The TTratticr - Unsettled with . rains to day, probably shower Rjt rday; Mas. Temp. Friday 48, Ml. SI, river JO.t fret, rain .0 inch, , southwest Wind. v - Style SmiTca' - There's - grin la each of the cartoons of The States man's new - "Style Smiles' cries, bat there's ' also real fashion Information. . t - -xV ' POUNDDD 1651 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, Febrixarjr20, 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands -5c No. 284 A. . ILD . . .... n .a .Bsskk aaaaasai aaM . a a s- Mil IB r: Jl :- . ; -v;- "v! Bearcats Near Goid: pitman Doivned 32-26 Accuracy Especially at Gift Line Decisive - Factor in Game Missionaries Hold Near Even at Times After Thrilling Rallies By PAUL. HAUSER - WIHsmetto university's hard--driving basketball team drove a hard bargain last night as It' took an option on the Northwest con ference hoop championship by defeating Whitman's Missionary hoopers 32 to 26. The Bearcats, outplaying Whit man on offense and defense, made flaainnarv hones for a third straight hoop champkmship tor- lorn. It was tne secona loss ior the Missionaries whereas the Bearcats are as yet unbeaten. , Willamette- displayed a ball handling, ball-hawking style of play that it has never quite equalled on the home floor this season as it got the Jump on the Missionaries early in the game " and, except for a brief moment In the second half, kept the lead all the way. Keeping Possession Of Ball Is Factor The Bearcats won by virtue of superior shooting accuracy and their ability to maintain posses sion of the ball with adept and clever ball-handling and a driv ing follow-up on shots. Their ac curacy In potting free throws was also a big deciding factor as Whit man missed' nine out of 11 chances. Whitman's slight but speedy five, after the score was knotted at 2-1 in the first minutes,' ap peared to be bothered with a' bad case of jitters. The Missionaries opened r I g h t up with hopeless long shots and, sinking a few of them, did the same all evening to the great advantage of the Bear cats who usually , got the ball when It came down. : Larry Nunnenkamp put the Bearcats In the lead in the early minutes as he dribbled in close to the basket to sink a field goal. That made it 4-2 and the Bear cats, making most of their shots count, rolled up a 10 to 2 lead before Bullock broke the spell tor Whitman with a free throw. Geist, tall Whitman center, holed out one of his mile-long shots but Willamette kept on driving in close for shots and with 14 min utes gone was ahead 15 to 5. Closer at Halftime As Missions Rally - - A Whitman rally In the dying minute of the half in which Larry Porter, Mission guard, dropped In two quick field goals, brought the- Missionaries up to 17-12 by halftime. Pepin'a short range field goal (Turn to Page 3, CoL 1) Rites Set Monday For John P. Hunt WOODBURN. Feb. 19 Fu neral services for John P. Hunt. Woodburn ; Insurance man r and chief clerk of the Oregon senate for many years, will be held frooi St. Luke'a Catholic church-at 10 o'clock Monday morning, Rev. J. C. Heesacker officiating. En tombment will be. in the mauso leum at Salem. Recitation of the Rosary wll be Sunday 'light at 8 o'clock in the Beechler-O'Hair chapel here. The 'state senate adopted reso lutions Friday in testimony of its appreciation of John P. Hunt's long and faithful service, and of sympathy for member of the family. President Franclscovlch ap pointed Senators S Paul ding and Dunn, ; i and Allen Wheeler, sergeaat-at-arms, to represent the senate at the funeral. Blame Negligence In Span Disaster - SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 19-tfl3) A coroner's Jury of mechanical experts tonight blamed Tailuie to use certain safety equipment for ' the 1 collapse of a scaffold which killed 10 workmen -on- the Golden "Gate bridge 'Wednesday. The verdict, after several hours of deliberation, followed testi mony that four bolts, recommend ed to strengthen the structure by state . Inspectors, had not been nsed.-. . . - - --!