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Leislatire News ' Am the Oregoa legislative The Meatier Unsettled today and Wed. aeeday, probably rata; Max. Temp. Monday CO, BUn. 40, rfver 7Jt feet, ckmdy, south westerly wind. - ' km Bean rta aid tm portant happenings are tre craeut. Keep la touch through The Stateanuua. - - J .-. ' w ' EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning:, February 23, 1937 "Price 3e; Newsstands 5c No. 2S3 11 l 1 - - - v I x 1 J y- l - I x , v v j ' : , ' - a - - -..-. rr - PCUND3D 1051 . j 1 ... - Bam -r - - - ' ; - : - -, : -:- v. ' . Parley f . - - Fansteel Firm Company Officials Head for Springfield ; Not - Recognizing CIO Non-Operating Employes "of Railroads Seeking Increases in Pay 9 WAUKEGAN, 111., Feb. Union leaders emerged tonight from conference with federal . conciliators seeking to settle the six-day "sit down" .strike at the . Fansteel Metallurgical corpora tion, and announced the strikers would send a delegation to Spring field tomorrow for a peace parley called by Got. Henry Horner. : Simultaneously, three company ; oraciais lett lor Chicago, wner tbey said they would board a train late tonight for the state capital. The anion men, C.I.O. Organ izer Meyer Adelman, Joseph Ja . cobs, attorney for the strikers,' nd Thurlow Lewis, state counsel for tha United Mine Workers, re fused to enlarge on their bald statement, "a delegation will go to Springfield." They would not say whether a committee of the strikers themselres would be chosen. However, each of the leaders told reporters he Intended, to at Tend the conference. Adelmac aaid, "of course I'm going, I'm the strikers representatlTe." Earlier in the erenlng, wnen It. J. Aitehison. nresident of the company, announced he would at tend the peace conference, he said he would not participate if any- vue irmir mau iu siriaers mem aelres represented the sltdowners. (By the: Associated Press) JSpokesmer f.Qr 18 railway brotherhoodscUrTmlng a member ship of 800,000 "non-operating rsilroad workers, shaped a re quest for a pay Increase yester day. They discussed tbe more at Chicago where the heads of the five "operating" brotherhoods, representing the 600,000 men who man the nation's trains,, recently pprored a demand for a 20 per cent wage hike. At tbe same time, employe and employer alike studied the United Automobile Workers' announced plan to ask tbe Chrysler corpora tion for recognition as sole bar gaining agency for Its 77.000 em ployes In nine cities. A similar more by the anion led to the widespread strike In the plants of the General Motors corporation. Grievances left unsettled when that dispute was terminated were under jdiscussion by representa tives of both sides at Detroit. Got. Harold Hoffman of New Jersey coupled a warning that be w o a 1 d not tolerate "sitdown" strikes with an attack on the com mittee for industrial organization. The C.LO be charged in a radio address, claimed "govern mental blessing as It seises pri vate property, defies the law and denies tbe authority of the re maining , per cent of oar . people."" . ' -" " .. Zero Weather in Midwest Regions (By The Associated Press) ; Zero or sab-zero weather de scended on most of the midwest yesterday after weekend floods- near hurricane winds and heavy snows took at leaat five lives and spread destruction over a wide area.' Southern Minnesota and .Iowa cleared 'highways - burled under snow which in some places was piled in drift 20 to 25 feet high. Temperatures generally in Min nesota were- from zero to ten above, forth Dakota felt the sting of aero to 18 below temperature. - Iowa dug oat from under the worst snowdrift blockade of the winter. Hundreds of motorists were marooned Saturday and Sun day. Several trains were stalled for hours. An aged farmer col lapsed and died la a drift near Atlantic la. - a Peters Arrested -. After Car Crasb - C J. Peters,' COB Market, was arrested by city polk last night after crashing bis car into the rear of a car - belonging to .Col. C XL Rice, Portland, which was parked In front of the home of Brigadier-General T h o m a s E. Rilea, 1120 South High. ' A charge of being drunk was lodged against Peters. No wit nesses to the accident had been found early this morning and no lle hesitated : to place charges f drunken or recklesa driving against Peters. He admitted driv tag the car. edWith I V.s AFTERMATHS OF. TW 1 MAJOR TRAGEDIES: r- I HI 11 II lli III 1 jmmm i-'-JI . vl iZnin .IMM 111 ' - - J .- ,p .. - ,, ' ..I -.... "y : , " : ..... ., ,f , j.,- fl - n - - r -- ' - - Q ? . , ll-J'' - ;-sV,- ' ' I I- .. . ... ..r-x:.-' ..-. .: . . " I I II II I I II If-" t i . . - . MA -.w." ft . 