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. i " i' - i ' I II ... - The CTralfter Unsettled today, probably shower; Monday probably "rain; Max. Temp. Saturday' BO, Mia, 80, rlrer 5.4 feet, rain .01 Inch, south wind. Mi i I v. l I 1 A the Oregon legislative eulon aears its end Im portant happening arc fre wuent. Keep in toach through The Statesman. ...' C1 i PCUNDSD 1651 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR t- V Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 28; 1937 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 201 a It I I l it .1 , '-. .v,y-. .1 1 1 I vmmi hi i- I i - ' - . . SO alt Down .Roil TAT TT TNTTl ( 11)1 rza o - Titles in Four Of Weights Go Benson With Twb.Rankcd Second; Franklin Has Pair of Victories Permanent Trophy Taken by Local School and -Medals Presented By PAUL HAUSER Salem high took back . the sUtc high school wrestling champion ship last night as four of Coach Vera Qilmore's squad of 19 wres tlers grappled their way through the finals and into championships In tbelr weight divisions. It was Salem's third champion ship In six years and made Salem even-up with Benson In champion ships won. - i Benson placed two wrestlers in championships to take second place, winning over Franklin, which also placed two, by Tlrtns of a greater number of runner ups. Conrallls and Oregon City each placed one wrestler in weight championships. Salem was awarded the perma nent state championship trophy, a statuette of two wrestlers in action, and each winner in the ten weight - dlrlslons was pre sented a medal. Four Salem Youths ' 7 Oregon Champions : The new champions are: pounds, Webb, Corrallls; pounds. Kay M!o,' Salem; pounds, Ebert, Franklin: 105 lit lis 12S pounds. Earl Nichols, Salem; 1SS pounds, Williams, Franklin; 145 pounds, Graves, Oregon City; 155 pounds, Meyers, , Salem; .1(5 pounds, Phillip, Benson; 175 pounds, Cavaganaro, Benson; heavyweight, Nunn, Salem. Phillip, Benson, was the only repeater but did not gain his sec ond championship in the same weight class. Phillip last year won the 175-pound class end this year the 165. An unexpected win by Nunn, Salem heavyweight, :ov e r Man ning of Benson In the next to the last event cinched the title for Salem. , Salem Places Nine . In Tourney Salem placed nine men in -the finals, five more, than Benson, which had four. In one event, the 155 pound class, two Salem wres tlers, Cottew and Meyers, were pitted against each other in the finals. Meyers won a decision.' Tom Mlo, who had to go through two quarter - final matches to reach the semi-finals, Jos, to Ebert of Franklin in the US pound class bat deserved a medal of some kind for wrestling three times in one sight. Mlo de cisioned NIshkawa of Benson la their - quarter-final rematch, staged last night after their Fri-r day match was no" decision after three overtimes,-and then deci (Tnrn to Page S, Col. 2) . , Catholic Tourney Games Are (Hose PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. -St. Mary's of Beaverton was the first quintet to enter the semi' finals of the Catholic high school tournament here by virtue of tw6 victories In the day's play. The Beaverton team won from The Dalles in the afternoon. 34 to 12. and defeated Sacred Heart of Salem tonight. 21 to II. In a thrilling, nip and tnek battle. In the other night game, SL Mary's of Eugene won from St. Stephen's of Portland, 27 to 22. Victors in the afternoon play were Mount Angel, defeating SU Mary's of Medford SS to 11. and Columbia Preps, who won. from Star of the Sea. Astoria. 21 to 17. Elderly Actress ; Misses Last t Cue NEW YORK, Feb. 17-CFV-Maude O'Dell. -Bessie Rice'1 In Tobacco Road since the show opened on Broadway four years ago. was found dead in her dress ing room tonight, a few minutes before she was to have gone on the stage. Death was attributed to a heart attack. : , The show went on. James Bar ton, the star, who plays Jeeter Lester, and the andlenee were not Informed of the death of the 85-year-old character actress from Charleston, S. C. They, were told that Miss O'Dell had been taken ill,- when ft became necessary to read "Bessie race's" lines from the wings. To Local Boys High Is State Mai Blast in Highway Severe; Five Emf. jyes Escape Seriqus Injury ' I . ' . i . ' .: " ' i." ----- " mmmwm - "' ' - - : ? :" " , , . . - ; I r- ...!.-- - .- v. -r , i- . s. - . - t. ' '.' r .