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r-.,'.., , ' . JK. Legislative News , As the Oregon legislative The Weather Unsettled with showers today, Friday partly elondy; Iax. Tmtp. Wednesday 51 alia. 84, river S.8 feet, southeast wind. :. i i I I I , i ; . i ikm nears It end tnw . portent happenings ar fre- j eneaC Keep in toach through S3e Stateamasu POU NDBD 1651 EIGHTY-SIXTH TEAR Salem, Oregon, Thursday Horning, February 25, 1937 Price 3c; Newsslandj Ze No. 2S3 SLtt : V ! II : Co This Forenoon in lige Limit Redaction to Be Fought Out; Start Set at 10 o'Clock Adjournment Saturday Is . Sought in Resolution; J Delays Deplored ii . r i '- There's many a slip, etc.," but a major house battle over pension legislation may take place this morning, it appeared as the lower body adjourned yesterday after noon to reconvene at 10 a.m. to day. .. ,. . - . . V Several member"', strenuously sought to defer the Impending contest to this afternoon so they could attend the opening of the 'Willamette valley flood control hearing at the chamber of com 'snerce. - One lost motion by Representa tive Hannah Martin and a minia ture storm of amendments and parliamentary rulings ensued Be fore the agreement to reassemble at 10 this morning with 104 bills en the calendar was reached. The pension legislation is a special or der of business. Attempt to Trade Labor Bills Charged The battle oyer the hour of re conrenlng accompanied a hew threat on the house floor to block legislation. Tempers waxed short as the representatlTes hurled charges of inactivity and the pen sion clique asserted an attempt was being made to tie anti-labor bills to the tall of the nenalon bin. .Marion county's woman repre sentative inspired the "fast" when she dropped a resolution Into the hopper calling for - sine die ad journment at 11 o'clock Saturday might. - s Ui-r.: "I wish we knew," replied Speaker Harry Boivln when Rep resentative Wagner wanted "to know when we are going to ad journ. "Whenever a majority of both houses decide to adjourn, it will be done," was the speaker's only predictions" "Well," added Wagner, "I un derstand there is a scheme on foot to force passage of the pension bill in the house and labor bills In the senate and tben refuse to pass the old age assistance In the sen ate unless the house passes the labor bills. ... If it's true, I'm going to use every means I can en the floor to block further leg islation." Adjourn 81ne Die. Martin's Proposal Such talk, was "Just wasting time," Mrs. Martin Interjected, under personal privilege remarks. "I'm getting tired of sitting here and wasting $2500 a day to put on a show," she shouted. "I Just put in a resolution to ad journ at 12 o'clock Saturday night , but the way I feel I'd like to amend It to 1 o'clock this after noon. We're Just passing the buck back and forth and accom plishing nothing-." The house will "get dbwn to business" as soon as a majority of the representatives come "to the full realization that they are adults, Bennett responded In a gallery applause-arousing retort to another question by Mrs. Mar tin. - After Mrs. Martin's motion for adjournment to 10 a.m. today had been put, - Representative Semon declared, in opposition to the house, that "you've been trying to get these bills out on the floor and now you're trying to delay them." A renewed struggle for resump tion of proceedings this morning succeeded. ; v f Pinball Ban Comes Up Today, In Sena t e; Many : Bills Pass Hurdles in the path of used car dealers who Import second- - hand ears . In caravans - from the midwest are provided In SB 265 which passed the senate yesterday under strong; pressure .from the auto dealers of the state..Sen. Me- - Kay. fresh from the hospital. Urg ed the necessity for the bill to pro tect the auto dealers of Oregon against these importation,, which he declared would - demoralize markets on used cars and lower prices on all used cars. Sen. Stei wer entered rigorous opposition oh the ground that it would put a con siderable number of dealers and employes out of business, and de nied that the labor employed to bring out the ears was "dumped" in Oregon. The bill requires a bond with each used car and Iden tification for all used taxis offered In the market. Clark and Stadel man both spoke for the bill. The senate dispatched a full cal endar for the day, passing 28 bills. On the carendar today will be the Showing Today I )ty To Determine ! e of Valley Project, Claim i ' v - i 1 ..:.!