1 I if - I - ' i L" -'VP" a' ' .y-7-,w -1 I Above, stretcher bearing one of the critically wounded men from tbe U. S. S. Wyoming to oae of tbe two cutters from the hospital ship Relief, after the shell explosion which killed seven and Injured a num ber of others. Below, the safety net of the Golden Gate bridge at Ban Francisco, salvaged after the accident In which it was torn away and tea. men were killed. International Illustrated News photo. $11,250 Bid for Old Stayton Bank An 1 11,2 SO offer has been made for the house, fixtures and fur nishings of the Bank of Stayton, In liquidation, according to a pe tition for acceptance filed in cir cuit court by Mark Skinner, su perintendent of banks. The new bidder is H. J. Rowe of Stayton. The third offer to date, Rowe's Is the highest yet made. It ex ceeds the original bid, by J. F. Richards, and Albert Titze, by 23250, and the second bid. by Av ery D. and Mamie V. Murphy, by 21250. x . f The latesfc petition was filed conditioned by Skinner's right to move for acceptance of any higher bid that might be made. A hear ing on proposed sale of the bank ing house, and. fixtures is set for Friday morning in circuit court here. - j ' " ; The banking house is carried on the booka at 120.481.71, the fix tures and furnishings of upstairs apartments at 112.117.22. Miners Hurling Dy namite Set Pace in Struggle for Oviedo BILBAO, Spain, Feb. 22-PV-A bloody struggle raged tonight in the streets of Ovieda, "Alca zar of the Asturlan mlnelanda. . Paced by reckless dynamiters brawny miners who light dy namite fuses from their dangling cigareta and then throw them ten thousand government mili tiamen were said by President Juan Antonio Agulrre of the basque regional -regime to have seized eight streets east of the Ovieda" north "station; Plight of Orleda Prisoners Critical - President : Agulrre I said the plight oti the "decimated insur gent band, bottled inside Ovieda tor three months, waa "critical. " MADRID, Feb. .2 2-i?)-S urging government battalions regained control of the capital's lifeline to the east today, commanders an nounced, pushing back fascist le gions that seized the Valencia highway in a bitter battle on the Jarama river sector, the "Marne of Madrid. - -r 4 A terrific offansire waa waged . . ' Sitdown Boss and Sitdown Workers Reach Agreement ;' ' ' - . - .- DETROIT, Feb. 22.-(Tues-day) -JPy Alfred R. Glancy, volunteer mediator, announced the settlement early today ' of the four-day sitdown strikes of President Walter I Fry and 110 ' of the employes of the Fry Products company. Glancy, until 1930 president of the Oakland. Motor. Car com-' pany and vice-president f of the General Motors corporation, in a statement said: ; ; ; " "The strike was settled at midnight after a four-hour dic- cussion with representatives of the company's employes. We win not mention the terms of the settlement. All we have to say is that it has been amic ably settled by both parties and work will be resumed Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. ' near the town of San Martin de La Vega and La Maranosa in which the government militia men, fighting to loosen Gen. Francisco Franco's tightening strangle hold on the capital, were reported ' to have shoved the in surgents off the eastern highway and rallied their forces to keep the initiative. ' ; . . Battle Fought Near i r i Truck Highways --f Tanks, artillery and airplanes, bolstering waves of - gorernment infantrymen, fought the insur gents down the " Jarama ralley that; leads to Madrid's truck highways' tothe socialist eastern provinces, the Valencia and Guadalajara roads. - y Ft-- it .(Insurgent commanders earlier reported seizure of four and one half miles of the Valencia road. declaring they had shut another exit to the besieged capital and were driving toward the only re maining egress, the road north east to Guadalajara.) ' Government reports ' said only occasional shells menaced traffic on the Valencia highway. : Third Milk Board Hearing Is Slated Having already had two hear ings, the milk control board Is in for another airing, according to the plans of the repeal of laws commltttee. The committee, which has before It two measures affect ing the control act, is scheduled to hold a hearing on them Wed nesday night. ;' Both measures are by Repre sentative Russell Hogan. Multno mah. . One would submit to : the people a referendum of the con trol law and the other would re peal the pooling section of the act. . The committee voted last week to bring the sectional repeal meas ure out on a divided report. Sub sequently. Chairman A. M. Esson, who is opposed to the repeal of the act, announced that he wanted further time to study the bill. A repeal bill has already gone to defeat in the senate and pro posed amendments to the control law-have been withdrawn.