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Spring Opening Legislature is over, bas ketball tournament comes , soon ; -Interest this week centers in Spring Opening,''. Thursday night. , . The TTeather TTasetUetf, probably show today; and Thursday; Ma. Temp. T a e s d a y 61, Mi. 42, river 7J feet, rmin 671 Inch, southerly winds. poUnddd 1651 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning; March 10, 1937 Price 3e; Newsstands 5c No. 239 :RD TTv o Mtait to I'M-..; : " : " . .;:;;! ' - ; - .-, it,-. eve - . " ;; ' 1 i' I - : l: I i Safe and Sane Session Ended; Result Viewed Republican Senate Aids Democrat Governor to Avoid Boat Rocking Building Program, State - Pension System Seen Among Highlights By JOHN D. MDfTO Along . with its predecessors, t the 39th Oregon legislative ses . sion became history yesterday While the secretary of state's staff cleared committee, rooms of equipment, turned the senate chamber bade into a hotel dining room and moved desks . into storage, members packed b. oks and correspondence to be sent to their homes. They gathered in groups to discuss in the now quiet chambers, the high points of the meeting. ' On review the session will prob ably not be considered outstand ing, but as an interim assembly meeting, between depression pros perity when the governor asked and the state hoped that the members would do nothing to "rock the boat." Governor's Support ; Largely Republican Strangely, or f-perhaps rightly, ft was not the democratic house where democratic Governor .Mar tin found his support but - the republican ' senate. The .house passed new tax measures and approved appropriations against executive warning which wiH not see even an executive veto due to the steadying hand of the upper body. Few bills of importance were introduced or passed. Of the 926 hills Introduced, the legislators killed nearly half, sending only 468 to the governor. Only three constitutional amendments ' were sponsored. One to raise the pay of legislators to $ 8 a day, an other to remove the double Ha bllity of stockholders in bank ing establishments and a third to allow, the governor 20 days after the end of a session to veto or sign bills. Though the cost of the ses sion will run close to 1142.000, the legislators failed to add the additional expense of calling a special election following the as sembly which has ' become the custom. Hounded Oat Capitol Irogram ' Provided To Salem, the session present ed the beginning of a rounded out capitol program which the 1935 special session left half finished. Permissive acts for the building of a library and office building were adopted along with an appropriation of 1300,000 for purchase of land north of the "new statehouse. -Portland also fared well in the matter of state buildings. An ap propriation for a tuberculosis hospital was approved along with an enabling act for the purchase or erection of a state building there. Old age assistance and social security played . its prominent part in , the session. In fact. It . (Turn to page 2, column 6) Johnson Is Freed Of Murder Count EUGENE, March 9(JP)-A Jury of ten men and two women to night acquitted George T. Johnson of the second degree . murder charge placed against him in the fatal beating of John Vaughn Dec. 19, 1936. The Jury was out two hours. Following an altercation on tho McKenzle highway six miles east of here, Vaughn was beaten with a pick handle In the hands of Johnson after the latter had gone ' out to protest the loud tooting of the horn on Tilth n's truck. Vaughn Is alleged to have fired three shots in the fray, one pene trating Johnson's thigh. . Jonson pleaded self defense in his tHI. Land Grant Fund Claim $13,103.64 ' Marlon county claims on the Oregon and California land grant fund for the tax years 19S4 and 1935 will aggregate 1 13.103.C4, It was announced yesterday at County Clerk U. G. Boyer's office. Formal claims were prepared for signature by the county court and forwarded to the comptroller gen eral at Washington, D. C, As computed by Assessor R. ehelton, the land grant fund owes the county $6392.12 In tax reim bursements for 1934 and $6611.43 for 4935. The federal govern ment pays these claims of counties as money from sale or rental of grant lands accumulates in the fund. Marlon county received full payment of its 1933 claim late last yes" Men Who Represented Industrial :"T Union in U. S. Steel gotiation - - s t V " v 'Vv . w W ..' ,. T" j When the committee for Industrial organization succeeded in obtain ing formal recognition from the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corpora tion, it was hailed as triumph In Its successful fight for higher wages and shorter hours were, left to right, seated, David J. McDonald, Philip Murray, chairman of the steel worker's . committee; standing. Van Bittmer and Clinton uolden. Mott Objects to Smith Power Bill Premature, Says; Measure Like One Introduced Last Year Sought WASHINGTON. March 9.