-; , All-Day; Hearing to Open at 10 o'Clock in Salem Chamber of Commerce Rooms; Development of Willamette ? River Will Be Theme :A WILLAMETTE valley residents today may o bt a i n a $2,400,000 river development or they may lose it, ac cording to theaanner in which they impress United States army enjrirreers at the all-day hearing' which will open in the Salem chamber of commerce auditorium at 10 o'clock this morning. . . , . ' Milk BiU Coming No Recommendation; Part Repeal of Regulatory Act, BUTs Intent Without recommendation, house bill 200 providing for the repeal of the pooling provisions and basic allotments of the milk control act, is scheduled to come on the floor of the house today. Th decision to report the bill out came after a publie hearing last night before the house repeal of laws com mittee, i Colonel! A. E. Clark, speaking against the measure, contended that by repeal of the pooling sec tion the "heart would be taken out of the law." "We must haTe basic allot ments to t regulate production," Clark said, "we must have pool ing to regulate prices." Chairman i of Board Explains Operation Edgar Smith, chairman of the milk control-board, appeared be fore the committee " to explain the operation of tba.taw.VA...-.'., Grade A producers of the ' Sa lem area were favoring the mea sure. They complained that the basic allotments were handicap ( Turn to page 10, col. 3) World War Hero Dies of Injuries In Movie Battle HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. Peb. 14 -fl-George R. Daley, world war marine corps machine gunner, died in a make-believe battlefield here today from the effects of a motion picture bomb. Daley. 49, the holder of war medals for gallantry in action, was playing the role of a French ma chine gunner In the filming of "The Road Back" at Universal studios. I While S00 actors depleted a charge, a powder bomb was ex ploded beside a "farmhouse In Flanders" to simulate the deton ation of a high-caliber shell. ' . Daley, at the window of the property farmhouse, was knocked unconscious and died later In a hospital, j Battleship Named ) For Oregon Asked WASHINGTON. Feb. 14-s-Representatire Nan .Wood Honey man of Portland, Ore., suggested today to Secretary. Swanson that one of two -new battleships to be constructed soon be -named for Oregon. "I feel it is only fitting that one of the ships be named for our state," she- said. "I would like to see the name Oregon perpetuated In our naval history. The former battleship Oregon, which made history in I the Spanish-American war, now is anchored In the Wll- f -tamette river at Portland, the property of that city. Martin anti-pinball bill; also the Lessard bill to repeal the Oregon . gin-marriage law. c Higher Education , Program Favored . The revamped program tor fi nancing higher education to pro- Tide nearly a million dollars In excess of the millage Income was passed with only six adverse Totes: Baientlne, : Burke. Ross. Spauldtng, Stringer and Chaney. Walker supported the program of fixing the 1930 assessed Yalua tion as the taxing; base, and de clared . additional ' Income was needed to maintain ' the schools. Chaney attacked the plan of re storing, the artificial 1930 base as 'Indefensible.- When the appointment of. Ro bert W. Ruhl of Medf ord as mem ber of the state board of higher education was submitted for the senate's ' approval, Sen. : Angell moved to put oft decision until today, so the senate could. "think . (Turn to page 2 col 4). House Today - AT Jk O. That is the view whicn members of the Willamette Valley Project committee, headed by Senator Douglas McKay, and of the Great er Willamette Valley association. headed by C. H. Murphy of Al bany, haTe taken In preparing to present the. engineers' hearing board with every fact that can be shown to demonstrate seed of reg ulating the now of the Willamette river and Its tributaries and con fining; flood waters within their banks.