- British Vessel on Rocks Near Japan SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 22-OP) -The British motorshlp Angelina struck a rock at full speed and was calling : for assistance near Formosa, south of Japan; Globe wireless reported today. - . ; The S.O.S. message picked up by the wireless station at Manila. P. L, said: ."Struck rock under water in full speed. We tried to pull out but in vain. Position near P u k 1 K a k u. North Formosa. Grounded. Need assistance.' - - The Teasel' is .owned "by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., and was believed not to carry any passengers. The message was" re ceived " at : 14 ' a. m:, Tuesday? Manila time, (2:44 p. aw Pacific standard time). " -; Z, Portland Youth Kitted . In Fall Front Freight LA GRANDE, Ore., Feb. 11-JP) -Lowell Wesley r Price,- !, of Portland, died almost Instantly when he fell from a moving freight train and rolled under the wheels Both legs were severed and. his skull crushed. . , if lrmg btjuads Lobby r or Ethiopian a. . Rebels, Order Mussolini Irate at Plot Against Graziana; to Mop Up Opposition - Chieftains Facing Death for Rebellion Even in Unconquered Region ' : ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 22-4P)- Italy's makers of a new Roman empire, stone by an assassin's at tack: on their new Tlceroy, ordered the tiring sauad Instead of the peacemaker tor unruly Ethiopians tonight. ., ,-- ' From Rome, Chancellor Benito Mussolini decreed summary ex ecution for the ehamma-clad nat ives who. on pretense of -receiving gifts, threw hand grenades that wounded Rodolfo Graxianl, the hardbitten marshal who fought his way through tho sands and marshes of the sonth to conquer and become the Tlceroy of Africa's last independent kingdom. Death for every native chieftain or. officer who opposes Italian troops, even In the territory yet unoccupied, also was decreed. . Already, 2,900 native suspects and witnesses in last Friday's bombing hare been rounded up; 20,000 troops Vara in 'the Addis (Torn to page 10, col. 4) Body of Baby Is Found, Chemawa f ' " Wrapped in Newspaper and Tossed in Brash, Is Coroner's Report - -. Cornorer L.- E. Barrlck and Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honeycutt were called to the Chemawa dis trict early last night when the paper-wrapped body of a pre mature baby was discoyered lying in brush alongside the road lead ing from the Southern Pacific tracks to the Chemawa grange haiL The coronor said the baOy hd been dead , not longer than two days.'.;;- J The discoyery was made -by William Meithof, Brooks, and his cousin, John Meithof, Salem route . A l -JA by them to the authorities. -TCToild Apparently j Stillboni. Coronor Says Apparently stillborn, the child had been wrapped first in a news paper, then in heavy wrapping paper and the package bound with strips of doth. Dr. Barrlck said. Location of the package indicated it had been- thrown hurriedly into the brush, 100 feet north of the roadway and a quarter mile west of the railway. The cornor took charge of the body but said there was no means of identifying it. - "The baby i had not been dead oyer two days, possibly not that long," Dr. Barrlck said. "It ap peared to hare been about a five- months child. : kW'-- .Further i investigation of , the ease will be made today.' - Antitrike Head Formerly Sleuth WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-JP)- senaie invesugators neara today that a former Pinkerton detective agency operative, James T. John son, headed the "loyal employes' committee" organised In General Motors' Baltimore plant. . Johnson, a 'alight, mustached auto worker, told the LaFollette tJTil liberties committee he had once worked for Pinkerton on the Atlanta, Ga., fairgrounds, but de- niea ne waa on ine agency s pay roll when ' he helped 'form the anti-union committee. " 1 " Earlier testimony showed that General Motors paid f 222.000 to Pinkerton - and other r detective agencies for carrying' on labor espionage in Its plants. The se tr ice was "wiped out Ja. 21. : f : i .. Rossman Praises I ; U.S.ffighCk)nrt PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 22-(ff) -George Rossman justice of the Oregon supreme court,' told the Oregon Society. of -Sons of the American ; Rerolutlon tonight that the nation's supreme court was the "most wonderful trib unal ever created by man.' Rossman, speaking at the 47th anniversary dinner of the soci ety, described "slowness of the high court as ."ralu-ble- partic ularly in .times of stress and de scribed i the body as - the , only branch of gorernment standing between the "minority and the "popular mandate. 