-;p)-Senators Homer T. Bone and Lew is B. Schwellenbach set put to night at President Roosevelt's re quest to 'post? 1,200,400.. .fertile central Washington acres against land gamblers, j Then, they said, they will ask presidential approval of further appropriations with which to com plete the gigantic Grand Coulee dam. : - I I Meanwhile dissension flared Over another? Columbia river de velopment I the Bonneville pro ject 60 miles east of Portland, Ore. j Rep. James Mott of Salem, Ore., (Turn to aage 2, column 5) 1 ' i No Faint, Record Must Be Correct The fact that Director Percy A. Cupper didn't faint at a recent meeting of the ; schoel board was taken Jestingly at last night's ses sion as evidence bearing on a mooted cost figure in connection with the new high school shops. Xhipper, trying to recollect ex actly what led him to believe that a $34,000 construction figure in cluded architects' fees, said. "I said, 'If that includes archi tect' fees, 111 faint'." A. W. Andrews, buildings su perintendent, whom Cupper called in as a witness, said he recalled the promise to faint, but did not recollect that he had stood up and prepared to save the director from falling when I Architect Leslie Howell, according to Capper's memory, smilingly stated the fig ure included his fee. 1 "But Cupper didn't faint," Di rector E. A. Bradfield laughingly exclaimed. j The matter ended there with the director's ! having retained consciousness apparently taken es evidence that the clerk's minutes, stating the mooted fees were ex cluded, were correct. Dancing Is Crowning Event Of Spring Opening Thursday 1 1 Dancing at jCrystal Gardens will be the crowning event of the an nual Spring Opening which the Salem Ad club in cooperation with a large number of Salem mer chants Is sponsoring this week. The time is Thursday night and the place is all downtown Salem, although the center of attraction for part of the evening will be the portion of Court street where an open-air automobile 'show will be held. The beautiful store windows which merchants are preparing will attract their share of atten tion. '. i A-,, v-... In connection with the plans for "window voting." ballots may be obtained from the participat ing merchants, listed here by clas sifications for convenience: Kn'a Strt i Bishop's, Brockt j Clothicra, Ifsa'a Shop. Women's Storaa ' Bhiplejr'a. Miller'. Fashion Loaaf, Sally 'a. Inc.. Smart Shop, Bonnet Shop, Haniger Hat Shop, Howard's Oract Sftop. . Mode 0-Iay, Kajr'a Dresa Shop, Reed'a Millinery, i Field Dresa Shop, Senator Dresa Shop, Fashioaette, Leoa'a. Price Shoe Store. 8tyle Shop, DvBain Far Co.. Milday'e Shop. Dept. Store , i . Miller"B J. U.; I'enncT iw oioca, a bw for labor. Representing the C. I. O. Confessed Slayer Of Four Now Here Enechi Kato in Local Jail For Night; Goes North to Face Conrt Fate E n e c hi Kato, self-confessed murderer of his wife and four children in a gruesome massacre at Auburn, Wash., February 12. was lodged in the Salem city Jail last night by King county sheriff's officers returning him to Washington to face charges of murder in the first degree. Kato was apprehended in Rich mond, Calif., March 1, two days after the discovery of the bodies of his family behind their home in Auburn, and was turned over to the King county authorities. Murray Gamrath and W. R. Craig, the two men from the King county sheriff's office, Bald that Kato had given them no trouble. Kato told them, they said, that the killings were the result of a conference between himself and his invalid wife in which she decided that she should he killed. Kato, Gamrath said, told them that he had administered poison to his wife and children before killing them. Autopsy, however, showed members of the family had been shot through the -bead with a .38 calibre revolver and then slashed with an ax. Hunters, Anglers Discuss Program Plans of the Salem Hunters and Anglers for providing cabins and boats tor rental at Marion lake or Elk lake, were discussed at the club's meeting Tuesday night in Kennedy hall by W. M. Park, rec reation engineer of the U. S. for est service. " . . The club also discussed plans for stocking