- " - r c- The hearing; will be open to all citizens who desire to present data orally or In written triplicate out lining needs for and anticipated results of the valley flood control program. It will bring to Salem (Turn to page 10, col. 2) : Employment Here am Capitol Takes 57 Men and Farm Hand Calls 'Are . ' Noted ; Supply Big " ; f Construction,' general labor and employment spurted ahead this week with the break In the weath er, the state ported here yesterday. .The new Capitol contract alone supplied Jobs for 17 men Tuesday and yes terday while the call for common labor elsewhere and for farm hands showed a sharp pickup. The 57 men hired for work on the capitol included 31 laborers. 13 carpenters, seven painters, four electricians, one cement finisher. one tile layer and one layer's help er.' . Despite the gain in employment. more than 300 men and women (Turn to page 10, col. 4) , Davejones Trial Opened at Dalles THE DALLES. Ore.. Feb. 24- (JPy-Dr. .Thomson Co berth testi fied In. a murder trial today that Owen Jones death was not due solely to- a bullet wound . and that Jones was struck over the head with - a blunt Instrument after being . shot. . Dave . Jones, brother of the victim. Is accused of having; been responsible for the killing "of Owen Jones last November. Thomas Jones, brother of the defendant and the deceased, tes tified -Dave Jones owned a 25-3S calibre rifle and that Dave and Owen argued frequently regard ing operations of, a ranch, v , In opening arguments : Frank Dick, defense counsel, contended Dave suffered from irrational periods and had received head Injuries when thrown from a hay wagon In 1914. :. - -- Sheriff Sexton said Dave Jones admitted shooting: his brother but denied beatlnr him. ii Makes Rapid G X BLACK BLIZZARDS" SWEEP DUST BOWL This strOdnf Tjhoto of m dast atom K iaa of tne disaster wrought sectors or (Joloraao, Ksnrat and Texas. Residents of the striken for protectionf Inset, afaiiiijt LnXection or pncumoni, "' F.R. Outlines Power Policy At Bonneville Public Agencies to Get First Call ."on Surplus . There, His Program McNary and Bone Assert Northwest Members Will Tackle Job WASHINGTON, FK Eresldent Roosevelt took Initial steps leading to a uniform na tional power policy by asking congress today 'to authorise the appointment of an administrator to : sell surplus power at the Bonneville dam near Portland, Oregon. . - Publie agencies and coopera tives seeking; to purchase Bonne ville power would be given pref erence - over private concerns. Purchase contracts would contain clauses designed to assure "rea sonable rates to the ultimate consumer. Transmitting a report from his power policy committee,-the pres ident said the legislation recom mended should be "provisional in character, pending the establish ment of permanent administra tion of Bonneville and other federal projects in the Columbia basin, but' should not be Incon sistent with national p- ver poli cies . which may . be hereafter adopted. Nucleus of Gemeral Policy Is Vlaloned Some officials saw in today's recommendations the nucleus of the national policy to com later. The committee proposed that the secretary of the Interior be authorized to appoint the d i mlnistrator who would", opo1-' the Bonneville project with " to j advise of 4 board of three rep resenting; the war and Interior departments and the federal -pnw . The administration would build transmission nnes and sell power not needed for operation of the dam and locks at reasonable rates to be fixed by himself, subject to approval of the power commission. Rates, the report added, should be fixed with a view to encourag ing the widest possible use of the power. Reserve Half for Public Agencies - The administrator would .be au thorized to contract for the sale (Turn to page 10, col. 1) Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 25-(fl)) -The University of Portland Pi lots, leading 19 to 15 at half time, stretched their advantage in the second frame tonight to win from Multnomah club's hoop quintet 46 to 32. O'Donnell, Portland forward, piled up 24 points-to lead the scorers. VANCOUVER, Feb. ti-JP)-EUsworth Vines of California, world professional