- -f- .The moveable scaffold, from which workmen were stripping paving forma on the under side of the 4.200-foot suspension spaa, plummeted the victim through a rope safety net over 200 feet Into the harbor entrance. Building Program Gets Attention but Not Yet Ready; Cost Main Issue ! -. .' . Method J of Utilizing Idle Funds in Treasury lilay Be Devised to Avoid Rentals; Three Bills in Committees, Action Likely Soon A 'PROGRAM for state buildings is in the legislative incu J bator, but has not arrived at the hatching stage, accord ing to reports Friday. It was to allow time for gestation of ar general program that the Marion county bill to allow the highway commission to erect an office building was laid on the table Thursday. If nothing comes out of the shell within Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 19-tP) Truman Kennedy, Vancouver, B. C, and George Crouch. Los An geles, went to a six-round draw on the main event of tonight's fight card. ; " ' Johnny f Nunes, 123, Salem, Ore., drew with fiddle Summers, 126, Portland; Eddie Norrls, 138, Salem, Ore., won a technical knockout over Al McCoy, 139, In dependence. Ore., third round. All the latter bouts were four rounders, i CALDWELL. Idaho. Feb. 19-(Jpy-The College of Idaho Coyotes dropped their final conference basketball game of the season to night to the College of Puget Sound, SI to 28. Basketball Scores Astoria T5, Corvallis 21. Ashland 27, Grants Pass 15. PORTLAND, Feb. 19-P)-The L Oregon Institute of -Technolosy dereated. paciiic college Das keteers 21; to 19 here tonight. PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 19-fP) -The University of Portland Pi lots trounced Seattle college bas keteera 56 to 15 tonight, with O'Donnell. f Portland forward, grabbing henors with ll yoint.-;" McMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 9 -A)-McMlnnvUle high won the right to play Tillamook in the first round of the district basket ball tournament by defeating New berg 39 to 24 here tonight. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 19-4JP) O'Connell ) at forward piled up 24 points tonight to lead the Ore gon Normal! Wolves to a 47-to-32 victory over ! the Mantle club bas keteer of Portland. The victory was the Wolves' 22nd of the sea son. McMINNVILLE, Ore., Feb. 19 -(P)-Linfield college basketeers. piling up 14 points before . tneir opponents scored, defeated Gon caga university 49 to 38 here to night. Stranz, Lin field forward, broke loose for 18 points and scoring honors. ? Building Program Gaining Attention With permits issued yesterday for the erection of three dwellings, a resumption in building halted by snow and heavy rain was fore seen, r - v f ' ; -: c: Bert Tom kins was issued a per mit to erect a one-story dwelling at 1565 Jefferson at a cost of J3150. H. C. HummeU took out permits to build one-story dwell ings and garages at 1240 and 1190 Columbia at o cost of $3000 each. Other permits: Steeves estate, to alter office rooms In the Guar dian building, f2000; Emll Kroep lin. to repair a one-storv garage at 1610 North Commercial. $750; Jack Pederson, to reroof . a one story dwelling at 1089 North Winter $70. - ' Repeal of Pari Favored, Preliminary Vote By a vote of 14 to 13 the sen ate overturned the adverse report of the judiciary committee on the Staple bill, SB 161. forrepeal of the law creating the racing com mission and allowing betting un der the pari-mntuel system. The bill thus goes on the calendar for third reading. - Only two i poke on the measure. Senator Staples made an earnest appeal to wipe out the legalisation of betting. He asserted: ' "The parl-mutuel take three or four million dollars but of the pockets of persons who should have guardians appointed ' for them. One man lost $12,000 bet ting at the race. Do we want to mortgage out souls to eternal damnation . to keep up the state fair and the Pacific International? The fair becomes a school for gambling Instead of agriculture." Gambling Preceded -Racing- Law. Held " Sen. Duncan, in a brief reply said that gambling was rife about race track before the pari mu a few. days tLe highway, building measure will be brought back for third reading. ; : i J ' The' perplexing problem : ha been the, f 1 n a n c i njg of the grounds and building program. Regular appropriations, with the increase for higher - education, hare lapped up most all the mon ey in the budget estimates. The existence of large sums of state money, while all earmarked for definite uses, would make It possible : to finance the program because the huge balance are drawing little Interest, and the lag "in spending Insures heavy balances at all times. While us ing these balances might create a bookkeeping deficit, advocate of this method say