Opal, Elk, Twin, Dunlap and Tumble lakes with fresh water shrimp to provide food for trout. Dr. David B. Hill showed col ored movies of Glacier National park and of Oregon wild life. About 75 members attended. den Role. Montgomery Ward Co, Start Roebuck 0. Farsitnra Stores H. L. Stiff For. Co.. Imperial Fur. Co, Hamilton Pnrmitare Co, Kaah, Form. Co, Woodry Fnrn. Co. Jewelry Storea J SteToaa-Brown. Potneroy a Keene, Jewel Box, Taylor's Jewelry 8tore, H. F. Scaanke. Drag Store Woolpert 4 Lerr, Fred Mayer. "Red Cross Pharmacy, Quiaenberry's Pharma cy, Fry' Drug Store, Wra. Keimeyer, Perry' Drug Store, I. W. "Doc." Lwia, Capital Drug Store. Hardware Storea Gee. K Allen.. Farmer' Hard war Co., Doaghtew Hardware Cev ' - - - ICaals Store Hasaenitab Musie Store, Jaquith Ma si C. . Bakartes ' Benson Bakery, Madsea'a Bakery. Book Storea Commercial Book: Store, Kerdham'l Book Store, Cooke'a Stationery Co. -Optical Co' a. Morris Optical Co. : Credit Associations .-" ? Credit Bureaus, Inc. Motorcycles j, 5 Schrock'a Caed Car. : ' Shoe Repair Knha'a Sho Repair Shop. Beauty Shops Annabel's Beauty Shop, Adele'a Beau ty Shop, Ogdea'a Beanty Salon, Lloyd'a (Turn to page 2, column 2) - Three Deaths In Salem Are Held Suicides Laundry Worker, Convict i Are Hanging Victims ; No Messages Left Oswego Ex-Judge Leaves Farewell Note, Other Papers on Bridge '.. Their deaths so close together that they could be compared with the ware of self-destructionwhich reputedly struck Europe following publication of the song "Gloomy Sunday," two persons took their own lives Monday night and cir cumstances Indicated that a third had also committed suicide. John Franklin Walker, 53, su perintendent of the finishing de partment at the Capital City laundry, ud Stanley Charmon, negro convict In the state peniten tiary, each ended his life Monday night. "God forgive me. This is the end," was the legend of a note found with a cap and papers be longing to Harold Fred Septka, 44, former Justice of the peace and real estate operator at Oswe go, on the Marion-Polk county bridge. -8even-Time Loser Is Found Hanging . Charmon, seven-time loser to the law, was found dead in his cell at about 1 o'clock yesterday morning. He had hanged himself from the barred door with strips torn from a sheet. Described as a fairly tractable prisoner, Charmon had been In the penitentiary on his last "stretch" almost a year. He was committed March 24, 1936, from Deschutes county for larceny In a store. Walker hanged himself in the basement of the Capital City laun dry, where his body was discov ered yesterday morning by O. M. Bradbury, an employe who was ' (Turn to page 2, column 8) Memorial Chapel Honors E. W. Kirk A memorial chapel was held yesterday, at Willamette univer sity in honor of Prof William E. Kirk who passed away March 6. Charles Neville, representing the student body, spoke a few words saying that Prof. Kirk was a friend of everyone, a counsellor and teacher. Dr. James T. Matthews who was teaching at the university when Prof. Kirk came to Willamette, delivered the eulogy. Dr. Mat thews has been a close friend of Prof. Kirk's and perhaps knewj mm better tnan anyone eise. me two Impressions that Prof. Kirk gave to the faculty and students according to Dr. Matthews were his high academic standing and the cleanliness of spirit which he possessed. In a biography Dr. Carl G. Doney published of Prof. Kirk, he said that he was the politest man on the Willamette faculty. The memorial was closed with the university quartet composed of Kendall Teislnger, Miss Kath ryn Smullin. Miss Helen Woodf in and Prof. Cameron Marshall "Go ing Home." To Shoot Movies In Clatsop Area ASTORIA- Ore.. March i-(JP James Cosgriff, writer, investl rated locations for a new motion picture of forest scenes today, pre paratory to the expected arrival Friday of 60 actors, actresses and extras headed by Jack Holt and Grace Bradley . No name has been selected xor the rtirture. It will feature a for est fire. Actual "shOotine" will be done .at the Tidewater Timber company camp in the Nebaiem valley. Youth" Is Injured When Hit By Auto Chu Sua. IS vear old Son of Suie U Sun, route 2, was taken to the Deaconess hosnital vesterday afternoon after being struck by an automobile on Capitol street near Parrlsh - school about 4 "V- clock.' ' - ". Police had no report of the ac cident. Sun was released from the hospital after treatment for scratches and bruises. Teachers Win Increase ST. HELENS, Ore., March 9- (P)-St. Helens school teachers won a $10 per montn increase m salary, under action of