- - ,': , i Wilkinson Burned Ahout Face and Arms, Not Badly; Ahalt Slightly Hurt; Three Others Unscathed; ; Skylights All Shattered, Doors Blown Off : AN oil tank blast that shattered all skylights in, the high way department blacksmith shop near the penitentiary s shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning miraculously failed to injure seriously the five state employes who were at work there. '- - . ;:-V.';:-: The flash of flame that followed the explosion burned Pensions Purpose Of Two Tax Bills Amusements and Luxuries to Bear Load, Scheme of House Sponsors Two new tax measures, - de signed to produce funds for old age ' assistance apppeared in the house yesterday. They were spon sored by the taxation and reve nue Committee. They would place a tax on amusements and lux uries. ; , ? - Luxuries .would be taxed- 10 per cent of the gross sale price. , They would include tobaccos and . tobacco products, all malt syrups and other extracts, syrup combinations or derivatives used as a base or content in the manu facture, making or perfecting of any beverage and alii cosmetics anC beauty preparations includ ing perfumery, bath salts,' body Ci earns, rouges, face powders, hair tonics, depilatories and items used to change the shade of the hair. ' I The second bill would Impose a tax of one cent on each 2C cents paldMor admission, thus exempt ing tickets of 25 cents and under. Any admission where part of the price is tor - entertainment and part for food would be taxed 20 per cent of the total price. The aters, athletic contests, exposi tions, ' dances, carnivals, circuses and similar entertainments would be affected. Religious, agricultur al and school events are exempted. Defendants Given Damages by Jury A circuit court Jury brought in three verdicts, all for the de fendants, after deliberating four hours - yesterday afternoon " over the ease of Joe F. Ringwald vs. Douglas McKay, Inc., and Dean R. Adams. . J ' ; V The Jury 1 allowed the McKay firm S222.S3 on its S297.CS counter-claim ' for motor . vehicle damage arising from the accident involved, near the East Labish Center store last June 27, also found for the other defendant, Adams, but allowed him nothing on his f 1 0 counter-claim - tor personal injuries and in the third verdlet found Jointly for. the two defendants without .consideration of damages. Lena V. Robbins wis Jury foreman. - Ringwald had asked for S3 SO tor damages to bis automobile, - Clarence T. Wilson Better PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 27-HT) -Dr. Clarence True Wilson, na tionally known temperance lead er, who suffered a stroke Thurs day, was reported "still Improv ing by his nurse tonight. K idnaped A rgen tind Ch ild ls i Discovered Sid in Nea r Horn e ; LA PLATA, Argentina, Feb. 27 -P)-Baby Kugenlo ; Peyrera Ira ola, Argentina's "Lindbergh f baby," was found today, the life choked out of his little body. It happened almost five years to the day after Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnaped from " J ersey'a Sourland hUla. - - - Like Baby Lindbergh, two-year-nld Knrenlo. the seventh child of baronial cattle wealth, was killed by his kidnaper. He was stnppea of his little suit, choked and wounded, and left, his arms crossed on his chest, in the slime of a pigpen at the edge of beauti ful "La Sorpresa," his parents' estate. . 1 v . 'Argentina's greatest murder hunt was on tonight. Several sus pects already were held. But po lice were reluctant to decide whether one of these was the "bearded man! who carried little Eugenlo away last Wednesday 4. Jm- Lynn wuunson about the face, neck and arms, scorching his hair. but a -physician -said the injuries did not appear to be serious. Har ry Ahalt was slightly burned. Neither was taken to a hospital. - Although they were working beside the tank when the dome I lew out, Martin Fischer and John Harnsberger, welders, and Fred Wlckman were unhurt. Damage to the large shop build in:, which lies southwest of the main highway shop structure, was relatively light In addition to wrecking three large skylights, the blast blew the bottoms of slid ing doors at each end of the plant off their tracks. ? - Cause of the blast was not im mediately ascertained. It was be lieved that sparks from a welding torch set fire to fumes from the tank, which had contained road OIL : Democrat ; 