the pressing need justifies the undertaking. Bills pending in the ' legisla ture are SB 228 to , bay two blocks north of the capitol; SB 295 to authorize the erection of a state library building, both of (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Super-Truck Bill To Lack Support Report Adrrsrse on Lifting Load Limit, Allowing Greater Length e ' The senate roads' and highways committee Friday reported ad versely on senate blU No. 130, by Burke and Bennett, increasing the gross weight of truck and trail ers from 54,000 to 68,000 pounds and length from 50 to 60 feet. The bill was opposed bitterly by members of the state highway commission and railroad repre sentatives. At a hearing before the road and highway committee, the al leged reactionary and arbitrary methods of the state highway commission were assailed by James F. Morrell, representing the Consolidated Freight Lines. Morrell alleged that the truck operators pay considerable more taxes In Oregon than the railroads and have been responsible for material reductions in freight rates. He said the passage of this bill would place Oregon : motor truck operators on a parity with those In California, Washington and other western states. G. S. Paxon, state bridge engi neer, argued that the present highways and bridges were now taxed to their capacity strength and that additional weight would prove a serious hazard. He asked that the bill be reported out fa vorably. Judge Choice Now Narrowed to Five PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 19-UPi -The Oregonian today quoted Senator Frederick Steiwer as say ing the number of candidates for the federal bench In Oregon ha been reduced to about five Judge Hall Lusk, Judge Earl La- tourette. Mark Weatherford and Frank and Claude McColloch. . The appointee will succeed the tate Judge John H. MeNary. . ; - Mutuel Law tuel was allowed. Pools were formed, and money lost. ' It was believed it would be better to have betting regulated and con trolled under a commission. .. The roll was not called, deci sion being announced alter ; a standing vote. Behind SB 161 cam SB 105. the "gravy bill as Duncan de scribed It, which a amended In the committee would disburse all over the state the anticipated pro ceeds of the state share of parl mutuels aUowlng many, more lo cal festival to share In the fund. It goes over to third reading. Senate bill 137. by Lessard, to Amend the divorce law by adding' a grounds for divorce living apart for a period of five years, and allowing the Judge to grant ttfe decree to the one Initiating the complaint, came in. with a di vided report from the revision of laws committee and was made a special order of business for 11:30 a. m. Monday (Turn to Page 2, Col. C) Pm)leilssues Are Argued in Warm Session Gosslin - Doesn't -Want- to Be Chairman of Board Committee Advised Utter Asks Action Upon Good Time" in Spite of Moody '8 Doubt Denial that W. L. Gosslin. pri vate secretary to governor Mar tin, would be appointed chair man of the state parole board . If a new board Is established under proposed measure for reform, of the state parol system, waa made yesterday before the house public Institutions committee. A letter making the denial was read to the committee by Repre sentative Barnes, signed by Goss lin and approved by the gover nor, Gosslin stated that he did not desire the position. The letter came a an answer to . rumors that have been circu lating that should the new board be set up, which provides for the appointment of a full time chair man of the board at $4000, it would be given to Gosslin. He now serves on the board by Tlr tue of being private secretary to the governor. The letter waa read while the committee considered action up on Representative Gilea French's two parole bills which would set up a new parole system tt var iance to that recommended by the I administration. After considera- the bills to the house judiciary commute which has before It' the other parole bills. Moody and Utter Disagree Widely Feeling between the attorney general's office and parole board members, came out at the. meet ing which was attended by Ralph HY Moody; assistant attorney gen eral and Dr. Floyd Utter, parole board members. - - The first flareup came when Moody declared that HB 16 which would allow good time to the prisoners now fir the prison would, "turn loose about 90 criminals who