tennis cham pion, defeated Fred Perry of England, -8,, -2, .7-5, here to night in the 23rd meeting of their eontinentwlde tohr. Vines leads In matches won 13 to 11. The stars will show In Seattle Friday night. ' LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 4-AV Dean Detton, 205, of Salt Lake City, retained his claim to the world'a heavyweight wrestling championship tonight when Vin cent Lopes, 217, Los Angeles, was- disqualified in an uproar ious finish before 10,00 fans at - the Olympic auditorium. . J Kansan with dsst cut L ! bcene la westers Uansas : eeningawa m nnaTf unrs in by the rblack buzzards' which have New Leader of -: Social Security This fa a recent photo of Arthur : J. Altmeyer, el Wisconsin, who ; has been named chairman of the Social Security board to succeed Jofaa O. Wiaaat,' for seer Governor of Kew Hamp- ' anjre, who resisted. J Randaaims Dictatorship Near Proposal to Alter Court , Attacked in Polk and Yamhill Bar Meet McMINNVlLLE, Ore., Feb. 25- 0P)-John L. Rand, Justice of the state supreme court, said tonight If the proposal to alter the na tion's high court la carried out. "and there Is danger that It will be. the liberties of the American people will be gone for ever." . He spoke at a joint meeting of the Yamhill and Polk county bar Other Powers Are ,r , , Already Usurped "We have, seen the power of states curtailed, congress become a mere puppet subservient to the will of the president, and It is now proposed that the supreme court also be prostituted, he said. "There Is a concerted effort to de- (Turn to page 10, coL 7) " Santiam Highway Opened to Idanha The North Santiam highway is now open to Detroit and Idahna and In relatively good traveling conditions. County Engineer N. C. Hubbs reported last night - upon his return from a survey of the road. ' "The careful driver can make the trip to Idahna without trouble now, the engineer said. "1 would advise equipping; automobiles with chains at least from Niagara on up." . Hubbs reported there was 2 feet of enow below Detroit and Stt teet at Idahna. The snow was rather soft for skiing-. The weather was aa warm as in Salem and the snow was melting; steadily. Un derneath it was a layer of Ice ranging; up to 10 Inches in thick ness. - - 4 -.; : ,; Conditions appeared Ideal for retention of snow for a gradual runoff in the spring and early summer: the enaineer added.' :.A CCC crew has succeeded In opening the Breltenbush road to within two miles of the springs. At that point the tree troopers are bucking; 12 feet of snow. ) western Hansaa TJ resents a irraph- been sweeping: tne "ausi dowi i area are iorced to wear ansa xnaAa " GirHadnaped From Church; ; Big Posse Out Former Sweetheart Said ; Suspected; Witnesses Report Abduction Highways Scoured by 50 - Cars of Townspeople : at Emmett, Idaho EMMETT, Idaho, Feb. 25 (AV (Thursday) Fifty carloads of Emmett residents searched high ways -near here early today -for traces of Miss Oynell Boom, 20, kidnaped, police said, from i church last night. Sheriff Boise Rlggs said Ken neth Crowther, 22, former sweet heart of the girl, was sought as the abductor. - He asserted Crowther entered the church where she was prac ticing a Sunday school program and bore her, screaming, to a light roadster and drove away. Residents Turn Out Quickly for Search . Nearby residents, hearing the girl's screams, ran to their doors ana saw tne car aisappear, sner- lff Rlggs said. Within a few min utes, he added, more than SO automobiles filled with townspeo ple were patrolling the highways. Emmett, with a popultlon of bout 2200, is 25 miles northwest of Boise, Idaho's capital, and la a similar distance from the Oregon border. Hampered by darkness and by snowy roads, searchers had found no trace of Crowther or the miss ing; girl several hours after the asserted abduction. They planned to continue their hunt throughout the night. - Miss Boom Is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Soom, and the eldest of fire children.. The family came here from south cen tral IdaboV Twin Falls about ft year ago. -s Isom Lamb Irked, Townsend Rebuff v.; .; ' CHELAN. Wash., Feb. 24-6PV- Keburied in the reported disavow- ment of his