3; Choice Is Hinted ?Watch Him" Is Advice of vMahoney Who Also Is ' r . Looking to 1938 . Looking ahead " to the presi dential election of IS 40, Oregon democrats should keep an eye on Jim Farley in considering can didates. Willis Mahoney told democrats at a luncheon yester day at' the Quelle cafe. Mahoney, ex-mayor of - Klam ath Falls and candidate for Unit ed States senator in the last election, said . he based his re mark upon observations made on his. recent trip east for . the . Far ley testimonial dinner. . "I'm not launching Mr. - Far ley's candidacy, but my guess is that you should watch him." "As for campaign issues, so cial security : will continue to be . (Turn to Page 8, Col. 1) s Rivers iii France ; Rising Perilously PARIS, Feb. 28-(Sunday) -(A) -Suspension of all navigation be tween Paris and Rouen seemed likely early today as the River Seine, swollen by a torrential rain and hailstorm during ' the night, continued to rise. . Persons dwelling in the Riv erside districts of ivry snd Cnol-sy-le-Rol, southeastern suburbs of Paris, left their : homes tor higher ground as a rise of the Seine of four and a half incite in the last 24 hours brought the water over the- quel's at some points. - - The River Marne also was still rising. However, the waters of the upper Seine and tributaries of the river showed signs of fall ing, leading to hopes that Paris would be no worse flooded than at . present. :i The peak of - the flood was predicted for today or tomorrow. : evening and left him in the pig pen, a mUe and a half from his rambling, luxurious home. A police communique tonight announced the baby's death was due to strangulation. There were nJ other marks of violence except scratches, ; probably caused by wire through which the kidnaper dragged the child between the b' se and the scene of the killing. Police said Eugenlo's clothing was found In "perfect condition In a cornfield about half a mile from the spot where the body was discovered. ; v a : : -- It was believed the blue-eyed ch'l had been' slain Thursday, the day after he disappeared. First word today that Eugenlo had been found sent his grand father, the powerful Senator An tonio Santa Marina, speeding from Mar Del Plata for . the Estancia with physicians, on the hope the baby was still alive.' I was a lost hope. Farley Champ Both Sides in '1 JCoiirl Dispute; Gain Recruits Smathers Is for Scheme : of Roosevelt; While ' ' Donahey Objects ; ' Three Decisions Bearing i on New Deal May Be Made on Monday ; WASHINGTON, Feb. Supporters and opponents 01 me RooseVelt proposal for reorganis ing the Judiciary each gained a sdiate recruit today. Senator Smathers (D., N. J.) declared ; himself for the white house program, asserting that "all the people of the nation will be best served by adding new and younger members to the supreme court, men with liberal and pro gressive approach to the nation's social and economic problems." ' Senator Donahey (D., O.) aligned himself with the opposi tion and said "this entire contro versy vitally affects the Judiciary, a co-ordinate branch of the gov ernment and should be referred to the people the source of all political power." Pope Radio la . Defense of Plan Meanwhile, the supreme court retirement act, which congres sional leaders hope may bring about some withdrawals from the high bench, and a, diminution of the present tense conflict, awaited President Roosevelt's certain slg nature, i x - - - t Tonight, Senator - PopeO Tdahol -went an the radio to urge the enactment of the Roose velt legislation, asserting that a major portion . of a legislative program approved by the people in the last election is -ai tne mercy of the reactionary Judges packed into the .court by former presidents.. . TY,m rnnrf 1tlf meanwhile. lmperturbably prepared ' for its first decision day in a fortnight next Monday. The tribunal has had under consideration - tnree (Turn to Page 8, COL 6) : m ii i i 1 "iw . 