shouldn't be turn ed out." - Dr. Utter, came back with the declaration that the men had been promised the good time and were entitled to It. "We want the bill passed so the supreme court can "pass on It If necessary, regardless of the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Forensic Team of a. W.U. Gets Honors Willamette university was In favorable position to win honors in several divisions of the invita tional forensics tournament at Unfleld college, McMlnnvUle, fol lowing preliminary events Fri day. : In the extemporaneous speak ing contest Waldo Hiebert and Wallace Turner of Willamette reached the semi-finals along with three men from College of Puget Sound, two from Whitman and two from Paclfie iinlversity. In oratory, BUI C 1 e m e s of Willamette survived along with two each from C.P.S., Linf ield and Oregon State. In women's debate, Marjorle Thorne and Helen Mae Beal of Willamette constituted the only team to survive the day unde feated although Washington State had three teams In the semi finals. - Kester and Morley, Smith and Gleiser, Bennett . and McLeod were three Willamette men's de bate teams remaining In the race. Supplies Dropped To Pisgah Colony PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. lsP) Art Whltaker, member of the Oregon - board of aeronautics, played tag with low-ban gin z clouds today to drop 1 pounds of flour and 25 pounds of butter to the 75 members of the snow bound-. Plgsah colony 35- miles northwest of Portland. ; it was the first food the colony received In a. week and apprecia tion came in the form of wildly waving arms. Later In the day. as - atmospheric I. conditions im proved, another 900 pounds of food was taken to the colonists via air. -Brightly-colored stream ers were attached to the small packages so that they could be seen easily from the ground. - The colony, supported partly r.y tbe Portland community chest. Is comprised partially of persons re leased to It from municipal court here. CATHOLICS 1 ft 1 1 Barred from their churche for more than 12 years, Mexican Catholics tneir fight to hold service when the Issue resulted in threat of widespread rebellion. Got. Miguel Ale nuua promised an early settlement of the difficulty when he addressed citizens of the capital at Orl aaba, below. Public feeling was brought to fever pitch at mass funeral services for 14-year-old girl, Leonor Banches, top, who waa killed during - - raid on secret rellgioua services. , .- - - - o-. "'-. . O .! ... ". - rLevy Bill Is Reported No Recommendation From Committee; Fund For Cities Proposed Without recommendation, the house judiciary Committee win report out the bill introduced this week which proposes to Impose a 10 per cent tax on liquor to raise funds for municipalities. This decision was reached by the' committee after two possible amendments had been considered. On would have made a reduc tion to S per cent. Another would have limited a proposed S0 tax on each retail dispenser of beer to those selling beer for consump tion off the premises. With the decision to make no recommendation and to leave the fate of the bill up to the vote on the floor, the amendments were dropped. . ."The municipalities are called upon to enforce the liquor laws,1 Frank Lonergan told the commit tee. "There should be a close re lationship between the municl palltles and the liquor commission or the Knox act won't last long." Vernon Williams, secretary of tne Portland citizens committee,' pointed out that in the past Port-, land got 1900,000 from saloon and-now received only 154,000 from' beer parlors. Clement Returns; Oldest Inspector: In Postal Service Fifty years a postoffice Inspec tor, Kdland C. Clement, retired, returned to Salem for a brief visit yesterday to see where the capi tol building v which he . photo graphed many years ago once stood and to view the beginnings of the new.capitoL .When Clement first climbed to the root of the Salem postoffice to take a snap shot of the old capitol. he re called, the trees in Wlllson park were as saplings compared to thir present sire. - A photographer by avocation. Clement yesterday took picture of Poatmaater IL R. Crawford and Assistant Postmaster Arthur EL Gibbard before leaving. He has the distinction of having served longer than any other postal in spector, v The conrteay of the house was extended to Clement when he looked In on the