the school board here. Pay of janitors also was boosted. Colgaard Dies, Murder CHarge To Face Brown EUGENE. Ore.. March 0 (7 Held In am unnamed Jail, El win 8. Brown faced first , degree murder charges today as a result of the death of Peter Colgaard, elderly El mlra storekeeper who was robbed and beaten last week. Colgaard died in a hospi tal today. He never regained complete consciousness. Talk of lynching led conn . ty officials to remove Brown to quarters other than the county Jail. Relief Rolls Will Be Cut One-Third Able .Bodied Persons All Dropped by March 15, Committee Plans With March 15 set as the deadline a resolution adopted by the Marlon county relief com mittee and released yesterday by Glenn C. Niles, executive sec retary, will have the effect of cutting present; relief rolls of nearly a third as "able bodied persons now receiving emer gency relief" are removed from the rolls. The resolution, adopted at the committee's last meting several weeks ago hut made public only yesterday, states that as seasonal agricultural and 1 other employ ment becomes available in Ore gon during spring and summer months, "Be It resolved that able bodied persons shall be re moved from the roll of the Marlon county relief committee as rapidly as seasonal work be comes available but in all cases by March 15, 1937." Nearly 40O Families Involved, Stated Niles stated that carrying out the resolution completely would drop nearly 400 families from direct relief and cut the present roll by about a third. There are approximately 1100 families now on relief in Marlon county. The committee, in a pair of "whereases" preceding Its reso lution, pointed out that there are now . many able bodied persons on the relief rolls who can ac cept seasonal employment. That there is a decided up turn in seasonal employment is Indicated in reports from the state employment office, next door to the relief headquarters, where an increasing number of requests for seasonal agricultural workers and other workers are being received daily. The employ ment office will handle the em ployment of most of those per sons deprived of relief by the committee's resolution. - Issuance of relief to employable persons was halted during last summer by a direct order from Governor Charles H. Martin to the state relief committee. Suspend License Of Pilot Turppa PORTLAND, Ore., March 9-(jPy-The state board of pilotex aminers ordered a 90-day sus pension of Captain Isaac Turp pa's license today. Turppa piloted the Italian motorship Feltre when it col lided with the Edward Lucken bach and sank In the Columbia river near Prescott, Ore., on Feb. 17. ' In its finding the board al leged Captain Turppa did not repeat his one blast signal when he heard no rejly from the Luckenbach, sound his wistle or Teduce the speed of the Feltre when the two ships approached or turn his vessel to the right side of the channel and blow a danger ' signal. Union High Issue " Petition Invalid CORVALL.13. Ore., March 9-ff) A new obstacle to the proposed construction of a union - high school at Philomath to serve 12 districts arose today when Deputy District Attorney .Walter Durgan ruled Beaver Creek's election per tltlon was Invalid. .- Three signatures were found Il legal, two on the basis of Canadi an citizenship and one because the signed was a non-taxpayer. . Options already had been ob tained on land for the school site as a result of the favorable vote in the districts affected. Future action was not decided today. Efforts to obtain the union high school began a year and a half ago. ' . Fail to Stop, Charge W.:H. Herring was arrested by city police last night for failing to stop at a stop sign. . School Board S - w w m ite Is Carried On Board Turns Down Move Sponsored By Cupper; , McMahan Is Topic School Band to Get New Uniforms "With Some Aid From District Salem's school board last night granted a nearrecord delega tion's request forflnanclal aid in buying new uniforms for the Sa lem high school r band and then plunged again into the dispute over Director Percy A. Cupper's proposal to have a state audit made of the district's affairs. Debate over the audit was in terwoven with allusions to re ported threats by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan to force the di rectors to pay from . their own pockets a $375 attorney fee in curred In connection with con demnation of land for new school sites. ' May "Take It Out of Members," Quoted "Mac told me he is going to get back that $375 if he has to take it out 0$ the school board mem bers," Chairman Neer