0 Sonja Falls Down Just like Novice KANSAS CITY, Feb,. X1-fP)r Son J a Henle, the skating movie star, fell flat but went over big in an exhibition here today. , The ice was bad. Her manager said it was. In -pursuit of that theme he called oft an event billed as the "dying awan." Nobody" else ' seemed to care much, but Sonja's aplomb suf fered considerably. It took some minutes to get the smile back on her face and she spent a consider able part of the evening scooting from one. section of the ice to another hunting a piece smooth and hard enough for her plruoet ting. She got a big hand, even on the falL , -o About all the tumble proved was that a champion falls on the lee Just like anybody else. Sonja sat down, very firmly, and scooted some, yards In that position with her feet well above the surface. : It all happened Just as her show opened. - . " ' ' - - " Solo wC3iain Gang'' Of lUamatH Quits KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., Feb. rr-AVKlamath Falls was with out Miles Wukson. the city's one man chain gang, today, and po lice said that slnee-he vwas re ported to have left town they vers Just as well satisfied. :; Wukson. officers said, was hob bled while removing snow from city streets because of a tendency to wander off in search of a drink. H vi left behind trhen' other nrlannera vers taken to dinner lt nlrht. and officers- reported the lock had been cut from the city JaU and Miles had aepartea when they returned. Police School to Be Provided Here EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 27-3-Warren O. Hyde, director of the League of Oregon Cities' project to provide schools for police offi cers, named 11 cities in which instruction will be provided. They are: Astoria, Salem, Pen dleton, La Grande, The Dalles, Corrallls, Eugene, Marshfleld, Medford, Klamath Falls and Bend. , RepresenUUves of the Univer sity of Oregon, law school. . the federal . bureau of investigation, state and- Portland police will as sist In the Instruction, which will begin late in March : Fluke Leaves Pension Issue JJp To Senate Passage of Finance Bill Obviates Necessity, .Houses Agreeing Compromise Is Possible; Another Full Week of Session Prospect; i' By a A. 8PRAGUB - The fate of old age pension leg islation : rests squarely with the state senate and undoubtedly win remain there.' When, the house passed ' without amendment HB 47f, the bin for financing relief and old age pensions, which .the senate passed - with alacrity yes terday, control on the pension issue passed out of its hands.' For HB 478 does provide funds .for pensions according to the present law. That being enacted the sen ate can do what it pleases about changing the age limit. For if there is no agreement between the houses the old law will hold. The way this happened was not smart polities but dumb . politics. The house pension bloe. elated over its success Thursday in pass ing HB 472 lowing the age require ment to 65 years, and having- no care, or no idea as to where the additional money is to come from. Jauntily on Friday passed HB 478,. the appropriation measure, without an amendment, and this had provided funds for age. 70 pensions only. The senate passed the bill Saturday without change. There was no indication last night that the house group realised that they had relinquished their posi tion; nor any indication that the senators knew the power, was pass ing into their hands. . Ooveimer.Unlikely ;j To Sign HB 472 - Of course after the senate comes the governor, with a power of veto. He will undoubtedly sign HB 478 which will take care of present pensioners. It is doubtful if he would sign HB 472 in its present form. : - What the senate will do with HB 472 which establishes the re quirements tor pensions cannot be foretold, although there is a strong sentiment for more liberal pensions. It may be Wednesday before the ways .and means com mittee which has the biU at pres ent Is ready to consider the sub ject. This means that adjournment before next Saturday night is al most out of the question. There are possibilities that the two houses may have to call in the boy scouts both to "do a good turn" and to ahow them how to untie knots they may get into be fore the session closes. , Pension possibilities Include a compromise. If on the recheck sup plemental funds are found, the pension age might be lowered to 68 as was proposed in one com promise biU in the house. "Want Go Home Stage Is Reached Members have reached the "wanta go home" stage. So have the lobbyists and attaches outside of the per diem folk. People are tired. They are tired of the strain; tired of the talk; tired of seeing the same people dy after day and (Turn to Page 8, col l) Pancake Qiampion Croiyiied; Eats' 36 Beating Out ttDadw WTNTEBv Wis., ' Feb. 27-Cff-Arvld . Kvist, 