legislature yes terday. Lions Wallop Dues VANCOUVER. B. C. Feb. 19- (A)-Hammerlng In three goal In the final period Guy Patrick's Vancouver Lions handed the league-leading . Portland Buck- aroos a 6-1 shellacking tonight and climbed to within three points of tbe Americans In the Pacific Coast hockey league standings.' Hardliquc FORCE CHURCH 1 ' 1 ,i-V : . - i 7 ( Victim ef reUt-tou riots borted r H mi rj- tiewiwer add f tests thronr from Oiurch Reopening Will Be Disputed By Worker Group MEXICO CITY. Feb. 19-ff- rowerrui anti-religious forces threatened tonight to disrupt con ciliation of .Mexico's 'stormy church-state j controversy. ' The confederation of workers of Mexico, strong labor syndicate which carries Influence In virtual ly every Mexican, sphere, decided tentatively to resist legal reopen ing of churches in Vera Crux state. Militant Catholics recently opened the churches themselves. They had been closed under Mexican law for a decade. ' The widely influential CTM. basically opposed to all religious expression, strengthened Its po tential weight In the conflict with a decision to enter openly into Mexican politics through a pro jected alliance with agrarian groups under the aegis of the na tional revolutionary (government) party. . ;....-- Taxes Pouring In Report " Payments oh 1937 taxes are pouring steadily Into the sheriff's collection department at - the courthouse, T. J. Brabec, deputy In ' charge, said yesterday. Nine hundred fifty receipts had been Issued up to last night. -Citizens coming In to pay their taxes In person are keeping all available clerks busy during the daytime with the result mail, pay ments are left to work over at night. - --v:;;- V- r.". Brabec ' said the - flow of tax money : was about . the . same . as a year ago at this. time. Steadily Deschutes - Courthouse B ill To Aid Marion, View Taken Marlon county' court members yesterday eyed house bill 400,' in troduced Thursday, as a possible solution to the problem of financ ing construction of a new court house...The measure. Introduced by Representative J. F. Hosch of Bend, enlarges counties' levying powers ts spread a tax for court house construction over a period of several . years instead of con fining it to two ' years only as previously required. : i While the bill Is aimed specif ically to aid Deschute county,' the measure Introduced applies to all counties. A school '.building nsed at Bend as the Deschutes county courthouse was recently destroyed by fire. Melsoa enthusiastic Over Prospect . County Commissioner Roy 8. Melson especially was enthusiastic over possibilities la the bill of as sistance la the present courthouse building program here. ' - , "Under this bill we could set REOPENING VvV, 1 7; I v 4 of the province, of Vera Crux won Two Convicted of , m Demos Figure in Fraud on Kansas City Vote, . Finding of Jury . KANSAS CITY, Feb, 19-(ff)-The. government chalked up its first convictions today In ft war fare on what Federal Judge Mer rill E. Otis termed ''election thievery" in Kansas City. A jury convicted Edson - M. Walker, , democratic preelnet judge, and John H. Drum m on d. democratic precinct captain, of conspiring to deprive voters of their right In the general election of Nov. 3. They will be sentenced next Thursday. The maximum penalty 1 a 10- year prison sentence and a 5000 fine. . ,y . ,-. A mistrial was declared In the eases of three other defendants In which the jury was unable to agree. They are- Mrs. Ann V. O'Laughlin, democratic, e 1 e r, k; Mis Lorettn McEntee, democratic judge, and Elijah Burke, young republican judge. - -' :- . - All defendant In the first trial were from. the thirteenth nreclnct. twelfth .'ward. The official count of that precinct gave no votes to Paul R. Byrum, republican con gressional nominee, although, the grand jury count showed he ae-. tqally received 1C2 vote and more than a doten witnesses testified they, voted the straight republican ticket. .. ." , ; . .Certified presidential returns In the . same precinct gave , Pre sident Roosevelt 8 votes and Al fred M. Lahdon el. Evidence was that Roosevelt actually received 5 70 . votes and Landon 170. up a one-mill levy for. five years as' we wanted -to do In the first place," Melson commented.. " Financing plans -hadbeen" de veloped; tentatively, withtthe idea of paying . for the new .courthouse by two levies in. as many