plan by a national Townsend officer, Isom Lamb, originator of the "Chelan test" ot the revolving pension program. issued a challenge tonight to the national organisation. His action followed his an nouncement that he would extend his 3200 spending; tests on a na tional scale and the subsequent reported statement at Chicago of J. W, Brlnton, national Townsend vice president, that Lamb was not affiliated In any way with' the na tional Townsend organization. . Lamb Issued this statement to night: "I hereby call off all participa tion In these tests as a Townsend worker and will discontinue those sponsored by me until the Town- send) organization is proved not to have made the statement. - "If the organization did make the statement and does not care to rescind It within 10 days. X will complete plans to continue it on a national scale outside the na tional organization. r-. Pie Sit-Downers " Leave; Pastry Is 'Found Poor Diet LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24- -Through the Intervention of the superior court, 10 bakery workers went off the pie stand ard tonight. ' Superior Judge Emmett Wil son issued a temporary injunc tion and the pie-makers-walked peacefully out of the Brownie pie shop, bring; to an end their ' three-day sit-down strike. -r For three" days, the strikers sat in the shop, subsisting en tirely on pies and getting pret ty sick of them. It was gastron omic suicide.- '. .. Judge Wilson set March 4 as a date for hearing on whether, the Injunction against the strik ers should be made permanent. Home-Made Plane Needs Correction PORTLAND. Ore , Feb. 24-ff) A home-made airplane, the proud builder ot which was not allowed to fly, failed " to rise from tne ground -today- the propeller was too heavy. , -----x.. The plane, powered with mot orcycle engine, weighs but 300 pounds. Technicians saia a new propeller would be built within a few days. State aeronautical officials de clined to let the designer try out the plane because he admitted never having piloted one. An air port pilot If conducting the tests. Force Wm&e Used To Remove Striken : Is ; Threat of Police Ultimatum Read to Men as Company'o Officials rDecline Peace Parley; " . Labor Troubles Still Spread Wide Variety of Industries Tied Up Though Six Disputes in Detroit Region Settled, More Start SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 24 (AP) Police by writ ten notice ordered sit-down strikers out of the Douglas Aircraft Corp. plant late today and said force will be used to remove them if "the powers that be" so desired. Police Chief Charles Dice and two detectives served copies of the ultimatum upon the sitters-down, telling them they were "illegally trespassing." . You are further notified to get off this -property im mediately' the order said over Dice's signature. - Asked what he would do if the strikers ignored the or der. Dice said: "I will take it up with the powers that be and if they Vant me to use force, I will do it." o The ultimatum was served after Townsend Deemed .Contempt - r . a ,; Has Three Days to Demand New Trial; Says Work Won't Be Stopped ' WASHINGTON, Feb. . 2 i-JS-Dr. F. E. Townsend, 1 staring straight ahead without a flicker of emotion on his' lean, anaular face. heard a federal Jury, declare today that he was guilty of contempt, of the house of representatives. - The verdict laid the old age pen sion man open' to a possible Jail sentence for his sensational walk out' last May on a house commit tee Investigating the Townsend movement. The maximum penalty is $1000 fine and a .year tn Jail. "The verdict was not unexpect ed," Townsend said, "We have some reason to expect such a ver dict here, but expect to win even tually. In any case my work will go on. This will make no amer- ence." . . Three Days Given Before Sentence Justice Peyton -Gordon allowed the 70-year-old doctor three days In which to file a motion for a new trial and delayed passing sen tence until after action on the motion. ' ; Ellsha Hanson, Townsend coun sel, said if the motion were over ruled the case would be appealed on the - grounds Justice Gordon erred in excluding evidence of the "Justification" for Dr. Townsend's walkout. It took the