reported. McMahan contends the board should have had. the district at torney handle its-legal business. Cupper mustered one vote be sides his own when Chairman Frank Neer finally called for a record vote on the audit. Chair man Neer and Directors W. F. Neptune and Mrs. David Wright voted against the audit. Cupper and Director E. A. Bradfield for it. Cupper said the main issue as far as he was concerned was the correctness of the present method of paying teachers' salaries on a 12-months basis. ' Cupper contended that the prac (Turn to page 2, column 5) Packers Lift Pay To Highest Level (By the Associated Press) The strike deadlock which per sisted yesterday in the automobile industry left 75,000 idle and threatened further unemploy ment. Pay Increases benefitted work ers in other fields," particularly the packing Industry. Packers hiked wages for nearly 100,000 employes more than $22,000,000 a year to a record high level. Meanwhile opposing labor ctaief tlans mapped strategy in Wash ington conferences. Company and union . officials conferred at Detroit on the strike which shut down Chrysler corpor ation plants there Monday and threw 55,000 wage earners Into fdleness but reported no' progress. Old Line Oratory Contest Is Today Willamette university!. 'forensic department will be host for the "Old Line" oratorical contest sponsored by the Oregon Forensic association at the university this afternoon and tonight. The ora tions .will be held in the chapel of Waller hall. The women's divi sion will be at 4:30 in the after noon and men at 7:30 in the eve ning. Bill Cleme will represent the men for Willamette and Joseph ine Gillstrap the women. Each coach udges each contestant but his own. Prizes are $15 and $7.50 in each division. Audit Uispu Zehner Indicted, i Aiding Juvenill Eight true bills. Including two secret indictments, and two not true bills .were returned by the Marion county grand Jury late vesterd a v afternoon. - The Jurors indicted Charles Zehner. former Janitor In a down town building, on two charges ot doing an act which manifestly tended to cause a child to become delinquent. One charge applied to alleged actions in regard to an 18-year old girl and the other to a girl unaer is. The Indictments accused him of having encouraged and permitted the older girl to visit him in his room downtown, to drink intoxi cants, to smoke cigarettes, and to be absent from school. In the case ot the -younger girl, the Indict ment mentioned certain alleged familiarities as having tended to cause the girl to become delin quent. Five hundred dollars was set by Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan as Zehner'a bail, or the amount MighTribtlnalMust ot Block ?l:h I e TTs resident 1 n m 4 i , I Seis Self Up as omplaint; Not Wanted, to Appeal to Si Judiciary Sought: Long Process of Amendment Is Disdained ! WASHINGTON, March 9.-4 (AP) --President Roosevelt fcalled for swift enactment! of his court reorganization A jbili tonignt to "save tne constitution irom tne 1 supreme; r)t and the court from itself. ' i - I fin outspoken fashion, the chief executive asserted the high! tribunal had "improperly set itself up" as a "super-leg-islature," and had read into the constitution "word3 and im plications which are not there ai id which were never intended to(ibe there." I 1 fAtlthe same time, he disavowed-any intent to "pack Proletarian Novel Influence Limited l! If.! They: Don't Sell, Assert Alexander Hull; Tells jof Modern Trends fTbje! proletarian novel will not. asft sjme j liberals hope and con servatives fear, turn either the literacy world or the economic an!d sbcial world unside down, de clared Alexander Hull novelist, shjorll-story writer andjnuslc com poeitin his address before the Sajlen) Arts league Tuesday night Inlj te Salem chamber of com mence auditorium. s fThs J reason neither of these things 'will come to pass is that thfe most popular of these novels has riot sold more than 3000 cop lej, aid that while written for the nrbletariat and dealing with slami and factory conditions, they are read by the Intelligentsia, Hull as?ered.j fRevOlt! against good taste In this use of words, revolt against tabods of various kinds in situa tions! and in style, and a dash tor freedom !of speefh, freedom of sek. nd ireedom in discussion of pdlitfjcal, social, and industrial life werellive points accented by Hull, wftp Ipoke on the subject: "Mod- j (Turn to page 2, column 3) Held For Dayton Cutoff Solicited caRVALLIS. Ore.. March 9 - 2fk4A delegation ot Amity bus idess-men sought support in