20-year-old larm youth, looked up from an emtpy plate tonight after 61 minutes of steady pancake eating to real ise he had been declared the na tlonx.1 champion flapjack devour er with his father as runnerup. I could eat more If the compe tition was better," smiled Arvld as he wiped syrup and gobs of -butter from his cheeks and lip. Phaeks," came back his fa ther. Carl, "as Ions as I've got a son who can lire up to the family name why I thought I'd let him win. - -A-::':j-' Arvld downed S 6 pancakes, each seven inches across and plen ty thick, while his father did away with 28 In what the Ameri can Legion post sponsors claimed the first national contest of Its kind. , - -''j-v- ,s-'i Late Sports EUGENE," Ore., Feb. 27-(V Oregon State rooks eked out art 4S to 41 win. over the University of Oregon freshmen r here to night to even 4 the count: in the fourth and final game between the freshmen rivals this season. Merle Kruerrer of -. the rooks and John Dick for the frosh were the two high, men, with 13 points each.: -. .-. -- v The battle was nip and tu k all .the way, i with the balance seldom exceeding i f points for either side, . . - - . ' Cameraman Records Progress on State Capitol, Salem Postofiice Top picture, view of construction toward the east, with wooden forms for concrete mostly in evi dence; middle picture, view of the same project looking westward, with progress on the concrete work more in evidence; lower picture, present stage of construction on Salem's new postofflce building. Bodies From Iowa Wreck Appearing Vessel Lost January Last . Year, breaking Up, Is Belief on Coast ASTORIA,' Ore., Feb. 27-ff- Bodles found floating in, the Pa cific ocean from Astoria to South Bend, Wash., led mariners, to be lieve the sunken hull of the wrecked steamer Iowa is breaking up under the action of the currents and releasing its cargo' of dead. The .freighter met- disaster in great storm a year ago last January and sank off Peacock Spit with the loss of its entire crew of 84 men.' v :; ..- - The - theory, substantiated by the discovery of Iowa timbers and hawsers at Klipsan. beach on the Washington coast, may solve the "floating death" mystery at South Bend. . Three . bodies have ? been found- in Willapa Harbor, leading to unsubstantiated rumors' of a wholesale killing. ' (Turn to Page 8, Col. 1) : ffyUey Flood X!ontroL FawTrctde Also Past House Just a week from the day it passed the senate. Senator Doug las McKay's flood control mea sure received approval of the house. It passed without opposi tion and now goes to the gover nor for. his signature." The bill carries so . appropria tion but merely authorizes coun ties to enter in to contracts with the federal government for the development of any control pro gram where the government is financing the work.:;,: Representative Grace uagru- der. in explaining the bCL said that, the federal government has appropriated 22,500.800 for pre liminary work on the program on the WUlamette. r ; - c Ultimate completion, oil the Hood and irrigation plan, which has been sponsored by the Great er Willamette valley project com mittee. contemplates the con struction of seven .dams la the on the new Oregon capitol looking Oviedo Still Held 1 By Fascist Force Loyalists Enter But Held Up by Rain; Big Guns" yj Attack at Madrid . . " - f (By the Associated Press) - . 'Spanish belligerents clung grim ly - last night id besieged strong holds as the civil war raged in its eighth -month. - , ' Oviedo.. in - northern . Spain, re mained? in - Insurgent : hand but government reports said - attack lag 'militiamen captured the pro vincial '.capital's prison;- and a slaughter house before rain stalled the offensive, i . ..- An Insurgent statement' issued from the : headquarters - at ' Sala manca meanwhile . declared the government's second big offensive against Oviedo had been resisted. : Insurgent commanders within the beleaguered city asserted their foe: had.' lost. 12,000 men while their own losses were "minor." a - Refugees arriving in Bayonne, France, however, said casualties ; i (Turn to Page 8, Col .8) - x upper -tributaries of the river and the total - expenditure of 850,000,000. Fair -Trade Measure Has No Opposition After being Jockeyed about the floor and sent back , to commit tee . for amendment, senate bill 103, the so-called fair trade act. passed the house yesterday