannery, the amounts they claimed they were forced to leave on the Tines and the costs of production. .. Possibility of Heat Damage Is Queried - :. W. G. Hare, attorney for the cannery, In - cross-questioning, brought out Issues as to possi bility that a heat ware had dam aged the berries which were left undelivered and as to - whether an association official or cannery employes directed that deliveries be discontinued. lie also . delved into the mattr ot growers" costs. Judge Walker left in mid-af-ternon. after all but one of the 29 growers , had testified, and questioning of the last', witness (Turn toPare 15. Col. i Death Spread By Projectile Bursts While Loading of Five-Inch Gun Under Way, Is Reported U. S. S.i Wyoming Scene of Carnage ; Prohe Will Be Started Today SAN PEDRO. Calif.. Feb. la. (P) An Officer and fire enlisted men of the United States marins corps . were killed, six were serl ously injured; and four ' wen slightly injured in the explosion of a five-inch shell aboard the demilitarized battleship Wyo ming during fleet maneuvers near herei today. The dead: Captain! John Edward Trumble. Alexandria, Va.; John Bauer, Cincinnati; Ohio; Albert ' Enos; Cambridge, fiass.: Josepn Wil liam Bozyuski, Pittsburgh. Pa.; Clinton Lyrsly Walker, Boykia, S. C; Richard Fry e, Johnstown, p. i - -.- Chaplain F. W. Meehling. aboard the U. S. S. Colorado, was called to j the hospital ship Re lief after jibe removal of the in jured to that vessel, and admin istered the last rites of the Cath olic' churcb to two of the injured whose names he did, not know! He said five other men were op erated upon aboard the RelieL ' Shell -Explodes While Belna: Loaded The dead and Injured were members ( of the ; marine corps gun crew serxing a fire-inch gua on the starboard side of the Wy oming, It i waa stated by a . mem ber of -the staff of Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn aboard - tbo U. S. s 8. Pennsylvania, .fleet f la. ship, i t ---i'.vtv:, ' " 7 S-';'- T . The fiTe-lnch - shell exploded while being loaded . into the breech of the gun during the Wy oming's ; participation in a bar rage to cover landing operations In the culminating phase of the four days of sky. sea and land maneuvers in which 3700 ma- Lrines, 70 army troops and a do (Turn to Page 15, Col. 7) Discharge Books bjiinctions Out Court Orders Obtained hj Sailors in All Major Porta on Pacific r" SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 18-yP) Maritime! unions completed to day a legal blockade of the new federal "discharge book" legis lation by obtaining court orders restraining Its enforcement in all major Pacific ports. , Temporary writs Issued in Se attle and Portland brought the whole west coast shipping Indus-' try under j the unions' drive to forestall the new law requiring seagoing-men r carry records of their employment. Similar writs previously had to page. 9, coL 5)" (Tarn Pisgah Colony Is Marooned, Supply Of Food Dwindles PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 18. Fog prevented aerial attempts to drop food for 75 members of the drift-marooned Pisgah col ony today j and the manager of the group; W. N. Rose, said he did not believe sufficient sup plies were! available to last out the week. Rose was held In Portland by snow. The; colony is In the hilly region 35 . miles northwest ot this city. ( : r Art Whitaker Portland, mem ber of the state board of aero nautics, ahd Glen IT. Ncel, de partment of commerce Inspector, tried unsuccessfully to sight the 80-acre tract from a plane. Last food was taken In via toboggan a .- week- ago. - . Snow also hampered traffic on several Oregon roads today. Most important route closed was- the Old Oregon Trail between Union and North : Powder. . A L L A D E oTODAV By R. a Th bnllfrbrs and their pedi grees' usurped the time of solons wise; the woes of unpaid mortgages received their sym pathetic sighs; but state pay stops and; members now small issues quickly cast aside, will pass the pM". "no matter how. and get their session "fine fZi died." OfNavalGuii