'ists Two Mouses in Move Legislal Pension Group Relents, Wins Temp orary Aid Security Bills . Reported Out by Ways-Means, Night Meeting "Liberal Bloc" Is Formed by Willis Mahoney ; 39 Bills Pass - By JOHN D. MINTO t -A temporary rictory of the in surgent pension bloc in the lower house of the Oregon legislature was signaled last night when the ways and means committee Toted out on a divided report, the social security measures.' As the turbu lent group rested on its hard earned laurels, Willis Mahoney, former mayor of Klamath Falls, Injected himself into the picture by leading the organization of a "liberal bloc" in the house. The ways and means commit tee action came last night after seven administration social secur ity bills by the ways and means committee had been dropped; into the house hopper. The bills cover child assistance, blind aid, old- age pensions and other phases of the program. Appropriation or 2S.000.000 is made from liquor revenues and 11.600,000 as a di rect appropriation to be matched with-: federal funds. Main Report Retain 70-Year Axe Limit ; House bill 472, concerning old age assistance, is the only one at tssne. The majority report of the committee will recommend I that the age limit be left at 70 years. Representative Barnes, I who promised that members or tne i nouse wouia nare an opporiuiuiy to rote on tne mailer, wui onng (Tarn to page 10, col. 1) Farm Labor Board Setup Unopposed " No opposition developed last night' when the senate industries committee held a public hearing on house bill 224, known as the grange labor measures. : The bill provides for the crea tion of a labor conciliation board of fire members to be appointed by the state labor commissioner. : Two of the members would be recommended by the state grange and farmers union, two by the state federation of labor and one by the state labor commissioner. The bill prorides the latter mem ber shall not be Interested eith er in labor or agriculture, j The board would operate i sim ilarly to the state board of con ciliation and - would deal j only with farm problems :: j Morton Tompkins, member of the' grange . executive committee, appeared before the committee In the interest of the bill. Labor was represented tf Ben Osborne, ex ecutive secretary of the state federation of labor. j " Chairman Chaney of the ! sen ate Industries committee said the bill probably would be reported out not later than Wednesday night. .. -! " Committee Struggle oh Court Measure to Start on March 9 (By the Associated Press) .WASHINGTON,' Feb. 22--Cap-ltol Hill received notice today that the intensive phase of the gigantic struggle over President Roose velt's court reorganization pro posal would begin March 9. - Supporters of the presidential proposal succeeded In .getting the senate judiciary committee to set that " date tor .the" beginning of hearings on the program to em power the president to name one new Justice , to. the federal courts tor each Justice OTer7 who re fuses to ; retire. ' Z-i Cummin gs Ha y Be " First. Witness . : ; . - The committee acted without a record rote after rejecting mo tions that hearings be postponed until March 15 or 21. Chairman Ashurst ,(D-Arii) . said Attorney General Cummin rs probably would be the first witness. -' . A vote of 12 to 5, the committee directed a farorable report on an other court measure, which la supplementary to the presidential program but which Is compar atively Bon-controTersiaL It la the IFr'omriote-M ivalr&ttiifi Aa ainsl ion C7 Comes to Help n PensionsBloc WILLIS E. MAHONEY Substitute Labor f Bill Is Proposed Committee to Replace Bill For Registration, Cut Use of Troopers The house committee on aMmtn istration and reorganization last night voted to Introduce a sub stitute bill for house hill SO, which prorides for" tbe registration of labor organizations with the corp oration- commissionerr-Tle n a w measure has been revised to meet a number of objections to the first measure, sponsors declared. , The " substitute measure will eliminate use of the state police to enforce the act and prorides for an appeal from the ruling of the corporation " commissioner to Bnnroma .nnrt in "rase of the reTocatlon- of a license. Iatimidation Withdrawn, , Cause for- Rerocatioa It has also removed the word Intimidation as a grounds of rel ocation or the tact that one of the officers has been convicted - of a crime as cause for revocation.. " The bill requires that all labor organizations shall register with the commissioner and shall state the number in the group, the of ficers and rules of the group. : : The original bill did not pro vide for , a hearing in case the commissioner should revoke , a license. . The committee also has before it house bill 57 to prevent symp athy, strikes. Nurse Wins Snow Race With Stork HOOD RIVER,- Ore., Feb. 22- ypy-iltn Bessie Williams, county health nurse, told of a successful race with the stork' here today. . . The . county