Jury which Included a 55-year-old housewife and a 03-year-old unemployed man, only 50 minutes to reach a verdict. - Placer Gold Find Causes Stampede FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 24 -iPy-Airplane passengers arriv ing nere toaay rrom me : www Kuskokwln river area reported a new placer goia striae near the south side of Kuskokwln. bay had started a stampede. Miners were rushing there by airplane ' from' Flat and other upper KusKoawin r towns ana ground was being staaea . out. swiftly, along- r, the Eek V river which empties Into the bay. Guilty Loganberry Case Is N earing Climax; Ray Cross - examination of R a y , Glatt. one of the leading - defense witnesses, will get under way. this morning : when trial - of the case of Woodburn Fruit Growers Co operative association vs. Ray-Mal- tag, Inc., over the 1934 logan berry packing contract resumes before Circuit Judge - Arlie G. Walker here. Direct examination of Glatt by W. G. Hare, , defense attorney, . brought yesterday's trial session to close t 6 p.m. The' trend of testimony yester day Indicated . that Glatt, former director,' secretary and manager ot the cooperative, might : be In ; for a grilling by W,! Cv ; Wlnslow, plaintiff's ' counsel, Jon . the two points to which the trial has .aim- raered, the manins of the regu lar . overhead"-, charge specified In - the berry contract and the authority, by which delivery of berries was ordered stopped in the 1934 picking season. ; Accountants Give Important Testimony rirst from' accountants ana finally from B. EL Maling, presl- Douglas officials declined to par- tlcipate In a peace conference which Director Towne Ny lander of the federal regional labor board attempted to arrange, and had de manded that peace authorities evacuate the plant of strikers. From 200 to 600 strikers re mained today in the factory, ex ecutives giving- the first figure, union officials the latter. - (By the Associated Press) Demands for higher pay and ua- ion recognition sent hundreds ef recruits into the ranks of the na-i. tloa's strikers yesterday.; v. "Approximately 25,000 persoas ware idle In labor disputes at than 40 industrial and , buslne firms scattered from New England to the Pacific coast. Production was curtailed er halted in textile and paper mills; cigar and auto parte factories; ' laundries, shipyards,, steel and iron .foundries r and a huge air plane plant, the Douglas Aircraft Corp., of Santa Monica, Calif. Secretary Roper Says Up to Courts . In a dozen centers the employe participated in "sit-down" dem onstrations. Commenting on this strategy. Secretary ot Commerce Roper declared: "Any sit-down strike that un dertakes to take ' over private property Is a serious and funda- . (Turn to page 10, col. 2) Two Die, Hungary Mine Strike Riot - PECS, Hungary, Feb. 24-D-Two demonstrators were shot and killed, and six others. Including two women, were wounded to night in a clash with police near the mine where 267 coal miners were- entrenched on strike. . Three hundred men and wo men engaged in the demonstra tion and stoned police as they tried to dear the way to the pithead. ' - -' ' ' " , - Mine Director Scick." who said he thoaght the - demonstrators were communist sympathisers, said the demonstration occurred after the striking; miners re- -tnrned unopened a letter sent te them by the management. "I believe the men will stay down in the mine through Thnrs- day," Schick said. "Everything . Is so closed ft is impossible to drop food to them. - Glatt on Stand dent of the defendant caanlntf ' company, and H. F. -Buttertield. ' former, cooperative director and president, opposing . counsel yes-' terday afternoon sought testimony to- bolster their respective con-1 tentlons In the case. " , - While L. B. Hall, defense ac countant. Mating and Buttertield steadfastly, maintained - that the ' disputed ; term, ' 'regular over- : (Turn to page 10; col. 6) ' ALL A D E o:TODAv By R. C. - Pensions,, labor, gambling rackets, are the, issues solons face; members now most doff their Jackets . for the hectic wlndup race: some are hopeful that the gavel for the final time will fall ere these questions, .without cavil, com s to final vote at alL