Cor- vjJIIb today for the immediate completion of the Amity-Dayton cit-off road, designed to safe four mSle on! the West Side racine hfkhway ito Portland. - fiThe principal highway now goes tBfougn j jHCMinnviue. fdr which additional work now is asked would branch off the pres ent highway . north ot Amith and reconnect with it at an Intersec tion ;north of Dayton and east of Lafayette. i About IS hi miles of the cut-off rOute already is graded, graveled and ia standard width. Another five miles remains uncompleted. I The Amity delegation asked a large: attendance at the next meet irig of the state highway commis sion in Portland March 25. Charges of ich he1 already had posted on a Justice court charge of contribut ing: to the delinquency of a minor. fjsameslof eight girls appeared on the indictments as having been witnesses before the grand Jury. I A true hill charging assault and robbery while armed with a dan gerpus weapon, based on the pis tol point robbery of Adolph Kreh bifel (it Pratum March 2, was re turned , against Lowell William Cettsw. The young man is in the county Jail in lieu ot posting $2. 600 bail, j Threat to' Commit " Felony is Charged jThe Jury also accused Forrest Smith of threatening to commit a felony in that he allegedly said he wdald kill Mabel Smith: Luther Hook, ot j larceny of two heifers belonging to Raleigh Harold, and William Haskins, of larceny of a pile fdriver belonging to Rufus Boatwrignt. Ball in each instance was et at $600. Hook already! (Turn topage 2, column 4) I Delinquency ress Contends super - Legislature, 1 tuojig "Spineless Puppets' He Emphasizes Constitution From Q'riT court wun spineless puppvui who would disregard the law" and decide cases as he might wish them .decided, and asserted tha processes of constitutional amend ment jw ere too slow for the press ing problems of tha day. j "We must find a way to take (us appeal from the supreme court the constitution .itself, he said. We want supreme court which will do justice under the consti tution not over it. In our courts ve want a government o( laws net of men.:- Wants Refusal to friend. Basic Law I rant as all Americas want an-' independent judiciary as proposed by the tramers ot the constitution. That means a sa- Jreme court that will enforce tha onstltution as wrItten-7-that'wiU refuse to amend the constitution the arbitrary. exercise f Judi cial power amendment by judl cial say-so." I A major section of the address was devoted to answering tha three "mbst-frequently heard crit icisms of his proposal that it !s sin, ef fo t to "pack" the eourt. that it woujd create a precedent which a future president with dictatorial ambitions could turn to his ad vantage and that the solution of the problem lies rather In a con stitutional amendment. I Of the "packing" charge, the president said: I "If by that phrase the charge is made that I would appoint and tie senate would confirm Justices worthy to sit beside present mem bers of the court who understand modern conditions that I -will appoint Justices who will not un dertake to override the judgment of the congress on legislative pol icy that I will appoint Justices who will act as Justices and not as legislators if appointment of such justices can be called 'pack ing the courts. then I say that-1 and with me the vast majority ot the American people favor doing Just that thing now. amendment Process Held Too Dilatory I And of the amendment process: I It would take months or years to get substantial agreement upon the type . and language of aa amendment. It would take months (Turn to page 2, column ) Hamniersly Held On Check Charge Roy Hammersly, wno reside at the -L Four Corners on ; the State street road, was arrested by Salem -police last night on a charge of check. forgery after he had a 1 1 e gedly cashed bogus checks, at two, local business houses, j Police- said Hammersty r re ceived cash and merchandise for two checks he passed and signed JH. B.4 Thompson, J Arrested with him on a charge f vagrancy was Margaret Hurk. Salem. jThe woman was with H a m m e ti ly, police reported. when ha cashed the checks. vBoom "Worker Drowns ASTORIA. Ore.. March S-6Fr- Herman H. Porathr3, Warren ton, drowned when he fell from a' log boom into the Skipano river ' near his homo today. . - ALLADE of TODAy Nine Justices still hold the fort while Roosevelt goes on the air to urge a bigger, better icourt and promises be will be Ifair; and other noted men de bate the pros and eons of is sues grave and common folk let dinner wait, tbey too from doom the nation save.