crews cleared an eighth, of a mile of snow-filled road so Mrs. AmChda Dill, an ex pectant - mother, alone with her children at her home near Park dale, eo9ld reach a hospital here. Miss Wtlllams said she brought the . woman to town In her car when, the road was cleared. The baby was born the same evening. long-pending Sumners bill to per mit the ' retirement of supreme court Justices at full pay upon reaching 70 years of age. Already passed by the house, it now will go to the senate floor. d ; ;v Has Bearing on Farm 'v ':'"Jr Aid, Booserelt Says A ' r- . Meanwhile,-the subject of re Tamping the supreme court bobbed up incidentally at a White House conference, in which "Mr. Roose relt : discussed - his agricultural program with leaders of farm, or ganizations; It was mentioned, participant said, as "one of the things that tamt be borne in mind In shaping farm proposals. , i Senator Burke (D-Neb)," an avowed opponentof the president's bill to name new I supreme court justices, asserted la a radio speech that -"the- Independence ' of the judiciary is undergoing the meat insidious attack- since the con stitution was written. He a&ked that the youth of the nation rally to the opposition. , A A Speaker Bankhead told a press conference .the senate should act first on the president's bill, j - to Defeat GandBjt& . . ...... o. Fear Bill Will Hit Racing Act One Objection Argument Not Overcome Until Van Winkle Is r Placed on Record Reconsideration Looming Today; Carney Fighta for Hannahs Bill . By RALPH C. CURTIS Suspicion that a "double reverse Let - George - Do - it" scheme -may serve the pinball : lobby in its strenuous efforts to keep legisla tion barring these devices oft Ore-' gon's statute books was growing Monday night following a surprise defeat in the senate for Represen tative Hannah Martin's bill: call ing for fllegalislng. confiscation and destruction of t h e s e ma-, chines. - - - The adverse rote in the senate -was 15 to 14 and friends of the bill served notice that it would be brought up tor reconsideration today. , This would require a change of sentiment by one of the "no" Toters but Senator Carney, the bill? most ardent advocate de spite the f aet that his own bill on the same subject is In the house, said this would be arranged.. . . Debate in the senate indicated . that the pinball lobbyists' strate gy was to arouse rivalry between the two branches of the legisla ture, get each to insist" upon its own' bfll, and see to it that each defeats the other's bill. Hear Pari-Mutuel ' r" Law la Kndangered ' There were, too. suspicions that it went deeper than that; that the lobbyists had counselled those, members who hearkened to their pleas, to vote for the bill that be-, longed to their branch as a sop to the advocates of this legislation, and then find excuses to defeat . the other one. First line of defense tor the op ponents of Rep. Martin's bill in the senate was an asserted fear i-that it might be so broad aa to . r...Lij l i . .., ' luruia pari-muiuei oviiiog uu horse and dog races, and this rea soning was not downed by reports of oral opinions to the contrary by Attorney General I. H.'Van Winkle and his assistant. Ralph Moody; the argument was not quelled , until, . at- the climax, a messenger came dashing In with Van Winkle's signed - and sealed opinion that the bill had no bear ing on pari-mutuels. On the basis of this fear, the bill had been re referred to the revision of laws committee earlier in . the day and then recalled. . - Senator Stringer attacked the bill on ;the ground that it was ob viously unconstitutional, and read a decision interpreting the "due ' process clause of the federal con stitution to back up his argument. Proponents of the bill said it had been ; drawn by Moody who de clared it was constitutional in hia opinion. . . House Delay Irks Some, Not Carnex Several, senators complained at. the failure of the lower house to (Turn to page 10, col. 6) Grange Unit Rapa Lobby Committee ' PENDLETON, Orel, Fe b. 2 2-(JPr-A resolution passed unanim ously by the White Eagle grange criticized the state grange legis lative committee for asserted fail ure to support legislation, "design ed to aid agriculture by providing for tho free movement of crops. 1 Referring directly to the mari time atrike the. resolution .stated: "W take no sides in this costly controversy . . . .but .we do insist that effective legislation can be enacted- to end ? such strife and financial loss.. - J a ) i o .TO DWy By TL- C. ',. Lerlslators ' make, tt a s. : but they're law nnto.t 1- selves; each . his own" c " : u-s-ions draws, into pros r.-.i cons he delved. Lobbyisu ' n ay gather near, offer coding drinks - that foam ; o n 1 y c clear 'voice they hear ttat't the voice of rotes back hen e.