years, which would have required a 3.3 mill -tax. Considering 40D,600 As cost of .the new building, wUh $180,000 or 45 per cent to be contributed by the PWA, under the old plan the taxpayers would hare, had to pay out $110,000 a year for Jtwo years. ; t Under Representative. Hosch's bill, the court could, on the basil of present valuations,-raise a tax of approximately $39,300 a year for five years .by the one-mill levy plan, pay the $23,500 from its general fund surplus, and t hu s measurably lighten tbe annual tax load occasioned by the con struction program. , . -4 House bill 400 also authorises acceptance of federal funds ' for courthouse construction. Electioiilliievery RiotReneved; Baseball Bats Svung Freely Badges Taken From Half Dozen Officers When Crowd Closes In Guards Threatened ; Ne Disorder Comes After Evacuation Fizzles WAUKEGAK III. Feb. 19-UPV, Rioting flared suddenly ' tonlgbt outside the strike-bound proper ty ot the Fan-steel Metallurgical corporation, with special deputy sheriffs battling a crowd of ap proximately 200 union sympa thisers. The fighting began when sev eral men surged out of the crowd and tore tbe badges off half dozen special - officers recruited from farms and villages along the north shore. The deputies retaliated with free us of their clubs and base ball bats. In the first rush ot officers. several : persons were driven to the right of, way of the Chicago and North Shore electric line and pushed off a six-foot ledge onto the tracks. Like a fuse, the disorder cir cled the fenced area surrounding the two buildings housing S3 bruised and defiant sit-down strikers. Roving bands recruited from the cTowd made for the deputies and chased them from their posts.. Several officer lost their cudgels as well as their badges.. One was reported badly beaten. Shouts and yells filled the air.. The guards were openly threat ened and ordered to "throw away your badges and go home." A 1 number of- sympathizers- were cudgeled and. retired vlth aching heads. There were no ar-? " rests reported immediately, (By the Associated Press) Officers engaged In one of tho first attempts to carry .out, court's, order to . evacuate "sit down" strikers were turned back yesterday : (Friday). . A force of . 125 deputies and policemen failed to eject 32 men holding two of the Fansteel Metallurgical corporation' plants ' at North Chicago, 111., In a two hour fight. Six men were Injured bef or the sheriff corps retired. At Detroit, more than 2.000" "stay In" strategists held five factories the Farm Crest Bah eries. Inc., Bernard Schwarta' Corp., Webster-Elsenlohr. Inc., the Maser-Cressman Cigar Co., and the Ferro Stamping Co. They demanded higher pay. A "sit "down" demonstration by some press operators delayed' everal edition at the - Detroit ' News before an ' agreement wan reached. The "lit down" method waa' also adopted by 250 employe of -the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., at Akron, O., In seeking . wage Increase and recognition ' of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers' union. ArcMtects' Fees Conference Soon . The county court ha received assurances from Architect 17. C Knighton that the 1 per cent engineering surcharge In the courthouse planning contract ob jected to by PWA officials can be withdrawn. Commissioner Le Roy Hewlett, . member of the' building sub-committee, said yes terday. He stated Knighton had advised that the fee v could be put back to the i per cent basis originally contemplated with the $1000 payment for preliminary plan retained. . To clear up the contract sit uation. Hewlett said he, Cuyler VanPatten of Salem and -John Ram age of Woodburn, . cltlsen members ef the sub-committee, may confer with C C. Hockley, state PWA- administrator, la Portland next week. . - . Tbe PWA also has raised ques tions over contract details re garding duties of tbe clerk of tbe ' works and as to who ia to bear the cost of extra copies of plans and specifications required -for various departments. flA LLADG O o.TODAy ssals . s M. By R. C. When Vlnce Borleske and his lively boys appear in Salem for their annual game. Willamette gym roof menaced by the noise that rise from at thou sand throats aflame; it matters little what may be the odds, dope buckets always bubble up and spill; one loses, one team win when , fortune , nods, but fans may always count on many a thrilL