af ternoon without a- dissenting vote. - ? ' The bill would prohibit certain trade discounts and prohibit the sale of commodities below cost. It is drawn along the lines of the Patman-Robinson act and the California fair trade law. - Only objection to.the bill came when Representative Phil Brady, Multnomah, found that the bouse revision of laws ' committee had amended the measure "to exclude lumber companies from the act. "The- woodpeckers are at it Turn to Page 8, CoL 42.; ured: ReopeningS 4 More Trouble Feared t3 ' Douglas Resumption "Monday Announced Picketing Will Continue1 There; Most of Group ; Arrested Now Free (By the Associated Press) Embattled unionists . came te grips with their adversaries yes teroday at a pivotal point on the nation's coaat-to-coast s t r I k e front. . - - - . Sitdown" strikers, bombard- ed with heavy lead pellets, . sawrmed Into the administration building of the Ferro SUmplag Co. at Detroit and routed mpat ef tbelr 20 non-union toea. A wom an and two men - were injured. Gov.- Frank Murphy offered the services of state labor com missioner O. A. Krogstad in ad justing a score of labor disputes in progress there. A strike of 108 workers forced 1.000 into idleness at the Michigan Mal leable Iron Co. Approximately 100 salesgirls at the F.W. Wool worth five and ten cent' store, and IS drivers and salesmen at the Canada Dry Ginger Ale Co-, suited "sltdown' strikes. Six hundred "went out at Thompson Products, Inc. picket lines Are Tightened; 80,000 Idle Picket lines tightened in oth er centers. Altogether .about 80,000 were Jobless In -controversies over - wages - and union recognition at a half hundred factories , and foundries, . mills and boat- yards, and utility and airplane plants in many sections , "Pickets gathered at the - Fan--'' steel Metallurgical corporation la North Chicago, I1L, wbera 81 squatters fled a tear gas attack Friday. Five union and Commit- -tee for Industrial Organization leaders were hunted on warrants charging conspiracy to obstruct a court order for the strikers eviction. Two others were ar rested and released on bond. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.-V The Douglas Aircraft factory -will reopen Monday, President Donald - T" 1 ttAmm mm mnnmt of its 242 sltdown strikers, In- dieted and Jailed on trespass cob spiraey charges, were released , without bond. - ' ff- : President John K. Northrop , j also announced reopening Mob- j i day of the Northrop plant, Doug- -las subsidiary, scene of a sitdowa strike abandoned yesterday under.- threats of more indictments and Northrop's promises of negotia tion. , : Shortly after the announce ments, a spokesman- for the strik ing union, the United Automobile Workers of America, aircraft di vision, said picketing at the Doug- las plant probably would continue Monday. ... , v ; . - . Questioned About . Itejolnlns Pickets Before these statements came, authorities asked one of the Douglas strikers as they released him without bond: . . . . ' ! rwili you rejoin the picket liner t-. . ' i' ' ' - . ."Not necessarily." replied Rob- ' ert Paine,, patternmaker. ' -'.'Douglas announcement s a. Id ' decision to reopen the factory was "in response to a petition stoned . by hundreds of employes" ask ing that operations "be resumed ' at the earliest possible moment." ' la the ' absence of WiUlaxa Buslck, : C.I.O. organizer asd , 'strike leader who was a none those Indicted, but released cm bond, the f pokesmen at csica headquarters said "so far ta we know, pickets will still be on, duty at Douglas Monday." Legion, Grange end Lclcr Went Solon Pay Uijer : The American Legion, Oregon state grange and Oregon state federation of laborhaye Jolnel la asking the legislature to i ass a resolution for a - constitutional amendment to increase the com pensation for legislators to 82 per day. . - ; -j ?. - .' -The sessions would be extended to SO days under the request. 1 1 I i L. L. I U k. aw w a r r- .o f TO D A f Ey R. C. When CUnt P. llaf-fct was ia the house, Jsst two short years a?o,-the members heard fcim o't espouse, ia tones cot swet ' nor low, tta f.'r;.i adrice to rcth their bills and cease their t:1 less votes, so he could LSa t sasebrush. bills ani lUt ta coyotes; and now in 153 7, 1 1 session lingers lat, tbe pn hers think t'would be l . heaven to hear that fcyca ct . Ilais-ht. . Three Ini ittastactory